Method and system for collecting terminal measurement data

• US 9,807,630 B2
• Filed: 08/22/2012
• Issued: 10/31/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 02/22/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Zhang, Hongzhuo, Zou, Lan, Jin, Lei, Shi, Xiaoli
• Primary Examiner(s): Tran, Mong-Thuy
• Application Number:
  US13/592,073
• Publication Number:
  US 20120315949A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,896 Days
• Field of Search: 455436, 455517, 455515, 455 6711, 455 68, 455423, 455437
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/08 Testing, supervising or monitoring using real traffic

Abstract

The present invention discloses a method and system for collecting terminal measurement data, an integration reference point manager system, an integration reference point agent system, a home subscriber server, a mobility management entity, a NodeB and a user equipment. Specifically, an integration reference point agent (IRP Agent) receives a terminal measurement data start operation or terminal measurement data stop operation sent by an integration reference point manager (IRP Manager), where the terminal measurement data start operation is used to start terminal measurement data collection and carries configuration parameters used to collect terminal measurement data, and the terminal measurement data stop operation is used to instruct stop of terminal measurement collection. The present invention enables a terminal to collect and report terminal measurement data.

Claims

1. A mobile terminal comprising:

a receiver, configured to receive from a radio communication network an instruction for collecting terminal measurement data, wherein the instruction carries a triggering condition;

a processor, configured to collect terminal measurement data when the triggering condition in the received instruction is met; and

a transmitter, configured to send to the radio communication network a report of the collected terminal measurement data,

wherein the report of the terminal measurement data comprises an event type, a maximum number of measurements, and a relative time stamp for the report of the terminal measurement data.

2. The mobile terminal according to claim 1, wherein the terminal measurement data comprises data measured by the mobile terminal and related to radio communication environment of the mobile terminal.

3. The mobile terminal according to claim 1, wherein the triggering condition comprises at least one of:

electrical power below a threshold, storage space below a threshold, local cell reference signal received power (RSRP) below a threshold, and neighbor cell RSRP above a threshold.

4. A computer program product, comprising computer program codes stored on a non-transitory medium, which, when executed by a mobile device, cause the mobile device to perform the steps of:

receiving an instruction for collecting terminal measurement data, from a radio communication network, wherein the instruction carries a triggering condition;

collecting terminal measurement data when the triggering condition in the received instruction is met; and

sending a report of the collected terminal measurement data to the radio communication network,

wherein the report of the terminal measurement data comprises an event type, a maximum number of measurements, and a relative time stamp for the report of the terminal measurement data.

5. The computer program product according to claim 4, wherein the terminal measurement data comprises data measured by the mobile device and related to radio communication environment of the mobile device.

6. A system on a chipset for use in a mobile terminal, comprising:

a communication interface, configured to receive an instruction for collecting terminal measurement data from a radio communication network, wherein the instruction carries a triggering condition; and

a processor coupled with the communication interface, configured to collect terminal measurement data when the triggering condition in the received instruction is met;

wherein the communication interface is further configured to send a report of the collected terminal measurement data to the radio communication network, and

wherein the report of the terminal measurement data comprises an event type, a maximum number of measurements, and a relative time stamp for the report of the terminal measurement data.

7. The system on chipset according to claim 6, wherein the terminal measurement data comprises data measured by the mobile terminal and related to radio communication environment of the mobile terminal.

8. A method for collecting terminal measurement data, comprising:

receiving, by a mobile terminal, an instruction for collecting terminal measurement data from a radio communication network, wherein the instruction carries a triggering condition;

collecting, by the mobile terminal, terminal measurement data when the triggering condition in the received instruction is met; and

sending, by the mobile terminal, a report of the collected terminal measurement data to the radio communication network,

wherein the report of the terminal measurement data comprises an event type, a maximum number of measurements, and a relative time stamp for the report of the terminal measurement data.

9. The method according to claim 8, wherein the terminal measurement data comprises data measured by the mobile terminal and related to radio communication environment of the mobile terminal.