Patent ID: 7596115

Claim:
An article comprising at least one processor-readable storage medium containing instructions that when executed cause a radio network controller in a packet-switched wireless communications network to: establish a radio connection over a wireless link with a mobile station, wherein one or more traffic channels are assigned to the mobile station in the radio connection; exchange messages over the one or more traffic channels in the radio connection to establish a packet-switched services session with the mobile station; prevent the radio connection from being closed by preventing sending of a configuration complete message from the radio network controller to the mobile station until messages for establishing the packet-switched services session have been exchanged between the radio network controller and the mobile station, wherein the messages for establishing the packet-switched services session include at least one hardware identifier message containing a hardware identifier of the mobile station, and at least one location update message to obtain a location update of the mobile station; and prevent a handoff from being performed until the messages including the at least one hardware identifier message and the at least one location update message for establishing the packet-switched services session have been exchanged between the radio network controller and the mobile station.