Fast method of initializing a call for an application of PTT type on an IP-WAN cellular network

• US 10,244,009 B2
• Filed: 11/05/2013
• Issued: 03/26/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 11/05/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Airbus DS GMBH
• Original Assignee: Airbus DS GMBH
• Inventors: Pison, Laurent, Paterour, Olivier
• Primary Examiner(s): Sefcheck, Gregory B
• Assistant Examiner(s): Esmaeilian, Majid
• Application Number:
  US14/440,785
• Publication Number:
  US 20160044064A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,967 Days
• Field of Search: 370312
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1069 Session establishment or de-establishment
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1073 Registration or de-registration
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1104 Session initiation protocol [SIP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/06 Authentication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/10 Push-to-Talk [PTT] or Push-On-Call services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/042 Public Land Mobile systems, e.g. cellular systems

Abstract

A method for initializing a call for a mobile terminal including PTT applications on an IP-WAN cellular network, the method including, for each user of the mobile terminal connected to an IP-WAN modem intended to register for a group call: upon starting up the IP-WAN modem, connecting the mobile terminal to the IP-WAN cellular network; when a PTT client is active and has obtained an IP address of a PTT server, initiating by the PTT client a procedure for registering a SIP with the PTT server on a default IP-WAN carrier; performing by the PTT client a procedure for affiliation to a call group with the PTT server on the default IP-WAN carrier, and as soon as the procedure for affiliation to the call group is performed, executing an “INVITE” (SIP) procedure to RTP resources at an application level on a PTT side and on the PTT client side, to allow the establishment of the RTP session after the affiliation of the PTT client to the group.

Claims

1. A method for initialising a call for a mobile terminal comprising applications of the push-to-talk (PTT) type for a PTT communication with a PTT server on an IP-WAN cellular network, said mobile terminal having both a PTT client and an IP-WAN modem that form a PTT over cellular (PoC) mobile terminal, said method comprising, for each user of said PoC mobile terminal connected to the IP-WAN modem intended to register for a group call:

a step, which is triggered on starting up the IP-WAN modem, during which is performed a procedure for connecting to the IP-WAN cellular network;

a step in which, when the PTT client is active, and when the PTT client has obtained an IP address of the PTT server, the PTT client instigates a procedure for registering a session initiation protocol (SIP) with the PTT server on a default IP-WAN carrier;

a step in which, the PTT client proceeds to a procedure for affiliation to a call group with the PTT server on the default IP-WAN carrier;

a step in which, as soon as the procedure for affiliation to the call group is performed, an “

INVITE”

SIP procedure is executed to reserve RTP resources at an application level on a PTT server side and on the PTT client side, in such a way as to allow the establishment of the RTP session immediately after the procedure of affiliation of the PTT client to the group, wherein in order to perform the “

INVITE”

SIP procedure, the PTT client sends a “

SIP INVITE”

invitation message to the PTT server to request the initialisation of the RTP session for voice media, and wherein the RTP session is established immediately after the procedure of affiliation of the PTT client to the group without initializing a dedicated carrier on the IP-WAN cellular network to support the voice media for the PTT communication with said group, and

a step in which, after the RTP session has been established immediately after the procedure of affiliation of the PTT client to the group without initializing a dedicated carrier to support the voice media for the PTT communication with said group, the PTT client initiates a PTT request to the PTT server for establishing the PTT communication with said group over the IP-WAN cellular network, said step of initiating, by the PTT client, the PTT request to the PTT server being carried out without performing another “

INVITE”

SIP procedure and including a step of initializing the dedicated carrier on the IP-WAN cellular network.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the step, during which is performed a procedure for connecting to the IP-WAN cellular network, comprises an authentication phase, allowing the IP-WAN modem to be recorded in the IP-WAN network.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the procedure for connection to the IP-WAN network, provided for in the step during which is performed a procedure for connecting to the IP-WAN cellular network, allows the modem to be accessed by means of IP addresses allocated and associated with a default carrier, with a QCI defined in the HSS.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein in a step, before sending a SIP inscription to the PTT server, the PTT client obtains the IP address of the PTT from a DNS server.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein in a step, before sending a SIP inscription to the PTT server, the PTT client obtains the IP address of the PTT using a manual configuration.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein in a step, once the RTP session and the RTP port are allocated at the PTT server, a message indicating that the SIP protocol 200 is active “

SIP 200 OK”

is sent to the PTT client by including the IP address and the port of the PTT for the RTP session.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein in a step, a heartbeat message is exchanged between the PTT server and the PTT client in order to keep the connection active at the RRC IP-WAN radio level, in order to keep the RTP application sessions active and to perform supervision between the PTT client and the server.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein the RTP session remains active between the PTT server and the client until the deregistration of the PTT client, or the destruction of the group.

9. The method according to claim 1, wherein at a step, if no activity is detected over a period which can be configured, then, the PTT server releases the resources of the LTE network, but not the resources of the application RTP session, which remains active, causing by this, that at the next PTT query delivered to the PTT server, the step is reiterated.

10. The method according to claim 9, wherein the period is 30 seconds.

11. The method according to claim 1, wherein the RTP session remains active between two PTT requests regardless of the time elapsed between the two PTT requests.

12. A method for initialising a call for a mobile terminal comprising push to talk or press to transmit, or both, (PTT) applications for a PTT communication with a PTT server on an IP wide area network (IP-WAN) cellular network, said mobile terminal having both a PTT client and an IP-WAN modem that form a PTT over cellular (PoC) mobile terminal, said method comprising, for each user of said PoC mobile terminal connected to an IP-WAN modem intended to register for a group call:

upon starting up the IP-WAN modem, connecting the PoC mobile terminal to the IP-WAN cellular network;

when the PTT client is active and has obtained an IP address of the PTT server, initiating by the PTT client a procedure for registering a session initiation protocol (SIP) with the PTT server on a default IP-WAN carrier;

performing by the PTT client a procedure for affiliation to a call group with the PTT server on the default IP-WAN carrier;

as soon as the procedure for affiliation to the call group is performed, executing an “

INVITE”

session initiation protocol (SIP) procedure to reserve real time protocol (RTP) resources at an application level on a PTT server side and on the PTT client side, in such a way as to allow the establishment of the RTP session immediately after the procedure of affiliation of the PTT client to the group, wherein executing the “

INVITE”

SIP procedure includes sending by, the PTT client a “

SIP INVITE”

invitation message to the PTT server to request the initialisation of the RTP session for voice media, and wherein the RTP session is established immediately after the procedure of affiliation of the PTT client to the group without initializing a dedicated carrier on the IP-WAN cellular network to support the voice media for the PTT communication with said group, and

after the RTP session has been established immediately after the procedure of affiliation of the PTT client to the group without initializing a dedicated carrier to support the voice media for the PTT communication with said group, initiating by the PTT client a PTT request to the PTT server for establishing the PTT communication with said group over the IP-WAN cellular network, said initiating being carried out without performing another “

INVITE”

SIP procedure and including a step of initializing the dedicated carrier on the IP-WAN cellular network.

13. The method according to claim 12, wherein the RTP session remains active between two PTT requests regardless of the time elapsed between the two PTT requests.