Method and system for network support for optimized paging of communication devices
AssigneeAlcatel Lucent
InventorsDavid S. Benco, Paresh Kanabar, John C. Nguyen
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Abstract
A method in one application of maintaining a paging status associated with a communication device. The method also comprises paging the communication device based on the paging status. A system in one application comprising a communications controller configured to store a paging status that is associated with a communication device. The system further comprising a communications manager communicatively coupled to the communications controller. Also, at least one data store is communicatively coupled to the communications controller. The communications controller pages a communication device based on a paging status. The paging status is stored in one of the at least one data store.
Claims18
A method comprising the steps of:
- maintaining a paging status of a communication device that indicates whether the communication device is ready to receive pages, wherein an inactive paging status indicates that the communication device is not ready to receive pages and an active paging status indicates that the communication device is ready to receive pages;
- setting the paging status based on a received no page response message, or a received paging status message, where the paging status message comprises at least one of a power-up registration message or a location based registration message;
- and
- determining whether to initiate paging of the communication device based on the paging status, and paging the communication device accordingly;
- wherein the step of maintaining the paging status comprises:
- maintaining a page failure total of the communication device;
- maintaining a page failure threshold;
- comparing the page failure total and the page failure threshold;
- and
- setting the paging status to inactive, if the page failure total exceeds the page failure threshold.
A system comprising:
- a communications controller configured to store a paging status of a communication device that indicates whether the communication device is ready to receive pages, wherein an inactive paging status indicates that the communication device is not ready to receive pages and an active paging status indicates that the communication device is ready to receive pages;
- and
- wherein the communications controller determines whether to initiate paging of the communication device based on the paging status and pages the communication device accordingly;
- wherein the communications controller is configured to set the paging status based on a received no page response message or a received paging status message, where the paging status message comprises at least one of a power-up registration message or a location registration message;
- wherein the communications controller is configured to:
- maintain a page failure total of the communication device;
- maintain a page failure threshold;
- compare the page failure total and the page failure threshold;
- set the paging status to inactive if the page failure total exceeds the page failure threshold, wherein inactive indicates that the communication device is not ready to receive pages;
- and
- set the paging status to active and reset the page failure total upon receipt of the paging status message.
A system comprising:
- a mobile switching center (MSC) that receives a no page response message and in response to receiving the no page response message the MSC increments a page failure total of a communication device,
- wherein when the page failure total is greater than a page failure threshold the MSC sets a paging status of the communication device to inactive, where inactive indicates that the communication device is not ready to receive pages;
- upon receipt of a power-up registration message, the MSC sets the paging status to active, where active indicates that the communication device is ready to receive pages;
- and
- upon receipt of a request to page the communication device, the MSC pages the communication device only if the paging status is active.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.