METHOD AND NETWORK DEVICE FOR RESPONDING TO REQUEST

• US 20190075511A1
• Filed: 11/02/2018
• Published: 03/07/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 06/15/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: RYU, Jinsook, KIM, Hyunsook, PARK, Sangmin, BYUN, Bokyung, YOUN, Myungjune
• Granted Patent: US 10,420,016 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/16 Communication-related supplementary services, e.g. call-transfer or call-hold
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/90 Services for handling of emergency or hazardous situations, e.g. earthquake and tsunami warning systems [ETWS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/04 based on user or terminal location or mobility data, e.g. moving direction, speed
• 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 64/003 locating network equipment
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 68/00 User notification, e.g. alerting and paging, for incoming communication, change of service or the like
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 68/005 Transmission of information for alerting of incoming communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 68/02 Arrangements for increasing efficiency of notification or paging channel
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/14 between corresponding nodes
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/16 selectively restricting mobility data tracking
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/18 Processing of user or subscriber data, e.g. subscribed services, user preferences or user profiles; Transfer of user or subscriber data
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/14 Backbone network devices

Abstract

A first network device receives a request associated with data notification for a user equipment (UE). When the UE is in a mode in which communication of mobile terminated data is restricted and the first network device detects that the UE is in a non-allowed area, the first network device rejects the request unless the data notification is for a regulatory prioritized service.

Claims

1. A method of responding to a request of a second network device by a first network device, the method comprising:

receiving, from the second network device, a request related to data notification for a user equipment (UE) that is not in a mode in which communication for mobile terminated data is restricted;

detecting that the UE is in a non-allowed area in which a communication service is restricted;

rejecting the request unless the request is for a regulatory prioritized service; and

transmitting paging for the UE to a base station when the request is for the regulatory prioritized service.

2. The method according to claim 1, further comprising;

notifying the second network device that the UE is in the non-allowed area, when the request is not for the regulatory prioritized service.

3. The method according to claim 1,

wherein the regulatory prioritized service is an emergency service or a multimedia priority service (MPS).

4. The method according to claim 1,

wherein the first network device is a network device with an access and mobility management function and the second network device is a network device with a session management function.

5. A first network device for responding to a request of a second network device, comprising:

a transceiver; and

a processor configured to control the transceiver,

wherein the processor is configured to;

control the transceiver to receive, from the second network device, a request related to data notification for a user equipment (UE) that is not in a mode in which communication for mobile terminated data is restricted;

detect that the UE is in a non-allowed area in which a communication service is restricted;

control the transceiver to transmit rejection of the request unless the request is for a regulatory prioritized service; and

control the transceiver to transmit paging for the UE to a base station when the request is for the regulatory prioritized service.

6. The first network device according to claim 5,

wherein the processor is configured to control the transceiver to notify the second network device that the UE is in the non-allowed area, when the request is not for the regulatory prioritized service.

7. The first network device according to claim 5,

wherein the regulatory prioritized service is an emergency service or a multimedia priority service (MPS).

8. The first network device according to claim 5,

wherein the first network device is a network device with an access and mobility management function and the second network device is a network device with a session management function.