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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 07, 2014
Filed:
Jun. 08, 2012
Christopher Pudney, Newbury, GB;
David Fox, Reading, GB;
Peter Howard, Newbury, GB;
Vodafone Group PLC, Newbury, Berkshire, GB;
Abstract
A mobile telecommunications network and method of operation that includes establishing a first user plane connection between a telecommunications device registered with the network and a network gateway device of the network via a first access point; providing the telecommunications device with a token using the first user plane connection; establishing a second user plane connection between the telecommunications device and the network gateway device via a second access point by using the token information to validate the telecommunications device; and, subsequent to establishment of and corresponding to the second user plane connection, establishing a control plane connection between the telecommunications device and the network gateway device via the second access point. The token includes information indicative to the network that the telecommunications device has authorization to send a quantity of data to the network gateway device prior to full conventional authentication of the telecommunications device.