Telecommunications – Radiotelephone system – Special service
Patent
1995-09-29
1998-07-14
Bost, Dwayne
Telecommunications
Radiotelephone system
Special service
455433, H04Q 722
Patent
active
057818584
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND
The present invention relates to a method of handling and inspecting supplementary services intended for a mobile telephone unit. The invention also relates to an arrangement for carrying out the method.
It has long been possible to utilize so-called supplementary services, in both public switched land telephone systems and mobile telephony. A supplementary service constitutes an expansion in the flexibility of the telephone unit and examples of such services are "call transfer service" and "block on outgoing calls". The call transfer service requires a user of a telephone unit in a telecommunications system to request the transfer of a call arriving at the telephone unit to another telephone unit, through the medium of the dialling buttons on the unit. With regard to which services are available, or when handling a supplementary services, for instance the aforesaid call transfer service which requires a telephone unit to which calls are to be transferred to be specified, it is necessary with known mobile telephony techniques to use the mobile telephone unit for which the service is intended when making said specification. Supplementary services within mobile telephony and the use of these services are shown in GSM recommendation 02.80-02.88, 03.80-03.90 and 04.80-04.90, it being shown, among other things, how the supplementary service of a mobile unit is handled from the mobile unit. However, it is often desirable to handle the service from any selected telephone unit, whether mobile or fixed. The "call transfer" service can be activated, for instance, when the user is in the proximity of a telephone unit to which call transfers are desired. The service "block on outgoing calls" can be activated if the mobile unit has been stolen, for instance. It is known from U.S. Pat. No. 5,090,050 to send an activating signal from a selected telephone unit to a data base in a mobile telephone network to which a mobile unit belongs, i.e. the so-called home network. The signal informs the home network that the mobile has moved or can be expected to move to a so-called remote network. The problem with using this known technique resides in the difficulty in converting signalling of the kind described in the U.S. patent specification to the more complex signalling required for handling and inspecting supplementary services.
SUMMARY
The object of the present invention is to enable supplementary services intended for a mobile unit to be handled and inspected from any chosen telephone unit. This object is achieved in accordance with the invention by establishing a dialogue between a user of the telephone unit and a data base in which the supplementary services to which the mobile unit has subscribed are stored.
Another object of the present invention is to enable available supplementary services to be inspected from any chosen telephone and to be able to inspect the content of the services and also to inspect the activation status of said services.
Another object of the present invention is to enable a supplementary service to be activated/deactivated from any chosen telephone. Still another object of the invention is to enable the configuration of a supplementary service to be given in detail from any chosen telephone, for instance by giving those parameters that are necessary in order to utilize the service.
The present invention thus relates to a method and to an arrangement relating to a mobile telecommunications network for handling and inspecting a supplementary service intended for a mobile unit from any chosen telephone unit. The network includes a home location register in which the supplementary service of the mobile is stored.
The method includes steps for setting-up a connection with the home location register. In this regard, a user of the telephone unit shows his/her authorization and states the service that is to be handled or inspected. The authorization is checked and the service then handled or inspected.
The arrangement includes a system which includes communication nodes, such as switches fo
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Gandils Mats
Lantto Jorgen
Pehrsson Arne
Peltonen Ari
Stille Ola
Bost Dwayne
Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson
Wyche Myra K.
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