Communication control apparatus for providing management and call control of mobile stations in radio communication system

• US 6,108,563 A
• Filed: 03/21/1997
• Issued: 08/22/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 03/29/1996
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaishi Toshiba
• Inventors: Shishino, Shinichi
• Primary Examiner(s): Trost, William G.
• Application Number:
  US08/821,474
• Time in Patent Office: 1,250 Days
• Field of Search: 455/403, 455/405, 455/406-408, 455/410-411, 455/414, 455/422, 455/421, 455/436, 455/439, 455/445, 455/520, 455/560, 455/565
• US Class Current: 455/560
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 68/00 User notification, e.g. alerting and paging, for incoming communication, change of service or the like

Abstract

A communication setting pattern indicating whether or not the mobile stations located in the radio zone are permitted to communicate is set for each radio zone in a communication setting memory. In a case where a call request related to a mobile station located in the service area has been made, a CPU carries out the call process corresponding to the call request only when the communication pattern permits communication in the radio zone where the mobile station related to the call request is located. When the communication setting pattern stored in the communication setting memory has been changed, the CPU disconnects the call related to the mobile station in a case where a busy mobile station is located in the radio zone where the changed communication permit/inhibit information inhibits communication.

Claims

1. A communication control apparatus which controls each of a plurality of radio base stations that are distributed in a specific service area and communicate by radio with mobile stations located in each communication area covered by the corresponding base station in the service area and which enables said mobile stations to make mobile radio communication, said communication control apparatus comprising:

first storage means for storing communication permit/inhibit information that indicates whether the mobile radio communication is permitted or inhibited for each radio zone which is set for one of said communication areas or for a set of some of said communication areas; and

call processing means that, when a call request related to a mobile station located in said service area has been made, judges whether or not communication is permitted in the radio zone where the mobile station related to the call request is located, on the basis of the communication permit/inhibit information stored in said first storage means, and that carries out the call process corresponding to said call request only when communication is permitted, and that disconnects the call related to the mobile station when the communication permit/inhibit information stored in said first storage means is changed and a communicating mobile station is located in the radio zone where communication is inhibited by the changed communication permit/inhibit information.

2. A communication control apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

second storage means for storing communication permit/inhibit information on a plurality of patterns as candidate information; and

communication permit/inhibit information setting means for causing said first storage means to store as communication permit/inhibit information any of the candidate information stored in the second storage means.

3. A communication control apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising:

third storage means for storing schedule information that causes time to correspond to candidate information to be selected, wherein

said communication permit/inhibit information setting means, when the time shown in said third storage means has been reached, causes said first storage means to store candidate information corresponding to the time as communication permit/inhibit information.

4. A communication control apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising:

pattern switching instruction accepting means for accepting a specific communication permit/inhibit pattern switching instruction from said mobile station, wherein

said communication permit/inhibit information setting means, responding to the communication permit/inhibit pattern switching instruction accepted by said pattern switching instruction accepting means, causes said first storage means to store as communication permit/inhibit information any of the candidate information stored in said second storage means.

5. A communication control apparatus according to claim 4, wherein said communication permit/inhibit pattern switching instruction accepted by said pattern switching instruction accepting means is a call origination with a specific special service code.

6. A communication control apparatus according to claim 4, further comprising:

specific terminal information storage means for storing the identification information on the mobile station registered as a mobile station that permits a communication permit/inhibit pattern switching instruction, wherein

said communication permit/inhibit information setting means, responding to the communication permit/inhibit pattern switching instruction from the mobile station whose identification information is stored in said specific terminal information storage means, causes said first storage means to store as communication permit/inhibit information any of the candidate information stored in said second storage means.

7. A communication control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein:

said communication permit/inhibit information is the information that indicates whether or not communication is permitted wherein the permission or inhibition corresponds to any one of or a combination of call type, call state, mobile station type, and mobile station number; and

said call processing means, on the basis of the radio zone where the mobile station is located and of the conditions included in said communication permit/inhibit information, judges whether or not the call process related to the mobile station is carried out or whether or not the call related to the mobile station is disconnected.

8. A communication control apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

audio message generating means for generating a specific audio message, wherein

said call processing means, when not carrying out the call process corresponding to a call originating request because communication in the radio zone where the mobile station that has made said call originating request is located is inhibited, causes said audio message generating means to generate a specific audio message to the effect that communication is inhibited and sends the message to the mobile station that has made the call request.

9. A communication control apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

audio message generating means for generating a specific audio message, wherein

said call processing means, when not carrying out the call process corresponding to a call originating request because communication in the radio zone where the mobile station specified as a mobile station that is designated as a call-addressed station in the call originating request is located is inhibited, causes said audio message generating means to generate a specific audio message to the effect that the mobile station designated as the call-addressed station is inhibited from communicating and sends the message to the mobile station that has made the call originating request.

10. A communication control apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

audio message generating means for generating a specific audio message, wherein

said call processing means, before disconnecting the call related to the communicating mobile station, causes said audio message generating means to generate a specific audio message to the effect that the call will be disconnected because communication is inhibited and sends the message to the communicating mobile station.

11. A communication control apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

audio message generating means for generating a specific audio message, wherein

said call processing means, when being requested for handover by a mobile station located in the radio zone where communication is inhibited, carries out a handover process according to the request and causes said audio message generating means to generate a specific audio message to give notice of disconnection and sends the message to the mobile station that has made a request for the handover, and thereafter disconnects the call after a specific time has elapsed.

12. A communication control apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

communication inhibition alarming means for causing the radio base station corresponding to the radio zone where a mobile station is inhibited from communicating in the communication permit/inhibit information stored in said first storage means to send the information to the effect that the radio base station cannot be used in the form of an system information notice message that the radio base station sends periodically.

13. A communication control apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

communication inhibition alarming means for causing the radio base station corresponding to the radio zone where mobile stations are inhibited from communicating in the communication permit/inhibit information stored in said first storage means to send the information to the effect that the radio base station cannot be used by a communicating mobile station via the radio base station by way of the radio channel that said communicating mobile station is using.