Method for non-registered communication units to access a communication system

• US 5,625,887 A
• Filed: 05/01/1995
• Issued: 04/29/1997
• Est. Priority Date: 11/30/1992
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Motorola Solutions, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Motorola, Inc. (Motorola Solutions, Inc.)
• Inventors: Cassidy, Lizabeth A., Wolf, Herbert R., McDonald, Daniel J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Eisenzopf, Reinhard J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): LE, THANH C
• Application Number:
  US08/434,172
• Time in Patent Office: 729 Days
• Field of Search: 455/54.1, 455/54.2, 455/53.1, 455/56.1, 455/33.1, 455/33.2, 455/34.1, 379/59, 379/60
• US Class Current: 455/509
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/108 when the policy decisions are valid for a limited amount of time
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/06 Authentication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/00 Services specially adapted for wireless communication networks; Facilities therefor
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 74/00 Wireless channel access

Abstract

A method for a non-registered communication unit to access a communication system consists of sending a service request. Upon receiving a service request, the communication resource allocator assigns an entry in the communication system database to the non-registered unit and assigns system default features to the entry such that the unit has default access to the communication system. Thus allowing a communication unit that has subscribed to system services and has not been recognized by the system manager to access the system utilizing default parameters until the system manages properly registers the unit.

Claims

1. In a communication system that includes a plurality of communication units, a limited number of communication resources that are transceived by a predetermined number of repeaters, and a communication resource allocator, a method for selectively allowing a non-registered communication unit default access to the communication system, the method comprising the steps of:

a) transmitting, by the non-registered communication unit, a service request;

b) upon receiving the service request, accessing by the communication resource allocator a user database to determine whether the non-registered communication unit is registered;

c) identifying, responsive to the step of accessing, whether an entry is available in the user database;

d) when there is an available entry in the user data base, temporarily assigning, by the communication resource allocator, the available entry to the non-registered communication unit to produce a temporary entry in the user data base;

e) when default entry assignments have been enabled, automatically assigning, by the communication resource al locator, temporary default system features to the non-registered communication unit such that the non-registered communication unit has default access to the communication system;

f) identifying, by the communication resource allocator, whether the non-registered communication unit has system access privileges; and

g) when, the non-registered communication unit does not have system access privileges, denying future, default access to the communication system for the non-registered communication unit.

2. In the method of claim 1, step (e) further comprises assigning the default system features based on an individual identification code of the non-registered unit.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising the step of automatically deleting, by the communication resource allocator, the temporary entry in the user database when the non-registered communication unit is not utilizing the entry in the user database.