System for automatic registration of expeditionary telecommunications deployments

• US 8,942,247 B1
• Filed: 08/06/2013
• Issued: 01/27/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 08/06/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Vislink Technologies, Inc.
• Original Assignee: xG Technology, Inc.
• Inventors: Alapuranen, Pertti, Johnson, Michael
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, David Q
• Application Number:
  US13/959,930
• Publication Number:
  US 20150045026A1
• Time in Patent Office: 539 Days
• Field of Search: 455/435.1, 370/401, 370/325, 379/201.01
• US Class Current: 370/401
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2101/38 Telephone uniform resource identifier [URI]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/50 Address allocation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1095 Replication or mirroring of data, e.g. scheduling or transport for data synchronisation between network nodes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2242/04 for emergency applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/00 Automatic or semi-automatic exchanges
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/08 Access security
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/90 Services for handling of emergency or hazardous situations, e.g. earthquake and tsunami warning systems [ETWS]
• 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 8/18 Processing of user or subscriber data, e.g. subscribed services, user preferences or user profiles; Transfer of user or subscriber data

Abstract

A system and method for enabling voice and broadband data delivery to users in expeditionary deployments is disclosed. More specifically the system is composed of a registration server, a wireless telco network server, a wide area transport network, and an external network interconnect (like satellite or fiber location) such that when users arrive at a disaster scene where communications infrastructure has been destroyed or is unavailable, they are either handed a smart device (smartphone, laptop, tablet, etc.) or they utilize an existing smart device they brought with them (BYOD) and via the Wi-Fi interface they connect to the wide area transport network.

Claims

1. A system to set up a wide area transport network to supply voice and broadband data delivery to users in an area not having typical phone service comprising:

a registration server;

a telecom server;

an external network interconnect;

a user device;

wherein a new user enters credentials and user information into said user device;

said user device accesses said registration server via a wireless connection;

said new user is assigned a new wide area transport network local telephone number by said registration server;

said new user credentials are verified and said new user information is stored in said registration server;

said new user information is sent by said registration server to other users via said wide area transport network and stored in a dynamic phone book containing all users'"'"' assigned wide area transport network local telephone numbers on said other users'"'"' device;

said registration server sends other users'"'"' information to said new user via said wide area transport network such that new user and other users can find and contact each other through said wide are transport network local telephone numbers found on said dynamic phone book;

said registration server periodically sending user information via said wide area transport network to new and other users dynamic phone book; and

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said external network interconnect connecting said wide area transport network to external existing networks.

2. The system of claim 1 wherein said registration server further automatically groups information entered by said new and other users in said new and other users devices'"'"' dynamic phone book based on roles wherein said new and other users can choose one of a group or a whole group instead of using a wide area transport network local telephone number.

3. The system of claim 1 wherein said registration server automatically associates public network phone numbers to assigned wide area transport network local telephone numbers such that a call from a PSTN is translated to an assigned wide area transport network local telephone number that is valid only in the wide area transport network and wherein after said new or other user has exited the wide area transport network the association is removed.