Wireless mobile call location and delivery for non-geographic numbers using a wireline SSP+SCP/wireless HLR interface

• US 8,170,550 B2
• Filed: 10/31/2007
• Issued: 05/01/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 07/01/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: GTE Wireless Incorporated (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Original Assignee: GTE Wireless Incorporated (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Inventors: Howe, Walter Wesley
• Primary Examiner(s): Ly, Nghi H
• Application Number:
  US11/931,540
• Publication Number:
  US 20080051082A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,644 Days
• Field of Search: 455/432.3, 455/432.1, 455/445, 455/207, 455/220, 370/328, 370/338, 379/93.23, 379/207.15
• US Class Current: 455/432.3
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2207/206 composed of PSTN and wireless network
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 3/0025 Provisions for signalling
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 3/0029 Provisions for intelligent networking
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 3/0045 involving hybrid, i.e. a mixture of public and private, or multi-vendor systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 3/005 Personal communication services, e.g. provisions for portability of subscriber numbers
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/12 Setup of transport tunnels
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/04 Registration at HLR or HSS [Home Subscriber Server]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/12 between location registers or mobility servers
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/26 Network addressing or numbering for mobility support

Abstract

A system and method is provided for establishing a call to a wireless directory number which is either a non-geographic directory number or a non-dialable directory number. A call is initiated from a wireline telephone to a geographic-based local access directory number. A signaling node associated with the dialed local access DN sends a location request that includes the local access DN to an HLR. The HLR obtains the wireless DN from an internal database in which the wireless DN is associated with the local access DN. The HLR utilizes the wireless DN to receive a temporary local directory number (TLDN) from visitor location register, associates the TLDN with the local access DN and forwards the TLDN to the signaling node, which relays the TLDN to the originating switching node. The call connection is then established directly from the originating switching node to a visited cellular switch using the TLDN.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving a first number, associated with a wireless device, at a peripheral interface module of an originating switching node;

identifying, by a processor of the originating switching node, a signaling node associated with the first number, where the identifying includes matching the first number to a translation type/global title address (TT/GTA) associated with the identified signaling node;

sending, by a signaling interface module of the originating switching node, a request to the identified signaling node for a route to the wireless device;

receiving from the identified signaling node a route to the wireless device, the route including a visited wireless switch serving the wireless device, the receiving being performed by the signaling interface module; and

establishing, via the originating switching node, a connection to the wireless device via the route.

2. The method of claim 1, where the originating switching node includes an Advanced Intelligent Network (AIN)-capable Service Switching Point (SSP), and the signaling node comprises an AIN-capable Service Control Point (SCP).

3. The method of claim 1, where identifying the signaling node includes invoking a trigger at the originating switching node indexed as a function of the first number.

4. The method of claim 1, where the route is a temporary number, different than the first number, and associated with the visited wireless switch and the wireless device.

5. The method of claim 1, where the route excludes a home switching node associated with the wireless device.

6. The method of claim 1, where establishing a connection with the visited wireless switch causes a ring signal to be sent to the wireless device.

7. A system comprising:

a switching node to;

receive a first number associated with a wireless device;

identify a signaling node associated with the first number, where the signaling node includes a service control point (SCP);

send a request to the identified signaling node for a route to the wireless device;

receive, from the identified signaling node, a route comprising a visited wireless switch serving the wireless device; and

establish a connection to the wireless device via the route.

8. The system of claim 7, where the switching node includes an Advanced Intelligent Network (AIN)-capable Service Switching Point (SSP), and where the SCP included in the signaling node comprises an AIN-capable SCP.

9. The system of claim 7, where the switching node is further, when identifying the signaling node, to invoke a trigger at the switching node indexed as a function of the first number.

10. The system of claim 7, where the route is a temporary number, different from the first number, and associated with the visited wireless switch and the wireless device.

11. The system of claim 7, where the switching node establishing a connection with the visited wireless switch causes a ring signal to be sent to the wireless device.

12. The system of claim 7, where the route excludes a home switching node associated with the wireless device.

13. A system comprising:

a processor; and

a memory containing instructions, that when executed by the processor, cause the processor to;

receive, at a switching node, a first number associated with a wireless device;

identify a signaling node associated with the first number, where the signaling node includes a service control point (SCP);

send a request to the identified signaling node for a route to the wireless device;

receive, from the identified signaling node, a route comprising a visited wireless switch serving the wireless device; and

establish a connection to the wireless device via the route.

14. The system of claim 13, where the switching node includes an Advanced Intelligent Network (AIN)-capable Service Switching Point (SSP), and where the SCP included in the signaling node comprises an AIN-capable SCP.

15. The system of claim 13, where identifying the signaling node invokes a trigger at the switching node indexed as a function of the first number.

16. The system of claim 13, where the route is a temporary number, different from the first number, and associated with the visited wireless switch and the wireless device.

17. The system of claim 13, where establishing a connection with the visited wireless switch causes a ring signal to be sent to the wireless device.

18. The system of claim 13, where the route excludes a home switching node associated with the wireless device.