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System and method for providing message delivery and paging to a group of users in a network environment

US10225698B2 · kind B2 · utility

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18Claims

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Assignee

Cisco Technology, Inc. · US

Inventors

Maulik Vaidya · Escondido, US
Nirav Salot · Pune, IN
James Paul Seymour · Buffalo Grove, US
Ravi Chamarty · Waltham, US
Vivek Jha · Bengaluru, IN
Sebastian Speicher · Wallisellen, CH
Sridhar Bhaskaran · Coimbatore, IN
Rahul Vaidya · Tecumseh, CA

Key dates

Filing date	Nov 6, 2014
Grant date	Mar 5, 2019
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Nov 6, 2034

Classification

Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
CPC primaryH04W28/18
WIPO fieldDigital communication
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

An example method is provided in one example embodiment and may include communicating a message for a group of one or more user equipment (UE) from a machine type communication-interworking function (MTC-IWF) to a packet data network gateway (PGW), wherein the message includes a group identity (ID) associated with the group of one or more UE; communicating the message from the PGW to one or more serving gateways (SGWs); and communicating the message from each of the one or more SGWs to each of the one or more UE of the group of the one via a tunnel for each of the one or more UE.

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