Patent ID: 6963558

Claim:
A system for enabling communications between a switched telephone network and a wireless network comprising a plurality of Mobile Switching Centers (MSCs) connected by respective media gateways to a broadband packet network used for the transfer of bearer traffic between the MSCs, each MSC controlling wireless communications with a respective plurality of wireless transceivers, the switched telephone network and the broadband packet network being interconnected by at least one media gateway for conveying bearer traffic between the switched telephone network and the broadband packet network, the system comprising: a location register adapted to: i) store, in respect of each wireless transceiver, information identifying an MSC controlling communications with the wireless transceiver; ii) receive a query from a call manager requesting the information identifying the MSC controlling communications with a selected wireless transceiver; and ii) provide the information identifying the MSC controlling communications with the selected wireless transceiver to the call manager, wherein the call manager enables a communications path through the broadband packet network between a media gateway interconnecting the broadband packet network and the switched telephone network and a media gateway interconnecting the broadband packet network and the MSC.