Method, Subscriber Identity Module and System for Providing Mobile Communication Terminal Location Data

• US 20090143080A1
• Filed: 11/17/2006
• Published: 06/04/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 12/12/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: AblePay Technologies AS
• Original Assignee: AblePay Technologies AS
• Inventors: Brede, Steinar, Jakobsson, Sune
• Application Number:
  US12/086,416
• Publication Number:
  US 20090143080A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/456.600
• 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 88/02 Terminal devices

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for providing mobile communication terminal location data. In the method, radio signal is received from a beacon in a wireless local area network. Next, beacon identification data that identifies the beacon is derived, based on the received radio signal. The identification data is transmitted to a server. Beacon location data is then provided by and received from the server. Mobile communication terminal location data, particularly presence data that indicates that the mobile communication terminal is in the vicinity of the beacon, is derived from the beacon location data. Upon such detected presence, an additional application process is advantageously executed. The method is executed by a processing device in a subscriber identity module that is included in the mobile communication terminal, thus achieving hidden operation and portability. The invention also relates to a subscriber identity module and a system operating in accordance with the method.

Claims

1-15. -15. (canceled)

16. A communication method for providing mobile communication terminal location data for a mobile communication terminal, the communication method comprising:

receiving a radio signal from a beacon in a wireless local area network;

deriving beacon identification data identifying the beacon, based on the received radio signal;

transmitting the identification data to a server;

receiving, from the server, beacon location data representing the location of the beacon; and

deriving the mobile communication terminal location data, based on the beacon location data.

17. The communication method according to claim 16, wherein receiving the radio signal from the beacon includes the use of an antenna included in a subscriber identity module, where the subscriber identity module is included in the mobile communication terminal.

18. The communication method according to claim 16, wherein transmitting the identification data to the server includes operating a mobile communication module included in the mobile communication terminal.

19. The communication method according to claim 16, wherein deriving the mobile communication terminal location data based on the beacon location data includes deriving presence data that indicates that the mobile communication terminal is in the vicinity of the beacon in the wireless local area network.

20. The communication method according to claim 18, wherein deriving the mobile communication terminal location data based on the beacon location data includes deriving presence data that indicates that the mobile communication terminal is in the vicinity of the beacon in the wireless local area network.

21. The communication method according to claim 16, further comprising:

activating an additional application process by the subscriber identity module when the presence data indicates that the mobile communication terminal is in the vicinity of the beacon in the wireless local area network.

22. The communication method according to claim 19, further comprising:

activating an additional application process by the subscriber identity module when the presence data indicates that the mobile communication terminal is in the vicinity of the beacon in the wireless local area network.

23. The communication method according to claim 20, further comprising:

activating an additional application process by the subscriber identity module when the presence data indicates that the mobile communication terminal is in the vicinity of the beacon in the wireless local area network.

24. A communication system for providing mobile communication terminal location data, the communication system comprising:

a mobile communication network, including a base station;

a wireless local area network, including a beacon;

a server, operatively connected to the mobile communication network, arranged for providing beacon location data based on a request including beacon identification data; and

a mobile communication terminal which includes

a mobile communication module arranged to communicate with the base station in the mobile communication network, and

a subscriber identity module, the subscriber identity module comprising a processing device,

wherein the processing device in the subscriber identity module

receiving a radio signal from the beacon in the wireless local area network,

deriving beacon identification data identifying the beacon, based on the received radio signal,

transmitting the identification data to the server,

receiving from the server beacon location data representing the location of the beacon, and

deriving the mobile communication terminal location data, based on the beacon location data.

25. The communication system according to claim 24, wherein the processing device receives the radio signal from the beacon by using an antenna included in the subscriber identity module.

26. The communication system according to claim 24, wherein transmitting the identification data to the server includes operating a mobile communication module included in the mobile communication terminal.

27. The communication system according to claim 24, wherein deriving the mobile communication terminal location data based on the beacon location data includes deriving presence data that indicates that the mobile communication terminal is in the vicinity of the beacon in the wireless local area network.

28. The communication system according to claim 26, wherein deriving the mobile communication terminal location data based on the beacon location data includes deriving presence data that indicates that the mobile communication terminal is in the vicinity of the beacon in the wireless local area network.

29. The communication system according to claim 24, wherein the processing device activating an additional application process by the subscriber identity module when the presence data indicates that the mobile communication terminal is in the vicinity of the beacon in the wireless local area network.

30. The communication system according to claim 27, wherein the processing device activating an additional application process by the subscriber identity module when the presence data indicates that the mobile communication terminal is in the vicinity of the beacon in the wireless local area network.

31. The communication system according to claim 28, wherein the processing device activating an additional application process by the subscriber identity module when the presence data indicates that the mobile communication terminal is in the vicinity of the beacon in the wireless local area network.

32. A machine-readable medium having instructions stored thereon, such that when the instructions are read and executed by a processor, the processor is configured to perform the steps of:

receiving a radio signal from a beacon in a wireless local area network;

deriving beacon identification data identifying the beacon, based on the received radio signal;

transmitting the identification data to a server;

receiving, from the server, beacon location data representing the location of the beacon; and

deriving the mobile communication terminal location data, based on the beacon location data.