Within-A-Radius Calling System and Service Method Thereof

• US 20120238235A1
• Filed: 10/25/2011
• Published: 09/20/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 03/18/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Jae Hee Lee
• Original Assignee: Jae Hee Lee
• Inventors: Lee, Jae Hee
• Application Number:
  US13/281,392
• Publication Number:
  US 20120238235A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/404.2
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/34 involving the movement of software or configuration parameters network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/022 with dynamic range variability
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/06 Selective distribution of broadcast services, e.g. multimedia broadcast multicast service [MBMS]; Services to user groups; One-way selective calling services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/08 User group management
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/50 Service provisioning or reconfiguring
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/90 Services for handling of emergency or hazardous situations, e.g. earthquake and tsunami warning systems [ETWS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/06 adapted for operation in multiple networks or having at least two operational modes, e.g. multi-mode terminals

Abstract

The present invention discloses a within-a-radius calling system and a service method thereof, which can request a call from a member positioned within a certain radius. The within-a-radius calling system comprises: an application transmission unit; a member join/authentication unit; a storage unit; a radius information receiving unit; a position information receiving unit; a member search unit; and a within-a-radius calling unit.

Claims

1-12. -12. (canceled)

13. A within-a-radius calling system comprising:

an application transmission unit for transmitting information on an application so that the application can be installed in a plurality of mobile terminals including a transmitter mobile terminal and a receiver mobile terminal;

a member join/authentication unit for joining a user of the mobile terminal installed with the application as a member and authenticating membership of the user;

a storage unit for storing membership information of the user joined as a member;

a radius information receiving unit for receiving information on a call radius of the transmitter mobile terminal, if the call radius information is set by a user of the transmitter mobile terminal;

a position information receiving unit for receiving position information of the mobile terminal of the user joined as a member;

a member search unit for determining whether or not a receiver mobile terminal used by a member who is not previously specified is positioned within a call radius of the transmitter mobile terminal based on the call radius information; and

a within-a-radius calling unit for transmitting a call signal to receiver mobile terminals of all members or unspecified many of the members positioned within the call radius, if the user of the transmitter mobile terminal requests a call, wherein

the member search unit searches for the receiver mobile terminals positioned within the call radius and updates information thereon in real-time, and the within-a-radius calling unit transmits the call signal to the receiver mobile terminals which are targets varying in real-time depending on a distance to the transmitter mobile terminal and the call radius information.

14. The system according to claim 13, wherein the application displays an interface screen capable of processing the call request on the mobile terminal, and the interface screen is provided so as to handle a field related to an emergency call request and a field related to a general call request.

15. The system according to claim 14, wherein if the user of the transmitter mobile terminal clicks the field related to the emergency call request by handling the interface screen, the within-a-radius calling unit transmits a signal containing a predetermined message and position information of the transmitter mobile terminal to the receiver mobile terminals positioned within the call radius.

16. The system according to claim 14, wherein if the user of the transmitter mobile terminal clicks the field related to the general call request by handling the interface screen, the within-a-radius calling unit transmits a signal containing a message created by the user of the transmitter mobile terminal and position information of the transmitter mobile terminal to the receiver mobile terminals positioned within the call radius.

17. The system according to claim 13, wherein the within-a-radius calling unit transmits a signal containing a message and position information of the transmitter mobile terminal when the within-a-radius calling unit transmits the call signal to the receiver mobile terminals, and the position information of the transmitter mobile terminal is updated and transmitted in real-time.

18. The system according to claim 13, wherein the call radius information received by the radius information receiving unit is information that can be changed by the user of the transmitter mobile terminal.

19. A within-a-radius calling service method for providing a calling service in an environment of connecting a plurality of mobile terminals for providing the calling service and a within-a-radius calling system for relaying a call to enable the calling service among the mobile terminals, the method comprising the steps of:

receiving and installing an application, by the plurality of mobile terminals;

performing a process of joining users of the plurality of mobile terminals as a member and authenticating membership of the users;

receiving information on call radiuses set by the users of the plurality of mobile terminals, by the within-a-radius calling system;

confirming whether or not second mobile terminals used by all members or unspecified many of the members are positioned within a call radius of a first mobile terminal, if a user of the first mobile terminal among the plurality of mobile terminals executes the application in the within-a-radius calling system;

searching for the second mobile terminals positioned within the call radius and updating information thereon in real-time; and

requesting a call from the second mobile terminals which are targets varying in real-time depending on a distance to the first mobile terminal and the call radius information, if the user of the first mobile terminal requests the call in the within-a-radius calling system.

20. The method according to claim 19, further comprising the step of displaying an interface screen capable of processing the call request on the mobile terminal according to handling of the application, wherein the interface screen is provided so as to handle a field related to an emergency call request and a field related to a general call request.

21. The method according to claim 20, wherein in the step of requesting a call from users of the second mobile terminals positioned within the call radius of the first mobile terminal according to a call request of the user of the first mobile terminal in the within-a-radius calling system, if the user of the first mobile terminal clicks the field related to the emergency call request by handling the interface screen, a signal containing a predetermined message and position information of the first mobile terminal is transmitted to the second mobile terminals positioned within the call radius.

22. The method according to claim 20, wherein in the step of requesting a call from users of the second mobile terminals positioned within the call radius of the first mobile terminal according to a call request of the user of the first mobile terminal in the within-a-radius calling system, if the user of the first mobile terminal clicks the field related to the general call request by handling the interface screen, a signal containing a message created by the user of the first mobile terminal and position information of the first mobile terminal is transmitted to the second mobile terminals positioned within the call radius.

23. The method according to claim 19, wherein in the step of requesting a call from users of the second mobile terminals positioned within the call radius of the first mobile terminal according to a call request of the user of the first mobile terminal in the within-a-radius calling system, the call is requested by transmitting a message and position information of the first mobile terminal to the users of the second mobile terminals in the within-a radius calling system.

24. The method according to claim 23, wherein the position information of the first mobile terminal transmitted in the within-a radius calling system is updated and transmitted to the second mobile terminals in real-time.