User apparatus, communication control apparatus, and origination rejection control method

• US 9,949,199 B2
• Filed: 05/15/2015
• Issued: 04/17/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 05/16/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Original Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Inventors: Tanaka, Itsuma, Takeda, Shinya
• Primary Examiner(s): Milord, Marceau
• Application Number:
  US15/310,656
• Publication Number:
  US 20170078949A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,068 Days
• Field of Search: 455418, 455564, 4554141, 455423, 4554321
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/0022 for transferring data sessions between adjacent core network technologies
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/02 Access restriction performed under specific conditions
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/04 based on user or terminal location or mobility data, e.g. moving direction, speed
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/06 based on traffic conditions
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/18 Selecting a network or a communication service
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0212 managed by the network, e.g. network or access point is master and terminal is slave
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/18 Management of setup rejection or failure
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/06 adapted for operation in multiple networks or having at least two operational modes, e.g. multi-mode terminals
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

A user apparatus for use in a mobile communication network that supports a plurality of radio access technologies, including: a reception unit configured, when an origination request transmitted to the mobile communication network from the user apparatus that uses a first radio access technology is rejected, to receive an origination rejection signal including a timer value and an operation instruction from the mobile communication network; and an operation control unit configured to perform inhibition of re-origination based on the timer value included in the origination rejection signal that is received by the reception unit, wherein, in a case where the user apparatus changes a using radio access technology from the first radio access technology to a second radio access technology, the operation control unit determines whether to inhibit re-origination based on the operation instruction included in the origination rejection signal.

Claims

1. A user apparatus for use in a mobile communication network that supports a plurality of radio access technologies (RATs), comprising:

a reception unit configured, when an origination request transmitted to the mobile communication network from the user apparatus that uses a first RAT is rejected, to receive an origination rejection signal including a timer value and an operation instruction from the mobile communication network; and

an operation control unit configured to perform inhibition of re-origination based on the timer value included in the origination rejection signal that is received by the reception unit,

wherein, in a case where the user apparatus changes a using RAT from the first RAT to a second RAT, the operation control unit determines whether to inhibit re-origination based on the operation instruction included in the origination rejection signal.

2. The user apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the operation instruction is:

a RAT dependent instruction to cause to perform re-origination inhibition operation depending on a RAT that the user apparatus uses, or

a RAT independent instruction to cause to perform re-origination inhibition operation independently of a RAT that the user apparatus uses.

3. The user apparatus as claimed in claim 2, wherein, in a case where the user apparatus changes the using RAT from the first RAT to the second RAT,

when the operation instruction is the RAT dependent instruction, the operation control unit does not inhibit re-origination, and

when the operation instruction is the RAT independent instruction, the operation control unit performs inhibition of re-origination based on a timer value.

4. The user apparatus as claimed in claim 3, wherein the origination rejection signal includes, as the timer value, an independent timer value that is independent of RATs and a dependent timer value for each RAT, and

wherein, when the operation instruction is the RAT dependent instruction, the operation control unit uses a dependent timer value corresponding to the first RAT that the user apparatus uses, and

when the operation instruction is the RAT independent instruction, the operation control unit uses the independent timer value.

5. The user apparatus as claimed in claim 3, wherein the origination rejection signal includes a dependent timer value for each RAT as the timer value, and

wherein, when the operation instruction is the RAT dependent instruction, the operation control unit uses a dependent timer value corresponding to the first RAT that the user apparatus uses, and

when the operation instruction is the RAT independent instruction, the operation control unit uses both of a dependent timer value corresponding to the first RAT and a dependent timer value corresponding to the second RAT.

6. The user apparatus as claimed in claim 3, wherein the operation instruction is information included in a timer value in the origination rejection signal.

7. The user apparatus as claimed in claim 2, wherein the origination rejection signal includes, as the timer value, an independent timer value that is independent of RATs and a dependent timer value for each RAT, and

wherein, when the operation instruction is the RAT dependent instruction, the operation control unit uses a dependent timer value corresponding to the first RAT that the user apparatus uses, and

when the operation instruction is the RAT independent instruction, the operation control unit uses the independent timer value.

8. The user apparatus as claimed in claim 2, wherein the origination rejection signal includes a dependent timer value for each RAT as the timer value, and

wherein, when the operation instruction is the RAT dependent instruction, the operation control unit uses a dependent timer value corresponding to the first RAT that the user apparatus uses, and

when the operation instruction is the RAT independent instruction, the operation control unit uses both of a dependent timer value corresponding to the first RAT and a dependent timer value corresponding to the second RAT.

9. The user apparatus as claimed in claim 2, wherein the operation instruction is information included in a timer value in the origination rejection signal.

10. The user apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the operation instruction is information included in a timer value in the origination rejection signal.

11. A communication control apparatus corresponding to a first radio access technology (RAT) in a mobile communication network that supports a plurality of RATs, comprising:

a reception unit configured to receive an origination request transmitted from a user apparatus that uses the first RAT; and

an origination rejection control unit configured, when rejecting the origination request, to generate an origination rejection signal including an operation instruction and a timer value for causing the user apparatus to inhibit re-origination, and to transmit the origination rejection signal to the user apparatus,

wherein the operation instruction is an instruction that is used for causing the user apparatus to determine whether to inhibit re-origination in a case where the user apparatus changes a using RAT from the first RAT to a second RAT.

12. The communication control apparatus as claimed in claim 11, wherein the operation instruction is:

a RAT dependent instruction to cause to perform re-origination inhibition operation depending on a RAT that the user apparatus uses, or

a RAT independent instruction to cause to perform re-origination inhibition operation independently of a RAT that the user apparatus uses.

13. The communication control apparatus as claimed in claim 12, wherein the operation instruction is information included in a timer value in the origination rejection signal.

14. The communication control apparatus as claimed in claim 11, wherein the operation instruction is information included in a timer value in the origination rejection signal.

15. An origination rejection control method executed by a communication system including a communication control apparatus corresponding to a first radio access technology (RAT) in a mobile communication network that supports a plurality of RATs, and including a user apparatus, comprising:

a step in which the user apparatus that uses the first RAT transmits an origination request, and the communication control apparatus receives the origination request;

a step in which, when the communication control apparatus rejects the origination request, the communication control apparatus generates an origination rejection signal including an operation instruction and a timer value for causing the user apparatus to inhibit re-origination, and transmits the origination rejection signal to the user apparatus;

a step in which the user apparatus performs inhibition of re-origination by the first RAT based on the timer value included in the origination rejection signal,

wherein, in a case where the user apparatus changes a using RAT from the first RAT to a second RAT, the user apparatus determines whether to inhibit re-origination based on the operation instruction included in the origination rejection signal.