Systems and methods of providing multimedia service to a legacy device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2017195372-A1
Application number	US-201615394695-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Dec 29, 2016
Priority date	Dec 30, 2015
Publication date	Jul 6, 2017
Grant date	—

Abstract

Systems and methods of the present disclosure relates to providing at least one multimedia service to at least one legacy device [ 120]. Embodiments may encompasses a method comprising steps of, establishing a connection between at least one user equipment [ 110 A, 110 B, 110 C] and the at least one legacy device [ 120] via an IP multimedia sub-system [ 150]; receiving at least one parameter of the at least one legacy device [ 120] at the IP multimedia sub-system [ 150]; authenticating at least one user equipment [ 110 A, 110 B, 110 C] by the IP multimedia sub-system [ 150]; registering the at least one user equipment and the at least one legacy device [ 120] at the IP multimedia sub-system [ 150] ; updating of the legacy device [ 120] with an information pertaining to the registration of the at least one user equipment [ 110 A, 110 B, 110 C]; and providing at least one multimedia service to the at least one legacy device [ 120] via the IP multimedia sub-system [ 150].

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A method for providing at least one multimedia service to at least one legacy device [ 120 ], the method comprising:
establishing a connection between at least one user equipment [ 110 A, 110 B, 110 C] and the at least one legacy device [ 120 ] via an IP multimedia sub-system [ 150 ], wherein an IP address is allocated to the at least one user equipment [ 110 A, 110 B, 110 C] by the IP multimedia sub-system [ 150 ]; receiving at least one parameter of the at least one legacy device at the IP multimedia sub-system [ 150 ]; authenticating at least one user equipment [ 110 A, 110 B, 110 C] by the IP multimedia sub-system [ 150 ] in response to an authentication request generated by said at least one user equipment [ 110 A, 110 B, 110 C], wherein the authentication is based on at least one parameter of the at least one user equipment [ 110 A, 110 B, 110 C]; registering the at least one user equipment [ 110 A, 110 B, 110 C] and the at least one legacy device [ 120 ] at the IP multimedia sub-system [ 150 ] in response to a corresponding request generated by the at least one user equipment [ 110 A, 110 B, 110 C] and the at least one legacy device [ 120 ], wherein the registration of the at least one user equipment [ 110 A, 110 B, 110 C] and the at least one legacy device [ 120 ] is based on corresponding at least one of the at least one parameter and a signature information; updating of the legacy device [ 120 ] with an information pertaining to the registration of the at least one user equipment [ 110 A, 110 B, 110 C] upon registration of the at least user equipment [ 110 A, 110 B, 110 C] at the IP multimedia; and providing at least one multimedia service to the at least one legacy device [ 120 ] via the IP multimedia sub-system [ 150 ].

2 . The method as claimed in claim 1 , comprises the multimedia services to be at least one of IP Multimedia Services and Rich Communication Services.

3 . The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the at least one legacy device [ 120 ] is non-compatible to receive the at least one multimedia service, directly.

4 . The method as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising transmitting the signature information of the at least one legacy device [ 120 ] to the at least one user equipment [ 110 A, 110 B, 110 C] upon authentication, wherein the signature information includes at least one of a configuration data and a credential data of the at least one legacy device [ 120 ].

5 . The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the at least one parameter comprises at least one of a media access control ID (Mac-ID), a serial number and an IMEI (International Mobile Equipment Identity) number or UUID (universally unique identifier).

6 . The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the at least one multimedia service comprises at least one of an outgoing call and an incoming call.

7 . The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the outgoing call comprises:
calling the IP multimedia sub-system [ 150 ] by the at least one user equipment [ 110 A, 110 B, 110 C] while using the signature information of the at least one legacy device [ 120 ] and the unique ID of the at least one user equipment [ 110 A, 110 B, 110 C]; forwarding the call via an IMS network having the IP multimedia sub-system [ 150 ], based on authentication of the at least one user equipment [ 110 A, 110 B, 110 C]; establishing a first connection between the at least one user equipment [ 110 A, 110 B, 110 C] and the IP multimedia sub-system [ 150 ] of the IMS network, wherein a second connection exists between the IP multimedia sub-system [ 150 ] and the IMS network; and establishing the outgoing call using said first and said second connection, wherein the at least one user equipment [ 110 A, 110 B, 110 C] uses the signature information of the at least one legacy device [ 120 ] to make the outgoing call.

8 . The method as claimed in claim 7 , wherein the incoming call is performed by:
receiving, by the IP multimedia sub-system [ 150 ], a call associated with at least one of the IPMM service, the RCS service and a non-multimedia service; establishing a third connection between the IMS network and the IP multimedia sub-system [ 150 ], and a fourth connection between the IP multimedia sub-system [ 150 ] and the at least one user equipment [ 110 A, 110 B, 110 C]; and establishing the incoming call using the third and the fourth connection, wherein the at least one user equipment [ 110 A, 110 B, 110 C] uses the signature information of the at least one legacy device [ 120 ] to receive an incoming call.

9 . A system for providing at least one multimedia service to at least one legacy device [ 120 ], the system [ 100 ] comprising:
at least one user equipment [ 110 A, 110 B, 110 C] capable of using at least one multimedia service; an IP Multimedia sub-system [ 150 ] connected to the at least one legacy device [ 120 ] and the at least one user equipment [ 110 A, 110 B, 110 C],
wherein
a connection is established between the IP multimedia sub-system and the at least one user equipment [ 110 A, 110 B, 110 C] by allocating an IP address to the at least one user equipment [ 110 A, 110 B, 110 C] by the IP multimedia sub-system [ 150 ],
the at least one user equipment [ 110 A, 110 B, 110 C] is authenticated by the IP multimedia sub-system [ 150 ], in response to a request generated by the at least one user equipment [ 110 A, 110 B, 110 C], the authentication being based on at least one parameter of the at least one user equipment [ 110 A, 110 B, 110 C],
the at least one user equipment [ 110 A, 110 B, 110 C] gets registered at the IP multimedia sub-system [ 150 ] in response to a request generated by the at least one user equipment [ 110 A, 110 B, 110 C], the registration being based on at least one of a unique ID of the at least one user equipment [ 110 A, 110 B, 110 C] and a signature information of the at least one legacy device [ 120 ], and
the at least one multimedia service is provided to the at least one legacy device [ 120 ] via the IP multimedia sub-system [ 150 ].

10 . The system as claimed in claim 9 , further comprising at least one extension device connected to the IP multimedia sub-system [ 150 ] wherein, the at least one extension device is capable of receiving and terminating one of the incoming and the outgoing call.

Assignees

• Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd

Inventors

• Jayaraman Shankar
• Dwivedi Akhilesh
• Nehra Dev Karan
• Popat Shilpa
• SUDHEENDRA Rao Shreyas

Classifications

• H04L65/1059

  End-user terminal functionalities specially adapted for real-time communication · CPC title

• H04L65/1073 Primary

  Registration or de-registration · CPC title

• H04L65/1016

  IP multimedia subsystem [IMS] · CPC title

• H04L65/1033

  Signalling gateways · CPC title

• H04L65/1036

  at the edge · CPC title