MOBILE TERMINAL AND SCHEDULE NOTIFYING METHOD THEREOF

• US 20110098061A1
• Filed: 04/16/2010
• Published: 04/28/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 10/22/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: YOON, Il-Seop
• Granted Patent: US 8,838,146 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/456.3
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/58 Message adaptation for wireless communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• 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 4/023 using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets or of distance thresholds
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/025 using location based information parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 64/00 Locating users or terminals or network equipment for network management purposes, e.g. mobility management
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/1263 Mapping of traffic onto schedule, e.g. scheduled allocation or multiplexing of flows

Abstract

A mobile terminal and a schedule notifying method of the mobile terminal are disclosed. The mobile terminal includes: a wireless communication unit configured to perform radio communication with a location-based service (LBS) providing server; a controller configured to select a participant in a schedule creation mode, discriminately display whether or not the selected participant uses the LBS, registers schedule to a scheduler when creating of the schedule is completed, and acquire location information of the participant using the LBS when an alarm time of the registered schedule arrives; and an output unit configured to output a schedule notification signal and location information of the participant.

Claims

1. A schedule notifying method of a mobile terminal, the method comprising:

entering a schedule creation mode;

selecting participants in the schedule creation mode;

displaying whether or not the selected participants use a location providing service;

when a schedule creation is completed, registering the created schedule;

when an alarm time of the registered schedule arrives, checking the location of a participant using the location providing service among the selected participants; and

displaying the checked location of the participant.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein, in creating the schedule, data regarding fields such as a type, content, position, start date, start time, end date, end time, repetition, notification, LBS, and participant is received.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein an alarm time point is a certain time before the start time.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the alarm time point is a time point at which one or more participant terminals among the participants using the location providing service enters within a certain radius from the position.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the checking of the location of the participant comprises:

connecting to the location providing server;

requesting the location providing server to check the location of the participant using the location providing server;

acquiring, by the location providing server, the location information of the corresponding participant according to the request, and transmitting the acquired location information; and

receiving the location information of the participant transmitted from the location providing server.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the checking of the location of the participant further comprises:

acquiring location information of the mobile terminal.

7. A method for notifying about a schedule of a mobile terminal, the method comprising:

entering, by a scheduler, a schedule creation mode;

selecting participants in the schedule creation mode;

displaying whether or not the participants use a location providing service;

when the creating of the schedule is completed, registering the created schedule;

entering, by one or more of the selected participants, within a certain radius from the location registered to the schedule; and

displaying locations of the participant terminals which have entered the certain radius.

8. A mobile terminal comprising:

a wireless communication unit configured to perform radio communication with a location-based service (LBS) providing server;

a controller configured to select a participant in a schedule creation mode, discriminately display whether or not the selected participant uses the LBS, registers schedule to a scheduler when creating of the schedule is completed, and acquire location information of the participant using the LBS when an alarm time of the registered schedule arrives; and

an output unit configured to output a schedule notification signal and location information of the participant.

9. The mobile terminal of claim 8, wherein the wireless communication unit comprises a location information module acquiring location information of a satellite.

10. The mobile terminal of claim 9, wherein when the location information of the participant is acquired, the controller acquires location information of the mobile terminal via the location information module.

11. The mobile terminal of claim 9, wherein when there is a request from the LBS providing server, the controller acquires current location information through the location information module and transmits the acquired location information to the LBS providing server.

12. The mobile terminal of claim 9, wherein the controller periodically acquires the current location information and transmits the acquired location information to the LBS providing server.

13. The mobile terminal of claim 8, wherein the output unit displays the location of the participant on a map based on the acquired location information of the participant.

14. The mobile terminal of claim 8, wherein the alarm time is a time point before a start time set in the schedule.

15. The mobile terminal of claim 8, wherein the alarm time is a time point at which one or more participant terminals enter within a certain radius from the location.

16. The mobile terminal of claim 8, wherein the schedule notification signal is one or more of text, a notification sound, and vibration.