WIRELESS MOBILE TERMINAL DEVICE

• US 20130059627A1
• Filed: 08/20/2012
• Published: 03/07/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 09/02/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Mobile Communications Limited (Fujitsu Limited)
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Mobile Communications Limited (Fujitsu Limited)
• Inventors: KIYOMOTO, Moriaki
• Application Number:
  US13/589,265
• Publication Number:
  US 20130059627A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/552.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/18 Selecting a network or a communication service

Abstract

A wireless mobile terminal device including: a position data detector that detects position data; a wireless communication system type data detector that detects wireless communication system type data or relation data; a memory that accumulates the position data and the wireless communication system type data or the relation data in association with each other; a memory controller that autonomously and sequentially stores the position data and the wireless communication system type data or the relation data into the memory; and a wireless communication system type data retriever that selects, upon receipt of current position data, wireless communication system type data of the current position or relation data through adaptive retrieval of a plurality of pieces of the position data and the wireless communication system type data or the relation data in association with each other. This configuration efficiently selects a wireless communication system.

Claims

1. A wireless mobile terminal device capable of using two or more wireless communication systems, comprising:

a position data detector that detects position data representing a position of the wireless mobile terminal device;

a wireless communication system type data detector that detects wireless communication system type data representing a wireless communication system being used by the wireless mobile terminal device or relation data related to the wireless communication system type data;

a memory that accumulates the position data detected by the position data detector and the wireless communication system type data or the relation data detected by the wireless communication system type data detector in association with each other;

a memory controller that autonomously and sequentially stores the position data and the wireless communication system type data or the relation data into the memory; and

a wireless communication system type data retriever that selects, upon receipt of current position data representing a current position of the wireless mobile terminal device, wireless communication system type data of the current position of the wireless mobile terminal device or relation data related to the wireless communication system type data of the current position through adaptive retrieval of a plurality of pieces of the position data and a plurality of pieces of the wireless communication system type data or the relation data in association with each other, which are autonomously and sequentially stored by the memory controller and which are accumulated in the memory.

2. The wireless mobile terminal device according to claim 1, wherein the memory controller is configured to autonomously and sequentially store the position data and the wireless communication system type data or the relation data into the memory when the wireless mobile terminal device is waiting in a wireless communication system being unknown or being switched, or when a predetermined time elapses from storing of the wireless communication system.

3. The wireless mobile terminal device according to claim 2, wherein the wireless communication system being unknown or being switched is a wireless communication system not represented by the wireless communication system type data or the relation data accumulated in the memory.

4. The wireless mobile terminal device according to claim 1, wherein the wireless communication system type data retriever is configured to retrieve, upon receipt of the current position data of the current position of the wireless mobile terminal device, the wireless communication system type data of the current position of the wireless mobile terminal device or relation data related to the wireless communication system type data of the current position by:

calculating a distance between the current position and each position of the position represented by the position data accumulated in the memory;

determining, on the basis of a result of the calculating, a preference of each wireless communication system in the order of a shorter distance between the current position and a position associated with the wireless communication system type data or the relation data; and

retrieving, on the basis of a result of the determining, the wireless communication system type data of the current position of the wireless mobile terminal device or the relation data related to the wireless communication system type data of the current position.

5. The wireless mobile terminal device according to claim 4, wherein the current position data is input into the wireless mobile terminal device when the wireless mobile terminal device is powered, when communication of the wireless mobile terminal device finishes, or when the wireless mobile terminal device shifts from a no-service-area state into a waiting state.

6. The wireless mobile terminal device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a first-powering wireless communication system type data retriever that retrieves, on the basis of a predetermined preference, the wireless communication system type data or the relation data prior to the retrieval of the wireless communication system type data retriever when the wireless mobile terminal device is powered for the first time.

7. The wireless mobile terminal device according to claim 1, wherein the position data detector selectively detects position data included in notification data which the wireless mobile terminal device receives from the wireless communication system being used by the wireless mobile terminal device or position data obtained by means of a Global Positioning System.

8. The wireless mobile terminal device according to claim 1, wherein the memory further stores a time when the position data and the wireless communication system type data or the relation data are stored in the memory in association with one another.

9. The wireless mobile terminal device according to claim 1, further comprising a first monitor that displays the position data of the wireless mobile terminal device and the wireless communication system type data or the relation data, which are accumulated in the memory.

10. The wireless communication terminal device according to claim 1, further comprising a second monitor that displays the wireless communication system type data or the relation data on a map corresponding to the associated position data of the wireless mobile terminal device.

11. The wireless mobile terminal device according to claim 9, wherein the first monitor displays a time when the position data and the wireless communication system type data or the relation data are stored in the memory along with the position data and the wireless communication system type data or the relation data.

12. A method for retrieving wireless communication system type data in a wireless mobile terminal device capable of using two or more wireless communication systems, the method comprising:

detecting position data representing a position of the wireless mobile terminal device;

detecting the wireless communication system type data representing a wireless communication system being used by the wireless mobile terminal device or relation data related to the wireless communication system type data;

autonomously and sequentially storing the position data and the wireless communication system type data or the relation data into a memory included in the wireless mobile terminal device in association with each other; and

upon receipt of current position data representing a current position of the wireless mobile terminal device,

selecting wireless communication system type data of the current position of the wireless mobile terminal device or relation data related to the wireless communication system type data of the current position through adaptive retrieval of a plurality of pieces of the position data and a plurality of pieces of the wireless communication system type data or the relation data in association with each other, which are autonomously and sequentially stored in the memory.

13. A computer-readable recording medium having stored therein a program for instructing a computer to execute a process comprising:

autonomously and sequentially storing position data of a wireless mobile terminal device capable of using two or more wireless communication systems and wireless communication system type data representing a wireless communication system being used by the wireless mobile terminal device or relation data into a memory included in the wireless mobile terminal device in association with each other; and

upon receipt of current position data representing a current position of the wireless mobile terminal device,

selecting wireless communication system type data of the current position of the wireless mobile terminal device or relation data related to the wireless communication system type data of the current position through adaptive retrieval of a plurality of pieces of the position data and a plurality of pieces of the wireless communication system type data or the relation data in association with each other, which are autonomously and sequentially stored in the memory.