RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, RADIO EQUIPMENT, AND SERVER

• US 20100031154A1
• Filed: 07/27/2009
• Published: 02/04/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 07/28/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Nishigori, Yoshihisa, Miyake, Yasunari, Yamagiwa, Daisuke, Wakabayashi, Naoyuki
• Granted Patent: US 8,495,128 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/734
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/55 Push-based network services
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72406 by software upgrading or downloading
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72427 for supporting games or graphical animations

Abstract

A plurality of servers each transmit data of an initial screen to be displayed on a display screen of radio equipment at a predetermined time interval. The radio equipment is in a reception waiting mode until it is connected to any one of the servers, and is performing channel scanning. Once the data of the initial screen transmitted from any one of the servers is received by the radio equipment, the radio equipment displays the initial screen on the display screen based on the received data. When an operation of a connection instruction is performed on the initial screen, the radio equipment is connected to the server corresponding to the initial screen.

Claims

1. A radio communication system comprising:

a server; and

radio equipment that performs radio communication with the server,

said radio equipment having a display unit and an operation unit,

said server receiving input information inputted by the operation unit of said radio equipment, and executing an application program in accordance with the input information, and further generating screen data based on the execution result of the program and transmitting the generated screen data to said radio equipment; and

said radio equipment displaying a screen based on said screen data received from said server on said display unit and accepting input by said operation unit on the displayed screen,

wherein said server transmits data of an initial screen to be displayed on the display unit of said radio equipment at a predetermined time interval; and

said radio equipment is in a reception waiting mode until it is connected to said server, and upon receiving the data of said initial screen in the waiting mode, the radio equipment displays the initial screen on said display unit based on the received data.

2. The radio communication system according to claim 1,

wherein said server is made up of a plurality of servers and channels different in frequency are assigned to the respective servers;

and

said radio equipment scans the channels in said reception waiting mode to sequentially receive the initial screen data transmitted from the plurality of servers respectively, and to sequentially display the initial screens on said display unit.

3. Radio equipment that has a display unit and an operation unit and performs radio communication with a server,

the radio equipment transmitting input information inputted by the operation unit to said server, receiving screen data generated based on execution of an application program in accordance with said input information in the server, displaying a screen based on the received screen data on said display unit, and accepting input by said operation unit on the displayed screen,

wherein said radio equipment is in a reception waiting mode until it is connected to said server, and upon receiving data of an initial screen transmitted from said server at a predetermined time interval, the radio equipment displays the initial screen on said display unit based on the received data.

4. The radio equipment according to claim 3,

wherein the radio equipment scans channels different in frequency, which are assigned to respective servers, in said reception waiting mode to sequentially receive the initial screen data transmitted from the plurality of servers respectively and to sequentially display the initial screens on said display unit.

5. The radio equipment according to claim 3, further comprising first instruction means for instructing connection to the server corresponding to the initial screen displayed on said display unit.

6. The radio equipment according to claim 5, further comprising second instruction means for instructing shift to scanning of the next channel when the connection to the server is not instructed by said first instruction means.

7. The radio equipment according to claim 4, further comprising a storage unit that stores the channel whose data could not be received as a result of scanning of said channels,

wherein during the next channel scanning, as to the channel stored in said storage unit, reception of initial screen data from the server corresponding to the relevant channel is skipped to execute scanning of the next channel.

8. A server that performs radio communication with radio equipment having a display unit and an operation unit, receives input information inputted by the operation unit of said radio equipment, and executes an application program in accordance with the input information, and further generates screen data based on the execution result of the relevant program and transmits the generated screen data to said radio equipment,

wherein in a state before the server is connected to said radio equipment, said server transmits data of an initial screen to be displayed on the display unit of said radio equipment at a predetermined time interval.