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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 26, 2002
Filed:
Sep. 29, 1998
Juha Räsänen, Espoo, FI;
Nokia Telecommunications Oy, Espoo, FI;
Abstract
The invention relates to an interworking function apparatus (IWF), a method and an arrangement for establishing a mobile-terminating call in a mobile communications network when the call is received from a calling party via a fixed network without any signalling support which provides information on the protocol employed by the calling party. In the invention, a service is assigned only one directory number, which is common to all the protocols employed by the service. The protocol identifier in a service definition linked with this directory number has a neutral (undefined) value or may be interpreted as neutral. The IWF, upon receiving the neutral RA parameter (Step ), is switched onto the line and monitors a traffic channel received from the fixed network in order to identify the protocol employed by the calling terminal equipment (Steps ). After identifying the protocol, the IWF is configured according to the identified protocol (Steps or ), and data transfer may begin (Step ).