| CPC H04W 8/005 (2013.01) [H04W 8/02 (2013.01); H04W 8/18 (2013.01); H04W 76/14 (2018.02)] | 20 Claims |

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1. A method comprising:
receiving, by a binding support device from a policy control device, a binding request;
comparing, by the binding support device, the binding request to binding information stored at the binding support device; and
determining, by the binding support device, whether to reject the binding request or overwrite the binding information based on a comparison of first timestamps included in the binding information and second timestamps included in the binding request, wherein to reject or to overwrite is a binary choice, and wherein a first timestamp of the first timestamps and a first timestamp of the second timestamps each include a timestamp generated and set by a session management function.
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