A method allows a user of a mobile terminal to switch from a communication service currently active between that mobile terminal and another mobile terminal to a different communication service in such a manner that the end to end connection between terminals appears unbroken to the user. The user initiates the switch by inputting an appropriate command at the mobile terminal. The mobile terminal then transfers a request to the other mobile terminal. The request invokes a user interface on the other mobile terminal and prompts the user of the other mobile terminal to indicate whether or not they agree to switch from the currently active communication service to the other communication service. After receiving the user's response to the prompt, the other mobile terminal sends back a reply indicating the user's response. Signaling to perform the switch is initiated in response to the reply. The active communication service is terminated at the first and second mobile terminal at substantially the same time that the second communication service is initiated at the first and second mobile terminal.
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1. A method of switching between communication services connecting a first mobile terminal with a second mobile terminal, the method comprising:
(a) receiving in the through a first mobile terminal, operable by a first user, a user request originating from the first user to switch the first mobile terminal and a second mobile terminals terminal, operable by a second user, from a first communication service to a second communication service;
(b) determining, by a processor, actions to result in transmitting the user request to switch to the second communication service to the second mobile terminal; and
(c) upon receipt of the authorization, associated with the transmitted user request, from the second mobile terminal, causing a switching of the first and second mobile terminals to the second communication service.
0. 23. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium carrying one or more sequences of one or more instructions which, when executed by a processor, causes an apparatus to at least perform the following steps:
receive through a first mobile terminal, operable by a first user, a user request originating from the first user to switch the first mobile terminal and a second mobile terminal, operable by a second user, from a first communication service to a second communication service,
determine actions to result in transmitting the user request to switch to the second communication service to the second mobile terminal, and
upon receipt of the authorization, associated with the transmitted user request, from the second mobile terminal, cause a switching of the first and second mobile terminals to the second communication service.
0. 18. An apparatus comprising:
a processor; and
at least one memory including computer program code,
the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the processor, cause the apparatus to perform at least the following:
receive through a first mobile terminal, operable by a first user, a user request originating from the first user to switch the first mobile terminal and a second mobile terminal, operable by a second user, from a first communication service to a second communication service,
determine actions to result in transmitting the user request to switch to the second communication service to the second mobile terminal, and
upon receipt of the authorization, associated with the transmitted user request, from the second mobile terminal, cause a switching of the first and second mobile terminals to the second communication service.
2. The method of
transmitting the user request through the first mobile terminal;
receiving the transmitted user request through the second mobile terminal;
generating, based on the received transmitted user request, via an interface of the second mobile terminal, a prompt directed to the second user to indicate whether or not the second user agrees to switch from the first communication service to the second communication service;
receiving through the second mobile terminal a response to the prompt originating from the second user;
transmitting through the second mobile terminal a reply including an authorization, based on the received response from the second user; and
(d) determining actions to result in prompting the second user of associated with the second mobile terminal to provide the authorization to switch the second mobile terminal to the second communication service, the prompt indicating a type of the second communication service.
3. The method of
(i) receiving a connecting signal for the second communication service in the first mobile terminal; and
(ii) sending an establishment signal from the first mobile terminal indicating that the first mobile terminal has switched to the second communication service.
4. The method of
5. The method of
(i) entering a message receiving a message entered via the first mobile terminal; and
(ii) submitting the message along with the and a type of the second communication service that first user wants to switch to.
0. 6. The method of
(i) switching the billing parameters in conjunction with the switch in communication services.
0. 7. The method of
(l) switching the billing rate in conjunction with the switch in communication.
8. The method of
(d) determining actions for resulting in disconnecting the first communication service substantially simultaneously or after switching to the second communication service.
9. The method of
10. The method of
(d) determining actions for resulting in maintaining the first communication service simultaneously with the second communication service, at least one of during switching and after switching to the second communication service.
11. The method of
12. The method of
0. 13. The method of claim 1, wherein the first communication service includes a first set of billing parameters and the second communication service includes a second set of different billing parameters, the method further comprising:
in conjunction with the switch in communication services, causing a switching of the first set of billing parameters to the second set of billing parameters.
0. 14. The method of claim 13, wherein the first set of billing parameters includes a first billing rate, the second set of different billing parameters includes a second and different billing rate, and the switching of the billing parameters comprises:
switching the first set of billing parameters including the first billing rate to the second set of billing parameters including the second billing rate, in conjunction with the switch in communication services.
0. 15. The method of claim 1, further comprising:
including a type of the second communication service in the user request.
0. 16. The method of claim 1, wherein the causing of the switching comprises:
initiating a signaling session of the second communication service.
0. 17. The method of claim 1, further comprising:
including a message in the user request to switch; and
determining the message in the causing the switching.
0. 19. The apparatus of claim 18, wherein the apparatus is further caused to:
transmit the user request from the first mobile terminal,
receive the transmitted user request through the second mobile terminal,
generate, based on the received transmitted user request, via an interface of the second mobile terminal, a prompt directed to the second user to indicate whether or not the second user agrees to switch from the first communication service to the second communication service,
receive at the second mobile terminal a response to the prompt originating from the second user,
transmit from the second mobile terminal a reply including an authorization, based on the received response from the second user, and
determine actions to result in prompting the second user associated with the second mobile terminal to provide the authorization to switch the second mobile terminal to the second communication service, the prompt indicating a type of the second communication service.
0. 20. The apparatus of claim 18, wherein the switching comprises:
receiving a connecting signal for the second communication service in the first mobile terminal; and
sending an establishment signal from the first mobile terminal indicating that the first mobile terminal has switched to the second communication service.
0. 21. The apparatus of claim 18, wherein the first communication service is a voice call and the second communication service is selected from the list consisting of a video call, and a chat session.
0. 22. The apparatus of claim 18, wherein the apparatus is further caused to:
receive a message entered via the first mobile terminal; and
submit the message and a type of the second communication service that the first user wants to switch to.
0. 24. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 23, wherein the apparatus is caused to further perform:
transmit the user request from the first mobile terminal,
receive the transmitted user request through the second mobile terminal,
generate, based on the received transmitted user request, via an interface of the second mobile terminal, a prompt directed to the second user to indicate whether or not the second user agrees to switch from the first communication service to the second communication service,
receive at the second mobile terminal a response to the prompt originating from the second user,
transmit from the second mobile terminal a reply including an authorization, based on the received response from the second user, and
determine actions to result in prompting the second user associated with the second mobile terminal to provide the authorization to switch the second mobile terminal to the second communication service, the prompt indicating a type of the second communication service.
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This application is a divisional of application Ser. No. 10/237,126 filed on Sep. 9, 2002 now U.S. Pat. No. 6,879,828 which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates generally to the field of wireless communications. In particular, the invention relates to the user interaction with a mobile terminal when switching between communication services.
2. Discussion of the Related Art
In the development of wireless communications, there is a trend towards supporting various communication services in addition to a conventional voice call. Some communications services, such as short message service (SMS), multimedia message service (MMS), e-mail, network operator messages, push services, etc., are not continuous services and can be provided in secondary connections which are simultaneous with the primary connection and which do not require disconnection of the primary connection. Depending on the particular air interface, multiple simultaneous connections may be possible to/from a wireless communication terminal. For example, GSM wireless communication networks can provide a primary circuit switched (CS) connection for a voice/data call and a simultaneous secondary connection which can send and receive SMS messages during the call to a mobile terminal with a headset.
Some communications services, such as voice, instant messaging (such as chat), and video messaging, can only be provided through primary connections because the user interaction in the service is expected to be substantially continuous without any lengthy interruption. GSM and other conventional wireless communication networks can only provide one primary connection at a time to a mobile terminal. Thus, the primary connection for one communication service must be ended before the primary connection for another communication service is initiated. Furthermore, a communication service, such as a chat session, may be automatically terminated by an incoming phone call and cannot be resumed after the incoming phone call has ended.
A Wideband Code Division Multiplex Access (WCDMA) air interface has been proposed in the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (www.3gpp.org) which can provide several simultaneous primary connections to a single wireless communication terminal. However, even though multiple primary connections may be available over a WCDMA air interface, the user experience at the terminal when switching between primary connections may not be fluent or otherwise satisfactory, especially when a user wishes to continue communicating with the same person but through a different type of communication service. A person may desire to switch from a voice service to a chat service because they no longer wish to speak out loud. A person may desire to switch from a voice service to a video service so that they can see something, such a person's face, or to switch from a video service to a voice service so that something will not be seen.
Even if multiple primary connections are available in a wireless communication network, the user interaction necessary to switch between communication services consists of performing two separate methods, the first method consisting of those steps necessary to terminate the first communication service and the second method consisting of those steps necessary to activate the second communication service. Although the network allows different types of communication services, there is still a disadvantage that the user interaction is cumbersome at least because different methods and several steps are necessary to switch between the communication services. The lack of immediacy in switching is a concern because the user may believe that he has lost contact with the other person if there is a long period of time without contact while the switching occurs.
There are now numerous communication services which carry various forms and combinations of multimedia content such as video, web content, graphics and text. As used in this application, the term “multimedia” refers to any content having a visual element. The mobile terminals of wireless communication networks, particularly phones of cellular networks, are now capable of transporting data, including multimedia data in various communication services. Many types of mobile terminals are being used, such as cellular phones, cordless telephones, personal digital assistants (PDAs), palm-held computers and laptop computers. The strong push in current wireless technology development is to use mobile terminals for varied applications and to allow users of such devices to seamlessly integrate events and needs in their lives while maintaining adequate communications power to receive and transmit all of the data and information which has an impact on them.
An advanced mobile terminal supported by so-called third generation (3G) and fourth generation (4G) networks and using the latest innovations in computers, software, displays and other technologies may access and receive a variety of many different communication services. Unfortunately, the manner and duration (apparent to the user) of the procedure necessary for switching among the communication services may vary widely and unpredictably. These communication services may be provided by different information sources in other networks and may be based on and built upon a variety of data transfer techniques. This introduces more delay and uncertainty into mobile terminal switching among different communication services.
For at least these reasons, present methods of switching between different communication services at a mobile terminal have disadvantages. Accordingly, there is a need for effective solutions that allow for easy and substantially immediate mobile terminal switching between different communication services without it appearing to the user that the connection is broken at any time.
To overcome limitations in the prior art described above, and to overcome other limitations that will be apparent upon reading and understanding the present specification, it is therefore an object of the following described preferred and exemplary embodiments to overcome the above mentioned disadvantages. In particular, an object of the preferred and exemplary embodiments is to provide a solution which facilitates mobile terminal switching among various communication services which appears, to the users of the mobile terminals, to be substantially immediate and the end-to-end connection unbroken.
In the preferred and exemplary embodiments, a method allows a user of a mobile terminal to switch from a communication service currently active between the mobile terminal and another mobile terminal to a different communication service in such a manner that the end to end connection between appears unbroken to the user. The user initiates the switch by inputting an appropriate command at the mobile terminal. The mobile terminal then transfers a request to the other mobile terminal. The request invokes a user interface on the other mobile terminal and prompts the user of the other mobile terminal to indicate whether or not they agree to switch from the currently active communication service to the other communication service. After receiving the user's response to the prompt, the other mobile terminal sends back a reply indicating the user's response. Signaling to perform the switch is initiated in response to the reply. The active communication service is terminated at the first and second mobile terminal at substantially the same time that the second communication service is initiated at the first and second mobile terminal.
A particular aspect of the preferred and exemplary embodiments involves a software application on the mobile terminal which carries out a method of switching between communication services in which the new communication service is substantially immediately presented to the users on the mobile terminals when the previous communication service is terminated without particular requests needing to be made by the user. Preferably, the user can make a simple selection on a displayed user interface to switch from a currently active communication service to one of a number of available communication services.
Another aspect of an exemplary embodiment involves wherein there are different billing parameters for a first communication service and a second communication service, and the billing parameters are switched at the same time that the communication services are switched and the different billing parameters include different billing rates and the billing rates are switched at the same time that the communication services are switched.
This and other features of the preferred and exemplary embodiments of the invention will become apparent and better understood from the following detailed description when considered in conjunction with the accompanying drawings. It is to be understood, however, that the detailed description and drawings are designed solely for the purposes of illustration and not as a definition of the limits of the invention, for which reference should be made to the appended claims.
In the drawings, wherein like reference numerals identify similar elements throughout the several views:
In the following description of the various preferred embodiments, reference is made to the accompanying drawings which form a part hereof, and in which is shown by way of illustration various preferred embodiments in which the invention may be practiced. It is to be understood that other embodiments may be utilized and structural and functional modifications may be made without departing from the scope of the present invention.
Looking first at
According to
Additionally, the RNC of the UTRAN 3 may establish a connection to a circuit switched (CS) terminal equipment 11 via a fixed network or PSTN/ISDN network 10 and a Media Gateway (MGW) 4 arranged for adapting the PS multimedia connection of the UMTS network (including the SGSN 5 and the GGSN 6) to the CS connection of the PSTN/ISDN 10. Similarly, the packet switched (PS) multimedia connection can be adapted to a CS connection of a CS mobile network such as the UMTS release 1999 CS domain or a GSM network. In particular, the MGW 4 may allow a PS H.323 or a Session Initiation Protocol, (SIP) system defined by 3GPP for use in the IP multimedia (IM) Core Network (CN) to interoperate with PSTN/ISDN terminals such as the CS terminal equipment 22 which may be a H.324 (H.324/I) compliant terminal. The gateway functionality of the MGW 4 is addressed e.g. in the ITU-T recommendation H.246 for the case of an interworking of H-series multimedia terminals with H-series multimedia terminals and voice/voice-band terminals on PSTN and ISDN.
The MGW 4 is connected to a Media Gateway Control Function (MGCF) 9 which is connected via a Transmission Signaling Gateway (T-SGW, not shown) to the PSTN/ISDN 10. The MGCF 9 may be connected via a Call State Control Function (CSCF) 7 to a Home Subscriber Server (HSS) 8 comprising a subscriber multimedia profile database 80.
The preferred embodiments of the invention are concerned with improving the switching between a variety of communication services. For example, users on a call may want to make silent comments in a chat session or drawings that are forwarded for display on the mobile terminal 2 of the other user. To accomplish this, a software application/user interface is preferably stored in mobile terminal 2. Having the application resident on the mobile terminal 2 increases the speed of switching between the communication services, and allows the user interface to be well designed with suitable graphical elements for the characteristics of mobile terminal 2.
A example of the user interfaces on the mobile terminals in a preferred embodiment of the method of switching between communications services is shown in
Various information may be contained in the request message transmitted by the mobile terminal 2, such as details of the mobile terminal related to carrying out the suggested service (video format type, etc). The request may be logged in the receiving mobile terminal. It is a design choice when to remove request entries; for example a request can be removed when that session is completed, plus some predetermined time.
It is particularly preferable that the user interface, including prompt, be available on Susan's terminal substantially immediately after the request is made at Eric's terminal. Susan can then respond to the prompt by simply pressing YES button 302-1 or NO button 302-2, the buttons being example of a selector, or taking any other action appropriate for the user interface utilized on her terminal for the request to indicate whether or not she agrees to switch the communication service.
The method of switching communication service may utilize software application in a network element (e.g., MGCF a) to adapt the existing resources by releasing part of the used connection resources. Alterntively, the MGCF a may reserve new resources new resources and release earlier reserved resources. Another alternative is that the MGCF a reserves an additional portion of the required network connection resources in respect to an earlier used network connection in such a way that newly reserved and earlier provisional network connection resources are used together to satisfy the connection resource needs to support the newly switched service requirements.
The software application carrying out the above method of switching communication services may itself be able to perform one or more of the communication services or there may be one or more other software applications on mobile terminal 2 to perform one or more of the communication services. For example, there may be one software application to perform the video call service, another software application to perform the chat session, etc. Alternatively, a software application may perform more than one communication service. In any event, such software applications may interact with the software application carrying out the above method of switching communication services through application programming interfaces (APIs) or similar methods. Alternatively, each of such software applications may be revised or developed to include user interface commands for each one of the communication service change request. The mobile terminal 2 may have any one of a variety of different software application managers for managing the software applications resident on the mobile terminal 2 or downloaded to the mobile terminal 2. Such a software manager may be terminal and implementation dependent.
Once stored in the mobile terminal 2, the software application for carrying out the method of switching communications services can be launched at any time as long as a primary connection is active. The launch can be user activated or activated automatically whenever a primary connection is opened. However, it is preferred that some elements of user interface do not have to always be present. For example, as shown in
It is preferred that once the software application performing the method for switching communication services is launched, it remains in the background until the method is invoked, for example, a change in communication service is requested. Preferably, neither user has to provide complicated inputs. It is a particular feature of the preferred embodiments that the software application utilizes previously obtained information and requires only one single action by the appropriate user at the various steps in the method. This can be done as shown in
Of course,
As indicated by element 902 in
Some example implementations of steps 501-504 of
As indicated at step 505 of
In a preferred embodiment, the request to change communication services is combined with a message or other information specific to the request and is synchronized with the request to be presented at substantially the same time that the prompt is provided to the receiving user. The presentation of this message or other information in a synchronized manner gives an impression of continuity to the receiving user.
The communication services may be established generally as described in published patent application W002052825, where there would be a circuit switched connection from the caller's terminal to the switch and the call leg from the switch to called party is a packet switched connection and the invention is implemented in the software of a mobile terminal. However, when a communication service is switched according to steps 501-504, the software application at Eric's terminal provides a SETUP message including instructions to, for example, MGCF 9 in
The method of switching communication services may require new software application in a network (e.g., MGCF a) to adapt the existing resources by releasing part of the used connection resources. Alternatively, (MGCF a) may reserve new resources and release earlier reserved resources. This is illustrated in detail in
Now assume after a moment Susan wants to change from video call to audio for instance, because of battery power getting low or money being spent or for any other reason. She selects, from her user interface, a request to switch to an audio alternitive. A setup message is sent from the first mobile terminal (step 1412), including audio e.g. G. 723 request to the MGCF. Now the audio profile maybe retrieved from Home Subscriber Server, (HSS) (step 1413) (step 1513) and used in configuring the mapping the Logical Link Control audio connection setup request to Service Description Protocol of an audio connection. The MGCF a sends a SIP INVITE message of audio IP bearer request (step 1414) to the second mobile terminal (Eric). The session going to be established to the second (called) mobile terminal is signaled backwards first to the network element MGCF (step 1415) in SESSION PROGRESS messse and MGCF 9 signals CALL PROCEEDINGS message to the first mobile terminal (step 1416). When the first terminal has received the backward signaling from the second mobile terminal, it means that the audio IP bearer is established from end to end between mobile terminals, first and second mobile terminals. The first (calling) mobile terminal marked to include user interface, UI 1A receives alerting signaling audio indication from the network (step 1418) that is originally signaled from the second mobile terminal (marked to include user interfaced UI 1B) (step 1417). When the called mobile terminal user (e.g., Eric) switches from the video call to the audio an OK SIP message is sent (step 1419) to MGCF 9 and the network element MGCF 9 sends CONNECT message of LLC to first mobile terminal (Susan) (step 1420). Now finally local channels from the first mobile terminal of Susan is established as H.245 type audio connection via network element MGCF 9 (step 1422) and MGCF 9 acknowledges an audio to be created to the second mobile terminal (the Eric's phone) by sending ACK SIP message (step 1424). The second mobile terminal may disconnect video connection (including the audio connection) immediately after having sent the SIP OK message of the audio connection (step 1419). Alternatively, an old audio part of the video connection is maintained concerning the RTP audio connections and a only the moving picture part of the multimedia connection is disconnected (step 1421). The old video connection (including the audio as well) H.324 is disconnected (step 1423) between MGCF and first mobile terminal after the audio connection H.245 is established (step 1422). Alternatively, only the moving picture part of the bearer connection H.324 is disconnectect in such a way that radio transfer protocol (RTP) connection used for audio is kept on and used for H.245 audio.
Another method of the invention is illustrated in
While the invention has been described with reference to example embodiments, the description is illustrative and is not to be construed as limiting the invention. In particular, the various references to mobile terminals and Java refer merely to the terminology used in association with the preferred embodiments and is not meant to imply that the method according to the example embodiments must only be used with certain types of mobile terminals or implementing technologies.
Virtanen, Keijo, Ranta, Tarja-Leena
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