Method and device for accessing and obtaining user equipment context and user equipment identity

• US 10,681,594 B2
• Filed: 01/30/2019
• Issued: 06/09/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 06/18/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Guo, Xiaolong
• Primary Examiner(s): Skripnikov, Alex
• Application Number:
  US16/261,603
• Publication Number:
  US 20190261227A1
• Time in Patent Office: 496 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/0022 for transferring data sessions between adjacent core network technologies
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/0033 with transfer of context information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 60/00 Affiliation to network, e.g. registration; Terminating affiliation with the network, e.g. de-registration
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 60/04 using triggered events
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/06 Registration at serving network Location Register, VLR or user mobility server
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/10 between location register and external networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/005 Data network PoA devices

Abstract

A method and device for accessing and obtaining user equipment (UE) context and UE identity are provided. The method for access includes: when a UE accesses a System Architecture Evolution (SAE) network, judging, by a network node, whether a Globally Unique Mobility Management Entity Identifier (GUMMEI) carried by the UE or a Mobility Management Entity Group Identity (MMEGI) in the GUMMEI is allocated or mapped by the SAE network; if the GUMMEI or MMEGI is allocated by the SAE network, selecting, by the network node, a Mobility Management Entity (MME) according to the GUMMEIA network device includes an identity attribute obtaining module and a network resource node allocation module. Therefore, the access of the UE is achieved.

Claims

1. A communication method, comprising:

when a user equipment (UE) moves from a tracking area of a first network to a first tracking area of a second network;

generating, by the UE, a first temporary identity of the second network from a temporary identity of the first network; and

sending, by the UE, both the first temporary identity of the second network in a first information element (IE) of a first request for updating a tracking area, and a second temporary identity of the second network in a second IE for an additional temporary identity of the second network in the first request, to an entity for mobility management in the second network when the UE determines that the UE holds the second temporary identity of the second network, the second temporary identity allocated by the second network; and

when the UE moves from a second tracking area of the second network to a third tracking area of the second network;

sending, by the UE, a third temporary identity of the second network allocated by the second network in a third IE of a second request for updating a tracking area, the third IE corresponding to the first IE, without sending an IE corresponding to the second IE, to the entity for mobility management in the second network.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the first network and the second network are different-generation networks.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein a fourth temporary identity of the second network is a global unique temporary identity (GUTI), the fourth temporary identity of the second network being the first temporary identity of the second network, the second temporary identity of the second network, or the third temporary identity of the second network.

4. An apparatus, comprising a processing unit and a memory, wherein

the apparatus is a user equipment (UE), or, a processor used for a UE,

the memory stores information including program codes, and

the processing unit is configured to execute the program codes, causing the apparatus to execute:

when the UE moves from a tracking area of a first network to a first tracking area of a second network;

generating, by the apparatus, a first temporary identity of the second network from a temporary identity of the first network; and

sending, by the apparatus, both the first temporary identity of the second network in a first information element (IE) of a first request for updating a tracking area and a second temporary identity of the second network in a second IE for an additional temporary identity of the second network in the first request to an entity for mobility management in the second network when the apparatus determines that the apparatus holds the second temporary identity of the second network, the second temporary identity allocated by the second network; and

when the UE moves from a second tracking area of the second network to a third tracking area of the second network;

sending, by the apparatus, a third temporary identity of the second network allocated by the second network in a third IE of a second request for updating a tracking area, the third IE corresponding to the first IE, without sending an IE corresponding to the second IE, to the entity for mobility management in the second network.

5. The apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the first network and the second network are different-generation networks.

6. The apparatus according to claim 4, wherein a fourth temporary identity of the second network is a global unique temporary identity (GUTI), the fourth temporary identity of the second network being the first temporary identity of the second network, the second temporary identity of the second network, or the third temporary identity of the second network.

7. A non-transient computer readable medium, which stores program codes for execution by an apparatus in a communication system, wherein the program codes comprise instructions, which, when executed, causes the apparatus to perform the following:

when the apparatus moves from a tracking area of a first network to a first tracking area of a second network;

generating, by the apparatus, a first temporary identity of the second network from a temporary identity of the first network; and

sending, by the apparatus, both the first temporary identity of the second network in a first information element (IE) of a first request for updating a tracking area and a second temporary identity of the second network in a second IE for an additional temporary identity of the second network in the first request to an entity for mobility management in the second network when the apparatus determines that the apparatus holds the second temporary identity of the second network, the second temporary identity allocated by the second network; and

when the apparatus moves from a second tracking area of the second network to a third tracking area of the second network;

sending, by the apparatus, a third temporary identity of the second network allocated by the second network in a third IE of a second request for updating a tracking area, the third IE corresponding to the first IE, without sending an IE corresponding to the second IE, to the entity for mobility management in the second network.

8. The non-transient computer readable medium according to claim 7, wherein the first network and the second network are different-generation networks.

9. The non-transient computer readable medium according to claim 7, wherein a fourth temporary identity of the second network is a global unique temporary identity (GUTI), the fourth temporary identity of the second network being the first temporary identity of the second network, the second temporary identity of the second network, or the third temporary identity of the second network.