APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING LOCATION INFORMATION AND APPARATUS FOR SUPPORTING LOCATION BASED SERVICE AND METHOD FOR USING LOCATION BASED SERVICE

• US 20090275345A1
• Filed: 11/20/2008
• Published: 11/05/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 05/01/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Kim, Han-sung, Kim, Young-keun, Jung, Ji-woon, Choi, Hyun-seok, Shin, Hyun-chang, Kim, Jin-min, KIM, Ji-sang
• Application Number:
  US12/274,510
• Publication Number:
  US 20090275345A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/456.100
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• 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 4/18 Information format or content conversion, e.g. adaptation by the network of the transmitted or received information for the purpose of wireless delivery to users or terminals

Abstract

A location information providing apparatus to provide a location thereof, the location information providing apparatus including: a storage unit to store location information regarding the location of the location information providing apparatus; and a transmitter to transmit the location information. Therefore, precise location information can be provided. In addition, a location-based service can be performed in a simple way because there is no need to consider a handoff depending on a movement of a location-based service supporting apparatus, and a service area can be expanded abroad because a wired network is not required. Also, various opportunities using the location-based service can be realized.

Claims

1. A location information providing apparatus to provide a location thereof, the location information providing apparatus comprising:

a storage unit to store location information regarding the location of the location information providing apparatus; and

a transmitter to transmit the location information.

2. The location information providing apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the transmitter transmits the location information regularly according to a predetermined transmitting period.

3. The location information providing apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the location information includes a latitude, a longitude, and an altitude of the location of the location information providing apparatus.

4. The location information providing apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein:

the location information providing apparatus is installed in a vehicle; and

the location information includes a transportation type of the vehicle and/or identification information of the vehicle.

5. The location information providing apparatus as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

a receiver to receive updated location information; and

a controller to store the received updated location information in the storage unit.

6. The location information providing apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the transmitter transmits the location information through a wireless personal area network (WPAN).

7. The location information providing apparatus as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

a power unit to supply electric power to the location information providing apparatus from an external electric power unit.

8. A location-based service supporting apparatus to receive location information from a location information providing apparatus, the location-based service supporting apparatus comprising:

a receiver to receive location information including an altitude of a location of the location information providing apparatus, transmitted from the location information providing apparatus; and

an output unit to output the received location information.

9. The location-based service supporting apparatus of claim 8, wherein the output unit outputs the received location information in an audio format.

10. The location-based service supporting apparatus of claim 8, further comprising:

a controller to execute a location-based service based on the received location information.

11. The location-based service supporting apparatus of claim 10, further comprising:

a transmitter to request the location-based service based on the received location information from a web or a server through a communication network,

wherein the controller executes the location-based service transmitted from the web or the server.

12. A method of providing location information in a location information providing apparatus, the method comprising:

storing location information regarding a location of the location information providing apparatus; and

transmitting the location information.

13. The method as claimed in claim 12, wherein the transmitting of the location information comprises:

transmitting the location information regularly according to a predetermined transmitting period.

14. The method as claimed in claim 12, wherein the location information includes a latitude, a longitude, and an altitude of the location of the location information providing apparatus.

15. The method as claimed in claim 12, wherein:

the location information providing apparatus is installed in a vehicle; and

the location information includes a transportation type of the vehicle and/or identification information of the vehicle.

16. The method as claimed in claim 12, wherein the transmitting of the location information comprises:

transmitting the location information through a wireless personal area network (WPAN).

17. The method as claimed in claim 12, further comprising:

receiving and storing updated location information.

18. A method of using a location-based service in a location-based service supporting apparatus that receives location information from a location information providing apparatus, the method comprising:

receiving location information including an altitude of a location of the location information providing apparatus, from the location information providing apparatus; and

outputting the received location information.

19. The method as claimed in claim 18, further comprising:

executing the location-based service based on the received location information.

20. The method as claimed in claim 19, further comprising:

requesting the location-based service based on the received location information from a web or a server through a communication network.