Deployment, configuration and provision of services and/or features for an inbound roamer

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11272349-B2
Application number	US-201816183121-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 7, 2018
Priority date	Nov 13, 2017
Publication date	Mar 8, 2022
Grant date	Mar 8, 2022

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method for deployment, configuration and provision of services and/or features for an inbound roamer, wherein an identity information of a first Public Land Mobile Network, to which a mobile equipment of the inbound roamer is subscribed is obtained, the obtained identity information of the first Public Land Mobile Network is provided to the Radio Access Network of a second Public Land Mobile Network, at least one service and/or feature of the second Public Land Mobile Network is configured and provided based on the identity information of the first Public Land Mobile Network to which the mobile equipment of the inbound roamer is subscribed. The present invention further relates to a telecommunications system configured and/or adapted to execute the inventive method.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method being executed in a telecommunication system comprising at least a Radio Access Network according to the fifth generation (5G) and a mobile equipment for deployment, configuration and provision of services and/or features for an inbound roamer, comprising:
obtaining, by the mobile equipment, an identity information of a first Public Land Mobile Network, to which a mobile equipment of the inbound roamer is subscribed;
providing, by the mobile equipment, the obtained identity information of the first Public Land Mobile Network to the Radio Access Network of a second Public Land Mobile Network during an attempt of the mobile equipment to camp on the Radio Access Network of the second Public Land Mobile Network when a Radio Connection Request is carried out by the mobile equipment, wherein further information about an identity of the mobile equipment of an inbound roamer is transferred to the Radio Access Network of the second Public Land Mobile Network therewith without a need for a separate data transmission; and
configuring, by the Radio Access Network of the second Public Land Mobile Network, at least one service and/or feature of the second Public Land Mobile Network based on the obtained identity information of the first Public Land Mobile Network to which the mobile equipment of the inbound roamer is subscribed.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein at least one service and/or feature of the Radio Access Network of the second Public Land Mobile Network is configured and provided based on the identity information of the first Public Land Mobile Network to which the mobile equipment of the inbound roamer is subscribed.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein an information query is sent to the mobile equipment if no identity information of the first Public Land Mobile Network has been provided from the mobile equipment to the Radio Access Network of the second Public Land Mobile Network after the Radio Connection Request.

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the identity information of the first Public Land Mobile Network consists of a Mobile Country Code, MCC, and a Mobile Network Code, MNC.

5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the identity information of the first Public Land Mobile Network is an identifier that identifies an organization to which the mobile equipment is subscribed.

6. A method being executed in a telecommunication system comprising at least a Radio Access Network according to the fifth generation (5G) comprising:
obtaining, by a mobile equipment, an identity information of a first Public Land Mobile Network to which the mobile equipment is subscribed;
providing, by the mobile equipment, a Radio Connection Request to a Radio Access Network of a second Public Land Mobile Network;
providing, by the mobile equipment, the obtained identity information of the first Public Land Mobile Network to the Radio Access Network of a second Public Land Mobile Network during an attempt of the mobile equipment to camp on the Radio Access Network of the second Public Land Mobile Network when a Radio Connection Request is carried out by the mobile equipment, wherein further information about an identity of the mobile equipment of an inbound roamer is transferred to the Radio Access Network of the second Public Land Mobile Network therewith without a need for a separate data transmission; and
wherein the identity information provided by the mobile equipment to the Radio Access Network of the second Public Land Mobile Network is configured to cause the Radio Access Network of the second Public Land Mobile Network to configure at least one service and/or feature of the second Public Land Mobile Network based on the obtained identity information of the first Public Land Mobile Network to which the mobile equipment is subscribed.

7. A telecommunication system comprising:
a Radio Access Network of a Public Land Mobile Network configured to:
receive a Radio Connection Request from a mobile equipment;
receive, from the mobile equipment, an identity information of a first Public Land Mobile Network to which the mobile equipment is subscribed during an attempt of the mobile equipment to camp on a Radio Access Network of a second Public Land Mobile Network when the Radio Connection Request is carried out by the mobile equipment, wherein further information about an identity of the mobile equipment of an inbound roamer is transferred to the Radio Access Network therewith without a need for a separate data transmission;
and
cause the Radio Access Network of the second Public Land Mobile Network to configure at least one service and/or feature of the second Public Land Mobile Network based on the received identity information of the first Public Land Mobile Network to which the mobile equipment is subscribed.

Assignees

• Vodafone Gmbh

Inventors

• Lu Yang
• Wild Peter
• Caldenhoven Juergen

Classifications

• H04W8/205 Primary

  Transfer to or from user equipment or user record carrier · CPC title

• H04W8/06 Primary

  Registration at serving network Location Register, VLR or user mobility server · CPC title

• H04W8/18

  Processing of user or subscriber data, e.g. subscribed services, user preferences or user profiles; Transfer of user or subscriber data · CPC title

• H04W48/18

  Selecting a network or a communication service · CPC title

• H04W8/10

  between location register and external networks · CPC title