Mobile communication system using push to talk scheme for supplying location based service and method therefor

• US 20060046759A1
• Filed: 08/22/2005
• Published: 03/02/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 08/31/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (Samsung Group)
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (Samsung Group)
• Inventors: Park, Ji-Hun, Yoon, Sung-Jae
• Application Number:
  US11/207,741
• Publication Number:
  US 20060046759A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/518
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/08 User group management
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/10 Push-to-Talk [PTT] or Push-On-Call services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/45 for Push-to-Talk [PTT] or Push-to-Talk over cellular [PoC] services

Abstract

A mobile communication system using a push to talk (PTT) scheme for providing a location based service (LBS) is provided. The system comprises a positioning server for confirming requested location information and transmitting subscriber information corresponding to the requested location information in cooperation with a mobile switching center and a home location register, a PTT server for performing a general control for a PTT subscriber group and a real time management for the PTT subscriber group, managing PTT subscriber information and group lists setup by each subscriber, allocating predetermined location based groups to add the allocated location groups to the group lists which have been established by each subscriber, requesting subscriber information corresponding to the location information for the allocated location groups to the positioning server, receiving the subscriber information from the positioning server, and registering subscribers corresponding to the received subscriber information to the corresponding location groups, and a PTT module for performing PTT-call-related operation comprising a step of receiving the group list from the PTT server to display the received group list.

Claims

1. A mobile communication system using a push to talk (PTT) scheme for providing a location based service (LBS), the system comprising:

a positioning server for confirming requested location information and transmitting subscriber information corresponding to the requested location information in cooperation with a mobile switching center and a home location register;

a PTT server for performing a general control for a PTT subscriber group and real time management for the PTT subscriber group, managing PTT subscriber information and group lists established by each subscriber, allocating predetermined location (based) groups to add the allocated location groups to the group lists which have been established by each subscriber, requesting subscriber information corresponding to the location information for the allocated location groups to the positioning server, receiving the subscriber information from the positioning server, and registering subscribers corresponding to the received subscriber information to the corresponding location groups; and

a PTT module for performing PTT-call-related operation comprising receiving the group list from the PTT server to display the received group list.

2. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the PTT server comprises:

a PTT over Cellular (PoC) server for performing a communication function of a PTT service in a mobile communication network,

a group and list management server (GLMS) for managing the PTT subscriber information and the group list for each subscriber, and

a location based group management server for allocating predetermined location groups to add the allocated location groups to the group lists which have been established by each subscriber, requesting subscriber information corresponding to the location information for the allocated location groups to the positioning server, receiving the subscriber information from the positioning server, and registering subscribers corresponding to the received subscriber information to the corresponding location groups.

3. A method for performing a location based service in a communication system by using a push to talk (PTT) scheme, the method comprising the steps of:

allocating, by a PTT server, predetermined location (based) groups to add the allocated location groups to the group lists which have been established by each subscriber,

requesting subscriber information located in the allocated location groups to the positioning server to confirm the subscribers; and

registering the confirmed subscribers located in a selected location group to the selected regional group.

4. The method as claimed in claim 3, wherein when each subscriber mobile communication terminal selects one of the location groups, the step of requesting the subscriber information is performed.

5. The method as claimed in claim 3, wherein the location groups includes regional groups comprising city/county and smaller administrational (district) areas, geographical groups comprising rivers, mountains and coast, and expressway groups comprising predetermined sections.

6. The method as claimed in claim 4, wherein the location groups includes regional groups comprising city/county and smaller administrational (district) areas, geographical groups comprising rivers, mountains and coast, and expressway groups comprising predetermined sections.

7. A method for performing a location based service in a communication system by using a push to talk (PTT) scheme, the method comprising the steps of:

allocating, by a PTT server, predetermined location (based) groups to add the allocated location groups to the group lists which have been established by each subscriber;

requesting subscriber information located in a selected location group to the positioning server to confirm the subscribers, when each subscriber mobile communication terminal just selects one of the location groups and requests a transmission of Instant Messaging (IM)/Push To Data (PTD) data; and

transmitting the IM/PTD data to the mobile communication terminal of the confirmed subscribers located in the selected location group.

8. The method as claimed in claim 7, wherein the selection of the location group and the transmission request of the IM/PTD data are transmitted in a predetermined period in each subscriber terminal.

9. The method as claimed in claim 8, wherein the selection of the location group and the transmission request of the IM/PTD data are transmitted in a predetermined period in each subscriber terminal.

10. The method as claimed in claim 7, wherein the location groups includes regional groups comprising city/county and smaller administrational (district) areas, geographical groups comprising rivers, mountains and coast, and expressway groups including predetermined sections.

11. The method as claimed in claim 8, wherein the location groups includes regional groups comprising city/county and smaller administrational (district) areas, geographical groups comprising rivers, mountains and coast, and expressway groups including predetermined sections.

12. The method as claimed in claim 9, wherein the location groups includes regional groups comprising city/county and smaller administrational (district) areas, geographical groups comprising rivers, mountains and coast, and expressway groups including predetermined sections.