# US 10,320,973 B2 · Venue owner-controllable per-venue service configuration > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 10,320,973 B2 - Document ID: US10320973B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 15/039,190 - Filed: 2013-11-26 - Published: 2017-01-26 - Granted: 2019-06-11 - Earliest claimed: 2013-11-26 - Assignees: Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy - Applicants: Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy - Inventors: Gul Wiqar Khan; Kalle Eino Olavi Nyman - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10320973B2 ## CPC - H04M 3/42348: {Location-based services which utilize the location information of a target} - H04L 41/0803: Configuration setting - H04L 41/5051: Service on demand, e.g. definition and deployment of services in real time - H04M 3/42144: {by service provider} - H04W 4/021: Services related to particular areas, e.g. point of interest [POI] services, venue services or geofences - H04W 68/005: {Transmission of information for alerting of incoming communication} - H04L 63/107: {wherein the security policies are location-dependent, e.g. entities privileges depend on current location or allowing specific operations only from locally connected terminals} - H04L 69/28: Timers or timing mechanisms used in protocols - H04M 19/045: {Call privacy arrangements, e.g. timely inhibiting the ring signal} - H04M: TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION (circuits for controlling other apparatus via a telephone cable and not involving telephone switching apparatus G08) - H04L: TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M) - H04W: WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS (broadcast communication H04H; communication systems using wireless links for non-selective communication, e.g. wireless extensions H04M1/72) ## Abstract There are provided measures for venue owner-controllable per-venue service configuration. Such measures could comprise configuring a per-venue service model of services of a network operator for terminal devices of subscribers of the network operator on the basis of an input by a venue owner of a venue, the per-venue service model including at least one configurable parameter for defining a venue-based service for terminal devices of subscribers residing in a specified venue area of the venue, and controlling provision of services of the network operator to terminal devices or subscribers of terminal devices in accordance with the per-venue service model depending on applicability thereof for the service provision. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A method comprising: handling, by a network operator, a mobile-terminated voice or data call toward a terminal device of a subscriber of the network operator in a network of the network operator, verifying, by the network operator, whether a per-venue service model defining a venue-based service for mobile-terminated calls by suppressing a call arrival tone at the terminal device for mobile-terminated calls, is applicable to the mobile-terminated voice or data call, the per-venue service model being configurable by a venue owner of a venue and including at least one configurable parameter which: defines a venue-based service for terminal devices of subscribers residing in a specified venue area of the venue, and comprises a control scheme for mobile terminated calls comprising stopping a call flow towards the terminal device and processing a missed call event for the terminal device, and controlling, by the network operator, provision of the handled service to the terminal device in accordance with the per-venue service model when verified to be applicable. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The method according to claim 1, wherein the venue area is specified by at least one of one or more cells of a network of the network operator, together with their associated one or more location areas, a dedicated location area comprising one or more cells of a network of the network operator, and a dedicated geographical area definition comprising a geographical center and a radius. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The method according to claim 1, wherein verifying applicability of the per-venue service model to the mobile-terminated voice or data call comprises checking whether the mobile-terminated voice or data call comprises the at least one configurable parameter defining a type of service or application, and checking whether the terminal device is residing in the specified venue area on the basis of at least one of a current cell, a current location area and a current position of the terminal device. ### Claim 4 (depends on 3) The method according to claim 3, wherein the terminal device is determined to reside in the specified venue area when the current location area of the terminal device is fully comprised in the specified venue area, or the current location area of the terminal device is not fully comprised in the specified venue area but the current cell of the terminal device or a current position of the terminal device is comprised in the specified venue area. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The method according to claim 1, wherein processing the missed call event comprises generating and issuing a message for notifying the subscriber of the terminal device about the mobile-terminated call, or registering the mobile-terminated call, generating one or more messages for notifying the subscriber of the terminal device about all mobile-terminated calls during a predetermined time period, which is equal to or shorter than the defined time period, and issuing the one or more messages after lapse of the predetermined time period or the defined time period. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The method according to claim 1, wherein the at least one configurable parameter comprises a control scheme for mobile-terminated calls comprising issuing information on a geographical center and a radius of the specified venue area. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The method according to claim 1, further comprising: verifying whether the per-venue service model is applicable to the received service for the terminal device, and controlling provision of the received service to the subscriber in accordance with the per-venue service model when verified to be applicable, wherein the verifying and controlling are performed in a pre-paging phase, a setup phase or an channel allocation/assignment phase of the mobile-terminated call towards the terminal device. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The method according to claim 1, wherein the method is operable at or by at least one of a network device on a base site level, such as a base station of a cell, a femto cell, a micro cell or a pico cell, a base transceiver station, a NodeB, an eNodeB or a relay node, and a network device on a base site control level, such as a base station controller or a radio network controller, or the network of the network operator comprises a 2G/3G/4G communication network.