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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 17, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 05, 2010
Stefan Rommer, Vastra Frolunda, SE;
Susana Fernadez Alonso, Madrid, ES;
Lars Gunnar Lovsen, Gothenburg, SE;
Stefan Rommer, Vastra Frolunda, SE;
Susana Fernadez Alonso, Madrid, ES;
Lars Gunnar Lovsen, Gothenburg, SE;
Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (Publ), Stockholm, SE;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a solution for handling deferred leg linking in policy and charging rules function in a telecommunications network in relation to handover between two different access technologies. The solution is provided as a nodes, system and a method for handling handover of a user equipment, i.e. UE, () in a telecommunications network () from one access technology to another access technology, comprising the steps of detecting () in a target access gateway, i.e. AGW, () that a handover state of the UE is unknown, sending () from the target access gateway a gateway control session, i.e. GCS, establishment message to a policy and charging rules function node (), wherein the message comprise an indication that leg linking of a session is to be deferred until reception of corresponding control signalling from a packet data network gateway ().