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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 01, 2013
Filed:
Dec. 28, 2007
Akimichi Tanabe, Kawasaki, JP;
Masami Yabusaki, Kashiwa, JP;
Katsutoshi Nishida, Yokohama, JP;
NTT DoCoMo, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A mobility management method includes: notifying, at a mobile terminal, an edge node of a terminal function indicating that the mobile terminal has a Mobile IP client function; instructing, at the edge node, the mobile terminal to perform an operation for mobility management by using not an MIP function but an IP function when the edge node has a PMIP client function; performing, at the mobile terminal, the operation for mobility management by using the IP function in response to the instruction from the edge node; and performing, the edge node, the operation for mobility management by using the PMIP client function.