Patent ID: 9509424
Filing Date: 2016-11-29
CPC Classification: G08B,H04H,H04M,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A communication terminal comprising: processing circuitry; a receiver configured to receive a communication signal including urgent warning information; a current location information retrieving unit, implemented by the processing circuitry, that retrieves location information regarding a current location of a user; a memory that stores, for each of types of disasters, a disaster mode that is an operation mode or service for providing information that is for prompting countermeasure against a disaster to the user, wherein the memory stores, for each of one or more disaster modes, information regarding a registered point specified by the user or a communication system; a processing unit, implemented by the processing circuitry, that calculates a distance between the current location and the registered point, in response to receiving by the receiver of the communication signal; and an information providing unit, implemented by the processing circuitry, that provides notification information to be displayed at the communication terminal, the notification information including, at least, the distance between the current location and the registered point and sea-level based altitude information of the user, if and only if the receiver receives the communication signal including the urgent warning information and the current location of the user belongs to a scope of an application, the notification information not being displayed at the communication terminal if the receiver does not receive the communication signal including the urgent warning information or the current location of the user does not belong to a scope of an application, wherein the scope of the application is defined in advance for each of the types of the disasters based on a predefined maximum distance required between a current location and the registered point, the predefined maximum distance being different for each of the types of disasters.