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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.

Date of Patent:
May. 16, 2023

Filed:

Oct. 04, 2017
Applicant:

Ntt Docomo, Inc., Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Srisakul Thakolsri, Munich, DE;

Malla Reddy Sama, Munich, DE;

Irfan Ali, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Atsushi Minokuchi, Tokyo, JP;

Takuya Shimojo, Tokyo, JP;

Alf Zugenmaier, Munich, DE;

Assignee:

NTT DOCOMO, INC., Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 76/10 (2018.01); H04W 12/037 (2021.01); H04W 76/12 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 76/10 (2018.02); H04W 12/037 (2021.01); H04W 76/12 (2018.02);
Abstract

According to one embodiment, a method for establishing a connection of a mobile terminal to a mobile radio communication network is described comprising a radio access network of a mobile radio communication network receiving a connection request from a mobile terminal, the radio access network establishing a control plane communication having as a first endpoint the radio access network, the radio access network forwarding the mobile terminal's connection request to a first common control plane function via the control plane communication, the radio access network receiving a message indicating that the second endpoint of the control plane communication should be set to the second common control plane function and the radio access network setting the second endpoint of the control plane communication to the second common control plane function.


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