Integrated wireless/wireline registration
AssigneeBellSouth Intellectual Property Corporation
InventorsChristopher C. Yu, Douglas B. Alston, Oral A. Christie
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Abstract
Systems and methods are presented in which a routing number for telecommunication environments are stored in both a wireless network and a landline network. By storing the routing number at both the wireless network and the landline network, a “tromboning” effect is reduced, thereby providing greater efficiency.
Claims22
In telecommunication environments having wireless networks in communication with landline networks, a system comprising:
- a home location register (HLR) located within a wireless network;
- a visitor location register (VLR) located within a landline network;
- means for storing a routing number at the HLR as a wireless number;
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- means for storing the routing number at the VLR as a landline number.
In telecommunication environments having wireless networks in communication with landline networks, a system comprising:
- a first register located within a wireless network;
- a second register located within a landline network;
- a controller functionally coupled to the first register and the second register, the controller being adapted to store a routing number at the first register as a wireless number, the controller further being adapted to store the routing number at the second register as a landline number.
A wireless network comprising:
- a register adapted to store a landline number as a wireless number;
- a router functionally coupled to the register, the router being adapted to receive a communication directed to a wireless device, the router further being adapted to route the received communication to the landline number.
A landline network comprising:
- a register adapted to store a wireless number as a landline number;
- a router functionally coupled to the register, the router being adapted to route a communication directed to a landline device, the communication being routed to the stored wireless number.
In telecommunication environments having wireless networks in communication with landline networks, a method comprising:
- storing a routing number in a wireless network as a wireless number;
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- storing the routing number in a landline network as a landline number.
In telecommunication environments having wireless networks in communication with landline networks, a method comprising:
- storing a routing number associated with a landline device, the routing number being stored as a wireless number in a wireless network;
- receiving a communication over the wireless network, the communication being directed to the landline device;
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- retrieving the routing number in response to receiving the communication;
- and
- routing the received communication to the routing number.
In telecommunication environments having wireless networks in communication with landline networks, a method comprising:
- storing a routing number associated with a wireless device, the routing number being stored as a landline number in a landline network;
- receiving a communication over the landline network, the communication being directed to the wireless device;
- and
- retrieving the routing number in response to receiving the communication;
- and
- routing the received communication to the routing number.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.