Method for operating a preferably mobile telecommunication system

• US 20020037717A1
• Filed: 09/19/2001
• Published: 03/28/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 09/22/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Alcatel SA (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Alcatel SA (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: Laube, Manfred, Weiss, Manfred
• Application Number:
  US09/955,057
• Publication Number:
  US 20020037717A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/456.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/51 Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/06 Optimizing the usage of the radio link, e.g. header compression, information sizing , discarding information system modifying transmission characteristic according to link quality by modifying frame length H04L1/0007; dynamic adaptation of the packet size for flow control or congestion control H04L47/365
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 64/00 Locating users or terminals or network equipment for network management purposes, e.g. mobility management
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/12 WLAN [Wireless Local Area Networks]

Abstract

A telecommunication system is described, which has a public network to which at least one terminal is coupled via an connecting device. The location of the connecting device is stored in the connecting device. The location of the connecting device is entered manually or determined automatically

Claims

1. Method for operating a preferably mobile telecommunication system, in which at least one terminal is coupled via an connecting device to a public network, wherein in that the location of the connecting device is entered manually or determined automatically.

2. Method according to claim 1, wherein in that the location of the connecting device is determined with the aid of satellites, in particular with the aid of GPS satellites.

3. Method according to claim 1, wherein in that the location of the connecting device is determined with the aid of information which is broadcast by wireless public networks, in particular by GSM and UMTS networks.

4. Method according to claim 1, in which a fixed LAN is connected to the public network wherein in that only data associated with the location of the connecting device is transmitted from the LAN to the terminal.

5. Telecommunication system having a public network to which at least one terminal is coupled via an connecting device, wherein in that the location of the connecting device is stored in the connecting device.

6. Telecommunication system according to claim 5, wherein in that the connecting device is provided with means for automatically determining the location of the connecting device.

7. Telecommunication system according to claim 5, wherein in that the terminal and the connecting device are components of a preferably wireless LAN.

8. Telecommunication system according to claim 5, wherein in that the terminal and the connecting device are designed as an integrated device, for example as a personal computer or as a telephone.

9. Connecting device for a telecommunication system, using which a terminal can be coupled to a public network, wherein in that the location of the connecting device is stored in the connecting device.

10. Personal computer, in which an connecting device for a telecommunication system is integrated, using which the personal computer or the telephone, respectively, can be coupled to a public network, wherein in that the location of the personal computer is stored in the personal computer or in the connecting device.

11. Telephone, in which an connecting device for a telecommunication system is integrated, using which the telephone can be coupled to a public network, wherein the location of the telephone is stored in the telephone or in the connecting device.