Method and System for Transmitting Selective Local Information

• US 20070270099A1
• Filed: 05/14/2007
• Published: 11/22/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 05/17/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: JCDecaux SA (JCDecaux Group)
• Original Assignee: JCDecaux SA (JCDecaux Group)
• Inventors: Le Gars, Jacques
• Application Number:
  US11/748,102
• Publication Number:
  US 20070270099A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/41.200
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/005 Discovery of network devices, e.g. terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/18 Self-organising networks, e.g. ad-hoc networks or sensor networks

Abstract

System for transmitting selective local information including information bases suitable for communicating information to mobiles via a short-range radio link The system further comprises configuration bases suitable for establishing a very short-range radio link with the mobiles and for storing, in a memory accessible to the information bases, an address identifying the mobile and personal information which is communicated by the user of the mobile

Claims

1. Method for transmitting selective local information including at least one information step during the course of which selective local information is communicated from the information bases to at least one mobile by a short-range radio link, by using a predetermined radio communication protocol, said short-range radio link having a nominal range less than 200 m, said information bases communicating with a central server, said method further comprising an initial identification step during the course of which:

the mobile is brought neat to a configuration base and a very short-range radio link is established between said mobile and said configuration base by using said radio communication protocol, said very short-range radio link having a nominal range less than 2 m,

at least one address identifying the mobile according to said radio communication protocol and personal information (including one or more pieces of information) which is communicated by a use of the mobile, is stored in said central server, said initial identification step being carried out once and for all, prior to any information step.

2. Method of claim 1, in which the personal information communicated during the identification step includes the type of mobile and, during the information step, the selective local data transmitted to the mobile is formatted based on the type of mobile.

3. Method as claimed in claim 1, in which the personal information communicated during the identification step includes at least one centre of interest of the user of the mobile and, during the information step, the selective local data transmitted to the mobile is based on said centre of interest.

4. System for transmitting selective local information including information bases suitable for communicating information to at least one mobile by a short-range radio link, by using a predetermined radio communication protocol, said short-range radio link having a nominal range less than 200 m, said information bases communicating with a central server, said system further comprising at least one configuration base suitable for establishing a very short-range radio link with said mobile by using said radio communication protocol, said very short-range radio link having a nominal range less than 2 m, said configuration base being suitable for storing in the central server at least one address identifying the mobile according to said radio communication protocol and at least one piece of personal information which is communicated by a user of the mobile.

5. System of claim 4, in which the very short-range radio link has a nominal range less than 50 cm

6. System as claimed in claim 4, in which the configuration base is suitable for requesting the user of the mobile to enter said personal information on said mobile and for then downloading said personal information.

7. System of claim 6, in which the configuration base is suitable for requesting the user of the mobile to enter the type of mobile and for storing the type of mobile in said memory, and the information base is suitable for formatting the selective local data transmitted to the mobile, based on the type of mobile.

8. System as claimed in claim 4, in which the configuration base is suitable for requesting the user of the mobile to provide a centre of interest and for storing this centre of interest in said memory, and the information base is suitable for selecting the selective local data transmitted to the mobile, based on said centre of interest.

9. System as claimed in claim 4, in which the radio communication protocol is chosen from the BLUETOOTH, ZIGBEE and WI-FI protocols.