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US 9,179,275 B2Granted
Method and apparatus for receiving or sending short message
AssigneeHuawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
InventorYijun Yu
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Abstract
A first message is sent by an MSC/VLR and it is determined that a user equipment is in an abnormal state according to the first message. A second message is sent to the user equipment. The second message is used to instruct the user equipment to initiate attachment to the MSC/VLR. An apparatus includes a receiving module, a first determining module and a sending module.
Claims13
A method for receiving or sending a short message, the method comprising:
- receiving, by a mobile management device, a first message sent by a mobile switch center (MSC)/visitor location register (VLR);
- determining that a user equipment is in an abnormal state according to the first message;
- and
- sending a second message to the user equipment, wherein the second message is used to instruct the user equipment to initiate attachment to the MSC/VLR;
- wherein the first message is a first paging message and wherein determining that the user equipment is in the abnormal state comprises determining that the user equipment is in the abnormal state based upon the first paging message not comprising a location area identity (LAI).
2 more elements
A system for receiving a short message, the system comprising:
- a mobile switch center (MSC)/visitor location register (VLR), configured to transmit a paging message;
- and
- a mobile management device, configured to receive the paging message from the MSC/VLR, determine a user equipment is in an abnormal state based upon the paging message not comprising a location area identity (LAI), and transmit a detach request message, wherein a detach type of the detach request message is international mobile subscriber identification (IMSI) detach.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.