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Granted Patent B2
US 10,785,633 · App. 16/145,964 · Granted Sep 22, 2020

Communication system, operation control method, and location management server

Inventor: Toshiyuki Tamura (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: NEC Corporation
H04W8/04H04W8/06H04W80/04
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Patent No.
US 10,785,633
App. No.
16/145,964
Granted
Sep 22, 2020
Kind
B2
Abstract

A method for a base station includes receiving a signal relating to a location of a user equipment (UE) from the UE, selecting a first exchange for the UE and sending the signal to the first exchange, and sending the signal to a second exchange based on subscription information of the UE provided by a server.

Claims (21)

1. A method for a base station, comprising:

receiving, by the base station, a signal relating to a location of a user equipment (UE) from the UE;

selecting, by the base station, a first exchange for the UE and sending the signal to the first exchange; and

resending, by the base station, the signal to a second exchange based on subscription information of the UE provided by a server.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the base station includes an enhanced Node B (eNodeB).

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein each of the first exchange and the second exchange includes a gateway, a mobility management entity (MME), and a user plane entity (UPE).

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the server includes a home subscriber server (HSS).

5. A method for a user equipment (UE) in a mobile communication system, the method comprising:

sending a first signal relating to a location of the user equipment to a base station; and receiving a second signal relating to the location of the UE from an exchange via the base station,

wherein the base station selects a first exchange for the UE upon receiving the first signal and sends the first signal to the first exchange,

wherein the base station resends the first signal to a second exchange based on subscription information of the UE provided by a server, and

wherein the UE receives the second signal from the second exchange via the base station.

6. The method according to claim 5 , wherein the base station includes an enhanced Node B (eNodeB).

7. The method according to claim 5 , wherein each of the first exchange and the second exchange includes one of a gateway, a mobility management entity (MME), and a user plane entity (UPE).

8. The method according to claim 5 , wherein the server includes a home subscriber server (HSS).

9. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the UE comprises a mobile station.

10. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the server includes a home subscriber server (HSS).

11. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the first exchange and the second exchange belong to different carriers.

12. The method according to claim 5 , wherein the UE comprises a mobile station.

13. The method according to claim 5 , wherein the server includes a home subscriber server (HSS).

14. The method according to claim 5 , wherein the first exchange and the second exchange belong to different carriers.

Priority Claims (1)
JP 2006-164144 · Jun 14, 2006 · national
Continuity (5)
Continuation 13845267 · Mar 18, 2013
Continuation 13457034 · Apr 26, 2012
Division 12902975 · Oct 12, 2010
Continuation 11806955 · Jun 5, 2007
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