Telemetry application numbering for SMS and USSD
US6134441A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jun 30, 1997 |
| Grant date | Oct 17, 2000 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jun 30, 2017 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04W4/14
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
In a mobile telecommunications switching network, mobile stations may be used in static applications such as a telemetry application. The telecommunications switching network can reduce and/or eliminate subscriber numbers allocated to mobile stations that are used in static applications by taking advantage of the fact that the location of such mobile stations is always known and does not change. Accordingly, the mobile stations can be identified and located within the switching network by a unique combination of paging area identification number (e.g., a mobile switching center identification code) and international mobile subscriber identity, rather than by a unique mobile subscriber number (MSN) or mobile station ISDN (MSISDN). Consequently, there is no need to obtain the location information from the network home location register as a function of the MSN or the MSISDN.
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