Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Access control to a voice service by a wireless access point
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Application No.: US16311826Application Date: 2017-06-28
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Publication No.: US11019110B2Publication Date: 2021-05-25
- Inventor: Ruth Brown , Alistair Gomez
- Applicant: British Telecommunications Public Limited Company
- Applicant Address: GB London
- Assignee: British Telecommunications Public Limited Company
- Current Assignee: British Telecommunications Public Limited Company
- Current Assignee Address: GB London
- Agency: Patterson Thuente Pedersen, P.A.
- Priority: EP16177397 20160630
- International Application: PCT/EP2017/065977 WO 20170628
- International Announcement: WO2018/002130 WO 20180104
- Main IPC: H04L29/06
- IPC: H04L29/06 ; H03F3/195 ; H03F1/30 ; H03F1/56 ; H03F1/02 ; H03F3/213 ; H04W4/16 ; H04W8/26 ; H04W24/08 ; H04W88/16 ; H04W84/12

Abstract:
A wireless access point is configured to regularly monitor the status of WLAN, WAN and ePDG data links to determine whether the current connections are sufficient to support VoWiFI services. When a device connects to the WLAN of the hub and attempts to switch from its VoLTE service to VoWiFi via the hub, the hub is configured to determine whether the current conditions can satisfy a VoWiFi connection. If the VoWiFi service can support the connection, the request is routed to the ePDG associated with the mobile device's subscriber LTE network. However, if the current conditions cannot satisfactorily support a VoWiFi connection such that incoming calls may be missed or the quality of active calls would not be clear, then the hub is configured to block the request so that the client device will time out and remain connected to VoLTE.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190230132A1 WIRELESS ACCESS POINT Public/Granted day:2019-07-25
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