Method for providing data to a mobile terminal which is moving

• US 20060286988A1
• Filed: 06/02/2006
• Published: 12/21/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 06/21/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Alcatel SA (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Alcatel SA (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: Blume, Oliver, Ambrosy, Anton
• Application Number:
  US11/445,264
• Publication Number:
  US 20060286988A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/456.100
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3679 Retrieval, searching and output of POI information, e.g. hotels, restaurants, shops, filling stations, parking facilities G01C21/3611 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/26 Resource reservation
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/32 by location or mobility data, e.g. speed data
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/322 by location data
• 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 40/18 based on predicted events
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 40/20 based on geographic position or location
• 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 99/00 Subject matter not provided for in other groups of this subclass

Abstract

The invention relates to a method by which a wireless communication 1 system provides a service, e.g. video streaming, for a mobile terminal 2 on a push & store basis. Conventional push & store services have the shortcoming that a moving mobile terminal may have a short transit time within the coverage area of a broadband access point. This means that only a short time is available for downloading desired data to the mobile terminal. It is an object of the invention to use the transit time of a mobile terminal within a coverage area of an access point more efficiently For that purpose it is suggested that the communication system 1 receives the geographical position of a point 5 of the travel route 3, predicts which of its access points 6,6′,6″,6′,6^iv have a coverage area 7 which might be reached by the mobile terminal 2 and that it provides the service at this access point prior to the arrival of the mobile terminal 2.

Claims

1. Method by which a wireless communication system provides a service for a mobile terminal while this mobile terminal is moving along a travel route from a starting point to a destination point, and whereby the communication system carries out the following steps:

a) receiving the geographical position of the mobile terminal, this position representing the starting point,

b) predicting which of its access points has a coverage area which might be reached by the terminal,

c) providing the service at this access point prior to the arrival of the mobile terminal.

2. Method according to claim 1, wherein the communication system receives the geographical position of the destination point and/or the geographical position of further locations reached by the terminal along the travel route.

3. Method according to claim 1, wherein the communication system receives the travel route of the terminal.

4. Method according to claim 1, wherein the communication system calculates the travel route of the mobile terminal and communicates it to the mobile terminal.

5. Method according to claim 1, wherein the access point receives information concerning the identity of the mobile terminal which is going to reach its coverage area.

6. Method according to claim 1, wherein the communication system predicts at which time (time of arrival) the mobile terminal is going to reach the coverage area of the access point.

7. Method according to claim 6, wherein for the prediction of the time of arrival the velocity of the mobile terminal, the acceleration of the mobile terminal, information concerning the traffic load, and/or information concerning the phases of traffic lights or from a system for guiding the traffic are taken into account.

8. Computer program product, directly loadable in the internal memory of a digital computer, comprising software code portions for performing the method according to claim 1 when said product is running on a computer.

9. Wireless communication system comprising a computer program product according to claim 8.

10. Computer program product, directly loadable in the internal memory of a digital computer, comprising software code portions for carrying out a method comprising the following steps:

a) transmitting the geographical position of a starting point and of a destination point to a communication system, the starting point and the destination point being part of the travel route of a mobile terminal,

b) receiving the travel route from the communication system.

11. Computer program product according to claim 10, wherein the geographical position of further locations reached by the mobile terminal along the travel route are transmitted to the communication system.

12. Computer program product according to claim 10, wherein the velocity and/or the acceleration of the mobile terminal are transmitted to the communication system.

13. Mobile terminal, comprising a computer program product according to claim 10.