CN106027681A - Provision of communication information service through mobile network - Google Patents

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CN106027681A
CN106027681A CN201610608105.4A CN201610608105A CN106027681A CN 106027681 A CN106027681 A CN 106027681A CN 201610608105 A CN201610608105 A CN 201610608105A CN 106027681 A CN106027681 A CN 106027681A
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阿梅迪奥·因宾波
恩里克·德鲁卡
古伊多·格兰
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
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Abstract

The invention relates to use of a mobile network (110) in a communication information environment. The embodiment of the method disclosed by the invention executed by an application server (108) capable of accessing through the mobile network (110) comprises the following steps of: receiving set information (124) through a wireless interface (126) of the mobile network, wherein the set information is used for indicating environment setting of an environment, where a user terminal (106) is deployed; and controlling an application (109) by taking the application server as a host according to the received set information.

Description

Communication information service is provided via mobile network
Division explanation
The application is filing date December in 2007 20, Application No. 200780102341.8, The divisional application of the Chinese patent application of entitled " providing communication information service via mobile network ".
Technical field
The present invention relates to for can controlling via the application server that mobile network accesses System technology, more particularly, the present invention relate to can via mobile network access The technology that application server is controlled as the communication information (telematics) service of main frame.
Background technology
From the viewpoint of general, communication information service includes the most various application, such as traffic Relevant service, facilities management service, remotely the controlling of application, the healthy relevant communication information Communication information service in service (" E-health "), security appliance field etc..May flow most Row is the communication information service field that traffic is relevant, when that relate in the vehicles or for handing over When the communication information of logical instrument services, the communication information service that traffic is relevant is also sometimes referred to as handing over Lead to instrument communications information, and the service provided in this field is referred to as vehicle communication letter Breath.Although will be substantially by term " communication information that traffic is relevant " and " vehicle communication at this Information " synonymously use and the automobile services from this field are considered as illustration, but must Must remember, below describe the communication information service being equally applicable in other field a lot.
The example of the vehicles is such as car, truck, the road vehicles of bus；As Naval vessel and the marine communication means of canoe；Air traffic work such as aircraft, aircraft and helicopter Have and such as the track vehicle of train.
The communication information service that a lot of traffic are relevant is finally intended to coordinate road traffic, i.e. increases friendship The service efficiency of logical infrastructure, such as, by avoiding traffic jam, by search parking stall The traffic that causes or by the no-load running of freight traffic instrument is minimized.In this, Typical road vehicles communication information service (also referred to as automobile application) is traffic forecasts Service and traffic alerts service.The information on services that this service is provided can be directly output to Road vehicles driver maybe can be fetched into electronic car navigator.Other road traffic work Tool service can such as relate to the assistance in the case of road vehicles fault or accident.This Much servicing based on user (respectively its user in a little road vehicles communication information services Terminal) geographical position or location.Required positional information (location information) can be such as Determined by GPS (global positioning system) unit taking advantage of load to install on a vehicle, or from User terminal is derived.The other type of vehicles (such as marine communication means, are handed in the air Logical instrument or track vehicle), similar application be it is contemplated that.
Communication information service can be provided by application server, and the information from the vehicles must quilt It is sent to application server, and from this application server, information on services is sent back the vehicles. Such as, traffic forecasts service will depend on the reasonable subset of the vehicles constituting special traffic stream Geo-localisation information, can not only determine the instantaneous state of traffic flow, but also can reach Actual hypothesis to the future development to traffic flow.Thus, as traffic forecasts service The application server of main frame of application on the first communication path, receive location information, and Traffic forecast information (wherein, this two paths generally differs) is provided on two communication paths.
Mobile network is used to provide the vehicles and application server under communication information environment Between one or two communication paths, it is provided that be better than using other to be likely to be specifically designed The advantage of network.Mobile network is available, and mobile phone (mobile terminal, user Terminal) it is widely used in the region that communication information business much can be provided, such as, in Europe And a lot of areas in Asia.The position of mobile phone can be followed the tracks of, not only due to mobile phone In some there is built-in GPS unit；And because mobile network itself can be by various One of cellular localization process determines the position of mobile device；For example, it is possible to face via coming from The triangulation of nearly base station determines the position of mobile device.In a lot of mobile networks, this Technology can be used for providing location Based service.Thus, in a lot of mobile phones and/or traffic work In tool, it is not necessary to have complexity and the GPS unit of costliness can be used；On the contrary, mobile network can root What data bulk was sufficiently large service participant determines positional information, to provide such as traffic forecasts service.
Although the degree of accuracy of tradition GPS is relatively low, differential GPS (D-GPS) can realize a meter scope Interior degree of accuracy；So, and D-GPS is the most complicated and can not the most any place Available.Cellular localization mechanism has the degree of accuracy in the range of 200 meters-2 kilometers, can pass through Measured phone location is relatively improved compared with the road-map stored degree of accuracy.
Usually, when the positional information using the position to mobile phone to indicate, implicit Assume that the position of mobile phone and the position of the vehicles are identical.But, although hand over The load GPS unit of taking advantage of of logical instrument may be associated regularly with these vehicles, but mobile electricity Words are not the most so；Mobile phone general (loosely) is associated with its user, and from but Movement.
Vehicle communication information service based on legacy cellular location may be the most reliable Accurately, because not can determine that any specific mobile terminal is really to be positioned at the friendship as to be analyzed In the vehicles of a through-flow part, the most in fact belong to the vehicles of stop, pedestrian Or the user in building near even.Service is have registered at these mobile phones (user terminal) In the case of, server will can take into account its positional information, even if this will make traffic flow calculate Distortion.
In order to provide more reliable and service accurately, need complicated mechanism, such as D-GPS And/or by measurement to position be mapped to road-map.Even if so, service is based on such as The availability of D-GPS, and its degree of accuracy depends greatly on plausible consideration: according to The mobile phone that road-map is positioned on road actually take part in traffic flow to be analyzed.? In the case of any, improving mechanism of these types is directed to complexity usual practice journey really, and Mobile phone produces the knot of mistake in the case of actually participating in this basic assumption mistake of traffic flow Really.
Summary of the invention
Need a kind of technology, for provide complexity compared with above-mentioned mechanism lower, reliably Communication information service (e.g., vehicle communication information service) based on server.
This demand is met by the first method controlling application server.The method is by can be through The application server accessed by mobile network performs, and includes: via the nothing of mobile network Line interface receives configuration information, and wherein, described configuration information indicating user terminal is deployed in wherein The ambient As of environment；And control to make with application server according to the configuration information received Application for main frame.
Mobile network can e.g. GSM (global system for mobile communications), UMTS (general Mobile communication system) or LTE (UMTS Long Term Evolution) network.Application server can be with Various modes are relevant to mobile network, and such as, server can be the part of mobile network, Such as may belong to the IMS (internet multimedia subsystem) of UMTS network.Other In modification, application server is positioned at the outside of mobile network, and such as can be via one or many The individual fixing network such as the Internet accesses.User terminal can be any can be via mobile network The terminal unit that the wave point of network communicates, such as, user terminal include mobile phone, Smart phone, PDA (personal digital assistant), notebook etc..User terminal can be with single User or user organize relevant, and also can use with physical User or the non-individual such as company etc It is correlated with in one or both of family.
Configuration information can be interpreted as the information relevant with user terminal deployment in the environment. Thus, it may be an indicator that user terminal and user terminal are deployed in the relation between environment therein. This relation can be defined by ambient As.
Can be by including that user terminal is deployed in the one or more concrete of environment therein The framework of periphery or ambient conditions expresses ambient As.As example, two can be predefined Ambient As, i.e. " in a vehicle " and " the most in a vehicle ", refers to " user terminal In the environment being referred to as the vehicles " or " user terminal be not referred to as the ring of the vehicles In border ".Configuration information can indicate one of these predefined probabilities exactly.In this example, The confidence that do not has as 1 bit information can be received cease, i.e. " bit setting " and " bit is not provided with ", This configuration information can indicate above-mentioned ambient As according to predefined regulation, for example, it is possible to " in a vehicle " is indicated, by configuration information " bit by configuration information " bit=1 " =0 " " the most in a vehicle " is indicated.Thus, in the case of predefined multiple ambient As, Configuration information can only be passed through (short) and draw and be used to refer to one of these settings.
According to a realization, environment can be physical object, configuration information indicating user terminal and Relation between physical object.Such as, configuration information can include that user terminal is relative to physics The instruction of the position of object.For example, it is possible to refer to type or the kind of physical object.Such as, thing Reason object can be the vehicles (e.g., automobile, public transport, lorry, but can also be steamer, Aircraft etc.), building (such as contrast with other public building or privately owned building such as library Public building), building in room (such as, such as meeting room).Physical object can also quilt It is interpreted as general website, such as " near the anchor point of public transport " (such as railway or bus station) Or " central place in city ".Configuration information may indicate that the user relevant to physical object is eventually The position of end is " among ", " within ", " close ", " next-door neighbour " etc..As more generally showing Example, (such as, can use based on the area communication units in such as user terminal and physical object Bluetooth-communication unit in family terminal and the vehicles) between local communication connect (especially Via such as the short haul connection skill of bluetooth or the other technologies with several meters or less covering etc Art) foundation determine the existence of position relationship of user terminal and physical object.In this feelings Under condition, arranging instruction and may indicate that " local communication foundation ", this instruction may necessarily mean User terminal physical object " among ", but " close " or the implication of " next-door neighbour " can be defined.
In the case of any, application server can will be received by suitable configuration information Terminal unit separates with the other-end battery limits not submitting this set information to.
As being illustratively described, in some implementations, configuration information may indicate that user Whether whether terminal near physical object or within physical object.For the example above, more Further, arrange instruction may indicate that " in a vehicle " or " the most in a vehicle " ( This, be given " not /in a vehicle " the most sometimes), " not /in a meeting ", " not /at home ", " in the central place in city " or " near the anchor point of public transport ".Also Other spatial relationship can be indicated according to the needs of application-specific.
Configuration information can include the instruction of the mode of operation of physical object.Such as, state instruction May indicate that whether the electromotor of object starts and/or whether object moves.Additionally or alternative Ground, may indicate that the speed of physical object.About any kind of motorization and/or movably Physical object type, this information can be useful, such as ambient As " not / In the vehicles ", for as relevant with public transport, lorry, train, steamer etc. setting also Useful, and this information additionally aid by (work) vehicles of parking with handing over Upper (work) vehicles driven of path (such as road, river etc.) differentiate, Thus improve the degree of accuracy of application.
Some realizations of this method may comprise steps of: is touched by the reception of configuration information Send out, initiate the execution to positioning service, to determine with user terminal and/or to dispose with user terminal The position that the terminal unit that joins in environmental correclation therein is relevant.Such as, traffic forecasts service should With being configured to, only its ambient As is designated as " at the vehicles in described terminal In " after, the position of user terminal is just included at traffic forecasts.Refer to receiving this set After showing, positioning service (location application) can be started, to determine the position of user terminal.Such as, Positioning service in mobile network can be from user terminal or from the physics with user terminal place The terminal unit that object (such as the vehicles) is associated carrys out request position information.Can be by user GPS unit that is that provide in terminal or that be built in physical object (such as the vehicles) is used for Determine asked positional information.
The application performed on the server can realize such as traffic forecasts or traffic alerts and service it The vehicle communication information service of class, or can realize with the vehicles follow the tracks of, trailer with Track, fleet management, other relevant any friendship of emergency alert system etc. for the vehicles Logical instrument communications information service.Different from relating to road traffic, application can also relate to track and hands over Lead to or other any kind of traffic.Further, application can be more in broad sense The communication information is applied, such as, relate to the Remote of the equipment such as household electrical appliance etc, traffic lights Control or the control of the configuration relevant with the user of user terminal；For example, it is possible to according to connecing The instruction that arranges received configures the user of the user in mobile network and/or other network any Profile.
Configuration information can be included in the user profiles relevant with user terminal.Such as, control The step of system application may comprise steps of: represents in the user profiles relate to user terminal Configuration information；And accessed configuration information represented in user profiles by applying.User Profile can be with mobile network (e.g., in HLR (attaching position register) or HSS (ownership Subscriber server) in), user profile store in other network as main frame or permissible It is used as main frame by application server self or is associated with application server self.Other is any Controlled entity in application and mobile network can also be the most repeatedly (due to application server Polling operation) or access user profiles independent of the time setting up configuration information.Additionally, In this way it is possible to use configuration information to control mobile network and/or other any communication loop (e.g., according to the communication information environment of environment and periphery, user terminal and user thereof are positioned at this in border In communication environment or near this communication environment) in the user profiles of user of user terminal.
The step controlling application can include starting application.For example, it is possible to start location application, To determine the position of user terminal and to provide correspondence to other application such as traffic forecasts application etc Positional information.Alternatively or additionally, control application step may include that to apply into Row (again) configuration.For example, it is possible to be only in response to suitably by traffic forecasts application configuration The reception of configuration information includes the position of user terminal.
In some realizations of this method, the step controlling application may comprise steps of: to At least one in user terminal and physical object provides the result letter produced by the execution applied Breath.Such as, traffic forecasts service can be via mobile network with via point-to-point connection or point-to-points Point connects (broadcast, multicast), provides traffic forecast information to user terminal.
By controlling the second method of the application server that can access via mobile network, enter one Step meets the demand.The method is performed by the terminal unit of mobile network, and includes following Step: set up configuration information, described configuration information indicating user terminal is deployed in environment therein Ambient As；And via the wave point of mobile network, letter is set to application server transmission Breath, to control application according to configuration information.Terminal unit can include user terminal or with User terminal is deployed in the terminal unit that ambient As therein is associated；Such as, described terminal Equipment can the most built-in in a vehicle.
Above already in connection with first method to configuration information and the necessary and optional attribute of application Being summed up, what the aspect discussed in it can also be applied to be previously mentioned in second method sets Confidence breath and application.
Further with reference to second method, the step sending configuration information can be arranged by foundation The step of information triggers automatically.Such as, user terminal may be physically attached to the vehicles, And the ambient As that can perform to operate the information received from the vehicles determines example Journey, to determine the position of user terminal whether " not /in a vehicle ".Draw in this routine Conclusion: in the case of ambient As is or is changed to " in a vehicle ", this routine can To trigger the transmission of the configuration information to instruction " in a vehicle ".
The step setting up configuration information may comprise steps of: via user terminal and and user Terminal disposition local communication between the terminal unit that environmental correclation therein joins connects, and receives Instruction to ambient As, and determine configuration information according to this instruction.Such as, this instruction is permissible Including: the foundation of the specific communications system typically used in specific environment.Such as, user Terminal can set up the Bluetooth communication of the hands-free kits bag with the vehicles.Can be at user terminal And between the hands-free kits bag of the vehicles, set up bluetooth HFP (hands-free mode).User terminal Can infer that it is positioned in the vehicles based on this connection establishment.For example, it is possible to user eventually Bluetooth pairing mechanism is performed between area communication units in end and the vehicles.Can be by user The device address of the bluetooth-communication unit of terminal is stored in the bluetooth-communication unit of the vehicles (and/or vice versa).User otherwise can also come before the vehicles to he or She authorizes self.It is, for example possible to use starter lock actuate as user " in traffic work In tool " instruction, wherein indicate configuration information " in a vehicle " about this information actuated Represented ambient As.
As another modification, if Bluetooth communication stops exceeding the time period of such as 10 seconds, Then user terminal can be inferred that it the most in a vehicle rather than merely walks past, and then may be used To send relative set information to mobile network.
In another embodiment, the terminal unit being associated with the vehicles regularly can use It is used as instruction with the short haul connection establishment of connection of user terminal, and can refer to according to this Show and correspondingly determine that configuration information " in a vehicle " and the user being connected with terminal unit are whole Hold relevant.
Can with such as ambient As special equipment (that is, end being associated regularly with environment End equipment) local communication establishment of connection during receive this locality instruction (such as, at USB or During Bluetooth communication is set up).Arranging special equipment can be to be associated physically with physical object Area communication units, for example, it may be built-in hands-free kits bag in a vehicle.Separately One example can relate to being positioned in meeting room, in family, the bluetooth of public transport anchor point etc. Base station or WLAN access point.
As being illustratively described, local communication connect can include according to bluetooth, The wireless local communication of the short-range communication standard of WLAN or similar connects.Owing to it is contactless Characteristic, it can be advantageous to automatically set up radio communication connect, i.e. need not user and perform any Action.
Second method can include other step: receives from application server and asks positional information Ask；And the positional information asked is provided.Such as, location application can carry in response to terminal The configuration information of confession, to user terminal requests GPS information.
Furthermore, it is possible to meet the demand, computer program product by computer program Product are included on one or more calculating equipment (such as, application server or user terminal) and hold During row computer program, perform the step of any one in method described here and method aspect Rapid program code sections.Computer program can be stored in computer-readable record be situated between In matter, as be associated in calculating equipment or with calculating equipment permanent or rewritable deposits Reservoir, or removable CD-ROM, DVD or USB flash disk.Additionally or alternatively, such as Can via the data network such as the Internet or such as telephone wire or the communication line of wireless link, Computer program is provided to download to calculating equipment.
Also by meeting the demand via the application server that mobile network accesses.Should Include with server: the first assembly, be suitable to receive via the wave point of mobile network arrange letter Breath, wherein, configuration information indicating user terminal is deployed in the ambient As of environment therein；With And second assembly, be suitable to control the application using application server as main frame according to configuration information.
Below the characteristic of configuration information and application has been summarized.This discussion can also be applied to By the configuration information that server received and used with using application server as the application of main frame.
Application server can also include: is suitable to be triggered by the reception of configuration information, performs The assembly of the location application position to determine terminal unit.Location application can be made by mobile network For main frame, or can be using application server as main frame.In the case of any, can Location application is carried out configuration come to premises equipment requests positional information.
Second assembly may be adapted to represent in the user profiles relevant with user terminal and arranges letter Breath, and also may be adapted to access the configuration information that user profiles includes.
It is possible to further meet the demand by the terminal unit of mobile network.Terminal Including: the first assembly, it is adapted to set up user terminal is deployed in the ambient As of environment therein Carry out the configuration information indicated；And second assembly, be suitable to the wave point via mobile network Configuration information is sent, to control application according to configuration information to application server.Terminal unit Can include user terminal or with user terminal be deployed in environmental correclation therein connection terminal set Standby.
First assembly may be adapted to automatically trigger the second assembly when setting up configuration information.
First assembly may be adapted to receive via local communication this locality of ambient As and refers to Show；And may be adapted to determine configuration information according to this locality instruction.First assembly can be adapted to: With the local communication connection establishment of ambient As special equipment during, receive this locality instruction.Attached Add ground or alternatively, the first assembly is suitable to include that wireless local communication is connected to interior local communication Connect.
The demand is met also by the user profiles relevant with user terminal.Can be able to connect Receive in the user terminal of mobile network, in the user profile store of mobile network or Can via mobile network access application server in or with can access via mobile network Application server realize user profiles explicitly.User profiles includes: be used for representing setting The data field of information, described configuration information indicating user terminal is deployed in ambient As therein. Configuration information can have characteristic as summarized above.
Additionally, also by the communication system including application server summarized above and user terminal Meet the demand.
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Hereinafter, with reference to the exemplary embodiment illustrated in the drawings, the present invention will be carried out further Describe, in the accompanying drawings:
Fig. 1 is the embodiment of the communication system for providing communication information service to user terminal Schematically general introduction；
Fig. 2 A schematically illustrates the user terminal of Fig. 1 and the first embodiment of the vehicles Functional unit；
Fig. 2 B schematically illustrates the user terminal of Fig. 1 and the second embodiment of the vehicles Functional unit；
Fig. 3 is the flow chart of the exemplarily operation of the terminal unit of schematic diagram 2A or 2B；
Fig. 4 schematically illustrates the mobile network in the communication network of Fig. 1 and application server Functional unit；
Fig. 5 is the flow chart of the operation of the application server exemplarily illustrating Fig. 4；
Fig. 6 is the sequence chart of the message stream in the communication system exemplarily illustrating Fig. 1.
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In the following description, for illustrative not limiting purpose, elaborate that specific environment such as sets Put and include the detail of the network system of particular network node, communication standard etc., in order to Thorough understanding of the present invention is provided.It will be apparent, however, to one skilled in the art that The teachings of the present invention can be real in the other embodiments without detail described herein OK.Although this description is concentrated pays close attention to vehicle communication information service but it also may lead at other Carrying out the present invention in territory, in privately owned environment and/or public environment, equipment remotely controls, tightly Anxious service, other communication information service etc..It will also be appreciated by those of skill in the art that permissible By the present invention and the communication network being different from the following UMTS network discussed for the signal present invention Network realizes together.This can include that other moves networking, such as GSM network.The present invention is also Can realize together with wired communication system.For example, it is possible to indoors IP network (e.g., company In-house network) in provide application server.Substantially, the present invention can be with offer based on service Any communication system of the service (such as, being communication information service for broadest) of device is unified Rise and realize.
It will also be appreciated by those of skill in the art that and can use single hardware circuit, use and compile The microprocessor of journey or general purpose computer combine provide the software of function, use special integrated Circuit (ASIC) and/or use one or more digital signal processor (DSP) to realize down The function that face will illustrate.Will additionally appreciate, when the present invention is described as method, also may be used To realize the method in computer processor and the memorizer that couples with processor, wherein, make Come storage by the one or more programs performing method disclosed herein when being executed by a processor Device encodes.Can be by any one (e.g., the application clothes in node described here or functional entity Business device and user terminal) it is embodied as including computer processor and being coupled to the memorizer of processor At interior calculating equipment.
Fig. 1 schematically illustrates for providing traffic to the user of the vehicles 101 and 104 The communication system 100 of relevant service.Communication system 100 includes in UMTS network 110 User terminal 106 and application server (AS) 108, wherein, UMTS network 110 is to move The exemplary realization of dynamic network.User terminal 106 can be used for leading to UMTS network 110 The mobile terminal of letter.From the assembly of network 110, the most explicitly illustrate two NodeB (nothings Line base station) 112 and 114 and HSS (home subscriber servers) 115.Location-server 118 The service being associated in UMTS network 110 or with UMTS network 110 is (i.e. for network And/or applications provider present service) provide positioning service, to determine based on network The positional information of mobile device.Location-server 118 can be such as Location based service (MPS) main frame.Application server 108 applies 109 as traffic forecasts service (TFS) Main frame.
It follows that with reference to Fig. 1, communication system 100 will be given and applies 109 to be realized with providing The brief overview of operation relevant for TFS.More detailed description will be given afterwards.User eventually To be set up this between end 106 and the area communication units being associated regularly with the vehicles 101 Ground communication connection 120.Next it will be assumed that communication 120 is Bluetooth communication, however, it is also possible to Use other any realization that local communication based on WLAN, FireWire etc. connects.Terminal 106 by communication connection 120 determine its be positioned at the vehicles 101 (in order to illustrate, Outside in FIG terminal 106 being drawn in the vehicles 101).Determine based on this, user terminal 106 via the wave point 120 to UMTS network 110, transmission instruction in transmission 122 " In the vehicles " configuration information 124 of (such as " in the car ").As previously discussed, Instruction can be that " in a vehicle is (at the vehicles for the ascii string in such as XML message In) ", but the communication mechanism can also being based on according to transmission 122, it is only included in as arranging Individual bit (arrange or be not provided with) in the data field that information provides.Such as, transmission 122 The SMS sent to application server 108 can be included.
NodeB 112 forwards the configuration information 124 received to application server 108.Application Server 108 can such as be positioned at IMS (the internet multimedia subsystem of UMTS network 110 System) in territory.Although server 108 is illustrated as a part for network 110 in FIG, at it In its embodiment, outside application server may be located at mobile network and can be via the most fixing Communication line is connected to mobile network, to receive such as the configuration information of information 124.Application service Device 108 determines according to configuration information 124: from now on, and equipment 106 must be answered by TFS Considered with 109.Thus, the communication with location-server 118 initiated by application server 108 128。
Location-server 118 uses network triangulation mechanism, with in metropolitan area The position of user terminal 106 is determined with the degree of accuracy of several meters, or in the case of suburb, The position of user terminal 106 is determined with the degree of accuracy of only tens meters or the most hundreds of meter.To this end, Location-server 118 can such as use NodeB 112 and 114 (the most explicit Signal).In other embodiments, AS 108 or mobile network 110 can be to user terminals 106 Request position information, user terminal 106 can be distributed based on terminal 106 or the vehicles 101 In the positional information of GPS unit.With reference to Fig. 1, location-server 118 is via communication connection 128 provide the positional information 132 for terminal 106 to application server 108.
The vehicles 101 are indicated by the position of the terminal 106 given by supposition information 132 Position, application 109 use positional informationes 132 determine traffic forecasts.This supposition is based on it Before reception to configuration information 124, thus, be provided with at not actual environment with terminal Consider in the case of the information closed that the service of the position of any registration terminal is compared, obtained more Traffic forecasts reliably.The distribution area that AS 108 is supported to mobile network 110 provides 134 Traffic forecasts, distribution area can include NodeB 112 and 114.Then, NodeB such as warp Traffic forecasts is sent to the vehicles 101 and 104 by broadcast or multicast transmission 136.
Although figure 1 illustrates NobeB 112 directly forward setting to application server 108 Information 124, in other embodiments, instead can provide configuration information to HSS 115. Such as, in HSS, the user profiles of management can include the one or more numbers representing configuration information According to field.Such as in the case of configuration information or its part change, can be from HSS to answering Configuration information is automatically provided with server；Or based on request, letter is set to application server offer (in FIG, the configuration information from HSS to application server provides by dotted arrow 138 institute breath Instruction).
Fig. 2 A illustrates the terminal unit 102 in user terminal 106 and the vehicles 101 The more detailed functional unit of some of first embodiment.User terminal 106 may be located at traffic work Inside between the passenger of tool 101, and suppose that terminal unit 102 is built in the vehicles regularly In 101.The operation of system in Fig. 1 100 has been contributed by shown assembly.Mobile terminal 106 include short distance or area communication units (LCU) 202, arrange and determine assembly 204, reflect Penetrate memorizer 206, profile store 208, transmission assembly 210 and mobile comm unit (MCU) 212.Terminal unit 102 includes LCU 222 and status register 224.As retouched further below Stating, terminal unit 102 can such as include bluetooth-communication unit.User terminal 106 and friendship One or two in logical instrument 101 can include GPS unit 214 He the most respectively 226。
Fig. 3 is showing of the terminal unit 102 in signal mobile terminal 106 and the vehicles 101 The flow chart of the mutual operation between example operation 300 and assembly thereof.Generally speaking, mobile whole End 106 operation is with according to the ambient As relevant with the environmental characteristics of terminal 106, via movement Network 110 controls traffic forecasts and is served by 109 (seeing Fig. 1).
With reference to Fig. 2 A and Fig. 3, in step 302, terminal 106 is set up user terminal 106 Subordinate carries out the configuration information 124 indicated in the ambient As of environment therein.Shown in accompanying drawing In the example of meaning, configuration information instruction terminal 106 is positioned at " in the vehicles ", i.e. in traffic work In tool 101.Configuration information 124 does not indicate any concrete vehicles (the most specifically, to hand over Logical instrument 101) or geographical position, but rather indicate that the type of total environment or ambient As is (eventually End 106 is positioned at this environment or at this environment).
In order to set up configuration information 124, below step can be performed: when user terminal 106 User when entering the vehicles 101, LCU 202 and 222 can be automatically or based on manually In terminal 106, communication 120 is set up in the order of input.LCU 202 and 222 can example Bluetooth-communication unit in this way, is suitable to communicate according to bluetooth standard and use for the vehicles In hands-free kits bag bluetooth standard hands-free mode (HFP) (for the sake of clarity, figure In do not illustrate hands-free kits bag).During connection setup, LCU assembly 202 and 222 is all same Meaning communicates with each other according to HFP.Mobile terminal 106 can be by the equipment ground of LCU 222 Location is used as the instruction arranging its home environment.As indicated by the arrow 216 in Fig. 2 A, LCU 202 is configured with to arrange determine assembly 204 provide trigger signal, this triggering believe Number indicate the device address of LCU 222.Certainly, LCU 202 can also process such as following institute Other data of the data 228 described etc, to receive data via communication link 120 Send out.
After receiving triggering message 216 from LCU 202, arrange and determine that assembly 204 is grasped Make with access map memorizer 206.Memorizer 206 includes mapping table 207, mapping table 207 Including the association of instruction, the instruction that can provide together with specific environment setting such as LCU 202 216.For example, it is possible to by the device address according to various this locality (short distance) communication standard with set Put and be associated.Mapping table need not explicitly include such configuration information.Such as, only two In the case of kind possible ambient As " not /in a vehicle ", the list arranging or being not provided with Individual bit be enough to carry configuration information.The more complicated set requirements that specific environment is arranged is longer Bit maps, or ambient As determined by can representing the most in a text form, Such as with human-readable ASCII fromat.
The mapping that assembly 204 stores from assembly 206 extracts suitable configuration information, and to The active user profiles 209 being stored in assembly 208 provides this configuration information 124.Assembly 208 Can be the storage assembly of terminal 106, or can such as be positioned at and be inserted in terminal 106 On SIM or USIM (UMTS Subscriber Identity Module) card.User profiles 209 can include The various data fields relevant with the user of terminal 106, terminal itself and mobile network 110, It can include the data field for representing configuration information " not /in a vehicle " especially. As it was previously stated, this data field can have the length of only individual bit, or can be configured to Represent configuration information in a text form, such as " the most in a vehicle ".
Only connection setup itself is different to derive configuration information from only using, and shows more complicated In example, the LCU 222 in the terminal unit 102 being associated with the vehicles 101 can be logical Storage assembly 224 is accessed, to read the mode of operation of the vehicles 101 during letter 120 foundation Information 228.Storage assembly 224 may be adapted to store such operational status information, Ke Yicong Sensor and connected processor logic in the vehicles determine operational status information. Operational status information can represent such as information about herein below: whether electromotor starts, hands over Whether logical instrument is moving, and in the vehicles its current speed in the case of movement. Storage assembly 224 can e.g. cache or with the taking advantage of in contained network network of the vehicles 101 The similar storage assembly that central processing unit is associated, wherein, cache is the most right Current mode of operation condition stores, such as, in order to by electric drive aid system (e.g., Anti-lock braking system (ABS) or ESP (ESP)) conduct interviews.
LCU 222 can read such as the operational status information of electromotor whether startup etc., it is possible to LCU 202 at the other end that local communication connects 120 provides this operational status information 228. LCU 202 can control this operational status information in user profiles 209 or and user profiles 209 storages being associated.It is unsuitable for storing these operational status information items at user profiles 209 In one or more in the case of, assembly 208 can abandon corresponding information.
Refer again to Fig. 3, in step 304, use transmission assembly 210 and MCU 212, Send to application server 108 via wave point 124 and mobile network 110 (with reference to Fig. 1) Configuration information 124.In more detail, with initiation configuration information 124 in user profiles 209 Memory parallel ground, arrange determine assembly 204 can automatically trigger be suitable to access user profiles 209 Transmission assembly 210 from user profiles 209, extract configuration information 124, and to application service Device 108 sends this information.In the case of user's registration service, transmission assembly 210 can be attached Add ground or alternatively periodically provide configuration information to application server from user profiles.As Another probability, application server can also ask configuration information from terminal 106.As another Individual example, assembly 204,208 and 210 can be with mutual operation, only to indicate to application server The change of the configuration information of storage in user profiles 209.
The address of application server can also be stored in user profiles 209.Such as, at end End, when the service that server 108 is provided is registered, can provide so to terminal 106 Address.
Although illustrating the most in the drawings, after having been provided for configuration information 124, in network Location-server can be to mobile terminal 106 request position information.In response to such request, Terminal 106 can be based on the GPS unit 226 in GPS unit 214 or the vehicles 101 Positional information is provided.In the latter case, can via Bluetooth communication 120 to user eventually The positional information that end 106 offer is derived from the operation of unit 226.
Fig. 2 B illustrates the terminal unit in the user terminal 106 of Fig. 1 and the vehicles 101 The functional unit of second embodiment of 102, for the sake of clarity, the most respectively with reference Label 106 ' and 102 ' represents.Again, as the first embodiment of Fig. 2 A, it is assumed that User terminal 106 ' is positioned between the passenger of the vehicles 101 internal, and supposes terminal unit 102 ' By in the most built-in vehicles 101 in fig. 2b.Usually, in fig. 2b, make Add apostrophe with identical reference number and represent that the element having with Fig. 2 A is same or similar Function or the element of meaning.Mobile terminal 106 ' includes area communication units (LCU) 202 '. The vehicles 102 ' include LCU 222 ' and arranging determine assembly 204 ', transmission assembly 210 ' and Mobile comm unit (MCU) 212 '.
In fig. 2b, terminal unit 102 ' sets up configuration information 124 and at wave point 126 On be transmitted.This alternate ways is selected to illustrate the alternative mistake for providing configuration information 124 Journey.It is readily apparent that for the process according to Fig. 2 B, can with by reference to Fig. 2 A Similar mode described by user profiles 208 in middle user terminal 106, performs to arrange letter Breath 124 transmission from the user profiles being associated with terminal unit 102 '.Similarly, in terminal Equipment 102 ' can also have the mapping entity corresponding with the mapping memorizer 206 in Fig. 2 A Available.
Thus, the step 302 and 304 in Fig. 3 not only can be by user terminal (that is, figure itself User terminal 106 in 2A) perform, it is also possible to alternatively by the terminal joined with environmental correclation Equipment (equipment 102 ' in that such as, be associated with the vehicles 101, Fig. 2 B) is held OK.
Specifically (step 302), when the user of user terminal 106 ' enters the vehicles 101, LCU 202 ' and 222 ' can be automatically (preferably) or based on manually input in terminal 106 ' Communication 120 ' is set up in order.Such as, communication 120 ' can be based on such as the short distance of bluetooth etc Communication technology.As a concrete example, terminal unit 102 ' can support that bluetooth SIM is deposited Take specification (SAP).In this case, user terminal 106 ' (also supports SAP's at it In the case of) during communication 120 ' foundation, its IMSI can be provided to terminal unit 102 '.Then, Terminal unit use this IMSI to carry out subscribing to mobile network 110 (with reference to Fig. 1) or with shifting Dynamic network 110 communicates.User terminal 106 ' can be set to standby mode.
Communication 120 ' foundation during, LCU 202 to arrange determine assembly 204 ' provide (arrow 216 ') the triggering signal that communication link 120 ' is indicated.According to the foundation of communication 120 ', Arranging in terminal unit 102 ' determines that assembly 204 ' determines and user terminal 106 ' and the vehicles The information that position relationship between 101 is relevant.Thus, arrange and determine that assembly 204 ' is adapted to determine that User terminal 106 ' is in the vehicles 101, it is possible to correspondingly set up configuration information 124 " In the vehicles ".Simple regulation can be used, according to this regulation, this locality to user terminal The foundation of communication (e.g., communication 120 ') produces configuration information " in a vehicle ".Local logical The termination of letter 120 ' can produce configuration information " the most in a vehicle ".With reference Fig. 2 A Similar through describe, configuration information can additionally include the mode of operation letter of the vehicles 101 Breath (the most not shown).
There is provided to transmission assembly 210 ' and the configuration information 124 determining that assembly 204 ' is set up is set. Different, in the embodiment of Fig. 2 B, to transmission assembly 210 ' from the mechanism of signal in Fig. 2 A Configuration information 124 is directly provided, and does not store it in user profiles.Configuration information " is being handed over In logical instrument " offer of 124 can trigger transmission assembly 210 ' and control MCU 212 ', with via Wave point 126 sends (step 304) configuration information to mobile network 110 (with reference to Fig. 1) 124。
As used shown by Fig. 2 A and Fig. 2 B, can in user terminal 106 itself, Or the mistake at the terminal unit 102 ' middle execution Fig. 3 being associated regularly with the vehicles 101 Journey 300.In other embodiments, two terminals still can be organized in another manner to set Task distribution between Bei.Such as, although configuration information is the terminal unit from the vehicles Send, but configuration information can also be set up in the user terminal.In this case, use Terminal terminal unit in the vehicles in family provides configuration information, for transmission.As separately One alternative, and user terminal may indicate that and stored (such as, by the terminal unit in the vehicles In user profiles) predefined configuration information.As modification, user terminal can be simple Ground indicates one of one or more user profiles, and the terminal unit in the vehicles will response In the reception to this instruction, automatically for the user terminal relevant to indicated user profiles Send configuration information " in a vehicle ".
Correspondingly, the terminal unit 102 and 102 ' being associated with the vehicles 101 respectively is permissible Including area communication units (such as, respectively 222 and 222 '), it is possible to (102 ') or (102) mobile comm unit such as MCU 212 ' cannot be included.
Fig. 4 illustrates UMTS network 110 and the functional unit of application server 108 of Fig. 1. It should be noted that, although the functional entity of the main frame being served by 109 as traffic forecasts is referred to as Application server 108, but this server can include the applied environment for automobile application, Including multiple application servers with such as other entity of gateway, fire wall, certificate server etc.. In other words, it should be appreciated that application server 108 can be developing completely of application provider Website, and it is not only individual server.Thus, function described below can be at single clothes Realize, if or can be in a distributed fashion on the dry contact of application server cluster on business device Realize.The application provider of applied environment can be identical with the operator of mobile network 110, Or can be different.
Application server can be the part of mobile network, or may be located at mobile network it Outward.In order to explicitly illustrate that both configures, Fig. 1 shows the AS within mobile network 110 108, and in the diagram, AS 108 is drawn in outside network 110.
UMTS network 110 includes NodeB 112 and the location-server illustrated the most in FIG 118.Application server 108 includes receiving unit 402, profile store 404, application controls Assembly 406, the traffic forecasts application 109 coming from Fig. 1 and location client end 408.
Fig. 5 is to be shown in the framework of the TFS providing application 109 to be realized, application server The flow chart of the exemplary sequence 500 of 108 operating procedures that can perform.Substantially, application Server operates, with basis via mobile network 110 from user terminal 106 (with reference to Fig. 1) The configuration information 124 received is to control communication information application 109.
In step 502, receiving unit 402 receives configuration information 124 and to profile store 404 provide the configuration information 124 that receives, with and the use relevant with the user of user terminal 106 Family profile carry out explicitly storing (although user terminal the most for simplicity 106 user terminals 106 only referring to shown in Fig. 1 and Fig. 2 A meaning, it should be understood, however, that any this Sample quote the user terminal 106 ' that same finger is anticipated as shown in Figure 2 B).User profiles 410 is also Other data user-dependent with terminal 106 can be included, and structurally can be with ginseng The user profiles 209 examining Fig. 2 A discussion is similar to or is not similar to.For example, it is possible to about such as should The service of the TFS service that realized of application 109 provided with server 108 etc specifically incite somebody to action User profiles 410 is as target.In other words, user profiles 410 can be from application provider Attribute is defined by application visual angle.Profile store 404 can store application server 108 Multiple user profiles of the user of the service provided.In other embodiments, can will not In the case of configuration information is stored in user profiles, configuration information is supplied directly to one or Multiple application.
In step 504, control assembly 406 and operate, with according to being stored in user profiles Configuration information 124 in 410 controls to apply 109.Although assembly 406 is illustrated as in the diagram Extra assembly, but it can also be a part for TFS application 109.Illustrate in the diagram In realization, after configuration information 124 being stored in storage assembly 404, receiving unit 402 Triggering signal 412 is provided to controlling assembly 406.When receiving triggering signal 412, control group Part 406 considers that configuration information 124 is to perform TFS application 109.
In more detail, trigger signal 412 can initiate to control assembly 406 in memorizer 404 The access of user profiles 410, first to determine whether the user of terminal 106 have registered TFS The service that application 109 is provided.If it is, configuration information 124 is analyzed self. Due to this information indicating user terminal 106 " in a vehicle ", control assembly and infer (aobvious Formula ground or be only the most implicitly) TFS application 109 will be calculated by user terminal 106 now Traffic forecasts has been contributed.For the access profile memorizer 404 when receiving triggering signal 412 In user profiles for, additionally or alternatively, control assembly 406 can periodically visit Ask profile store 404, instantaneous be positioned at " traffic to determine to register to TFS application 109 and have In instrument " the user of associated user terminal.Such as, even if not triggering signal 412 In the case of, at receiving unit 402 by the configuration information for user terminal 106 " in traffic In instrument " be stored in user profiles 410 after, control assembly 406 also will be at its next poll Period is recognized automatically: must take into from now on terminal 106.In other embodiments, attached Add ground or alternatively, it is also possible to directly use the application of configuration information to provide this that letter is set to expection Breath.
Determine must take into user terminal 106 time, control assembly 406 trigger location client end 408, then location client end 408 operates, with the location-server to mobile network 110 118 provide the signal 128 discussed with reference to Fig. 1.Then, location client end 408 is to friendship Logical forecast application 109 provides the positional information 132 received from server 118.Correspondingly, Between traffic forecasts is really regular, it is considered to the position of terminal 106.In other embodiments, attached Add ground or alternatively, location client end 408 can provide positional information to user profiles 410 132.Finally, provide produced traffic forecasts via communication 134 to mobile network 110, with It is distributed to its user.
As already discussed, in addition to instruction " in a vehicle ", configuration information 124 is permissible Including out of Memory, the such as operational status information of the vehicles 110.Determining user terminal When the position TFS to be actually used in of 106 (or terminal units 102) applies 109, control Assembly 406 can use this information.For example, it is possible to will be such as " engine start " and/or " traffic Instrument moves " etc instruction be used for judge the vehicles whether be parked on parking stall or The most actually it is intended to a part for the traffic flow analyzed.Decision algorithm may it must be taken into account that Such as in the case of traffic jam, the vehicles are not also possible to mobile and driver Stopped electromotor.Previous message (history configuration information) can be used and/or be positioned at neighbouring The configuration information (potentially including operational status information) of other registration participant, with the most true Determine whether to be actually subjected to consider specific user, and improve produced traffic by this way further The reliability of forecast.
Although having illustrated configuration information 124 is stored in application server 108 Profile store 404 in, additionally or alternatively, it is also possible to configuration information is stored in shifting In user profile store in dynamic network 110, such as, it is stored in HSS 116 (with reference to figure 1)。
As it was previously stated, can control application server as main frame or in applied environment Application, considers the position of user terminal with the ambient As according to terminal.Additionally or alternative Ground, it is also possible to correspondingly controlling the application to user terminal provides.For example, it is possible to only to environment The terminal offer automobile services that instruction terminal is positioned in the vehicles are set.
Fig. 6 be shown in user terminal 106, the vehicles 101 and application server 108 it Between the sequence chart of exemplary sequence of message of exchange.Message exchange 602 and 604 illustrates figure Bluetooth between the LCU 202 and 222 that 2A is illustrated connects the foundation of 120.Illustrated Each message exchange can be included between communication parter the one or more message pair of exchange.
Have been described above with reference to Fig. 2 A: terminal 106 can use internal mapping table 207 to judge Need to send configuration information 124 " in a vehicle ".In alternative realization, the vehicles Its explicit instruction communicated can be provided the terminal with the vehicles.Additionally, traffic Instrument can send explicit instruction, and instruction should send configuration information " in traffic work to application server In tool ".In the case of message sequence 600, this instruction can be supplied to terminal 106, example As provided during seeervice level connection establishment process 604.In other realizes, except being used for disappearing Outside the Bluetooth protocol of breath exchange 602 and 604, it is also possible to use other agreement to come from the vehicles The instruction relevant with ambient As and/or operational status information is provided to terminal unit.At one or On more local communication protocol (e.g., bluetooth, WLAN etc.), such association can be defined View.
It is to realize user that vehicles explicit request sends configuration information 124 to application server Automatically send the another kind of configuration information to application server when terminal 106 is set up configuration information Probability.The vehicles can provide, or can not provide for applicable application service The address of application server that device provides configuration information, that be suitable for.The most in the latter case, This address can be configured in user terminal 106 as above with reference to described by Fig. 2 A. Various mechanism can be used for via mobile network 110 (the most not shown) to application clothes Business device sends 122 configuration informations 124.For example, it is possible to send SMS, or SIP can be used Signaling, User to User Signaling, isdn signaling etc..About SIP, such as, can use SIP presents mechanism.In addition it is possible to use any proprietary protocol, such as Mobile Network Operator The IP-based agreement provided.
In response to the reception to the configuration information 124 in transmission 122, application server 108 can Using activate or amendment by server 108 as the one or more vehicle communication information of main frame Service.Such as, traffic forecasts application can start to consider this user terminal for its service.As Illustrated in Figure 4, application server can initiate positioning flow, to determine the position of terminal 106 Put.The most do not indicate the produced message exchange for location.Then, application is examined Consider the position of user terminal, to determine traffic forecasts.Because application can only consider (according to it Corresponding configuration information) user terminal of " in a vehicle ", and independent of its actual environment Arranging and consider that the situation of all registration user terminals is compared, traffic forecasts will be more accurate.
By message exchange 606 and 608, such as because user by terminal 106 from the vehicles 101 remove, and the bluetooth communications link between user terminal 106 and the vehicles 101 will be by end Only.During terminating, such as, after having removed seeervice level connection, terminal 106 can be automatic Ground or triggered by the vehicles 101 and perform the transmission 610 of application server 108, transmission 610 include configuration information " the most in a vehicle ".Then, application server can be for inciting somebody to action Its one or more as in the service of main frame, cancel examining of (position) to terminal 106 Consider.For example, it is possible to stop the position of request mobile phone.
Although the most to configuration information indicating user terminal and such as the thing of the vehicles etc The relation of reason object is described, and generally speaking, configuration information can include from broadest Say environment with terminal about and any information relevant with special services.Such as, letter is set Breath can also or additionally indicative for environments parameter, such as local temperature, local zone time etc..Can The operational status information of the vehicles to be included in configuration information can also include: traffic The brand of instrument and model, or the particular type of the vehicles, such as passenger vehicle, taxi, public affairs Friendship, lorry etc..
The most exemplarily employ realize vehicle communication information service should be for illustrating The technology herein proposed.Emergency application is another kind application relevant to these technology.Such as, Consider that user terminal is carrying out urgent call.In this case, the position of terminal will be sent Toward emergency center.Can additionally or automatically to emergency center provide as " in traffic In instrument " environment setting information.It is then possible to use this configuration information to trigger Yao You center Operator's action of manually taking or automatically taking.Such as, if send helicopter, car Or the decision of police can be based on such configuration information.
There is provided configuration information can also be triggered by user to application server, the most manually trigger, Such as, by selecting certain profiles (e.g., " vehicles ", " meeting " etc. on user terminal Deng) trigger.In such a case it is not necessary between user terminal and the such as vehicles Connect.But, this mode also eliminates configuration information and includes the mode of operation letter of the vehicles The situation of breath.
In the case of having available GPS unit in user terminal or the vehicles, can be by base The location of the positioning service in mobile network and location based on GPS unit are used as mutual assisting vehicle System.Such as, in the case of GPS unit connects currently without available satellite, can be by fixed Position service is as redundancy scheme.In other embodiments, it is possible to use positioning service, to limit The use of the transfer resource on the wave point of mobile network.
The technology herein proposed can be also used in addition to vehicle communication information service Other service.For example, it is contemplated that ambient As " not /in meeting (room) ".In configuration information In the case of instruction " in meeting room ", can automatically activate unconditional call forwarding such as and (arrive Mailbox, to colleague, to secretary) etc telecommunications supplemental services.Can use as " not / In work " ambient As control in user profiles as calling transfer or the service of call barring, So that the most just carry out incoming call (e.g., personal call) forbidding or Transfer.
The technology herein proposed allows such as to provide in communication information environment more reliable application Service.Such as, the present invention allowed by the end only considering the part effectively as traffic flow End follows the tracks of user terminal (mobile phone), thus analyzes traffic flow in more reliable manner. Configuration information can be used to refer to general ambient As or user terminal is located therein, it Near or the type of position environment in the inner.Configuration information can be used alone, or with finger Show user terminal geographical position positional information outside use.Although can use in the application Positional information is as entering data to perform calculating etc., and configuration information could be for controlling this The control data of location application (or other any application).Only exist for example, it is possible to control application Terminal signalisation its in a vehicle after, just start to identify the position of mobile phone To carry out traffic forecasts/alarm.
The available availability enhancing service of this set information.Such as, relevant with traffic flow Service more reliable forecasting traffic flow will be able to be provided.In response to be taked the moving of urgent call Work can more specifically be suitable to the environment that emergency occurs.Configuration information can be used to come automatically Configuration supplements telecommunications service, such as unconditional call forwarding.
Can according to the environment (e.g., " meeting ", " family ", " work ") of user terminal from Dynamic configuration user profiles, such as relating to the user profiles of mobile/fixing network.Be suitable at user terminal The feelings that ambient As detects and automatically provides configuration information are such as connected via local communication Under condition, in the case of without any additional manual configuration work, above advantage is to user Speech can be available.In other cases, user may must manually select as " not / In the vehicles " etc environment.Manual configuration (change) can trigger configuration information to application User profiles (in HSS) or other service infrastructure in server and/or mobile network The propagation of facility.
In order to realize proposed technology, only need in such as user terminal or mobile network's assembly Amendment that will be the least.Such as, letter is set providing predetermined to user terminal and application server In the case of breath, in some instances it may even be possible to additionally must send individual bit via wave point, with control System application.
Use existing based on triangulation the location clothes in mobile network with finite precision Business, a lot of location Based service (e.g., traffic forecasts service) can utilize proposed skill Art, i.e. need not with the degree of accuracy in cm range to determine that the location of the vehicles is to improve friendship The degree of accuracy of logical forecast.
Although already in connection with the preferred embodiments of the present invention, invention has been described, it should reason Solving, this description is only used for the purpose of signal.Correspondingly, the present invention should be only by claims Scope limit.

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1. the method controlling application server, described method includes by can be via mobile network The following steps that the application server (108) that network (110) accesses performs:
-receive (502) configuration information (124) via the wave point (126) of mobile network, Wherein, the environment that described configuration information indicating user terminal (106) is deployed in environment therein sets Put；And
-control (504) using application server as main frame according to the configuration information received Application (109),
Wherein, described environment is physical object (101), and described configuration information explicitly indicates user Terminal (106) whether near physical object (101) or whether physical object (101) it In.
Method the most according to claim 1, wherein, described configuration information includes physics pair The instruction of the mode of operation (228) of elephant.
Method the most according to claim 1 and 2, wherein, physical object is the vehicles (101), described configuration information instruction " in a vehicle " or " the most in a vehicle ".
Method the most according to claim 1 and 2, wherein, described configuration information is 1 ratio The information of special or longer bit.
Method the most according to claim 1 and 2, wherein, described configuration information is with text Form represents.
Method the most according to claim 5, wherein, described textual form is ASCII Form.
Method the most according to claim 1 and 2, comprises the following steps: by configuration information Reception triggered, initiate execution to positioning service (408,118), to determine and user Terminal and/or be deployed in the relevant position of terminal unit of environmental correclation therein connection with user terminal Put.
Method the most according to claim 1 and 2, wherein, described application (109) is real Existing vehicle communication information service.
Method the most according to claim 1 and 2,
-wherein, described configuration information is included in the user profiles (410) relevant with user terminal In.
Method the most according to claim 1 and 2, wherein, described configuration information indicates One of multiple specific environment settings.
11. 1 kinds of sides to being controlled via the application server that mobile network accesses Method, described method includes being performed by the terminal unit (106,102 ') of mobile network (110) Following steps:
-foundation (302) configuration information (124), described configuration information indicating user terminal (106, 106 ') ambient As of environment therein it is deployed in；And
-send (304) via the wave point (126) of mobile network to application server (108) Described configuration information, to control to apply (109) according to described configuration information,
Wherein, described environment is physical object (101), and described configuration information explicitly indicates user Terminal (106) whether near physical object (101) or whether physical object (101) it In.
12. methods according to claim 11, wherein, physical object is the vehicles (101), described configuration information instruction " in a vehicle " or " the most in a vehicle ".
13. according to the method described in claim 11 or 12, and wherein, described configuration information is 1 bit or the information of longer bit.
14. according to the method described in claim 11 or 12, wherein, described configuration information with Textual form represents.
15. methods according to claim 14, wherein, described textual form is ASCII Form.
16. according to the method described in claim 11 or 12, wherein, and described terminal unit bag Include user terminal (106) or be deployed in the terminal of environmental correclation therein connection with described user terminal Equipment (102 ').
17. according to the method described in claim 11 or 12, wherein, sends configuration information Step is triggered automatically by the step setting up configuration information.
18. according to the method described in claim 11 or 12, wherein, sets up configuration information Step comprises the following steps:
-via user terminal (106；106 ') and with described user terminal it is deployed in ring therein The terminal unit (102 that border is associated；102 ') local communication between connects (120), receives Instruction for ambient As；And
-determine configuration information (124) according to described instruction.
19. methods according to claim 18, wherein, described instruction is at local communication Connect (120) and set up what (602,604) period received.
20. methods according to claim 18, wherein, described local communication connects and includes Wireless local communication connects (120).
21. 1 kinds of sides to being controlled via the application server that mobile network accesses Method, described method include method according to any one of claim 1 to 10 step and Step according to the method according to any one of claim 11 to 20.
22. 1 kinds of application servers (108) that can access via mobile network (110), bag Include:
-the first assembly (402), is suitable to the wave point via mobile network (126) reception and sets Confidence breath (124), wherein, described configuration information indicating user terminal (106) is deployed in wherein The ambient As of environment；And
-the second assembly (406), is suitable to control according to described configuration information with application server As the application (109) of main frame,
Wherein, described environment is physical object (101), and described configuration information explicitly indicates user Terminal (106) whether near physical object (101) or whether physical object (101) it In.
23. application servers according to claim 22, wherein, described application server It is adapted for carrying out the step according to the method according to any one of claim 2 to 10.
The terminal unit (106,102 ') of 24. 1 kinds of mobile networks (110), including:
-the first assembly (204), is adapted to set up configuration information (124), and described configuration information refers to Show that user terminal (106,106 ') is deployed in the ambient As of environment therein；And
-the second assembly (210), is suitable to the wave point (126) via mobile network (110) Described configuration information is sent, to control according to described configuration information to application server (108) Application (109),
Wherein, described environment is physical object (101), and described configuration information explicitly indicates user Terminal (106) whether near physical object (101) or whether physical object (101) it In.
25. terminal units according to claim 24, wherein, described terminal unit is suitable to Perform the step according to the method according to any one of claim 12 to 20.
26. 1 kinds of communication systems (100), including according to answering described in claim 22 or 23 With server (108) with according to the terminal unit (106,102 ') described in claim 24 or 25.
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