A method and apparatus for facilitating interaction between a home subscriber server (HSS) and a home location register (HLR) in a legacy network

摘要

A technique and system are provided to allow home subscriber servers (HSSs) to retrieve a subscriber's dynamic location/state information from a legacy home location register (HLR). For example, a mobile application part (MAP) operation ATI (AnyTimelnterrogation) messaging technique may be used by the home subscriber server (HSS) to query the legacy home location register (HLR) and obtain the requested location/state information.