Global open trunking system for CDMA wireless communication

• US 7,729,303 B2
• Filed: 06/22/2005
• Issued: 06/01/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: ZTE Corporation
• Original Assignee: ZTE USA, Inc. (ZTE Corporation)
• Inventors: Bhalla, Rajesh, Chion, Mary, Fang, Yonggang, Jiang, James
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen; Quynh H
• Application Number:
  US11/165,624
• Publication Number:
  US 20060056361A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,805 Days
• Field of Search: 370/320, 370/327, 370/340, 370/441, 370/335, 370/337, 455/432.1, 455/518, 455/520
• US Class Current: 370/320
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/2628 using code-division multiple access [CDMA] or spread spectrum multiple access [SSMA] H04B7/2618 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/45 for Push-to-Talk [PTT] or Push-to-Talk over cellular [PoC] services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/186 Processing of subscriber group data

Abstract

Methods and systems for implementing trunking techniques in CDMA systems for handling group calls and push-to-talk services and roaming of group calls.

Claims

1. A CDMA communication system, comprising:

a plurality of base transceiver stations spatially distributed to communicate with mobile communication devices via radio links;

a plurality of base station controllers, each coupled to a plurality of base transceiver stations;

a mobile switching center connected to couple said base station controllers to a public telephone network;

a data communication system comprising (1) a plurality of packet control function devices respectively connected to said base station controllers to transmit data packets to and from the mobile communication devices via said base transceiver stations, and (2) a packet data serving node connected to said packet control function devices to provide packet data services to the mobile communication devices; and

a trunking system comprising (1) a plurality of dispatching clients respectively connected to said base station controllers to transmit data packets of group calls to and from mobile communication devices of groups of subscribers where members of each group share a common trunking data link for transmission of data packets, and (2) at least a first dispatching server connected to communicate with a first group of said dispatching clients that are located in a first geographic region and at least a second dispatching server connected to communicate with a second group of said dispatching clients that are located in a second geographic region, wherein each dispatching server and corresponding dispatching clients are operable in combination to provide a push-to-talk function for a group call within each group, and

wherein each dispatching server comprises at least one control node to control and manage group call processing and at least one serving node to process voice data for group calls from mobile communication devices registered in the each dispatching server, and wherein each dispatching server directs a group call from a roaming mobile communication device registered to another dispatching server to the other dispatching server for processing.

2. The system as in claim 1, wherein each dispatching server comprises a plurality of serving nodes operable in parallel to process voice data for group calls from mobile communication devices registered in the each dispatching server and to redirect voice data for group calls from roaming mobile communication devices registered in another dispatching server.

3. The system as in claim 1, wherein the first and second dispatching servers share a group registration database, a dispatching location server, and a security sever in handling group calls.

4. The system as in claim 1, wherein the data communication system is based on the Internet Protocol.

5. A method for handling roaming in a wireless CDMA communication system, comprising:

providing a plurality of dispatching clients in a CDMA system to dispatch group call requests via a packet data network to a dispatching server that controls and manages group calls;

providing different dispatching servers designated to different geographic regions to respectively handle group calls in the different geographic regions, wherein each dispatching server comprises at least one control node to control and manage group call processing and at least one serving node to process voice data for group calls from mobile communication devices registered in the each dispatching server;

using a common trunking message link through the packet data network to transmit trunking messages between a dispatching client and a dispatching server currently sewing a mobile communication device in a group call;

using a single trunking data link to each trunking group between the serving dispatching server and each dispatching client such that a plurality of mobile communication devices in each trunking group share the single trunking data link in transmitting user data over the packet data network; and

using a dispatching server to direct processing of a group call from a roaming mobile communication device registered in another dispatching server to the other dispatching sewer.

6. A method as in claim 5, further comprising making different dispatching sewers share a group registration database, a dispatching location server, and a security sever in handling group calls.

7. A method as in claim 5, further comprising providing a control node in each dispatching server to control and manage group call processing and a serving node in each dispatching server to process voice data for group calls.

8. A method as in claim 7, further comprising providing at least two control nodes to provide redundancy and operating one control node while using the other control node as a backup.

9. A method as in claim 7, further comprising providing a plurality of serving nodes to process voice data of group calls in parallel to reduce processing delay.

10. A method as in claim 5, further comprising using an Internet Protocol packet data network as the packet data network.

11. A method for handling roaming in a wireless CDMA communication system, comprising:

designating different geographic regions for handling group calls;

separately controlling group calls in different designated geographic regions to providing different dispatching servers designated to the different geographic regions to respectively handle group calls in the different geographic regions, wherein each dispatching server comprises at least one control node to control and manage group call processing and at least one serving node to process voice data for group calls from mobile communication devices registered in the each dispatching server;

using a common trunking message link through a packet data network to transmit trunking messages between a dispatching client and a dispatching server currently serving a mobile communication device in a group call;

using a single trunking data link to transmit user data over the packet data network for user mobile communication devices in a group for a group call; and

directing processing of a group call from a roaming mobile communication device registered in one designated region to another designated region for processing.

12. A method as in claim 11, further comprising making different dispatching servers share a group registration database, a dispatching location server, and a security sever in handling group calls.

13. A method as in claim 11, further comprising providing at least two control nodes to provide redundancy and operating one control node while using the other control node as a backup.

14. A method as in claim 11, further comprising providing a plurality of serving nodes to process voice data of group calls in parallel to reduce processing delay.