Method for transmitting and receiving power outage report and device therefor

• US 9,319,894 B2
• Filed: 01/25/2012
• Issued: 04/19/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 01/25/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Kim, Jeongki, Yuk, Youngsoo, Kwak, Jinsam
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Thai
• Application Number:
  US13/981,466
• Publication Number:
  US 20130315074A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,546 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/00 Supervisory, monitoring or testing arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0216 using a pre-established activity schedule, e.g. traffic indication frame
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0219 where the power saving management affects multiple terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/0453 Resources in frequency domain, e.g. a carrier in FDMA
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/21 in the uplink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards the network
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/24 Transfer of terminal data
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 92/18 between terminal devices
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

Disclosed are a method for transmitting and receiving a power outage report and a device therefor. According to the present invention, a method for allowing a machine to machine (M2M) device to transmit a power outage report comprises a step of transmitting, to a base station, a first message which contains a bandwidth request (BR) index value defined in advance if a power outage occurs, wherein said BR index value defined in advance is allocated to indicate to said M2M device that the power outage has occurred.

Claims

1. A method of transmitting a power outage report at a machine-to-machine (M2M) device in a wireless communication system, the method comprising:

receiving, from a base station, a first message including a predefined bandwidth request (BR) index and a corresponding BR action which is used in case of a three step BR procedure of the M2M device in a connected state, wherein the first message is a dynamic service addition (DSA) request message, and the predefined BR index is used to indicate an abnormal power outage in the M2M device in the connected state;

transmitting, to the base station, a second message including the predefined BR index to indicate that the abnormal power outage has occurred in the M2M device; and

starting a timer, after transmitting the second message, to wait for a third message including an acknowledgement of the second message from the base station within a predetermined time.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein a value of the predefined BR index in a BR action field of the first message is set to 0b11.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein a state of the M2M device is a connected mode state.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the third message includes an indication indicating whether the M2M device should stop a bandwidth request process of the base station.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein when the indication indicates that the M2M device should not stop the bandwidth request process, the M2M device performs a remaining bandwidth request.

6. A method of receiving a power outage report at a base station in a wireless communication system, the method comprising:

transmitting, to a machine-to-machine (M2M) device, a first message including a predefined bandwidth request (BR) index and a corresponding BR action which is used in case of a three step BR procedure of the M2M device in a connected state, wherein the first message is a dynamic service addition (DSA) request message, and the predefined BR index is used to indicate an abnormal power outage in the M2M device in the connected state;

receiving, from the M2M device, a second message including the predefined BR index to indicate that the abnormal power outage has occurred in the M2M device; and

transmitting to the M2M device, a third message including an acknowledgement of the second message within a predetermined time.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein a value of the predefined BR index in a BR action field of the first message is set to 0b11.

8. A machine-to-machine (M2M) device of transmitting a power outage report in a wireless communication system, the M2M device comprising:

a receiver;

a transmitter; and

a processor configured to;

control the receiver to receive, from a base station, a first message including a predefined bandwidth request (BR) index and a corresponding BR action which is used in case of a three step BR procedure of the M2M device in a connected state, wherein the first message is a dynamic service addition (DSA) request message, and the predefined BR index is used to indicate an abnormal power outage in the M2M device in the connected state,

control the transmitter to transmit, to the base station, a second message including the predefined BR index to indicate that the abnormal power outage has occurred in the M2M device, and

start a timer, after transmitting the second message, to wait for a third message including an acknowledgement of the second message from the base station within a predetermined time.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein a value of the predefined BR index in a BR action field of the first message is set to 0b11.

10. A base station of receiving a power outage report at a base station in a wireless communication system, the base station comprising:

a transmitter;

a receiver; and

a processor configured to;

control the transmitter to transmit, to a machine-to-machine (M2M) device, a first message including a predefined bandwidth request (BR) index and a corresponding BR action which is used in case of a three step BR procedure of the M2M device in a connected state, wherein the first message is a dynamic service addition (DSA) request message, and the predefined BR index is used to indicate an abnormal power outage in the M2M device in the connected state,

control the receiver to receive, from the M2M device, a second message including the predefined BR index to indicate that the abnormal power outage has occurred in the M2M device, and

control the transmitter to transmit, to the M2M device, a third message including an acknowledgement of the second message within a predetermined time.

11. The base station of claim 10, wherein a value of the predefined BR index in a BR action field of the first message is set to 0b11.