Push to talk mobile station, mobile communication system, and program

• US 9,338,612 B2
• Filed: 03/13/2015
• Issued: 05/10/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 07/31/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Inventors: Shiga, Noritake
• Primary Examiner(s): Wendell, Andrew
• Application Number:
  US14/656,932
• Publication Number:
  US 20150189481A1
• Time in Patent Office: 424 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/10 Push-to-Talk [PTT] or Push-On-Call services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 68/005 Transmission of information for alerting of incoming communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 68/02 Arrangements for increasing efficiency of notification or paging channel
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/08 Trunked mobile radio systems

Abstract

A mobile station 100 monitors, in Slotted mode, a Paging Channel Slot in a monitor cycle. The mobile station 100 includes: a user interface 53 which receives a PTT setting operation from a user for setting a PTT (Push to Talk) mode; a PTT communication control unit 51 which transmits an allocation request to the radio base station when the PTT setting operation is received; a slot cycle switching unit 52 which switches, when the PTT setting operation is received, the monitor cycle to a predetermined short cycle which is shorter than a cycle at the time of receiving the PTT setting operation; and a voice signal processing unit 40 which receives a voice packet after a PTT CALL is detected in a message transmitted from the radio base station to the mobile station, and reproduces a voice based on the voice packet.

Claims

1. A mobile station which (i) monitors, in a monitor cycle, a paging channel slot which stores a message therein and is transmitted by a radio base station in a transmission cycle, and (ii) performs a process according to the message, comprising:

a PTT setting reception unit operable to receive a PTT setting operation from a user for setting a PTT (Push to Talk) mode, in which a voice packet communication is available;

a monitor cycle switching unit operable to switch, when the PTT setting reception unit receives the PTT setting operation, the monitor cycle to a predetermined short cycle which is shorter than a cycle at a time of receiving the PTT setting operation;

a voice reproduction unit operable to receive a voice packet which is transmitted from the radio base station after a PTT CALL is detected in the message, and reproduce a voice based on the voice packet, the PTT CALL being a request for the voice packet communication; and

a PTT cancel reception unit operable to receive a PTT cancel operation from the user for canceling the PTT mode, wherein

when remaining battery charge falls below a predetermined value, the monitor cycle switching unit switches the monitor cycle to a predetermined long cycle which is longer than a cycle at a time of receiving the PTT cancel operation.

2. The mobile station of claim 1, wherein

the monitor cycle switching unit switches the monitor cycle to the predetermined long cycle when the PTT cancel reception unit receives the PTT cancel operation.

3. A communication method performed by a mobile station which (i) monitors, in a monitor cycle, a paging channel slot which stores a message therein and is transmitted by a radio base station in a transmission cycle, and (ii) performs a process according to the message, the method comprising:

a PTT setting reception of receiving a PTT setting operation from a user for setting a PTT (Push to Talk) mode, in which a voice packet communication is available;

a monitor cycle switching step of switching, when the PTT setting operation is received in the PTT setting reception step, the monitor cycle to a predetermined short cycle which is shorter than a cycle at a time of receiving the PTT setting operation;

a voice reproduction step of receiving a voice packet which is transmitted from the radio base station after a PTT CALL is detected in the message, and reproducing a voice based on the voice packet, the PTT CALL being a request for the voice packet communication; and

a PTT cancel reception step of receiving a PTT cancel operation from the user for canceling the PTT mode, wherein

in the monitor cycle switching step, when remaining battery charge falls below a predetermined value, the monitor cycle is switched to a predetermined long cycle which is longer than a cycle at a time of receiving the PTT cancel operation.

4. The communication method of claim 3, wherein

in the monitor cycle switching step, the monitor cycle is switched to the predetermined long cycle when the PTT cancel operation is received in the PTT cancel reception step.