Method for providing harmonized public security and safety services and corresponding service platform

• US 20060209747A1
• Filed: 02/16/2006
• Published: 09/21/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 02/18/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: WSOU Investments, LLC (WSOU Holdings, LLC)
• Original Assignee: Alcatel SA (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: Smago, Carsten, Domschitz, Peter, Tomsu, Marco, Kopp, Dieter, Stocker, Klaus
• Granted Patent: US 7,631,077 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/328
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/90 Services for handling of emergency or hazardous situations, e.g. earthquake and tsunami warning systems [ETWS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/50 for emergency connections
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/18 Service support devices; Network management devices

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method for providing harmonized public security and safety services to a plurality of public security and safety control centers, said public security and safety control centers being adapted to control terminals over at least one access communication network. According to the present invention, the method comprises the steps of: Providing access to said plurality of public security and safety control centers to a service platform, said service platform comprising an application server layer and a communication layer; Interfacing communication layer of said service platform with said at least one access communication network over at least one gateway; Upon service request of one of said public security and safety control centers, executing a corresponding application on said application server layer of said service platform; said application generating at least one command to be executed in at least one of said access communication networks; Forwarding said at least one command over said communication layer to the appropriate gateway and executing said command in said access communication network.

Claims

1. / Method for providing harmonized public security and safety services to a plurality of public security and safety control centers, said public security and safety control centers being adapted to control terminals over at least one access communication network, said method comprising the steps of:

Providing access to said plurality of public security and safety control centers to a service platform, said service platform comprising an application server layer and a communication layer;

Interfacing communication layer of said service platform with said at least one access communication network over at least one gateway;

Upon service request of one of said public security and safety control centers, executing a corresponding application on said application server layer of said service platform;

said application generating at least one command to be executed in at least one of said access communication networks;

Forwarding said at least one command over said communication layer to the appropriate gateway and executing said command in said access communication network.

2. / Method according to claim 1, further comprising the steps of:

Providing access to said terminals to said service platform after authentication procedures;

Upon service request of one terminal, executing a corresponding application on said application server layer, said application generating at least one command to be executed in an access communication network;

Forwarding said at least one command over said communication layer to the appropriate gateway and executing said command in said access communication network.

3. / Method according to claim 1, further comprising the step of forwarding a feedback from said application server layer to said public security and safety control center tracking the execution of said command in said access communication network.

4. / Method according to claim 1, wherein said application server layer comprises at least one of following applications:

contact center application, workflow management application, workforce management application, user profile administration application, database access application, encryption.

5. / Method according to claim 1, wherein said communication layer comprises one or more packet-oriented transport domains with entities for media/data and signaling processing and switching functionality.

6. / Method according to claim 1, wherein said plurality of access communication networks comprises radio access networks as analog Professional Mobile Radio network, digital Professional Mobile Radio Network as TETRA network or TETRAPOL network, Paging system, GMS/UMTS network, wireless broadband access network or Digital Audio Broadcast network.

7. / Method according to claim 1, wherein said plurality of access communication networks comprises fixed access networks as PSTN/ISDN networks or wireline broadband access network.

8. / Method according to claim 1, further comprising the step of

Defining at least two clusters associating a set of public security and safety control centers to a set of applications in said application server layers,

Controlling at an intelligent border element belonging to said communication layer that public security and safety control centers belonging to a cluster only access to applications in their cluster in usual operation mode;

Enabling at said intelligent border element that public security and safety control centers access to applications out of their cluster in disaster operation mode.

9. / Method according to claim 1, further comprising the step of controlling at a presentation server belonging to the application server layer the user interface for a plurality of users, said users being either control centers or terminals.

11. / Service platform according to claim 9, further comprising an intelligent border element adapted to create clusters associating a set of public security and safety control centers to a set of applications, said intelligent border element being adapted to manage an usual operation mode where cluster should operate separately from one another and a disaster operation where said intelligent border element removes on-demand the separation between said clusters.

10. / Service platform for providing harmonized public security and safety services to a plurality of public security and safety control centers adapted to control terminals over at least one access communication network, said service platform comprising:

an application server layer and a communication layer;

interfaces with said at least one of access communication network over at least one gateway;

means for executing an application on said application server layer upon service request of one of said public security and safety control centers and

means for generating at least one command to be executed in at least one of said access communication networks;

means for forwarding said at least one command over said communication layer to the appropriate gateway.