Mobile station repaging method and apparatus
First Claim
1. A method comprising:
- determining a need to locate a given wireless mobile station with respect to a multi-zone wireless communication system;
in response to determining the need to locate the given wireless mobile station, automatically accessing a location register to obtain a first zone location as corresponds to the given wireless mobile station;
using the first zone location to facilitate sourcing a wireless communication to the given wireless mobile station;
determining that the given wireless mobile station did not respond to the wireless communication;
in response to determining that the given wireless mobile station did not respond to the wireless communication, automatically accessing the location register to obtain a second zone location as corresponds to the given wireless mobile station.
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Abstract
A system controller (10) having a first mode of operation to repage a wireless mobile station in a multi-zone wireless communication system (11). The system controller (10) accesses a location register (12) to obtain a zone location corresponding to a wireless mobile station. The system controller (10) then uses the transmission resources of the zone location to facilitate sourcing a wireless communication with the wireless mobile station. If the wireless mobile station does not respond, the first mode of operation for repaging the wireless mobile station includes the system controller'"'"'s (10) accessing the location register (12) to obtain a second zone location and using the transmission resources of only the second zone location to source a wireless communication to the wireless mobile station.
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20 Claims
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1. A method comprising:
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determining a need to locate a given wireless mobile station with respect to a multi-zone wireless communication system;
in response to determining the need to locate the given wireless mobile station, automatically accessing a location register to obtain a first zone location as corresponds to the given wireless mobile station;
using the first zone location to facilitate sourcing a wireless communication to the given wireless mobile station;
determining that the given wireless mobile station did not respond to the wireless communication;
in response to determining that the given wireless mobile station did not respond to the wireless communication, automatically accessing the location register to obtain a second zone location as corresponds to the given wireless mobile station. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12)
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11. The method of claim 11 wherein automatically accessing the location register to obtain a plurality of zone locations as correspond to the given wireless mobile station further comprises accessing the location register to obtain zone locations for some, but not all, zones that are neighbor zones to the first zone location.
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15. A method to facilitate determining a present location of a given wireless mobile station in a multi-zone wireless communication system, comprising:
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determining a need to locate the given wireless mobile station within the multi-zone wireless communication system;
in response to determining the need to locate the given wireless mobile station, automatically accessing a first location register to obtain a first zone location as corresponds to the given wireless mobile station;
using the first zone location to facilitate sourcing a wireless communication to the given wireless mobile station using only the transmission resources of the first zone location;
determining that the given wireless mobile station did not respond to the wireless communication;
in response to determining that the given wireless mobile station did not respond to the wireless communication, automatically accessing a second location register to obtain a second zone location as corresponds to the given wireless mobile station, which second zone location may be the same as the first zone location;
using the second zone location to facilitate sourcing a wireless communication to the given wireless mobile station using only the transmission resources of the second zone location, such that neighbor zones to the second zone location are not utilized to source a wireless communication to the given wireless mobile station. - View Dependent Claims (13)
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18. A system controller for use in a multi-zone wireless communication system comprising:
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a location register interface;
a first mode of operation such that a repage communication to a given mobile station is sourced using only transmission resources of a single zone. - View Dependent Claims (14, 16, 17)
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19. The system controller of claim 23 further comprising repage means for accessing the location register interface subsequent to an unsuccessful page to the given mobile station to obtain zone location information for a single zone as corresponds to the given mobile station.
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20. The system controller of claim 24 wherein the repage means is further for using only the zone location information for a single zone to facilitate a repage transmission to the given mobile station.
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