Radio packet data terminal and method of determining internet interworking protocol address

• US 6,404,754 B1
• Filed: 12/31/1998
• Issued: 06/11/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 09/07/1998
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Optis Cellular Technology LLC (Brevet Capital)
• Original Assignee: LG Information & Communications Ltd. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Lim, Byung Keun
• Primary Examiner(s): Ton, Dang
• Assistant Examiner(s): NGUYEN, BRIAN D
• Application Number:
  US09/224,053
• Time in Patent Office: 1,258 Days
• Field of Search: 370/338, 370/328, 370/349, 370/351, 370/352, 370/329, 370/310, 370/402, 370/401, 370/465, 370/466, 370/467, 370/469, 370/395.1, 370/395.52, 370/400, 455/433, 455/435, 455/436
• US Class Current: 370/338
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/0011 for data sessions of end-to-end connection
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/0019 adapted for mobile IP [MIP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/26 Network addressing or numbering for mobility support
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 80/04 Network layer protocols, e.g. mobile IP [Internet Protocol]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 92/02 Inter-networking arrangements

Abstract

A radio packet data terminal and a method of determining an Internet interworking protocol address which can easily provide a mobile Internet protocol service and a mobile Internet service by adding a packet data service option and an Internet protocol address option to an originating message to be transmitted to a base transceiver station or by adding information on the system address for interworking packet data to be connected, the present state of the packet data connection, the purpose of the packet data service connection, etc., to the originating message, when the radio packet data service for connecting with Internet is requested. According to the radio packet data terminal, a simple interworking protocol (SIP) option if the mobile terminal does not have a fixed IP address, a mobile interworking protocol (MIP) option is determined if the mobile terminal has the fixed IP address or is connected to a personal computer (PC), and a unique interworking protocol (UIP) option is determined if the mobile terminal is permanently provided with an Internet interworking protocol. Accordingly, the radio packet data terminal provides an Internet protocol option, connection address option, and state option of the packet data link when the packet data service is requested.

Claims

1. A method of determining Internet interworking protocol address, comprising:

transmitting mobile station packet calls from a mobile terminal of a mobile station to a radio network controller in a radio packet data network and registering as a packet data service option of the mobile terminal one of a simple interworking protocol (SIP) option, a mobile interworking protocol (MIP) option, and a unique interworking protocol (UIP) option in accordance with a response to the transmitted mobile station packet calls;

establishing a point-to-point (PPP) link by calling data service packets in accordance with the option registered in the mobile terminal after the registration of the packet data service option and releasing a packet channel of the mobile terminal if a term of a PPP link timer of the radio network controller expires and a present state is a dormant-open state; and

re-establishing the established PPP link by re-transmitting the mobile station packet calls to a new radio network controller and transmitting upper layer data on a virtual network pipeline (VNP) if a handoff is generated between the mobile station and the new radio network controller in the dormant-open state of the PPP link.

2. The method of determining an Internet interworking protocol address as claimed in claim 1, further comprising additionally registering a default access option and a designated access option on the mobile station in accordance with a service call option at the packet data service option registering step.

3. The method of determining an Internet interworking protocol address as claimed in claim 1, wherein the simple interworking protocol (SIP) option is used when the mobile station does not have its own Internet interworking protocol address.

4. The method of determining an Internet interworking protocol address as claimed in claim 1, wherein the mobile interworking protocol (MIP) option used when an internet protocol address of a temporality fixed Internet is used between a mobile terminal and a data terminal of the mobile station.

5. The method of determining an Internet interworking protocol address as claimed in claim 1, wherein the unique interworking protocol (UIP) option is an option which is registered in connection with a mobile station identifier or an international mobile station identifier (IMSI), and which is applied when an Internet address connected to and secured by a packet data gateway node (PDGN) is permanently given to and used by the mobile terminal.

6. A radio packet data terminal, comprising:

a first mobile terminal determined by a simple interworking protocol (SIP) option to provide a mobile data service only to a network interworking protocol (IP) after connecting with Internet if the radio packet data terminal does not have a fixed IP address;

a second mobile terminal determined by a mobile interworking protocol (MIP) option to provide the mobile data service to a radio LAN port including a home agent and a foreign agent if the radio packet data terminal has the fixed IP address or is connected to a personal computer (PC); and

a third mobile terminal determined by a unique interworking protocol (UIP) option to provide the mobile data service to its own interworking function device if the radio packet data terminal is permanently provided with an Internet interworking protocol.

7. The radio packet data terminal as claimed in claim 6, wherein the first, second and third mobile terminals operate in one of an active open state, a dormant open state, and a close state in accordance with a connection state of a packet data link.

8. The radio packet data terminal as claimed in claim 6, wherein the first, second and third mobile terminals selectively designate a packet data interworking function device to be connected thereto when a user of the radio packet data terminal requests a packet data service.

9. The radio packet data terminal as claimed in claim 6, wherein the first, second and third mobile terminal classify a connection request into a new packet data service connection request and a re-connection request after a dormant state and transmit different messages when they transmit an originating message to a base station to which they belong.

10. The radio packet data terminal as claimed in claim 6, wherein when the first, second and third mobile terminals request a packet data service connection again after a dormant state, they are differently connected to the packet data service network in accordance with a connection state of a packet data point-to-point (PPP) link by classifying the connection state into a state that the corresponding mobile terminal has connected to the same packet interworking function device that maintains the PPP link state of the corresponding mobile terminal, and a state that the corresponding mobile terminal has moved and connected to a different packet data interworking function device.

11. The radio packet data terminal as claimed in claim 6, wherein when the second mobile terminal requests a packet data service connection for designating a packet data interworking function device, the second mobile terminal transmits a request message for a mobile Internet protocol (MIP) service registration to a base station to which it belongs.

12. The radio packet data terminal as claimed in claim 6, wherein if the second mobile terminal is in an active state, it requests to a mobile switching center a mobile Internet protocol (MIP) service registration even without a user'"'"'s request when a power of the second mobile terminal is on or re-registration of the MIP option is required.

13. A method of determining an Internet interworking protocol address, comprising:

establishing a mobile station packet call between a mobile terminal of a mobile station and a first radio network controller in a radio packet data network and registering a packet data service option of the mobile terminal;

establishing a point-to-point (PPP) link by calling data service packets in accordance with the registered service option and releasing the PPP link at a prescribed time; and

re-establishing the PPP link by re-transmitting mobile station packet call to a second radio network controller and transmitting upper layer data on a virtual network pipeline (VNP) if the mobile packet call is handed off to the second radio network controller while the PPP link is in a dormant-open state, wherein the packet data service option is one of a simple interworking protocol (SIP) option, a mobile interworking protocol (MIP) option, and a unique interworking protocol (UIP) option, and is registered in accordance with a response to the established mobile station packet call.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the SIP option is used when the mobile station does not have an Internet interworking protocol address.

15. The method of claim 13, wherein the MIP option used when an internet protocol address of a temporality fixed Internet is used between the mobile terminal and a data terminal.

16. The method of claim 13, wherein the UIP option is used when an Internet address connected to and secured by a packet data gateway node (PDGN) is permanently given to and used by the mobile terminal.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the UIP is an option which is registered in connection with a mobile station identifier or an international mobile station identifier (IMSI).

18. The method of claim 13, further comprising releasing the PPP link of the mobile terminal if a term of a PPP link timer of a radio network controller expires while in a dormant-open state.