Method for operating wired and wireless phone services interconnectively

• US 7,865,186 B2
• Filed: 02/11/2004
• Issued: 01/04/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 02/12/2003
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Lee, Soon-Phil, Lee, Gui-Jung, Kim, Ji-Sook
• Primary Examiner(s): Appiah; Charles N
• Assistant Examiner(s): Karikari; Kwasi
• Application Number:
  US10/775,249
• Publication Number:
  US 20040198355A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,519 Days
• Field of Search: 455/552.1, 455/553.1, 455/554, 455/461, 455/405, 455/406, 455/407, 455/408, 455/428, 455/555, 455/554.1, 379/221.01, 379/211.01, 379/202.01, 379/220.01
• US Class Current: 455/428
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2203/1091 Fixed mobile conversion
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/465 Arrangements for simultaneously calling a number of substations until an answer is obtained
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/10 Connection setup
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/105 PBS [Private Base Station] network H04W84/12 - H04W84/16 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 92/06 between gateways and public network devices

Abstract

A method for operating wired and wireless phone services interconnectively, includes: receiving a subscriber registration application for wired and wireless services from an arbitrary extension subscriber; performing wired and wireless service registrations in each of the extension subscribers by endowing at least one of the wired terminals and public/private mobile communication terminals with a wired phone number in accordance with the subscriber registration application; making a call to the wired terminal corresponding to the corresponding wired phone number in the case that an arbitrary wired phone number is called, and making a call to the corresponding public/private mobile communication terminal through a mobile communication network in the case that there is the public/private mobile communication terminal to be called simultaneously interconnectively to the wired phone number; and performing a billing according to a usage of the wired and wireless services in each of the extension subscribers. Therefore, a general wired subscriber is provided with the wired phone service and a service of portability through the wireless terminal, and a subscriber'"'"'s accounting burden can be reduced.

Claims

1. A system for operating wired and wireless phone services interconnectively, the system comprising:

a private base station controller (pBSC) which is connected to a public switched telephone network (PSTN) and a private base station transceiver system (pBTS), and which provides a mobile communication service to a plurality of mobile communication terminals; and

a group exchange which is connected to the PSTN, and which assigns a respective virtual wired phone number to each respective mobile communication terminal existing in a mobile zone as a management region of the pBTS, and which provides a public wired phone service to said each respective mobile communication terminal using the respective virtual wired phone number, and which provides a wired phone service to a wired terminal existing outside the mobile zone,

wherein, when receiving a request for an outgoing service from an internal mobile communication terminal, the pBSC checks a service type identifier defining which one of a private network service and a public network service the internal mobile communication terminal requests, and the group exchange changes a caller identification (CID) into the respective virtual wired phone number assigned to the internal mobile communication terminal, and calls a called terminal via the PSTN.

2. The system according to claim 1, wherein the group exchange calls the mobile communication terminal corresponding to the respective virtual wired phone number when receiving an incoming call containing the respective virtual wired phone number.

3. The system according to claim 1, wherein the group exchange comprises a database for storing, for each arbitrary wired phone number, information indicating whether or not said each arbitrary wired phone number is a virtual phone number and information about whether or not a multiple terminating service is registered.

4. The system according to claim 3, wherein the group exchange simultaneously calls a wired terminal corresponding to a wired phone number and a mobile communication terminal when the wired phone number is registered with the multiple terminating service and is called.

5. The system according to claim 1, wherein the pBSC comprises a database for storing said each respective virtual wired phone number assigned to said each respective mobile communication terminal and a mobile identifier number (MIN) of said each mobile communication terminal to which said each respective virtual wired phone number is assigned.

6. The system according to claim 1, wherein the group exchange is connected to the PSTN through No. 7 signaling.

7. A method for operating wired and wireless phone services interconnectively, the method comprising the steps of:

assigning, by a group exchange, a respective virtual wired phone number to each respective one of a plurality of mobile communication terminals existing in a mobile zone as a management region of a private base station transceiver system (pBTS);

providing, by the group exchange, a wired phone service to a wired terminal existing outside the mobile zone;

providing, by the group exchange, a public wired phone service to the mobile communication terminals by linking the respective virtual wired phone numbers with respective mobile identifier numbers (MINs) of the mobile communication terminals; and

when the group exchange receives a request for an outgoing service from an internal mobile communication terminal, changing, by the group exchange, a caller identification (CID) into the respective virtual wired phone number assigned to the internal mobile communication terminal, and calling a called terminal via a public switched telephone network (PSTN);

simultaneously calling, by the group exchange, a wired terminal corresponding to a wired phone number and a mobile communication terminal when the wired phone number is registered with the multiple terminating service are called; and

rerouting associated with the simultaneously calling, by the group exchange, an incoming call to one of a public switched telephone network (PSTN) and a public land mobile network (PLMN) when the called wired terminal and the mobile communication terminal make no response.

8. The method according to claim 7, wherein in the step of providing the public wired phone service, when the group exchange receives an incoming call containing a virtual wired phone number through a public switched telephone network (PSTN), the group exchange calls the respective mobile communication terminal to which the virtual wired phone number is assigned.

9. The method according to claim 7, further comprising the step of, when a private base station controller (pBSC) receives a request for an internal service from an outgoing mobile communication terminal, checking, by the pBSC, a service type identifier defining which one of a private network service and a public network service the internal mobile communication terminal requests.

10. The method according to claim 9, further comprising the steps of:

relaying, by the pBSC, an outgoing call to the group exchange when the internal mobile communication terminal requests the private network service; and

relaying, by the pBSC, the outgoing call to a public land mobile network (PLMN) when the internal mobile communication terminal requests the public network service.

11. A system for operating wired and wireless phone services interconnectively, the system comprising:

a private base station controller (pBSC) which is connected to a public switched telephone network (PSTN) and a private base station transceiver system (pBTS), and which provides a mobile communication service to a plurality of mobile communication terminals; and

a group exchange which is connected to the PSTN, and which assigns a respective virtual wired phone number to each respective mobile communication terminal existing in a mobile zone as a management region of the pBTS, and which provides a public wired phone service to said each respective mobile communication terminal using the respective virtual wired phone number, and which provides a wired phone service to a wired terminal existing outside the mobile zone,

wherein, when receiving a request for an outgoing service from an internal mobile communication terminal, the pBSC checks a service type identifier defining which one of a private network service and a public network service the internal mobile communication terminal requests and the group exchange changes a caller identification (CID) into the respective virtual wired phone number assigned to the internal mobile communication terminal, and calls a called terminal via the PSTN, and wherein the pBSC relays an outgoing call to the group exchange when the internal mobile communication terminal requests the private network service, and relays the outgoing call to a public land mobile network (PLMN) when the internal mobile communication terminal requests the public network service.