US 11,889,328 B2
Audit process for the monitoring of events
Emiliano Merino Vazquez, Madrid (ES); Jesus Angel De Gregorio Rodriguez, Madrid (ES); Raquel Izquierdo Martin, Madrid (ES); Carlos Daniel Sanchez-Biezma Sanchez, Madrid (ES); and Beatriz Maroto Gil, Madrid (ES)
Assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL), Stockholm (SE)
Appl. No. 17/274,501
Filed by Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ), Stockholm (SE)
PCT Filed Oct. 15, 2018, PCT No. PCT/EP2018/078072
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Mar. 9, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/052790, PCT Pub. Date Mar. 19, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 18382661 (EP), filed on Sep. 14, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0385672 A1, Dec. 9, 2021
Int. Cl. H04W 24/04 (2009.01); H04W 68/00 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 24/04 (2013.01) [H04W 68/005 (2013.01)] 28 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for operating a tracking entity configured to track to which access and connectivity management entity a mobile device is connected in a mobile communications network, wherein an application server is initiating a monitoring of an event occurring at the mobile device, the method performed by the tracking entity comprising:
receiving a request to monitor the event at the mobile device, the request comprising an indication for an audit for the monitoring of the event by which a validity of the monitoring of the event should be checked when the event has not been detected for an indicated period of time,
transmitting the received request for the event with the indication for the audit and the indicated period of time to the access and connectivity management entity to which the mobile device is connected,
receiving a notification from the access and connectivity management entity that the event has not been detected for the indicated period of time, and
determining, in response to the received notification, based on information available in the tracking entity whether the monitoring of the event should be continued or not.