US 7,010,305 B2Granted

Method for assigning values of service attributes to transmissions, radio access networks and network elements

AssigneeNokia Mobile Phones Ltd.

InventorsJukka Immonen, Juha Ala-Laurila, Jarkko Jouppi, Juha Kalliokulju, Kari O. Virtanen

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Abstract

The invention relates to a method and to associated radio access networks and network elements for assigning values of service attributes to transmissions between a user equipment and a radio access network. In order to allow for an improved assignment of values of service attributes, it is proposed that, upon request of such a transmission by a user equipment of a subscriber registered with some radio access network the method comprises determining values of service attributes that are to be used for the transmission requested by said user equipment based on at least one value of at least one service attribute defined by a stored subscriber specific service profile, and based on at least one stored common value of at least one service attribute.

Claims14

Dependent claims

A method for assigning values of service attributes to transmissions between a user equipment and a radio access network, comprising upon request of such a transmission by a user equipment of a subscriber registered with some radio access network determining values of service attributes to be used for the transmission requested by said user equipment based on at least one value of at least one service attribute defined by a stored subscriber specific service profile, and based on at least one stored common value of at least one service attribute;

wherein a first storing means are part of a first radio access network, wherein a second storing means are part of a second radio access network, said first radio access network being a network for which a user equipment requesting a transmission is registered and said second radio access network being accessed by said user equipment for requesting the transmission;
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wherein values of service attributes to be used for a requested transmission in the second radio access network are determined by mapping values of service attributes determined based on values of service attributes as far as requested by a user equipment for a requested transmission, on subscriber specific values of service attributes and on common values of service attributes, which service attributes are defined in the first radio access network, to values of service attributes defined in the second radio access network.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 09/808,616Filed 14 Mar 2001
Published: US 2002/0132611 A119 Sep 2002
Granted: 7 Mar 2006
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Classification4 codes

H04W 28/16
Network traffic management; Network resource management: central resource management; Negotiation of resources or communication parameters, e.g.…
H04W 8/18
Network data management: processing of user or subscriber data, e.g. subscribed services, user preferences or user profiles; Transfer of user or…
H04W 60/00
Affiliation to network
H04W
Wireless communication networks