METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR LOCATION MANAGEMENT AND LOCATION INFORMATION PROVIDING SYSTEM

• US 20080188238A1
• Filed: 03/14/2008
• Published: 08/07/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 02/28/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Original Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Inventors: Yabusaki, Masami, Sawada, Masahiro
• Application Number:
  US12/048,979
• Publication Number:
  US 20080188238A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/456.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0257 User requested
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 60/00 Affiliation to network, e.g. registration; Terminating affiliation with the network, e.g. de-registration
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 64/006 with additional information processing, e.g. for direction or speed determination
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 68/04 multi-step notification using statistical or historical mobility data
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/08 Mobility data transfer
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/14 between corresponding nodes
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/005 Moving wireless networks

Abstract

In an information providing system, a user inputs desired mobile ID number to a client terminal. The client terminal transmits a request for location information on the mobile station including the mobile ID number to a location server via a location information server. The location server transmits a request for object movement information corresponding to the mobile station to an object information server. The location information server obtains the information from a traffic control device. Location information on the mobile station obtained by the location information server is transmitted to the terminal.

Claims

1. (canceled)

2. A location information provider comprising:

a query receiver configured to receive an inquiry from a user asking a location of a mobile station;

a paging control responsive to the inquiry to cause the mobile station to be paged and receive location information of the mobile station from the mobile station; and

a transmitter configured to transmit to the user a response which comprises at least a part of the location information.

3. A location information provider according to claim 2, wherein the location information comprises a geographical location of the mobile station.

4. A location information provider according to claim 2, wherein the location information comprises a direction in which the mobile station is moving and a speed at which the mobile station is moving.

5. A location information provider according to claim 2, wherein the response comprises an indication as to whether or not the mobile station is situated on a transportation.