Patent ID: 8718683
Filing Date: 2014-05-06
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A mobile wireless communication device that wirelessly communicates with one or more base stations that provide wireless communication service, the mobile wireless communication device comprising: a location information storage unit configured to store a location information that indicates a location of content of the wireless communication service; a content storage unit configured to store the content that is acquired from a location indicated in the location information; a history storage unit configured to store history information including a predetermined order of history records, each including a cell identifier (ID) identifying one of the one or more base stations in association with a time period during which wireless communication is established with the one of the one or more base stations; a determination unit configured to determine a possibility of transition of the mobile wireless communication device from a state that wireless communication with a current base station is established to a state that the mobile wireless communication device is in an outside zone of the wireless communication service, the determination unit being configured to determine the possibility of transition on the basis of a current cell ID received from the current base station and included in the predetermined order of history records included in the history information and on the basis of a previous amount of time of establishment of wireless communication of the mobile wireless communication device with the current base station when the current base station was a last base station with which the mobile wireless communication device had established wireless communication before a previous transition to the state that the mobile wireless communication device is in the outside zone of the wireless communication service; and an updating unit configured to acquire a content from the location indicated in the location information that is stored in the location information storage unit, by using wireless communication service that is provided by the current base station, so as to update content of the content storage unit, when the determination unit determines that there is a possibility of transition to the state that the mobile wireless communication device is in the outside zone of the wireless communication service.