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Machine-type communication subscription control

  • US 9,955,340 B2
  • Filed: 11/28/2014
  • Issued: 04/24/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/27/2010
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An apparatus configured to operate as a network node of a telecommunications network, the apparatus comprising:

  • a processor configured to;

    identify unsupported Machine Type Communications (MTC) Features, wherein an unsupported MTC Feature is an MTC Feature that at least one of an MTC Device belonging to an MTC Subscriber and the network node is not enabled to implement or execute; and

    implement or execute an MTC Feature for the MTC Device; and

    a transmitter configured to send to a Home Location Register (HLR) separate from the network node indications of the unsupported MTC Features that the at least one of the MTC Device and the network node is not enabled to implement or execute, wherein the processor is further configured to;

    for an unsupported MTC Feature that requires an indication of being supported by the MTC Device and the network node, exclude such indication of the unsupported MTC Feature from a message to be sent to the Home Location Register; and

    for an unsupported MTC Feature that does not require an indication of being supported by the MTC Device and the network node, include an indication of the MTC Feature that does not require an indication of being supported by the MTC Device and the network node in a message to be sent to the Home Location Register.

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