Wireless communication apparatus and communication system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10142934-B2
Application number	US-201414768902-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 27, 2014
Priority date	Feb 20, 2013
Publication date	Nov 27, 2018
Grant date	Nov 27, 2018

Abstract

A wireless terminal apparatus in a communication system shares a reference cycle with a data center. The reference cycle includes an incoming-call acceptance ready time that ranges from an incoming-call acceptance start time point to an incoming-call acceptance end time point. The incoming-call acceptance start time point corresponds to an outgoing-call generation time point of generating an outgoing-call by the data center. The outgoing-call generation end time point is set in consideration of a delay in the outgoing-call. The wireless terminal apparatus is set in an intermittent standby state that is contained in the incoming-call acceptance ready time. In the remaining time excluding the incoming-call acceptance ready time within the reference cycle, the wireless terminal apparatus is set in a sleep state in which no incoming-call is accepted.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A communication system comprising:
a wireless communication apparatus communicating with a base station, and
a communication target apparatus communicating with the base station via an Internet, the communication target apparatus communicating with the wireless communication apparatus via the Internet and the base station,
the wireless communication apparatus having a function of waiting for an incoming-call and including, within a reference cycle shared with the communication target apparatus, (i) a sleep state and (ii) an intermittent standby state,
the intermittent standby state being configured to have a plurality of repeated states, each of the repeated states intermittently accepting an incoming-call by containing (i) an incoming-call acceptable state and (ii) an incoming-call unacceptable state,
the sleep state continuing the incoming-call unacceptable state,

the wireless communication apparatus comprising a control circuit configured to:
set the wireless communication apparatus into the intermittent standby state, the intermittent standby state being caused to be contained in an incoming-call acceptance ready time within the reference cycle shared with the communication target apparatus, the incoming-call acceptance ready time ranging from an incoming-call acceptance start time point corresponding to an outgoing-call generation time point at which the communication target apparatus generates an outgoing-call to an incoming-call acceptance end time point which is set based on a delay in the outgoing-call, the delay being caused by communication between the base station and the communication target apparatus via the Internet in addition to communication between the wireless communication apparatus and the base station, and the delay being calculated based on a start time when data is transmitted from the communication target apparatus to the wireless communication apparatus through communication via the Internet and the base station until a stop time when a response message is received by the communication target apparatus from the wireless communication apparatus through communication via the Internet and the base station; and
set the wireless communication apparatus into the sleep state that accepts no incoming-call in a remaining time within the reference cycle excluding the incoming-call acceptance ready time,

the communication target apparatus comprising a computer configured to:
generate an outgoing-call at an outgoing-call generation time point that is preset as a time point of generating an outgoing-call to the wireless communication apparatus within the reference cycle that is shared with the wireless communication apparatus, when transmitting any information to the wireless communication apparatus via the base station;
determine whether a response to an outgoing-call generated by the communication target apparatus itself is received from the wireless communication apparatus via the base station; and
generate an outgoing-call again at a time point obtained by adding or subtracting a preset predetermined time to or from a next outgoing-call generation time point, respectively, when the computer determines that no response to the outgoing-call is received from the wireless communication apparatus via the base station.

2. The communication system according to claim 1 , wherein
the control circuit included in the wireless communication apparatus is further configured to inhibit shift to the sleep state when an incoming-call from the communication target apparatus is accepted in the intermittent standby state.

3. The communication system according to claim 2 , wherein the control circuit included in the wireless communication apparatus inhibits the shift to the sleep state, when the incoming-call from the communication target apparatus is accepted in the intermittent standby state, until a process accompanying the incoming-call is finished.

4. The communication system according to claim 1 , wherein the control circuit included in the wireless communication apparatus is further configured to:
acquire delay information regarding network delay time in communication with the communication target apparatus; and
set at least one of the incoming-call acceptance start time point or the incoming-call acceptance end time point based on the delay information.

5. The communication system according to claim 1 , wherein the computer included in the communication target apparatus is further configured to
determine whether a response to an outgoing-call generated from the communication target apparatus itself is received from the wireless communication apparatus; and
generate an outgoing-call at a next outgoing-call generation time point, when the computer determines that no response to the outgoing-call is received from the wireless communication apparatus.

6. The communication system according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a plurality of the wireless communication apparatuses,
wherein the computer in the communication target apparatus sets different outgoing-call generation time points to the respective wireless communication apparatuses to be dispersed.

7. The communication system according to claim 1 , wherein in the wireless communication apparatus, the intermittent standby state repeats a plurality of states, each of the states containing, within a first period of time, (i) the incoming-call acceptable state and (ii) the incoming-call unacceptable state, while the sleep state continues the incoming-call unacceptable state during a second period of time that is longer than the first period of time.

8. The communication system according to claim 1 , wherein the wireless communication apparatus is mounted in a vehicle and communicates with the communication target apparatus functioning as a center via a base station.

9. The communication system according to claim 1 , wherein while the computer in the communication target apparatus continues repeatedly determining that no response to the outgoing-call is received from the wireless communication apparatus by a repeated number of determination times, the computer repeatedly regenerates a plurality of the outgoing-calls at a plurality of time points which are obtained by repeatedly performing a plurality of shifting processes, each of the shifting processes being adding or subtracting the preset predetermined time to or from the next outgoing-call generation time point, respectively, wherein the repeated number of determination times is identical to a performed number of the shifting processes.

10. The communication system according to claim 1 , wherein the wireless communication apparatus communicates directly with the base station without using the Internet and the communication target apparatus only communicates with the wireless communication apparatus through the base station and only communicates with the base station via the internet.

11. A wireless communication apparatus communicating with a base station that communicates with a communication target apparatus via an Internet, the wireless communication apparatus waiting for an incoming-call coming from the communication target apparatus via the Internet and then the base station,
the wireless communication apparatus comprising a control circuit configured to:
share a reference cycle with the communication target apparatus;
define (i) a sleep state and (ii) an intermittent standby state,
the intermittent standby state having a plurality of repeated states, each of the repeated states that intermittently accepts an incoming-call by containing (i) an incoming-call acceptable state and (ii) an incoming-call unacceptable state,
the sleep state continuing t

Assignees

• Denso Corp

Inventors

• Mizutani Taizo

Classifications

• Y02D70/00

  Cross-Sectional Technologies · mapped topic

• H04W52/0229 Primary

  where the received signal is a wanted signal · CPC title

• Y02D70/1262

  Cross-Sectional Technologies · mapped topic

• Y02D70/164

  Cross-Sectional Technologies · mapped topic

• H04W52/0241

  where no transmission is received, e.g. out of range of the transmitter · CPC title