Telecommunications – Radiotelephone system – Zoned or cellular telephone system
Reexamination Certificate
1999-03-11
2001-10-23
Urban, Edward F. (Department: 2683)
Telecommunications
Radiotelephone system
Zoned or cellular telephone system
C455S419000, C455S433000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06308069
ABSTRACT:
The present invention is directed to a method, and to a communication system, for the first-time entry of subscriber data of a mobile subscriber that can be identified by a mobile subscriber identifier in a mobile radio telephone network and that would like to accept and make calls with a radio telephone subscriber station into a central subscriber data base.
As is known, in this field a mobile subscriber telephone number is assigned to every mobile subscriber of a mobile radio telephone network; for example, a communication system operated according to the GSM standard. Further, telecommunication services are allocated to this mobile subscriber telephone number wherein it is entered in advance in at least one central subscriber data base (home register) for the mobile subscriber. Upon acquisition of the radio telephone subscriber station with which the mobile subscriber can accept and make calls or, respectively, of a chip card (SIM card, subscriber identity module) introduceable into a radio telephone subscriber station on the basis whereof an allocation of the radio telephone subscriber station to the mobile subscriber occurs, prepared service packages having a predetermined scope are usually offered by the seller. The seller must thereby inform the service provider or the network operator of the scope of the services before the previously initialized chip card, on which the mobile subscriber identifier of the mobile subscriber is stored, can be enabled. The radio telephone subscriber station can receive and send calls only after this. Individual services or specific subscriber data such as, for example, a vanity telephone number are either not possible at all or are only possible by accepting a time-consuming, mutual information process between dealer, service provider or, network operator.
International Patent Application WO-A-96/27270 discloses a method and an arrangement for programming a mobile terminal equipment with identification numbers respectively allocated by a cellular mobile radiotelephone system via a topically remote location. Data of a mobile subscriber are thereby entered for the first time in at least one central subscriber database of the mobile radiotelephone system.
An object of the present invention is to specify a method and communication system for the entry of subscriber data into a central subscriber data base with which the first-time entry of the subscriber data occurs as simply and flexibly as possible.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
In accord therewith, an entry composed of a special telephone number and of blocking information for temporarily blocking the calls for the mobile subscriber is formed in the central subscriber data base and is transferred into the decentralized subscriber data base that is the first that is responsible for the location registration for the mobile radio telephone subscriber due to his current location. As soon as the mobile subscriber has made an outgoing call via the radio telephone subscriber station for the first time, a call setup occurs to a calling location on the basis of the special telephone number stored in the decentralized subscriber data base. The subscriber data, including a mobile subscriber telephone number, are entered into the central subscriber data base via the calling location, wherein the blocking information therein is reset and the special telephone number is deleted.
As such, the mobile subscriber can have his individual subscriber data entered in the home register in a flexible way as soon as possible after the purchase of a radio telephone subscriber station, or SIM chip card, as soon as he has signaled the first connection request by outputting a call to the network. As a result of the special telephone number entered for him in the central subscriber data base, a rerouting of the connection that is usually set up on the basis of the outgoing call to the calling location is effected. The blocking information serves the purpose of suppressing calls before the subscriber data for the mobile subscriber are registered in the central subscriber data base and, thus, the acceptance or, respectively, making of calls is possible in the mobile radio telephone network. The dealer who sells the radio telephone subscriber station, or SIM chip card, is no longer involved in the initialization procedure for enabling the card or, respectively, the radio telephone subscriber station. This avoids the aforementioned disadvantages of a lack of assigning individual subscriber data, particularly of the different services desired in terms of nature and scope, as well as a time-consuming registration procedure.
According to an embodiment of the present invention, a specific subscriber telephone number (vanity telephone number) that deviates from the mobile subscriber telephone numbers administered by the central subscriber data base, and that is administered by a different central subscriber data base, is entered for the mobile subscriber as subscriber datum. It is thereby advantageous when reference information for the identification of the central subscriber data base containing the subscriber data is stored in the other central subscriber data base.
Additional features and advantages of the present invention are described in, and will be apparent from, the Detailed Description of the Preferred Embodiments and the Drawings.
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Freitag Bernhard
Reich Manfred
Bell Boyd & Lloyd LLC
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
Urban Edward F.
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