Communication device, mobile terminal, method for requesting information and method for providing information

• US 9,407,302 B2
• Filed: 03/14/2013
• Issued: 08/02/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 12/03/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc., Intel Corporation
• Original Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Inventors: Schmidt, Andreas, Zhang, Yujian, Pinheiro, Ana Lucia
• Primary Examiner(s): Cho, Un C
• Assistant Examiner(s): Lou, Peian
• Application Number:
  US13/803,042
• Publication Number:
  US 20140153482A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,237 Days
• Field of Search: 370/252, 370/328, 370/329, 370/336
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/12 Neutralising, balancing, or compensation arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/3827 Portable transceivers
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 17/24 with feedback of measurements to the transmitter
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 17/26 using historical data, averaging values or statistics
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 17/345 Interference values signal-to-interference ratio [SIR] or carrier-to-interference ratio [CIR] H04B17/336
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0452 Multi-user MIMO systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0617 for beam forming
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/15557 Selecting relay station operation mode, e.g. between amplify and forward mode, decode and forward mode or FDD - and TDD mode
• CPC Class Codes: H04J 11/005 of intercell interference
• CPC Class Codes: H04J 11/0053 using co-ordinated multipoint transmission/reception co-ordinated antenna or beam-forming aspects H04B7/022
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0003 by switching between different modulation schemes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0054 Maximum-likelihood or sequential decoding, e.g. Viterbi, Fano, ZJ algorithms
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1854 Scheduling and prioritising arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1867 Arrangements specially adapted for the transmitter end
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 25/0202 Channel estimation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 25/0204 of multiple channels
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 25/03305 Joint sequence estimation and interference removal joint detection of several desired signals H04L25/03331
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/0008 arrangements for allowing a transmitter or receiver to use more than one type of modulation negotiating modulation type for two-way transmission paths H04L5/1453
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0007 the frequencies being orthogonal, e.g. OFDM(A), DMT
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0048 Allocation of pilot signals, i.e. of signals known to the receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0053 : Allocation of signaling, i.e. of overhead other than pilot signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0055 : Physical resource allocation for ACK/NACK for physical mapping arrangements in ARQ protocols H04L1/1861
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0057 : Physical resource allocation for CQI
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0058 : Allocation criteria
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0092 : Indication of how the channel is divided
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/02 : Arrangements for optimising operational condition
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/10 : Scheduling measurement reports ; Arrangements for measurement reports
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/10 : Reselecting an access point controller
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 40/16 : based on interference
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0261 : managing power supply demand, e.g. depending on battery level
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/40 : during macro-diversity or soft handoff
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/12 : Wireless traffic scheduling
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/121 : for groups of terminals or users
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/20 : Control channels or signalling for resource management
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/23 : in the downlink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards a terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/51 : based on terminal or device properties
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/52 : based on load
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/54 : based on quality criteria
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/541 : using the level of interference
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/566 : of the information or information source or recipient
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/569 : of the traffic information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/14 : Direct-mode setup
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/27 : Transitions between radio resource control [RRC] states
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/28 : Discontinuous transmission [DTX]; Discontinuous reception [DRX]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/042 : Public Land Mobile systems, e.g. cellular systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/18 : Self-organising networks, e.g. ad-hoc networks or sensor networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 92/18 : between terminal devices
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 : in wireless communication networks

Abstract

A communication device is described comprising a message generator configured to generate a message indicating that a mobile terminal is to determine whether a transmitter of the mobile terminal has been active at a predetermined time and provide information which depends on the activity of the transmitter of the mobile terminal at the predetermined time and a transmitter configured to transmit the message.

Claims

1. A communication device comprising:

a message generator circuit to generate a message that includes a minimization of drive test (MDT) parameter to indicate that a mobile terminal is to determine whether a transmitter of the mobile terminal transmits in an industrial, scientific, and medical (ISM) band at a time in which the mobile terminal performs an MDT measurement and provide information based on whether the transmitter is determined to transmit in the ISM band at the time in which the mobile terminal performs the MDT measurement; and

a transmitter circuit to transmit the message to the mobile terminal over a radio access network;

wherein the mobile terminal is to refrain from transmitting the MDT measurement based on a determination that the transmitter of the mobile terminal transmits in the ISM band at the time in which the mobile terminal performs the MDT measurement.

2. The communication device according to claim 1, wherein the message indicates that the mobile terminal is to provide information that is processed based on whether the transmitter of the mobile terminal is determined to transmit in the ISM band at the time.

3. The communication device according to claim 1, wherein the information is a result of the MDT measurement carried out by the mobile terminal.

4. The communication device according to claim 3, wherein a receiver and the transmitter of the mobile terminal use different radio technologies.

5. The communication device according to claim 3, wherein the measurement is a measurement of a signal strength or a signal quality of a signal received by a receiver of the mobile terminal.

6. The communication device according to claim 1, wherein the information is to be provided to the communication device and includes an indication of whether the transmitter of the mobile terminal was determined to transmit in the ISM band at the time in which the mobile terminal performs the MDT measurement.

7. The communication device according to claim 1, wherein the transmitter circuit is to transmit the message to the mobile terminal;

a core network component;

or a radio access network component.

8. The communication device according to claim 1, wherein the transmitter of the mobile terminal is a short range communication transmitter.

9. The communication device according to claim 1, wherein the message is to indicate that the mobile terminal is to make said determination of whether a transmitter transmits in the ISM band at a time in which the mobile terminal performs an MDT measurement for immediate MDT measurements, for logged MDT measurements, for immediate and logged MDT measurements, or for specific measurements for an immediate MDT measurement.

10. The communication device according to claim 1, wherein the information is to be provided to the communication device and is to identify which MDT measurements are affected by transmissions in the ISM band or provide a list of all frequencies affected by transmissions in the ISM band.

11. The communication device of claim 1, wherein the communication device is part of a mobile communication network.

12. The communication device of claim 1, wherein the communication device is a base station.

13. The communication device of claim 1, further comprising:

a receiver circuit to receive the information in an MDT report.

14. One or more non-transitory, computer-readable media having instructions that, when executed, cause a device to

generate a message that includes a minimization of drive test (MDT) parameter to indicate that a mobile terminal is to determine whether a transmitter of the mobile terminal transmits in an industrial, scientific, and medical (ISM) band at a time in which the mobile terminal performs an MDT measurement and provide information based on whether the transmitter is determined to transmit in the ISM band at the time;

and

transmit the message,

and wherein the mobile terminal is to refrain from transmitting the MDT measurement based on a determination that the transmitter of the mobile terminal transmits in the ISM band at the time in which the mobile terminal performs the MDT measurement.

15. A mobile terminal comprising:

a receiver circuit to receive a message, over a radio access network, that includes a minimization of drive test (MDT) parameter;

a determiner circuit to determine, based on the MDT parameter, whether a transmitter of the mobile terminal transmit in an industrial, scientific, and medical (ISM) band at a time in which the mobile terminal performs an MDT measurement;

a message generator circuit to generate a message comprising information based on whether the transmitter is determined to transmit in the ISM band at the time in which the mobile terminal performs the MDT measurement; and

a transmitter circuit configured to transmit the message,

wherein the mobile terminal is to refrain from transmitting an MDT measurement based on a determination that the transmitter circuit transmits in the ISM band at the time in which the mobile terminal performs the MDT measurement.

16. The mobile terminal according to claim 15, wherein the information includes an indication of whether the transmitter circuit of the mobile terminal was determined to transmit in the ISM band at the time in which the mobile terminal performs the MDT measurement.

17. The mobile terminal according to claim 15, wherein the MDT parameter is to indicate that the mobile terminal is to make said determination of whether the transmitter circuit transmits in the ISM band at times in which the mobile terminal performs MDT measurements for immediate MDT measurement, for logged MDT measurement, for immediate and logged MDT measurements, or for specific measurements for an immediate MDT measurement.

18. The mobile terminal according to claim 15, wherein the information is to identify which MDT measurements are affected by transmissions in the ISM band or provide a list of all frequencies affected by transmissions in the ISM band.