COMMUNICATION TERMINAL AND INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD

• US 20130225115A1
• Filed: 06/26/2012
• Published: 08/29/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 07/11/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Original Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Inventors: Sasaki, Makoto, Shikama, Hiroki, Higuchi, Takeshi
• Granted Patent: US 9,509,424 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/404.1
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 27/00 Alarm systems in which the alarm condition is signalled from a central station to a plurality of substations
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 27/006 with transmission via telephone network
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/59 for emergency or urgency
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/70 using geographical information, e.g. maps, charts or atlases
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72418 for supporting emergency services
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 11/04 with alarm systems, e.g. fire, police or burglar alarm systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/5166 in combination with interactive voice response systems or voice portals, e.g. as front-ends
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/021 Services related to particular areas, e.g. point of interest [POI] services, venue services or geofences
• 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 4/90 Services for handling of emergency or hazardous situations, e.g. earthquake and tsunami warning systems [ETWS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 64/006 with additional information processing, e.g. for direction or speed determination

Abstract

A communication terminal includes a receiver for receiving a communication signal including urgent warning information, a current location information retrieving unit that retrieves location information regarding a current location of a user, a storage unit that stores information regarding a registered point specified by the user or a communication system, a processing unit that calculates a distance between the current location and the registered point, in response to receiving by the receiving unit of the communication signal, and an information providing unit that provides to-be-provided information including, at least, the distance to the user.

Claims

1. A communication terminal comprising:

a receiver for receiving a communication signal including urgent warning information;

a current location information retrieving unit that retrieves location information regarding a current location of a user;

a storage unit that stores information regarding a registered point specified by the user or a communication system;

a processing unit that calculates a distance between the current location and the registered point, in response to receiving by the receiving unit of the communication signal; and

an information providing unit that provides to-be-provided information including, at least, the distance to the user.

2. The communication terminal according to claim 1,

wherein the storage unit stores, for each of types of disasters, the information regarding the registered point specified by the user or the communication system.

3. The communication terminal according to claim 2,

wherein the information providing unit provides, for each of the types of the disasters, the to-be-provided information including, at least, the distance to the user.

4. The communication terminal according to claim 3,

wherein the information providing unit provides, for each of the types of the disasters, the to-be-provided information including, at least, the distance to the user, in accordance with a priority order such that a priority becomes higher as the distance becomes smaller.

5. The communication terminal according to claim 3,

wherein the information providing unit provides, for each of the types of the disasters, the to-be-provided information including, at least, the distance to the user, in accordance with a priority order regarding the types of the disasters, wherein the priority order is determined prior to receiving by the receiver of the communication signal.

6. The communication terminal according to claim 2,

wherein the information providing unit provides the to-be-provided information including, at least, the distance to the user, when the current location of the user belongs to a scope of an application, wherein the scope of the application is defined in advance for each of the types of the disasters.

7. The communication terminal according to claim 1,

wherein the current location information retrieving unit retrieves the location information regarding the current location of the user, based on a radio signal received by a GPS receiver.

8. The communication terminal according to claim 1,

wherein the current location information retrieving unit retrieves the location information regarding the current location of the user, based on a location of a cellular radio base station.

9. An information providing method performed by a communication terminal, the method comprising steps of:

retrieving location information regarding a current location of a user;

extracting information regarding a registered point specified by the user or a communication system, and calculating a distance between the current location and the registered point, in response to receiving a communication signal including urgent warning information; and

providing to-be-provided information including, at least, the distance to the user.