COMMUNICATION DEVICE, MOBILE TERMINAL, METHOD FOR REQUESTING INFORMATION AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION

• US 20140113656A1
• Filed: 10/24/2012
• Published: 04/24/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 10/24/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Original Assignee: Intel Deutschland GmbH (Intel Corporation)
• Inventors: Schmidt, Andreas, Bienas, Maik, Luft, Achim
• Granted Patent: US 8,891,396 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/456.2
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/08 Testing, supervising or monitoring using real traffic
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/10 Scheduling measurement reports ; Arrangements for measurement reports

Abstract

A communication device is provided comprising a message generator configured to generate a message indicating that a mobile terminal is to determine a list of locations at which the mobile terminal has detected a need for a data communication with a mobile communication network and to transmit the determined list of locations to the mobile communication network and a transmitter configured to transmit the message.

Claims

1. A communication device comprising:

a message generator configured to generate a message indicating that a mobile terminal is to determine a list of locations at which the mobile terminal has detected a need for a data communication with a mobile communication network and to transmit the determined list of locations to the mobile communication network; and

a transmitter configured to transmit the message.

2. The communication device according to claim 1, the transmitter configured to transmit the message to one of a group of receiving entities consisting of

a mobile terminal;

a core network component;

a radio access network component.

3. Communication device according to claim 1, wherein the message indicates that the mobile terminal is to determine a list of locations at which the mobile terminal has detected a need for a data communication with the mobile communication network and at which a data communication with the mobile communication network has not been carried out and to transmit the determined list of locations to the mobile communication network.

4. Communication device according to claim 1, wherein the message indicates that the mobile terminal is to determine a list of locations at which the mobile terminal has detected a need for a data communication with the mobile communication network and at which a data communication with the mobile communication network has not been possible and to transmit the determined list of locations to the mobile communication network.

5. Communication device according to claim 1, wherein the message indicates that the mobile terminal is to determine a list of locations at which the mobile terminal has detected a need for a data communication with the mobile communication network and at which there is no coverage by the mobile communication network and to transmit the determined list of locations to the mobile communication network.

6. Communication device according to claim 1, wherein the message indicates that the mobile terminal is to determine a list of locations at which the mobile terminal has detected a need for a data communication with the mobile communication network and at which a communication connection to the mobile communication network has not been available for the mobile terminal and to transmit the determined list of locations to the mobile communication network.

7. Communication device according to claim 1, wherein the message indicates that the mobile terminal is to determine a list of locations at which the mobile terminal has detected a need for a data communication with the mobile communication network and at which a data communication with the mobile communication network has not been possible due to overload situations on the air interface and to transmit the determined list of locations to the mobile communication network.

8. The communication device according to claim 1, wherein the message indicates that the mobile terminal is to further provide, for at least one of the determined locations, at least one of

a type of an application running on the mobile terminal requiring the data communication at the at least one determined location;

a class of a communication service requiring the data communication at the at least one determined location;

a delay between the time of the detection of requiring the data communication at the at least one determined location and the time of carrying out the data communication; and

an indication of the volume of data that needs to be communicated in the data communication at the at least one determined location.

9. The communication device according to claim 1, wherein the message indicates that the mobile terminal is to determine a list of locations at which the mobile terminal has detected a need for a data communication with the mobile communication network and at which the delay between the time of the detection of the need for the data communication and the time of carrying out the data communication is above a predetermined delay threshold and to transmit the determined list of locations to the mobile communication network.

10. The communication device according to claim 9, wherein the predetermined delay threshold is specified in the message.

11. The communication device according to claim 1, wherein the message indicates that the mobile terminal is to determine a list of locations at which the mobile terminal has detected a need for a data communication with the mobile communication network and at which the volume of data that needs to be communicated in the data communication is above a predetermined volume threshold and transmit the determined list of locations to the mobile communication network.

12. The communication device according to claim 11, wherein the predetermined volume threshold is specified in the message.

13. The communication device according to claim 1, wherein the data communication is an uplink data communication, a downlink data communication or both.

14. The communication device according to claim 13, wherein the data communication is the exchange of data over the air interface of a cellular mobile communication system.

15. The communication device according to claim 1, wherein the message indicates that the mobile terminal is to log locations of the mobile terminal at which the mobile terminal detects a need for a data communication with the mobile communication network.

16. The communication device according to claim 15, wherein the message indicates that the mobile terminal is to log locations of the mobile terminal at which the mobile terminal detects a need for a data communication with the mobile communication network and at which a data communication with the mobile communication network has not been carried out.

17. The communication device of claim 1, wherein the communication device is part of the mobile communication network.

18. The communication device of claim 1, wherein the communication device is a base station.

19. The communication device of claim 1, the message generator configured to generate the message in accordance with Minimization of Drive Tests and the transmitter configured to transmit the message in accordance with Minimization of Drive Tests.

20. The communication device according to claim 1, the communication device being part of the mobile communication network and the transmitter configured to transmit the message to another communication device of the mobile communication network.

21. Method for requesting information comprising:

generating a message indicating that a mobile terminal is to determine a list of locations at which the mobile terminal has detected a need for a data communication with a mobile communication network and to transmit the determined list of locations to the mobile communication network; and

transmitting the message.

22. The method according to claim 21, comprising transmitting the message to the mobile terminal.

23. Mobile terminal comprising:

a detector configured to detect whether the mobile terminal has a need for a data communication with a mobile communication network;

a determiner configured to determine a list of locations at which the detector has detected a need for data communication with the mobile communication network;

a message generator configured to generate a message including the determined list; and

a transmitter configured to transmit the message.

24. The mobile terminal according to claim 23, further comprising a receiver configured to receive a message from a communication device indicating that the mobile terminal is to determine a list of locations at which the mobile terminal has detected a need for a data communication with a mobile communication network and to transmit the determined list of locations to the mobile communication network.

25. The mobile terminal according to claim 23, the transmitter configured to transmit the data to the communication device.

26. Method for providing information comprising:

detecting whether the mobile terminal has a need for a data communication with a mobile communication network;

determining a list of locations at which a need for data communication with the mobile communication network has been detected;

generating a message including the determined list; and

transmitting the message.

27. The method of claim 26, further comprising receiving a message from a communication device indicating that the mobile terminal is to determine a list of locations at which the mobile terminal has detected a need for a data communication with a mobile communication network and to transmit the determined list of locations to the mobile communication network.