Support for features associated with a subscriber in networks with a gateway location register
AssigneeTelefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
InventorsJohan Rune, Yun Chao Hu, Juan Noguera-Rodriguez
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for providing an indication, in a system which uses a gateway location register to reduce signaling between visitor location registers and home location registers, to a home location register of the features not supported by a visitor location register. The indication of the features not supported by the visitor location register can be provided to the home location register during a location update message exchange or a data restoration request message exchange. The indication can also be provided in an information update message.
Claims26
In a wireless communications system a method for indicating features not supported by visitor location registers comprising the steps of:
- sending, from a gateway location register associated with the wireless communication system to a home location register, a message including an indication of a feature not supported by a first visitor location register for a subscriber;
- sending, to the gateway location register, another message including another indication of a feature not supported by a second visitor location register for the subscriber;
- and
- determining, by the gateway location register, whether a feature supported by the first visitor location register is not supported by the second visitor location register or whether a feature supported by the second visitor location register is not supported by the first visitor location register.
A wireless communications system which indicates features not supported by visitor location registers, the wireless communication system comprising:
- a gateway location register for sending a message including an indication of a feature not supported by a first visitor location register for a subscriber to a home location register;
- and
- a second visitor location register for sending to the gateway location register, another message including another indication of a feature not supported by the second visitor location register for the subscriber,
- wherein the gateway location register determines whether a feature is supported by the first visitor location register which is not supported by the second visitor location register or whether a feature is supported by the second visitor location register which is not supported by the first visitor location register.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.