Method and apparatus for providing communication service

• US 20030169714A1
• Filed: 01/22/2003
• Published: 09/11/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 03/26/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Original Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Inventors: Nakajima, Takayuki
• Application Number:
  US10/333,766
• Publication Number:
  US 20030169714A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/338
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1403 Architecture for metering, charging or billing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/08 for authentication of entities cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication H04L9/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• 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 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2242/22 Automatic class or number identification arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/38 Graded-service arrangements, i.e. some subscribers prevented from establishing certain connections queuing arrangements H04Q3/64
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42059 Making use of the calling party identifier
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4126 The peripheral being portable, e.g. PDAs or mobile phones
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6131 involving transmission via a mobile phone network wireless downlink channel access H04W74/006
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/163 by receiver means only
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/06 Authentication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/72 Subscriber identity
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/00 Supervisory, monitoring or testing arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/26 Network addressing or numbering for mobility support
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 80/00 Wireless network protocols or protocol adaptations to wireless operation
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/06 adapted for operation in multiple networks or having at least two operational modes, e.g. multi-mode terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/16 Gateway arrangements

Abstract

Service terminal 101 sends an ID or an IP address particular to the service terminal to mobile terminal 105. Mobile terminal 105 notifies the ID or the IP address, and a telephone number/a serial number of the service terminal to subscriber system 103. Subscriber system 103 performs authentication in response to the notification, and when the authentication is recognized, it notifies service gateway 102 of the use of IP address notified by mobile terminal 105. Service gateway 102 interconnects service terminal 101 and Internet 104. Subscriber system 103 monitors the interconnection between mobile terminal 105 and the Internet 104 to charge service fee.

Claims

1. A communication service providing method comprising:

a forwarding step in which a mobile terminal capable of conducting a mobile communication via a first communication network forwards a service request including a service delivery point identification specifying a service delivery point through which a service using a second communication network is provided, and identification information of the mobile terminal, to a subscriber system of the first communication line;

an authentication step in which the subscriber system performs a user authentication for the mobile terminal on the basis of the identification information of the mobile terminal included in the service request; and

a service providing step for performing a process for providing a service using said second communication network to the service delivery point specified by the service delivery point identification, when authenticity of a user of the mobile terminal is recognized at the authentication step.

2. A communication service providing method according to claim 1 further comprising a receiving step, wherein said mobile terminal receives identification information particular to a service terminal that is able to get a service using the second communication network from the service terminal as the service delivery point identification.

3. A communication service providing method according to claim 2, wherein said service providing step comprises:

a service permission notifying step, wherein said subscriber system sends a service permission notification containing the service delivery point identification included in the service request to a service gateway interconnecting the service terminal and the second communication network; and

a connecting step, wherein said service gateway connects the service terminal specified by the service delivery point identification included in the service permission notification to said second communication network.

4. A communication service providing method according to claim 3, wherein said service delivery point identification includes an IP address issued by said service gateway.

5. A communication service providing method according to claim 1, wherein the identification information of said mobile terminal contains at least one of a telephone number or a serial number of the mobile terminal.

6. A communication service providing method according to claim 1, wherein said subscriber system, by using the second communication network, monitors a service providing condition of the service delivery point specified by the service delivery point identification information;

and charges the user of said mobile terminal on the basis of the monitoring.

7. A communication system comprising a first communication network with a subscriber system, a second communication network, a service gateway connected to said second communication network, and a mobile terminal capable of conducting communication via said first communication network,

said mobile terminal comprising a communication unit for transmitting a service request including service delivery point identification information, specifying a service delivery point through which a service using the second communication network is provided, and identification information of the mobile terminal to the subscriber system;

said subscriber system comprising an authentication unit which performs a user authentication for said mobile terminal on the basis of the identification information of said mobile terminal included in the service request, and transmits a service permission notification containing the service delivery point identification information included in said service request when an authority of a user of said mobile terminal is recognized; and

said service gateway comprising a communication line connecting unit interconnecting the service delivery point specified by the service delivery point identification information contained in said service permission notification to the second communication network.

8. A communication system according to claim 7, wherein said communication system further comprises a service terminal, and the communication unit of said mobile terminal comprises a receiving means for receiving identification of said service terminal as said service delivery point identification.

9. A communication system according to claim 8, wherein said identification information received by said receiving means includes an IP address issued by said service gateway for said service terminal.

10. A communication system according to claim 7, wherein said identification information of said mobile terminal includes at least one of a telephone number or a serial number of the mobile terminal.

11. A communication system according to claim 7, wherein said subscriber system further comprises:

a monitoring unit for monitoring a connection between said second communication network and said service terminal; and

a charging unit for charging a user of said mobile terminal on the basis of the monitoring result of said monitoring unit.

12. A subscriber system, comprising:

a communication unit for receiving a service request including identification information of a mobile terminal, which is capable of performing a mobile communication using a first communication network, and service delivery point identification information specifying a service delivery point through which a service using a second communication network is provided; and

an authentication unit performing a user authentication for the mobile terminal on the basis of the identification information of the mobile terminal included in the service request, and permits the provision of a service using the second communication network to a service delivery point specified by the service delivery point identification information.

13. A subscriber system according to claim 12, further comprising:

a monitoring unit that monitors a service providing condition, using the second communication network, of the service delivery point specified by the service delivery point identification information; and

a charging unit charges a user of the mobile terminal.