Patent ID: 7630354
Filing Date: 2009-12-08
Classification: H04W,Y02D

Abstract:
1. In a wireless access network having a Mobile Switching Center (MSC), a Base Station Controller (BSC), a Packet Control Function (PCF), and a Packet Data Service Node (PDSN) providing a packet-data session with a packet-data network, a method of optimizing the use of packet-resources by eliminating a hanging packet-data connection when an authentication failure is received for a Mobile Station (MS) after the packet-data connection is established between the MS and the PDSN, said method comprising the steps of: sending an indication of the authentication failure from the MSC to the BSC; sending from the BSC, an instruction to the PCF to release its connection with the BSC due to authentication failure; clearing by the PCF, its connection with the BSC, and initiating closure of its connection with the PDSN in response to the instruction from the BSC; and releasing the packet-data connection by the PDSN in response to the closure of the connection from the PCF.