Associated Paging Indicator

• US 20080293439A1
• Filed: 10/26/2006
• Published: 11/27/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 11/01/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Original Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Inventors: Moulsley, Timothy James, Baker, Matthew Peter John, Hus, Olivier Jean-Michel
• Granted Patent: US 8,180,380 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/458
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/16 Discovering, processing access restriction or access information
• 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 68/02 Arrangements for increasing efficiency of notification or paging channel

Abstract

A receiver for receiving wireless communication signals from a transmitter is arranged to operate in one of a plurality of states. The receiver is arranged to perform a state transition from the current state to another state among the plurality of states upon reception of a Paging Indicator Signal. The Paging Indicator Signal comprising an indication of the one of the plurality of states to which the state transition is to be performed.

Claims

1. Receiver for receiving wireless communication signals from a transmitter, wherein the receiver is arranged to operate in one of a plurality of access modes that are used to initiate network access, wherein the receiver upon reception of a Paging Indicator Signal is arranged to perform a transition from a current access mode to another access mode among the plurality of possible access modes, the Paging Indicator Signal comprising an indication of the one of the plurality of possible access modes to which the transition is to be performed.

2. Receiver according to claim 1, wherein the indication comprises a reference to a set of access parameters, which characterizes the access mode to which the transition is to be performed.

3. Receiver according to claim 2, arranged to select the set of access parameters from a larger set of access parameters in response to receipt of the Paging Indicator Signal.

4. Receiver according to claim 1, arranged to ignore the indication comprised in the Paging Indicator Signal in dependence of the access mode the receiver is currently operating in.

5. Receiver according to claim 1, arranged to operate in one of a plurality of states, wherein the receiver upon reception of the Paging Indicator Signal is arranged to perform a state transition from a current state to another state among a plurality of states, the indication comprised in the Paging Indicator Signal being indicative of the one of the plurality of states to which the state transition is to be performed.

6. Receiver according to claim 5, wherein the receiver upon receipt of the Paging Indicator Signal, either performs a transition from a current access mode to another access mode among the plurality of possible access modes or a state transition from the current state to another state among the plurality of states.

7. Receiver according to claim 5, wherein the indication of one of the plurality of states comprises a reference to a pre-configured set of characteristics for the state to which the transition is to be performed.

8. Receiver according to claim 5, wherein the state transition is performed immediately upon reception of the Paging Indicator Signal.

9. Receiver according to claim 5, arranged to receive a data signal after the state transition.

10. Receiver according to claim 9, arranged to receive the data signal and the Paging Indicator Signal in a time-multiplexed fashion, wherein the data signal and the paging Indicator Signal are time-multiplexed onto a single channel.

17. Mobile terminal comprising a receiver according to claim 1.

11. Transmitter for transmitting wireless communication signals to at least one receiver, the at least one receiver being arranged to operate in a plurality access modes wherein, the transmitter is arranged to transmit a Paging Indicator Signal to at least one of the at least one receiver, the Paging Indicator Signal comprising an indication of the one of the plurality of access modes to which the transition is to be performed by at least one of the at least one receiver.

12. Transmitter according to claim 11, wherein the at least one receiver is arranged to operate in a plurality of states, the Paging Indicator Signal is further comprising an indication of the one of the plurality of states to which a state transition is to be performed by at least one of the at least one receiver.

13. Transmitter according to claim 11, wherein the indication comprised in the Paging Indicator Signal comprises a reference to a pre-configured set of characteristics for the access mode.

14. Transmitter according to claim 13, wherein the pre-configured set further comprises characteristics for the state-transition which is to be performed by the receiver and which can be referenced by the indication comprised in the Paging Indicator Signal.

15. Transmitter according to claim 11, wherein the transmitter is arranged to time-multiplex the transmission of the Paging Indicator Signals to at least one of the at least one receivers, and wherein a time periodicity in the time-multiplexing of the Paging Indicator Signals is a configurable time periodicity.

16. Transmitter according to claim 11, wherein the transmitter is arranged to time multiplex the transmission of the Paging Indicator Signal and the transmission of a data signal to at least one of the at least one receivers onto a single channel.

18. Base station comprising at transmitter according to claim 11.

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