Technique for notification of mobile terminals by geographical co-ordinates

• US 7,184,776 B2
• Filed: 10/19/2001
• Issued: 02/27/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 10/20/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Malikie Innovations Limited (Key Patent Innovations Limited)
• Original Assignee: Nortel Networks Limited (Nortel Networks Corporation)
• Inventors: Fauconnier, Denis
• Primary Examiner(s): Cumming, William D.
• Application Number:
  US10/168,708
• Publication Number:
  US 20020183075A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,957 Days
• Field of Search: 455/456, 342/457
• US Class Current: 455/456.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/12 Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/18 Information format or content conversion, e.g. adaptation by the network of the transmitted or received information for the purpose of wireless delivery to users or terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 68/00 User notification, e.g. alerting and paging, for incoming communication, change of service or the like

Abstract

A base station transmitter and a method of operating the same for use in a wireless telecommunications network are described. The transmitter is used for transmitting messages to at least one user equipment, the transmitter being adapted to transmit a paging request on a paging channel to page a user equipment. The message includes a representation from which the paged user equipment can determine whether its present position is within a geographical area. By using geographical coordinates the user equipment can deny paging requests which are of no local interest.

Claims

1. A base station transmitter and at least one mobile user equipment, the base station transmitter being for use in a wireless telecommunications network for transmitting messages to the at least one user equipment,

the base station transmitter transmitting a paging message on a paging channel to page the at least one mobile user equipment, the message including a representation of a geographical area from which the paged mobile user equipment can determine whether its present position is within the geographical area,

the mobile user equipment comprising:

an antenna for receiving a paging message from the base station transmitter;

means for determining the present location of the user equipment and means for determining whether the present location of the user equipment is within a defined geographical area; and

means to transmit an access request to the base station transmitter, and the means to transmit an access request to the wireless telecommunications network transmitting the request in response to the determination.

2. The base station transmitter and at least one mobile user equipment according to claim 1, wherein the paging message includes a further part containing information relevant to the geographical area.

4. A base station transmitter and at least one mobile user equipment according to claim 1 wherein the network is a cellular wireless network and the transmitter is in a cell and the geographical area is smaller than the cell of the network.

5. A base station transmitter and at least one mobile user equipment according to claim 1, wherein the representation comprises a definition of the geographical area.

6. The base station transmitter and at least one mobile user equipment according to claim 1, wherein the representation comprises a set of time data and references to radio transmitters of a set of radio transmitters.

7. The base station transmitter and at least one mobile user equipment according to claim 6, wherein the time data are time differences relating to pairs of radio transmitters.

3. A method of operating a base station transmitter and at least one mobile user equipment, the base station transmitter being for use in a wireless telecommunications network for transmitting to at least one user equipment, the method comprising the steps of:

the base station transmitter transmitting a paging message to page the at least one at least one mobile user equipment, the message including a representation from which the at least one mobile user equipment can determine whether its present position is within a geographical area, the paging message being transmitted on a paging channel, the at least one mobile user equipment receiving the paging message from the base station transmitter, the mobile user equipment determining whether the location of the at least one user equipment is within the defined geographical area; and

the at least one mobile user equipment transmitting an access request to the wireless telecommunications network in response to the determination.

8. The method according to claim 3, wherein the network is a cellular wireless network and the transmitter is in a cell and the geographical area is smaller than the cell of the network.

9. The method according to claim 3, wherein the representation comprises a definition of the geographical area.

10. The method according to claim 3, wherein the representation comprises a set of time data and references to radio transmitters of a set of radio transmitters.

11. The method according to claim 3, wherein the time data are time differences relating to pairs of radio transmitters.