Method and a system for providing a certain quality of service to a mobile station in a mobile communication system
AssigneeTelefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
InventorAnders Andersson
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Abstract
A method and a system are disclosed for providing a certain quality of service to a user-device within a mobile telecommunication system. The telecommunication system comprises one or several user-registers linked to a user-device, and one or several priority-tables associated with an area covered by the telecommunication system. A user-register is compared with a priority-table when a user-device linked to said user register enters the area associated with said priority-table. The user-device can then be provided with a certain quality of service depending on a possible correspondence between the user-register and the priority-table.
Claims13
A method for providing a certain quality of service to a user-device in a mobile telecommunication system, which system comprises different coverage areas, and a plurality of user-devices each linked to a user-register, which method comprises the steps of:
- assigning one or more priority-groups to the user-register of the user-device, each priority-group being unique for a group of multiple users,
- providing at least one priority-table associated with one or several coverage areas of the system that includes multiple priority-levels, each priority-level associated with a quality of service and assigned one or more priority-groups, and
- providing said priority-table with an area-identifier that associates the priority-table with a coverage area,
- including the user-register in the user-device
- distributing the priority-table to the user-device when the user-device enters a coverage area associated with the priority table,
- the user-device then comparing the distributed priority-table with the user register in the user-device, and
- if one of the priority-groups defined in the user-register and one of the priority-groups in the distributed priority-table match, then assigning to the user device the quality of service associated with a priority-level for the one priority-group in the priority-table so that the one priority group of multiple users can be provided with the assigned quality of service, and
- determining limitations on the quality of service in the user-device such that the user-device determines whether it is allowed to establish a traffic channel.
A mobile telecommunication system, comprising:
- different coverage areas,
- a plurality of user-devices each including a corresponding user-register,
- the user-register of a user-device being assigned one or more priority-groups, each priority-group being unique for a group of multiple users,
- multiple priority-tables, each associated with one or several coverage areas of the system and provided with multiple priority-levels, each priority level being associated with a quality of service and assigned to one or more priority-groups, each priority-table having an area-identifier that associates the priority-table with a coverage area,
- the user device being configured to identify one of the priority-tables by matching a present coverage area for the user-device with one of the coverage areas associated with the priority-tables using the area-identifier,
- the user device being configured to match one of the priority-groups defined in the user-register with one of the priority-groups in the identified priority-table, and
- means for assigning, based on the match, the quality of service associated with the priority-level for the one priority-group in the identified priority table to the user-device so that the one priority-group of multiple users can be provided with a particular quality of service,
- wherein said user device is further arranged to determine whether it is allowed to establish a traffic channel.
A mobile telecommunication system, wherein a certain quality of service is provided by at least one of a core network (CN) or a radio network controller (RNC) to a user-device within the system, which system comprises different coverage areas, and a plurality of user-devices each including a corresponding user-register, which system comprises:
- the user-register of a user-device assigned with one or more priority-groups, each priority-group being unique for a group of multiple users,
- multiple priority-tables, each associated with one or several coverage areas of the system and provided with multiple priority-levels, each priority level being associated with a quality of service and assigned to one or more priority-groups, each priority-table having an area-identifier that associates the priority-table with a coverage area,
- wherein the user-device is configured to:
- identify a present coverage area for said user-device,
- identify one of the priority-tables by matching the present coverage area for the user-device with one of the coverage areas associated with the priority-tables using the area-identifier, and
- match a priority-group defined in the user-register and a priority-group in the identified priority-table and have a quality of service associated with a priority-level for the matched priority-group in the identified priority-table assigned to the user-device so that the matched priority group of multiple users can be provided with a particular quality of service,
- wherein said user device is further arranged to determine whether it is allowed to establish a traffic channel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.