Providing roaming service among private mobile switching centers

• US 6,912,388 B2
• Filed: 07/20/2001
• Issued: 06/28/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 08/18/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Yang, Doo-Yong
• Primary Examiner(s): Trost, William
• Assistant Examiner(s): Zewdu, Meless
• Application Number:
  US09/908,781
• Publication Number:
  US 20020022481A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,439 Days
• Field of Search: 455/422.1, 455424-425, 455/432.1, 455/432.2, 455/432.3, 455/433, 455/435.1, 455/435.2, 455436-440, 455/445, 455/555, 455/560, 455/451, 455/456.2, 455/456.3, 455/432, 370/327, 370/331, 379225-234, 379210-212
• US Class Current: 455/432.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/02 Processing of mobility data, e.g. registration information at HLR [Home Location Register] or VLR [Visitor Location Register]; Transfer of mobility data, e.g. between HLR, VLR or external networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/16 WPBX [Wireless Private Branch Exchange]

Abstract

Providing a roaming service among private mobile switching centers (MSCs) interconnected to one another via a public switched telephone network (PSTN) includes connecting the private mobile switching centers to a virtual private network (VPN) via the PSTN; storing information about a mobile station registered for a private mobile communication service and associated mobile station location information in a selected private mobile switching center upon a mobile station sending a private mobile communication service registration request to the selected one of the private mobile switching centers; transmitting the mobile station information and the mobile station location information to other private mobile switching centers via the virtual private network; and the selected private mobile switching center the private mobile communication service using the stored mobile station information and mobile station location information upon the mobile station sending a private mobile communication service request to a selected one of the private mobile switching centers.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

connecting private mobile switching centers to a virtual private network via a public switched telephone network;

storing information about a mobile station registered for a private mobile communication service and associated mobile station location information in a selected one of the private mobile switching centers upon a mobile station sending a private mobile communication service registration request to the selected private mobile switching center;

transmitting the mobile station information and the mobile station location information from the selected private mobile switching center to other private mobile switching centers via the virtual private network; and

providing a private mobile communication service using the stored mobile station information and mobile station location information with a selected one of the private mobile switching centers and the virtual private network upon the mobile station sending a private mobile communication service request to the selected private mobile switching center.

2. A method comprising:

connecting private mobile switching centers to a virtual private network via a public switched telephone network;

storing information about a mobile station registered for a private mobile communication service and associated mobile station location information in a selected one of said private mobile switching centers upon said mobile station sending a private mobile communication service registration request to said selected one of said private mobile switching centers via a base station transceiver subsystem shared by the public switched telephone network and a private mobile communication network associated with the select one of said private mobile switching centers;

transmitting the mobile station information and the mobile station location information from said select one of said private mobile switching centers to other private mobile switching centers via the virtual private network; and

transmitting the private mobile communication service to said mobile station using is the stored mobile station information and mobile station location information with a predetermined one of said private mobile switching centers and the virtual private network upon said mobile station sending a private mobile communication service request to said predetermined one of the private mobile switching centers via one of a plurality of base station transceiver subsystems shared by the public switched telephone network and the private mobile communication networks.

3. A method comprising:

providing a plurality of private mobile switching centers, each having associated call managers and an associated common cell area for public and private network communications, each of said private mobile switching centers being connected to in common to a virtual private network via a common public switching telephone network;

registering said mobile station in one of said call managers associated with a predetermined one of said private mobile switching centers for private mobile communication service upon said mobile station being in the associated common cell area of said predetermined one of said private mobile switching centers;

providing information about said mobile station from said one of said call managers associated with said predetermined one of said private mobile switching centers to the other call managers associated with the other private mobile switching centers connected to in common to said virtual private network via said common public switching telephone network;

storing said information of said mobile station in said other call managers to enable a roaming service to said mobile station among said plurality of private mobile switching centers upon said mobile station moving to the common cell areas respectively associated with the private mobile switching centers.

4. A method, comprising:

connecting a plurality of mobile switching centers to a virtual private network via a public switched telephone network;

storing information about a mobile station registered for a private mobile communication service and associated mobile station located information at a selected one of a plurality of private mobile switching centers upon said mobile station sending a private mobile communication service registration request to said selected one of said private mobile switching centers via a base station transceiver subsystem shared by a public mobile communication network and a private mobile communication network associated with the selected one of said private mobile switching centers;

transmitting the mobile station information and the mobile station location information from said selected one of said private mobile switching centers to the remaining ones of said plurality of private mobile switching centers via a virtual private network; and

providing the private mobile communication service to said mobile station with a predetermined one of said private mobile switching centers using the stored mobile station information and mobile station location information and the virtual private network upon said mobile station sending a private mobile communication service request to said predetermined one of the private mobile switching centers via one of a plurality of base station transceiver subsystems shared by the public mobile communication network and the private mobile communication networks.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising:

providing the plurality of private mobile switching centers with associated call managers and an associated common cell area for public and private network communications and connecting each of said private mobile switching centers in common to a virtual private network via a common public switching telephone network;

registering said mobile station in one of said call managers associated with a predetermined one of said private mobile switching centers for private mobile communication service, upon said mobile station being in the associated common cell area of said predetermined one of said private mobile switching centers;

providing information about said mobile station from said one of said call managers associated with said predetermined one of said private mobile switching centers to the other call managers associated with the other private mobile switching centers connected to in common to said virtual private network via said common public switching telephone network; and

storing said information of said mobile station in said other call managers to provide a roaming service to said mobile station among said plurality of private mobile switching centers when said mobile station moves to the common cell areas respectively associated with the private mobile switching centers.

6. A system, comprising:

a plurality of private mobile switching centers, associated with a corresponding plurality of private mobile communication networks, adapted to be interconnected to one another via a public switched telephone network;

an interface adapted to connect the private mobile switching centers to a virtual private network via said public switched telephone network;

a memory adapted to store information about a mobile station registered for a private mobile communication service and associated mobile station location information at a selected one of said private mobile switching centers upon said mobile station sending a private mobile communication service registration request to said selected one of said private mobile switching centers via a base station transceiver subsystem shared by the public mobile communication network and a private mobile communication network associated with the selected one of said private mobile switching centers;

a transmitter adapted to transmit the mobile station information and the mobile station location information from said selected one of said private mobile switching centers to the remaining private mobile switching centers via the virtual private network; and

a controller adapted to provide the private mobile communication service to said mobile station with a predetermined one of said private mobile switching centers using the stored mobile station information and mobile station location information and the virtual private network upon said mobile station sending a private mobile communication service request to said predetermined one of the private mobile switching centers via one of a plurality of base station transceiver subsystems shared by the public mobile communication network and the private mobile communication networks.

7. The system of claim 6, further comprising:

a plurality of call managers respectively associated with the plurality of private mobile switching centers; and

a register adapted to register said mobile station in one of said call managers associated with a predetermined one of said private mobile switching centers for private mobile communication service upon said mobile station being in the associated common cell area of said predetermined one of said private mobile switching centers;

wherein the plurality of private mobile switching centers include an associated common cell area for public and private network communications and each of said private mobile switching centers is connected in common to a virtual private network via the common public switching telephone network;

wherein the controller is further adapted to provide from said one of said call managers associated with said predetermined one of said private mobile switching centers information about said mobile station to the other call managers associated with the other private mobile switching centers connected to in common to said virtual private network via said common public switching telephone network; and

wherein said memory is further adapted to store said information of said mobile station in said other call managers to provide a roaming service to said mobile station among said plurality of private mobile switching centers when said mobile station moves to the common cell areas respectively associated with the private mobile switching centers.