US 8,526,369 B2 · System, method, and computer-readable medium for IP-femtocell provisioned radio access network

Abstract

A system, method, and computer readable medium for provisioning radio access via a femtocell system that includes integrated BTS and BSC functions are provided. The femtocell system is coupled with a packet switched backhaul and provides an IP-accessible radio access network. The femtocell system includes a session initiation protocol adapter that supports a SIP client pool and provides conversion of call set-up functions to SIP client set-up functions for provisioning of radio access to a user equipment. The user equipment may have a session initiation protocol client associated with the user equipment. The session initiation protocol client is hosted and registered with a registrar service by the femtocell system. Accordingly, telecommunication services may be directed to and from the user equipment over the packet-switched backhaul to the user equipment via the femtocell system.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A method, comprising:

allocating, by a femtocell system, a session initiation protocol client for a user equipment;
and
transmitting, by the femtocell system, a first registration message for the client to a registrar service, wherein the first registration message includes a first contact comprising a session initiation protocol uniform resource identifier assigned to the user equipment, wherein the first registration message includes a second contact comprising a telephone uniform resource identifier comprising a telephone number assigned to the user equipment.

A system, comprising:

a radio access network including a base transceiver station adapted to provide communication services over a first air interface with a user equipment, wherein the first air interface is provisioned by a base transceiver station;
a packet-switched network having a domain with which the user equipment has a session initiation protocol service subscription;
and
a femtocell system communicatively coupled with the packet-switched network and having an Internet protocol address assigned thereto, wherein the femtocell system allocates a session initiation protocol client for the user equipment, transmits a first registration message for the client to a registrar service that includes a first contact comprising a session initiation protocol uniform resource identifier assigned to the user equipment, wherein the femtocell system registers with the registrar service a second contact comprising a telephone uniform resource identifier comprising a telephone number assigned to the user equipment.

1 more element

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

13/338,357Filed 28 Dec 2011 · continuation

Priority

15 Nov 2007

Published

US 2012/0093130 A119 Apr 2012

Granted

3 Sep 2013

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification36 codes

H04L 65/104
Signalling gateways: in the network
H04L 5/0055
Allocation of signalling, i.e. of overhead other than pilot signals: physical resource allocation for ACK/NACK
H04L 63/08
Network architectures or network communication protocols for network security: for authentication of entities
H04L 63/12
Network architectures or network communication protocols for network security: applying verification of the received information

Family

Application61/003,151Us provisional application · filed 15 Nov 2007

Application12/252,199Parent of this continuation · filed 15 Oct 2008

US 2012/0093130 A1Pre-grant publication · published 19 Apr 2012

US 8,103,274 B2Parent of this continuation

US 2009/0131062 A1Published application

US 8,526,369 B2This patent

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System, method, and computer-readable medium for IP-femtocell provisioned radio access network

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System, method, and computer-readable medium for IP-femtocell provisioned radio access network

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Abstract

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