Patent ID: 8880683

Claim:
A method, comprising: receiving, by a computing device, notice of a connection request from a user equipment (UE), the computing device being different than the UE; creating, by the computing device, a database record for a UE connection associated with the connection request; receiving, by the computing device and from a plurality of core network elements, status information for the UE connection, the computing device being different than the plurality of core network elements; updating, by the computing device and based on the status information received from the plurality of core network elements, the database record for the UE connection; determining, by the computing device and based on the status information received from the plurality of core network elements, whether the UE has been disconnected from a network; providing, by the computing device and to an application server, a disconnect message when the status information received from the plurality of core network elements indicates that the UE has been disconnected from the network, the computing device being different than the application server; providing, by the computing device and to one or more of the plurality of core network elements, a disconnect message when the status information, received from the plurality of core network elements, indicates that the UE has been disconnected from the network; and deleting, by the computing device, the database record when the status information, received from the plurality of core network elements, indicates that the UE has been disconnected from the network.