Method of informing mobile user terminals camped on a cell of a base station that a service is unavailable, a base station, and a network
AssigneeLucent Technologies Inc.
InventorsQiang Cao, Patrick Georges Venceslas Charriere, Seau Sian Lim
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Abstract
A method is provided of informing mobile user terminals (12) camped on a cell of a base station (8) of a radio telecommunications network that a service is unavailable, such that a mobile user terminal (12) desirous of said service is handed over to another cell which provides said service. The method comprises informing the terminals (12) that selectably at least one of circuit-switched services (4) and packet-switched services (6) are unavailable.
Claims10
A method of informing at least one mobile user terminal that a service is unavailable such that the at least one mobile user terminal desirous of the service is handed over to another cell for providing the service, the method comprising:
- informing the at least one mobile user terminal that selectably at least one of circuit-switched services and packet-switched services are unavailable.
A communications network comprising a base station operative to inform mobile user terminals camped on a cell of the base station that a service is unavailable such that a mobile user terminal desirous of said service is handed over to another cell which provides said services, wherein the base station comprises means operative to inform the terminals that selectably at least one of circuit-switched services and packet-switched services are unavailable.
A base station of a radio telecommunications network operative to inform mobile user terminals camped on a cell of the base station that a service is unavailable such that a mobile user terminal desirous of said service is handed over to another cell which provides said services characterised in that the base station comprises means operative to inform the terminals that selectably at least one of circuit-switched services and packet-switched services are unavailable.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.