Mobile communication system capable of avoiding local congestion

• US 5,588,039 A
• Filed: 06/13/1994
• Issued: 12/24/1996
• Est. Priority Date: 06/15/1993
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Yahagi, Masahiko, Ohkubo, Kazuko
• Primary Examiner(s): Kuntz, Curtis
• Assistant Examiner(s): OEHLING, GEORGE J
• Application Number:
  US08/258,815
• Time in Patent Office: 925 Days
• Field of Search: 379/58, 379/59, 379/60, 379/63, 455/33.1, 455/33.2, 455/54.1, 455/56.1, 370/110.1
• US Class Current: 455/440
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 92/14 between access point controllers and backbone network device

Abstract

In a mobile communication system, a plurality of mobile base stations and a home memory station are connected directly to an integrated service digital network (ISDN) without mobile control stations. Connection between the mobile base stations is established by the ISDN.

Claims

1. A mobile communication system comprising:

an integrated service digital network (ISDN);

a plurality of mobile base stations directly connected to said ISDN as subscribers of said ISDN, each of said mobile base stations comprising means for receiving a call request with a destination subscriber number from one of a plurality of mobile stations, and means for transmitting to said ISDN a call information signal including an identification of said one of said mobile stations and the destination subscriber number;

a home memory station, directly connected to said ISDN as a subscriber of said ISDN, for storing update location information of said plurality of mobile stations with respect to said mobile base stations, said home memory station comprising;

(i) means for receiving said call information signal and for searching the stored update location information to determine to which mobile base stations the destination subscriber number belongs, and

(ii) means for returning an information signal including an ISDN subscriber number of at least one of said mobile base stations to which the destination subscriber number belongs and an identification number of the destination subscriber number via said ISDN to said one of said mobile base stations,

wherein each of said mobile base stations further comprises;

(i) means for receiving said information signal and for establishing a call connection to at least one of said mobile base stations, without passing through said home memory station, based on the ISDN subscriber number thereof, and

(ii) means for calling one of said mobile stations having the identification number of the destination subscriber number.

2. A mobile communication system comprising:

an integrated service digital network (ISDN);

a plurality of mobile base stations directly connected to said ISDN as subscribers of said ISDN, each of said mobile base station comprising;

(i) means for receiving a call request with a destination subscriber number from one of a plurality of mobile stations, and

(ii) means for transmitting a call information signal including an identification of said one of said mobile stations and the destination subscriber number to said ISDN;

at least one public telephone network directly connected to said ISDN as a subscriber of said ISDN; and

a home memory station, directly connected to said ISDN as a subscriber of said ISDN, for storing update location information of said plurality of mobile stations with respect to said mobile base stations, said home memory station comprising

(i) means for searching for the destination subscriber number, to determine whether the destination subscriber number belongs to said public telephone network; and

(ii) means for returning an information signal, including an ISDN subscriber number of said public telephone network and an identification number of the destination subscriber number via said ISDN to said one of said mobile base stations, when the destination subscriber number belongs to said public telephone network; and

wherein each of said mobile base stations further comprises means for establishing a call connection to said public telephone network by using the ISDN subscriber number thereof without passing through said home memory.