Private mobile communication system easily connecting portable or mobile radio telephone equipment to public network

• US 5,870,677 A
• Filed: 08/13/1997
• Issued: 02/09/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 10/05/1992
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation), NTT Mobile Communications Network Inc. (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation), NTT Mobile Communications Network Inc. (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Inventors: Takahashi, Katsumi, Uchida, Yoshinori
• Primary Examiner(s): Bost, Dwayne D.
• Assistant Examiner(s): TROST IV, WILLIAM GEORGE
• Application Number:
  US08/910,235
• Time in Patent Office: 545 Days
• Field of Search: 455/403, 455/410, 455/411, 455/422, 455/426, 455/461, 455/462, 455/463, 455/550, 455/552, 455/555, 379/156, 379/157, 379/198
• US Class Current: 455/463
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/16 WPBX [Wireless Private Branch Exchange]

Abstract

A private mobile communication system serves to support communication between mutual portable or mobile radio telephone equipment which are registered in the system, and communication between the portable or mobile radio telephone equipment and a telephone connected to a public network. A portable or mobile radio telephone equipment which is not registered in the system transmits a request for call to the public network through a private control channel controlling section. A radio base station in the system transfers the request for call transmitted through a private channel to a PBX. The PBX serves to support the call to the public network in response to the request for call transmitted through the private channel.

Claims

1. A private mobile communication system comprising:

a plurality of radio base stations including a private protocol processing section to transmit/receive a private protocol information through a private control channel, and a public protocol processing section to transmit/receive a public protocol information through a private control channel;

a private exchange connected to said respective radio base stations and at least a public network which includes means for transferring authentication information between a portable or mobile radio equipment and said public network, the exchange including a private protocol controlling section for processing a signal transmitted by a portable or mobile radio telephone equipment that belongs to a private system by using said private protocol, and a different system protocol controlling section for permitting access to said public network based on a signal transmitted by a portable or mobile radio telephone equipment which does not belong to said system by using said public protocol through said private control channel;

a plurality of portable or mobile telephone equipment, which belong to a different system from said system and can be connected to said system and at least a public system, include a public control channel controlling section to incorporate a public control signal into a control slot of a public control channel, a private control channel controlling section to incorporate a private control signal into a control slot of a private control channel, a private protocol processing section to control said private protocol information, a public protocol processing section to control said public protocol information, and a switch section to connect said private control channel controlling section to either said public protocol processing section or said private protocol processing section or to connect said public control channel controlling section to public protocol processing section, said switch connection said private channel controlling section to said public protocol processing section to pass said authentication information of the portable or mobile radio telephone equipment which belongs to a different system to said public network through said private exchange when calls are placed through the portable or mobile telephone equipment which belongs to a different system out to said public network from inside of said system.

2. A private mobile communication system according to claim 1, wherein said private exchange including a position registering/calling section to, when a position registration of a portable or mobile radio telephone equipment that does not belong to said system is performed, stores the number of said radio base station having a zone including a current position of said portable or mobile radio telephone equipment, and when there is an incoming call from said public network to said portable or mobile radio telephone equipment, calls said portable or mobile radio telephone equipment through said radio base station of which said number is stored in the said exchange.

3. A private mobile communication system according to claim 2, wherein a plurality of portable or mobile radio telephone equipment, each of which belongs to a said system, includes a public control channel controlling section to incorporate a public control signal into a control slot of a public control channel, a private control channel controlling section to incorporate a private control signal into a control slot of a private control channel, a private protocol processing section to control said private protocol information, a public protocol processing section to control said public protocol information, and a switch section to connect said private control channel controlling section to either said public protocol processing section or said private protocol processing section or to connect said public control channel controlling section to public protocol processing section.

4. A private mobile communication system according to claim 1, wherein said private exchange includes a line limiting function section to limit calls to said public network in case a rate of connection with said public network to a line capacity which can be managed in said radio base station exceeds a predetermined rate.

5. A private mobile communication system according to claim 4, wherein said line limiting function section sets a predetermined rate to limit lines for each radio base station.

6. A private mobile communication system according to claim 1, wherein said different system protocol controlling section of said private exchange directly passes a call, which is sent from a portable or mobile radio telephone equipment that does not belong to said system to a portable or mobile radio telephone equipment that belongs to said system, to said private protocol controlling section, and said private protocol controlling section directly passes a call, which is sent from said portable or mobile radio telephone equipment that belongs to said system to said portable or mobile radio telephone equipment that does not belong to said system, to said different system protocol controlling section.