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Date of Patent:
Feb. 17, 2015

Filed:

Oct. 31, 2011
Applicants:

Gottfried Punz, Dossenheim, DE;

Andreas Kunz, Heddesheim, DE;

Inventors:

Gottfried Punz, Dossenheim, DE;

Andreas Kunz, Heddesheim, DE;

Assignee:

NEC Europe Ltd., Heidelberg, DE;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 88/02 (2009.01); H04W 60/00 (2009.01); H04W 60/04 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 60/00 (2013.01); H04W 60/04 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method for connecting a user equipment to a network device via a mobile communication network, applicable to devices that must always be reachable while saving bandwidth of the mobile communication network, where the user equipment operates in a passive state capable of responding to a page signal by switching to an attempting-to-attach state, and at least an information of a current tracking area and an identifier of the user equipment is stored in an entity of the mobile communication network and/or a network device, this information being used for sending the paging signal to the equipment.


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