Methods and apparatus for providing application-specific messaging over a global system for mobile wireless communication system

• US 10,064,032 B2
• Filed: 10/20/2005
• Issued: 08/28/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 10/22/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Aeris Communications Inc.
• Original Assignee: Aeris Communications Inc.
• Inventors: Kim, Dae Seong, Hosain, Syed Zaeem
• Primary Examiner(s): Figueroa, Marisol
• Application Number:
  US11/255,728
• Publication Number:
  US 20060099941A1
• Time in Patent Office: 4,695 Days
• Field of Search: 4554141, 455419, 455423, 455515, 4554561-457, 455466, 455445, 455417
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/16 Communication-related supplementary services, e.g. call-transfer or call-hold
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/20 Services signaling; Auxiliary data signalling, i.e. transmitting data via a non-traffic channel

Abstract

Methods and apparatuses for transmitting application-specific data over a control channel of a GMS telecommunications system. In one embodiment of the invention the application-specific data is transmitted from an application device to a central monitoring station in the content field of a register_ss message. In one embodiment of the invention, application-specific data is transmitted from a central monitoring station to an application device in the calling party number field of a caller identification message.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

obtaining application-specific data;

encoding the application-specific data as a calling party number of a “

provide roaming number request”

(PRNR) of a Global System for Mobile (GSM) wireless communication system;

transmitting the application-specific data over a control channel of the GSM wireless communication system; and

calling a mobile station communicatively coupled to an application device such that a mobile subscriber roaming number is provided for the mobile station, and the mobile station is paged using a page including the application-specific data encoded as the calling party number.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

decoding the page to obtain the application-specific data.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the application-specific data pertains to a telemetry application.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the telemetry application is selected from the group consisting of security application, health monitoring application, vehicle tracking application and asset tracking application, and device monitoring and control application and equipment monitoring and control application.

5. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

transmitting the application-specific data from the mobile station to the application device.

6. A system comprising:

a processing system for encoding application-specific data as a calling party number of a provide roaming number request of a Global System for Mobile (GSM) wireless communication system and

a communication link to a mobile switching center of the GSM wireless communication system for calling a mobile station communicatively coupled to an application device such that a mobile subscriber roaming number is provided for the mobile station, and the mobile station is paged using a page including the application-specific data encoded as the calling party number.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the mobile station includes a means for decoding the page to obtain the application-specific data.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the application-specific data pertains to a telemetry application.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the telemetry application is selected from the group consisting of security application, health monitoring application, vehicle tracking application and asset tracking application, and device monitoring and control application and equipment monitoring and control application.

10. An article of manufacture comprising:

a, non-transitory, computer-readable medium having instructions, wherein the instructions, when accessed, result in a processor performing operations comprising;

obtaining application-specific data;

encoding the application-specific data as a calling party number of a provide roaming number request of a Global System for Mobile (GSM) wireless communication system;

transmitting the application-specific data over a control channel of the GSM wireless communication system; and

calling a mobile station communicatively coupled to an application device such that a mobile subscriber roaming number is provided for the mobile station, and the mobile station is paged using a page including the application-specific data encoded as the calling party number.

11. The article of manufacture of claim 10, wherein the instructions further include instructions for:

decoding the page to obtain the application-specific data.

12. The article of manufacture of claim 10, wherein the application-specific data pertains to a telemetry application.

13. The article of manufacture of claim 12, wherein the telemetry application is selected from the group consisting of security application, health monitoring application, vehicle tracking application and asset tracking application, and device monitoring and control application and equipment monitoring and control application.

14. The article of manufacture of claim 11, wherein the instructions further include instructions for:

transmitting the application-specific data from the mobile station to the application device.