Mobile telecommunications terminal

• US 7,991,438 B2
• Filed: 06/11/2009
• Issued: 08/02/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 12/07/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: IPCom GmbH & Co KG
• Original Assignee: IPCom GmbH & Co KG
• Inventors: Beckmann, Mark, Kowalewski, Frank, Laumen, Josef, Hans, Martin, Schmidt, Gunnar, Baer, Siegfried
• Primary Examiner(s): CAI, WAYNE HUU
• Application Number:
  US12/482,778
• Publication Number:
  US 20100151829A1
• Time in Patent Office: 782 Days
• Field of Search: 455/574, 455/298, 455/522, 455/13.4, 455/127.1, 455/127.5
• US Class Current: 455/574
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/12 Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0229 where the received signal is a wanted signal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0277 according to available power supply, e.g. switching off when a low battery condition is detected
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

A mobile telecommunications terminal is provided, which makes possible, so as to use the least possible amount of power, a query of messages present for the mobile telecommunications terminal in a telecommunications network. The mobile telecommunications terminal includes a receiving device for receiving messages from the telecommunications network in a receive mode. At the mobile telecommunications terminal, a query mode can be established, in which a control unit, in the event that the receive mode is switched off, activates the receive mode at at least one first predetermined time. The control unit checks whether, within a second predetermined time period after the activation of the receive mode, information was received in the receiving device regarding at least one message present in the telecommunications network (10) for the mobile telecommunications terminal.

Claims

1. A method of establishing a query mode in a mobile telecommunications terminal, the terminal including a receiving device for receiving messages from a telecommunications network in a receive mode, a control unit to establish a query mode, and a reproduction playback device, the method comprising:

determining at least one first predetermined time by the mobile telecommunications terminal independently of operation of the telecommunications network;

in the query mode, from a not connected state in which if the receive mode is switched off such that the mobile telecommunications terminal is not connected to the telecommunications network and is not able to receive an incoming call, activating via the control unit the receive mode to connect to the telecommunications network at the at least one first predetermined time determined by the mobile telecommunications terminal independently of the operation of the telecommunications network;

checking if information regarding at least one stored message in the telecommunications network for the mobile telecommunications terminal was received in the receiving device within a second predetermined time period of predetermined length after the activation of the receive mode; and

if said information was received, downloading at least one message after a type thereof has been determined and during a predetermined third time period of predetermined length, the control unit determining a length of the predetermined time period in advance of the downloading of the at least one stored message based on the type and size thereof.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the control unit switches off the receive mode immediately after expiration of the third predetermined time period beginning from the activation of the receive mode.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein, if the control unit detects reception of information regarding at least one message in the telecommunications network for the mobile telecommunications terminal, the control unit initiates an evaluation of the at least one message.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein, if the control unit detects reception of information regarding at least one message in the telecommunications network for the mobile telecommunications terminal, the control unit initiates an evaluation of the at least one message.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein a type of evaluation can be stipulated via an input unit.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the type of evaluation is at least in part a function of message type.

7. The method of claim 4, wherein the reproduction playback device receives at least one of acoustical and optical signaling from the control unit during evaluation of the at least one message.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the control unit maintains signaling to the reproduction playback device after the receive mode is switched off.

9. The method of claim 4, wherein, in the evaluation of the at least one message, the control unit establishes a connection to the telecommunications network via a transmitting device at a fourth predetermined time.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein, in the query mode, the control unit presets the at least one first predetermined time for activating the receive mode as a function of an instantaneously available capacity of a power supply.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein, in the query mode, the control unit activates the receive mode at regular time intervals.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein, in the query mode, the control unit presets the at least one first predetermined time for activating the receive mode as a function of an accessibility of the mobile telecommunications terminal in the telecommunications network during a most recently established receive mode.