US 6,603,970 B1Granted

Communications network system with discrete terminal mobility and remote user registration associated with said mobility

AssigneeAlcatel

InventorsJose Javier Huelamo Platas, Daniel Gomez Mateo

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Abstract

A communications network system with discrete terminal mobility and remote user registration associated with said mobility, which comprises at least: a terminal controller (TC) software component for maintaining and updating data of terminal configuration, access interface references of a provider agent (PA), conditions for accepting or rejecting remote user registrations, and for terminal registration or deregistration; a terminal mobility management (TMM) software component for controlling data related to the terminal connection, creating or suppressing registered terminal agents (TA), checking discrete terminal mobility subscription, maintaining subscription agent (SubA) references of the subscribed terminals with discrete mobility, and obtaining references of terminal agents (TA) for terminals with discrete mobility in other federated retailer domains (1).

Claims26

Dependent claims

A communications network system with discrete terminal mobility and remote user registration associated with said mobility, based on at least one network which comprises a set of user terminals, said network comprising at least one retailer domain (1), at least one consumer domain (2), and including in each domain software components in relation to subscription management, access and service sessions management and connection management, characterised in that it further comprises the following software components:

a) at least one terminal controller (TC) component, which is located in the consumer domain (2) and comprises the functions of:
maintaining and updating configuration data of a terminal;
checking authentication data of a terminal provider (TP), which accesses to the terminal controller (TC);
maintaining and updating access interface references of a provider agent (PA) of the access sessions opened in the terminal;
maintaining and updating conditions established by the terminal provider (TP) for admitting or rejecting remote user registrations;
and
terminal registration or deregistration;
b) at least one terminal mobility manager (TMM) component, which is located in any retailer domain (1) and comprises the functions of:
controlling the terminal connection status and the updated value of interface references of terminal components when it is connected;
creating or suppressing terminal agents (TA) which represent registered terminals in the retailer domains (1);
checking discrete terminal mobility subscription;
maintaining references of subscription agents (SubA) corresponding to all terminals with discrete mobility having discrete terminal mobility service subscription in a retailer domain (1);
and
obtaining references of terminal agents (TA) of terminals with discrete mobility in retailer domains (1) other than the retailer domain in which a service session request is launched.

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Method for implementing discrete terminal mobility and remote user registration associated with said mobility in a communications network, said network comprising a set of user terminals, and being divided into at least one retailer domain (1) and at least one consumer domain (2), and including in each domain software components related to subscription management processes, access sessions, service sessions and connection management processes, characterised in that it comprises the steps of:

creating a subscription for a discrete terminal mobility service;
subscribing terminals with discrete terminal mobility associated with said service;
ordering a terminal registration;
creating a terminal agent (TA) that represents a discrete mobility terminal registered in a retailer domain (1);
updating, through a terminal controller (TC), a network address that requires a terminal layer adapter (TLA) each time a new terminal registration is carried out;
making a remote user registration in order to maintain, in a user agent (UA), an association between the user and a terminal identifier where service session invitations are received;
inviting a user outside an access session to a service session from a retailer domain (1);
notifying said invitation indicating the retailer associated with the invitation to the service session, by means of a message to the corresponding user on the terminal indicated in the remote user registration;
and
maintaining the invitation to the service session in the user agent (UA) for its subsequent participation in the invited service session.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 09/315,952Filed 21 May 1999
Priority: ES 980124612 Jun 1998
Granted: 5 Aug 2003
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification6 codes

H04L 41/052
Network management architectures or arrangements: using standardised network management architectures, e.g. telecommunication management network…
H04L 41/0233
Standardisation; Integration: object-oriented techniques, for representation of network management data, e.g. common object request broker…
H04L 41/046
Network management architectures or arrangements: comprising network management agents or mobile agents therefor
H04Q 3/0095
Provisions for network management: specification, development or application of network management software, e.g. software re-use