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AssigneeNEC Corporation
InventorsKazuhiro Okanoue, Shuntaro Yamazaki
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The present invention provides a network service information providing system which allows users to readily know a location and radio transmission parameters for connecting to a narrow-area wireless communications system in a system which contains a mixture of wide-area wireless communications systems and narrow-area wireless communications systems and to set up a new narrow-area wireless communications system which can provide higher communications services without causing degradation in existing communications services in the environment where different wireless communications systems coexist. The user knows his/her own location through a wide-area wireless communications system and sends the location of a narrow-area wireless communications system which he/she wants to connect to, wireless transmission parameters, and other requirements to a wireless area information server. The wireless area information server possesses wireless transmission parameters of narrow-area wireless communications systems and the locations of base stations which provide narrow-area wireless communications services. Upon receiving the requirements from the user, the wireless area information server informs the user of the service area of the narrow-area wireless communications system nearest to the user via the wide-area wireless communications system.
A network service information providing system in a communications system which contains a mixture of first wireless communications systems (hereinafter referred to as narrow-area wireless communications systems) for providing wireless communications service to designated areas and second wireless communications systems (hereinafter referred to as wide-area wireless communications systems) for providing wireless communications service to areas wider than said designated areas and which includes terminals capable of connecting at least to said wide-area wireless communications systems, comprising:
A network service information providing system in a wireless communications system which contains a mixture of wireless communications systems (hereinafter referred to as narrow-area wireless communications systems) for providing wireless communications service to designated areas, comprising:
A network service information providing apparatus in a communications system which contains a mixture of first wireless communications systems (hereinafter referred to as narrow-area wireless communications systems) for providing wireless communications service to designated areas and second wireless communications systems (hereinafter referred to as wide-area wireless communications systems) for providing wireless communications service to areas wider than said designated areas, wherein said network service information providing apparatus is intended to provide network service information to a terminal capable of connecting at least to said wide-area wireless communications systems and comprises:
A network service information providing apparatus for providing network service information in a wireless communications system which contains a mixture of wireless communications systems (hereinafter referred to as narrow-area wireless communications systems) for providing wireless communications service to designated areas, comprising:
A network service information providing method in a communications system which contains a mixture of first wireless communications systems (hereinafter referred to as narrow-area wireless communications systems) for providing wireless communications service to designated areas and second wireless communications systems (hereinafter referred to as wide-area wireless communications systems) for providing wireless communications service to areas wider than said designated areas and which includes terminals capable of connecting at least to said wide-area wireless communications systems as well as includes a network service information providing apparatus intended to provide network service information in response to requests from said terminals, comprising in said network service information providing apparatus:
A network service information providing method in a wireless communications system which contains a mixture of wireless communications systems (hereinafter referred to as narrow-area wireless communications systems) for providing wireless communications service to designated areas, comprising:
An operation control method for a network service information providing apparatus in a communications system which contains a mixture of first wireless communications systems (hereinafter referred to as narrow-area wireless communications systems) for providing wireless communications service to designated areas and second wireless communications systems (hereinafter referred to as wide-area wireless communications systems) for providing wireless communications service to areas wider than said designated areas and which includes terminals capable of connecting at least to said wide-area wireless communications systems as well as includes said network service information providing apparatus intended to provide network service information in response to requests from said terminals, comprising:
An operation control method for a network service information providing apparatus in a wireless communications system which contains a mixture of wireless communications systems (hereinafter referred to as narrow-area wireless communications systems) for providing wireless communications service to designated areas, said operation control method comprising:
A terminal in a network service information providing system which contains a mixture of first wireless communications systems (hereinafter referred to as narrow-area wireless communications systems) for providing wireless communications service to designated areas and second wireless communications systems (hereinafter referred to as wide-area wireless communications systems) for providing wireless communications service to areas wider than said designated areas and which includes a network service information providing apparatus that possesses information about each of said narrow-area wireless communications systems and that provides information about service areas of said narrow-area wireless communications systems as network service information to said terminals in response to requests from said terminals via said wide-area wireless communications systems, comprising:
A recording medium containing a program for making a computer execute operations of a network service information providing apparatus in a communications system which contains a mixture of first wireless communications systems (hereinafter referred to as narrow-area wireless communications systems) for providing wireless communications service to designated areas and second wireless communications systems (hereinafter referred to as wide-area wireless communications systems) for providing wireless communications service to areas wider than said designated areas and which includes terminals capable of connecting at least to said wide-area wireless communications systems as well as includes said network service information providing apparatus intended to provide network service information in response to requests from said terminals,
A recording medium containing a program for making a computer execute operations of a network service information providing apparatus in a wireless communications system which contains a mixture of wireless communications systems (hereinafter referred to as narrow-area wireless communications systems) for providing wireless communications service to designated areas,
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