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US 8,532,615 · App. 12/395,445 · Granted Sep 10, 2013

Base station and mobile terminal

Inventor: Hajime Nagano (Yokohama, JP)
Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 8,532,615
App. No.
12/395,445
Granted
Sep 10, 2013
Kind
B2
Abstract

To provide a security technique (a base station and a mobile terminal) for easily guarding a building such as a house for an average family or a small office at a low price by using a cellular phone terminal and a small base station (femtocell). A base station (FCL) of a mobile communication system placed in a building includes a communication unit ( 140 ) for communicating with the mobile communication system via a communication line; an obtaining unit ( 123 ) for obtaining an opened state of a fitting set to an opening of the building from the fitting or a switch placed near the fitting for detecting the opened state of the fitting; a registering unit ( 121 ) for registering information on a mobile terminal that uses the base station; a processing unit ( 122 ) for processing location registration of the mobile terminal; and a control unit ( 120 ) for controlling the communication unit to transmit a predetermined message to a predetermined addressee via the communication line if information received from the mobile terminal does not match the information registered in the registering unit when the location registration of the mobile terminal is performed by the processing unit after the opened state of the fitting is obtained.

Claims (22)

1. A base station of a mobile communication system placed in a building, comprising:

a communication unit for communicating with the mobile communication system via a communication line;

a transmitting unit for transmitting an identifier of the base station to an interface unit, wherein the interface unit is associated with at least one of a fitting set to an opening of the building and a switch placed near the fitting, wherein the switch detects an opened state of the fitting;

an obtaining unit for obtaining the opened state of the fitting from the switch;

a registering unit for registering information on a mobile terminal when the mobile terminal uses the base station for wireless communication;

a processing unit for processing location registration of the mobile terminal; and

a control unit for determining whether an identifier of the base station included in the information received from the mobile terminal matches the identifier of the base station or not if information received from the mobile terminal does not match the information registered in the registering unit when the location registration of the mobile terminal is performed by the processing unit after the opened state of the fitting is obtained by the obtaining unit, and controlling the communication unit to transmit a message according to the determination result to a predetermined addressee via the communication line, wherein the mobile terminal receives the identifier of the base station from the switch.

2. The base station according to claim 1 , wherein

the processing unit rejects the location registration of the mobile terminal if information received from the mobile terminal does not match the information on the mobile terminal registered in the registering unit when the location registration of the mobile terminal is performed by the processing unit.

3. The base station according to claim 1 , wherein

the base station has a plurality of the switches, each of which is allocated with a security level, and

the predetermined message is according to the security level allocated to the switch for which the opened state is obtained.

4. A base station of a mobile communication system placed in a building, comprising:

a transmitting unit for transmitting an identifier of the base station to an interface unit, wherein the interface unit is associated with at least one of a fitting set to an opening of the building and a switch placed near the fitting, wherein the switch detects an opened state of the fitting, and wherein the transmitting unit is also for transmitting information to a mobile terminal via the fitting by using human body communication;

an obtaining unit for obtaining the opened state of the fitting from the switch;

a registering unit for registering information on the mobile terminal when the mobile terminal uses the base station for wireless communication;

a processing unit for processing location registration of the mobile terminal; and

a control unit for determining whether an identifier of the base station included in the information received from the mobile terminal matches the identifier of the base station or not if information received from the mobile terminal does not match the information registered in the registering unit when the location registration of the mobile terminal is performed by the processing unit after the opened state of the fitting is obtained by the obtaining unit, and controlling the communication unit to transmit a message according to the determination result to a predetermined addressee via the communication line, wherein the mobile terminal receives the identifier of the base station from the switch.

5. A mobile terminal comprising:

a human body communication unit that can communicate by using human body communication;

a storage unit for storing an identifier of a base station received by the human body communication unit from a fitting; and

a control unit for performing location registration via the base station when the mobile terminal uses the base station for wireless communication, wherein the control unit controls the mobile terminal to transmit information that can identify the mobile terminal or a contractor of the mobile terminal and the identifier of the base station that is stored in the storage unit to the base station when the location registration is performed.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 1, 2009
From: NAGANO, HAJIME
To: KYOCERA CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 023316/0089 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2008-045875 · Feb 27, 2008 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20100015948A1 · Jan 21, 2010