Method And System For Implementing Self Service By Using Circuit Switched Terminal

• US 20080310406A1
• Filed: 05/23/2008
• Published: 12/18/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 01/24/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Huang, Shibi
• Application Number:
  US12/126,607
• Publication Number:
  US 20080310406A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/356
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1016 IP multimedia subsystem [IMS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1023 Media gateways
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1033 Signalling gateways
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/40 for recovering from a failure of a protocol instance or entity, e.g. service redundancy protocols, protocol state redundancy or protocol service redirection management of faults, events, alarms or notifications in data switching networks H04L41/06

Abstract

A method and a system for implementing a self service by using a circuit switched terminal are provided. The method includes receiving a self-service signaling associated with a self service from a circuit switched terminal; and converting the self-service signaling to a self service request, which is adapted to indicate an IMS network entity associated with the self service to conduct a service data configuration; and sending the self service request to the IMS network entity associated with the self service. The solution provided enables a user using the conventional circuit switched terminal to conveniently implement the self service such as registration activation, registration cancellation, and authentication of the self service.

Claims

1. A method for implementing a self service by using a circuit switched terminal, comprising:

receiving a self-service signaling associated with a self service from a circuit switched terminal;

converting the self-service signaling to a self service request, which is adapted to indicate an IP Multimedia Subsystem IMS network entity to conduct a service data configuration; and

sending the self service request to the IMS network entity associated with the self service.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein converting the self-service signaling to a self service request comprises:

analyzing the self-service signaling, and

converting the self-service signaling to the self service request.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the self-service signaling is received by a self-service adaptation entity from the circuit switched terminal via a user-network interface.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the receiving the self-service signaling associated with the self service from the circuit switched terminal comprises:

receiving, by a signaling access adaptation entity, the self-service signaling from the circuit switched terminal via a user-network interface; and

receiving, by a self-service adaptation entity via a Session Initiation Protocol SIP from the signaling access adaptation entity.

5. The method for claim 4, wherein the receiving, by the self-service adaptation entity, the self-service signaling from the signaling access adaptation entity via an SIP comprises:

after receiving the self-service signaling, converting, by the signaling access adaptation entity, the self-service signaling into an SIP signaling, and

receiving the SIP signaling by the self-service adaptation entity from the signaling access adaptation entity.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein receiving, by the self-service adaptation entity, the self-service signaling from the signaling access adaptation entity via the SIP comprises:

encapsulating, by the signaling access adaptation entity, the self-service signaling in an SIP message, and sending the SIP message to the self-service adaptation entity; and

extracting, by a self-service adaptation entity, the self-service signaling from the SIP message.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein encapsulating, by the signaling access adaptation entity, the self-service signaling in an SIP message comprises:

setting a corresponding Media Type in the SIP message to carry the self-service signaling.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein

the self service request is an Extensible Markup Language Configuration Access Protocol, XCAP signaling.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the IMS network entity associated with the self service comprises an IMS application server or a Home Subscriber Server HSS.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the service data configuration comprises at least one of service registration activation, service cancellation and service authentication.

11. A self-service adaptation entity, comprising:

a first unit, adapted to receive a self-service signaling associated with a self service from a circuit switched terminal; and

a second unit, adapted to convert the self-service signaling to a self service request, which is adapted to indicate an IP Multimedia Subsystem, IMS, network entity to conduct a service data configuration and send the self service request to the IMS network entity associated with the self service.

12. The self-service adaptation entity of claim 11, further comprising:

the second unit is further adapted to analyze the self-service signaling.

13. A signaling access adaptation entity, comprising:

a signaling access adaptation unit, adapted to convert a self-service signaling associated with a self service from a circuit switched terminal into an IP-based signaling; and

a self-service adaptation entity, adapted to convert the IP-based signaling to a self service request, which is adapted to indicate an IP Multimedia Subsystem, IMS, network entity to conduct a service data configuration and send the self service request to an IP Multimedia Subsystem, IMS, network entity associated with the self service.

14. A system for implementing a self service by using a circuit switched terminal, comprising:

an IP Multimedia Subsystem IMS network entity associated with a self service, connected to a self-service adaptation entity, wherein

the self-service adaptation entity comprising;

a first unit, adapted to receive a self-service signaling associated with a self service from a circuit switched terminal; and

a second unit, adapted to convert the self-service signaling to a self service request, which is adapted to indicate the IMS network entity to conduct a service data configuration and send the self service request to the IMS network entity associated with the self service;

the IP Multimedia Subsystem IMS network entity is adapted to receive the self service request and to conduct a service data configuration according to the self service request.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the IMS network entity associated with the self service comprises an IMS application server or a HSS.

16. A system for implementing a self service by using a circuit switched terminal, comprising:

an IP Multimedia Subsystem IMS network entity associated with a self service, connected to a signaling access adaptation entity defined, wherein

the signaling access adaptation entity comprising;

a signaling access adaptation unit, adapted to convert a self-service signaling associated with a self service from a circuit switched terminal into an IP-based signaling; and

a self-service adaptation entity, adapted to convert the IP-based signaling to a self service request, which is adapted to indicate the IP Multimedia Subsystem, IMS, network entity to conduct a service data configuration and send the self service request to the IP Multimedia Subsystem, IMS, network entity associated with the self service;

the IP Multimedia Subsystem IMS network entity is adapted to receive the self service request and to conduct a service data configuration according to the self service request.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the IMS network entity associated with the self service comprises an IMS application server or a HSS.