Method for administering additional services in a mobile communication network

• US 6,085,105 A
• Filed: 02/28/1997
• Issued: 07/04/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 03/01/1996
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks GmbH & Co. KG (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Siemens AG
• Inventors: Becher, Reinhard
• Primary Examiner(s): Trost, William G.
• Assistant Examiner(s): GANTT, ALAN T
• Application Number:
  US08/810,622
• Time in Patent Office: 1,222 Days
• Field of Search: 455/433, 455/461, 455/414, 455/517
• US Class Current: 455/517
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0408 using two or more beams, i.e. beam diversity
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/4228 in networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13098 Mobile subscriber
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13103 Memory
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13109 Initializing, personal profile
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13204 Protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13345 Intelligent networks, SCP
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13513 UPT - personal as opposed to terminal mobility, inc. number portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13527 protocols - X.25, TCAP etc.
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13532 mobile networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13534 Internet - WWW, HTML, browsers etc.
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13547 subscriber, e.g. profile, database, database access
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 3/005 Personal communication services, e.g. provisions for portability of subscriber numbers
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/18 Selecting a network or a communication service
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/04 Registration at HLR or HSS [Home Subscriber Server]
• 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

Abstract

For administering additional services, additional information about the allocation of additional services to service control units and about the status of the respective additional service are stored subscriber-associated in two memory units of the mobile communication network allocated to a subscriber. In a call setup, an interrogation of this additional information ensues. This can lead to a service request at the allocated service control unit.

Claims

1. A method for administering additional services in a mobile communication network having networked switching equipment device to which communication terminal equipment that enable subscriber access are connectible via further devices and/or via which the transitions to further networks can be effected, having at least one service control unit that controls a respective additional service, and having at least two memory units for subscriber-specific data, comprising the steps of:

storing additional information about allocation of additional services to respective service control units and storing status of a present respective additional service in subscriber-specific fashion in the at least two memory units allocated to a subscriber;

generating an image of current additional information in the at least two memory units for every re-allocation of a memory unit of the at least two memory units to a subscriber and/or for every modification of additional information; and

selecting one of a plurality of service providers by offering the respective additional service, by evaluating an identity of a service provider within unstructured additional service data, and by addressing a dataset of the additional information that selects the service provider.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the identity of the service provider is communicated in a service identification part of the unstructured additional service data.

3. A method for administering additional services in a mobile communication intelligent network having networked switching equipment device to which communication terminal equipment that enable subscriber access are connectible via further devices and/or via which the transitions to further networks can be effected, having at least two service control units that control a respective additional service, and having at least two memory units for subscriber-specific data, comprising the steps of:

storing additional information about allocation of additional services to respective service control units and storing status of a present respective additional service in subscriber-specific fashion in the at least two memory units allocated to a subscriber;

transmitting modify information, pertaining to the additional information, within unstructured additional service data from the communication terminal equipment to the at least two memory units and/or between the at least two memory units; and

generating an image of current additional information in the at least two memory units for every re-allocation of a memory unit of the at least two memory units to a subscriber and for every modification of additional information;

providing a subscriber-associated activation character that is interrogated given a call setup in the memory unit of the at least two memory units for the totality of additional services; and

using the additional information in a call setup dependent on a comparison result, at least one of the additional information and the activation character being modifiable by a subscriber via the communication terminal equipment insofar as no block is provided therefor.

4. A method for administering additional services in a mobile communication intelligent network having networked switching equipment device to which communication terminal equipment that enable subscriber access are connectible via further devices and/or via which the transitions to further networks can be effected, having at least two service control units that control a respective additional service, and having at least two memory units for subscriber-specific data, comprising the steps of:

storing additional information about allocation of additional services to respective service control units and storing status of a present respective additional service in subscriber-specific fashion in the at least two memory units allocated to a subscriber;

transmitting modify information, pertaining to the additional information, within unstructured additional service data from the communication terminal equipment to the at least two memory units and/or between the at least two memory units; and

generating an image of current additional information in the at least two memory units for every re-allocation of a memory unit of the at least two memory units to a subscriber and for every modification of additional information;

offering, for selecting one of a plurality of service providers, the respective additional service;

evaluating an identity of a service provider within unstructured additional service data; and

addressing a dataset of the additional information that selects the service provider.

5. The method according to claim 4, wherein the identity of the service provider is communicated in a service identification part of the unstructured additional service data.