US 2001/0033563 A1 · Method and system for communicating data between a mobile communications architecture and a packet switched architecture

Abstract

The method and system provides a data packet encapsulated with protocol data according to an embodiment of the invention. A data packet for communication may be associated with a TLLI and a NSAPI identifying a communications path between a BSS and a SGSN. The method and system provides a BVC associated with the BSS and the SGSN and a NSE that provides communication service to the BVC over NS-VC. The BVC, NSE and NS-VC may be associated with the TLLI and NSAPI. The encapsulated protocol data comprises UDP and IP. UDP provides UDP ports associated with NS-VC. The UDP ports identified as data designated as either real time or non-real time services. IP provides an IP address identifying the NSE providing service to the BVC. The data packet encapsulated with UDP and IP provides for more efficient, flexible and reliable communications between a BSS and a SGSN.

Claims23

Dependent claims

A method of communicating data between a Base Station System (BSS) and a Serving GPRS Support Node (SGSN), the method of communicating comprising the steps of:

providing protocol data and associated functions, including encapsulating a data packet with a User Datagram Protocol (UDP) and a Internet Protocol (IP), wherein the UDP comprises a UDP port associated with a Network Service Virtual Connection (NS-VC) and, the IP provides an IP address associated with a Network Service Entity (NSE);
and
transmitting the data packet provided with the protocol data.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

09/784,954Filed 16 Feb 2001

Priority

16 Feb 2000

Published

25 Oct 2001

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification6 codes

H04W 92/14
Interfaces between hierarchically different network devices: between access point controllers and backbone network device
H04L 12/4633
Interconnection of networks: interconnection of networks using encapsulation techniques, e.g. tunneling
H04W 28/06
Traffic management, e.g. flow control or congestion control: optimizing the usage of the radio link, e.g. header compression, information sizing ,…
H04W 80/00
Wireless network protocols or protocol adaptations to wireless operation

Method and system for communicating data between a mobile communications architecture and a packet switched architecture

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Method and system for communicating data between a mobile communications architecture and a packet switched architecture

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Abstract

Claims23