System to communicate between a femtocell base station and mobile devices
First Claim
1. A method to communicate between a femtocell base station and mobile devices, the method comprising:
- identifying as an alert group a set of mobile devices presently in communication with the femtocell base station and whose unique identifiers are preregistered with the femtocell base station as in-home mobile devices, where a first mobile device and a second mobile device are in the alert group;
receiving a call in the femtocell base station from a third device;
determining at the femtocell base station whether the received call includes a second unique identifier associated with the second mobile device; and
if the received call includes the second unique identifier associated with the second mobile device, alerting the first mobile device by sending a paging message from the femtocell base station, where the paging message includes a first unique identifier associated with the first mobile device.
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Abstract
This patent discloses a method to communicate between a femtocell base station and mobile devices. The method may include identifying as an alert group a set of mobile devices presently in communication with the femtocell base station and whose unique identifiers are preregistered with the femtocell base station. A first mobile device and a second mobile device may be in the set of femtocell service region mobile devices. The femtocell base station may receive a call from a third mobile device. If the call is for the second mobile device, then the method may send a paging message from the femtocell base station. The paging message may include a first unique identifier associated with the first mobile device.
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29 Claims
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1. A method to communicate between a femtocell base station and mobile devices, the method comprising:
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identifying as an alert group a set of mobile devices presently in communication with the femtocell base station and whose unique identifiers are preregistered with the femtocell base station as in-home mobile devices, where a first mobile device and a second mobile device are in the alert group; receiving a call in the femtocell base station from a third device; determining at the femtocell base station whether the received call includes a second unique identifier associated with the second mobile device; and if the received call includes the second unique identifier associated with the second mobile device, alerting the first mobile device by sending a paging message from the femtocell base station, where the paging message includes a first unique identifier associated with the first mobile device. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 27, 28, 29)
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9. An apparatus to facilitate communications between a femtocell base station and mobile devices, the apparatus comprising:
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a processor to identify as an alert group a set of mobile devices presently in communication with the femtocell base station and whose unique identifiers are preregistered with the femtocell base station as in-home mobile devices, where a first mobile device and a second mobile device are in the alert group; a transceiver to receive a call in the femtocell base station from a third device; wherein the processor determines whether the received call includes a second unique identifier associated with the second mobile device; and wherein the transceiver alerts the first mobile device by sending a paging message from the femtocell base station if the received call includes the second unique identifier associated with the second mobile device, where the paging message includes a first unique identifier associated with the first mobile device. - View Dependent Claims (10)
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11. An apparatus to facilitate communications between a femtocell base station and mobile devices, the apparatus comprising:
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means for identifying as an alert group a set of mobile devices presently in communication with the femtocell base station and whose unique identifiers are preregistered with the femtocell base station as in-home mobile devices, where a first mobile device and a second mobile device are in the alert group; means for receiving a call in the femtocell base station from a third device; means for determining at the femtocell base station whether the received call includes a second unique identifier associated with the second mobile device; and means for alerting the first mobile device, where the means for alerting comprises means for sending a paging message from the femtocell base station if the received call includes the second unique identifier associated with the second mobile device, where the paging message includes a first unique identifier associated with the first mobile device. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising codes for causing a computer to:
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identify as an alert group a set of mobile devices presently in communication with a femtocell base station and whose unique identifiers are preregistered with the femtocell base station as in-home mobile devices, where a first mobile device and a second mobile device are in the alert group; receive a call in the femtocell base station from a third mobile device; determine at the femtocell base station whether the received call includes a second unique identifier associated with the second mobile device; and if the received call includes the second unique identifier associated with the second mobile device, alert the first mobile device by sending a paging message from the femtocell base station, where the paging message includes a first unique identifier associated with the first mobile device. - View Dependent Claims (20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26)
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