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Granted Patent B2
US 8,831,612 · App. 13/148,056 · Granted Sep 9, 2014

Handover method and apparatus

Inventors: Hyun-Sook Kim (Gyeonggi-Do, KR); Lae-Young Kim (Gyeonggi-Do, KR); Tae-Hyeon Kim (Gyeonggi-Do, KR)
Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
H04W36/24H04W36/08
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 8,831,612
App. No.
13/148,056
Granted
Sep 9, 2014
Kind
B2
Abstract

A method of controlling handover in a server and including receiving a handover required message including information indicating that a Closed Subscriber Group (CSG) membership for a terminal in a Home (e)NodeB has expired; transmitting a handover command message to the Home (e)NodeB; receiving a status report message from the Home (e)NodeB indicating that the CSG membership for the terminal is updated; receiving information related to a CSG membership of the terminal from a Home Subscriber Server (HSS) if the terminal handover was performed from the Home (e)NodeB to another base station; determining that the terminal performs a reverse handover from the another base station to the Home (e)NodeB based on the status report message and information obtained from the HSS; and transmitting a control message to perform the reverse handover to another base station.

Claims (20)

1. A method of controlling handover in a server in charge of a control plane within a mobile communication network, the method comprising:

receiving a handover required message including information that the terminal performs handover from a Home (e)NodeB operating as a cell of Closed Subscriber Group (CSG) to another base station, wherein the information indicates that a CSG membership for the terminal in a Home (e)NodeB has expired;

transmitting a handover command message to the Home (e)NodeB for the terminal to perform a handover to another base station;

receiving a status report message from the Home (e)NodeB, wherein the status report message indicates that the CSG membership for the terminal is re-established;

receiving information related to a CSG membership of the terminal from a Home Subscriber Server (HSS) after the terminal handover was performed from the Home (e)NodeB to another base station;

determining that the terminal performs a reverse handover from the another base station to the Home (e)NodeB based on the status report message and information obtained from the HSS; and

transmitting a control message to perform the reverse handover to another base station.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the handover required message further comprises at least one of identification information of the terminal and information on the another base station.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the information in the handover required message further comprises at least one of overload, maintenance, and policy change.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the status report message comprises information on whether the CSG membership for the terminal is allowed access to the Home (e)NodeB.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the status report message comprises at least one of a parameter indicating that a cause of the handover has been solved, information on the changed status of the Home (e)NodeB, and information on the solved cause.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein at least one of subscriber information of the terminal, policy information, membership information of the terminal for the Home (e)NodeB is considered in the determining step.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the control message is transmitted to the another base station, and corresponds to a message indicating reverse handover, a reverse handover request message or a handover request message.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the control message is transmitted to the Home (e)NodeB, and corresponds to a handover request message.

9. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

storing the information within the handover required message.

10. A server in charge of a control plane within a mobile communication network, the server comprising:

a transmitter transmitting a handover command message to a Home (e)NodeB for a terminal to perform a handover to another base station when the server receives a handover required message including information that the terminal performs a handover from the Home (e)NodeB operating as a cell of Closed Subscriber Group (CSG) to the another base station, wherein the information indicates that a CSG membership for the terminal in the Home (e)NodeB has expired and transmitting to the another base station a control message to perform a reverse handover;

a receiver receiving a status report message from the Home (e)NodeB, wherein the status report message indicates that the CSG membership for the terminal is re-established, and receiving information related to a CSG membership of the terminal for the Home (e)NodeB from a Home Subscriber Server (HSS); and

a controller determining that the terminal performs the reverse handover from the another base station to the Home (e)NodeB based on the status report message and information comprising an access authority to a Home (e)NodeB obtained from the HSS.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 5, 2011
From: KIM, HYUN-SOOK; KIM, LAE-YOUNG; KIM, TAE-HYEON
To: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
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Priority Claims (1)
KR 10-2009-0118071 · Dec 1, 2009 · national
Continuity (2)
Provisional Application 61150785 · Feb 8, 2009
Related Publication 20110294509A1 · Dec 1, 2011