PTT SERVICE SYSTEM OF METHOD THEREOF

• US 20090131091A1
• Filed: 03/21/2005
• Published: 05/21/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 04/28/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: ZTE Corporation
• Original Assignee: ZTE Corporation
• Inventors: HONG, Jun, YANG, Peilin, XU, Xiaokun
• Application Number:
  US11/568,485
• Publication Number:
  US 20090131091A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/518
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1016 IP multimedia subsystem [IMS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/4061 Push-to services, e.g. push-to-talk or push-to-video
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/10 Push-to-Talk [PTT] or Push-On-Call services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/45 for Push-to-Talk [PTT] or Push-to-Talk over cellular [PoC] services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/08 Trunked mobile radio systems

Abstract

The present invention discloses a PTT service system and method thereof. The system includes a user terminal equipment, an application server, a control equipment and a gateway equipment, in which, the user terminal equipment connects with said application server, control equipment and gateway equipment by access network; the application server connects with said access network and control equipment for building lists of users groups and relating information and storing and managing them; the control equipment provides establishment of signaling messages for the user terminal equipment, distributes them to other terminal equipment within group, and controls the gateway equipment; the gateway equipment sets up media stream with the user terminal equipment based on signaling of the control equipment, and distributes the media stream sent by users having a right of speaking to other users within the group. The system is applied to multiple types of users such as fixed user, mobile user, soft phone user, WLAN user etc, and readily realizes many kinds of network modes, supports realization of PTT service spanning networks.

Claims

1. A PTT service system, including a user terminal equipment and an application server, with characterized in further including a control equipment and a gateway equipment, in which:

said user terminal equipment supports PTT service, and connects with said application server, said control equipment and said gateway equipment by access network;

said application server connects with said access network and said control equipment by the application server access protocol, and builds relating information of users groups and lists by communicating with said user terminal equipment and stores and manages the information;

said control equipment is for providing establishment of signaling message for said user terminal equipment, distributing the signaling message to other terminal equipments in the group, and controlling said gateway equipment by media gateway control protocol;

said gateway equipment is for establishing a media stream channel with said user terminal equipment according to control signaling sent by said control equipment, and distributing the media stream sent by the user terminal equipment having a right of speaking to other user terminal equipments in the group.

2. The PTT service system of claim 1, wherein:

said user terminal equipment is anyone or several of the terminal equipments of fixed user, soft phone user, mobile user, wireless local area network user and handset phone user supporting PTT service.

3. The PTT service system of claim 2, wherein:

said user and said access network belong to a same operator.

4. The PTT service system of claim 3, wherein:

said PTT service system further includes users and access networks belonging to different operators, which are accessed in by inter-network exchange gateway.

5. The PTT service system of claim 2 wherein:

said control equipment controls one or more gateway equipments, and authenticates said user terminal equipment by using user information of said application server.

11. The PTT service system of claims 3, wherein:

said control equipment controls one or more gateway equipments, and authenticates said user terminal equipment by using user information of said application server.

12. The PTT service system of claims 4, wherein:

said control equipment controls one or more gateway equipments, and authenticates said user terminal equipment by using user information of said application server.

6. A method for realizing the PTT service, including the following steps of:

(a) a source user selecting target group users, and sending a request of establishing PTT service to a control equipment through an access network;

(b) said control equipment receiving the request and authenticating the source user, after passing the authentication, distributing a call request of establishing PTT service to the target group users through the access network;

(c) said control equipment requesting related network equipment to distribute resource for the source user and target group users, and after receiving success response from at least a part of the target group users, returning a requesting response message to the source user;

(d) said user terminal equipment and related gateway equipment accomplishing the resource distribution, after at least a part of target group users responding, the source user and the target users establishing a media stream channel through the access network and the gateway equipment, the gateway equipment distributing the media stream sent by the source user to respective connected target group users;

(e) when the group users are in session, said control equipment transmitting and distributing signaling message between the group users, said gateway equipment receiving the media stream sent from the user terminal equipment having a right of speaking through the media stream channel built, and distributing the media stream to other user terminal equipment in the group; and

(f) after the session is over, said control equipment, gateway equipment and user terminal equipment releasing the related resource occupied by the PTT service.

7. The method for realizing the PTT service of claim 6, wherein

in said step (a), the source user acquires current contract list from the application server, and selects the target group users of the present PTT service from the list.

8. The method for realizing the PTT service of claim 6, wherein

in said step (b), said control equipment authenticates the source user through inquiring the application server for the configuration information of the source user.

9. The method for realizing the PTT service of claim 6, wherein

in said step (b), when the group users connect with two or more gateway equipments respectively, the control equipment selects a gateway equipment from the above multiple gateway equipments which connects with the most users of the group users, and establishes the media stream channel with the group users.

10. The method for realizing the PTT service of claim 6, wherein

in the process of distributing resources, said control equipment acquires the resource allocation condition from the gateway equipment, then notifies the resource allocation condition to the source user and target group users, and acquires the resource allocation condition of the PTT service of this time from the source user and target group users.