Communication system
AssigneeNEC Corporation
InventorSuresh GANAPATHY
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Abstract
A communication system is described in which mobile telephones are able to roam between neighbouring home node base stations and in which the home base stations or the home base station gateway devices are arranged to aggregate “Unsuccessfully Transmitted DL Data Volume” determined by previous home base stations served by the gateway device. In this way, when a call is transferred away from the gateway device or is released, a total aggregated value of “Unsuccessfully Transmitted DL Data Volume” can be provided to the core network for billing purposes.
Claims9
-15. (canceled)
A method performed by a target base station, the method comprising:
- receiving, from a source base station, first data volume, wherein the first data volume which comprises unsuccessful data;
- accumulating, for a final data volume report, the first data volume and second data volume which comprises unsuccessful data in the target base station;
- and
- transmitting, to a gateway, the final data volume report when a IU connection is released.
A target base station comprising:
- a transceiver circuit configured to receiving, from a source base station, first data volume, wherein the first data volume which comprises unsuccessful data;
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- a processor configure to accumulate, for a final data volume report, the first data volume and second data volume which comprises unsuccessful data in the target base station;
- wherein the transceiver is configured to transmit, to a gateway, the final data volume report when a IU connection is released.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.