Automatic position information transmission system and method using wireless data network

• US 8,892,119 B2
• Filed: 10/31/2011
• Issued: 11/18/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 08/12/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Se-Yong Lee, TW Mobile Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Se-Yong Lee, TW Mobile Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Lee, Se-Yong, Nam, Ki-Won, Song, Hyun-Jong, Hong, Kyo-Sik, Kim, Chun-Dong, Cho, Yeon-Seok
• Primary Examiner(s): Gonzalez, Amancio
• Application Number:
  US13/285,480
• Publication Number:
  US 20130040665A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,114 Days
• Field of Search: 455/457, 455/456.1
• US Class Current: 455/456.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0869 for achieving mutual authentication cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for mutual authentication H04L9/3273
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/00 Network arrangements or protocols for supporting network services or applications user-to-user messaging H04L51/00; network arrangements, protocols or services for supporting real-time applications in data packet communications networks H04L65/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72445 for supporting Internet browser applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72457 according to geographic location
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services

Abstract

Disclosed are an automatic position information transmission system and a method using a wireless data network capable of improving convenience of search by registering icons associated with keywords on search screens of corresponding mobile phones and registering icons representing a search position range on the search screens while improving convenience of use by automatically transmitting position information regarding the corresponding mobile phones during a call attempt to a pre-authorized specific mobile phone through a wireless Internet network and automatically transmitting the position information regarding the corresponding mobile phones for each predetermined period or at the time of a call connection failure. The automatic position information transmission system and the method using the wireless data network can automatically transmit the moving routes or positions of children to the mobile phones of a parent as being previously set without performing the separate operations on the mobile phones.

Claims

1. An automatic position information transmission system using a wireless data network, comprising:

a mobile phone of a first user that generates request signals for automatic position information transmission of a mobile phone of a second user and receives position information automatically transmitted from a corresponding mobile phone of a second user according to authorized signals and outputs the received position information on a screen; and

a mobile phone of a second user that receives request signals for the automatic position information transmission from the mobile phone of the first user and outputs the request signals through the screen, has a GPS module mounted therein so as to automatically transmit position coordinates to the mobile phone of the first user at the time of satisfying predetermined conditions according to the transmission of the authorized signals, and is equipped with automatic transmission programs,

wherein the mobile phone of the second user automatically accesses the wireless Internet network to transmit the corresponding position coordinates when the mobile phone of the second user receives the call connection request signals from the authorized mobile phone of the first user, if the call connection is not performed for a predetermined time.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the mobile phone of the second user includes a wireless Internet interface that accesses a wireless Internet network to transmit position coordinates.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the position coordinate transmission conditions of the mobile phone of the second user is a case in which the second user sets a predetermined period and a time range, a case in which the call connection is not performed at the time of the request of the call connection from the authorized mobile phone of the first user, or a case in which the position coordinates are changed.

4. The system of claim 1, further comprising an automatic position information transmission server that receives the position coordinates transmitted from the mobile phone of the first user and converts the received position coordinates into place information and transmits and processes the place information to the pre-authorized mobile phone of the second user.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the authorization request signals of the mobile phone of the first user are time range and time period information for which it is desired to receive the telephone number information position information of the mobile phone of the first user.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the mobile phone of the second user includes:

a key input unit that selects the authorized signal and the position information transmission method;

a display unit that outputs the key operation status or the information transmitted from the mobile phone of the first user on the screen;

a duplexer that separates the transmitted/received signals by performing wireless communication with the base station of the mobile communication network through an antenna and includes a wireless Internet interface separately mounted therein;

a wireless Internet interface that is mounted in the duplexer and accesses a wireless Internet server (WAP server) of a predetermined URL through the wireless Internet network in software as a demon for wireless Internet connection;

a receiver that receives a voice signal or character or image information from the mobile phone of the second user or a wired telephone terminal or a mobile communication exchanger through the antenna and the duplexer;

a transmitter that filters and amplifies the voice signal input from a microphone so as to be able to be transmitted;

a voice processor that processes the voice signal from the other party received through the receiver, outputs the processed voice signal through a speaker and processes the voice signal of the user received from the microphone, and outputs the processed voice signal to the transmitter;

a GPS receiving module that receives the position coordinates from a GPS satellite;

a data combination unit that combines the position coordinates and the telephone number of the mobile phone of the first user that is the transmission object with the pre-registered character message; and

a controller that determines whether the transmission conditions are satisfied according to the position information transmission request transmitted from the mobile phone of the first user, automatically combines the position coordinates if it is determined that the transmission conditions are satisfied, and accesses the wireless Internet network to transmit and process the position coordinates to the mobile phone of the first user.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein when the position coordinate transmission conditions are satisfied, the mobile phone of the second user searches whether the mobile phone of the second user periodically accesses the wireless Internet network when the mobile phone of the second user does not access the wireless Internet network and transmits and processes new position coordinates when the mobile phone of the second user accesses the wireless Internet network.

8. The system of claim 4, wherein the automatic position information transmission server includes:

a communication module that communicates with the mobile phones of the first and second users;

an automatic position sharing authorization unit that performs an authorization for sharing the mutual position information of the mobile phones of the first and second users according to whether the mutual request and authorization signal is received;

a position information converter that converts the received position coordinates into the place information;

an automatic transmission processor that automatically transmits and processes the position information to the matched other party mobile phone;

a data storage unit that stores the place information and the authorized information regarding the position information sharing matched with each position coordinate; and

a controller that controls each component to transmit and process the position information regarding the mobile phones of the first and second user.

9. An automatic position information transmission method using a wireless data network, comprising:

receiving, by a mobile phone of a second user, signals for position information transmission request authorization and condition information from a mobile phone of a first user;

generating authorization signals by the mobile phone of the second user;

registering condition information of position information transmission to the mobile phone of the second user;

determining whether the mobile phone of the second user satisfies position information transmission conditions;

extracting, the mobile phone of the second user, position information through a GPS module;

transmitting the corresponding position information pre-stored in the mobile phone of the second user to the mobile phone of the first user,

wherein the transmitting further includes searching whether the mobile phone of the second user periodically access a wireless Internet network when the mobile phone of the second user does not access the wireless Internet network and transmitting and processing new position coordinates at the time when being connected to the wireless Internet network.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the condition information of the receiving is any one of a predetermined period and time range and an elapse of a predetermined time every time a call is connected or from a time when a call connection is not performed.