Telecommunications system

• US 6,304,757 B1
• Filed: 04/27/1998
• Issued: 10/16/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 11/22/1995
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Division Metria Lantmateriverket, Jarlab JARL Larsson AB
• Original Assignee: Jarl Larsson
• Inventors: Larsson, Jarl
• Primary Examiner(s): MAUNG, NAY AUNG
• Application Number:
  US09/065,037
• Time in Patent Office: 1,268 Days
• Field of Search: 455/414, 455/417, 455/403, 455/422, 455/456, 455/550, 455/556-557, 455/560, 455/435, 455/445
• US Class Current: 455/456.2
• 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: H04W 60/04 using triggered events
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 64/00 Locating users or terminals or network equipment for network management purposes, e.g. mobility management

Abstract

The invention relates to a telecommunications system that includes a number of calling subscriber apparatus (5), a number of telephone exchange units (1) and a number of called subscriber apparatus (8). The system is adapted to enable a call incoming from a selected permanent system-associated subscriber apparatus or a mobile system-associated subscriber apparatus to be transferred to a selected permanent subscriber apparatus or a selected mobile subscriber apparatus, through the medium of a selected telephone exchange unit and its associated computer equipment. Subsequent to having received a call, the telephone exchange unit (1) and/or the computer equipment (10) establish or evaluate the geographical area and/or location of the calling subscriber apparatus. The telephone exchange unit and/or the computer equipment evaluate, establish and store the geographical areas (21a-21d) and/or locations applicable to each of a number of available subscriber apparatus. One of the available callable subscriber apparatus requested by the calling subscriber and evaluated and indicated, or selected, by the telephone exchange unit is called through the medium of a circuit belonging to the telephone exchange unit. The invention shows specifically that the available subscriber apparatus (8) informs the telephone exchange unit (1) of what area it belongs to through the activation (43) of a telephone number (45, 46) corresponding to the area (21a, 21b), connected to the telephone exchange unit (1), and is there queue-organized.

Claims

1. A telecommunications system comprising:

a number of subscriber apparatus,

a number of telephone exchange units, and

a number of mobile subscriber apparatus,

wherein the system is adapted to provide, with the aid of a selected telephone exchange unit and associated computer equipment, a function by means of which a call incoming from a system-associated subscriber apparatus or a mobile system-associated subscriber apparatus can be connected to a selected subscriber apparatus or to a selected mobile subscriber apparatus,

wherein one of these apparatus is operative as a calling subscriber apparatus and the other is operative as a called subscriber apparatus,

wherein the telephone exchange unit and/or the computer equipment has evaluated, established and stored at least the geographical areas and/or the locations that apply for each of a number of subscriber apparatus and mobile subscriber apparatus,

wherein after receiving a call said telephone exchange unit and/or the computer equipment included in the system establishes or evaluates the geographical area and/or the location of the calling subscriber apparatus,

wherein each of the available mobile subscriber apparatus is adapted to enter, in the computer equipment, an available or idle mark and a code that discloses the immediate geographical area or location of said mobile subscriber apparatus, through the medium of a connection with the telephone exchange unit,

wherein within the telephone exchange unit, possibilities are provided to arrange a queue-organizer, for every area significant telephone number, and thereby selected geographical area,

wherein a mobile subscriber apparatus, belonging to the system, is provided with, or connected to,

a) a navigation system for the establishing or evaluation of the geographical location of the mobile subscriber apparatus,

b) a memory related to the mobile subscriber apparatus which holds information regarding the geographical positions that are given to one and the same delimited geographical area, that several such areas, bordering one another, are storable within said memory, wherein selected delimited geographical areas are given well adapted and suitable borders, including borders of different post code areas and/or wherein each delimited area is represented by an area significant telephone number given to a selected input connection of the used telephone exchange unit,

c) first means are adapted to compare momentary position of the mobile subscriber apparatus with the geographical positions stored in the memory,

d) second means, which at a comparison by the first means that gives a position within a different geographical area than a previous comparison, being adapted to output an activation signal, and

e) third means which is activated by the activation signal of the second means in order to initiate to the telephone exchange unit, a performed area transition, wherein said call through said third means takes place over a telephone connection but is adapted so that the called subscriber does not answer.

2. A system according to claim 1, wherein an automatic indication of a taxi cab is limited to such mobile subscriber apparatus that are stationed in cars, available for an immediate assignment.

3. A system according to claim 2, wherein selected delimited geographical areas are given well adapted and suitable borders, including the borders of different post code areas.

4. A system according to claim 3, wherein each delimited area is represented by an area significant telephone number, given to a selected input connection of the used telephone exchange unit.

5. A system according to claim 2, wherein each delimited area is represented by an area significant telephone number, given to a selected input connection of the used telephone exchange unit.

6. A system according to claim 1, wherein said call through said third means takes place over a communications path that is separate from a standard telephone connection.

7. A system according to claim 6, wherein subsequent to establishing said connection, each mobile subscriber apparatus is allocated to a group and a queue order.

8. A system according to claim 1, wherein at least some of the available subscriber apparatus are associated with respect to a group within a telephone exchange memory.

9. A system according to claim 1, wherein a calling mobile subscriber apparatus is adapted to present a code significant to its area or location.

10. A system according to claim 1, wherein each delimited area is represented by an area significant telephone number, given to a selected input connection of the used telephone exchange unit.

11. A method for communication for a telecommunications system;

including a number of subscriber apparatus, a number of telephone exchange units, and a number of mobile subscriber apparatus having access to a navigation system, wherein one of these apparatus is operative as a calling subscriber apparatus and another is operative as a called subscriber apparatus, comprising the steps of;

evaluating, establishing and storing by the telephone exchange unit and/or the computer equipment at least the geographical areas and/or the locations that apply for each of a number of subscriber apparatus and mobile subscriber apparatus;

after receiving a call, the telephone exchange unit and/or the computer equipment included in the system, establishing or evaluating the geographical area and/or the location of the calling subscriber apparatus;

entering in the computer equipment by each of the available mobile subscriber apparatus an available or idle mark and a code that discloses the immediate geographical area or location of said mobile subscriber apparatus, through the medium of a connection with the telephone exchange unit;

providing possibilities within the telephone exchange unit to arrange a queue-organizer, for every area significant telephone number and thereby selected geographical area;

said mobile subscriber apparatus, belonging to the system, being provided with or connecting to said navigation system which establishes or evaluates its geographical location;

holding information, regarding each geographical position that is given to one and the same delimited geographical area, in a memory related to the mobile subscriber apparatus;

storing several such areas, bordering one another, within said memory;

assigning well adapted and suitable borders to selected delimited geographical areas including borders of different post code areas and/or

representing each delimited area by an area significant telephone number, given to a selected input connection of the used telephone number, and thereby selected geographical area;

comparing the momentary position of the mobile subscriber apparatus with the geographical positions stored in the memory by a first means;

at a comparison by the first means that gives a position within a different geographical area than a previous comparison, a second means activating a third means in order to initiate to the telephone exchange unit a performed area transition, wherein said call through the third means takes place over a telephone connection but is adapted so that the called subscriber does not answer.