Patent ID: 6850760

Claim:
Method for a location update in a mobile communication system which includes a home location register (HL) and visitor location registers (VL), wherein the visitor location registers serve different parts of an area covered by the communication system and wherein the home location register holds a data record assigned to a user, the data record including parameters for establishment of connections with the user and an identification of the visitor location register presently serving the user, wherein parameters from the record can be copied from the home location register to the visitor location register serving the user, the method comprising the following steps: detecting that a user has entered the area served by a visitor location register, sending a location update message which indicates the identity of the visitor location register to the home location register, storing the identity of the visitor location register in the data record for the user in said home location register, receiving a request to establish a communication connection with the user, and sending said parameters from the data record in the home location register (HL) to the serving visitor location register in response to receiving said request for communication connection.