Connecting a circuit-switched wireless access network to an IP multimedia subsystem

• US 9,924,557 B2
• Filed: 11/07/2016
• Issued: 03/20/2018
• 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): Beharry, Noel
• Assistant Examiner(s): Kaur, Pamit
• Application Number:
  US15/344,725
• Publication Number:
  US 20170111953A1
• Time in Patent Office: 498 Days
• Field of Search: 370331
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2101/385 Uniform resource identifier for session initiation protocol [SIP URI]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2101/654 International mobile subscriber identity [IMSI] numbers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/4511 using domain name system [DNS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0272 Virtual private networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0281 Proxies
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/08 for authentication of entities cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication H04L9/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/083 using passwords cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication using a predetermined code H04L9/3226
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1016 IP multimedia subsystem [IMS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1043 Gateway controllers, e.g. media gateway control protocol [MGCP] controllers
• 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 65/1104 Session initiation protocol [SIP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/06 Authentication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/72 Subscriber identity
• 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 60/02 by periodical registration
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/10 Connection setup
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/16 Involving different core network technologies, e.g. a packet-switched [PS] bearer in combination with a circuit-switched [CS] bearer
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/16 Gateway arrangements

Abstract

A network device performs a delayed registration in connection with phone call setup, if the network device does not know a phone number of a user in question at the time of updating the location updating. In addition, the network device performs user authentication and creates and maintains an encrypted and secure network connection between the network device and an IP multimedia subsystem by using data security mechanisms of a terminal of the IP multimedia subsystem and the authentication and data security parameters of the terminal received from the IP multimedia subsystem.

Claims

1. A system for registering a terminal to an internet protocol multimedia subsystem, the system comprising:

a terminal configured to send a registration request to an internet protocol (“

IP”

) multimedia subsystem, said registration request identifying the terminal by a session initiation protocol (“

SIP”

) end point that is associated with a multi-radio protocol gateway instead of a telephone number;

a multi-radio protocol gateway configured to connect a circuit-switched wireless access network of a public mobile core network to the IP multimedia subsystem, the multi-radio protocol gateway configured to;

set a private user identity for the terminal;

set a home network registrar domain name for the terminal, wherein the home network registrar domain name comprises either the domain name of the multi-radio protocol gateway or a numeric IP address for the multi-radio protocol gateway; and

establish a secure connection between the terminal and the IP multimedia subsystem; and

a register gateway configured to;

authenticate the terminal in the IP multimedia subsystem;

transmit a location update request corresponding to the new registration request to the home network registrar; and

perform a domain name service update in connection with the registering of the terminal in the IP multimedia subsystem.

2. The system of claim 1, further comprising, the register gateway configured to perform the domain name service update by performing a delayed registration procedure of the IP multimedia subsystem in connection with a telephone call setup signal from the circuit switched portion of the public mobile core network when the multi-radio protocol gateway receives said user'"'"'s telephone number in connection with said telephone call setup signal.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the register gateway is configured to perform the delayed registration procedure based on a conventional phone call setup procedure or a proprietary procedure.

4. The system of claim 1, further comprising a location register part of the public mobile phone network configured to receive the location updating request from the register gateway via a serving gateway in the multi-radio protocol gateway.

5. The system of claim 1, further comprising the multi-radio protocol gateway configured to set the private user identity by deriving the private user identity from the user'"'"'s international mobile subscriber identity from its country and network codes.

6. The system of claim 1, further comprising the multi-radio protocol gateway configured to set the home registrar domain name by setting the home registrar domain name to the Request Uniform Resource Identifier of the registration request.

7. The system of claim 1, further comprising a gateway configured to receive subscriber data for the terminal for sending the location updating request to the home network registrar.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the terminal is further configured to compare portions of an authentication token to an authentication code received in a message from the IP multimedia system prior to sending a new registration request to the IP multimedia subsystem.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein, the IP multimedia subsystem is further configured to send, via the secure connection, an unauthorized response to the multi-radio protocol gateway to start an authentication procedure.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the authentication procedure comprises:

the IP multimedia subsystem requesting the authentication of the user of the terminal in the IP multimedia subsystem from the multi-radio protocol gateway;

the multi-radio protocol gateway requesting authentication parameters of the circuit-switched part of a public mobile core network of the terminal from the terminal;

using the authentication parameters of the circuit-switched part of a public mobile core network of the terminal as the authentication parameters of the user of the terminal in the IP multimedia subsystem,

wherein the IP multimedia subsystem is connected to the multi-radio protocol gateway in accordance with a session initiation protocol session procedure, and the multi-radio protocol gateway is connected to the terminal in accordance with a circuit-switched phone call setup procedure.

11. The system of claim 1, where the registration request comprises at least one of a TO header, a FROM header, a registration address header, a contact header, an authorization header, and a security-client header.

12. A system for establishing an integrated connection between a multi-radio protocol gateway and an internet protocol (“

IP”

) multimedia subsystem, the system comprising;

a multi-radio protocol gateway configured to;

set a private user identity for a terminal connected to the multi-radio protocol gateway;

set a home network registrar domain name for the terminal, wherein the home network registrar domain name comprises either the domain name of the multi-radio protocol gateway or a numeric IP address for the multi-radio protocol gateway; and

register the terminal in the IP multimedia subsystem by creating and maintaining a secure and encrypted connection between the multi-radio protocol gateway and the IP multimedia subsystem,

wherein the multi-radio protocol gateway is configured to create said secure and encrypted connection to the IP multimedia subsystem and relay, to the IP multimedia subsystem, the private user identity and the home network registrar domain name as parameters of the terminal, and wherein the multi-radio protocol gateway uses said parameters for creating and maintaining said integrated connection to the IP multimedia subsystem.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the multi-radio protocol gateway is configured to derive the private user identity from the user'"'"'s international mobile subscriber identity from its country and network codes.

14. The system of claim 12, wherein the multi-radio protocol gateway is configured to set the home registrar domain name to the Request Uniform Resource Identifier of a session initiation protocol (“

SIP”

) registration request.

15. The system of claim 12, further comprising a register gateway configured to send a location updating request to a home network registrar.

16. The system of claim 12, further comprising a register gateway configured to perform a delayed registration procedure to the IP multimedia system.

17. The system of claim 12, wherein the multi-radio protocol gateway is further configured to receive a telephone call setup signal from a circuit switched portion of a public mobile core system.

18. The system of claim 12, where the registration request comprises at least one of a TO header, a FROM header, a registration address header, a contact header, an authorization header, and a security-client header.

19. The system of claim 12, wherein, the IP multimedia subsystem is further configured to send, via the secure connection, an unauthorized response to the multi-radio protocol gateway to start an authentication procedure.

20. The system of claim 19, wherein the authentication procedure comprises:

the IP multimedia subsystem requesting the authentication of the user of the terminal in the IP multimedia subsystem from the multi-radio protocol gateway;

the multi-radio protocol gateway requesting authentication parameters of a circuit-switched part of a public mobile core network of the terminal from the terminal;

using the authentication parameters of the circuit-switched part of a public mobile core network of the terminal as the authentication parameters of the user of the terminal in the IP multimedia subsystem,

wherein the IP multimedia subsystem is connected to the multi-radio protocol gateway in accordance with a session initiation protocol session procedure, and the multi-radio protocol gateway is connected to the terminal in accordance with a circuit-switched phone call setup procedure.