US 12,004,073 B2
Mobile communication system
Miho Maeda, Tokyo (JP); Mitsuru Mochizuki, Tokyo (JP); Taiga Saegusa, Tokyo (JP); Yasushi Iwane, Tokyo (JP); Yuji Kakehi, Tokyo (JP); Masayuki Nakazawa, Tokyo (JP); and Taisei Suemitsu, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Apr. 27, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/660,879.
Application 14/807,528 is a division of application No. 13/127,632, granted, now 9,713,068, issued on Jul. 18, 2017, previously published as PCT/JP2009/005622, filed on Oct. 26, 2009.
Application 17/660,879 is a continuation of application No. 15/828,018, filed on Nov. 30, 2017, granted, now 11,350,345.
Application 15/828,018 is a continuation of application No. 14/807,528, filed on Jul. 23, 2015, granted, now 9,877,268, issued on Jan. 23, 2018.
Claims priority of application No. 2008-283004 (JP), filed on Nov. 4, 2008; and application No. 2009-230545 (JP), filed on Oct. 2, 2009.
Prior Publication US 2022/0256442 A1, Aug. 11, 2022
Int. Cl. H04W 48/08 (2009.01); H04W 4/08 (2009.01); H04W 8/02 (2009.01); H04W 72/04 (2023.01)
CPC H04W 48/08 (2013.01) [H04W 4/08 (2013.01); H04W 8/02 (2013.01); H04W 72/04 (2013.01); Y02B 70/30 (2013.01); Y02D 30/70 (2020.08)] 5 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A communication method performed in a mobile communication system which comprises specific user equipments, base stations and a radio network controller managing an access made by the user equipments to the base stations and a tracking area for tracking location of the user equipments, the communication method comprising:
requesting an update of a tracking area from the user equipments to the radio network controller through the base stations manually selected by the user equipments;
checking in the radio network controller whether access made by the user equipments to the base stations is allowed;
rejecting an update of a tracking area from the radio network controller to the user equipments through the base stations in a case where access made by the user equipments to the base stations is not allowed; and
selecting base stations to be connected except for the base stations to which access made by the user equipments is not allowed in a case where the update of the tracking area is rejected.