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Granted Patent B2
US 9,591,487 · App. 14/419,173 · Granted Mar 7, 2017

Mobile station, networking apparatus, and mobile communication method

Inventors: Atsushi Ueki (Tokyo, JP); Takehiro Ida (Tokyo, JP); Kenichiro Aoyagi (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
H04W12/08H04W48/02H04W76/02H04W48/16
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Patent No.
US 9,591,487
App. No.
14/419,173
Granted
Mar 7, 2017
Kind
B2
Abstract

A mobile station, a networking apparatus, and a mobile communication method with which access restriction according to SSAC can be achieved with greater reliability even when the mobile station is in an RRC CONNECTED state. A UE 100 acquires restriction information indicating a content of Service Specific Access Control, and cancels transmission of a call-origination request based on the acquired restriction information if the call-origination request is generated when the UE 100 is in an RRC CONNECTED state in which connection to an access network is established on a radio resource control layer, the transmission being cancelled in the RRC CONNECTED state.

Claims (16)

1. A mobile station that restricts transmission of a call-origination request to an access network based on a service-specific access control notified of via the access network, the call-origination request being for provision of a predetermined communication service specified by the service-specific access control, the mobile station comprising:

a communication interface configured to acquire restriction information indicating a content of the service-specific access control; and

circuitry configured to cancel transmission of the call-origination request based on the restriction information acquired by the communication interface if the call-origination request is generated when the mobile station is in a connection-established state in which connection to the access network is established on a radio resource control layer, the transmission being cancelled when the mobile station is in the connection-established state.

2. The mobile station according to claim 1 , wherein

the communication interface acquires the restriction information containing an element indicating that the service-specific access control is to be implemented when the mobile station is in the connection-established state, and

the circuitry determines whether or not to cancel transmission of the call-origination request based on the element.

3. The mobile station according to claim 1 , wherein

the communication interface is configured to notify a networking apparatus constituting the access network of a functional capacity indication indicating that the mobile station has a function of implementing the service-specific access control when in the connection-established state.

4. A networking apparatus that transmits a service-specific access control to a mobile station via an access network, the service-specific access control restricting transmission, to the access network, of a call-origination request for provision of a predetermined communication service, the networking apparatus comprising:

a communication interface configured to transmit restriction information to the mobile station, the restriction information containing an element indicating that the service-specific access control is to be implemented when the mobile station is in a connection-established state in which connection to the access network is established on a radio resource control layer.

5. The networking apparatus according to claim 4 , wherein

the communication interface is configured to acquire a functional capacity indication via the access network, the functional capacity indication indicating that the mobile station has a function of implementing the service-specific access control when in the connection-established state; and

the networking apparatus further comprises circuitry configured to determine a priority level for processing the call-origination request, when the request is received from the mobile station, based on the functional capacity indication acquired by the communication interface so that a call-origination request from a mobile station having the function of implementing the service-specific access control when in the connection-established state is processed in prior to a call-origination request from a mobile station not having the function.

6. A mobile communication method for restricting transmission of a call-origination request to an access network based on a service-specific access control notified of via the access network, the call-origination request being for provision of a predetermined communication service specified by the service-specific access control, the method comprising the steps of:

acquiring restriction information indicating a content of the service-specific access control; and

cancelling transmission of the call-origination request based on the acquired restriction information if the call-origination request is generated in a connection-established state in which connection to the access network is established on a radio resource control layer, the transmission being cancelled in the connection-established state.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 2, 2015
From: UEKI, ATSUSHI; IDA, TAKEHIRO; AOYAGI, KENICHIRO
To: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
Reel/Frame 034867/0696 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2012-173047 · Aug 3, 2012 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20150230092A1 · Aug 13, 2015