Methods and devices for facilitating access terminal registrations

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8971885-B2
Application number	US-201213664255-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 30, 2012
Priority date	Nov 2, 2011
Publication date	Mar 3, 2015
Grant date	Mar 3, 2015

Abstract

Access terminals and network nodes are adapted to conduct access terminal registrations. In one example, an access terminal may obtain a data message for transmission, and registration information associated with the access terminal. The access terminal may send a message including the data message and the registration information. A network node can receive a message from an access terminal, where the received message includes a data message and access terminal registration information. The network node can register the access terminal with a network based on the access terminal registration information included in the received message. The network node can also process the data message included in the received message. Other aspects, embodiments, and features are also claimed and described.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An access terminal, comprising:
a communications interface; a storage medium; and
a processing circuit coupled to the communications interface and the storage medium, the processing circuit adapted to:
receive via the communications interface a transmission indicating that a network in which the access terminal is currently operating supports access terminal registration in combination with receipt of a data message;
skip one or more periodic registrati…

Assignees

• Qualcomm Inc

Inventors

• Patwardhan Ravindra Manohar
• Attar Rashid Ahmed Akbar
• Lott Christopher Gerard
• Ma Jun

Classifications

• H04W4/005

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04W60/02 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04W8/20

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04W4/70

  Electricity · mapped topic