Common Communication Terminal Architecture and Method

• US 20090075654A1
• Filed: 09/15/2007
• Published: 03/19/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 09/15/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Palo Alto Research, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Jianhong Hu, Wei Lu
• Inventors: Hu, Jianhong, LU, WEI
• Granted Patent: US 7,940,749 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/435.200
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/0003 Software-defined radio [SDR] systems, i.e. systems wherein components typically implemented in hardware, e.g. filters or modulators/demodulators, are implented using software, e.g. by involving an AD or DA conversion stage such that at least part of the signal processing is performed in the digital domain digital baseband systems H04L25/00; digital modulation/demodulation H04L27/00; CDMA H04B1/707; TDMA H04B7/2643; image transmission H04N5/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/06 adapted for operation in multiple networks or having at least two operational modes, e.g. multi-mode terminals

Abstract

A common communication terminal system and method of converging mobile cellular communications, wireless access systems, wireless local area network and wireline communications into one Open Wireless Architecture (OWA) platform supporting cost-effective and spectrum-efficient broadband services across wireless and wired communication environment in one single terminal device with one unified telephone number for office, home and mobile communications.

Claims

1. A common communication terminal architecture said system comprising:

a) Open Wireless Architecture (OWA) BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) defining the common open interfaces to map various different wireless air interfaces including existing standards and future standards into the OWA open interface parameters (OIP),

b) Wireless LAN, Wireless PAN and BWA Interface providing the short range and metropolitan area wireless network access including wireless local area network (Wireless LAN), wireless personal area network (Wireless PAN) and broadband wireless access networks (BWA),

c) Software Defined Module (SDM) supporting different and multiple wireless standards, wherein said SDM can be stored in the internal system memory, external memory and processing card or transferred to/from the Internet,

d) Open RF/IF (radio frequency &

intermediate frequency) Subsystem supporting various different wireless standards operating in different frequency bands, and supporting new wireless transceiver technologies with different frequency bands,

e) Network Interface Unit (NIU) providing wireline network connection and wired communication interface,

f) Open Baseband Processing Platform (OBBPP) supporting different existing and future wireless standards through the multi-dimensional OWA open baseband processing modules with said open interface parameters and baseband management systems, and

g) Open Application Platform (OAP) supporting truly service-oriented wired, wireless and mobile communication convergence.

2. A system as recited in claim 1 wherein said SDM is a portable open module containing parameters, algorithms, protocols of different wireless air interfaces.

3. A system as recited in claim 1 wherein said SDM contains one or multiple different wireless air interfaces installed from said SDM external memory and processing card or downloaded from the Internet.

19. A system as recited in claim 1 wherein said OAP comprising:

a) “

Connection Mode”

software module supporting wired USB (universal serial bus) or Cable interface, said Wireless LAN, said Wireless PAN, said BWA, multiple mobile cellular standards including CDMA (code division multiplex access), TDMA (time division multiplex access), OFDM (orthogonal frequency division multiplex) and other user defined wireless standards,

b) “

Service Mode”

software module supporting voice, data, video, message and user-defined service,

c) “

Input Mode”

software module supporting keyboard input including screen keyboard, information recognition including voice recognition and text recognition, Bluetooth/UWB (Ultra Wide Band) wireless input and other user defined input method,

d) Said SDM Software Interface supporting different wireless air interface modules and system testing modules,

e) Said NIU Software Interface supporting wireline networking and wired communication capability, and

f) System Console software module connecting to said Virtual Mobile Server on services, applications, performance and system management.

20. A system as recited in claim 1 wherein said OAP further comprising:

a) Software function that the caller, from anywhere, can directly communicate with said common terminal by dialling said Visitor IP address updated in said MSC or said Virtual Mobile Server whenever said common terminal is on-line with IP connection,

b) Software function that said common terminal can dial any outgoing IP call whenever said common terminal is online with IP connection, and

c) Software function that said common terminal, by requesting said MSC, may manage to forward the transmission of big data files to said Virtual Mobile Server instead of transmitting to said common terminal whenever in said mobile cellular connection mode, and said common terminal may retrieve said big data files when back to high-speed broadband on-line mode with IP connection, so as to save wireless spectrum resource and optimize service bandwidth management.

4. A method of the common communication terminal architecture supporting incoming call processing management, said method comprising:

a) Searching the Connection Table in the home Mobile Switching Center (MSC) or mobile Gateway for the network access status of said common terminal,

b) Establishing communication between said MSC and said common terminal through IP (Internet Protocol) connection when the Visitor IP address is available in said Connection Table,

c) Forwarding to the assigned wireless cellular base station to establish communication between said MSC and said common terminal over the mobile cellular air-link channel when said Visitor IP address is not available, but the address of said mobile cellular air-link channel is available in said Connection Table, and

d) Forwarding to the Virtual Mobile Server (VMS) with the Home IP address for further processing and management if none of the above said addresses is available.

5. A method as recited in claim 4 comprising establishing IP connection with said common terminal through a fully wired network or the combination of wired network and Wireless LAN (local area network), Wireless PAN (personal access network), BWA (broadband wireless access network), wherein said Wireless LAN, said Wireless PAN or said BWA is in the short range local access area or metropolitan access area of said common terminal.

6. A method as recited in claim 4 comprising supporting various service calls including data service, video service, message service and voice service, wherein the Voice-over-IP technology is utilized in said common terminal and said MSC.

7. A method as recited in claim 4 comprising reporting said Visitor IP address of said common terminal to said Connection Table in said MSC when the IP connection is established by said common terminal, and said Visitor IP address is updated to said Connection Table in said MSC when said common terminal moves to different access point of wired network, said Wireless LAN, said Wireless PAN or said BWA.

8. A method as recited in claim 4 comprising utilizing a static mobile cellular air-link channel address or a dynamically assigned mobile cellular air-link channel address for said common terminal to optimize the wireless spectrum utilization efficiency.

9. A method as recited in claim 4 comprising searching for said network access status of said common terminal based on pre-defined search criteria and network access priority order set by the user wherein the default access priority order from high to low is said wired network, said Wireless LAN, said Wireless PAN, said BWA and said mobile cellular network.

10. A system as recited in claim 4 wherein said Virtual Mobile Server can be any computer server with Internet connection, and with an IP address as said Home IP address.

11. A system as recited in claim 4 wherein one said Virtual Mobile Server can support one or multiple said common terminals, meaning that many said common terminals can share same said Virtual Mobile Server.

12. A system as recited in claim 4 wherein said MSC can be replaced with a Mobile Gateway or simply a mobile network access equipment connecting with the backbone core network as defined in different or future communication and network infrastructure.

13. A method as recited in claim 4 comprising frequently searching for the higher priority network access mode in said common terminal whenever the connection is in the low priority mode to optimize the network access performance and maximize the broadband services for said common terminal.

14. A system as recited in claim 4 wherein said Virtual Mobile Server further comprising:

a) Service function capabilities for said common terminal including mobile secretary, mobile office, voice mailbox, Short Message Service (SMS) and Multimedia Message Service (MMS) and information center,

b) Special services management capabilities for said common terminal including location management, security and safety management, access optimization, digital spectrum management, and operation and maintenance management,

c) Said SDM modules'"'"' data center providing on-line secured Internet downloading of said SDM for said common terminal, and

d) A copy of said Connection Table containing the most updated information of said Visitor IP address and said mobile cellular air-link channel address of said common terminal.

15. A method as recited in claim 4 comprising utilizing said Visitor IP address in said common terminal wherein said Visitor IP address can be static fixed IP address or dynamic IP address.

16. A method as recited in claim 4 comprising simultaneously connecting to both said MSC and said Virtual Mobile Server for said common terminal whenever the IP network connection is available and said common terminal is in idle mode or standby mode in order to optimize the system performance, transmission performance, user applications and quality of service for said common terminal.

17. A method as recited in claim 4 comprising processing the incoming call based on the unified user Telephone Number identified for said common terminal registered in said MSC wherein this said Telephone Number is the unified and common communication identifier (ID) for said common terminal used in any access networks and any network access modes to converge the office phone, home phone, mobile phone and other access equipments'"'"' numbers to one single said Telephone Number.

18. A method of the common communication terminal architecture supporting multiple network access capabilities, said method comprising:

a) Establishing communication between said common terminal and said MSC through IP (Internet Protocol) connection when the wired network is available for said common terminal,

b) Establishing communication between said common terminal and said MSC via said Wireless LAN or said Wireless PAN or said BWA through IP connection when said wired network is not available, but said Wireless LAN or said Wireless PAN or said BWA is available for said common terminal, and

c) Connecting said common terminal to said MSC via cellular base station over the mobile cellular air-link channel when all of said wired network, said Wireless LAN, said Wireless PAN and said BWA are not available for said common terminal.