Data communication system utilizing a cellular phone

• US 20020004388A1
• Filed: 05/31/2001
• Published: 01/10/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 07/10/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Nakamichi, Yasuhiro
• Granted Patent: US 6,788,932 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/426.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2242/22 Automatic class or number identification arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42042 Notifying the called party of information on the calling party details within substation equipment H04M1/57, signalling details H04Q3/72
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/436 Arrangements for screening incoming calls , i.e. evaluating the characteristics of a call before deciding whether to answer it based on the calling party profile H04M3/42059; based on location H04M3/42348; based on presence H04M3/42365; diversion H04M3/54
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/5158 in combination with automated outdialling systems devices for signalling identity of wanted subscriber H04M1/26
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices

Abstract

A data communication system utilizing a cellular phone is composed of a radio base station, a cellular phone having a function of connecting to a network through radio communications with the radio base station to make data communications accompanied by error control using a CRC code, and a terminal connecting to the network by using the data communication function of the cellular phone to make data communications, wherein, when a message frame which is an error frame having a different CRC code is received from the radio base station, the cellular phone takes out and stores the data contained in the message frame and reproduces the thus stored data to output the data.

Claims

1. A data communication system utilizing a cellular phone, comprising a radio base station, a cellular phone having a function of connecting to a network through radio communications with the radio base station to make data communications accompanied by error control using a CRC code, and a terminal connecting to the network by using the data communication function of the cellular phone to make data communications,

wherein, when a message frame which is an error frame having a different CRC code is received from the radio base station, the cellular phone takes out and stores the data contained in the message frame and reproduces the thus stored data to output the data.

2. A data communication system utilizing a cellular phone according to claim 1, wherein the radio base station forms a message frame in which the CRC code contained in the data to be transmitted to the cellular phone is differed by a particular operation and transmits the message frame to the cellular phone, and the cellular phone detects the received message frame before delivering it to the terminal and reconstructs the CRC code by a particular operation to confirm an error in the data, thereby to take out and store correct data contained in the message frame and to reproduce the stored data to output the data.

3. A data communication system utilizing a cellular phone according to claim 1, wherein the cellular phone detects the message frame containing the CRC code differed by a particular operation upon receiving from the terminal a control frame that requests the retransmission and reconstructs the CRC code by a particular operation to confirm an error in the data, thereby to take out and store correct data contained in the message frame and to reproduce the stored data to output the data.

4. A data communication system utilizing a cellular phone according to claim 1, 2 or 3, wherein the radio base station has a function of mixing, at regular time intervals, the message frames into normal data frames that are transmitted to the cellular phone.

5. A data communication system utilizing a cellular phone according to claim 1, 2 or 3, wherein, when no effective data is detected in the normal data frame transmitted to the cellular phone, the radio base station replaces the data frame without containing effective data by the message frame.

6. A data communication system utilizing a cellular phone according to claim 4, wherein the cellular phone is set so as not to request the retransmission of message frame when the message frame is properly detected, and the radio base station has a function of counting the number of the delivered message frames by confirming through the presence of request for retransmission whether the cellular phone has properly detected the message frame.

7. A data communication system utilizing a cellular phone according to claim 5, wherein the cellular phone is set so as not to request the retransmission of message frame when the message frame is properly detected, and the radio base station has a function of counting the number of the delivered message frames by confirming through the presence of request for retransmission whether the cellular phone has properly detected the message frame.

8. A data communication system utilizing cellular phone according to claim 1, 2 or 3, wherein an access point having a function of mixing, at regular time intervals, the message frames into the normal data frames transmitted to the cellular phone is connected to the radio base station through a direct circuit.

9. A data communication system utilizing cellular phone according to claim 1, 2 or 3, wherein, when no effective data is detected in the normal data frame transmitted to the cellular phone, an access point having a function of replacing the data frame without containing effective data by the message frame is connected to the radio base station through a direct circuit.

10. A data communication system utilizing a cellular phone according to claim 8, wherein the cellular phone is set so as not to request the retransmission of message frame when the message frame is properly detected, and the access point has a function of counting the number of the delivered message frames by confirming through the presence of request for retransmission whether the cellular phone has properly detected the message frame.

11. A data communication system utilizing a cellular phone according to claim 9, wherein the cellular phone is set so as not to request the retransmission of message frame when the message frame is properly detected, and the access point has a function of counting the number of the delivered message frames by confirming through the presence of request for retransmission whether the cellular phone has properly detected the message frame.