Patent ID: 7583680
Filing Date: 2009-09-01
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: establishing, by a network element of a cellular telecommunication system, communications with a cellular subsystem where first characteristics of a mobile station communicating with the cellular subsystem of a hybrid cellular telecommunication system are established using methods that are defined for the cellular subsystem, said first characteristics of the mobile station being requested by sending a paging request to each cellular subsystem and said first characteristics of the mobile station being established after receiving a paging response from the mobile station, and said first characteristics comprising mobility management information, which comprises at least one of name and address information of the mobile station; transmitting said first characteristics of the mobile station between a translation entity and the cellular subsystem using methods that are defined for the cellular subsystem, wherein the transmitted first characteristics are translated into second characteristics of the mobile station in the translation entity, and said second characteristics of the mobile station are transmitted from the translation entity to a gatekeeper entity of the non-cellular subsystem, wherein said second characteristics of the mobile station are inserted into a database entity that forms a part of the translation entity and said second characteristics of the mobile station are transmitted between the database entity and elements of the non-cellular subsystem using the methods that are defined for the non-cellular network; exchanging information about the first characteristics with a network element of a non-cellular subsystem of the hybrid telecommunication system in order to establish in the non-cellular subsystem control information to control connections having one endpoint, at the mobile station, traversing at least the cellular subsystem of the hybrid telecommunication system and being routed in the hybrid cellular telecommunication system by the non-cellular subsystem, wherein a location updating request is sent by the mobile station upon said mobile station entering the cellular subsystem, an establishment of said first characteristics of the mobile station is initiated by the location updating request.