Method and apparatus for transmitting wired data voice over IP data and wireless data through a common IP core network

A method for simultaneously paging a wireless handset and ringing a wired handset, the method comprising:

• providing an IP core network that is coupled to a public switched telephone network (PSTN) through an interface, the IP core network also being coupled to an access IP network,
• providing a radio access network coupled to the IP core network and the wireless handset,
• receiving data at the IP core network from the PSTN,
• registering a wireless handset when such wireless handset is accessible on the radio access network and a wired handset when such wired handset is accessible on the IP network, and
• simultaneously initiating a ringing of the wired handset through the access IP network and a paging of the wireless handset through the radio access network.

A system for transmitting data through an IP core network so that data may be transmitted from an originating source, though a public switched telephone network (PSTN) and through the IP core network to at least one of a wired handset and a wireless handset, the system comprising:

• an IP core network comprising a location server node,
• the IP core network coupled to the PSTN through an interface, the IP core network also coupled to an access IP network, the interface comprising a gateway and a gatekeeper,
• a radio access network coupled to the IP core network and the wireless handset,
• a user premise network coupled to the IP core network,
• a register of wired handsets and wireless handsets from among the at least one of a wired handset and a wireless handset and the registered wired handsets and wireless handsets are on the register when such registered wired handsets and wireless handsets are accessible within the IP core network and the radio access network and wherein the register is compiled by the handsets when the handsets are accessible on the network, and
• upon receipt of data from the originating source, the location server node determining the location of the wireless handset and, upon receipt of a signal from the location server node that the wireless handset is within a predetermined geographical area, the IP core network simultaneously initiating a paging of the wireless handset through the radio access network and a ringing of the wired handset and,
• upon receipt of an answer from a plurality of the handsets, the IP core network bridging an audio signal between the wired and wireless handsets.