Patent ID: 8914049
Filing Date: 2014-12-16
Classification: H04L,H04M,H04W,Y02D

Abstract:
1. A method for managing a status of a mobile station in a wireless network, the method comprising: receiving, at a network serving element, a notice message from an accounting network element, the notice message indicating a state change of the mobile station, the notice message not being received in response to a query for the status of the mobile station; and updating, at the network serving element, a signaling timer stored at the network serving element, when the state change indicated in the notice message received from the accounting network element indicates that the status of the mobile station has changed, the signaling timer indicating a period during which the network serving element expects to receive a response from the mobile station to a subsequent paging request and the updating including decreasing the signaling timer stored at the network serving element when the status of the mobile station, as indicated in the notice message received from the accounting network element, is from an idle state to an active state.