Method for enabling receipt of a packet-switched page by a mobile station

• US 20040248616A1
• Filed: 04/30/2004
• Published: 12/09/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 06/05/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Pecen, Mark Edward, Otting, Marcia
• Application Number:
  US10/836,515
• Publication Number:
  US 20040248616A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/552.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 68/00 User notification, e.g. alerting and paging, for incoming communication, change of service or the like

Abstract

A mechanism for notifying a mobile station of receipt of a packet-switched paging message in a GSM communication system. A base station controller (108) sends the packet-switched paging message to the mobile station (116) along a main dedicated control channel in response to the mobile station being capable of operating in a dual transfer mode and being currently engaged in circuit-switch voice interchange activity, resulting in a simultaneous voice and data transmission in dual transfer mode.

Claims

1. A method in a wireless communication device that supports dual transfer mode comprising:

attaching the device to at least a first service and a second service simultaneously;

engaging the device in circuit switched voice interchange activity; and

receiving a packet notification message on a main dedicated control channel while the mobile station is engaged in the circuit-switched voice interchange activity.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising creating a simultaneous voice and data transmission in dual transfer mode while the mobile station is engaged in the circuit-switched voice interchange activity.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising creating a simultaneous voice and data transmission in dual transfer mode, which comprises an active circuit-switched voice connection in dedicated mode, and an active packet-switched temporary block flow in GPRS/EDGE packet transfer mode.

4. A method for receiving notification at a dual transfer mode mobile station, operating in circuit-switched voice interchange activity, of a packet-switched paging message, comprising:

engaging the mobile station in circuit-switched voice interchange activity,

wherein the mobile station operates in a Class A mobile station mode, having dual transfer mode capability, which supports simultaneous attachment, monitoring, activation, invocation and traffic flow on both circuit-switched voice and packet-switched data services, and

wherein the mobile station having dual transfer mode capability is operates in a Class B mobile station mode, having dual transfer mode capability, which supports simultaneous attachment, monitoring and activation on both circuit-switched voice and packet-switched data services, with invocation and traffic flow possible on either service on a mutually exclusive basis, and

wherein said mobile station not having dual transfer mode capability is a Class C mobile station supporting only non-simultaneous attach on either circuit-switched voice or packet-switched data services;

receiving a first packet-switched paging notification message over a dedicated control channel, while the mobile station is engaged in circuit-switched voice interchange activity, if the mobile station is operating in dual transfer mode; and

receiving the a second packet-switched paging notification message over a paging channel, while the mobile station is engaged in circuit-switched voice interchange activity, if the mobile station is not operating in dual transfer mode.