Providing integrated service-entity premium communication services

• US 8,670,752 B2
• Filed: 09/24/2010
• Issued: 03/11/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/24/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Fan, James, Chen, David, Kuo, Richard
• Primary Examiner(s): Eisner, Ronald
• Application Number:
  US12/890,088
• Publication Number:
  US 20120077468A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,264 Days
• Field of Search: 4554141-4143, 4554321-433, 4554351-4353, 455418-420, 455 303- 306, 348/552, 348/14.05, 370/259, 370/343, 370/389, 370400-409, 370/411, 725/25, 725/62, 725/51, 725/27, 725/100, 725/132, 725/140, 725/114, 725/116, 725/30, 725/31, 725/313, 380247-250
• US Class Current: 455/414.2
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/00309 operated with bidirectional data transmission between data carrier and locks
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/00857 where the code of the data carrier can be programmed
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/06 Authentication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/08 Access security
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 70/5155 Door

Abstract

Systems, methods, and devices that integrate a subscriber'"'"'s communication services, including home wireline communication services, and a service-entity communication services are presented. User equipment (UE) is associated with a subscription for communication services, comprising wireline and wireless communication services, of a subscriber. The UE communicates with an enhanced service management component (ESMC) associated with a service entity to facilitate integration of at least a portion of the subscriber'"'"'s communication services with the service entity'"'"'s communication services while the UE is registered with the ESMC. While registered, the subscriber'"'"'s UE is used to facilitate controlling a door lock to the subscriber'"'"'s room associated with the service entity; and accessing the integrated communication services, including at least a portion of the home services, while in a location of the service entity, at least when the home services are provided via the same provider as that serving the service entity.

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

a memory to store instructions; and

a processor, coupled to the memory, that facilitates execution of the instructions to perform operations, comprising;

facilitating control of a local communication network device to facilitate communication between a mobile communication device associated with a subscriber identity and a communication device associated with a service entity identity of an entity management system, wherein the mobile communication device is associated with a subscription for a set of communication services associated with the subscriber identity;

facilitating integration of the mobile communication device with the entity management system; and

in response to the facilitating the integration of the mobile communication device with the entity management system, facilitating integration of the set of communication services associated with the subscriber identity with a set of communication services associated with the service entity identity, based on a first portability key associated with the subscriber identity and a second portability key associated with the service entity identity that are transmitted to an application programming interface of a service provider device associated with a service provider identity, to facilitate access of the set of communication services associated with the subscriber identity using the communication device.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the set of communication services associated with the subscriber identity comprises a set of wireline communication services.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the set of wireline communication services comprises a defined number of television channels.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise sending an application to the mobile communication device to facilitate configuration of the mobile communication device to enable use of the mobile communication device to facilitate accessing the set of communication services associated with the subscriber identity and the set of communication services associated with the service entity identity using the communication device associated with the service entity identity.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the application facilitates the configuration of the mobile communication device to use the mobile communication device to facilitate control of a locking state of a door lock on a room associated with the subscriber identity, wherein the room is located on a premises associated with the service entity identity.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the application facilitates the configuration of the mobile communication device to employ a first button usable to facilitate the access of the set of communication services associated with the subscriber identity and the set of communication services associated with the service entity identity, and a second button usable to facilitate the control of the locking state on the door lock.

7. The system of claim 5, wherein the operations further comprise:

receiving an unlock door request that comprises a device identifier associated with the mobile communication device from the mobile communication device;

authenticating the unlock door request based on the device identifier; and

transmitting an unlock command to the door lock to facilitate transition of the door lock to an unlock state in response to determining the unlock door request to be valid based on the authenticating of the unlock door request.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the operations further comprise receiving a security code from a radio-frequency identification tag associated with the mobile communication device to facilitate the authenticating of the unlock door request.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise:

invoking the application programming interface of the service provider device of a set of service provider devices, wherein the set of service provider devices facilitate providing the set of communication services associated with the subscription associated with the subscriber identity and the set of communication services associated with the service entity identity via the communication device.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise receiving, by the communication device from the service provider device, the set of communication services associated with the subscriber identity, in accordance with the subscription associated with the subscriber identity, and the set of communication services associated with the service entity identity, in accordance with another subscription associated with the service entity identity.

11. The system of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise:

receiving, by the communication device from the service provider device associated with the service provider identity, the set of communication services associated with the subscriber identity, in accordance with the subscription associated with the subscriber identity; and

receiving, from the second service provider device associated with a second service provider identity, the set of communication services associated with the service entity identity by the communication device, in accordance with another subscription associated with the service entity identity.

12. The system of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise:

tracking door lock events associated with a set of rooms associated with a set of subscriber identities, wherein the set of rooms is located on a premises associated with the service entity identity; and

in response to another subscriber identity in the set of subscriber identities unlocking a door lock of a room associated with the another subscriber identity during a period of time, transmitting an alert signal to the mobile communication device to facilitate notifying the subscriber identity that the other subscriber identity has unlocked the door lock of the room, wherein the room is part of the set of rooms.

13. A method, comprising:

facilitating, by a system comprising a processor, integration of a user equipment associated with a subscriber identity with an entity management system associated with a service entity identity, wherein the user equipment is associated with a subscription for a set of communication services associated with the subscriber identity;

in response to the integration of the user equipment with the entity management system, facilitating, by the system, integration of the set of communication services associated with the subscriber identity with a set of communication services associated with the service entity identity based on a first portability key associated with the subscriber identity and a second portability key associated with the service entity identity that are transmitted to an application programming interface of a service provider device associated with a service provider identity; and

accessing, by the system, a communication service of the set of communication services associated with the subscriber identity via a communication device associated with the service entity identity.

14. The method of claim 13, further comprising:

receiving, by the system, an integration application;

configuring, by the system, the user equipment to designate a button of the user equipment as a service access button;

receiving, by the system, input information indicating manipulation of the service access button;

in response to the input information, generating, by the system, a request to access the communication service of the set of communication services associated with the subscriber identity; and

transmitting, by the system, the request to access to facilitate the accessing of the communication service.

15. The method of claim 13, further comprising:

receiving, by the system, a request to access the communication service of the set of communication services associated with the subscriber identity, wherein the request to access comprises a user equipment identifier and a security code associated with the user equipment;

authenticating, by the system, the request to access based on the user equipment identifier and the security code; and

in response to the request to access being determined to be verified based on the authenticating of the request to access, accessing, by the system, the communication service via the communication device associated with the service entity identity.

16. The method of claim 13, further comprising:

receiving, by the system, an integration application;

configuring, by the system, the user equipment to designate a button of the user equipment as a lock control button;

receiving, by the system, a security code assigned to the user equipment;

generating, by the system, an unlock door request in response to detecting a manipulation of the lock control button; and

transmitting, by the system, the unlock door request, comprising the security code, to facilitate unlocking a door lock associated with a room that is located on a premises associated with the service entity identity.

17. The method of claim 13, further comprising:

receiving, by the system, an unlock door request, wherein the unlock door request comprises a security code associated with the user equipment;

authenticating, by the system, the unlock door request based on the security code;

in response to the unlock door request being determined to be verified based on the authenticating of the unlock door request, generating, by the system, an unlock door command; and

transmitting, by the system, the unlock door request to a door lock associated with a room associated with the subscriber identity, wherein the room is located on a premises associated with the service entity identity.

18. The method of claim 13, further comprising:

receiving, by the system, a request for provisioning of the set of communication services associated with the subscriber identity for integration with the set of communication services associated with the service entity identity, wherein the set of communication services associated with the subscriber identity is provided via a first service provider device and the set of communication services associated with the service entity identity are provided via a second service provider device that is different from the first service provider device;

connecting, by the system, with a communication services broker service to facilitate the provisioning of the set of communication services associated with the subscriber identity;

determining, by the system, a cost for the provisioning of the set of communication services associated with the subscriber identity; and

enabling, by the system, the set of communication services associated with the subscriber identity in response to receiving acceptance information indicating acceptance of a payment plan relating to the cost.

19. A system, comprising:

a memory to store instructions; and

a processor, coupled to the memory, that facilitates execution of the instructions to perform operations, comprising;

facilitating integrating a mobile communication device associated with a subscriber identity with an entity management system associated with a service entity identity to facilitate integrating a set of communication services associated with the subscriber identity with a set of communication services associated with the service entity identity based on a first portability key associated with the subscriber identity and a second portability key associated with the service entity identity that are communicated to an application programming interface of a service provider device associated with a service provider identity, wherein the mobile communication device is associated with the subscription for the set of communication services associated with the subscriber identity; and

configuring a button of the mobile communication device as a service access button to facilitate accessing the set of communication services associated with the subscriber identity via a communication device associated with the entity management system in response to selecting of the service access button, wherein the set of communication services associated with the subscriber identity comprises a wireline communication service available to the subscriber identity as part of the subscription associated with a service provider device.

20. The system of claim 19, wherein the operations further comprise:

configuring a second button of the mobile communication device as a lock control button to facilitate controlling a locking state of a door lock associated with a room that is associated with the service entity identity in response to selecting of the lock control button;

generating an unlock door request, comprising a security code, in response to the selecting of the lock control button; and

transmitting the unlock door request to the entity management system to facilitate the controlling of the locking state of the door lock.