Patent ID: 7983673
Filing Date: 2011-07-19
Classification: H04W,Y02D

Abstract:
1. A mobile communication network system having a plurality of mobile communication systems, each one of the plurality of mobile communication systems corresponding to a different communication method and including a plurality of base stations for performing wireless communications with at least one mobile station, and the at least one mobile station having a plurality of wireless interfaces each implementing any one of the different communication methods, the communication network system comprising: a waiting system retaining unit to retain a mobile communication system corresponding to a communication method implemented by any one of the plurality of wireless interfaces of a first mobile station, as a waiting mobile communication system of the first mobile station, if the mobile communication system is communication-enabled by power control of the first mobile station; an incoming notification unit to acquire the waiting mobile communication system of the first mobile station from the waiting system retaining unit when a communication request from a second mobile station designating the first mobile station as a communication destination is received through a base station of a mobile communication system different from the waiting mobile communication system of the first mobile station, and to transmit an incoming notification to the first mobile station through a base station of the waiting mobile communication system of the first mobile station to have the first mobile station switch the waiting mobile communication system to the mobile communication system receiving the communication request from the second mobile station, the incoming notification including information specifying the mobile communication system which is different from the waiting communication system of the first mobile station and has received the communication request from the second mobile station; a receiving unit to receive a location registering request transmitted from the first mobile station in response to the incoming notification through a base station of the mobile communication system after the switching of the waiting mobile communication system in the first mobile station, the mobile communication system being different from the waiting mobile communication system transmitting the incoming notification; and an updating unit to update, on receipt of the location registering request, the waiting mobile communication system of the first mobile station retained in the waiting system retaining unit to the mobile communication system receiving the communication request from the second mobile station, wherein the incoming notification unit, after the previously transmitting of the incoming notification to the first mobile station, when receiving the location registering request from the first mobile station and when confirming the switching of the waiting mobile communication system of the first mobile station, again transmits the incoming notification to the first mobile station through a base station of the mobile communication system different from the mobile communication system previously transmitting the incoming notification.