Mobile communications system, base station, and mobile terminal for distributing emergency messages

• US 9,374,695 B2
• Filed: 07/04/2008
• Issued: 06/21/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 07/05/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: TCL Communication Technology Holdings Ltd. (TCL Technology Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: TCL Communication Technology Holdings Ltd. (TCL Technology Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Maeda, Miho, Tada, Keiko, Takahashi, Yoshinori, Nakamizo, Hideyuki, Takahashi, Kazunori, Itoh, Tatsuya, Mochizuki, Mitsuru
• Primary Examiner(s): Ajibade Akonai, Olumide T
• Assistant Examiner(s): Nam, Ki Ha
• Application Number:
  US12/602,781
• Publication Number:
  US 20100178895A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,909 Days
• Field of Search: 455/404.1
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/06 Selective distribution of broadcast services, e.g. multimedia broadcast multicast service [MBMS]; Services to user groups; One-way selective calling services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/90 Services for handling of emergency or hazardous situations, e.g. earthquake and tsunami warning systems [ETWS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/50 for emergency connections

Abstract

A mobile communications system including a mobile terminal 1 and a base station 2 which relays communications between a network and the mobile terminal 1, in which the base station 2 can deliver information to the mobile terminal 1 by using an MBMS, in which the base station 2 sets a flag indicating presence or absence of emergency information to a control channel used for the MBMS, and notifies the presence or absence of the emergency information to the mobile terminal 1 by using the description of the flag set to the control channel for the MBMS.

Claims

1. A mobile communications system

comprising:

a plurality of mobile terminals; and

a base station configured to transmit emergency information to the plurality of mobile terminals,

wherein the base station transmits an emergency information indicator showing presence of the emergency information to a plurality of mobile terminals including a mobile terminal in an idle state and a mobile terminal receiving individual data by using first and second paging messages, and wherein the emergency information indicator is at least one bit of a multimedia broadcast multicast service indicator channel,

the base station transmits required information that is required for the plurality of mobile terminals to receive the emergency information, the required information including an emergency information channel number, the emergency information channel number corresponding to a channel through which the plurality of mobile terminals are to receive the emergency information, and

the base station transmits the emergency information to the plurality of mobile terminals according to the required information that is required for the plurality of mobile terminals to receive the emergency information;

wherein the mobile terminal in the idle state receives the emergency information indicator showing presence of the emergency information, transmitted from the base station in the first paging message,

the mobile terminal in the idle state receives the required information that is required for the plurality of mobile terminals to receive the emergency information transmitted from the base station, and

the mobile terminal in the idle state starts receiving the emergency information transmitted from the base station according to the required information that is required for the plurality of mobile terminals to receive the emergency information after receiving the emergency information indicator; and

wherein the mobile terminal receiving individual data receives the emergency information indicator showing presence of the emergency information, transmitted from the base station in the second paging message,

the mobile terminal receiving individual data receives the required information that is required for the plurality of mobile terminals to receive the emergency information transmitted from the base station,

the mobile terminal receiving individual data starts receiving the emergency information transmitted from the base station according to the required information that is required for the plurality of mobile terminals to receive the emergency information after receiving the emergency information indicator, and

a channel through which the emergency information indicator is transmitted is different from a channel through which the required information that is required for the plurality of mobile terminals to receive the emergency information is transmitted, and the emergency information is transmitted through a multimedia broadcast multicast service.

2. The mobile communications system according to claim 1, wherein the mobile communications system is applied to Long Term Evolution.

3. The mobile communications system according to claim 1, wherein the first and second paging messages include a field set the emergency information indicator showing presence of the emergency information.

4. A base station configured to transmit emergency information to a plurality of mobile terminals, comprising:

an indicator transmitting section which transmits an emergency information indicator showing presence of the emergency information to the plurality of mobile terminals;

a required information transmitting section which transmits required information that is required for the plurality of mobile terminals to receive the emergency information, the required information including an emergency information channel number, the emergency information channel number corresponding to a channel through which the plurality of mobile terminals are to receive the emergency information; and

an emergency information transmitting section which transmits the emergency information to the plurality of mobile terminals according to the required information that is required for the plurality of mobile terminals to receive the emergency information,

wherein the indicator transmitting section transmits the emergency information indicator to the mobile terminal in an idle state by using a first paging message, and transmits the emergency information indicator to the mobile terminal receiving individual data by using a second paging message, and

a channel through which the emergency information indicator is transmitted is different from a channel through which the required information that is required for the plurality of mobile terminals to receive the emergency information is transmitted, wherein the channel through which the required information is transmitted is a multimedia broadcast multicast service control channel.

5. A mobile terminal configured to receive emergency information transmitted from a base station, comprising:

an indicator receiving section which receives an emergency information indicator, showing presence of the emergency information, via a multimedia broadcast multicast service indicator channel;

a required information receiving section which receives required information that is required for the mobile terminal to receive the emergency information transmitted from the base station, the required information including an emergency information channel number, the emergency information channel number corresponding to a channel through which the plurality of mobile terminals are to receive the emergency information; and

an emergency information receiving section which starts receiving the emergency information transmitted from the base station according to the required information that is required for the mobile terminal to receive the emergency information after receiving the emergency information indicator,

wherein when the mobile terminal is in an idle state, the indicator receiving section receives the emergency information indicator transmitted from the base station in a first paging message,

when the mobile terminal is receiving individual data, the indicator receiving section receives the emergency information indicator transmitted from the base station in a second paging message, and

a channel through which the emergency information indicator is transmitted is different from a channel through which the required information that is required for the plurality of mobile terminals to receive the emergency information is transmitted, and the emergency information is transmitted through a multimedia broadcast multicast service.