Method and Apparatus for Employing an Indication of Stored Temporary Information During Redirection

• US 20130016665A1
• Filed: 02/08/2011
• Published: 01/17/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 03/31/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Nokia Corporation
• Inventors: Kubota, Keiichi
• Granted Patent: US 10,070,346 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/328
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/0022 for transferring data sessions between adjacent core network technologies
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/0061 of neighbour cell information

Abstract

A method for employing an indication of stored temporary information during redirection may include receiving a temporary stored information indicator from a mobile terminal indicating that the mobile terminal stores a system information container comprising temporary information, and determining whether to replace the temporary information with non-temporary information based on reception of the temporary stored information indicator. Alternatively, the method may include receiving a system information container for at least one target cell, storing the system information container, and generating a temporary stored information indicator at a mobile terminal indicating that the mobile terminal stores the system information container comprising temporary information. Corresponding apparatuses and computer program products are also provided.

Claims

1-64. -64. (canceled)

65. A method comprising:

receiving a system information container for at least one target cell;

causing storage of the system information container; and

generating a temporary stored information indicator at a mobile terminal indicating that the mobile terminal stores the system information container comprising temporary information.

67. The method of claim 65, wherein the temporary stored information indicator comprises a new information element or an existing information element.

68. The method of claim 65, wherein the indication of support comprises a new information element or an existing information element.

69. The method of claim 65, wherein the temporary information comprises a temporary neighbor cell list that is a subset of a complete neighbor cell list.

70. The method of claim 65, wherein the non-temporary information comprises a complete neighbor cell list.

71. The method of claim 65, wherein generating the temporary stored information indicator comprises generating the indicator indicating that a conditional requirement with respect to connection to a target cell is met.

72. The method of claim 65, wherein generating the temporary stored information indicator is performed responsive to receipt of the indication of support.

66. The method of claim 66, wherein receiving the system information container comprises receiving an indication of support for the temporary stored information indicator.

73. An apparatus comprising at least one processor and at least one memory including computer program code, the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to:

receive a system information container for at least one target cell;

cause storage of the system information container; and

generate a temporary stored information indicator at a mobile terminal indicating that the mobile terminal stores the system information container comprising temporary information.

74. The apparatus of claim 73, wherein the at least one memory and the computer program code are further configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to receive the system information container by receiving an indication of support for the temporary stored information indicator.

75. The apparatus of claim 73, wherein the temporary stored information indicator comprises a new information element or an existing information element.

76. The apparatus of claim 73, wherein the indication of support comprises a new information element or an existing information element.

77. The apparatus of claim 73, wherein the temporary information comprises a temporary neighbor cell list that is a subset of a complete neighbor cell list.

78. The apparatus of claim 73, wherein the non-temporary information comprises a complete neighbor cell list.

79. The apparatus claim 73, wherein the at least one memory and the computer program code are configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to generate the temporary stored information indicator by generating the indicator indicating that a conditional requirement with respect to connection to a target cell is met.

80. The apparatus of claim 73, wherein the at least one memory and the computer program code are further configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to generate the temporary stored information indicator responsive to receipt of the indication of support.

81. A computer program product comprising at least one computer-readable storage medium bearing computer program code embodied therein for use with a computer, the computer program code comprising code for:

receiving a system information container for at least one target cell;

causing storage of the system information container; and

generating a temporary stored information indicator at a mobile terminal indicating that the mobile terminal stores the system information container comprising temporary information.

82. The computer program product of claim 81, wherein code for receiving the system information container includes code for receiving an indication of support for the temporary stored information indicator.

83. The computer program product of claim 81, wherein the temporary stored information indicator comprises a new information element or an existing information element.

84. The computer program product of claim 81, wherein the indication of support comprises a new information element or an existing information element.