Sca Ipla Holdings Inc.

General Dynamics C4 Systems, Inc.

Robert Zakrzewski

Milos Tesanovic

An infrastructure equipment for forming part of a mobile radio network includes a transmit and receive unit, to transmit and receive data to and from mobile communications devices via a wireless access interface, and a controller processing requests for communications resources from the mobile communications devices. Plural associated communications devices are arranged to form a group, and each of the associated communications devices of the group includes a same common identifier, with respect to which communications sessions can be established to communicate data via the mobile radio network, and the controller is arranged in combination with the transmit and receive unit to respond to a request from one of the communications devices of the group to establish a communications bearer using the common identifier.

Infrastructure equipment and method

A communications device, communicating data via a mobile radio network, includes a transmitter/receiver communicating data to/from a mobile radio network via a wireless access interface, and a module storing information identifying the communications device to the mobile radio network, the stored information including a same common identifier in each of an associated group of communications devices, the common identifier to establish communications sessions to communicate data to/from any of the associated communications devices. The group of communications devices may communicate machine type communications for a particular application, for example disposed in a vehicle, to report certain parameters. With spatial proximity of the communications devices, each can receive control plane signalling data and accordingly communication of signalling data is as if broadcast to a local environment in which the group of communications devices are disposed, to save communications bandwidth proportional to the number of devices in the group.

Device and method for communication using a common identifier

A mobile communications network includes a core network including infrastructure equipment, and a radio network including plural base stations to provide a wireless access interface for communicating data to/from communications terminals. One base station operates as a serving base station to one of the communications terminals, to establish one or more communications bearers for communicating user data to/from the communications terminal via the core network and the radio network via the serving base station, and to co-operate with at least another base station to communicate the user data to/from the communications terminal. The mobile communications network can monitor a state of a radio communications channel between the co-operating base station and the communications terminal, and upon predetermined conditions, establish a communications bearer from the core network to the co-operating base station for communicating the user data to the co-operating base station transmitting the user data to the communications terminal.

Mobile communications network, infrastructure equipment and method

A packet data network gateway, P-GW, is located in a second network for supporting user plane data to terminal devices in a wireless communications system that additionally comprises a first network having a first packet data network gateway, P-GW operably couplable to the P-GW. The P-GW comprises a processor arranged to: check a destination address of received packets from the first P-GW to determine whether the received packets are destined for any of the terminal devices, and in response thereto: extract one or more properties of said received packets if they are destined for any of the terminal devices served with user plane data; or discard said received packets if they are not destined for the terminal device(s).

Apparatus and methods for accessing a data network

Communication device and method for communicating data using a common identifier

A mobile communications network includes a core network including infrastructure equipment, and a radio network including plural base stations configured to provide a wireless access interface for communicating data to/from communications terminals. One base station can operate as a serving base station to one of the communications terminals, to establish one or more communications bearers for communicating user data to/from the communications terminal via the core network and the radio network, and co-operate with at least another of the base stations to communicate the user data to/from the communications terminal. The mobile communications network can monitor a state of a radio communications channel between the co-operating base station and the communications terminal, and upon predetermined conditions, establish a communications bearer from the core network to the co-operating base station for communicating the user data to the co-operating base station for transmitting the user data to the communications terminal.

Communications terminal and method

A communications terminal is arranged to transmit/receive data to/from a mobile communications network. A mobility manager tracks a location of a communications terminal within the mobile communications network for routing data to or receiving the data from a communications terminal via a radio network part in accordance with context information of the communications terminal, and the mobile communications network includes a virtual mobility manager. The communications terminal is configured to transmit an indication that the communications terminal is entering an off-line state, and the virtual mobility manager, in response to that indication, can store at least part of the context information of the communications terminal, upon a triggering event occurring, to receive a paging message from the virtual mobility manager at the off-line communications terminal, and to establish with mobile communications network a communications bearer, for communicating the data after the communications terminal has moved to an attached state.

System and method for paging off-line state terminals

A mobile communications network includes a core network part including a plurality of infrastructure equipment, and a radio network part including a plurality of base stations for providing a wireless access interface for communicating data packets to or from communications terminals. The core network part or the radio network part includes a local data store having stored therein content data, which has been received from an applications server via the core network, and the mobile communications network is configured to receive a request to access the content from a communications terminal from the applications server, to identify that the content data is stored in the local data store, and to communicate the content data to the communications terminal from the local data store as if the content data had been communicated from the applications server.

Methods and apparatuses for communicating content data to a communications terminal from a local data store

A communications terminal is configured to receive content data from a mobile communications network. The mobile communications network includes a core network part including a plurality of infrastructure equipment, and a radio network part including a plurality of base stations for providing a wireless access interface for communicating data packets to or from communications terminal. The core network part or the radio network part includes a local data store having stored therein content data, which has been received from an applications server via the core network, and the communications terminal is configured to transmit a request to access the content data from the applications server to the mobile communications network, and to receive the content data from the local data store as if the content data had been communicated from the applications server.

A wireless communications system supporting user plane data comprises: a first network having a first packet data network gateway (P-GW); a second network having a second P-GW operably coupled to the first network via a backhaul link; a serving gateway (S-GW) a base station; and a terminal device, wherein a single packet data network connection is created for the terminal device that traverses through the first P-GW, second P-GW, S-GW and base station.

Wireless communication system comprising apparatus and methods for accessing a data network

A mobile communications network for communicating data to/from mobile communications devices, including a core network part including plural infrastructure equipment, and a radio network part including plural base stations communicating data to/from the mobile communications devices. The mobile communications device communicates an indication of a relative type of data packets for communication via a communications bearer for supporting a communications session of the mobile communications device, the indication used to configure the communications bearer, and provides the communications bearer from the mobile communications device to one or more of the infrastructure equipment via the base stations in accordance with the indication and to control the communication of the data packets via the communications bearer in accordance with the indication communicated via the communications bearer, to control the communication of the data packets from the communications bearer differently to data packets communicated via other communications bearer having a higher priority.

Mobile communications network, infrastructure equipment, mobile communications device and method

A mobile communications device to communicate data to/from a mobile communications network, and to communicate an indication of a relative type of data packets for communication via a communications bearer for supporting a communications session of the mobile communications device, the indication used to configure the communications bearer, and to communicate the data packets via the communications bearer to the infrastructure equipment via the base stations in accordance with the indication, the communication of the data packets being controlled by the mobile communications network in accordance with the communicated indication. By providing the indication, such as an indication that the data packets are of low priority or are generated or being received by a machine type communication application, the mobile communications network can control the communication of the data packets from the communications bearer differently to data packets communicated via other communications bearer having a higher priority.

Mobile communications network device and method

A mobile communications system includes a mobile communications network configured to transmit/receive data to/from communications terminals. The mobile communications network includes a virtual mobility manager configured to store at least part of context information of a communications terminal when the communications terminal enters an off-line state so that if a triggering event occurs when the communications terminal is in the off-line state, the virtual mobility manager can page the off-line communications terminal in the off-line state so that a communications bearer can be established with the communications terminal using the stored context information, for communicating the data after the communications terminal has moved to an attached state.

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Bristol, United Kingdom

Robert Zakrzewski