摘要 |
A method and node are provided for retrieving information associated with a mobile station being assigned to a home location register HLR, which has stored the information associated with the mobile station, wherein a first signal identifying a mobile station directory number is transmitted from a gateway node to a centralized database, said first signal requesting subscriber information and having an originating address comprising a gateway node address and a destination address comprising an address for the centralized database, and wherein responsively a second signal is received from said particular HLR at the gateway node, the second signal including the requested subscriber information, and said second signal having an originating address comprising the network address of the particular HLR and a destination address comprising the address of the gateway node as extracted from the originating address of the first signal. Furthermore, a database, an HLR and related methods are provided. <IMAGE> |