Patent ID: 6591101
Filing Date: 2003-07-08
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
A subscriber data control method in a mobile communication network in which subscriber data of a mobile station is transferred from a home mobile switching center to a destination mobile switching center when the mobile station moves from a home service area controlled by the home mobile switching center to a destination services area controlled by the destination mobile switching center, and performs a location registration in the destination service area, said method comprising:registering said subscriber data, in said destination mobile switching center, transmitted from said home mobile switching center in response to a location registration request by said destination mobile switching center in accordance with the location registration performed by the mobile station; changing a state of said registered subscribed data from an active state representative of an operating state to an inactive state representative of a holding state in response to a subscriber data delete request, which is caused by a recognition of movement of the mobile station to another service area, by said home mobile switching center; searching said registered subscriber data periodically in a first period of time, and changing the state of said registered subscriber data of the mobile station, which does not perform a periodic location registration for specifying a paging area in said destination service area with a predetermined period of time, to the inactive state; and searching said registered subscriber data periodically in a second period of time, and deleting said registered subscriber data of the inactive state.