Communication system and apparatus for status dependent mobile services

摘要

The present invention introduces system, apparatus and method that reduce wastage of network resources and mobile phone resources. The mobile phone would indicate its status in a tracking area update message when it is connected to the device. The network can then understand from the status indication that the mobile phone is capable of delivering packets to the device, and would thus allow the server to initiate communications. An absence of the status indication would imply the mobile phone is not capable of delivering packets to the device, and the network would then disallow the server to initiate communications.

主权项

1. A method for paging a mobile node in idle state comprising:
receiving, from a server by a serving gateway, a downlink data packet for the mobile node on a bearer; sending, by the serving gateway, a Downlink Data Notification (DDN) message including bearer Identification (ID) of said bearer to a Mobility Management Entity (MME); sending, by the MME, a Delay Downlink Packet Notification Request (DDPNR) to the serving gateway when the MME determines to limit the number of the DDN messages that the MME receives from the serving gateway; and sending, by the serving gateway that has received the DDPNR, a new DDN message to the MME only when the serving gateway receives a new downlink data packet on a bearer having higher priority than a configured threshold priority level.