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US 8,914,049 B2Granted
Method for managing a status of a mobile station in a wireless network
AssigneeAlcatel Lucent
InventorsSuresh P. Nair, Peretz Feder
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Abstract
Example embodiments relate a method for managing a status of a mobile station in a wireless network. The method includes receiving, at an accounting network element, a report message indicating a state change of the mobile station. The method may also include sending, by the accounting network element, a notice to a network serving element in response to receiving the report message, the notice message indicating the state change of the mobile station.
Claims20
A method for managing a status of a mobile station in a wireless network, the method comprising:
- receiving, at a network serving element, a notice message from an accounting network element, the notice message indicating a state change of the mobile station, the notice message not being received in response to a query for the status of the mobile station;
- and
- updating, at the network serving element, a signaling timer stored at the network serving element, when the state change indicated in the notice message received from the accounting network element indicates that the status of the mobile station has changed, the signaling timer indicating a period during which the network serving element expects to receive a response from the mobile station to a subsequent paging request and the updating including decreasing the signaling timer stored at the network serving element when the status of the mobile station, as indicated in the notice message received from the accounting network element, is from an idle state to an active state.
A method for managing a status of a mobile station in a wireless network, the method comprising:
- receiving, at a network serving element, a notice message from an accounting network element, the notice message sent to the network serving element without the network serving element sending query to the accounting network element for the status of the mobile station, the notice message indicating a state change of the mobile station;
- and
- updating, at the network serving element, a signaling timer stored at the network serving element, if the notice message received from the accounting network element indicates that the status of the mobile station has changed, the signaling timer indicating a period during which the network serving element expects to receive a response from the mobile station to a subsequent paging request and the updating including decreasing the signaling timer stored at the network serving element if the status of the mobile station, as indicated in the notice message received from the accounting network element, is from an idle state to an active state.
An apparatus for managing a status of a mobile station in a wireless network, the apparatus comprising:
- a processor and an associated memory, the processor configured to,
- receive, at a network serving element, a notice message from an accounting network element, the notice message indicating a state change of the mobile station, the notice message not being received in response to a query for the status of the mobile station, and
- update a signaling timer stored at the network serving element, when the state change indicated in the notice message received from the accounting network element indicates that the status of the mobile station has changed, the signaling timer indicating a period during which the network serving element expects to receive a response from the mobile station to a subsequent paging request and the updating including decreasing the signaling timer stored at the network serving element when the status of the mobile station, as indicated in the notice message received from the accounting network element, is from an idle state to an active state.
An apparatus for managing a status of a mobile station in a wireless network, the apparatus comprising:
- a processor and an associated memory, the processor configured to,
- receive, at a network serving element, a notice message from an accounting network element, the notice message sent to the network serving element without the network serving element sending a query to the accounting network element for the status of the mobile station, the notice message indicating a state change of the mobile station, and
- update a signaling timer stored at the network serving element when the state change indicated in the notice message received from the accounting network element indicates that the status of the mobile station has changed, the signaling timer indicating a period during which the network serving element expects to receive a response from the mobile station to a subsequent paging request and the updating including decreasing the signaling timer stored at the network serving element when the status of the mobile station, as indicated in the notice message received from the accounting network element, is from an idle state to an active state.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.