Patent ID: 8768287
Filing Date: 2014-07-01
Classification: H04M,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method for emission of alarm messages at subscriber terminals in a radio communications system, comprising: signaling presence of an alarm to the subscriber terminals by introducing at least one system information item from at least one base station in the radio communications system using a control channel; coding a system information block for further signaling responsive to the introducing of the at least one system information item and assigning a selected set of the subscriber terminals to a scope of the system information block; and transmitting at least one respectively stored alarm message in accordance with the coding to the selected set of the subscriber terminals, and wherein a radio network controller determines a corresponding base station of the selected set of the subscriber terminals that should be notified of the alarm based on a previously defined service region and the corresponding base station in the service region transmits the at least one system information item indicating an alarm to the selected set of the subscriber terminals for a configurable time interval.