Mobile services control platform providing a converged voice service

Abstract

A mobile services control platform supports an enhanced service, Voice Forwarding to Wi-Fi or Wi-Fi Voice. Functionally, the service allows a subscriber to use a Wi-Fi device to receive voice calls directed to his or her mobile number. In a representative example, when the user connects over a Wi-Fi network, e.g., using his or her laptop or other such device, he or she selects “Wi-Fi Voice” option from a client. As a result, future voice calls directed to the user's mobile number get routed to his or her laptop over Wi-Fi, without the caller being aware that the user has connected over a different network. Similarly, voice calls made by the user from his or her laptop Wi-Fi (e.g., through a softphone) are delivered to the recipient's device as if they originated from the mobile phone number.

1 . A method comprising:
 receiving a given voice call by a target device when the target device is operating in telecommunications network;   detecting presence of a target device in a second network;   updating given information in a home location register (HLR) in the telecommunications network to identify a gateway coupled to the second network as a location of the target device when the target device is connected to the second network, wherein after updating the given information in the HLR the gateway acts as a visitor location register (VLR);   initiating a conference call to add the target device, now operating in the second network, to the call; and   when the conference call is established, disconnecting a call leg to the telecommunications network.   
     
     
         2 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the target device is mobile Wi-Fi device and the second network is a wireless local area network.