Managing mobility of different communication technologies

• US 20080037501A1
• Filed: 08/14/2006
• Published: 02/14/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 08/14/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Mavenir Systems Incorporated (Mavenir Group Holdings Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Mavenir Systems Incorporated (Mavenir Group Holdings Ltd.)
• Inventors: Ali, Rashad Mohammad, Patel, Pulin R., Alam, Mahbubul
• Application Number:
  US11/504,251
• Publication Number:
  US 20080037501A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/342
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/12 Reselecting a serving backbone network switching or routing node
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/16 Gateway arrangements

Abstract

The present disclosure provides a system and method for managing wireless devices. In some embodiments, a communications network includes a network plane having a core network. An access plane includes a radio access network (RAN) and a broadband network. A node is located at an edge of the access plane. The node is operable to provide inter-access handover between a cellular technology and a broadband technology for data sessions with multi-mode mobile devices.

Claims

1. A communications network, comprising:

a network plane including a core network;

an access plane including a radio access network (RAN) and a broadband network;

a node at an edge of the access plane, the node operable to provide inter-access handover between a cellular technology and a broadband technology for data sessions with multi-mode mobile devices.

2. The communications network of claim 1, wherein the node is in the access plane.

3. The communications network of claim 1, wherein the node is in the network plane.

4. The communications network of claim 1, the node configured to track a subscriber associated with the multi-mode mobile devices communicating with the node over the RAN and the broadband network.

5. The communications network of claim 1, wherein the cellular technology comprises global system for mobile communication (GSM).

6. The communications network of claim 1, wherein the cellular technology comprises Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS).

7. The communications network of claim 1, wherein the broadband technology comprises session initiation protocol (SIP).

8. The communications network of claim 1, the node operable to provide IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) services to the multi-mode mobile devices across the RAN and the broadband network.

9. A communications network, comprising:

a node configured to provide inter-access handover between a cellular technology and a broadband technology for multi-mode mobile devices; and

the node configured to provide IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) services to the for multi-mode mobile devices over a cellular network using the cellular technology and the broadband network using a broadband technology.

10. The communications network of claim 9, wherein the cellular technology comprises global system for mobile communication (GSM).

11. The communication network of claim 9, wherein the cellular technology comprises Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS).

12. The communications network of claim 9, wherein the broadband technology comprises session initiation protocol (SIP).

13. A communications network, comprising:

a node configured to provide inter-access handover between a cellular technology and a broadband technology for data session with a multi-mode mobile device; and

the node configured to communicate with the multi-mode mobile devices over a broadband network using session initiation protocol (SIP).

14. The communications network of claim 13, wherein the cellular technology comprises global system for mobile communication (GSM).

15. The communications network of claim 13, wherein the cellular technology comprises Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS).

16. A communications network, comprising:

a node configured to provide inter-access handover between a cellular technology and a broadband technology for data sessions with multi-mode mobile devices; and

the node configured to track subscribers associated with the multi-mode mobile devices communicating with the node over a cellular network using the cellular technology and a broadband network using the broadband technology.

17. The communications network of claim 16, wherein the cellular technology comprises global system for mobile communication (GSM).

18. The communications network of claim 16, wherein the cellular technology comprises Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS).

19. The communications network of claim 16, wherein the broadband technology comprises session initiation protocol (SIP).

20. A communications network, comprising:

a node configured to provide inter-access handover between a cellular technology and a broadband technology for data sessions; and

the node configured to provide IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) services in data sessions to mobile devices.

21. The communications network of claim 20, wherein the cellular technology comprises global system for mobile communication (GSM).

22. The communications network of claim 20, wherein the cellular technology comprises Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS).

23. The communications network of claim 20, wherein the broadband technology comprises session initiation protocol (SIP).

24. A communications network, comprising:

core network;

an access network comprising a broadband network and a radio access network (RAN) having a plurality of base station controllers (BSC);

a node connecting the BSCs of the RAN and the broadband network to the core network; and

the node configured to provide call control, mobility management, voice call continuity (VCC), and inter-access handover for data sessions over the access network with multi-mode mobile devices.

25. The communications network of claim 24, wherein the multi-mode mobile devices comprise cellular technology for communicating over a cellular network and broadband technology for communicating over a broadband network.

26. The communications network of claim 25, wherein the cellular technology comprises global system for mobile communication (GSM).

27. The communications network of claim 25, wherein the cellular technology comprises Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS).

28. The communications network of claim 25, wherein the broadband technology comprises session initiation protocol (SIP).

29. The communications network of claim 24, the node configured to function in the RAN in place of a cellular mobile switching center (MSC).

30. The communications network of claim 24, wherein the RAN does not include a mobile switching center (MSC) connecting the BSCs and the node.

31. The communications network of claim 24, further comprising an IP multimedia subsystems (IMS) network coupled to the node, the node operable to provide IMS services to multi-mode mobile devices over at least one of the RAN and the broadband network.

32. The communications network of claim 24, the node operable to provide IMS services to multi-mode mobile devices over the RAN and the broadband network.

33. A communications network, comprising:

a core network;

an access network including a broadband network and a radio access network having a plurality of base station controller (BSCs) and at least one mobile switching center (MSC);

a node connecting the broadband network to the core network; and

the node configured to provide inter-access handover for data sessions with multi-mode mobile devices over the access network.

34. The communications network of claim 33, the multi-mode mobile devices comprising cellular technology for communicating over a cellular network and broadband technology for communicating over a broadband network.

35. The communications network of claim 33, wherein the cellular technology comprises global system for mobile communication (GSM).

36. The communications network of claim 33, wherein the cellular technology comprises Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS).

37. The communications network of claim 33, wherein the broadband technology comprises session initiation protocol (SIP).

38. The communications network of claim 33, the node operable to provide IP multimedia system (IMS) services to the mobile devices over the access network.

39. The communications network of claim 38, wherein at least one of the mobile devices if a non-IMS mobile device.

40. A mobile switching center, comprising:

a communication module operable to communication with a multi-mode mobile device;

an inter-access handover module configured to handover a communication session with a multi-mode mobile device operable to switch between GSM and SIP in response to at least the mobile device switching between a GSM network and an IP network;

a call control module, a mobility management module, and a translation module;

an IMS module operable to provide IMS services to the multi-mode mobile device through the GSM network and the IP network; and

wherein the mobile switching center is located at an access edge.