Patent ID: 9042239
Filing Date: 2015-05-26
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: receiving, at a device from a user of the device, a request associated with an internet protocol address of an element of a packet-based wireless network, the device comprising a processor, a transceiver, an antenna, and a display; performing, by the device, a trace route routine to collect internet protocol addresses of elements along a first route to the element of the packet-based wireless network; communicating, by the device via the transceiver and the antenna, the request to a mobile communications network in communication with the packet-based wireless network; collecting, by the device, the internet protocol addresses of the elements along the first route to the element of the packet-based wireless network; obtaining, by the device, information relating to a type of data security employed by the packet-based wireless network; causing, by the device, the internet protocol addresses of the elements along the first route to the element of the packet-based wireless network and the information relating to the type of data security employed by the packet-based wireless network to be displayed via the display; receiving a session initiation protocol command; sending the session initiation protocol command to an internet protocol multi-media subsystem network; receiving a response to the session initiation protocol command, the response comprising a session initiation protocol header; and examining the session initiation protocol header to determine a second route associated with the response.