BASE STATION AND MOBILE TERMINAL

• US 20100015948A1
• Filed: 02/27/2009
• Published: 01/21/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 02/27/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Inventors: Nagano, Hajime
• Granted Patent: US 8,532,615 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/410
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/008 Alarm setting and unsetting, i.e. arming or disarming of the security system
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 60/04 using triggered events
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/045 using private Base Stations, e.g. femto Base Stations, home Node B

Abstract

To provide a security technique (a base station and a mobile terminal) for easily guarding a building such as a house for an average family or a small office at a low price by using a cellular phone terminal and a small base station (femtocell). A base station (FCL) of a mobile communication system placed in a building includes a communication unit (140) for communicating with the mobile communication system via a communication line; an obtaining unit (123) for obtaining an opened state of a fitting set to an opening of the building from the fitting or a switch placed near the fitting for detecting the opened state of the fitting; a registering unit (121) for registering information on a mobile terminal that uses the base station; a processing unit (122) for processing location registration of the mobile terminal; and a control unit (120) for controlling the communication unit to transmit a predetermined message to a predetermined addressee via the communication line if information received from the mobile terminal does not match the information registered in the registering unit when the location registration of the mobile terminal is performed by the processing unit after the opened state of the fitting is obtained.

Claims

1. A base station of a mobile communication system placed in a building, comprising:

a communication unit for communicating with the mobile communication system via a communication line;

an obtaining unit for obtaining an opened state of a fitting from the fitting or a switch placed near the fitting, wherein the fitting is set to an opening of the building and the switch is for detecting the opened state of the fitting;

a registering unit for registering information on a mobile terminal that uses the base station;

a processing unit for processing location registration of the mobile terminal; and

a control unit for controlling the communication unit to transmit a predetermined message to a predetermined addressee via the communication line if information received from the mobile terminal does not match the information registered in the registering unit when the location registration of the mobile terminal is performed by the processing unit after the opened state of the fitting is obtained by the obtaining unit.

2. The base station according to claim 1, wherein

the processing unit rejects the location registration of the mobile terminal if information received from the mobile terminal does not match the information on the mobile terminal registered in the registering unit when the location registration of the mobile terminal is performed by the processing unit.

3. The base station according to claim 1, wherein

the base station has a plurality of the switches, each of which is allocated with a security level, and

the predetermined message is according to the security level allocated to the switch for which the opened state is obtained.

4. A base station of a mobile communication system placed in a building, comprising:

a communication unit for communicating with the mobile communication system via a communication line;

a transmitting unit for transmitting an identifier of the self base station to a fitting set to an opening of the building or a switch placed near the fitting for detecting an opened state of the fitting;

an obtaining unit for obtaining the opened state of the fitting from the switch;

a registering unit for registering information on a mobile terminal that uses the base station;

a processing unit for processing location registration of the mobile terminal; and

a control unit for determining whether an identifier of the base station included in the information received from the mobile terminal matches the identifier of the self base station or not if information received from the mobile terminal does not match the information registered in the registering unit when the location registration of the mobile terminal is performed by the processing unit after the opened state of the fitting is obtained by the obtaining unit, and controlling the communication unit to transmit a message according to the determination result to a predetermined addressee via the communication line.

5. A base station of a mobile communication system placed in a building, comprising:

a transmitting unit for transmitting an identifier of the self base station to a fitting set to an opening of the building or a switch placed near the fitting for detecting an opened state of the fitting and transmitting information to a mobile terminal via the fitting by using human body communication;

an obtaining unit for obtaining the opened state of the fitting from the switch;

a registering unit for registering information on the mobile terminal that uses the base station;

a processing unit for processing location registration of the mobile terminal; and

a control unit for controlling the communication unit to transmit a predetermined message to a predetermined addressee via the communication line if information received from the mobile terminal does not match the information registered in the registering unit and an identifier of the base station is not included in the information received from the mobile terminal when the location registration of the mobile terminal is performed by the processing unit after the opened state of the fitting is obtained by the obtaining unit.

6. A mobile terminal comprising:

a human body communication unit that can communicate by using human body communication;

a storage unit for storing an identifier of a base station received by the human body communication unit from a fitting; and

a control unit for performing location registration via the base station, wherein the control unit controls the mobile terminal to transmit information that can identify the mobile terminal or a contractor of the mobile terminal and the identifier of the base station that is stored in the storage unit to the base station when the location registration is performed.