1. A self-ballasted lamp comprising:
a substrate having semiconductor light-emitting elements mounted on one edge side thereof;
A metal-made radiator formed by press-working and having one edge side thereof with which the other edge side of the substrate is brought into contact so as to enable heat conduction;
a cap secured at the other edge side of the radiator; and
a lighting circuit accommodated between the radiator and the cap;
2. The self-ballasted lamp according to claim 1, wherein the radiator includes: a cylindrical cover part having the cap provided at the other edge side thereof; a substrate junction part secured at one edge side of the cover part, with which the other edge side of the substrate is brought into contact so as to enable heat conduction; and a radiation part thermally connected to the substrate junction part.
3. The self-ballasted lamp according to claim 1, wherein the radiator includes: a cylindrical cover member having the cap provided at the other edge side thereof; and an annular radiation member which is brought into contact with and fitted to the outer circumferential part of the cover member so as to enable heat conduction, wherein the other edge side of the substrate is brought into contact with one edge side of at least one of the cover member and the radiation member so as to enable heat conduction.
4. Lighting equipment comprising:
an equipment main body having a socket; and
a self-ballasted lamp according to claim 1, which is mounted in the socket of the equipment main body.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. A method for providing account balance notification of prepaid wireless packet data services in a wireless packet data network, comprising:
detecting occurrence of predefined trigger events;
responsive to occurrence of any one of the predefined trigger events in conjunction with a given wireless subscriber station, sending a balance notification to an internet protocol (IP) address of the given subscriber station via the network, wherein said IP address of the given subscriber station is obtained by querying at least one prescribed entity.
2. The method of claim 1, where the operation of detecting occurrence of predefined trigger events comprises one or more components of the network sensing occurrence of one or more of the following events:
the given subscriber station’s account balance falling below a network-specified threshold;
the given subscriber station’s account balance falling below a subscriber station-specified threshold;
receipt of an account balance query from the given subscriber station;
receipt of an account balance query from a component of the network;
replenishment of the given subscriber station’s account balance;
arrival of a scheduled account balance notification time.
3. The method of claim 1, the sending operation comprising:
relaying the balance notification to the given subscriber station via the network utilizing network-architecture-specific signaling.
4. The method of claim 1, where:
the wireless packet data network includes at least one prepaid server, at least one prepaid client, at least one packet control function module, and at least one base station controller;
the sending operation comprises:
the prepaid server sending data representative of the balance notification to the prepaid client utilizing authentication-authorization-accounting (AAA) protocol;
the prepaid client sending data representative of the balance notification to the packet control function module utilizing A11 protocol;
the packet control function module sending data representative of the balance notification to the base station controller utilizing A11 protocol;
the base station controller sending data representative of the balance notification to the given subscriber station utilizing a prescribed over-the-air (OTA) protocol.
5. The method of claim 1, where the operations further comprise:
the given subscriber station submitting a balance query to a prepaid server;
the operation of detecting occurrence of predefined trigger events includes the prepaid server sensing receipt of the balance query.
6. The method of claim 5, where:
the submitting operation comprises the given subscriber station sending a balance query to a prepaid server utilizing one of the following communication modes: network-architecture-specific signaling, short message service (SMS), applicationinternet protocol (IP) messaging.
7. The method of claim 1, where the operations further comprise:
a prepaid client submitting a balance query to a prepaid server on behalf of the given subscriber station;
the operation of detecting occurrence of predefined trigger events includes the prepaid server sensing receipt of the balance query.
8. A signal bearing medium tangibly embodying a program of machine-readable instructions executable by a digital data processor to perform operations of providing account balance notification of prepaid wireless packet data services in a wireless packet data network, the operations comprising:
detecting occurrence of predefined trigger events;
responsive to occurrence of any one of the predefined trigger events in conjunction with a given wireless subscriber station, sending a balance notification to an internet protocol (IP) address of the given subscriber station via the network, wherein said IP address of the given subscriber station is obtained by querying at least one prescribed entity.
9. The medium of claim 8, where the operation of detecting occurrence of predefined trigger events comprises one or more components of the network sensing occurrence of one or more of the following events:
the given subscriber station’s account balance falling below a network-specified threshold;
the given subscriber station’s account balance falling below a subscriber station-specified threshold;
receipt of an account balance query from the given subscriber station;
receipt of an account balance query from a component of the network;
replenishment of the given subscriber station’s account balance;
arrival of a scheduled account balance notification time.
10. The medium of claim 8, the sending operation comprising:
transmitting the balance notification to the network for delivery to the given subscriber station utilizing network-architecture-specific signaling.
11. The medium of claim 8, where:
one of the predefined trigger events comprising receiving a balance query;
the receiving operation comprising receiving the balance query via one of the following communication modes: network-architecture-specific signaling, short message service (SMS), applicationinternet (IP) protocol messaging.
12. An apparatus for providing account balance notification of prepaid wireless packet data services in a wireless packet data network, comprising:
means for detecting occurrence of predefined trigger events; and
means for responsive to occurrence of any one of the predefined trigger events in conjunction with a given wireless subscriber station, sending a balance notification to an internet protocol (IP) address of the given subscriber station via the network, wherein said IP address of the given subscriber station is obtained by querying at least one prescribed entity.
13. The apparatus of claim 12, where the detecting occurrence of predefined trigger events comprises one or more components of the network sensing occurrence of one or more of the following events:
the given subscriber station’s account balance falling below a network-specified threshold;
the given subscriber station’s account balance falling below a subscriber station-specified threshold;
receipt of an account balance query from the given subscriber station;
receipt of an account balance query from a component of the network;
replenishment of the given subscriber station’s account balance;
arrival of a scheduled account balance notification time.
14. The apparatus of claim 12, further comprising:
means for relaying the balance notification to the given subscriber station via the network utilizing network-architecture-specific signaling.
15. The apparatus of claim 12, where:
the wireless packet data network includes at least one prepaid server, at least one prepaid client, at least one packet control function module, and at least one base station controller;
the sending operation comprises:
the prepaid server sending data representative of the balance notification to the prepaid client utilizing authentication-authorization-accounting (AAA) protocol;
the prepaid client sending data representative of the balance notification to the packet control function module utilizing A11 protocol;
the packet control function module sending data representative of the balance notification to the base station controller utilizing A11 protocol;
the base station controller sending data representative of the balance notification to the given subscriber station utilizing a prescribed over-the-air (OTA) protocol.