GB2492799A

5G,4G

Title

Improved signalling in a wireless network that has the facility to enable or disable an idle mode signal reduction feature

Application Number:

GB20110011960

Publication Date:

16-01-2013

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Application Date:

12-07-2011

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Publication Country:

US

Priority Date:

12-07-2011

Title

Improved signalling in a wireless network that has the facility to enable or disable an idle mode signal reduction feature

Application Number:

GB20110011960

Family ID:

Publication Country:

US

Publication Date:

16-01-2013

Application Date:

12-07-2011

Priority Date:

12-07-2011

Current Assignee:

Declaring Company:

Abstract  Abstract

Abstract Title: Improved signalling in a wireless network that has the facility to enable or disable an idle mode signal reduction feature

A communications network comprises a user equipment (2) a first radio access network a second radio access network and a core network. The core network comprises a first packet switched network control node (14) communicatively coupled to the first radio access network a circuit switched network control node (16) communicatively coupled to the first radio access network and a second packet switched network control node (12) communicatively coupled to the second radio access network. The second packet switched network control node (12) is capable of forming an association with the circuit switched network control node (16) in dependence on the user equipment (2) performing an update to the second radio access network to enable one or more features which employ said circuit switched network control node. In the communications network a first update of the user equipment (2) towards the first packet switched network control node (14) is received from the first radio access network and then an update of the user equipment (2) towards the second packet switched network control node (12) is received from the second radio access network. A context-related message is sent from the second packet switched network control node (12) to the first packet switched network control node (14) comprising association requirement context data indicating an association requirement between the second packet switched network control node (12) and the circuit switched network control node (16). The context-related message is sent before a further update of the user equipment (2) towards the first packet switched network control node (14) is received from the first radio access network. Therefore the sending of the context-related association data is reliably achieved even if the receipt of the further update causes suppression of the sending of context related messages.

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