Patent ID: 8730906
Filing Date: 2014-05-20
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. An apparatus comprising at least one processor and at least one memory including a computer program, the at least one memory and the computer program configured to, with the at least one processor, direct the apparatus at least to: identify a mobile station (MS) as a general packet radio service (GPRS) tunneling protocol endpoint; cause transmission of a radio access bearer to a universal generic access network controller to prevent activation of a path management procedure to the MS general packet radio service tunneling protocol endpoint; and cause transmission of a packet data protocol (PDP) context activation to a gateway GPRS support node (GGSN), the PDP context activation including a universal generic access network indication to notify the GGSN to prevent activation of the path management procedure to the MS general packet radio service tunneling protocol endpoint, wherein the activation of the path management procedure is prevented for an entire PDP context activation session; wherein the path management procedure comprises one of echo request messages, echo response messages, and version not supported messages.