System and Method for Redirecting a Mobile Device

Abstract

The present invention concerns a femtocell device ( 1 ) and method at a femtocell device ( 1 ) comprising a first interface ( 23 ) for communicating to a macrocell ( 4 ) and a second interface ( 25 ) for communicating to a broadband network ( 2 ), the method comprising the steps of when communication to the broadband network ( 2 ) is inactive, receiving a paging message from the macrocell ( 4 ) destined to a mobile device ( 3 ) connected to the femtocell device ( 1 ), and notifying the mobile device ( 3 ) to redirect to the macrocell ( 4 ).

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         2 . A method at a femtocell device comprising a first interface for communicating to a cellular radio network and a second interface for communicating to the Internet a broadband network, said femtocell device enabling at least one cellular device associated with the femtocell device to access said broadband network through said second interface of said femtocell device, said method comprising when communication to at said femtocell device to said broadband network is becomes inactive,
 maintaining said connection with said at least one cellular device,   listening to paging traffic for the at least one cellular device associated with the femtocell received at said first interface from a base station of a cellular network serving a macrocell, and   on reception of a paging message from said base station destined to one of said at least one cellular device, forwarding said paging message to said one of said at least one cellular device, rejecting a paging response from said one of said at least one cellular device and notifying said one of said at least one cellular device to reselect said macrocell to establish a call,   wherein when communication at said femtocell device to said broadband network is inactive, and if no cellular device is connected to said femtocell device, deactivating said second interface.   
     
     
         3 - 6  (canceled)