Support of retrieval and/or reporting and/or triggering the reporting of user location information in a mobile network
AssigneeAlcatel Lucent
InventorsNicolas Drevon, Laurent Thiebaut
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Abstract
An embodiment is a method for support of retrieval and/or reporting and/or triggering the reporting of user location information in a mobile network, wherein said user location information is retrieved and/or reported and/or the reporting of said user location information is triggered, at a granularity of an area referred to as administrative area defined as a set of mobile network related areas, mobile network related areas being defined at mobile network management level, and mobile network related areas being mapped to administrative areas.
Claims16
A method, comprising:
- sending a request to report whether a user equipment has changed of area referred to as an administrative area at an area level in a mobile network referred to as administrative area level, wherein the administrative area level comprises a set of administrative areas, wherein an administrative area comprises a set of mobile network related areas defined for mobile network management;
- and
- receiving a report whether said user equipment has changed of administrative area;
- wherein said request to report a change of administrative area is triggered from a policy and/or charging controller.
An apparatus, comprising:
- at least one processor;
- and
- at least one memory including computer program code;
- the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to perform:
- send a request to report whether a user equipment has changed of area referred to as administrative area at an area level in a mobile network referred to as administrative area level, wherein the administrative area level comprises a set of administrative areas, wherein an administrative area comprises a set of mobile network related areas defined for mobile network management;
- and
- receive a report whether said user equipment has changed administrative area;
- wherein said request to report a change of administrative area is triggered from a policy and/or charging controller.
An apparatus, comprising:
- at least one processor;
- and
- at least one memory including computer program code;
- the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to perform:
- receive a request to report whether a user equipment has changed of area referred to as administrative area at an area level in a mobile network referred to as administrative area level, wherein the administrative area level comprises a set of administrative areas, wherein an administrative area comprises a set of mobile network related areas defined for mobile network management;
- and
- send a report whether said user equipment has changed administrative area;
- wherein said request to report a change of administrative area is triggered from a policy and/or charging controller.
A method, comprising:
- receiving a request to report whether a user equipment has changed of area referred to as administrative area at an area level in a mobile network referred to as administrative area level, wherein the administrative area level comprises a set of administrative areas, wherein an administrative area comprises a set of mobile network related areas defined for mobile network management;
- and
- sending a report whether said user equipment has changed administrative area;
- wherein said request to report a change of administrative area is triggered from a policy and/or charging controller.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.