Method and device for paging a machine to machine device
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorsShin Horng Wong, Martin Warwick Beale
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Abstract
A terminal device for use with a wireless telecommunications network, the terminal device including a transceiver, and a controller configured to control the transceiver to begin receiving, during one of a plurality of periodic paging occasions associated with the terminal device, a scheduling signal scheduling a paging message for paging one or more terminal devices of the wireless telecommunications network, and determine whether a value of a characteristic of the received scheduling signal matches a value of a characteristic of a scheduling signal associated with the one of the plurality of periodic paging occasions associated with the terminal device.
Claims18
A terminal device for use with a wireless telecommunications network, the terminal device comprising:
- a transceiver;
- and
- a controller operable:
- to control the transceiver to begin receiving, during one of a plurality of periodic paging occasions associated with the terminal device, a scheduling signal scheduling a paging message for paging one or more terminal devices of the wireless telecommunications network, each periodic paging occasion associated with the terminal device being associated with a value of a characteristic of the scheduling signal which is different from a value of the characteristic of the scheduling signal associated with one or more of each of the other periodic paging occasions associated with the terminal device and each of periodic paging occasions associated with one or more other terminal devices of the wireless telecommunications network;
- to determine whether the value of the characteristic of the received scheduling signal matches the value of the characteristic of the scheduling signal associated with the one of the plurality of periodic paging occasions associated with the terminal device;
- and
- if the value of the characteristic of the received scheduling signal matches the value of the characteristic of the scheduling signal associated with the one of the plurality of periodic paging occasions associated with the terminal device, to control the transceiver to receive the paging message scheduled by the received scheduling message,
- wherein the scheduling signal is distinct from the paging message.
A method of operating a terminal device for use with a wireless telecommunications network, the method comprising:
- controlling a transceiver of the terminal device to begin receiving, during one of a plurality of periodic paging occasions associated with the terminal device, a scheduling signal scheduling a paging message for paging one or more terminal devices of the wireless telecommunications network, each periodic paging occasion associated with the terminal device being associated with a value of a characteristic of the scheduling signal which is different from a value of the characteristic of the scheduling signal associated with one or more of each of the other periodic paging occasions associated with the terminal device and each of periodic paging occasions associated with one or more other terminal devices of the wireless telecommunications network;
- determining whether the value of the characteristic of the received scheduling signal matches the value of the characteristic of the scheduling signal associated with the one of the plurality of periodic paging occasions associated with the terminal device;
- and
- if the value of the characteristic of the received scheduling signal matches the value of the characteristic of the scheduling signal associated with the one of the plurality of periodic paging occasions associated with the terminal device, controlling the transceiver to receive the paging message scheduled by the received scheduling message
- wherein the scheduling signal is distinct from the paging message.
A terminal device for use with a wireless telecommunications network, the terminal device comprising:
- a transceiver;
- and
- a controller operable:
- to control the transceiver to begin receiving, during one of a plurality of periodic paging occasions associated with the terminal device, a scheduling signal scheduling a paging message for paging the terminal device;
- wherein
- the scheduling signal is repeatedly transmitted by the network a predetermined number of times over a predetermined plurality of separate time periods, each of the separate time periods having a duration less than or equal to a time period between consecutive periodic paging occasions associated with the terminal device and with any other terminal device of the wireless telecommunications network with which a plurality of periodic paging occasions is associated, and one of the separate time periods being during a periodic paging occasion or between periodic paging occasions other than the one of the plurality of periodic paging occasions during which the transceiver is controlled to begin receiving the scheduling signal;
- and
- the controller is operable to control the transceiver to receive the repetitions of the scheduling signal over the predetermined plurality of separate time periods.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.