Communication system using heterogeneous networks

• US 9,838,438 B2
• Filed: 02/05/2014
• Issued: 12/05/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 02/07/2013
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: OpenVacs Co., Ltd., Young Min Jeoung
• Original Assignee: OpenVacs Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Jeoung, Young Min
• Primary Examiner(s): Orgad, Edan
• Assistant Examiner(s): Maglo, Emmanuel
• Application Number:
  US14/765,914
• Publication Number:
  US 20150373059A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,399 Days
• Field of Search: 370259, 709226, 709227
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1059 End-user terminal functionalities specially adapted for real-time communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1069 Session establishment or de-establishment
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1095 Inter-network session transfer or sharing
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 7/006 Networks other than PSTN/ISDN providing telephone service, e.g. Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) , including next generation networks with a packet-switched transport layer H04L65/00 takes precedence; aspects not specific to the type of network H04M3/00; special services in those networks H04M3/42
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 7/1205 where the types of switching equipement comprises PSTN/ISDN equipment and switching equipment of networks other than PSTN/ISDN, e.g. Internet Protocol networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/16 Gateway arrangements

Abstract

Disclosed is a communication system and, more particularly, a communication system using heterogeneous networks to support voice calls by combining private mobile networks, Mobile Network Operators (MNOs), and Public Switched Telephone Networks (PSTNs) even when an application for voice talk has not been installed on the mobile terminal.

Claims

1. A communication system using heterogeneous networks, the system comprising:

means for implementing a mobile Voice over Internet Protocol (mVoIP) environment with an IP network including one of a Mobile Network Operator (MNO) and a private mobile network, and a Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN), and making IP network access with a sender terminal and PSTN network access with a receiver terminal, wherein;

an application for supporting voice calls is installed based on the mVoIP environment on the sender terminal, but not on the reciever terminal, and

the IP network supports a plurality of different routes having different quality and cost,

means for obtaining network state information about the IP network accessing the sender terminal, a condition of the IP network, a telephone number for the sender terminal, a telephone number for the reciever terminal, and a voice call option for the sender terminal through the application installed on the sender terminal when the sender terminal sends a call access request to the receiver terminal, wherein the voice call option for the sender terminal indicates wheather the sender terminal is set up to prioritize call quality or call cost, and

means for setting up one of a lowest cost route and a best quality route between the sender terminal and the receiver terminal as a communication route, based on the network state information,

wherein the communication route is formed in selective combination of the IP network for the sender terminal and the PSTN network for the reciever terminal.

2. The communication system of claim 1, wherein the voice call option comprises one of lowest call cost, free calls, and best call quality options.

3. The communication system of claim 1, comprising:

a first media gateway for performing communication with the sender terminal through the IP network;

a second media gateway for performing communication with the receiver terminal through the PSTN;

a VoIP server for handling one of user registration and login access to the sender terminal, if the terminal requests call access to the receiver terminal;

a message processing server for obtaining the network state information from the sender terminal; and

a route and call processing server for forming the communication route between the sender terminal and the receiver terminal by using the network state information obtained from the message processing server.

4. The communication system of claim 3, wherein the first media gateway comprises

a VOIP gateway accessed by the sender terminal over the IP network.

5. The communication system of claim 3, wherein the second media gateway comprises

a PSTN gateway accessed by the receiver terminal over the PSTN.

6. The communication system of claim 4, wherein the VOIP gateway performs voice communication with the sender terminal according to at least one protocol of H.323, Session Initiation Protocol(SIP), Media Gateway Control Protocol (MGCP), Inter-Asterisk eXchange (IAX), Web Real-Time Communication (WebRTC), Real-Time Transport Protocol (RTP), Secure Real-Time Transport Protocol (SRTP) and RTP Control Protocol (RTCP).

7. The communication system of claim 1, wherein the receiver terminal comprises one of a feature phone, a smart phone, a wired phone, and an Internet phone.

11. The communication system of claim 5,

wherein the PSTN gateway performs voice communication with the receiver terminal according to at least one protocol of No.7 (SS7), ISDN BRI, ISDN PRI, E1/T1 MFC-R2, E1/T1 CAS, T1 Robbed-Bit, Analog Loop Start, Analog Ground Start, Analog Kool Start, GSM, CDMA, WCDMA, LTE, and LTE Advanced.

8. A communication system using heterogeneous networks comprising:

a first media gateway that gets network access to a sender terminal over an IP network, wherein the IP network supports a plurality of different routes having different quality and cost;

a second media gateway that gets network access to a receiver terminal over a PSTN;

a message processing server that obtains network state information through an application installed in the sender terminal, the network state information including information about the IP network accessed by the sender terminal, a condition of the IP network, a telephone number for the sender terminal, a telephone number for the receiver terminal, and a voice call option for the sender terminal, wherein;

the voice call option for sender terminal indicates whether the sender terminal is set up to prioritize call quality or call cost; and

the application is not installed in the reciever terminal; and

a route and call processing server that forms a communication route for one of communication cost and call quality by referring to the network state information,

wherein the communication route is formed in selective combination of the IP network for the sender terminal and the PSTN for the receiver terminal.

9. The communication system of claim 8, wherein the network state information includes at least a piece of information about a communication network to which the sender terminal belongs, quality of the communication network, and the voice call option.

10. The communication system of claim 9, wherein the voice call option comprises one of the lowest call cost, free calls, and best call quality options.