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1. will result in the display showing the name of the radio channel and the frequency of the radio channel state 3 3 By pressing the multi func tionality key 8 Options the display turns to state 3 4 By selecting Save and pressing the multi functionality key 8 OK the channel will automatically be saved in one of the free channel locations If there are no free channel locations the user interface will prompt for selecting a channel loca tion to overwrite state 3 5 0078 When listening to a radio station state 4 1 or when having a radio station marked state 4 2 the user interlace will show the function Options above the multi function key 8 After pressing the multi function key 8 Options the user interface allows browsing with the browser button 9 through the options Listen Send channel Edit name and Discard state 4 3 After selecting Send channel and pressing the multi function key 8 OK the user inter face prompts for a phone number to send the channel setting to state 4 4 After entering the number with the number keys the display above the multi function key changes to OK state 4 5 After pressing the multi functionality key 8 OK state 4 5 the message is sent Alternatively the phone number can be recalled from the phone book by pressing the multifunction key Search state 4 4 The following phone number selection from the phone book is no2. particular station that has the strongest signal in that area is sent to the mobile phone whenever the mobile phone changes geographical area The broadband AM and or FM radio signal receiver is automatically tuned to the last received radio channel setting Thus the phone is automati cally kept tuned to the frequency with the strongest signal in the area in which the phone is located 0067 According to another embodiment the message also comprises a date and time for the start of a radio program Upon receipt ofsuch a message the user is notified with a tone and a text on the display of the mobile phone displaying that a radio event has been received FIG 3a If the user chooses to store the message in the radio channel memory see below for details of this step the broadband AM and or FM radio receiver is automatically switched on and tuned to the received radio channel setting when the date and time contained in the message is reached A message containing radio channel settings including a date and a time for the start of a radio program can also be sent from the mobile phone to another mobile phone The messages can further originate from a server to which the user subscribes 0068 Alternatively a message requesting a particular radio channel setting may be sent from the mobile phone to aserver and a message containing the requested radio station setting or settings is returned by the server The request may be directed to chan
3. detecting that a message contains a radio channel setting 0007 A menu of the mobile phone user interlace may be activated when a message containing a radio channel setting is received the menu prompting the user to choose to either listen to the received radio channel save the received radio channel setting view the details of the received radio channel setting or discard the channel setting 0008 Also a further menu of the user interface may be activated when the user has chosen to save the radio channel setting the further menu requesting the user to select one of the channel location numbers of the radio channel memory 0009 The mobile phone may further send a message containing a radio channel setting so that mobile phone users may keep one another updated about interesting chan nels 0010 Preferably the detector for detecting that a mes sage contains a radio channel setting determines the type of content of the message from the user data header of the message Jul 3 2003 0011 The mobile phone comprises in a preferred embodiment a receiver to receive messages containing radio channel frequency and or name and time and date of a radio program 0012 In this preferred embodiment the mobile telephone further activates the broadband AM and or FM radio signal receiver and tunes it to the received channel when the time and date of the received radio program has been reached 0013 The present invention is a
4. identifies the message as being a radio channel setting by the information in the user data header 0060 The radio channel setting may either be automati cally stored in a radio channel memory of the mobile telephone or as explained below it is up to the user of the mobile phone to choose what to do with the received radio channel setting 0061 Conventional radio broadcasting is based on trans mission of channels at assigned frequencies from radio towers that cover a certain geographical area The frequency of a radio channel is therefore only relevant in the geo graphical area where the signal is strong enough for proper reception of the signal Thus one or more radio station settings may be assigned to different geographical areas 0062 The mobile phone network keeps track of the location of the mobile phone in a well known manner described in e g the enhanced observed time difference E OTD method This method is described in GSM 04 35 version 8 0 0 Release 1999 ETSI TS 101 528 V8 0 0 and ETSI TS 101 527 V8 1 0 which are hereby incorporated by reference Alternatively the location of the phone can sim ply be determined according to the network cell in which the mobile phone is registered 0063 According to an embodiment of the invention the radio channels settings are automatically updated during location change When a change of geographical area is detected a message containing radio channel settings assigned
5. method which over comes the above mentioned problem The method updates radio channel settings of a mobile phone in which a message containing a radio channel setting is sent to the mobile phone 0014 The radio channel setting in the message may comprise a radio channel frequency and or radio channel name and or radio program starting time and date as well as other information 0015 According to a preferred embodiment the mobile phone comprises a radio channel memory for storing a plurality of radio channel settings and the method com prises the step of storing a radio channel contained in the message to the radio channel memory 0016 According to another preferred embodiment the mobile phone comprises a radio channel memory for storing a plurality of radio channel settings further comprising the step of storing a radio channel contained in the message to the radio channel memory 0017 The method of updating the radio channel setting may further comprise the steps of 0018 assigning particular radio channel settings to different geographical areas 0019 determining in which geographical area the mobile phone is located and 0020 sending a message to the mobile phone con taining at least one radio channel setting assigned to the geographical area in which the mobile phone is located 0021 Preferably the message containing at least one radio channel setting assigned to the geographical location in which t
6. which in the preferred embodiment is provided as a scroll key 9 for moving a cursor or a cursing bar in two opposite directions By means of the scroll key 9 the user can jump selectively from one item to the preceding or the succeeding item in the menu loop of the phone while he gets access to a submenu loop under the item concerned in the main menu loop by activation of the multi functionality key The clear key 10 may be used e g for erasing the digit or letter entered last by brief depression while depression of a longer duration will erase the entire number or word Like the multi functionality key 8 the scroll key 9 and the clear key 10 may advanta geously be redefined in some states 0072 The user interlace allows thus selection of a variety of available functions e g phone book call register settings messages etc This user interface is as such known from U S Pat No 6 195 569 hereby incorporated by reference 0073 The mobile phone has text message sending and receiving functionality as defined in ETSI IS 100 901 V7 4 0 1999 12 Technical Specification Digital cellular telecom munications system Phase 2 Technical realization of the Short Message Service SMS GSM 03 40 version 7 4 0 Release 1998 The mobile phone recognizes different mes sage types such as those containing ringing tones picture messages WAP settings and business cards Vcard by the corresponding information in the user data header The m
7. US 20030125076A1 as United States a Patent Application Publication co Pub No US 2003 0125076 Al Seppala et al 43 Pub Date Jul 3 2003 54 MOBILE PHONE AND METHOD OF 52 USS CI 2 455 556 455 186 1 UPDATING RADIO CHANNEL SETTINGS 76 Inventors Olli Seppala Tampere FI Niels 57 ABSTRACT Nymark Hilleroed DK Correspondence Address A mobile phone is provided with a broadband AM and or en TERRY STOUT AND KRAUS FM radio signal receiver The mobile phone further has a 1300 NORTH SEVENTEENTH STREET SR nn Se ne 2a a aa of radio chan ARLINGTON VA 22209 nel settings The mobile telephone further receives mes sages such as SMS messages and a storage for storing a 21 Appl No 10 029 972 radio channel setting contained in a received message in the A radio channel memory A method of updating radio channel 22 Filed Dec 31 2001 settings of a mobile phone having a broadband AM and or Publication Classification FM radio receiver is provided The mobile phone receives messages The message contains a radio channel setting The 51 nt Channel H04M 1 00 radio channel setting may be stored in the mobile phone Channel located 98 2 MHz Options 2 7 Listen Send Patent Application Publication Jul 3 2003 Sheet 1 of 5 US 2003 0125076 A1 Operator Patent Application Publication Jul 3 2003 Sheet 2 of 5 US 2003 0125076 A1 9 Messages Operator 10 Radio 11 Call divert TNR 90 0 Me Sen
8. contains a radio channel setting 3 Mobile phone according to claim 2 wherein a menu of the mobile phone user interface is activated when a message containing a radio channel setting is received said menu prompting the user to choose to either listen to the received radio channel save the received radio channel setting view the details of the received radio channel setting or discard said channel setting 4 Mobile phone according to claim 3 wherein a further menu of the user interface is activated when the user has chosen to save the radio channel setting said further menu requesting the user to select one of the channel location numbers of said radio channel memory 5 Mobile phone according to any of claims 1 to 4 further comprising means to send a message containing a radio channel setting 6 Mobile phone according to any of claims 1 to 5 wherein said radio channel setting in said message com prises a radio channel frequency and or radio channel name and or radio program starting date and time 7 Mobile phone according to any of claims 2 to 6 wherein said means for detecting that a message contains a radio channel setting determines the type of content of said message from the user data header of the message 8 Mobile phone according to any of claims 1 to 7 comprising means to receive messages containing radio channel frequency and or name and time and date of a radio program said mobile telephone further comprising mean
9. d channel 2 HIT FM 104 5 MH Edit name 3 Classic 96 3 MHz Erase channel Options OK Fig 2 Patent Application Publication Jul 3 2003 Sheet 3 of 5 US 2003 0125076 A1 Listen Send Channel located 98 2 MHz Options 2 7 Fig 2a Patent Application Publication Jul 3 2003 Sheet 4 of 5 Listen Save Discard Radio channel received Options Details RIX FM Listen 98 2 MHz Genre POP Save Discar Sender SMS Broadcast club scard Options Save in position 08 09 10 m2 OK Fig 3 US 2003 0125076 A1 Patent Application Publication Jul 3 2003 Sheet 5 of 5 US 2003 0125076 A1 1 NRG 90 0 MHz 1 POP FM 2 HIT FM 104 5 MHz 3 Classic 96 3 MHz 96 4 MHz Options Options Listen Phone number Send channel Edit name Discard Search Phone number Sending radio channel 21937015 OK Fig 4 US 2003 0125076 Al MOBILE PHONE AND METHOD OF UPDATING RADIO CHANNEL SETTINGS BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 0001 1 Field of the Invention 0002 The present invention relates to methods of updat ing radio channel settings of a mobile phone in particular methods of sending messages such as the Global System for Mobile communications System Short Message Service Further the invention relates to mobile phones in particular to mobile phones capable of sending and receiving text messages and having a broadband radio receiver 0003 2 Description of the Pri
10. gram type and comments and other information 0032 According to a preferred embodiment of the inven tion a message containing a radio channel setting has the format 0033 BEGIN FMRADIOSET 0034 VERSION 1 0 0035 SETN Copenhagen FM 0036 NI RIX FM 0037 FI 08960 0038 END FMRADIOSET 0039 SETN indicates the geographical area for which the radio channel setting applies NI indicates the radio channel name and FI indicates the radio channel frequency 0040 According to another embodiment of the invention the message may contain several radio channel settings in the format 0041 BEGIN FMRADIOSET 0042 VERSION I O Jul 3 2003 0043 SETN Copenhagen FM 0044 NI RIX FM 0045 FI 08960 0046 N2 NRG 0047 F2 09000 0048 END FMRADIOSET 0049 According to a further embodiment of the inven tion the message containing a radio channel setting includes program type or genre a radio program title and a date and time for the start of the radio program 0050 BEGIN FMRADIOSET 0051 VERSION I 0 0052 SETN Copenhagen FM 0053 NI RIX FM 0054 FI 08960 0055 GI POP 0056 EI 091201 1530 TOP 50 0057 END FMRADIOSET 0058 G1 indicates the title of the radio program E1 is a radio program starting date and time Dec 9 2001 called TOP 50 0059 The radio channel settings of a mobile phone are updated by sending a message as described above to the mobile phone The mobile phone
11. he phone is located is sent when the mobile phone has moved from one geographical area to another or when the mobile phone logs on to the network in the geographical area 0022 Preferably the broadband AM and or FM radio receiver is automatically tuned to the last radio channel setting that is received 0023 The radio channel setting may include a date and time and the broadband AM and or FM radio receiver may be automatically switched on and tuned to the received radio channel setting 0024 According to yet another embodiment of the inven tion a message requesting a particular radio station setting or settings is sent to a server and the message containing the requested radio station setting or settings is returned by the server In the message to the server a particular radio station setting or settings for a particular geographical area or a number of particular areas along a route may be requested US 2003 0125076 Al 0025 A message containing the requested radio station setting or settings is returned by the server In the message to the server a particular radio station setting for a particular geographical area or a number of particular areas along a route may be requested 0026 Further objects features advantages and properties of the invention will become apparent from the detailed description BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS 0027 In the following detailed portion of the present description the invent
12. ion will be explained in more detail with reference to the exemplary embodiments shown in the drawings in which 0028 FIG I is a diagrammatic view of a mobile phone 0029 FIGS 2 2a 3 and 4 are flowcharts illustrating the user interlace of the mobile phone that relates to the radio functions DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS 0030 Text messages such as SMS messages are a useful extension of the use of mobile phones The technical speci fications for the GSM Short Message Service are defined in ETSI TS 100 901 V7 4 0 1 999 12 Technical Specifica tion Digital cellular telecommunications system Phase 2 Technical realization of the Short Message Service SMS GSM 03 40 version 7 4 0 Release 1998 hereby incorpo rated by reference The messages may contain plain text ringing tones picture messages WAP settings and business cards Vcard The type of message is coded in the user data header The user data header is indicated in the first octet of the SMS Submit TPDU with message parameter value 0031 According to the present invention a message sent to a mobile phone contains radio channel settings The user data header of the radio channel setting message contains information that allows a mobile phone to recognize the message as radio channels setting The message itself con tains at least the frequency of a radio channel The radio channel setting message may further contain channel name pro
13. nels in a particular geographical area a particular radio station a number of particular areas along a route between two geographical locations 0069 If a message contains more data than possible to send in a single SMS concated SMS messages may be used 0070 FIG 1 shows a preferred embodiment of a mobile phone according to the invention and it will be seen that the mobile phone which is generally designated by 1 comprises a user interlace having a keypad 2 a display 3 an on off button 4 an earpiece 5 and a microphone 6 The keypad 2 has a set of keys 7 for entering data These keys 7 are in the form of alphanumeric keys by means of which the user can enter numbers and letters e g a phone number a text Jul 3 2003 message SMS or a name associated with the phone number The user uses the first group of keys primarily for entering data in the phone entry events 0071 In the preferred embodiment the keypad 2 addi tionally comprises a single multi functionality key 8 a so called soft key whose function depends on the present state of the phone The default function or the present function of the multi functionality key 8 is displayed in a separate field 11 below a basic screen area 12 of the display 3 Information entered by the data entering keys and infor mation received from the network are displayed in the basic screen area 12 In the preferred embodiment the keypad additionally comprises a scrolling device
14. obile phone further recognizes text messages containing radio channel settings by the radio channel setting header discussed above 0074 The mobile phone I also receives broadband AM Amplitude Modulation and or FM Frequency Modula tion radio signals via a broadband AM and or FM receiver The mobile phone has an input signal path for receiving FM and or AM radiobroadcast signals An FM antenna which is also the wire of the headset receives radio signals transmit ted in the FM range i e 87 5 to 107 9 MHz The mobile phone has a memory comprising preferably at least 20 channel locations for storing radio channels In order to receive a particular radio channel the user operates the radio menu of the user interface to tune the FM receiver The user interlace accordingly signals a microprocessor which drives a phase locked up circuit accordingly 0075 With reference to the flow charts in FIGS 2 2a 3 and 4 the radio functions are described in more detail To turn on the radio the multi functionality key 8 Menu is pressed state 2 1 The radio submenu is selected by using the scroll button 9 to browse through the submenus and pressing the multi functionality key 8 OK again state 2 2 The display 3 now shows the channel location numbers the name of the radio channels and the frequency of the radio US 2003 0125076 Al channels state 2 3 The user can scroll to the desired channel by using the scroll key 9 and selec
15. or Art 0004 Mobile phones that can also exchange information using protocols such as the Short Message Service SMS part of the Global System for Mobile communications GSM digital standard are well known in the art Conven tional SMS messages may be plain text messages or mes sages containing a particular type of information such as ringing tones picture messages WAP settings and business cards Vcard Recently mobile phones with broadband radio receivers such as the Nokia 8310 and 6510 have come on the market The receiver is controlled through a user interface comprising a display and a keypad The radio functions of the phone can thus be controlled without any keys being solely dedicated only to the radio functions A number of radio stations can be stored and recalled By nature mobile phones are used in changing locations It is therefore not unlikely that the radio channel settings stored in the phone are no longer useful because the signal of the stored channels is too weak to be received in a changed location of the mobile phone SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION 0005 The present invention provides a mobile phone which overcomes the above mentioned problem The inven tion provides a mobile phone capable of recognizing that a text message service contains a radio channel setting and a storage for storing the received radio channel in a radio channel memory 0006 Preferably the mobile phone further comprises a detector for
16. s moved from one geographical area to another or when said mobile phone logs on to the network in said geographical area 14 Method according to any of claims 9 to 13 wherein said broadband AM and or FM radio receiver is automati cally tuned to the last radio channel setting that is received 15 Method according to any of claims 9 to 14 wherein the radio channel setting includes a date and time and the broadband AM and or FM radio receiver is automatically switched on and tuned to the received radio channel setting Jul 3 2003 16 Method according to any of claims 9 to 15 wherein a message requesting a particular radio station setting or settings is sent to a server and a message containing the requested radio station setting or settings is returned by said server 17 Method according to claim 16 wherein a message requesting a particular radio station setting or settings for a particular geographical area or a number of particular arcas along a route is sent to a server and the message containing the requested radio station setting or settings is returned by said server
17. s to activate said broadband AM and or FM radio signal receiver and tune it to said received channel when the time and date of the received radio program has been reached 9 Method of updating radio channel settings of a mobile phone having a broadband AM and or FM radio receiver and having means for receiving messages by sending a message containing a radio channel setting to said mobile phone 10 Method according to claim 9 wherein said mobile phone comprises a radio channel memory for storing a plurality of radio channel settings further comprising the step of storing a radio channel contained in said message to said radio channel memory 11 Method according to claim 9 or 10 wherein the radio channel settings comprise at least the radio channel fre quency and preferably also the radio station name and or the radio program type 12 Method according to any of claims 9 to 11 comprising the steps of assigning particular radio channel settings to different geographical areas determining in which geographical area said mobile phone is located and sending a message to said mobile phone containing at least one radio channel setting assigned to the geo graphical area in which said mobile phone is located US 2003 0125076 Al 13 Method according to claim 12 wherein said message containing at least one radio channel setting assigned to the geographical location in which the phone is located is sent when said mobile phone ha
18. t one by pressing the multi functionality key 8 options Then a menu is displayed with the choice of listening sending editing or erasing the channel state 2 4 Selecting preset channels I to 9 is also possible by pressing the corresponding number key on the keypad 2 0076 When the radio is on pressing and holding the scroll button 9 will start a channel search Searching stops when a channel is located To save the channel the multi functionality key 8 Options is pressed state 2 5 Using the scroll button 9 Save channel can be selected and by pressing the multi functionality key 8 OK state 2 6 the channel can be stored The user interlace now prompts for entering a name for the channel state 2 7 After entering the name and selecting OK the channel will automatically be saved in one of the free channel locations If there are no free channel locations the user interlace will prompt for select ing a location to overwrite state 3 5 0077 When a text message containing a radio station setting is received the user interface displays a soft notifi cation Radio channel received state 3 1 Upon pressing the multi functionality key 8 Options the user interface displays the options Details Listen Save and Dis card state 3 2 By using the scroll key 9 the user can select either of these three options Selecting Details and press ing the multi function key 8 OK
19. t shown here and is well known from e g the Nokia 3310 mobile phone and the Nokia 3310 User Manual which is hereby incorporated by reference While the mes sage is being sent the user interface will display Sending channel setting state 4 6 The user still has a chance to interrupt the transmission by pressing the multi function key 8 Cancel 0079 The mobile telephone further comprises a dock that can activate the broadband AM and or FM radio signal receiver when a stored date and time has been reached The mobile phone further has a storage to store a date and time received in a radio channel setting to allow activation of the broadband AM and or FM radio signal receiver and tune it to the radio channel setting contained in the message when this date and time has been reached Jul 3 2003 0080 Although the invention is shown with a single multi function key it is dear that the present invention also can be carried out with two or more multi function keys without departing from the scope of the invention 1 Mobile phone comprising a broadband AM and or FM radio signal receiver a radio channel memory for storing a plurality of radio channel settings said mobile telephone further having means for receiving messages and means for storing a radio channel setting contained in a received message in said radio channel memory 2 Mobile phone according to claim 1 further comprising means for detecting that a message
20. to the geographical area to which the mobile phone has moved is sent to the mobile phone Such a message could be sent by a service provider subscribed to by the user US 2003 0125076 Al of the mobile phone Thus the user does not have to tune the radio stations manually when traveling 0064 A message with radio station channels assigned to a particular geographical area can also be sent when a mobile phone logs on to the network in that particular geographical area 0065 According to another embodiment it is also pos sible that specifie channel settings are requested by sending a message from a mobile phone to a service provider and the service provider sending the requested radio channel settings back to the requesting mobile phone Such requests could e g be requests for radio channel settings of channels belonging to a specific genre radio channel settings for a specific geographical area or radio channel settings along a route between two geographical areas or locations 0066 One radio station may broadcast from different locations at different frequencies According to another embodiment of the invention the mobile phone is automati cally tuned to the frequency with the strongest signal at which a particular radio station is transmitting in the geo graphical area in which the phone is located The network keeps track of the geographical area in which the mobile phone is located The frequency of the radio channel of the
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