System for interconnecting wired and wireless phone services and method for processing call

• US 7,388,854 B2
• Filed: 02/11/2004
• Issued: 06/17/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 02/12/2003
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Lee, Soon-Phil, Lee, Gui-Jung, Lee, Dong-Youl
• Primary Examiner(s): VO, NGUYEN THANH
• Application Number:
  US10/775,256
• Publication Number:
  US 20040160931A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,588 Days
• Field of Search: 370/310, 370/328, 370/331, 370/338, 370/401, 455/426.1, 455/436, 455/462, 455/465, 455/445, 455/435.1, 455/554.1, 455/555
• US Class Current: 370/338
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2203/1091 Fixed mobile conversion
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/465 Arrangements for simultaneously calling a number of substations until an answer is obtained
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/10 Connection setup
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/105 PBS [Private Base Station] network H04W84/12 - H04W84/16 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 92/06 between gateways and public network devices

Abstract

A system for interconnecting wired and wireless phone services in accordance with the present invention includes at least one of first wired terminals; public/private mobile communication terminals which are registered in public and private mobile communication networks; a private base station which constructs a wireless communication path with an arbitrary mobile communication terminal in its service area and manages wireless resources for the mobile communication; and a wired and wireless interconnecting apparatus which is connected to a public phone network and the private base station, constructs an internal network formed of the first wired terminals and the public/private mobile communication terminals to endow each of the terminals with a wired phone number, makes a call to a wired terminal in the case that there is a call to an arbitrary first wired terminal, and performs a switching function to simultaneously make a call to the public/private mobile communication terminal assigned to the first wired terminal. Therefore, a general wired subscriber is provided with the wired phone service and a service of portability through a wireless terminal, and the subscriber'"'"'s accounting burden can be reduced.

Claims

1. A system for operating wired and wireless phone services interconnectively, the system comprising:

a wired exchange connected to a public switched telephone network (PSTN), for providing a wired phone service;

a mobile gateway connected to the wired exchange for assigning virtual wired phone numbers to a plurality of mobile communication terminals, for providing a public wired phone service to the mobile communication terminals by linking the virtual wired phone numbers with mobile identifier numbers (MINs) of the mobile communication terminals, and for distributing a call to a wired terminal and then to a wireless terminal when it is determined that a phone number received from the wired exchange is a simultaneously called phone number; and

a private base station controller (pBSC) connected to the mobile gateway and a public land mobile network (PLMN) for providing a mobile communication service to the mobile communication terminals through a private base station transceiver system (pBTS);

wherein the pBSC comprises a database for storing the virtual wired phone number assigned to each of the mobile communication terminals and the MIN of the mobile communication terminal corresponding to the virtual wired phone number.

2. The system according to claim 1, wherein the mobile gateway calls a mobile communication terminal corresponding to the virtual wired phone number when receiving an incoming call containing the virtual wired phone number through the wired exchange.

3. The system according to claim 1, wherein the mobile gateway comprises a database for storing, for each arbitrary wired phone number, information indicating whether or not each of the wired phone numbers is a virtual phone number and information about whether or not a multiple terminating service is registered.

4. The system according to claim 3, wherein the mobile gateway simultaneously calls a wired terminal corresponding to the wired phone number and the mobile communication terminal when the wired phone number is registered with the multiple terminating service and is called.

5. The system according to claim 1, wherein, when receiving a request for an outgoing service from an internal mobile communication terminal, the mobile gateway changes caller identification (CID) to the virtual wired phone number assigned to the internal mobile communication terminal, and calls a called terminal via the PSTN.

6. A system for operating wired and wireless phone services interconnectively, the system comprising:

a wired exchange connected to a public switched telephone network (PSTN), for providing a wired phone service;

a mobile gateway connected to the wired exchange for assigning virtual wired phone numbers to a plurality of mobile communication terminals, for providing a public wired phone service to the mobile communication terminals by linking the virtual wired phone numbers with mobile identifier numbers (MINs) of the mobile communication terminals, and for distributing a call to a wired terminal and then to a wireless terminal when it is determined that a phone number received from the wired exchange is a simultaneously called phone number; and

a private base station controller (pBSC) connected to the mobile gateway and a public land mobile network (PLMN) for providing a mobile communication service to the mobile communication terminals through a private base station Transceiver system (pBTS);

wherein the mobile gateway assigns an extension subscriber line card (SLC) of a wired phone connected to a trunk thereof with the SLC thereof, and connects the assigned extension SLC to a plurality of wired terminals.

7. A method for operating wired and wireless phone services interconnectively, the method comprising the steps of:

assigning, by a mobile gateway, virtual wired phone numbers to a plurality of mobile communication terminals;

providing, by the mobile gateway, a public wired phone service to the mobile communication terminals by linking the virtual wired phone numbers with mobile identifier numbers (MINs) of the mobile communication terminals;

determining whether a called phone number received by a wired exchange is a wired subscriber phone number when a subscriber terminal calls a wired phone number;

analyzing, by the mobile gateway, the phone number received from the wired exchange to determine whether the phone number is a simultaneously called phone number;

distributing, by the mobile gateway, the call to a wired terminal and then to a wireless terminal when it is determined that the phone number is the simultaneously called phone number; and

storing, in a database of a private base station controller (pBSC), the virtual wired phone number assigned to each of the mobile communication terminals and the MIN of the mobile communication terminal corresponding to the virtual wired phone number.

8. The method according to claim 7, wherein in the step of providing the public wired phone service, when a called number containing an incoming call received through a wired exchange is a virtual wired phone number, the mobile gateway transmits the incoming call to the mobile communication terminal corresponding to the virtual wired phone number.

9. The method according to claim 7, further comprising the step of providing the mobile gateway with a database for storing, for each arbitrary wired phone number, information indicating whether or not each of the wired phone numbers is a virtual phone number and information about whether or not a multiple terminating service is registered.

10. The method according to claim 9, further comprising the step of simultaneously calling, by the mobile gateway, a wired terminal corresponding to the wired phone number and the mobile communication terminal when the wired phone number registered with the multiple terminating service is called.

11. The method according to claim 10, further comprising the step of rerouting, by the mobile gateway, an incoming call to one of a public switched telephone network (PSTN) and a public land mobile network (PLMN) when the called wired terminal and the mobile communication terminal make no response.

12. The method according to claim 7, further comprising the step of, when the mobile gateway receives a request for an outgoing service from an internal mobile communication terminal, changing, by the mobile gateway, a caller identification (CID) to the virtual wired phone number assigned to the internal mobile communication terminal, and calling a called terminal via the public switched telephone network (PSTN).

13. The method according to claim 12, further comprising the step of performing, by billing equipment existing at a central office of the PSTN, billing of communication between the internal mobile communication terminal and a called external terminal.

14. The method according to claim 12, further comprising the step of performing, by the mobile gateway, billing of communication between the internal mobile communication terminal and a called extension subscriber terminal.

15. A method for operating wired and wireless phone services interconnectively, the method comprising the steps of:

assigning, by a mobile gateway, virtual wired phone numbers to a plurality of mobile communication terminals;

providing, by the mobile gateway, a public wired phone service to the mobile communication terminals by linking the virtual wired phone numbers with mobile identifier numbers (MINs) of the mobile communication terminals;

determining whether a called phone number received by a wired exchange is a wired subscriber phone number when a subscriber terminal calls a wired phone number;

analyzing, by the mobile gateway, the phone number received from the wired exchange to determine whether the phone number is a simultaneously called phone number;

distributing, by the mobile gateway, the call to a wired terminal and then to a wireless terminal when it is determined that the phone number is the simultaneously called phone number; and

assigning, by the mobile gateway, an extension number subscriber line card (SLC) of a wired phone connected to a trunk thereof with the SLC thereof, and connecting the assigned extension SLC to a plurality of wired terminals.