Femtocell location encoding
AssigneesVerizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Cellco Partnership
InventorsJames Mathison, Said Hanbaly, Mingxing Li, Raymond So
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Abstract
A device associated with a Voice over IP (VoIP) network receives a call from a mobile device. The device determines whether a sector identifier (ID) associated with the call includes a femtocell identifier. The device further determines a location identifier included in the sector ID when the sector ID includes the femtocell identifier. The device also identifies a recipient of the call based on the location identifier and forwards the call to the recipient.
Claims16
A method comprising:
- receiving, by a device associated with a Voice over IP (VoIP) network, a call from a mobile device;
- determining whether the call is location-sensitive based on a phone number associated with the call;
- determining, by the device, whether a sector identifier associated with the call includes a femtocell identifier in response to determining that the call is location-sensitive;
- in response to determining that the sector identifier includes the femtocell identifier,
- detecting, by the device, a location identifier included in the sector identifier,
- identifying, by the device, a first recipient of the call based on the location identifier, and
- forwarding, by the device, the call to the first recipient;
- in response to determining that the sector identifier does not include the femtocell identifier,
- identifying a second recipient of the call based on the sector identifier, and
- forwarding, by the device, the call to the second recipient,
- wherein the device receives the call via a base station, and the sector identifier includes information identifying the base station associated with the second recipient of the call.
A device comprising:
- a memory to store a plurality of instructions;
- and
- a processor to execute the instructions in the memory to:
- provide a femtocell identifier in a sector identifier, where the femtocell identifier indicates that the device is a femtocell,
- provide a location identifier in the sector identifier, where the location identifier indicates a current location of the device,
- broadcast the sector identifier to a mobile device,
- transmit, to a management device, an identifier of the device,
- receive, from the management device, a last known location of the device,
- determine a current time,
- determine current location information for the device based on the last known location and the current time, and
- determine the location identifier based on the current location information.
One or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing instructions executable by one or more processors of a computing device, the media storing one or more instructions of:
- receiving a call from a mobile device;
- determining whether the call is location-sensitive based on a phone number associated with the call;
- determining whether a femtocell identifier is present in a sector identifier associated with the call in response to determining that the call is location-sensitive;
- parsing the sector identifier for a location identifier in response to determining that the femtocell identifier is present in the sector identifier;
- establishing a connection, for the call, between the mobile device and a first recipient device based on the location identifier in response to determining that the femtocell identifier is present in the sector identifier;
- and
- establishing a connection, for the call, between the mobile device and a second recipient device based on the sector identifier in response to determining that the femtocell identifier is not present in the sector identifier.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.