Mobile communication terminal, incoming data detecting method and incoming data detecting program

• US 8,351,398 B2
• Filed: 09/07/2011
• Issued: 01/08/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 07/20/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Kobayashi, Yutaka
• Primary Examiner(s): Pham, Chi
• Assistant Examiner(s): Elallam, Ahmed
• Application Number:
  US13/226,579
• Publication Number:
  US 20120063416A1
• Time in Patent Office: 489 Days
• Field of Search: 370/328, 370/331, 370/332, 370/335, 370/338, 370/342, 370/44, 455/422.1, 455/436, 455/437, 455/438, 455/439, 455/440, 455/442, 455/443
• US Class Current: 370/332
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/20 Selecting an access point
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 68/02 Arrangements for increasing efficiency of notification or paging channel

Abstract

Included are a system information receiving unit for receiving, from a first base station or a second base station, system information including a PI within a PICH and a PCH, and a cell reselecting unit for executing a cell reselection process for switching from a wireless communication with the first base station to that with the second base station if a mobile communication terminal fails to obtain local incoming information due to unsuccessful reception of the PCH, which is made by the system information receiving unit, after receiving a notification that incoming data exists by receiving the PI within the system information received by the system information receiving unit within the first service area. Consequently, the mobile communication terminal and incoming data detecting method and program, which can securely receive incoming data even if the mobile communication terminal fails to receive the PCH although receiving incoming information with the PI.

Claims

1. A mobile communication terminal that makes a wireless communication with at least one of a first base station offering a first service area and a second base station offering a second service area, comprising:

a system information receiving unit for receiving, from the first base station or the second base station, system information including a paging indicator (PI) within a paging indicator channel (PICH) and a paging channel (PCH); and

a cell reselecting unit for executing a cell reselection process for switching from a wireless communication with the first base station to a wireless communication with the second base station if the mobile communication terminal fails to obtain local incoming information due to unsuccessful reception of the PCH, which is made by the system information receiving unit, after receiving a notification that incoming data exists by receiving the PI within the system information received by the system information receiving unit within the first service area.

2. The mobile communication terminal according to claim 1, wherein

the cell reselecting unit executes the cell reselection process in a time period from the unsuccessful reception of the PCH, which is made by the system information receiving unit, to reception of a retransmitted PI.

3. The mobile communication terminal according to claim 1, further comprising

a cell searching unit for executing a cell search process for searching for a third service area offered by a third base station except for the first base station and the second base station, if the mobile communication terminal can make a wireless communication only with the first base station when the mobile communication terminal fails to obtain local incoming information due to unsuccessful reception of the PCH, which is made by the system information receiving unit, after receiving a notification that incoming data exists by receiving the PI within the system information received by the system information receiving unit within the first service area.

4. The mobile communication terminal according to claim 3, wherein

the cell reselecting unit executes a cell reselection process for switching from the wireless communication with the first base station to a wireless communication with the third base station, if a communication level with the third base station searched by the cell searching unit is higher than a communication level with the first base station.

5. Incoming data detecting method executed by a mobile communication terminal that makes a wireless communication with at least one of a first base station offering a first service area and a second base station offering a second service area, the method comprising:

receiving, from the first base station or the second base station, system information including a paging indicator (PI) within a paging indicator channel (PICH) and a paging channel (PCH) by a system information receiving unit of the mobile communication terminal; and

executing by a cell reselecting unit of the mobile communication terminal a cell reselection process for switching from a wireless communication with the first base station to a wireless communication with the second base station if the mobile communication terminal fails to obtain local incoming information due to unsuccessful reception of the PCH, which is made by the system information receiving unit, after receiving a notification that incoming data exists by receiving the PI within the system information received by the system information receiving unit within the first service area.

6. A non-transitory recording medium having stored therein a program for causing a computer of a mobile communication terminal, which makes a wireless communication with at least one of a first base station offering a first service area and a second base station offering a second service area, to execute an incoming data detecting process comprising:

receiving, from the first base station or the second base station, system information including a paging indicator (PI) within a paging indicator channel (PICH) and a paging channel (PCH) by a system information receiving unit of the computer; and

executing by a cell reselecting unit of the computer a cell reselection process for switching from a wireless communication with the first base station to a wireless communication with the second base station if the mobile communication terminal fails to obtain local incoming information due to unsuccessful reception of the PCH, which is made by the system information receiving unit, after receiving a notification that incoming data exists by receiving the PI within the system information received by the system information receiving unit within the first service area.