Internet base station with a telephone line

• US 7,450,939 B2
• Filed: 08/06/2004
• Issued: 11/11/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 10/03/2001
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Original Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Inventors: Scheinert, Stefan
• Primary Examiner(s): TRINH, TAN H
• Application Number:
  US10/913,652
• Publication Number:
  US 20050068943A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,558 Days
• Field of Search: 455/417, 455/554.1, 455/554.2, 455/557, 455/558, 455/415, 455/463, 455/432.2, 455/436, 455/435.2, 455/439, 455/445, 455/414.1, 455/432.1, 455/435.1, 455/41.2, 455/411, 455/410, 455/438, 370/352, 370/335, 370/522, 370/338, 370/401, 370/466, 370/328, 379/172, 379/142.07
• US Class Current: 455/426.2
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/66 Arrangements for connecting between networks having differing types of switching systems, e.g. gateways
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42042 Notifying the called party of information on the calling party details within substation equipment H04M1/57, signalling details H04Q3/72
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42102 Making use of the called party identifier
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42263 where the same subscriber uses different terminals, i.e. nomadism

Abstract

A low power base station with a VOIP telephone line is used to combine fixed and wireless services, The device uses the Internet to communicate with a Mobile Switching Center, The base station is configured to connect to the Internet at a user-selected location and establishes a small area of wireless coverage within a greater macrocell network and providing a fixed line connection for the analog telephones at home or in the office.

Claims

1. A network comprising:

a telephone adaptor (TA) to communicably couple with at least one wire line telephone; and

a base station having a broadband modem to communicate with a mobile station, to communicably couple with the TA, and to communicably couple with the Internet via the broadband modem;

wherein the base station to convey a phone call between the mobile station or the TA and a wireless network via the Internet according to a Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technique, and further wherein the base station, for outgoing calls, distinguishes between different phone numbers and provides information to identify a selected phone number as an originating phone number and provides the originating phone number to a recipient of the phone call by providing a different identifier for the mobile device than used for the wire line.

2. The network of claim 1 further comprising an internet base station controller (iBSC) to communicably couple with the Internet and with the wireless network;

wherein the iBSC to convey the phone call between the Internet and the wireless network.

3. The network of claim 1, further comprising:

a mobile switching center (MSC), of the wireless network, to be communicably coupled with the Internet and to forward a second phone call, that is directed to the mobile station, from the wireless network to the base station via the Internet.

4. The network of claim 3, further comprising an internet base station controller (iBSC) to be communicably coupled with the MSC and with the Internet;

wherein the iBSC to convey the second phone call from the MSC to the base station via the Internet.

5. The network of claim 1, wherein the TA to communicably couple with a digital wire line telephone.

6. The network of claim 1, wherein the TA and the base station are integrated into a single device.

7. The network of claim 1, wherein the base station to communicably couple to the Internet at a location in a home or office.

8. The network of claim 1, wherein the base station to communicate with two or more mobile stations by using different caller ID content.

9. A network comprising:

a telephone adapter (TA) to communicably couple with at least one telephone with the Internet via a broadband modem; and

one of a mobile switching center (MSC) or a Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VOIP) gateway, of a wireless network, to couple with the Internet;

wherein, the TA to convey a phone call between the telephone and the MSC or VOIP gateway via the Internet, and further wherein the MSC or VOIP guateway, for outgoing calls, distinguishes between different phone numbers and provides information to identify a selected phone number as an originating phone number and provides the originating phone number to a recipient of the phone call where an identifier provided for a call originating from the MSC or VOIP gateway is different than an identifier provided for a call originating from the telephone.

10. The network of claim 9, wherein the MSC or the VOIP gateway to forward a phone call, that is directed to a mobile station, from the wireless network to the TA via the Internet.

11. The network of claim 9, wherein the TA provides multiple digital or analog outputs for connection with multiple wired digital or analog telephones.

12. The network of claim 9, wherein the TA can handle multiple mobile telephones by using different caller ID content and/or different prefixes for outgoing calls for the fixed telephones.

13. A method comprising:

communicably coupling a telephone adaptor (TA) with at least one wire line telephone;

communicably coupling a base station with a plurality of mobile stations, with the TA, and with the Internet via a broadband modem, wherein each mobile station and the TA correspond to a different telephone number; and

with the base station, conveying an outgoing phone call between a selected mobile station or the TA using a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) standard and a wireless network via the Internet, wherein the base station determines a telephone number corresponding to a source of the phone call and provides the determined telephone number as the originator of the phone call where an identifier provided for a call originating from the MSC or VOIP gateway is different than an identifier provided for a call originating from the wire line telephone.

14. The method of claim 13, further comprising:

communicably coupling a mobile switching center (MSC), of the wireless network with the Internet; and

forwarding a second phone call, that is directed to the mobile station, from the wireless network to the base station via the Internet.

15. The method of claim 14, further comprising:

communicably coupling an internet base station controller (iBSC) with the MSC and with the Internet; and

with the iBSC, conveying the second phone call from the MSC to the base station via the Internet.