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Handling of applications of mobile terminals in a serving node

AssigneeTelefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)

InventorHenning Brandes

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Abstract

A method of supporting a communication between a mobile terminal UE and a serving node of a telecommunication network, the serving node comprising an application interface, a programming module and a basic code module storing and processing basic functions. The serving node receives an initialization message from the UE and determines a call reference number for the incoming call. An incoming call listener is activated to listen to incoming calls that are related to the call reference number. A signal is created which listens for a trigger-signal in basic functions in the basic code module. After the incoming call, related to the call reference number is detected, the signal listener is allocated to the incoming call, wherein an application in the programming module is executed after the signal listener detects the trigger signal related to the call reference number.

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Dependent claims

A method of supporting a communication established between a mobile terminal (UE), and a serving node of a telecommunication network, the serving node comprising an application interface for receiving and sending messages to the UE, a programming module adapted to store and process applications, and a basic code module adapted to store and process basic functions of the serving node, wherein the serving node performs the following method steps:

receiving an initialization message from the UE at the application interface and determining a call reference number for the succeeding incoming call,
activating an incoming call listener to listen for incoming calls, related to the call reference number,
creating a signal listener, which listens for a trigger-signal in the basic functions,
after the incoming call listener detects an incoming call related to the call reference number, allocating the signal listener to the incoming call,
executing an application in the programming module after the signal listener detects a trigger-signal in the basic functions related to the call reference number, and
determining whether to block execution of a basic function in the serving node related to the call reference number during execution of the application in the programming module.

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A serving node, comprising:

a basic code module, adapted to store and process basic functions of the serving node;
an application interface adapted to
receive an initialization message from a mobile terminal and determine a call reference number from the initialization message,
initiate activation of a call listener, the call listener adapted to listen for incoming calls related to the specified call reference number, after the application interface receives the initialization message from the mobile terminal, and
initiate creation of a signal listener, adapted to listen for a trigger-signal related to the specified call reference number in the basic functions of the serving node;
and
a programming module, adapted to store an application and execute the application after the signal listener detects a trigger-signal in the basic functions related to the specified call reference number,
wherein the application interface is further adapted to determine whether to block execution of a basic function in the serving node related to the call reference number during execution of the application in the programming module.

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Facts

Application: 13/182,874Filed 14 Jul 2011 · us provisional application
Priority: EP 1016949514 Jul 2010
Published: US 2012/0015640 A119 Jan 2012
Granted: 22 Jul 2014
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

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H04W 4/20
Services specially adapted for wireless communication networks; Facilities therefor: services signaling; Auxiliary data signalling, i.e.…
H04W 76/10
Connection management: connection setup
H04Q 3/0054
Provisions for intelligent networking: service creation techniques
H04W 4/14
Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements: short messaging services, e.g. short message services [SMS] or unstructured supplementary service data [USSD]

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Application61/364,256Us provisional application · filed 14 Jul 2010
US 2012/0015640 A1Pre-grant publication · published 19 Jan 2012
US 8,787,894 B2This patent

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