Method for restoring subscriber or terminal equipment information in the databank of a mobile radiotelephone network

• US 6,151,506 A
• Filed: 09/30/1997
• Issued: 11/21/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/1996
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Hanger Solutions, LLC (IP Investments Group LLC)
• Original Assignee: Siemens AG
• Inventors: Di Carlo, Vincenzo Scotto, Karapetkov, Stefan, Mueller, Wilhelm
• Primary Examiner(s): Tsang, Fan
• Assistant Examiner(s): Tran, Congvan
• Application Number:
  US08/940,059
• Time in Patent Office: 1,148 Days
• Field of Search: 455/406, 455/407, 455/408, 455/418, 455/426, 455/424, 455/433, 455/435, 455/466, 455/432
• US Class Current: 455/466
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/30 Network data restoration; Network data reliability; Network data fault tolerance

Abstract

A method for restoring subscriber-related or terminal equipment-related information in the databank system of a mobile radiotelephone network, wherein a control means of a first communication network always communicates subscriber-related or, respectively, terminal equipment-related information to the databank system of the mobile radiotelephone network whenever a subscriber or its terminal equipment can be reached for the first time within the first communication network. The control means also communicates this information to the databank system when more than a defined time duration has elapsed since the last communication of these information.

Claims

1. A method for restoring communicator-related information after an error, in a system comprising a mobile radiotelephone network and another communication network, wherein said communicator is selected from the group consisting of a subscriber and a terminal equipment, and wherein said communicator is reachable by both said mobile radiotelephone network and said another communication network, comprising the steps of:

communicating said communicator-related information to a databank of said mobile radiotelephone network, by a controller in said another communication network, when said communicator is reachable for a first time within said another communication network; and

communicating said communicator-related information to said databank when more than a specific time duration has elapsed since a last communication of said communicator-related information.

2. A method for restoring communicator-related information, in a system comprising a mobile radiotelephone network and another communication network, wherein said communicator is selected from the group consisting of a subscriber and a terminal equipment, and wherein said communicator is reachable by both said mobile radiotelephone network and said another communication network, comprising the steps of:

communicating said communicator-related information to a databank of said mobile radiotelephone network by a controller in said another communication network when said communicator is reachable for a first time within said other communication network;

checking whether a specific time duration has elapsed since a last communication of said communicator-related information to said databank upon every interaction occurrence between said communicator and said another communication network; and

communicating said communicator-related information to said databank when said step of checking indicates that more than said specific time duration has elapsed since a last communication of said information.