BASE STATION APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM

• US 20120142342A1
• Filed: 06/17/2010
• Published: 06/07/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 08/20/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries Limited (Sumitomo Corporation), Sumitomo Electric Networks, Inc. (Sumitomo Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries Limited (Sumitomo Corporation), Sumitomo Electric Networks, Inc. (Sumitomo Corporation)
• Inventors: Murakami, Kenichi
• Application Number:
  US13/390,167
• Publication Number:
  US 20120142342A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/426.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 64/003 locating network equipment
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/045 using private Base Stations, e.g. femto Base Stations, home Node B

Abstract

A femtocell base station is a base station apparatus connected to a fixed communication network through a terminating device for a wire communication line and communicable with a mobile phone by radio communication. The femtocell base station includes: an acquiring unit that acquires location information from the fixed communication network, the location information being registered in a management server of the fixed communication network in connection with the terminating device; and a notifying unit that notifies a mobile communication network of the location information as location information related to the femtocell base station.

Claims

1. A base station apparatus connected to a fixed communication network through a terminating device for a wire communication line, and communicable with a mobile terminal by radio communication, the base station apparatus comprising:

acquiring means for acquiring first location information from the fixed communication network, the first location information being registered in a management server of the fixed communication network in connection with the terminating device; and

notifying means for notifying a management server of a mobile communication network, of the first location information as location information related to the base station apparatus.

2. The base station apparatus according to claim 1, wherein it is determined whether or not to allow the acquiring means to acquire the first location information, based on a comparison result between the first location information and the second location information related to the base station apparatus, the second location information being registered in advance in the management server of the mobile communication network.

3. The base station apparatus according to claim 1, wherein it is determined whether or not to allow use of the base station apparatus, based on a comparison result between the first location information and the second location information related to the base station apparatus, the second location information being registered in advance in the management server of the mobile communication network.

4. The base station apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a mobile terminal communicable with the base station apparatus is determined based on a comparison result between the first location information and the second location information related to the base station apparatus, the second location information being registered in advance in the management server of the mobile communication network.

5. The base station apparatus according to claim 1, wherein content of a process performed by the base station apparatus is determined based on a comparison result between the first location information and the plurality of pieces of second location information related to the base station apparatus, the pieces of second location information being registered in advance in the management server of the mobile communication network.

6. The base station apparatus according to claim 1, wherein predetermined information on communication between the mobile terminal and the base station apparatus is received from the management server of the mobile communication network through a neighbouring base station of the base station apparatus, the predetermined information being transmitted to the base station apparatus from the management server of the mobile communication network.

7. The base station apparatus according to claim 1, wherein predetermined information on communication between the mobile terminal and the base station apparatus is received from the management server of the mobile communication network through the fixed communication network and the terminating device, the predetermined information being transmitted to the base station apparatus from the management server of the mobile communication network.

8. A communication system comprising:

a fixed communication network;

a mobile communication network; and

a base station apparatus connected to the fixed communication network through a terminating device for a wire communication line, and communicable with a mobile terminal by radio communication, wherein

the communication system has notifying means for notifying a management server of the mobile communication network, of first location information as location information related to the base station apparatus, the first location information being registered in a management server of the fixed communication network in connection with the terminating device.

9. A communication method using a base station apparatus connected to a fixed communication network through a terminating device for a wire communication line, and communicable with a mobile terminal by radio communication, the method comprising:

a step (A) of acquiring first location information from the fixed communication network, the first location information being registered in a management server of the fixed communication network in connection with the terminating device; and

a step (B) of notifying a management server of a mobile communication network, of the first location information as location information related to the base station apparatus.

10. A program causing a computer mounted on a base station apparatus connected to a fixed communication network through a terminating device for a wire communication line and communicable with a mobile terminal by radio communication, to function as:

acquiring means for acquiring first location information from the fixed communication network, the first location information being registered in a management server of the fixed communication network in connection with the terminating device; and

notifying means for notifying a management server of a mobile communication network, of the first location information as location information related to the base station apparatus.