Method and device for receiving emergency broadcasting messages

• US 8,401,516 B2
• Filed: 11/19/2009
• Issued: 03/19/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 02/06/2009
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: ZTE Corporation
• Original Assignee: ZTE Corporation
• Inventors: XING, Xing
• Primary Examiner(s): Gelin, Jean
• Assistant Examiner(s): TAYLOR, NATHAN SCOTT
• Application Number:
  US13/147,209
• Publication Number:
  US 20110287735A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,216 Days
• Field of Search: 4554041-4042, 370/312
• US Class Current: 455/404.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/90 Services for handling of emergency or hazardous situations, e.g. earthquake and tsunami warning systems [ETWS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0235 where the received signal is a power saving command
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 68/025 Indirect paging
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/50 for emergency connections
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

The present invention discloses a method for receiving emergency broadcasting messages. The method comprises that: when the terminal acquires periodically from the information header of the multimedia broadcasting service information that there is a new emergency broadcasting message needed to be received, it parses the emergency broadcasting message from the multimedia broadcasting control information; alternatively, under the scene that the terminal receives the multimedia broadcasting service information, when the terminal acquires from the information header of the service information that there is a new emergency broadcasting message queue needed to be received, it parses the emergency broadcasting message from the multimedia broadcasting control information. The present invention discloses a communication mobile terminal for receiving emergency broadcasting messages. The present invention enables the terminal to open the logic channels periodically to receive all emergency broadcasting messages punctually and effectively prevents the high power consumption and resource wasting in the course of reception.

Claims

1. A method for receiving emergency broadcasting messages, comprising:

initializing emergency broadcasting message variables, which comprise an emergency broadcasting indicator variable, a concurrent message quantity variable and a received message quantity variable, including steps of setting a value of the emergency broadcasting indicator variable to be a first initial value, setting values of the concurrent message quantity variable and the received message quantity variable to be a second initial value respectively, and setting a message queue linked list to be Null;

receiving multimedia broadcasting service information and an information header of the multimedia broadcasting service information;

determining, by a terminal, whether there is a new emergency broadcasting message needed to be received, from the received information header of the multimedia broadcasting service information;

receiving multimedia broadcasting control information, when determining that there is a new emergency broadcasting message needed to be received; and

parsing the emergency broadcasting message from multimedia broadcasting control information,

wherein the first initial value is equal to an initial value of emergency broadcasting indication information in the information header for representing that there is a new emergency broadcasting message, and the second initial value is equal to an initial value of concurrent message quantity information in the multimedia broadcasting control information for representing message quantity in the emergency broadcasting message.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the emergency broadcasting message comprises a queue of emergency broadcasting messages, and wherein the first initial value is equal to an initial value of emergency broadcasting indication information in the information header for representing that there is a new emergency broadcasting message queue, and the second initial value is equal to an initial value of concurrent message quantity information in the multimedia broadcasting control information for representing message quantity in the emergency broadcasting message queue.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the terminal receives the multimedia broadcasting service information via a second logic channel, and continues receiving the service information via the second logic channel after parsing and displaying all of the messages in the emergency broadcasting message queue from the received multimedia broadcasting control information via a first logic channel;

wherein the second logic channel is logic channel 1, and the first logic channel is logic channel 0.

4. The method according to claim 2, further comprising:

(1) the terminal receiving the service information, and parsing the emergency broadcasting indication information from the information header of the service information, then determining whether the value of the emergency broadcasting indication information is equal to the value of the emergency broadcasting indicator variable;

if yes, skipping step (2) and jumping to execution of step (3);

otherwise, setting the value of the emergency broadcasting indicator variable to be equal to the value of emergency broadcasting indication information, followed by execution of step (2);

(2) the terminal receiving the control information, parsing the emergency broadcasting information in the control information, extracting the concurrent message quantity information and message ID, and determining whether there is the message ID in the message queue linked list, if yes, jumping to execution of step (3);

otherwise, setting the value of concurrent message quantity variable to be equal to the value of the concurrent message quantity information;

shifting the value of the received message quantity variable by one unit quantity, which represents one emergency broadcasting message in the emergency broadcasting message queue, and then putting the message ID in the message queue linked list; and

at the same time, displaying the present emergency broadcasting message, followed by execution of step (3);

(3) the terminal determining whether the value of the concurrent message quantity variable is less than the value of the received message quantity variable, if yes, jumping to execution of step (2);

otherwise, resetting the value of the concurrent message quantity variable and the value of the received message quantity variable to be equal to the second initial value, and resetting the message queue linked list to be Null, and then jumping to execution of step (1).

5. A method for receiving emergency broadcasting messages, comprising:

(1) the terminal receiving the multimedia broadcasting control information, and parsing the emergency broadcasting indication information from the information header of the multimedia broadcasting control information, then determining whether the value of the emergency broadcasting indication information is equal to the value of the emergency broadcasting indicator variable;

if yes, skipping step (2) and jumping to execution step (3);

otherwise, setting the value of the emergency broadcasting indicator variable to be equal to the value of emergency broadcasting indication information, followed by execution of step (2);

(2) the terminal parsing the emergency broadcasting information in the multimedia broadcasting control information, extracting the concurrent message quantity information and message ID, and determining whether there is the message ID in the message queue linked list, if yes, jumping to execution of step (3);

otherwise, setting the value of concurrent message quantity variable to be equal to the value of the concurrent message quantity information;

shifting the value of the received message quantity variable by one unit quantity, which is represents one emergency broadcasting message in the emergency broadcasting message queue, and then putting the message ID in the message queue linked list; and

at the same time, displaying the present emergency broadcasting message, followed by execution of step (3);

(3) the terminal determining whether the value of the concurrent message quantity variable is less than the value of the received message quantity variable, if yes, continuing receiving the control information, and then jumping to execution of step (2);

otherwise, resetting the value of the concurrent message quantity variable and the value of the received message quantity variable to be equal to the second initial value respectively, resetting the message queue linked list to be Null, and stopping receiving the control information at the same time.

6. The method according to claim 5, further comprising:

(1) the terminal receiving the multimedia broadcasting control information, and parsing the emergency broadcasting indication information from the information header of the multimedia broadcasting control information, then determining whether the value of the emergency broadcasting indication information is equal to the value of the emergency broadcasting indicator variable;

if yes, skipping step (2) and jumping to execution of step (3);

otherwise, setting the value of the emergency broadcasting indicator variable to be equal to the value of emergency broadcasting indication information, followed by execution of step (2);

(2) the terminal parsing the emergency broadcasting information in the multimedia broadcasting control information, extracting the concurrent message quantity information and message ID, and determining whether there is the message ID in the message queue linked list, if yes, jumping to execution step (3);

otherwise, setting the value of concurrent message quantity variable to be equal to the value of the concurrent message quantity information;

shifting the value of the received message quantity variable by one unit quantity, which represents one emergency broadcasting message in the emergency broadcasting message queue, and then putting the message ID in the message queue linked list; and

at the same time, displaying the present emergency broadcasting message, followed by execution of step (3) the terminal determining whether the value of the concurrent message quantity variable is less than the value of the received message quantity variable, if yes, continuing receiving the control information, and then jumping to execution of step (2);

otherwise, resetting the value of the concurrent message quantity variable and the value of the received message quantity variable to be equal to the second initial value respectively, resetting the message queue linked list to be Null, and stopping receiving the control information at the same time.

7. A communication mobile terminal for receiving emergency broadcasting messages, comprising a control unit, a reception unit and a parsing and comparing unit, which are connected in sequence, wherein:

the control unit is operable to start the reception unit to receive multimedia broadcasting service information, and at the same time, indicate the parsing and comparing unit to parse an information header of multimedia broadcasting service information;

the reception unit is operable to output the received multimedia broadcasting service information to the parsing and comparing unit, under the start of the control unit;

the parsing and comparing unit is operable to pre-initialize and store emergency broadcasting message variables, parse the information header from the input multimedia broadcasting service information in accordance with the indication of the control unit, and acquiring determine from emergency broadcasting indication information parsed from the information header whether there is a new emergency broadcasting message needed to be received,

wherein the pre-initialization includes setting the value of an emergency broadcasting indicator variable to be a first initial value, setting the values of a concurrent message quantity variable and a received message quantity variable to be a second initial value respectively, and setting a message queue linked list to be Null, and

wherein the first initial value is equal to the initial value of emergency broadcasting indication information in the information header for representing that there is a new emergency broadcasting message queue, and the second initial value is equal to the initial value of concurrent message quantity information in the control information for representing the message quantity in the emergency broadcasting message queue.

8. The mobile terminal according to claim 7, wherein when the control unit does not start the reception unit to receive the multimedia broadcasting information,

the control unit is operable to periodically start the reception unit to receive multimedia broadcasting control information, and indicate the parsing and comparing unit to parse the multimedia broadcasting control information;

then issue indication to stop receiving the information to the reception unit after receiving the indication of the parsing and comparing unit to close the reception unit;

the reception unit is operable to output the received multimedia broadcasting control information to the parsing and comparing unit, under the start of the control unit; and

stop receiving the multimedia broadcasting control information via a first logic after receiving the indication of the control unit to stop receiving the information;

the parsing and comparing unit is further connected with the control unit, operable to parse the multimedia broadcasting control information and an information header of the multimedia broadcasting control information according to the indication of the control unit; and

issue indication to close the reception unit to the control unit after parsing all the messages in the emergency broadcasting message queue from the multimedia broadcasting control information.

9. The mobile terminal according to claim 8, wherein once the terminal needs to receive the multimedia broadcasting service information,

the control unit is further operable to start the reception unit to receive the multimedia broadcasting service information, and indicate the parsing and comparing unit to parse the multimedia broadcasting service information simultaneously;

indicating the reception unit to receive the multimedia broadcasting control information after receiving the indication of the parsing and comparing unit to receive the multimedia broadcasting control information, and at the same time, indicate the parsing and comparing unit to parse the emergency broadcasting message in the multimedia broadcasting control information;

the reception unit is operable to output the multimedia broadcasting service information received via the second logic channel to the parsing and comparing unit, under the start of the control unit; and

output the multimedia broadcasting control information received via the first logic channel to the parsing and comparing unit after receiving the indication of the control unit to receive the multimedia broadcasting control information;

the parsing and comparing unit is operable to parse the input multimedia broadcasting service information, and determine from the emergency broadcasting indication information parsed from the information header of the multimedia broadcasting service information that there is a new emergency broadcasting message needed to be received, then indicate the control unit that the multimedia broadcasting control information needs to be received;

after receiving the indication of the control unit to parse the emergency broadcasting message, parse the emergency broadcasting message from the multimedia broadcasting control information input by the reception unit; and

determine from the emergency broadcasting indication information parsed from the information header of the multimedia broadcasting service information whether there is a new emergency broadcasting message needed to be received.

10. The mobile terminal according to claim 9, wherein

the parsing and comparing unit indicates the control unit to resume receiving the multimedia broadcasting service information, after parsing all the emergency broadcasting messages in the emergency broadcasting message queue from the multimedia broadcasting control information;

the control unit indicates the reception unit to resume receiving the multimedia broadcasting service information after receiving the indication of the parsing and comparing unit to resume receiving the multimedia broadcasting service information

11. The mobile terminal according to claim 7, wherein the parsing and comparing unit compares the value of the parsed emergency broadcasting indication information with the value of the emergency broadcasting indicator variable, if they are not equal, it assigns the value of the emergency broadcasting indication information to the emergency broadcasting indicator variable for storing, and parses the concurrent message quantity information and message ID from the control information;

when the message ID is determined to be not existent in the message queue linked list, it assigns the value of concurrent message quantity information to the concurrent message quantity variable for storing, and then shifts the value of the received message quantity variable by one unit quantity, which represents one emergency broadcasting message in the emergency broadcasting message queue, and puts the message ID in the message queue linked list;

when the value of the concurrent message quantity variable is determined to be less than the value of the received message quantity variable, it continues parsing the next emergency broadcasting message until the value of the concurrent message quantity variable is equal to the value of the received message quantity variable;

it resets the values of the concurrent message quantity variable and the received message quantity variable to be equal to the second initial value respectively, resets the message queue linked list to be Null, and indicates the control unit to close the reception unit.

12. The mobile terminal according to claim 11, wherein once the terminal needs to receive the multimedia broadcasting service information,

the control unit is further operable to start the reception unit to receive the multimedia broadcasting service information, and indicate the parsing and comparing unit to parse the multimedia broadcasting service information simultaneously;

indicate the reception unit to receive the multimedia broadcasting control information after receiving the indication of the parsing and comparing unit to receive the multimedia broadcasting control information, and at the same time, indicate the parsing and comparing unit to parse the emergency broadcasting message in the multimedia broadcasting control information;

the reception unit is operable to output the multimedia broadcasting service information received via the second logic channel to the parsing and comparing unit, under the start of the control unit; and

output the multimedia broadcasting control information received via the first logic channel to the parsing and comparing unit after receiving the indication of the control unit to receive the multimedia broadcasting control information;

the parsing and comparing unit is operable to parse the input multimedia broadcasting service information, and determine from the emergency broadcasting indication information parsed from the information header of the multimedia broadcasting service information that there is a new emergency broadcasting message needed to be received, then indicate the control unit that the multimedia broadcasting control information needs to be received;

after receiving the indication of the control unit to parse the emergency broadcasting message, parse the emergency broadcasting message from the multimedia broadcasting control information input by the reception unit; and

determine from the emergency broadcasting indication information parsed from the information header of the multimedia broadcasting service information whether there is a new emergency broadcasting message needed to be received.

13. The mobile terminal according to claim 12, wherein

the parsing and comparing unit indicates the control unit to resume receiving the multimedia broadcasting service information, after parsing all the emergency broadcasting messages in the emergency broadcasting message queue from the multimedia broadcasting control information;

the control unit indicates the reception unit to resume receiving the multimedia broadcasting service information after receiving the indication of the parsing and comparing unit to resume receiving the multimedia broadcasting service information.