Patent ID: 7761094
Filing Date: 2010-07-20
Classification: H04Q

Abstract:
1. A method of supporting an incoming/outgoing mobile communication session in a combined communications network comprising a mobile network and a non- mobile access network; in said mobile network, said mobile communication session is associated with a mobile number, the method comprises: providing, at an access node between the non-mobile access network and the mobile network, an access device comprising, a Digital Service Line Access Multiplexer (DSLAM) or an Optical Line Termination (OLT), the access device-being in communication with a plurality of non-mobile devices in the non-mobile access network; establishing direct connection and direct signaling and communications exchange between the access device and a controller of the mobile network and providing the access device with a capability to perform functions of a base station with respect to at least one said mobile number of said mobile network, so that the access device is recognized by the controller of the mobile network as a base station; by assignment in the access device, associating said mobile number with a non-mobile device of said non-mobile network, wherein said non-mobile device being either a DECT-like device, or a fixed device, so that the access device becomes operative to represent said non-mobile device of said plurality of non-mobile devices as having said mobile number; routing said mobile communication session, by said controller of the mobile network, via said access device as via the base station; selectively conducting said mobile communication session either through a mobile device associated with said mobile number in the mobile network, or through the non-mobile device associated with said mobile number in the non-mobile network.