Methods and apparatuses for data transmission. A method implemented at a first network function may comprise obtaining information related to network slice selection; and sending a reroute message to an access network node, wherein the reroute message including a container comprising at least one information element of the information related to network slicing selection.

Disclosed herein is a next generation communication system comprising a set of network nodes that are interconnected into a wireless mesh network, where a subset of the network nodes in the set are further coupled to a blockchain network that is configured to provide blockchain-based services, such as blockchain-based distributed data storage or a service for blockchain-based digital cryptocurrency mining.

A method for managing an application exchange platform includes receiving, from a developer, a service function, wherein the service function includes configuration details for an application available through an online application exchange. The method includes deploying the service function in the application exchange, identifying a first domain event requesting access to the service function from a user, and calling the service function in the online application exchange, in response to the first domain event. The method also includes recording a metric associate with the service function and a return parameter, emitting a second domain event indicative of a completion of the service function, and charging, with a billing tool, an appropriate party based on a usage metadata for the service function. A system and a non-transitory, computer-readable memory storing instructions to cause the system to perform the above method are also provided.

A computer-implemented audio/video visitation system for a correctional facility includes an administrator computer device, a visitation services computer system, and a plurality of tablet computer devices accessible by incarcerated inmates inside the correction facility. The administrator computer device is configured, via an administrator interface, to review and edit registered incarcerated inmate information, review and edit registered remote non-incarcerated visitor information, and suspend or allow access to the visitation computer services system to establish video visitation sessions via one of the plurality of tablet computer devices for selected ones of the registered incarcerated inmates.

A computer-implemented audio/video visitation system for a correctional facility includes an administrator computer device, a visitation services computer system, and a plurality of tablet computer devices accessible by incarcerated inmates inside the correction facility. The administrator computer device is configured, via an administrator interface, to review and edit registered incarcerated inmate information, review and edit registered remote non-incarcerated visitor information, and suspend or allow access to the visitation computer services system to establish video visitation sessions via one of the plurality of tablet computer devices for selected ones of the registered incarcerated inmates.

Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems, methods, computer program products for consolidating toll-free features of two or more telecommunications networks. In one implementation, the network services may be consolidated through utilization of an Enhanced Feature Server (EFS) or other type of application server deployed in a telecommunications network. The EFS may be configured to receive a toll-free communication and route the communication based on the dialed toll-free number and a carrier identification code (CIC) associated with the communication. Routing the communication based at least on the CIC associated with the communication allows the telecommunications network to consolidate (and ultimately remove) a redundant network or network components from the telecommunications network to improve the operation of the network. In circumstances where a CIC is not associated with a communication, the EFS may request a data schema from a national toll-free number database and determine a CIC for the communication based on an analysis of the data schema.

Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems, methods, computer program products for consolidating toll-free features of two or more telecommunications networks. In one implementation, the network services may be consolidated through utilization of an Enhanced Feature Server (EFS) or other type of application server deployed in a telecommunications network. The EFS may be configured to receive a toll-free communication and route the communication based on the dialed toll-free number and a carrier identification code (CIC) associated with the communication. Routing the communication based at least on the CIC associated with the communication allows the telecommunications network to consolidate (and ultimately remove) a redundant network or network components from the telecommunications network to improve the operation of the network. In circumstances where a CIC is not associated with a communication, the EFS may request a data schema from a national toll-free number database and determine a CIC for the communication based on an analysis of the data schema.

Methods and systems are disclosed that allow entities set up and send targeted calls and other communications over a network, to intended recipients, who recognize that an approved entity is calling them.

Asynchronous and/or synchronous telephony protocol systems and methods may include an asynchronous signaling node (ASN) and/or a call duration time quota from a charging onset to place and complete a call based on a first device call request as received from a first user mobile device on a packet switched network. The asynchronous systems include instructions to automatically modify the telephony address with a prefix and destination address when the first device has insufficient or independent balance or upon a network exception; route the modified call signal to the ASN; and deliver and automatically disconnect the call when the call is completed. The synchronous systems are balance-independent and include instructions to automatically set the call duration time quota upon such exception, and deliver and automatically disconnect the call from the second user telephony device when the call is completed or when the call duration time quota is exceeded.

A computer-implemented video visitation system of a correctional facility includes an administrator computer device in communication with a visitation services computer system and a database. The administrator computer device is configured, via an administrator interface displayed on the administrative computer device, to enable or disable privileges for selected inmates in the inmate population allowing inmates access to the visitation services computer system, and set visitation session preferences including maximum visitation session length and visitation session cost that applies to the visitation services. The visitation services computer system is configured to receive requests for audio/video visitation sessions initiated by incarcerated inmates, confirm that each request involves an authorized registered incarcerated inmate or an authorized registered remote non-incarcerated visitor, transmit invitations to the respective recipients in response to each received request for an audio/video visitation session, and automatically establish interconnections between visitor computer devices at the remote locations and inmate computer devices in the correctional facility without requiring endpoint control to schedule or initiate a visitation session by administrative personnel of the correctional facility.