Surrogate service attendant
AssigneeLucent Technologies Inc.
InventorMohammad Torabi
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Abstract
Disclosed is a surrogate service attendant for ensuring invocation of services subscribed to by users of mobile-terminal equipment which are unattached or unregistered. When a call for an unattached/unregistered user mobile-telephone equipment (UE) is received by a wireless communication network, the surrogate service attendant will ensure invocation of the user's service subscriptions according to a set of service handling instructions. The service handling instructions may be issued by an application server, which is operable to execute service logic programs for various value added services.
Claims24
A surrogate service attendant for ensuring invocation of services subscribed to by users of mobile-terminal equipment which are unattached to or unregistered with a wireless communication network for sending or receiving calls.
A surrogate service attendant comprising:
- means for checking service triggers associated with a user of a mobile-telephone equipment;
- means for sending a query message to an application server with a service logic program for a value added service associated with an active service trigger;
- means for receiving a query response from the application server in response to the query message;
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- means for executing a set of service handling instructions in the query response.
A wireless communication network comprising:
- a surrogate service attendant for handling calls to an unattached or unregistered mobile-telephone equipment, the surrogate service attendant being operable to receive a terminating call request message, to check a service trigger associated with the unattached or unregistered mobile-telephone equipment to determine whether the service trigger is active in response to the received terminating call request message, to transmit a query message in response to an active service trigger and to receive a query response in response to the transmitted query message;
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- an application server having a service logic program for a value added service associated with the active service trigger, the application server being operable to issue a set of service handling instructions in response to the received query message using the service logic program and to transmit the query response indicating the set of service handling instructions.
A method of handling terminating call request messages for an unattached or unregistered mobile-telephone equipment of a wireless communication network comprising the steps of:
- receiving at a gateway entity a terminating call request message for a mobile-telephone equipment;
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- determining an address for a surrogate service attendant associated with the mobile-telephone equipment if the mobile-telephone equipment is unattached or unregistered with the wireless communication network.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.