Method of updating channel information by a mobile station that is in power saving mode

• US 7,684,812 B2
• Filed: 03/29/2007
• Issued: 03/23/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 12/30/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Kwak, Yong Won, Cho, Ki Hyoung, Ryu, Ki Seon, Kim, Yong Ho, Kim, Beom Joon
• Primary Examiner(s): LEE, JOHN J
• Application Number:
  US11/693,361
• Publication Number:
  US 20070168577A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,090 Days
• Field of Search: 455/434, 455/574, 455/509, 455/572, 4553431-3435, 455/452.1, 455/450, 455/522, 455/458, 455/515, 455/517, 455/67.11, 370/311, 370/329, 370/335
• US Class Current: 455/515
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/16 Discovering, processing access restriction or access information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0216 using a pre-established activity schedule, e.g. traffic indication frame
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 68/005 Transmission of information for alerting of incoming communication
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

A method of updating channel information by a mobile station (MS) that is in power saving mode is disclosed. More specifically, the method includes the MS which receives status information of a first channel descriptor and transmission frame information which includes when the first channel descriptor is to be transmitted. Furthermore, the MS compares status information of the first channel descriptor with status information of a second channel descriptor. Here, the second channel descriptor is stored in the MS. Lastly, if the compared status information are different, the MS receives the first channel descriptor according to the transmission frame information.

Claims

1. A method for updating channel information of a mobile station which is in an idle mode, comprising:

receiving, by the mobile station, an information element (IE) including a channel descriptor configuration change counter and a transmission frame field indicating a frame in which a channel descriptor is transmitted, wherein the information element is transmitted during a paging interval; and

maintaining, by the mobile station, an awake state to receive the channel descriptor in the frame indicated by the transmission frame field, even if the mobile station is scheduled to be in a paging unavailable interval when the channel descriptor configuration change counter is changed since the mobile station last decodes the information element.

2. The method according to claim 1, further comprising maintaining the idle mode before receiving the channel descriptor.

3. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

receiving indication information indicating whether channel descriptor transmission is scheduled to transmit the channel descriptor during a next paging unavailable interval.

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein the paging unavailable interval is an interval during which the mobile station in a power saving mode cannot communicate with a base station.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the information element (IE) is received during a paging interval.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein the paging interval is an interval during which the mobile station in a power saving mode communicates with a base station.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein the channel descriptor is any one of an uplink channel descriptor (UCD) or a downlink channel descriptor (DCD).

8. The method according to claim 7, wherein at least one of the uplink channel descriptor (UCD) and the downlink channel descriptor (DCD) is a broadcast message.

9. The method according to claim 1, wherein the information element (IE) is a broadcast control pointer information element.

10. The method according to claim 1, wherein the transmission frame field is 8-bits in size and indicates when a next channel descriptor is transmitted.

11. The method according to claim 1, wherein the channel descriptor is a broadcast message.

12. The method according to claim 1, wherein the transmission frame field indicates a frame number.

13. A mobile station for updating channel information in an idle mode, comprising:

a receiver for receiving an information element (IE) including a channel descriptor configuration change counter and a transmission frame field indicating a frame in which a channel descriptor is transmitted, wherein the information element is transmitted during a paging interval,

wherein the mobile station maintains an awake state to receive the channel descriptor in the frame indicated by the transmission frame field, even if the mobile station is scheduled to be in a paging unavailable interval when the channel descriptor configuration change counter is changed since the mobile station last decodes the information element.

14. The mobile station according to claim 13, wherein the receiver further receives indication information indicating whether channel descriptor transmission is scheduled to transmit the channel descriptor during a next paging unavailable interval.

15. The mobile station according to claim 14, wherein the paging unavailable interval is an interval during which the mobile station in a power saving mode cannot communicate with a base station.

16. The mobile station according to claim 13, wherein the information element is received during a paging interval.

17. The mobile station according to claim 16, wherein the paging interval is an interval during which the mobile station in a power saving mode communicates with a base station.

18. The mobile station according to claim 13, wherein the channel descriptor is either an uplink channel descriptor (UCD) or a downlink channel descriptor (DCD).

19. The mobile station according to claim 13, wherein the information element is a broadcast control pointer information element.

20. The mobile station according to claim 13, wherein the transmission frame field is 8-bits in size and indicates when a next channel descriptor is transmitted.