Method, Apparatus, and MME for Processing Circuit Switched Network Service

• US 20150327050A1
• Filed: 10/21/2013
• Published: 11/12/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 12/06/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: ZTE Corporation
• Original Assignee: ZTE Corporation
• Inventors: LIU, Jingxiang, CAO, Xiaofei, YU, Lei
• Application Number:
  US14/649,711
• Publication Number:
  US 20150327050A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/0022 for transferring data sessions between adjacent core network technologies
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/06 Registration at serving network Location Register, VLR or user mobility server
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/12 between location registers or mobility servers
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/005 Data network PoA devices

Abstract

A method, an apparatus, and a mobility management entity (MME) for processing a circuit switched network service are provided. The method for processing a circuit switched network service includes: the MME receives a request for processing a circuit switched network service; and the MME interacts with a user equipment (UE) corresponding to the request, and processes the circuit switched network service. The technical solution solves the problem in the prior art that the UE needs to fall back to the traditional circuit switched network so as to receive the circuit switched network service, thereby reducing the network consumption, enhancing the network efficiency, and improving the user experience.

Claims

1. A method for processing a circuit switched network service, characterized by comprising:

receiving, by a mobility management entity, a request for performing a circuit switched network service; and

interacting, by the mobility management entity, with a user equipment corresponding to the request, and processing the circuit switched network service.

2. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that the mobility management entity receives the request forwarded by a visitor location register, VLR.

3. The method according to claim 2, characterized in that before receiving, by the mobility management entity, the request for performing the circuit switched network service, the method further comprises:

receiving, by the mobility management entity, a paging message sent by the VLR, wherein the paging message comprises first indication information which is used for indicating that the VLR supports the forwarding of the circuit switched network service; and

sending, by the mobility management entity, second indication information to the VLR, wherein the second indication information is used for indicating that the mobility management entity supports the forwarding of the circuit switched network service, and receiving the circuit switched network service forwarded by the VLR.

4. The method according to claim 2, characterized in that interacting, by the mobility management entity, with the user equipment corresponding to the request, and processing the circuit switched network service comprises:

acquiring, by the mobility management entity, subscriber information of the user equipment in a case where the circuit switched network service is a Provide Subscriber Info (PSI) service; and

feeding back, by the mobility management entity, the subscriber information to the VLR.

5. The method according to claim 2, characterized in that interacting, by the mobility management entity, with the user equipment corresponding to the request, and processing the circuit switched network service comprises:

sending, by the mobility management entity, supplemental content requested by a call-irrelevant supplementary service to the user equipment to execute the call-irrelevant supplementary service in a case where the circuit switched network service is the call-irrelevant supplementary service; and

feeding back, by the mobility management entity, an execution result of the user equipment to the VLR.

6. The method according to claim 2, characterized in that before receiving, by the mobility management entity, the request for performing a circuit switched network service, the method further comprises:

receiving, by the mobility management entity, a paging message sent by the VLR, wherein the paging message comprises third indication information which is used for indicating that the VLR does not support the forwarding of the circuit switched network service; and

/or

sending, by the mobility management entity, fourth indication information to the VLR, wherein the fourth indication information is used for indicating that the mobility management entity does not support the forwarding of the circuit switched network service; and

triggering, by the mobility management entity, the flow of making the user equipment fall back to a circuit switched network.

11. The method according to claim 3, characterized in that interacting, by the mobility management entity, with the user equipment corresponding to the request, and processing the circuit switched network service comprises:

acquiring, by the mobility management entity, subscriber information of the user equipment in a case where the circuit switched network service is a Provide Subscriber Info (PSI) service; and

feeding back, by the mobility management entity, the subscriber information to the VLR.

12. The method according to claim 3, characterized in that interacting, by the mobility management entity, with the user equipment corresponding to the request, and processing the circuit switched network service comprises:

sending, by the mobility management entity, supplemental content requested by a call-irrelevant supplementary service to the user equipment to execute the call-irrelevant supplementary service in a case where the circuit switched network service is the call-irrelevant supplementary service; and

feeding back, by the mobility management entity, an execution result of the user equipment to the VLR.

7. An apparatus for processing a circuit switched network service, characterized by comprising:

a first receiving component, configured to receive a request for performing a circuit switched network service; and

a processing component, configured to process interacting with a user equipment corresponding to the request, and process the circuit switched network service.

8. The apparatus according to claim 7, characterized by further comprising:

a second receiving component, configured to receive a paging message sent by the visitor location register, VLR, wherein the paging message comprises first indication information which is used for indicating that the VLR supports the forwarding of the circuit switched network service; and

a sending component, configured to send second indication information to the VLR, wherein the second indication information is used for indicating that the mobility management entity supports the forwarding of the circuit switched network service, and receive the circuit switched network service forwarded by the VLR.

9. The apparatus according to claim 8, characterized in that the processing component comprises:

a processing unit, configured to acquire subscriber information of the user equipment in a case where the circuit switched network service is a Provide Subscriber Info (PSI) service; and

a sending unit, configured to feed back the subscriber information to the VLR.

10. A mobile management entity, MME, characterized by comprising:

the apparatus as claimed in claim 7.

13. A mobile management entity, MME, characterized by comprising:

the apparatus as claimed in claim 8.

14. A mobile management entity, MME, characterized by comprising:

the apparatus as claimed in claim 9.