Patent ID: 6201965
Filing Date: 2001-03-13
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
A system for supporting connection to a mobile terminal through a data network, the mobile terminal not having a currently assigned address, the system comprising:a connection to the data network;a connection to a register associated with the mobile terminal;a connection to a switch associated with the mobile terminal; andif a query for signaling the register for the identification of the switch is received from the data network, requesting the switch to initiate a link with the mobile terminal and to provide, by an interworking function associated with the switch, an address for the mobile terminal, and forwarding the address to the data network, wherein the switch establishes a data path and a signaling path to the interworking function which terminates the signaling path with a protocol device associated with the mobile terminal and routes data to one of either a modem device or a protocol device suited for the data network, and wherein the data from the modem device is forwarded to a public switched telephone network via the switch and the data from the protocol device suited for the data network is forwarded to the data network.