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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 24, 2012
Filed:
Feb. 28, 2007
Daniel Macdonald, Ottawa, CA;
Daniel MacDonald, Ottawa, CA;
Nortel Networks Limited, Mississauga, Ontario, CA;
Abstract
Within an access services network (ASN) operable for providing wireless access services to an access terminal and including a base station communicatively coupled to an ASN gateway, a new functional process identified as an 'R6 controller' is provided within the framework. The R6 controller includes both a controlling entity process residing and executing within the ASN gateway and an agent entity process residing and executing within the base station. The R6 controller entities monitor the R6 reference point between these two peer instances of the R6 controller, including executing a keep-alive procedure for determining the status of the R6 interface. If a problem is detected, interested client applications are notified and further actions (e.g., initiate handover process, notify ATs, etc.) may be taken. Optionally, the R6 controller entities function as gateways enabling centralized processing for message transmitted between peer instances of other client application processes spanning the base station—ASN gateway pair.