FI123308B - Communication device, communication system and system elements thereof - Google Patents

Description

A communication device, a communication system and a system element thereof

The invention relates generally to electronic communications, but more specifically to communication of personalized information, and more particularly to low power at short range, as stated in the preamble of an independent claim, which relates to a communication device. The invention also relates to a system having a communication device according to the invention. The invention also relates to the use of a communication device according to the independent claim for use.

Many solutions are known in the RFID technology for communicating simple things and information by means of radio frequency identification. In addition, there are known solutions in which the object to be identified bears an RFED label or other similar part of a circuit having information to be transmitted in connection with the identification. Such a tag can be passive, whereby the reading field produces the energy required by the RFTD tag to allow it to respond to the reader on the device. There are also active tag solutions with their own power source, which is activated when the reader tries to read / read the tag and its information. However, the practical distance is usually quite short, and in active tagged applications, battery life may be short due to maintainable standby.

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Techniques are also known in which information can be sent to a tag and even so that the information can be read from the tag's display. At the time of the priority date of the application, there is only known technology which is mechanically applicable where there is sufficient electricity available for the needs of the display and for transmission / reception. Such devices can be used in industrial plants or other places where Y electricity is available, but on the other hand, high power consumption impairs mobility and ease of operation. On the one hand, from a system perspective, for example, using c mobile phones to read tag information may be possible in itself, but on the other hand, messing up a cellular network with another type of data transmission causes more bias and noise and can also burden the mobile phone system itself. On the other hand, mobile phone batteries last only a few hours in close operation, and at most a few hundred hours in dormant mode, which is far too short for expanding tag applications.

The object of the invention is to solve, or at least partially alleviate, the problems of the prior art referred to above, and thus to provide a new device and application for a technique which can, to some extent, employ active RFID application technology known per se. The object of the invention is achieved by means of a personal portable communication device according to the independent claim. The communication device according to the invention is characterized by what is said in the characterizing part of the independent claim. A system according to the invention having a communication device according to the invention is characterized by what is said in the characterizing part of the independent claim relating thereto. The use of the communication device according to the invention is characterized by what is stated in the independent use claim. The communication device according to the invention is a system element of the system according to the invention.

Other embodiments of the invention are set forth in the dependent claims, the drawings, the specification and the examples. Embodiments of the invention are, if applicable, combinable. The term embrace has been used as an open term.

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The communication device according to the invention has: - electromagnetic means for transmitting information between at least one transmitter-receiver pair, - audio-visual means for transmitting a signal for use of the communication device, i Y arranged on the same substrate, with the power source of the communication device; and, the communication device is configured to communicate the virtual queue queue position between a system element of the host system and the communication device;

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According to one embodiment, the communication device can be implemented on a substrate which is card-like, i.e., mounted on a credit card-like piece of plastic, paper or other substrate, and / or, where applicable, surface, without being solely limited to the credit-card appearance. In this case, the device is a compact and hel-5 mail portable card. By using parts suitable for pulsed radio technology in electromagnetic devices and a communication protocol for controlling the radio communication of the pulse radio, very low transmission power can be achieved even in the range of kilometers or more.

According to one embodiment, it is also possible to use a paper battery as an energy source and / or bistable smart paper on the display, which, at least in theory, can achieve up to years of service in some applications. Thus, only state changes, in addition to transmission and reception functions, consume electricity when switching from a first state of the display to a second state when one of the information state 15 of the first state changes to another information content, verbal or symbolic.

By using and charging batteries, capacitors and / or supercapacitors, RF charging, mechanical motion charging, where appropriate induction loops, piezoelectric buttons and / or photoelectric devices, and the battery and / or 20 capacitors can also be charged. According to one embodiment, the charging means of the communication device are arranged to collect thermal energy / heat based energy. According to one embodiment of the invention, the communication device is portable and / or personal. According to one embodiment, the communication device is a pocket-sized and, in one embodiment, a disposable device made of inexpensive materials. According to another variant of ° 25, the communication device is recyclable. According to one embodiment, the Y communication device has a fixed power source.

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The communication device according to an embodiment of the invention comprises audio-visual

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The communication device 4 also has an actuator for converting an electrical signal into a tone or vice versa. Although the transmission protocol in some embodiments uses the Dash7 specification and / or pulse radio communication protocol transmission as some transmission / reception modes of the pulse radio, speech and / or 5 video signals per se cannot be transmitted / received within a reasonable amount of time. in connection with.

According to an embodiment of the invention, the communication device is powered by a battery 10 and / or a battery. This can also be a printable battery. Despite the ultra-low power consumption, the communication device may also have a sleep function to reduce the power consumption even further.

According to one embodiment of the invention, a communication device is arranged to function as a part / system element of a system using impulse radio but in a network architecture based on a cellular system which is arranged according to prior art. However, in this case, the base stations and / or repeaters of the system are arranged in accordance with the pulse radio transmission principles, for transmitting / receiving / repeating the transmission of the communication device. The repeater 20 alone differs from the base station in that the repeater merely functions as an amplifier to amplify the incoming transmission to it. According to one embodiment of the invention, the communication device is then arranged to communicate with the system, in particular, through a base station of the system whose signaling channel / transmitted signal is the highest. According to an embodiment of the invention, another base station in the coverage area 25 may also be selected, for example, to avoid possible location problems associated with the use of repeaters.

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A communication device according to an embodiment of the invention comprises electromagnetic means configured to communicate in accordance with a Dash7 based communication protocol. In an alternative embodiment, an active RFDD-like communication protocol can be used to send / receive short messages.

At least some of the audiovisual media of the communication device according to an embodiment of the invention are implemented with a bistable element. This provides an advantage through low power consumption.

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The communication device according to one embodiment of the invention comprises electromagnetic means comprising an impulse radio transmitter. In this case, the communication device may send an impulse radio transmission to other system elements of the system, such as other communication devices, repeaters and / or servers. According to a preferred embodiment, the electromagnetic means comprise means for receiving and / or transmitting infrared.

The communication device according to one embodiment of the invention comprises electromagnetic means comprising an impulse radio receiver. In this case, the communicator 20 may receive an impulse radio transmission from other system elements of the system, such as other communication devices, repeaters and / or servers.

Said transmitter and receiver may also be arranged as transceiver means, where appropriate. Further, in one embodiment, the receiving means may be used to charge the power source of the communication device with the aid of broadcast / radio noise from the environment.

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According to an embodiment of the invention, the communication device can be configured into a system as a repeater, thereby achieving a multiple range with respect to the range of a single device in c 30. For example, if a single impulse radio is capable of transmitting information over a distance of 2 km, ten repeaters and / or base stations can achieve distances of up to 20 km under preferential conditions without limiting the range of a single system element communication device or repeaters or base stations. number only according to the above example.

According to one embodiment of the invention, the communication device is configured to route transmissions, whereby it acts as a system router for routing a pulse radio transmission. In this case, the router need not necessarily be of a power-saving portable type, but may even be a network-based and / or fixed-system component.

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According to one embodiment of the invention, the communication device has antenna means for recovering electromagnetic energy from the environment and / or means for converting mechanical motion into electrical energy for storage. Thus, according to one embodiment, the communication device may include means for storing electromagnetic energy Ia-15 in the electrical storage means. According to one embodiment of the invention, the communication device comprises, electricity storage means. Such may, where applicable, comprise at least one of antenna means, a battery, a battery, a capacitor and an induction loop.

According to an embodiment of the invention, the communication device comprises an ID module for storing the identity of the user of the communication device, the card tray (iron module part) and / or the communication device, and / or the memory for storing the communicated or intended information.

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According to an embodiment of the invention, the communication device has a microprocessor i Y for executing programs and / or scripts in the manner specified in the software module part utilizing the physical components of the iron module part. According to one embodiment of the invention, the microprocessor is connected to a memory where the software components and scripts used in the software module part are stored. The memory may, where applicable, comprise

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7 to browse the information in the memory, and / or to change the device settings. According to one embodiment, the device has a timer that puts the microprocessor into sleep mode to save power. In this case, the sleep mode may be configured such that the impulse radio itself will not turn off completely, but will remain in a mode where it senses 5 transmissions and wakes up the rest of the system at any setting set to wake, either factory default or user defined and refined. .

According to one embodiment of the invention, the device comprises a locator. Positioning can be at its simplest 10 triangular positioning, or based on the stamping of marked parts of the transmission. Cellular or network location can be used to locate a device to estimate its physical location. The software module part may also comprise means for setting positioning considerations, for example, in terms of positioning density. According to one embodiment of the invention, a system element of the system comprises a positioner 15 for locating another system element of the same system. Positioning may be a time stamp based on signal propagation time and / or a cellular system type / network structure.

The communication system of the invention comprises a plurality of communication devices, at least one of which is a communication device according to an embodiment of the invention. In a communication system according to an embodiment of the invention, as a system element thereof, the communication device is configured to communicate with a communication system operating as a host system or part thereof.

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The use of a communication device according to the invention may be for information and / or information purposes. The use of the information in this case comprises at least one of the following: ir - information in the elevator and / or hotel to guide the user to the room or other

Lo the user to a permitted destination, m 5 30 - Information at the passenger terminal to guide the passenger to the gate and / or other authorized destination, also outside the terminal and / or on the travel medium.

- information in a shopping center and / or shop, including routing to a user area, - information in hospital to locate a patient or its location, - information at an industrial site to guide the user to the allowed area (s), - information on the possibility of alternative queuing, either paid or unpaid, or queuing override, - commercial communication uses the services of a nearby retailer and / or service provider.

The use of the information may also include the provision of traffic information and / or the transmission of traffic sign information to the traffic user (s).

The communication device according to one embodiment of the invention achieves the following advantages compared to mobile phones, for example: - The security risk of the communication device is small if none, (bluetooth connection can be avoided by means of a card-based communication device, e.g. Battery consumption is low due to the low power consumption of the communication device 20, which allows long life and even energy consumption in the environment - Because the solution is application specific, it is more flexible to deploy and easier to use, even for older people, due to limited features and menus. . c \ i - The loss of the communication device does not become a significant problem, since the cost of producing a cv 25 is very low compared to, for example, a mobile phone.

According to an embodiment of the invention, the communication device can be made as cheap, if not cheap, parts. bill-off materials, but clearly cheaper than a mobile phone.

Lo - The communication device platform type, distributed to all users of the application, is homogeneous in a sense, and according to one embodiment is a general purpose, substantially similar display, while having, for example,

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9 The handset type chart is already vast in consumer devices and can cause functional variations in a mobile phone system.

Compared to a communication device, downloading software for mobile phones is problematic and cumbersome, while a shared card 5 according to an embodiment of the invention already has the features necessary for communication.

"A thin and lightweight card-like base according to one embodiment is more comfortable to carry and fits, for example, in a wallet".

- The communication device, for example according to the card-like embodiment, is more resistant to knocks and abrasion than the intercom.

10 - According to one embodiment of the communication device, its active RFID communication protocol according to one embodiment already contains a positioning feature and can be narrowed to a location by advantageous fixed location tags - RF technology of the communication device (ISO 180000-7) and globally consistent, whereby the user can be more confident that usage according to the embodiment for communication will not result in as easily as using a mobile phone for additional roaming, etc. Operator charges (For example, in the case of mobile services provided on cruises).

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Embodiments of the invention will now be described in more detail with reference to Figures 1-4, which illustrate examples of embodiments of the invention without being limited thereto. The reference designations used in certain images may also be used to indicate similar parts in other images, which, however, do not necessarily have to be exactly identical. Similar objects in the images may be referred to with the same vii-Y symbols even if the objects in the image are somewhat different, but one skilled in the art will read the difference upon reading the application text.

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Figure 4 illustrates a system according to an embodiment of the invention.

Figure 1 illustrates a non-limiting set of various embodiments of the invention. The communication device K is shown by delimiting its iron module part RMO with a rectangle inside which parts of the communication device are illustrated, where applicable. Not all details of the communication device have been attempted to be described for clarity, but the description has been focused on matters that will assist one skilled in the art to understand the operation and use of the device. As such, the functionality described and the supporting infrastructure per se are not particularly illustrated, as it can be implemented, where appropriate, by means of prior art portions arranged to provide functionality specific to the embodiment.

Figure 1 illustrates both a one-sided communication device and also a two-sided communication device, examples of stacked communication devices. In a one-sided device, the other side may not have the same structure as the one shown above with respect to side 1. The other side may also be without function, or comprise an antenna or other suitable parts. In the duplex illustrated embodiment 20, there may be two communication devices combined. The dashed line illustrates those two-sided embodiments where the integration is merely a physical integration between the substrates. In this case, the duplex structure can provide advantages in using different protocols. For example, if one of the first passenger terminals used a first protocol to communicate, but a second passenger terminal of a second protocol different from said first protocol. The other Y side may also comprise a communication device which interprets and converts information between protocols unless a device according to a suitable embodiment is available that can do so directly. The other half of the device can also be arranged to operate in different matters cycles of the first side of the device, and / or to reproduce the transmitted side to side S 30 Ic. It is not desired to bind the shape and / or position of the keys solely to the embodiment shown.

The electromagnetic means SMGV are arranged to operate in communication according to the low power protocol, for example, for transmitting and / or receiving according to features known per se on pulsed radio from other parts of a system / network Net.

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An antenna can be implemented in many ways, as is well known to those skilled in the art. This is illustrated by dashed lines in the box surrounding the abbreviation Ant, according to one embodiment. The antenna may also, if applicable, be implemented as a mere induction loop in one embodiment illustrated by a loop at the bottom left 10 and a dashed line between it and the antenna drawing mark. Charging can then be performed by the charging means Ch, where applicable, to direct the recovered energy to the energy source E. However, in some embodiments of the invention, the antenna may not have a direct connection to the induction loop.

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According to one embodiment of the invention, the communication device has a display N. According to one embodiment, the display can be implemented with an intelligent film which is bistable and thus consumes electricity only when changing space. According to one embodiment of the invention, the AV means of the communication device may also include an actuator Audio 20 to convert the audio into an electronic form and thus be stored in memory for later use, for example as an alarm sound. According to one embodiment of the invention, the actuator Audio in the communication device is arranged to convert electronic vibration into a sound, for example an alarm sound. According to one embodiment of the invention, the functions may be implemented by different bodies, although the cost of the device may also be higher.

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jr to receive the electromagnetic SMG signal. The SMG signal can be a radio frequency signal, but also an infrared signal. According to one embodiment, also the lovers of the S 30 can be used, however, through the aid of both devices, the price is higher than either of the two when used alone as part of the RMO of the device cm 12.

The device according to the simplest embodiment of the invention also has a display N for presenting information to the user. In a more versatile embodiment, the user may, for example, by pressing a key on the response generating means VMV indicate that he / she has read / observed some information displayed on the display and thereby indicates to the device its ha-5 readability to receive the next information. The energy source may be, for example, a paper battery which, due to its size and capacity, is suitable for use, for example, in disposable devices. In such embodiments, the I / O illustrates electronics arranged to control the transmission received by the SMGV pulse radio to display N and to receive a new transmission when the user indicates through the VMV that he has received the desired portion of the 10 display N messages. For example, in the terminal application, the information could be the following text for flight XXX to port ZZZ. Thus, in the passive embodiment, the communication device essentially only listens to the broadcast of the environment and / or charges the energy source, where applicable.

According to one embodiment of the invention, the communication device may further be provided with a transmission function. Thus, the device in the active embodiment has transmitting means in communication with the SMGV for transmitting information from the device to the system / network Net. The response may be an acknowledgment to the system formed by the response generating means VMV that the user wishes to change the display state.

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The response may also be a response to a user identity inquiry from the system, whereby the device retrieves information about the card, its user, or a combination thereof. The identity may be, for example, a USR according to an identity module. This can be accomplished using conventional RFID technology in the iron module part or, alternatively, as appropriate, in the soft module part, when the device according to the embodiment has actual Y memory available to the user.

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The presence of a microprocessor is controlled to control the functions of the device with respect to transmission, reception, and display, as well as download, in embodiments in which the functionality can be programmed by means of the device memory and the microprocessor.

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According to one embodiment of the invention, the communication device may have a keypad having a plurality of keys Nap. Although Figure 1 illustrates a group of 12 keys, it is not desired to limit the number, shape, and position of the keys themselves to the illustrated 5 exemplary embodiments of a group of keys. Although the response generation means VMV is shown separately according to one embodiment, the VMV may also be part of the keyboard according to one embodiment and thus be readable by the keyboard reading means.

In some embodiments of the invention, there may also be an Fgr member that can be used to charge the energy source E E by piezo, finger or other means of compression. The Fgr member may also be connected or replaced, as appropriate, with a solar cell or equivalent photoelectric device or mechanical movement generating member or a suitable group thereof, for use with and / or in place of the energy source E. According to one embodiment, the energy source may be selected, either manually or automatically or alternatively guided / set by the system.

Fig. 2 illustrates a structure according to an embodiment of the communication device. According to one embodiment of the invention, the communication device comprises, in addition to the iron-20 module part RMO, also the actual software module part SMO. It will be appreciated that the device according to the embodiment also has a microprocessor in some form, and even some script, albeit in machine language, which systematically controls the functions of the communication device for transmitting, receiving, displaying cm and / or power management and charging. According to an embodiment of the invention, the software module part has a browser Browser for browsing the menus displayed on the communication device Y screen with respect to the functions of the communication device and / or changing settings and / or browsing information received or sent for transmission.

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The software module part SMO may also comprise a plurality of software tools for running the microprocessor μΡ. These may be stored in memory M and run when the communication device turns on and / or returns from sleep mode. According to one embodiment, the soft module part may have a controller which controls the functions in the communication device and also controls the use of software tools in a manner corresponding to the tools of the iron module part. Although the iron module part does not depict the infrastructure as such, nor, for example, a graphics card, it is clear from the present invention that the monitor is controlled to display the information transmitted therein by means of at least a microprocessor and display device. In one embodiment, the display and / or the possible audio media with the oh-10s and stiffeners can also be controlled by the graphics card driver, which is a software tool of SMO.

The SMO may also include a memory access control means, a software component of the I / O function controller, a control means for charging functions Ch and / or an energy source E and other associated functional means, and e.g. a logic means for transmitting and / or receiving an impulse radio SMGV, which, where applicable, operates with an I / O controller, memory, and / or integrated circuit, a keyboard reader, and a means for maintaining a functional entity, as determined by operating system settings.

Figure 3 illustrates the energy source E. While inside the rectangle illustrating E, similar boxes are illustrated for the so-called Battery, Electric Pair, Mechanical Motion Converter Mek, Induction Loop Ind, Superconductor Kond, Photoelectric Charger and Solar Power, electric charger c \ j Pressure, installing all on the same physical device is in itself possible, but on the other hand, in terms of cheap implementation, too expensive as an embodiment. Thus, in practice, the energy source may be one or at least a combination of less than all of the above. According to one embodiment, the power source is sufficient RF ϊ charger, and no pair or battery per se is required for the functions of the communication device. The electrical lo can then also be stored in a capacitor m 30 of the device, if necessary according to one embodiment. With the use of photoelectric devices, the energy o δ is exclusive

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Fig. 4 illustrates by way of example a batch 5 according to an embodiment of the invention having a communication device K according to an embodiment of the invention. The system is also shown to have a plurality of system elements and communication devices K1 and K2 but does not want to limit the number of communication devices and indeed, the capacity of one of the communication devices serving the communication devices Ser, Ser1, Ser2 in the system area may allow 10 more connections than is illustrated in the figure or, on the other hand, dictate an upper limit on the number of communication devices. Also, communication via base stations T in embodiments using a base station may need to limit the number of communication devices communicating through the base station for internal reasons in the cellular radio system, the ISO-180007 standard used and / or other standard applicable to pulse radio.

Figure 4 shows that, according to one embodiment, the communication device K may communicate directly with another communication device K1. K1 may communicate with another communication device K2 via router R via server Ser120. The K1 may also be connected to the Repeater Second and / or to the Ser server, and thereby to the Ser database of the Ser server, which may contain information to be transmitted to the system, and information about users and / or their habits collected by the system. The K1 or its user may also be connected to a data network cm Net via router R, but also to a server Ser2 via a repeater Second, and cm 25 thereby to another communication device K2.

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According to one embodiment of the invention, the system of Figure 4 may be implemented as a cellular-5 radio system but as an impulse radio system, the system being adapted to transmit and / or receive an impulse radio transmission of a communication device. Then, other system elements of the system arranged for communication with the communication device, databases and / or servers, as appropriate, are adapted to pulsed radio technology, for example, without limitation to the 10 ISO 180007 standards and / or its extension. Although Fig. 4 illustrates an oval for a repeater of a network using a system which is directional, it is not intended to limit the repeater solely to directional. Although Figure 4 illustrates the coverage area of the base stations in circles, the base stations may also, where applicable, be directional. It will be apparent to one skilled in the art that the surface topology of the coverage area and the opaque / reflective bodies and moving objects in the area of electromagnetic radiation used for communications may affect the shape of the coverage area.

According to one embodiment of the invention, the communication device comprises positioning means, which may be suitably arranged for system architecture, network and / or cellular network positioning. These may be accomplished, for example, by using SMGV and a microprocessor in triangle measurement using transmissions from different base stations, unless other time-stamped SMG signals are available for positioning based on the system's 251 network and / or cellular radio communication protocol. The locating means may also comprise, under the SMO, such means for identifying the repeaters, and thus for selecting a base station by criteria other than signal strength alone. Where applicable, the cellular and / or communication protocol according to an embodiment of the invention may be utilized in the positioning.

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According to one embodiment of the invention, the communication device comprises software means for processing the system signal into a form by which the communication device can be located. In this case, broadcasts from the system may be used, where applicable.

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Although, according to one embodiment of the invention, the display could be implemented as a touch screen according to current technology, the power consumption of the embodiment becomes too high for the purposes of a usable communication device. In this case, the price of the touch screen easily becomes too expensive for bill-of materials. Thus, to the extent that it is sometimes possible to implement a touch screen with a smart film having manufacturing costs close to, for example, conventional smart paper, such a touch screen may be used accordingly and possibly replaced with virtual keys on the screen. In addition, areas of photoelectric material 15 may be connected to and / or associated with the intelligent film of the display for at least partial use of the display as a solar panel, at a reasonably low manufacturing cost, for a suitable coating.

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According to one embodiment of the invention, the electromagnetic means of the communication device are arranged to communicate using a protocol known per se. According to one embodiment of the invention, the protocol follows ISO-180007, as applicable, and / or extensions thereof, in so far as they are applicable to the protocol used by the pulse radio. According to one set of embodiments, communication according to a version of the Dash7 protocol and / or the protocol defined by the Dash7 protocol with possible extensions may be used in the pulse radio c1. According to an embodiment of the invention, the communication system used by the communication device according to an embodiment of the invention is, where applicable, provided with a cellular radio system known per se.

According to the network architecture topology of the system, but configured according to the Q_ protocol of the pulse radio and / or to take into account the direct range of the communication device and the reuse of any embodiment-specific random access codecs within the communication system, i.e. the same code as communication between the communication device and the serving cell, may be used for communication between another communication device and its serving cell in another part of the network.

According to one embodiment of the invention, the communication device is provided with a 'charging device', one of the functions of which in connection with communication is to act as an antenna in connection with both transmission and reception tasks. Since impulse radio is not suitable for transmitting only a limited amount of data, and thus not for example voice and / or video transmission such as mobile station or PDA, the power source capacity 10 may be small. So small that it can be recharged in an induction loop of an RF signal and / or magnetic fields to match years of sleep power consumption. Although, for example, speech transmission may not be possible according to the version of the protocol in effect at the priority date, due to the operation of the impulse radio, some communication device variants may also include audio means for eg signaling, directing the user's attention to incoming message / information / update otherwise use.

Although, according to one embodiment of the invention, the use of pulsed radio in the embodiments of the invention can significantly save energy and thus utilize power sources of even low capacity for months or even years, via known technology related to impulse radio. Particularly when the display is implemented as a bi-stable display, which consumes cu 25 energy substantially only in connection with its transitions, the embodiment of the invention in the Units does not wish to be limited solely to the bi-stable displays implemented by the application priority date. but it will be apparent to one skilled in the art that embodiments of the inventive concept as disclosed in the application can be modified in many ways, for example, by reducing power / power consumption.

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The communication device according to an embodiment of the invention is used for information. Thus, embodiments of the invention can be used in systems compatible with the communication protocol of the communication device and vice versa. Hereby, the communication device (K) may be used for information when the information comprises at least one of: - information in a lift and / or hotel for guidance of a user room or other authorized user, - information at a passenger terminal to guide a passenger to a gate and / or other in the mall and / or in the shop, including guidance to the user area, - hospital information to locate the patient or its location, - information to the user at the industrial site, including guidance on the permitted area / area, 15 - information on alternative queuing the services of a serving and / or close shop and / or service provider, including within the shop itself, where applicable, in guiding the product.

20 - Information in the field of traffic, for example for the electronic transmission of traffic sign information to and / or from road users.

- queuing information, queue placement and / or placement changes.

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The information may include positioning, transmitting and / or receiving spatial information, advertising, guidance, re-routing and / or other user guidance as part of the control of human flows and / or their goods.

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A VIP line will be opened at the terminal / restaurant / concert to facilitate entry, for example, for a fee. In this case, the device according to an embodiment of the invention communicates the information. The terminal may be, for example, a ship, train, bus, and / or flight terminal, depending on the user's travel stage. The terminal may also be a combination of 10 different terminals associated with different stages of the journey, or an adjacent area or other functionally related area extension. In this case the parking place of the car rental company can also be understood as a terminal. Also, in-car information / information in the garage can be implemented in person by means of a communication device.

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The location of the passenger terminal user is determined by a device according to an embodiment of the invention. Due to the queuing situation, the passenger has no chance of arriving at the terminal gate in time. In this case, based on the information, the person is redirected to the next shift and / or his / her luggage is re-routed appropriately until the change. Passengers may also be provided with their own personal information. The bulletin may be based on the passenger's previously collected information about the journey, purchasing habits, etc., which is mentioned in the system database, from which the information retrieved by the communication device is used to form the bulletin.

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w 25 Example 5 Y The mall (also the terminal mall) grants a discount to a particular group of customers, such as families with children and / or children in a particular department. The commercial announcement is transmitted by a communication device according to an embodiment of the invention. Group determined-

This can be done, for example, based on location or time, and other appropriate information that combines the user's identity with attributes or other information describing the user. The hotel / spa can also guide the customer to the right place.

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EXAMPLE 6 According to an embodiment of the invention, a product is ordered in a pickup depot whose communication device comprises information on the fetcher and / or the fetcher. When the pick-up manager's system notices the appropriate pickup communication device, the stock system activates and takes steps to facilitate the collection of the item to be picked up. According to one embodiment of the invention, the functions of the pickup warehouse are adapted for the purpose of loading and / or picking up the baggage luggage.

Example 7.

Like Example 6, but applied in a hospital setting for treating patients and / or administering medications such that the patient receives the correct medications from the drug store and / or is guided / transported / transferred to the correct treatment / treatment site according to a predetermined or modified communication system.

Example 8.

Unlike his fellow passenger, who has received it only in the terminal area, the passenger has received in advance for personal use a communication device according to an embodiment of the invention. The communication device is card-like and has information which allows one passenger in the example to log in to the travel medium cm (train, bus, ship, airplane, to mention a few examples, but is not limited to operators / institutions known per se from tourism). A passenger in the y example also has a forward connection using another means of travel, whereby the information is transmitted to the passenger terminal system which directs to the right gate and, if necessary, guides the elevators to the correct floor in the terminal. A third passenger LO also uses a card-like communication device according to an embodiment of the invention,

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cö 30 but is located in a part of the terminal that you do not have time for your own journey, nor-o o scored. With the help of a communication card, the position of the passenger is known and the information is transmitted to a system of 22 travel terminals, which guides the passenger to the VIP front line, which gives the passenger a small chance of accessing the travel medium. However, since the other passengers mentioned have received the happy-hour advertisement through their communication device, the third passenger also decides to join the above 5. She is thus late on the plane, but she does not have to pay for the front door, according to the local card offer, as she decides to leave the next day. The application of the communication device as used in warehouse management for luggage storage and / or logistics control thereof also enables the transfer of third party luggage to a more suitable 10 shifts.

The first passenger enters a gate with a long queue. To circumvent the bottleneck, the travel terminal system informs passengers of a free front line opened through a communication device to access their own means of transport. Because of the complexity of the 15 routes and the ability of the communication device to locate a passenger along its route to the gate, the communication device can be used to direct the passenger to their destination quickly and efficiently, even in exceptional circumstances.

Correspondingly, at the terminal at the destination end, the communication device may direct the mat-20 to the terminal and, for example, to a car rental and / or parking lot, even to a car intended for use. In the hotel, said passenger can be directed to the elevator to the right aisle and to the door of the room by means of a communication device according to an embodiment of the invention which is part of a system supporting said communication device.

w 25 i Y According to an embodiment of the invention, the communication device has a compass. According to one embodiment of the invention, the compass has a Hall sensor for detecting a change in direction of the magnetic field ir and / or its direction relative to the device, and means for displaying the air direction on the display of the communication device to the user. According to an embodiment of the invention S 30 according to the invention, the device has a position sensor and a memory location for remembering the last position o and / or a series of them (e.g. 100 previous ones). In this case, one of the positions can be stored to correspond to the air direction according to a predetermined configuration. According to one embodiment of the invention, the display of the communication device is arranged to be configured to display without direction, if not the whole screen according to one embodiment, then according to another embodiment with part of the display. The same display may also have other information about the location of the communication device relative to the physical state under control of the space using the communication system. The information may be displayed in word form, for example as a list of position words, acronyms, etc. Here, according to one embodiment, the position word is represented by a symbol of the direction in which the next intermediate stage is located.

Example 9.

A communications device according to an embodiment of the invention is used by personnel of one facility through a support system for information / information regarding the operations of the facility. The plant may be, for example, one of the organizations directly / indirectly indi- cated by Examples 1-8 in a broad interpretation, but not limited to the foregoing. According to one embodiment of the invention, some of the clients of the facility and / or those wishing to do so have access to the communication device of the embodiment so that the client can be personally guided / instructed. In this case, it is also possible to use 20 communication devices in the logistics and control of the material flows of the facility, including customer needs in the flow of material according to the nature of the facility (eg products, luggage, medicines, services, tools, aids and / or availability). The use of bill-off materials in one embodiment allows the communication device to be, for example, a free delivery device arranged to be distributed to staff and / or customers for use in or related to the operation of the facility.

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Lo The developer builds a plant and decides to implement its communication in (at least part of) the system in accordance with an embodiment of the invention. In this case, the developer calculates that there can be clear cost savings because it can avoid kiosk-based solutions that are clearly more expensive to implement, and after all, information is not available everywhere if the system is implemented at kiosks alone. In addition, the system according to the embodiment provides information accessible throughout the system area, which could not be done with a kiosk solution. Network architecture is simple 5 and inexpensive to build, but facility movements or other facility entrepreneurs / operators can now also benefit from system-based location-based advertising through clients or potential location-based ads via a communication device, area of operation.

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According to one embodiment of the invention, the communication system according to an embodiment of the invention is configured to control communication and / or communicate to queue queues and queue management aspects by means of a communication device according to an embodiment of the invention. Thus, persons using a communication device according to an embodiment of the invention may queue, e.g. .

The radio connection of the communication device and a system element of the communication system can also locate which communication devices are physically present and which are not. In this case, traditional business identification may also be used to support and / or as part of the organization, where applicable. Thus, in one embodiment of the invention, the communication device according to the invention is configured for virtual queuing. In this case, according to an embodiment of the invention, a system element of the system is configured to order the communication devices in an order, a queue, e.g.

Lo based on which device owners / users / users associated with the device were m 5 30 first at the service point, but not limited to said queue basis, o By way of example, the person skilled in the art can apply

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25 other queues, such as urgency, health, willingness to pay for short queues, which prioritize some queues over others.

As an example, mention is made of a passenger terminal having 1000 people queuing for access to 5 means of transport, such as a ship (but not limited to said means of transport per se). In this case, the system element communicating with a central unit of the system places incoming people in a queue in order of arrival when the system element receives a signal from each of their communication devices to identify it in the queue area. The queuing area may be defined based on the range or other value of the radio signal of the system element 10, for example, but not limited to the signal strength value itself. According to one embodiment of the invention, the signal used in the identification is an excitation response signaling signal automatically communicated between the system and an element thereof, but according to another embodiment, the signal transmitted by the user of the communication device is at least partially controlled. According to one embodiment of the invention, a system element of the system keeps track of the service progress and is thus able to estimate on a statistical basis how long a queue number 555, for example, takes before it is in turn to the queued service. According to one embodiment, the system element is configured to report the queue time to the exemplary queue 20,555, for example 1 hour in the queue before boarding. According to an embodiment of the batch, the central unit of a system element of the system can be implemented, if applicable, by software means as such, when suitable radio interfaces are in use by the central unit. According to one embodiment, the functionality of the central unit may be integrated into the infrastructure of the terminal information system when radio interface control for the system receiver-transmitter means is provided to provide functionality according to an embodiment Y of the invention.

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According to one embodiment of the invention, person 555 is automatically queued when entering the queue area. Although as such it is not necessary to separately inform person 555 that he is in a particular queue, according to a preferred embodiment of the invention, it is advantageous for the person to be aware of his queue in a particular queue 5 since there may be multiple queues in the same area with their own terminal. According to one embodiment of the invention, the person 555 may also accept or reject queues that are in his or her environment in his or her own interest. The information may be transmitted, for example, by a simple message about the virtual queue queue number and estimated queue time. According to one embodiment of the invention, a system element of the system updates the queue time estimate and queue number of the person # 555 according to queue progression, in each other possible queue managed by the element according to the queue position in which the queue has indicated. In such a case, person 555 can, at least in theory, make much use of his time and walk from one service point to another, for example in an order 15 which minimizes the queue's own idle time.

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Person 555 is in a virtual queue, but surprisingly one queue is moving faster than the estimate initially suggested. For example, person 555 is eating in a restaurant on Terminal 20 premises, and notice that it is not time to eat and go to the service station before it is his turn. Thus, the communication device according to one embodiment of the invention is provided with means by which the person 555 can request additional time from the system that manages the queue. Thus, according to one embodiment, the queuing system may automatically drop the position of the person 555 in the queue, for example, 5 positions farther from the service point service. Thus, when the person who initially received the position i Y 555 is in position 1 in the queue, the system can move the person to position 6 and take a c \ j person who is already at the service point. The drop in the queue may also be desirable at any stage, according to one embodiment. According to a direct embodiment, the system may ask a person 555, in accordance with a particular setting, with a timer 5 to follow or adapt to the queue 5 to determine whether the person 555 wants to drop the queue. According to one embodiment, the question may be asked separately, but according to one embodiment, it may also be asked in a message about changes in the queue position. According to one embodiment of the invention, the communication device can be set to a mode where queuing starts automatically from the best position 50 and not, for example, from position 1. The holder of the communication device 5 can then, by its procedure, reserve time for environmental exploration and shopping.

According to an embodiment of the invention, the communication device holder may, at a convenient point in his queue, request the communication device, based on the signal / message transmitted by the communication device, to degrade his queue 10 to 880, for example, because he meets an old friend and for shopping. The store may also send advertisements to the queuing company, whereby the advertisement may, for example, be sent to certain customers on the basis of the queue, and / or to persons otherwise in the vicinity of the store.

15 For example, the system element of a nearby cafe notices queues in the vicinity. The system element visits the database, which user of the communication device has an average customer time available before the next event in a queue and sends an offer to the communication device display e.g. coffee-20 and buns if the queue has an estimated time of 1 ohm and the queue is located close enough to the cafe. According to one embodiment of the invention, the system elements of a travel terminal or similar shopping mall are in communication with each other and / or with a database maintained for queuing information on communication devices and. In this case, the system elements may communicate queuing information, and the system may use the information and queue estimation in advertising or other communication to communication devices within the system area.

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Claims (11)

A communication device (K) comprising: - electromagnetic means (SMGV) for transmitting information between at least one transmitter-receiver pair by means of electromagnetic radiation (SMG), - audio-visual means (AV, N) for transmitting a signal to a user of the communication device; RMO), a communication device (K) with an energy source (E), characterized in that the communication device is configured to communicate a virtual queuing queue between a system element of the host system and the communication device and the electromagnetic means (SMGV) is configured to communicate with a Dash7. Communication device according to Claim 1, characterized in that it comprises response generation means (VMV) and / or the communication device comprises a group of keys 20 (Nap) having at least one key operable to generate a response by said key. Communication device according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that at least one of the audio-visual means (N, Audio) is implemented with a bistable element. ° 25 A comma-cassette device configured as a system element according to at least one of the preceding claims 1, 2 or 3, characterized in that the electromagnetic means (SMGV) comprises an impulse radio transmitter repeater, a router (R) pulse radio transmitter, a pulse radio transmitter and / or impulse radio receiver. m CD O δ c \ j Communication device according to any of the preceding claims 1, 2, 3 or 4, characterized in that the communication device has - an ID module (USR) for storing the identity of the user, the card tray (RMO) and / or the communication device (K), and / or 5. memory for storing communicated or intended information. Communication device according to any one of the preceding claims 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5, characterized in that the communication device has a browser (Browser) for browsing information and / or for operating the device operating system. 10 A communication system, characterized in that the communication system comprises a plurality of system elements (K, K1, K2, K3, Other, R, Ser, Ser1, Ser2, T), at least one of which (K, K1, K2, K3) a communication device (K) according to the preceding claims 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 configured as one of the system elements to communicate with said communication system operating as part of the host system or part thereof. Communication system according to claim 7, characterized in that the communication system comprises a system element which can be selected from: - a repeater (Second) for transmitting an electromagnetic radiation based (SMG) transmission (SMGV) between the communication device (K) and the base station; (T) for transmitting electromagnetic radiation (SMG) based transmission (SMGV) between the communication device and another system element, i ^ 7 server c \] database and its instructions, k - locator system a system element for locating another element of the same system, m CD 30 O δ C \ J System according to Claim 8, characterized in that one system element is configured to operate by means of an impulse radio transmission. System according to claim 9, characterized in that the system is a cellular radio system. Use of a communication device (K) according to any one of claims 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 for information management for queuing, characterized in that the information comprises at least one of: 10. information in an elevator at a tourist destination and / or in a hotel or other permitted destination, - information at the passenger terminal, in the immediate vicinity of the passenger terminal and / or the passenger terminal to guide the passenger to the gate and / or other permitted destination, - information at the mall and / or shop or in the immediate area, and / or in the hospital to locate the patient's location, - information to the user in the industrial facility or in the immediate vicinity to guide him / her to the allowed area / area / - one of the allowed areas, or queue-by-pass, - information as a commercial communication uses the services of a retail store and / or service provider. c \ j δ c \ j i 1 ^ C \ l X cc CL m m δ o δ CM