The invention relates to providing alternate user communication based on user identification. A communication from a user may be received, and the communication may include an authentication credential from the user. When the user is determined to be an unauthorized user based on the authentication credential, the communication may be extended in order to capture more information from the unauthorized user, and to deter the unauthorized user from making other unauthorized access attempts. In addition to the extension of the communication with the unauthorized user, one or more additional alternate treatments may be presented to the unauthorized user in order to identify, track, and/or prevent access by the unauthorized user.

The object of the present application is to provide a method and device for verifying a communication number. Compared with the prior art, the present application includes: a user equipment transmitting a verification request to a network device; the network device transmitting an auxiliary verification number to the user equipment based on the verification request; the user equipment initiating a verification call to the auxiliary verification number via the communication number; the network device obtaining a call record of the auxiliary verification number and determining the verification result based on the call record of the auxiliary verification number. In this way, operator fees would not be caused at both the user equipment and the network device, thus greatly saving costs.

A mobile core network with distributed data services is provided. The mobile core network includes distributed mobile cores associated with mobile data service (MDS) agents at distributed data centers. A central MDS agent is host at a central data center providing legacy mobility management entity (MME) functions. The central MDS agent and the MDS agents at the distributed data centers coordinate with each other for synchronizing context information, such as subscriber data, session context data and metrics data of UEs, so that the context information is available at the central data center and the distributed data centers when or before it is requested.

A method and a call manager node (200) for handling calls directed to a group of subscribers. When receiving (2:3) a request from a caller (202) for access to a first group of subscribers (204) having at least one common characteristic, the call manager node assigns (2:4) first caller-specific temporary group number (A1) for the caller, wherein the first group number can be used exclusively by the caller for calling the subscribers in the first group. The call manager node further sends (2:5) the first group number to the caller in response to the request. The caller is then connected (2:7, 2:9, 2:11) to a subscriber in the first group sequentially or according to a scheme each time the caller dials (2:6, 2:8, 2:10) the first group number. The group is created according to a criteria and the anonymity of the called parties is kept. Call hunting.

[Problem] To conduct a process of moving a designated communication terminal belonging to a first communication system so as to belong to a second communication system without errors. [Solution] A management device is provided, which deletes information on a communication terminal of a first configuration device and then adds information of the communication terminal to the second configuration device. The management device is provided with an interface unit and a control unit. The interface unit obtains a first configuration file which stores a configuration data on a communication terminal belonging to a first communication system, and a second configuration file which stores a configuration data on a communication terminal belonging to a second communication system. The control unit deletes a configuration data of a designated communication terminal from the obtained first configuration file, and adds a configuration data of the designated communication terminal to the obtained second configuration file.

A mobile core network with distributed data services is provided. The mobile core network includes distributed mobile cores associated with mobile data service (MDS) agents at distributed data centers. A central MDS agent is host at a central data center providing legacy mobility management entity (MME) functions. The central MDS agent and the MDS agents at the distributed data centers coordinate with each other for synchronizing context information, such as subscriber data, session context data and metrics data of UEs, so that the context information is available at the central data center and the distributed data centers when or before it is requested.

There are provided measures for venue owner-controllable per-venue service configuration. Such measures could comprise configuring a per-venue service model of services of a network operator for terminal devices of subscribers of the network operator on the basis of an input by a venue owner of a venue, the per-venue service model including at least one configurable parameter for defining a venue-based service for terminal devices of subscribers residing in a specified venue area of the venue, and controlling provision of services of the network operator to terminal devices or subscribers of terminal devices in accordance with the per-venue service model depending on applicability thereof for the service provision.

In one embodiment, a computer-program product embodied in a non-transitory computer read-able medium that is programmed to manage a digital audio conference including a plurality of conference units and each conference unit including a microphone is provided. The computer-program product includes instructions to receive first information corresponding to a layout of a venue that facilitates an audio conference for users of the plurality of conference units. The computer-program product further includes instructions to store second information corresponding to an arrangement of a plurality of seats in the venue and to associate a first conference unit of the plurality of conference units to a first seat of the plurality of seats.

Matrix completion and recommendation provision with deep learning is described. A matrix manager system imputes unknown values of incomplete input matrices using deep learning. Unlike conventional techniques, the matrix manager system completes incomplete input matrices using deep learning regardless of whether an input matrix represents numerical, categorical, or a combination of numerical and categorical attributes. To enable a machine-learning model (e.g., an autoencoder) to complete a matrix, the matrix manager system initially encodes the matrix. This involves normalizing known values of numerical attributes and categorically encoding known values of categorical attributes. The matrix manager system performs categorical encoding by replacing information of a given categorical attribute (e.g., an attribute column) with replacement information for each possible value of the attribute (e.g., new columns for each possible value). The machine-learning model imputes the unknown values based on the encoded matrix and masks indicative of unknown values, numerical attributes, and categorical attributes.

A communication apparatus includes a user signal transmission unit that transmits a user signal required for an end user to perform communication; a manager function implementing unit that implements a function provided to a manager of the present apparatus; a license monitoring unit that monitors a license of the present apparatus, and outputs a function limitation signal when the license has expired; and a function limitation unit that limits the function implemented by the manager function implementing unit when receiving the function limitation signal. In a communication apparatus that transmits a user signal required for an end user to perform communication, a function of the apparatus is limited when a relevant license has expired, while preventing an influence of the limitation upon the end user.