Vodafone IP Licensing Limited

Cisco Technology, Inc.

Vodafone Gmbh

John Moughton

Christopher Pudney

Peter Cosimini

Walter Gottfried Bindrim

Gavin Wong

Dave Fox

Anthony Sammut

Matthew Cheng

Martin Schubert

Hendrikus G P Bosch

Humberto Jose La Roche

David Andrew Fox

Malgorzata Kaczmarska-Wojtania

Assen Mahaboon Khan Golaup

Adam O MacHale

Adam Pollard

Assen Mahaboob Khan Golaup

Assen Golaup

Lars Nestler

Margaret Kaczmarska

Varini Gupta

Christopher David Pudney

Tony Sammut

Manfred Verholen

Tarek Elbasyouny

A mobile telecommunications network includes a core and a radio access network having radio means for wireless communication with mobile terminals registered with the network, wherein the radio access network includes control meansoperable to control the use of network resources by the mobile terminals. The control means processes control plane signalling.

Telecommunication networks

A mobile telecommunications network includes: a radio access network having radio means () for wireless communication with a plurality of terminals () registered with the telecommunications network and control means () operable to provide services to the users of the terminals connected thereto, and a core () including a store of policy information () for respective ones of the terminals (), and distribution means operable to provide to the control means associated with one of the terminals the policy information; wherein the control means is operable to store the policy information together with an indicator of the version of the policy information during periods when the terminal is disconnected from the control means, the control means including checking means for checking the currency of the policy using the indicator of the version of the policy and means for applying the stored policy information to the terminal when the terminal re-connects to the control means if the checking means determines that the stored policy is current.

Telecommunications networks

A mobile telecommunications network includes: a radio access network having radio means () for wireless communication with a plurality of terminals () registered with the telecommunications network and control means () operable to control interaction of the terminals with the radio access network; and a core () including a store of policy information comprising group policy data () applicable to a group of the terminals and individual policy data applicable to respective ones of the terminals (), and distribution means operable to provide to the control means associated with each of the terminals an indicator of the group policy data applicable to each of the terminals and the individual policy data applicable to each of the terminals.

A mobile telecommunications network includes a core network () having content processing means () operable to provide a core network service relating to content, and a radio access network () having radio means for wireless communication with terminals () registered with the network, wherein the radio access network () includes a local source of content (). The network is arranged to provide the content processing means () core network service in relation to the content of the local source.

A mobile telecommunications network includes a core network operable to provide core network functions; and a radio access network having control means, and radio means for wireless communication with terminals registered with the telecommunications network. In some embodiments the control means includes a client function operable to cause routing of traffic within the control means.

A method is provided in one example embodiment and includes sending, by a first entity associated with an access network, a first request message including a session identifier associated with a user session to a second entity associated with a core network. The method further includes establishing a first control channel with the second entity in which the first control channel is associated with the session identifier. The first control channel is an in-band channel between the first entity and the second entity. The method further includes receiving policy information associated with the user session from the second entity using the first control channel. The policy information is indicative of one or more policies to be applied in the access network to user data associated with the user session.

Providing in-line services through radio access network resources under control of a mobile packet core in a network environment

A mobile telecommunications network includes a core network and a radio access network. The radio access network has a network node that wirelessly communicates with a mobile terminal registered with the radio access network. The radio access network includes a controller that controls the use of network resources by the mobile terminal and processes control plane signaling. The controller includes an applicator that receives policy information and/or routing information from the core network and provides instructions to the network node to act in accordance with the received information. The network node includes an enforcer that enforces the instructions received from the controller so as to control whether the terminal uplink user plane traffic and control plane signalling messages are passed to the core network, routed to the controller, or duplicated and provided to both the core network and the controller.

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John Moughton