Vodafone IP Licensing Limited

Cisco Technology, Inc.

Walter Gottfried Bindrim

John Moughton

Matthew Cheng

Martin Schubert

Hendrikus G P Bosch

Christopher Pudney

Humberto Jose La Roche

David Andrew Fox

Peter Cosimini

Malgorzata Kaczmarska-Wojtania

Adam Pollard

Adam O MacHale

Alan Law

Hendrikus Gp Bosch

Eric Murray

Ahmed Fouad Adel Ahmed Hafez

Mai Tran Le

Margaret Kaczmarska

Varini Gupta

John Leadley Moughton

Santiago Tenorio

Ricardo Batista

Naomi Lopez

Mabel Pous-Fenollar

Andrea De Pasquale

Antonio Oliver

Arul Arulkkumaran

John L Moughton

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 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 telecommunications network is arranged to: deliver content from the local source of content () to the terminal (), to send to the core network () an indication of the content delivered from the local source of content () to the terminal (), to obtain a copy of the content of the local source of content () provided to the terminal (), and to provide the content processing means () core network service in relation to the copy of the content of the local source.

Telecommunication networks for content delivery and lawful interception, content filtering and further content services using a SAVI platform

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.

Systems and methods for controlling the activation of a hotspot function of a User Equipment (UE) device. Methods are provided for assessing the suitability of a UE to act as a hotspot dependent on parameters such as quality of data connection, battery life, and use of the UE by the user. Where multiple UEs are in proximity to each other a comparison of the suitability of each UE may be made and only the most suitable devices activated.

Systems and methods for enabling hotspot functionalityah

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 a terminal () registered with the telecommunications network, wherein the radio access network () includes a local source of content (), wherein the telecommunications network is arranged to provide the content processing means () core network service in relation to the content of the local source (), and wherein synchronization means is provided to synchronize the provision of core network service in relation to the content of the local source () with communications with the terminal ().

Telecommunications network with optimisation of content delivery

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.

Telecommunication networks

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

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Newbury, United Kingdom

Walter Gottfried Bindrim