Patent ID: 9622212
Date: 2017-04-11
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04W

Claim:
1. A paging method, comprising: when a mobile switching center needs to page a user equipment according to service requirements and when the mobile switching center has lost subscriber data of the user equipment at present, the mobile switching center analyzing a user identification of the user equipment to determine whether the user equipment has a possibility of residing in a long term evolution network, when the mobile switching center determines that the user equipment has the possibility of residing in the long term evolution network according to the analysis of the user identification of the user equipment, finding out a plurality of mobility management entities which are overlapped with a coverage area of the mobile switching center itself, and sending a paging message for the user equipment to said plurality of mobility management entities found out; after receiving the paging message, a mobility management entity that has said subscriber data paging the user equipment and returning a location update request or a service request to the mobile switching center; and when receiving the location update request or the service request from the mobility management entity, the mobile switching center determining that the user equipment is under the mobility management entity that sends the location update request or the service request, and then performing subsequent service processing for the user equipment; further comprising: after receiving the location update request from the mobility management entity, the mobile switching center performing a paging processing with the mobility management entity sending the location update request, wherein, after receiving the location update request, the mobile switching center sends again the paging message for the user equipment to the mobility management entity sending the location update request after processing the location update request.