Patent ID: 8879406

Claim:
A method for controlling user equipment activity in a wireless communications network, the wireless communications network having operator controllable access points and operator uncontrollable access points that are in communication with a network control node via one or more operator controllable and/or operator uncontrollable Internet Protocol (IP) networks, the method comprising the steps of: receiving a trace triggering request and user equipment identification at the network control node from a first network node; starting, at the network control node, a trace recording and information retrieval procedure relating to the identified user equipment; identifying, at the network control node, all used IP networks and the access point serving the user equipment; analyzing the IP networks used between the network control node and the user equipment and analyzing the access point serving the user equipment; and including analyzing results in a trace printout together with retrieved information to be sent to a second network node, wherein the analyzing further comprises at least one of the steps of: activating and monitoring a trace route function, measuring delays in an IP Network, sending and monitoring one or more Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) echo requests, or pings, sending User Datagram Protocol (UDP) based error reporting messages, performing access point status check, retrieving statistics and other information relating to at least one of: IP Addresses, loss probability, loss rate, delays and delay variations, requesting event log information relating to identified access point, and requesting a security gateway, or a functional entity to analyze one or more IP networks between the security gateway and the access point.