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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120083266 | METHODS, SYSTEMS AND APPARATUS FOR RECOVERING REGISTRATION INFORMATION Methods, systems and apparatus are provided for recovering registration information at a home network when the home network determines that it has experienced a loss of the registration information. The home network communicates a triggering message to at least one visi... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120083267 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA FOR OPTIMIZATION OF BEARER RESOURCES FOR IMS ROAMING Methods, systems, and computer readable media for optimization of bearer resources for IMS roaming are disclosed. According to one aspect a system for optimization of bearer resources for IMS roaming includes a home media resource function controller module (HMRFC) for ... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120046031 | Call-Handling for an Off-Premises, Telecommunications Terminal with an Installed Subscriber Identity Module Apparatus and method are disclosed that enable an organization's enterprise-wide network to accommodate roaming wireless terminals that are affiliated with the local enterprise networks within the enterprise-wide network. An embodiment of a system is capable of handling... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120040667 | MEANS AND METHOD TO PREVENT ROAMING OF A HOME SUBSCRIBER IN A VISITED NETWORK RESTRICTED FOR ROAMING At present, there are operators which perform a Location Update procedure for a subscriber via Local Number Server under invoice agreement with the subscriber himself, and even where the subscriber is roaming in an area without roaming agreement with the subscriber's op... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120021741 | Detection And Report Of Limited Policy And Charging Control Capabilities A method of a Home Policy and Charging Rule Function (H-PCRF) in a telecommunications network having a Home Public Mobile Public Network (HPLMN) and a Visited Public Mobile Public Network (VPLMN) includes the steps of receiving signaling messages at a network interface.... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20110300862 | RECOVERY PROCEDURES BETWEEN SUBSCRIBER REGISTERS IN A TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK The present invention is aimed to provide subscriber registers of a mobile network with higher performance and memory capacity whilst keeping recovery procedures, such as redundancy and restoration procedures, up to reasonable levels and measurements of network performa... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110300861 | MOBILITY MANAGEMENT ENTITY INFORMATION DELETING METHOD AND DEVICE A mobility management entity (MME) information deleting method includes: receiving a message sent by a first MME; and if needed, determining whether it is necessary to delete information about the first MME according to version information about the first MME. The metho... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110287764 | HOME LOCATION REGISTER QUERY REDUCTION APPARATUS AND METHODS Methods and apparatus for reducing the traffic volume associated with home location register queries used to determine a subscriber's location in a wireless telecommunications network or in an IP multimedia subsystem network. A query reduction mechanism (QRM) is in comm... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110281582 | TRAFFIC REDIRECTION ON DATA ROAMING TRAFFIC The present invention is directed towards a method for directing roaming traffic associated with a subscriber of an HPMN. The method includes detecting a location update message from the subscriber at a non-preferred VPMN. The subscriber has an established data context ... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110275369 | TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS An arrangement for determining radio coverage provided by a telecommunications system to a user of a mobile device is disclosed. In the case of a GSM or UMTS mobile device, if the device is in the idle mode (step A) and if a paging operation is not scheduled (step B), t... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110269457 | METHOD OF PROVIDING NOTIFICATION OF ABNORMAL CONDITIONS DURING NON-ACCESS STRATUM (NAS) MESSAGE TUNNELING The present invention provides a method that includes generating, in response to a non-access stratum (NAS) message transmitted between a mobility management entity and a visiting location register, a response message including information indicating a message type, an ... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110256866 | METHOD OF AND EQUIPMENT FOR SUBSCRIBER MOBILITY REGISTRATION UPDATE IN A HOME LOCATION REGISTER OF A MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK A method of and equipment for subscriber mobility registration update in a Home Location Register, HLR, of a Global System for Mobile communications, GSM, or a Universal Mobile Telecommunications System, UMTS, mobile telecommunications network. The HLR receives and stor... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110237250 | MANAGEMENT OF ALLOWED CSG LIST AND VPLMN-AUTONOMOUS CSG ROAMING Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate supporting VPLMN-autonomous CSG roaming in a wireless communication environment. A UE can access a CSG list server associated with a VPLMN. A trust relation can be established between the UE and the CSG list server... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110223887 | Methods and Systems for Closed Subscriber Group Roaming Systems and methods according to these exemplary embodiments provide for communications systems which use closed subscriber groups (CSG). More particularly, systems and methods for CSG roaming as well as transmitting information associated with CSG White lists are descr... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110217978 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO CONTROL VISITED NETWORK ACCESS FOR DEVICES Methods and apparatuses are provided that facilitate controlling device access to one or more restricted groups of access points in a visited network. An indicator can be provided by a home network that specifies whether a device registering with a visited network is al... | 09/08/2011 |
| 20110217979 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA FOR MANAGING THE ROAMING PREFERENCES OF MOBILE SUBSCRIBERS According to one aspect, the subject matter described herein includes a method for managing the roaming preferences of a mobile subscriber. The method includes sending a preferred network roaming list to a mobile subscriber device. The method further includes sending a ... | 09/08/2011 |
| 20110212721 | Methods and system for detecting roaming location of mobile network A method and system for detecting a roaming location of a mobile network is provided to detect the roaming location in a systematic and efficient way. The method first collects roaming call detail records (CDRs) of a subscriber of the mobile network which are generated ... | 09/01/2011 |
| 20110201331 | COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM A mobile communications system is described in which a mobile communications device can register with a Macro RAN base station or with a home base station when in range of the home base station. The home base station may be an open access mode, a closed access mode or a... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110195711 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING ROAMING OF A MOBILE EQUIPMENT The present invention relates to a method for managing roaming of a mobile equipment of a subscriber, when the mobile equipment is roaming. The method comprises the steps: to store a first list customized for each subscriber, the first list comprises information regardi... | 08/11/2011 |
| 20110183668 | METHOD OF ROAMING IN BROADCAST SERVICE AND SYSTEM AND TERMINAL THEREOF A method, system, and terminal for handling or processing roaming errors between networks that can support broadcast services. When a roaming service between networks is requested, if a user authentication request is unsuccessful due to non-matching identification infor... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110183667 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM FOR MATCHING RESOURCE AMOUNT OF CORE NETWORK BEARER AND RESOURCE AMOUNT OF VISITED NETWORK BEARER A visited policy controlling device decides the amount of a visited network bearer resource that is provided by a visited user plane device for an end-to-end service based on the amount of a bearer service resource requested to be used in the end-to-end service. A home ... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110151865 | INTER-NETWORK PROFILE REPOSITORY INTERWORKING SYSTEMS AND METHODS Exemplary inter-network profile repository interworking systems and methods are disclosed. An exemplary system includes an interface facility that interfaces with a home subscriber server (“HSS”) of a long term evolution (“LTE”) communications network and a home... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110117910 | Method and system for providing roaming service in wireless communication system A method and apparatus for providing roaming service in a wireless communication system. A roaming gateway for performing communication between an Internet protocol multimedia subsystem (IMS) network and a circuit switched (CS) network receives an authentication request... | 05/19/2011 |
| 20110098039 | HOME PLMN SEARCH METHOD OF MOBILE TERMINAL A Home Public Land Mobile Network (Home PLMN) search method of a mobile terminal is disclosed. The method includes determining whether an input continued for a preset period of time from a user is generated on a specified item located in a predetermined area of an idle ... | 04/28/2011 |
| 20110081906 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING MOBILE COMMUNICATION CORRESPONDING TO MULTIPLE MSISDNs ASSOCIATED WITH A SINGLE IMSI The present invention proposes a method for mobile communication. The method includes assigning one or more Mobile Station International Subscriber Directory Numbers (MSISDNs) to a subscriber of a Home Public Mobile Network (HPMN) upon receiving a subscription activatio... | 04/07/2011 |
| 20110081907 | ROAMING RETRYING METHOD UNDER PRE-PAGING MODE The present invention provides a method for roaming retry under pre-paging mode. The method comprises the following steps of: during a pre-paging period, a called Mobile Station (MS) moving to a new location area and sending a location update request to a new Visitor Mo... | 04/07/2011 |
| 20110059738 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO ENABLE MULTIPLE VIRTUAL NUMBERS ACROSS DIFFERENT MOBILE NETWORKS Disclosed is a system and method for enabling a subscriber who has multiple virtual or physical SIM identities across several networks to make and receive calls and messages on a single handset at the same time. Key features of the disclosure is the setup and management... | 03/10/2011 |
| 20110059743 | System and Method for Enhanced Content Access A method and system for facilitating HLR access includes receiving a query request from a query entity, processing the query request to yield an SS7 request message, dispatching the SS7 request message to a HLR, receiving an SS7 response message from the HLR, constructi... | 03/10/2011 |
| 20110045828 | CAMEL ROAMING SERVICES BETWEEN OPERATORS WITH DIFFERENT CAMEL PHASE This invention, in general, relates to the field of telecommunications. More particularly, the present invention relates to a centralized system and method for providing customized applications for mobile networks enhanced logic CAMEL roaming services to a mobile subscr... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110021190 | Network Selection Methods And Apparatus With Home Network Prioritization After Network Signal Recovery Or Power-On A network selection method for a mobile station which is associated with a Home Public Land Mobile Network (HPLMN) identified by a home Mobile Network Code (MNC) and Mobile Country Code (MCC) pair. The mobile station identifies a plurality of PLMNs in a geographic area,... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20100323690 | Application of Dynamic Profiles to the Allocation and Configuration of Network Resources A service request is received and associated with a subscriber id. Profile information is accessed for the source of the service request. A copy of the profile information is stored in a network element employed by the source of the service request to access the network... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100291924 | ROAMING SELECTION SERVICES Management of native subscriber registrations on a foreign network is accomplished via an approach that advantageously offers dynamic roaming, that is, the capability to send data over-the-air to populate a customer subscriber identity module (SIM) card with specific ne... | 11/18/2010 |
| 20100285800 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA FOR PROVIDING SCALABLE NUMBER PORTABILITY (NP) HOME LOCATION REGISTER (HLR) The subject matter described herein includes methods, systems, and computer readable media for providing NP-HLR functionality. According to one aspect, the subject matter described herein includes a system for providing scalable NP-HLR. The system includes an NP front e... | 11/11/2010 |
| 20100285799 | System and Method for Enhanced Content Access A method and system for facilitating HLR access includes receiving a query request from a query entity, processing the query request to yield an SS7 request message, dispatching the SS7 request message to a HLR, receiving an SS7 response message from the HLR, constructi... | 11/11/2010 |
| 20100273480 | NETWORK-INITIATED AREA EVENT TRIGGERED POSITIONING METHOD FOR ROAMING TERMINAL IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM A network-initiated area event triggered positioning method for a terminal in a session-based position information system is discussed. Network-initiation of area-based positioning of a roaming terminal is discriminated according to a proxy mode and a non-proxy mode, an... | 10/28/2010 |
| 20100255837 | Search Method of a Roaming Service A search method of a roaming service for registering a mobile station to a network service is provided. The search method comprises the step of searching for a registered public land mobile network (RPLMN) and registering to the RPLMN when the record of the RPLMN is exi... | 10/07/2010 |
| 20100248716 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ZONE-BASED PERSONALIZED INFORMATION PROVIDING A system and method for providing zone-based personalized information to a user of mobile communication terminal located in a specific zone are presented. The system comprises a zone management system which acquires MIN information of a mobile communication terminal ent... | 09/30/2010 |
| 20100234021 | Scanning Channels While a Device is Out of Service A channel scanning order is dynamically created, modified, selectively ignored, or combinations thereof based on historical data, motion information, context information, alert message systems, network reselection, or combinations thereof. If a less preferred network ha... | 09/16/2010 |
| 20100234022 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SUPL ROAMING IN WIMAX NETWORKS A system and method for connecting a mobile device to a node in a wireless communications network. A query may be received from a mobile device for a location based application at a visited network having a visited location server. A message including information identi... | 09/16/2010 |
| 20100233994 | CHARGING METHOD AND SYSTEM An intelligent charging triggering method is provided. The method includes receiving a subscriber location data update request sent by a serving mobile switching center (MSC), determining whether subscriber data delivered to the serving MSC carries intelligent subscript... | 09/16/2010 |
