Enterprise Gateway Server for Cellular Service Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Enterprises lack adequate means to control and manage cellular service in terms of costs, Quality of Service, and corporate monitoring, as cellular service has conventionally been controlled by wireless carrier networks independently of enterprise voice and data networks.
Innovation Solution
The implementation of a gateway server that interconnects the carrier's Mobile Switching Center and Serving GPRS Support Node with the enterprise's voice and data network, enabling the use of an alternative numbering plan for delivering voice calls and short messages, and providing a one number service feature for enterprise subscribers.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If cellular service is controlled by wireless carrier networks independently, then cellular service management is simplified for carriers, but enterprises lack adequate means to control costs, Quality of Service, and corporate monitoring
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an enterprise gateway server as an intermediary component that connects the mobile network's switching center with the enterprise's private branch exchange. This gateway server acts as a mediator that enables enterprises to control and manage cellular services while maintaining compatibility with existing carrier networks, thus resolving the contradiction between simplified carrier management and enterprise control needs
2Adaptability or versatility
If enterprises deploy private branch exchanges for fixed voice and data networks, then enterprise network control is achieved, but no mechanisms exist to extend this control to cellular services
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the enterprise's fixed network infrastructure (PBX) with the mobile network infrastructure through a gateway server. This integration allows enterprises to extend their existing network control mechanisms to cellular services, creating a unified communication system that handles both fixed and mobile communications through a single manageable architecture
3Adaptability or versatility
If alternative numbering plan is implemented for delivering voice calls and short messages, then seamless communication across multiple devices is enabled, but routing conflicts between public mobile and land-line networks may occur
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements feedback mechanisms through the gateway server that continuously monitors call routing status and network conditions. When routing conflicts are detected between public mobile and land-line networks, the system receives feedback about the conflict and automatically adjusts routing decisions to resolve the issue, ensuring reliable communication while maintaining alternative numbering plan benefits
Data Source
AI summary
A system, method and computer-readable medium for allowing the use of an alternative numbering plan for delivering short messages to mobile subscribers using the public mobile telephone network is provided. Users of an enterprise or other closed networks as well as users that are not part of a closed network may send short messages destined to members of an enterprise or closed network from their mobile or other devices associated with their subscription using an alternative enterprise directory number, such as the office number, instead of the mobile number, such that the alternative number will be presented at the destination device as the originating number. The recipient may respond to the message by addressing the response to the enterprise or closed network number, and the response may be delivered to the originator's mobile or other device associated with their subscription.