48 results about "Fixed–mobile convergence" patented technology

A Fixed-Mobile Convergence (FMC) network and method of handling calls in a FMC network. Registration is maintained for FMC User Equipment (UE) with at least two (a primary and a secondary) networks, e.g., a mobile network and a fixed network with a wireless connection capability. The primary network maintains subscribers numbers with each FMC UE being assigned one of the subscribers numbers. Calls to FMC UE are routed to the primary network and, if the UE is not present in the primary network, forwarded to the secondary network. A preferred FMC network may be implemented in existing fixed and mobile networks without requiring that one be integrated into the other.

Alarm reporting systems and methods for reporting alarms to a central monitoring station using fixed mobile convergence (FMC) techniques. An alarm reporting system comprises a plurality of sensors, an alarm reporting module that receives alarm signals from the plurality of sensors, and a logic unit that generates an alarm message related to the alarm signal. The alarm reporting module further comprises at least two transceivers, the first of which is a wi-fi transceiver that communicates with a central monitoring station via a wireless access point further connected to an internet connection. The second transceiver is a cellular tranceiver that communicates with the central monitoring station via a cellular network further connected to an internet gateway. The second tranceiver provides redundancy in case the wireless access point or the first internet connection become unavailable.

Disclosed is a system and method that utilizes near field communications (NFC) for establishing and / or controlling the routing of communications in a fixed mobile convergence environment. Electronic equipment is provided with an NFC adapter and a storage element (e.g., memory, disk drive, etc.) that has user's identity specific information (e.g., user's identity information, social security number, user's identity identification number, virtual target network (VPN) settings, etc.) stored in a suitable electronic format for transmission to a NFC reader that is coupled to a fixed local network (e.g., corporate enterprise network). The fixed local network authenticates the user and fixed mobile convergence is realized between a wide area communication network and the fixed local area network.

A special-purpose Service Control Point includes a customized application that provides Fixed Mobile Convergence services and interoperates with a Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) network to achieve a single-number fixed mobile convergence overlay network. By determining if a dual-mode cellular / WiFi handset is reachable via a WiFi network, the Service Control Point may redirect incoming and outgoing calls off of the cellular network and onto the WiFi network, thereby reducing cost and providing greater coverage.

The invention relates to a network capable of switching a terminal from 3GPP to a wireless local area network (WLAN). The network comprises a 3GPP access network, a WLAN access network and a 3GPP core network, wherein a home location register, a service node, a gateway service node and a terminal management server is also arranged in the 3GPP core network; and a WLAN access gateway is arranged between the WLAN access network and the 3GPP core network. The network has the advantages of realizing seamless switching of services without mobile IP technology, supporting superposed mobile IP technology application, meeting the requirement of EPC network evolution in the future, not changing original equipment of the conventional core network, quickly pushing WLAN and 3GPP fused services, promoting the development of fixed mobile convergence (FMC) services, along with low network design and realization cost and simple realization of terminal equipment.

Method to transfer a communication session to a mobile device, including: receiving by use of a first communication channel an information message comprising an identification of the communication session and an identification of a communication client hosting the communication session; sending by use of a second communication channel a join request; joining the communication session; and sending by use of the second communication channel a confirmation message confirming the transfer of the communication session. Furthermore, a method to transfer a communication session from a mobile device to a nonparticipating computer, including: receiving by use of a first communication channel an information message comprising an identification of the nonparticipating conference-enabled computer; sending by use of a second communication channel a request to push the communication session to the nonparticipating computer; receiving a confirmation; and optionally closing the communication session on the mobile device.

A software-defined networking (SDN) method. The SDN method according to an exemplary embodiment may be used in managing and operating SDN-based network resources in an optical communications network, a fixed mobile convergence subscriber network, a wired broadband subscriber network, a distributed mobile communications base station network, etc.

An alarm reporting system and method for reporting alarms to a central monitoring station via low-power femtocells is presented. An alarm reporting system comprises a plurality of sensors, an alarm reporting module that receives alarm signals from the plurality of sensors, and a logic unit that generates an alarm message related to the alarm signal. The alarm reporting module further comprises a low-power cellular transceiver to transmit the alarm message to the femtocell. The femtocell is connected to a fixed network such as the internet.

Disclosed herein are a fixed mobile convergence (FMC) apparatus and a method for searching an access point. The FMC apparatus and method effectively search an access point using a frequency searching method of a radio access technology (RAT) service in which a discontinuous reception (DRX) operation is used to increase efficiency in power consumption of the FMC apparatus. The FMC apparatus recognizes an area available for a wireless local area network (WLAN) service and may automatically search an access point in the corresponding area so that it is possible to decrease inconvenience to a user.

The invention discloses a fusion access-oriented multi-service terminal system which belongs to the technical field of radio over fiber (RoF) and FMC (Fixed Mobile Convergence) network fusion. The system comprises a network and a multi-service terminal, wherein the network is based on a PON (Passive Optical Network) technology; a network background accesses the multi-service terminal; and by adopting the multi-service terminal system and a RoF technology method, transmission of uplink information and downlink information can be completed. By adopting the system, a resource sharing, system-compatible and network fusion multi-information operating platform is established for a multi-service terminal user. The multi-service terminal user can select networks and services as required, fusion of services such as communication, television, net surfing and the like is completed once an optical fiber is accessed, fusion of a wired transmission mode and a wireless transmission mode can be completed, and the user and an operator can make different options flexibly according to different requirements and service qualities.

A method and apparatus for providing a network based Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC) service are disclosed. For example, the method receives a NB-FMC call request originating from a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) NB-FMC endpoint device or a non-SIP NB-FMC endpoint device, and processes the NB-FMC call request using a single hosted NB-FMC Application Server (AS).

In order to solve the problems that in the existing technology of fixed-mobile convergence, a fixed access network and a mobile core network are respectively provided with a cross-domain policy so as to cause low real-time and poor flexibility. The invention provides a method and a device of cross-domain service strategy interaction for the fixed mobile convergence network, wherein the fixed access network and the mobile core network interact with cross-domain strategy control information, and carry out corresponding strategy control processing. Optimally, the fixed access network and the mobile core network respectively carry out cross-domain strategy control information interaction respectively through strategy controllers thereof, and can carry out strategy control processing in real time so as to improve flexibility of a fixed-mobile convergence network. In the embodiment, the mobile core network can send out a cross-domain policy configuration service requests such as a broadcast and / or multicast service policy configuration request, and the like to the fixed access network in real time, the fixed access network can configure corresponding service strategy for the fixed access network, improve the properties of the fixed access network for providing broadcast and / or multicast services.

A method for performing fixed-mobile convergence by using carrier data is disclosed, which can identify which IDs belong to a same user more accurately, comprehensively depict attributes of the user, and help deep analysis on the user, and has important meaning for various precision marketing and financial credit. The method comprises steps of: (1) extracting each piece of account information of a user by using carrier data; (2) mapping account IDs of a fixed network, and identifying IDs belonging to a same user; (3) mapping account IDs of a mobile network, and identifying IDs belonging to a same user; and (4) mapping IDs of the fixed network and the mobile network, and performing convergence of the fixed network and the mobile network. A system for performing fixed-mobile convergence by using carrier data is further provided.

A method, equipment and system for policy control. The method includes: a trusted Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) access gateway receiving Quality of Service (QoS) information from a 3GPP core network, and sending the QoS information to an Access Controller (AC) or a Broadband Network Gateway (BNG); the AC or the BNG or other fixed network access devices performing admission control and / or resource allocation according to the QoS information. In the technical solution, the interface configuration and policy configuration are performed for the WLAN access gateway in the fixed mobile convergence scenario, thereby the policy control is implemented in the fixed mobile convergence scenario.

The embodiment of the invention relates to the field of communication technology and especially to an identifier mapping method and apparatus and a policy control method which are used for resolving a problem that policy control cannot be performed on a fixed device under a conventional fixed mobile convergence condition. The identifier mapping method comprises: obtaining the fixed identifier of a fixed device that has been accessed to a fixed broadband network; determining a mobile identifier corresponding to the fixed identifier according to a mapping relation between the fixed identifier and the mobile identifier, and returning a determined mobile identifier back to an IP boundary gateway in order that the IP boundary gateway performs policy and charging control PCC interaction with the mobile identifier of the fixed device and a policy charging rule function PCRF, thereby achieving policy control of the fixed device accessed to the fixed broadband network.

When being in range covered by gateway of blueteeth, mobile station (MS) obtains and stores information of base station of mobile communication network, where MS is located in. when finding out that blueteeth connection to the gateway of blueteeth is disconnected, MS closes down own blueteeth function. In moving procedure, MS compares base station ID obtained currently with base station ID stored; if the compared result is not consistent, then MS keeps off state of blueteeth function; if it is consistent, then MS turns on blueteeth function. The invention also discloses a device for MS to determine time to turn on / off blueteeth function. The invention can prolong stand-by time of MS, reduce unnecessary power consumption, and satisfy requirement of seamless switch between fixed communication network and mobile communication network for MS in FMC service.

The invention discloses monitoring system and method. The monitoring system is used for supplying monitoring information for a monitoring client terminal, wherein the monitoring client terminal is a mobile monitoring client terminal or a fixed network monitoring client terminal. The monitoring system comprises a monitoring front end and a monitoring management platform, wherein the monitoring front end is used for acquiring the monitoring information in the range of monitoring, and the monitoring management platform is used for acquiring the monitoring information of the monitoring front end, selecting a mode of a mobile code stream form or a fixed network code stream form according to the type of the monitoring client terminal, and transmitting the monitoring information to the monitoring client terminal. The invention complies with the general tread of fixed-mobile convergence, and meets the requirement that comprehensive telecom operators are urgent to develop fixed-mobile convergence multimedia services.

The invention discloses a fixed-mobile convergence network, which comprises a user layer, an access layer and a mobile core network, wherein the user layer comprises a plurality of users; the access layer comprises an access network and a fixed-mobile convergence gateway, and the users are accessed into the access network; the access network is accessed into the fixed-mobile convergence gateway; and the access layer also comprises a signing server, the fixed-mobile convergence gateway is accessed into the signing server, and the signing server is accessed into the mobile core network. The invention also provides a method for authenticating users in the network. The invention has the advantages that the network reduces the alteration degree of the prior network and can distinguish each user in the management network, and each user can independently select to use or not to use fixed-mobile convergence service; the network prevents unsubscribed users from being accessed into the core network, thereby reducing the load of the core network; and the adoption of the signing server in the access layer can judge whether access points in the network belong to legal access points, thereby preventing the users from being connected to the network through illegal access points.

The invention discloses a business data stream processing method and device. The business data stream processing method comprises the following steps of: judging whether admission control is performed on a business data stream or not by a fixed broadband access network; and performing different DSCP (differentiated services code point) marking on an IP (internet protocol) packet of the business data stream according to the judgment result. By adopting the business data stream processing method and device disclosed by the invention, the problem that a whole FMC (fixed mobile convergence) strategy control mechanism fails due to the situation that the business data stream of UE (user equipment) after admission control can seize resources of other business data streams after admission control in the prior art can be solved.

A system and method for fixed mobile convergence for transferring a call directed to a first phone of a user to one of another set of phones is disclosed. The method comprises monitoring a position of a mobile phone, establishing a zone around the mobile phone which changes as the position of the mobile phone changes, identifying a closest phone as one of the another set of phones with a location closest to the position of the mobile phone and within the zone at a time of the call, and routing the call to the closest phone. The system uses a cloud computer operatively connected to both the mobile phone, the first phone and the another set of phones and monitors the position of the mobile phone.

A special-purpose Service Control Point includes a customized application that provides Fixed Mobile Convergence services and interoperates with a Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) network to achieve a single-number fixed mobile convergence overlay network. By determining if a dual-mode cellular / WiFi handset is reachable via a WiFi network, the Service Control Point may redirect incoming and outgoing calls off of the cellular network and onto the WiFi network, thereby reducing cost and providing greater coverage.

The invention discloses a multi-connection establishing method. The method comprises the following steps: BNG (broadband network gateway) transmits a PPP (point-to-point protocol) or PPPoE (point-to-point protocol over Ethernet) access request message to TWAG (trusted WLAN access gateway) through a L2TP (layer 2 tunneling protocol) tunnel after receiving the PPP or PPPoE access request message from UE (user equipment); the TWAG establishes PDN (packet data network) connection of the UE with the PDN gateway according to APN (access point name) information to be accessed by the UE and sends IP address information allocated by the PDN gateway for the UE to the UE through the BNG when determining that the PDN connection of the UE is allowed to be established according to the APN information to be accessed by the UE as well as APN access list information, wherein the BNG and the TWAG establish different sessions for different UEs carrying identical APN information on the same L2TP parameter connection or establish different sessions for different UEs carrying different APN information on the same L2TP tunnel. The invention also discloses a multi-connection establishing system. The method and the system provided by the invention realize multi-connection construction based on APN information, and expand the application of FMC (fixed mobile convergence) architecture.

Apparatus and methods are described for establishing a connection to a subscriber access network, such as a 3G network, over and untrusted network, such as a wireless LAN. A stream ID is assigned to a mobile device upon initialization of the device, and the stream ID remains active until the device powers down, loses WLAN coverage, or de-registers with the network. Both voice and data calls may be routed over the tunnel using the assigned stream ID.

The invention discloses a transmission method and system of information of quality of service (QoS) and a fixed network access gateway. The method includes the following steps: in a fixed mobile convergence scene with the fixed network access gateway, the fixed network access gateway receives the information of QoS of user equipment (UE) from a packet data network gateway (PDN-GW), and sends the information of QoS of the UE to a broadband network gateway (BNG) through a fixed network authentication, authorization and accounting (AAA) server. According to the transmission method and system of the information of QoS and the fixed network access gateway, the QoS strategy control problem occurring when the fixed network access gateway is led into network architecture in a relative technique is solved, and stability and processing efficiency of the system are improved.

The invention discloses a method for triggering fixed-mobile convergence policy negotiation. The method comprises the following steps of: initiating the establishment of a Gxb session to a policy and charging rules function (PCRF) by using an evolved packet data gateway (ePDG); under the trigger of the establishment of the Gxb session, initiating the establishment of an S9* session to a broadband policy control function (BPCF) by using the PCRF to trigger the policy negotiation of a mobile network and a fixed network. The invention also discloses a system for triggering fixed-mobile convergence policy negotiation. A policy negotiation trigger unit is used for initiating the establishment of the Gxb session to the PCRF on the ePDG, and under the trigger of the establishment of the Gxb session, the PCRF initiates the establishment of the S9* session to the BPCF so as to trigger the policy negotiation of the mobile network and the fixed network. By the method and the system, the policy negotiation of the mobile network and the fixed network can be triggered under any conditions.