Patent ID: 7299046
Filing Date: 2007-11-20
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. In a radio communication system having a network including a first part operable pursuant to a first operating protocol and a second part operable pursuant to a second operating protocol, and the radio communication system having a mobile node selectably operable pursuant to each of the first and second operating protocols, respectively, and the mobile node selectably operable in a dormant mode, an improvement of apparatus for facilitating efficient delivery of identifying indicia to a home agent associated with the mobile node, said apparatus comprising: a network-positioned detector for detecting a mobile-node generated message, the mobile-node generated message generated pursuant to a mobile-node selected one of the first operating protocol and the second operating protocol and the mobile-node generated message including an identifier, identifying the identifying indicia of the mobile node; and a network-positioned identifying indicia generator coupled to said network-positioned detector, said network-positioned identifying indicia generator, operable responsive to detection at the network-positioned detector of the mobile-node generated message, for effectuating the delivery of the identifying indicia to the home agent associated with the mobile node, the delivery of the identifying indicia effectuated by said network-positioned identifying indicia generator mode free of mobile node interaction, thereby permitting operation of the mobile node in the dormant mode during the delivery of the identifying indicia to the home agent, wherein the second part of the network operable pursuant to the second operating protocol comprises a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) and wherein the mobile-node-generated message that said network-positioned detector detects comprises an association request message, and wherein the Wireless Local Area Network further comprises a Paging Mobility Anchor Point (PMAP) and wherein said network-positioned identifying-indicia generator further effectuates the delivery of the identifying indicia to the Paging Mobility Anchor Point.