Location based service voice blogging system for land mobile networks

• US 8,359,012 B2
• Filed: 09/18/2009
• Issued: 01/22/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 10/30/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Deutsche Telekom AG
• Original Assignee: Deutsche Telekom AG
• Inventors: Quade, Michael
• Primary Examiner(s): Patel, Ajit
• Application Number:
  US12/812,564
• Publication Number:
  US 20110294468A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,222 Days
• Field of Search: 455/403, 455/404.2, 4554121-413, 4554141-4142, 4554561-457
• US Class Current: 455/412.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/29 Geographical information databases
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/535 Tracking the activity of the user network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/55 Push-based network services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• 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 4/027 using movement velocity, acceleration information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/08 User group management
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/185 by embedding added-value information into content, e.g. geo-tagging

Abstract

A blogging system is operated on a server connected to a cellular land mobile network where a media object for the blogging system is transmitted from a first cellular terminal over the land mobile network to the server and stored in a database connected to the server, and the media object can be retrieved from a second cellular terminal. A first parameter characterizing the geographical location of the first cellular terminal is determined and linked to the media object, and a second parameter characterizing the geographical location of the second cellular terminal is determined and compared to the first parameter. The media object is made available to the second cellular terminal only when the geographical position of the first terminal as characterized by the first parameter does not exceed a certain distance from the geographical location of the second cellular terminal as characterized by the second parameter.

Claims

1. A process for operating a blogging system on a server connected to a cellular land mobile network from a first cellular terminal over the land mobile network where a media object for the blogging system is transmitted to the server and stored in a database connected to the server and the media object can be retrieved from a second cellular terminal,

the method comprising the steps of:

determining a first parameter characterizing the geographical location of the first cellular terminal;

linking the first parameter to the media object; and

determining a second parameter characterizing the geographical location of the second cellular terminal;

comparing the second parameter to the first parameter; and

making the media object available to the second cellular terminal only when the geographical position of the first cellular terminal as characterized by the first parameter does not exceed a certain distance from the geographical location of the second cellular terminal as characterized by the second parameter.

2. The process defined in claim 1, wherein the cellular terminals are connected to the server by dialing a subscriber number assigned to the server.

3. The process defined in claim 1, wherein after dialing the server an identity interrogation takes place that can be confirmed by the input of a user identifier.

4. The process defined in claim 1, wherein VoiP is used for transmission of the media object.

5. The process defined in claim 1, wherein determination of the geographical location of the second cellular terminal takes place when the second cellular terminal connects to the server.

6. The process defined in claim 1, wherein the geographical location of the second cellular terminal is continuously determined, especially at regular intervals, a media object being automatically offered to the second cellular terminal when the distance between the geographical location of the second cellular terminal and the geographical position that is characterized by the parameter linked to the media object corresponds to a predetermined value or falls below it.

7. The process defined in claim 6, wherein the second cellular terminal is called when the distance between the location of the second cellular terminal and the geographical position that is characterized by the parameter linked to the media object corresponds to a predetermined value or falls below it.

8. The process defined in claim 1, wherein the parameters are identifiers of a cell.

9. The process defined in claim 1, wherein the parameters are geographical longitude and latitude information.

10. The process defined in claim 1, wherein a certain media object is selected by the second cellular terminal and is transmitted by the server to the second cellular terminal.

11. The process defined in claim 1, wherein the media objects are voice messages that are transmitted by the first cellular terminal to the server and that the blogging system is controlled such that the server is controlled by a DTMF process and is caused to execute a certain action by actuation of a button of one of the cellular terminals.