JP2002112313A - Communication terminal control station unit and location information communication method - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a communication terminal control station unit that informs each communication terminal about location information even when the communication terminal cannot automatically respond. SOLUTION: The communication terminal control station unit of this invention is provided with a registration means that registers the location information of each communication terminal and with a notice means that informs only the caller side communication terminal whose reception of the location information is permitted about the location information corresponding to a called party side communication terminal in the registered location information when the caller side communication terminal cannot receive an automatic reply from the called party side communication terminal whose location information is requested by the caller side communication terminal.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a digital mobile communication system that handles information on the position of a communication partner (hereinafter, simply referred to as "position information"), and more particularly, to a communication terminal that notifies a communication terminal of the position information. It relates to a control station device.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, as a digital mobile communication system for handling position information, there is one disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. Hei 6-189359. Hereinafter, the digital mobile communication system described in the above publication will be described. Here, a case will be described as an example where communication terminal A requests the communication terminal control station apparatus for positional information of communication terminal B as a communication partner.

First, a communication terminal A requests position information of a communication terminal B from a communication terminal control station device. The communication terminal control station device sends a position notification request signal to communication terminal B in response to a request from communication terminal A.

[0004] The communication terminal B has a configuration for selecting whether to permit or not to the position notification request signal.
In the case of permission, an automatic response is performed, and in the case of non-permission, a rejection signal is returned.

[0005] Only when an automatic response is received from communication terminal B, the communication terminal control station device analyzes the position of communication terminal B and sets address information. Thereafter, the communication terminal A
, The position information of the communication terminal B is notified by voice via the communication terminal control station device based on the address information. As described above, the communication terminal A can recognize the position information of the communication terminal B as the communication partner.

[0006]

However, the conventional mobile communication system has the following problems. That is, in the above-mentioned conventional mobile communication system, in order for the communication terminal A to acquire the position information of the communication terminal B with which the communication is made, it is essential that the communication terminal B can automatically respond to the communication terminal control station device. Requirements. As a result, a situation in which the communication terminal B cannot automatically respond to the communication terminal control station device (that is, for example, when the power of the communication terminal B is turned off, or when the communication terminal B is talking or calling). Then, there is a problem that the communication terminal A cannot acquire the position information of the communication terminal B.

[0007] The present invention has been made in view of the above, and provides a communication terminal control station apparatus capable of notifying each communication terminal of position information even when the communication terminal cannot automatically respond. With the goal.

[0008]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION A communication terminal control station apparatus according to the present invention comprises a registration unit for registering position information of each communication terminal apparatus, and a receiving side receiving position information request from a calling side communication terminal apparatus. When the automatic response cannot be received from the communication terminal device, only the calling communication terminal device permitted to receive the position information, the registered position information corresponding to the called communication terminal device among the registered position information. And a notifying means for notifying the user.

With this configuration, it is possible to provide a communication terminal control station device capable of notifying each communication terminal device of position information even when the communication terminal device cannot automatically respond.

[0010] The communication terminal device of the present invention employs a configuration for performing wireless communication for handling position information with the communication terminal control station device.

[0011] According to this configuration, it is possible to provide a communication terminal device capable of receiving the position information of the called communication terminal device that cannot automatically respond.

In a position information communication method according to the present invention, a calling side communication terminal device requests a communication terminal control station device for position information of a called communication terminal device; A registration step of registering location information of each communication terminal device, and the communication terminal control station device, when unable to receive an automatic response from the called communication terminal device, receiving the location information. A notification step of notifying the calling communication terminal device of the position information corresponding to the called communication terminal device among the registered position information.

According to this method, each of the calling communication terminals can obtain the position information of the called communication terminal even when the called communication terminal cannot automatically answer.

[0014]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The gist of the present invention is that reception of location information is permitted when an automatic response cannot be received from a called communication terminal requested for location information by a calling communication terminal. It is to notify only the calling communication terminal apparatus of the location information corresponding to the called communication terminal apparatus among the registered location information of each communication terminal apparatus.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of a communication terminal control station device according to an embodiment of the present invention. The communication terminal control station device shown in FIG. 1 is a device that provides, to a communication terminal permitted to receive position information, current position information or history information of a communication terminal that is a communication partner of the communication terminal. is there.

In FIG. 1, a call processing section 101 manages outgoing and incoming calls and performs call control. The voice processing unit 102 notifies the communication terminal permitted to receive the position information, for example, by voice, of the position information of the communication terminal that is the communication partner of the communication terminal.

The position information processing unit 103 registers or changes the position information of each communication terminal in a communication terminal information table 107 described later, and responds to a request from a communication terminal that is permitted to receive the position information. This is for searching for the position information of the communication terminal.

The additional service processing unit 104 processes additional services necessary for managing the communication terminal, and registers, changes, and deletes additional service information and a password in the communication terminal information table 107.

The password authentication unit 105 determines whether or not the password input to request the reception of the position information matches the password registered in the communication terminal information table. The control unit 106 controls each of the above units.

The communication terminal information table 107 stores information on each communication terminal. Details of the information stored in the communication terminal information table 107 will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram illustrating an example of information stored in a communication terminal information table in the communication terminal control station device according to the embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 2, the communication terminal information table 107 contains, for example, a communication terminal ID 201,
02, a personal identification number 203, additional service information 204, and the like.

Communication terminal ID 201 is a number used to identify a communication terminal. The position information 202 is information indicating the position of the communication terminal. The password 203 is a number used to determine whether the communication terminal that has requested the reception of the position information is a communication terminal permitted to receive the position information. The additional service information 204 is information registered when the communication terminal requests an additional service.

Next, the operation of the communication terminal control station apparatus having the above configuration will be described with reference to FIG.
FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing an operation of the communication terminal control station apparatus according to the embodiment of the present invention. Here, the communication terminal A
Requests the position information of the communication terminal B from the communication terminal control station device as an example.

First, the communication terminal A makes a call request to the communication terminal control station to request the position information of the communication terminal B. In a step (hereinafter referred to as “ST”) 301,
When the communication terminal control station device receives the call request of communication terminal A, in ST302, call processing section 101 performs call control. At this time, when the communication terminal control station apparatus detects a change in the position information of the communication terminal A, the position information processing unit 103 changes the position information 202 of the communication terminal A in the communication terminal information table 107. In this communication terminal information table 107, for example, position information on each communication terminal existing in a cell handled by the communication terminal control station device is registered. Note that a method of acquiring position information of each communication terminal by the communication terminal control station device will be described later.

In ST303, when the communication terminal control station apparatus receives an incoming call response from communication terminal B by the call control of call processing section 101, in ST310, the communication terminal control station apparatus controls the communication terminal under the control of communication terminal control station apparatus. A and communication terminal B
A call with is started.

On the other hand, in ST303, a situation in which communication terminal B cannot respond to the communication terminal control station device (for example, when communication terminal B is turned off,
Is busy or ringing)
If the communication terminal control station device cannot receive the incoming call response from communication terminal B, the process proceeds to ST304.

In ST 304, when the communication terminal control station apparatus receives a disconnection request from communication terminal A, ST 3
At 09, the call processing unit 101 disconnects the call. If the communication terminal control station device does not receive the disconnection request from communication terminal A, the process moves to ST305.

In ST305, if the communication terminal control station apparatus has received a password requesting the location information of communication terminal B from communication terminal A, the process proceeds to ST306, and conversely, communication from communication terminal A is performed. If the personal identification number for requesting the position information of the terminal B is not received, the processing is performed at the above-described S.
The process moves to T304.

In ST306, the password authentication unit 10
5, authentication is performed to determine whether or not the password received from the communication terminal A matches the password of the communication terminal A registered in the communication terminal information table 107. After the authentication of the personal identification number, the process proceeds to ST307.

In ST307, if the password received from communication terminal A does not match the password registered in communication terminal information table 107, the process proceeds to step S307.
The process moves to T304. Conversely, if the password received from communication terminal A matches the password registered in communication terminal information table 107, the process proceeds to ST308.

In ST308, position information processing section 10
3 is the communication terminal ID 201 of the corresponding communication terminal (that is, communication terminal B) using the communication terminal information table 107.
Is used as a key to search for position information on the communication terminal B. After that, the audio processing unit 102
3, the location information on the communication terminal B searched for
The communication terminal A is notified by voice. Note that the audio processing unit 102 may notify the communication terminal A of the position information on the communication terminal B by using characters and images.

Next, an example of a method for acquiring position information of each communication terminal by the communication terminal control station device will be described.
The service area handled by the communication terminal control station device is divided into a predetermined number of areas of an appropriate size. Each area is a communication terminal location registration area. The communication terminal control station device
While transmitting area information specific to each area, each communication terminal recognizes the current position by constantly monitoring the area information transmitted by the communication terminal control station device.

Each communication terminal device is turned on when power is turned on, or
At the time of calling and during movement between the location registration areas, a signal for notifying the location registration area where the own device is present is transmitted.

The communication terminal control station device manages the position information of each communication terminal by assigning a place name to each position registration area. That is, the communication terminal control station device
Based on the signal transmitted by the communication terminal, position information of the communication terminal is generated (that is, position information 202 in communication terminal information table 107 is registered).
At this time, the communication terminal control station device creates a history of the position information of the communication terminal by registering the position information of the communication terminal together with the time of receiving the signal from the communication terminal in the communication terminal information table 107. be able to.

In the above, an example of the method of acquiring the position information of each communication terminal by the communication terminal control station has been described.
It is needless to say that the present invention can be applied to a case where the position information of each communication terminal is obtained by using any other method.

In the present embodiment, a case has been described where the position information of communication terminal B stored in communication terminal information table 107 is notified to communication terminal A. When the power is turned off, the communication terminal information table 107 does not store the latest position information on the communication terminal B, so that the history of the position information on the communication terminal B is transmitted to the communication terminal A. You may make it notify. In order to realize this, the communication terminal information table 107 may be configured to store the history of the position information for each communication terminal.

Further, in this embodiment, in order to respect the right of the called communication terminal (communication terminal B in the above example) to refuse to provide information, the personal identification number holder (communication terminal A in the above example) In the description above, only the case where the location information of the requested communication terminal is notified has been described as an example. However, the present invention is not limited to this case. It is needless to say that the present invention is also applicable to the case of notifying the position information of the communication terminal that has been set.

Further, in the present embodiment, only when communication terminal B cannot answer the call by communication terminal A,
The communication terminal control station device is configured such that the communication terminal B is
Has been described as an example of notifying the position information about, but the present invention is not limited to this, and in other cases, that is, when the communication terminal A can communicate with the communication terminal B, Needless to say, the present invention is also applicable to a case where the communication terminal control station apparatus notifies the communication terminal A of the position information on the communication terminal B.

As described above, according to the communication terminal control station apparatus according to the present embodiment, the position information or the history of the position information of each communication terminal is registered, and the communication terminal (communication side communication terminal) as a communication partner is registered. For a communication terminal (calling side communication terminal) that cannot acquire the position information of the communication terminal because the terminal cannot automatically respond, the communication partner is selected from the registered position information or the history of the position information. The information corresponding to the communication terminal (called communication terminal) is searched and transmitted. Thereby, even when the mobile terminal (the called communication terminal) cannot automatically respond, the location information can be notified to each communication terminal (each calling communication terminal). Further, according to the communication terminal control station apparatus according to the present embodiment, all communication terminals (calling side communication terminals) are communicated with the communication terminal (calling side communication terminal). Instead of notifying the location information of the called communication terminal, only the password holder is notified of the location information of the communication terminal (called communication terminal) with which the password holder is to communicate. You can also. As a result, it is possible to respect the right of the called communication terminal to refuse to provide information.

[0040]

As described above, according to the present invention,
If an automatic response cannot be received from the called communication terminal requested for location information by the calling communication terminal, registration is performed only for the calling communication terminal permitted to receive the location information. The location information corresponding to the called communication terminal device among the location information of each communication terminal device, so that the location information can be notified to each communication terminal even when the communication terminal cannot automatically respond. A communication terminal control station device can be provided.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a communication terminal control station device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram showing an example of information stored in a communication terminal information table in the communication terminal control station device according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing an operation of the communication terminal control station apparatus according to the embodiment of the present invention;

[Description of Signs] 101 call processing unit 102 voice processing unit 103 position information processing unit 104 additional service processing unit 105 password authentication unit 106 control unit 107 communication terminal information table

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A registration unit for registering location information of each communication terminal, and a location information when an automatic response cannot be received from a called communication terminal requested for location information by a calling communication terminal. Notifying means for notifying only the calling communication terminal device that is permitted to receive, of the registered position information, the position information corresponding to the called communication terminal device, characterized by comprising: A communication terminal control station device to perform. 2. A communication terminal device for performing wireless communication for handling position information with the communication terminal control station device according to claim 1. 3. A requesting step in which a calling communication terminal device requests position information of a called communication terminal device from a communication terminal control station device, and the communication terminal control station device determines a position of each communication terminal device. A registration step of registering information, the communication terminal control station device, when it is not possible to receive an automatic response from the called communication terminal device, to the calling communication terminal device that is permitted to receive location information A notification step of notifying the called communication terminal device of the registered position information corresponding to the called communication terminal device.