Mobile communication system

• US 6,085,096 A
• Filed: 09/09/1997
• Issued: 07/04/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 09/13/1996
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Nakamura, Noriyasu
• Primary Examiner(s): Bost, Dwayne D.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Persino, Raymond B.
• Application Number:
  US08/925,656
• Time in Patent Office: 1,029 Days
• Field of Search: 455/38, 455/3, 455/343, 455/421, 455/436, 455/563, 455/566, 455/517, 455/456, 455/574, 455/432, 455/410, 455/411, 455/457, 455/572, 455/88, 455/419, 455/420
• US Class Current: 455/456.6
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/04 based on user or terminal location or mobility data, e.g. moving direction, speed
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

A mobile communication system includes a base station having a message transmission function and installed near a place where the use of a mobile unit is restricted. When the mobile unit in a wait state enters an area under management of the base station, the base station transmits a data signal for reproducing a message for instructing the mobile unit to turn off a power supply for the mobile unit.

Claims

1. A mobile communication system comprising:

a base station having a message transmission function which is installed near a place where use of a mobile unit is restricted,

wherein when the mobile unit in a wait state enters an area under management of said base station, said base station transmits a data signal for reproducing a message for instructing a user of the mobile unit to turn off a power supply for the mobile unit.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein said base station includes means for detecting when the mobile unit has entered the area of management of said base station.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein said area of management encompasses the place where use of the mobile unit is restricted.

4. A mobile communication system comprising:

a base station having a message transmission function which is installed near a place where use of a mobile unit is restricted,

wherein when the mobile unit in a speech communication mode enters an area under management of said base station, said base station transmits a data signal for reproducing a message for interrupting speech communication and instructing a user of the mobile unit to turn off a power supply for the mobile unit, and also transmits a message for notifying another party to said speech communication of incapability of speech communication.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein said base station includes means for detecting when the mobile unit has entered the area of management of said base station.

6. The system of claim 4, wherein said area of management encompasses the place where use of the mobile unit is restricted.

7. A mobile communication system comprising:

a base station having a message transmission function which is installed at an area where use of a mobile unit is restricted, said base station detecting when the mobile unit enters the restricted area,

wherein when the base station detects that the mobile unit in a wait state has entered the restricted area, said base station transmits a power supply control signal to turn off a power supply for the mobile unit.

8. A mobile communications system comprising:

a mobile unit including;

(a) message transmission means,

(b) message receiving means, and

(c) processing means for controlling operation of said mobile unit;

a base station located at a restricted area including;

(a) means for transmitting a message, and

(b) monitoring means for monitoring the restricted area,

wherein when the monitoring means of the base station detects that the mobile unit has entered the restricted area, said transmitting means in said base station transmits a control signal to said mobile station for turning off a power supply of the mobile unit.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein said control signal is a message instructing a user at the mobile unit to turn off a power supply of the mobile unit.

10. The system of claim 8, wherein said control signal is a power supply control signal which causes the processing means in said mobile unit to automatically turn off a power supply of the mobile unit.

11. The system of claim 8, wherein when said mobile unit enters said predetermined area during a time when said mobile unit is communicating with another unit, said base station transmits a message notifying a user at the other unit that communications with said mobile unit have been terminated.