Method and apparatus for origination based on distance and duration
First Claim
1. A method for a wireless communication device (WCD) to originate a communication, the method comprising:
- the WCD determining a current distance of the WCD from a geographic location of the WCD where the WCD successfully communicated to a particular wireless system, wherein the geographic location of the WCD defines a geographic location of the WCD itself rather than a geographic location of the particular wireless system;
the WCD determining a current duration from when the WCD successfully communicated to the particular wireless system;
the WCD making a decision, based on at least the determined current distance and the determined current duration, of whether the WCD should originate the communication in the particular wireless system or rather in another wireless system, wherein making the decision based on at least the determined current distance and the determined current duration comprises deciding to originate the communication in the particular wireless system only if the determined current distance is threshold short and the determined current duration is threshold short, and otherwise deciding to originate the communication in the other wireless system; and
the WCD originating the communication according to the decision.
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Abstract
When a roaming wireless communication device seeks to originate a communication, the device may originate the communication in a roaming system because the device has not yet run a next scheduled scan for a more preferred, home, system. In the disclosed method, the device may evaluate a current distance from where the device was located when it successfully communicated to a home system and may further evaluate a current duration from that successful communication. If the distance is threshold short and perhaps further if the duration is threshold short, then the device may originate the communication in the home system without having detected the home system through a scheduled rescan. Further, to help expedite origination, the device may set its origination power at the power that it used for the last successful communication.
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1. A method for a wireless communication device (WCD) to originate a communication, the method comprising:
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the WCD determining a current distance of the WCD from a geographic location of the WCD where the WCD successfully communicated to a particular wireless system, wherein the geographic location of the WCD defines a geographic location of the WCD itself rather than a geographic location of the particular wireless system; the WCD determining a current duration from when the WCD successfully communicated to the particular wireless system; the WCD making a decision, based on at least the determined current distance and the determined current duration, of whether the WCD should originate the communication in the particular wireless system or rather in another wireless system, wherein making the decision based on at least the determined current distance and the determined current duration comprises deciding to originate the communication in the particular wireless system only if the determined current distance is threshold short and the determined current duration is threshold short, and otherwise deciding to originate the communication in the other wireless system; and the WCD originating the communication according to the decision. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A method for a wireless communication device (WCD) to manage origination of a communication while the WCD is roaming in a non-home system, the method comprising:
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the WCD determining whether a distance between a current geographic location of the WCD and a geographic location where the WCD was when the WCD engaged in successful communication to a home system of the WCD is threshold short, wherein the geographic location of the WCD where the WCD was when the WCD engaged in successful communication to the home system defines a geographic location of the WCD itself rather than a geographic location of the home system; the WCD determining whether a duration between a current time and a time when the WCD engaged in the successful communication to the home system is threshold short; and if the WCD thereby determines that the distance is threshold short and the duration is threshold short, then the WCD originating the communication in the home system, and otherwise the WCD originating the communication in the non-home system. - View Dependent Claims (14)
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15. A wireless communication device (WCD) comprising:
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a wireless communication interface for engaging in air-interface communication with base transceiver stations, wherein the wireless communication interface includes an antenna; distance evaluation logic for determining a current distance of the WCD from a geographic location of the WCD where the WCD successfully communicated to a particular wireless system, wherein the geographic location of the WCD defines a geographic location of the WCD itself rather than a geographic location of the particular wireless system; duration evaluation logic for determining a current duration from when the WCD successfully communicated to the particular wireless system, system selection logic for making a decision of whether the WCD should originate a communication in the particular wireless system or rather in another wireless system, wherein the system selection logic being arranged to make the decision based at least on an evaluation of the determined current distance and based further on an evaluation of the determined current duration; and origination logic for originating the communication according to the decision. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17)
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