Patent ID: 9712941
Date: 2017-07-18
CPC Classifications: H04W

Claim:
1. A method for providing an application service at a base station (BS) in a mobile communication system, the method comprising: receiving, by the BS, an application service request from a Mobile Station (MS); determining, by the BS, whether a requested application service corresponding to the application service request is executable in the MS using context information of the MS stored in the BS; creating, by the BS, a virtual terminal capable of executing the requested application service in the BS if the requested application service is not executable in the MS; receiving, by the BS, an application program execution file and data associated with the requested application service from an application server; executing, by the BS, the requested application service at the virtual terminal using the received application program execution file; transmitting, by the BS, data associated with the executed application service to the MS via the virtual terminal; and in response to identifying a decision for the MS to perform a handover to another BS, transmitting, by the BS, the context information to support the executed application service at the other BS after the handover.