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US20030104832A1
US20030104832A1 US10/240,461 US24046102A US2003104832A1 US 20030104832 A1 US20030104832 A1 US 20030104832A1 US 24046102 A US24046102 A US 24046102A US 2003104832 A1 US2003104832 A1 US 2003104832A1
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    • H04W76/00—Connection management
    • H04W76/40—Connection management for selective distribution or broadcast
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    • H04M—TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04M1/00—Substation equipment, e.g. for use by subscribers
    • H04M1/72—Mobile telephones; Cordless telephones, i.e. devices for establishing wireless links to base stations without route selection
    • H04M1/724—User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones
    • H04M1/72403—User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality
    • H—ELECTRICITY
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    • H04W—WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
    • H04W52/00—Power management, e.g. Transmission Power Control [TPC] or power classes
    • H04W52/02—Power saving arrangements
    • H04W52/0209—Power saving arrangements in terminal devices
    • H04W52/0212—Power saving arrangements in terminal devices managed by the network, e.g. network or access point is leader and terminal is follower
    • H04W52/0219—Power saving arrangements in terminal devices managed by the network, e.g. network or access point is leader and terminal is follower where the power saving management affects multiple terminals
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04W—WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
    • H04W52/00—Power management, e.g. Transmission Power Control [TPC] or power classes
    • H04W52/02—Power saving arrangements
    • H04W52/0209—Power saving arrangements in terminal devices
    • H04W52/0225—Power saving arrangements in terminal devices using monitoring of external events, e.g. the presence of a signal
    • H04W52/0248—Power saving arrangements in terminal devices using monitoring of external events, e.g. the presence of a signal dependent on the time of the day, e.g. according to expected transmission activity
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04W—WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
    • H04W84/00—Network topologies
    • H04W84/02—Hierarchically pre-organised networks, e.g. paging networks, cellular networks, WLAN [Wireless Local Area Network] or WLL [Wireless Local Loop]
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    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y02—TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
    • Y02D—CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES IN INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES [ICT], I.E. INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES AIMING AT THE REDUCTION OF THEIR OWN ENERGY USE
    • Y02D30/00—Reducing energy consumption in communication networks
    • Y02D30/70—Reducing energy consumption in communication networks in wireless communication networks

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  • the present invention relates to a communications network, a method of operating that network and apparatus for receiving information transmitted by that network.
  • the present invention has the object of ameliorating the above disadvantages.
  • a method of transmitting information to a plurality of users over a bidirectional cellular communication network which network comprises a plurality of geographically dispersed transceiving stations comprising: receiving digital data representing the information; and transmitting the digital data from at least two of the geographically dispersed transceivers.
  • the present inventors have realised that a very large proportion of the information that users of digital mobile telephones require is going to be of interest to a great many of the users of the telephone network. For example, television schedules, share and currency prices and gambling odds for sporting events. It is particularly this dynamic information that users will want to access “on the move”.
  • a transceiver for use with a cellular communications network which network comprises one or more transceiving stations, the transceiver comprising means for, in a first mode, registering with the or a transceiving station and for responding to communications destined for the transceiver; and in a second mode, means for operating receiver circuitry only.
  • receiver circuitry operates at a very much lower power than transmit circuitry battery life in this mode can be ten times longer than that in the “on” mode. It is possible, of course, to receive the broadcast signals in the “on” mode as well.
  • the network operators also have the opportunity of providing another class of service in which the subscriber is provided with a receiver only to access the “broadcast” information without having access to “normal” use of the network. Because of the much-reduced battery power required, the subscriber unit can be made very small and very cheap.
  • a receiver for use with a communication network which network comprises a one or more transceiving stations, the receiver comprising means for monitoring at least a control channel of signals transmitted from the or a transceiving station; and receiving digital data in response to a predetermined signal on the control channel.
  • the receiver comprises a transceiver whose transmit circuitry has been disabled. This allows the huge economies of scale available to mobile telephone manufacturers to be exploited. The modification may usually be made in hardware or software, or, where required, both.
  • a fourth aspect of the present invention there is provided a method of modifying a transceiver manufactured for use in a cellular telephone, the method comprising: permanently disabling the transmitter portion of the transceiver circuit.
  • a transceiving station for a cellular communications network comprising: means for transmitting digital data on a virtual channel to a plurality of users.
  • a cellular communications network comprising a plurality of transceiving stations, each transceiving station comprising: means for transmitting digital data on a virtual channel to a plurality of users.
  • FIG. 1 shows receivers and transceivers receiving broadcasts from a land based cellular communications network
  • FIG. 2 shows a cellular telephone in accordance with an embodiment of the invention being used to access schedule information for broadcast media
  • FIG. 3 shows a block schematic diagram of a cellular telephone transceiver and a modification thereto in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the invention.
  • FIG. 1 shows three cells C 1 , C 2 , C 3 of a cellular transceiver system each having a respective transceiving station T 1 , T 2 , T 3 .
  • the cells are illustrated as hexagonal areas (as is traditional) but, of course, in practice the areas served will be irregular in shape and generally overlap somewhat.
  • the network may operate under GSM, GPRS, EDGE, UMTS, CDMA-One, I-Mode, IS-136, CDMA-2000 or any other suitable standards. While the invention can readily be implemented on packet-mode systems it may equally be implemented in circuit-mode systems.
  • a regular digital mobile telephone 10 is shown in cell C 1 and this telephone is “on” and so is registered with that cell of the network.
  • This telephone can make calls, receive calls, request information using the Wireless Application Protocol (W AP) and so on.
  • W AP Wireless Application Protocol
  • the telephone is arranged to monitor a particular channel amongst those transmitted in cell C 1 .
  • This is preferably a paging control channel but it may be a logical or physical channel as desired.
  • This channel comprises the Broadcast information channel in accordance with one aspect of the invention. Where a channel is constantly allocated then those subscribers who want to access the broadcast information can activate their phones to monitor that channel. Alternatively, the phones may do this automatically and store the latest transmission pertaining to each type of information.
  • the data may be encoded to ensure that only those subscribers that pay for the service may access it.
  • the phone can download it without having to log onto the network (with all of the power consumption and bandwidth consumption issues that that entails).
  • the data will be stored in the on-board memory of the telephone and retrieved at the user's convenience by operation of the buttons on the phone to navigate through the various pieces of information stored.
  • the information may be a broadcast WML deck over WAP or any other suitable format.
  • cell C 2 there is a modified mobile telephone 12 which is provided with another mode of operation in addition to those two normally provided on digital mobile telephones.
  • a further mode is provided which can best be described as “eavesdropping”.
  • the transmit circuitry of the phone is powered down and the phone no longer registers with the network. The removal of the necessity of having to register periodically can extend battery life by ten times that of “on” or “standby” mode, even if no calls are made.
  • a receive-only unit 14 which may pick up the Broadcast massages but, having no transmitter, cannot log onto the network for making calls.
  • a unit may be made very compact because only enough battery power to receive need be provided.
  • a receiver may be provided as an accessory (or plug-in card) for a personal computer, especially a portable computer, to allow cheap and up-to the minute downloading of share information and the like.
  • the network operator may modify their transceiving stations and transmission network technology to allow transmission of messages to “virtual” network users in broadcast mode, where the transmission of non-terminated messages is not covered in the cellular specification.
  • the information transmitted over the cellular network may comprise or include identification details for suitably-equipped mobile telephones to obtain information over other, parallel broadcast links—for example the use of Eureka-147 data channel to broadcast WML stacks to phones equipped with suitable radio frequency circuitry and demodulation.
  • FIG. 2 shows a mobile telephone modified in accordance with an aspect of the invention being used in conjunction with a broadcast receiver, in this case a television receiver, 20 .
  • a channel indicator 22 on the television shows that the television is tuned to channel 5 and a news program is showing at 1:50 p.m.
  • the viewer also has a mobile telephone 24 equipped to receive broadcast data comprising television schedules. These are provided to the operator of the communication network regularly by the broadcaster or schedule provision service. Preferably this happens frequently so that late changes to the schedule may be advised to the user.
  • the schedule for channel 5 is displayed to the user on the LCD 26 of the telephone. The user can then see that the news continues until 2 p.m. and that a Motor Show Special follows. Of course the user can equally check the schedule for other channels, different times and so on.
  • FIG. 2 shows television schedule information many different classes of information may beneficially be broadcast in accordance with the invention.
  • Some particular examples are odds for horse-race betting, share prices and travel information.
  • broadcasting the information in a number of geographically dispersed cells then rather than have a number of users in each cell of the network accessing this information personally, their phone can automatically download the latest information regardless of their location, so it will be immediately available when required.
  • Geographically-dependent information such as weather conditions may be transmitted only in those cells for which it is appropriate.
  • the received information can be stored by the telephone, or receiver, for later use.
  • a menu system may provide for ease of access, and stored information may be updated automatically when re-broadcast.
  • the system is particularly suitable for transmitting information relating to current events, as described in WO 99/04568, the contents of which are incorporated herein by reference.
  • information on price or availability of products being displayed in a TV program may be transmitted, and displayed at the appropriate time on the telephone display.
  • the telephone may be adapted to receive an access telephone number incorporated in the transmitted information. If the user wishes to purchase an item shown on the TV, details of which are being transmitted via the cellular network, he can immediately call the number to place an order.
  • Means may be provided to seamlessly switch the telephone or receiver to a transmit mode, to establish a voice or data connection. This could be provided by a one button user operation and/or by software in the receiver and/or code in the received signal. The user is thus enabled to respond easily to any suggestion to purchase an item. Equally, the telephone/receiver may be triggered to transmit information regarding past or current usage etc., without disturbing the user.
  • FIG. 3 shows a block schematic diagram of a mobile telephone transceiver 30 in accordance with an embodiment of the invention.
  • An antenna 32 is connected to a circulator whose purpose is to route signals from a transmitter 36 to the antenna and received signals to a receiver 38 .
  • the transmitter and receiver are both connected to a controller 40 which will usually comprise a programmed microprocessor together with the necessary interfaces and so on.
  • Connected to the controller are a read only memory (ROM) 42 and a random access memory (RAM) 44 .
  • the ROM stores the operating software for the controller 40 while the RAM stores, among other things, the information received via the broadcast channel from the mobile telephone network.
  • Each element of the transceiver is shown as having a power supply depicted by short lead lines and ⁇ symbols.
  • the positive lead line is provided with a switch 46 .
  • a switch 46 This is really intended to symbolise this aspect of the invention because the telephone will usually be provided with a means of powering-down the transmitter under software control.
  • the battery life may be extended by ten times or more.
  • the power may be removed from the receive circuitry and even the controller to further enhance battery life.
  • a low-power timer circuit may, as is well known, be used to “wake up” the circuitry at appropriate intervals.
  • the channel or channels to be monitored may change over time or be in different cells of the network.
  • the network is therefore preferably provided with the means to transmit control information to the telephones within the cell to instruct them to commence monitoring, for example, a different channel or at a different listening period.
  • Information may be transmitted intermittently and/or repetitively and may be transmitted over a variety of channels, for example as those channels become available from ‘normal’ use—so that only ‘spare’ network capacity is made use of. Packets of information may be identified to avoid repetitive loading of the same information. Where a number of channels are transmitted on simultaneously, identifiers or a menu may be transmitted to enable the receiver to locate automatically the appropriate channel for information requested by the user or to follow when channels are being switched. Thus the user may need to lock on to an information stream relevant to a program being broadcast on BBC 1 if that stream carries a high information content to suit the program.
  • this connection is broken permanently—for example by programming the ROM of the unit never to activate the transmitter 36 .
  • this connection is broken in the further mode. The break is temporary so that the transmitter can again be used when the phone is again switched “on”.
  • the described data is text information intended for display to the user (under control of that user as appropriate) this need not be the case in practice.
  • the payload of the system may be, for example, an audio signal transmitted in MP3 format or other digital signals.
  • a blind person can use their mobile phone to receive news, weather reports and so on that are read out to them.

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