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System, method and device for docking station for communication device

  • US 20090059907A1
  • Filed: 08/30/2007
  • Published: 03/05/2009
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/30/2007
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A computer-implemented method for providing fixed mobile convergence using a docking station for a cellular network communication unit on a fixed packet network, wherein the docking station can include a docking interface configured to connect to a communication unit and having a coupling for communicating with the communication unit;

  • a transceiver operable to communicate with a fixed packet network, thereby to transmit and receive communications over at least a portion of the fixed packet network; and

    /or a telephone interface operable to connect to a public switched telephone network (PSTN) telephone or cordless telephone handset and communicate in accordance with a residential telephony network, comprising;

    detecting if a communication unit is connected at the docking interface;

    detecting if the fixed packet network is available on the transceiver;

    detecting if the PSTN telephone is connected on the telephone interface;

    if the fixed packet network is available and if the communication unit is connected to the docking interface, establishing, in response to a call initiated or received at the communication unit, a connection between the connected communication unit and the cellular network over the fixed packet network via the transceiver; and

    then transferring packets between packetized cellular communication signals at the communication unit and packet communication signals at the fixed packet network to permit calls placed or received on the communication unit to be conducted over the fixed packet network; and

    if the PSTN telephone is connected and if the communication unit is connected to the docking interface, establishing a connection between the connected communication unit and the PSTN telephone over the telephone interface in response to a call initiated at the PSTN telephone or a call received at the communication unit; and

    interworking protocols received from one of the PSTN telephone and the communication unit to the other to permit calls placed or received on the PSTN telephone to be conducted over the cellular network.

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