JP2003174672A - Wireless communication system - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a wireless communication system that can differentiate base stations providing a service to a mobile terminal such as a mobile phone and a PHS and realize provision of various diversified services from the base stations to the mobile terminal so as to differentiate services provided to each user. <P>SOLUTION: In the wireless communication system comprising the mobile terminals and the base stations, each base station stores base station unique data that are revised and base station common data not revised and is configured to flexibly make setting and managing the base station unique data depending on an installed environment of each base station. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to a wireless communication system including a mobile terminal and a base station.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, mobile terminals such as mobile phones and PHSs have rapidly become popular. Along with the rapid spread of mobile terminals, various services are realized on the mobile terminals. As one form of such diversification,
There is a form in which the base stations that provide services to mobile terminals are differentiated.

That is, the service to be provided is different for each base station. For example, the base stations installed in Shinjuku and Shibuya provide common information about Tokyo, while the base stations installed in Shinjuku provide Shinjuku-specific information and the base stations installed in Shibuya. For example, it provides information unique to Shibuya.

There is also a form in which the service provided for each user is different. For example, while providing common information about weather forecasts to all users, providing financial information to one user every morning and providing information about sports every morning to another user. is there.

In general, the degree of freedom of service form such as the type and variety of services provided by a base station to mobile terminals is affected by the number of parameters of system data set in the base station.

[0006] Therefore, in order to differentiate the base station as described above, the telecommunications carrier maintains the system data common to all the base stations, and then the service form newly provided by the base station. The degree of freedom needs to be set, managed, and changed for each base station. In particular, in order to provide information according to the times, it is necessary to frequently change the value of the system data parameter of the base station once set.

Therefore, conventionally, in such a case, the telecommunications carrier carries out a data changing process in which the parameter value of the base station is changed from an external device held by the telecommunications carrier directly or via a network. It was

[0008]

However, according to such conventional means, when the parameter is present in the base station data,
Since the value of this parameter is usually fixed,
Each time the telecommunications carrier changes the degree of freedom of the service provided, the telecommunications carrier carries out the above-mentioned data change processing for the base station, which requires a lot of time and labor.

Further, when the service form is made different not only for each base station but also for each user,
Since only the business operator can perform the above data change processing, the communication business operator needs to grasp the user's request, set the service form for each user differently, and set and manage the base station. Therefore, when the user desires to change the service form, it is necessary to change the base station data on a user-by-user basis, which requires a great deal of time and labor.

Further, when the base station does not have the parameter, it is necessary to add the parameter, and there is a problem that the software of the base station needs to be updated due to the addition of the parameter.

Further, when the control by the parameter affects the hardware of the base station, there is a problem that the hardware itself needs to be replaced. Therefore, with such conventional means, when the number of installed base stations is large, it is substantially impossible to differentiate the above-mentioned base stations or to provide different services to each user. It was impossible.

[0012] In view of such circumstances, an object of the present invention is to provide a wireless communication system capable of realizing the provision of various services to mobile terminals of a base station.

[0013]

[Means for Solving the Problems] The above problems can be solved by the means described in the claims. That is, the invention according to claim 1 is a wireless communication system including a mobile terminal and a base station, wherein the base station includes base station specific data that is variable data and base station common data that is invariable data. And a means for setting and managing the base station specific data according to the installation environment of each base station.

According to the first aspect of the present invention, as shown in FIG. 1, the system data held by the base station as non-volatile data (ROM) is divided into base station specific data and base station common data for management, and the base station Allows the user to change the station-specific data. At this time, parameters such as the maximum number of connectable mobile terminals, the maximum number of connections, the maximum band that can be provided, and the like that determine the service form of the base station are managed as base station specific data.

Regarding the parameters of the base station specific data, the parameters can be changed without changing the hardware and software configurations of the base station. The parameter defined as base station specific data determines the form of service provided by the base station. At this time, only for the base station specific data,
Allows the user to change data.

Therefore, according to the invention described in claim 1, unlike the conventional means, the communication carrier does not need to change all the base station data. Therefore, according to the invention of claim 1, since the base station specific data can be changed by the user, the service provided for each base station can be changed according to the environment in which the base station is installed or the environment desired by the user. Is possible. At this time, the software and hardware of the base station are not changed due to the data change.

The invention according to claim 2 is a wireless communication system comprising a mobile terminal and a base station, wherein the base station is base station specific data which is variable data and base station common data which is invariable data. And data having the same parameters as the base station specific data, the base station common data 2 being invariable data, and the setting of the base station specific data according to the installation environment of each base station. And a means for managing the wireless communication system.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, as shown in FIG. 2, the same parameters as the base station specific data are held as the base station common data 2, and the base station specific data and the base station are stored as non-volatile data (SDM). It manages common data 1 and 2.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, since the base station specific data is held as variable data that can be changed and immutable data that cannot be changed, it is specified by the base station specific data necessary for operation of the base station. It is possible to select which data (variable data / invariant data) to use according to the operating form or the service providing form for the specified parameters, or to use both data together.

Thus, when variable data is selected, the service provided by changing the base station data can be given flexibility. On the other hand, when selecting immutable data, it is possible to reset the parameter value to the default value or perform conventional base station operation that provides the same service to all base stations with the same settings. .

In addition, for example, when the base station specific data is set with a parameter which may be set differently for each mobile terminal, it is possible to select either invariant data or variable data for each mobile terminal. Both data can be used together.

The invention described in claim 2 is the same as claim 1.
Basically, the base station data is also set and managed in the same manner as described above, so that the same effect as the invention according to claim 1 can be expected.

The invention according to a third aspect is characterized in that the base station specific data is a parameter for determining a provision form of a service provided by the base station, and has means for setting by a user. The wireless communication system according to claim 1 or 2.

[0024]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings. Figure 1 claims
FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an embodiment of the invention described in 1. Claim 1
The base station in the described method divides the base station data into non-volatile data, and sets, manages, and changes the base station specific data and the base station common data separately.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a base station data reading process in the base station according to claim 1, in which the base station specific data and the base station are processed by the initialization process after the base station is activated. The common data is read and the operation is started in the service form according to the parameter value of the base station specific data.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an embodiment of the invention described in claim 2. In FIG. The base station according to claim 2 sets and manages the base station data as non-volatile data by dividing it into base station unique data, base station common data 1 and base station common data 2 having the same parameters as the base station unique data. , And change.

At this time, it is assumed that the user can perform the data change process only on the base station specific data, and cannot change the data regarding the base station common data 2. In the following, a case where there are two types of operation modes will be described as an example.

FIG. 4 shows an operation mode in which the operation of a base station having a degree of freedom in service form and the operation of a conventional base station that provides the same service to all base stations and all users are performed. It is a figure which shows the base station data reading process of the base station which can be switched by this. At this time, it is assumed that mode 1 in FIG. 4 represents a base station operation mode having a degree of freedom in service form, and mode 2 represents a base station operation mode providing a common service.

The base station reads the base station common data 1 and then the base station data according to the operation mode by the initialization process after the base station is started.
In mode 1, the base station is operated with the degree of freedom of the service form, so that the data is read from the base station specific data. On the other hand, in mode 2, since the service is unchanged, the base station common data 2, which is not permitted to be changed by the user, is read. Therefore, by reading the data, the base station operation in the service according to the operation mode is started.

FIG. 5 shows only the operation in which the degree of freedom of the service form is provided as the base station operation, but the base station data read processing in the case of having the initial mode for resetting the base station specific data to the default value FIG. At this time,
Mode 1 in the middle represents the operation mode, and mode 2 represents the initial mode.

In the base station, by the initialization processing after the base station is activated, the base station common data 1 is read, then the base station specific data is read, and the operation in the base station operation mode is started. At this time, since it is necessary to reset (initialize) the base station specific data in mode 2,
A process of copying the base station common data 2 to the base station unique data is executed.

In addition to the above description, parameters such as maximum permissible bandwidth and billing information that may have different settings for each mobile terminal are base station specific data, and the parameters are base station specific data and base station common data. Divide into 2 and manage. Furthermore, if the base station specific data and the base station common data 2 are read by the initialization process after the base station is started, whether the base station specific data is used or the base station common data 2 is used for each mobile terminal. It is also possible to select, and it is possible to use two types of operation modes together with the same parameter. At this time, as to which data to select, a method of designating from the mobile terminal or a method of determining based on information held by the base station can be considered.

FIG. 6 is a diagram for explaining the data changing process in the method according to the first and second aspects. For example, when a data change event shown in FIG. 7 occurs in the operating base station, the data change process is started after the change data is acquired. The acquired change data is reflected on the base station specific data of the base station data, and the data change process ends.

Regarding the data change event, as shown in FIG. 7, when the change data is transmitted to the base station by wireless data from the mobile terminal, when it is transmitted from the server or PC on the network side, Alternatively, it may be installed in a base station as a memory card.

[0035]

According to the wireless communication system of the present invention, the base station data is managed by the base station unique data that allows the user to change the data and the base station common data that does not change the data. It is possible to perform operations with a degree of freedom in form.

Further, by holding / managing the base station common data having the same parameters as the base station specific data,
It is also possible to switch between the two continuous use modes and operate the two continuous modes. At this time, by applying the setting for the base station common data to all base stations in common, application to a conventional system is also possible.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an embodiment of the invention described in claim 1.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an embodiment of the invention described in claim 2;

FIG. 3 shows a base station data reading process in the base station according to the first aspect.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a base station data reading process (1) in the base station according to claim 2;

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a base station data reading process (2) in the base station according to claim 2;

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a data change process in a base station according to claims 1 and 2;

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an example of a data change event in the present invention.

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A wireless communication system comprising a mobile terminal and a base station, wherein the base station holds base station specific data which is variable data and base station common data which is invariable data, and
A wireless communication system comprising means for setting and managing the base station specific data according to the installation environment of each base station. 2. A radio communication system comprising a mobile terminal and a base station, wherein the base station comprises base station specific data which is variable data, base station common data which is invariable data, and the base station specific data. The base station common data 2, which is data having the same parameter and is invariable, is held, and means for setting and managing the base station specific data according to the installation environment of each base station is provided. A wireless communication system characterized by the above. 3. The base station specific data is a parameter for determining a provision form of a service provided by the base station, and is provided with a unit set by a user. The described wireless communication system.