Patent ID: 9521586
Filing Date: 2016-12-13
CPC Classification: H04L,H04M,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A mobile communication system that provides a mobile communication function to a mobile communication terminal and includes a flow-control network and a node connected to the flow-control network, wherein the node comprises circuitry configured to assign, to a header part of a signal from the own node to another node, information indicating a mobile communication terminal of a destination or a transmission source of the signal accommodated in the other node; and transmit the signal in which the information indicating a mobile communication terminal is assigned to the header part to the flow-control network in order to transmit the signal to the other node, and the flow-control network comprises circuitry configured to store accommodation device information indicating a correspondence relationship between the mobile communication terminal and a device accommodating the mobile communication terminal among devices as the other node, the devices having a same function; receive the signal destined for the other node that is transmitted from the node; acquire the information indicating a mobile communication terminal of a destination or a transmission source of the signal from the header part of the signal received; identify a device of a transmission destination among the devices having the same function from the information acquired with reference to the accommodation device information stored; and transmit the signal received to the device of a transmission destination identified, wherein the devices having the same function include one of the devices which is replicated from another of the devices through virtual machine (VM) replication, the mobile communication system performs path control for the other node, and the accommodation device information is changed based on virtual machine replication.