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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 23, 2007
Filed:
Nov. 20, 2001
Kuntal Chowdhury, Plano, TX (US);
Serge Manning, Richardson, TX (US);
Pierre Boulos, Richardson, TX (US);
Kuntal Chowdhury, Plano, TX (US);
Serge Manning, Richardson, TX (US);
Pierre Boulos, Richardson, TX (US);
Nortel Networks Limited, St. Laurent, CA;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for dynamically assigning a home agent to a mobile station for a mobile IP session. The method and apparatus allow the telecommunications network to assign the home agent that is best able to serve the mobile station. This is achieved by utilizing a predetermined IP address that indicates to the network components, such as the packet-switched data network, the home agent, the home authorization, authentication, and accounting server, and the like, that the mobile station is requesting a dynamically assigned home agent.