User controlled home location register

• US 20030100302A1
• Filed: 11/29/2001
• Published: 05/29/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 11/29/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Motorola, Inc. (Motorola Solutions, Inc.)
• Inventors: Armbruster, Peter J., Schaefer, Bradley R., Magee, Stephen D.
• Granted Patent: US 7,149,516 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/433
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/02 Arrangements for optimising operational condition
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/04 Registration at HLR or HSS [Home Subscriber Server]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/18 Processing of user or subscriber data, e.g. subscribed services, user preferences or user profiles; Transfer of user or subscriber data

Abstract

A personal home location register (HLR) (10-20) is modifiable directly by a user. The personal HLR then communicates with a telecommunications service provider (30) to directly affect changes in the personal HLR. The network HLR (70) of the telecommunications service provider simply points to the personal HLR of the user.

Claims

1. A distributed home location register (HLR) comprising:

a personal home location register (HLR), not located with a telecommunication services provider;

an interface to the personal home location register for a user to select services; and

a link to an operations support system of the telecommunication services provider for obtaining services.

2. The distributed HLR as claimed in claim 1, wherein there is further included:

a network home location register (HLR) coupled to the operations support system of the telecommunications service provider.

3. The distributed HLR as claimed in claim 2, wherein there is further included a plurality of users, each user of the plurality of users having an individual HLR within the network HLR indicating said services which are available to each user.

4. The distributed HLR as claimed in claim 3, wherein the individual HLR for a particular user includes a pointer to the personal HLR.

5. The distributed HLR as claimed in claim 1, wherein there is further included a database for storing roaming information, said first database coupled to said operations support system.

6. The distributed HLR as claimed in claim 1, wherein there is included a database for subscription information, said database coupled to said operations support system.

7. The distributed HLR as claimed in claim 1, wherein there is further included other networks coupled to said operations support system, said other networks supplying service level agreement information.

8. The distributed HLR as claimed in claim 1, wherein said personal home location register includes a computing device.

9. The distributed HLR as claimed in claim 1, wherein said link includes an internet connection of said personal home location register to said operations support system.

10. The distributed HLR as claimed in claim 1, wherein said link includes a wireless connection between said personal home location register and said operations support system.

11. The distributed HLR as claimed in claim 1, wherein said link includes a wire line connection between said personal home location register and said operations support system.

12. The distributed HLR as claimed in claim 1, wherein said interface includes a graphical user interface (GUI).

13. An arrangement for distributing a home location register (HLR) from a telecommunications service provider, said arrangement comprising:

processor means including the home location register, said processor means operating independent of the telecommunication service provider, and said processor means coupled to said telecommunications service provider for communication; and

database means for storing subscriber information for a plurality of subscribers, said database means coupled to said telecommunication service provider, said telecommunication service provider operating in response to a request from said processor means to obtain said subscriber information for a particular subscriber.

14. The arrangement as claimed in claim 13, wherein there is further included link means for coupling said processor means to said telecommunications service provider.

15. The arrangement as claimed in claim 14 wherein said link means includes an internet connection.

16. The arrangement as claimed in claim 14 wherein said link means includes a wireless connection.

17. The arrangement as claimed in claim 14 wherein said link means includes a wire line connection.

18. The arrangement as claimed in claim 13, wherein:

said database means includes a database for storing telephone subscription information; and

said particular subscriber inputs a change to the HLR to modify the telephone subscription information of the first database.

19. The arrangement as claimed in claim 13 wherein:

said database means includes a database for storing roaming information; and

said particular subscriber inputs change to the HLR to modify the roaming information within the distributed HLR.

20. The arrangement as claimed in claim 13 wherein the telecommunications service provider includes a network HLR for pointing to the HLR of the processor means.

21. An arrangement for a distributed home location register (HLR) comprising:

a personal home location register (HLR) located within a processor means of a particular user; and

a telecommunications service provider including a network home location register (HLR), said telecommunications service provider coupled to said processor means, said network HLR pointing to said personal HLR.

22. The arrangement as claimed in claim 21, wherein the user affects changes to the personal HLR via communication between the processor means and the telecommunications service provider.

23. The arrangement as claimed in claim 21, wherein the telecommunications service provider includes a traditional network HLR for other users.

24. The arrangement as claimed in claim 23, wherein:

the particular user is charged a first rate for the personal HLR; and

the other users are charged a second rate for the traditional network HLR.