Patents by Inventor Olaf VALEUR

Olaf VALEUR has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method for serving visitor subscribers in a mobile communication system
    Patent number: 9503879
    Abstract: A method for serving visitor subscribers in a mobile communication system has been disclosed. The method, which is performed by a virtual visitor subsystem, VSS, included in the mobile communication system, comprises the following steps: detecting a roaming event on an MSISDN of a mobile station, MS, operating in the mobile communication system; determining a mobile network operator in the mobile communication system, having an HPLMN which covers a geographic area of the MS, to be a visitor mobile network operator of the MS; receiving a visitor IMSI from the visitor mobile network operator; assigning the visitor IMSI to the MSISDN of the MS; transmitting the visitor IMSI to the MS; intercepting an authentication initiation towards the visitor mobile network operator; authenticating the MS towards a home mobile network operator of the MS; and activating a visitor subscription identified by the visitor IMSI based on an authentication response received from the home mobile network operator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: IPCO AS
    Inventors: Torbjoern Faller, Olaf Valeur, Rolf Roesok
  • METHOD FOR SERVING VISITOR SUBSCRIBERS IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20150319603
    Abstract: A method for serving visitor subscribers in a mobile communication system has been disclosed. The method, which is performed by a virtual visitor subsystem, VSS, included in the mobile communication system, comprises the following steps: detecting a roaming event on an MSISDN of a mobile station, MS, operating in the mobile communication system; determining a mobile network operator in the mobile communication system, having an HPLMN which covers a geographic area of the MS, to be a visitor mobile network operator of the MS; receiving a visitor IMSI from the visitor mobile network operator; assigning the visitor IMSI to the MSISDN of the MS; transmitting the visitor IMSI to the MS; intercepting an authentication initiation towards the visitor mobile network operator; authenticating the MS towards a home mobile network operator of the MS; and activating a visitor subscription identified by the visitor IMSI based on an authentication response received from the home mobile network operator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2013
    Publication date: November 5, 2015
    Inventors: Torbjoern FALLER, Olaf VALEUR, Rolf ROESOK