Patent application number | Description | Published |
20110207481 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR PAGING PROCESSING AND INFORMATION DISPLAYING - A method, an apparatus, and a system for paging processing and information displaying are disclosed. The paging processing method includes: receiving a paging request message from a Mobile Switching Center (MSC) which a called User Equipment (UE) registers to; and when the called UE is connected, sending a paging notification message to the called UE, and returning a called-UE paging status message to the MSC. In the embodiments of the present invention, after the Mobility Management Entity (MME) receives the paging request message from the MSC, if the called UE is connected, the MME not only sends a Circuit-Switched (CS) paging notification message to the called UE, but also returns a paging status message to the MSC, indicating that the called UE has received the paging notification message. | 08-25-2011 |
20110258682 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING SESSION CONTEXT - A method, an apparatus, and a system for processing session context are disclosed. The method for processing session context includes: receiving a reset notification message that carries a device identifier; confirming that a reset event corresponding to the reset notification message occurs on a peer device identified by the device identifier; and deleting an associated context related to the reset event. According to the present invention, after a local device receives a reset notification message from a peer device and before deleting an associated context related to the reset event of the peer device, the local device needs to confirm the authenticity of the reset notification message with the peer device. In this way, the associated context on the device will not be wrongly deleted due to the attack from a fake source address, and it is ensured that the associated context are correctly processed after a reset notification message is received, thus ensuring that the local device can perform normal communication and improving the system security. | 10-20-2011 |
20120036266 | METHOD FOR ESTABLISHING DATA CONNECTION ON MOBILE NETWORK, MOBILE NETWORK, AND POLICY CONTROL ENTITY - A method for establishing data connections on a mobile network, a mobile network, and a policy control entity are disclosed. The method includes: establishing a data channel between a user equipment (UE) and a gateway (GW), and allocating an Internet Protocol (IP) address to the UE according to an address allocation request or a data channel setup request sent from the UE; and triggering the policy control entity to establish or update a policy control session according to the IP address. By using the mobile network and the policy control entity under the present invention, after the data channel is established between the UE and the GW, the GW may trigger the policy control entity to establish or update a policy control session. | 02-09-2012 |
20120057532 | METHOD, SYSTEM, NETWORK ELEMENT, AND GATEWAY FOR PROCESSING ACCESS POINT NAME RESTRICTION INFORMATION - A method, a system, a network element, and a gateway for processing access point name restriction information are disclosed. The method includes: a second mobility management element receives first access point name restriction information from a first mobility management element; the second mobility management element obtains maximum access point name restriction information according to the first access point name restriction information, so that a packet data network gateway determines to or refuses to establish a new packet data network gateway connection. With the present invention, the second mobility management element may obtain the maximum access point name restriction information according to the received access point name restriction information. In this way, the packet data network gateway can determine to or refuse to establish a new packet data network gateway connection, therefore improving the security of private packet data network gateways. | 03-08-2012 |
20120071165 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR IMPROVING NETWORK DISCOVERY AND SELECTION - The present invention provides a method for improving Network Discovery and Selection suitable for a UE which is moving into a new TA, which comprises: receiving, by a MMF, a TAU request including the new TA from the UE; allocating, by the MMF, a new TA List according to the new TA in the TAU request; sending, by the MMF, the new TA List to the UE; sending, by the MMF, a TA information to a Mobility Policy Function, MPF, for updating mobility policy of the UE if the new TA is a special TA covered by different networks. | 03-22-2012 |
20120076099 | METHOD, DEVICE, AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING TUNNEL IDENTIFIER ALLOCATION - A method, a device, and a system for controlling tunnel identifier allocation are provided. The method includes: determining whether a type of a current procedure allows a Serving Gateway (SGW) to change a Tunnel Endpoint Identifier (TEID) and/or an Internet Protocol (IP) address (S | 03-29-2012 |
20120087313 | Paging Processing Method, Communication Apparatus, and Communication System - A paging processing method, a communication apparatus, and a communication system are disclosed, which can improve the quality of service provided to a user equipment. The paging processing method includes: receiving, by a mobility management network element, a downlink data notification message which includes service attribute information of a downlink data packet; obtaining the service attribute information; and initiating paging of the user equipment based on different policies according to the service attribute information. Accordingly, embodiments of the present invention also provide a communication apparatus and a communication system. | 04-12-2012 |
20120093086 | Method, Apparatus and System for Transmitting User Plane Data - Receiving a connection establishment request message sent by a user equipment; establishing a signaling connection with the user equipment according to the connection establishment request message; and transmitting a user plane IP data packet through the signaling connection. After a signaling connection is established between a UE in an idle state and a mobility management device, an uplink user plane IP data packet or a downlink user plane IP data packet, is directly transmitted between the UE and the network side through the signaling connection, with no need to specifically establish (recover) an RAB between the UE and an S-GW, which can save the signaling overhead, thus reducing the network load and lowering the operating cost of an operator. | 04-19-2012 |
20120147839 | Method, System, and Access Gateway for Traffic Flows to Share Resources - Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, a system, and an access gateway for traffic flows to share resources. The method for traffic flows to share resources includes obtaining information of at least two traffic flows and resources requested by the at least two traffic flows, where the at least two traffic flows correspond to different Internet Protocols connections. The at least two traffic flows share the resources. The information of the at least two traffic flows is bound on an established data channel. Resources for the data channel are allocated according to the resources requested by the at least two traffic flows. The at least two traffic flows are beared on the data channel. | 06-14-2012 |
20120294155 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR HANDLING NODE FAILURE - Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, an apparatus and a system for handling node failure. The method for handling node failure includes: sending, by an intermediate node, a context processing request message to a remote node when detecting that a first node occurs a failure, where the context processing request message is used to instruct the remote node to delete context information associated with the first node and the intermediate node; and deleting the context information associated with the first node and the intermediate node, by the remote node, according to the request message. The technical solution can enable the remote node to process the context information associated with the first node in time | 11-22-2012 |
20130016732 | POLICY DECISION FUNCTION ADDRESSING METHOD, NETWORK ELEMENT AND NETWORK SYSTEM - A policy decision function (PDF) addressing method includes: receiving a PDF allocation request that contains a user equipment (UE) identifier (ID) from a second network element (NE); obtaining ID information of a PDF associated with the UE ID according to pre-registered addressing information of the PDF, where the addressing information of the PDF is an association between the UE ID and the ID information of the PDF, and the PDF associated with the UE ID is accessed by a first NE; and sending the obtained ID information of the PDF to the second NE. | 01-17-2013 |
20130117614 | TUNNEL MANAGEMENT METHOD, TUNNEL MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, AND COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - The present invention relates to communications technologies and discloses a tunnel management method, a tunnel management apparatus, and a communications system so that a node that causes failure of a tunnel management request can be determined. According to the present invention, a response returned by a tunnel management node to an initiating node includes not only a cause value of tunnel management request failure but also information of the node that causes failure of the tunnel management request, so that the initiating node can find the node that causes failure of the tunnel management request and determine the error checking direction. The present invention is applicable to network devices in a communications network. | 05-09-2013 |
20130223385 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR SHARING NETWORK RESOURCES - A method for sharing network resources includes: setting a sharing group based on service types in the process of setting up a bearer and determining a maximum network resource for the sharing group; and allocating a resource for the bearer in the range of the maximum network resource. The present invention also provides a system and an apparatus for sharing network resources. The embodiments of the present invention implement the sharing of a maximum transmission rate among multiple bearers in an evolved network, solve the problem of low network resource utilization caused by the fact that each bearer occupies a fixed bandwidth resource, and implement maximum utilization of network resources. | 08-29-2013 |
20130252641 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR IMPROVING NETWORK DISCOVERY AND SELECTION - The present invention provides a method for improving Network Discovery and Selection suitable for a UE which is moving into a new TA, which comprises: receiving, by a MMF, a TAU request including the new TA from the UE; allocating, by the MMF, a new TA List according to the new TA in the TAU request; sending, by the MMF, the new TA List to the UE; sending, by the MMF, a TA information to a Mobility Policy Function, MPF, for updating mobility policy of the UE if the new TA is a special TA covered by different networks. | 09-26-2013 |
20140006628 | METHOD FOR ESTABLISHING DATA CONNECTION ON MOBILE NETWORK, MOBILE NETWORK, AND POLICY CONTROL ENTITY | 01-02-2014 |
20140024407 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ALLOCATING PAGING AREAS - A method for allocating paging areas includes: determining a basic paging area currently visited by a User Equipment (UE); and allocating a paging area to this UE according to a history record of motion trace of UEs located in the basic paging area currently visited by this UE. An apparatus for allocating paging areas is disclosed. | 01-23-2014 |
20140211611 | TUNNEL MANAGEMENT METHOD, TUNNEL MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, AND COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - Embodiments of the present invention relate to communications technologies and disclose a tunnel management method, a tunnel management apparatus, and a communications system so that a node that causes failure of a tunnel management request can be determined According to the present invention, a response returned by a tunnel management node to an initiating node includes not only a cause value of tunnel management request failure but also information of the node that causes failure of the tunnel management request, so that the initiating node can find the node that causes failure of the tunnel management request and determine the error checking direction. The present invention is applicable to network devices in a communications network. | 07-31-2014 |
20150049719 | Method and Apparatus for Establishing Direct Tunnel - The present invention discloses a method and an apparatus for establishing a direct tunnel, which relate to the field of communications network technologies and can reduce the number of signaling messages that need to be processed on a GGSN or an SGW and reduce signaling load on the GGSN or the SGW. In the embodiments of the present invention, a mobility management network element determines that a character of a user terminal satisfies a preset condition for establishing a direct tunnel; a request message is sent to a gateway to establish a downlink direct tunnel between a radio access network and the gateway; and a response message sent by the gateway is received, where the response message is used to confirm that the downlink direct tunnel between the radio access network and the gateway has been successfully established. | 02-19-2015 |
20150078254 | Method, System, Network Element, and Gateway for Processing Access Point Name Restriction Information - A method, a system, a network element, and a gateway for processing access point name restriction information are disclosed. The method includes a second mobility management element receives first access point name restriction information from a first mobility management element, and the second mobility management element obtains maximum access point name restriction information according to the first access point name restriction information, so that a packet data network gateway determines to or refuses to establish a new packet data network gateway connection. With the present invention, the second mobility management element may obtain the maximum access point name restriction information according to the received access point name restriction information. In this way, the packet data network gateway can determine to or refuse to establish a new packet data network gateway connection, therefore improving the security of private packet data network gateways. | 03-19-2015 |
20150078255 | Paging Processing Method, Communication Apparatus, and Communication System - A paging processing method, a communication apparatus, and a communication system are disclosed. The paging processing method includes: receiving, by a mobility management network element, a downlink data notification message which includes service attribute information of a downlink data packet; obtaining the service attribute information; and initiating paging of the user equipment based on different policies according to the service attribute information. | 03-19-2015 |