Mobile station

• US 20070042814A1
• Filed: 08/26/2004
• Published: 02/22/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 08/28/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Original Assignee: Sanyo Electric Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Izaki, Masahiro, Masuda, Masayoshi, Kakimoto, Yoichi
• Granted Patent: US 7,308,245 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/574
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0258 controlling an operation mode according to history or models of usage information, e.g. activity schedule or time of day
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

Provided is a mobile station that a user is able to use without inconvenience, and that is able to realize power consumption saving. The mobile station: records a speech-communication history including information identifying a time at which speech communication occurred; decides a cycle changing time and a cycle-after-change based on the speech-communication history, the cycle changing time being a time at which a paging channel monitoring cycle used by a base station in message transmission is to be changed, and the cycle-after-change being a cycle at which the paging channel is to be monitored after the change; notifies the base station of a slot cycle index indicating the decided cycle-after-change when the decided cycle changing time has come; and starts monitoring the paging channel at the decided cycle-after-change when the decided cycle changing time has come.

Claims

1. A mobile station comprising:

a decision unit operable to decide a cycle changing time and a cycle-after-change, the cycle changing time being a time at which a paging channel monitoring cycle used by a base station in message transmission is to be changed, and the cycle-after-change being a cycle at which the paging channel is to be monitored after the change;

a notification unit operable to notify the base station of a slot cycle index indicating the decided cycle-after-change when the decided cycle changing time has come; and

a monitor unit operable to start monitoring the paging channel at the decided cycle-after-change when the decided cycle changing time has come, wherein

the decision unit makes the decision at an ending of speech communication so that a) the cycle changing time is decided to be a predetermined time after the ending of the speech communication and b) the decided cycle-after-change is longer than a cycle at which the paging channel is monitored during the predetermined time.

2. The mobile station of claim 11, further comprising

a detection unit operable to detect an occurrence of speech communication, wherein

the history recording unit records the speech-communication history in response to the detection performed by the detection unit.

6. The mobile station of claim 11, wherein

the speech-communication history includes, for each of time periods:

occurrence/non-occurrence of speech communication; and

a number of times of speech communication occurrence if a corresponding time period has occurrence of speech communication, the time periods being obtained by dividing one day into periods each having a predetermined time length, and

the decision unit makes the decision so that a) the cycle changing time is decided to be a starting time of a time period subsequent to a time period including the predetermined time after the ending of the speech communication, and b) for a time period in which a corresponding number of times of speech communication occurrence is larger than a predetermined number, a decided cycle-after-change is shorter both than a cycle-after-change for a time period in which a number of times of speech communication occurrence is the predetermined number or smaller, and than a cycle-after-change for a time period in which no speech communication has occurred.

8. The mobile station of claim 11, wherein

the time at which the speech communication occurred corresponds to a time at which either transmission or reception of an audio packet in Push To Talk (PTT) mode is performed.

10. The mobile station of claim 1, wherein

the ending of speech communication corresponds to a time at which either transmission or reception of an audio packet in PTT mode is performed.

11. The mobile station of claim 1, further comprising

a history recording unit operable to record a speech-communication history including information identifying a time at which speech communication occurred, wherein

the decision unit decides the cycle changing time and the cycle-after-change by referring to the speech-communication history.

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9. A mobile station comprising:

a decision unit operable to decide a cycle changing time and a cycle-after-change, the cycle changing time being a time at which a paging channel monitoring cycle used by a base station in message transmission is to be changed, and the cycle-after-change being a cycle at which the paging channel is to be monitored after the change;

a notification unit operable to notify the base station of the decided cycle changing time and a slot cycle index indicating the cycle-after-change; and

a monitor unit operable to start monitoring the paging channel at the decided cycle-after-change when the decided cycle changing time has come, wherein

the decision unit makes the decision at an ending of speech communication so that a) the cycle changing time is decided to be a predetermined time after the ending of the speech communication, and b) the decided cycle-after-change is longer than a cycle at which the paging channel is monitored during the predetermined time.