Patent ID: 7457272

Claim:
A method of managing a mobility profile of a mobile node using a local mobility agent for managing a local mobility domain that includes a plurality of subnets among which a plurality of mobile nodes move in a mobile communication environment, said method comprising: obtaining and recording local temporary addresses, connection link temporary addresses and binding update times of the respective plurality of mobile nodes in a cacheable memory of the local mobility agent; calculating stay times of the respective plurality of mobile nodes on a presently linked subnet using first information recorded in the cacheable memory and recording the stay times of the respective mobile nodes in a storage device of the local mobility agent; calculating a first average stay time of the respective plurality of mobile nodes on the presently linked subnet by accumulating the stay times recorded in the storage device and recording the calculated first average stay times in the storage device of the local mobility agent: and the local mobility agent managing the local mobility domain using second information recorded in the storage device, wherein a respective one of the stay times is calculated as a value obtained by subtracting a first binding update time first sent by the mobile node when the mobile node is linked to the presently linked subnet from a second binding update time first sent by the mobile node when the mobile node moves to another subnet, and if the mobile node does not perform the binding update on the presently linked subnet within a predetermined time limit, said respective one of the stay times is calculated as a value obtained by subtracting the first binding update time first sent by the mobile node when the mobile node is linked to the presently linked subnet from a third binding update time last sent by the mobile node on the presently linked subnet.