INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM

• US 20140153485A1
• Filed: 11/21/2013
• Published: 06/05/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 11/30/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Tsuda, Shinichiro
• Application Number:
  US14/086,657
• Publication Number:
  US 20140153485A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/328
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/32 by location or mobility data, e.g. speed data
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/324 by mobility data, e.g. speed data
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/04 based on user or terminal location or mobility data, e.g. moving direction, speed

Abstract

There is provided an information processing apparatus including a determining unit that determines a movement state of a wireless communication apparatus, and a control unit that restricts a base station selection process of the wireless communication apparatus, on the basis of the determined movement state.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a determining unit that determines a movement state of a wireless communication apparatus; and

a control unit that restricts a base station selection process of the wireless communication apparatus, based on the determined movement state.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the determining unit determines a type of a movement mechanism transporting the wireless communication apparatus, and

wherein the control unit restricts the base station selection process, based on the determined type of the movement mechanism.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein the control unit restricts the base station selection process, only when the determined type of the movement mechanism is a high-speed movement mechanism.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 3,

wherein the determining unit determines whether the high-speed movement mechanism is in a stop state, and

wherein the control unit does not restrict the base station selection process, when the high-speed movement mechanism is in a stop state even though the determined type of the movement mechanism is the high-speed movement mechanism.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 4,

wherein the control unit restricts the base station selection process, when a connection state of a specific communication service at a position where the high-speed movement mechanism exists satisfies a predetermined condition even though the determined type of the movement mechanism is the high-speed movement mechanism and the high-speed movement mechanism is in a stop state.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising:

a specifying unit that specifies a movement path of the wireless communication apparatus, based on position information regarding the wireless communication apparatus,

wherein the control unit restricts the base station selection process, based on the determined type of the movement mechanism and the specified movement path.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 6,

wherein the control unit restricts the base station selection process, only when the determined type of the movement mechanism is a high-speed movement mechanism and a number of times of switching between different communication methods in the specified movement path is large based on a predetermined value.

8. The information processing apparatus according to claim 3,

wherein the control unit does not restrict the base station selection process, when a specific communication service is provided in the high-speed movement mechanism even though the determined type of the movement mechanism is the high-speed movement mechanism.

9. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the control unit restricts each process regarding handover, cell selection, and cell reselection between different communication methods as the restriction of the base station selection process and executes only each process regarding handover, cell selection, and cell reselection between same communication methods.

10. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the control unit restricts switching from a communication method in which a cell size is large to a communication method in which a cell size is small as the restriction of the base station selection process and executes only each process regarding handover, cell selection, and cell reselection between same communication methods.

11. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a specifying unit that specifies a movement path of a wireless communication apparatus, based on position information regarding the wireless communication apparatus; and

a control unit that associates the specified movement path and the position information regarding the wireless communication apparatus in the specified movement path and displays an association result on the wireless communication apparatus.

12. A communication system comprising:

an information processing apparatus that includes a determining unit that determines a movement state of a wireless communication apparatus and a control unit that performs control to restrict a base station selection process of the wireless communication apparatus, based on the determined movement state; and

a wireless communication apparatus in which the base station selection process is restricted based on control by the information processing apparatus.

13. An information processing method comprising:

determining a movement state of a wireless communication apparatus; and

restricting a base station selection process of the wireless communication apparatus, based on the determined movement state.

14. A program for causing a computer to execute:

determining a movement state of a wireless communication apparatus; and

restricting a base station selection process of the wireless communication apparatus, based on the determined movement state.