Radio communication device

• US 20030083075A1
• Filed: 12/05/2001
• Published: 05/01/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 01/11/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)
• Inventors: Nita, Takeshi, Miyazaki, Hideto
• Application Number:
  US10/002,285
• Publication Number:
  US 20030083075A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/456.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/3805 with built-in auxiliary receivers
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/18 Selecting a network or a communication service

Abstract

A radio communication device comprising: a position detector for detecting the current position of a radio communication device; a memory for storing information of a domain and radio communication system information corresponding of the domain; a selection unit for selecting a radio communication system corresponding to the domain, to which the current position belongs, on the basis of the current position detected by the position detector, the domain information stored in the memory and the radio communication system information corresponding to the domain; and a radio communication unit for performing at least transmissions on the basis of the radio communication system selected by the selection unit.

As a result, even when the radio communication device is moved to a domain of a different radio communication system, the radio communication can be automatically performed by the radio communication system corresponding to the reached domain.

Claims

1. A radio communication device comprising:

a position detector for detecting the current position of a radio communication device;

a memory for storing information of a domain and radio communication system information corresponding of said domain;

a selection unit for selecting a radio communication system corresponding to said domain, to which said current position belongs, on the basis of said current position detected by said position detector, said domain information stored in said memory and the radio communication system information corresponding to said domain; and

a radio communication unit for performing at least transmissions on the basis of said radio communication system selected by said selection unit.

2. A radio communication device according to claim 1, wherein said domain information are country domain information or administrative division domain information in individual countries.

3. A radio communication device according to claim 1, further comprising an output unit for outputting, when said radio communication system is to be changed, predetermined information on the change of said radio communication system.

4. A radio communication device according to claim 1, wherein said radio communication unit includes an information transmission unit for transmitting, when said radio communication system is to be changed to a different radio communication system, information for promoting the change to said different radio communication system, to the other end unit in radio communications.

5. A radio communication device according to claim 4, further comprising an output unit for outputting, when said radio communication system is to be changed, information of the other end unit on the change of said radio communication system.

6. A radio communication device according to claim 1, further comprising an update unit for updating the domain information, as stored in said memory, and the radio communication system information corresponding to said domain, on the basis of update information received by said radio communication unit.

7. A radio communication device according to claim 1, further comprising an update unit for updating the domain information, as stored in said memory, and the radio communication system information corresponding to said domain, on the basis of update information stored in a removable memory medium.

8. A radio communication device according to claim 7, wherein said removable memory medium is a memory disk or a memory card.

9. A radio communication device according to claim 1, wherein said radio communication device is carried on a mover, and wherein said position detector utilizes the current position information of said mover, as obtained from a navigation system.

10. A radio communication device according to claim 1, wherein said radio communication system is a Bluetooth radio communication system.