Method for improving reception of messages in a communication network

• US 6,973,303 B1
• Filed: 10/11/2000
• Issued: 12/06/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 10/16/1999
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Motorola Solutions, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Motorola, Inc. (Motorola Solutions, Inc.)
• Inventors: Meidan, Reuven
• Primary Examiner(s): Trost, William
• Assistant Examiner(s): Rampuria, Sharad
• Application Number:
  US10/110,267
• Time in Patent Office: 1,882 Days
• Field of Search: 455/421, 455/439, 455/442, 455/436, 455524-525, 455/452.1
• US Class Current: 455/421
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/20 Selecting an access point
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 64/00 Locating users or terminals or network equipment for network management purposes, e.g. mobility management

Abstract

A method for optimizing a service supplied to a mobile subscriber unit in a mobile telephone system offering a multitude of voice and data services from system base stations to mobile subscriber units. According to the invention, an improved service center receives a request for service to be provided to a mobile subscriber unit. A processor within the service center determines whether prevailing conditions allow for efficient execution of the requested service and if so carries it out, and otherwise prompts the mobile subscriber unit to take remedial action whereby the requested service can be carried out more efficiently.

Claims

1. A method for optimizing a service supplied to a mobile subscriber unit in a mobile telephone system offering a multitude of voice and data services from system base stations to mobile subscriber units, the method comprising the following steps all carried out by a service center:

(a) receiving a request for service to be provided to a mobile unit;

(b) prior to setting up the service determining whether prevailing conditions allow for efficient execution of the requested service and if so setting up the service;

the method being characterized by otherwise and without setting up the service

(c) determining a current location of the mobile subscriber unit;

(d) monitoring nearby base stations to locate a more suitable base station which can handle the requested service more efficiently; and

(e) prompting the mobile subscriber unit to take remedial action by prompting the mobile subscriber unit to move to a specified location better suited for receiving the requested service via the more suitable base station whereby the requested service can be carried out more efficiently.

2. The method according to claim 1 wherein the mobile telephone system has multiple cells and the specified location is a different cell in the network to a current cell in which the user is currently located.

3. The method according to claim 1 wherein the specified location is within a current cell in which the user is currently located.

4. The method according to claim 1 wherein step (e) includes vocally prompting the mobile prompting the mobile subscriber unit.

5. The method according to claim 1 wherein step (e) includes prompting the mobile subscriber unit via a displayed message.

6. The method according to claim 1 wherein the message received by the mobile subscriber unit is voice data.

7. The method according to claim 1 wherein the message received by the mobile subscriber unit is multimedia data.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein the message received by the mobile subscriber unit is non-vocal data.

9. A service center for optimizing a service supplied to a mobile subscriber unit in a mobile telephone system offering a multitude of voice and data services from system base stations to mobile subscriber units, the service center comprising:

a receiving unit for receiving a request for service to be provided to a mobile unit and

a processor coupled to the receiving unit for determining, prior to setting up the service, whether prevailing conditions allow for efficient execution of the requested service and if so setting up the service, and otherwise prompting the mobile subscriber unit to take remedial action whereby the requested service can be carried out more efficiently;

the serving center characterized by the processor being adapted to, without setting up the service;

i) determining a current location of the mobile subscriber unit,

ii) monitoring nearby base stations to locate a more suitable base station which can handle the requested service more efficiently; and

iii) prompting the mobile subscriber unit to move to a specified location better suited for receiving the requested service via the more suitable base station.

10. The service center according to claim 9, wherein the mobile telephone system has multiple cells and the specified location is a different cell in the network to a current cell in which the user is currently located.

11. The service center according to claim 9, wherein the specified location is within a current cell in which the user is currently located.

12. The service center according to any one of the claim 9, wherein the processor is adapted to prompt the mobile subscriber unit vocally.

13. The service center according to claim 9 wherein the processor is adapted to prompt the mobile subscriber unit via a displayed message.

14. The service center according to claim 9 wherein the message received by the mobile subscriber unit is voice data.

15. The service center according to claim 9, wherein the message received by the mobile subscriber unit is multimedia data.

16. The service center according to claim 9 wherein the message received by the mobile subscriber unit is non-vocal data.