Wireless Transmission System

• US 20080043692A1
• Filed: 09/27/2007
• Published: 02/21/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 05/29/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Inventors: MORITA, Kugo
• Granted Patent: US 8,639,283 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/338
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/005 including pedestrian guidance indicator
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/123 indicating the position of vehicles, e.g. scheduled vehicles; Managing passenger vehicles circulating according to a fixed timetable, e.g. buses, trains, tramstransmission of navigation instructions to vehicles G08G1/0968
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/08 for authentication of entities cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication H04L9/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/068 using credential vaults, e.g. password manager applications or one time password [OTP] applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/021 Services related to particular areas, e.g. point of interest [POI] services, venue services or geofences
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/024 Guidance services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/42 for mass transport vehicles, e.g. buses, trains or aircraft
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/23 in the downlink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards a terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/563 of the wireless resources
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/10 Connection setup
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/00 Network topologies
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/005 Moving wireless networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/12 WLAN [Wireless Local Area Networks]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 92/02 Inter-networking arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

A wireless transmission device makes it possible to access the internet from a wireless LAN terminal, and notifies the state of wireless connection to a public wireless transmission network to the wireless LAN terminal, thereby alleviating uncertainty and disquiet on the part of the user when connecting to this network. The wireless transmission device detects the external network utilization information and notifies it to the wireless LAN terminal, and thereby the processing power of the wireless transmission device is enhanced, and uncertainty and disquiet on the part of the user when connecting to the public wireless transmission network are alleviated. If the wireless transmission terminal takes advantage of a mobile wireless transmission device for accessing the internet by using the public wireless transmission network, the communication burden which is imposed upon the public wireless transmission network is alleviated, and the internet access environment is enhanced. When a terminal device has made a connection request, an authentication section authenticates the terminal device, based upon authentication information which has been stored in a storage section in advance. And an encoding section executes an encoding procedure based upon a code which has been stored in the storage section in advance. By doing this, leakage of the authentication information is prevented. The wireless LAN terminal registers getting off reservation information and its own specific recognition code in advance. When a vehicle approaches a stopping point, the recognition code is verified and the getting off reservation information is notified to the wireless LAN terminal. By doing this, it is possible for the passenger who owns the wireless LAN terminal to get off at his desired stopping point.

Claims

1-3. -3. (canceled)

4. A wireless communication system in which a wireless communication terminal which is being employed by a user accesses the internet via a wireless communication apparatus which is connected to a public wireless communication network, wherein:

said wireless communication apparatus comprises;

a first wireless communication unit which performs wireless communication with said wireless communication terminal;

a second wireless communication unit which performs wireless communication with said public wireless communication network;

a detection unit which detects the state of connection to said public wireless communication network which is connected via said second wireless communication unit;

a storage unit which stores a web page; and

a control unit which, when an access request to said internet has been made from said wireless communication terminal, if the connection state to said public wireless communication network is non-connected, controls transmitting a web page which is stored in said storage unit to said wireless communication terminal via said first wireless communication unit; and

said wireless communication terminal comprises;

a third wireless communication unit which performs wireless communication with said wireless communication apparatus;

an access requesting unit which makes an access request to the internet via said third wireless communication unit; and

a display unit which displays said web page which has been received via said third wireless communication unit after said access request.

5-7. -7. (canceled)

8. A wireless communication apparatus which makes it possible to access the internet by connecting to a public wireless communication network, based upon an internet access request from a wireless communication apparatus which is being employed by a user, comprising:

a first wireless communication unit which performs wireless communication with said wireless communication terminal;

a second wireless communication unit which performs wireless communication with said public wireless communication network;

a detection unit which detects the state of connection to said public wireless communication network which is connected via said second wireless communication unit;

a storage unit which stores a web page; and

a control unit which, when an access request to said internet has been made from said wireless communication terminal, if the connection state to said public wireless communication network is non-connected, controls transmitting a web page which is stored in said storage unit to said wireless communication terminal via said first wireless communication unit.

9-11. -11. (canceled)

12. A wireless communication terminal which accesses the internet via a wireless communication apparatus which has been connected to a public wireless communication network, comprising:

a wireless communication unit which performs wireless communication with said wireless communication apparatus;

an access requesting unit which makes a request for access to the internet via said wireless communication unit; and

a display unit which displays a web page which has been received via said wireless communication unit; and

wherein;

if, when said access requesting unit has made a request for access to the internet, said wireless communication unit has received from said wireless communication apparatus a different web page from the web page for which said access request has been made, said display unit displays said web page which has been received.

13-30. -30. (canceled)

31. A mobile wireless communication apparatus which makes it possible to access the internet by connecting to a public wireless communication network, based upon an internet access request from a wireless communication apparatus which is being employed by a user, comprising:

a first wireless communication unit which performs wireless communication with said wireless communication terminal;

a second wireless communication unit which performs wireless communication with said public wireless communication network;

a first storage unit which stores web pages which have been accessed via said second wireless communication unit; and

a control unit which, when an access request to said internet has been made from said wireless communication terminal, searches for a web page which complies with said access request from within the web pages which are stored by said first storage unit, and, if a compliant web page has been found, controls transmitting said web page to said wireless communication terminal via said first wireless communication unit.

32. A mobile wireless communication apparatus as described in claim 31, further comprising:

a measurement unit which measures the access frequencies to web pages for which access attempts have been made via said second wireless communication unit; and

a second storage unit which stores web pages for which it has been estimated that the access frequency is high; and

said control unit searches for a web page which complies with said access request from within the web pages which are stored in said second storage unit with a higher priority than from within the web pages which are stored in said first storage unit.

33. A mobile wireless communication apparatus as described in claim 32, wherein said measured access frequencies are the number of wireless communication terminals which have accessed said web pages.

34. A mobile wireless communication apparatus t as described in claim 31, further comprising a display control unit which performs control in order for said wireless communication terminal to display the contents of web pages in said first and said second storage unit.

35. A wireless communication system in which a wireless communication terminal which is being employed by a user accesses the internet via a mobile wireless communication apparatus which has been connected to a public wireless communication network, comprising:

a mobile wireless communication apparatus which comprises;

a first wireless communication unit which performs wireless communication with said wireless communication terminal;

a second wireless communication unit which performs wireless communication with said public wireless communication network;

a first storage unit which stores web pages which have been accessed via said second wireless communication unit;

a measurement unit which measures the access frequencies to web pages for which access attempts have been made via said second wireless communication unit;

a second storage unit which stores web pages for which it has been estimated that the access frequency is high;

and a control unit which, when an access request to said internet has been made from said wireless communication terminal, searches for a web page which complies with said access request from within the web pages which are stored by said first and said second storage unit, and, if a compliant web page has been found, controls transmitting said web page to said wireless communication terminal via said first wireless communication unit; and

a management apparatus which comprises a third storage unit which stores web pages in said second storage unit which have been accessed by each of a plurality of said mobile wireless communication apparatus in correspondence with identification information for each of said mobile wireless communication apparatus.

36. A wireless communication system as described in claim 35, wherein said management apparatus comprises:

a communication unit which performs communication with said public wireless communication network;

an updating unit which performs updating of web pages which are stored by said third storage unit via said communication unit; and

a transmittal unit which transmits to said mobile wireless communication apparatus web pages which are stored by said third storage unit, based upon the time instants at which they have been updated.

37-47. -47. (canceled)