Subscriber-originated call deferred queuing

• US 6,078,959 A
• Filed: 01/29/1998
• Issued: 06/20/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 01/29/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Opuswave Networks, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Opuswave Networks, Inc.
• Inventors: Wright, Andrew S., Mansfield, Carl, Gibbs, Benjamin Kendrick, Bilgic, Izzet Murat
• Primary Examiner(s): Maung, Zarni
• Assistant Examiner(s): Najjar, Saleh
• Application Number:
  US09/015,379
• Time in Patent Office: 873 Days
• Field of Search: 395/200.57, 395/200.33, 395/200.49, 395/200.56, 395/200.59, 709/227, 709/200, 709/219, 709/226, 709/229, 370/230, 370/280, 370/282, 370/294, 370/295, 370/337, 370/347
• US Class Current: 709/227
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/14 using intermediate storage
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/16 Central resource management; Negotiation of resources or communication parameters, e.g. negotiating bandwidth or QoS [Quality of Service]

Abstract

Methods and apparatus for queuing subscriber-originated connection requests for respective calls at a server system. A server system in a telecommunications network receives subscriber-originated connection requests for subscriber pending call access to the server system, and thus, the network. Subscriber-originated connection requests are queued at the receiving server system. The server system receiving the subscriber-originated connection request transmits a first message to the respective subscriber originating the connection request upon the server system'"'"'s queuing of the connection request. Subsequently, upon the server system allocating a connection resource to a queued subscriber-originated connection request, the server system transmits a second message to the respective subscriber.

Claims

1. A method for providing subscriber-originated access on a server system, comprising:

selectively transmitting from the server system a first message indicating that a subscriber may transmit a subscriber-originated connection request to the server system;

receiving a subscriber-originated connection request from a respective subscriber for access on the server system;

queuing the subscriber-originated connection request on the server system;

transmitting a second message from the server system to the respective subscriber upon queuing the subscriber-originated connection request;

allocating a connection resource to the queued subscriber-originated connection request; and

transmitting a third message from the server system to the respective subscriber upon allocating a connection resource to the queued subscriber-originated connection request.

2. The method of claim 1, in which the server system comprises a plurality of connection resources, and in which queuing the subscriber-originated connection request is performed if the server system has no connection resources to allocate upon receiving a subscriber-originated connection request.

3. The method of claim 1, in which the server system is a dual service server system, and in which queuing the subscriber-originated connection request comprises queuing the subscriber-originated connection request to a subscriber primary service queue or a subscriber secondary service queue.

4. The method of claim 3 in which the subscriber primary service queue is for queuing subscriber-originated circuit switched service connection request and the subscriber secondary service queue is for queuing subscriber-originated packet data service connection requests.

5. The method of claim 1, in which the server system uses time division multiple access for transmitting and receiving communications to and from a plurality of subscribers, and wherein the first message is transmitted in each time frame.

6. The method of claim 1, in which the server system comprises a plurality of connection resources, and in which queuing the subscriber-originated connection request is performed if the server system has less connection resources to allocate than the number of connection resources required to service the connection of the subscriber-originated connection request.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

queuing a plurality of subscriber-originated connection requests on the server system;

receiving a network-originated connection request for access on the server system;

queuing the network-originated connection request on the server system; and

allocating a connection resource to the queued network-originated connection request.

8. The method of claim 5, in which the second message is an acknowledge message, the third message is a resource acknowledge message, and each first message is a poll message.

9. The method of claim 1, in which queuing the subscriber-originated connection request comprises queuing the subscriber-originated connection request for no longer than a server lifetime time limit.

10. The method of claim 1, in which the server system comprises a subscriber primary service queue, a subscriber secondary service queue, a network primary service queue and a network secondary service queue, further comprising interrogating the subscriber primary service queue for subscriber-originated connection requests for a primary service, interrogating the subscriber secondary service queue for subscriber-originated connection requests for a secondary service, interrogating the network primary service queue for network-originated connection requests for the primary service, and interrogating the network secondary service queue for network-originated connection requests for the secondary service.

11. The method of claim 10, in which interrogating the subscriber secondary service queue and interrogating the network secondary service queue are each performed after both interrogating the subscriber primary service queue and interrogating the network primary service queue are performed, and if there are no connection requests queued in the subscriber primary service queue or the network primary service queue.

12. The method of claim 1, in which the selective transmission of a first message from the server system is based on the traffic conditions on the server system.

13. A method for supporting subscriber-originated access to a server system, comprising:

selectively receiving a first message indicating that a subscriber may transmit a subscriber-originated connection request to the server system;

transmitting a subscriber-originated connection request to a server system;

receiving a second message from the server system indicating that the subscriber-originated connection request was received and queued by the server system;

polling for a third message from the server system that indicates that a connection resource has been allocated for the subscriber-originated connection request;

receiving a third message from the server system indicating that a connection resource has been allocated for the subscriber-originated connection request; and

transmitting a subscriber-originated message to the server system using the connection resource allocated for the subscriber-originated connection request.

14. The method of claim 13 in which the subscriber-originated connection request comprises a server lifetime value.

15. The method of claim 14, in which the subscriber-originated connection request has an associated subscriber lifetime value that is greater than the server lifetime value.

16. The method of claim 15, in which polling for a third message from the server system is performed until a third message is received from the server system or until a time period equal to the associated subscriber lifetime value elapses.

17. The method of claim 13, in which the subscriber-originated connection request comprises a subscriber-originated circuit switched service connection request or a subscriber-originated packet data service connection request.

18. The method of claim 13, in which the first message is a poll message from the server system.

19. The method of claim 13, in which the second message is an acknowledge message and the third message is a resource acknowledge message.

20. The method of claim 13, in which a time division multiple access scheme is used for transmitting and receiving communications to and from the server system.