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Mobile switching center restart recovery procedure

  • US 6,067,454 A
  • Filed: 04/14/1998
  • Issued: 05/23/2000
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/14/1998
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. In a radio telecommunications network having a home location register (HLR) that maintains subscriber profiles for subscribers in the network and a mobile switching center (MSC) that maintains temporary subscriber records associated with subscribers roaming in the MSC'"'"'s service area, a method of recovering from a restart procedure in the MSC, said method comprising the steps of:

  • maintaing the temporary subscriber records in the MSC during the restart procedure;

    identifying temporary subscriber records that went through the restart procedure;

    MSC identifying subscriber profiles in the HLR that failed attempts to update associated temporary subscriber records in the MSC during the restart procedure; and

    updating only the identified temporary subscriber records from the identified subscriber profiles after the restart procedure is completed.

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