Systems, methods, and software described herein provide enhancements for the redirection of communication requests from a Long Term Evolution (LTE) network to a secondary wireless communication network. In one implementation, a method of operating a mobility management entity (MME) includes receiving, over a LTE network, channel status information for channels in a secondary wireless communication network from wireless communication devices. The method further provides receiving a communication request over the LTE network from a wireless communication device, and in response to the communication request, identifying a channel in the secondary wireless communication network to support the communication request based on the channel status information. The method also includes transferring a notification to the wireless communication device to indicate the identified channel.

Systems, methods, and software described herein provide enhancements for the redirection of communication requests from a Long Term Evolution (LTE) network to a secondary wireless communication network. In one implementation, a method of operating a mobility management entity (MME) includes receiving, over a LTE network, channel status information for channels in a secondary wireless communication network from wireless communication devices. The method further provides receiving a communication request over the LTE network from a wireless communication device, and in response to the communication request, identifying a channel in the secondary wireless communication network to support the communication request based on the channel status information. The method also includes transferring a notification to the wireless communication device to indicate the identified channel.

A user equipment (UE) operating in a communication system comprising a base station and one or more UEs. The UE may be configured to operate on or “camp” on two different networks with one radio. In this exemplary system, the radio may be normally connected to the first network (NW1) and may from time to time be “tuned away” from NW1 to a second network (NW2). The UE may inform NW1 that it has tuned away to another network, e.g., using start and end indicators. This information may prevent NW1 from wasting downlink capacity by unnecessarily allocating downlink resources to the UE during the tune-away. Alternatively, or in addition, this information may prevent NW1 from penalizing the UE, e.g., by reducing its future downlink allocations, since the UE does not respond to NW1 commands during the tune-away.

The present disclosure relates to methods, apparatus and systems for paging of a terminal. The disclosure provides a method for allocating a paging area for the terminal (130) in a cellular network comprising determining a coverage level for the terminal (130) in a cell in the cellular network, identifying a paging area corresponding to the determined coverage level for the terminal (130); and allocating the identified paging area to the terminal (130).

A user equipment paging method and a mobility management entity (MME) in order to improve user equipment paging efficiency, where the method includes determining, by the MME before paging user equipment in an idle state, a base station last accessed by the user equipment, determining, by the MME, that the base station last accessed by the user equipment is in a non-overload state, and sending, by the MME, a paging message including an identifier of the user equipment to the base station last accessed by the user equipment.

A wireless communications system includes a plurality of infrastructure equipment forming part of a radio access network of a wireless communications network, and a communications device configured to transmit signals via the wireless access interface to one or more of the infrastructure equipment and to receive signals transmitted from one or more of the infrastructure equipment via the wireless access interface. The communications device is configured, when in an inactive state, to receive, from one of the infrastructure equipment, information from which an indication of one or more of the infrastructure equipment representing a notification area of the radio access network can be derived, the one or more infrastructure equipment of the notification area being for use in transmitting tether signals to the communications device from the wireless communications network.

A wireless communications system includes a plurality of infrastructure equipment forming part of a radio access network of a wireless communications network, and a communications device configured to transmit signals via the wireless access interface to one or more of the infrastructure equipment and to receive signals transmitted from one or more of the infrastructure equipment via the wireless access interface. The communications device is configured, when in an inactive state, to receive, from one of the infrastructure equipment, information from which an indication of one or more of the infrastructure equipment representing a notification area of the radio access network can be derived, the one or more infrastructure equipment of the notification area being for use in transmitting tether signals to the communications device from the wireless communications network.

A system may be configured to receive traffic that is destined for a user device, determine a type of content associated with the traffic, determine, based on the type of content, a base station paging scheme, and locate the user device by using the base station paging scheme. In some implementations, a system may include a traffic content analyzer device to analyze header information of a data packet to identify a type of content of the data packet, and output a message that is based on the identified type of content; and a mobile management entity device to receive the message from the traffic content analyzer device, and locate an intended recipient of the data packet by paging one or more base stations using a paging scheme that is based on information in the message.

[Object] To provide an information processing device, a control method, and a program that can estimate a leisure time of a user, and provide information to the user at right timing. [Solution] The information processing device includes an estimation unit configured to extract an information input cycle within a predetermined period on the basis of a history of an information input operation performed by a user on an Internet, and to estimate a leisure time of the user, and a notification control unit configured to perform control to issue a predetermined notification during the estimated leisure time.

[Object] To provide an information processing device, a control method, and a program that can estimate a leisure time of a user, and provide information to the user at right timing. [Solution] The information processing device includes an estimation unit configured to extract an information input cycle within a predetermined period on the basis of a history of an information input operation performed by a user on an Internet, and to estimate a leisure time of the user, and a notification control unit configured to perform control to issue a predetermined notification during the estimated leisure time.