Method for transmitting and receiving broadcast service information and user equipment for broadcast service

• US 8,761,766 B2
• Filed: 10/30/2009
• Issued: 06/24/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 10/30/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Inventors: Lee, Sang-Ho, Cho, Jai-Hyung, Roh, Hyunsuk
• Primary Examiner(s): FARAGALLA, MICHAEL A
• Application Number:
  US12/609,069
• Publication Number:
  US 20100112978A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,698 Days
• Field of Search: 455/435, 455/457, 455/436
• US Class Current: 455/435.1
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0104 Measuring and analyzing of parameters relative to traffic conditions
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096716 where the received information does not generate an automatic action on the vehicle control
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096741 where the source of the transmitted information selects which information to transmit to each vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096775 where the origin of the information is a central station
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/06 Selective distribution of broadcast services, e.g. multimedia broadcast multicast service [MBMS]; Services to user groups; One-way selective calling services

Abstract

Provided are a method for transmitting and receiving broadcasting service information and a mobile station for a broadcasting service. The method for transmitting broadcasting service information at a base station, includes registering a mobile station in a first cell, wherein the first cell is a cell managed by the base station, receiving vehicle related information from the mobile station mounted on a vehicle, and broadcasting the received vehicle related information to target cells.

Claims

1. A method for transmitting broadcasting service information at a base station, comprising:

registering a mobile station in a cell, wherein the cell is a cell managed by the base station;

receiving vehicle related information from the mobile station, wherein the mobile station is carried by a vehicle located in the cell; and

broadcasting the received vehicle related information to one or more other mobile stations located in one or more target cells,

wherein the one or more target cells comprise at least one of the cell and one or more neighbor cells managed by one or more neighbor base stations,

wherein the one or more neighbor base stations are located within a determined distance from the base station, and

wherein the broadcasted received vehicle related information comprises an identifier to identify a type of information in the vehicle related information and to be used to determine whether a receiving condition of the one or more other mobile stations is satisfied.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the vehicle related information further comprises at least one of vehicle location information of the vehicle, vehicle driving state information of the vehicle, or message information generated according to a request of a user of the mobile station.

3. A method for transmitting broadcasting service information at a base station, comprising:

registering a mobile station in a cell, wherein the mobile station is operated by a pedestrian, and wherein the cell is a cell managed by the base station;

receiving pedestrian related information that is generated by and transmitted from the mobile station of the pedestrian; and

broadcasting the pedestrian related information to a plurality of other mobile stations located in the cell,

wherein the pedestrian related information comprises at least one of pedestrian location information of the pedestrian, pedestrian speed information of the pedestrian, or vehicle related information that is about a vehicle and generated by a request of the pedestrian.

4. A method for receiving broadcasting service information at a second mobile station, comprising:

receiving first vehicle related information about a first vehicle broadcasted from a base station, wherein the first vehicle related information originated from a first mobile station located in a cell managed by the base station;

determining that the first vehicle related information is valid based on a determined output condition; and

outputting the received first vehicle related information at the second mobile station based on the determining that the first vehicle related information is valid,

wherein the second mobile station is located in the cell or a neighboring cell managed by a neighbor base station located within a determined distance from the base station.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the first vehicle related information comprises first vehicle location information of the first vehicle, and first vehicle driving state information of the first vehicle or first vehicle message information generated from the first mobile station.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the determining that the first vehicle related information is valid comprises:

determining a location of the first vehicle based on the first vehicle related information;

determining the location of the second mobile station using a location information generating device of the second mobile station or a location information generating device of a second vehicle that carries the second mobile station; and

determining that the first vehicle related information is valid based on determining that the location of the first vehicle is within a determined distance of the location of the second mobile station.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the determining that the first vehicle related information is valid is based on:

determining that the first vehicle related information coincides with a determined receiving condition in addition to the determining that the location of the first vehicle is within the determined distance of the location of the second mobile station.

8. The method of claim 4, further comprising:

receiving second vehicle driving state information of a second vehicle from the second vehicle, wherein the second mobile station is carried by the second vehicle; and

transmitting the second vehicle driving state information to the base station.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the transmitting the second vehicle driving state information to the base station comprises transmitting the second vehicle driving state information to the base station according to a transmission period or a determined transmission condition.

16. The method of claim 4, wherein the first mobile station is carried by the first vehicle.

10. A method for receiving broadcasting service information, comprising:

generating, by a first mobile station, first vehicle related information about a first vehicle, wherein the first mobile station is carried by the first vehicle;

transmitting, by the first mobile station, the first vehicle related information to a base station; and

receiving, by the first mobile station and from the base station, second vehicle related information about a second vehicle, wherein the second vehicle related information originated from a second mobile station carried by the second vehicle,

wherein the first mobile station is located in a cell managed by the base station,

wherein the second mobile station is located in the cell or a neighboring cell managed by a neighbor base station located within a determined distance from the base station, and

wherein the received second vehicle related information comprises an identifier, the identifier to identify a type of information in the second vehicle related information, and to be used to determine whether a receiving condition of the first mobile station is satisfied.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the first vehicle related information and the second vehicle related information comprise driving state information of the first and second vehicles, respectively.

12. A second mobile station, comprising:

a broadcasting information receiver configured to receive first vehicle related information about a first vehicle, broadcasted from a base station, wherein the first vehicle related information originated from a first mobile station located in a cell managed by the base station;

a data processor configured to determine that the first vehicle related information is valid based on a determined output condition; and

an output unit configured to output the first vehicle related information based on the determining that the first vehicle related information is valid,

wherein the second mobile station is located in the cell or a neighboring cell managed by a neighbor base station located within a determined distance from the base station.

13. The second mobile station of claim 12, wherein the first vehicle related information comprises first vehicle location information of the first vehicle, and further comprises first vehicle driving state information of the first vehicle or first vehicle message information generated by the first mobile station.

14. The second mobile station of claim 13, wherein the data processor comprises:

a location information receiver configured to receive a location of the second mobile station which is generated from a location information generation device of the second mobile station or inputted from a second vehicle that carries the second mobile station; and

a distance detecting unit configured to determine whether a location of the first vehicle is within a determined distance of the location of the second mobile station.

15. The second mobile station of claim 14, wherein the data processor further comprises a receiving condition determining unit configured to determine whether the first vehicle related information coincides with a determined receiving condition.

17. The second mobile station of claim 12, wherein the first mobile station is carried by the first vehicle.