Method and apparatus in mobile telecommunications system user equipment for managing congestion within the mobile telecommunications system
AssigneeBlackBerry Limited
InventorsOzgur Ekici, Muhammad Khaledul Islam, Andrew John Farnsworth
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for handling congestion in a mobile telecommunications system is described, the method comprising, at the user equipment monitoring messages from a cell for an indication of congestion and handing the congestion in a battery and signaling efficient manner. By one approach this comprises sending a first message to a cell, receiving a rejection (or failing to receive an acknowledgement of the message) within a period and in response, monitoring messages from the cell for an indication of congestion.
Claims21
A method in a user equipment, the method comprising, at the user equipment:
- sending a first message to a cell;
- receiving a rejection, or failing to receive an acknowledgement, of the first message within a period and in response:
- monitoring individual messages from the cell addressed to other individual user equipment devices for an indication of congestion;
- and
- sending a second message, related to the first message, if a criterion is satisfied dependent on the indication.
A method in a user equipment, the method comprising, at the user equipment:
- sending a first message to a cell;
- monitoring individual messages from the cell addressed to other individual user equipment devices for an indication of congestion related to the cell;
- and
- receiving a rejection, or failing to receive an acknowledgement, of the first message within a period and in response:
- monitoring the individual messages from the cell for the indication of congestion related to the cell;
- and
- when a criterion is satisfied dependent on the indication;
- moving to a radio off state.
A wireless telecommunications device comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a memory having stored therein one or more routines executable by the processor, the one or more routines being adapted to operate to
- send a first message to a cell;
- receive a rejection, or failing to receive an acknowledgement, of the first message within a period and in response:
- monitor individual messages from the cell addressed to other individual wireless telecommunications devices for an indication of congestion;
- and
- send a second message, related to the first message, if a criterion is satisfied dependent on the indication.
A computer-readable non-transitory medium having computer-executable instructions adapted to cause a user equipment device to:
- send a first message to a cell;
- receive a rejection, or failing to receive an acknowledgement, of the first message within a period and in response:
- monitor individual messages from the cell addressed to other individual user equipment devices for an indication of congestion;
- and
- send a second message, related to the first message, if a criterion is satisfied dependent on the indication.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.