Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Policy and charging control methods
- Patent Title (中): 政策和收费控制方法
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Application No.: US13754942Application Date: 2013-01-31
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Publication No.: US09036554B2Publication Date: 2015-05-19
- Inventor: Emiliano Merino Vazquez , Monica Alonso Sabrido , Yolanda Garcia Serrano , Angel Navas Cornejo , Gema Segura Cava
- Applicant: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
- Applicant Address: SE Stockholm
- Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
- Current Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
- Current Assignee Address: SE Stockholm
- Agency: Baker Botts, LLP
- Priority: EP12165315 20120424
- Main IPC: H04W48/18
- IPC: H04W48/18 ; H04L29/06 ; H04M15/00 ; H04L12/14

Abstract:
An IMS registration and session initiation is disclosed for a user equipment (UE). The UE has a subscription identifier comprising an IMSI and/or MSISDN. A PDN-GW establishes (s10) an IP-CAN session with a PCRF, for the UE, by transmitting, to the PCRF, the subscription identifier of the UE and an IP address assigned to the UE. The PCRF binds (s20) the subscription identifier to the IP address assigned to the UE for the IP-CAN session. Then, upon the UE initiating the IMS registration, a P-CSCF transfers (s30), to an S-CSCF, an IMPU. The S-CSCF obtains (s40), based on the IMPU, the subscription identifier of the UE from a user database. The S-CSCF transfers (s50) to the P-CSCF the obtained subscription identifier of the UE. The P-CSCF binds (s60) the subscription identifier of the UE to the IMPU. Then, upon the UE initiating an IMS session associated with the IMPU, the P-CSCF establishes (s70) an AF session towards the PCRF with the subscription identifier bound to the IMPU. The PCRF then identifies (s80) the correct IP-CAN session by matching the subscription identifier with the one of the IP-CAN session.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130279406A1 POLICY AND CHARGING CONTROL METHODS Public/Granted day:2013-10-24
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