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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2022
Filed:
Apr. 12, 2019
Attocore Ltd, Cambridge, GB;
David Neil, Cambridge, GB;
Jason Cooper, Cambridge, GB;
David Neil, Cambridge, GB;
Jason Cooper, Cambridge, GB;
Attocore Limited, Cambridge, GB;
Abstract
A discovery protocol for use in a mobile telecommunications network where the protocol is used to discover a target core network component of the network. The network comprises base station core network components having at least one Mobile Management Entity (MME), a Serving Gateway (SGW) a Packet Gateway (PGW), an HSS; and a discovery request distributor connected to all other network components. The protocol utilizes the steps of: sending a discovery request from a first core network component to a discovery request distributor, where the discovery request includes a target identifier of a target core network component to be discovered; forwarding the discovery request to all other core network components within the network; receiving a discovery response at the first network component, from an identified target core network component with the defined target identifier and no responses from the other target core network components.