METHOD, SYSTEM AND DEVICE OF LOCATION AUTHENTICATION

• US 20130288706A1
• Filed: 04/29/2013
• Published: 10/31/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 04/27/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Starberry Limited (Unicredit SPA)
• Original Assignee: Twinkling Stars Technology Limited
• Inventors: Yu, Wing-Fung, Chiu, Jason Felix Tsz-Kiu
• Granted Patent: US 9,622,026 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/456.1
• 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 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/043 using ambient awareness, e.g. involving buildings using floor or room numbers
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/33 for indoor environments, e.g. buildings
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 64/003 locating network equipment

Abstract

The present invention relates to a field of communication technology that provides a method, system and device of location authentication. The method comprises the following steps: the mobile device receives the signal marking the position information of the location base station sent by the location base station within the same region. The mobile device would obtain the position information of the location base station after analyzing the signal; the location base station would send the position information to the location authentication server to obtain the location authentication that it is in the same region with the location base station. Thus, this invention performs the location authentication of the mobile device staying in the same region with the location base station.

Claims

19. A method of location authentication comprising:

receiving at a mobile device a signal marking a position of a location base station, the signal being sent by the location base station within a region where the mobile device and location base station are located;

the mobile device analyzing the signal

the mobile device obtaining the position information of the location base station after analyzing the signal; and

the mobile device sending information related to the mobile device to the location base station;

20. The method of claim 19 further comprising:

the mobile device receiving service information from the location base station, in response to receiving the signal from the mobile device.

21. The method of claim 19,

the receiving at the mobile device of the signal marking the position of the location base station including at least the mobile device receiving multiple signals from multiple base stations marking the positions of the multiple base stations;

and

the mobile device obtaining the position information further comprising the mobile device obtaining position information for multiple location base stations.

22. The method of claim 21, for comprising discarding a signal of a location base station if the signal is not above a predefined threshold.

40. A system of location authentication as set forth in any of the claim 19, wherein the system comprises several mobile devices and several location base stations, the location base stations are respectively installed in different regions.

27. A system of location authentication, wherein the system comprises:

a location base stations having at least

a signal transmitting-receiving module, that sends a signal marking the position information of the location base station to a mobile device within a region where the location base station is located;

a location authentication server having at least a position message validation module that authenticates a location by determining whether the location base station is in the same region with the mobile device.

1. A method of location authentication comprising:

sending to a mobile device a signal marking a position of a location base station, the signal being sent by the location base station within a region where the mobile device and location base station are located;

the location base station receiving a signal from the mobile device indicating the location of the mobile device;

and

in response to receiving the signal from the mobile device, the location base station inputting the position information into a location authentication server to obtain the location authentication of the region with the location base station.

2. A method of location authentication as set forth in claim 1, further comprising:

after the location base station sends the position information to the location authentication server to obtain location authentication information that is associated of the region having the location base station

sending from the location base station to the mobile device service information.

3. A method of location authentication as set forth in claim 1, wherein the signals sent by the location base station marking the position information of the location base station are non-audible sound signals;

the region where the location base stations and mobile device are located is a region within a range that a magnitude of signals sent by the location base station are above a predefined threshold.

4. A method of location authentication as set forth in claim 3, wherein the region is indoors or the region is outdoors in an area adjacent to one or more buildings.

5. A method of location authentication as set forth in claim 4, wherein the step of the sending to the mobile device the signal marking the position information of the location base station, further comprising:

the location base station determining a set of multiple bits of information and sending the non-audible sound signals, the non-audible sound signal including a set of frequencies representing the set of multiple bits of information.

6. A method of location authentication as set forth in claim 4, wherein the step of the sending to the mobile device the signal marking the position information of the location base station, further comprising:

determining at the location base station multiple bits of information;

sending the non-audible sound signal, the non-audible signal including at least a first segment having a first frequency and a second segment having a second frequency, the second segment and the first segment being spaced by the a time interval, the non-audible sound signal representing the multiple bits of information.

7. A method of location authentication as set forth in claim 4, the step of the sending to the mobile device the signal marking the position information of the location base station, further comprising:

randomly generating multiple bits of information, and sending the non-audible sound signal, the non-audible signal being a set of frequencies representing the randomly generated multiple-bits of information;

the region is a suite or a room indoors and/or several outdoor areas between multiple buildings.

8. A method of location authentication as set forth in claim 7, the multiple bits of information including position information.

9. A method of location authentication as set forth in claim 4, the sending of the non-audible signal including at least sending from one location base station

a first position coding including a first set of multiple bits of information,

a second position coding including a second set of multiple bits of information,

a third position coding including a third set of multiple bits of information, and

a fourth position coding including a fourth set of multiple bits of information coding;

storing the first position coding, the first set of multi-bit information, the second set of multi-bit information, and the third set of multi-bit information in a query table of position information;

collectively, the first position coding, the second position coding, the third position, fourth position coding being associated with one location as different parameters . . . .

10. A method of location authentication as set forth in claim 4, the non-audible signal includes one or more frequencies in a range of frequency of 17000 Hz-22000 Hz or 16 Hz-25 Hz.

11. A method of location authentication as set forth in claim 1, the location base station including the authentication server.

12. A method of location authentication as set forth in claim 1, wherein the location authentication server comprises several servers installed in several location base stations;

the servers comprise at least one main server and at least one synchronization server;

the synchronization server synchronizing a query table of position information with the main server.

13. A method of location authentication as set forth in claim 12, wherein the server randomly generates multiple bits of information;

after the server randomly generates the multiple bits of information, the server outputs the randomly generated multiple bits of information to the location base station.

14. A method of location authentication as set forth in claim 13, wherein there are several location base stations, several sets of randomly generated the multiple bits of information, each of sets of randomly generated the multiple bits of information correspond to a different one of the location base stations.

15. A method of location authentication as set forth in claim 1, further comprising:

sending service information provided by the location base station to the mobile device, and

the location base station recording information received from the mobile device.

16. A method of location authentication as set forth in claim 1, further comprising:

sending service information provided by the location base station to the mobile device, the service information including promotional information.

17. A method of location authentication as set forth in claim 1, further comprising:

sending service information provided by the location base station to the mobile device, the service information including promotional information;

the service information including security information.

18. A method of location authentication as set forth in claim 1, wherein there are several location base stations within a region;

the sending to the mobile device of the signal marking the position of the location base station, further comprises;

the location base stations sending signals marking position information of each of the location base stations.

23. A method of location authentication as set forth in claim 16, further comprising:

measuring a background signal strength in a region over a predetermined period of time;

computing a mean signal strength based on the measuring of the background signal strength;

wherein the predefined threshold is a strength that is double a mean signal strength.

24. A method of location authentication as set forth in claim 16, wherein the predefined threshold is a signal strength that is above a strength of signals received by the mobile device in the predefined period.

25. The method of claim 24, the mobile device receives the first signal meeting the predefined threshold and discards others of the signals meeting the predefined threshold.

26. The method of claim 24, when the signals sent by the location base stations that all signals are below the predefined strength standard, the mobile device receives the first transmitted signal sent by the location base stations and discards other signals sent by the locations base stations.

28. A system of location authentication as set forth in claim 27,

the location authentication base station further comprising:

a service information module that provides service information to the mobile device after the position message validation module verifies that the mobile device is in the same region with the location base station.

29. A system of location authentication as set forth in claim 27, wherein the signal marking the position information of location base station sent by the location base station is a non-audible sound signal;

and

the location base stations and the mobile device are considered to be in the same region if the mobile device is within a signal range of the location base station.

30. A system of location authentication as set forth in claim 27, wherein the region is indoors or outdoors adjacent one or more buildings;

the location base station is installed in the region in a fixed location.

31. A system of location authentication as set forth in claim 27, wherein the signal transmitting-receiving module comprises:

a control sub-module that controls the an audible frequency generating-transmitting sub-module to generate a particular frequency.

32. A system of location authentication as set forth in claim 27, wherein the signal transmitting-receiving module comprises:

a control sub-module that correlates a set of multiple bits of information to a set of frequencies.

33. A system of location authentication as set forth in claim 27, wherein the first position coding, the second position coding, the third position coding and the fourth position coding correspond to one unit of position information in the default query table of position information respectively;

the position information obtaining module comprises;

query sub-module that queries position information corresponding to a first position coding, a second position coding, a third position coding and a fourth position coding to obtain the position information of location base station.

34. A system of location authentication as set forth in claim 27, the system further comprising a storing module that stores a query table of position information;

the non-audible signal includes one or more frequencies in a range of frequency of 17000 Hz-22000 Hz and/or 16 Hz-25 Hz.

35. A system of location authentication as set forth in claim 27, wherein the system also comprises several synchronization modules that are installed in several servers of several location base stations, respectively;

the servers comprise at least one main server and at least one synchronization server;

the synchronization module of synchronization server synchronizes a query table with the synchronization module of main server, the query table stores information correlating position information with time intervals.

36. A system of location authentication as set forth in claim 35, wherein the system also comprises:

a server installed in the location base station;

a random number generating module, which is installed in the server, the random number generator generates a set of multiple-bits of random information;

a random number sending module, which is installed in the server, and transmits the third set of multiple-bits of random information to the signal transmitting-receiving module after the random number generating module.

37. A system of location authentication as set forth in claim 36, wherein the random number generating module generates several sets of multiple bits of information, the several sets of multiple bits of information correspond to several location base stations, respectively.

38. A system of location authentication as set forth in claim 30, wherein the several sets of multiple bits of information are temporally spaced form one another by time intervals.

39. A system of location authentication as set forth in claim 31, the location base station including at least

a service information module that provides service information to the mobile device after the position message validation module verifies that the mobile device is in the same region with the location base station;

wherein the service information module includes at least

a recording sub-module, uses for recording the information of mobile device within the same region as the location base station;

a transmitting sub-module that sends the promotion information to the mobile device, and sends the security information to the mobile device.

32-1. A system of location authentication as set forth in claim 27, wherein the first signal transmitting-receiving module comprises:

a control sub-module that correlates a non-audible sound signal that includes a first frequency and a second frequency temporally spaced by a time interval, to a set of multiple bits of information

32-2. A system of location authentication as set forth in claim 27, wherein the first signal transmitting-receiving module comprises:

a control sub-module that correlates a randomly generated set of multiple bits of information to a set of frequencies.

32-3. A system of location authentication as set forth in claim 27, wherein the first signal transmitting-receiving module comprises:

a control sub-module; and

an audible frequency generating-transmitting sub-module controlled by the control sub-module, that generates a frequency according, and sends the non-audible sound signal at a particular frequency.