| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 455440000 | Based upon unit location | 50 |
| 20120172045 | RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, RADIO BASE STATION, AND HANDOVER CONTROL METHOD - A radio communication system wherein a radio terminal ( | 07-05-2012 |
| 20130045748 | METHOD FOR REDUCING THE HANDOVER FREQUENCY BY A FEMTO GATEWAY IN FEMTOCELL NETWORKS - A method for reducing the handover frequency by a femto gateway in femtocell networks includes the steps: receiving a measurement report from a communication device by an initial femtocell; transmitting a relocation required message to a femto gateway by the initial femtocell if the signal strength thereof is below a threshold; ignoring the relocation required message and enabling the timer by the femto gateway after receiving the relocation required message; determining whether the cell ID included in the call reestablishment request message is classified as “femtocell” or not by the femto gateway before the timer expires; if so, rebuilding the link to the femtocell in response to the cell ID by the femto gateway. | 02-21-2013 |
| 20130084874 | RADIO BASE STATION AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - A radio base station eNB# | 04-04-2013 |
| 20100105394 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SELECTIVE DATA COMMUNICATIONS FOR MULTI-MODE DEVICES - A method and apparatus for selectively utilizing short-range radio access technologies (RATs) when available to connect a multi-mode wireless device to a network are provided. | 04-29-2010 |
| 20130072200 | Measurement Control Method, User Equipment and Network-Side Device - A measurement control method is disclosed. A user equipment (UE) receives measurement indication information from a network and initiated by the network. The measurement indication information includes an identification of an area of a current cell where the UE is located. The UE determines whether the identified area is within a preferred area of the UE. The UE performs a measurement process if the identified area is not within a preferred area of the UE. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130095837 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR MACHINE TYPE COMMUNICATION MONITORING PROCESSING - The present invention discloses a method and device for machine type communication (MTC) monitoring process, and includes: an MTC determines the first location which an MTC device (MD) is allowed to be at and the event report needing to be performed when the MD is not at the first location; the MTC server sends the information of the first location and the information of the event report to the MD; the MD receives the information of the first location and the information of the event report sent from the MTC server; and after detecting that the MD is not at the first location according to the information of the first information, the MD reports the event report to the MTC server. The present invention enhances the monitoring process with finer-granularity and can reduce the interfaces and operations between other network nodes and a Home Subscriber Server (HSS)/Home Location Register (HLR), and maintains the stability of HSS/HLR. | 04-18-2013 |
| 20130115959 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EXCLUDING NON-MOBILITY DATA FROM MOBILITY KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS - Handover (HO) statistics and handover issue events which are due to non-mobility causes are not included in the statistics fed into mobility robustness optimization (MRO). The non-mobility causes may include, e.g., load balancing, retracting users to prepare for cell maintenance or restart/reconfiguration and cell outage including compensation means. Radio link failure (RLF), handover failure (HOF), and handover oscillations (HOosc) that are due to non-mobility cause are excluded from the statistics upon which mobility robustness optimization is based. Non-mobility causes are also differentiated from mobility causes when reporting key performance indicators to an operator. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130122914 | RADIO BASE STATION AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - A radio base station ( | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130130697 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FACILITATING EFFICIENT VERTICAL HANDOFFS IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Systems and methods are provided for performing efficient vertical handoffs in a wireless user device are provided. The user device can comprise a mobile phone, computer table, handheld computer, or other computer system capable of connecting to more than one mobile wireless network that use different wireless communication protocols. Various efficient scanning methods are disclosed that are efficient in terms of battery usage, thermal performance, processing power, throughput performance, or a combination thereof. | 05-23-2013 |
| 20110294510 | Method and Arrangement for Real-Time Difference Determination for Mobile Terminal Processing - In a method of providing real time difference determination for a mobile terminal in a telecommunication system, comprising a plurality of eNodeBs in communication with a core network, each eNodeB having a plurality of associated cells, each cell potentially servicing one or more mobile terminals, determining S | 12-01-2011 |
| 20100113034 | Next Generation Cell Phone - A system and method are disclosed. The system includes a wireless headset. The wireless headset includes a network receiver to receive beacon signals from wireless access points. A beacon table contains data extracted from the received beacon signals. A wireless network selector selects a wireless access point based on the data in the beacon table. The system further includes a voice agent application coupled to the wireless headset and a special-purpose application coupled to the voice agent application. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20100120435 | Use of Radio Access Technology Diversity for Location - Various aspects are disclosed herein for determining a location estimate for multi-mode mobile devices using measurements from one or more radio access technologies and providing a combined location solution. Using the multiple radio access technology capability of the wireless communications system, a mobile communications device may be located on a first radio network characterized by a first radio modulation technique, radio network topology, and channel bandwidth. The mobile communications device may then be handed off to a second radio network and located using a second radio network characterized by a second radio modulation technique, radio network topology, and channel bandwidth. The two location estimates may then be used to develop a combined location estimate. | 05-13-2010 |
| 20100124931 | LOCATION-BASED, EVENT TRIGGERED INTER-RADIO ACCESS TECHNOLOGY HANDOVERS FROM A CDMA MACROCELL TO A WCDMA FEMTOCELL - The present invention provides a method for implementation in mobile unit that is configured to communicate with a wireless communication system that includes macrocells and femtocells. The macrocells and the femtocells use different generation radio access technologies. The method includes determining a distance between the mobile unit and the femtocell(s) and transmitting a first measurement report when the distance between the mobile unit and the femtocell(s) is less than a threshold distance. The method also includes performing an inter-radio access technology handoff from the base transceiver station to the femtocell when the distance is less than a threshold distance. | 05-20-2010 |
| 20090280816 | Base Station Apparatus And Cell Switching Determination Method - The base station apparatus includes a calculating unit configured to calculate a total communication throughput value for every cell by totalizing communication throughput in the selected cell of each mobile terminal on a cell-basis, a receiving unit configured to receive reception quality information of the selected cell and the reception quality information of another movement destination cell in the plurality of cells, a judging unit configured to judge whether or not the mobile terminal is in a cell switching zone by obtaining a difference between the reception quality information of the selected cell and of the movement destination cell, and a determining unit configured to determine, if the mobile terminal is judged to be in the cell switching zone, the cell switching to the movement destination cell as a newly selected cell by comparing the total communication throughput value of the selected cell with that of the movement destination cell. | 11-12-2009 |
| 20090117907 | Adaptive Enhanced Cell Identity Positioning - The present invention introduces methods and devices for provision of position determination assisting data as well as methods, devices and systems for performing position determinations based on this assisting data. The position determination assisting data comprises area definitions, each of which being related at least to a respective cell relation configuration ( | 05-07-2009 |
| 20110171963 | DE-REGISTRATION METHOD, HOME NODEB (HNB), AND HOME NODEB GATEWAY (HNB GW) - The present invention relates to the field of communication technology, and a de-registration method, a Home NodeB (HNB) and a Home NodeB Gateway (HNB GW) are disclosed. In an embodiment, the present invention provides a de-registration method, comprising: initiating, by an HNB GW, release of pre-registration resources corresponding to user equipment (UE) after the HNB GW receives indication information indicating that the UE moves to another cell from a source HNB. Applying the embodiment of the present invention can release pre-registration resources in time and reduce waste of resources. | 07-14-2011 |
| 20090054067 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GESTURE-BASED COMMAND AND CONTROL OF TARGETS IN WIRELESS NETWORK - A method and apparatus to identify a remote target in a local wireless network and provide at least one command to the identified remote target. The remote target is identified and commanded or controlled by moving a device through a sequence of first and second movements. These movements may form a part of a gesture language set. The first movement may be carried out by pointing the device toward the remote target device to identify the remote target. If the second movement corresponds with at least one movement characteristic associated with a command, the command is provided to the identified remote target. | 02-26-2009 |
| 20090117908 | MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS - A mobile handset is capable of establishing communication through a cellular network ( | 05-07-2009 |
| 20090247169 | Base Transceiver Station, Mobile Station, And Wireless Communication Method - A base transceiver station used in a wireless communication system in which the location of each base transceiver station antenna is included in a coverage area of another base transceiver station antenna, the base transceiver station including a measuring unit measuring a distance between a mobile station and a base transceiver station antenna to which the mobile station is communicatively connected. The base transceiver station includes a switching unit switching the communication connection of the mobile station to another base transceiver station antenna when the distance measured by the measuring unit becomes less than or equal to a predetermined value. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20100298000 | Wireless Communication Method for Updating Reference Channel Information and System Thereof - A wireless communication system capable of updating current reference channel information is provided. The wireless communication system includes a control apparatus and a plurality of reference information generating apparatuses. The wireless communication range of the control apparatus covers a plurality of regions. The reference information generating apparatuses, respectively placed in the regions, respectively report their reference position information and reference channel information to the control apparatus. When the control apparatus receives current position information from a target mobile communication apparatus, a current region among the regions is determined according to the current position information, and the control apparatus updates reference channel information according to the current region to the target mobile communication apparatus in real time. | 11-25-2010 |
| 20100279696 | METHOD AND A DEVICE FOR ENABLING A MOBILE TERMINAL TO BE DETECTED BY AT LEAST ONE BASE STATION - A method and associated device for enabling a mobile terminal to be detected by at least one base station of a wireless cellular telecommunication network. The method obtains information representative of the location of the mobile terminal, and transfers a predetermined signal if the location of the mobile terminal is included in a geographical area of a base station associated to the mobile terminal, the predetermined signal being representative of a request to the base station to transfer signals in the cell of the base station. | 11-04-2010 |
| 20100297999 | USER APPARATUS AND PAGING CHANNEL RECEPTION METHOD - A user apparatus which performs, when there is a change in a cell visited, a re-selection of a cell to camp on is disclosed. The user apparatus includes a tracking area ID determining unit which determines whether a new ID of a tracking area that is transmitted from one or more base station apparatuses matches a tracking area ID of a cell visited immediately before the cell re-selection; and a paging reception unit which conducts a paging reception using a paging parameter in the cell visited immediately before the cell re-selection when it is determined that the new ID of the tracking area matches the tracking area ID of the cell visited immediately before the cell re-selection. | 11-25-2010 |
| 20100317349 | COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - A user communications device having active and idle states operates in a cellular communications network in which user communications devices communicate via network communications devices of cells of the network. History data identifying the cells in which the user communications device has been present whilst in the idle state is maintained. This history data is used by the user communications device or by a network communications device to enable adjustment of cell selection/reselection parameters for the user communications device in the active state. | 12-16-2010 |
| 20100311424 | MOBILE STATION, A MOBILE RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, A MOBILE RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD AND A MOBILE RADIO COMMUNICATION PROGRAM - In a mobile radio communication method in which a mobile station moves among a plurality of base stations at high speed, in order to solve a problem of increase in the amount of operation and its related increase in the amount of power consumption and heat emission which is resulted for maintaining good communication quality of communication by the mobile station which moves at high speed to the direction for approaching the base station or moving away from it, it provides detecting means for detecting changes in relative positions to a plurality of base stations, and selecting means for selecting an uplink signal reception base station which receives an uplink signal and selecting one or plural base stations, fluctuation of increase and decrease of which of distance from own mobile station is an opposite manner compared with a case of the uplink signal receiving base station, based on changes in the relative positions detected by said detecting means as a downlink signal transmission base station which transmits a downlink signal. | 12-09-2010 |
| 20100311423 | Communication Terminal Out of Range Determination Method, Wireless Communication System Switching Method and Communication Terminal - There is provided a communication terminal out of range determination method, a wireless communication system switching method and a communication terminal, capable of determining accurately whether or not a communication terminal is out of range. Determining whether or not the communication terminal is out of range is based on a transmission level of a transmission signal from the communication terminal to a base station. | 12-09-2010 |
| 20100056159 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SWITCHING BASE STATION THEREOF - A wireless communication system and a method for switching a base station (BS) thereof are provided. In the present invention, a globe positioning system (GPS) of a mobile apparatus is capable of obtaining a location information about the mobile apparatus. On receiving the location information transmitted from the mobile apparatus, a server end apparatus switches to a corresponding BS of a serving area where the mobile apparatus is located so as to serve the mobile apparatus. | 03-04-2010 |
| 20110250894 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, BASE STATION, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD - A wireless communication system, includes: a first base station; a second base station; a first terminal which transmits call connection data to the first base station; a second terminal which receives a call connection request; and a management device which manages location and movement of the first terminal, wherein the first base station employs a handover procedure to notify the management device, when receiving the call connection data from the first terminal, that a call connection destination of the second terminal which has received the call connection request is changed, and notifies the first terminal about a frequency of the second base station, and the first terminal transmits call connection data to the second base station based on the notified frequency. | 10-13-2011 |
| 20120202505 | BASE STATION, GATEWAY, MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND HANDOVER TARGET SPECIFYING METHOD AND PROGRAM USED THEREFOR - In order to specify a handover target of a mobile station regardless of allocation of PSCs, each of femto base stations ( | 08-09-2012 |
| 20110159875 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GEOGRAPHICALLY LOCATING A CELLULAR PHONE - According to an embodiment of the invention, there is disclosed a method for geographically locating a cellular phone. The method comprises: determining an effective cell-area for each of a first cell and a second cell in a cellular network; and determining a handover area within which the cellular phone is likely to be located when control of the cellular phone is transferred from the first cell to the second cell; wherein the determination of the handover area and the effective cell-area for each of the first cell and the second cell are made based on a topological relationship between the first cell and the second cell. Further related apparatus embodiments are also disclosed. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20080242305 | Location Based Handoff for Mobile Devices - Mobile devices ( | 10-02-2008 |
| 20080254802 | MOBILE CONTROL DEVICE AND HANDOVER CONTROL METHOD - The present invention is a handover control method in a mobile communication system that performs handover control by switching base stations that communicate with a mobile terminal as the mobile terminal moves. In this handover control method, a mobile control device selects one or more handover base station candidates based on the communication state, and based on the communication capabilities of the handover base station candidates, decides a transmission rate for multicasting communication data, and transmits communication data to each of the handover base station candidates at the decided transmission rate, and a handover base station candidate that is decided as a handover base station sends the saved multicast communication data to the mobile terminal. | 10-16-2008 |
| 20080254801 | Method and apparatus for establishing a priority call in a fixed wireless access communication system - A wireless communication system has a plurality of subscriber stations linked by radio with a network infrastructure coupled to a correspondent node. A call is originated at a subscriber station apparatus. The apparatus includes a call establishment message generator coupled to receive an origination indication of the call. The call establishment message generator generates a call establishment message to initiate call set-up procedures that precurse a request to establish the call between the subscriber station and the correspondent node. The apparatus also includes a response detector coupled to receive an indication of a network-infrastructure generated response to the call establishment message. The response detector detects whether the response to the call establishment message indicates that communication resources are available to establish the call. The apparatus further includes a call set-up emulator coupled to the response detector. The call set-up emulator emulates normal call set-up operations at the subscriber station at least for a period responsive to detection by the response detector of unavailability of the communication resources to establish the priority call. | 10-16-2008 |
| 20100323705 | ACCESS GATEWAY DEVICE AND TRACKING AREA IDENTIFIER NOTIFICATION METHOD - An access gateway device is disclosed that is used in a mobile communication system and that is capable of storing an identifier of a tracking area in which a mobile station in communication is located. The access gateway device includes a table unit storing a table having a corresponding relationships between a tracking area and a base station managing a cell included in the tracking area; a tracking area identifier comparison unit referring to the table at a predetermined timing, detecting the identifier of the tracking area in which the mobile station is located, and comparing the detected identifier of the tracking area with the stored identifier; and a tracking area identifier notification unit notifying the mobile station of the detected identifier of the tracking area when the detected identifier of the tracking area is different from the stored identifier based on a result of the comparison. | 12-23-2010 |
| 20090176497 | Method and arrangement for determining at least one suggestion for a change of location for a user of a mobile terminal - According to a current user location, at least one favorable user location in the vicinity of a respective current user location for a mobile terminal is, as a suggestion for changing location, determined from communications requests for at least one respective application and from available network services in the vicinity of the current user location by virtue of the fact that, in favorable locations, network services can be more efficiently and/or economically used. | 07-09-2009 |
| 20100029284 | Mobile Video Internet, Cellular and Location Finder System - Mobile video internet, cellular and location finder system for receiving and processing a Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexed (OFDM) signal into a processed video baseband signal and a processor and transmit filter for processing and filtering a video signal for providing a processed and filtered Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) video or a video Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) signal for transmission in a mobile cellular system. | 02-04-2010 |
| 20090111473 | Cooperative Communication in Wireless Cellular Networks - A method and system communicates cooperatively between base stations and mobile stations in a wireless cellular network. At least two mobile stations are detected in a handover region. A diversity set is established for each mobile station in the handover region. Each diversity set identifies at least two base stations that can communicate with the associated mobile station. The at least two base stations and the at least two mobile stations are combined into members of a cooperation set. A resource is allocated to selected members of the cooperative set. The selected members are notified of the allocated resource. Then, the selected base stations of the cooperation set communicate concurrently with the selected mobile stations using the same allocated resource. | 04-30-2009 |
| 20120040681 | AREA-TRIGGERED LOCATION SERVICE METHOD, LOCATION SERVICE SERVER, AND LOCATION SERVICE TERMINAL - An area-triggered location service method is provided, which includes: receiving, by a location service server, area-triggered location service request information; saving, by the location service server, identification information of a location service terminal and a triggered report condition carried in the area-triggered location service request information; sending, by the location service server, a subscription instruction to the location service terminal according to the identification information of the location service terminal, so that the location service terminal reports location information of a cell in which the location service terminal is located after receiving the subscription instruction; receiving, by the location service server, the cell location information reported by the location service terminal; and judging, whether the cell location information meets the triggered report condition, and sending area-triggered notification information of the location service terminal if the cell location information meets the triggered report condition. | 02-16-2012 |
| 20110021199 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION METHOD AND RADIO BASE STATION - A mobile communication method according to the present invention includes the steps: transmitting, from an exchange (MME) to a first radio base station (eNB), a location information reporting instruction which provides an instruction to report location information on a mobile station (UE); reporting, the first radio base station (eNB) to the exchange (MME), the location information on the mobile station (UE), in accordance with the location information reporting instruction; transmitting, the location information reporting instruction to a second radio base station (eNB), in a handover procedure of the mobile station (UE) from the first radio base station (eNB) to the second radio base station (eNB); and reporting, from the second radio base station (eNB) to the exchange (MME), the location information on the mobile station (UE), in accordance with the location information reporting instruction. | 01-27-2011 |
| 20110319087 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION METHOD, RADIO BASE STATION, RADIO NETWORK CONTROLLER, AND EXCHANGE STATION - A mobile communication method according to the present invention includes step A of notifying, by a radio base station NodeB | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110319086 | BASE-STATION DEVICE AND HANDOVER METHOD - A base-station device that forms a first cell in a wireless communication system in which a plurality of second cells are included in the first cell, includes: a reception unit configured to receive control information including information used to specify the location of a mobile terminal from the mobile terminal located in the first cell; a location information storage unit configured to store location information indicating the location of each of the plural second cells; a selection unit configured to select, based on a result obtained by comparing the location of the mobile terminal with the location information, a neighboring cell that can be a destination to which the mobile terminal is handed over from the first cell, from among the plural second cells; and a transmission unit configured to transmit to the mobile terminal a neighboring cell notification message giving notice of the selected neighboring cell. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20120165024 | HANDOVER PROPERTIES ESTIMATION SYSTEM, METHODS THEREOF, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A handover properties estimation system includes a moving-route extraction unit which extracts moving routes which pass through a handover area or a neighboring area by using map information of the handover area and the neighboring area. The handover area is an area in which a handover process occurs between cells in a mobile communication system. The system further includes a moving-route handover properties calculation unit for calculating handover properties of the moving routes extracted by the moving-route extraction unit, by using radio-wave environment information of the moving routes. | 06-28-2012 |
| 20120165025 | METHOD OF MANAGING HANDOVER IN A CELLULAR WIRELESS SYSTEM - In a method of managing handover in a cellular wireless system, channel condition information is received from a mobile terminal attached to a serving base station. Information is also received regarding the location of the mobile terminal. The received channel condition and location information are stored in a data store. The serving base station accesses data in the data store to determine if the mobile terminal would have improved connectivity if it handed over to a neighbor base station, and, when such a determination is affirmative, it sends a recommendation to the mobile terminal to handover to the other base station. The channel condition and location data store may be located in the base station. The data store content may be generated by a request response mechanism in reply to the base station. | 06-28-2012 |
| 20120178458 | PROCESS FOR UPDATING LOCATION INFORMATION - A location management method for a mobile terminal in a telecommunications network is provided in which when the mobile terminal is traveling from a first cell to a second cell in the network, an identifier associated with the mobile terminal in the cell in which it is located is established. The mobile terminal receives a first identifier associated with the first cell that enables the mobile terminal to be located in the network when it is within the first cell. The mobile terminal receives a second identifier associated with the second cell that enables the mobile terminal to be located in the network when it is within the second cell. The mobile terminal and/or the network store the identifiers in a table of identifiers, in order to use the first identifier or the second identifier depending on whether the mobile terminal is within the first or second cell, respectively. | 07-12-2012 |
| 20100273491 | Method and System for Estimating Road Traffic - A method of estimating road traffic on a roads network, comprising: receiving information from at least one information source, wherein the information received from the at least one information source is one among a first information type and a second information type; defining at least two different information processing methods, each one associated with a respective one of said information type; selecting the information processing method based on the available information type and on predefined criteria; and processing with the selected information processing method the corresponding available information type; and providing an estimation of the road traffic based on the result of said processing. | 10-28-2010 |
| 20120315915 | METHOD FOR COMMUNICATING IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK - The invention provides a method for communicating in a wireless communication network ( | 12-13-2012 |
| 20120083278 | POSITIONING MEASUREMENTS AND CARRIER SWITCHING IN MULTI-CARRIER WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS - In a multi-carrier wireless communication network, positioning-aware switching of a primary carrier from a first carrier to a second carrier for a UE is constrained to enable one or more positioning measurements to be performed. Either the selection of the second carrier, the timing of switching from the first to the second carrier, or both, are constrained to enable and enhance the positioning performance. The constraints may be operative at a serving node of the network, at a UE, or both. Further constraints may be applied to the network to enhance positioning performance. Carrier switching may be across Radio Access Technology (RAT), and the positioning constraints may include configuring or re-configuring a device to perform positioning measurements in measurement gaps (e.g., on a secondary carrier in LTE systems when Positioning Reference Signals are not transmitted on the primary carrier). | 04-05-2012 |
| 20090017825 | METHOD FOR ALLOCATING OF AT LEAST ONE ACCESS POINT TO A MOBILE TERMINAL IN A CELLULAR NETWORK, CORRESPONDING TERMINAL, MOBILE SERVER AND PROGRAMS - A method is provided for allocating at least one access point to a mobile terminal in a cellular network formed by multiple cells each controlled by an access point, wherein the mobile terminals move about. The method includes the following steps: locating a mobile terminal inside a current cell; identifying, using the locating, a target cell with which the terminal is likely to be connected; transmitting in advance to the terminal a target context, comprising at least one identifier of the access point of the target cell; implementing a procedure for connecting said terminal to the access point of the target cell, based on predetermined cell modification criterion. | 01-15-2009 |
| 20110124341 | LOCATION REGISTRATION AREA ASSIGNING METHOD AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A call processing control apparatus automatically detects that a lot of handover and location registration simultaneously occur, and notifies a monitor control server. The monitor control server receiving the notification from the call processing control apparatus transmits a TAI change request to a base station so that a tracking area identity (TAI) of a movement destination cell where congestion occurs and a tracking area identity of a movement origin cell have the same value. The base station receiving the TAI change request message from the monitor control server changes its own TAI value. After that, all mobile devices perform only handover when they move between the cells where the TAI values are changed, and does not perform location registration. | 05-26-2011 |
| 20120094676 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION METHOD AND RADIO BASE STATION - A mobile communication method according to the present invention includes the steps: transmitting, from an exchange (MME) to a first radio base station (eNB), a location information reporting instruction which provides an instruction to report location information on a mobile station (UE); reporting, the first radio base station (eNB) to the exchange (MME), the location information on the mobile station (UE), in accordance with the location information reporting instruction; transmitting, the location information reporting instruction to a second radio base station (eNB), in a handover procedure of the mobile station (UE) from the first radio base station (eNB) to the second radio base station (eNB); and reporting, from the second radio base station (eNB) to the exchange (MME), the location information on the mobile station (UE), in accordance with the location information reporting instruction. | 04-19-2012 |
| 20110256875 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SUPPORTING LOCATION SERVICES VIA A HOME NODE B (HNB) - Techniques for supporting location services for a home Node B (HNB) and its user equipments (UEs) are disclosed. In an aspect, location services may be supported for a UE by having an HNB inter-work between user plane and control plane location solutions. In one design, the HNB receives a request for a location service for the UE and communicates (i) with a location server via the user plane location solution and (ii) with the UE via the control plane location solution to support the location service for the UE. The HNB inter-works between the user plane and control plane location solutions. In another aspect, a location server may be used to support assisted GNSS (A-GNSS) for HNBs and UEs. In one design, an HNB exchanges PCAP messages with the location server via an HNB GW and exchanges RRC messages with a UE to support a location service for the UE. | 10-20-2011 |
