Patent ID: 8811302
Filing Date: 2014-08-19
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A method of determining whether to restrict a communication session based on an access terminal's location within a wireless communications system, comprising: predicting that a given access terminal will enter a location in the future, the given access terminal configured to participate in a given communication service that is configured for arbitration by an application server that is outside of each access network and each carrier network configured to serve the given access terminal; determining that the predicted location does not satisfy a given relationship with a defined location region, the defined location region establishing a first level of service restriction for the given communication service within the defined location region and establishing at least a second level of service restriction for the given communication service outside of the defined location region, wherein the first and second levels of service restriction are specific to the given communication service and are independent of service restrictions for services arbitrated by each access network or each carrier network configured to serve the given access terminal; notifying a user of the given access terminal that the given access terminal is predicted to enter the location in the future that does not satisfy the given relationship with the defined location region; and restricting the given access terminal in accordance with the first or second level of service restriction for the given communication service based on whether the given access terminal enters the predicted location that is determined not to satisfy the given relationship.