Emergency information in system information broadcast

• US 9,819,427 B2
• Filed: 03/27/2015
• Issued: 11/14/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 06/20/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc. (InterDigital, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc. (InterDigital, Inc.)
• Inventors: Wang, Peter S., Zhang, Guodong, Somasundaram, Shankar
• Primary Examiner(s): Patel, Nimesh
• Application Number:
  US14/671,072
• Publication Number:
  US 20150200734A1
• Time in Patent Office: 963 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/59 for emergency or urgency
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/72 of terrestrial networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/06 Optimizing the usage of the radio link, e.g. header compression, information sizing , discarding information system modifying transmission characteristic according to link quality by modifying frame length H04L1/0007; dynamic adaptation of the packet size for flow control or congestion control H04L47/365
• 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 48/10 using broadcasted information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/50 for emergency connections

Abstract

A method and apparatus for providing an ETWS message to a wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU). The WTRU is configured to receive a paging message indicating a change in system information, wherein in response to the paging message to receive a system information block (SIB) 1 to determine a schedule for reception of earthquake and tsunami warning system (ETWS) information in system information blocks (SIBs). The WTRU is further configured to receive the SIBs with the ETWS information and to separately receive segments of an ETWS message and to combine the segments to reproduce the ETWS message.

Claims

1. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) comprising:

a receiver configured to receive scheduling information, wherein the scheduling information is for receiving a first earthquake and tsunami warning system (ETWS)-system information block (ETWS-SIB) and a plurality of ETWS sub-SIBs of a second ETWS-SIB, wherein the plurality of ETWS sub-SIBs include segments of an ETWS message of the second ETWS-SIB;

the receiver further configured to receive as separate transmissions the first ETWS-SIB and the plurality of ETWS sub-SIBs using the scheduling information; and

a processor configured to process the first ETWS-SIB and the ETWS sub-SIBs to recover an ETWS message of the first ETWS-SIB and the ETWS message of the second ETWS-SIB to enable display of information associated with the ETWS message of the first ETWS-SIB and information associated with the ETWS message of the second ETWS-SIB, wherein the segments are combined to recover the ETWS message of the second ETWS-SIB.

2. The WTRU of claim 1, further comprising:

the receiver further configured to receive the ETWS message of the first ETWS-SIB and the ETWS message of the second ETWS-SIB within periodically occurring time domain windows using dynamic scheduling.

3. The WTRU of claim 1, wherein the ETWS message of the first ETWS-SIB and the ETWS message of the second ETWS-SIB are distributed over an emergency system information transmit period.

4. The WTRU of claim 1, wherein a paging message is used to indicate that a change including the scheduling information.

5. A method for use in a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU), the method comprising:

receiving scheduling information, wherein the scheduling information is for receiving a first earthquake and tsunami warning system (ETWS)-system information block (ETWS-SIB) and a plurality of ETWS sub-SIBs of a second ETWS-SIB, wherein the plurality of ETWS sub-SIBs include segments of an ETWS message of the second ETWS-SIB;

receiving as separate transmissions the first ETWS-SIB and the plurality of ETWS sub-SIBs using the scheduling information; and

processing the first ETWS-SIB and the ETWS sub-SIBs to recover an ETWS message of the first ETWS-SIB and the ETWS message of the second ETWS-SIB to enable display of information associated with the ETWS message of the first ETWS-SIB and information associated with the ETWS message of the second ETWS-SIB, wherein the segments are combined to recover the ETWS message of the second ETWS-SIB.

6. The method of claim 5, further comprising:

receiving the ETWS message of the first ETWS-SIB and the ETWS message of the second ETWS-SIB within periodically occurring time domain windows using dynamic scheduling.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein the ETWS message of the first ETWS-SIB and the ETWS message of the second ETWS-SIB are distributed over an emergency system information transmit period.

8. The method of claim 5, wherein a paging message is used to indicate that a change including the scheduling information.

9. A base station comprising:

a transmitter configured to transmit scheduling information, wherein the scheduling information is for transmitting a first earthquake and tsunami warning system (ETWS)-system information block (ETWS-SIB) and a plurality of ETWS sub-SIBs of a second ETWS-SIB, wherein the plurality of ETWS sub-SIBs include segments of an ETWS message of the second ETWS-SIB; and

the transmitter further configured to transmit the first ETWS-SIB and the plurality of ETWS sub-SIBs as separate transmissions based on the scheduling information to enable a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) to process the first ETWS-SIB and the plurality of ETWS sub-SIBs to recover an ETWS message of the first ETWS-SIB and the ETWS message of the second ETWS-SIB and to enable display of information associated with the ETWS message of the first ETWS-SIB and information associated with the ETWS message of the second ETWS-SIB.

10. The base station of claim 9, further comprising:

transmitting the ETWS message of the first ETWS-SIB and the ETWS message of the second ETWS-SIB within periodically occurring time domain windows using dynamic scheduling.

11. The base station of claim 9, wherein the ETWS message of the first ETWS-SIB and the ETWS message of the second ETWS-SIB are distributed over an emergency system information transmit period.

12. The base station of claim 9, wherein a paging message is used to indicate that a change including the scheduling information.