Method and apparatus for providing a subscriber record for packet data registration of a mobile station

• US 6,223,035 B1
• Filed: 09/30/1997
• Issued: 04/24/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/1997
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Motorola, Inc. (Motorola Solutions, Inc.)
• Inventors: Pierce, Jennifer A., Wilson, Timothy J.
• Primary Examiner(s): TO, DORIS HA
• Application Number:
  US08/941,383
• Time in Patent Office: 1,302 Days
• Field of Search: 455/433, 455/432, 455/422, 455/426, 455/435, 455/436, 455/507, 455/517, 455/524, 455/525, 455/560, 455/561, 370/352, 370/389, 370/400, 370/401
• US Class Current: 455/433
• 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 8/06 Registration at serving network Location Register, VLR or user mobility server
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/08 Mobility data transfer
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/20 Transfer of user or subscriber data

Abstract

A communications system for providing packet data service to mobile stations (110) performs registration of the mobile station prior to engaging in packet data service. The registration procedure includes sending a request to register (300) to a DAP (113), transferring (302) subscriber data from a HLR (124) to a D-VLR (126), authenticating (306) the mobile subscriber, selecting a mobile data gateway (116) to service the mobile station, transferring (308) the subscriber data from the D-VLR to the mobile data gateway, and establishing (312) a packet data link between the mobile data gateway and the mobile station.

Claims

1. A method of registering a mobile station for packet data service, the method comprising the steps of:

transferring a subscriber record corresponding to the mobile subscriber from a home location register to a dispatch visit location register operably connected to the dispatch applications processor;

selecting a mobile data gateway to service the mobile subscriber, performed by the dispatch application processor;

transferring the subscriber record corresponding to the mobile subscriber from the dispatch visit location register to the mobile data gateway; and

establishing a packet data link between the mobile subscriber and the mobile data gateway in accordance with the subscriber record; and

wherein the dispatch visit location register acts as a home location register for the mobile data gateway.

2. A method as in claim 1, further comprising the step of sending a request to register for packet data service from the mobile subscriber to the dispatch application processor prior to performing the step of transferring a subscriber record from a home location register to a visit location register.

3. A mobile communications system for providing both dispatch and packet data service, comprising:

a home location register for storing a plurality of subscriber records;

a dispatch control processor for providing dispatch service, operably coupled to the home location register, and having a dispatch visit location register for storing a plurality of subscriber records;

at least one mobile data gateway operably coupled to the dispatch control processor, and having a means for storing a plurality of subscriber records

wherein the dispatch visit location register acts as a home location register for the at least one mobile data gateway.

4. A mobile communications system as recited in claim 3, wherein the mobile data gateway is operably coupled to a wide area packet network through a router network.

5. A mobile communications system as recited in claim 3, further comprising a mobile switching center operably coupled to the home location register for providing telephone interconnect service.