Call management system and method for servicing multiple wireless communication devices

• US 7,299,008 B2
• Filed: 10/08/2003
• Issued: 11/20/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 10/08/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: FCO V CLO Transferor LLC (SoftBank Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: IXI Mobile (R&D) Ltd. (IXI Mobile, Inc.)
• Inventors: Gluck, Amir
• Primary Examiner(s): Phu, Sanh D.
• Application Number:
  US10/681,758
• Publication Number:
  US 20050078608A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,504 Days
• Field of Search: 455/41.2, 455/41.1, 455/411, 455/88, 455/463, 370/254
• US Class Current: 455/41.2
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/04 Large scale networks; Deep hierarchical networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/18 Self-organising networks, e.g. ad-hoc networks or sensor networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 92/00 Interfaces specially adapted for wireless communication networks

Abstract

A method for establishing a wireless communication interface between a call management device and a plurality of mobile communication devices is provided. The method comprises implementing an association between the call management device and each of the plurality of mobile communication devices; configuring the call management device as a primary device in a personal area network (PAN); and configuring each of the plurality of the mobile communication devices as a non-primary device in the PAN.

Claims

1. A method for establishing a wireless communication interface between a call management device and at least one mobile communication device from among a plurality of mobile communication devices communicating with the call management device, the method comprising:

implementing a unique association between the call management device and each of the plurality of mobile communication devices;

configuring the call management device as a primary device in a personal area network (PAN);

wherein each of the plurality of the mobile communication devices is configured as a non-primary device in the PAN;

processing voice signals transmitted by a first mobile communication device to the call management device, in response to the call management device recognizing the first mobile communication device transmitting a service request,

wherein the call management device services the first mobile communication device in exclusion of the other mobile communication devices in the PAN, based on a pre-existing unique association implemented between the call management device and the first mobile communication device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the implementing process comprises creating a list of the associations between the call management device and each of the plurality of mobile communication devices.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the list is stored in a memory of the call management device.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the PAN is a piconet for connecting the call management device to each of the plurality of mobile communication devices using Bluetooth communication technology.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the call management device is a hands-free car kit.

6. A vehicle-mount call management system connected to N wireless mobile communication devices in a personal area network (PAN),

wherein the call management system is configured as a primary device and each of the N wireless mobile communication devices is configured as a non-primary device in the PAN,

wherein the call management system implements a unique association with each of the N wireless mobile communication devices,

wherein the call management system processes voice signals transmitted by a first wireless mobile communication device to the call management device, in response to the call management device recognizing the first wireless mobile communication device transmitting a service request,

wherein the call management device services the first wireless mobile communication device in exclusion of the other mobile communication devices, based on a pre-existing unique association implemented between the call management device and the first mobile communication device.

7. The call management system of claim 6, wherein the call management system is connected to the N wireless mobile communication devices in a piconet using Bluetooth technology.

8. The call management system of claim 6, wherein the call management system comprises a hands-free car kit having a list of associations, each association respectively identifying a corresponding mobile communication device in the PAN.