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`Pepe et al.
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`[54] PERSONAL COMMUNICATIONS
`INTERNETWORKING
`
`[75]
`
`Inventors: David Matthew Pepe, Middletown;
`Lisa B. Blitzer. Manalapan; James
`Joseph Brockman. Perrineville;
`William Cruz, Eatontown; Dwight
`Omar Hakim, Matawan, all of N.J.;
`Michael Kramer, Bronx County, N.Y.;
`Dawn Diane Petr, Basking Ridge. N.J.;
`Josefa Ramaroson, Freehold. N.J.;
`Gerardo Ramirez, Bridgewater, N.J.;
`Yang-Wei Wang, Howell. N.J.; Robert
`G. White, Morristown, N.J.
`
`[73] Assignee: Bell Communications Research, Inc.,
`Morristown. N.J.
`
`[21] Appl. No.: 309,336
`
`Sep. 19, 1994
`
`[22] Filed:
`Int. CI.6
`....................................................... H04Q 7/20
`[51]
`[52] U.S. CI ........................... 455/461; 455/445; 455/417;
`379/210
`[58] Field of Search .................................. 379/56. 57, 58,
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`ABSTRACT
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`A person communications internetworking provides a net(cid:173)
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`receipt and delivery of wireless and wireline voice and text
`messages. The network operates as an interfaces between
`various wireless and wireline networks. and also performs
`media translation. where necessary. The subscriber's mes(cid:173)
`sage receipt and delivery options are maintained in a data(cid:173)
`base which the subscriber may access by wireless or wire(cid:173)
`line communications to update the options programmed in
`the database. The subscriber may be provided with
`CallComrnand service which provides real-time control of
`voice calls while using a wireless data terminal or PDA.
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`Apr. 21, 1998
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`Apr. 21, 1998
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`Apr. 21, 1998
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`Apr. 21, 1998
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`Sheet 12 of 26
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`Apr. 21, 1998
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`Apr. 21, 1998
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`U.S. Patent
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`Apr. 21, 1998
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`Sheet 17 of 26
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`U.S. Patent
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`Apr. 21, 1998
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`Exhibit 1008
`Page 022
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`U.S. Patent
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`Apr. 21, 1998
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`Exhibit 1008
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`Apr. 21, 1998
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`U.S. Patent
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`Apr. 21, 1998
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`Sheet 26 of 26
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`Exhibit 1008
`Page 027
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`1
`PERSONAL COMMUNICATIONS
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`The present invention is directed to an internetwork for
`personal communications and, more particularly. to a net(cid:173)
`work which allows a mobile communications subscriber to
`remotely control personal communications delivery options.
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`BACKGROUND OF THE INVENI10N
`The use of messaging as a means of day-to-day commu(cid:173)
`nications continues to grow and evolve, particularly in a
`business context. Messaging includes electronic mail
`(e-mail), facsimile transmissions (fax), paging, voice mail.
`and telephone communications. The introduction of the
`cellular phone and other wireless communications facili(cid:173)
`tated the advent of the "mobile office". The mobile office
`allows an employee. for example. to work away from the
`office on a portable computer and be in constant touch with
`the office via a cellular phone.
`The messaging options described above are available to
`businesses of all sizes. as well as individual users, from a
`variety of service providers. Many offices have some or all
`of the messaging options described above. The office may
`have certain messaging equipment (referred to as "consumer
`premises equipment" or "CPE") connected to one or more
`wireline networks. That is. the office may have telephones,
`fax servers, and voice mail systems connected to phone
`lines. and computers having modems for e-mail connected
`to packet networks which are connected via phone lines. The
`mobile employee may have certain wireless messaging
`equipment. such as a pager. a cellular telephone. or a
`personal digital assistant ("PDA"), which is typically a
`notebook computer connected to a wireless communication
`network.
`One important goal of personal communication services is
`to allow users to communicate from anywhere to anywhere
`at any time. Such personal communication services gener(cid:173)
`ally involve multiple service providers including local and
`long distance telephone companies and cellular telephone
`companies. An example of a personal communication ser(cid:173)
`vice is as follows:
`A personal communication service provider (e.g .• a cel(cid:173)
`lular telephone company) enables traveling users to rent a
`wireless portable phone from a rental phone company (e.g.,
`from an airline or car rental company). Using the rental
`phone. the user is provided with basic mobile phone service
`from the personal communication service provider. In
`addition. the user would like the following features:
`1) The user wants calls directed to his/her office or home
`to be automatically forwarded to the rental portable phone.
`without informing anyone that he/she is traveling.
`2) To avoid unimportant incoming calls (and correspond(cid:173)
`ing incoming call charges), the user would like to restrict the
`number of people who can call the rented portable phone.
`3) It is important to the user that the rental phone features
`be activated instantly, so that calls can be made immediately
`upon the user's arrival at the visiting location.
`This kind of personal communication service involves a
`plurality of service providers. These providers are (a) the
`local telephone company at the home location, (b) a long
`distance telephone company. (c) the local telephone com(cid:173)
`pany at the visiting location. and (d) the personal commu(cid:173)
`nication service provider (i.e., the cellular telephone 65
`company) at the visiting location. All of these are referred to
`herein as "service providers".
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`involving multiple service providers, interoperability prob(cid:173)
`lems among the different service providers must be resolved.
`The interoperability problems can be divided into two
`5 categories: (a) location tracking and (b) service manage(cid:173)
`ment.
`The interoperability problem for location tracking has
`been addressed by adopting signaling protocols used by the
`mobile phone industry. Location tracking functions are
`10 implemented using two location registers. One of the
`registers, maintained by the local telephone company of the
`user's home location, is called the Home Location Register
`(HLR). The other register, maintained by the local telephone
`company of the visiting location. is called the Visiting
`Location Register (VLR). The HLR stores customer profile
`15 data and the location of the VLR of the user. The customer
`profile data contains important information such as the
`user's name. address, preferred long distance carrier, service
`features (e.g .. call forwarding and call restriction). billing.
`and other administrative related information. When the user
`20 travels to a new visiting location. a new VLR is created in
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`is transmitted and loaded into the VLR such that the service
`provider at the visiting location can implement service
`features for the visiting user. When the user travels to a new
`2s visiting location the location of the VLR stored in the HLR
`is changed to the new VLR location. and the VLR in the
`previously visited location is deleted. The process of creat(cid:173)
`ing a new VLR. loading profile data to the VLR. and
`updating the visiting location of a user in the HLR is called
`"automatic roamer registration".
`The interoperability problem for service management is
`much more complex than that for location tracking. Service
`management refers to a collection of functions required to
`enable a personal communication service user to subscribe
`to. modify, and activate service features anywhere and at any
`35 time. Examples of service management functions include
`phone number administration, customer profile data
`management. service activation. and security administra(cid:173)
`tion. The phone number administration function is important
`for maintaining the uniqueness of phone numbers. The
`40 customer profile data management function provides cus(cid:173)
`tomer profile databases and user interfaces for creating.
`modifying. or transferring such databases. The service acti(cid:173)
`vation function extracts part of the data specifying service
`features from the profile data and loads this data into
`45 physical communication systems that process calls. The
`service activation function also controls the activation and
`deactivation of the service features. The security adminis(cid:173)
`tration function prevents or detects unauthorized uses of
`services and service management functions.
`Service management functions of this type are needed to
`provide personal communication services involving mul(cid:173)
`tiple service providers. Such service management functions
`generally require interactions between application software
`and various databases owned and operated by the different
`55 service providers. Consider an application which enables a
`nomadic user to subscribe to a personal communication
`service from any service provider at any location. An
`example of such a service is call forwarding to a temporarily
`rented portable phone. The application may. for example.
`60 need to perform the following database access operations at
`databases maintained by various different service providers:
`check credit databases owned by credit card companies or
`phone companies to determine whether the user is able to
`pay for the service;
`check the customer profile database in the user's HLR to
`determine whether the user is currently located in a place
`other than the visiting location currently stored in the HLR;
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`50
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`Apple Inc.
`Exhibit 1008
`Page 028
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`

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`5.742.905
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`4
`FIG. 6 is a block diagram of an exemplary embodiment of
`a PCI database according to the present invention;
`FIG. 7 is a block diagram of the logical connections
`between the PCI server and PCI database according to the
`5 present invention;
`FIGS. 8-11 illustrate exemplary message flows between a
`server and a database according to the present invention;
`FIG. 12 is a block diagram of a personal digital assistant
`10 according to the present invention;
`FIGS. 13-20 illustrate exemplary message flows between
`a PDA and PCI server;
`FIG. 21 is a block diagram of a text messaging portion of
`a PCI network;
`FIG. 22 is a block diagram of a voice messaging portion
`of a PCI network;
`FIG. 23 is a block diagram of a facsimile messaging
`portion of a PCI network;
`FIG. 24 is a diagram illustrating an exemplary CallCom(cid:173)
`mand service network;
`FIGS. 25-27 illustrate exemplary message flows in the
`PCI network; and
`FIGS. 28-45 illustrate exemplary screens displayed to a
`25 PCI subscriber using a wireless PDA.
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`check the credit and network databases of long distance
`phone companies specified by the user to determine whether
`the user can use a particular long distance carrier in the
`visiting location;
`load profile data into the VLR at the visiting location and
`update the HLR with the location of the VLR if necessary;
`and
`load the profile data to the call processing systems and
`activate the service.
`The user may need to send or receive messages from any
`or all of the messaging options described above at a visiting
`location. That is. the user may want to receive or receive
`notification of e-mail. faxes. phone calls, or voice mail at a
`visiting location or to send e-mail or faxes from a wireless
`terminal. The need to integrate these various types of
`messaging options and to interconnect the many service
`providers has. until now. been largely unaddressed.
`It is also desirable for the mobile employee to be able to
`limit the messages sent to the wireless messaging 20
`equipment. so that only urgent messages are received when
`away from the office and unwanted in-coming calls are
`avoided. The mobile employee may also wish to route
`certain incoming wireless messages and phone calls to other
`destinations. such as an office fax machine or a colleague's
`telephone.
`Therefore. it is an object of the present invention to
`provide a mobile service subscriber the ability to control and
`integrate a plurality of messaging options.
`It is another object of the present invention to provide a 30
`mobile service subscriber with the ability to remotely con(cid:173)
`trol the addressability. routing. accessibility. and delivery of
`messaging options.
`It is yet a further object of the present invention to provide
`an internetwork which interconnects messaging services 35
`with both wireless and wireline networks.
`It is yet a further object of the present invention to provide
`a subscriber with real-time control of voice calls while using
`a wireless data terminal or PDA.
`It is yet a further object of the invention to provide a 40
`control over the messages routed to wireless messaging
`options.
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`DEfAll..ED DESCRIPTIONS OF PREFERRED
`EMBODIMENTS
`For clarity of presentation. the detailed description is set
`out in the following subsections:
`I. PO Overview
`The overall network is illustrated in FIGS. 1-4 The
`network is an interface between a plurality of wireless and
`wireline networks. providing a subscriber with a variety of
`wireless and wireline message and voice delivery and
`receipt options.
`II. The PCI Server
`The PCI Server is illustrated in FIG. 5. The PCI server is
`a peripheral which performs messaging and call redirection
`functions and interfaces with the PCI database to update the
`subscriber profile.
`ill. The PCI Database
`The PCI Database is illustrated in FIG. 6. The PCI
`database maintains the subscriber profile, controls CallCom-
`45 mand functions. and handles DTMF-based subscriber profile
`updates.
`IV. The Server/Database Interface
`The Server/Database interface is illustrated in FIGS.
`7-11. The PCI server/PCI database interface provides for the
`so transfer of information regarding the subscriber profile and
`the CallCommand services.
`V. The PDA!PCI Interface
`The PDA/PCI interface is illustrated in FIGS. 12-20. The
`PDAIPCI interface provides for the transfer of information
`55 between a remote wireless subscriber and the PCL
`VI. Services
`A. E-Mail Messaging
`E-Mail messaging in the PCI is illustrated in FIG. 21. The
`PCI network provides the subscriber with a variety of e-mail
`delivery, receipt. and notification options. including screen(cid:173)
`ing and selective destination delivery of incoming e-mail.
`B. Voice Messaging
`Voice messaging in the PCI is illustrated in FIG. 22. The
`PCI provides the subscriber with a variety of voice mail
`65 delivery. receipt. and notification options. including screen(cid:173)
`ing and selective destination delivery of incoming voice
`mail.
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`60
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`SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
`These objects are obtained by a personal communications
`internetwork providing a network subscriber with the ability
`to remotely control the receipt and delivery of wireless and
`wireline voice and text messages. The network operates as
`an interface between various wireless and wireline
`networks. and also performs media translation. where nec(cid:173)
`essary. The subscriber's message receipt and delivery
`options are maintained in a database which the subscriber
`may access by wireless or wireline communications to
`update the options programmed in the database. The sub(cid:173)
`scriber may be provided with CallCommand service which
`provides real-time control of voice calls while using a
`wireless data terminal or PDA.
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`BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
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`These and other objects and features of the invention will
`become apparent from the following drawings, wherein:
`FIG. 1-3 are overviews of the PCI networks;
`FIG. 4 is an overview of one node of the PCI network
`according to the present invention;
`FIG. 5 is a block diagram of an exemplary PCI server
`according to the present invention;
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`C. Facsimile Messaging
`Facsimile messaging in the PCI is illustrated in FIG. 23.
`The PCI provides the subscriber with a variety of facsimile
`delivery, receipt, and notification options, including screen(cid:173)
`ing and selective destination delivery of incoming faxes.
`D. CallCommand
`The CallCommand service is illustrated in FIG. 24.
`CallCommand service provides real-time control of voice
`calls while using a wireless data terminal or PDA.
`VII. Message Aows
`Certain message flows for wireless messaging in the PCI
`are illustrated in FIGS. 2!5-27. The three message flows
`illustrated are sending a message from one subscriber to
`another, receiving a message regardless of whether the
`subscriber is using a wireless or wireline terminal. and
`sending a message to a non-subscriber.
`VllL The PDA Application
`The application residing in the PDA is described in FIGS.
`28-45, which illustrate exemplary screens displayed to a
`PCI subscriber using a wireless PDA.
`IX. Billing
`Billing procedures for a PCI network use is briefly
`described.
`X. Conclusion
`A glossary of acronyms used in this specification is 25
`attached as Appendix A.
`1 PCI Overview
`FIG. 1 is a simplified overview of a personal communi(cid:173)
`cations internetworking ("PCf') according to the present
`invention. A consumer, an office for example, has various 30
`messaging equipment. such as a voice mail system 20, an
`e-mail terminal 22. fax machines 24. and telephones 26.
`These are all connected to wireline networks 29. For
`example, the fax 24, phone 26. and voice mail system 20 may
`be connected to a Public Switched