CPC H04M 3/42348 (2013.01) [H04L 12/66 (2013.01); H04L 61/5007 (2022.05); H04L 65/00 (2013.01); H04L 65/1053 (2013.01); H04L 67/52 (2022.05); H04M 3/00 (2013.01); H04M 7/006 (2013.01); H04M 7/0075 (2013.01); H04W 4/025 (2013.01); H04L 61/103 (2013.01); H04L 2101/69 (2022.05); H04M 3/493 (2013.01); H04M 2242/04 (2013.01)] | 19 Claims |
1. A system comprising:
a plurality of user-endpoint devices, each user-endpoint device including circuitry to communicate packet-based data wirelessly over a wide area network (WAN) and each user-endpoint device being susceptible to changing its location within the WAN;
a data-communications server to initiate VoIP calls, as part of a data-communications service, involving a respective one of the plurality of user-endpoint devices over a packet transmission path that includes a routing node, the data-communications server including circuitry to receive the packet-based data and further including processing circuitry to assess whether a physical location associated with the respective one of the plurality of user-endpoint devices (“the endpoint device”) is appropriate by:
each of the data-communications server and the endpoint device storing respective identifiers corresponding to packet-based communications through which the respective one of the plurality of user-endpoint devices communicates; and
outputting data, via the data-communications server and in response to an indication of a power state transition for the endpoint device, based on an appropriateness determination associated with an assessment of whether to update a physical location for the endpoint device and based on a comparison of a first stored identifier and a second stored identifier respectively corresponding to a time before the power state transition and a time after the power state transition.
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