Patent ID: 9433021
Filing Date: 2016-08-30
CPC Classification: H04W

Claim Text:
1. A mobile communications system, comprising: one or more communications terminals; and a mobile communications network, the mobile communications network includes a radio network part, a core network part, and a virtual mobility manager, the radio network part having a plurality of base stations arranged to transmit data to and receive data from the one or more communications terminals via a radio access interface, and the core network part having at least one packet data network gateway arranged to route data to and receive data from the base stations of the radio network part and a mobility manager arranged to track a location of the one or more communications terminals within the mobile communications network for routing data to or receiving data from the one or more communications terminals via the radio network part in accordance with context information which is stored for each of the one or more communications terminals, wherein the virtual mobility manager is configured to receive an indication from a communications terminal that the communications terminal is entering an offline state, the communications terminal being from among the one or more communications terminals, the mobility manager is configured to transmit, to the virtual mobility manager when the communications terminal has entered the offline state, the context information of the communications terminal with a first unique identifier associated with the communication terminal, and the virtual mobility manager is further configured to