Portable telephone GPS and bluetooth integrated compound terminal and controlling method therefor

• US 7,020,487 B2
• Filed: 09/06/2001
• Issued: 03/28/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 09/12/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Kimata, Yusuke
• Primary Examiner(s): Trost, William
• Assistant Examiner(s): Miller, Brandon J.
• Application Number:
  US09/946,638
• Publication Number:
  US 20020032039A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,664 Days
• Field of Search: 455/552.1, 455/553.1, 455/556.1, 455/456.1, 455/193.1, 455/176.1, 455/78, 455/103, 455/161.1, 455/150.1, 455/168.1, 455/234, 455/188.1
• US Class Current: 455/556.1
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 19/21 Interference related issues ; Issues related to cross-correlation, spoofing or other methods of denial of service
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 19/35 Constructional details or hardware or software details of the signal processing chain
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72403 with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/02 including a Bluetooth interface
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/10 including a GPS signal receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/1215 for collaboration of different radio technologies
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/18 Self-organising networks, e.g. ad-hoc networks or sensor networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/06 adapted for operation in multiple networks or having at least two operational modes, e.g. multi-mode terminals

Abstract

A terminal device is provided for realizing exclusive control of the portable telephone, GPS and Bluetooth integrated terminal. The terminal device includes a terminal management control device(20) which in case of detecting all of the portable telephone terminal device(40), GPS terminal device(50) and the Bluetooth terminal device(60) being set to the ON state, performs exclusive control, based on setting values of the management information, read out from the memory device(30), with turning two of the portable telephone terminal device, GPS terminal device and the Bluetooth terminal device on and turning the remaining one off, or alternately turning the Bluetooth terminal device on for a preset time interval and subsequently turning the GPS terminal device off for a preset time while turning on the portable telephone terminal device at all times.

Claims

1. A compound information terminal device at least comprising:

a first communication device which performs wireless communication using a first frequency band;

a second communication device which performs wireless communication using a second frequency band; and

a third communication device which receives a signal of a third frequency band,

means for performing a control operation so that when intermodulation distortion of a signal of the first frequency band handled by said first communication device with a signal of the second frequency band handled by said second communication device has a frequency component that enters in said third frequency band,

up to two of said first to third communication devices are communication enabled at all times in accordance with a predetermined setting, or

an alternate switching control is conducted such that while one of said first to third communication devices is communication enabled at all times, one of the remaining two devices is communication enabled for a preset time period during which the other is communication disabled, and subsequently said one communication device is communication disabled for a preset time period during which the other communication device is communication enabled.

2. The compound information terminal device as defined in claim 1 wherein

in performing switching control of the first and the second communication devices to communication enabled and communication disabled states, a power supply of a transmitter in each of the first and second communication devices is turned on and off, respectively.

3. The compound information terminal device as defined in claim 1 wherein

in performing switching control of the first and the second communication devices to communication enabled and communication disabled states, a signal path of a transmission signal in a transmitter in each of said first and second communication devices is set to a connected state and to a disconnected state, respectively.

4. The compound information terminal device as defined in claim 1 wherein

in performing switching control of said third communication device to communication enabled and communication disabled states, a power supply of a receiver of said third communication device is turned on and off, or

a signal path of a receiving signal in the receiver of said third communication device is set to a connected state and to a disconnected state.

25. The compound information terminal device according to claim 1, wherein each of said first, second and third communication devices comprises a control number reflecting state of a device and wherein the means for performing a control operation changes values of the control number based on a desired state of device controlling interference between the first, second, and third frequency bands.

5. A compound information terminal device at least comprising:

a first transmitter/receiver system which performs transmission and reception using a first frequency band;

a second transmitter/receiver system which performs transmission and reception using a second frequency band; and

a first receiver system which performs reception of a signal of a third frequency band; and

means for turning on two of said three systems, namely the first transmitter/receiver system, second transmitter/receiver system and the first receiver system, at all times in accordance with a predetermined setting, or for turning on one of said three systems at all times while switching the remaining two systems on and off repeatedly where when one of the remaining two systems is on, the other system is off,

wherein intermodulation distortion of a signal of said first frequency band with a signal of said second frequency band having a frequency component overlapping with said third frequency band.

6. The compound information terminal device as defined in claim 5 wherein

in performing switching control of the first and the second transmitter/receiver systems on and off, a power supply switch for controlling a power supply fed to a RF transmitter in each of the first and the second transmitter/receiver systems is turned on and off, respectively.

7. The compound information terminal device as defined in claim 5 wherein

in performing switching control of the first and the second transmitter/receiver systems on and off, a power supply switch of a RF transmitter in each of the first and the second transmitter/receiver systems is turned on and off, respectively and a power supply switch for controlling a power supply fed to a RF receiver in each of the first and the second transmitter/receiver systems is turned on and off.

8. The compound information terminal device as defined in claim 5 comprising means for performing switching control of a signal path in a RF transmitter in each of said first and second transmitter/receiver systems to connected and disconnected states in controlling said first and second transmitter/receiver systems on and off.

9. The compound information terminal device as defined in claim 5 wherein

in performing switching control of the first receiver system on and off, a power supply switch for controlling a power supply fed to a RF receiver in the first receiver system is turned on and off, or

a signal path of a receiving signal in the RF receiver of the first receiver system is set to a connected or in a disconnected state.

10. The compound information terminal device as defined in claim 5 wherein

said first transmitter/receiver system is turned on at all times, and wherein said second transmitter/receiver system and said first receiver system are alternately turned on and off, so that one of said second transmitter/receiver system and said first receiver system is turned on with the other being turned off and subsequently said one of said second transmitter/receiver system and said first receiver system is turned off with the other being turned off.

11. The compound information terminal device as defined in claim 5 wherein

said second transmitter/receiver system sets the transmission and reception to and from another terminal, with which said second transmitter/receiver system performs communication, to a pending state as necessary and then switches to an OFF state.

12. The compound information terminal device as defined in claim 5 wherein

said second transmitter/receiver system is a portable telephone terminal;

said second transmitter and receiver system is a wireless LAN terminal or a Bluetooth terminal; and

said first receiver system is a GPS terminal.

13. A compound information terminal device comprising:

a portable terminal device;

a GPS terminal device;

a Bluetooth terminal device, where said portable terminal device, said GPS terminal device and said Bluetooth terminal devices are integrated together; and

a terminal management control device which performs exclusive control so that;

if a power on request of one of said portable telephone terminal device, the GPS terminal device and the Bluetooth terminal device, is input, the request is detected and the requesting one is turned ON along with a terminal device in an ON state, thereby two of the portable telephone terminal device, GPS terminal device and the Bluetooth terminal device are turned on, with the remaining terminal device being turned off, or

said GPS terminal device is turned on with said Bluetooth terminal device being turned off for a preset time and subsequently said Bluetooth terminal device is turned on with said GPS terminal device being turned off, for a preset time interval, with the portable telephone terminal device being turned on at all times, with the on/off switching operations being carried out repeatedly between said GPS terminal device and said Bluetooth terminal device.

14. A compound information terminal device comprising:

a portable telephone terminal device;

a GPS terminal device;

a Bluetooth terminal device; and

a terminal management control device which performs exclusive control so that;

if on receipt of a power on request of one of said portable telephone terminal device, GPS terminal device and the Bluetooth terminal device, the request is detected and the requesting terminal is turned to an ON state along with the terminal device currently in an ON state, or

management information pre-stored in a storage device is read out and, based on setting value of said management information, two of said portable telephone terminal device, the GPS terminal device and the Bluetooth terminal device are turned on, with the remaining one terminal device being turned off, or

said GPS terminal device is turned on, with said Bluetooth terminal device being turned off, for a preset time, and subsequently said Bluetooth terminal device is turned on, with said GPS terminal device being turned off, while the portable telephone terminal device being turned on at all times, with an alternate switching of said GPS terminal device and said Bluetooth terminal device being carried out repeatedly.

15. The compound information terminal device as defined in claim 14, wherein

if a power on request of one of said portable telephone terminal device, GPS terminal device and the Bluetooth terminal device is received and, combined with the terminal device currently in the ON state, one or two of said portable telephone terminal device, GPS terminal device and the Bluetooth terminal device, is or are to be set to ON, two or less of said terminal devices are retained in the ON state to conform to the request.

16. The compound information terminal device as defined in claim 14 wherein if, under the exclusive control of said portable telephone terminal device, said GPS terminal device and said Bluetooth terminal device, a command is input to turn said portable telephone terminal device, GPS terminal device or the Bluetooth terminal device off, said terminal management control device finishes exclusive control.

17. The compound information terminal device as defined in claim 14 wherein if, under exclusive control state of said portable telephone terminal device, GPS terminal device and the Bluetooth terminal device, communication connection between said Bluetooth terminal device and other Bluetooth terminal devices is disconnected, said terminal management control device turns said Bluetooth terminal device off, while switching said portable telephone terminal device and the GPS terminal device to ON state at all times.

18. The compound information terminal device as defined in claim 14 wherein in turning off said portable telephone terminal device and the Bluetooth terminal device, power supply switches for performing switching control of power supply fed to a RF transmitter in each of said portable telephone terminal device and the Bluetooth terminal device are turned off, and wherein, in turning the GPS terminal device off, the power supply switches for performing switching control of power supply fed to the RF receivers of said GPS terminal device are turned off.

19. A method for controlling a compound information terminal device which comprises a first communication device which performs wireless communication using a first frequency band, a second communication device which performs wireless communication using a second frequency band, and a third communication device which performs reception of a wireless signal of a third frequency band, the method comprising:

when intermodulation distortion of a signal of the first frequency band handled by said first communication device with a signal of the second frequency band handled by said second communication device has a frequency component that is within said third frequency band;

enabling communication in accordance with a predetermined setting in up to two of said first to third communication devices, or

repeatedly switching two of the three communication devices to enable and disable communication so that one of said first to third communication devices is communication enabled at all times and one of the remaining two is communication enabled for a preset time period during which the other is communication disabled, said one terminal being subsequently communication disabled for a preset time period during which the other is communication enabled.

20. A method for controlling a compound information terminal device comprising a first transmitter/receiver device which performs transmission and reception using a first frequency band, a second transmitter/receiver device which performs transmission and reception using a second frequency band, and a first receiver system which receives a signal of third frequency band, the method comprising:

when intermodulation distortion of a signal of said first frequency band with a signal of said second frequency band having a frequency component overlapping with said third frequency band;

turning on, in accordance with a predetermined setting, two of three systems, namely the first transmitter/receiver system, second transmitter/receiver system and the first receiver system;

or

turning on at all times one of said three systems, while one and the other of the remaining two systems are turned on and off, respectively, and subsequently the one and the other system turned off and on, respectively, with said on/off switching operation being performed repeatedly.

21. A method for controlling a compound information terminal device comprising a portable telephone terminal device, a GPS terminal device, and a Bluetooth terminal device, integrated together in the compound information terminal, the method comprising:

when a power on request of one of said portable telephone terminal device, GPS terminal device and the Bluetooth terminal device is input;

detecting the request, and

turning to state ON the requesting terminal device along with the terminal device currently in the ON state, or

reading the management information pre-stored in a storage device; and

, turning ON, based on the setting value of said management information, two of said portable telephone terminal device, GPS terminal device and the Bluetooth terminal device with the remaining one terminal device being turned off, or

turning ON said GPS terminal with said Bluetooth terminal device being turned off, for a preset time, and subsequently turning ON said Bluetooth terminal device with said GPS terminal device being turned off, with the portable telephone terminal device being turned on at all times, and switching on/off the GPS terminal and the Bluetooth terminal device repeatedly.

22. The method as defined in claim 21, wherein if the power on request of one of said portable telephone terminal device, GPS terminal device, and the Bluetooth terminal device, is input, and one of the three terminal devices is currently in ON state, one or two of said three terminal devices are set to ON said terminal devices are retained in the ON states.

23. The method as defined in claim 21 wherein if, under exclusive control of said portable telephone terminal device, said GPS terminal device and said Bluetooth terminal device, a command is input to turn said portable telephone terminal device, GPS terminal device or the Bluetooth terminal device off, said exclusive control is finished.

24. The method as defined in claim 21 wherein if, under exclusive control of said portable telephone terminal device, said GPS terminal device and said Bluetooth terminal device, communication connection between said Bluetooth terminal device and other Bluetooth terminal devices is disconnected, and said Bluetooth terminal device is turned off, while said portable telephone terminal device and the GPS terminal device are switched to ON states at all times.