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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 15, 2002
Filed:
May. 11, 1999
Georg Chambert, Uppsala, SE;
Johan Rune, Lidingö, SE;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for providing each terminal (t , t , t) in a network (n) with an adapted location area (HA , HA , FA , FA ), customised to the long term or short term historical movements or behaviour of the terminal (t , t , t) in the network (n). The terminal (t , t , t) can enter three different modes; session mode, packet mode and transaction mode, which controls what kind of location area (HA , HA , FA , FA ) the terminal (t , t , t) should use. The types of location areas are a home location area (HA , HA ), based on the long term historical movements of the terminal (t , t , t) and used when the terminal (t , t , t) is located inside a home area constituting the normal mobility pattern of the terminal in the network (n), a session mode-fast adaptive location area (FA ), used when the terminal (t , t , t) enters the session mode and is located outside the home area, and a packet mode/transaction mode-fast adaptive location area (FA ), used for burstlike traffic when the terminal (t , t , t) enters the packet mode or the transaction mode.