Method and system for reporting events in telecommunication networks

• US 7,929,669 B2
• Filed: 05/18/2009
• Issued: 04/19/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 10/14/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: GTE Wireless LLC (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Original Assignee: GTE Wireless Incorporated (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Inventors: Howe, Walter Wesley
• Primary Examiner(s): Anwah; Olisa
• Application Number:
  US12/467,829
• Publication Number:
  US 20090285161A1
• Time in Patent Office: 701 Days
• Field of Search: 455/412, 455/413, 455/417, 379/88.22, 379/88.05, 379/76, 379/67.1, 379/88.06
• US Class Current: 379/76
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/06 Management of faults, events, alarms or notifications
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13098 Mobile subscriber
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13288 Closed user groups, CUG
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13345 Intelligent networks, SCP
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13377 Recorded announcement
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 3/0029 Provisions for intelligent networking
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/16 Communication-related supplementary services, e.g. call-transfer or call-hold
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/18 Information format or content conversion, e.g. adaptation by the network of the transmitted or received information for the purpose of wireless delivery to users or terminals

Abstract

Methods and systems are provided for reporting to subscribers, wireless network events in a plurality of formats and languages depending upon the particular subscriber group to which a wireless subscriber belongs. When a subscriber requests a call, a switching node in the network invokes a trigger that identifies a location register for routing the call and sends a route request to the location register While processing the route request, if the location register detects an event that would prevent the call from being routed, the location register identifies the subscriber group of the wireless subscriber and determines a directory number associated with the identified subscriber group and the detected event. The location register then returns the determined directory number to the switching node Using the determined directory number, the switching node establishes the call to a message node, where a message associated with the determined directory number is executed. Accordingly, the wireless network reports the detected event in a format and language that the wireless subscriber, or an entity attempting to communicate with the wireless subscriber, can recognize.

Claims

1. A method performed by one or more devices, comprising:

detecting, by the one or more devices, a particular type of event associated with a call placed by a wireless subscriber to a destination via a network;

identifying, by the one or more devices and upon detecting the particular type of event, a particular subscriber group with which the wireless subscriber is associated;

determining, by the one or more devices, a directory number particularly corresponding to the particular type of event and the particular subscriber group; and

selectively reporting the event, by the one or more devices and using the directory number, to the wireless subscriber based on a particular profile associated with the particular subscriber group.

2. The method of claim 1, where selectively reporting the event comprises providing a message, to the wireless subscriber, in a particular message format indicated in the particular profile associated with the particular subscriber group.

3. The method of claim 1, where selectively reporting the event comprises providing a message, to the wireless subscriber, in a particular language indicated in the particular profile associated with the particular subscriber group.

4. The method of claim 1, where selectively reporting the event comprises providing a message, to the wireless subscriber, that corresponds to a particular type of subscriber device indicated in the particular profile associated with the particular subscriber group.

5. The method of claim 1, where detecting the event comprises determining that the call placed by the wireless subscriber cannot be routed to the destination via the network.

6. The method of claim 1, where the particular directory number terminates at a message node remote from the one or more devices, the method further comprising:

connecting the call, placed by the wireless subscriber, to the message node via the network.

7. The method of claim 1, where the particular directory number terminates at a message node remote from the one or more devices, the method further comprising:

establishing, via the network, another call between the wireless subscriber and the message node.

8. A method performed by one or more devices, comprising:

receiving, by the one or more devices, a call request initiated by a user device and destined for a wireless subscriber device via a network;

determining, by the one or more devices and based on the call request, that the user device cannot be connected to the wireless subscriber device due to a particular type of network event;

identifying, by the one or more devices and based on the call request, a particular subscriber group with which the wireless subscriber is associated;

selecting, by the one or more devices, a directory number mapped to the particular type of network event and the particular subscriber group; and

forwarding, by the one or more devices, a response to the call request to a message node, where the selected directory number is appended to the response to the call request.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

identifying a particular message, in the message node, corresponding to the appended directory number; and

delivering the particular message to the user device, in a particular message format indicated in a particular profile associated with the particular subscriber group.

10. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

identifying a particular message, in the message node, corresponding to the appended directory number; and

delivering the particular message to the user device, in a particular language indicated in a particular profile associated with the particular subscriber group.

11. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

identifying a particular message, in the message node, corresponding to the appended directory number; and

delivering the particular message to the user device, where the particular message corresponds to a particular type of subscriber device indicated in a particular profile associated with the particular subscriber group.

12. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

establishing, via the network and using the appended directory number, a connection, between the message node and the user device, for delivery of a particular message corresponding to the appended directory number.

13. The method of claim 8, where the particular type of network event is selectively reported to the user device.

14. A system comprising:

means for receiving, via a network, a call request associated with a wireless subscriber device;

means for detecting a particular type of network event associated with the call request;

means for identifying, upon detecting the particular type of network event, a particular subscriber group with which the wireless subscriber is associated;

means for selecting, based on the particular type of network event and the particular subscriber group, a particular directory number corresponding to a particular profile associated with the particular subscriber group; and

means for generating a response to the call request, where the selected directory number is appended to the response to the call request.

15. The system of claim 14, where the particular profile indicates at least one of a particular message format or a particular language for communicating to the wireless subscriber device.

16. The system of claim 14, where the particular profile indicates at least one of a particular message format or a particular language for communicating to a user device associated with the call request.

17. The system of claim 14, further comprising:

means for identifying a particular message, of a plurality of messages, corresponding to the selected directory number; and

means for delivering the particular message to a user device associated with the call request.

18. The system of claim 14, further comprising:

means for identifying a particular message, of a plurality of messages, corresponding to the selected directory number; and

means for delivering the particular message to the wireless subscriber device.

19. The system of claim 14, where the particular type of network event comprises a communication failure over the network, where the communication failure prevents the call request from being routed via the network.

20. The system of claim 14, where the particular type of network event comprises a reportable event, the system further comprising:

means for reporting, using the selected directory number, the reportable event to at least one of the wireless subscriber device or a user device associated with the call request.