METHOD AND ARRANGEMENT DEVICE RELATING TO COMMUNICATION NETWORK

• US 20070195803A1
• Filed: 11/21/2006
• Published: 08/23/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 05/14/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Klap Worldwide Corp., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Klap Worldwide Corp., Ltd.
• Inventors: Lowery, Christopher, Ahmed, Karl
• Application Number:
  US11/559,613
• Publication Number:
  US 20070195803A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/401
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/00 Network arrangements, protocols or services for addressing or naming

Abstract

The present invention relates to a gateway for connecting a number of incoming analogous and/or digital inputs to a General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) based output. The gateway device comprises: at least one analogous and/or digital data interface for interfacing said inputs, a SIM card, with a specific IP address, an instruction set memory, a wireless transceiver, means for storing collating and managing data, and means for converting input data to GPRS or fixed line data.

Claims

1. A gateway device for connecting a number of incoming analogous and/or digital data inputs to a General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) based output, the gateway device comprising:

at least one analogous and/or digital data interface for interfacing said inputs,

a SIM card,

an instruction set memory,

a wireless transceiver,

means for storing, collating and managing data, and

means for converting input data to GPRS or fixed line data

wherein that the device further comprises means for receiving a fixed IP address or unique identity from a user.

2. The gateway device of claim 1, wherein said input is one or several of a group of PSTN or voice IP connection, a WiFi, Bluetooth, IR, LPR connection RS 232 or TCP/IP.

3. The gateway device of claim 1, wherein the device is a client/server device using an instruction set, which drives the GPRS or other type of device connected to a network

4. The gateway device of claim 1, comprising means for one or several of receiving, storing, collating, managing and retransmitting a number of simultaneous batches of data.

5. The gateway device of claim 4, wherein said data is provided from monitoring devices.

6. The gateway device of claim 5, wherein said monitoring devices comprises utility meters.

7. The gateway device of claim 1, comprising means for collecting data from a number of data monitoring devices in same or different signal formats and to interconnecting to one or several gateway devices and a server to create a data network over a wide geographical area.

8. The gateway device of claim 1, wherein the device is designed and optimized for sending and receiving data through a GPRS connection, in particular common mobile connections, being one or several of GSM, GPRS, CDMA, TDMA, ISDN, E1 and 10 baseT.

9. The gateway device of claim 1, wherein the device operates with fixed network connections.

10. The gateway device of claim 1, wherein the device installs a dedicated client instruction set in order to connect to other gateway devices, servers and the network.

11. The gateway device of claim 10, wherein the instruction set communicates with a network hub server and together they transform the way data is being handled, sent and received.

12. The gateway device of claim 10, wherein the instruction set comprises:

A reconfiguration part,

A compression part,

A selector part,

A transmission part,

An auto Restore function

A module for collecting, storing and managing data, and

A module for interconnection with other gateway devices.

13. The gateway device of claim 12, wherein said reconfiguration part is provided for reconfiguration of transport packets, their size and number.

14. The gateway device of claim 1, further comprising means for encrypting output data, and means for compressing data.

15. The gateway device of claim 14, wherein said compression part is provided for compressing and reducing the size of an actual transmitted data.

16. The gateway device of claim 10, wherein said selector part is provided for prioritizing content to be sent.

17. The gateway device of claim 12, wherein said selector part optimizes the use of time whilst connected by sending the smallest packets first and the largest files last.

18. The gateway device of claim 12, wherein said transmission part is provided for full duplex transmission.

19. The gateway device of claim 12, wherein said auto restore function is provided to monitor and control what data has been sent and to resend, where necessary, any data which may have been lost or corrupted in transit.

20. The gateway device of claim 12, further comprising means for encryption between two units through a communication channel.

21. The gateway device of claim 1, wherein the device comprises addition modules for enabling GPRS on a GSM network.

22. The gateway device of claim 21, wherein a first module is a Gateway GPRS Service Node (GGSN).

23. The gateway device of claim 21, wherein a second module is a Serving GPRS Service Node (SGSN).

24. The gateway device of claim 22, wherein the GGSN acts as a gateway between the GPRS network and Public Data Networks.

25. The gateway device of claim 23, wherein the SGSN provides packet routing to and from the SGSN service area for all users in that service area.

26. The gateway device of claim 1, comprising Packet Control Units, hosted in Base Station Subsystems, mobility management to locate a GPRS Mobile Station, an air interface for packet traffic, security features such as ciphering and GPRS specific signaling.

27. The gateway device of claim 1, comprising IP tunneling to encapsulate an IP datagram within IP datagrams, which allows datagrams destined for one IP address to be wrapped and redirected to another IP address.

28. The gateway device of claim 27, wherein an outer IP header is added before an original IP header, and between them are any other headers for the path, such as security headers specific to the tunnel configuration, the outer IP header Source and Destination identify the “

endpoints”

of the tunnel and an inner IP header Source and Destination identify the original sender and recipient of the datagram.

29. A network comprising many gateway device according to claim 1, which collects, stores, collates and retransmit data from a number of data monitoring devices to one or several of gateway devices and/or servers.

30. A server according for incorporation in a network according to claim 29 comprising means to allocate unique addresses to all gateway devices and subsequently to a number of data-monitoring devices to facilitate data management from every data monitoring device.

31. The server of claim 30, comprising means for interrogation by an end user to seek the data from all or any gateway device or any data monitoring device connected to the gateway device, to obtain current value measurements for control and management.

32. The server of claim 30, comprising means for automatically instructing all gateway devices to read measurement values of all data monitoring devices at given intervals to transmit data to an end user for control and management.

33. A method of assisting in the monitoring, management and conservation of data by combining a collection of data in a number of gateway devices according to claim 1 in different signal formats from one or several data monitoring devices, which are interconnected to one or several gateway devices and servers to create a data only network over a wide geographical area.

34. The method of claim 33, for a remote automated measuring system, the method comprising permitting the collection of value measurements from said data monitoring devices, transmitted to said gateway device by one of many different signals from transmitters attached to a number of utility meters, then stored, managed and retransmitted to a server by one of many different signals, e.g. GPRS.

35. The method of claim 33, further comprising other remote automated measuring systems, including vehicle telematics, monitoring of temperatures, movement, sound, security geofencing, surveillance from remote cameras and other measurable data values in order to improve other environmental and security issues of growing worldly importance.

36. A network comprising GPRS Device and a Server accessing a GPRS network using a dedicated link and/or Internet, wherein,

that the GPRS device comprises a SIM card and an application to provide security and compression when transmitting by means of a wireless device, the Server comprising costumer control devices loaded with corresponding applications to provide security and compression.

37. The network of claim 36 comprising means for transmitting data in IP form over Internet from the server to the customer in a manner which facilitates management from a web based display.

38. A method of connecting a number of incoming analogous and/or digital data inputs to a General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) based output, comprising the steps of:

providing a device comprising;

at least one analogous and/or digital data interface for interfacing said inputs,

a SIM card, being a GPRS only enabled card and of a special series that has a higher priority of data transmission whilst on a network,

an instruction set memory,

a wireless transceiver, for transcieving said output data,

means for storing, collating, managing and retransmitting input data,

the method further comprising converting input data to GPRS data, encrypting output data, and compressing said output data.

39. A remote automated measuring system comprising a group of data monitors each equipped with radio transmitters capable of sending a radio signal containing measurement data and a server connected to a communications network, wherein

that the system comprises at least one gateway equipped with means for receiving radio signals from said monitors and transmitting said data to said server via a communication network, and then to a user in IP form and that said gateway further comprises means for receiving a fixed IP address or unique identity from a user.

40. The system of claim 39, wherein the information is managed on a web based display over the public Internet.