Apparatus for updating information of an M2M device in a wireless communication system and method thereof

• US 8,774,849 B2
• Filed: 04/26/2012
• Issued: 07/08/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 08/24/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Cho, Heejeong, Lee, Eunjong
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Hai V
• Application Number:
  US13/456,998
• Publication Number:
  US 20130053084A1
• Time in Patent Office: 803 Days
• Field of Search: 455/515
• US Class Current: 455/515
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/50 Service provisioning or reconfiguring
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/70 Services for machine-to-machine communication [M2M] or machine type communication [MTC]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 68/00 User notification, e.g. alerting and paging, for incoming communication, change of service or the like

Abstract

The present invention relates to wireless communication, and more particularly, to a method for a machine-to-machine (hereinafter abbreviated M2M) communication applied M2M device to update information in a wireless communication system and terminal thereof. In decoding superframe header subpacket information in an M2M (machine to machine) device in idle mode in a wireless communication system, the present invention includes comparing a paging cycle with a 1^st cycle and if the paging cycle is equal to or greater than the 1^st cycle, decoding the superframe header subpacket information, wherein the 1^st cycle is determined using a following formula: I=C×2ⁿ, where the I indicates the 1^st cycle, the C is a change cycle of a secondary superframe header, and the n is a bit size of a change count of the secondary superframe header.

Claims

1. A method of decoding superframe header subpacket information in an M2M (machine to machine) device in idle mode in a wireless communication system, comprising the steps of:

comparing a paging cycle with a 1^st cycle; and

if the paging cycle is equal to or greater than the 1^st cycle, decoding the superframe header subpacket information,

wherein the 1^st cycle is determined using a following formula;

I=C×

2ⁿ,

where the I indicates the 1^st cycle, the C is a change cycle of a secondary superframe header, and the n is a bit size of a change count of the secondary superframe header.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the change cycle of the secondary superframe header comprises one selected from the group consisting of 16, 32 and 64.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the bit size of the change count of the secondary superframe header is 4.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising the steps of:

sending a 1^st message to a base station to make a request for the paging cycle; and

receiving a 2^nd message containing the paging cycle in response to the sent 1^st message.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising the steps of:

if the paging cycle is smaller than the 1^st cycle, determining whether a system information is changed; and

if the system information is changed, decoding the superframe header subpacket information.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein if the change cycle of the secondary superframe header is changed, the system information is determined as changed.

7. An M2M (machine to machine) device, which decodes superframe header subpacket information in idle mode in a wireless communication system, comprising:

a processor comparing a paging cycle with a 1^st cycle, the processor, if the paging cycle is equal to or greater than the 1^st cycle, decoding the superframe header subpacket information, the processor controlling the 1^st cycle to be determined using a following formula;

I=C×

2ⁿ,

where the I indicates the 1^st cycle, the C is a change cycle of a secondary superframe header, and the n is a bit size of a change count of the secondary superframe header.

8. The M2M device of claim 7, wherein the change cycle of the secondary superframe header comprises one selected from the group consisting of 16, 32 and 64.

9. The M2M device of claim 7, wherein the bit size of the change count of the secondary superframe header is 4.

10. The M2M device of claim 7, further comprising:

a transmitting module transmitting a 1^st message to a base station to make a request for the paging cycle; and

a receiving module receiving a 2^nd message containing the paging cycle in response to the sent 1^st message.

11. The M2M device of claim 7, wherein if the paging cycle is smaller than the 1^st cycle, the processor determines whether a system information is changed and wherein if the system information is changed, the processor controls the superframe header subpacket information to be decoded.

12. The M2M device of claim 11, wherein if the change cycle of the secondary superframe header is changed, the processor determines that the system information is changed.