System and method of providing IMS services to users on terminating non IMS devices

• US 8,767,717 B2
• Filed: 06/25/2013
• Issued: 07/01/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 01/24/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: AT&T Mobility II LLC (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.), AT&T Mobility II LLC (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Siegel, Steven A., Afshar, Siroos K., Chastain, Walter Cooper, Epley, Robert V., McCourt, Karen M., McQuaide, Arnold Chester Jr., Strahs, Leopold, Adamczyk, Maria
• Primary Examiner(s): Hailu, Kibrom T
• Assistant Examiner(s): LAMONT, BENJAMIN S
• Application Number:
  US13/926,484
• Publication Number:
  US 20130286944A1
• Time in Patent Office: 371 Days
• Field of Search: 370/352, 455/435.1
• US Class Current: 370/352
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/66 Arrangements for connecting between networks having differing types of switching systems, e.g. gateways
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1016 IP multimedia subsystem [IMS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1073 Registration or de-registration
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1095 Inter-network session transfer or sharing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 60/00 Affiliation to network, e.g. registration; Terminating affiliation with the network, e.g. de-registration

Abstract

Disclosed is a device in an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) that provides IMS services to terminating non-IP (TNIP) devices. The method includes receiving a message to register a Public User Identity (PUID) at a TNIP device at a network-based device, the TNIP device being at an E.164 routing address, establishing, in a network device accepting communications where to send sessions destined for a PUID and providing information where to send sessions, the routing address as a final destination of sessions to the PUID based on the registration and an IP address of a network device with routing functionality based on telephone numbers as immediate destinations and using information from the registration to route to the TNIP device, after providing IMS services, using the relationship between the PUID, the routing address and the IP address of the network device with routing functionality based on telephone numbers.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

registering a public user identity for a terminating non-internet protocol device with a first network device in an internet protocol subsystem;

establishing an E.164 routing address associated with the terminating non-internet protocol device as a final destination of sessions to the public user identity;

establishing an internet protocol address of a second network device, wherein the second network device establishes a telephone number, distinct from the E.164 routing address, as an immediate destination for a session; and

routing internet protocol subsystem services to the terminating non-internet protocol device using a relationship between the public user identity, the E.164 routing address, and the internet protocol address of the second network device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein establishing the E.164 routing address is performed using a session initiated protocol registrar.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein establishing the E.164 routing address as the final destination is accomplished by placing a registration result in a record of the session initiated protocol registrar in a place designated for the internet protocol address of the final destination.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein a call session control function uses the session initiated protocol registrar to route a call to the final destination by placing a session initiated protocol uniform resource identifier representing the E.164 routing address in one of a final destination public user identity, an address of a message being processed, and a session initiated protocol uniform resource identifier representing the second network device routing functionality, the call session control function being based on telephone numbers in a portion of the message that indicates the immediate destination.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the final destination public user identity is a request uniform resource identifier.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein the portion of the message that indicates the immediate destination is a route header.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the second network device is a breakout gateway central function.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein routing internet protocol multimedia subsystem services is performed via the second network device based on sending messages associated with telephone numbers through one of a media gateway control function and a signaling gateway to the terminating non-internet protocol device.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the terminating non-internet protocol device is associated with circuit switched voice connections in one of a wireless network and a cellular network.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the one of the wireless network and the cellular network does not support internet protocol data.

11. A system comprising:

a processor; and

a computer-readable storage medium having instructions stored which, when executed by the processor, result in the processor performing operations comprising;

registering a public user identity for a terminating non-internet protocol device with a first network device in an internet protocol subsystem;

establishing an E.164 routing address associated with the terminating non-internet protocol device as a final destination of sessions to the public user identity;

establishing an internet protocol address of a second network device, wherein the second network device establishes a telephone number, distinct from the E.164 routing address, as an immediate destination for a session; and

routing internet protocol subsystem services to the terminating non-internet protocol device using a relationship between the public user identity, the E.164 routing address, and the internet protocol address of the second network device.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein establishing the E.164 routing address is performed using a session initiated protocol registrar.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein establishing the E.164 routing address as the final destination is accomplished by placing a registration result in a record of the session initiated protocol registrar in a place designated for the internet protocol address of the final destination.

14. The system of claim 12, wherein a call session control function uses the session initiated protocol registrar to route a call to the final destination by placing a session initiated protocol uniform resource identifier representing the E.164 routing address in one of a final destination public user identity, an address of a message being processed, and a session initiated protocol uniform resource identifier representing the second network device routing functionality, the call session control function being based on telephone numbers in a portion of the message that indicates the immediate destination.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the final destination public user identity is a request uniform resource identifier.

16. The system of claim 14, wherein the portion of the message that indicates the immediate destination is a route header.

17. The system of claim 11, wherein the second network device is a breakout gateway central function.

18. The system of claim 11, wherein routing internet protocol multimedia subsystem services is performed via the second network device based on sending messages associated with telephone numbers through one of a media gateway control function and a signaling gateway to the terminating non-internet protocol device.

19. The system of claim 18, wherein the terminating non-internet protocol device is associated with circuit switched voice connections in one of a wireless network and a cellular network.

20. A computer-readable storage device having instructions stored which, when executed by a computing device, result in the computing device performing operations comprising:

registering a public user identity for a terminating non-internet protocol device with a first network device in an internet protocol subsystem;

establishing an E.164 routing address associated with the terminating non-internet protocol device as a final destination of sessions to the public user identity;

establishing an internet protocol address of a second network device, wherein the second network device establishes a telephone number, distinct from the E.164 routing address, as an immediate destination for a session; and

routing internet protocol subsystem services to the terminating non-internet protocol device using a relationship between the public user identity, the E.164 routing address, and the internet protocol address of the second network device.