System, method, and device for providing communications using a distributed mobile architecture

• US 8,036,158 B2
• Filed: 09/20/2007
• Issued: 10/11/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 04/13/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Lemko Corporation
• Original Assignee: Lemko Corporation
• Inventors: Pan, ShaoWei, Labun, Nicholas
• Primary Examiner(s): MEHRPOUR, NAGHMEH
• Application Number:
  US11/858,762
• Publication Number:
  US 20080039144A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,482 Days
• Field of Search: 455/560, 455/414.1, 455/417, 455/550, 455/439, 4554321-4323, 455/433, 455/435.1, 455/43, 455/466, 4554121-4122, 455/461, 455/445, 455/426, 455/419, 455/415, 455/561, 455/519, 455/518, 455/68, 455/66.1, 455/67.11, 455/411, 455/25, 455/428, 370/342, 370/328, 370/316, 370/401, 370/338, 370/465, 709/212, 726/4
• US Class Current: 370/328
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1069 Session establishment or de-establishment
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/401 wherein the services involve a main real-time session and one or more additional parallel real-time or time sensitive sessions, e.g. white board sharing or spawning of a subconference
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/4046 with distributed floor control
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 80/00 Wireless network protocols or protocol adaptations to wireless operation
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/042 Public Land Mobile systems, e.g. cellular systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/14 WLL [Wireless Local Loop]; RLL [Radio Local Loop]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/14 Backbone network devices

Abstract

A device for providing a communication path between two or more wireless telephones via one or more wireless transceivers is disclosed. The device includes a housing that includes a mobile switching center module and includes a base station controller module. Further, in another particular embodiment, the mobile switching center module includes a program for switching received telephone calls. Additionally, the mobile switching center module includes a program to establish a peer-to-peer connection with a remote distributed mobile architecture server. The mobile switching center module further includes a program to transmit telephone calls to a remote distributed mobile architecture server via one or more peer-to-peer Internet protocol connections.

Claims

1. A communication apparatus, comprising:

a wireless transceiver; and

a computer readable storage medium, comprising;

a base station controller (BSC) module; and

a mobile switching center (MSC) module, wherein the MSC module includes an authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) module, the AAA module configured to support generation of call detail records at the communication apparatus,

wherein the communication apparatus is adapted to provide a wireless communication path to one or more mobile devices, and wherein the communication apparatus has a volume less than 150,000 centimeters cubed.

2. The communication apparatus of claim 1, wherein the AAA module is further adapted to wirelessly transmit the call detail records to a destination.

3. The communication apparatus of claim 2, wherein at least one subscriber to a wireless communication service is billed from the destination.

4. The communication apparatus of claim 1, wherein the communication apparatus has a footprint area that is less than 5,000 centimeters squared.

5. The communication apparatus of claim 1, wherein the communication apparatus has a weight that is less than 50 kilograms.

6. The communication apparatus of claim 1, wherein the communication apparatus has a volume less than 16,000 centimeters cubed.

7. The communication apparatus of claim 6, wherein the communication apparatus has a footprint area that is less than 4,000 centimeters squared.

8. The communication apparatus of claim 6, wherein the communication apparatus has a weight that is less than 20 kilograms.

9. The communication apparatus of claim 1, wherein the communication apparatus has a volume less than 6,000 centimeters cubed.

10. The communication apparatus of claim 9, wherein the communication apparatus has a footprint area that is less than 800 centimeters squared.

11. The communication apparatus of claim 9, wherein the communication apparatus has a weight that is less than 6 kilograms.

12. The communication apparatus of claim 1, wherein the communication apparatus is operable from negative twenty degrees Celsius to positive fifty five degrees Celsius.

13. The communication apparatus of claim 1, further comprising:

a home location register (HLR) module; and

a visitor location register (VLR) module.

14. A portable communication apparatus, comprising:

a wireless transceiver; and

a computer readable storage medium, comprising;

a base station controller (BSC) module; and

a mobile switching center (MSC) module, wherein the MSC module includes an authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) module, the AAA module configured to support generation of call detail records at the portable communication apparatus and to bill at least one subscriber directly from the portable communication apparatus,

wherein the portable communication apparatus is adapted to provide a wireless communication path to one or more mobile devices, and wherein the portable communication apparatus has a volume less than 150,000 centimeters cubed.

15. The portable communication apparatus of claim 14, wherein the computer readable storage medium stores administrative information corresponding to one or more wireless telephone device subscribers.

16. The portable communication apparatus of claim 15, further comprising a gateway to a public switched telephone network and a media gateway.

17. The portable communication apparatus of claim 16, further comprising a packet data serving node (PDSN) gateway.

18. The portable communication apparatus of claim 17, wherein the MSC module further comprises:

a simple Internet phone gateway;

a signaling system seven (SS7) gateway; and

a gatekeeper module coupled to the public switched telephone network gateway, the media gateway, the PDSN gateway, a Session Initiation Protocol gateway, and the AAA module.

19. The portable communication apparatus of claim 16, further comprising a Gateway GPRS Support Node (GGSN).

20. The portable communication apparatus of claim 19, wherein the MSC module further comprises:

a simple Internet phone gateway;

a signaling system seven (SS7) gateway; and

a gatekeeper module coupled to the public switched telephone network gateway, the media gateway, the GGSN gateway, a Session Initiation Protocol gateway, and the AAA module.

21. The portable communication apparatus of claim 20, wherein the BSC module comprises:

a cellular radio network controller;

a cellular selection/distribution unit;

a call protocol controller, wherein the call protocol controller communicates with the wireless transceiver; and

an operations, maintenance, and provisioning (OMP) module.

22. A portable communication apparatus, comprising:

a wireless transceiver; and

a computer readable storage medium, comprising;

a base station controller (BSC) module; and

a mobile switching center (MSC) module, wherein the MSC module includes an authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) module, the AAA module configured to support generation of call detail records at the portable communication apparatus,

wherein the portable communication apparatus is adapted to provide one or more wireless communication services to one or more mobile devices when the portable communication apparatus is in motion, and wherein the portable communication apparatus has a volume less than 150,000 centimeters cubed.

23. The portable communication apparatus of claim 22, wherein the portable communication apparatus is adapted to be mounted in a vehicle.

24. The portable communication apparatus of claim 22, wherein the portable communication apparatus is adapted to be carried like a briefcase.