Intellectual Ventures I LLC

Nokia Corporation

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Spyder Navigations LLC

Inventergy, Inc.

Son Phan-Anh

Stefano M Faccin

Heikki Juhani Einola

Markku Verkama

Auvo Hartikainen

Balint Benko

Gabor Bajko

Gyorgy Tamas Wolfner

Jarmo Ilkka Saari

Gyula Bodog

Robert Sugar

Róbert Ropolyi

Pál Köpösdi

Gábor Mittweg

Gabor Járó

András Pfening

Balázs Bertenyi

A technique for protecting location information of a subscriber in a mobile network is disclosed. A User Mobility Server (UMS) receives a first query from a first call state control function (CSCF). The UMS transmits a call setup and a subscriber identity to a servicing-call state control function (S-CSCF). The S-CSCF may have no record of the subscriber identity due to a restart are some other event. The UMS receives a second query from the S-CSCF based in part of the subscriber identity. The UMS transmits a home address of a mobile station to the S-CSCF. The UMS may also transmit a profile download to the S-CSCF.

Recovery techniques in mobile networks

Methods, computer code products and systems for authenticating user equipment for access to a trusted network can include receiving a user identity uniquely identifying the user equipment. A proxying entity in the trusted network can generate a network-trusted header including the user identity and forward it to a serving entity in the network. The serving entity performs verification on the received carrier header and can compare the user identity with a list of approved user IDs and if a match is found, the user equipment can be authenticated for access to the network. IBCF that performs optional hiding for the proxying entity toward the Home IMS network can extract the proxying entity-generated parameter out of the encrypted token making it readable to the serving entity if it is encrypted in the carrier header. The proxying entity can also provide verification of the utilized header when processing the registration request from the user equipment. Alternatively the serving entity can be provisioned with data related to NBA support in various proxying entities or domains where proxying entities are located so that the serving entity can decide to proceed with NBA procedure or not for registration received via certain proxying entities or visited networks.

System and method for carrying trusted network provided access network information in session initiation protocol

A technique for protecting location information of a subscriber in a mobile network is disclosed which forwards a registration request from the subscriber to an S-CSCF including the subscriber's TA and then forwarding a location update from the S-CSCF to an HSS including the subscriber's TA. Upon the S-CSCF losing data, lost data may be restored to the S-CSCF from the data stored in the HSS. The HSS may store data in a non-volatile memory such as a hard disk drive. The technique may also include forwarding a registration request from the subscriber to an S-CSCF including the subscriber's TA and then forwarding a location update from the S-CSCF to an HSS and storing data in a non-volatile memory such as a hard disk drive in the S-CSCF so as to be protected against loss. Upon the S-CSCF losing data, lost data including the subscriber's TA may be restored to the S-CSCF from the data stored in the S-CSCF.

A method and a system for providing access to an IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) for a subscriber roaming in a visited communication network are described. A subscriber equipment determines that a visited network IMS is not accessible and sends a register message for registering to an IMS to a control entity in the home communication network of the subscriber. The control entity recognizes that the register message is received directly from a subscriber equipment, and an access entity for accessing the IMS of the home network is assigned. Then, the control entity sends a message to the subscriber equipment which message comprises the address of the access entity.

Accessing IP multimedia subsystem

A method for tracing a session or call in a network environment, comprising the step of transmitting a trace invocation from a control plane network element to another control pane network element or a user plane network element. According to a first aspect, a trace report is generated in the S-CSCF of the called party. This overcomes the lack of being able to provide detailed information about the interworking between the User Equipment (UE) and the IMS, in setting up IP multimedia sessions. According to a second aspect trace reports are generated in all the network functions involved in session setup.

Tracing method and system

The present invention is a method for service provisioning to a subscriber terminal (TE) having roamed from a first communication network (H-NW) to a second communication network (V-NW), each of said first and second networks comprises an access network (H-A-NW, V-A-NW; TL-NW) via which said subscriber terminal (TE) communicates with an associated core network (H-C-NW, V-C-NW), each of said core networks (H-C-NW, V-C-NW) being provided with at least one communication control entity (H-S-CSCF, V-S-CSCF) for performing, according to available services, communication control between the respective communication network and the terminal, and a database entity (H-SLS, V-SLS) keeping a record of available communication control entities in said core network of said communication network, said method comprising the steps of: accessing (S1), from said subscriber terminal (TE), the core network (V-C-NW) of said second communication network (V-NW), discovering (S2&#x2013;S10) at least one communication control entity among the communication control entities of both core networks, which is capable of controlling the communication with the subscriber terminal (TE) according to services requested by the subscriber terminal, and registering (S11&#x2013;S14) to at least one of said at least one discovered communication control entity, irrespective of whether it is located in said first or said second communication network.

Service discovery and service partitioning for a subscriber terminal between different networks

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