IP Library Granted Patent US 7,974,269
Granted Patent B2
US 7,974,269 · App. 11/211,593 · Granted Jul 5, 2011

Mobile communication control method and mobile communication system

Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
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Patent No.
US 7,974,269
App. No.
11/211,593
Granted
Jul 5, 2011
Kind
B2
Abstract

The objective of the invention is to provide a mobile communication control method and mobile communication system in which mobile IPv6 and SIP are integrated by a core network of 3GPP2. In the mobile communication system, the mobile node MN executes a registration procedure for a Care-of-Address acquired in a visited network by the communication between the mobile node and a home agent server HA, executes a registration procedure for the Care-of-Address by the communication between the mobile node and an SIP server, and executes a communication procedure for session establishment by the communication between the mobile node MN and a correspondent node not through the home agent server but through the SIP server.

Claims (20)

1. A method for controlling mobile communication in a communication network that includes a home agent server for managing location information of a mobile node, and a SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) server, said method comprising the steps of:

sending a first registration request message which requests a registration of a Care-of-Address acquired in a visited network from said mobile node to said home agent server;

matching said Care-of-Address of said mobile node indicated by said first registration request message with a home address of said mobile node;

storing the matched Care-of-Address by said home agent server;

sending a second registration request message which requests a registration of said Care-of-Address from said mobile node to said SIP server;

storing a matching relation of a resource identifier (URI) of said mobile node indicated by said second registration request message and said Care-of-Address in an SIP information management table by said SIP server; and

executing a communication procedure for session establishment between said mobile node and a correspondent node through said SIP server,

wherein, in said communication procedure for session establishment, when an SIP session establishment request (INVITE) message which specifies a destination node using said resource identifier is sent from said correspondent node to said SIP server, said SIP server refers said SIP information management table, specifies said Care-of-Address of said mobile node which corresponds to said resource identifier of said destination node, and transfers said SIP session establishment request message to said Care-of-Address.

2. A method according to claim 1 , wherein, in said communication procedure for said session establishment,

said SIP server transfers said SIP session establishment request message to said Care-of-Address after updating said resource identifier of said destination node included in a start line of said SIP session establishment request message received from said correspondent node and being sent to said Care-of-Address;

said mobile node, upon receiving said SIP session establishment request message, transmits an SIP response message that specifies said Care-of-Address in a message body portion back to said SIP server; and

said SIP server transmits said SIP response message to said correspondent node.

3. A method according to claim 2 , wherein

said correspondent node transmits to said mobile node a data packet with said Care-of-Address specified by said message body portion of said SIP response message used as the destination IP address after said communication procedure for session establishment has been completed.

4. A mobile communication system having a home network connected to an IP network and a plurality of visited networks connected to said IP network through packet data switching nodes, said home network including a home agent server for managing location information of a mobile node and a SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) server, wherein

said home agent server has means that matches said Care-of-Address of said mobile node indicated by a location registration request message with a home address of said mobile node and stores the matched Care-of-Address of said mobile node in a memory when said location registration request message of a mobile IP is received from said mobile node, and

said SIP server has:

means that matches said Care-of-Address of said mobile node indicated by said location registration request message with an SIP resource identifier of said mobile node and stores the matched Care-of-Address of said mobile node in an SIP information management table in a memory when an IP packet including an SIP location registration request message is received from said mobile node; and

means that, when an IP packet including an SIP session establishment request (INVITE) message having a destination node that is specified by a resource identifier is received from a correspondent node of said mobile node, refers to said SIP information management table, identifies said Care-of-Address of said mobile node which corresponds to said resource identifier of said destination node, and transmits said IP packet including SIP session establishment request message to said Care-of-Address.

5. A system according to claim 4 , wherein said SIP server receives from said mobile node an IP packet including an SIP session establishment request (INVITE) message with a Care-of-Address specified by a connection definition, and transfers said received packet to said correspondent node, thereby notifying said correspondent node of said Care-of-Address of said mobile node.

Assignments (2)
MERGER Recorded Jan 7, 2010
From: HITACHI COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.
To: HITACHI, LTD.
Reel/Frame 023774/0957 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 9, 2005
From: TAKEDA, YUKIKO; TANABE, SHIRO; DENG, HUI; IKEDA, HIROKI
To: HITACHI COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.
Reel/Frame 017339/0100 →
Priority Claims (1)
CN 2004 1 0085631 · Oct 12, 2004 · national
Continuity (1)
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