STARENT NETWORKS, CORP Patent applications |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20110069674 | ROUTING OF CALLS TO CORE NETWORK BASED ON THE LOCATION OF THE FEMTO CELL - A femto gateway maintains information about the location of femto cells and areas served by mobile switching centers. The gateway maintains a mapping so that it selects a desired mobile switching center (MSC) and SGSN that is likely to be used if the user equipment leaves the coverage area of the femto cell and enters a macro cell or vice versa. | 03-24-2011 |
20110069673 | LOCAL ROUTING OF VOICE CALLS BY A FEMTO GATEWAY - A femto gateway enables local routing of voice calls for users communicating through the same femto gateway, without passing through a mobile switching center. Local routing reduces costly switching of calls, and can provide better quality of service and more innovative service plans to subscribers. | 03-24-2011 |
20100091653 | FLOW BALANCING IN COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS - Methods and systems are disclosed that provide flow balancing for multiple radio access technologies in a communication network. A mechanism is provided that enables the handover of one or more data flows when a mobile device is attached to more than one access technology at the same time. The handover can be initiated by the network or the subscriber and can be based on rules and/or policies known at the time. The mechanism can be implemented in a gateway device that provides communication between the packet core and the access network. The mechanism can also be used in providing handovers between access technologies such as a femtocell access network and an LTE access network. | 04-15-2010 |
20100041373 | ACCESS TECHNOLOGY INDEPENDENT IDENTIFIER GENERATION - A network system for communicating with mobile nodes has multiple gateways that can operate with each using a different access technology. In an IPv | 02-18-2010 |
20100039993 | COMBINED GATEWAY FOR NETWORK COMMUNICATIONS - The functionalities of one or more of a mobility management entity (MME), serving gateway (SGW), and packet data network gateway (PGW) can be provided in a single device on the network. In the access gateway different functional elements are implemented as services and they can be configured on the same device. For example, the SGW and PGW can be configured on the same device. When user equipment UE connects from a home network, it is possible for the MME to choose the same SGW and PGW. This combined SGW and PGW can implement a single session for the UE, thereby capable of providing a savings in resources, allowing additional capacity, and allowing reduced latency and increased throughput because fewer hops are made on the network. This session acts as a SGW on the ingress side and a PGW on the egress side of the access gateway. | 02-18-2010 |
20100039978 | MULTIMEDIA BROADCAST AND MULTICAST SERVICE ENHANCEMENTS - Systems and methods for enhancing broadcast/multicast services in telecommunication networks are disclosed. A multicast router is provided between a network node, such as an SGSN or GGSN, and a radio access network. A multicast transport address can be provided to send packet data from network devices to the radio network in a multicast fashion. The multicast transport address works with multicast equipment, such as multicast routers, to reduce the burdens of sending data in a broadcast or multicast fashion to mobile nodes. | 02-18-2010 |
20100023576 | MANAGING RESOURCES FOR IP NETWORKING - Resources for IP networking are managed. A field is added to an operating system kernel software procedure. The field references a virtual router context. Packet processing software code is modified to cause the packet processing software code to execute in accordance with the virtual router context. | 01-28-2010 |