System and method for receiving call in wireless terminal

• US 9,185,547 B2
• Filed: 09/07/2012
• Issued: 11/10/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/08/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Jung, In-Hyung, Jung, Hee-Jung
• Primary Examiner(s): Patel, Mahendra
• Application Number:
  US13/606,437
• Publication Number:
  US 20130065570A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,159 Days
• Field of Search: 455/417, 455/558, 455/411, 455/407, 455/406, 455/557, 455/555, 455/414.1, 379/357.01, 379/114.17
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/16 Communication-related supplementary services, e.g. call-transfer or call-hold
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/60 Subscription-based services using application servers or record carriers, e.g. SIM application toolkits
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 68/005 Transmission of information for alerting of incoming communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/15 Setup of multiple wireless link connections
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/205 Transfer to or from user equipment or user record carrier

Abstract

A system and method for receiving a call in a wireless terminal having a single Radio Frequency (RF) unit and at least two Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) cards, wherein the system includes: the wireless terminal for informing a user of occurrence of an incoming call through a second SIM card for which an incoming call forwarding is pre-registered while performing a call through a first SIM card; a Base Station (BS) related to the first SIM card for informing the wireless terminal of the occurrence of the incoming call through the second SIM card, in response to a paging request for the second SIM card that is received from a BS related to the second SIM card; and the BS related to the second SIM card for requesting the BS related to the first SIM card for paging to the second SIM card if a call request to the second SIM card for which the incoming call forwarding is registered is received.

Claims

1. A system for receiving a call, the system comprising:

a wireless terminal having a single Radio Frequency (RF) device and at least a first Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) card and a second Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) card; and

a Base Station (BS) related to the first SIM card for informing the wireless terminal of an incoming call request for the second SIM card in response to a paging request for the second SIM card that is received from a BS related to the second SIM card, while the wireless terminal is performing a call through the first SIM card, wherein;

if both of the calls end, the wireless terminal transmits, to the BS related to the second SIM card, an incoming call forwarding registration release request message for requesting a release of an incoming call forwarding registration.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein, if the incoming call is requested in a state where the first SIM card is activated, the wireless terminal requests the BS related to the first SIM card for the call and simultaneously requests the BS related to the second SIM card for registration of incoming call forwarding, and if the incoming call through the second SIM card is received from the BS related to the second SIM card while the wireless terminal is performing the call connection via the BS related to the first SIM card, the wireless terminal informs a user of the incoming call.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein, if the incoming call is established while the wireless terminal is performing the call connection through the first SIM card, the wireless terminal holds off the call connection through the first SIM card and receives a voice signal from the BS related to the second SIM card.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the wireless terminal transmits Call Forwarding Unconditional (CFU) information in which information regarding the first SIM card is included and a CFU registration request message to the BS related to the second SIM card in order to register the incoming call forwarding registration for the second SIM card.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein, if CFU information and a CFU registration request message is received from the wireless terminal, the BS related to the second SIM card registers the CFU information for the second SIM card,

if a call request to the second SIM card is received, the BS related to the second SIM card requests the BS related to the first SIM card using information regarding the first SIM card included in the CFU information, and

if an incoming call forwarding registration release request message is received from the wireless terminal, the BS related to the second SIM card releases the CFU information registration for the second SIM card.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein, if a call request through the second SIM card is received from the first terminal while the wireless terminal is performing a call with the second terminal through the first SIM card, the BS related to the first SIM card transmits a voice signal received from the BS related to the second SIM card to the wireless terminal.

7. A method of receiving a call in a wireless terminal including a single Radio Frequency (RF) device and a first Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) card and a second SIM card, the method comprising:

if an incoming call request for the second SIM card is received to by a Base Station (BS) related to the second SIM card while the wireless terminal is performing a call through the first SIM card, requesting, by the BS related to the second SIM card, a Base Station (BS) related to the first SIM card for paging to the second SIM card;

if the paging request for the second SIM card is received by the BS related to the first SIM card, informing, by the BS related to the first SIM card, the wireless terminal, of the incoming call request for the second SIM card while the wireless terminal is performing the call through the first SIM card;

if both of the call ends in the wireless terminal, transmitting, by the wireless terminal, an incoming call forwarding registration release request message to the BS related to the second SIM card; and

if the incoming call forwarding registration release request message is received from the wireless terminal, releasing, by the BS related to the second SIM card, a registration of the incoming call forwarding to the second SIM card.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the requesting for the second SIM card comprises:

if a call is requested in a state where the first SIM card is activated, requesting, by the wireless terminal, the BS related to the first SIM card for the call and simultaneously requesting the BS related to the second SIM card for registration of incoming call forwarding;

registering, by the BS related to the second SIM card, incoming call forwarding for the second SIM card; and

if a call request to the second SIM card is received, requesting, by the BS related to the second SIM card, the BS related to the first SIM card based on the registration of the incoming call forwarding.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising transmitting, by the wireless terminal, Call Forwarding Unconditional (CFU) information in which information regarding the first SIM card is included and a CFU registration request message to the BS related to the second SIM card in order to register incoming call forwarding.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein, if the call request to the second SIM card is received, extracting, by the BS related to the second SIM card, information regarding the first SIM card from CFU information registered for the incoming call forwarding;

and

requesting the BS related to the first SIM card based on the extracted information regarding the first SIM card.

11. The method of claim 7, wherein the informing the incoming call comprises, if a paging request for the second SIM card is received from the BS related to the second SIM card, informing, by the BS related to the first SIM card, the wireless terminal performing the call of the incoming call through the second SIM card.

12. The method of claim 7, further comprising, if a call through the second SIM card is selected while the wireless terminal is performing a call through the first SIM card, holding off, by the wireless terminal, the call through the first SIM card and transmitting, by the BS related to the first SIM card, a voice signal received from the BS related to the second SIM card to the wireless terminal.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising, if the call through the second SIM card occurs while the wireless terminal is performing the call through the first SIM card, transmitting, by the BS related to the first SIM card, a voice signal received from the BS related to the second SIM card to the wireless terminal.

14. A terminal for processing a call, the terminal comprising:

a single Radio Frequency (RF) device for receiving an incoming call;

a first Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) card and a second SIM card; and

a controller configured to perform a call with a first terminal in communication with a first base station rebated to the first SIM card through the first SIM card and transmitting an incoming call forwarding pre-registration message to a second base station related to the second SIM card; and

if an incoming call request for the second SIM card is received from the first base station while the terminal is performing the call with the first terminal through first SIM card, inform a user of the terminal of the incoming call request for the second SIM card,

wherein the controller transmits an incoming call forwarding registration release request message to the second base station if both the calls ends.

15. The terminal of claim 14, wherein the controller transmits Call Forwarding Unconditional (CFU) information containing information of the first SIM card and a CFU registration request message to the second base station.