System to communicate between a femtocell base station and mobile devices

摘要

This patent discloses a method to communicate between a femtocell base station and mobile devices. The method may include identifying as an alert group a set of mobile devices presently in communication with the femtocell base station and whose unique identifiers are preregistered with the femtocell base station. A first mobile device and a second mobile device may be in the set of femtocell service region mobile devices. The femtocell base station may receive a call from a third mobile device. If the call is for the second mobile device, then the method may send a paging message from the femtocell base station. The paging message may include a first unique identifier associated with the first mobile device.

主权项

1. A method to communicate between a femtocell base station and mobile devices, the method comprising:
identifying as an alert group a set of mobile devices presently in communication with the femtocell base station and whose unique identifiers are preregistered with the femtocell base station as in-home mobile devices, where a first mobile device and a second mobile device are in the alert group; receiving a call in the femtocell base station from a third device; determining at the femtocell base station whether the received call includes a second unique identifier associated with the second mobile device; and if the received call includes the second unique identifier associated with the second mobile device, alerting the first mobile device by sending a paging message from the femtocell base station, where the paging message includes a first unique identifier associated with the first mobile device.