Abstract:
The present invention provides a communication controller and a method (fig. 7) for maintaining a communication connection during a cell reselection. The communication connection is maintained by changing between a first operating mode (308), such as a packet data mode, which does not support the maintenance of a communication connection throughout a cell reselection (310), and a second operating mode, such as a circuit switched mode, which does support maintenance of a communication connection during a handover. Use of a virtual mobile switching center in the base station subsystem facilitates the conversion and routing of circuit switched data, transmitted between the mobile subscriber and the base transceiver station, to the packet data network while in a circuit switched mode.
Abstract:
A simplified version of a defined GPRS/EDGE Class A mobile station that incorporates transmission and reception of GPRS/EDGE data during discontinuous transmission and reception modes on a dedicated traffic channel, and that includes a mechanism for streaming GPRS/EDGE data to and from a packet-switched channel, along with optional association of a voice timeslot with one or more GPRS/EDGE data timeslots. GPRS/EDGE packet data and circuit-switched voice data are simultaneously transmitting along a dedicated GSM voice traffic channel by transmitting the GPRS/EDGE packet data between occurrences of circuit-switched voice data and silence descriptor frame data along a dedicated voice traffic channel.
Abstract:
A method in a wireless communications network including receiving (310) a network connection request from a subscriber device having an invalid subscriber identity, connecting (340) the subscriber device, from which the network connection request was received, to the wireless communications network for limited purposes only upon determining (320) that the subscriber device has in invalid subscriber identity in the absence of a limited network connection indicator in the network connection request. In some embodiments, a limited attach message indicates that the attach request is for limited purposes.
Abstract:
A communication system (200) provides for a mobile station (MS) (202) to pre-register with a Serving GPRS Support Node (SGSN) (250) servicing a neighboring Routing Area (RA) (208) that is a handoff candidate. In pre-registering with the neighboring RA and SGSN, the MS at least partially registers with the RA and SGSN, that is, at least a portion of the MS's registration information is conveyed to the neighboring SGSN serving the neighboring RA, prior to the MS being served by an associated neighboring BSS (230), for example, prior to an initiation of a handoff of the MS to the neighboring BSS. By pre-registering with the candidate SGSN, a duration of a registration process and the corresponding service disruptions when the MS is handed off to such an SGSN are reduced.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a method for managing in a mobile subscriber the traffic flow of a communication connection during a cell reselection. The method includes communicating via a communication connection with a first cell, and monitoring communication conditions, while communicating with the first cell. An approximate time is then determined, when conditions associated with the flow of communication via the communication connection with the first cell is consistent with transferring the flow of communication to a communication connection with a second cell. The mobile subscriber then establishes a communication connection with the second cell, while maintaining the communication connection with the first cell. The method further includes routing the flow of the communication from the communication connection with the first cell to the communication connection with the second cell, and releasing by the mobile subscriber the communication connection with the first cell, proximate the time that the flow of communication is routed from the communication connection with the first cell to the communication connection with the second cell.
Abstract:
An apparatus and method for primary link packet control using a traffic flow template. Primary link traffic flow template filter parameters can be set at a packet control module. Incoming packet data can be compared against the primary link traffic flow template filter parameters. How the incoming packet data is sent to the wireless device over the primary link can be controlled based on comparing incoming packet data against the primary link traffic flow template filter parameters.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for providing callback from a called party to an anonymous initiating user device after a dropped call in a packet data network communication system includes a first step of initiating a call from the user device on an originating network. A next step includes detecting a missing identity of the user device. A next step includes assigning an interim identity to the user device. A next step includes routing the call with the associated interim identity to the called party. A next step includes disconnecting of the call, with the user device roaming to a new network. A next step includes attaching of the user device on the new network with PDP context activation. A next step includes providing the interim identity of the user device and an originating network identity to the new network. A next step includes forwarding a callback of the called party from the originating network to the new network to the user device camped on the new network using the information from the providing step.