System, method and device for providing communications using a distributed mobile architecture

• US 20060098661A1
• Filed: 11/08/2004
• Published: 05/11/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 11/08/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Lemko Corporation
• Original Assignee: Lemko Corporation
• Inventors: Pan, Shaowei
• Granted Patent: US 7,539,158 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/401
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/14 Backbone network devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/16 Gateway arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/18 Service support devices; Network management devices

Abstract

A communications system includes one or more distributed mobile architecture servers. Each distributed mobile architecture servers includes a compute readable medium. Moreover, a mobile switching center module and a base station controller module are embedded in the computer readable medium. Each distributed mobile architecture server is in direction physical connection with a wireless transceiver. Telephony traffic received from the wireless transceiver can be switched by one or more distributed mobile architecture servers. Also, the telephony traffic can be transmitted between the distributed mobile architecture servers via a peer-to-peer connection.

Claims

1. A communications system comprising:

one or more distributed mobile architecture servers, each of the one or more distributed mobile architecture servers comprising;

a compute readable medium;

a mobile switching center module embedded in the computer readable medium; and

a base station controller module embedded in the computer readable medium;

wherein;

each of the one or more distributed mobile architecture servers is in direct physical connection with a wireless transceiver; and

wherein telephony traffic received from the wireless transceiver is switched by at least one of the distributed mobile architecture servers.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the telephony traffic is transmitted between at least two of the plurality of distributed mobile architecture servers via a peer-to-peer connection.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein at least one of the plurality of the distributed mobile architecture servers controls at least one radio resource associated with the wireless transceiver coupled thereto.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein at least one of the distributed mobile architecture servers includes administrative information corresponding to one or more wireless telephone device subscribers stored on the computer readable medium.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the distributed mobile architecture server further comprises a gateway to a public switched telephone network.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the distributed mobile architecture server further comprises a media gateway.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the distributed mobile architecture server further comprises a packet data server node gateway.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the mobile switching center module further comprises a simple Internet phone gateway.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the mobile switching center module further comprises a signaling system seven (SS7) gateway.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the mobile switching center module further comprises an authentication, authorization, and accounting module.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the mobile switching center module further comprises a gatekeeper module coupled to the public switched telephone network gateway, the media gateway, the packet data server node gateway or Gateway GPRS Service Node, the Session Initiation Protocol gateway, and the authentication, authorization, and accounting module.

12. The system of claim 1, wherein the base station controller module comprises a cellular radio network controller.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the base station controller module further comprises a cellular selection/distribution unit.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the base station controller module comprises a call protocol controller.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the call protocol controller communicates with the transceiver.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the base station controller module comprises an operations, administration, maintenance, and provisioning module.

17. A method of wireless communication, comprising:

receiving a call from a first mobile communication device at a first wireless transceiver;

forwarding the call from the first wireless transceiver to a distributed management architecture server, wherein the distributed management architecture server includes a mobile switch center module and a base station controller module disposed within a single unit; and

routing the call via the distributed management architecture server to a second wireless transceiver, to communicate with respect to a second mobile communication device.

18. The method of claim 17, further comprising:

routing the call from the distributed management architecture server to a second distributed management architecture server via a peer-to-peer data network connection.

19. The method of claim 18, further comprising:

handing off the call to the second distributed management architecture server.

20. The method of claim 19, further comprising:

re-routing the telephone call from a first peer-to-peer data network connection to a second peer-to-peer data network connection.

21. A telephone network comprising:

a plurality of cellular coverage sites;

wherein each of the plurality of cellular coverage site comprises;

a transceiver; and

a distributed management architecture server in direct physical connection with the transceiver; and

wherein each distributed management architecture server comprises;

a housing;

a mobile switch center module within the housing; and

a base station controller module within the housing;

wherein each of the distributed management architecture servers within each of the plurality of cellular coverage sites are interconnected by an Internet protocol data network; and

wherein telephony traffic received by the transceivers is switched and routed by one or more of the distributed management architecture servers.

22. A distributed communication system comprising:

a first wireless communication site including a first transmission antenna, a first base station coupled to the first transmission antenna, and a first computer system including a first mobile switching system module and a first base station controller module disposed within a single unit;

a second wireless communication site including a second transmission antenna, a second base station coupled to the second transmission antenna, and a second computer system including a second mobile switching system module and a second base station controller module disposed within a single unit; and

an Internet protocol network coupled to the first computer system and the second computer system.

23. The distributed communication system of claim 22, wherein the first computer system and the second computer system each further comprise a gateway to a public switched telephone network.

24. The distributed communication system of claim 23, wherein the first computer system and the second computer system each further comprises a signaling system seven gateway (SS7).

26. A communications system comprising:

a distributed mobile architecture server including a mobile switching center module and a base station controller module disposed within the same housing; and

wherein the distributed mobile architecture server is coupled to a cellular system mobile switching center, a switching transfer point of a stand-alone carrier, and a public switched telephone network.

27. A communications system comprising:

a distributed mobile architecture server including a mobile switching center module and a base station controller module disposed within the same housing;

wherein the distributed mobile architecture server has a first interface coupled to a base transceiver station and a second interface coupled to a data network connection.

25. The distributed communication system of claim 30, wherein telephone traffic is automatically handed off between the first computer system and the second computer system.

28. The system of claim 27, wherein the first interface of the distributed mobile architecture server is coupled to a plurality of base transceiver stations.

29. The system of claim 28, wherein the distributed mobile architecture server includes handoff logic to provide call handoff between the plurality of base transceiver stations.

30. The system of claim 29, wherein the distributed mobile architecture server is coupled to a remote cellular mobile switch center via the data network connection.

31. The system of claim 30, wherein the remote cellular distributed mobile architecture server is coupled to a remote cellular base station controller.

32. The system of claim 31, wherein the remote cellular mobile switch center and the remote base station controller are coupled to a plurality of base transceiver stations.

33. The system of claim 27, wherein the data network connection provides a backhaul connection to a public switched telephone network.

34. The system of claim 27, wherein the data network connection is a wired data network connection.

35. The system of claim 34, wherein the wired data network connection is a T1 connection.

36. The system of claim 34, wherein the wired network connection is an E1 connection.

37. The system of claim 27, wherein the data network connection is a wireless local area network connection.

38. The system of claim 27, wherein the data network connection is a microwave connection.

39. The system of claim 37, wherein the wireless local area network connection is an IEEE 802.11 connection.

40. The system of claim 39, wherein the IEEE 801.11 connection is established via an IS-41 subset.

42. A communications system comprising:

a plurality of distributed mobile architecture servers, each distributed mobile architecture server comprising;

a housing

a mobile switching center module disposed within the housing; and

a base station controller module disposed within the housing;

wherein the plurality of distributed mobile architecture servers are interconnected via an Internet protocol data network; and

wherein at least one of the plurality of distributed mobile architecture servers is coupled to the public switched telephone network.

43. The system of claim 42, wherein the Internet protocol data network connection is a wireless local area network connection.

44. The system of claim 43, wherein the Internet protocol data network is a microwave connection.

45. A communications system comprising:

a distributed mobile architecture server having a mobile switching center module and a base station controller module disposed within the same housing;

wherein the distributed mobile architecture server is coupled to an enterprise local area network located within a structure and a public switched telephone network outside of the structure; and

wherein the enterprise local area network supports a plurality of phones within the structure and is coupled to an Internet protocol network external to the structure.

41. The system of claim 47, wherein the IEEE 801.11 connection is established via a MAP subset.

46. The system of claim 45, wherein the enterprise local area network is coupled to the Internet protocol network via a firewall within the structure.

47. The system of claim 46, wherein the enterprise local area network is coupled to a base transceiver station within the structure.

48. The system of claim 47, wherein the Internet protocol network is coupled to a cellular voice and data network and the cellular voice and data network is coupled to the public switched telephone network.

49. The system of claim 48, wherein at least one of the Internet protocol network and the cellular voice and data network is coupled to a signaling system seven (SS7) network.

50. The system of claim 49, wherein the enterprise local area network is coupled to a voice mail server.

51. The system of claim 50, wherein the enterprise local area network is coupled to at least one of a dynamic host configuration protocol server, a radius server, and a domain name server.

52. A communications system comprising:

a distributed mobile architecture server having a mobile switching center module and a base station controller module disposed within the same housing; and

wherein the distributed mobile architecture server is coupled to a base transceiver station and a first satellite transceiver.

53. The system of claim 52, wherein the first satellite transceiver is coupled to a second satellite transceiver via a satellite and wherein the second satellite transceiver comprises a data network connection.

54. The system of claim 53, wherein the data network connection is a T1 connection.

55. The system of claim 53, wherein the data network connection is an E1 connection.

56. A communications system comprising:

a distributed mobile architecture server having a mobile switching center module and a base station controller module disposed within the same housing; and

wherein the distributed mobile architecture server is coupled to a first satellite transceiver and a data network connection.

57. The system of claim 56, wherein the data network connection is a T1 connection.

58. The system of claim 56, wherein the data network connection is an E1 connection.

59. The system of claim 58, wherein the first satellite transceiver is coupled to a second satellite transceiver via a satellite connection and wherein the second satellite transceiver is coupled to a base transceiver station via an interworking unit.

60. The system of claim 59, wherein the first satellite transceiver is coupled to a third satellite transceiver and wherein the third satellite transceiver is coupled to a base transceiver station via an interworking unit.

61. A communications system comprising:

a distributed mobile architecture server having a mobile switching center module and a base station controller module disposed within the same housing;

wherein the distributed mobile architecture server includes a primary network connection and wherein the distributed mobile architecture server is coupled to a plurality of interworking units via a plurality of secondary network connections.

62. The system of claim 61, wherein the primary network connection is a T1 connection.

63. The system of claim 61, wherein the primary network connection is an E1 connection.

64. The system of claim 61, wherein each interworking unit is coupled to a base transceiver station.

65. The system of claim 64, wherein each base transceiver station is a 3-sector base transceiver station.

66. The system of claim 61, wherein each secondary network connection is a wireless local area connection.

67. The system of claim 66, wherein each wireless local area connection is a microwave connection.

68. The system of claim 61, wherein each secondary network connection is a wired connection.

69. The system of claim 68, wherein each wired connection is a category five cable.

70. A method of handing off calls in a wireless network, comprising:

monitoring the location of a mobile communication device at a distributed mobile architecture server, the distributed mobile architecture server including a mobile switching center module and a base station controller module within the same housing;

handing off a call made by the mobile communication device from a first base transceiver station coupled to the distributed mobile architecture server to a second base transceiver station coupled to the distributed mobile architecture server via a peer-to-peer connection.

71. The method of claim 70, further comprising:

handing off one or more calls from a first base transceiver station coupled to a first distributed mobile architecture server to a second base transceiver station coupled to a second distributed mobile architecture server.

72. A method of billing wireless telephone subscribers, comprising:

generating a call detail record for one or more subscribers at a distributed mobile architecture server, the distributed mobile architecture server including a mobile switching center module and a base station controller module disposed within the same housing; and

billing the one or more subscribers directly from the distributed mobile architecture server.

73. The method of claim 72, further comprising:

transmitting the call detail record for the one or more subscribers to a central location; and

billing the one or more subscribers from the central location.