Location-Based Telecommunications Redundancy Protocol

• US 20070281703A1
• Filed: 02/22/2005
• Published: 12/06/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 02/22/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Broadphone, LLC
• Original Assignee: Broadphone, LLC
• Inventors: Shkedi, Roy
• Application Number:
  US10/597,629
• Publication Number:
  US 20070281703A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/445
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2203/1091 Fixed mobile conversion
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2203/4536 Voicemail combined with text-based messaging
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2207/206 composed of PSTN and wireless network
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2242/14 with services dependent on location
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2242/30 Determination of the location of a subscriber
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/02 Calling substations, e.g. by ringing selective calling H04Q
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42153 by subscriber
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/465 Arrangements for simultaneously calling a number of substations until an answer is obtained
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/53308 Message originator indirectly connected to the message centre, e.g. after detection of busy or absent state of a called party
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/54 Arrangements for diverting calls for one subscriber to another predetermined subscriber based on the calling party profile H04M3/42059; based on location H04M3/42348; based on presence H04M3/42365; to voice mail H04M3/53308
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/16 Communication-related supplementary services, e.g. call-transfer or call-hold
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/50 Service provisioning or reconfiguring

Abstract

A protocol for location-based telecommunications redundancy, operable at a data-communications topology juncture having at least two telecommunications media thereat, and the protocol includes the steps of: (1) On the occurrence of a call-processing request from a caller to a recipient—e.g. using a last known present location of the recipient'"'"'s mobile phone; and (2) Using the current location, second software at-the-juncture propagating the request to “ring” at two call-receiving devices closest to the current location—wherein one of the devices is a mobile telecommunications device of the recipient and the other of the devices is a terrestrial device of the recipient that is closest to the current location of the recipient.

Claims

1. A protocol for location-based telecommunications redundancy, operable at a data-communications topology juncture having at least two telecommunications media there-at, and the protocol includes the steps of:

a. On the occurrence of a call-processing request from a caller to a recipient, first software at-the-juncture accessing a substantially current location for the recipient; and

b. Using the current location, second software at-the-juncture propagating the request to “

ring”

at two call-receiving devices closest to the current location—

wherein one of the devices is a mobile telecommunications device of the recipient and the other of the devices is a terrestrial device of the recipient that is closest to the current location of the recipient.

2. The protocol for location-based telecommunications redundancy according to claim 1 wherein the request to “

ring”

the terrestrial device is a request for a distinctive ringing.

3. The protocol for location-based telecommunications redundancy according to claim 1 wherein substantially current location for the recipient is derived from obtaining coordinates corresponding to a cell of the recipient'"'"'s mobile telecommunications device.

4. The protocol for location-based telecommunications redundancy according to claim 3 wherein the coordinates are selected from the list:

a. A geographic map reference,

b. A telecommunication infrastructure logical location,

c. A mobile telecommunication service cell,

d. A mobile telecommunications micro-cell, and

e. A mobile telecommunications antenna coverage location.

5. The protocol for location-based telecommunications redundancy according to claim 1 wherein substantially current location for the recipient is derived from obtaining coordinates corresponding to an area of preference designated by the recipient.

6. An article of manufacture including a computer usable medium having computer readable program code embodied therein for facilitating a protocol for location-based telecommunications redundancy, operable at a data-communications topology juncture having at least two telecommunications media there-at, the computer readable program code in said article of manufacture including:

a. first computer readable program code for causing a computer to, on the occurrence of a call-processing request from a caller to a recipient, accessing a substantially current location for the recipient; and

b. tied to the first computer readable software, second computer readable program code for causing the computer, using the current location, propagating the request to “

ring”

at two call-receiving devices closest to the current location—

wherein one of the devices is a mobile telecommunications device of the recipient and the other of the devices is a terrestrial device of the recipient that is closest to the current location of the recipient.

7. A program storage device readable by machine, tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by the machine to perform steps for facilitating a protocol for location-based telecommunications redundancy, operable at a data-communications topology juncture having at least two telecommunications media there-at, said steps including:

a. Maintaining a substantially current location for a mobile device of a recipient;

b. Accepting from the recipient a list of at least one terrestrial devices, each device respectively identified by infrastructure predetermined logical alphanumeric assignment code;

c. Establishing a mobile telephone synonymous coordinate for each of the at least one terrestrial devices; and

d. Keeping a current preference correspondence between the current location of the mobile device of the recipient and a most proximate terrestrial device based on the respective synonymous coordinate.

8. A location registration method, for use in the protocol for location-based telecommunications redundancy, and the method includes the steps of (A) from a substantially mobile phone located next to a connected substantially terrestrial telecommunications unit, transmitting an accepted terrestrial-system identification number for the terrestrial unit;

(B) at a predetermined juncture in a data-communications topology, recording the identification number in logical association with a base-station antenna-space location for the substantially mobile phone during the transmitting.

9. A protocol for location-based telecommunications redundancy, operable at a data-communications topology juncture having at least two telecommunications media there-at, the protocol substantially as herein before described and illustrated, and the protocol is characterized by an occurrence of a call-processing request—

from a caller to a recipient—

resulting in substantially simultaneously “

ringing”

of a plurality of proximate recipient respective-media devices wherein one of the devices is a mobile telecommunications device.