Video/audio alarm processing method and apparatus for base station manager in mobile radio communication system

• US 6,308,046 B1
• Filed: 11/19/1998
• Issued: 10/23/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 12/31/1997
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: LG-Ericsson Company Limited (Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics USA Incorporated (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Jeong, Seok Jong
• Primary Examiner(s): Maung, Nay
• Assistant Examiner(s): Vuong, Quochien B.
• Application Number:
  US09/195,562
• Time in Patent Office: 1,069 Days
• Field of Search: 455/67.1, 455/67.4, 455/67.7, 455/423, 455/424, 455/404, 379/8, 379/9, 379/32, 379/33
• US Class Current: 455/67.7
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/00 Supervisory, monitoring or testing arrangements

Abstract

A video/audio alarm processing method and apparatus for a base station manager in a mobile radio communication system capable of classifying trouble state data of base station controllers and base stations by grades and informing to a user the trouble state as video and audio alarms in accordance with the classified grade of the trouble state data. According to the method, the data of a predetermined number of bits which is received from the base station controllers and base stations is converted and stored, and whether the trouble state data exists or not in the stored data is judged. If the trouble state data exists, it is classified by grades, and the video and audio alarms are produced in accordance with the classified grade of the trouble state data. The grade of the video and audio alarms corresponding to the grade of the trouble state data is classified into an emergent alarm, an important alarm, and a general alarm, and the video alarm is classified by colors such as red, yellow, and green according to the grade of the trouble state data.

Claims

1. A video/audio alarm processing method for a base station manager in a mobile radio communication system comprising:

receiving trouble state information data from a plurality of base stations and base station controllers;

classifying the trouble state information data by grades;

generating a control signal for processing at least one of video and audio alarms in accordance with the trouble state information data and the grade of the trouble state data; and

producing the at least one video and audio alarm in accordance with the grade of the trouble state data.

2. The video/audio alarm processing method of claim 1, wherein the grade of the video and audio alarms corresponding to the grade of the trouble state data is classified into one of an emergent alarm, an important alarm, and a general alarm.

3. The video/audio alarm processing method of claim 1, wherein the video alarm is classified by prescribed colors according to the grade of the trouble state data.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein both the audio and video alarm are produced.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein an interworking processor board receives the trouble state information data and generates the control signals.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the control signal comprises a control clock signal and at least one processing control signal.

7. A video/audio alarm processing apparatus for a base station manager in a mobile radio communication system including an interworking processor board assembly for receiving and processing data transmitted from a plurality of base station controllers and base stations as video and audio alarms, the interworking processor board assembly comprising:

a trouble state detecting section for receiving the data of a predetermined number of bits transmitted from the base station controllers and the base stations and detecting existence of trouble state data;

a video/audio control section for generating control clocks of a predetermined speed and control signals for the process of the video and audio alarms in accordance with an input of the detected trouble state data;

a data transmitting section for converting and transmitting the data received from the trouble state detecting section in accordance with the control clock and the control signal generated from the video/audio control section;

at least one video/audio alarm section for producing at least one video and audio alarm in accordance with a trouble state grade of the trouble state data;

an interface section for interfacing the data transmitted from the data transmitting section to the video/audio alarm section and interfacing message data responding to the transmitted data outputted from the video/audio alarm section; and

a data receiving section for converting and transmitting to the trouble state detecting section the responding message received through the interface section in accordance with the control clock and the control signal generated from the video/audio control section.

8. The video/audio alarm processing apparatus of claim 7, wherein the trouble state detecting section comprises:

a central processing unit and its peripheral device for receiving and processing the data transmitted from the base station controllers and base stations;

a data buffer for buffering the data received from the central processing unit and the responding message received from the data receiving section; and

a transmission data detecting unit for detecting whether the trouble state data exists in the data buffered by the data buffer.

9. The video/audio alarm processing apparatus of claim 7, wherein the video/audio control section comprises:

a transmission/reception control unit for generating a control signal for controlling transmission/reception of the trouble state data if the existence of the trouble state data is detected by the trouble state detecting section;

a transmission/reception clock generating unit for generating transmission and reception clocks of a predetermined speed in accordance with the control signal from the transmission/reception control unit; and

a loopback control unit for monitoring an operating state of the at least one video/audio alarm section through the interface section and providing a detected result to the data receiving section.

10. The video/audio alarm processing apparatus of claim 9, wherein the predetermined speed of the transmission clock is 1200 bps.

11. The video/audio alarm processing apparatus of claim 9, wherein the predetermined speed of the reception clock is 1200 bps.

12. The video/audio alarm processing apparatus of claim 7, wherein the data transmitting section comprises:

a transmission buffer for buffering the data received from the trouble state detecting section in accordance with the control signal from the video/audio control section;

a transmission latch for latching the data buffered by the transmission buffer in accordance with the control signal from the video/audio control section; and

a parallel/serial conversion unit for converting the data received from the transmission latch into serial data in accordance with the transmission clock provided from the video/audio control section and providing the converted serial data to the interface section.

13. The video/audio alarm processing apparatus of claim 7, wherein the data receiving section comprises:

a serial/parallel conversion unit for converting the responding message received from the interface section and the operating state data of the at least one video/audio alarm section received from the video/audio control section into parallel data in synchronization with the reception clock from the video/audio control section;

a receiving latch for latching the converted parallel data for a predetermined time in accordance with the control signal from the video/audio control section; and

a receiving buffer for buffering the latched parallel data in accordance with the control signal from the video/audio control section and outputting the buffered data to the trouble state detecting section as state information of the at least one video/audio alarm section.

14. The video/audio alarm processing apparatus of claim 7, wherein the grade of the video and audio alarms corresponding to the grade of the trouble state data is classified into an emergent alarm, an important alarm, and a general alarm.

15. The video/audio alarm processing apparatus of claim 7, wherein the at least one video/audio alarm section displays the video alarm classified by colors such as red, yellow, and green according to the grade of the trouble state data.