Configuring and maintaining network node device

• US 7,116,971 B2
• Filed: 08/30/2002
• Issued: 10/03/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 09/18/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Stern, Edith Helen, Willner, Barry E., Chapman, Robert Ellis Jr.
• Primary Examiner(s): LE, DANH C
• Application Number:
  US10/232,104
• Publication Number:
  US 20030022658A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,495 Days
• Field of Search: 455/412.1, 455/414.1, 455/418, 455/463, 705/72, 705/5, 709/200, 709/226, 709/227, 370/401, 379/201.02, 379/219
• US Class Current: 455/412.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/24 Accounting or billing
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/14 WLL [Wireless Local Loop]; RLL [Radio Local Loop]

Abstract

The present invention is a method of initializing and updating a network node device to interoperate with one or more wireless devices on the network. The method on the system performs the following: downloading from the telephone network service those telephone identifiers eligible to communicate with said network node, and downloading indications of allowable services associated with each telephone identifier.

Claims

1. A method of initializing and updating a network node device to operate with one or more wireless devices, comprising the steps of:

downloading from a telephone network service those telephone identifiers eligible to allow wireless devices using the telephone identifiers to communicate with telephone landlines through said network node; and

downloading indications of allowable services associated with each telephone identifier, the indications determining which of the allowable services are available to a wireless device using a telephone identifier, the indications further identifying;

(i) which telephone identifiers are assigned to dedicated telephone landlines; and

(ii) which telephone identifiers are assigned to shared outgoing telephone landlines.

2. The method of claim 1 where the downloading is from a network node controller.

3. The method of claim 1 where the downloading uses a dedicated data line.

4. The method of claim 1 where the downloading uses the data under voice communications.

5. The method of claim 1 where the downloading uses signaling with DTMF tones.

6. The method of claim 1 where at least one downloaded telephone identifier is associated with the service of requesting bridging.

7. The method of claim 1 where at least one telephone identifier is associated with the service of requesting privacy.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the indications further identify (iii) which telephone identifiers are assigned to shared incoming telephone landlines.

9. A storage medium containing a computer program to direct a network node controller, the computer program comprising the steps of:

setting up communication with a network node controller;

receiving configuration information including;

(a) those telephone identifiers eligible to allow wireless devices using the telephone identifiers to communicate with telephone landlines through said network node; and

(b) indications of allowable services associated with each telephone identifier, the indications determining which of the allowable services are available to a wireless device using a telephone identifier, the indications further identifying;

(i) which telephone identifiers are assigned to dedicated telephone landlines; and

(ii) which telephone identifiers are assigned to shared outgoing telephone landlines.

10. The storage medium of claim 9, wherein the indications further identify (iii) which telephone identifiers are assigned to shared incoming telephone landlines.