Methods and apparatus for identifying paging activities during idle mode
AssigneeWiChorus, Inc.
InventorSanthosh Kumar Thodupunoori
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Abstract
A network configuration capable of using a paging activity sink to aggregate and analyze flood of paging messages during an idle mode is disclosed. In one embodiment, a process using the paging activity sink is able to detect an idle mode of end user (“EU”) equipment in a communication network. Upon detecting a downstream push data such as push mail addressing to the EU equipment indicating a pending message, a predefined portion of data from the first downstream push data is copied or duplicated to form a copy of paging announcement. While sending the downstream push data to the EU equipment, the process forwards the copy of paging announcement to a network element (“NE”) such as a paging activity server for analyzing paging activities.
Claims4
A method for aggregating paging messages in a communication network, comprising
- detecting a downstream push data for a first mobile which is in an idle mode and copying a portion of the downstream push data content to form packet data;
- generating a paging announcement with vendor specific type-length-value (“TLV”) including the packet data associated with the first mobile;
- forwarding the paging announcement with vendor specific TLV to a network server configured to performing paging activity sink;
- examining the packet data and aggregating paging monitoring messages to analyze paging activities;
- identifying a buffer indicator configured to indicate number of packets buffered for the first mobile;
- and identifying an out-of-memory (“OOM”) indicator configured to indicate number of packets dropped due to buffering limit,
- wherein the examining the packet data and aggregating paging monitoring messages to analyze source of paging activities includes identifying cause for paging burst and providing an up-to-date status report regarding idle mode and paging activities.
A network layout configured to monitor paging activities, comprising:
- a mobile entered in an idle mode for power conservation and periodically scanning broadcast paging channel for new messages;
- a packet core gateway coupled to the mobile via one or more base stations and configured to assemble a paging announcement with vendor specific type-length-value (“TLV”), wherein the paging announcement with vendor specific TLV includes packet data, buffer indicator, and out-of-memory (“OOM”) indicator indicating number of packets dropped due to buffering limit;
- a server coupled to the packet core gateway and configured to receive the paging announcement with vendor specific TLV and providing an up-to-date status report regarding idle mode and paging activities, wherein the server performs paging activity sink configured to identify cause of a paging burst.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.