KR101251977B1

KR101251977B1 - Mobile rfid system and operation method

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Publication number: KR101251977B1
Application number: KR20060131551A
Authority: KR
Inventors: 손상목; 이상우; 김민정; 권오현; 김동근; 이주식; 이화영
Original assignee: 에스케이텔레콤 주식회사
Priority date: 2006-12-21
Filing date: 2006-12-21
Publication date: 2013-04-08
Also published as: KR20080057811A

Abstract

The present invention relates to a mobile radio frequency identification system and a method for operating a mobile terminal capable of providing an information service for RFID to a communication terminal so as to be suitable for a different service providing performance for each communication terminal. According to the present invention, a communication terminal receiving an information service by uploading a code of RFID to a broker server; A service provider for storing service provisioning information including a terminal specification capable of processing an information service and a site page of a content server; A broker server that queries the object directory service server with an uploaded RFID code to receive service profile information, and receives service provisioning information from a service provider indicated by the service profile information to provide an information service that meets the specifications of the communication terminal. Since it is possible to present a configuration including; the communication terminal receives a page composed of the content that can be processed from the broker server, downloads the content according to the page format without error, configures the page and provides the information service corresponding to the code of the RFID It is effective.

Mobile communication, RFID

Description

Mobile Radio Frequency Identification System and Operation Method {MOBILE RFID SYSTEM AND OPERATION METHOD}

1 is a functional configuration diagram of a mobile RFID system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a flowchart illustrating an operation method of a mobile RFID system according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

3 is a functional configuration diagram of a broker server of a mobile RFID system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

4 is a flowchart illustrating an operation method of a broker server of a mobile RFID system according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

DESCRIPTION OF REFERENCE NUMERALS

100: communication terminal # 200: broker server

300: object directory service server 400: service provider

The present invention relates to a mobile radio frequency identification system and a method of operation, and more particularly to a mobile radio frequency identification system and operation method that enables the communication terminal to provide an information service for the RFID to suit the performance of different services provided by each communication terminal. It is about.

The mobile RFID system provides contents linked to an RFID code to a communication terminal having an RFID reader. The communication terminal executes an embedded RFID reader to receive a code from an RFID located nearby. The communication terminal transmits the code of the RFID to the mobile RFID system and receives the page address of the content server from the mobile RFID system. The mobile RFID system includes an object directory service server that provides a page address of a content server in response to an RFID code. The content server constructs a page describing the information of the product to which the RFID is attached, and registers the page address in the object directory service server. When the object directory service server receives the code of the RFID from the communication terminal, the object directory service server transmits the page address linked to the code of the RFID to the communication terminal. The communication terminal executes a wireless Internet application to form a data channel, accesses a site indicated by a page address, and downloads and plays multimedia data according to a page format.

However, the object directory service server does not grasp the service providing capability of the communication terminal when transmitting the page address linked to the code of the RFID to the communication terminal. If a content server services a page composed of contents that cannot be driven by the performance of the communication terminal, the communication terminal may not correctly output information of a site indicated by the page address.

In addition, when the specifications of the communication terminal are low, the communication terminal requests information that cannot be processed and receives information that cannot be used from the content server. Thus, there is a problem in that data channel resources are wasted in transmitting and receiving unnecessary information.

The present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned conventional problems, in order to provide an information service corresponding to the code of the RFID, first check the specifications of the communication terminal and the information page composed of the content that can be processed in the communication terminal The present invention provides a mobile radio frequency identification system and an operation method for transmitting to a communication terminal.

The present invention also provides a broker server for transmitting a service page designated by service provisioning information received from a service provider indicated by an object directory service server managing service profile information corresponding to an RFID code to a communication terminal, and a method of operating the same. To provide.

The present invention for achieving the above object is a communication terminal receiving an information service by uploading the code of the RFID to the broker server; A service provider for storing service provisioning information including a terminal specification capable of processing an information service and a site page of a content server; A broker that queries the object directory service server with an uploaded RFID code to receive service profile information, and receives service provisioning information from a service provider indicated by the service profile information to provide an information service that meets the specifications of the communication terminal. Present a configuration that includes a server.

In addition, the present invention provides a preparatory step of storing service provisioning information such as a terminal specification capable of processing an information service in a service provider and a site page of a content server; Requesting an information service by uploading a code of RFID to a broker server in a communication terminal; Query the object directory service server with the RFID code uploaded from the broker server to receive service profile information, and receive service provisioning information from the service provider indicated by the service profile information to provide information services that meet the specifications of the communication terminal. Presenting a configuration comprising a; providing step.

In addition, the present invention provides a profile information receiver for querying an object directory service server for service profile information corresponding to an RFID code and receiving corresponding service profile information in response to receiving the RFID code from a communication terminal; A service support unit for determining a specification of the communication terminal; A service providing unit configured to receive service provisioning information from a service provider corresponding to an IP address of the received service profile information, and to process and provide a service page of the service provisioning information according to a specification of a communication terminal. do.

In addition, the present invention includes a receiving step of querying the object directory service server for service profile information corresponding to the code of the RFID and receiving the corresponding service profile information in response to receiving the code of the RFID from the communication terminal; A specification determination step of determining a specification of the communication terminal; A service providing step of receiving service provisioning information from a service provider corresponding to the IP address of the received service profile information and providing a service page of the service provisioning information according to the specification of the communication terminal.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

In describing the embodiments, descriptions of technical contents which are well known in the technical field to which the present invention belongs and are not directly related to the present invention will be omitted. This is for the sake of clarity of the present invention without omitting the unnecessary explanation.

1 is a functional block diagram of a mobile RFID system according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is an operation of a method of operating a mobile RFID system according to an embodiment of the present invention. 3 is a functional configuration diagram of a broker server of a mobile RFID system according to an embodiment of the present invention, Figure 4 is a flow chart of the operation method of the broker server of the mobile RFID system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, a mobile RFID system according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described. The communication terminal 100 receives an information service by uploading an RFID code to a broker server. The communication terminal 100 operates a built-in RFID reader to output a radio signal, receive a radio signal from a nearby RFID, and decode the radio signal to obtain a code of the RFID. The communication terminal 100 opens a data channel of the wireless Internet and uploads the obtained RFID code to the broker server 200. The communication terminal 100 receives a service page corresponding to the code of the RFID from the broker server 200. The communication terminal 100 downloads information from the site of the address linked to the data format of the service page and outputs the information according to the output format of the service page.

The service provider 400 stores service provisioning information such as a terminal specification capable of processing an information service provided by a content server linked to an RFID code, a site page of the content server, and location information of the content server. The service provisioning information is information managed by a service provider and stores an information expression format, a service page provided to a terminal, a hardware support specification, and a software support specification. Hardware resources and software resources included in the communication terminal 100 are different depending on the type of service provided. In order to provide a smooth information service to the communication terminal 100 having different resources, information on the minimum terminal specification required by the information service is required. The service provider 400 configures service provisioning information by matching a content page of a content server and a site page that can be processed by a communication terminal having a minimum specification in a content server.

The broker server 200 receives the code of the RFID from the communication terminal 100 and downloads a site page corresponding to the code of the RFID from the content server to provide a site page that meets the specifications of the communication terminal 100. The broker server 200 collects service provisioning information from the service provider 400 to provide a site page conforming to the specification of the communication terminal 100. The broker server 200 transmits a code of RFID to the object directory service server 300 to collect service provisioning information, and receives service profile information including the location information of the service provider 400 from the object directory service server 300. Receive. The broker server 200 accesses the service provider 400 to receive service provisioning information, analyzes the received service provisioning information, and provides the communication terminal 100 with a site page suitable for the specification of the communication terminal 100.

The broker server 200 includes a profile information receiver, a service supporter, and a service provider. The profile information receiver receives the code of the RFID from the communication terminal, queries the object directory service server for the service profile information corresponding to the code of the RFID, and receives the service profile information. The object directory service server 300 stores service profile information including a service name, a service type, an information storage format, and a service provider's URI in correspondence with the code of the RFID. When the object directory service server 300 receives an RFID code from the outside, the object directory service server 300 responds with service profile information corresponding to the received RFID code.

When the profile information receiver registers the RFID code received from the communication terminal 100 to the object information server, the object information server queries the object directory service server 300 for service profile information corresponding to the RFID code, and provides the corresponding service profile information. Receive At this time, the object directory service server 300 transmits service profile information corresponding to the RFID code to the profile information receiver. That is, the profile information receiver registers the code of the RFID in the object information server and receives the service profile information corresponding to the code of the RFID from the object directory service server 300. During this process, the object information server connects to the object tracking server and updates the location of the object information server.

The service support unit determines the specifications of the communication terminal connected to the broker server 200. The communication terminal 100 includes hardware resources and software resources suitable for a service to be provided. The service support unit collects information on the specifications of the communication terminal 100 by evaluating the performance of different hardware resources and software resources for each communication terminal. The service support unit informs the service providing unit of the specification of the communication terminal 100 to inform the format of the information service that can be serviced by the communication terminal 100.

The service provider connects to the service provider 400 corresponding to the URI of the service profile information received from the object directory service server 300 and receives the service provisioning information corresponding to the code of the RFID. The service provider may provide the communication terminal 100 with the address of the content server registered in the service provisioning information if the specification of the communication terminal 100 requesting information corresponding to the code of the RFID satisfies the terminal specification stored in the service provisioning information. In addition, the service provider converts the service page of the service provisioning information into a format supported by the communication terminal in accordance with the specification of the communication terminal 100 and provides the same to the communication terminal 100. If the specification of the communication terminal 100 is not satisfied to drive the service page stored in the service provisioning information, the service provider constructs a message indicating that the service page for the code of the RFID cannot be provided and transmitted to the communication terminal 100. do.

The device configuration is also implemented by a processor capable of executing a program that performs a series of procedures. The processor executes a work procedure that programs the operation of a module composed of devices. The processor sequentially executes the programs stored in the program memory in accordance with the task schedule or branches to the program corresponding to the generated event. The processor performs the functions and operations of the device corresponding to the task currently executed among the programmed tasks. The processor operates in different method configurations depending on the task being executed and is represented by the method module according to the operation. The operation of this method module will be described sequentially according to time flow and events.

The service provider configures service provisioning information to provide an information service suitable for different specifications for each communication terminal. The service provisioning information stores a terminal specification capable of processing an information service, a site page of a content server corresponding to the terminal specification, and the like. The service provider analyzes the site page of the content server to grasp the attributes of the multimedia data linked to the site page, and stores the terminal specifications necessary for the reproduction of the multimedia data. The service provider prepares a database to provide the broker server with service provisioning information that stores the site page of the content server and a terminal specification capable of processing the site page corresponding to the code of the RFID.

The object directory service server prepares service profile information storing location information of a service provider storing information corresponding to an RFID code in order to respond to transmission of information corresponding to an RFID code requested from a broker server. The object directory service server interworks with an object information server and an object tracking server, and a service profile server exists to register a service profile with a service type of service profile information in order to pursue diversity of services.

The communication terminal outputs a radio signal by executing a built-in RFID reader and decodes a radio signal received from an RFID located nearby to receive a code of the RFID. The communication terminal transmits the RFID code to the broker server to receive the information service corresponding to the RFID code (S101).

The broker server receives the code of the RFID from the communication terminal and registers the received code of the RFID in the object information server (S102). The object information server queries the object directory service server for service profile information corresponding to the RFID code (S103).

The object directory service server transmits service profile information corresponding to the RFID code to the broker server in response to the query of the object information server (S104).

The broker server receives service profile information corresponding to the code of the RFID from the object directory service server. The broker server connects to the service provider indicated by the URI of the service profile information and receives the service provisioning information corresponding to the code of the RFID (S105 and S106).

The broker server compares the specification of the communication terminal with the terminal specification stored in the received service provisioning information to determine whether the specification of the communication terminal satisfies the terminal specification of the service provisioning information. If the specification of the communication terminal satisfies the terminal specification of the service provisioning information, the broker server converts the service page linked to the service provisioning information according to the specification of the communication terminal and transmits it to the communication terminal.

Next, a broker server according to the present invention will be described in detail through an embodiment. From the following description of the broker server, the configuration of the above-described broker server will also be clear.

The broker server 200 includes a service support unit 210 for determining a specification of a communication terminal for requesting an information service corresponding to an RFID code; A profile information receiver 220 for receiving service profile information storing information about a service provider providing an information service from an object directory service server; It is composed of a service provider 230 for providing a service page of the service provisioning information received from the service provider according to the specifications of the communication terminal.

The service support unit 210 determines the specifications of the communication terminal compared to the specifications of the terminal required by the information service corresponding to the code of the RFID. The service support unit 210 detects a manufacturer model of the communication terminal to identify hardware resources and software resources that are specifications of the communication terminal or requests hardware and software versions embedded in the communication terminal to receive the specifications of the communication terminal. The service support unit 210 retrieves and stores the model of the communication terminal registered in the phone number of the terminal from a database and collects the specifications of the communication terminal configured by the manufacturer corresponding to the model name.

The service support unit 210 includes a hardware specification determination unit that determines a hardware specification of the communication terminal and outputs process processing performance; It is composed of a software specification determination unit for determining the software specifications of the communication terminal to output the service support. The hardware specification determination unit collects process processing performance to determine the minimum performance required to reproduce the multimedia data of the information service. The software specification judge collects the configuration environment of the software to check whether the embedded application supports the information service and to determine whether the information format of the site page can be processed.

The profile information receiver 220 registers the code of the RFID in the object information server in response to the reception of the code of the RFID from the communication terminal. The object information server queries the object directory server for service profile information corresponding to the code of the RFID. The object directory server transmits the corresponding service profile information to the profile information receiver of the broker server in response to the query. The profile information receiver 220 receives service profile information corresponding to the code of the RFID from the object directory server and transmits the service profile information to the service provider 230. The service profile information includes a service name, a service type, an information coding type, a URI, and the like.

The service provider 230 parses the URI of the service profile information, accesses the service provider indicated by the URI, and receives the service provisioning information. The service provisioning information includes an information format, a provision format, hardware support information, software support information, a service page address of a content server, and the like. The service provider 230 searches a service page of the service provisioning information suitable for the specifications of the communication terminal by comparing the specifications of the terminal capable of supporting the information service stored in the service provisioning information with the specifications of the communication terminal collected by the service support unit. The service provider 230 codes the format of the service page in accordance with the page format supported by the communication terminal so that the service page is correctly displayed on the communication terminal, and transmits it to the communication terminal.

The service provider 230 may include an information receiver configured to receive service provisioning information corresponding to a code of an RFID from a service provider; If the specification of the communication terminal satisfies the support specification of the service provisioning information, it comprises a page providing unit for providing a service page of the content server indicated by the service provisioning information. When the information receiving unit receives the location information of the service provider from the object directory service server, the information receiving unit connects to the service provider of the received location information and receives the service provisioning information corresponding to the code of the RFID. If the specification of the communication terminal satisfies the support specification of the service provisioning information, the page providing unit configures and provides the content stored in the content server indicated by the service provisioning information as a service page.

The device configuration is also implemented by a processor capable of executing a program that performs a series of procedures.

In response to receiving the code of the RFID from the communication terminal, the broker server registers the code of the RFID with the object information server and waits for the delivery of the service profile information from the object directory service server. When the broker server receives the service profile information, the broker server checks the service name and service type according to the information coding type of the service profile information, and checks the URI of the service provider.

The broker server registers an RFID code in the object information server and queries the object directory service server for service profile information corresponding to the RFID code. The broker server receives service profile information corresponding to the code of the RFID from the object directory server (S401).

The broker server checks the specifications of the communication terminal while waiting for the reception of the service profile information. The broker server determines the hardware specification and the software specification of the communication terminal that requested the information service on the code of the RFID to confirm the process processing performance and service support (S402).

When the broker server receives the service profile information from the object directory server, the broker server accesses the service provider indicated by the URI of the service profile information and receives the service provisioning information (S403). The broker server parses the information on the terminal specification capable of providing the information service included in the service provisioning information and compares the parsed terminal specification with the specification of the confirmed communication terminal to determine whether to provide the information service (S404).

If the specification of the communication terminal is suitable for providing the information service, the broker server transmits a service page registered in the service provisioning information to the communication terminal. The broker server checks the hardware support information and the software support information included in the service provisioning information and transmits a message to the communication terminal indicating that the information service cannot be provided if the specification of the communication terminal does not satisfy this.

The broker server transmits a service page suitable for the specification of the communication terminal to the communication terminal. The broker server checks the terminal specification required by the service page registered in the service provisioning information and retrieves the service page suitable for the specification of the communication terminal. The broker server transmits a URI corresponding to the retrieved service page or processes the service page according to a page format supported by the communication terminal.

Although the present invention has been described in more detail with reference to Examples, the present invention is not necessarily limited to these Examples, and various modifications can be made without departing from the spirit of the present invention. Therefore, the embodiments disclosed in the present invention are not intended to limit the technical idea of the present invention but to describe the present invention, and the scope of the technical idea of the present invention is not limited by these embodiments. The protection scope of the present invention should be interpreted by the following claims, and all technical ideas within the equivalent scope should be interpreted as being included in the scope of the present invention.

As described above, according to the present invention, in order to provide the information service corresponding to the code of the RFID, first, the specification of the communication terminal may be checked and an information page composed of contents that may be processed by the communication terminal may be transmitted to the communication terminal. The terminal receives the page composed of the content that can be processed from the broker server, downloads the content according to the page format without error, configures the page, and provides an information service corresponding to the code of the RFID.

In addition, by serving the content that can be processed in the communication terminal, it is possible to use only the resources of the data channel necessary to provide the information service among the available resources of the communication system, and to not transmit and receive unnecessary information.

Claims

A service provider for storing service provisioning information including service pages provided by at least one content server and specification information of a communication terminal capable of processing the service pages; And

When a code of RFID is received from any one communication terminal, the object directory service server is queried with the received code of RFID to receive service profile information, and service provisioning information is received from a service provider corresponding to the service profile information. If the specification of the communication terminal is a specification that cannot process a service page included in the service provisioning information, the service provisioning information is determined according to the specification of the communication terminal. A broker server converting an included service page and providing the service page to the communication terminal;

Mobile radio frequency identification system comprising a.

The method of claim 1, wherein the broker server

A profile information receiver for querying the object directory service server with service profile information with the RFID code received from the communication terminal to receive corresponding service profile information;

A service support unit for determining hardware and software specifications of the communication terminal; And

A service provider for receiving service provisioning information from a service provider corresponding to an IP address of the received service profile information and converting and providing a service page included in the service provisioning information according to a specification of the communication terminal;

Mobile radio frequency identification system comprising a.

The method of claim 1,

An object directory service server for providing service profile information including location information of a service provider; And

An object information server for querying the object directory service server for service profile information corresponding to the RFID code;

Mobile radio frequency identification system, characterized in that it further comprises.

Receiving, by the broker server, a code of RFID from one communication terminal;

The broker server querying an object directory service server with a code of the RFID to receive service profile information;

Service provisioning information including a service page provided by a content server from a service provider corresponding to service provider location information included in the service profile information and specification information of a communication terminal capable of processing the service page; Receiving;

Checking, by the broker server, hardware and software specifications of the communication terminal;

Determining, by the broker server, whether the identified specification of the communication terminal is a specification capable of processing a service page included in the service provisioning information; And

As a result of the determination, when the specification of the communication terminal is a specification that cannot process a service page included in the service provisioning information, the broker server converts the service page according to the specification of the communication terminal and provides it to the communication terminal. Making;

Operation method of a mobile radio frequency identification system, characterized in that it comprises a.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein receiving the service provisioning information is

And the broker server receives the service provisioning information from a service provider corresponding to the IP address of the service profile information.

The method of claim 4, wherein receiving the service profile information comprises:

Transmitting, by the broker server, the code of the RFID to an object information server;

Querying, by the object information server, service profile information corresponding to the code of the RFID to the object directory service server; And

Transmitting, by the object directory service server, service profile information to the broker server in response to a query of the object information server;

A profile information receiver for querying and receiving service profile information corresponding to the RFID code from an object directory service server in response to receiving the RFID code from any one communication terminal;

A service support unit for checking hardware and software specifications of the communication terminal; And

Receive service provisioning information from a service provider corresponding to the IP address of the received service profile information, and the specification of the communication terminal confirmed through the service support unit cannot process a service page included in the service provisioning information In one case, the service providing unit for converting the service page according to the specification of the communication terminal to provide to the communication terminal;

Broker server of the mobile radio frequency identification system is configured to include.

The method of claim 7, wherein the profile information receiving unit

And transmits the code of the RFID received from the communication terminal to an object information server, and transmits the service profile information from the object directory service server that receives an inquiry of the service profile information corresponding to the code of the RFID from the object information server. Broker server of mobile radio frequency identification system receiving.

The method of claim 7, wherein the service profile information is

A broker server of a mobile radio frequency identification system configured to include a service name, a service type, an information coding type, a URI, and the like.

The method of claim 7, wherein the service support unit

A hardware specification determination unit for determining a hardware specification of the communication terminal and outputting process processing performance; And

A software specification determination unit which determines whether the communication specification is the software specification and outputs whether the service is supported;

The method of claim 7, wherein the service provider

An information receiving unit receiving service provisioning information corresponding to an RFID code by accessing a service provider of the received location information when receiving location information of a service provider from the object directory service server;

And a page providing unit configured to provide, as a service page, content stored in the content server indicated by the service provisioning information when the specification of the communication terminal satisfies the support specification of the service provisioning information.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the service provisioning information is

Broker server of a mobile radio frequency identification system configured to include an information format, a provision format, hardware support information, software support information, and a service page address of a content server.

As a result of the determination, when the specification of the communication terminal is a specification capable of processing a service page included in the service provisioning information, the broker server includes the content stored in the content server indicated by the service provisioning information in the service provisioning information. Providing the communication terminal with a configured service page;

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The method of claim 13, wherein prior to receiving the service profile information,

Registering, by the object directory service server, a service name and a service type; And

Registering, by the object directory service server, a URI indicating an information coding type and a location of a service provider;

Broker server operating method of a mobile radio frequency identification system, characterized in that comprises a.

The method of claim 13, wherein the step of identifying the specification

Determining a hardware specification of the communication terminal and outputting process processing capability; And

Determining whether to support the service by outputting a software specification of the communication terminal;

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The method of claim 13, wherein prior to receiving the service provisioning information,

The service provider specifying an information format and a provision format;

Registering, by the service provider, hardware support information and software support information of the communication terminal; And

Storing, by the service provider, a service page address of a content server;