Patent ID: 6526282
Filing Date: 2003-02-25
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
A method for controlling the restriction on traffic in a mobile communication system where, in mobile communications where a call originating terminal calls and connects with a destination mobile terminal through a switching network, the call originating terminal calls up and connects a speech channel to a gateway mobile switching center, the gateway mobile switching center requests a destination to be connected to the call to a management center managing the locations of mobile terminals, the management center investigates the destination mobile communication switching center from among a plurality of mobile communication switching centers and responds with the destination mobile communication switching center obtained by the investigation to the gateway mobile switching center, the gateway mobile switching center connects the speech channel to the responded destination mobile communication switching center, and the mobile communication switching center connects the radio channel to the destination mobile terminal via a radio base station, the method comprising:having the mobile communication switching center report a processing state of a congested state or a normal state to the management center in advance; having the management center manage the processing states of the mobile communication switching centers based on the reports of the processing states; having the management center investigate the processing state of a destination mobile communication switching center in response to a request, from the gateway mobile switching center, for the location of a destination to be connected to the call; and controlling such that, when the processing state is the congested state, the gateway mobile switching center does not connect a speech channel to the mobile communication switching center in the congested state.