Appeal No. 2002-1986
Application No. 09/283,167
for determining call routing parameters from the location
information of the wireless telephone.
We also agree with Appellants’ characterization (reply
brief, page 2) of the Network Routing prefix (NRP) of Kallioniemi
and find that the NRP merely locates the base station or the
server associated with the subscriber’s telephone (col. 17, lines
20-22 and lines 32-37). We further note that the disclosed
routing parameter does not relate to the location of the
subscriber and merely defines the server location as stated in
col. 3, lines 20-36:
The subscriber location server has a changeable mapping of
subscriber numbers and exchange identifiers. Subscriber directory
numbers are not used for routing calls through the domain.
Rather, the node identifier (NI) in the form of the Network
Routing Prefix (NRP) is used to route calls to a terminating
locating exchange.
A change of connection (e.g., relocation) of a called
subscriber from a first exchange to a second exchange involves a
remapping, in a database of the subscriber location server, of
the subscriber number from an exchange identifier of the first
exchange to an exchange identifier of the second exchange. ...
The present invention is easily implemented and also provides
efficient and effective way e.g., of temporarily rerouting calls
for a subscriber to a different exchange.
[Emphasis added.]
Therefore, only the location identifier of the exchange or
server, and not of the wireless telephone, is of interest to
Kallioniemi, which is used to reroute incoming calls to a
subscriber when the subscriber moves.
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