Method and an arrangement for setting up a data call, and an adapter equipment
AssigneeNokia Telecommunications Oy
InventorJuha Räsänen
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Abstract
The invention relates to an adapter equipment (IWF), a method and an arrangement for setting up a data call terminating at a subscriber in a telecommunication network. In the invention, adaptation functions of two or more data services are integrated into a single adapter pool that has one common MSISDN number shared by all the data services. After the connection has been set up, the IWF does not try to synchronize itself according to any data service towards another network but it monitors a traffic channel arriving from the other network (ISDN, PSTN) in order to identify the data service used by the calling terminal equipment. After the IWF has identified the data service, it starts operating in the manner required by the identified data service and data transmission may begin.
Claims12
A method for setting up a data call terminating at a subscriber, characterized by
- receiving a call from another network to an MSISDN number of the subscriber that is common to two or more data services having adaptation functions integrated into the same adapter equipment,
- allocating the adaptation resource required by the data call from said integrated adapter equipment,
- monitoring a traffic channel arriving from the-other network by means of the allocated integrated adaptation resource,
- identifying the data service used by the calling party by means of signalling, synchronization or some other feature that is characteristic of the service,
- configuring said integrated adaptation resource to operate in the manner according to said identified data service towards the other network.
An arrangement for setting up a data call terminating at a subscriber in a telecommunication network when the call arrives from the calling party (TE) via another network (PSTN, ISDN) without sufficient signalling support that transmits information about the data service used by the calling party, characterized in that
- in the telecommunication network, an adapter equipment is integrated for two or more data services such that the data services share an MSISDN number,
- the telecommunication network is arranged to allocate the required adaptation resource from said integrated adapter equipment in a call made to said MSISDN number,
- said allocated network adaptation resource (IWF) is arranged to monitor a traffic channel arriving from another network, to identity the data service used by the calling party (TE) on the basis of signalling, synchronization or some other feature that is characteristic of the service, and to configure itself to operate according to said identified data service towards the calling party.
An interworking function equipment in a telecommunication network for providing protocol adaptation between the network and another network when a call arrives from a calling party via the other network without sufficient signalling support that transmits information about the data service used by the calling party, characterized in that
- the interworking function equipment comprises integrated functions for supporting two or more data services such that the services share an MSISDN number,
- the interworking function equipment (IWF) is arranged to reserve network adaptation resources for a data call terminating at the subscriber (MS) but to leave the data service unspecified,
- the interworking function equipment (IWF) is arranged to monitor a traffic channel arriving from the other network, to identify the data service used by the calling party (TE) on the basis of signalling, synchronization or some other feature that is characteristic of the service, and to configure said allocated network adaptation resources to use said identified data service towards said calling party (TE).
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.