Patent ID: 7840213

Claim:
A method for coping with mobile switching node failure, comprising: detecting that failure occurs on a first Mobile Switching Center by a Home Location Register; submitting, in response to the failure being detected, a request to the Home Location Register for obtaining location information of a called party by a requesting party of a terminating service, wherein the called party is registered on a first Mobile Switching Center, and selecting a second Mobile Switching Center for the requesting party and requesting for the location information from the second Mobile Switching Center by the Home Location Register; returning the location information to the Home Location Register by the second Mobile Switching Center; returning the location information to the requesting party of the terminating service by the Home Location Register, and performing subsequent service according to the location information by the requesting party of the terminating service; obtaining paging area information, and sending the paging area information to the second Mobile Switching Center by the Home Location Register; and paging the called party in an area according to the paging area information of the called party, by the second Mobile Switching Center, before the second Mobile Switching Center returns the location information to the Home Location Register.