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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 15, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 23, 2017
Applicant:
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Inventor:
Poojan Tanna, Nashua, NH (US);
Assignee:
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 8/22 (2009.01); H04L 29/12 (2006.01); H04W 4/14 (2009.01); H04W 8/08 (2009.01); H04W 4/18 (2009.01); H04W 8/04 (2009.01); H04W 4/70 (2018.01); H04W 92/16 (2009.01); H04W 8/18 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 8/22 (2013.01); H04L 61/1588 (2013.01); H04W 4/14 (2013.01); H04W 4/18 (2013.01); H04W 4/70 (2018.02); H04W 8/04 (2013.01); H04W 8/082 (2013.01); H04W 8/18 (2013.01); H04W 92/16 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method is provided in one example embodiment and may include receiving, by a Service Capability Exposure Function (SCEF), a request to send data to a user equipment (UE), wherein a context for the UE is not available at the SCEF when the request is received; querying a subscriber database to determine whether the context for the UE is available at the subscriber database; and sending the data for the UE to a Mobility Management Entity (MME) by the SCEF using an interface directly interconnecting the MME and the SCEF based on a determination that the context for the UE is available at the subscriber database.