Method for calling a mobile terminal in a mobile communication system and a device thereof

• US 5,812,949 A
• Filed: 09/22/1995
• Issued: 09/22/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 09/28/1994
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Taketsugu, Masanori
• Primary Examiner(s): Urban, Edward F.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Ferguson, Keith
• Application Number:
  US08/532,889
• Time in Patent Office: 1,096 Days
• Field of Search: 379/59, 379/58, 455/33.1, 455/54.1, 455/422, 455/432, 455/435, 455/437, 455/439, 455/438, 455/442, 455/560, 455/550, 455/424, 455/436, 455/415
• US Class Current: 455/439
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 68/00 User notification, e.g. alerting and paging, for incoming communication, change of service or the like

Abstract

A mobile exchange office stores an identifier of a base station corresponding to an identifier of each mobile terminal. The base station stores identifiers of base stations corresponding to an identifier of a mobile terminal except for own identifiers. Receiving a call signal for a mobile terminal, the mobile exchange office searches an identifier of a base station corresponding to the mobile terminal based on this call signal and sends a call signal to a base station in accordance with this searched identifier. The base station determines a sender of the call signal. If the sender is a mobile exchange office, the base station transfers the call signal to another base station corresponding to a stored identifier and calls the mobile terminal in own radio zone. If the sender is a base station, it calls the mobile terminal in own radio zone.

Claims

1. A method for calling a mobile terminal in a mobile communication system with a plurality of radio zones, each of said radio zones has a base station, said method comprising the steps of:

making a base station store identifiers of predetermined base stations except for its own identifier;

making a mobile exchange office, controlling said plurality of base stations, store an identifier of a mobile terminal and an identifier of a base station where these two identifiers correspond to each other;

making said mobile exchange office search an identifier of a mobile terminal from among stored identifiers when said mobile exchange office has received a call signal for said mobile terminal;

making said mobile exchange office search an identifier of a base station corresponding to said searched identifier for said mobile terminal, from among said stored identifiers;

making said mobile exchange office send said call signal for said mobile terminal to said base station having the corresponding identifier;

making said base station discriminate a sender of said call signal as said mobile exchange office or another base station, when said base station has received said call signal;

making said base station call said mobile terminal in a radio zone belonging to said base station and transferring said call signal to another base station whose identifier is stored therein; and

making said other base station call said mobile terminal in a radio zone belonging to said other base station when a sender of said call signal is said base station.

2. The method for calling a mobile terminal in a mobile communication system of claim 1, wherein said step of making said mobile exchange office store an identifier of a base station further comprising a step of setting a plurality of location registration areas, each of said location registration areas including at least one said radio zone, and updating an identifier of a base station corresponding to an identifier of said mobile terminal stored in said mobile exchange office when said mobile terminal has moved from a predetermined location registration area to another location registration area.

3. The method for calling a mobile terminal in a mobile communication system of claim 2, wherein said step of updating an identifier of said base station further comprises steps of:

making a mobile terminal send a location registration signal when said mobile terminal has moved from a predetermined location registration area to another location registration area;

making a base station transfer said location registration signal added by an identifier of said base station to said mobile exchange office when said base station has received said location registration signal;

making said mobile exchange office discriminate a location registration signal having a highest reception level from among received location registration signal; and

updating an identifier of a base station corresponding to an identifier of said mobile terminal stored in said mobile exchange office.

4. The method for calling a mobile terminal in a mobile communication system of claim 1, wherein said call signal to be sent from a mobile exchange office to a base station is added with an identifier indicating that a sender is said exchange office.

5. The method for calling a mobile terminal in a mobile communication system of claim 1, wherein said call signal to be transferred from a base station to another base station is added with an identifier indicating that a sender is said base station.

6. A method for calling a mobile terminal in a mobile communication system with a plurality of radio zones, each of said radio zones has a base station and a plurality of location registration areas, each of said location registration areas including at least one said radio zone, said method comprising the steps of:

making each base station in each radio zone store identifiers of predetermined base stations except for its own identifier;

making a mobile exchange office, controlling said plurality of base stations, store an identifier of a mobile terminal and an identifier of a base station in a location registration area where said mobile terminal belongs, wherein these two identifiers correspond to each other;

making said mobile exchange office update an identifier of a base station corresponding to an identifier of said mobile terminal when said mobile terminal has moved from a predetermined location registration area to another location registration area;

making said mobile exchange office search an identifier of a mobile terminal from among said stored identifiers and making said mobile exchange office search an identifier of a base station corresponding to said searched identifier from among said stored identifiers when said mobile exchange office has received a call signal for said mobile terminal;

making said mobile exchange office add to said call signal an identifier indicating that a sender is said mobile exchange office;

said mobile exchange office send said call signal added by said identifier;

making a base station discriminate a sender of said call signal based on said identifier of said call signal when said base station has received said call signal;

making said base station call said mobile terminal in a radio zone belonging to said base station, add an identifier indicating that a sender is said base station to said call signal and transfer said call signal to an other base station whose identifier is stored when a sender of said call signal is said mobile exchange office; and

making said other base station call said mobile terminal in a radio zone belonging said other base station when a sender of said call signal is said base station.

7. The method for calling a mobile terminal in a mobile communication system of claim 6, wherein said step of making said mobile exchange office update an identifier of said base station further comprises steps of:

making a mobile terminal send a location registration signal when said mobile terminal has moved from a predetermined location registration area to another location registration area;

making a base station add an identifier of which sender is said base station to said location registration signal and transfer said location registration signal added by said identifier to said mobile exchange office when said base station has received said location registration signal;

making said mobile exchange office discriminate a location registration signal having a highest reception level from among received location registration signal; and

making said mobile exchange office update an identifier of a base station corresponding to said mobile terminal sending said location registration signal to an identifier of a base station of which location registration signal has a highest reception level.

8. A mobile communication system having a plurality of base stations provided in respective radio zones and a mobile exchange office for controlling said plurality of base stations, and calling a mobile terminal via said base station when said mobile exchange office has received a call signal for said mobile terminal, said mobile communication system comprising;

said mobile exchange office comprising;

mobile exchange office storing means for storing an identifier of each mobile terminal and an identifier of a base station, wherein these two identifiers are corresponding to each other; and

means for searching for an identifier of a base station corresponding to an identifier of a mobile terminal from said mobile exchange office storing means when having received a call signal for said mobile terminal, and sending said call signal for said mobile terminal to a base station whose identifier has been searched; and

said base stations, each of said base stations comprising;

base station storing means for storing identifiers of said base stations except for its own identifier;

means for discriminating a sender of a call signal as said mobile exchange office or another base station; and

means for transferring said call signal to a base whose identifier is stored in said base station storing means and calling a mobile terminal in a radio zone belonging to said base station when a sender of said call signal is said mobile exchange office, and calling said mobile terminal in a radio zone belonging to said base station when a sender of said call signal is a base station except said base station.

9. The mobile communication system of claim 8, including said mobile communication system with a plurality of location registration areas, each of said location registration areas including at least one said radio zones, said mobile communication system comprising:

said mobile terminal comprising means for sending a location registration signal when said mobile terminal has moved from a predetermined location registration area to another location registration area;

said each base station comprising means for receiving said location registration signal, adding own identifier to said registration signal and transferring the result to said mobile exchange office; and

said mobile exchange office comprising;

means for discriminating a location registration signal of which reception level is highest from among received location registration signals; and

means for updating an identifier of a base station corresponding to a mobile terminal that has sent said location registration signal to an identifier of a base station that has sent said location registration signal of which reception level is highest.

10. The mobile communication system of claim 8, wherein said mobile exchange office comprises means for adding an identifier indicating that a sender is a mobile exchange office to said call signal to be sent to a base station.

11. The mobile communication system of claim 8, wherein said each base station comprises means for adding an identifier indicating that a sender is a base station to said call signal to be sent to another base station.

12. A mobile communication system having a plurality of base stations provided in respective radio zones and a mobile exchange office controlling said plurality of base stations, being provided with a plurality of location registration areas including at least one said radio zones and calling a mobile terminal via said base station when said mobile exchange office has received a call signal for said mobile terminal, said mobile communication system comprising:

said mobile terminal comprises means for sending a location registration signal when moving from a determined location registration area to another location, each of said base stations comprising;

base station storing means for storing a predetermined identifier of each base station except for an identifier of its own base station;

means for discriminating a sender of a call signal;

means for transferring said call signal to a base station whose identifier is stored in said base station storing means and calling a mobile terminal in a radio zone belonging to said base station when a sender of said call signal is said mobile exchange office, and calling said mobile terminal in a radio zone belonging to said base station when a sender of said call signal is a base station except said base station; and

means for receiving said location registration signal, adding its own identifier to said location registration signal and transferring the result to said mobile exchange office; and

said mobile exchange office comprising;

mobile exchange office storing means for storing an identifier of each mobile terminal and an identifier of a base station corresponding to said each mobile terminal, wherein these two identifiers correspond to each other;

means for discriminating a location registration signal whose reception level is highest from said received location registration signals;

means for updating an identifier of a base station corresponding to a mobile terminal that has sent said location registration signal stored in said mobile exchange office storing means to an identifier of a base station that has sent said location registration signal having the highest reception level; and

means for receiving a call signal for a mobile terminal, searching an identifier of a base station corresponding to an identifier of said mobile terminal from identifiers stored in said mobile exchange office storing means, and sending said call signal for said mobile terminal to a broadcasting station whose identifier has been searched.