POSITION DETERMINATION AND MOVEMENT DETERMINATION BY MOBILE TERMINAL

• US 20100015997A1
• Filed: 07/12/2007
• Published: 01/21/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 08/28/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: AGIS Pte., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: AGIS Pte., Ltd.
• Inventors: Goh, Pong Chai
• Application Number:
  US12/438,954
• Publication Number:
  US 20100015997A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/456.100
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 11/02 using radio waves G01S19/00 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 64/006 with additional information processing, e.g. for direction or speed determination

Abstract

A method for detecting motion of a mobile device, the method comprising: from a central micro-processor of the mobile device detecting data of the polling (701) of base transceiver stations within range of the mobile device, from the data determining characteristics of a location (702, 703, 704), comparing the characteristics (705, 706), and from the comparison determining if the mobile device is moving (711). A corresponding apparatus is also disclosed.

Claims

1-14. -14. (canceled)

15. A method for detecting motion of a mobile device, the method comprising:

from a central micro-processor of the mobile device detecting data of the polling of base transceiver stations within range of the mobile device, from the data determining characteristics of a location, and from the characteristics determining if the mobile device is moving.

16. A method as claimed in claim 15, wherein the characteristics are selected from the group consisting of:

a number of base transceiver stations polled, a rate of change from one base receiver station to a next transceiver station during the polling, and an identifier of a present cell.

17. A method as claimed in claim 15, wherein the characteristics are determined every time the mobile device conducts a polling of the base transceiver stations.

18. A method as claimed in claim 15 further comprising conducting a georeferencing survey of locations to provide location data.

19. A method as claimed in claim 18, wherein the location data is in a look-up table for providing a database of the characteristics.

20. A method as claimed in claim 18, wherein default values are used if there is no location data.

21. A method as claimed in claim 15, wherein the method is performed in at least one selected from the group consisting of:

the mobile device, a SIM card of the mobile device, a smart card of the mobile device, a network server.

22. A method as claimed in claim 15, wherein the characteristics are compared with values that are selected from the group consisting of:

modelled values and default values.

23. A mobile device comprising a detector for detecting a polling of a plurality of base transceiver stations by the mobile device and extracting from data of the polling characteristics of a location at which the mobile device is located;

and a controller for controlling settings of the mobile device.

24. A mobile device as claimed in claim 23, wherein the characteristics are selected from the group consisting of:

a number of base transceiver stations polled, and a rate of change from one base receiver station to a next transceiver station during the polling.

25. A mobile device as claimed in claim 23, wherein the characteristics are determined every time the mobile device conducts a polling of the base transceiver stations.

26. A mobile device as claimed in claim 23 further comprising a look-up table for providing a database of the location data comprising the characteristics at a plurality of locations.

27. A mobile device as claimed in claim 26 further comprising default values to be used if there is no location data.

28. A mobile device as claimed in claim 23, wherein the detector is also for comparing the characteristics of the location with values that are selected from the group consisting of:

modelled values and default values.