SYSTEM AND METHOD OF DELIVERING CONTENT OVER A LOCAL WIRELESS SYSTEM

• US 20100177751A1
• Filed: 01/09/2009
• Published: 07/15/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 01/09/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: CommScope Technologies, LLC (CommScope Holding Company, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: ADC Telecommunications Incorporated (TE Connectivity Limited)
• Inventors: Lefebvre, Tony, Patel, Mahesh, Fischer, Larry G., Brown, Jamie
• Application Number:
  US12/351,059
• Publication Number:
  US 20100177751A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/338
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/55 Push-based network services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/5682 Policies or rules for updating, deleting or replacing the stored data
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/021 Services related to particular areas, e.g. point of interest [POI] services, venue services or geofences
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/18 Information format or content conversion, e.g. adaptation by the network of the transmitted or received information for the purpose of wireless delivery to users or terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/18 Processing of user or subscriber data, e.g. subscribed services, user preferences or user profiles; Transfer of user or subscriber data
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/12 Access point controller devices

Abstract

A local wireless system comprises a plurality of wireless communication units to transmit to and receive wireless signals from one or more wireless devices and a soft switch coupled to the plurality of wireless communication units to obtain connection information for each of the one or more wireless devices. The soft switch comprises a memory to store the connection information and location-based data associated with a service area of the plurality of wireless communication units; and a gateway to process non-real-time data requests and provide an interface to a packet network. The soft switch is operable to push the location-based data from the memory to at least a subset of the one or more wireless devices using the connection information stored in the memory.

Claims

1. A local wireless system comprising:

a plurality of wireless communication units to transmit to and receive wireless signals from one or more wireless devices; and

a soft switch coupled to the plurality of wireless communication units to obtain connection information for each of the one or more wireless devices, wherein the soft switch comprises;

a memory to store the connection information and location-based data associated with a service area of the plurality of wireless communication units; and

a gateway to process non-real-time data requests and provide an interface to a packet network;

wherein the soft switch is operable to push the location-based data from the memory to at least a subset of the one or more wireless devices using the connection information stored in the memory.

2. The local wireless system of claim 1, wherein the soft switch is further operable to route real-time data between a first wireless device located in a service area of the local wireless system and a second wireless device located in the service area of the local wireless system.

3. The local wireless system of claim 2, wherein the soft switch is further operable to route real-time data to a core network if a first wireless device is communicating with a device not located in the service area of the local wireless system.

4. The local wireless system of claim 1, wherein each of the plurality of wireless communication units is one of a Global System for Mobile communications (GSM) base transceiver station, a Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) Radio Network Controller (RNC), and a Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) Access Service Network (ASN) Base Station (BS).

5. The local wireless system of claim 1, further comprising an input device coupled to the soft switch and operable to provide location-based data to the soft switch.

6. The local wireless system of claim 1, wherein the soft switch is operable to check a list of registered wireless devices and to push location-based data only to the registered wireless devices.

7. The local wireless system of claim 1, wherein the location-based data comprises one or more of advertisements, coupons, news, and emergency alerts.

8. A wireless network comprising:

a plurality of areas of interest, each area of interest comprising;

a plurality of wireless communication units to transmit to and receive wireless signals from one or more wireless devices; and

a soft switch coupled to the plurality of wireless communication units to obtain connection information for each of the one or more wireless devices, wherein the soft switch comprises;

a memory to store the connection information and location-based data associated with a service area of the plurality of wireless communication units; and

a gateway to process non-real-time data requests and provide an interface to a packet network;

wherein the soft switch is operable to push the location-based data from the memory to at least a subset of the one or more wireless devices using the connection information stored in the memory; and

a central core network coupled to the soft switch in each of the plurality of areas of interest, wherein each soft switch is operable to route real-time data to the central core network if one of the one or more wireless devices is communicating with a device not located in the respective area of interest;

wherein each soft switch is further operable to push the location-based data from the respective memory to at least a subset of the one or more wireless devices using the connection information stored in the memory.

9. The wireless network of claim 8, wherein each soft switch is further operable to cache non-real-time data in its respective memory to provide the cached non-real-time data to at least one of the one or more wireless device from its respective cache in response to a request from the at least one wireless device.

10. The wireless network of claim 8, wherein each soft switch is further operable to route real-time data between a first wireless device in the respective area of interest and a second wireless device in the same area of interest.

11. The wireless network of claim 8, wherein each of the plurality of wireless communication units is one of a Global System for Mobile communications (GSM) base transceiver station, a Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) Radio Network Controller (RNC), and a Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) Access Service Network (ASN) Base Station (BS).

12. The wireless network of claim 8, further comprising an input device in each of the plurality of areas of interest coupled to the respective soft switch to provide location-based data to the soft switch.

13. The wireless network of claim 8, wherein each soft switch is operable to check a list of registered wireless devices and to push location-based data only to registered wireless devices.

14. The wireless network of claim 8, wherein the location-based data comprises one or more of advertisements, coupons, news, and emergency alerts.

15. A method of delivering location-based data to a wireless device, the method comprising:

detecting the wireless device in an area of interest comprising a plurality of wireless communication units;

obtaining connection information for the wireless device;

storing the connection information in a memory associated with a soft switch in area of interest;

determining if location-based data is to be pushed to the detected wireless device; and

pushing the location-based data to the wireless device from the memory associated with the soft switch.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein pushing the location-based data to the wireless device from memory associated with the soft switch comprises:

providing the location-based data from the memory to at least one of the plurality of wireless communication units; and

transmitting the location-based data to the wireless device from the at least one wireless communication unit.

17. The method of claim 15 wherein obtaining connection information comprises monitoring communication between the detected wireless device and a central core network coupled to the soft switch.

18. The method of claim 15, wherein determining if location-based data is to be pushed comprises checking a list of wireless devices registered to receive pushed location-based data.

19. The method of claim 15, wherein determining if location-based data is to be pushed comprises receiving an instruction from an input device indicating that the location-based data is to be pushed.

20. The method of claim 15, wherein pushing location-based data comprises pushing one or more of advertisements, coupons, news, and emergency alerts.