CN1988688A - Method, device and system for inquiring public bus information - Google Patents

Abstract

The embodiment of the present invention discloses a bus information query system, including: a mobile terminal, supporting smart card application toolbox or wireless application protocol function, and sending query request through short message or WAP protocol; network side, receiving information from the mobile terminal An information query request, accessing the GPS bus information database according to the query request to obtain relevant information and sending or displaying it to the mobile terminal. The invention also discloses a bus information query method, comprising: receiving a bus real-time information query request from a mobile terminal; accessing a GPS bus information database according to the query request and obtaining corresponding bus real-time information; The real-time information of the vehicle is sent to the mobile terminal. The invention also discloses a short message center, a WAP server and a mobile terminal. Through the embodiment of the present invention, the user can conveniently query the specific arrival time of the required bus through the mobile terminal, so as to arrange the time reasonably.

Description

A bus information query method, device and system

technical field

The invention relates to the field of mobile communication applications, in particular to a bus information query method, device and system.

Background technique

Now the Global Positioning System (Global Positioning System, GPS) has been widely used in various industries, among which the application in the vehicle monitoring and dispatching system is the most well-known. GPS vehicle monitoring and dispatching system mainly consists of three parts: vehicle terminal, wireless data link and dispatching center. Figure 1 shows the GPS bus electronic stop sign system, which consists of three parts: GPS mobile vehicle terminal, dispatch center and electronic stop sign. When a bus equipped with a GPS vehicle terminal travels to any station, it will immediately send the arrival information to the dispatch center. The dispatch center processes the arrival information, then generates the display information of the station board, and sends it to each electronic station board display information. After receiving the information, the electronic stop sign will display information such as the location of the nearest vehicle and the arrival time on the electronic stop sign according to the information.

At present, this technology is not widely used and cannot be combined with existing mobile phones to enable users to query the real-time information of the specific arrival time of buses through mobile phones.

In the field of mobile communications, the emergence of the smart card application toolkit (Tool Kit) has made the use and realization of value-added services easier. The smart card application toolbox includes SIM card application development used by the Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) Toolbox (SIM Tool Kit, STK) and UIM card application development toolbox (UIM Tool Kit, UTK) used by Code-Division Multiple Access digital wireless technology (Code-Division Multiple Access, CDMA). Using STK technology, you can design a menu with rich functions and easy operation in the SIM card, so that users can enjoy the value-added services provided by operators in a visual and interactive way. With STK technology, the client program is placed in the smart card of the mobile phone, and the server-side application program is placed in the STK server on the network side. The mobile phone accesses the network server through the short message carrying channel, dynamically downloads new SIM card applications or data, and helps users to simply and quickly select the short message download they need, such as weather forecast, flight, stock price, etc. Currently, the mobile phone has this function The mobile phone can also query bus information through the Internet, such as the query of bus-related lines.

With the rise of the wireless application protocol (Wireless Application Protocol, WAP) Internet access technology, the smart card application toolbox and the WAP Internet access technology have not been able to combine with the real-time query of the specific arrival time of the bus, and the user cannot enjoy this real-time The convenience brought by inquiries.

Contents of the invention

Embodiments of the present invention provide a bus information query system, device and method. Real-time query of the specific arrival time information of the bus through the mobile terminal can allow the user to know the bus arrival time information or temporary route information or traffic jam information at any time, which can facilitate the user's travel.

In order to solve the above technical problems, the embodiment of the present invention proposes a bus information query method, including: receiving a bus real-time information query request from a mobile terminal; accessing the GPS bus information database according to the query request and obtaining the corresponding bus information Real-time information: sending the relevant bus real-time information to the mobile terminal.

Preferably, the query request is received in the form of a short message; accessing the GPS bus information database according to the query request further refers to: the short message center accessing the GPS bus information database according to the query request.

Preferably, the query request is received through the WAP protocol; accessing the GPS bus information database according to the query request further refers to: the WAP server accesses the GPS bus information database according to the query request.

Preferably, the short message center or WAP server accesses the GPS bus information database through the Internet.

Optionally, the real-time bus information further includes: bus arrival time, expected arrival time, traffic jam information or temporary driving route.

Also provide a kind of short message center in the embodiment of the present invention, described short message center is provided with or connects GPS bus information database, and described database can receive the bus real-time information from GPS vehicle-mounted terminal; Described short message center comprises: The receiving unit receives the query request from the mobile terminal; the query unit searches the corresponding information from the GPS bus information database according to the query request and sends it to the mobile terminal.

Also a kind of WAP server in the embodiment of the present invention, it is characterized in that, described WAP server is provided with or is connected with GPS bus information database, and described database receives the bus real-time information from GPS vehicle-mounted terminal; Described WAP server comprises: receiving A unit for receiving a WAP query request from a mobile terminal; a query unit for searching corresponding information from the GPS bus information database according to the WAP query request and sending it to the mobile terminal.

The present invention also provides a mobile terminal, the mobile terminal is provided with: a GPS bus information module, used to generate a bus real-time information query request; a sending module, and sends the query request to the network side; a receiving module, receiving The real-time bus information returned from the network side; the prompt module prompts the user with the real-time bus information received by the receiving module.

Preferably, the GPS bus information module further includes: a user setting unit for inputting the bus index information that the user wants to query; a generating unit for generating the query request according to the bus index information input by the user.

Preferably, the generating unit is further a short message generating unit or a WAP request generating unit.

Preferably, the prompting module further includes a display unit and/or an audio prompting unit, which prompts the user with the real-time bus information in the form of images, texts and/or sounds.

The embodiment of the present invention also provides a bus information query system, including: a mobile terminal, supporting smart card application toolbox or wireless application protocol function, sending a query request through short message or WAP protocol; network side, receiving information from the mobile terminal According to the query request, access the GPS bus information database to obtain relevant information and send it to the mobile terminal.

Implementing the embodiment of the present invention has the following beneficial effects: through the embodiment of the present invention, the mobile terminal extension service is combined with the technical application of the GPS bus electronic stop sign, so that the user can query all the bus stations through the mobile terminal without going out. The specific arrival time of the bus or temporary route information or traffic jam information is required, so as to arrange the time reasonably and save the waiting time at the bus station. Moreover, through the realization of this technology, users can query relevant bus information anytime and anywhere as long as they send the starting station of the bus and the arrival station of the bus through the mobile terminal, which is convenient for the user to travel outside.

Description of drawings

Fig. 1 is existing GPS bus electronic stop sign system;

Fig. 2 is the schematic diagram of the first embodiment of the bus information inquiry system of the present invention;

Fig. 3 is the mobile terminal module schematic diagram in the bus information inquiry system embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 4 is the flowchart of the first embodiment of the bus information inquiry method of the present invention;

Fig. 5 is the schematic diagram of another embodiment of the bus information inquiry system of the present invention;

Fig. 6 is a flow chart of another embodiment of the bus information query method of the present invention.

Detailed ways

The core idea of the present invention is to provide users with a bus information query device, system and method by combining the existing GPS bus electronic stop board system with the smart card application toolbox of the current mobile phone or WAP Internet access technology.

Preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail below in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.

At first please refer to Fig. 2, Fig. 2 has shown the schematic diagram of the first embodiment of the bus information inquiry system of the present invention, and this system comprises mobile terminal (below taking mobile phone as example to illustrate), network side and GPS vehicle-mounted (bus).

The mobile phone shown in Figure 2 supports the smart card application toolbox function, and Figure 3 shows a schematic diagram of the mobile terminal module in the bus information query system in this embodiment, and the mobile terminal can be a mobile phone, a PDA, etc. The mobile terminal is provided with a GPS bus information module, a sending module, a receiving module and a prompt module. The smart card application toolbox includes SIM card application development toolbox and UIM card application development toolbox. By setting the GPS bus information module in the mobile phone in the smart card application toolbox, it is used to generate bus real-time information query requests; send A module for sending the query request to the network side; an accepting module for accepting the real-time bus information returned from the network side; a prompting module for prompting the user of the real-time bus information received by the accepting module. Wherein the GPS bus information module further includes: a user setting unit, for inputting the bus index information that the user wants to inquire about; a generating unit, generating a query request according to the bus index information for input, and the generating unit is a short message generation unit. The prompting module further includes a display and/or sound prompting unit, which prompts the user with the real-time bus information in the form of image, text and/or sound.

The network side is used to receive the information query request from the mobile phone, and access the GPS bus information database to obtain relevant information and send it to the mobile phone according to the query request. The network side includes a mobile communication network and an Internet network, and the mobile communication network also includes a short message center, which provides an information forwarding platform for the mobile phone. A GPS bus information database is set in the described short message center, after it processes the bus information according to the vehicle dispatching center, the information after processing will be updated in real time (or regularly). In this case, the short message center receives information from After the inquiry request of the mobile phone, the corresponding information is directly searched in its GPS bus information database, and the information found is sent to the mobile phone. The short message center includes: a receiving unit, which receives a query request from a mobile phone; a query unit, which searches the corresponding information from the GPS bus information database according to the query request and sends it to the mobile phone.

The Internet is used to provide the real-time information of the bus to the mobile communication network, and collect the bus information sent back by the vehicle-mounted communication terminal of the bus. The vehicle dispatching center is set up in the Internet network, and the vehicle dispatching center is used to collect the bus information sent back by the bus vehicle communication terminal, process the bus information and store the processed information in the GPS bus information database. The shown GPS vehicle (bus) has a bus vehicle communication terminal, which supports the Global Positioning System, and supports at least one of the Global Mobile Communication System and Code Division Multiple Access technology, and obtains the positioning information of the vehicle in real time through the Global Positioning System. Send a short message to the vehicle dispatch center through the global mobile communication system or code division multiple access technology.

In another embodiment of the present invention, the GPS bus information database can also be set in the Internet network, and the GPS bus information database does not need to be set in the short message center, by which the GPS bus information database is a short message The center provides bus information inquiries.

As shown in FIG. 4 , it shows the flow chart of the first embodiment of the method for real-time querying of bus information with a mobile phone of the present invention, which corresponds to the implementation in the system of FIG. 2 . In the present embodiment, if the user initiates a query request by a mobile phone with STK function, its specific steps are as follows:

Step 300: when the bus carrying the mobile communication terminal passes through each station, the mobile communication terminal sends a short message containing arrival information to the vehicle dispatching center in the Internet network;

The arrival information includes the specific arrival time of the bus, as well as the running status of the bus and the speed at which the bus is running.

Step 301: The vehicle dispatching center calculates the arrival time of the bus according to the arrival information, and stores the updated bus information in the GPS bus information database in the mobile communication network;

The vehicle dispatching center calculates the required time to the next station according to the time of arrival and the speed at which the vehicle is running, and stores the specific arrival time of the next station in the GPS bus information database.

When the GPS bus information database is not set in the mobile communication network, the mobile communication network can directly provide the bus information database query by setting the GPS bus information database in the vehicle dispatching center in the Internet network. When the GPS bus information database is set in the mobile communication network, the vehicle dispatching center will send the changed bus information to the GPS bus information database of the mobile communication network in real time.

Step 302: the user sends the bus query request information to the short message center in the mobile communication network through the STK menu of the mobile phone;

The user sets the bus query service through the network side, and inputs the bus index information that the user wants to query through the user setting unit in the GPS bus information module set in the STK menu of the mobile phone, and generates the bus index information through the GPS bus information module. The unit generates a short message containing a query request according to the bus index information input by the user, and sends the required query request to the network side through the sending module of the mobile phone, wherein the required query request includes the temporary bus route and station name information, or selects the required Look up bus routes.

Step 303: the short message center queries the bus information in the GPS bus information database in the short message center according to the query condition in the query request information;

After the receiving unit in the short message center accepts the query request from the mobile phone, the query unit in the short message center searches for corresponding bus information from the GPS bus information database according to the query request.

In another embodiment, the short message center conducts a query from the bus information database connected to the GPS through the query unit of the short message center according to the query request.

Step 304: The GPS bus information database in the short message center returns the bus information including the specific arrival time to the mobile phone of the user.

The receiving module in the user's mobile phone accepts the real-time bus information returned from the network side, and prompts the user through the prompting module of the real-time bus information received by the receiving module. The prompt module in the mobile phone prompts the user with real-time bus information in the form of image, text and/or sound through the display unit and/or the sound prompt unit.

The bus information includes the specific time when the latest bus in different directions is expected to arrive at the station of the specific bus and the expected arrival time of the next bus of the latest bus, or the required inquiry bus Temporary driving directions and congestion information on routes and other relevant bus information.

The above is the process of using the mobile phone to inquire about the bus information in real time through the STK technology in the GSM system. Similarly, the UTK technology in the CDMA system can also be used to inquire about the bus information in real time through the above scheme.

The above is the process of querying bus information in real time through the smart card application toolbox. With the development of existing technologies, users can also use mobile phones to realize bus information query through WAP Internet technology. to illustrate.

Fig. 5 shows a schematic diagram of another embodiment of the bus information query system of the present invention, the system includes a mobile terminal (below, a mobile phone is used as an example), a network side and a GPS vehicle (bus).

The mobile phone shown in Figure 5 supports the WAP Internet access function, and the functional modules of the mobile phone are shown in Figure 3. The mobile phone is provided with a GPS bus information module, a sending module, a receiving module, and a prompt module. The GPS bus information module is set in the mobile phone through the WAP Internet access function, which is used to generate the real-time information query request of the bus; the sending module, the user sends the query request to the network side; the receiving module, accepts the real-time bus information returned from the network side information; a prompting module, prompting the user with the real-time bus information received by the accepting module. Wherein the GPS bus information module further includes: a user setting unit, for inputting the bus index information that the user wants to inquire about; a generating unit, generating a query request according to the bus index information for input, and the generating unit is a short message generation unit. The prompting module further includes a display and/or sound prompting unit, which prompts the user with the real-time bus information in the form of image, text and/or sound.

The network side is used to receive the information query request from the mobile phone, and access the GPS bus information database to obtain relevant information and send it to the mobile terminal according to the query request. The network side includes a mobile communication network and an Internet network, and the mobile communication network also includes a WAP server, and the WAP server is used to provide users with wireless Internet access services. Described WAP server is provided with GPS bus information database, and described GPS bus information database provides the data query of bus information when the mobile phone WAP gets online, and it will process the information after processing bus information according to vehicle dispatching center and carry out real-time (or regularly) update, in this case, after the WAP server receives the query request from the mobile phone, it directly searches for the corresponding information in its GPS bus information database, and sends the information found to the mobile phone. The WAP server includes: a receiving unit for accepting a WAP query request from a mobile phone; a query unit for querying corresponding information from the GPS bus information database according to the WAP query request and sending it to the mobile phone.

The Internet is used to provide the real-time information of the bus to the mobile communication network, and collect the bus information sent back by the vehicle-mounted communication terminal of the bus. The vehicle dispatching center is set up in the Internet network, and the vehicle dispatching center is used to collect the bus information sent back by the bus vehicle communication terminal, process the bus information and store the processed information in the GPS bus information database.

There is a bus-mounted communication terminal on the GPS vehicle (bus), which supports the Global Positioning System, and supports at least one of the Global System for Mobile Communications and Code Division Multiple Access technology, and obtains the positioning information of the vehicle in real time through the Global Positioning System, Send a short message to the vehicle dispatch center through the global mobile communication system or code division multiple access technology.

In another embodiment of the present invention, the GPS bus information database can also be set in the Internet network, and the GPS bus information database does not need to be set in the WAP server, and the WAP server can be provided by the GPS bus information database. Bus information query.

As shown in FIG. 6 , it shows a flow chart of the second embodiment of the method of using a mobile phone to inquire about bus information in real time according to the present invention, which corresponds to the implementation in the system of FIG. 5 .

The first few steps of this method are the same as the first few steps in Fig. 4 and are not shown in Fig. 6 . After completing steps 300 to 301 in the process of the first embodiment, after the bus information is stored in the GPS bus information database in the vehicle dispatch center, the operator sets up a The GPS bus information database queried online by WAP sends the changed bus information to the GPS bus information database in the mobile communication network in real time through the vehicle dispatching center. The realization process is as follows:

Step 400: the user initiates a bus information inquiry request through a WAP browser with a mobile phone;

The user inputs the bus index information that the user wants to query through the user setting unit in the GPS bus information module in the mobile phone, and generates a WAP query containing the query request through the generating unit in the GPS bus information module according to the bus index information input by the user Request, send the required query request to the network side through the sending module of the mobile phone, wherein the required query request includes the temporary bus route and station name information, or select the route that needs to be inquired about the bus ride.

Step 401: after the mobile communication network receives the query request information, enter the GPS bus information database of the WAP server in the mobile communication network according to the query request;

Step 402: Query the bus information in the GPS bus information database by querying the query conditions in the request information;

After the accepting unit in the WAP server receives the WAP query request from the mobile phone, the query unit in the WAP server searches for corresponding bus information from the GPS bus information database according to the WAP query request.

The user enters the specific route and station name information of the bus to be inquired through the browser, or selects the route to be inquired about and enters the starting station and destination station.

Step 403: The mobile communication network returns the bus information to be queried to the user's mobile phone through the WAP browser.

The receiving module in the user's mobile phone accepts the real-time bus information returned from the network side, and prompts the user through the prompting module of the real-time bus information received by the receiving module. The prompt module in the mobile phone prompts the user with real-time bus information in the form of image, text and/or sound through the display unit and/or the sound prompt unit.

The bus information includes the specific time when the latest bus in different directions is expected to arrive at the station of the specific bus and the expected arrival time of the next bus of the latest bus, or the required inquiry bus Temporary driving directions and congestion information on routes and other relevant bus information.

Through the implementation process of the above method, the user inputs the specific route of the bus that he wants to inquire through the mobile phone, and obtains the estimated arrival time of the latest bus and the estimated arrival time of the next bus in different directions for the specific bus. After inputting the start site and the destination site, you can query the specific bus numbers of the bus route you need to query.

In summary, the present invention provides users with a method for querying bus information by combining the GPS bus electronic stop sign system with the smart card application toolbox of the current mobile phone or the WAP Internet access technology. Through the realization of the above method, it is convenient for the user to know the bus information containing the specific arrival time of the bus or the temporary route information or the traffic jam information without leaving the house, thereby reasonably arranging the time and saving the waiting time at the bus platform. Through the realization of this method, the user can query the required bus information anytime and anywhere through the mobile phone, and can conveniently query the bus information only by inputting the starting point and the destination station, which is convenient for the user to travel outside.

The above disclosure is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention, which certainly cannot limit the scope of rights of the present invention. Therefore, equivalent changes made according to the claims of the present invention still fall within the scope of the present invention.

Claims (13)

1, a kind of inquiring public bus information method comprises:

Reception is from the bus real time information query requests of portable terminal;

Visit GPS bus information database and obtain corresponding bus real time information according to described query requests;

Described relevant bus real time information is sent to described portable terminal.

2, inquiring public bus information method as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that, described query requests receives with short message way; Further refer to according to described query requests visit GPS bus information database: short message service center is according to described query requests visit GPS bus information database.

3, inquiring public bus information method as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that, described query requests receives in the wap protocol mode; Further refer to according to described query requests visit GPS bus information database: the WAP server is according to described query requests visit GPS bus information database.

As claim 2 or 3 described inquiring public bus information methods, it is characterized in that 4, described short message service center or WAP server are by Internet visit GPS bus information database.

5, as each described inquiring public bus information method of claim 1 to 3, it is characterized in that described bus real time information further comprises: bus arrival time, expectation arrival time, traffic congestion information or interim traffic route.

6, a kind of short message service center is characterized in that, described short message service center is provided with or connects GPS bus information database, and described database receives the bus real time information from the GPS car-mounted terminal; Described short message service center comprises:

Receiving element receives the query requests from portable terminal;

Query unit sends to portable terminal according to described query requests from described GPS bus information data library lookup corresponding information.

7, a kind of WAP server is characterized in that, is provided with in the described WAP server or connects GPS Bus information database, and described database receives the bus real time information from the GPS car-mounted terminal; Described WAP server comprises:

Receiving element is used to receive the WAP query requests from portable terminal;

Query unit sends to portable terminal according to described WAP query requests from described GPS Bus information database lookup corresponding information.

8, a kind of portable terminal is characterized in that, described portable terminal is provided with:

GPS bus information module is used to generate bus real time information query requests;

Sending module is used for sending described query requests to network side;

Receiver module receives the bus real time information of returning from network side;

Reminding module, the described bus real time information that described receiver module is received is to user prompt.

9, portable terminal as claimed in claim 8 is characterized in that, described GPS bus information module further comprises: the user is provided with the unit, is used to import the bus index information of user's desire inquiry; Generation unit, the bus index information of importing according to the user generates described query requests.

10. portable terminal as claimed in claim 9 is characterized in that, described generation unit further is a short message generation unit or WAP request generation unit.

11. portable terminal as claimed in claim 8 is characterized in that, described reminding module further comprises display unit and/or auditory tone cues unit, in the mode of image, literal and/or sound to the described bus real time information of user prompt.

12, a kind of inquiring public bus information system comprises: portable terminal, support application of IC cards tool box or WAP (wireless application protocol) function, and send query requests by short message or wap protocol; Network side receives the information inquiring request from described portable terminal, obtains relevant information according to described query requests visit GPS Bus information database and sends to described portable terminal.

13, bus inquiry system as claimed in claim 12 is characterized in that, described application of IC cards tool box comprises SIM card application development tool case and UIM card application development tool case.

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