Apparatus and method of determining the status of a requested service

• US 20060121910A1
• Filed: 11/14/2005
• Published: 06/08/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 05/14/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Malikie Innovations Limited (Key Patent Innovations Limited)
• Original Assignee: Malikie Innovations Limited (Key Patent Innovations Limited)
• Inventors: Hossain, Asif, Willey, William Daniel, Islam, Khaledul M.
• Application Number:
  US11/272,056
• Publication Number:
  US 20060121910A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/450
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13056 Routines, finite state machines
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13098 Mobile subscriber
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/1327 Release and resetting of connection
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/10 Connection setup
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/27 Transitions between radio resource control [RRC] states
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/30 Connection release
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/183 Processing at user equipment or user record carrier

Abstract

A method of network-directed service status order at a mobile station, includes the steps of: (a) from the mobile station sending an origination message, over the network, requesting a service with the network; (b) in response to the origination message, at the mobile station receiving over the network a status message of a status of the requested service, the status message identifying one of a grant of the requested service and a denial of the requested service; and (c) operating the mobile station in an unambiguous state in accordance with the received status message.

Claims

1. A method of communicating over a communications network with a mobile station, comprising the steps of:

(a) from the mobile station sending an origination message, over the network, requesting a service with the network;

(b) in response to the origination message, at the mobile station receiving over the network a status message of a status of the requested service, the status message identifying one of a grant of the requested service and a denial of the requested service; and

(c) operating the mobile station in an unambiguous state in accordance with the received status message.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the status message receiving step comprises receiving the status message over a control channel of the network.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the control channel comprises a paging channel.

4. The method according to claim 2, wherein the communications network comprises a CDMA network, and the origination message sending step comprises sending the origination message from one of a dormant state and an idle state of the mobile station.

5. The method according to claim 4, wherein the origination message sending step comprises the steps of:

at the mobile station detecting a change in a network parameter, and sending the origination message from the one state in response to the detected change.

6. The method according to claim 4, wherein the status message comprises a release order message having a service order qualifier code, the service status order qualifier identifying one of the service grant and the service denial.

7. The method according to claim 6, wherein the service status order qualifier identifies the service denial and a reason for the service denial.

8. The method according to claim 4, wherein the requested service is a circuit-switched service.

9. The method according to claim 4, wherein the requested service is a packet data service.

10. A mobile station for communicating over a CDMA network, the mobile station including a service call state machine being configured to perform the steps of:

(a) facilitating transmission over the network of an origination message requesting a service with the network, by transitioning from an originating state from which the transmission is initiated to a service state associated with the requested service;

(b) in the service state, receiving over the network, in response to the origination message, a status message of a status of the requested service, the status message identifying one of a grant of the requested service and a denial of the requested service; and

(c) transitioning from the service state to one of the originating state and a null state in accordance with the received status message.

11. The mobile station according to claim 10, wherein the state machine is configured to receive the status message over a control channel of the network.

12. The mobile station according to claim 11, wherein the control channel comprises a paging channel.

13. The mobile station according to claim 11, wherein the originating state comprises one of a dormant state and an idle state.

14. The mobile station according to claim 13, wherein the state machine is configured to detect a change in a parameter of the network, and to facilitate the transmission from the one state in response to the detected change.

15. The mobile station according to claim 13, wherein the status message comprises a release order message having a service order qualifier code, the service status order qualifier identifying one of the service grant and the service denial.

16. The mobile station according to claim 15, wherein the service status order qualifier identifies the service denial and a reason for the service denial.

17. The mobile station according to claim 13, wherein the requested service is a circuit-switched service.

18. The mobile station according to claim 13, wherein the requested service is a packet data service.

19. A computer-readable medium carrying computer processing instructions which, when executed by a processing unit of a mobile station, cause the mobile station to perform the steps of:

(a) sending an origination message, from the mobile station, over the network, requesting a service with the network;

(b) in response to the origination message, at the mobile station receiving over the network a status message of a status of the requested service, the message identifying one of a grant of the requested service and a denial of the requested service; and

(c) operating the mobile station in an unambiguous state in accordance with the received status message.

20. The computer-readable medium according to claim 19, wherein the status message receiving step comprises receiving the status message over a control channel of the network.

21. The computer-readable medium according to claim 20, wherein the control channel comprises a paging channel.

22. The computer-readable medium according to claim 20, wherein the communications network comprises a CDMA network, and the origination message sending step comprises sending the origination message from one of a dormant state and an idle state of the mobile station.

23. The computer-readable medium according to claim 22, wherein the origination message sending step comprises the steps:

of at the mobile station, detecting a change in a network parameter, and sending the origination message from the one state in response to the detected change.

24. The computer-readable medium according to claim 22, wherein the status message comprises a release order message having a service order qualifier code, the service status order qualifier identifying one of the service grant and the service denial.

25. The computer-readable medium according to claim 24, wherein the service status order qualifier identifies the service denial and a reason for the service denial.