Method for controlling switching-oriented actions in a mobile radio telephone system and such a mobile radio telephone system

• US 6,917,818 B1
• Filed: 10/24/1997
• Issued: 07/12/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 10/25/1996
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: HMD Global Oy
• Original Assignee: Siemens AG
• Inventors: Placho, Markus, Topuzoglu, Eftat
• Primary Examiner(s): WASHINGTON, ERIKA ALISE
• Application Number:
  US09/284,530
• Time in Patent Office: 2,818 Days
• Field of Search: 455/433, 455/405, 455/406, 455/408, 455/410, 455/411, 455/414.1, 455/417, 455/418, 455/419, 455/422.1, 455/466, 455/560, 455/435.1
• US Class Current: 455/560
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2215/2026 Wireless network, e.g. GSM, PCS, TACS
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2215/32 Involving wireless systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/24 Accounting or billing

Abstract

Respective mobile radio telephone-specific data for defining conditions (CD1 . . . C6) for a subscriber-dependent control of switching-oriented actions (ACT1 . . . ACT5) are established for one or more mobile subscribers in the mobile switching center (MSC) of the mobile radio-telephone system (PLMN) via the operation and maintenance sub-system (OMS). Given an incoming call (MTC) or an outgoing call (MOC) or given a message transmission (USSD), call-related data and/or subscriber-specific data are evaluated by the mobile switching center with reference to the conditions (CD1 . . . CD6) and, given a satisfied condition (CD2, CD3, CD4), at least one action (ACT2, ACT3, ACT4) is controlled subscriber-dependent. The advantage is that the routing of call connections, the acquisition of the call charges, etc., can be set and implemented subscriber-individually dependent on specific data (call-related and/or subscriber-specific) that is evaluated with reference to the conditions stored in the mobile switching center. What this means for the system operator of the respective mobile radio telephone system is that the operator can himself enter the criteria and parameters for the actions to be controlled into the mobile switching center subscriber-individually in a very flexible way via the operation and maintenance sub-system for individual mobile subscribers or for a plurality of mobile subscribers as well, and can in turn modify these at any time.

Claims

1. A method for controlling switching-oriented actions in a mobile radio telephone system having at least one radio-oriented sub-system with base station controllers and base stations for radio connections from and to mobile stations of mobile subscribers, having a switching-oriented sub-system with subscriber data bases and mobile switching centers for line-switched connections and having an operation and maintenance sub-system, the operation and maintenance sub-system having at least one operation and maintenance center for administration and control of devices provided in the radio-oriented sub-system and in the switching-oriented sub-system, comprising:

establishing in a mobile switching center respective mobile radio telephone-specific data for defining conditions for a subscriber-contended control of actions in a mobile switching center, the data being established subscriber-individually for at least one mobile subscriber via the operation and maintenance sub-system; and

respectively evaluating in the mobile switching center, given one of an incoming calls an outgoing call or a message transmission at least one of call-related data and subscriber specific data with respect to the conditions and, given a satisfied condition, controlling at least one action subscriber-dependent.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the conditions for the subscriber-dependent control of the actions are respectively defined by one of a single, call-related/subscriber-specific datum and an operation of a plurality of call-related/subscriber-specific data.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein operation of the call-related/subscriber specific data ensues via at least one of a logical AND operation and a logical OR operation.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein, given a plurality of satisfied conditions, different actions are controlled subscriber-dependent.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein, given the parallel existence of a plurality of satisfied conditions, the actions are provided with priority numbers with which is defined a sequence of the actions to be controlled.

6. The method according to claim 4, wherein, given parallel existence of a plurality of satisfied conditions, blocking information is used to exclude a respective action of said actions from the control by another action of said actions.

7. The method according to claim 6, wherein the blocking information is entered into a table that is located in one of the mobile switching center and a subscriber data base of the mobile switching center.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein one of a type of call or type of message transmission is evaluated as call-related data.

9. The method according to claim 1, wherein one of an international mobile subscriber identifier, a service class mark for triggering services of an intelligent network, a mobile subscriber category or supplementary services usable by the mobile subscriber is evaluated as subscriber-specific data.

10. The method according to claim 1, wherein given an outgoing call, a subscriber telephone number selected by the mobile subscriber or a numerical range of the selected subscriber telephone number is evaluated and, wherein the location telephone number or a numerical range of the location telephone number assigned in the mobile radio telephone system, respectively, is evaluated given the incoming call.

11. The method according to claim 1, wherein, given an incoming call with call forwarding to a destination telephone number, the destination telephone number or a numerical range of the destination telephone number is evaluated.

12. The method according to claim 1, wherein one of blocking of a call, suppression of a call forwarding, and blocking of message transmission is controlled subscriber-dependent as an action.

13. The method according to claim 1, wherein one of cleardown of a call and routing of a call to an announcement device are controlled subscriber-dependent as actions.

14. The method according to claim 1, wherein one of routing of a call connection to a specific destination and acquisition of call charges in a specific charge zone are controlled subscriber-dependent as actions.

15. The method according to claim 1, wherein routing of a call connection to a service control point of an intelligent network is controlled subscriber-dependent as an action, and a service class mark is thereby set preceding a destination telephone number.

16. The method according to claim 1, wherein a telephone number modification by insertion of subscriber-individual information into one of a selected telephone number given an outgoing call, a location telephone number given an incoming call or a destination telephone number given an incoming call with call forwarding is controlled subscriber-dependent as an action.

17. The method according to claim 1, wherein an eavesdropping of a call connection or an authorization or, respectively, suppression of services/performance features are controlled subscriber-dependent as actions.

18. The method according to claim 1, wherein a conversion of an abbreviated code selected by the subscriber into a telephone number is controlled subscriber-dependent as an action.

19. A mobile radio telephone system for controlling switching-oriented actions, comprising:

at least one radio-oriented sub-system that has base station controllers and base stations for radio connections from and to mobile stations of mobile subscribers;

a switching-oriented sub-system that has subscriber data bases and mobile switching centers for line-switched connections, an operation and maintenance sub-system having at least one operation and maintenance center for administration and control of devices provided in the radio-oriented sub-system and in the switching-oriented sub-system;

mobile radio telephone-specific data for defining conditions for a subscriber-dependent control of the actions, the mobile radio telephone specific data being subscriber-individually set -up for at least one mobile subscriber in the mobile switching center via the operation and maintenance sub-system, the mobile switching center having a device that, given an incoming call or an outgoing call or given a message transmission, respectively evaluates at least one of call-related data and subscriber-specific data with reference to the conditions and, given a satisfied condition, controls at least one action subscriber-dependent.