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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 03, 2018
Filed:
Apr. 05, 2013
Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (Publ), Stockholm, SE;
Anders Baer, Årsta, SE;
Tobias Austrell, Älvsjö, SE;
Timo Forsman, Sollentuna, SE;
Jan Anders Tellinger, Hägersten, SE;
Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ), Stockholm, SE;
Abstract
System, methods, entities, and computer program for handling timers in a communication network are described. The communication network comprises a plurality of entities (-). The method in a first entity () comprises determining () whether a supervision condition for supervising a communication procedure is fulfilled. The method further comprises adding (), based on a result of the step of determining the supervision condition (), a timer validity information to a signaling message related to the communication procedure, and sending () the signaling message to a second entity (). The method in a second entity (-) comprises receiving () a signaling message associated with a communication procedure, the signaling message containing a timer validity information. The method further comprises determining () whether a further processing condition for performing further steps of the communication procedure is fulfilled, the further processing condition being associated with the timer validity information. The system, entities (-) and computer program associated with these methods are also described. Therefore an improved handling of time supervisions in a communication network is achieved in terms of accuracy of supervision timeout, and eliminating a triggering of unwanted remote actions after local timeout.