Method for transmitting and receiving message of short message broadcasting services in telecommunication system

• US 20070153718A1
• Filed: 03/08/2007
• Published: 07/05/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 09/03/1999
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Kim, Seong, Heo, Cheol
• Granted Patent: US 7,509,135 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/320
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/00 Hand-off or reselection arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/0007 for multicast or broadcast services, e.g. MBMS multicast or broadcast application services H04W4/06; resource management for broadcast services H04W72/30; connection management for selective distribution or broadcast H04W76/40
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/06 Selective distribution of broadcast services, e.g. multimedia broadcast multicast service [MBMS]; Services to user groups; One-way selective calling services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/12 Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/12 using downlink control channel
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0216 using a pre-established activity schedule, e.g. traffic indication frame
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 68/00 User notification, e.g. alerting and paging, for incoming communication, change of service or the like
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 68/025 Indirect paging
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/30 Resource management for broadcast services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/40 for selective distribution or broadcast
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

A method for transmitting and receiving short message broadcast services in a communication system is disclosed. The present invention reduces a battery consumption of a mobile station by additionally using an inserted message field of a broadcast indicator for notifying whether a broadcast message is being transmitted from a base station to the MS, thereby allowing a more efficient short message broadcast service.

Claims

1. A subscriber unit for a mobile communication system, comprising:

means for monitoring a first common channel to determine a value of a broadcast indicator carried on that channel; and

means for monitoring a second common channel to receive a broadcast message on the second common channel only when the value of the broadcast indicator indicates that the broadcast message is present on the second common channel,

wherein the first common channel is a quick paging channel and the second common channel is a paging channel or broadcast channel, and wherein the broadcast indicator is sequenced before a configuration change indicator on a quick paging channel (QPCH).