MUMBAI, India, June 30 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202441101449 A) filed by Nokia Technologies Oy on December 20, 2024, for Modular Non-Access Stratum (nas) Handover.
Inventors include Saurabh Khare; Devaki Chandramouli; Ranganathan Mavureddi Dhanasekaran; Shubhranshu Singh; and Martin Mcgrath.
The application for the patent was published on June 26, 2026, under issue no. 26/2026.
Abstract: ABSTRACT A method performed by a user equipment (UE) is provided. The method includes receiving a handover command to handover the UE from a source network function (NF) to a target NF. The UE includes non-access stratum (NAS) modules associated with respective NAS connections terminated at respective NFs, and the handover command includes a NAS container for a NAS module that is associated with a NAS connection terminated at the source NF. The method includes routing to the NAS module the NAS container that includes information for the NAS connection and information for a new NAS connection to be associated with the NAS module and terminated at the target NF. And the method includes creating, at the NAS module, a new NAS security context for the new NAS connection based on the information for the NAS connection and the information for the new NAS connection in the NAS container.
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