Dsc/celcore, Inc.

Celcore Incorporated

Other

Anthony G Fletcher

Scott D Hoffpauir

Steve B Liao

Kelvin K Kinsey

John L Hatcher

Kevin E Yancy

A socket holder and storage device includes a sheet of plastic with tabbed cutouts. The cutouts are generally upside down U-shaped apertures with an integrally formed cantilevered tab extending upwardly from the middle of the bottom of the aperture. The tab, which can be deflected, is sized and configured to fit in the square drive recess of a socket. The aperture is sized and shaped to receive a socket and prevent disengagement from the tab unless the tab is deflected. The sheet may be equipped with various accessories and stored in crates.

Socket holder and storage device

A generic telecommunications system and associated methods are disclosed herein. Such generic telecommunications system provides for, among other things, a call processing application that can be used with telecommunications systems that incorporate varying different technologies and standards. Such call processing applications may, for example, include a home location register, visitor location register and mobile switching center elements. In addition, the call processing application may include an application provider and/or a radio controller elements. Those elements are preferably implemented as software entities including one or more software objects. As software entities of the same application, those elements may readily communicate with, and invoke operations associated with, one another. Further, as disclosed herein, software entities of the call processing application may also readily communicate with, and invoke operations associated with, software entities of other applications. In addition, agents associated with the switchign center, may faciliate the call processing of calls originating and terminating in accordance with varying access technologies.

Generic wireless telecommunications system

A flexible architecture for a telecommunications system is disclosed herein. Such architecture provides for different software layers, which include one or more software entities, based on a logical grouping of like or similar functions. For example, a call processing software layer, a resource software layer and a network management software layer may be provided to carry out particular operations. Further, the network management software layer may be divided into a client layer, which presents operations, administration and maintenance related information to a user for adaptation by the user, and a server layer, which stores and accesses operations, administration and maintenance related information. Object request broker technology is utilized to allow a software entity of one software layer to invoke operations associated with another software entity provided by another software layer.

Flexible telecommunications system architecture

In one aspect of the present invention, a merged operations and maintenance center (200) is provided that performs radio and switch operations and maintenance functions for a telecommunications system such as an integrated wireless telecommunications system (14). The merged operations and maintenance center (200) may be in communication with a call processor (40) and includes a plurality of servers and a graphical user interface. The plurality of servers may include a configuration management server (72) for performing configuration management, a fault management server (74) for performing fault management, and an accounting management server (78) for performing accounting management. The graphical user interface may be implemented using any available interface.

Merged operations and maintenance center and method for operation

A generic telecommunications system and associated call processing architecture is disclosed herein. Such generic telecommunications system provides for, among other things, a call processing application that can be used with telecommunications systems that incorporate varying different technologies and standards. Such call processing applications may, for example, include a switching center, such as a mobile switching center. The switching center may include multiple agents to process calls from one access technology to another access technology. For example, in accordance with an exemplary embodiment, a first agent is associated with the origination of a call connection while a second agent is associated with the destination of a call connection. The first agent is operable to convert a call setup message from a format consistent with a first access technology or standard, such as GSM, to a standard format. The second agent is operable to convert from the message from the standard format to a second format that is consistent with a second access technology or standard, such as CDMA. As a result, a single telecommunications switch may switch a call from a GSM subscriber to a CDMA subscriber.

Generic telecommunications system and associated call processing

The present invention, as described and claimed, provides for an integrated wireless telecommunications system. Such telecommunications system integrates functionality and elements that are commonly found in distinct components of conventional wireless telecommunications systems. For example, the telecommunications system may includes a radio controller and switching center.

Integrated telecommunications system

In a method of providing cellular telephone service to a mobile telephone located in an off-load cellular telephone system adjacent to a main cellular telephone system, the mobile telephone is registered with the off-load cellular telephone system upon the mobile telephone entering the off-load cellular telephone system, and then is registered with the main cellular telephone system as being located in the off-load cellular telephone system as a function of predetermined criteria. During the time in which the mobile telephone has entered the off-load cellular telephone system but has not yet registered with the main cellular telephone system as being located in the off-load cellular telephone system, rebroadcasting page signals from main cellular telephone system into the off-load cellular telephone system ensures delivery of incoming telephone calls to the mobile telephone.

Mobility management method for delivering calls in a microcellular

An off-load cellular system controls cellular service between a main cellular system and the off-load cellular system and provides off-load cellular service to a mobile telephone. The off-load cellular system includes a receiver circuit, monitoring and receiving an origination message broadcast from the mobile telephone located in the off-load cellular system, and a system controller, for receiving the origination message output from the receiver circuit, and for outputting a connect signal indicating whether the off-load cellular service is to be provided to the mobile telephone responsive to the origination message. In addition, the off-load cellular system includes a connection controller for receiving the connect signal output from the system controller, for transmitting to the mobile telephone a voice connect message indicating a frequency to obtain the off-load cellular service responsive to the connect signal, and for connecting the mobile telephone with a calling party, providing the off-load cellular service to the mobile telephone.

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Corinth, MS, United States of America

Anthony G Fletcher