Ericsson Gmbh

Bagher Rouhollahzadeh

Ranjit Bhatia

Shahrokh Amirijoo

Tahir Hussain

Gunnar Borg

Patrick Arabie

A telecommunications system and method is disclosed for collecting mobility information regarding mobile subscribers and providing this mobility information to telemarketing companies to generate extra revenue for cellular network operators. A telemarketing application can define a target area, which includes a cell or a number of cells that are of interest for the telemarketing application, and include this defined target area in a mobility request to an Operation and Support System (OSS) within the cellular network. The OSS instructs Mobile Switching Centers (MSCs) within the target area to log the movement of each MS located in the target area and store this mobility information in a Home Location Register (HLR) or Visitor Location Register (VLR). Once all the mobility information has been collected by the MSC's, the mobility information is passed onto the OSS, which can utilize filter parameters specified by the telemarketing application in order to generate tailored mobility information.

System and method for location-based marketing to mobile stations within a cellular network

A telecommunications system and method is disclosed for providing adaptive reservation of radio resources within a Localized Service Area (LSA) in order to achieve more efficient channel utilization of radio resources within the LSA. During a predefined time period, a base station controller (BSC) within the LSA scans for the percentage of radio resources used by public mobile subscriber and LSA mobile subscribers. The BSC compares the scanned percentage of radio resources with a radio resource usage profile stored in the BSC. If the scanned radio resource usage differs from the radio resource usage profile, the BSC sets new radio resource reservations for LSA and public mobile subscribers and updates the radio resource usage profile with the new radio resource reservations. The process is repeated to ensure maximum efficient radio resource usage within the LSA.

System and method for adaptive reservation of radio resources for cells

A telecommunications system and method for handling positioning data acquired by a target Base Station Controller (BSC) during a positioning handover, in order to accurately determine the geographical position of a Mobile Station (MS) by a Positioning Center (PC). In one preferred embodiment of the present invention, the target BSC can collect the necessary data for positioning and transmit the data to a serving Mobile Switching Center (MSC). Alternatively, the target BSC can transmit the collected data to an originating BSC, which in turn packages all of the data acquired by both the originating BSC and the target BSC and transmits this data to the MSC. In the case where a target MSC is also involved, the positioning data can be collected by the target BSC and transmitted to the target MSC for forwarding either to the originating MSC or the Positioning Center itself.

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Bagher Rouhollahzadeh