US 2016/0080912 A1Published application

Radio communication terminal and radio communication method

AssigneeCasio Computer Co., Ltd.

InventorsTakahiro TOMIDA, Yuji TABATA, Yoshiaki NAKAMURA, Tsutomu TERAZAKI

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Abstract

A radio communication terminal receives position information showing a position of another radio communication terminal. The radio communication terminal obtains, from the position information, a terminal ID of the radio communication terminal, and a beacon ID for identifying the predetermined location nearest to the radio communication terminal. The radio communication terminal accepts the predetermined location designated by a user. The radio communication terminal determines as a communication partner terminal, the other radio communication terminal that is nearest to the accepted predetermined location based on the terminal ID and the beacon ID. The radio communication terminal performs communication with the determined communication partner terminal.

Claims13

Dependent claims

A radio communication terminal that comprises a radio communicator, the radio communication terminal comprising:

a beacon receiver which receives beacon identification information from a beacon transmitter that is located in a location near the radio communication terminal out of a plurality of the beacon transmitters respectively located at a plurality of locations, the beacon identification information being associated with the location;
an information transmitter which wirelessly transmits the received beacon identification information and a terminal identification information of the self-terminal in response to the reception of the beacon identification information associated with the location;
a storage controller which, when terminal identification information of another radio communication terminal and the beacon identification information are received from the other radio communication terminal, stores in a memory the terminal identification information and the beacon identification information associated with each other;
and
a communicator which, when the beacon identification information associated with a desired location is arbitrarily selected, identifies the terminal identification information associated with the selected beacon identification information, the terminal identification information being stored in the memory, and selects the radio communication terminal to which the identified terminal identification information is assigned as a communication partner that is located at the desired location, thereby performs communication with the radio communication terminal.

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A radio communication terminal that comprises a radio communicating means, the radio communication terminal comprising:

signal receiving means for repeatedly performing scanning of a transmission signal transmitted from a signal transmitter out of a plurality of the signal transmitters that are respectively located at a plurality of locations and each of which transmits a signal to a peripheral vicinity, thereby receiving the transmission signal including signal transmitter identification information from the signal transmitter located in a location near the radio communication terminal, the signal transmitter identification information being associated with the location;
and
transmitting means for wirelessly transmitting, every time when the signal transmitter identification information associated with the location is newly received, the signal transmitter identification information and a terminal identification information of self-terminal to another external radio communication terminal through the radio communicating means, thereby transmitting notification to the other radio communication terminal, of latest information indicating which is a vicinity location of the radio communication terminal out of the plurality of locations.

A radio communication method in a radio communication terminal comprising the steps of:

receiving a beacon signal including beacon identification information from a beacon transmitter that is located in a location near the radio communication terminal out of a plurality of the beacon transmitters respectively located at a plurality of locations, the beacon identification information being associated with the location;
wirelessly transmitting the beacon identification information and a terminal identification information of the self-terminal upon reception of the beacon identification information associated with the location;
storing, when terminal identification information of another radio communication terminal and the beacon identification information are received from the other radio communication terminal, the terminal identification information and the beacon identification information associated with each other in a memory;
and
identifying, when the beacon identification information associated with a desired location is arbitrarily selected, the terminal identification information associated with the selected beacon identification information, the terminal identification information being stored in the memory, and selecting the radio communication terminal to which the identified terminal identification information is assigned as a communication partner that is located at the desired location, thereby performing communication with the radio communication terminal.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 14/831,613Filed 20 Aug 2015
Priority: JP 2014-18875917 Sep 2014
Published: 17 Mar 2016
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification7 codes

H04W 4/30
Services specially adapted for wireless communication networks; Facilities therefor: services specially adapted for particular environments,…
G01S 5/0072
Transmission of position information to remote stations: transmission between mobile stations, e.g. anti-collision systems
G01S 5/0295
Using radio waves: proximity-based methods, e.g. position inferred from reception of particular signals
H04W 4/023
Services making use of location information: using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets…