Protocol and control signal termination in a communication system
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Abstract
In a mobile communication network comprised of a plurality of switching devices and a plurality of base stations connected to the switching devices, while a mobile terminal to wirelessly communicate with the base stations is in a communication by a soft handover, a terminal endpoint of a protocol for control of the soft handover is relocated in changing a switching device to another as a branch/combining point of data on a communication route of the communication.
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57 Claims
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1-48. -48. (canceled)
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49. A protocol terminating method in a mobile communication network comprising a plurality of switching devices and a plurality of base stations connected to the switching devices,
wherein, while a mobile terminal to wirelessly communicate with the base stations is in a communication by a soft handover, a terminal endpoint of a protocol for control of the soft handover is relocated in changing a switching device to another as a branch/combining point of data on a communication route of the communication.
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53. A control signal terminating server apparatus for terminating protocols for transmission/reception of control signals for a soft handover control,
in a mobile communication network comprising a plurality of switching devices and a plurality of base stations connected to the switching devices, wherein, while a mobile terminal to wirelessly communicate with the base stations is in a communication by said soft handover, a terminal endpoint of a protocol for control of the soft handover is relocated in changing a switching device to another as a branch/combining point of data on a communication route of the communication.
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54. A mobile communication system comprising a plurality of switching devices and a plurality of base stations connected to the switching devices, the mobile communication network comprising:
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changing means for, while a mobile terminal to wirelessly communicate with the base stations is in a communication by a soft handover, changing a switching device to another as a branch/combining point of data on a communication route of the communication; and
protocol terminal endpoint relocating means for relocating a terminal point of a protocol for control of the soft handover, in the changing by the changing means. - View Dependent Claims (55, 56, 57)
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