Method of collecting data using mobile identification number in WCDMA network

• US 7,835,336 B2
• Filed: 08/01/2007
• Issued: 11/16/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 08/01/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Innowireless Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Innowireless Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Joung, Jinsoup, Lee, Junghoon, Kim, Yeonsong
• Primary Examiner(s): Pham; Chi H
• Assistant Examiner(s): Elallam; Ahmed
• Application Number:
  US11/832,125
• Publication Number:
  US 20080031215A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,203 Days
• Field of Search: 370/310, 370/310.1, 370/342, 370/352, 370/389, 370/401, 370/252, 709/224, 455/435.1
• US Class Current: 370/342
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/08 Testing, supervising or monitoring using real traffic
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 92/04 Interfaces between hierarchically different network devices

Abstract

Disclosed herein is a method of collecting data using a Mobile Identification Number (MIN) in a Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) network. The method includes the steps of (a) reassembling ATM/AAL5 data into SCCP and higher layer data in an Iu-PS interface link, and capturing the reassembled data; (b) extracting SLR or DLR data from Connection Request (CR) or Connection Confirm (CC) of the captured SCCP data, and storing reference Radio Access Network Application Part (RANAP) message data having the higher layer data in storage based on the extracted SLR or DLR data; (c) extracting a mobile IP address related to the MIN of the mobile station in the Gn interface link; and (d) registering SLR or DLR data having the mobile IP address, and, afterward, capturing and extracting transmitted and received data having the SLR or DLR data in the Iu-PS interface link.

Claims

1. A method of collecting data using a Mobile Identification Number (MIN) in a Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) network, in which transmitted and received data related to a mobile station is collected in an Iu-PS interface link in the WCDMA network, in which an SGSN and an RNC are connected to each other via the Iu-PS interface link and the SGSN and a GGSN are connected to each other via an Gn interface link, the method comprising the steps of:

(a) reassembling ATM/AAL5 data into SCCP and higher layer data in the Iu-PS interface link, and capturing the reassembled data;

(b) extracting SLR or DLR data from Connection Request (CR) or Connection Confirm (CC) of the captured SCCP data, and storing reference Radio Access Network Application Part (RANAP) message data having the higher layer data in storage based on the extracted SLR or DLR data;

(c) extracting a mobile IP address related to a MIN of the mobile station in the Gn interface link; and

(d) registering SLR or DLR data having the mobile IP address, and, afterward, capturing and extracting transmitted and received data having the SLR or DLR data in the Iu-PS interface link.

2. The method as set forth in claim 1, wherein step (c) comprises the steps of:

(c1) capturing a Create PDP Context Request message in the Gn interface link;

(c2) if MSISDN included in the captured Create PDP Context Request message is a MIN to be acquired, extracting an IMSI from the Create PDP Context Request message; and

(c3) if a Create PDP Context Response message, that is, a response to the Create PDP Context Request message, has been received, searching the received Create PDP Context Response message for the mobile IP address assigned to the mobile station.

3. The method as set forth in claim 2, wherein the registration of the SLR or DLR data at step (d) comprises the steps of:

(d1) searching the SLR or DLR-based data, stored at step (b), for an Activate PDP Context Accept message using the mobile IP address found at step (c3);

(d2) determining whether a mobile IP address of the mobile station contained in the found Activate PDP Context Accept message is identical to the mobile IP address of the MIN found at step (c3); and

(d3) if the two mobile IP addresses are identical to each other, searching the Activate PDP Context Accept message for SLR or DLR data of the SCCP data and registering the SLR or DLR data.

4. The method as set forth in claim 3, further comprising the steps of:

extracting the data, stored at step (b), using the SLR or DLR data registered at the step (d);

searching the data, extracted at the previous step, for a Service Request or a CR-Attach Request, extracting a P-TMSI or an IMSI from the message, and storing the P-TMSI or IMSI in association with the SLR or DLR data; and

extracting data having the stored P-TMSI or IMSI from the transmitted and received data, captured at step (d), in the Iu-PS interface link.

5. The method as set forth in claim 4, wherein the data using the P-TMSI or IMSI is an Id-Paging packet of the RANAP message data.