Patent ID: 7912484

Claim:
A system for providing zone-based personalized information to a user of a mobile communication terminal located in a specified zone among a plurality of zones within a cell serviced by a base station of a cellular network, said system comprising: a plurality of zone management systems each installed in one of the zones within said cell for acquiring a MIN (Mobile Identification Number) information of the mobile communication terminal entering the respective zone; a zone information management server for receiving the MIN information and zone identification information of the specified zone where the mobile communication terminal is located from the zone management system of said specified zone, requesting location registration of the terminal to a home location register (HLR), and retrieving transmission information to be transferred to the terminal according to the MIN information and the zone identification information; and an SMS (Short Message Services) server for receiving the transmission information and the MIN information from the zone information management server, obtaining location information of the terminal corresponding to the MIN information from the HLR, and transferring the transmission information and the MIN information to the base station of the cell where the terminal is located according to the location information; wherein the zone management systems are connected to the zone information management server via a computer network, without being directly connected to the base station; the MIN information is arranged to be transmitted from the zone information management server to the HLR via, at least partially, the computer network, without being transmitted by the base station; and each of said zone management systems is configured to periodically transmit a specified zone notifying frequency signal to its own zone, receive a response transmitted from the mobile terminal when the mobile terminal detects the specified zone notifying frequency signal, and acquire the MIN information from the response.