System and method for reducing short message service delay

• US 20060276207A1
• Filed: 06/06/2005
• Published: 12/07/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 06/06/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Motorola, Inc. (Motorola Solutions, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Motorola, Inc. (Motorola Solutions, Inc.)
• Inventors: Harris, John M., Crocker, Ronald T., Hart, Thomas B.
• Application Number:
  US11/146,334
• Publication Number:
  US 20060276207A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/466
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/12 Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 64/006 with additional information processing, e.g. for direction or speed determination

Abstract

A method of messaging in a wireless cellular system comprising predicting a location of the mobile station (122, 124), wherein the location corresponds to a first sector within the wireless cellular system; sending a first message to the mobile station via the first sector within the wireless cellular system; and sending a second message corresponding to and having a reduced size as compared to the first message to the mobile station via a second sector at approximately the same time as the first message is sent via the first sector.

Claims

1. A method of messaging in a wireless cellular system comprising:

predicting a location of a mobile station, wherein the location corresponds to a first sector within the wireless cellular system;

sending a first message to the mobile station via the first sector within the wireless cellular system; and

sending a second message corresponding to and having a reduced size as compared to the first message to the mobile station via a second sector at approximately the same time as the first message is sent via the first sector.

2. A method of messaging in a wireless cellular system of claim 1, wherein the step of predicting the location of the mobile station utilizes at least one of a known location of the mobile station and a recent event of the mobile station.

3. A method of messaging in a wireless cellular system of claim 1 further comprising:

receiving a response from the mobile station in response to the mobile station receiving the second message; and

sending the first message to the mobile station via the second sector.

4. A method of messaging in a wireless cellular system of claim 3 wherein the first message is a first data message;

wherein the second message is a page to the mobile station sent over a common channel;

wherein the response to the page includes data corresponding to the mobile stations current environment; and

wherein the method further comprises determining whether to send the first data message to the mobile station over the common channel or a dedicated channel based upon the response to the page.

5. A method of messaging in a wireless cellular system of claim 1 wherein the first message is one of a short message service message, a data over signaling message, a data burst message, and a short data burst message and the second message is a page.

6. A method of messaging in a wireless cellular system of claim 1 wherein the first message is a channel assignment and the second data message is a page.

7. A method of messaging in a wireless cellular system of claim 6 further comprising:

receiving a response from the mobile station in response to the mobile station receiving the page; and

sending a second channel assignment to the mobile station via the second sector.

8. A method of messaging in a wireless cellular system of claim 7 further comprising receiving a request to bring up a call.

9. A method of messaging in a wireless cellular system of claim 1 wherein the first message includes message data and a channel assignment and the second message includes one of the message data and a page.

10. A method of messaging in a wireless cellular system of claim 1 further comprising sending a third message corresponding to and having a reduced size as compared to the second message to the mobile station via a third sector at approximately the same time as the second message is sent via the second sector.

13. A system for delivering a message to a mobile station of claim 1 further comprising:

receiving circuitry for receiving a response from the mobile station in response to the mobile station receiving the second message;

wherein the transmitting circuitry further sends the first message to the mobile station via the second sector.

14. A system for delivering a message to a mobile station of claim 13 wherein the first message is a first data message;

wherein the second message is a page to the mobile station sent over a common channel;

wherein the response to the page from the mobile station includes data corresponding to the mobile stations current environment; and

wherein a determination is made whether to send the first data message to the mobile station over the common channel or a dedicated channel based upon the response to the page.

11. A system for delivering a message to a mobile station comprising:

processing circuitry for predicting a location of the mobile station, wherein the location corresponds to a first sector within the wireless cellular system; and

transmitting circuitry for sending a first message to the mobile station via the first sector within the wireless cellular system where the mobile station was last known to be located and for sending a second message having a reduced size as compared to the first message to the mobile station via a second sector at approximately the same time as the first message is sent via the first sector.

12. A system for delivering a message to a mobile station of claim 11, wherein the predicting the location of the mobile station utilizes at least one of a known location of the mobile station and a recent event of the mobile station.

15. A system for delivering a message to a mobile station of claim 11 wherein the first message is one of a short message service message, a data over signaling message, a data burst message, and a short data burst message and the second message is a page.

16. A system for delivering a message to a mobile station of claim 11 wherein the first message is a channel assignment and the second message is a page.

17. A system for delivering a message to a mobile station of claim 16 further comprising:

receiving circuitry for receiving a response from the mobile station in response to the mobile station receiving the page; and

wherein the transmitting circuitry further sends a second channel assignment to the mobile station via the second sector.

18. A system for delivering a message to a mobile station of claim 17 wherein the receiving circuitry further receives a request to bring up a call.

19. A system for delivering a message to a mobile station of claim 11 wherein the first message includes message data and a channel assignment and the second message includes one of the message data and a page.

20. A system for delivering a message to a mobile station of claim 11 further comprising sending a third message corresponding to and having a reduced size as compared to the second message to the mobile station via a third sector at approximately the same time as the second message is sent via the second sector.