WIRELESS TERMINAL DEVICE AND COMMUNICATION METHOD

• US 20120329452A1
• Filed: 06/22/2012
• Published: 12/27/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 06/23/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Inventors: Tokuda, Takeyuki
• Granted Patent: US 8,548,473 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/426.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/0066 of control information between different types of networks in order to establish a new radio link in the target network

Abstract

A mobile telephone device includes: an instruction reception unit which, when a predetermined communication is transferred to a CDMA communication system, receives a handover instruction signal in the LTE communication system; a communication request unit which, when the signal is received, captures the CDMA communication system and requests a start of the communication; a communication processing unit which, when receiving an enabling signal for the request, performs communication in the CDMA communication system; and a storage unit which, when the enabling signal is not received, stores a combination of calling zones of both communication systems; wherein when a combination of a calling zone of the CDMA communication system newly captured in accordance with a new handover instruction and a calling zone in the LTE communication system matches with the stored combination, the communication request unit requests the start of the communication after performing a new location registration.

Claims

1. A wireless terminal device that selectively switches among a plurality of communication systems provided so as to overlap with each other for performing communication, the wireless terminal device comprising:

an instruction reception unit which, when a predetermined communication is produced in a state where a location registration is performed in a first communication system and the predetermined communication is transferred from the first communication system to a second communication system, receives a transfer instruction signal in the first communication system;

a communication request unit which, when the transfer instruction signal is received by the instruction reception unit, captures the second communication system and requests a start of the predetermined communication to which the transfer is instructed, in the second communication system;

a communication processing unit which, after the start of the predetermined communication is requested, when receiving in the second communication system an enabling signal for the request for the start of the predetermined communication, performs the predetermined communication in the second communication system; and

a storage unit which, after the start of the predetermined communication is requested, when the enabling signal is not received in the second communication system, stores a combination of information on a communication area section in the second communication system when the enabling signal is not received, and information on a communication area section in the first communication system when the transfer instruction signal is received;

wherein

when a combination of information on a communication area section in the second communication system at a time when a new transfer instruction signal is received in the first communication system by the instruction reception unit and the second communication system is newly captured and information on a communication area section in the first communication system at a time when the new transfer instruction signal is received matches with the combination stored in the storage unit, the communication request unit requests to the second communication system the start of the communication to which the transfer is instructed, after newly performing a location registration in a communication area section of the newly captured second communication system.

2. The wireless terminal device according to claim 1, wherein

the predetermined communication is communication of a type not supported in the first communication system but supported in the second communication system.

3. The wireless terminal device according to claim 1, wherein

the first communication system is of an LTE type and the second communication system is of a CDMA type, and

the transfer instruction of the predetermined communication complies with CS-Fallback function specified in 3GPP TS 23.272.

4. The wireless terminal device according to claim 1, wherein

the first communication system is of a WiMAX type and the second communication system is of a CDMA type.

5. The wireless terminal device according to claim 3, wherein

the predetermined communication is communication based on a notification of incoming voice call.

6. The wireless terminal device according to claim 3, wherein

the predetermined communication is communication based on a notification of SMS.

7. The wireless terminal device according to claim 3, wherein

the predetermined communication is communication based on a request of voice outgoing.

8. The wireless terminal device according to claim 3, wherein

the predetermined communication is communication based on a request of SMS outgoing.

9. The wireless terminal device according to claim 1, wherein

the instruction reception unit receives the transfer instruction signal from a control device of the first communication system, wherein the control device has knowledge of an overlapping relationship among control communication area sections of each of the first communication system and the second communication system.

10. The wireless terminal device according to claim 1, further comprising

an acquisition unit for acquiring the combination to be stored in the storage unit from an external server.

11. The wireless terminal device according to claim 10, further comprising

a transmission unit for transmitting to the server the combination stored in the storage unit.

12. The wireless terminal device according to claim 1, wherein

the communication area section of each of the first communication system and the second communication system is a calling zone in the respective communication system.

13. A communication method of a wireless terminal device that selectively switches among a plurality of communication systems provided so as to overlap with each other for performing communication, the method comprising:

an instruction reception step in which, when a predetermined communication is produced in a state where a location registration is performed in a first communication system and the predetermined communication is transferred from the first communication system to a second communication system, a transfer instruction signal is received in the first communication system;

a communication request step in which, when the transfer instruction signal is received in the instruction reception step, the second communication system is captured and a start of the predetermined communication to which the transfer is instructed is requested in the second communication system;

a communication processing step in which, after the start of the predetermined communication is requested, when receiving in the second communication system an enabling signal for the request for the start of the predetermined communication, the predetermined communication is performed in the second communication system; and

a storage step in which, after the start of the predetermined communication is requested, when the enabling signal is not received in the second communication system, a combination of information on a communication area section in the second communication system when the enabling signal is not received, and information on a communication area section in the first communication system when the transfer instruction signal is received is stored;

wherein

when a combination of information on a communication area section in the second communication system at a time when a new transfer instruction signal is received in the first communication system in the instruction reception step and the second communication system is newly captured and information on a communication area section in the first communication system at a time when the new transfer instruction signal is received matches with the combination stored in the storage step, the start of the communication to which the transfer is instructed is requested to the second communication system in the communication request step, after newly performing a location registration in a communication area section of the newly captured second communication system.

14. A wireless terminal device which, when receiving by a first communication system incoming call in a second communication system, transmits a response to the incoming call by switching from the first communication system to the second communication system, wherein

if a combination of a location area in the first communication system before the switching and a location area in the second communication system after the switching meets a predetermined condition, the wireless terminal device does not transmit the response to the incoming call.