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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:
Mar. 27, 2001

Filed:

Jan. 14, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:

Atle Monrad, Froland, NO;

Ole Jonny Gangsøy, Arendal, NO;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04Q 7/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04Q 7/00 ;
Abstract

The present invention relates to a method for providing a unique temporary international identification of a mobile station during establishment and re-establishment of a logical link between a mobile station and the associated serving GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) support node (SGSN). The unique temporary international identification allows international roaming across country borders without using the international mobile station identification (IMSI), i.e. beyond the coverage area of the home PLMN, it is according to the present invention suggested to form new identity comprising the old TLLI, the old RA, and identification of the public land mobile network (PLMN) that is the owner of the old TLLI and the country where the PLMN belong. The new identity is used as identification on the radio interface, identification within the current SGSN and for identification of the old SGSN.


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