Arrangement and method for mobile communications having an IP link

• US 6,308,267 B1
• Filed: 05/15/2000
• Issued: 10/23/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 05/14/1999
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks GmbH & Co. KG (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Siemens AG
• Inventors: Gremmelmaier, Ulrich
• Primary Examiner(s): Trammell, James P.
• Assistant Examiner(s): ELISCA, PIERRE E
• Application Number:
  US09/572,547
• Time in Patent Office: 526 Days
• Field of Search: 713/200, 713/201, 713/202, 713/151, 713/152, 713/153, 713/168, 455/53.1, 455/404, 455/54.1, 455/54.2, 320/433, 320/329, 320/354
• US Class Current: 713/168
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/06 Registration at serving network Location Register, VLR or user mobility server
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/14 Backbone network devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/16 Gateway arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/18 Service support devices; Network management devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 92/02 Inter-networking arrangements

Abstract

An arrangement and method for mobile communication that includes at least one mobile radio network and at least one mobile radio terminal device, wherein an IP-network is linked with the mobile radio network via a network coupling unit. The IP-network, in particular, includes a mobility server for the administration of mobility-specific subscriber data.

Claims

1. An arrangement for mobile communication comprising:

at least one mobile radio network;

at least one mobile radio terminal device;

an IP-network including a mobility server configured at least for administration of mobility specific subscriber data; and

a network coupling unit linking the IP-network to the at least one mobile radio network;

wherein the mobility server is further configured to format match at least one of various protocols, addressing schemes and name schemes of at least one of the IP-network and the at least one mobile radio network.

2. The arrangement according to claim 1, wherein the mobility server is linked to a plurality of local data bases.

3. The arrangement according to claim 2, further comprising at least one data base server for linking the mobility server to the plurality of local data bases.

4. The arrangement according claim 1, wherein the mobility server is further configured for administration of security-related subscriber data as separate security data bases.

5. The arrangement according to claim 1, wherein the mobility server is configured to convert network access identifiers, which are transmitted by connected data terminals, into IP-addresses and store the IP-addresses in a corresponding allocation table.

6. The arrangement according to claim 1, further comprising:

a radio access network; and

a plurality of mobile data terminals linked to the radio access network;

wherein the radio access network is connected to the IP-network to enable the plurality of mobile data terminals to access the at least one mobile radio network via the IP-network without changing an IP-home address.

7. The arrangement according to claim 1, further comprising:

a radio access server for the connection between the IP-network and the radio access network, the radio access server being connected to the mobility server of the IP-network using a “

MAP over IP”

protocol.

8. A method for mobile communication between at least one mobile radio device and a mobile radio network that is linked to an IP-network comprising the steps of:

sending an update request from a mobile station to an access server connected to the mobile radio network;

forwarding the update request from the access server to a mobility server located within the IP-network;

determining at least one of a network address identifier and authentication information within the mobility server in response to the update request;

transmitting the authentication information from the mobility server to the mobile station via the access server;

sending an authentication response from the mobile station to the mobility server via the access server in response to the transmitted authentication information;

retrieving a mobile station roaming number from a visitor location register connected to the mobility server;

sending a signal from the mobility server to the mobile station directing the mobile station to begin encrypting payload data to be transmitted; and

generating a temporary mobile subscriber identifier for the mobile station based on the mobile station roaming in the mobility server and transmitting the temporary mobile subscriber identifier to the mobile station in order to update location specific information of the mobile station based on the temporary mobile subscriber identifier.