Nokia Corporation

Nokia Technologies Oy

Core Wireless Licensing S.a.r.l.

Vringo Infrastructure Inc.

Miikka Huomo

Tom Grahn

Tuomas Niemela

Kari Pekka Kauranen

Kari Silfverberg

Auvo Hartikainen

Mikko Ruhanen

Tatiana Issaeva

Shashikant Maheshwari

Naveen Kumar Kakani

Juha Matias Kallio

Tomi Varonen

Atte Artamo

Tuomas Niemelä

Petri Olavi Jappila

Renaud Cuny

Sakari Angervuori

Erkka Ala-Tauriala

Jarmo Virtanen

Tomi Weckström

Heikki Pulkkinen

Markku Viitasuo

Quick and efficient handover of a user equipment (UE) from a Wideband Code-Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) packet switched only network to a Circuit Switched enabled (CSe) network is provided by certain embodiments. Parallelization of the Radio Access Network (RAN) processes and the User Equipment (UE) processes can help to reduce delay in such handovers.

Method for fast circuit switched service enabling handover from packet-switched only networks

Quick and efficient handover of a user equipment (UE) from a Wideband Code-Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) packet switched only network to a Circuit Switched enabled (CSe) network is provided. Parallelization of the Radio Access Network (RAN) processes and the User Equipment (UE) processes can help to reduce delay in such handovers.

The invention relates to a method and system for performing packet switched handover in a mobile communication network. The system comprises a mobile node, a first and a second packet switching node. The method enables the parallel sending of logical link layer frames from the first and the second packet switching node. This is achieved so that the mobile node does not reject incoming frames received from two logical link layer entities having different states. The benefits of the invention are related to improved quality of service and the avoiding of gaps in received data during handover.

Method for performing packet switched handover in a mobile communication system

An apparatus includes least one processor and at least one memory including a computer program, the at least one memory and the computer program operable to, with the at least one processor, direct the apparatus at least to: identify a mobile station (MS) as a tunneling protocol endpoint; and configure an access bearer for the MS to prevent activation of a path management procedure for an entire data session; wherein the path management procedure comprises at least one of echo request messages, echo response messages, and version not supported messages.

Apparatus and method for removing path management

A gaming device for playing a game including one or more parameters that affect a user's participation in the game, the gaming device including a memory storing a data structure that associates each one of a plurality of device configurations with a respective game configuration, wherein each game configuration differently specifies one or more parameters of the game; means for identifying the current device configuration for the device; means for using the data structure to determine a current game configuration associated with the current device configuration; and means for controlling the game by setting parameters in the game as specified by the current game configuration.

Device and system for playing a game and a method for controlling a game

A method includes storing subscriber data at one or more locations, and storing, at least one of the one or more locations, one or more rules for managing the subscriber data at least one of the one or more locations. The subscriber data regarding at least one of the one or more locations is managed on the basis of the rules.

Managing subscriber information

An apparatus and method are provided to identify an endpoint as a general packet radio service tunneling protocol endpoint, and configure a radio access bearer to skip a path management procedure. The apparatus and method also transmit the radio access bearer to a universal generic access network controller to prevent activation of the path management procedure to the general packet radio service tunneling protocol endpoint.

In the preferred embodiments, it is first determined whether or not a TCP connection from a sending device to a receiving device in the wireless communications network is in a slow start phase. If the TCP connection is in a slow start phase, then the data to be sent in the TCP connection that is allocated a priority that is higher than the priority allocated to other data to be sent by the sending device. The sending device may be a mobile terminal, a Serving GPRS Support Node (SGSN), a device in a WiMAX environment or other network device, and the method of the preferred embodiments may be implemented by software installed and executed on the network device.

Optimization of a transfer layer protocol connection

An apparatus and method thereof include a service support node. The service support node is configured to read an override feature defined therein by an operator indicative of whether a maximum bitrate requested by a mobile station is to be used in a quality of service negotiation or whether the maximum bitrate from a register is to be used in a quality of service negotiation.

Streaming quality optimization

A method selects a network entity in a communication system. The method includes receiving, in a controller entity of an unlicensed radio spectrum access network, location information of a communication device connected to one of the unlicensed radio spectrum access network and another access network. The method further includes determining a routing area indication based on the location information. The method further includes selecting, based on the routing area indication, a serving network entity, which provides services for the communication device using at least the unlicensed radio spectrum access network and the another radio access network. Furthermore, a computer program, a controller entity and a communication system are configured to execute the method.

Selecting a network entity

Management of a radio telecommunications network, in which a plurality of a radio network controllers (RNCs) are served with a gateway support node having a given configuration. An added RNC connected to the radio telecommunications network is detected and then it is detected the serving gateway support node if the added RNC is a flat radio access node. If the added RNC is detected as a flat radio access node, it is verified whether the configuration allows serving the added RNC and if yes, the added RNC is connected with the serving gateway support node and correspondingly the configuration is modified. Alternatively, if the added RNC is detected as not being a flat radio access node, connecting the added RNC with the serving gateway support node is refused.

Radio telecommunications network management

A method in a communication system comprising at least one access network controller entity for controlling a plurality of service areas and a core network controller entity. The access network controller entity reports to the core network controller entity movement of a user equipment from a first service area to a second service area. The report contains indication that the user equipment has moved to be served within the second service area. The report contains also information regarding the volume of data that was not communicated between the user equipment and communication means of the first service area while the user equipment was served within the first service area.

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