US5548804A
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Method and arrangement for increasing the capacity in a mobile telephone system
Assignee: Televerket
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Filing: 1994-03-21
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Granted: 1996-08-20
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Expires: 2014-03-21
Abstract
Abstract Method and arrangement for increasing the capacity in a mobile telephone system having mobile telephone exchanges (MTX), base stations (BS) and mobile stations (MS). The MTX:s handle the traffic within their traffic area via the base stations. MS:s mobile stations being at home are registered in a home location register and MS.S visiting the area are registered in a visitor location register. When the home location register is filled up, the system capacity is increased by selective MTX as home exchange, so that the MS is registered as visiting the visitor location register. MTX A, MTX B is preferably used as home exchange which only handles its home location register and associated functions, the radio traffic being handled via another MTX C which only handles its visitor location register and associated functions.
Inventors
- 👤 Henrik Rosenlund
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
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Last Synchronized
2026-10-29 15:30
CPC Classifications
H; H04; H04W; H04W8/00; H04W8/02; H04W8/08; H04W8/085; H04W60/00; H04W8/04; H04W8/06; H04W8/12; H04W92/00; H04W92/16; H04W92/24
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 8
Claim 1
Independent Claim
137 words
A method of expanding the number of mobile hosts that a Mobile Telephone Exchange (MTX) can handle, comprising the steps of: storing information about plural mobile stations in a first home register of a first MTX, the first MTX belonging to a coverage area of a mobile telephone service provider and the first MTX handling radio traffic from plural base stations in the coverage area; subscribing a new mobile station to the mobile telephone service provider for the coverage area serviced by the first MTX; determining, at the mobile telephone service provider, a second MTX with a second home register, the second home register storing information about fewer mobile stations than the first home register; and storing information about the new mobile station in the second home register of the second MTX determined in the determining step.
Claim 2
Independent Claim
137 words
A method of expanding the number of mobile hosts that a Mobile Telephone Exchange (MTX) can handle, comprising the steps of: storing information about plural mobile stations in a first home register of a first MTX, the first MTX belonging to a coverage area of a mobile telephone service provider and the first MTX handling radio traffic from plural base stations in the coverage area; subscribing a new mobile station to the mobile telephone service provider for the coverage area serviced by the first MTX; determining, at the mobile telephone service provider, a second MTX with a second home register, the second home register storing information about fewer mobile stations than the first home register; and storing information about the new mobile station in the second home register of the second MTX determined in the determining step.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
75 words
The method of claim 1, further comprising the steps of: broadcasting identification information about the new mobile station from the new mobile station; receiving the broadcasted identification information about the new mobile station at a third MTX, the third MTX having a visitor register; requesting the stored information about the new mobile station from the second MTX; and transferring the requested information from the second home register to the visitor register of the third MTX.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
75 words
The method of claim 1, further comprising the steps of: broadcasting identification information about the new mobile station from the new mobile station; receiving the broadcasted identification information about the new mobile station at the first MTX, the first MTX having a visitor register; requesting the stored information about the new mobile station from the second MTX; and transferring the requested information from the second home register to the visitor register of the first MTX.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
26 words
The method of claim 1, further comprising the steps of: establishing a telephone call between the new mobile station and another party using the first MTX.
Claim 6
Independent Claim
145 words
A method of expanding the number of mobile hosts that a Mobile Telephone Exchange (MTX) can handle, comprising the steps of: storing information about plural mobile stations in a home register of a first MTX, the first MTX handling only home register information; connecting a second MTX to the first MTX, the second MTX having a visitor register to handle visitor register information and having connections to plural base stations to handle radio traffic; connecting the second MTX to a switching station; broadcasting identification information about one of said mobile stations from the one of said plural mobile stations; receiving the broadcasted identification information about the one of said plural mobile stations at the second MTX; requesting the stored information about the one of said plural mobile stations from the home register; and transferring the requested information from the home register to the visitor register.
Claim 7
Independent Claim
145 words
A method of expanding the number of mobile hosts that a Mobile Telephone Exchange (MTX) can handle, comprising the steps of: storing information about plural mobile stations in a home register of a first MTX, the first MTX handling only home register information; connecting a second MTX to the first MTX, the second MTX having a visitor register to handle visitor register information and having connections to plural base stations to handle radio traffic; connecting the second MTX to a switching station; broadcasting identification information about one of said mobile stations from the one of said plural mobile stations; receiving the broadcasted identification information about the one of said plural mobile stations at the second MTX; requesting the stored information about the one of said plural mobile stations from the home register; and transferring the requested information from the home register to the visitor register.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
42 words
The method of claim 5, further comprising: establishing a telephone call between the one of said mobile stations and another party using the second MTX; and transferring voice data of the telephone call directly between the second MTX and the switching stations.
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