Domain ID mapping for wireless device identifiers

• US 20050197101A1
• Filed: 02/25/2005
• Published: 09/08/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 02/26/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Qualcomm, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Qualcomm, Inc.
• Inventors: Gupta, Kirti
• Granted Patent: US 8,340,710 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/410
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2101/385 Uniform resource identifier for session initiation protocol [SIP URI]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/30 Managing network names, e.g. use of aliases or nicknames name-to-address mapping H04L61/45
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/301 Name conversion
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/4557 Directories for hybrid networks, e.g. including telephone numbers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1104 Session initiation protocol [SIP]

Abstract

A wireless telecommunication device and method of generating a domain ID from the wireless telecommunications network identifier of other communicating devices, such as a telephone number or mobile identification number (MIN), and creating a SIP URL to direct communications across a TCP/IP capable network. The wireless telecommunication device can generate more than one domain ID for same network identifier, and can include geographic information in the domain name to provide additional information about the other communicating device within the SIP URL address.

Claims

1. A wireless telecommunication device, comprising a computer platform having at least a memory and a communication interface, the device further selectively interfacing and sending and receiving data across a wireless telecommunication network through the communication interface, the device further receiving a first wireless device identifier in a first network protocol from a communicating wireless telecommunication device on the wireless telecommunication network, and the device further including a converter in the memory to generate a second wireless device identifier for communicating wireless telecommunications device in a second network protocol, the converter capable of making a plurality of second wireless device identifiers based upon the first wireless device identifier.

2. The wireless telecommunication device of claim 1, wherein the first network protocol is telephony protocol, and the first wireless device identifier is a telephone number.

3. The wireless telecommunication device of claim 1, wherein the first wireless device identifier is a mobile identification number (MIN).

4. The wireless telecommunication device of claim 1, wherein the second network protocol is TCP/IP, and the second wireless device identifier is a session initiation protocol universal resource locator (SIP URL).

5. The wireless telecommunication device of claim 1, wherein the second wireless device identifier includes information on the geographic location of the communicating wireless telecommunication device.

6. The wireless telecommunication device of claim 1, wherein the converter further generates a plurality of second wireless device identifiers for the communicating wireless telecommunication device based upon the first wireless device identifier.

7. The wireless telecommunication device of claim 1, wherein the converter is a look-up table to convert the first wireless device identifier into a second wireless device identifier.

8. The wireless telecommunication device of claim 3, wherein the converter maps the MIN to a domain ID under TCP/IP.

9. A wireless telecommunication means for sending and receiving data across a wireless telecommunication network, wireless telecommunication means further receiving a first identifier in a first network protocol for a communicating wireless telecommunication device on the wireless telecommunication network, the wireless telecommunication means comprising:

a memory means for storing data;

a communication means for selectively sending and receiving data across the wireless telecommunication network; and

a converter means for generating from the first identifier a second identifier for the communicating wireless telecommunication device in a second network protocol, the converter means further capable of making a plurality of second identifiers based upon the first identifier.

10. A method of generating a second network identifier of a second network protocol at a wireless telecommunication device having a first network identifier in a first network protocol for other wireless telecommunication devices on the wireless telecommunication network, comprising the steps of:

selectively interfacing a wireless telecommunication network from the wireless telecommunication device;

receiving a first network identifier from a communicating wireless telecommunication device; and

generating a second network identifier at the wireless telecommunication device in a second network protocol for the communicating wireless telecommunication device, the wireless telecommunication device capable of generating a plurality of second network identifiers based upon the first network identifier.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the second network protocol is TCP/IP, and the second wireless device identifier is a session initiation protocol universal resource locator (SIP URL), and the step of generating a second network identifier is generating a SIP URL.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the first network protocol is telephony protocol, and the first wireless device identifier is a telephone number, and the step of generating a second network identifier is appending a domain to the telephone number.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein the first wireless device identifier is a mobile identification number (MIN), and the step of generating a second network identifier is appending a domain to the MIN.

14. The method of claim 10, wherein the step of generating a second network identifier includes generating a second network identifier including information on the geographic location of the communicating wireless telecommunication device.

15. The method of claim 10, further comprising the step of generating a plurality of second network identifiers for the communicating wireless telecommunication device based upon the first wireless device identifier.

16. The method of claim 10, wherein the step of generating a second network identifier occurs from using a look-up table to convert the first network identifier into a second network identifier.

17. A method of generating a second network identifier of a second network protocol at a wireless telecommunication device receiving a first network identifier in a first network protocol from a communicating wireless telecommunication device, the wireless telecommunication device capable of generating a plurality of second network identifiers based upon the first network identifier, the method comprising the steps of:

a step for selectively interfacing a wireless telecommunication network from the wireless telecommunication device; and

a step for generating a second network identifier at the wireless telecommunication device in a second network protocol for the communicating wireless telecommunication device.

18. A computer program that when executed by a wireless telecommunication computer device, generates a second network identifier of a second network protocol from a first network identifier in a first network protocol for a communicating wireless telecommunication device, through causing the executing wireless telecommunication device to perform the steps of:

selectively interfacing a wireless telecommunication network from the wireless telecommunication device;

receiving a first network identifier from a communicating wireless telecommunication device; and

generating a second network identifier at the executing wireless telecommunication device in a second network protocol for the communicating wireless telecommunication device, the wireless telecommunication device capable of generating a plurality of second network identifiers based upon the first network identifier.

19. The computer program of claim 18, wherein the second network protocol is TCP/IP, and the second wireless device identifier is a session initiation protocol universal resource locator (SIP URL), and the program causes the step of generating a second network identifier to be generating a SIP URL.

20. The computer program of claim 19, wherein the first network protocol is telephony protocol, and the first wireless device identifier is a telephone number, and the program causes the step of generating a second network identifier to be appending a domain to the telephone number.

21. The computer program of claim 18, wherein the first wireless device identifier is a mobile identification number (MIN), and the program causes the step of generating a second network identifier to be appending a domain to the MIN.

22. The computer program of claim 18, wherein the program causes the step of generating a second network identifier to be generating a second network identifier including information on the geographic location of the communicating wireless telecommunication device.

23. The computer program of claim 18, wherein the program further causes the wireless telecommunication computer device to perform the step of generating a plurality of second network identifiers for the communicating wireless telecommunication device based upon the first wireless device identifier.

24. The computer program of claim 18, wherein the program causes the step of generating a second network identifier to be using a look-up table to convert the first network identifier into a second network identifier.