GB2363035A - Information sharing in a mobile phone network in which a control node maintains a list of terminals which conform to at least one predetermined criterion - Google Patents
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Abstract
In a mobile radio network, more particularly a cellular telecommunications network, one or more control nodes e.g. node 5 are provided. Each control node is operative to create and dynamically maintain lists of particular mobile terminals ("neighbours") within range which conform to particular criterion or to particular criteria which is or are specific to each such list. In this way, therefore, information to be shared with mobile terminals conforming to particular criteria can be directed to those mobile terminals, using the lists maintained by the control nodes. It is not necessary for a central point in the network to be involved in monitoring the mobile terminals within the network and maintaining lists of them. For example, a supermarket may wish to transmit special offers to mobile terminals within its location and which conform to some other criteria (e.g. they have asked to receive such special offers and their subscription conforms to a particular tariff class). A list of such mobile terminals can be created and maintained by a control node located at the supermarket (or, for example, at each of a chain of supermarkets) instead of centrally.
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2363035 1 TRANSMISSION AND RECEPTION OF INFORMATION IN A MOBILE
RADIO,NETWORK The invention relates to the transmission and reception of information in a mobile radio network, and more p2xticularly, for example, to the transmission and reception of such information where the network is a cellular telecommunications network.
Increasingly, such networks are being used not only for the transmission and reception of voice messages but also data messages. More particularly, it is increasingly desired in such networks to transmit shared messages to particular sets or sub-sets of terminals within the network.
According to the invention, there is provided an information sharing arrangement for a mobile radio network, in which a control node in the network is operative to create and maintain a list of mobile terminals within the network which conform to at least one predetermined criterion, enabling information to be shared with the mobile terminals in that list.
According to the invention, there is also provided a method of information sharing in a mobile radio network, including the step of locally creating and maintaining a list of mobile terminals within the network which conform to at least one predetermined criterion, enabling information to be shared with the mobile terminals in that list.
2 Arrangements and methods according to the invention for transmitting and receiving shared information within a cellular tel ecommuni cations network will now be described, by way of example only, with reference to the accompanying diagrammatic drawings in which:
Figure 1 illustrates one of the arrangements, illustrating the transmission of information to mobile terminals within part of a cellular network; and Figure 2 is a flow chart for explaining the operation of the arrangement.
In the arrangements to be described, a cellular network is conventionally organised into cells with base stations therein which are in radio communication with mobile subscriber terminals, by means of which users can exchange voice and data messages with other terminals. Such other terminals may be other mobile terminals within the same or a different cell, in the same or a different mobile network, or, for example, may be fixed terminals in a public switched telephone network. As a mobile terminal moves within its network, it will move out of range of a particular base station and into range with an adjacent base station and the voice or data call will be handed over from the first base station to the second base station.
As so far described, such voice or data calls are individual voice or data calls originating 3 in one terminal and being transmitted to a specific other terminal (or possibly more than one other specific terminal in the case of a conference call). However, it may be desired to transmit voice or data information in a broadcast or shared mode within the network; that is, a message is originated at a particular point inside or outside the network and is intended to be shared with some of the terminals within the network (provided that they are switched by their users into a suitable receiving mode). Such messages may, for example, be informative (providing local traffic information, for example) or of a more commercial nature (advertising locally available facilities for example). The arrangements and methods to be described in more detail facilitate the transmission and reception of such shared messages.
When a network or part of a network is operating in an informationsharing mode, it is desirable that shared messages should be directed only to those mobile terminals for which the messages are appropriate - for example, only to those mobile terminals who can use or may be interested in those messages. In accordance with a feature of the invention, therefore, the network has at least one control "node", indicated at 5 in Figure 1. Node 5 may be a base station, a particular mobile terminal, a fixed terminal, or take any other suitable form, but is arranged to carry out the particular operations to be described in more detail. The control node may be fixed in relation to a particular environment - that is, geographically fixed or fixed relative to a moving environment such as a train or plane. However, this is not essential. The control node may act as such permanently or only temporarily, and in the latter case, it can pass on its special functions 4 to another base station or terminal temporarily or permanently which then acts a,control node.
The main function of the control node is to create and maintain one or more lists of other nodes or "neighbours" (normally other mobile terminals 6, as shown in Figure 1) which conform to at least one predetermined criterion, thereby enabling the sharing of information with all the neighbours in a particular one of the lists.
The information to be shared may originate within the control node or at some other source such as a central point 8 in the network, as will be described in more detail below.
A control node may create and maintain a single list of neighbours - that is, a list of neighbours all conforming with a single predetermined criterion or a single set of predetermined criteria - but in the general case, it creates and maintains a plurality of such lists, each comprising neighbours conforming to a respective criterion or a respective plurality of predetermined criteria. In the latter case, some of the neighbours may exist in more than one of the lists and/or a list may comprise a subset, only, of the neighbours in a larger list.
Examples of criteria which can be used by the control node in order to create and maintain respective lists of neighbours are:- (a) Neighbours having a particular -ID: for example, neighbours having predetermined IMS1s ("International Mobile Subscriber Identities"). Thus, the control node would simply maintain a list of particular IMS1s. When activated to share information with the neighbours in that list, it would simply address each of them using the respective IMSIs.
(b) Serving network node ID: for example, neighbours served by a particular base station.
(c) Type of terminal: for example, neighbours having single band or dual band terminals, neighbours having terminals made by specific manufacturers, WAP enabled terminals.
(d) Relative position: Here, the control node could maintain a list of all neighbours having a particular position in relation to the control node for example, being located within a predetermined range of the control node.
(e) Received 12ower, liath loss, background noise etc.: Here, the control node would maintair a list of neighbours from which it receives at least a predetermined amount of power or from which there exist not more than a predetermined path loss or background noise.
6 (f) Tariff c ass: Here, the control node maintains a list of neighbours according to their tariff class - for example, mobiles on a monthly subscription tariff, mobiles on a monthly subscription tariff allowing them at least a predetermined bundle of call time, or "PAY AS YOU TALK" (trade mark) subscribers.
(h) Number of neighbours: here, the control node maintains a list of a predetermined number of neighbours.
(i) Subscription details: For example, particular subscribers may have asked to be provided with certain information automatically (traffic information, information about special supermarket offers, entertainment information).
0) Velocity of the terminals: here, the control node maintains a list of neighbours based on the velocity of the terminals or the relative velocity of the terminals.
It will be understood that these are merely examples of the different criteria which can be used by the control node to establish respective lists of neighbours.
In order to create and maintain such lists of neighbours, the control node may be provided with access to a network database containing subscription information relating to the mobile terminals in the network. For example, if the control node is acting to create and 7 maintain a list according to tariff class (see (f) above), it may operate by determining the IMSI of neighbours within a predetermined range, and it will then check the tariff class of each such neighbour using information accessed from the central database using this IMSI.
The control node may be pre-programmed to create a particular list or lists, and to update this list or these lists automatically at predetermined regular intervals. Instead, or in addition, the control node may be activated from a central point or node in the network to create and/or update a particular list or lists.
The information to be shared among the neighbours within a particular list is generated by an information source which may be the control node or may a separate source. For example, the information may be generated separately and fed to the control node from central point in the network. In a more particular example, the control node might be fixed transceiver within a supermarket. Using a suitable MMI (man-machine interface) such as a keyboard, an authorised user (a supermarket manager for example) can input inforTnation into the control node (concerning special offers available in the supennarket, asking that the information be shared with (for example) all neighbours within a predetermined distance of the supermarket which (a) have registered as desiring to receive such special offers, and (b) fall within a particular tariff class. The control node then transmits the information to all neighbours in the relevant list. There could be control nodes in each branch of a chain of supermarkets, enabling information to be input by the 8 head office of the chain and then transmitted to particular mobile terminals currently local to each such branch.
The network may employ several or many control nodes, each creating and dynamically maintaining lists of neighbours according to predetermined criteria. If a particular information source wishes to share information of a predetermined type with neighbours conforming to particular criteria, therefore, it can arrange for this information to be transmitted from a central point in the network to each of the control nodes. Each of the control nodes then acts to share the information with all the neighbours in the relevant list which it is maintaining, that is, with all the neighbours conforming to the predetermined criteria. It is therefore not necessary for any central point in the network to establish lists of neighbours corresponding to predetermined criteria; this work is carried out by the individual control nodes which can perform this function optimally as compared with the central point in the network, particularly where the actual geographical position of the neighbours is at least one of the criteria for a particular list. However, each control node may be arranged to transmit its lists to a central point in the network either at predetermined times or on demand. In this way, therefore, the central point in the network could be made aware that a particular control node has a list of particular neighbours conforming to a particular criterion or particular criteria. The central point in the network could then decide to transmit information to that control node for sharing with neighbours in that particular list. According to the type of information, therefore, the central point in the network would transmit it only to particular control nodes which 9 held a list of relevant neighbours.
Instead, however, the control node could transmit to the central point in the network not only information confirming that it holds a list of neighbours conforming to particular criteria but also information specifically identifying the neighbours within that list (e.g. by their IMSIs). It is then possible for the central point in the network or for some other originating point, to share information directly with the neighbours in a particular list without using the control nodes in this process. Thus, the control nodes would act merely to create and dynamically maintain lists of the neighbours but would not be involved in actual transmission of the shared messages.
In this way, therefore, a central point in the network can provide appropriate localised information to subscribers conforming to particular criteria and located in a particular geographical area or in a particular environment (e.g. on a particular train) without itself having any knowledge of the position or identity of those neighbours.
It may also be possible for neighbours within a particular list maintained by a particular control node to share information among themselves: thus, for example, one of the neighbours within such a list may be authorised to generate information and then to share it with all the other neighbours in the particular list. This sharing process could be carried out by the control node acting on behalf of the initiating node, which would therefore not itself know the identities of all the other neighbours within that list.
Figure 2 shows a flow chart illustrating the processes which may be carried out by a control node for updating a particular neighbour list.
The procedure starts at A. The control node detects neighbours within range and receives, measures if necessary, and temporarily stores identification information (neighbour ID, received power, clock offset etc.) (Step B).
At Step C, the control node checks each of the neighbours which has been identified at Step B and determines whether or not it complies with one or more predetermined criteria corresponding to a particular list. If a particular neighbour does not conform to this criterion or to these criteria (Step D), it is discarded (Step E). However, if it does fall within the criterion or particular criteria (Step F), the relevant current neighbour list is checked (Step G) to determine whether or not that particular neighbour is already in that list. If it is already in the list (Step H), then a time stamp for that neighbour is updated (Step 1) to record the fact that the list has been updated at that time in relation to that neighbour.
If that particular neighbour does not exist in the list (Step J), the neighbour is added to the list (Step K) and this entry is time stamped.
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1. An information sharing arrangement for a mobile radio network, in which a control node in the network is operative to create and maintain a list of mobile terminals within the network which conform to at least one predetermined criterion, enabling information to be shared with the mobile terminals in that list.
2. An arrangement according to claim 1, in which the network comprises a plurality of the control nodes each operative to create a respective said list in relation to mobile terminals having a predeterTnined relationship to that control node.
3. An arrangement according to claim 2, in which the predetermined relationship is a relationship of radio range.
4. An arrangement according to any preceding claim, in which the or each control node is operative to create a plurality of the lists, each list being a list of mobile terminals conforming to at least one predetermined criterion which is respective to that list.
5. An arrangement according to claim 4, in which the mobile terminals within at least one of the lists are mobile terminals conforming to a respective plurality of predetermined criteria.
12 6. An arrangement according to claim 4 or 5, in which the mobile terminals in at least.one list are a sub-set of the mobile terminals in at least one other of the lists.
7. An arrangement according to any preceding claim, in which the or each control node includes means for accessing subscriber data stored in or in relation to the network for use in creating and/or maintaining the or at least one of the lists.
8. An arrangement according to any preceding claim, in which the or each control node is operative to transmit data relating to the or at least one of the lists to a central point in the network.
9. An arrangement according to any preceding claim, including transmitting means responsive to a source of information which is to be shared with mobile terminals conforming to a predetermined criterion or to predetermined criteria to transmit the information to mobile terminals in a corresponding one of the lists.
10. An arrangement according to claim 9, in which the transmitting means includes the control node which is maintaining the said corresponding list.
An arrangement according to claim 10, including a man-machine interface associated with the control node which is maintaining the said corresponding list to enable input of the information to the control node.
13 12. An arrangement according to any preceding claim, in which the or each control mode is operative from time to time to update the or each list.
13. An arrangement according to any preceding claim, in which the or at least one of the control nodes is located in a moving environment.
14. An arrangement according to any preceding claim, in which the or each control node is operative from time to time to update the or each list.
15. An information sharing arrangement for a mobile radio network, substantially as described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
16. A method of information sharing in a mobile radio network, including the step of locally creating and maintaining a list of mobile terminals within the network which conform to at least one predetermined criterion, enabling information to be shared with the mobile terminals in that list.
17. A method according to claim 16, in which respective said lists are created in the network at locally distributed points therein.
18. A method according to any preceding claim 16 or 17, in which each list is a list of mobile terminals conforming to at least one predetermined criterion which is respective 14 to that list.
19. A method according to claim 18, in which the mobile terminals within at least one of the lists are mobile terminals conforming to a respective plurality of predetermined criteria.
20. A method according to claim 18 or 19, in which the mobile terminals in at least one list are a sub-set of the mobile terminals in at least one other of the lists.
21. An method according to any one of claims 16 to 20, including the step of accessing subscriber data stored in or in relation to the network for use in creating and/or maintaining the or at least one of the lists.
22. A method according to any one of claims 16 to 2 1, including the step of transmitting data relating to the or at least one of the lists to a central point in the network.
23. A method according to any one of claims 16 to 22, including the step of transmitting information which is to be shared with mobile terminals conforming to a predetermined criterion or to predetermined criteria to mobile terminals in corresponding one of the lists.
1 24. A method according to claim 23, in which the transmitting step uses a man- 1 machine interface.
25. A method according to any one of claims 16 to 24, including the step of updating the or each list from time to time.
26. A method according to any one of claims 16 to 25, in which the step of locally creating and maintaining the or each list takes place in a moving environment.
27. A method of sharing in a mobile radio network, substantially as described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
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