Emergency intersystem paging for emergency call back

• US 7,565,130 B2
• Filed: 01/13/2003
• Issued: 07/21/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 01/13/2003
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: RPX Corporation
• Original Assignee: Alcatel-Lucent USA, Inc. (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: Chin, Mary W., Rollender, Douglas H.
• Primary Examiner(s): Harper; Vincent P
• Assistant Examiner(s): Santiago-Cordero; Marivelisse
• Application Number:
  US10/340,705
• Publication Number:
  US 20040203573A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,381 Days
• Field of Search: 4554041-4042, 455/432.1, 455/458
• US Class Current: 455/404.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/90 Services for handling of emergency or hazardous situations, e.g. earthquake and tsunami warning systems [ETWS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 68/00 User notification, e.g. alerting and paging, for incoming communication, change of service or the like
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 68/12 Inter-network notification
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/50 for emergency connections

Abstract

In the method of emergency service call back in a wireless system, an emergency intersystem page is sent from a first system to a second system such that the emergency intersystem page is identifiable as requesting paging of a mobile station for an emergency call back. The second system receives the mobile station identifier (MSID) and mobile equipment identity (MEID) of the paged mobile station from the first system in or with the emergency intersystem page, and uses the MSID to page the mobile station. The second system verifies the page response is from the paged mobile station using the MEID received from the responding mobile station and the MEID received in association with the emergency intersystem page. The emergency call back can then be completed when the mobile station is verified.

Claims

1. A method of emergency service call back in a wireless system, comprising:

receiving, at a first switch, a called party number and a mobile equipment identity;

recognizing, at the first switch, a call as an emergency call back if the called party number is an emergency routing number assigned to the first switch;

paging, in-system, a mobile station using a default mobile station identifier identified by the mobile equipment identity when the called party number matches the emergency routing number assigned to the first switch, the default mobile station identifier including portions of the mobile equipment identity; and

sending an emergency intersystem page from the first switch to a bordering switch when the mobile station fails to respond to an in-system page within a predetermined period of time such that the emergency intersystem page is identifiable as the emergency call back to be handled on a priority basis, the sending step sending the mobile equipment identity and the default mobile station identifier of the mobile station being paged in the emergency intersystem page.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the receiving a called party number and a mobile equipment identity step receives the mobile equipment identity in a generic address parameter.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the in-system paging step is performed with priority over other tasks at the switch.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the first and the bordering switches mobile switching centers.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the in-system paging step comprises:

retrieving the default mobile station identifier for the mobile station from a mapping table using the received mobile equipment identity; and

paging the mobile station using the retrieved default mobile station identifier.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the sending step sends the emergency intersystem page such that the emergency intersystem page is identified as requesting paging of the mobile station for which no registration, validation and authentication is required.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a page response and a mobile equipment identity from a responding mobile station; and

participating in completion of the emergency call back to the responding mobile station in response to the page response when the mobile equipment identity of the responding mobile station matches the mobile equipment identity received in association with the emergency inter system page.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein a dialable number for the mobile station is unknown to the first switch.

9. A method of emergency service call back in a wireless system, comprising:

receiving, at a first switch, a called party number and a mobile equipment identity;

recognizing, at the first switch, a call as an emergency call back if the called party number is an emergency routing number assigned to the first switch;

paging, in-system, a mobile station using a default mobile station identifier identified by the mobile equipment identity when the called party number matches the emergency routing number assigned to the first switch, the default mobile station identifier including portions of the mobile equipment identity;

receiving an emergency intersystem page from the first switch at a bordering switch when the mobile station fails to respond to the in-system page within a predetermined period of time such that the emergency intersystem page is identifiable as the emergency call back to be handled on a priority basis, the emergency intersystem page including the mobile equipment identifier and the default mobile station identifier identifying a mobile station;

paging a mobile station from the bordering switch based on the default mobile station identifier.

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

receiving a page response and a mobile equipment identity from a responding mobile station; and

participating in completion of the emergency call back to the responding mobile station in response to the page response when the mobile equipment identity of the responding mobile station matches the mobile equipment identity received in association with the emergency inter-system page.

11. The method of claim 9 wherein the intersystem paging step is performed with priority over other tasks at the bordering switch.

12. The method of claim 9 wherein the receiving the intersystem page step receives an emergency intersystem page such that the emergency intersystem page is identified as requesting paging of the mobile station for which no registration, validation and authentication is required.

13. The method of claim 9, wherein a dialable number for the mobile station is unknown to the first switch.