METHOD, SYSTEM AND APPARATUSES THEREOF FOR REALIZING EMERGENCY COMMUNICATION SERVICE

• US 20100048161A1
• Filed: 10/28/2009
• Published: 02/25/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 04/28/2007
• 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: He, Xianhui, Wu, Jianjun, Zhang, Wei, Xie, Yong
• Application Number:
  US12/607,827
• Publication Number:
  US 20100048161A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/404.100
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/90 Services for handling of emergency or hazardous situations, e.g. earthquake and tsunami warning systems [ETWS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/50 for emergency connections

Abstract

A method and a system for realizing an emergency communication service and apparatuses thereof are provided. The method includes: receiving a message carrying an emergency service indication sent by a user terminal; establishing a bearer link for bearing emergency service signaling and emergency service data; receiving an address obtaining request sent by the user terminal based on the bearer link for bearing the emergency service signaling; delivering to the user terminal a local network communication address allocated for the user terminal and an access point address to an apparatus providing a local network emergency service based on the bearer link; and realizing communication with the apparatus providing a local network emergency service according to the access point address and based on the communication address and the established bearer link. Thus, an emergency communication service processing capability is achieved for the user based on a radio network system.

Claims

1. A method for realizing emergency communication, comprising:

receiving, by a radio network side, a message carrying an emergency service indication sent by a user terminal;

establishing a bearer link for bearing emergency service signaling and emergency service data for the user terminal;

receiving, by the network side, an address obtaining request sent by the user terminal based on the bearer link for bearing the emergency service signaling;

delivering to the user terminal a local network communication address allocated for the user terminal and an access point address to an apparatus providing a local network emergency service based on the bearer link for bearing the emergency service signaling; and

communicating, by the apparatus providing a local network emergency service on the network side, with the user terminal based on the established bearer link.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

sending, by an authenticator on the radio network side, an Extensible Authentication Protocol-Identity (EAP-Identity) request to the user terminal;

receiving the emergency service indication sent according to the EAP-Identity request by the user terminal;

determining, by the authenticator, whether to perform authentication on the user terminal and/or user after identifying the emergency service indication sent by the user terminal.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

sending, by an authenticator on the radio network side, an Extensible Authentication Protocol-Identity (EAP-Identity) request to the user terminal;

reporting to an authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) server an access request carrying the emergency service indication sent according to the EAP-Identity request by the user terminal; and

determining, by the AAA server, whether to perform authentication on the user terminal and/or user after identifying the emergency service indication carried in the access request sent by the user terminal.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the access point address is an address of a proxy-call session control function (P-CSCF) or an address of a public safety access point (PSAP) in the local network.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the apparatus providing a local network emergency service communicates with the user terminal based on an access service network (ASN) or a connect service network (CSN) on the radio network side.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

locating the user terminal, by a location based services server (LBS server), on the radio network side, when the user terminal initiates an emergency call to the apparatus providing a local network emergency service; and

reporting location information to the apparatus providing a local network emergency service.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

transferring, by a serving base station (BS) on the radio network side, emergency service information of the user terminal to a target BS when an inter-area handover occurs during the communication between the user terminal and the apparatus providing a local network emergency service.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

transferring, by a serving base station (BS) on the radio network side, emergency service information of the user terminal to an anchor paging controller (PC) when the user terminal enters the idle mode during the communication between the user terminal and the apparatus providing a local network emergency service.

9. A method for realizing emergency communication comprising:

sending a message carrying an emergency service indication to a radio network side;

requesting the radio network side for address information based on a bearer link for bearing emergency service signaling established by the radio network side, according to the message carrying the emergency service indication;

initiating an emergency call to an apparatus providing a local network emergency service according to an access point address to the apparatus providing a local network emergency service delivered by the radio network side and based on a communication address allocated by the radio network side and the established bearer link for bearing the emergency service signaling and emergency service data.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the emergency service indication is carried in a subscriber basic capability (SBC) message sent to the radio network side during an SBC negotiation process with the radio network side.

11. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

identifying the emergency service indication based on high bits in a service flow identifier (SFID).

12. A user terminal, comprising:

a unit adapted to send a message carrying an emergency service indication to a radio network side;

a unit adapted to request the radio network side for address information based on a bearer link for bearing emergency service signaling established by the radio network side; and

a unit adapted to initiate an emergency call to an apparatus providing a local network emergency service according to an access point address to the apparatus providing a local network emergency service delivered by the radio network side and based on a communication address allocated by the radio network side and the established bearer link for bearing the emergency service signaling and emergency service data.

13. The user terminal of claim 12, wherein the unit adapted to send the emergency service indication carries the emergency service indication in a subscriber basic capability (SBC) message sent to the radio network side during an SBC negotiation process between the user terminal and the radio network side.

14. The user terminal of claim 12, wherein the unit adapted to send the emergency service indication identifies the emergency service indication based on high bits in a service flow identifier (SFID).

15. A system for realizing an emergency communication service, comprising:

a unit adapted to establish a bearer link for bearing emergency service signaling and emergency service data for a user terminal, after receiving a message carrying an emergency service indication sent by the user terminal;

a unit adapted to allocate a local network communication address for the user terminal, after receiving an address request sent by the user terminal; and

a unit adapted to deliver to the user terminal the local network communication address allocated for the user terminal and an access point address to an apparatus providing a local network emergency service based on the established bearer link for bearing the emergency service signaling.

16. The system of claim 15, further comprising a user terminal, wherein the user terminal is adapted to

send the message carrying an emergency service indication,

request for address information based on the bearer link for bearing emergency service signaling established according to the message carrying an emergency service indication, and

initiate an emergency call to the apparatus providing a local network emergency service according to the access point address to the apparatus providing a local network emergency service and based on the allocated communication address and the established bearer link for bearing the emergency service signaling and emergency service data.

17. The system of claim 15, further comprising a unit adapted to perform authentication and authorization on the user terminal and/or user.

18. The system of claim 15, further comprising a unit adapted to locate the user terminal when the user terminal initiates an emergency call to the apparatus providing a local network emergency service, and report location information to the apparatus providing a local network emergency service.

19. An access service network gateway, comprising:

a unit adapted to establish a bearer link for bearing emergency service signaling and emergency service data for a user terminal after a radio network receives a message carrying an emergency service indication sent by the user terminal;

a unit adapted to obtain a local network communication address allocated for the user terminal after receiving an address request sent by the user terminal; and

a unit adapted to deliver to the user terminal the obtained local network communication address and an access point address to an apparatus providing a local network emergency service based on the established bearer link for bearing the emergency service signaling.

20. The gateway of claim 19, wherein the unit adapted to establish a bearer link establishes a bearer link with a corresponding performance according to QoS and priority information delivered by a policy control and charging rules function.