Claims
- 1. A method of formatting communication in a telecommunication network having a control-plane entity and a user-plane entity and providing a general packet radio service (GPRS), the method comprising the step of representing in a user-plane entity at least a part of a GPRS mobility management context as a context in accordance with a media gateway control protocol.
- 2. A method of formatting communication in a telecommunication network having a control-plane entity and a user-plane entity and providing a general packet radio service (GPRS), the method comprising the step of representing in the user-plane entity at least a part of a GPRS packet data protocol (PDP) context going towards a GPRS user-plane peer as a termination in accordance with a media gateway control protocol.
- 3. The method of claim 2, wherein the GPRS PDP context contains information related to one communication session and is one of a primary GPRS PDP context and a secondary GPRS PDP context.
- 4. The method of claim 2, wherein the GPRS PDP context contains information related to a plurality of communication sessions and is one primary GPRS PDP context and zero or more secondary GPRS PDP contexts.
- 5. A method of formatting information in a telecommunication network having a control-plane entity and a user-plane entity and providing a general packet radio service (GPRS), the method comprising the step of representing in the user-plane entity two GPRS tunneling protocol (GTP) tunnels related to a single GPRS packet data protocol (PDP) context and going towards a common user-plane peer as a stream in accordance with a media gateway control protocol.
- 6. The method of claim 5, wherein the GPRS PDP context is one of a primary PDP context and a secondary PDP context.
- 7. The method of claim 5, wherein a GTP tunnel containing received packets is represented by a local descriptor in accordance with the media gateway control protocol.
- 8. The method of claim 5, wherein a GTP tunnel containing sent packets is represented by a remote descriptor in accordance with the media gateway control protocol.
BACKGROUND
[0001] This application claims priority to U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 60/217,705 that was filed on Jul. 12, 2000, and that is incorporated here by reference.
Provisional Applications (1)
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60217705 |
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