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EP0876071A1 Expired / Lapsed EP ⏱️ 0.0 years remaining

Automatic determination of audio or vibration alerting for an incoming call in a wireless handset

Assignee: Nokia of America Corp
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Filing: 1998-04-21
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Granted: —
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Expires: 2018-04-21
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Abstract

Abstract In determining for each base station in a wireless telecommunication switching system whether a wireless handset should receive audio or vibration alerting for incoming calls the wireless telecommunication switching system utilizes information specifying alerting for the base stations that is entered by a system administrator. In addition, individual users may choose to specify areas designated by the system administrator for audio alerting as vibration alerting. The information specifying the audio or vibration alerting from either the administrator or individual users is specified for different periods of time for each of the base stations. The system administrator may directly determine the alerting information for each individual base station. Also, the system administrator may determine the alerting information for different areas of the building, and as base stations are added to the wireless telecommunication system, they inherit the attributes of the area in which they are placed.

Inventors

  • 👤 Larry J. Hardouin

Bibliographic Details

Application Number —
Jurisdiction EP
Data Source google_patents
Last Synchronized 2026-11-04 17:24
CPC Classifications
H; H04; H04W; H04W4/00; H04W4/02; H04W64/00; H04M; H04M19/00; H04M19/02; H04M19/04; H04M19/041; H04M19/047; H04W8/00; H04W8/22; H04W8/24; H04W8/245

Claims Analysis

Total Claims: 8
Claim 1
Independent Claim 112 words
A method of selecting one of a plurality of types of alerting in a plurality of wireless handsets (111) by a wireless telecommunication switching system under control of a system controller (112) providing wireless telecommunication service to the plurality of wireless handsets via a plurality of base stations (101-109), comprising the steps of: detecting (602, 609) by the system controller a change of location by one of the plurality of wireless handsets; and CHARACTERIZED IN THAT transmitting (603-609, 611-614) by the system controller alerting information specifying one of the plurality of types of alerting for the one of the plurality of wireless handsets in response to the detection of the location change.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim 40 words
The method of claim 1 fourth comprises the step of storing (401-408) by the system controller in a first table individual alerting information specifying ones of the plurality of types of alerting for each of the plurality of base stations.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim 73 words
The method of claim 2 further comprises the steps of receiving (617) by the system controller transmitted user specified alerting information specifying ones of the plurality of types of alerting by the one of the plurality of wireless handsets for each of the plurality of base stations; and storing (619, 501-508) by the system controller in a second table the transmitted user specified alerting information for each of the plurality of base stations.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim 69 words
The method of claim 3 wherein the individual alerting information may not specify one of the types of alerting for a subset of the plurality of base stations; and selecting the user specified alerting information from the second table for the one of the plurality of wireless handsets upon the one of plurality of wireless handsets being located on one of the subset of the plurality of base stations.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim 30 words
The method of claim 4 wherein the individual alerting information stored in the first table is directly specified for each of the plurality of base stations by the system administrator.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim 91 words
The method of claim 4 further comprises the steps of specifying ones of the plurality of types of alerting for individual geographical areas in a third table (FIG. 7); specifying (803, 804) the geographical area in which each of the plurality of base stations is located; and determining (807-809) the individual alerting information to be stored in the first table for each of the plurality of base stations by selecting the individual alerting information from the third table using the specified geographical area for each of the plurality of base stations.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim 28 words
The method of claim 5 or claim 6 wherein the types of alerting comprises audio alerting and vibration alerting by the one of the plurality of wireless handsets.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim 9 words
Apparatus for effecting the steps of any preceding claim.

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