Telecom Italia S.p.a.

Mario Madella

Enrico Zucca

Davide Sorbara

Giuseppe Catalano

Marco Marchisio

Agostino Cotevino

Davide Mamino

Maria Pia Galante

Roberto Gullino

Carmen Catalano

A method for accessing a proximity service in a mobile communication network including a network module and a user equipment (UE) including a primary radio interface that operates according to a first radio access technology providing connection to the network, and at least one secondary radio interface that operates according to at least one second radio access technology different from the first one is described. The network module communicates with the UE for enabling it to access the service. The method includes sending by the UE to the module a request message, at the module, generating an answer message adapted to enable access to the service by the UE over the primary radio interface, and converting the answer message into at least one further answer message adapted to enable access to the service by the UE over the at least one secondary radio interface.

Proximity service access in a mobile communication network

In a wireless communications network having a base station subsystem controlling at least one network cell, and in which the base station subsystem communicates with mobile stations in the cell through radio blocks, a method of distributing information contents received in data packets at the base station subsystem to the mobile stations, includes obtaining, starting from the data packets, radio blocks to be transmitted through the network cell, labeling the radio blocks with a first radio link identifier, identifying a logic connection between a mobile station and the base station subsystem, communicating the first radio link identifier to a first mobile station in the network cell, and in case at least one second mobile station in the network cell, asks to receive the information contents, communicating thereto the first radio link identifier. The method further includes having the first mobile station and the at least one second mobile station assigned respective second radio link identifiers to be included in the radio blocks.

Method and system for distributing multimedia contents through a wireless communications network, particularly a mobile telephony network

Communication method between a first terminal and a second terminal on a communications network includes establishing a first connection between the terminals, the first connection being of a first media type at the first terminal and of a multimedia type at the second terminal; establishing a second connection between a repository apparatus and the second terminal, the second connection being coupled to the first connection and being of a second media type at the repository apparatus different from the first media type; said multimedia type including the first and the second media types; disabling the second connection after a request for a third connection between the terminals, the third connection being of the second media type at the first terminal; and establishing the third connection, the first and third connections forming a combinational session at the first terminal and a multimedia type connection at the second terminal.

Communications method between a combinational terminal and multimedia terminal

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Mario Madella