Prioritized Display of Cell Broadcast Messages
AssigneeAT&T Mobility II LLC
InventorsMing Zhang, Jun Shen
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Abstract
Devices, systems, and methods for creating, procuring, and maintaining a priority scheme for cell broadcast messages. In an exemplary embodiment, the priority scheme includes a plurality of cell broadcast channels (CBCH) that are assigned logic groups, which in turn are assigned a priority level. Accordingly, cell broadcast (CB) messages with higher priority levels are displayed first on the receiving device.
Claims20
A method for prioritizing cell broadcast messages for presentation on a display of a mobile communications device in accordance with a dynamic priority scheme, the method comprising:
- loading the dynamic priority scheme into a memory of the mobile communications device, the dynamic priority scheme comprising at least two logic groups, each of which is assigned a priority level and each of which includes a plurality of cell broadcast channels (CBCHs), wherein each CBCH is associated with at least one of a plurality of message content types;
- receiving, at the mobile communications device, a cell broadcast message via a serving CBCH of the CBCHs, the cell broadcast message comprising message content and a cell broadcast message header with a message content identifier used to identify the message content as one of the plurality of message content types;
- determining, at the mobile communications device, based upon the message content identifier, a received message content type of the message content;
- comparing, at the mobile communications device, the received message content type to all message content types currently associated with the serving CBCH;
- determining, at the mobile communications device, that the received message content type is not currently associated with the serving CBCH;
- and
- updating, at the mobile communications device, the dynamic priority scheme to associate the received message content type with the serving CBCH.
A computer-readable memory of a mobile communications device operating in a wireless network, the computer-readable memory comprising computer-executable instructions for making a processor operable to:
- load the dynamic priority scheme into the computer-readable memory, the dynamic priority scheme comprising at least two logic groups, each of which is assigned a priority level and each of which includes a plurality of cell broadcast channels (CBCHs), wherein each CBCH is associated with at least one of a plurality of message content types;
- receive, via a transceiver of the mobile communications device, a cell broadcast message via a serving CBCH of the CBCHs, the cell broadcast message comprising message content and a cell broadcast message header with a message content identifier used to identify the message content as one of the plurality of message content types;
- determine based upon the message content identifier, a received message content type of the message content;
- compare the received message content type to all message content types currently associated with the serving CBCH;
- determine that the received message content type is not currently associated with the serving CBCH;
- and
- update the dynamic priority scheme to associate the received message content type with the serving CBCH.
A mobile communications device operating in a wireless network that supports cell broadcast messaging, the mobile communications device comprising:
- a transceiver for receiving cell broadcast messages from the wireless network;
- a display for displaying the cell broadcast messages received from the wireless network;
- a memory comprising instructions for making a processor operable to:
- load a dynamic priority scheme into the memory, the dynamic priority scheme comprising at least two logic groups, each of which is assigned a priority level and each of which includes a plurality of cell broadcast channels (CBCHs), wherein each CBCH is associated with one of a plurality of message content types;
- receive, via the transceiver, a cell broadcast message via a serving CBCH of the CBCHs, the cell broadcast message comprising message content and a cell broadcast message header with a message content identifier used to identify the message content as one of the plurality of message content types;
- determine based upon the message content identifier, a received message content type of the message content;
- compare the received message content type to all message content types currently associated with the serving CBCH;
- determine that the received message content type is not currently associated with the serving CBCH;
- and
- update the dynamic priority scheme to associate the received message content type with the serving CBCH.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.