System and method of trigger service

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9712993-B2
Application number	US-201414290335-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 29, 2014
Priority date	Jun 14, 2013
Publication date	Jul 18, 2017
Grant date	Jul 18, 2017

Abstract

The present application is provided a system and a method of a trigger service, which is applied between an end equipment group and an application service terminal. The end equipment group includes a plurality of end equipment, and the end equipment of the mobile equipment group is configured to sequentially connect to mobile network. Each of the end equipment is configured to keep connection with mobile network in a waiting period and suspended to access mobile network after the waiting time period. The application service terminal is configured to transmit a trigger message to the end equipment group, and the trigger message is repeatedly transmitted in a transmission period of the message arrangement. During the transmission period, each of the end equipment of each end equipment group in mobile network is configured to execute the requested order of the trigger message when it receives the trigger message from the application service terminal.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method of a trigger service for a plurality of end equipment, the method being applied on the plurality of end equipment capable of receiving a trigger message transmitted from an application service terminal and establishing data communication, the method comprising:
providing a plurality of end equipment group, wherein
each end equipment group comprises a plurality of end equipment, and
each end equipment group has an identify number,
the identify number of each equipment group is unique;
enabling each of the plurality of end equipment of each end equipment group to follow a predetermined connection sequence to access a mobile network; and
configuring each of the plurality of end equipment to connect to the mobile network and keep connection with the mobile network in a waiting period and to suspend to access the mobile network after the waiting time period; wherein
each of the plurality of end equipment is a mobile equipment (ME),
the identify number is a mobile subscriber ISDN number (MSISDN),
the mobile network includes a radio access network (RAN) and a Core Network (CN),
the application service terminal comprises a Home Subscriber Server (HSS), a Short message service center and an Application service Server (AS), and
the trigger message is a trigger short message service (SMS),
the method further comprising:
configuring the ME to access the mobile network, complete registration process, and wait for receiving the trigger SMS;
when the AS transmits a trigger service request to the Short message service center;
configuring the Short message service center to find out the ME and transmit the trigger SMS via the CN according to the MSISDN contained in the trigger service request;
enabling the ME to receive the trigger SMS via the RAN;
enabling the CN to response to a transmission report and confirm whether the ME received the trigger SMS;
enabling the Short message service center to report status of the ME to the HSS;
enabling the Short message service center to report transmission status of the trigger SMS to the AS; and
enabling the ME to establish data communication connection with the AS to execute requested order of the trigger SMS; and wherein configuring the ME to access the mobile network comprises:
enabling the ME to transmit a receiving request message to the RAN;
enabling the RAN to transmit the receiving request message from the ME to the CN;
enabling the CN to transmit an identifying request message to the ME;
enabling the ME to respond to the CN with an identifying response message in response to the identifying request message;
enabling the HSS and the ME to process a safety identification process;
enabling the ME and the RAN to execute a connection process of radio resource control; and
enabling the RAN to transmit an access completion message to the CN.

2. The method of trigger service for a plurality of end equipment as claimed in claim 1 , wherein when each of the plurality of end equipment is connected to the mobile network, and when the trigger message is received by the each of the plurality of end equipment, the each of the plurality of end equipment is configured to execute the requested order carried by the trigger message;
wherein all of the plurality of end equipment of the same end equipment group are configured to execute the connection sequence until all of the plurality of end equipment of the same end equipment group complete the execution.

3. The method of a trigger service for a plurality of end equipment as claimed in claim 1 , wherein enabling the ME to receive the trigger SMS comprises:
enabling the ME to access the mobile network;
determining whether the ME to successfully accesses the mobile network;
enabling the ME to determine whether the trigger SMS is received during the waiting period when the ME successfully accesses the mobile network; and
enabling the ME to establish the data communication connection with the AS and executes the requested order of the trigger SMS when the ME receives the trigger SMS during the waiting period.

4. The method of a trigger service for a plurality of end equipment as claimed in claim 3 , wherein when the ME is unable to receive the trigger SMS during the waiting period, the ME is configured to pause accessing the mobile network;
wherein when the ME is unable to access the mobile network, the ME is configured to wait for next connection arrangement.

5. The method of a trigger service for a plurality of end equipment as claimed in claim 1 , wherein each end equipment group includes a plurality of subgroups, and enabling the ME to receive the trigger SMS when the ME accesses the mobile network comprises:
enabling the ME to access the mobile network;
determining whether the ME successfully accesses the mobile network;
enabling the ME to determine whether the trigger SMS is received during the waiting period when the ME successfully accesses the mobile network;
enabling the ME to determine whether the trigger SMS comprises a content corresponding to the matching subgroup with the ME when the ME receives the trigger SMS during the waiting period; and
enabling the ME to execute the request order of the trigger SMS when the ME determines that the trigger SMS comprises the content corresponding to the matching subgroup with the ME.

6. The method of a trigger service for a plurality of end equipment as claimed in claim 5 , wherein when the ME is not successfully connected to the mobile network, the ME is configured to wait for a period and then access the mobile network;
wherein when the ME is unable to receive the trigger SMS during the waiting period, the ME is configured to pause accessing the mobile network;
wherein when the trigger SMS received by the ME does not comprise the content corresponding to the matching subgroup with the ME, the ME is configured to pause accessing the mobile network.

7. A method of providing a trigger service by an application service terminal, wherein the application service terminal is configured to provide the trigger service to a plurality of end equipment groups, the method comprising:
configuring the application service terminal to transmit a trigger message to one of the plurality of end equipment groups by a message sequence, and each of the plurality of end equipment groups has a plurality of end equipment, and each of the plurality of end equipment within a same end equipment group have an identify number, the identify number of each end equipment group is unique;
configuring the application service terminal to repeatedly transmit a trigger message every certain period during a valid transmission duration of the message sequence;
wherein the trigger message comprises the identify number and an order of an end equipment group which are used to transmit the trigger message, and is transmitted to another end equipment group by the message sequence, when each of the plurality of end equipment of each end equipment group accesses a mobile network, each of the plurality of end equipment is able to receive the trigger message and execute requested order according to a content of the trigger message; wherein
each of the plurality of end equipment is a mobile equipment (ME),
the identify number is a mobile subscriber ISDN number (MSISDN),
the mobile network includes a radio access network (RAN) and a Core Network (CN),
the application service terminal comprises a Home Subscriber Server (HSS), a Short message service center and an Application service Server (AS), and
the trigger message is a trigger short message service (SMS),
each end equipment group includes a plurality of subgroups, and
the application service terminal uses the AS and the Short message service center to transmit t

Assignees

• Univ Nat Taiwan

Inventors

• Lin Phone
• Tseng Chi-Wei
• Chen Hau

Classifications

• H04W28/0215

  based on user or device properties, e.g. MTC-capable devices (services for machine-to-machine communication [M2M] or machine type communication [MTC] H04W4/70; wireless resource selection or allocation plan definition based on terminal or device properties H04W72/51) · CPC title

• H04W4/14

  Short messaging services, e.g. short message services [SMS] or unstructured supplementary service data [USSD] · CPC title

• H04W4/005

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04W4/08

  User group management · CPC title

• H04W8/186

  Processing of subscriber group data · CPC title