Network resource prioritization for mobile termination services

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016105901-A1
Application number	US-201514872543-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Oct 1, 2015
Priority date	Oct 8, 2014
Publication date	Apr 14, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for enabling network resource prioritization of mobile terminating services of a user in a network, whereby the network comprises an evolved packet core network, an IP multimedia system network and at least one network element for aggregating information from messages transmitted in the network comprising the method steps receiving a request message via an interface of the network element, selecting a service information from the received request message, allocating a service type according to the selected service information, assigning a priority indicator for the allocated service type, converting the assigned priority indicator into a first identifier, creating a value by assembling the first identifier and a second identifier, and sending an answer message containing the created value via the interface.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A method for enabling network resource prioritization of mobile terminating services of a user in a network, whereby the network comprises an evolved packet core network, an IP multimedia system network and at least one network element for aggregating information from messages transmitted in the network comprising:
receiving a request message via an interface of the network element, selecting a service information from the received request message, allocating a service type according to the selected service information, assigning a priority indicator for the allocated service type, converting the assigned priority indicator into a first identifier, creating a value by assembling the first identifier and a second identifier, and sending an answer message containing the created value via the interface.

2 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein allocating of a service type according to the selected service information is performed by applying an allocation matrix.

3 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the value is created by assembling the first identifier and the second identifier into a sequence.

4 . The method according to claim 3 , wherein the first identifier is located as the most significant bits in the sequence.

5 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the value is an attribute-value pair (AVP).

6 . The method according to claim 5 , wherein the attribute-value pair is an Access-Network-Charging-Identifier AVP.

7 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the mobile terminating services are Voice over LTE (VoLTE) services and/or Rich Communication Services and/or other IMS Services.

8 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the network element is a Policy Charging Rules Function.

9 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the interface is an Rx or a Gx reference point.

10 . The method according claim 1 , wherein the priority indicator is assigned by allocating the service type and a user parameter, whereby the network element selects the user parameter from the subscriber profile repository (SPR).

11 . A method for network resource prioritization of mobile terminating services of a user in a network, whereby the network comprises an evolved packet core network, an IP multimedia system network and at least one network element for aggregating information from messages transmitted in the network, comprising:
transmitting a message containing a priority indicator from a first network element to a second network element; and initiating a prioritized paging for the mobile terminating service of the user based on the received priority indicator by the second network element.

12 . The method according to claim 11 , wherein the priority indicator is contained in an information element in the received message.

13 . The method according to claim 12 , whereby the information element is a paging priority information element or a private extension information element.

14 . The method according to claim 11 , wherein the received message is a data downlink notification message.

15 . The method according to claim 11 , wherein the network element is a MME.

16 . The method according to claim 11 , wherein said network element is enabled according to the method of claim 1 .

17 . A network element for network resource prioritization characterized by a logic module for network resource prioritization.

18 . The network element according to claim 17 , wherein the logic module comprises an allocation matrix for assigning a priority indicator.

19 . The network element according to claim 17 , whereby the network element is adapted to perform the method steps according to claim 1 performed by such a network element.

Assignees

• Vodafone Gmbh

Inventors

• Lu Yang
• Wild Peter
• Dawes Peter

Classifications

• H04W72/56 Primary

  based on priority criteria · CPC title

• H04L47/2433

  Allocation of priorities to traffic types · CPC title

• H04L65/80

  Responding to QoS · CPC title

• H04L47/24

  Traffic characterised by specific attributes, e.g. priority or QoS · CPC title

• H04L65/1069

  Session establishment or de-establishment · CPC title