Method of capturing a control channel for calls following an emergency call

• US 5,732,125 A
• Filed: 07/28/1995
• Issued: 03/24/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 10/20/1994
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Oyama, Mitsukazu
• Primary Examiner(s): Bost, Dwayne
• Assistant Examiner(s): RICHARDSON, SCO
• Application Number:
  US08/508,581
• Time in Patent Office: 970 Days
• Field of Search: 379/58, 379/59, 379/60, 379/201, 379/41, 379/37, 379/39, 379/45, 379/46, 455/33.1, 455/17, 455/54.1
• US Class Current: 455/404.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 11/04 with alarm systems, e.g. fire, police or burglar alarm systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/90 Services for handling of emergency or hazardous situations, e.g. earthquake and tsunami warning systems [ETWS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/50 for emergency connections

Abstract

To perform control of a mobile telephone system which uses a dedicated control channel type multichannel access system, when an emergency telephone call is made from a mobile telephone to the police or fire department, the mobile telephone references a memory into which is stored the identification code of a service area within which calling is permitted, the base station having the highest received field strength of the control channel radio signals of base stations in this service area is selected and the emergency call is made to the thus selected base station. When doing this, the mobile telephone stores the identification code of the base station to which the emergency call was made, and when a next call is made after the emergency call is completed, the call signal is sent on the control channel of the base station to which the emergency call was made, based on the thus stored identification code of the base station.

Claims

1. An emergency call control method for a mobile communications terminal is a mobile communications system, wherein when an emergency call is made, an identifacation code of a service area in which said emergency call is made is held, and when making a next call after said emergency call is made, a control channel for the next call is captured based on said held identification code.

2. An emergency call control method for a mobile telephone in a mobile telephone system which uses a dedicated control channel type multichannel access system as the method of radio circuit allocation, wherein:

when an emergency telephone number is called, the mobile telephone references a memory into which is stored the identification code of a service area within which calling is permitted;

the emergency call base station identification codes in a service area to be used when making an emergency call are stored beforehand and an emergency call is made via a control channel of a service area specified by said base station identification code;

the base station having the highest received field strength of the control channel radio signals of base stations in the service areas corresponding to said stored identification codes is selected, and the emergency call is made to the thus selected base station;

the base station identification code to which the emergency call was made is stored;

when a call is made after the completion of the emergency call, a calling signal is sent by using the control channel of the base station to which the emergency call was made, by means of the identification code which had been stored; and

when a call is made next after the completion of said emergency call, in the case in which the base station recognizes the call and returns a call response signal, the identification code of the base station to which said emergency call was made is erased from memory.

3. An emergency call control method according to claim 2, wherein a coding error check code is added to said identification code of a base station to which an emergency call was made, and wherein a coding error detection is performed on said identification code, said base station identification code only being used in performing a normal calling operation if the result of said detection is normal.

4. An emergency call control method according to claim 2, wherein a coding error check code is added to said identification code of a base station to which an emergency call was made, and wherein said base station identification code is stored into two address areas, the difference between said two address areas being wider than a miswritten memory access area spread caused by a power supply voltage change expected when the power supply of said mobile telephone is switching on/off, and wherein when reading out said base station identification codes, a base station identification code which has no coding error detection is used to perform normal calling.

5. An emergency call control method according to claim 4, wherein a base station identification code stored in an address for which said coding error detection result is abnormal is overwritten with the base station identification code for which said coding error detection was normal, so that the data contents stored in each of said two areas are the same.

10. An emergency call control method according to claim 2, wherein in the case in which it becomes impossible to receive a radio signal from a base station in a service area which was used to make an emergency call, and it becomes possible to receive a radio signal of a service area which is written into the local memory and in which calling is possible, in said service area in which calling has become possible, new emergency calls are disabled and normal calling and reception of calls are permitted.

12. An emergency call control method according to claim 2, wherein in the case in which it becomes impossible to receive a radio signal from a base station in a service area which was used to make an emergency call, and it becomes possible to receive a radio signal of a service area which is written into the local memory and in which calling is possible, in said service area in which calling has become possible, new emergency calls and normal calling and reception of calls are permitted.

14. An emergency call control method according to claim 2, wherein:

a call refusal signal is returned with respect to a call received from a mobile telephone that had made an emergency call, said call received occurring before an operator of an emergency call receiving switchboard performs a disconnection operation; and

a response signal is returned and call processing performed with respect to a call received from a mobile telephone that had made an emergency call, said received call occurring after an operator of an emergency call receiving switchboard performs a disconnection operation.

15. An emergency call control method according to claim 14, wherein in the case in which the operator at the emergency call receiving switchboard performs a disconnect operation or in which a prescribed amount of time has elapsed from the time of the formation of a link between said mobile telephone making said emergency call and said emergency call switchboard, a disconnect signal is sent to said mobile telephone via the call channel which was used for the emergency call to reset the call channel, and the thus reset call channel is re-allocated for normal calls.

6. An emergency call control method for a mobile telephone in a mobile telephone system which uses a dedicated control channel type multichannel access system as the method of radio circuit allocation, wherein:

when an emergency telephone number is called, the mobile telephone references a memory into which is stored the identification code of a service area within which calling is permitted;

the base station identification codes in a service area which is used when making an emergency call are stored beforehand and an emergency call is made via a control channel of a service area specified by a thus stored identification code;

the base station identification code to which the emergency call was made is stored;

when a next call is made after the completion of the emergency call, a calling signal is sent via a control channel of the base station to which the emergency call was made, by means of the identification code which had been stored; and

when a call is made next after the completion of said emergency call, in the case in which the base station recognizes the call and returns a call response signal, the identification code of the base station to which said emergency call was made is erased from memory.

7. An emergency call control method according to claim 6, wherein a coding error check code is added to said identification code of a base station to which an emergency call was made, and wherein a coding error detection is performed on said identification code, said base station identification code only being used in performing a normal calling operation if the result of said detection is normal.

8. An emergency call control method according to claim 6, wherein a coding error check code is added to said identification code of a base station to which an emergency call was made, and wherein said base station identification code is stored into two address areas, the difference between said two address areas being wider than the miswritten memory access area spread caused by a power supply voltage change expected when the power supply of said mobile telephone is switching on/off, and wherein when reading out said base station identification codes, a base station identification code which has no coding error detection is used to perform normal calling.

9. An emergency call control method according to claim 8, wherein a base station identification code stored in an address for which said coding error detection result is abnormal is overwritten with the base station identification code for which said coding error detection was normal, so that the data contents stored in each of said two areas are the same.

11. An emergency call control method according to claim 6, wherein in the case in which it becomes impossible to receive a radio signal from a base station in a service area which was used to make an emergency call, and it becomes possible to receive a radio signal of a service area which is written into the local memory and in which calling is possible, in said service area in which calling has become possible, new emergency calls are disabled and normal calling and reception of calls are permitted.

13. An emergency call control method according to claim 6, wherein in the case in which it becomes impossible to receive a radio signal from a base station in a service area which was used to make an emergency call, and it becomes possible to receive a radio signal of a service area which is written into the local memory and in which calling is possible, in said service area in which calling has become possible, new emergency calls and normal calling and reception of calls are permitted.

16. An emergency call control method according claim 6, wherein:

a call refusal signal is returned with respect to a call received from a mobile telephone that had made an emergency call, said call received occuring before an operator of an emergency call receveing switchboard performs a disconnection operation; and

a response signal is returned and call processing performed with respect to a call received from a mobile telephone that had made an emergency call, said call received occurring after an operator of an emergency call receiving switchboard performs a disconnection operation.

17. An emergency call control method according to claim 16, wherein in the case in which the operator at the emergency call receiving switchboard performs a disconnect operation or in which a prescribed amount of time has elapsed from the time of the formation of a link between said mobile telephone making said emergency call and said emergency call switchboard, a disconnect signal is sent to said mobile telephone via the call channel which was used for the emergency call to reset the call channel, and the thus reset call channel is reallocated for normal calls.