CN104796963A - Cell residence method for mobile terminal, device and mobile terminal - Google Patents

Cell residence method for mobile terminal, device and mobile terminal Download PDF

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CN104796963A
CN104796963A CN201510021691.8A CN201510021691A CN104796963A CN 104796963 A CN104796963 A CN 104796963A CN 201510021691 A CN201510021691 A CN 201510021691A CN 104796963 A CN104796963 A CN 104796963A
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贾建祥
周朝霞
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冯子龙
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Abstract

Various embodiments of the invention provide a cell residence method for a mobile terminal, a device and a mobile terminal. The mobile terminal at least is provided with a first subscriber identification model SIM card and a second SIM card. The method comprises determining whether the first SIM card and the second SIM card belong to the same service provider, determining whether the first SIM card and the second SIM card are at the same network mode in response to the fact that the first SIM card and the second SIM card belong to the same service provider, and enabling the first SIM card and the second SIM card to reside in the same service cell in response to the fact that the first SIM card and the second SIM card are at the same network mode. By utilizing the embodiments of the invention, the two SIM cards can share measuring results, information of a service cell and information of an adjacent cell, so scheduling and empty port receiving and transmitting actions are reduced, and power consumption is saved.

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For the district staying method of mobile terminal, device and mobile terminal
the cross reference of related application
This application claims the U.S. Provisional Patent Application No.61/928 submitted on January 17th, 2014, the rights and interests of 735, its whole disclosure is incorporated in this by reference.
Technical field
The embodiments of the present invention relate to the communications field, and more specifically, relate to the staying method for having the mobile terminal that multiple Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) blocks, device and mobile terminal.
Background technology
Along with developing rapidly of wireless communication technology, intelligent mobile terminal plays more and more consequence in the Working Life of people.People also turn to the omnibearing business developments such as Online Video, real-time game and accurate location from original simple speech business to the demand of wireless traffic simultaneously.In order to meet the diversified business demand of people, developing and can support mobile terminal that is multiple, such as two or more SIM card.
At present, have the mobile terminal of multiple SIM card after powering, it is resident that multiple SIM card needs to select community to carry out respectively for each SIM card after web search, and each SIM card completes and registers and carry out standby on community resident separately subsequently.Even if when multiple SIM card of mobile terminal belong to identical service provider and are in identical network schemer, also need to select community to carry out resident and registration etc. respectively for each SIM card.Multiple SIM card finally may reside in different communities, thus adds additional measuring, technology realizes in idle standby, synchronous maintenance etc. difficulty, and cause the instability of system and going down of performance.
Summary of the invention
According to the first aspect of embodiment of the present invention, provide a kind of district staying method for mobile terminal.Described mobile terminal at least has the first Subscriber Identity Module SIM card and the second SIM card, and described method comprises: determine whether described first SIM card and described second SIM card belong to identical service provider; Belong to identical service provider in response to described first SIM card and described second SIM card, determine whether described first SIM card and described second SIM card are in identical network schemer; And be in identical network schemer in response to described first SIM card and described second SIM card, make described first SIM card and described second SIM card reside in identical Serving cell.
In an illustrative embodiments, described method comprises further: described first SIM card is appointed as the main SIM card for described identical service provider; Described second SIM card is appointed as the secondary SIM card for described identical service provider; Make described main SIM card paging receiving information and safeguard the state information of the adjacent cell of described Serving cell and described Serving cell; And make described secondary SIM card only paging receiving information.
In an illustrative embodiments, described method comprises further: make the state of described second SIM card follow the state of described first SIM card.
In an illustrative embodiments, the state making the state of described second SIM card follow described first SIM card comprises: enter out of reach state in response to described first SIM card, makes described second SIM card enter described out of reach state.
In an illustrative embodiments, described method comprises further: be in described out of reach state in response to described first SIM card and exceed predetermined amount of time, make described first SIM card select new Serving cell to carry out resident; And make described second SIM card resident to described new Serving cell.
In an illustrative embodiments, the state making the state of described second SIM card follow described first SIM card comprises: in response to described first SIM card gravity treatment to new Serving cell, makes described second SIM card gravity treatment to described new Serving cell.
In an illustrative embodiments, described method comprises further: in response to described second SIM card initiating communication business, make described second SIM card obtain the state information of the adjacent cell of described Serving cell from described first SIM card; Change described second SIM card into described main SIM card; And change described first SIM card into described secondary SIM card.
In an illustrative embodiments, described method comprises further: the communication service in response to described second SIM card terminates, and reassigns described first SIM card into described main SIM card, and reassigns described second SIM card into described secondary SIM card.
According to the second aspect of embodiment of the present invention, provide a kind of community park device for mobile terminal.Described mobile terminal at least has the first Subscriber Identity Module SIM card and the second SIM card, and described device comprises: the first determining unit, is configured to determine whether described first SIM card and described second SIM card belong to identical service provider; Second determining unit, is configured to belong to identical service provider in response to described first SIM card and described second SIM card, determines whether described first SIM card and described second SIM card are in identical network schemer; And resident element, be configured to be in identical network schemer in response to described first SIM card and described second SIM card, make described first SIM card and described second SIM card reside in identical Serving cell.
According to the third aspect of embodiment of the present invention, provide a kind of mobile terminal, comprising: according to the device of the second aspect of embodiment of the present invention; First SIM card deck, for accepting the first SIM card; And the second SIM card deck, for accepting the second SIM card.
Embodiments of the present invention expect at least one had in following benefits.By making the first SIM card and the second SIM card reside in identical Serving cell, measurement result, the information of Serving cell and the information of adjacent cell between two SIM card, can be shared, thus reduce scheduling and transmitting-receiving action of eating dishes without rice or wine, save power consumption.Second SIM card after powering without the need to search network again, perform synchronous and read system message, but resident to the community identical with the first SIM card, directly initiate LAU/RAU and register, thus improve starting up speed.Secondary SIM card gravity treatment, to the community identical with main SIM card, can be accelerated the cell reselection speed of secondary SIM card, improves service quality and strengthen Consumer's Experience.
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Fig. 1 shows the schematic block diagram of the mobile terminal be suitable for for implementing embodiment of the present invention;
Fig. 2 shows the flow chart of the district staying method 200 for mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the invention;
Fig. 3 shows the flow chart of the district staying method 300 for mobile terminal according to another embodiment of the present invention;
Fig. 4 shows the flow chart of the district staying method 400 for mobile terminal according to another embodiment of the invention; And
Fig. 5 shows the schematic block diagram of the community park device 500 for mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the invention.
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The principle of theme described here is described referring now to some example embodiment.Should be appreciated that and describe these execution modes just in order to enable those skilled in the art understand better and then realize theme described here, and not limit the scope of theme described here by any way.
Fig. 1 shows the schematic block diagram of the mobile terminal 100 be suitable for for implementing embodiment of the present invention.Mobile terminal 100 can be any equipment with wireless communication ability.Exemplarily, mobile terminal 100 can comprise smart mobile phone, personal digital assistant (PDA), notebook, portable subscriber platform (PSS), travelling carriage (MS) or access terminal (AT) etc.
As shown in Figure 1, mobile terminal 100 comprises the one or more antennas 112 operationally communicated with receiver 116 with reflector 114.Utilize these equipment, mobile terminal 100 can perform the cellular communication with one or more base station.And mobile terminal 100 can be supported to communicate with the device-to-device of other mobile terminals one or more (D2D).
Mobile terminal 100 also comprises at least one processor 120.Should be appreciated that processor 120 comprises the circuit required for all functions realizing mobile terminal 100.Such as, processor 120 can comprise digital signal processor device, micro processor device, A/D converter, D/A converter and other support circuit.The control of mobile terminal 100 and signal processing function are according to these equipment capability distribution separately.
Mobile terminal 100 can also comprise user interface, such as, can comprise ringer 122, loud speaker 124, loudspeaker 126, display or view finder 128 and input interface 130, and all above equipment is all coupled to processor 120.Mobile terminal 100 can also comprise the camera model 136 for capturing static image and/or dynamic image.
Mobile terminal 100 can also comprise battery 134, such as vibrating battery group, for the various circuit supplies to operating mobile terminal 100, and alternatively provides mechanical oscillation as detectable output.Mobile terminal 100 can also comprise memory device.Such as, mobile terminal 100 can comprise volatile memory 140, such as, comprises the volatile random access memory for temporary storaging data (RAM) in cache area.What mobile terminal 100 can also comprise other can be embed or moveable nonvolatile memory 142.Nonvolatile memory 142 additionally or alternatively such as can comprise EEPROM and flash memory etc.Memory can store the data that Arbitrary Term in multiple information segment and mobile terminal 100 use, to realize the function of mobile terminal 100.Such as, memory can comprise machine-executable instruction, and it makes processor 120 realize method described below when being performed.
In one embodiment, mobile terminal 100 also comprises Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) and blocks 138 and 139.SIM card 138 and 139 normally has the memory devices of built-in processor.SIM card 138 and 139 such as can comprise subscriber identification module (UIM), Universal Integrated Circuit Card (UICC), USIM (USIM) or Removable User Identity Module (R-UIM) etc.It should be known that the quantity of the SIM card shown in Fig. 1 is only example.Mobile terminal 100 can comprise the SIM card of other quantity, such as, and three SIM card or four SIM card etc.
Should be appreciated that the structured flowchart in Fig. 1 only illustrates for illustration of object, be not intended to limit the scope of the theme that this describes.In some cases, some assembly can increase according to concrete needs or reduce.
Fig. 2 shows the flow chart of the district staying method 200 for mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the invention.
Method 200 can be implemented by the mobile terminal with multiple SIM card, and these SIM card share the respective radio-frequency resource of mobile terminal, such as corresponding radio frequency chip.In one example, mobile terminal can have two SIM card, and these two SIM card share whole radio frequency resources of mobile terminal.In other examples, mobile terminal can have and overlaps radio frequency resource, such as multiple radio frequency chip more.In this case, some SIM card of mobile terminal can share a radio frequency chip, and other one or more SIM card can use other radio frequency chip.Embodiments of the present invention can for there is the mobile terminal needing multiple SIM card of shared corresponding radio frequency resource.
In some embodiments, multiple SIM card of mobile terminal can belong to identical or different service provider.
In some embodiments, multiple SIM card of mobile terminal can support different network schemers.Described network schemer can comprise such as GSM (global system for mobile communications), WCDMA (Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA)), TD-SCDMA (TD SDMA), CDMA (code division multiple access)-2000, LTE (Long Term Evolution), TDD-LTE (time division duplex Long Term Evolution), FDD-LTE (Frequency Division Duplexing (FDD) Long Term Evolution) etc.In one example, each SIM card in multiple SIM card can support a different network schemer.In another example, at least two SIM card in multiple SIM card can support consolidated network pattern, and the network schemer that other SIM card support other different.In other embodiments, multiple SIM card can also support identical network schemer.
In the step S201 of method 200, determine whether the first SIM card of mobile terminal and the second SIM card belong to identical service provider.First SIM card and the second SIM card store usually the information of the user (mobile subscriber) for identifying mobile terminal.Whether the first SIM card and the second SIM card belong to identical service provider to utilize the information of mobile user that the first SIM card and the second SIM card store to determine.The information of described mobile subscriber including, but not limited to MCC (Mobile Country Code, Mobile Country Code MCC), totally 3, for identifying the country belonging to mobile subscriber uniquely; And MNC (MobileNetwork Code, Mobile Network Code), for identifying the mobile communications network belonging to mobile subscriber uniquely.Such as, when MCC is " 460 " and MNC is " 00 ", can identify that mobile subscriber is China Mobile user; When MCC is " 460 " and MNC is " 01 ", can identify that mobile subscriber is CHINAUNICOM user.
In step S202, belong to identical service provider in response to the first SIM card and the second SIM card, determine whether the first SIM card and the second SIM card are in identical network schemer.Information about the network schemer residing for SIM card is stored in the nonvolatile memory (Non-Volatile Memory, NVM) of mobile terminal usually, therefore can determine the network schemer residing for SIM card by the information read in NVM.
Should be appreciated that the first SIM card and the second SIM card can support different network schemers respectively, one of the first SIM card and the second SIM card and/or the two can change identical network schemer into based on certain reason.
Such as, in an illustrative embodiments, consider following scene: the first SIM card supports GSM network pattern, the second SIM card supports GSM network pattern and TD-SCDMA network pattern.Under second SIM card is in TD-SCDMA network pattern at first.When mobile terminal such as enters the region covered without TD-SCDMA network, the second SIM card can be GSM network pattern by TD-SCDMA network Mode change.Thus, under the first SIM card and the second SIM card are all in GSM network pattern.
In another illustrative embodiments, consider following scene: the first SIM card supports GSM network pattern and TD-SCDMA network pattern, the second SIM card supports GSM network pattern, TD-SCDMA and TDD-LTE network pattern.Under first SIM card is in TD-SCDMA network pattern, under the second SIM card is in TDD-LTE network pattern at first.When mobile terminal such as enters the region covered without TDD-LTE network, the second SIM card can be TD-SCDMA network pattern by TDD-LTE network Mode change.Thus, under the first SIM card and the second SIM card are all in TD-SCDMA network pattern.
Be appreciated that the above description to illustrative embodiments only for purpose of explanation, scope of the present invention is not limited thereto.Such as, the first SIM card and the second SIM card can change identical network schemer into respectively from network schemer different from each other.
In step S203, be in identical network schemer in response to the first SIM card and the second SIM card, make the first SIM card and the second SIM card reside in identical Serving cell.By making the first SIM card and the second SIM card reside in identical Serving cell, measurement result, the information of Serving cell and the information of adjacent cell between two SIM card, can be shared, thus reduce scheduling and transmitting-receiving action of eating dishes without rice or wine, save power consumption.
Fig. 3 shows the flow chart of the district staying method 300 for mobile terminal according to another embodiment of the present invention.In one embodiment, method 300 performs when mobile terminal-opening.In another embodiment, method 300 performs when the network schemer of the first SIM card and/or the second SIM card changes.
In step S301, mobile terminal-opening.In step S302, the first SIM card search network, the synchronous also read system message of execution.In step S303, the first SIM card finds a suitable community to carry out resident, and completes LAU (Location Area Update, location area updating)/RAU (Route Area Update, Routing Area Update) registration.In step S304, determine whether to meet optimal conditions, namely whether the first SIM card and the second SIM card belong to identical service provider and the first SIM card and the second SIM card and whether are in identical network schemer.If determine that the first SIM card and the second SIM card belong to identical service provider and the first SIM card and the second SIM card are in identical network schemer, then determine to meet optimal conditions, thus method 300 proceeds to step S305.In step S305, make the second SIM card directly resident to the community identical with the first SIM card, and complete LAU/RAU registration.If determine in step s 304 not meet optimal conditions, then method 300 proceeds to step S306.In step S306, the second SIM card finds another suitable community different from the first SIM card to carry out resident, and completes LAU/RAU registration.
By method 300, when meeting optimal conditions, the second SIM card after powering without the need to search network again, perform synchronous and read system message, but resident to the community identical with the first SIM card, directly initiate LAU/RAU and register, thus improve starting up speed.
Fig. 4 shows the flow chart of the district staying method 400 for mobile terminal according to another embodiment of the invention.In some embodiments, method 400 performs when mobile terminal is in holding state.Such as, mobile terminal has the first SIM card and the second SIM card, and is in double-card dual-standby pattern.In other words, the first SIM card and the second SIM card share individual modem, single radio frequency chip, and two SIM card are simultaneously standby, but a SIM card is when conversing, and cannot receive the incoming call for another SIM card.
In step S401, optimal conditions is as described with respect to figure 3 met and the second SIM card resides in the Serving cell identical with the first SIM card in response to the first SIM card and the second SIM card, and the first SIM card and one of second SIM card (such as the first SIM card) are appointed as the main SIM card for identical service provider, the first SIM card and another (such as second SIM card) in the second SIM card are appointed as the secondary SIM card for described identical service provider.Such as, signaling can be sent by access aspect (Access Stratum, AS) and the first SIM card is appointed as main SIM card for identical service provider, the second SIM card is appointed as the secondary SIM card for described identical service provider.Such as, when the first SIM card and the second SIM card are all in GSM network pattern, first SIM card can be appointed as main SIM card for identical service provider by BCH Configuration Request (broadcast channel configuring request) message by access aspect, the second SIM card is appointed as the secondary SIM card for described identical service provider.Alternatively, the second SIM card can be appointed as the main SIM card for identical service provider, and the first SIM card be appointed as the secondary SIM card for identical service provider.
In step S402, make winner's SIM card paging receiving information and the state information of the adjacent cell of maintenance service community and Serving cell, and secondary SIM card only paging receiving information.Specifically, main SIM card performs the measurement of adjacent cell, read the FB (FrequencyBurst of adjacent cell, frequency burst), SB (Synchronization Burst, synchronization burst), the broadcast message BCCH (Broadcast Control Channel, Broadcast Control Channel) of adjacent cell and the broadcast message BCCH of Serving cell.Be appreciated that the second SIM card not only needs paging receiving information when the second SIM card resides in the Serving cell different from the first SIM card, and need the state information safeguarding own services community and adjacent cell thereof.Utilize embodiments of the present invention, by making the state information of the adjacent cell of winner's SIM card paging receiving information and maintenance service community and Serving cell, and secondary SIM card only paging receiving information, reduce the power consumption of mobile terminal when standby, extend the service time of mobile terminal.
In addition, by making the state information of the adjacent cell of winner's SIM card paging receiving information and maintenance service community and Serving cell, and secondary SIM card only paging receiving information, thus the state of secondary SIM card can be made to follow the state of main SIM card.
In one embodiment, the state making the state of secondary SIM card follow main SIM card comprises: enter out of reach state in response to the first SIM card, makes the second SIM card also enter out of reach state.Such as, as shown in step S403, determine whether main SIM card enters out of reach state (Out of Service, OoS).Subsequently, such as make secondary SIM card inactivation (deactive) by Access Layer plane signaling and the state of secondary SIM card is set to out of reach state (step S404).Such as, secondary SIM card inactivation can be made by sending Deactive Request (inactivation request) to secondary SIM card.Subsequently, be in out of reach state in response to the first SIM card and exceed predetermined amount of time, make the first SIM card select new Serving cell to carry out resident.Such as, as step S405, by setting OoS timer in advance, in response to OoS timer expiry, making winner's SIM card search network again, carrying out resident to find a Ge Xin community.In step S406, secondary SIM card follows the state of main SIM card, resident to identical new community.Subsequently, main SIM card and secondary SIM card all get back to holding state, and perform the operation as shown in step S402.
In another embodiment, the state making the state of secondary SIM card follow main SIM card comprises: in response to main SIM card gravity treatment to new Serving cell, make secondary SIM card also gravity treatment to this new Serving cell.Such as, as shown in step S407, determine whether main SIM card initiates cell reselection.If so, then in step S408, in response to main SIM card gravity treatment to new Serving cell, make secondary SIM card also gravity treatment to this new Serving cell.Utilize this execution mode of the present invention, the cell reselection speed of secondary SIM card can be accelerated, improve service quality and strengthen Consumer's Experience.
In yet, the state making the state of secondary SIM card follow main SIM card comprises: in response to secondary SIM card initiating communication business, secondary SIM card is made to obtain the state information of the adjacent cell of Serving cell from main SIM card, change previous secondary SIM card (the second SIM card) into current main SIM card, and change previous main SIM card (the first SIM card) into current secondary SIM card, as shown in step S409 and S410.In a specific embodiment, the diversification in role between main SIM card and secondary SIM card is automatically carried out.In other words, in response to secondary SIM card initiating communication business, previous secondary SIM card (the second SIM card) automatically changes current main SIM card into, and previous main SIM card (the first SIM card) automatically changes current secondary SIM card into.
Further, the communication service in response to previous secondary SIM card (the second SIM card) terminates, and the first SIM card being reassigned is main SIM card, and reassigns the second SIM card into secondary SIM card.In a specific embodiment, communication service in response to current main SIM card (the second SIM card) terminates, current main SIM card (the second SIM card) automatically changes secondary SIM card into, and current secondary SIM card (the first SIM card) automatically changes main SIM card into.
Should be appreciated that method 300 and 400 is applicable to various multi-card mobile terminal.These multi-card mobile terminals are including, but not limited to the multi-card mobile terminal of only supporting GSM network pattern; Support the multi-card mobile terminal of WCDMA and GSM network pattern simultaneously; Support the multi-card mobile terminal of TD-SCMDA and GSM network pattern simultaneously; Support the multi-card mobile terminal of WCDMA, TD-SCDMA, GSM network pattern simultaneously; Support TDD-LTE, the multi-card mobile terminal of FDD-LTE, WCDMA, TD-SCDMA, GSM network pattern simultaneously.
According to the another aspect of embodiment of the present invention, provide a kind of community park device for mobile terminal.Fig. 5 shows the schematic block diagram of the community park device 500 for mobile terminal according to embodiment of the present invention.Described mobile terminal at least has the first Subscriber Identity Module SIM card and the second SIM card.According to an execution mode, device 500 may be implemented in smart mobile phone, personal digital assistant (PDA), notebook, portable subscriber platform (PSS), travelling carriage (MS) or access terminal (AT) etc.Such as, device 500 may be implemented in the mobile terminal 100 of Fig. 1.
As shown in Figure 5, device 500 comprises: the first determining unit 501, is configured to determine whether described first SIM card and described second SIM card belong to identical service provider; Second determining unit 502, is configured to belong to identical service provider in response to described first SIM card and described second SIM card, determines whether described first SIM card and described second SIM card are in identical network schemer; And resident element 503, be configured to be in identical network schemer in response to described first SIM card and described second SIM card, make described first SIM card and described second SIM card reside in identical Serving cell.
In an illustrative embodiments, device 500 comprises designating unit further, is configured to: described first SIM card is appointed as the main SIM card for described identical service provider; Described second SIM card is appointed as the secondary SIM card for described identical service provider; Make described main SIM card paging receiving information and safeguard the state information of the adjacent cell of described Serving cell and described Serving cell; And make described secondary SIM card only paging receiving information.
In an illustrative embodiments, device 500 comprises state further and follows unit, is configured such that the state of described second SIM card follows the state of described first SIM card.
In an illustrative embodiments, described state is followed unit and is further configured to and enters out of reach state in response to described first SIM card, makes described second SIM card enter described out of reach state.
In an illustrative embodiments, described resident element is further configured to: be in described out of reach state in response to described first SIM card and exceed predetermined amount of time, make described first SIM card select new Serving cell to carry out resident; And make described second SIM card resident to described new Serving cell.
In an illustrative embodiments, described state is followed unit and to be further configured in response to described first SIM card gravity treatment to new Serving cell, makes described second SIM card gravity treatment to described new Serving cell.
In an illustrative embodiments, device 500 comprises information acquisition unit further, be configured to, in response to described second SIM card initiating communication business, make described second SIM card obtain the state information of the adjacent cell of described Serving cell from described first SIM card; And wherein said designating unit is further configured in response to described second SIM card initiating communication business, described second SIM card is changed into described main SIM card and change described first SIM card into described secondary SIM card.
In an illustrative embodiments, described designating unit is further configured to: the communication service in response to described second SIM card terminates, described first SIM card is reassigned as described main SIM card, and described second SIM card is reassigned as described secondary SIM card.
It should be noted that for clarity, the selectable unit included by device 500 or subelement are not shown in Fig. 5.All characteristic sum operations as described above are applicable to device 500 respectively.And the unit in device 500 or the division of subelement are not restrictive but exemplary, are intended to logically describe its major function or operation.The function of a unit can be realized by multiple unit; Otherwise multiple unit also can be realized by a unit.Scope of the present invention is unrestricted in this regard.
And the unit that device 500 comprises can profit realize in various manners, comprise software, hardware, firmware or its combination in any.Such as, in certain embodiments, device 500 can utilize software and/or firmware to realize, and is run by the processor 120 in such as Fig. 1 or is called.Alternatively or additionally, device 500 can partially or fully realize based on hardware, and is such as included in the structure shown in Fig. 1.Such as, the one or more unit in device 500 can be implemented as integrated circuit (IC) chip, application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) (ASIC), SOC (system on a chip) (SOC), field programmable gate array (FPGA), etc.Scope of the present invention is unrestricted in this regard.
According to the another aspect of embodiment of the present invention, provide a kind of mobile terminal.This mobile terminal can comprise: device 500 as described above; First SIM card deck, for accepting the first SIM card; And the second SIM card deck, for accepting the second SIM card.In some embodiments, this mobile terminal can be such as mobile terminal illustrated in fig. 1, and wherein at least two SIM card (138 and 139) of mobile terminal are connected to the processor 120 of mobile terminal respectively by respective deck.
It should be noted that and can comprise other SIM card decks except the first SIM card deck, the second SIM card deck, for accepting other SIM card according to the mobile terminal of embodiment of the present invention.Embodiments of the present invention are unrestricted in this regard.
The present invention can be system, method and/or computer program.Computer program can comprise computer-readable recording medium, containing the computer-readable program instructions for making processor realize various aspects of the present invention.
Will be appreciated that, each frame of flow chart and the combination of flow chart center can be implemented by various means, such as hardware and/or comprise the computer program of one or more computer-readable mediums with the computer-readable program instructions be stored thereon.Such as, one or more process as described herein can be realized by the computer program instructions of computer program.On this point, (multiple) computer program realizing described process here can be moved one or more memory devices of terminal, server or other computing equipment store and performed by the processor in computing equipment.In some embodiments, the computer program instructions comprising (multiple) computer program embodying process described above can be stored by the memory devices of multiple computing equipment.As will be recognized, computer program so arbitrarily can be loaded into produce machine on computer or other programmable device, thus makes the computer program being included in the instruction that computer or other programmable device perform create out device for implementing function specified in (multiple) flow chart box.In addition, computer program can comprise it can store computer program instructions one or more computer-readable memories (such as, memory 140 or 142 in Fig. 1), with make one or more computer-readable memory can instruct computer or other programmable device (such as, the mobile terminal 100 of Fig. 1) carry out work in a specific way, with the manufacture making computer program comprise function specified in enforcement (multiple) flow chart box.The computer program instructions of one or more computer program also can be loaded on computer or other programmable device and make to make sequence of operations be able to be performed to produce computer-implemented process on computer or other programmable device the instruction performed on computer or other programmable device implement function specified in (multiple) flow chart box.
Therefore, the frame support of flow chart is for performing the combination of the means of specified function.Also will be appreciated that, the combination of one or more flow chart box and flow chart center can be realized by the computer system based on specialized hardware performing specific function or the hardware of specific purpose and the combination of computer program.
Above-mentioned functions can perform in many ways.Such as, any suitable device for performing each function in above-mentioned functions can be employed for carrying out embodiments of the present invention.In some example embodiment, the processor (such as, processor 120) of suitably configuration can provide all or part of key element.In other example embodiment, all or part of key element can be configured by computer program and operate under control of a computer program product.Computer program for the method performing embodiments of the present invention comprises the computer-readable recording medium of such as non-volatile memory medium and so on, and the computer readable program code part specialized in a computer-readable storage medium of such as series of computation machine instruction and so on.
Be described above various embodiments of the present invention, above-mentioned explanation is exemplary, and non-exclusive, and be also not limited to disclosed each embodiment.When not departing from the scope and spirit of illustrated each embodiment, many modifications and changes are all apparent for those skilled in the art.The selection of term used herein, is intended to explain best the principle of each embodiment, practical application or the technological improvement to the technology in market, or makes other those of ordinary skill of the art can understand each embodiment disclosed herein.

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1., for a district staying method for mobile terminal, described mobile terminal at least has the first Subscriber Identity Module SIM card and the second SIM card, and described method comprises:
Determine whether described first SIM card and described second SIM card belong to identical service provider;
Belong to identical service provider in response to described first SIM card and described second SIM card, determine whether described first SIM card and described second SIM card are in identical network schemer; And
Be in identical network schemer in response to described first SIM card and described second SIM card, make described first SIM card and described second SIM card reside in identical Serving cell.
2. method according to claim 1, comprises further:
Described first SIM card is appointed as the main SIM card for described identical service provider;
Described second SIM card is appointed as the secondary SIM card for described identical service provider;
Make described main SIM card paging receiving information and safeguard the state information of the adjacent cell of described Serving cell and described Serving cell; And
Make described secondary SIM card only paging receiving information.
3. method according to claim 2, comprises further:
The state of described second SIM card is made to follow the state of described first SIM card.
4. method according to claim 3, the state wherein making the state of described second SIM card follow described first SIM card comprises:
Enter out of reach state in response to described first SIM card, make described second SIM card enter described out of reach state.
5. method according to claim 4, comprises further:
Be in described out of reach state in response to described first SIM card and exceed predetermined amount of time, make described first SIM card select new Serving cell to carry out resident; And
Make described second SIM card resident to described new Serving cell.
6. method according to claim 3, the state wherein making the state of described second SIM card follow described first SIM card comprises:
In response to described first SIM card gravity treatment to new Serving cell, make described second SIM card gravity treatment to described new Serving cell.
7. method according to claim 2, comprises further:
In response to described second SIM card initiating communication business, described second SIM card is made to obtain the state information of the adjacent cell of described Serving cell from described first SIM card;
Change described second SIM card into described main SIM card; And
Change described first SIM card into described secondary SIM card.
8. method according to claim 7, comprises further:
Communication service in response to described second SIM card terminates, and reassigns described first SIM card into described main SIM card, and reassigns described second SIM card into described secondary SIM card.
9., for a community park device for mobile terminal, described mobile terminal at least has the first Subscriber Identity Module SIM card and the second SIM card, and described device comprises:
First determining unit, is configured to determine whether described first SIM card and described second SIM card belong to identical service provider;
Second determining unit, is configured to belong to identical service provider in response to described first SIM card and described second SIM card, determines whether described first SIM card and described second SIM card are in identical network schemer; And
Resident element, is configured to be in identical network schemer in response to described first SIM card and described second SIM card, makes described first SIM card and described second SIM card reside in identical Serving cell.
10. device according to claim 9, comprises designating unit further, is configured to:
Described first SIM card is appointed as the main SIM card for described identical service provider;
Described second SIM card is appointed as the secondary SIM card for described identical service provider;
Make described main SIM card paging receiving information and safeguard the state information of the adjacent cell of described Serving cell and described Serving cell; And
Make described secondary SIM card only paging receiving information.
11. devices according to claim 10, comprise further:
State follows unit, is configured such that the state of described second SIM card follows the state of described first SIM card.
12. devices according to claim 10, wherein said state is followed unit and is further configured to:
Enter out of reach state in response to described first SIM card, make described second SIM card enter described out of reach state.
13. devices according to claim 12, wherein said resident element is further configured to:
Be in described out of reach state in response to described first SIM card and exceed predetermined amount of time, make described first SIM card select new Serving cell to carry out resident; And
Make described second SIM card resident to described new Serving cell.
14. devices according to claim 11, wherein said state is followed unit and is further configured to:
In response to described first SIM card gravity treatment to new Serving cell, make described second SIM card gravity treatment to described new Serving cell.
15. devices according to claim 10, comprise further:
Information acquisition unit, is configured to, in response to described second SIM card initiating communication business, make described second SIM card obtain the state information of the adjacent cell of described Serving cell from described first SIM card; And
Wherein said designating unit is further configured in response to described second SIM card initiating communication business, described second SIM card is changed into described main SIM card and changes described first SIM card into described secondary SIM card.
16. devices according to claim 15, wherein said designating unit is further configured to:
Communication service in response to described second SIM card terminates, and reassigns described first SIM card into described main SIM card, and reassigns described second SIM card into described secondary SIM card.
17. 1 kinds of mobile terminals, comprising:
Device according to any one of claim 9-16;
First SIM card deck, for accepting the first SIM card; And
Second SIM card deck, for accepting the second SIM card.
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