Patent ID: 9585005
Date: 2017-02-28
CPC Classifications: H04W

Claim:
1. A system for providing additional or modified subscriber profile information of an outbound roamer of a Home Public Mobile Network (HPMN), wherein the outbound roamer is roaming in a Visited Public Mobile Network (VPMN) in a Long Term Evolution (LTE) environment, the system comprising: a monitoring block to monitor Diameter and MAP transaction messages on one of the S6, SI and Cx interfaces; a database storing roamer records, wherein each record comprises at least an International Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI) of the roamer; a detection block to detect whether provisioning of an alternate roaming profile is required for the roamer by at least identifying whether a Diameter attribute-value pairs (AVP) defining an expected profile of the roamer is passed to a mobility management entity (MME) in the VPMN in an original successful response indicated by a Diameter update location answer (ULA) received from a home subscriber system (HSS) upon receipt of a Diameter update location request (ULR); and a provisioning block to provision the alternate roaming profile of the roamer to an LTE node holding a roamer profile.