WO1999066747A2 - Headline hyperlink broadcast service and system - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates generally to the provision of information services in radiocommunication systems and, more particularly, to efficiently broadcast information services in conjunction with existing radiocommunication services and systems.
- Pagers have acquired some of the functionality that was traditionally provided by cellular phones and vice-versa. For example, two-way pagers have been developed which permit the pager user to transmit messages to the paging system, which messages can then be forwarded to other parties. Similarly, cellular phones have acquired the capability to transmit and receive short (e.g., on the order of 160 alphanumeric character) text messages which can be output on the display of a cellular phone. This evolution in radiocommunication devices has led to the development and marketing of a host of new information services.
- paging systems have been implemented which provide for the broadcast of information services, e.g., stock quote information services, to a large number of subscribers that have pagers with displays. These pagers periodically receive information over an air interface associated with a large number of stocks or other financial instruments such as options, futures, etc. , and display the current prices of these instruments so that a user can track his or her portfolio's performance.
- information services e.g., stock quote information services
- These pagers periodically receive information over an air interface associated with a large number of stocks or other financial instruments such as options, futures, etc. , and display the current prices of these instruments so that a user can track his or her portfolio's performance.
- cellular systems unlike paging systems, have conventionally been designed around the paradigm of (1) limited bandwidth due to a restriction on the spectrum allocated by various governing bodies, e.g. , the FCC, for cellular applications and (2) the notion that most of the limited bandwidth be reserved for point-to-point connections (e.g. , voice connections) between the cellular phones and the system, with only a relatively small fraction being reserved for broadcast, i.e., point-to- multipoint, transmissions from the system to the cellular phones operating in the system.
- point-to-point connections e.g. , voice connections
- each radio frequency is divided into a series of time slots, each of which contains a burst of information from a data source, e.g. , a digitally encoded portion of a voice conversation.
- a data source e.g. , a digitally encoded portion of a voice conversation.
- the time slots are grouped into successive TDMA frames having a predetermined duration.
- the number of time slots in each TDMA frame is related to the number of different users that can simultaneously share the radio channel. If each slot in a TDMA frame is assigned to a different user, the duration of a TDMA frame is the minimum amount of time between successive time slots assigned to the same user.
- the successive time slots assigned to the same user which are usually not consecutive time slots on the radio carrier, constitute the user's digital traffic channel (DTC). As mentioned above, this is typically a point-to-point resource and, in fact, most TDMA systems reserve the majority of the available radio channels for use as DTCs to ensure a large traffic capacity.
- DTC digital traffic channel
- DCCHs digital control channels
- DCCHs digital control channels
- Similar types of resource allocations are found in other types of cellular systems.
- CDMA code division multiple access
- channelization is performed by spreading data associated with a particular connection using a unique spreading code.
- This code provides the receiver with a mechanism for extracting its intended data, i.e., by correlating the received composite signal with the code assigned to its traffic channel.
- CDMA systems can also provide for broadcast control channels or other overhead signalling channels by allocating known codes thereto.
- CDMA systems also tend to reserve more resources (e.g. , codes and power) for dedicated traffic channels than for broadcast information channels.
- packet data services such as CDPD which is deployed in the U.S. cellular spectrum
- a service exists which is designed around an efficient encoding, reduced content WEB browser.
- the subscriber will, on a relatively small screen (e.g. , less than 10 rows of text), be able to read a small amount of text which are presented in response to queries from the user, i.e., explicit system accesses.
- Each "page" presented on this screen may have contents that may be further selected.
- a displayed stock quote service page may contain a small list of company names. If the user selects a particular company using the keypad, a request is sent over the air using the CDPD service to a special server in the network. The server sends a new page to the mobile with the requested information.
- This CDPD service resembles the traditional, wire-based Internet web service, the difference being that the special server connected to the CDPD system uses a special language in order to very efficiently present a small amount of information to the user.
- the special server may extract text information from a traditional WEB page and strip away high bandwidth pictures, color etc. The text is then reformatted and re-encoded in a more bandwidth efficient manner than the HTML language used in describing the information in its original WEB page form, prior to transmission to the remote unit.
- This microbrowser concept has evolved from its original form used in
- the CDPD to what is referred to as the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP).
- WAP Wireless Application Protocol
- the basic concept is, however, still the same.
- the WAP is designed to be air-interface independent (e.g. GSM, IS-136, CDPD etc.) and provides improved flexibility and resource efficiency.
- Another technique used in current wireless systems is to build a dedicated system for information retrieval, e.g., the paging systems described above.
- the basic(and perhaps the only) service provided is the information broadcast service. All of the available information is broadcast to the wireless devices as part of the broadcast service. There is no provision to request further information.
- This latter paging system approach requires a significant rf bandwidth since all the information has to be broadcasted or, alternatively and more realistically, the amount of information that the user can access must be limited.
- the trade-off between the amount of data available to the subscriber (e.g. , how many stock symbols/prices are transmitted) and the time needed by the user to acquire the full set of information (e.g., how long it takes for the user to receive and cycle through the predetermined number of stock symbols/prices) must be made by the service provider. Moreover, all users get the same information, there is no means to tailor the information for particular users.
- the former CDPD/WAP approach requires the user to make an initial access to the system, i.e. , a web query.
- the user must, similar to the traditional WEB usage, store "book-marks" of "pages" of interest.
- the user typically initiates an access to a particular service e.g. go to a "bookmark”.
- the drawback with this approach is that if there is a particular event happening, the user gets no information unless it polls the service, e.g., a news service.
- Exemplary embodiments of the present invention provide techniques which support broadcast information services via radiocommunication systems using a broadcast resource in an efficient manner.
- the present invention minimizes the capacity of the broadcast resource that is consumed by the broadcast information service by initially broadcasting only a short headline or summary of a topic, e.g. , news is provided in the form of hypertext.
- the hypertext can be a link (i.e. , a URL address) to a WEB site or just a marker for the cellular system local identifier that provides the server with information needed to locate and retrieve the full text associated with the headline. If the user selects the headline, an automated request is generated in the mobile station, using e.g. packet data services or a SMS service to request the full text for the subject selected.
- the request of the full contents can contain a destination address to which the server can send the detailed information, which destination could, for example, be the mobile station cellular identifier or another device, e.g. office e-mail address or fax number in a hotel.
- the destination address can be specified as a raw address field plus an identifier type field which identifies the type associated with the raw address field, e.g. an e-mail address, a fax number, a mobile cellular identifier, etc.
- the present invention utilizes a combination of broadcast channels and point-to-point channels in order to make efficient use of the frequency spectrum and provide an easy-to- use and flexible service to the end-user.
- Figure 1 illustrates a generalized view of a digital control channel (DCCH) having time slots which are grouped into superframes
- Figure 2 illustrates an exemplary radiotelephone system into which the present invention may be implemented
- Figure 3 illustrates a hyperframe structure according which can be used to implement the present invention
- Figure 4 illustrates the logical channels of the DCCH which can be used to implement the present invention
- Figure 5 depicts an exemplary format for a broadcast headline hyperlink
- Figure 6 shows a block diagram of a system architecture which can be used to implement exemplary embodiments of the present invention.
- exemplary embodiments of the present invention describe techniques and systems for providing broadcast information services which are intended to minimize the usage of the relatively scarce broadcast resources available in existing cellular radiocommunication systems. Accordingly, these exemplary embodiments are described using the broadcast resources available in IS-136, in particular the broadcast SMS channel (S-BCCH).
- S-BCCH broadcast SMS channel
- Some of the details associated with IS-136 systems generally and the broadcast SMS channel specifically are described below, while others are omitted to avoid obscuring the present invention.
- the interested reader is referred to U.S. Patent No. 5,603,081 to Raith et al. and U.S. Patent Application Serial No. 08/482,754 also to Raith et al. for additional information pertaining to IS-136 related systems generally and broadcast SMS techniques specifically, respectively.
- the disclosures of both the aforementioned U.S. Patent and U.S. Patent Application are expressly incorporated here by reference.
- FIG 1 shows a general example of a forward (or downlink) DCCH configured as a succession of time slots 1, 2, ... , N, ... included in the consecutive time slots 1, 2 ... sent on a carrier frequency.
- DCCH slots may be defined on a radio channel such as that specified by IS-136, and may consist, as seen in Figure 1 for example, of every n-th slot in a series of consecutive slots.
- Each DCCH slot has a duration that may or may not be 6.67 msec, which is the length of a DTC slot according to the IS-136 standard.
- the DCCH slots may be organized into superframes (SF), and each superframe includes a number of logical channels that carry different kinds of information.
- One or more DCCH slots may be allocated to each logical channel in the superframe.
- the exemplary downlink superframe in Figure 1 includes three logical channels: a broadcast control channel (BCCH) including six successive slots for overhead messages; a paging channel (PCH) including one slot for paging messages; and an access response channel (ARCH) including one slot for channel assignment and other messages.
- the remaining time slots in the exemplary superframe of Figure 1 may be dedicated to other logical channels, such as additional paging channels PCH or other channels . Since the number of mobile stations is usually much greater than the number of slots in the superframe, each paging slot is used for paging several mobile stations that share some unique characteristic, e.g., the last digit of the MIN.
- FIG. 2 represents a block diagram of an exemplary cellular mobile radiotelephone system, including an exemplary base station 110 and mobile station 120.
- the base station includes a control and processing unit 130 which is connected to the MSC 140 which in turn is connected to the PSTN (not shown).
- General aspects of such cellular radiotelephone systems are known in the art, as described by U.S. Patent No. 5,175,867 to Wejke et al., entitled “Neighbor- Assisted Handoff in a Cellular Communication System, " and U.S. Patent
- the base station 110 handles a plurality of voice channels through a voice channel transceiver 150, which is controlled by the control and processing unit 130.
- each base station includes a control channel transceiver 160, which may be capable of handling more than one control channel.
- the control channel transceiver 160 is controlled by the control and processing unit 130.
- the control channel transceiver 160 broadcasts control information over the control channel of the base station or cell to mobiles locked to that control channel. It will be understood that the transceivers 150 and 160 can be implemented as a single device, like the voice and control transceiver 170, for use with DCCHs and DTCs that share the same radio carrier frequency.
- the mobile station 120 receives the information broadcast on a control channel at its voice and control channel transceiver 170. Then, the processing unit 175 evaluates the received control channel information, which includes the characteristics of cells that are candidates for the mobile station to lock on to, and determines on which cell the mobile should lock.
- the received control channel information not only includes absolute information concerning the cell with which it is associated, but also contains relative information concerning other cells proximate to the cell with which the control channel is associated, as described in U.S. Patent No. 5,353,332 to Raith et al., entitled “Method and Apparatus for Communication Control in a Radiotelephone System, " which is incorporated in this application by reference.
- the mobile station 120 also includes an input device 185, such as a numeric keypad, which allows a user to interact with the mobile station.
- a display device 190 such as an LCD screen, provides a visual display of information to the user.
- the mobile station also includes memory 180.
- the transmission of broadcast information from base stations to mobile stations is structured into successions of different kinds of logical frames.
- Figure 3 illustrates the frame structure of a forward (base station to mobile station) DCCH according to IS-136 and shows two successive hyperframes (HF), each of which preferably comprises a respective primary superframe (SF) and a respective secondary superframe.
- HF hyperframe
- SF primary superframe
- a hyperframe could include more than two super frames.
- Three successive superframes are illustrated in Figure 3, each comprising a plurality of time slots that are organized as logical channels F-BCCH, E-BCCH, S-BCCH, and SPACH that are described in more detail below.
- each superframe in a forward DCCH includes a complete set of F-BCCH information (i.e., a set of Layer 3 messages), using as many slots as are necessary, and that each superframe begins with a F-BCCH slot.
- the remaining slots in each superframe include one or more (or no) slots for the E-BCCH, S-BCCH, and SPACH logical channels.
- each superframe of the downlink (forward) DCCH preferably comprises a broadcast control channel BCCH, and a short-message-service/paging/access channel SPACH.
- the BCCH comprises a fast BCCH (the F-BCCH shown in Figure 3); an extended BCCH (the E-BCCH); and a short-message-service BCCH (the S-BCCH), some of which are used, in general, to carry generic, system-related information from the base stations to the mobiles.
- the F-BCCH logical channel carries time-critical system information, such as the structure of the DCCH, other parameters that are essential for accessing the system, and an E-BCCH change flag which is described in more detail in U.S.
- the E-BCCH logical channel carries system information that is less time-critical than the information sent on the F-BCCH; a complete set of E-BCCH information (i.e. , a set of Layer 3 messages) may span several superframes and need not be aligned to start in the first E-BCCH slot of a superframe.
- the S-BCCH logical channel carries short broadcast messages, such as stock information, advertisements and other information of interest to various classes of mobile subscriber. According to exemplary embodiments of the present invention, this logical channel may be used to support two-tiered information services, wherein headlines or summaries are broadcast continuously and more detailed information can be broadcast upon demand.
- short text descriptions e.g. , headlines, summaries, subjects or the like, can be transmitted on the S-BCCH or a subchannel thereof. Recognizing that broadcast resources on existing cellular systems are scarce, Applicant foresees potential situations wherein the S-BCCH, or its counterpart(s) in other types of systems, has its bandwidth allocated among various broadcast information services, e.g., security quote services, sports information services, etc. Different types of services can be efficiently transmitted in different ways. For example, when the information associated with a particular service consists of a set of updateable values, e.g. , securities, sports, weather and travel, etc., the information can be channelized and encoded to optimize bandwidth utilization as described in copending, U.S. Patent Application Serial
- the present invention provides techniques for addressing these types of broadcast information services.
- the system broadcasts a series of short messages which are received by the remote device and used as selectable hyperlinks. These hyperlinks may be displayed on the remote device, e.g., a mobile phone, a wireless PDA, etc.
- the remote device e.g., a mobile phone, a wireless PDA, etc.
- the user may subscribe to a broadcast information service that provides data regarding various topics, including telecommunications and which transmits the following messages (perhaps using some encoding)on an S-BCCH sub-channel, which messages (or portions thereof) are subsequently displayed on the screen of a user's mobile phone as follows:
- ERICSSON BUYS MICROSOFT (link id.), LUCENT STOCK. PLUNGE (link id), AT&T VENTURE (link id.), IS-136 IN CANADA (link id.),
- part of the message information broadcast on the S-BCCH subchannel associated with this service is a brief text message description that informs the users of the contents of the available, more detailed information (which information has not been broadcast), which brief text message portion can be displayed for selection.
- Another portion of the transmitted information can be a link identifier, which could, for example, be a valid World Wide Web address (URL).
- the link identifier may or may not be displayed for selection.
- a displayed set of messages could read as:
- the link identifier is not explicitly displayed and, instead, underlining is used to indicate, to the user, information associated with a link.
- two links are identified for one subject.
- any visible indicator e.g., highlighting
- the relationship between a hyperlink and the displayed text can be conveyed by punctuation, e.g, selection of any text between commas will result in a single hyperlink being activated.
- selection of a display portion to activate a hyperlink can be accomplished in any desired manner, e.g. , positioning a cursor under any letter in the phrase or, using a touch-sensitive screen, pointing to the desired link area.
- the system may broadcast an indicator of the size of the detailed information associated with each link identification. This will allow the user, or the mobile station, to determine how the detailed information associated with the link should be downloaded based on its size. For example, detailed information which is relatively small in size may use a lower bandwidth service, such as point-to-point SMS, whereas for a larger data block associated with a link, a data service may be selected by the user or by the mobile station in a preprogrammed manner, e.g., wherein the user has preselected that data files of less than about lkByte be sent via point-to-point SMS while data files in excess of 1 kByte should be sent to his or her e-mail address or be sent by setting up a circuit or packet data connection over the radiocommunication system.
- the mobile station can automatically read the size indicator associated with a link that is selected by a user to determine the downlink mode of delivery for the detailed information that is identified by the hypertext link.
- the size indicator associated with a link that is selected by
- the user may select one of the displayed hyperlinks, e.g., by scrolling through the list with a cursor and depressing a select key when the cursor is underneath a portion of the displayed hyperlink or simply by touching the hyperlink portion of the displayed message if a touch sensitive screen is used in the remote device. Then, the user might be prompted to select a delivery address for the detailed information, e.g., from a list including his or her e-mail, a fax number, etc. or to input an address.
- the transmit format of the detailed data associated with the link may be varied depending upon the output device that is associated with downlink delivery mode. For example, if the user or the mobile station selects an SMS delivery mode, then a first lower bandwidth intensive set of information may be delivered. Alternatively, if an e-mail or fax delivery mode is selected, a second higher bandwidth set of information may be delivered.
- a first lower bandwidth intensive set of information may be delivered.
- a second higher bandwidth set of information may be delivered.
- typical web sites which may be graphics/video intensive. If a user selects a hyperlink associated with such a web site, then the graphics may be eliminated and only the text sent if SMS delivery is selected, whereas all of the graphics/video may be delivered if a higher bandwidth service, e.g., e-mail, is selected.
- a remote user need not access the system, e.g., request a traffic channel, to read the headlines. This avoids any utilization of the uplink control channel or packet data channel capacity for headline browsing.
- users need not log-in to the service server to obtain the headlines, which avoids demand on the radiocommunication system resources.
- the users are instead activated for a set of headline services by, for example, receiving a corresponding set of encryption keys which may, for example, be sent over the air-interface or entered by the user by means of the keypad.
- the encryption keys can be changed on a regular basis e.g. once per month.
- exemplary embodiments of the present invention overcome deficiencies of the known systems by (1) providing summary information as a broadcast service and (2) providing detailed information in response to a user request.
- the set of headlines or subjects for broadcast may be grouped into sets of services which may be subscribed to on a pay-as-you go basis. For example, one service provider could broadcast a series of news headlines on one S-BCCH subchannel, while another service provider broadcasts travel advisory headlines on a second S-BCCH sub-channel. Only subscribed services are made available to the mobile user, i.e., the mobile user may subscribe to one service and be able to read a corresponding broadcast sub-channel, but not others.
- the remote device may be equipped with a local short range communicator to a laptop or portable computer, e.g. an infrared or a local, low power wireless link.
- a local short range communicator to a laptop or portable computer, e.g. an infrared or a local, low power wireless link.
- the request for the detailed information may contain a destination address.
- the type of destination address may implicitly dictate the mechanism to be used by the system to send the detailed information. This mechanism could, as described above, be an SMS message, or a circuit switched or packet data (e.g. CDPD or GPRS in the GSM system) connection.
- the request for detailed information may explicitly request a particular mechanism by which the detailed information should be sent.
- the destination address can, of course, be the same as or different from the address associated with the requesting remote device.
- the user may want to direct the detailed information as a fax to a hotel or as an e-mail to its office e- mail system rather than to his or her mobile phone, on which he or she scrolled through the headlines and selected a particular item for which to receive detailed information.
- the user may set the remote device to wait for a specific indication, e.g, special key series, by the user before issuing a request to the system for the detailed information.
- automated interaction may also occur.
- the user may set a trigger to specific subjects, e.g. if a stock quote reaches a certain level.
- the remote device may be set to automatically request the detailed information at a predetermined delivery address.
- the detailed information is available in the mobile or in a companion device, the user is alerted.
- Another exemplary trigger is the appearance of specific word(s) or sets of words in the broadcast headlines, e.g. , ERICSSON.
- the remote device can continuously, or on regular intervals, examine the broadcast headlines to determine whether the trigger word is present.
- the remote device may alert the user when a trigger event has occurred, thereby allowing the user to decide whether detailed information should be requested, or may be set to automatically request the associated detailed information when it recognizes the keywords in the short text summaries or headlines.
- category triggering may also be used.
- the broadcast information may have, in addition to the text message, link identifier and possibly size of the associated detailed information, a category field.
- This exemplary format for a broadcast headline hyperlink transmission is illustrated as Figure 5.
- a category field value of 001 might indicate that the following text message, and associated detailed information, have been categorized as news
- a category field value of 002 might indicate that the following text message, and associated detailed information, relates to sports.
- This field can also be used for automatic hyperlink activation, e.g. , for all headlines associated with a predetermined category value, the detailed information can be requested.
- requests for additional information can be accumulated by the remote device prior to sending a request, e.g., on a control channel, for detailed information associated with various hyperlinks.
- the remote device could also send requests as hyperlinks are selected (either manually by the user or based upon some preprogrammed triggering function as described above), however by gathering several requests at once, it becomes possible to select several subjects before making a single access to the system, which in turn should reduce congestion and increase efficient bandwidth utilization.
- Each broadcast headline and its associated link identification may have a number of detailed information files associated therewith.
- a service broadcasting links associated with a newspaper may have various daily articles, etc. that are all available at a particular web site.
- the system can assume that the mobile station wants all six detailed information chunks.
- the mobile station sends the generic hypertext link with local numbers one and two, then the system knows which two detailed information files are desired by the mobile station without repeating the entire address associated with the website or source.
- Interpretation of the local numbers may be supported by the cellular switch and may require routing therethrough.
- the broadcast service provider and the cellular network operator may be different entities and may have different equipment, which equipment can be used in a variety of ways to provide broadcast information services according to the present invention.
- a service provider's equipment 60 is linked via a communication network 62, e.g, the Internet, to a radiocommunication network as represented by mobile switching center (MSC) 64.
- the MSC 64 may have connected thereto (or integral therewith) a special service server 66 for handling broadcast information services.
- the MSC 64 is connection to a plurality of radio base stations (RBS) 68 only one of which is illustrated in Figure 6 for simplicity.
- RBS radio base stations
- One or more radio base stations 68 support radio communications with a remote device, e.g. , mobile station 70.
- the contents broadcast to support a broadcast headline hyperlink service as described above are stored locally, e.g, on the service server 66.
- This information may be initially downloaded through the Internet 62 from the service provider's equipment 60 when an agreement is reached between the network operator and the service provider.
- the service server 66 handles the provision of information to be broadcast by the RBS 68 on one or more broadcast resources, e.g., S-BCCH subchannels.
- the service server 66 also processes requests for detailed information transmitted from the remote device 70. Since the service server 66 is, in this exemplary embodiment, handling the entire exchange of information without interaction with the service provider's equipment 60, local numbers can be broadcast by the system and used in requests by the remote device.
- the information broadcast by the radiocommunication system is stored externally, i.e. , on the service provider's equipment 60.
- the service server 66 may act as a translator which passes requests for information to the service provider's equipment 60.
- the service server may store a map of link identifiers in its memory, each of which being assigned a different local number. The service server may then broadcast text message headlines and local numbers as link identifiers.
- the service server 66 When a request for detailed information is returned, along with a local number, the service server 66 translates the local number into an explicit link identifier, which the service provider's equipment 60 will understand, and forwards the request for detailed information.
- the service server 66 may also handle packaging and delivery of the detailed information after it is delivered by the service provider's equipment 60 through the communication network 62.
- the service server 66 can be eliminated and the service provider's equipment can provide all of the desired intelligence for packaging information to be broadcast on a particular subchannel(s) and handling requests for detailed information.
- the MSC 64 accepts headline information to be broadcast directly from the service provider's equipment 60 and passes requests thereto.
- the service provider's equipment 60 may group information into categories as described above.
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