Information communication system, information communication method, and terminal apparatus

• US 20030069971A1
• Filed: 10/02/2002
• Published: 04/10/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 10/05/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Increment P Corporation, Pioneer Corporation
• Original Assignee: Increment P Corporation
• Inventors: Takenaga, Takashi
• Granted Patent: US 7,167,906 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/225
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/51 Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/16 Discovering, processing access restriction or access information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/08 Access point devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/14 Backbone network devices

Abstract

In the information communication system wherein communication is performed between a server and a terminal apparatus via the Internet, the system includes an access server AS for recognizing an access point that has been used for a communication between the server and the terminal apparatus, and a www server that transmits information indicating the recognized access point with respect to the terminal apparatus, and the terminal apparatus includes a processing part for executing a control according to the information indicating the access point which has been transmitted on.

Claims

1. An information communication system for performing a communication between a server and a terminal apparatus via a communication network, comprising:

a recognizing device that recognizes an access point that has been used for the communication between the server and the terminal apparatus; and

a transmitting device that transmits an information indicating the access point recognized by the recognizing device with respect to the terminal apparatus, and

the terminal apparatus comprises a control device that executes control according to the information indicating the access point that has been transmitted by the transmitting device.

2. The information communication system according to claim 1, wherein,

the terminal apparatus includes a display device that displays a search screen image;

and

the control device controls the display device so as to display a search screen image corresponding to the information indicating the access point that has been transmitted by the transmitting device.

3. The information communication system according to claim 2, wherein,

the control device controls the display device so that a search screen image regarding the area in the neighborhood of the access point that has been transmitted by the transmitting device may be displayed.

4. An information communication method for performing a communication between a server and a terminal apparatus via a communication network, comprising:

a recognizing process of recognizing an access point that has been used for the communication between the server and the terminal apparatus;

a transmitting process of transmitting with respect to the terminal apparatus information indicating the access point recognized in the recognizing process, and

a control process of executing, in the terminal apparatus side, control according to the information indicating the access point that has been transmitted in the transmitting process.

5. The information communication method according to claim 4, wherein,

the terminal apparatus further comprises a display device that displays a search screen image;

and

in the control process, there is controlled the display device so that a search screen image corresponding to the information indicating the access point that has been transmitted in the transmitting process may be displayed.

6. The information communication method according to claim 5, wherein,

in the control process, the display device is controlled so that a search screen image regarding the area in the neighborhood of the access point that has been transmitted in the transmitting process may be displayed.

7. A terminal apparatus being used in an information communication method for performing a communication between a server and the terminal apparatus via a communication network, the information communication method comprises a recognizing process of recognizing an access point that has been used for the communication between the server and the terminal apparatus;

a transmitting process of transmitting with respect to the terminal apparatus information indicating the access point recognized in the recognizing process; and

a control process of executing, in the terminal apparatus side, control according to the information indicating the access point that has been transmitted in the transmitting process, comprising;

a control device that executes control according to the information indicating the access point that has been transmitted in the transmitting process.

8. The terminal apparatus according to claim 7, wherein,

the terminal apparatus further comprises a display device that displays a search screen image, and

the control device controls the display device so that the search screen image corresponding to the information indicating the access point that has been transmitted in the transmitting process may be displayed.

9. The terminal apparatus according to claim 8, wherein,

the control device controls the display device so that the search screen image regarding the area in the neighborhood of the access point that has been transmitted in the transmitting process may be displayed.