CONNECTING MOBILE TERMINALS BASED ON SENSOR DATA

• US 20090264150A1
• Filed: 04/17/2008
• Published: 10/22/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 04/17/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications USA Incorporated (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: ANDREASSON, Mans Folke Markus, BACKLUND, Erik Johan Vendel, ASTRAND, Per Emil
• Granted Patent: US 8,270,960 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/556.100
• CPC Class Codes: G01D 21/00 Measuring or testing not otherwise provided for
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/20 Monitoring the location of vehicles belonging to a group, e.g. fleet of vehicles, countable or determined number of vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/14 Session management for real-time applications in data packet communications networks H04L65/1066
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72448 with means for adapting the functionality of the device according to specific conditions
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72457 according to geographic location
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/10 including a GPS signal receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/12 including a sensor for measuring a physical value, e.g. temperature or motion telephones including GPS signal receivers H04M2250/10
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 92/18 between terminal devices

Abstract

A method performed by a mobile terminal may include receiving sensor data from a plurality of sensors on a mobile terminal, determining when the received sensor data satisfies a rule, transmitting information from the mobile terminal to a network device, where the information includes at least one of an application identifier, a rule or some of the received sensor data, and connecting the mobile terminal to another mobile terminal, where the another mobile terminal is selected by the network device based on the transmitted information from the mobile terminal.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving sensor data from a plurality of sensors on a mobile terminal;

determining when the received sensor data satisfies at least one rule;

transmitting information from the mobile terminal to a network device, where the information includes at least one of an application identifier, a rule or some of the received sensor data; and

connecting the mobile terminal to another mobile terminal, where the another mobile terminal is selected by the network device based on the transmitted information from the mobile terminal.

2. The method of claim 1, where the plurality of sensors provide signals to measure a plurality of different parameters.

3. The method of claim 2, where each of the plurality of different parameters is associated with an application and a rule.

4. The method of claim 3, where the plurality of different parameters include a position parameter and a motion parameter.

5. The method of claim 4, where the connecting the mobile terminal to another mobile terminal comprises establishing an Internet Protocol (IP) connection.

6. A mobile terminal, comprising:

a plurality of sensors to receive sensor data to measure a plurality of parameters;

a memory for storing at least one rule associated with each of the plurality of parameters; and

logic configured to;

compare the received sensor data to the stored rules associated with each of the plurality of parameters,

determine when a rule is satisfied,

transmit information identifying the satisfied rule to a network device, and

receive information via an Internet Protocol (IP) connection, where the IP connection is established based on the transmitted information.

7. The mobile terminal of claim 6, where the logic is further configured to:

transmit the sensor data that satisfied the rule to the network device.

8. The mobile terminal of claim 7, where the memory stores an application associated with each of the plurality of parameters, where the logic is further configured to:

transmit an application associated with the satisfied rule to the network device.

9. The mobile terminal of claim 8, where the received information via an (IP) connection comprises an alert from the network device.

10. The mobile terminal of claim 7, where the received information via an (IP) connection comprises text from another mobile terminal.

11. A network device comprising:

an interface for receiving sensor data and rule-related information from a plurality of mobile terminals;

a memory for storing the received sensor data and rule-related information from the plurality of mobile terminals; and

logic configured to;

access the memory to identify mobile terminals that transmitted sensor data that satisfy a first rule, and

generate an Internet Protocol (IP) connection between the identified mobile terminals.

12. The network device of claim 11, where the logic is further configured to:

access the memory to identify mobile terminals that transmitted sensor data that satisfy more than one rule.

13. The network device of claim 12, where the memory stores a device ID associated with each mobile terminal.

14. The network device of claim 13, where the memory stores application identifiers, rule-related information and sensor data associated with each device ID.

15. The network device of claim 11, where the logic is further configured to:

assign an IP address to each of the identified mobile terminals to generate the (IP) connection between the identified mobile terminals.

16. A method comprising:

receiving information corresponding to satisfied rules from a plurality of mobile terminals;

storing the received information in memory;

identifying two or more mobile terminals that satisfy a same rule; and

generating an Internet Protocol (IP)-based connection between the identified mobile terminals.

17. The method of claim 16, further comprising:

receiving information identifying each of the plurality of mobile terminals; and

receiving application information and sensor data associated with the satisfied rules.

18. The method of claim 17, further comprising:

storing into memory the received information identifying each of the plurality of mobile terminals, the received application information and the sensor data associated with the satisfied rules.

19. The method of claim 18, further comprising:

identifying two or more mobile terminals that satisfy at least two of the same rules.

20. The method of claim 18, where the generating an IP-based connection between the identified mobile terminals comprises:

transmitting a link to the identified mobile terminals.