Method and Apparatus for Reminding User Based On Set Position By Using Mobile Terminal

• US 20160249169A1
• Filed: 05/03/2016
• Published: 08/25/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/19/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: VID SCALE Inc. (InterDigital, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Huawei Device Company Limited (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Chen, Wei
• Granted Patent: US 9,967,710 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 19/13 Receivers
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 5/02528 Simulating radio frequency fingerprints
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/109 Time management, e.g. calendars, reminders, meetings or time accounting
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/1427 with transmitter-receiver for distance detection
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/24 Reminder alarms, e.g. anti-loss alarms
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72457 according to geographic location
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• 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 4/023 using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets or of distance thresholds
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 64/00 Locating users or terminals or network equipment for network management purposes, e.g. mobility management
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/12 WLAN [Wireless Local Area Networks]

Abstract

A method and an apparatus for reminding a user based on a set position by using a mobile terminal. The method includes connecting the mobile terminal of the user to a wireless network, determining, by a mobile terminal of a user by using a wireless network, that a distance between the mobile terminal and a set position is greater than a set value and reminding, by the mobile terminal, the user of a set event according to a set reminding manner when the distance between the mobile terminal and the set position is greater than the set distance value. The present disclosure can make full use of a wireless local area network (WLAN) function or a wireless communication function of a mobile terminal to determine, without any additional hardware, a position of a user by using a WLAN or a positioning system, thereby implementing a function of reminding the user.

Claims

1. A method for reminding a user based on a set position by using a mobile terminal, comprising:

connecting the mobile terminal of the user to a wireless network;

determining, by the mobile terminal of the user, that a distance between the mobile terminal and a set position is greater than a set distance value by using the wireless network; and

reminding, by the mobile terminal, the user of a set event according to a set reminding manner when the distance between the mobile terminal and the set position is greater than the set distance value.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein connecting comprises connecting the mobile terminal of the user to a wireless router at the set position, and wherein determining comprises determining that the distance between the mobile terminal and the set position is greater than the set distance value after the mobile terminal of the user has detected that the mobile terminal is disconnected from the wireless router at the set position.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein determining, by the mobile terminal of the user by using a wireless network, that a distance between the mobile terminal and a set position is greater than a set distance value comprises:

connecting, by the mobile terminal of the user, to a positioning system by using the wireless network;

acquiring a geographical position of the mobile terminal from the positioning system; and

determining that the distance between the mobile terminal and the set position is greater than the set distance value when a distance between the geographical position of the mobile terminal and a geographical position of the set position is greater than the set distance value.

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein the positioning system comprises a Global Positioning System (GPS).

5. The method according to claim 3, wherein the positioning system comprises a BeiDou Navigation Satellite System.

6. The method according to claim 3, wherein the positioning system comprises a base station of the mobile terminal.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein reminding comprises causing the mobile terminal to at least one of ring, vibrate, and generate a visual reminder of the set event on a display screen of the mobile terminal.

8. A mobile terminal, comprising:

a processor; and

a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium coupled to the processor and storing programming instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to;

connect the mobile terminal of a user to a wireless network;

determine that a distance between the mobile terminal and a set position is greater than a set distance value by using the wireless network; and

remind the user of a set event according to a set reminding manner.

9. The mobile terminal according to claim 8, wherein the processor is further configured to:

connect the mobile terminal of the user to a wireless router at the set position; and

determine that the distance between the mobile terminal and the set position is greater than the set distance value after the mobile terminal of the user has detected that the mobile terminal is disconnected from the wireless router at the set position.

10. The mobile terminal according to claim 8, wherein the processor is further configured to:

connect the mobile terminal of the user to a positioning system by using the wireless communication network;

acquire a geographical position of the mobile terminal from the positioning system; and

determine that the distance between the mobile terminal and the set position is greater than the set distance value when a distance between the geographical position of the mobile terminal and a geographical position of the set position is greater than the set distance value.

11. The mobile terminal according to claim 10, wherein the positioning system comprises a Global Positioning System (GPS).

12. The mobile terminal according to claim 10, wherein the positioning system comprises a BeiDou Navigation Satellite System.

13. The mobile terminal according to claim 10, wherein the positioning system comprises a base station of the mobile terminal.

14. The mobile terminal according to claim 8, wherein the processor is further configured to:

perform at least one of a ringing operation and a vibrating operation; and

remind the user of the set event by generating a visual reminder on a display screen of the mobile terminal.