APPARATUS FOR AND METHOD OF MANAGING PAGING INTERVAL ACCESS ON A MOBILE STATION
First Claim
1. A method of paging access availability management in a mobile station, said method comprising the steps of:
- determining a current operating condition of said mobile station; and
determining a dynamic wake-up interval access pattern based on said current operating condition.
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Abstract
A novel and useful apparatus for and method of managing paging availability of a mobile station in a wireless communications network. The paging availability mechanism of the present invention is able to achieve a substantial amount of power saving by modifying mobile station access to paging intervals. The mechanism dynamically controls access to the wireless network after unavailability periods when mobile stations enter into idle mode. Paging listening intervals for one or more mobile stations are scheduled and synchronized in accordance with the values of one or more parameters or metrics such as link quality. In one embodiment, this is achieved by the mobile station modifying the paging listening intervals access pattern received from the base station. Depending on the one or more parameters or metrics, one or more paging intervals may be skipped thus reducing the power consumption of the mobile station.
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26 Claims
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1. A method of paging access availability management in a mobile station, said method comprising the steps of:
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determining a current operating condition of said mobile station; and determining a dynamic wake-up interval access pattern based on said current operating condition. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A method of paging access availability management in a mobile station, said method comprising the steps of:
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receiving an idle configuration from a base station and determining a paging listening intervals access pattern therefrom; determining a current operating environment of said mobile station; and skipping one or more wake-up intervals of said paging listening intervals access pattern based on said current operating environment. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A mobile station, comprising:
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a receiver operative to receive paging messages; an idle processor operative to process said paging messages and determine a paging listening intervals access pattern therefrom; a link condition monitor operative to determine one or more link quality measurements; and a wake-up interval module operative to modify said paging listening intervals access pattern based on said one or more link quality measurements. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21)
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22. A mobile station, comprising:
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a receiver operative to receive paging messages over a paging channel; an idle module operative to process said paging messages, identify a wake-up interval page configuration and update a wake-up interval table; a link condition monitor operative to determine current link conditions; and a wake-up module operative to determine a paging listening intervals access pattern using said wake-up interval table whereby said receiver skips one or more wake-up intervals based on said current link conditions. - View Dependent Claims (23, 24, 25)
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26. A computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code stored therein for execution by a processor to perform paging access availability management on a mobile station, the computer readable program code comprising:
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computer readable program code that processes received paging messages, identifies a wake-up interval page configuration and updates a wake-up interval table; computer readable program code that determines current wireless link conditions; computer readable program code that determines a paging listening intervals access pattern utilizing said wake-up interval table whereby one or more wake-up intervals is skipped based on said current link conditions.
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