Mobile communication method and mobile station

• US 8,983,465 B2
• Filed: 11/05/2010
• Issued: 03/17/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 11/06/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Original Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Inventors: Nishida, Katsutoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Lai, Daniel
• Application Number:
  US13/505,754
• Publication Number:
  US 20120270548A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,593 Days
• Field of Search: 455/414.1, 455/435.2, 4554561-457, 370/328, 370/331
• US Class Current: 455/435.2
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/1443 between licensed networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 60/00 Affiliation to network, e.g. registration; Terminating affiliation with the network, e.g. de-registration

Abstract

A mobile station UE according to the present invention includes a control unit 12 configured, upon determination based on “EPC-MO-LR support” included in “Attach Accept” or “TAU Accept” received from a mobility management node MME that “EPC-MO-LR” is not supported in a mobile communication system of an E-UTRAN scheme, to switch the E-UTRAN scheme to a UTRAN scheme after establishing a connection in the mobile communication system of the E-UTRAN scheme, and then transmit “NAS MO-LR Request” to a mobile switching center SGSN/MSC.

Claims

1. A mobile communication method, comprising:

a step of notifying, by a core network device of a first communication scheme not corresponding to a circuit switch service, a mobile station of whether a positioning service for providing location information in response to a request from a predetermined mobile station is supported in a packet switch service of a mobile communication system of the first communication scheme, and whether the positioning service is supported in a circuit switch service of a mobile communication system of a second communication scheme, by using network capability information included in a location registration accept signal or a location information update accept signal; and

a step of switching, by the mobile station, upon determination that the positioning service is not supported in the packet switch service of the mobile communication system of the first communication scheme and upon determination that the positioning service is supported in the circuit switch service of the mobile communication system of the second communication scheme, based on the network capability information, the packet switch service of the mobile communication system of the first communication scheme to the circuit switch service of the mobile communication system of the second communication scheme after establishing a connection in the packet switch service of the mobile communication system of the first communication scheme, and then transmitting a use request signal of the positioning service in the circuit switch service of the mobile communication system of the second communication scheme, to a core network device of the second communication scheme, the network capability information being received from the core network device of the first communication scheme, and indicating support of the positioning service in the packet switch service of the mobile communication system of the first communication scheme and support of the positioning service in the mobile communication system of the second communication scheme.

2. A mobile station comprising a control unit configured to:

switch, upon determination that a positioning service for providing location information in response to a request from a predetermined mobile station in a packet switch service in a mobile communication system of a first communication scheme is not supported and the positioning service is supported in a circuit switch service in a mobile communication system of a second communication scheme, based on network capability information included in a location registration accept signal or a location information update accept signal received from a core network device of the first communication scheme not corresponding to a circuit switch service, the packet switch service of the mobile communication system of the first communication scheme to the circuit switch service of the mobile communication system of the second communication scheme after establishing a connection in the packet switch service of the mobile communication system of the first communication scheme, and then

transmit a use request signal of the positioning service in the circuit switch service of the mobile communication system of the second communication scheme, to a core network device of the second communication scheme, the network capability information being received from the core network device of the first communication scheme, and indicating support of the positioning service in the packet switch service of the mobile communication system of the first communication scheme and support of the positioning service in the mobile communication system of the second communication scheme.

3. A core network device of a first communication scheme not corresponding to a circuit switch service, wherein

the core network device is configured to notify a mobile station whether a positioning service for providing location information in response to a request from a predetermined mobile station in a packet switch service of a mobile communication system of the first communication scheme is supported, and whether the positioning service in a circuit switch service of a mobile communication system of a second communication scheme is supported, by using network capability information included in a location registration accept signal or a location information update accept signal, the network capability information indicating support of the positioning service in the packet switch service of the mobile communication system of the first communication scheme and support of the positioning service in the mobile communication system of the second communication scheme.