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| 20080259873 | Method and Apparatus for Providing Gateway Relocation - An apparatus and method for providing gateway relocation to an external network wherein a user equipment (UE) includes an initial external network connection via a source core node, comprises initializing a mobility event, reallocating the initial external network connection from via the source core node to via a target core node to create a new external network connection, allocating the new IP address to the UE for the new external network connection, and using the new IP address. | 10-23-2008 |
| 20080304441 | MOBILITY MANAGEMENT MODE SELECTION IN MULTIPLE ACCESS WIRELESS NETWORKS - Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate indicating and determining mobility management modes in access identifiers for wireless communications networks. Wireless devices can indicate mobility management modes to be utilized by choosing a target system and communicating the chosen system and a home system to one or more network components. The network components can infer or otherwise determine a mobility management mode based at least in part on a relationship between the target and home systems. | 12-11-2008 |
| 20090047952 | IDLE MODE MOBILITY MANAGEMENT IN A MULTI-ACCESS SYSTEM USING PMIP - Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate enabling multiple address access between two or more networks. A home agent can update a binding cache with a particular proxy binding update (PBU) to include two or more network gateway IP addresses associated with a user equipment (UE) within two or more networks or systems. When the UE in idle mode moves between networks or systems to which registration has occurred, an attachment procedure is not performed since the home agent includes the network gateway IP addresses related to such UE. Thus, inter-system idle mode mobility is enabled without having to perform a full attachment, re-registration, or de-registration based on the network location of the UE. | 02-19-2009 |
| 20090196231 | MOBILE IP MULTIPLE REGISTRATIONS AND PCC INTERACTIONS - In a wireless communication system having multiple access nodes, a home agent (HA) maintains home address (HoA) for a mobile node so that an IP session can be established. As the mobile node moves within a coverage area of various access nodes, the mobile node can establish a secure relationship with a local access gateway and thereby register a local IP address, referred to as a care-of-address (CoA), with the HA. Mobile IP protocol can be established so that multiple sessions can be conducted. In maintaining policy and charging control (PCC), HA informs a policy and charging rules function (PCRF), which in turn can then send the appropriate PCC rules (e.g., IP flows and related policies) to a policy and charging enforcement function (PCEF) for a particular access gateway. Coordination necessary to associate CoA and HoA can further include filter information as to application can run on a particular interface. | 08-06-2009 |
| 20090199268 | POLICY CONTROL FOR ENCAPSULATED DATA FLOWS - Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate communicating encapsulation information for a related mobility protocol type utilized in communicating over a data flow with reduced specific implementation on the policy server to support different mobility protocol types. In this regard, encapsulation information can be transmitted to the policy server from a network gateway such that the policy server can forward the encapsulation information to a serving gateway along with policy rules related to a data flow type. The serving gateway can utilize the encapsulation information to detect and interpret the encapsulated data flow according to the policy rules. In this regard, the serving gateway can provide support (e.g. quality of service support) for the flow. The encapsulation information can relate to a mobility protocol type, an encapsulation header, an indication that encapsulation is required, parameters regarding locating an encapsulation header in a message, and/or the like. | 08-06-2009 |
| 20090240795 | ADDRESS REDIRECTION FOR NODES WITH MULTIPLE INTERNET PROTOCOL ADDRESSES IN A WIRELESS NETWORK - Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate obtaining an Internet Protocol (IP) address of a node with multiple IP addresses using address redirection in a wireless communication environment. A wireless communication component can retrieve a previously registered IP address corresponding to the node from an Authentication, Accounting, and Authorization/Home Subscriber Server (AAA/HSS). Further, a reverse query of a Domain Name Server (DNS) and a forward query of the DNS can be performed. The reverse query can be constructed based upon the previously registered IP address of the node and can resolve a name (e.g., string, . . . ). Further, the forward query can be formed based upon the name and can return a differing IP address of the node. | 09-24-2009 |
| 20090300207 | PCC ENHANCEMENTS FOR CIPHERING SUPPORT - Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate tunneling within wireless communication systems. Flow identification information is dynamically generated for data flows within a communication system. This flow identification information assists in determining appropriate flow specific policies to be applied with respective data flows. The flow identification information along with the flow specific policies can be communicated to an access mechanism which transmits the data flows in accordance with the flow specific policies. Different aspects relate to using source addresses in combination with the flow identification information for identifying different IP flows originating at a plurality of sources. The flow identification information also facilitates in verifying if different flows are transmitted in accordance with appropriate rules. The generated data flows are transmitted with respective flow identification information in order to facilitate the verification process. | 12-03-2009 |
| 20090303881 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR NETWORK CONTROLLED MOBILE IP FLOW MOVEMENT - Methods and apparatus for network controlled mobile IP flow movement. An infrastructure node, such as a home agent, signals a mapping between care-of-addresses (CoAs) and flows to be transmitted from a mobile device in uplink communications. The CoA associated with each flow is determined from network, device, and/or flow information. A mobile node or mobile gateway receives the mapping and updates its local policy information. When a selected flow is to be transmitted in an uplink transmission, the local policy information is used to determine the CoA associated with the selected flow. The CoA is then used to determine an access network (or access path) on which the uplink transmission of the selected flow is to occur. | 12-10-2009 |
| 20090303932 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR FACILITATING NETWORK-BASED CONTROL OF A FORWARDING POLICY USED BY A MOBILE NODE - A mobile node receives access network-specific signaling that is related to an Internet Protocol (IP) flow. The mobile node decides which of multiple access networks to use to send the IP flow based on the access network-specific signaling. The access network-specific signaling may be received from an access network, and the mobile node may interpret the access network-specific signaling as a command to send the IP flow over that access network. The mobile node may update a forwarding policy at the mobile node to indicate that the IP flow should be sent over that access network. | 12-10-2009 |
| 20090305701 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PCC ENHANCEMENT FOR FLOW BASED MOBILITY - Systems and methods are described that facilitate multiple registrations and flow based mobility in a wireless communication network. A flow routing component can be included in a mobile device, home agent/p-gateway, or a policy and charging rules function server that determines the manner in which to route one or more IP flows through a set of network access entry points. The flow routing component can determine the routing based on a set of policies and/or network data, such as quality of service requirements, bandwidth requirements, network congestion, currently active IP flows, and so forth. | 12-10-2009 |
| 20100039936 | SYSTEMS AND METHOD FOR QUALITY OF SERVICE CONTROL OVER MULTIPLE ACCESSES - Systems and methods for quality of service control over multiple accesses, more particularly quality of service control over multiple accesses via enhanced quality of service rules. A policy rules and charging function, or similar network entity, can include an indicator in a set of quality of service rules that instructs an access gateway to either setup the quality of service resources/initiate bearer setup immediately, or store the quality of service rules until a request for the quality of service resources s received from the UE or another predetermined event occurs. | 02-18-2010 |
| 20100085898 | METHODS FOR DETECTING ROUTING LOOPS BETWEEN HOME AGENTS - Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide methods for detecting a routing loop between at least two home agents utilizing the mobile internet protocol (MIPv6) standard. In a first method, the home agent sends a test message to the last care of address associated with a mobile node and receives a reply if there is no loop. In a second method, the home agent parses a packet and checks if the address of any of the inner headers matches the address of the home agent to find a loop between home agents. | 04-08-2010 |
| 20100205099 | SYSTEM AND METHODS TO FACILITATE CONNECTIONS TO ACCESS NETWORKS - The described aspects relate to methods and systems for enabling connectivity agreements between access terminals and access networks. The connectivity agreements may be established through user-side negotiations or third party negotiations for a connection with an access network. In addition, the described aspects relate to methods and systems for paying access networks for a connection. | 08-12-2010 |
| 20100318795 | BLOOM FILTER BASED DEVICE DISCOVERY - Aspects describe enabling two peers that have already paired together under some circumstances to re-identify themselves under different circumstances so that the peers can bypass performing another pairing only to discover that they are already paired. A Bloom filter is constructed from an available pool of locally selected identifiers and is sent to a peer node in a first message. Upon receiving the message with the Bloom filter, peer node checks all its known identifiers. If peer node finds that one of its identifiers is a member of the Bloom filter, peer node sends a reply in order to achieve a mutual identification. | 12-16-2010 |
| 20110039592 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR DERIVING, COMMUNICATING AND/OR VERIFYING OWNERSHIP OF EXPRESSIONS - Methods and apparatus for generating, communicating, and/or verifying ownership of expressions are described. Various embodiments are well suited for use in a wireless peer to peer communications systems in which expressions are communicated, e.g., broadcast, in discovery intervals. A first communications device generates an expression from a first public key and an additional input, said first public key corresponding to a private key known to said first communications device. The first device transmits the generated expression on a communications channel used for discovery. A second communications device receives the transmitted expression from the first device. The second device transmits a request signal to the first device associated with the expression; and receives from the first device a signed communication signed using a private key known to said first communications device. The second device uses information from the signed communication to determine if said first communication device owns said expression. | 02-17-2011 |
