Method for issuing a destination arrival alarm in a radio terminal

• US 6,380,872 B1
• Filed: 12/14/1999
• Issued: 04/30/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 12/16/1998
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Yun, Sung-Hm
• Primary Examiner(s): Tweel, John
• Application Number:
  US09/460,079
• Time in Patent Office: 868 Days
• Field of Search: 340/994, 340/995, 340/988, 340/990, 340/993, 340/989, 701/200, 701/202, 701/209, 701/211, 701/213
• US Class Current: 340/994
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/20 Monitoring the location of vehicles belonging to a group, e.g. fleet of vehicles, countable or determined number of vehicles

Abstract

A method for issuing a destination arrival alarm in a radio terminal. The radio terminal comprises sending a base station data service request to a base station by user'"'"'s request; upon receipt of an approval message for the base station data service, sending a destination name to the base station; upon receipt of base station data corresponding to the destination name, displaying the received base station data; selecting at least one of the displayed base station data and storing the selected base station data; upon detection of present base station data, determining whether the detected base station data is identical to the stored base station data; and issuing an alarm, when the detected base station data is identical to the stored base station data.

Claims

1. A method for issuing a destination arrival alarm in a radio terminal of a cellular mobile communication system, comprising the steps of:

(a) requesting base station data of several destination base stations from a mobile terminal;

(b) receiving the base station data of several base stations;

(c) selecting at least one destination among the base station data, and storing the selected destination data; and

(d) issuing an alarm, when the received base station data is identical to the stored base station data.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the step (a) comprises the steps of:

upon receipt of a destination name input by a user, displaying base station data corresponding to the destination name; and

selecting one of the displayed base station data and storing the selected base station data.

3. A method for issuing a destination arrival alarm in a radio terminal of a cellular mobile communication system, comprising the steps of:

sending a base station data service request for requesting destination data to a base station of the cellular mobile communication system;

sending a destination data decided by a user to the base station;

upon receipt of a plurality of base station data corresponding to the destination data, displaying the received base station data;

selecting at least one of the displayed base station data and storing the selected base station data;

upon detection of present base station data, determining whether the detected base station data is identical to the stored base station data; and

issuing an alarm, when the detected base station data is identical to the stored base station data.