Patent ID: 7460862

Claim:
A network comprising: a plurality of user equipment; a radio access network; a core network comprising a plurality of core network elements; and a plurality of user equipment groups, a user equipment version presenting a radio access network functionality set of the user equipment in the group, wherein at least one user equipment is configured to spontaneously integrate an identifier that indicates its user equipment version within a defined non-access stratum signaling message transparently transmitted over the radio access network from the at least one user equipment to the at least one core network element, and at least one of the core network elements is configured to receive the transparently transmitted non-access stratum signaling message and to extract the identifier that indicates a user equipment version from said non-access stratum signaling message, and the at least one of the core network element is configured to map the received identifier to at least one user equipment specific behavior information element, and to send the at least one user equipment specific behavior information to a radio access network element.