INFORMATION PROVIDING SERVER AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION TERMINAL

• US 20130295907A1
• Filed: 07/09/2013
• Published: 11/07/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 08/24/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Inventors: SAKANO, Shinji
• Application Number:
  US13/937,550
• Publication Number:
  US 20130295907A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/418
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/51 Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/08 Access restriction or access information delivery, e.g. discovery data delivery signalling during connection H04W76/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/18 Selecting a network or a communication service
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/20 Selecting an access point
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/183 Processing at user equipment or user record carrier
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/08 Access point devices

Abstract

A wireless communication terminal which receives at least one service through wireless communication with a wireless base station, including: a wireless communication interface which communicates by radio with the wireless base station; a memory that stores at least one piece of application software where the at least one service is provided; and a control module; wherein the control module is configured to: receive service information that is transmitted via the wireless base station as a response to the connection request or cyclically transmitted from the wireless base station, the service information includes application identification information of at least one piece of application software that is available within a wireless service area of the wireless base station; and execute customization processing that starts up or displays of the at least one piece of application software stored in the memory according to customized setting that is set beforehand.

Claims

1. A wireless communication terminal which receives at least one service through wireless communication with a wireless base station, comprising:

a wireless communication interface which communicates by radio with the wireless base station;

a memory that stores at least one piece of application software where the at least one service is provided; and

a control module;

wherein the control module is configured to;

receive service information that is transmitted via the wireless base station as a response to the connection request or cyclically transmitted from the wireless base station, the service information includes application identification information of at least one piece of application software that is available within a wireless service area of the wireless base station; and

execute customization processing that starts up or displays of the at least one piece of application software stored in the memory according to customized setting that is set beforehand.

2. A wireless communication terminal according to claim 1, wherein

the service information includes a utilization priority level of the at least one piece of application software that is available within the wireless service area of the wireless base station;

in the customization processing, the control module starts up or displays the at least one piece of application software stored in the memory according to the utilization priority level of the application software contained in the service information and the customized setting that is set beforehand.

3. A wireless communication terminal according to claim 2,

wherein, in the customization processing, when application software associated with application identification information in the service information contained in information carried on the wireless signal from the wireless base station is stored in the memory, a utilization priority level of the application software associated with application identification information is priority, and the customized setting that is set beforehand is in an automatic start-up mode, then the control module automatically starts up the application software.

4. A wireless communication terminal according to claim 3, further comprising,

an input unit;

and

a display unit;

wherein, in the customization processing, when a setting instruction of automatic start-up application software is received via the input unit while identification information of application software is being displayed in a state where the application software is not started up, the control module registers the identification information in the memory as identification information of application software to be started up automatically.

5. A wireless communication terminal according to claim 4, wherein:

the control module executes display customization processing in which the display unit displays at least one piece of the application identification information contained in the service information in order of utilization priority, based on an utilization priority level that is assigned to each of the at least one piece of the application identification information.

6. A wireless communication terminal according to claim 5,

wherein, in the display customization processing, when the at least one piece of the application identification information contained in the service information is displayed in the order of utilization priority, based on the utilization priority level that is assigned to each of the at least one piece of the application identification information, the control module instructs the display unit to display application identification information that has a highest utilization priority level and, subsequently, each time the input unit is operated in a given manner, to display the application identification information that has the highest utilization priority level among pieces of application identification information that have not been displayed yet.

7. A wireless communication terminal according to claim 6,

wherein, in the display customization processing, when the at least one piece of the application identification information contained in the service information is displayed in the order of the utilization priority based on the utilization priority level of each of the at least one piece of the application identification information, the control module instructs the display unit to display the at least one piece of the application identification information in a manner that makes application identification information that has a high utilization priority level more visible and application identification information that has a low utilization priority level less visible.

8. A wireless communication terminal according to claim 7,

wherein, in the display customization processing, when it is determined that the information carried on the wireless signal contains the service information, and when application software identified by the application identification information that has the highest utilization priority level among the at least one piece of the application identification information contained in the service information is stored in the memory, the control module starts up the application software.

9. A wireless communication terminal according to claim 1, wherein

the control module to perform step of customization termination to end the customization processing when the wireless signal stops arriving from the wireless base station which transmits the service information by radio.

10. A wireless communication terminal according to claim 2, wherein

the control module to perform step of customization termination to end the customization processing when the wireless signal stops arriving from the wireless base station which transmits the service information by radio.

11. A wireless communication terminal according to claim 3, wherein

the control module to perform step of customization termination to end the customization processing when the wireless signal stops arriving from the wireless base station which transmits the service information by radio.

12. A wireless communication terminal according to claim 4, wherein

the control module to perform step of customization termination to end the customization processing when the wireless signal stops arriving from the wireless base station which transmits the service information by radio.

13. A wireless communication terminal according to claim 5, wherein

the control module to perform step of customization termination to end the customization processing when the wireless signal stops arriving from the wireless base station which transmits the service information by radio.

14. A wireless communication terminal according to claim 6, wherein

the control module to perform step of customization termination to end the customization processing when the wireless signal stops arriving from the wireless base station which transmits the service information by radio.

15. A wireless communication terminal according to claim 7, wherein

the control module to perform step of customization termination to end the customization processing when the wireless signal stops arriving from the wireless base station which transmits the service information by radio.

16. A wireless communication terminal according to claim 8, wherein

the control module to perform step of customization termination to end the customization processing when the wireless signal stops arriving from the wireless base station which transmits the service information by radio.