Managing pages of an access terminal when the access terminal is engaged in a communication session within a wireless communications system
AssigneeQUALCOMM Incorporated
InventorsArvind Vardarajan Santhanam, Bongyong Song
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Abstract
At least one embodiment of the invention is directed to communicating in a wireless communications system, including monitoring a communication session on a first network, ignoring pages from a second network during the communication session, the first and second network configured for operation on different physical layers, and upon termination of the communication session over the first network, selectively sending a query to an application server to request information related to failed attempts by the application server to contact the access terminal on the second network during the communication session.
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A method of operating an access terminal that is configured to communicate with a wireless communications system, comprising:
- monitoring, on a first physical layer, a first communication session on a first network;
- receiving at least one page that is transmitted, on a second physical layer that is different than the first physical layer, to the access terminal from a second network during the first communication session;
- pausing the first communication session over the first network;
- sending a response to the at least one page over the second network;
- receiving a call announcement message on the second network that announces a second communication session on the second network;
- determining whether to transition from the first communication session on the first network to the second communication session announced on the second network;
- and
- selectively transitioning to the second communication session based on the determining.
A method of sending data in a wireless communications system, comprising:
- determining to send a call announcement message that announces a first communication session to a given access terminal;
- sending, to a first network from a second network, a request for location information of the given access terminal, the first network being engaged in a second communication session with the given access terminal when the request is sent;
- receiving the location information from the first network in response to the request;
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- sending, by the second network over a given physical layer that is different than a physical layer used by the first network, the call announcement message to the given access terminal in one or more serving areas of the wireless communications system based on the location information, the call announcement message being sent over the second network before a traffic channel is established on the second network for the given access terminal.
A method of operating an access terminal that is configured to communicate with a wireless communications system, comprising:
- monitoring, on a first physical layer, a first communication session on a first network;
- while monitoring the first communication session on the first network, periodically monitoring, on a second physical layer that is different from the first physical layer, a signaling channel of a second network;
- receiving a call announcement message over the signaling channel of the second network before establishing a traffic channel on the second network, the call announcement message announcing a second communication session on the second network;
- determining whether to transition from the first communication session on the first network to the second communication session announced on the second network;
- and
- selectively transitioning to the second communication session based on the determining.
A method of operating an access terminal that is configured to communicate with a wireless communications system, comprising:
- monitoring a communication session on a given network;
- dropping a connection to the given network;
- re-acquiring the connection to the given network after a given period of time;
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- upon re-acquiring the connection to the given network, selectively sending a query to an application server to request information related to one or more failed attempts by the application server to contact the access terminal on the given network during the given period of time when the connection to the given network was dropped.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.