Wireless base station and mobile station

• US 7,890,103 B2
• Filed: 07/29/2005
• Issued: 02/15/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 10/27/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Shinozaki, Atsushi
• Primary Examiner(s): Appiah; Charles N
• Assistant Examiner(s): AJIBADE AKONAI, OLUMIDE
• Application Number:
  US11/191,990
• Publication Number:
  US 20060105777A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,027 Days
• Field of Search: 455/432.1, 455/432.2, 455/433, 455/435.1, 455/435.2, 455/443, 455/444, 455/449, 455/453, 455/456.1, 455/456.2, 455/456.3, 455/456.4, 455/456.5, 455/456.6, 455/436, 455/422.1, 455/432.3, 455/435.3, 455/448, 455/446, 455/502, 455/63.1
• US Class Current: 455/435.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 60/04 using triggered events
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/02 Processing of mobility data, e.g. registration information at HLR [Home Location Register] or VLR [Visitor Location Register]; Transfer of mobility data, e.g. between HLR, VLR or external networks

Abstract

A mobile station used in a mobile communication system which accepts location registrations from mobile stations in order to perform mobile station location management, the mobile station being comprising a detection unit which detects that it is in an overlap region of hierarchical location registration areas; and a delay unit which delays location registration when the detection has been made.

Claims

1. A mobile station used in a mobile communication system which accepts location registrations from mobile stations in order to perform mobile station location management, the mobile station comprising:

a detection unit which detects that it is in an overlap region of a first location registration area and a second location registration area; and

a delay unit which delays location registration to update location registration area from the first location registration area to the second location registration area based on information announced by a wireless base station when the detection has been made, wherein

the information allows lengthening of selectable delay times by which location registration in the second location registration area is delayed by the mobile station.

2. The mobile station as set forth in claim 1, wherein:

the detection unit performs detection based on information announced by the wireless base station forming part of the wireless communication system.

3. The mobile station as set forth in claim 1, wherein:

the delay unit delays location registration for a delay time determined by computation based on the given station'"'"'s own identification information.

4. The mobile station as set forth in claim 1, wherein:

the overlap region detected by the detection unit is a region of overlap with the second location registration area having a wider area than the first location registration area for which location registration has already been effected.

5. The mobile station of claim 1, the mobile station further comprising a location registration processing unit operable to perform location registration when a change in the first location registration area is detected before performing the location registration delayed by the delay unit.

6. A wireless base station used in a wireless communication system which accepts location registrations from mobile stations in order to perform mobile station location management, the wireless base station comprising:

an annunciation unit which announces to mobile stations that the wireless zone constituted by the wireless base station is contained in an overlap region of a first location registration area and a second location registration area;

wherein the annunciation unit transmits a parameter which allows lengthening of selectable delay times by which location registration in the second location registration area is delayed by the mobile station.

7. A wireless base station as set forth in claim 6, wherein:

the wireless zone corresponds to the wireless zone of the boundary area of the first or second location registration area.