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

• US 6,704,548 B2
• Filed: 07/26/2001
• Issued: 03/09/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 12/31/1997
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: LG-Ericsson Company Limited (Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics USA Incorporated (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Jeong, Seok Jong
• Primary Examiner(s): VUONG, QUOCHIEN B
• Application Number:
  US09/912,487
• Publication Number:
  US 20010044279A1
• Time in Patent Office: 957 Days
• Field of Search: 455/67.11, 455/67.14, 455/67.7, 455/423, 455/424, 455/404.1, 455/561, 455/560, 379/8, 379/9, 379/32.01, 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. An alarm processing system, comprising:

a trouble state detecting circuit, which receives data from at least one base station controller;

a video/audio control circuit, which generates a clock signal and control signals in response to the received data;

a data transmission circuit, which formats received data from the trouble state detecting circuit for transmission according to the clock signal and control signals; and

an alarm circuit, which receives formatted data from the data transmission circuit in accordance with the clock signal and control signals, and produces at least one of a video and audio alarm.

2. The system of claim 1, further comprising a receiver to receive alarm circuit state data outputted by the alarm circuit;

and

an interface circuit, coupled to interface the alarm circuit with the video/audio control circuit, the data detecting circuit, and the receiver.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the received data comprises trouble state data, and wherein the formatted data is formatted according to grades of the trouble state data.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein a format of the at least one of a video and audio alarm corresponds to the grade of the trouble state data.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the alarm circuit provides feedback to the trouble state detecting circuit corresponding to the operating state of the alarm circuit.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the alarm circuit simultaneously produces both the video and the audio alarms.

7. The system of claim 1, further comprising a base station manager, wherein the base station manager couples the trouble state detecting circuit to at least one base station controller to receive data from the base station controller.

8. A driver circuit for a base station manager alarm, comprising:

an interworking processor board; and

an interface circuit coupled to the interworking processor board, wherein the interworking processor board receives data from the base station manager, detects the existence of trouble state data, determines a grade of the trouble state data, and generates a control signal and a clock signal to provide trouble state information to at least one of a video and audio alarm through the interface circuit.

9. The circuit of claim 8, wherein the at least one video and audio alarm signals one of a plurality of alerts depending on the grade of the trouble state data.

10. An alarm processing system, comprising:

a trouble state detecting circuit, which receives data from at least one base station controller;

a video/audio control circuit, configured to generate a clock signal and control signals in response to the received data; and

an alarm circuit, configured to format received data from the trouble state detecting circuit according to the clock signal and control signals and produce at least one of a video and audio alarm.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the alarm circuit comprises:

a data transmission circuit, configured to format the received data from the trouble state detecting circuit for transmission in accordance with the clock signal and control signals; and

an alarm generation circuit, configured to receive formatted data from the data transmission circuit in accordance with the clock signal and control signals, and produce the at least one video and audio alarm.

12. The system of claim 11, further comprising:

a receiver to receive alarm circuit state data outputted by the alarm generation circuit; and

an interface circuit, coupled to interface the alarm generation circuit with the video/audio control circuit, the trouble state detecting circuit, and the receiver.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the received data comprises trouble state data, and wherein the formatted data is formatted according to grades of the trouble state data.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein a format of the at least one of video and audio alarm corresponds to the grade of the trouble state data.

15. The system of claim 10, wherein the alarm circuit provides feedback to the trouble state detecting circuit corresponding to an operating state of the alarm circuit.

16. The system of claim 10, wherein the alarm circuit is configured to simultaneously produce both the video and the audio alarms.

17. The system of claim 10, further comprising a base station manager, wherein the base station manager couples the trouble state detecting circuit to at least one base station controller to receive data from the base station controller.