841 results about "Telecom operators" patented technology

The techniques described employ a cooperative organization of network service providers to provide improved distributed network services. The network service providers that are constituent to the cooperative organization represent various perspectives within the overall Internet content distribution network, and may include network owners, telecommunications carriers, network access providers, hosting providers and distribution network owners, the latter being an entity that caches content at a plurality of locations distributed on the network. Aspects include managing content caches by receiving control signals specifying actions related to cached content that is distributed on a network, such as the Internet, and forwarding the control signals through to the caching locations to implement the actions represented by the control signals, thus providing content publishers the capability of refreshing their content regardless of where it is cached. Aspects include managing content caches by receiving activity records that contain statistics related to requests for cached content, segregating the statistics according to which content publisher provides the content associated with the statistics, and providing to each content publisher statistics corresponding to content provided by that content publisher, thus allowing them to monitor requests for their content regardless of where it may be cached on the network.

An interactive mobile messaging system (IMMS) for mobile telephone marketing and promotional campaigns integrates interactive voice response (IVR), SMS, fast analysis of shared multidimensional information, and online analytical processing. Online interactive message communication protocols are managed through mobile-originated, short code-based message platforms which are interfaced with an IVR query system. Automatic configuration of multiformat messages can be performed directly into multiple telecommunications carrier networks to all supported mobile handsets.

The method for implementing an Intelligent Content Rating middleware platform and gateway system disclosed herewith provides telecommunications carriers and network operators with the ability to define routing and actions based on HTTP / SIP based content and subscriber context through a powerful, extensible Layer 4-7 switching fabric technology. The invention mediates communications between applications and networks for IP packet flows, personal messaging, location-based services and billing. Furthermore, it enables advanced context-sensitive dialogue scenarios with the wireless subscriber such as, but not limited to, Advice-of-Charge dialogues. The art permits telecommunications network operators and like entities to introduce real-time rating of data services for both prepaid and post-paid subscribers. Further advances in the art include the validation of digital signatures, combined with authentication and non-repudiation techniques to ensure subscriber privacy remains protected.

A configurable edge device for use in a network, the edge device being adapted and configured to be coupled to at least one other edge device in a network, and including an admission controller for controlling admission of data traffic onto a pre-defined flow over a physical link, and a router for routing the data traffic through the edge device onto the pre-defined flow in accordance with a pre-defined routing scheme, wherein operation of the admission controller and the router is controlled in accordance with data defining all physical and logical links in the network; a telecommunications carrier network for data traffic, the network including at least two such configurable edge devices, and a method for transmitting data traffic through such an edge device.

Systems and methods are provided to facilitate fraud detection in payments made via mobile communications. In one aspect, a system includes a data storage facility configured to store payment transaction records associated with phone numbers; and an interchange that includes a common format processor and a plurality of converters configured to interface with a plurality of controllers of mobile communications in transmitting premium messages to the phone numbers to collect funds for making payments on behalf of users of the phone numbers. The system includes a fraud detection engine configured to use the payment transaction records to detect a potentially fraudulent activity in payments requested via a phone number and configured to communicate with a server of a telecommunication carrier of the phone number to further process the activity based on an indication of abnormality in the telecommunication usage pattern of a mobile phone at the phone number.

A telecommunications network uses a supervisory service broker in a packet messaging environment, particularly Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) messaging, to changeably allocate and to account for the usage of network resources by users. The SIP INVITE and other messages are passed through the supervisory broker, monitored for accounting and potentially redirected to change allocations of resources. The resources can generally comprise applications and applications servers such as media storage and playback, voicemail and directory services, subnet messaging and instant messaging, voice-over-Internet, wireless linkages and others, and can be logically grouped in packages that are allocable. Users such as telecom carriers and others can contract for usage and also can contract to provide resources for use by others, in an unlimited way or according to terms, and for appropriate credit.

A wireless telecommunications carrier operates a commerce platform in a trusted domain, which may store sensitive information associated with a consumer. During a credit card based transaction, a merchant's POS terminal sends transaction information to an acquirer. The acquirer recognizes the transaction type and responds by routing the transaction information to the commerce platform. The commerce platform validates the transaction by verifying the identity of the user. When the transaction is validated, the commerce platform notifies the acquirer, which initiates a clearing process. When the transaction clears, the acquirer notifies the commerce platform and signals the merchant's POS terminal to output a paper receipt. The commerce platform stores a digital receipt of the transaction and signals the wireless device to output a confirmation message to the consumer. The consumer's credit card number and other sensitive information may be restricted to the trusted domain, which excludes the merchant.

A subscriber profile access management system for a telecommunications service provider or telecommunications operator provides technical solutions to providing a single point of access to telecommunications subscriber profile information. As the products and services offered by the service provider grow, and given the many different access mechanisms through which a subscriber connects to services, the single point of access eliminates the inefficient proliferation of custom interfaces between the many support systems and applications which need access to subscriber profile information. The single point of access provides a universal and personalized access to telecommunications services. Access may be made to the subscriber profile regardless of the particular type of access mechanism (e.g., WiFi, or DSL access), while the personalized access allows services to be customized based upon static and dynamically maintained information in the subscriber profile.

Systems and methods are provided to facilitate transactions via mobile communications. In one aspect, a system includes a data storage facility and an interchange coupled with the data storage facility that stores data associating a phone number of a user and an account identifier of the user. The interchange includes a common format processor and a plurality of converters to interface with a plurality of different controllers of mobile communications. The converters are configured to communicate with the controllers in different formats and with the common format processor in a common format. The common format processor uses one of the converters to transmit premium messages to the phone number to collect funds via a telecommunication carrier, receives a payment request having the account identifier, identifies the phone number based on the account identifier, and makes a payment on behalf of the user using the collected funds.

The invention discloses a user portrait construction method. The method comprises the following steps: first crawling various data of an internet through distributed crawlers, and fusing and getting through to form a mass knowledge base; obtaining internet surfing logs and matching the internet surfing logs with the knowledge base to generate user base labels; constructing user attribute labels by combining the specific customer relation management (CRM) data and geographic position data of telecom operators; and carrying out weight and attenuation factor processing on the label data to generate user base portraits, and generating user portraits which accord with the industry applications and externally providing services by combining the characteristics of the industry users and the personalized data mining of the industry costumer data. The method has the advantages of providing accurate whole network user portraits for the customers, fully utilizing the internet data and providing convenience for the application services such as user analysis, product recommendation and accurate marketing.

The present invention provides a system and method for delivering programmable, personalized interactive audio content, including advertising, via telecommunications carriers. Also, a telecommunications-carrier-based interactive combined entertainment, advertising, and sales channel is provided.

The invention of present speaks to a method and system for the prevention of unwanted wireless telecommunications which is implemented as part of a computer program product in (preferentially) the telecommunications operator's network, which meets and / or exceeds much of current, proposed and even academically anticipated legislative (and by necessity, technical) criteria, and indeed, thereby complies with the broader body of prima facie consumer requirements associated with wireless telecommunications spam filtering. Indeed, the invention provides for a remarkably flexible and customizable advance in the art through the utilization of a progressive filtering algorithm. This algorithm offers both the subscriber and the service provider with the capability to block and / or extract potentially harmful or unsolicited SMS, MMS and other such messages on the basis of an extensive range of parameters and rules.

A method for routing data over a telecommunications carrier network including at least two switching devices defining at least one physical link, the method including defining in advance a plurality of traffic flows, each associated with specific routing through at least one of the physical links in the network; configuring a routing system according to the traffic flows; collecting data of traffic transmitted over at least some of the traffic flows, calculating traffic statistics, from the collected data, for each of the flows in the network; and re-calculating the routing system configuration utilizing the calculated traffic statistics.

Systems and methods are provided to facilitate transactions via mobile communications. In one aspect, a system includes a data storage facility and an interchange coupled with the data storage facility that stores data associating a phone number of a user and an account identifier of the user. The interchange includes a common format processor and a plurality of converters to interface with a plurality of different controllers of mobile communications. The converters are configured to communicate with the controllers in different formats and with the common format processor in a common format. The common format processor uses one of the converters to transmit premium messages to the phone number to collect funds via a telecommunication carrier, receives a payment request having the account identifier, identifies the phone number based on the account identifier, and makes a payment on behalf of the user using the collected funds.

A system, device and computer readable medium that monitors and reconfigures a LAN by a WAN operator is provided. In an embodiment of the present invention, a telecommunications operator monitors and manages devices and / or applications communicating with a wireless device, such as cellular telephone. In an embodiment of the present invention, a telecommunication operator adds LAN network services to microrouter 404 in a cellular telephone without user intervention. In an embodiment of the present invention, the cellular telephone has a Bluetooth™ processor and transceiver. In an embodiment of the present invention, microrouter 404 includes a Bluetooth™ LAN Access Profile software component, routing software component, PPP server software component and a NAT software component. In an embodiment of the present invention, microrouter 404 includes hooks and interfaces for adding other network services, such as a Bluetooth™ Terminal Pairing Management software component, a VPN software component, Firewall component, Statistics software component, Link Optimization software component, LAN reverse firewall software component, Terminal Flashing software component, SMS software component, SLV and SLE software component and a Device Resources software component.

A method for real-time bundled call processing and billing telecommunications services includes the steps of recognizing a real-time bundled account access call at a telecommunications carrier switch, and routing the real-time bundled account access call to a real-time bundled call processing and billing call management platform coupled to the telecommunications carrier switch. An account number and an optional personal identification number associated with the account are collected and verified. A destination number is then collected. A customer credit profile associated with the real-time bundled account is obtained from a database, and a method of computing charges associated with terminating the call to the collected destination number is determined. Next, whether the customer credit profile permits the call is determined. The call is released to the telecommunications carrier switch for line termination if it is permissible, and the call is monitored for call completion. The charges associated with the call are then posted to the real-time bundled account.

There is provided a media communication apparatus including an automatic selection unit which automatically selects a telecommunications carrier by preset criteria on the address of a speech terminal serving as a communication destination input at the time of call origination and a communication system which identifies the communication conventions of a server of the selected telecommunications carrier and communicates media in accordance with the communication conventions, wherein the communication system has an automatic identification unit which automatically identifies the communication protocol of the server of the selected telecommunications carrier, a session establishment unit which establishes a session according to the identified communication protocol, and a packet communication unit which communicates media in packets on the basis of the established session.

Systems and methods are provided to facilitate online transactions via mobile communications. In one aspect, a system includes a plurality of converters to interface with a plurality of controllers in different formats for delivery of premium messages sent by the system to collect funds; and a common format processor coupled with the plurality of converters in a common format to send the premium messages. The common format processor is configured to receive requests to pay respective merchants according to respective purchase prices for respective items purchased by respective customers, dynamically determine respective service fees for processing respective payments for the respective items to have different ratios between the respective service fees and the respective purchase prices, determine combinations of premium messages, and send the combinations of the premium messages to respective mobile phones of the respective customers via a telecommunication carrier.

The invention relates to a system, enabling subscribers of a wireless Telecom Operator to execute financial transactions with a mobile phone, or an electronic device which can be connected to the wireless communication network, wherein a subscriber has one or several Financial Transaction Accounts open and managed by the Telecom Operator, which can receive monetary deposits, and on which debit and credit operations can be executed. The system is composed of a Transaction Processing Platform, which is installed on the computers of the Telecom Operator, is connected to the wireless communication network, is interfaced with other elements of the Telecom Operator, manages the Financial Transactions Accounts, verifies / executes financial transactions sent by the subscribers, and executes other tasks like confirmations of transactions, account statement preparation, reporting, etc. The system is also composed of a client software that runs on the Mobile Phone of the subscriber or his connectable electronic device or on the Subscriber Identify Module which is inserted in the mobile phone or connectable electronic device. Such client software enables the subscriber to prepare, validate and send through the wireless communication network, transactions orders to the Transaction Processing Platform.

In one implementation, an apparatus includes a detector of capabilities of each of heterogeneous computing systems, the capabilities including a model, existence of a microphone, video controls, specifications of a camera, a processor speed, a bus speed, an amount of cache memory, an amount of non-cache memory, a telecom carrier and an operating system, a determiner of the minimum sufficiency of the capabilities of the each of the heterogeneous computing systems; the determiner being operably coupled to the detector, the determiner being operable to set a state in a memory location indicating an affirmative or a negative state of the minimum sufficiency of the capabilities of the each of the heterogeneous computing systems, and an initiator of a multimedia teleconference between the heterogeneous computing systems, the initiator being operably coupled to the determiner, the initiator being operable to initiate the multimedia teleconference in reference to the memory location indicating an affirmative or a negative state of the minimum sufficiency of the capabilities of the each of the heterogeneous computing systems.

The invention discloses a mobile phone user identification card based on mobile payment multichannel digital certificate. The mobile phone user identification card based on mobile payment multichannel digital certificate comprises a card body and a card internal circuit which is integrated in a size space of the card body. The card internal circuit comprises a micro control unit (MCU) security chip. One or a plurality of digital authentication certificates are stored in the MCU security chip, and a digital certificate authentication processing module which is used for treating authentication processes of the digital authentication certificates is arranged in the MCU security chip. The car internal circuit further comprises a data link which is used for transmitting data of the digital certification processes. The digital certificate authentication processing module of the MCU security chip is connected with a mobile phone terminal through the data link and is connected with a third part certification mechanism through network resources of the mobile phone terminal in an online mode to conduct authentication of the digital certificates. The mobile phone user identification cared utilizes mobile payment which is conducted through the mobile phone terminal, is not limited to telecom operators and finance banks, but is mastered by a user, and achieves a goal of safely, rapidly and conveniently achieving the mobile payment of various consumption.

Methods and systems for enabling mobile mashups that amalgamate data and offerings from three dimensions: device features, Telecom network, and Web accessible services. Certain subject matter presented herein provides that this framework is established through middleware components, both on the server side as well as the device side, to provide support for mashing device and telecom interfaces. In addition, certain subject matter described herein provides for portability across different device platforms and different telecom operator networks.

The invention provides an energy saving method for a communication machine room. The energy saving method includes firstly, predicting heat radiation quantity Q1 of equipment in the machine room and heat conduction quantity Q2 of an envelope structure of the machine room; computing refrigerating capacity needs P of air conditioners according to the Q1 and Q2 in a formula P=Q1+Q2; and finally, determining running strategies and parameters of the air conditioners of the machine room according to the refrigerating capacity needs P, wherein the running strategies and the parameters include the starting number of the air conditions, the switching mechanism and refrigerating temperature set of the air conditioners. Temperature varying trend of the machine room is monitored in real time by the method, and the refrigerating temperature setting value of the air conditioners are adjusted according to the temperature varying trend. By the energy saving method, energy consumption of the air conditioners can be evidently reduced, telecom operators can know working states and energy consumption conditions of the air conditioners of subordinate machine rooms conveniently, and can adjust air conditioner control algorithm dynamically according to specific conditions of each machine room, and thereby, energy saving effect can be optimized continuously.

A Virtual Subscriber Service (VSS) is a system and method for operators to provide multiple mutually exclusive telephone numbers, each with its own unique plan features, to a subscriber who is associated with a single terminating device. VSS makes it possible for a subscriber to manage communications directed toward any telephone number associated with his telephone as if any one of the telephone numbers were the only number associated with the telephone. Further, in addition to the primary number, a VSS subscriber can originate communications or return missed communications from the virtual telephone numbers associated with his terminating device. More specifically, some embodiments of a VSS involve the use of a pre-paid account associated with a telecommunications service that has a primary destination code as well as a virtual destination code directed toward a common terminating device such as a mobile telephone. Advantageously, embodiments of a VSS provide a telecommunications operator with a system and method that enables a subscriber to have an additional private telephone number, mutually exclusive from a primary telephone number, without purchasing another telephone or purchasing a multi-SIM card.

The invention provides a system and a method for preventing teenagers from addicting to network. The system comprises three parts, namely a network strategy management unit, a strategy service setting unit and an edge acquisition control unit which are arranged at a core network server end of a telecom operator; the system is matched with an addicting preventing method to ensure that the addicting preventing system can operate without installing any client on a computer of a user and the system can be prevented from being broken; meanwhile, the user can manage the whole addicting preventing process and set functions of the system by adopting a web mode very conveniently and realize the addicting preventing control; and the user can set the system according to the personal requirement at any time and any place, so that a larger space for the user is provided. According to the system and the method disclosed by the invention, after the net playing behavior of the user is recorded, the comprehensive analysis can be carried out, the net playing conditions of the teenagers are fully learned and the correct guidance for the growth of children is realized.

The invention discloses a telecom operator mass data processing method based on a Hadoop platform. The telecom operator mass data processing method based on the Hadoop platform comprises the following steps that firstly a Sqoop tool is used for extracting data in an original data system into a Hadoop local server; then tables are created in Hive and a Hive script is written according to the data model and operation requirements of an operator data warehouse; then the Hive script is executed to convert the source data and load the data into an objective table of the Hive; finally Hive query languages or a MapReduce program is written according to requirements to carry out query analysis on the data in the objective table. According to the telecom operator mass data processing method based on the Hadoop platform, all kinds of tools are sufficiently used in the Hadoop platform on the foundation that operational requirements are met to achieve telecom operator mass data processing, and working efficiency is greatly improved.

The present invention provides a system and method for delivering programmable, personalized interactive audio content, including advertising, via telecommunications carriers. Also, a telecommunications-carrier-based interactive combined entertainment, advertising, and sales channel is provided.

A technical method of analyzing and managing channel distribution of telecommunication operator based on GIS system includes utilizing GIS electronic map to form a map layer of coverage scope covered by base station and a map layer of village, population, GDP value / person and traffic as well as a map layer of channel distribution; superposing said map layer on said electronic map to form a superposed map to make analysis for judging out whether it is reasonable to set up net-point or not then dividing area to be subdivisions and displaying said subdivisions on electronic map.

Provided is an intelligent and remote automatic alarming system for elevator faults. The intelligent and remote automatic alarming system for the elevator faults is composed of a monitoring platform and monitoring terminals. The monitoring platform is connected with the remote monitoring terminals through a wide area network; the monitoring platform is composed of a communication server, a database server, a webpage server and a gateway; each monitoring terminal is composed of a monitoring and remote alarming terminal, an elevator operation detection unit, a door opening and closing detection unit, a human body induction unit, a fault talkback unit, an automatic emergency lamp unit, a multifunctional media machine and a standby power supply unit. The intelligent and remote automatic alarming system for the elevator faults achieves visual and remote informatization management of safety monitoring, fault management, personnel rescue, maintenance and management for elevator operation. The monitoring terminals are connected with telecom service providers through a telecom operator mobile network, data uplink processing and data downlink processing are achieved, and telecom operators are connected with the communication server, the database server and the webpage server of the monitoring platform through the Internet so as to achieve interconnection between the monitoring terminals and the communication server of the monitoring platform.

The present invention provides an acquisition system and a method of an advertising orientation data in a telecommunication network. The system mainly comprises a data extraction module, which is used to perform a communication with a network element inside the telecommunication network through a network interface, to extract at least two user message datum from the network element, and to take the extracted datum as user original orientation datum to transmit to a data analysis module; the data analysis module, which is used to perform a analysis to the user original orientation data transmitted by the data extraction module according to an orientation analysis approach set up in advance, to get user orientation result data, and to transmit the user orientation result data to a data send module; the data send module, which is used to extract a corresponding targeted advertising and to send to the user according to the user orientation result data transmitted by the data analysis module. The utilization of the present invention can get the user orientation result data correlated with the behavior of the user in the telecommunication network, thereby to ensure a telecom operator to provide a targeted advertising matched with a mobile user height for the mobile user.