Customization of data session retry mechanism in a wireless packet data service network

• US 8,989,709 B2
• Filed: 07/25/2013
• Issued: 03/24/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 11/05/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Blackberry Limited
• Original Assignee: Blackberry Limited
• Inventors: Cormier, Jean-Philippe, Plestid, Thomas Leonard Trevor, Simpson, Ian, Munje, Arun
• Primary Examiner(s): Karikari, Kwasi
• Application Number:
  US13/950,803
• Publication Number:
  US 20130308536A1
• Time in Patent Office: 607 Days
• Field of Search: 455/411, 455/435.1, 455/435.2, 455/466, 455/510
• US Class Current: 455/411
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/10 for controlling access to devices or network resources
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/06 Authentication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/12 Detection or prevention of fraud
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/122 Counter-measures against attacks; Protection against rogue devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/18 Negotiating wireless communication parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/06 based on traffic conditions
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 60/00 Affiliation to network, e.g. registration; Terminating affiliation with the network, e.g. de-registration
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/19 Connection re-establishment
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/245 from a network towards a terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 80/00 Wireless network protocols or protocol adaptations to wireless operation

Abstract

In one embodiment, a method is provided for customization of a mobile communications device'"'"'s data session retry mechanism in a wireless packet data service network. The mobile communication device requests activation of a data session with a node via the wireless network and receives a reject message via the wireless network in response to the request for activation of the data session, the reject message including a cause code. If the cause code corresponds to a no-retry behavior of the data session retry mechanism of the mobile communication device, the mobile communications device no longer requesting activation of a data session with the node.

Claims

1. A method in a mobile communications device operable in a wireless network, the method comprising:

requesting activation of a data session with a node via the wireless network;

receiving a reject message via the wireless network in response to the request for activation of the data session, the reject message comprising a cause code; and

if the cause code corresponds to a no-retry behavior of the data session retry mechanism of the mobile device, the mobile communications device no longer requesting activation of a data session with the node, wherein the correspondence of the cause code to the no-retry behaviour is at least partly dependent on a carrier that the device is attached to.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising checking whether the cause code received in the reject message corresponds to the no-retry behaviour.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising continuing to no longer request activation of a data session until the retry mechanism is re-activated.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising the mobile communications device continuing to request activation of a data session with the node if the cause code corresponds to a retry behaviour.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising checking whether the cause code received in the reject message corresponds to the retry behaviour.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the mobile communications device includes a list of cause codes that correspond to no-retry behaviour.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the mobile communications device includes a list of cause codes that correspond to retry behaviour.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the method is performed after attaching via the wireless network.

9. A mobile communications device operable in a wireless network, comprising:

a microprocessor operably coupled to a communication subsystem and to a memory;

a module operable to request activation of a data session with a node via the wireless network;

a module operable to receive a reject message via the wireless network in response to the request for activation of the data session, the reject message comprising a cause code; and

a data session retry module operable, if the cause code corresponds to a no-retry behavior, to no longer request activation of a data session with the node, the correspondence of the cause code to the no-retry behaviour being at least partly dependent on a carrier that the device is attached to;

wherein the modules comprise one of hardware, firmware and software stored in the memory.

10. The mobile communication device of claim 9, further comprising a module operable to check whether the cause code received in the reject message corresponds to the no-retry behaviour.

11. The mobile communication device of claim 9, wherein the data session retry module continues to no longer request activation of a data session until the retry mechanism is re-activated.

12. The mobile communication device of claim 9, wherein the data session retry module continues to request activation of a data session with the node if the cause code corresponds to a retry behaviour.

13. The mobile communication device of claim 12, further comprising a module operable to check whether the cause code received in the reject message corresponds to the retry behaviour.

14. The mobile communication device of claim 9, further comprising a list of cause codes that correspond to no-retry behaviour stored in the memory.

15. The mobile communication device of claim 9, further comprising a list of cause codes that correspond to retry behaviour.

16. The mobile communication device of claim 9, further comprising a module operable to attach via the wireless network.