Electronic system and controlling method thereof

• US 9,191,490 B2
• Filed: 02/16/2012
• Issued: 11/17/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 10/14/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: HTC Corporation
• Original Assignee: HTC Corporation
• Inventors: Taylor, Matthew W., Kuan, Tsung-Pao, Yu, Sung-Shih, Wang, John C.
• Primary Examiner(s): Urban, Edward
• Assistant Examiner(s): Mathew, Max
• Application Number:
  US13/397,692
• Publication Number:
  US 20130045676A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,370 Days
• Field of Search: 455/39, 455/411, 455/414.1, 455/418, 455/41.2, 4554561-4564, 455/456.6
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72463 to restrict the functionality of the device
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/10 including a GPS signal receiver

Abstract

An electronic system includes a first wireless transceiving module having a device identification code and a portable device. The portable device may include a second wireless transceiving module, and a processor. The second wireless transceiving module obtains the device identification code from the first wireless transceiving module. When the second wireless transceiving module obtains the device identification code from the first wireless transceiving module, the processor checks whether the device identification code matches to a pre-built identification code; and when the device identification code matches to the pre-built identification code, the portable device automatically determines a position of the portable device, and displays a map related to the position of the portable device in a display.

Claims

1. An electronic system, comprising:

a first wireless transceiving module, having a device identification code; and

a portable device, comprising;

a display;

a second wireless transceiving module, for communicating with the first wireless transceiving module in order to obtain the device identification code from the first wireless transceiving module;

a positioning module;

a wireless connection module, wirelessly connected to a map server for requesting a map related to the position of the portable device from the map server; and

a processor, coupled to the second wireless transceiving module, the wireless connection module and the positioning module;

wherein when the second wireless transceiving module obtains the device identification code from the first wireless transceiving module, the processor checks whether the device identification code matches to a pre-built identification code; and

when the device identification code matches to the pre-built identification code, the processor activates the positioning module and determines the position of the portable device with the positioning module, and the processor requests the map related to the position of the portable device from the map server when the processor determines the position of the portable device via the positioning module and displays the map on the display.

2. The electronic system of claim 1, wherein the positioning module is a global positioning system (GPS) module, for determining the position of the portable device via GPS.

3. The electronic system of claim 1, wherein an external device comprises the display.

4. The electronic system of claim 1, wherein the positioning module is an assisted global positioning system (AGPS) module, for determining the position of the portable device via AGPS through the use of the wireless connection module.

5. The electronic system of claim 1, wherein the at least one server comprises at least one of a map server, a news server, an independent traffic server, a mail server and a calendar sever.

6. The electronic system of claim 1, wherein the information related to the position further comprises at least one of a traffic information and a travel time to the favorite position information overlapped with the map related to the position of the portable device in the display.

7. The electronic system of claim 1, wherein the portable device further comprises a map storage unit, for storing a plurality of maps, and providing the map related to the position of the portable device.

8. The electronic system of claim 1, wherein the portable device is a cell phone, a personal digital assistant (PDA), a PDA phone, a smart phone, a hand held device, a e-book, a tablet, or a laptop.

9. The electronic system of claim 1, wherein the portable device comprise multiple positioning systems and the processor select a desirable positioning system for determining the position of the portable device.

10. A method for controlling an electronic system, the electronic system comprising a first wireless transceiving module having a device identification code and a portable device having a second wireless transceiving module, a processor, a wireless connection module and a positioning module, the method comprising the steps of:

wirelessly connecting to the first wireless transceiving module and obtaining the device identification code by the second wireless transceiving module;

determining the received device identification code matches to a pre-built identification code by the processor when the device identification code is obtained from the first wireless transceiving module;

determining a position of the portable device by the positioning module when the received device identification code matches to a pre-built identification code; and

requesting a map related to the position of the portable device from a map server by the wireless connection module and displaying the map on the portable device when the processor determines the position of the portable device via the positioning module.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the step of determining the position of the portable device comprises:

determining the position of the portable device via global positioning system (GPS).

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the step of determining the position of the portable device comprises:

determining the position of the portable device via assisted global positioning system (AGPS).

13. The method of claim 11, wherein the at least one server comprises at least one of a map server, a news server, an independent traffic server, a mail server and a calendar sever.

14. The method of claim 10, wherein the information related to the position further comprises at least one of a traffic information and a travel time to the favorite position information, and the step of displaying the map related to the position of the portable device comprises:

overlapping the at least one of a traffic information and a travel time to the favorite position information on the map related to the position of the portable device.

15. The method of claim 10, wherein the step of determining the position of the portable device comprises:

determining and selecting a desirable positioning system from multiple positioning systems; and

determining the position of the portable device via the desirable positioning system.