Method and apparatus for providing services in a private wireless network

• US 20030092441A1
• Filed: 11/15/2001
• Published: 05/15/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 11/15/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Motorola, Inc. (Motorola Solutions, Inc.)
• Inventors: OʼConnor, Erick, Taha, Mehmet, Saleh, Bilal, Mattimoe, Denis
• Granted Patent: US 6,697,621 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/433
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2224/16 of an individual bump connector
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/06 Registration at serving network Location Register, VLR or user mobility server
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/20 Transfer of user or subscriber data
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 2201/0367 Metallic bump or raised conductor not used as solder bump solder materials or compositions and methods of application thereof H05K3/3457
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 2201/09472 Recessed pad for surface mounting recess in pad H05K2201/09745; Recessed electrode of component
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 3/3426 characterised by the leads

Abstract

A visitor location register (140) of a private wireless network (130) is operable to interrogate multiple home location registers (126, 142). The VLR (140) may download one or more subscriber profiles from the multiple HLRs (126, 142) in order to support a variety of services to be offered to the subscriber within the private wireless network (130). The private wireless network (130) may be embedded within the public wireless network (100), and the VLR (140) may communicate with both a private network HLR (126) and a public network HLR (142).

Claims

1. In a wireless communication system having an embedded wireless communication system, an apparatus for providing services in the embedded wireless communication system, the apparatus comprising:

a visitor location register within the embedded wireless communication system;

an embedded home location register within a switching system of the embedded wireless communication system;

a home location register within a switching system of the wireless communication system; and

wherein the visitor location register is coupled to the home location register to receive a first network subscriber profile defining a first set of subscriber services and to the embedded home location register to receive a second network subscriber profile defining a second set of subscriber services different than the first set of subscriber services.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the visitor location register is operable to select one of the first set of subscriber services and the second set of subscriber services.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the visitor location register is operable to define a third set of subscriber services based on the first set of subscriber services and the second set of subscriber services.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first set of subscriber services is broader than the second set of subscriber services.

5. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first set of subscriber services is narrower than the second set of subscriber services.

6. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the embedded wireless communication system comprises a private wireless communication system.

7. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the wireless communication system comprises a public wireless communication system.

8. In a wireless communication system having an embedded wireless communication system, a method for providing services in the embedded wireless communication system, the method comprising the steps of:

receiving a first subscriber profile defining a first set of subscriber services from a home location register associated with the wireless communication network;

receiving a second subscriber profile defining a second set of subscriber services from a home location register associated with the embedded wireless communication system; and

providing service to a subscriber within the embedded wireless communication system based upon the first set of subscriber services and the second set of subscriber services.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the step of providing service to a subscriber within the embedded wireless communication system based upon the first set of subscriber services and the second set of subscriber services comprises selecting one of the first set of subscriber services and the second set of subscriber services.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the step of providing service to a subscriber within the embedded wireless communication system based upon the first set of subscriber services and the second set of subscriber services comprises combining the first set of subscriber services and the second set of subscriber services.

11. In a wireless communication system having an embedded wireless communication system, wherein the wireless communication system includes a home location register and wherein the embedded wireless communication system including a visitor location register and an embedded system home location register, a method for providing services in the embedded wireless communication system, the method comprising the steps of:

coupling the visitor location register to the home location register and the embedded system home location register;

receiving at the visitor location register from the home location register a first subscriber profile defining a first set of subscriber services from a home location register associated with the wireless communication network;

receiving at the visitor location register from the embedded system home location register a second subscriber profile defining a second set of subscriber services from a home location register associated with the embedded wireless communication system; and

providing service to a subscriber within the embedded wireless communication system based upon the first set of subscriber services and the second set of subscriber services.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the step of providing service to a subscriber within the embedded wireless communication system based upon the first set of subscriber services and the second set of subscriber services comprises selecting one of the first set of subscriber services and the second set of subscriber services.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein the step of providing service to a subscriber within the embedded wireless communication system based upon the first set of subscriber services and the second set of subscriber services comprises combining the first set of subscriber services and the second set of subscriber services.

14. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the first set of subscriber services is broader than the second set of subscriber services.

15. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the first set of subscriber services is narrower than the second set of subscriber services.

16. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the embedded wireless communication system comprises a private wireless communication system.

17. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the wireless communication system comprises a public wireless communication system.