Patent ID: 9642178
Date: 2017-05-02
CPC Classifications: H04W

Claim:
1. A method of operating a cellular mobile network, the method comprising: allowing a user equipment to connect to the network, the user equipment having a subscription for using the network to send data intermittently and to disconnect temporarily from the network automatically between its data transmissions; communicating to or from the user equipment one or more parameters relating to the automated temporary disconnections from the network between data transmissions, wherein one or more of the parameters are cell-specific parameters, and wherein the communicating step comprises sending at least one of the one or more cell specific parameters to the user equipment dependent on which cell of the network the user equipment is in; receiving the data sent from the user equipment while the user equipment is connected to the network; detecting the automated temporary disconnections of the user equipment from the network, and automated reconnections to the network; and transmitting to the user equipment, parameters relating to one or more time windows during which data can be transmitted at a different tariff, wherein when the data to be sent from the user equipment can wait for a lower tariff time window, the user equipment is disconnected from the network until that time window.