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Communication condition information in a mobile terminal and network of a wireless communication system

AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.

InventorsIn Tae Hwang, Chong Yeop Park

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Abstract

A communication system which has a plurality of mobile terminals and a base station, each of the mobile terminals and/or base station comprising a medium access control sub-layer, upper layers of the medium access control sub-layer, and a lower layer of the medium access control sub-layer, wherein the medium access control sub-layer is configured to perform self-basic functions in response to basic function execution requests or functions associated with the upper layers or lower layer in response to requests therefrom. According to the present invention, the communication system can provide a compatible multimedia communication service even if an originating terminal and a terminating terminal employ different communication manners, they are available from different manufacturers or they are operated by different communication service operators.

Claims10

Dependent claims

A method for communicating condition information at a mobile terminal in a wireless communication system, the method comprising:

receiving, in a lower entity of the mobile terminal, a measurement request message from a network, the measurement request message requesting the mobile terminal to perform a channel condition measurement, wherein the channel condition measurement comprises measuring an interference level;
transmitting an indication message from the lower entity of the mobile terminal to an upper entity of the mobile terminal, the indication message indicating the received measurement request message requesting the mobile terminal to perform the channel condition measurement;
receiving, in the lower entity of the mobile terminal, from the upper entity of the mobile terminal a request to perform the channel condition measurement;
performing, at the lower entity of the mobile terminal, the channel condition measurement;
transmitting, from the lower entity of the mobile terminal, to the upper entity of the mobile terminal a result of the channel condition measurement;
receiving, in the lower entity of the mobile terminal, a measurement response from the upper entity of the mobile terminal requesting a transmission of a measurement response message;
and
transmitting, from the lower entity of the mobile terminal, the measurement response message to the network comprising information related to the channel condition measurement.

5 more elements

A method for communicating condition information in a wireless communication system, the method comprising:

receiving, in a lower entity of a network, a request message from an upper entity of the network, the request message requesting a channel condition measurement;
transmitting a measurement request message from the lower entity of the network to a mobile terminal requesting the mobile terminal to perform the channel condition measurement, wherein the channel condition measurement comprises measuring an interference level;
receiving, in the lower entity of the mobile terminal, the measurement request message from the network;
transmitting an indication message from the lower entity of the mobile terminal to an upper entity of the mobile terminal, the indication message indicating the received measurement request message requesting the mobile terminal to perform the channel condition measurement;
receiving, in the lower entity of the mobile terminal, from the upper entity of the mobile terminal a request to perform the channel condition measurement;
performing the channel condition measurement at the mobile terminal;
transmitting, from the lower entity of the mobile terminal, a measurement response message to the network comprising information related to the channel condition measurement;
and
receiving, in the lower entity of the network, the measurement response message from the mobile terminal.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 11/849,056Filed 31 Aug 2007 · continuation
Priority: KR 98-161966 May 1998
Published: US 2007/0291651 A120 Dec 2007
Granted: 25 Oct 2011
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification6 codes

H04W 24/00
Supervisory, monitoring or testing arrangements
H04L 43/0823
Monitoring or testing based on specific metrics, e.g. QoS, energy consumption or environmental parameters: errors, e.g. transmission errors
H04W 24/10
Supervisory, monitoring or testing arrangements: scheduling measurement reports ; Arrangements for measurement reports
H04W 74/00
Wireless channel access

Family

Application09/234,518Parent of this continuation · filed 21 Jan 1999
Application11/357,944Parent of this continuation · filed 22 Feb 2006
US 7,123,628 B1Parent of this continuation · filed 17 Oct 2006
US 2007/0291651 A1Pre-grant publication · published 20 Dec 2007
US 2006/0153237 A1Published application
US 8,045,583 B2This patent

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