Disaster system control method and disaster system control apparatus

• US 20060079200A1
• Filed: 11/29/2005
• Published: 04/13/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 07/04/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Suzuki, Takahito, Takeda, Yoshikazu, Hirouchi, Kiyoshi, Kawamura, Saiki, Itoh, Yayoi, Yokoyama, Hiroki, Abe, Satoru, Kakizaki, Naoyuki
• Application Number:
  US11/289,744
• Publication Number:
  US 20060079200A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/404.100
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1881 with schedule organisation, e.g. priority, sequence management
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1895 for short real-time information, e.g. alarms, notifications, alerts, updates
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/58 Message adaptation for wireless communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 11/04 with alarm systems, e.g. fire, police or burglar alarm systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/20 Negotiating bandwidth
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/90 Services for handling of emergency or hazardous situations, e.g. earthquake and tsunami warning systems [ETWS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/50 for emergency connections
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/10 between location register and external networks

Abstract

In a disaster system control method and apparatus transmitting disaster status information through a mobile communication network or a fixed communication network, in order to promptly transmit/receive disaster status information at a time of a disaster occurrence between a disaster monitoring person and afflicted people within a disaster occurrence area, a bandwidth control apparatus assigns a bandwidth for a packet call in preference to other calls, a mobile terminal installs an application for disaster thereon for transmitting/receiving disaster status information between a disaster system center and the mobile terminal itself, and the disaster system center provides the mobile terminal within a disaster occurrence area with an application for disaster startup mail to start up the application for disaster.

Claims

1. A disaster system control method comprising:

a first step at which a disaster system center provides a bandwidth control apparatus with a disaster occurrence instruction signal; and

a second step at which the bandwidth control apparatus assigns a bandwidth for a packet call in preference to other calls.

2. The disaster system control method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a third step at which the disaster system center determines a terminal within a disaster occurrence area based on terminal position information, and a fourth step at which the disaster system center gives urgent notice by mail to the determined terminal, indicating that a disaster has occurred.

3. The disaster system control method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a third step at which the disaster system center determines a terminal within a disaster occurrence area based on terminal position information, and a fourth step at which the disaster system center provides a terminal installing an application for disaster thereon for transmitting/receiving disaster status information at a time of a disaster occurrence with a startup mail for the application for disaster.

4. The disaster system control method as claimed in claim 3, further comprising a fifth step at which the disaster system center provides the bandwidth control apparatus with a correction signal of a preferential assignment of the bandwidth for the packet call based on the disaster status information, and a sixth step at which the bandwidth control apparatus corrects an assignment of giving a preference to the bandwidth for the packet call based on the correction signal.

5. The disaster system control method as claimed in claim 2, wherein the third step provides a home location register with the disaster occurrence area to acquire a terminal number within the area, and provides a mail server with the acquired terminal number to acquire a mail address corresponding to the terminal number.

29. The disaster system control method as claimed in claim 3, wherein the third step provides a home location register with the disaster occurrence area to acquire a terminal number within the area, and provides a mail server with the terminal number acquired to acquire a mail address corresponding to the terminal number.

6. A disaster system control apparatus comprising:

a disaster system center outputting a disaster occurrence instruction signal instructing to assign a bandwidth for a packet call in preference to other calls when a disaster occurrence signal is received; and

a bandwidth control apparatus receiving the disaster occurrence instruction signal and preferentially assigning the bandwidth for the packet call.

7. The disaster system control apparatus as claimed in claim 6, wherein the disaster system center gives urgent notice, by mail, indicating that a disaster has occurred to a terminal within a disaster occurrence area determined based on terminal position information.

8. The disaster system control apparatus as claimed in claim 6, further comprising a terminal installing an application for disaster thereon for transmitting/receiving disaster status information between the disaster system center and the apparatus itself;

the disaster system center determining a terminal within a disaster occurrence area based on terminal position information, and providing the terminal with a startup mail of the application for disaster at a time of a disaster occurrence.

9. The disaster system control apparatus as claimed in claim 8, wherein the disaster system center provides the bandwidth control apparatus with a correction signal of a preferential assignment of the bandwidth for the packet call based on the disaster status information, and the bandwidth control apparatus corrects the preferential assignment the bandwidth for the packet call based on the correction signal.

10. The disaster system control apparatus as claimed in claim 7, wherein the disaster system center provides a home location register with the disaster occurrence area to acquire a terminal number within the area, and provides a mail server with the acquired terminal number to acquire a mail address corresponding to the terminal number.

30. The disaster system control apparatus as claimed in claim 8, wherein the disaster system center provides a home location register with the disaster occurrence area to acquire a terminal number within the area, and provides a mail server with the terminal number acquired to acquire a mail address corresponding to the terminal number.

11. A bandwidth control apparatus comprising:

a disaster occurrence instructing portion inputting a disaster occurrence signal; and

a bandwidth controller assigning a bandwidth for a packet call in preference to other calls when the disaster occurrence instructing portion receives the disaster occurrence signal.

12. The bandwidth control apparatus as claimed in claim 11, wherein the bandwidth controller preferentially assigns a preset bandwidth to the packet call, or corrects the bandwidth for the packet call according to a disaster scale.

13. A disaster system center comprising:

a disaster occurrence instructing portion inputting a disaster occurrence signal; and

a disaster bandwidth controller outputting a disaster occurrence signal instructing to assign a bandwidth for a packet call in preference to other calls when the disaster occurrence instructing portion receives the disaster occurrence signal.

14. A disaster system center comprising:

a disaster system main controller determining a terminal within a disaster occurrence area based on position information of the terminal; and

an urgent notifying processor giving urgent notice, to the terminal within the area, indicating that a disaster has occurred.

15. The disaster system center as claimed in claim 14, further comprising:

an information acquiring portion requesting a terminal number within the disaster occurrence area from a home location register, requesting a mail address corresponding to the terminal number by providing a mail server with the terminal number acquired in response to the request, and providing the disaster system main controller with the acquired mail address;

the urgent notifying processor giving the urgent notice to the mail address.

16. The disaster system center as claimed in claim 14, wherein a disaster system main controller determines a terminal installing thereon an application for disaster for transmitting/receiving disaster status information within a disaster occurrence area based on position information of the terminal, and the urgent notifying processor starts up the application for disaster by transmitting an urgent notice mail for starting up the application for disaster to the terminal at a time of a disaster occurrence and transmits/receives the disaster status information.

17. The disaster system center as claimed in claim 16, wherein the disaster system main controller compiles the disaster status information into a database to be analyzed, and the disaster bandwidth controller transmits a bandwidth correction control signal instructing to assign a bandwidth for a packet call in preference to other calls based on an analysis result.

18. The disaster system center as claimed in claim 17, wherein the disaster system main controller classifies disasters, based on a disaster identifier which identifies a plurality of disasters to be analyzed.

19. The disaster system center as claimed in claim 17, wherein the disaster system main controller analyzes the disaster status information per disaster area and per terminal.

20. The disaster system center as claimed in claim 17, wherein the urgent notifying processor transmits the analysis result to a terminal within a disaster occurrence area.

21. A disaster system center comprising:

a preregistered information database preliminarily holding an identifier of a terminal installing thereon an application for disaster which transmits/receives disaster status information;

a disaster system main controller determining a terminal within a disaster occurrence area based on position information of a terminal; and

an urgent notifying processor outputting a download request requesting a download of an application for disaster to a terminal within the disaster occurrence area installing thereon no application for disaster.

22. The disaster system center as claimed in claim 21, wherein the urgent notifying processor compulsorily downloads the application for disaster to the terminal within the disaster occurrence area.

23. The disaster system center as claimed in claim 21, wherein the urgent notifying processor outputs an application startup request for disaster requesting a startup of the application for disaster which the terminal within the disaster occurrence area installs thereon.

24. A terminal comprising:

a transceiver receiving an application startup request for disaster at a time of a disaster occurrence; and

an application for disaster transmitting/receiving disaster status information started up when the transceiver receives the startup request.

25. The terminal as claimed in claim 24, wherein the disaster status information comprises any one of disaster status data responded by subscribers to inquiries from an application for disaster, text information of a comment on disaster statuses freely inputted by subscribers, image data of surrounding disaster statuses taken by subscribers, moving image data of surrounding disaster statuses or disaster statuses of subscribers themselves taken by the subscribers, and voice data describing disaster statuses by voice of subscribers.

26. The terminal as claimed in claim 24, wherein the application for disaster is started up only when the application startup request for disaster includes an urgent code.

27. A terminal comprising:

a transceiver receiving a download request requesting a download of an application for disaster; and

an application management portion downloading an application for disaster when the transceiver receives the download request.

28. The terminal as claimed in claim 27, wherein the application management portion downloads an application for disaster only when an urgent code identifier is included in the download request.