Location judgment method using cell broadcast, mobile terminal thereof, and program

• US 20060025157A1
• Filed: 09/30/2005
• Published: 02/02/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 05/08/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Kuwahara, Soichi, Kishi, Makoto, Tachibana, Yasunori, Saito, Jun'ya
• Application Number:
  US11/239,057
• Publication Number:
  US 20060025157A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/456.100
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/06 Selective distribution of broadcast services, e.g. multimedia broadcast multicast service [MBMS]; Services to user groups; One-way selective calling services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 64/00 Locating users or terminals or network equipment for network management purposes, e.g. mobility management
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/40 for selective distribution or broadcast
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/18 Processing of user or subscriber data, e.g. subscribed services, user preferences or user profiles; Transfer of user or subscriber data
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices

Abstract

A “cell broadcast information accumulation section” which accumulates cell broadcast information received by a “cell broadcast receiver” by relating it to the reception date and time, and especially information of a category for which the distribution area is “only one cell” (regional information). According to the cell broadcast information (especially regional information) accumulated in the “cell broadcast information accumulation section”, the “location judgment section” judges the address of the area where the mobile terminal existed (that is, where the user was present) at the aforementioned reception date and time.

Claims

1. A mobile terminal, comprising:

cell broadcast information reception means for receiving cell broadcast information sent from a base station of a mobile terminal;

cell broadcast information accumulation means for accumulating the received cell broadcast information associated with reception date and time; and

location judgment means for judging a location where a user was present at the reception time of the reception date based on information stored in the cell broadcast information accumulation means.

2. The mobile terminal according to claim 1, wherein cell broadcast information used for judgment by the location judgment means is regional information, which is information associated with a distribution area of each of the base stations.

3. The mobile terminal according to claim 2, wherein the location judgment means judges the location based on postal code information comprised in the regional information.

4. The mobile terminal according to claim 2, wherein the location judgment means judges the location based on fixed phone number information comprised in the regional information.

5. The mobile terminal according to claim 2, wherein the location judgment means judges the location based on train station name information comprised in the regional information.

6. The mobile terminal according to claim 3, wherein the location judgment means judges the location where the user was present by majority when a plurality of locations are extracted.

7. The mobile terminal according to claim 1, further comprising:

base station identifier extraction means for extracting a base station identifier sent from the base station with the cell broadcast information;

base station identifier-location information correspondence means for associating a location judged by the location judgment means with the base station identifier and for storing them; and

second location judgment means for, when the cell broadcast information was sent from a base station with a base station identifier stored in the base station identifier-location information correspondence means, judging the location where the user was present based on the base station identifier-location information correspondence means without using the cell broadcast information.

8. The mobile terminal according to claim 1, further comprises information-to-be-analyzed specification means for specifying information to be analyzed by the location judgment means to be information of a specific channel among a plurality of channels delivering the cell broadcast information.

9. The mobile terminal according to claim 1, further comprises information-to-be-received specification means for specifying cell broadcast information to be received by the cell broadcast information reception means to be cell broadcast information of a specific channel among a plurality of channels, which the base station delivers.

10. An information processor device comprising location judgment means for, based on cell broadcast information received by a mobile terminal and accumulated in association with a reception date and time, judging a location where a user of the mobile terminal was present at the reception time of the reception date.

11. A location judgment method, comprising steps of:

receiving cell broadcast information sent from a base station of a mobile terminal;

accumulating the received cell broadcast information in association with reception date and time; and

judging a location where a user was present at the reception time of the reception date based on the accumulated cell broadcast information.

12. The location judgment method according to claim 11, wherein cell broadcast information used for the location judgment is regional information, which is the information associated with a distribution area of each of the base stations.

13. The location judgment method according to claim 11, wherein the location judgment judges the location based on postal code information, fixed-line phone numbers or station names comprised in the regional information.

14. A program, which causes a computer to realize functions of:

receiving cell broadcast information sent from a base station of a mobile terminal;

accumulating the received cell broadcast information in association with reception date and time; and

judging a location where a user was present at the reception time of the reception date based on the accumulated cell broadcast information.

15. The program according to claim 14, which judges the location based on postal information, fixed-line phone number information or station name information comprised in the cell broadcast information.

16. A program, which causes a computer to realize a function of judging a location where a user of a mobile terminal was present at a reception time of the reception date, based on cell broadcast information received by the mobile terminal and accumulated after association with the reception date and time.

17. A computer-readable recording media storing a program, which causes a computer to execute functions of:

receiving cell broadcast information sent from a base station of a mobile terminal;

accumulating the received cell broadcast information in association with reception date and time; and

judging a location where a user was present at the reception time of the reception date based on the accumulated cell broadcast information.