Private wireless network integrated with public wireless network
AssigneeSprint Spectrum L.P.
InventorsVon K. McConnell, Mark Yarkosky, Baoquan Zhang, Thomas M. Sladek, Kenneth C. Jackson
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AssigneeSprint Spectrum L.P.
InventorsVon K. McConnell, Mark Yarkosky, Baoquan Zhang, Thomas M. Sladek, Kenneth C. Jackson
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A private wireless network is able to provide wireless telecommunication services to subscriber mobile stations that also subscribe to a public wireless network. The private wireless network includes a private base transceiver station (BTS), a private mobile switching center (MSC), and a gateway service control point (SCP). The private BTS provides a private network wireless coverage area within which the mobile station can communicate with the base transceiver station over an air interface. The gateway SCP has a private network database containing private network data records for subscribing mobile stations. A private network data record includes a private network service profile and a private network locator address. The public wireless network has a home location register (HLR) with a public network database containing public network data records for subscribing mobile stations. A public network data record includes a public network service profile and a public network locator address. When a subscriber mobile station is active on the private wireless network, the private network locator address identifies the private MSC, and the public network locator address identifies the gateway SCP. By providing the private network wireless coverage area so that it overlaps the public network's wireless coverage area, the subscriber mobile station may be handed off between the private and public wireless networks.
A private wireless network, to which private network mobile stations subscribe, integrated with a public wireless network, to which public network mobile stations subscribe, said private wireless network being able to provide wireless telecommunications services to at least one mobile station that subscribes to said private wireless network and to said public wireless network, said public wireless network having a public network subscriber database containing a public network data record for each of said public network mobile stations, including a first data record for said at least one mobile station, said public wireless network providing a public network coverage area within which said at least one mobile station can communicate with said public wireless network over an air interface, said public wireless network including a public mobile switching center (MSC) serving mobile stations operating in said public network coverage area, said private wireless network comprising:
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