Mobile communications terminal, service area calculation apparatus and method of calculating service area

• US 20060194590A1
• Filed: 04/27/2006
• Published: 08/31/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 12/18/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hiroki Shoki, Hiroshi Yoshida, Ichiro Seto, Kuniaki Ito, Naoko Ono, Shuichi Sekine, Takehiko Toyoda
• Original Assignee: Hiroki Shoki, Hiroshi Yoshida, Ichiro Seto, Kuniaki Ito, Naoko Ono, Shuichi Sekine, Takehiko Toyoda
• Inventors: Sekine, Shuichi, Seto, Ichiro, Yoshida, Hiroshi, Ito, Kuniaki, Toyoda, Takehiko, Ono, Naoko, Shoki, Hiroki
• Granted Patent: US 7,292,866 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/456.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 16/00 Network planning, e.g. coverage or traffic planning tools; Network deployment, e.g. resource partitioning or cells structures
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 64/00 Locating users or terminals or network equipment for network management purposes, e.g. mobility management

Abstract

A mobile communications terminal includes positional information generator configured to generate positional information indicating a current position of the terminal, receiver which receives identification information sent from the base station of the second mobile communication network, notification information generator configured to generate notification information including the identification information and the positional information generated at the time of receiving the identification information, and transmitter which transmits the notification information to the service area calculation apparatus via the first mobile communication network to derive the information concerning the service area.

Claims

1. A mobile communication terminal adapted to communicate with a service area calculation apparatus via a first mobile communication network, the service area calculation apparatus collecting and transmitting information concerning a service area of a second mobile communication network including a base station, the mobile communications terminal comprising:

a positional information generator configured to generate positional information indicating a current position of the mobile communication terminal;

a receiver which receives identification information sent from the base station of the second mobile communication network, via the second mobile communication network;

a notification information generator configured to generate notification information including the identification information and the positional information generated at the time of receiving the identification information; and

a transmitter which transmits the notification information to the service area calculation apparatus via the first mobile communication network to derive the information concerning the service area.

2. The mobile communications terminal according to claim 1, wherein the position information generator generates the positional information based on at least one of a GPS (global positioning system) signal, a reception state of each of signals transmitted from a plurality of different base stations, a declination of signals received by a plurality of different antennas, and a position of the base station.

3. The mobile communications terminal according to claim 1, wherein the receiver receives at least one of a MAC (media access control) address and an IP (internet protocol) address as the identification information.