Electronic entity and microcircuit card for electronic entity

• US 8,335,523 B2
• Filed: 06/14/2010
• Issued: 12/18/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 06/15/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Oberthur Technologies SA (Advent International Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Oberthur Technologies SA (Advent International Corporation)
• Inventors: Stranges, Lorenzo
• Primary Examiner(s): MIZRAHI, DIANE D
• Application Number:
  US12/814,758
• Publication Number:
  US 20100317369A1
• Time in Patent Office: 918 Days
• Field of Search: 455/456.2, 455/456.3, 455/456.1, 455/404.2, 455/457, 235/492, 709/224, 701/201, 701/101, 701/407, 701/408, 701/412, 701/469, 701/533, 342/357.3, 342/357.2, 342/357.62, 375/147
• US Class Current: 455/456.3
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/20 Instruments for performing navigational calculations G01C21/24, G01C21/26 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 19/14 specially adapted for specific applications
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 5/0027 of actual mobile position, i.e. position determined on mobile
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24575 using context
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/0717 the sensor being capable of sensing environmental conditions such as temperature history or pressure
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/077 Constructional details, e.g. mounting of circuits in the carrier
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/024 Guidance services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/026 using orientation information, e.g. compass

Abstract

An electronic entity and a microcircuit card that obtains an orientation of the electronic entity, sends a request containing information on the orientation, receives information relating to a positional entity linked to both a geographical position of the electronic entity and the orientation, and provides a user with information relating to the positional entity.

Claims

1. An electronic entity (1000), comprising:

a display screen;

means (1300, 1310, 1320) configured for obtaining an angle relative to a reference direction, said angle being representative of an orientation of the electronic entity;

means (1300, 1330, 1350) configured for sending a request containing information on said orientation;

means (1300, 1330, 1350) configured for receiving information relating to at least one positional entity located, from a geographical position of the electronic entity, in the direction identified by the angle; and

means (1300, 1330, 1350, 1100) configured for providing a user with said information by displaying said information on the display screen.

2. The electronic entity according to claim 1, further comprising:

means (1300, 1360) configured for obtaining the geographical position and for sending a request being adapted so that said request contains information on said geographical position.

3. The electronic entity according to claim 2, wherein said means (1300, 1360) configured for obtaining the geographical position include means configured for receiving positioning signals and means configured for determining geographical locations as a function of said positioning signals.

4. The electronic entity according to claim 3, wherein said means (1300, 1360) for obtaining the geographical position include means for obtaining a reference of a cell of a cellular telephone network in which the electronic entity is situated.

5. The electronic entity according to claim 2, wherein said means (1300, 1360) configured for obtaining the geographical position include means configured for obtaining a reference of a cell of a cellular telephone network in which the electronic entity is situated.

6. The electronic entity according to claim 1, wherein said means (1300, 1310, 1320) configured for obtaining the orientation of the electronic entity include a magnetometer (1310).

7. The electronic entity according to claim 1, further comprising:

a microcircuit card (1300); and

means (1300, 1330, 1350) configured for sending information indicating a model of the electronic entity and means (1300, 1330, 1350) configured for receiving data representing a relative orientation of the electronic entity and the microcircuit card for said model, the means configured for obtaining the orientation of the electronic entity using said relative orientation.

8. The electronic entity according to claim 1, including mobile telephone means.

9. The electronic entity according to claim 1, further comprising:

a microcircuit card (1300); and

means configured for accessing a SimToolKit menu of said microcircuit card and means configured for selecting in said menu an application for controlling the means configured for obtaining the orientation of the electronic entity, the means configured for sending the request, the means configured for receiving the information relating to the at least one positional entity, and the means configured for supplying the user with said information relating to the at least one positional entity.

10. The electronic entity according to claim 1, further comprising:

a microcircuit card, the means configured for obtaining the orientation of the electronic entity being adapted to determine a relative orientation of the microcircuit card and the electronic entity on first using the microcircuit card or first launching an application for controlling said means configured for obtaining the orientation of the electronic entity, the means configured for sending the request, the means configured for receiving the information relating to at the least one positional entity, and the means configured for providing the user with said information relating to the at least one positional entity.

11. The electronic entity according to claim 1, wherein the means for providing a user with said information relating to the at least one positional entity received by the receiving means are adapted to display at least one hypertext link and to enable the user to select said link to obtain additional information relating to the at least one positional entity.

12. The electronic entity according to claim 1, wherein said at least one positional entity is a billboard, and

wherein said received information is related to an advertisement displayed on said billboard.

13. The electronic entity according to claim 1, wherein the reference direction is north.

14. The electronic entity according to claim 1, wherein the reference direction is magnetic north.