Use of wireless circuit-switched connections for transferring information requiring real-time operation of packet-switched multimedia services

• US 8,582,589 B2
• Filed: 05/07/2012
• Issued: 11/12/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 01/19/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Intermec IP Corporation (Honeywell International Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Intermec IP Corporation (Honeywell International Inc.)
• Inventors: Rautiola, Markku, Oukka, Heikki
• Primary Examiner(s): HO, DUC CHI
• Application Number:
  US13/465,910
• Publication Number:
  US 20120281624A1
• Time in Patent Office: 554 Days
• Field of Search: 370/401, 370/392, 370/352, 370/338
• US Class Current: 370/401
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 60/00 Affiliation to network, e.g. registration; Terminating affiliation with the network, e.g. de-registration
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 64/00 Locating users or terminals or network equipment for network management purposes, e.g. mobility management
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/10 Connection setup
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/26 Network addressing or numbering for mobility support
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/04 adapted for relaying to or from another terminal or user

Abstract

A system includes a terminal, a wireless access network, a multimedia core network and a network device, which connects the wireless access network to the multimedia core network, expanded location updating to the registration procedure of the multimedia core network, and performs double registration of the user to the multimedia core network. The terminal performs expanded location updating relaying the registration point identity of the multimedia core network, the user'"'"'s phone number and the private user identity to the network device in connection with normal location updating signaling. In the double registration performed by the network device, two addresses are registered for the user of the terminal, one of which is associated with the domain name of the terminal in question or a numeric IP address, and the other to a domain name of the network device or a numeric IP address.

Claims

1. A method of operation in a multi bearer service gateway network device to provide communications between a mobile radio terminal and a multimedia core network via a wireless access network, the method comprising:

receiving by the multi bearer service gateway network device a location updating request transmitted by the mobile radio terminal via the wireless access network;

generating by the multi bearer service gateway network device a session initiation protocol (SIP) registration request in response to the received location updating request,

setting a FROM header field of the SIP registration request to an address connection connected to a SIP session services of a SIP end point of the mobile radio terminal; and

storing the SIP registration to a nontransitory memory of the multi bearer service gateway network device.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein generating a SIP registration request in response to the received location updating request includes:

setting by the multi bearer service gateway network device a home network registrar'"'"'s domain name to a domain name associated with the mobile radio terminal.

3. The method of claim 2 wherein generating a SIP registration request in response to the received location updating request further includes:

deriving by the multi bearer service gateway network device the domain name associated with the mobile radio terminal from an IMSI associated with a user account associated with the mobile radio terminal.

4. The method of claim 3 wherein receiving a location updating request transmitted by the mobile radio terminal includes:

receiving the location updating request which includes the IMSI associated with the user account associated with the mobile radio terminal.

5. The method of claim 3, further comprising:

sending by the multi bearer service gateway network device an identity request to the mobile radio terminal; and

receiving by the multi bearer service gateway network device an identity request response which includes the IMSI associated with the user account associated with the mobile radio terminal.

6. The method of claim 3 wherein receiving a location updating request transmitted by the mobile radio terminal includes:

receiving the location updating request which includes the domain name associated with the mobile radio terminal.

7. The method of claim 3, further comprising:

sending by the multi bearer service gateway network device an identity request to the mobile radio terminal; and

receiving by the multi bearer service gateway network device an identity request response which includes the domain name associated with the mobile radio terminal.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein generating a SIP registration request in response to the received location updating request includes:

setting a registration address in a TO header field of the SIP registration request to a public user identity of a user account associated with the mobile radio terminal.

9. The method of claim 8 wherein setting a registration address in a TO header field of the SIP registration request to a public user identity of a user account associated with the mobile radio terminal includes:

setting a TO header field to a uniform resource locator (URL) for an international phone number associated with the mobile radio terminal.

10. The method of claim 9 wherein receiving a location updating request transmitted by the mobile radio terminal includes:

receiving the location updating request which includes the international phone number associated with the mobile radio terminal.

11. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

sending by the multi bearer service gateway network device an identity request to the mobile radio terminal; and

receiving by the multi bearer service gateway network device an identity request response which includes the international phone number associated with the mobile radio terminal.

12. The method of claim 1 wherein setting a FROM header field to an address connection connected to a SIP session services of a SIP end point of the mobile radio terminal includes:

setting the address to a string that includes a mobile subscriber integrated services digital network number (MSISDN) associated with a user account associated with the mobile radio terminal, followed by the @ character, which is followed by a domain name of the multi bearer service gateway network device or a numeric Internet Protocol (IP) address of the multi bearer service gateway network device.

13. The method of claim 1 wherein generating a SIP registration request in response to the received location updating request includes:

setting a user name field of an authorization header to a private user identity associated with a user account associated with the mobile radio terminal.

14. The method of claim 13 wherein generating a SIP registration request in response to the received location updating request further includes:

deriving by the multi bearer service gateway network device the private user identity associated with the user account associated with the mobile radio terminal from an IMSI associated with a user account associated with the mobile radio terminal.

15. The method of claim 14 wherein receiving a location updating request transmitted by the mobile radio terminal includes:

receiving the location updating request which includes the IMSI associated with the user account associated with the mobile radio terminal.

16. The method of claim 14, further comprising:

sending by the multi bearer service gateway network device an identity request to the mobile radio terminal; and

receiving by the multi bearer service gateway network device an identity request response which includes the IMSI associated with the user account associated with the mobile radio terminal.

17. The method of claim 13 wherein receiving a location updating request transmitted by the mobile radio terminal includes:

receiving the location updating request which includes the private user identity associated with the user account associated with the mobile radio terminal.

18. The method of claim 13, further comprising:

sending by the multi bearer service gateway network device an identity request to the mobile radio terminal; and

receiving by the multi bearer service gateway network device an identity request response which includes the private user identity associated with the user account associated with the mobile radio terminal.

19. The method of claim 1 wherein generating a SIP registration request in response to the received location updating request includes:

setting an identifier of a network in a realm field of an authentication header of the SIP registration request which identifies a network that performs user authentication for a user account associated with the mobile radio terminal.

20. A multi bearer service gateway network device to provide communications between a mobile radio terminal and a multimedia core network via a wireless access network, the multi bearer service gateway network device comprising:

a number of communications interfaces;

a nontransitory memory;

a controller communicatively coupled to the communications interfaces and the nontransitory memory, and which upon receipt of a location updating request transmitted by the mobile radio terminal via the wireless access network;

generates a session initiation protocol (SIP) registration request in response to the received location updating request,

wherein the controller sets a FROM header field of the SIP registration request to an address connection connected to a SIP session services of a SIP end point of the mobile radio terminal; and

stores the SIP registration request to the nontransitory memory of the multi bearer service gateway network device.

21. The multi bearer service gateway network device of claim 20 wherein the controller sets a home network registrar'"'"'s domain name to a domain name associated with the mobile radio terminal to generate the SIP registration request.

22. The multi bearer service gateway network device of claim 21 wherein the controller derives the domain name associated with the mobile radio terminal from an IMSI associated with a user account associated with the mobile radio terminal to generate the SIP registration request.

23. The multi bearer service gateway network device of claim 22 wherein the controller:

sends an identity request to the mobile radio terminal; and

receives an identity request response which includes the IMSI associated with the user account associated with the mobile radio terminal.

24. The multi bearer service gateway network device of claim 22 wherein the controller:

sends an identity request to the mobile radio terminal; and

receives an identity request response which includes the domain name associated with the mobile radio terminal.

25. The multi bearer service gateway network device of claim 20 wherein the controller set a registration address in a TO header field of the SIP registration request to a public user identity of a user account associated with the mobile radio terminal.

26. The multi bearer service gateway network device of claim 25 wherein the controller sets the registration address in the TO header field of the SIP registration request to a uniform resource locator (URL) for an international phone number associated with the mobile radio terminal.

27. The multi bearer service gateway network device of claim 26 wherein the controller:

sends an identity request to the mobile radio terminal; and

receives an identity request response which includes the international phone number associated with the mobile radio terminal.

28. The multi bearer service gateway network device of claim 20 wherein the controller sets the FROM header field to a string that includes a mobile subscriber integrated services digital network number (MSISDN) associated with a user account associated with the mobile radio terminal, followed by the @ character, which is followed by a domain name of the multi bearer service gateway network device or a numeric Internet Protocol (IP) address of the multi bearer service gateway network device.

29. The multi bearer service gateway network device of claim 20 wherein the controller sets a user name field of an authorization header to a private user identity associated with a user account associated with the mobile radio terminal.

30. The multi bearer service gateway network device of claim 29 wherein the controller derives the private user identity associated with the user account associated with the mobile radio terminal from an IMSI associated with a user account associated with the mobile radio terminal.

31. The multi bearer service gateway network device of claim 20 wherein the controller sets an identifier of a network in a realm field of an authentication header of the SIP registration request which identifies a network that performs user authentication for a user account associated with the mobile radio terminal.