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US 9,432,960 B2Granted
Method of handling proximity service in wireless communication system
AssigneeHTC Corporation
InventorChing-Yu Liao
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Abstract
A method of handling proximity service (ProSe) in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method includes transmitting, by a mobile device of the wireless communication system, a request message to one of the plurality Mobility Management Entities (MMEs) of the wireless communication system, for requesting a proximity service (ProSe) service; and indicating, by the one of the plurality of MMEs, to the mobile device a ProSe capability of a system network of the wireless communication system in an accept message.
Claims7
A method of handling proximity service (ProSe) in a wireless communication system, comprising:
- receiving, by a network entity of the wireless communication system, an attach request message or tracking area update (TAU) request message from a mobile device of the wireless communication system:
- transmitting, by the network entity, an attach accept message or TAU accept message indicating to the mobile device whether the network entity supports a ProSe capability of one or more ProSe features in an attach TAU receiving, by the network entity, a first request message for initiating at least one of the one or more ProSe features from the mobile device requiring the at least one of the one or more ProSe features, when the network entity indicates support of the one or more ProSe features;
- and determining, bt the network entity, whether to accept the first request message by checking whether or not the at least one of the one or more ProSe features can be initiated for the mobile device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.