System and method for providing personalized multimedia broadcasting over a mobile telecommunications radio area network

• US 20080098091A1
• Filed: 10/23/2006
• Published: 04/24/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 10/23/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Alcatel-Lucent USA, Inc. (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Lucent Technologies, Inc. (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: Benco, David S., Azada, Maria Rg
• Granted Patent: US 7,941,503 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/219
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/5307 for recording messages comprising any combination of audio and non-audio components
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/53375 Message broadcasting
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 7/006 Networks other than PSTN/ISDN providing telephone service, e.g. Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) , including next generation networks with a packet-switched transport layer H04L65/00 takes precedence; aspects not specific to the type of network H04M3/00; special services in those networks H04M3/42

Abstract

A system and method of providing personalized broadcast transmissions Broadcasting-Party-Designated Recipients over a mobile telecommunications Radio Area Network is provided. The Broadcasting Party can send multimedia content for a personalized broadcast to an IMS Application Server in a SIP Message and broadcast the multimedia content to the mobile telecommunications terminals of the Broadcasting-Party-Designated Recipients. The personalized broadcast transmission can be generating using a plurality of unicast transmissions or a multicast transmission made to a multicast channel/address.

Claims

1. A method of providing personalized broadcast transmissions requested by a Broadcasting Party to Broadcasting-Party-Designated Recipients over a mobile telecommunications Radio Area Network comprising:

receiving multimedia content provided by the Broadcasting Party at an IMS Application Server;

receiving Broadcasting-Party-Designated Recipient identifiers at the IMS Application Server identifying the Recipients designated by the Broadcasting Party for receiving the broadcast transmission;

receiving broadcast parameters from the Broadcasting Party at the IMS Application Server, the broadcast parameters indicating the broadcast transmission is to be at least one of a scheduled broadcast and an immediate broadcast; and

generating an inband broadcast transmission to the mobile telecommunications terminals corresponding to the Broadcasting-Party-Designated Recipients via the Radio Area Network.

2. The method defined in claim 1 wherein the step of receiving the multimedia content at the IMS Application Server includes the Broadcasting Party providing the multimedia content via a computer connected to the IMS Application Server by an IP connection.

3. The method defined in claim 1 wherein the step of receiving the multimedia content at the IMS Application Server includes the Broadcasting Party providing the multimedia content in a SIP message sent from a mobile terminal.

4. The method defined in claim 1 wherein the broadcast parameters indicate the broadcast to be a scheduled broadcast, the method further comprising:

receiving a scheduled start day and time when the scheduled transmission is to begin, wherein the step of generating the inband broadcast transmission includes generating the transmission at the scheduled start day and time.

5. The method defined in claim 1 further comprising;

determining the Broadcasting-Party-Designated Recipient mobile terminals available for receiving the broadcast transmission, wherein the step of generating the inband broadcast transmission includes generating separate unicast transmissions to each of the available mobile terminals over the Radio Area Network.

6. The method defined in claim 5 wherein the step of generating the separate unicast transmissions includes sending separate SIP Invite Requests to each available mobile terminal.

7. The method defined in claim 1 wherein the step of generating an inband broadcast transmission to the mobile telecommunications terminals includes broadcasting the multimedia content to the terminals on a multicast channel via a Broadcast/Multicast Service provided by an Evolution-Data Optimized compatible Radio Network Controller.

8. A system for providing personalized broadcast transmissions requested by a Broadcasting Party to Broadcasting-Party-Designated Recipients over a mobile telecommunications Radio Area Network comprising:

means for receiving multimedia content provided by the Broadcasting Party at an IMS Application Server;

means for receiving Broadcasting-Party-Designated Recipient identifiers at the IMS Application Server identifying the Recipients designated by the Broadcasting Party for receiving the broadcast transmission;

means for receiving broadcast parameters from the Broadcasting Party at the IMS Application Server, the broadcast parameters indicating the broadcast transmission is to be at least one of a scheduled broadcast and an immediate broadcast; and

means for generating an inband broadcast transmission to the mobile telecommunications terminals corresponding to the Broadcasting-Party-Designated Recipients via the Radio Area Network.

9. The system defined in claim 8 wherein the means for receiving the multimedia content at the IMS Application Server includes means for receiving the multimedia content from the Broadcasting Party via a computer connected to the IMS Application Server by an IP connection.

10. The system defined in claim 8 wherein the means for receiving the multimedia content at the IMS Application Server includes means for receiving the multimedia content in a SIP message sent from a mobile terminal.

11. The system defined in claim 8 wherein the broadcast parameters indicate the broadcast to be a scheduled broadcast, the system further comprising:

means for receiving a scheduled start day and time when the scheduled transmission is to begin, wherein the means for generating the inband broadcast transmission includes means for generating the transmission at the scheduled start day and time.

12. The system defined in claim 8 further comprising;

means for determining the Broadcasting-Party-Designated Recipient mobile terminals available for receiving the broadcast transmission, wherein the means for generating the inband broadcast transmission includes means for generating separate unicast transmissions to each of the available mobile terminals over the Radio Area Network.

13. The system defined in claim 12 wherein the means for generating the separate unicast transmissions includes means for sending separate SIP Invite Requests to each available mobile terminal.

14. The system defined in claim 13 wherein the means for generating an inband broadcast transmission to the mobile telecommunications terminals includes means for broadcasting the multimedia content to the terminals on a multicast channel via a Broadcast/Multicast Service provided by an Evolution-Data Optimized compatible Radio Network Controller.