Method and system for using either public or private networks in 1xEV-DO system

• US 7,643,466 B2
• Filed: 09/09/2003
• Issued: 01/05/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 09/10/2002
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Lee, Jun-Hyuk, Yang, Doo-Yong, Choi, Hae-Young
• Primary Examiner(s): Harper; Vincent P
• Assistant Examiner(s): LAM, DUNG LE
• Application Number:
  US10/657,278
• Publication Number:
  US 20040048601A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,310 Days
• Field of Search: 455/410, 455/411, 455/555, 455/464, 455/465, 455/62.11, 455/63.13, 455/161.3, 455/185.1, 455/62, 455/452.1, 455/452.2, 455/462, 455/554.1, 455/426.1, 370/351, 370/352, 370/353, 370/356, 709/228
• US Class Current: 370/351
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/5007 Internet protocol [IP] addresses
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/08 for authentication of entities cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication H04L9/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0892 by using authentication-authorization-accounting [AAA] servers or protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 7/1235 where one of the core networks is a wireless network
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 7/128 Details of addressing, directories or routing tables
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/06 Authentication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/26 Network addressing or numbering for mobility support
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/105 PBS [Private Base Station] network H04W84/12 - H04W84/16 take precedence

Abstract

A high-speed wireless data system for providing services for either a public wireless network terminal or a private wireless network terminal, the system comprising: a base station for assigning an Unicast Access Terminal Identifier to each of terminals of the public wireless network and the private wireless network through a wireless channel to provide services of the high-speed wireless data system for each of the terminals; a base station controller for controlling implementation of different authentications for the terminals, assignment of an Unicast Access Terminal Identifier to each terminal, management of a session for each terminal, and data transmitted or received by each terminal; a private authentication system including an authentication database for authenticating the private wireless network terminal; a data location register including service information of the public wireless network terminal and information for receiving services from the private wireless network of the private wireless network terminal; and a hub for intermediating data between the base station, the base station controller, and the private authentication system, the hub discriminating between private wireless network services and public wireless network services by means of Unicast Access Terminal Identifiers received from the terminals.

Claims

1. A high-speed wireless data system for providing services for terminals of either a public wireless network or a private wireless network, the system comprising:

a first hub configured to relay data between a private base station in the private wireless network, a private base station controller in the private wireless network, a private packet data service node, a private authentication system and a second hub, to receive a call connection request signal from a terminal through the private base station, to compare a server address included in an Unicast Access Terminal Identifier (UATI) assigned to the terminal with a set of server addresses pre-stored in the first hub, to transmit the call connection request signal to the private base station controller when a server address included in the Unicast Access Terminal Identifier (UATI) assigned to the terminal is among the set of server addresses pre-stored in the first hub, and to transmit the call connection request signal to a second hub when said sever address included in the Unicast Access Terminal Identifier (UATI) is not among the set of server addresses pre-stored in the first hub;

the second hub connected to a public base station, a public base station controller, a data location register and a public network packet data service node while being connected to the first hub, the second hub receiving the call connection request signal of the terminal from the first hub and transmitting the call connection request signal to the public network base station controller; and

the data location register assigning the Unicast Access Terminal Identifier corresponding to the terminal, when the terminal enters a service area of the private base station.

2. The system according to claim 1, wherein:

the base station transfers the assigned Unicast Access Terminal Identifiers (UATIs) to each of the corresponding terminals of the public wireless network and the private wireless network through a wireless channel to provide services of the high-speed wireless data system for each of the terminals;

the base station controller performs different authentications for the terminals according to the public wireless network and the private wireless network to one of which each of the terminals belongs, assignment of an UATI to each of the terminals, management of a session for each of the terminals, call connection and control of data transmitted to or received by each of the terminals;

the private authentication system includes an authentication database for authenticating the terminal of the private wireless network;

the data location register having service information of the public wireless network terminal and information receives services from the private wireless network of the private wireless network terminal; and

the private packet data service node provides private wireless data services to the terminal of the private wireless network.

3. The system according to claim 2, wherein the base station and the base station controller assign an IP address for performing an IP telecommunication, and process data and signaling for the assigned IP address.

4. The system according to claim 2, wherein, upon the terminal of the private wireless network also being used in the public wireless network, the data location register stores terminal information of the private wireless network.

5. The system according to claim 2, wherein the private authentication system further includes a database for authentication of the terminal of the public wireless network.

7. The method of according to claim 5, the step of said making a determination further comprise, when the server address contained in a destination address in association with the call connection request signal is among the plurality of server addresses stored in the first hub, transmitting the access request signal via the first hub to the private base station controller according to the Internet protocol (IP) communication protocol.

8. The system of according to claim 1, wherein the first hub configured to transmit the call connection request signal to the private base station controller when the server address included in a destination address in association with the call connection request signal is among a set of server addresses pm-stored in the first hub.

6. A method in a high-speed wireless data system, the method comprising the steps of:

storing a plurality of server addresses in a first hub, with the first hub being communicatively connected with at least one private base station in a private network, a private base station controller in the private wireless network controlling the at least one private base station, a private packet data service node, a private authentication system and a second hub, the second hub being communicatively connected with a public base station in a public network, a public base station controller, a data location register, and a public network packet data service node, and the private base station servicing a service area and the data location register assigning an Unicast Access Terminal Identifier (UATI) to each of a plurality of mobile terminals located within the service area, with the UATI containing a server address;

receiving an access request signal, from a mobile terminal at a private base station servicing a service area where the mobile terminal is located, with the access request signal comprising a destination address and an UATI of the mobile terminal;

transmitting the access request signal from the private base station to the first hub according to the Internet protocol (IP) communication protocol;

making a determination, at the first hub, regarding whether the server address contained in the UATI received from the mobile terminal is among the plurality of server addresses stored in the first hub;

when the server address contained in the UATI received from the mobile terminal is among the plurality of server addresses stored in the first hub, transmitting the access request signal via the first hub to the private base station controller according to the Internet protocol (IP) communication protocol; and

when the server address contained in the UATI received from the mobile terminal is not among the plurality of server addresses stored in the first hub, transmitting the access request signal via the first hub to the second hub according to the Internet protocol (IP) communication protocol.