Method for Determination of Location Information in a Communication System

• US 20090069030A1
• Filed: 01/30/2007
• Published: 03/12/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 04/27/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Unify GmbH & Co. KG (Atos SE)
• Original Assignee: Unify GmbH & Co. KG (Atos SE)
• Inventors: Bozionek, Bruno, Klaus, Dieter, Niemeier, Hubert
• Granted Patent: US 8,060,111 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/456.100
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 5/0027 of actual mobile position, i.e. position determined on mobile
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• 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 64/00 Locating users or terminals or network equipment for network management purposes, e.g. mobility management
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices

Abstract

A method for computer-aided operation of a communication system with a communication network, which has a plurality of network nodes, which are designed to interchange data with a number of terminals in the communication system, and in which the following steps are carried out: the terminals determine a first position variable relating to or at a specific point, with the first position variable comprising a semantic description relating to that specific point; the terminals determine a second position vairable relating to or at the specific point with the second position varialbe comprising physical location information relating to that specific point; the first and the second position variables which have been determined by one of the terminals together represent location information, with the location information being transmitted to a network node in the communication network for further processing.

Claims

1-16. -16. (canceled)

17. A method for a computer-aided operation of a communication system, comprising:

providing a communication network with a plurality of network nodes which are designed to interchange data with a plurality of terminals of the communication system;

determining a first position variable relating to or at a specific point by at least one terminal, wherein the first position variable has a semantic description relating to that specific point;

determining a second position variable relating to or at the specific point by at least one terminal, wherein the second position variable has a physical location information relating to that specific point; and

transmitting the first and the second position variables which have been determined by one of the terminals and together represent location information to a network node of the communication network for further processing.

18. The method as claimed in claim 17, further comprising:

analyzing the location information received from the terminal by the network node;

determining for the first position variable an assigned third position variable based upon the second position variable by the network node, wherein the third position variable has physical location information relating to the specific point dependent on the first position variable.

19. The method as claimed in claim 18, wherein for the purpose of determining the third position variable, a plurality of second position variables are consulted and analyzed.

20. The method as claimed in claim 19, wherein the second position variables are analyzed in statistical terms.

21. The method as claimed in claim 18, wherein the first position variable and the third position variable are stored by the network node for each specific point as location information.

22. The method as claimed in claim 17, wherein the third position variable is provided to the network nodes of the communication network for detection of the specific point.

23. The method as claimed in claim 17, wherein the third position variable is provided to the terminals for detection of the specific point.

24. The method as claimed in claim 17, wherein the third position variable is provided to the network nodes of the communication network and the terminals for detection of the specific point.

25. The method as claimed in claim 17, wherein the first position variable is determined by monitoring an activation of an input medium of the terminal.

26. The method as claimed in claim 17, wherein the second position variable relating to or at the specific point is determined by the terminal using a determination method selected from the group consisting of

a triangulation method,

a method using a determination of radio field conditions, whereby the field strengths of at least some of the network nodes of the communication network that are communicating on a wireless basis are determined, and

a combination thereof.

27. The method as claimed in claim 17, wherein the communication network is an enterprise network.

28. A method for a computer-aided operation of a terminal in a communication system, comprising:

providing a communication network with a plurality of network nodes, which are designed to interchange data with the terminal;

determining a first position variable relating to or at a specific point by at least one terminal, wherein the first position variable has a semantic description relating to that specific point;

determining a second position variable relating to or at the specific point by at least one terminal, wherein the second position variable comprising physical location information relating to that specific point; and

transmitting the first and the second position variables which have been determined by the terminal and together represent location information to a network node of the communication network

29. The method as claimed in claim 28, further comprising:

receiving a third position variable, which is assigned to the specific point, by the terminal;

exchanging the second position variable contained in the location information through the third position variable, wherein the third position variable is determined by the communication system and has physical location information relating to the specific point dependent on the first position variable.

30. A method for a computer-aided operation of a communication network, comprising:

a plurality of network nodes which are designed to interchange data with a number of terminals of a communication system;

receiving location information including a first and a second position variable for a specific point by a network node from at least one terminal, wherein the first position variable has a semantic description relating to that specific point, and wherein the second position variable has physical location information relating to that specific point;

analyzing the location information received from the terminal by the network node; and

determining for the first position variable an assigned third position variable from the second position variable, wherein the third position variable has physical location information on the specific point dependent on the first position variable.

31. The method as claimed in claim 30, wherein a plurality of second position variables are consulted and analyzed in order to determine the third position variable.

32. The method as claimed in claim 30, wherein the second position variables are analyzed in statistical terms.

33. The method as claimed in claim 30, wherein the first position variable and the third position variable are stored by the network node for each specific point as location information.

34. The method as claimed in claim 31, wherein the first position variable and the third position variable are stored by the network node for each specific point as location information.

35. The method as claimed in claim 30, wherein the third position variable is provided to the network nodes of the communication network for detection of the specific point.

36. The method as claimed in claim 30, wherein the third position variable is provided to the terminals for detection of the specific point.