Method, apparatus and system using camel dialogue services

• US 9,398,439 B2
• Filed: 01/07/2015
• Issued: 07/19/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 01/07/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Alcatel-Lucent SA (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Alcatel-Lucent SA (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: He, Yuanyuan, Luo, Yutang, Wang, Xin, Fang, Hanbin
• Primary Examiner(s): File, Erin
• Application Number:
  US14/591,306
• Publication Number:
  US 20150195702A1
• Time in Patent Office: 559 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 15/00 Arrangements for metering, time-control or time indication ; Metering, charging or billing arrangements for voice wireline or wireless communications, e.g. VoIP
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 15/8038 Roaming or handoff
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/24 Accounting or billing
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/06 Registration at serving network Location Register, VLR or user mobility server

Abstract

An objective of the present invention is a method, apparatus, and a system using a CAMEL service. According to the method of the present invention, the method comprises the following steps during a process in which a called user equipment moves from an original visit mobile switch center (VMMSC) to a new VMSC: when receiving roaming retry information from the original VMSC, generating a first send routing information containing suppress Terminating CAMEL Subscription Information (TCSI) indicator of the CAMEL dialog service; sending the first send routing information to a home location register, so as to request a mobile station roaming number of the called user equipment in said new MSC. According to the method of the present invention, the initial CAMEL service connection is always maintained during the MTRR process, without bothering to interrupt and re-invoke various kinds of CAMEL services, thereby shortening the call setting time during the MTRR process; besides, the communication load of the network ss7 is reduced, and the network resources are saved. Particularly during the RBT service process, the user will not hear two different ringtones any more, which enhances the user experience.

Claims

1. A method of using a CAMEL (Customized Application for Mobile network Enhanced Logic) service in a gateway mobile switch center (GMSC), wherein the method comprises the following during a process in which a called user equipment moves from an original visit mobile switch center (VMSC) to a new VMSC:

when receiving roaming retry information from the original VMSC, generating a first send routing information containing suppress Terminating CAMEL Subscription Information (TCSI) indicator of the CAMEL dialogue service;

sending a release message to said original VMSC to release a call connection with the original VMSC;

after receiving a release complete message fed back from the original VMSC based on the release information, sending the first send routing information to a home location register, so as to request for a mobile station roaming number of the called user equipment in the new VMSC;

receiving a mobile station roaming number of said called user equipment in said new VMSC from said home location register; and

sending an initial address message to said new VMSC based on the mobile station roaming number of said called user equipment in said new VMSC, such that the new VMSC establishes a call connection with the called user equipment.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the method further comprises:

when prepared to call the called user equipment, sending, to the home location register, second send routing information for the requesting for suppress TCSI indicator of the available CAMEL service;

receiving the suppress TCSI indicator fed back by the home location register based on the second send routing information.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein said CAMEL dialogue service comprises a personalized ringback tone service.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the original VMSC and the new VMSC belong to networks constructed based on different digital communication technologies, respectively.

5. A gateway mobile switch center (GMSC) for using a CAMEL (Customized Application for Mobile network Enhanced Logic) service, wherein the GMSC comprises the following devices to perform operations during a process in which a called user equipment moves from an original visit mobile switch center (VMSC) to a new VMSC:

a generating device configured to, when receiving roaming retry information from the original VMSC, generate first send routing information containing suppress Terminating CAMEL Subscription Information (TCSI) indicator of the CAMEL dialogue service;

a sub-sending device configured to send a release message to said original VMSC to release a call connection with the original VMSC;

a first sending device configured to, after receiving a release complete message fed back from the original VMSC based on the release information, send the first send routing information to a home location register, to request a mobile station roaming number of the called user equipment in the new MSC;

a receiving device configured to receive a mobile station roaming number of said called user equipment in said new VMSC from the home location register; and

a second sending device configured to send an initial address message to said new VMSC based on the mobile station roaming number of said called user equipment in said new VMSC, such that said new VMSC establishes a call connection with the called user equipment.

6. The GMSC according to claim 5, wherein the GMSC further comprises the following devices:

a third sending device configured to, when prepared to call the called user equipment, send, to said home location register, second send routing information for requesting suppress TCSI indicator of the available CAMEL service;

a second receiving device configured to receive the suppress TCSI indicator fed back by the home location register based on the second send routing information.

7. The GMSC according to claim 5, wherein said CAMEL dialogue service comprises a personalized ringback tone service.

8. The GMSC according to claim 5, wherein said original VMSC and the new VMSC belong to networks constructed based on different digital communication technologies, respectively.

9. A mobile communication system capable of providing a CAMEL service, wherein said mobile communication system includes at least one Home location Register (HLR), at least one GSM Service Control Function (gsmSCF), at least one GSM Special Resource Function (gsmSRF), one or more Visited Mobile Switch Centers (VMSCs), and at least one Gateway Mobile Switch Center (GMSC) according to claim 5.