Wireless communication terminal

• US 20060268336A1
• Filed: 05/25/2006
• Published: 11/30/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 05/27/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Lenovo Innovations Ltd Hong Kong (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Casio Hitachi Mobile Communications Company Limited (NEC Corporation)
• Inventors: Kitani, Mitsuhiro, Sakaniwa, Hidenori, Koike, Atsushi
• Granted Patent: US 7,805,157 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 358/1.150
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0045 Arrangements at the receiver end
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/20 using signal quality detector
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/201 Frame classification, e.g. bad, good or erased frame indication per se H04L1/0082
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72454 according to context-related or environment-related conditions
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

In a wireless communication terminal, information from a wireless communication unit is decoded by a communication control unit and analysis information is acquired. A content reception judgment unit instructs the communication control unit to terminate a content receiving process if a mobile radio environment corresponding to transmission rate information of the contents, included in the analysis information, is below a content reception threshold stored in a content reception threshold storage unit. Thus, the wireless communication terminal can judge that the possibility of a failed reception is high before content reception, and needless power consumption can be prevented and power consumption reduced by not performing reception.

Claims

1. A wireless communication terminal comprising:

a wireless communication means for performing wireless communication;

a communication control means for receiving mobile radio environment information and content information from the wireless communication unit and controlling a content receiving process according to analysis information acquired by decoding the information from the wireless communication means;

a content reception threshold storage means for tabulating, correlating and storing content transmission rate information accommodated to the reception characteristics of the wireless communication means and mobile radio environment information; and

a content reception judgment means for receiving the mobile radio environment information and the content transmission rate information from the communication control unit, collating the mobile radio environment information and the content transmission rate information with the transmission information in the content reception threshold storage means, and judging whether the content receiving process is performed;

wherein the content reception threshold storage means instructs the communication control means to terminate the content receiving process if the mobile radio environment corresponding to the transmission rate information of the contents, included in the analysis information, is below a value set by the content reception threshold.

2. The wireless communication terminal according to claim 1, wherein the content reception judgment means does not perform a content reception when the content transmission rate information corresponding to the mobile radio environment comprised in the analysis information is equal to or more than the value set in the content reception threshold.

3. A wireless communication terminal comprising:

a wireless communication means for performing wireless communication;

a communication control means for receiving mobile radio environment information and content information from the wireless communication unit and controlling a content receiving process according to analysis information acquired by decoding the information from the wireless communication means;

a user interface means to which a user inputs information;

an application means for using information from the communication control means, the content reception threshold storage means, and the user interface means;

a display means for displaying a result of processing by the application means and information in the communication control means;

a content reception threshold storage means for storing information of content transmission rate information accommodated to the reception characteristics of the wireless communication means and mobile radio environment information that was tabulated and correlated, and information input from said user interface means; and

a content reception judgment means for receiving the mobile radio environment information and the content information from the communication control unit, collating the mobile radio environment information and the content information with the transmission information in the content reception threshold storage means, and judging whether the content receiving process is performed;

wherein the content reception is controlled by the application means or the content reception judgment means.

4. The wireless communication terminal according to claim 3, wherein the content reception threshold storage means stores content transmission rate information accommodated the reception characteristics of the wireless communication means, mobile radio environment information, and reception success probability information corresponding to the mobile radio environment information.

5. The wireless communication terminal according to claim 4, wherein the content transmission rate information and mobile radio environment information acquired from the communication control means and the content reception threshold storage means are collated, reception success probability matching the transmission rate of the contents to be received and the current mobile radio environment is retrieved, and a notification of the reception success probability is made from the display unit to the user via the application means.

6. The wireless communication terminal according to claim 5, comprising an application means for displaying the reception success probability by the display means and asking the content receiver whether to accept content reception under the reception success probability.

7. The wireless communication terminal according to claim 3, comprising a storage means to which a time when content reception cannot be performed is input by the user interface means, and storing the time information in the content reception threshold storage means,

wherein content reception is not performed in the application means during the stored time.

8. The wireless communication terminal according to claim 3, wherein when content transmission time information is stored in the content reception threshold storage means, the mobile radio environment information and the content information is received from the communication control unit, the radio environment information and the content information is collated with transmission information of the content reception threshold storage means, and the mobile radio environment information does not reach the content reception threshold, a notification is made to the user to move to a location with a favorable mobile radio environment at the content transmission time.

9. A wireless communication terminal according to claim 3, comprising a battery which drives the communication terminal,

wherein remaining battery power is monitored and when the remaining battery power is not sufficient for content reception, the user is asked whether or not to perform content reception regardless of the information in the content reception threshold storage means.

10. The wireless communication terminal according to claim 3, comprising a battery which drives the communication terminal,

wherein remaining battery power is monitored and when the remaining battery power is not sufficient for content reception, content reception is not performed regardless of the information in the content reception threshold storage means.