- Patent Title: User location when accessing a 3GPP network through a fixed network
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Application No.: US14438390Application Date: 2012-10-29
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Publication No.: US10015771B2Publication Date: 2018-07-03
- Inventor: Juha Antero Räsänen
- Applicant: NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS OY
- Applicant Address: FI Espoo
- Assignee: NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS OY
- Current Assignee: NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS OY
- Current Assignee Address: FI Espoo
- Agency: Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
- International Application: PCT/EP2012/071356 WO 20121029
- International Announcement: WO2014/067544 WO 20140508
- Main IPC: H04W64/00
- IPC: H04W64/00 ; H04L29/06 ; H04M7/12 ; H04L12/24 ; H04L12/14 ; H04W4/02

Abstract:
The present invention addresses apparatuses, methods and computer program product for providing user location in network interworking (a mobile device accessing a 3GPP network through a broadband fixed network, a.k.a. UMA, WLan femto-Cell). When the policy and charging rules function PCRF contacts broadband network policy function BPCF after the IP-CAN session establishment for setting up an S9a control session between BPCF and PCRF, the BPCF uses the tunnel information, i.e. the IP tunnel address received from PCRF, to retrieve the line identifier of the subscriber line corresponding to the IP tunnel address of the DSLAM end of the tunnel, i.e. the IP address allocated earlier by the fixed broadband access network to the fixed network user/UE, and sends the line identifier to PCRF. Then, the PCRF sends the line identifier, accompanied with relevant 3GPP user/UE identification, to P-CSCF and possibly to other network elements that may need the user location information, e.g. to PCEF/PGW/GGSN.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150296478A1 USER LOCATION WHEN ACCESSING A 3GPP NETWORK THROUGH A FIXED NETWORK Public/Granted day:2015-10-15
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