Device and method for performing a reverse single radio voice call continuity (RSRVCC) procedure

• US 8,971,875 B2
• Filed: 04/20/2011
• Issued: 03/03/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 10/04/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Vedrine, Arnaud, Stojanovski, Saso
• Primary Examiner(s): Brandt, Christopher M
• Application Number:
  US13/695,686
• Publication Number:
  US 20130053028A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,413 Days
• Field of Search: 455/432.1, 455/436, 370/331
• US Class Current: 455/432.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/0022 for transferring data sessions between adjacent core network technologies
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/00226 wherein the core network technologies comprise IP multimedia system [IMS], e.g. single radio voice call continuity [SRVCC]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/12 between location registers or mobility servers

Abstract

Method comprising steps of at a network entity: —receiving a Routing Area Update message from a UE, —checking whether the Update Type of the Routing Area Update message is Routing Area Update, and —transmitting to a MSC a message containing information related to the network entity if the Update Type of the Routing Area Update message is Routing Area Update.

Claims

1. A method comprising, at a first Serving General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) Support Node (SGSN):

receiving, by the first SGSN, a Routing Area Update message from a user equipment (UE);

checking, by the first SGSN, whether the Update Type of the Routing Area Update message is Routing Area Update; and

transmitting, by the first SGSN, to a Mobile Switching Center (MSC) a message containing information related to the first SGSN if the Update Type of the Routing Area Update message is Routing Area Update, wherein the message containing information related to the first SGSN notifies the MSC that the first SGSN is a SGSN currently serving the UE.

2. The method according to claim 1, further comprising receiving from a Home Subscriber Server (HSS) a message containing information related to the MSC serving the UE.

3. The method according to claim 1, further comprising checking whether the UE is capable to perform a reverse Single Radio Voice Call Continuity (rSRVCC) procedure from Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) Terrestrial Radio Access Network/Global System for Mobile communications (GSM) Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution (EDGE) Radio Access Network (UTRAN/GERAN) to Evolved-UTRAN/High Speed Packet Access (E-UTRAN/HSPA), the transmission of the message to the MSC being performed if the UE is capable.

4. The method according to claim 1, further comprising, at the first SGSN, transmitting a Mobility Management and bearer context information of the UE to a second SGSN, the second SGSN being a new SGSN of an inter-SGSN RAU.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the network operates in Network Mode of Operation (NMO) I, the message containing information related to the first SGSN being transmitted to an anchoring MSC in an ongoing Circuit Switched (CS) call.

6. The method according to claim 1,

wherein the message containing information related to the first SGSN includes at least one of identity information of the first SGSN or address information of the first SGSN.