Methods and apparatus for providing application-specific messaging over a global system for mobile wireless communication system

• US 20060099941A1
• Filed: 10/20/2005
• Published: 05/11/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 10/22/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Aeris Communications Inc.
• Original Assignee: Aeris Communications Inc.
• Inventors: Kim, Dae Seong, Hosain, Syed Zaeem
• Granted Patent: US 10,064,032 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/419
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/16 Communication-related supplementary services, e.g. call-transfer or call-hold
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/20 Services signaling; Auxiliary data signalling, i.e. transmitting data via a non-traffic channel

Abstract

Methods and apparatuses for transmitting application-specific data over a control channel of a GMS telecommunications system. In one embodiment of the invention the application-specific data is transmitted from an application device to a central monitoring station in the content field of a register_ss message. In one embodiment of the invention, application-specific data is transmitted from a central monitoring station to an application device in the calling party number field of a caller identification message.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

obtaining application-specific data; and

transmitting the application-specific data over a control channel of a Global System for Mobile (GSM) wireless communication system.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

obtaining application-specific data from an application device;

communicating the application-specific data to a mobile station of the GSM wireless communication system;

encoding the application-specific data within a supplementary services message;

transmitting the supplementary service message over a control channel of the GSM wireless communication system to a central monitoring station; and

decoding the supplementary services message to obtain the application-specific data.

3. The method of claim 2 wherein the supplementary services message is a call forwarding message selected from the group consisting of a call forwarding unconditional message, a call forwarding on mobile subscriber busy message, a call forwarding on no reply message, and a call forwarding on mobile subscriber unreachable.

4. The method of claim 3 wherein the call forwarding message is transmitted over a standalone dedicated control channel.

5. The method of claim 3 wherein the application-specific data is included in the forward-to-number of the call forwarding message.

6. The method of claim 2 wherein the application-specific data pertains to a telemetry application.

7. The method of claim 6 wherein the telemetry application is selected from the group consisting of security application, health monitoring application, vehicle tracking application and asset tracking application, and device monitoring and control application and equipment monitoring and control application.

8. The method of claim 2 further comprising:

transmitting the application-specific data from the central monitoring to an external system.

9. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

encoding the application-specific data as a calling party number of a provide roaming number request of the GSM wireless communication system; and

calling a mobile station communicatively coupled to an application device such that a mobile subscriber roaming number is provided for the mobile station, and the mobile station is paged using a page including the application-specific data encoded as the calling party number.

10. The method of claim 9 further comprising:

decoding the page to obtain the application-specific data.

11. The method of claim 9 wherein the application-specific data pertains to a telemetry application.

12. The method of claim 11 wherein the telemetry application is selected from the group consisting of security application, health monitoring application, vehicle tracking application and asset tracking application, and device monitoring and control application and equipment monitoring and control application.

13. The method of claim 10 further comprising:

transmitting the application-specific data from the mobile station to the application device.

14. A system comprising:

an application device having corresponding application-specific data associated therewith;

a mobile station of a GSM communications network coupled to the application device to receive the application-specific data and encode the application data as a supplemental services message for transmission over a control channel of the GSM communications system;

a mobile switching center of the GSM communications network communicatively coupled to the mobile stations for receiving the supplementary services message over the control channel and reformatting the supplementary services message to a desired transmission format; and

a central monitoring station coupled to the mobile switching center to receive the supplementary services message and decode the supplementary services messages to obtain the application-specific data.

15. The system of claim 14 wherein the supplementary services message is a call forwarding message selected from the group consisting of a call forwarding unconditional message, a call forwarding on mobile subscriber busy message, a call forwarding on no reply message, and a call forwarding on mobile subscriber unreachable.

16. The system of claim 15 wherein the call forwarding message is transmitted from the mobile station to the mobile switching center over a standalone dedicated control channel.

17. The system of claim 15 wherein the application-specific data is included in the forward-to-number of the call forwarding message.

18. The system of claim 14 wherein the application-specific data pertains to a telemetry application.

19. The system of claim 18 wherein the telemetry application is selected from the group consisting of security application, health monitoring application, vehicle tracking application and asset tracking application, and device monitoring and control application and equipment monitoring and control application.

20. The system of claim 14 further comprising:

a transmission means for transmitting the application-specific data from the central monitoring to an external system.

21. A system comprising:

a processing system for encoding application-specific data as a calling party number of a provide roaming number request of a GSM wireless communication system; and

a communication link to a mobile switching center of the GSM wireless communication system for calling a mobile station communicatively coupled to an application device such that a mobile subscriber roaming number is provided for the mobile station, and the mobile station is paged using a page including the application-specific data encoded as the calling party number.

22. The system of claim 21 wherein the mobile station includes a means for decoding the page to obtain the application-specific data.

23. The system of claim 22 wherein the application-specific data pertains to a telemetry application.

24. The system of claim 23 wherein the telemetry application is selected from the group consisting of security application, health monitoring application, vehicle tracking application and asset tracking application, and device monitoring and control application and equipment monitoring and control application.

26. The article of manufacture of claim 24 wherein the method further comprises:

obtaining application-specific data from an application device;

communicating the application-specific data to a mobile station of the GSM wireless communication system;

encoding the application-specific data within a supplementary services message;

transmitting the supplementary service message over a control channel of the GSM wireless communication system to a central monitoring station; and

decoding the supplementary services message to obtain the application-specific data.

27. The article of manufacture of claim 26 wherein the supplementary services message is a call forwarding message selected from the group consisting of a call forwarding unconditional message, a call forwarding on mobile subscriber busy message, a call forwarding on no reply message, and a call forwarding on mobile subscriber unreachable.

28. The article of manufacture of claim 27 wherein the call forwarding message is transmitted over a standalone dedicated control channel.

29. The article of manufacture of claim 27 wherein the application-specific data is included in the forward-to-number of the call forwarding message.

30. The article of manufacture of claim 26 wherein the application-specific data pertains to a telemetry application.

31. The article of manufacture of claim 30 wherein the telemetry application is selected from the group consisting of security application, health monitoring application, vehicle tracking application and asset tracking application, and device monitoring and control application and equipment monitoring and control application.

32. The article of manufacture of claim 26 wherein the method further comprises:

transmitting the application-specific data from the central monitoring to an external system.

25. An article of manufacture comprising:

a machine-accessible medium having associated data, wherein the data, when accessed, results in a machine performing operations comprising;

obtaining application-specific data; and

transmitting the application-specific data over a control channel of a Global System for Mobile (GSM) wireless communication system.

33. The article of manufacture of claim 25 wherein the method further comprises:

encoding the application-specific data as a calling party number of a provide roaming number request of the GSM wireless communication system; and

calling a mobile station communicatively coupled to an application device such that a mobile subscriber roaming number is provided for the mobile station, and the mobile station is paged using a page including the application-specific data encoded as the calling party number.

34. The article of manufacture of claim 33 wherein the method further comprises:

decoding the page to obtain the application-specific data.

35. The article of manufacture of claim 33 wherein the application-specific data pertains to a telemetry application.

36. The article of manufacture of claim 35 wherein the telemetry application is selected from the group consisting of security application, health monitoring application, vehicle tracking application and asset tracking application, and device monitoring and control application and equipment monitoring and control application.

37. The article of manufacture of claim 34 wherein the method further comprises:

transmitting the application-specific data from the mobile station to the application device.