Method and apparatus for gathering location information of vehicle user equipment in a wireless access system supporting V2X services

• US 10,187,766 B2
• Filed: 04/08/2016
• Issued: 01/22/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 04/09/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Lee, Ki-Dong, Kim, Sang Gook
• Primary Examiner(s): Lau, Hoi
• Application Number:
  US15/565,128
• Publication Number:
  US 20180109937A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,019 Days
• Field of Search: 4554562, 4555692, 4554561, 701465, 701409, 340989, 3405391
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0112 from the vehicle, e.g. floating car data [FCD]
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096775 where the origin of the information is a central station
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/046 involving vehicles, e.g. floating traffic data [FTD] or vehicle traffic prediction
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/44 for communication between vehicles and infrastructures, e.g. vehicle-to-cloud [V2C] or vehicle-to-home [V2H]

Abstract

The present invention provides methods and apparatus for gathering location information of a vehicular user equipment (VUE). In one aspect of the present invention, a method for gathering location information in a wireless access system supporting vehicle to everything (V2X) service, the method performed by a vehicular user equipment (VUE) and comprising steps of receiving a Tracking Service Request message including a V2X tracking service indication field indicating tracking service is triggered or not and an identifier of the VUE; and transmitting a Tracking Service Response message including location information of the VUE in response to the Tracking Service Request message, wherein the location information includes a location information field indicating a location coordinate of the VUE, a time field indicating current time and time zone information corresponding to the location information field, and a fuel level field indicating fuel level of the VUE.

Claims

1. A method for gathering location information in a wireless access system supporting a vehicle to everything (V2X) service, the method performed by a vehicular user equipment (VUE) and comprising:

receiving a Tracking Service Request message including an identifier of the VUE and a V2X tracking service indication field indicating whether tracking service is triggered, wherein the Tracking Service Request message is a paging message received based on preset resources for the V2X service; and

transmitting a Tracking Service Response message including location information of the VUE in response to the received Tracking Service Request message,

wherein the location information includes a location information field indicating a location coordinate of the VUE, a time field indicating current time and time zone information corresponding to the location information field, a fuel level field indicating a fuel level of the VUE, and a previous location field indicating previous locations and corresponding time stamps.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the location information further includes a next Tracking Service Response field indicating a series of location information and time information of the VUE estimated based on the location information.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the location information further includes passenger information indicating a number of passengers in the VUE when the Tracking Service Request message is received.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the identifier is an international mobile subscriber identity of the VUE when the Tracking Service Request message is a unicast type paging message.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the identifier is a vehicle identifier of the VUE uniquely identifying a vehicle in which the VUE is located when the Tracking Service Request message is a broadcast type paging message.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the vehicle identifier is mapped to an international mobile subscriber identity of the VUE uniquely identifying the VUE and maintained in a network.

7. The method of claim 5, the method further comprising transmitting a paging indication message including resource allocation information indicating resources for transmitting the Tracking Service Request message.

8. A vehicular user equipment (VUE) for gathering location information in a wireless access system supporting a vehicle to everything (V2X) service, the VUE comprising:

a transmitter configured to transmit information;

a receiver configured to receive information; and

a processor operatively connected with the transmitter and the receiver, wherein the processor is configured to;

control the receiver to receive a Tracking Service Request message including an identifier of the VUE and a V2X tracking service indication field indicating whether tracking service is triggered, wherein the Tracking Service Request message is a paging message received based on preset resources for the V2X service; and

control the receiver to transmit a Tracking Service Response message including location information of the VUE in response to the received Tracking Service Request message,

wherein the location information includes a location information field indicating a location coordinate of the VUE, a time field indicating current time and time zone information corresponding to the location information field, a fuel level field indicating a fuel level of the VUE, and a previous location field indicating previous locations and corresponding time stamps.

9. The VUE of claim 8, wherein the location information further includes a next Tracking Service Response field indicating series of location information and time information of the VUE estimated based on the location information.

10. The VUE of claim 8, wherein the location information further includes passenger information indicating a number of passengers in the VUE when the Tracking Service Request message is received.

11. The VUE of claim 8, wherein the identifier is a vehicle identifier of the VUE uniquely identifying a vehicle in which the VUE is located when the Tracking Service Request message is a broadcast type paging message.

12. The VUE of claim 11, wherein the identifier

is mapped an international mobile subscriber identity of the VUE when the Tracking Service Request message is a unicast type paging message.

13. The VUE of claim 12, wherein the processor further configured to control the transmitter to transmit a paging indication message including resource allocation information indicating resources for transmitting the Tracking Service Request message.

14. The VUE of claim 11, wherein the vehicle identifier is mapped to an international mobile subscriber identity of the VUE uniquely identifying the VUE and maintained in a network.