KR101880718B1 - Method, system and user device for providing advice - Google Patents

Abstract

In one embodiment of the present invention, a context element determination unit provides one or more context elements generated based on user information to a user terminal, and determines a selected context element as a user context element; A consulting element determining unit for determining a user consulting element corresponding to the user contextual element; And a counselor providing the user advice element to the user terminal when a situation satisfying the user context element occurs; Is provided.

Description

METHOD, SYSTEM AND USER DEVICE FOR PROVIDING ADVICE < RTI ID = 0.0 >

The present invention relates to a user terminal, a system and a method for providing advice, and more particularly, to provide a user with an interface for setting a consulting element corresponding to a circumstantial element and a circumstantial element so that advice can be completed, A user terminal, and a method for sharing information between users.

With the development of electronic communication technology, a user can use various functions as a portable terminal. The mobile terminal can install and delete various applications as desired by the user, and can directly access the Internet using the wireless Internet, which is highly utilized. For example, the user portable terminal may be provided with a tracking application for recording and managing the movement of the user.

Japanese Patent Publication No. 2007-512588

It is an object of the present invention to provide a user with an interface by which contextual elements and corresponding advisory elements can be set, thereby allowing the user to easily complete the advice.

Another object of the present invention is to encourage competition between users and to motivate the user to exercise by sharing contextual elements, advice elements, and completed advice among similar users.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, there is provided an information processing apparatus comprising: a context element determination unit that provides at least one context element generated based on user information to a user terminal and determines a selected context element as a user context element; A consulting element determining unit for determining a user consulting element corresponding to the user contextual element; And a counselor providing the user advice element to the user terminal when a situation satisfying the user context element occurs; Is provided.

In another embodiment of the present invention, a context element determination unit provides a context element of one or more other users obtained from another user terminal to a user terminal, and determines the selected context element as a user context element. A consulting element determining unit for determining a user consulting element corresponding to the user contextual element; And a counselor providing the user advice element to the user terminal when a situation satisfying the user context element occurs; Is provided.

In the present invention, the advice element determination unit may determine the content input from the user terminal as a user advice element.

In the present invention, among the advisory elements of one or more other users corresponding to the user context element, the advisory element selected by the user terminal may be determined as the user advisory element.

In the present invention, the advice element of the one or more other users corresponding to the user context element may be configured such that the other user who registers the context element that matches the user context element registers with one or more advisory elements registered corresponding to the matched context element Lt; / RTI >

In the present invention, the other user may be a user belonging to the same group as the group to which the user of the user terminal belongs.

In the present invention, the group may be a group automatically generated based on the user information, or may be a group directly joined by the user

In the present invention, the other user may be a user who satisfies a predetermined criterion based on statistics among users belonging to the group to which the user belongs.

In the present invention, the context factor may be related to at least one of time, weather, place, user goal, user heart rate, user's step number, consumed calories, travel distance, and travel speed.

The present invention may further include an additional instruction execution unit that executes the additional instruction according to an input of the user terminal, when the user advice element includes a query as to whether or not to execute an additional instruction. . ≪ / RTI >

In accordance with the present invention, an advice verification unit for verifying and approving the user context element and the corresponding user advice element; . ≪ / RTI >

In the present invention, a consultation input determining unit for acquiring whether or not to input advice from the user terminal; . ≪ / RTI >

In the present invention, the one or more contextual elements may be generated from a wearable device of a user.

In the present invention, the other user terminal may be a wearable device.

In another embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a method comprising: providing at least one contextual element generated based on user information to a user terminal; determining a selected contextual element as a user contextual element; Determining a user advice element corresponding to the user context element; And providing the user advisory element to the user terminal when a situation satisfies the user context element; A method of providing advice is provided.

According to another embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a method for providing a user terminal, the method comprising: providing a context element of one or more other users obtained from another user terminal to a user terminal; Determining the selected context element as a user context element; Determining a user advice element corresponding to the user context element; And providing the user advisory element to the user terminal when a situation satisfies the user context element; A method of providing advice is provided.

According to another embodiment of the present invention, there is provided an information processing apparatus including: a context element determination unit that displays one or more context elements generated based on user information, and determines a selected context element as a user context element; A consulting element determining unit for determining a user consulting element corresponding to the user contextual element; And a counselor for displaying the user advice element corresponding to the user context element when a situation satisfying the user context element occurs; A user terminal is provided.

According to the present invention, the users can easily complete the advice by setting the context element and the corresponding advice element, and can receive the advice element when a situation satisfies the circumstantial element of the completed advice.

According to the present invention, it is possible to share contextual elements, advice elements, and completed advice among users.

1 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of a advice providing system according to an embodiment of the present invention.
2 is a block diagram showing an example of the internal configuration of the service server shown in FIG.
3 is a diagram illustrating a time-series execution sequence of a method for providing advice according to an embodiment of the present invention.
4 is a diagram illustrating an embodiment for determining a user contextual element in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.
5 is a diagram illustrating an example of obtaining context information of another user of a group to which a user belongs according to an embodiment of the present invention.
6 is a diagram illustrating an embodiment of determining a user advice element in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.
7 is a diagram illustrating an embodiment in which a contextual element and an advisory element of another user are provided together according to an embodiment of the present invention.
Figure 8 is an illustration of an example of advice provided in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.
9 is a diagram illustrating an example in which a user terminal is a wearable device, according to another embodiment of the present invention.

The following detailed description of the invention refers to the accompanying drawings, which illustrate, by way of illustration, specific embodiments in which the invention may be practiced. These embodiments are described in sufficient detail to enable those skilled in the art to practice the invention. It should be understood that the various embodiments of the present invention are different, but need not be mutually exclusive. For example, the specific shapes, structures, and characteristics described herein may be implemented by changing from one embodiment to another without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. It should also be understood that the location or arrangement of individual components within each embodiment may be varied without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention. Therefore, the following detailed description is not to be taken in a limiting sense, and the scope of the present invention should be construed as encompassing the scope of the appended claims and all equivalents thereof. In the drawings, like reference numbers designate the same or similar components throughout the several views.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings in order to facilitate a person skilled in the art to which the present invention pertains.

1 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of a advice providing system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, a system for providing advice according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a service server 100, a user terminal 200, and another user terminal 300.

The service server 100 according to the embodiment of the present invention can control the user terminal 200 to display the advice. At this time, the advice provided may be an advisory element of the advice completed by the user, and the service server 100 may provide an interface for setting the context element and the corresponding advisory element based on the user information so that the user can complete the advice . Hereinafter, for convenience of explanation, it is assumed that the advice completed by the user is a command in the form of (context element, advice element). At this time, the context element is a condition reflecting the situation of the user, and is a sufficient condition for providing or displaying the advice element to the user terminal 200. [ In addition, the advice component is content that can be displayed on the user terminal 200 to derive a user ' s specific behavior. That is, when the service server 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention generates a situation satisfying the circumstantial element, the corresponding advisory element is provided to the user terminal 200, and the user terminal 200 displays the advising element do. In other words, according to one embodiment of the present invention, the user may define a counseling element corresponding to the contextual element, that is, define the relationship between the contextual element and the counseling element, complete one advice and provide the completed advice Can receive. In a specific embodiment of the present invention, when the completed advice (movement distance ≥ 8km, 8km has been played! 2km to goal) is detected, when the user terminal detects that it has moved 8km from the starting point of the movement, "You've run 8km! You have 2km to your goal." Can be output.

For reference, the service server 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention may be a server that manages a tracking application for recording a user's motion. The tracking application not only records the user's movement, but also provides advice on the exercise according to the surrounding environment and the user's condition. Conventional tracking applications have failed to provide personalized services by providing predetermined advice only in pre-established contexts. Alternatively, some existing tracking applications provide an interface that allows the user to directly enter the advice, but only allow the user to manually enter the contexts for generating the advice, so that if the context becomes complicated, There is a problem that it is difficult to define the relationship between them. In contrast, the service server 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention provides an interface through which a user can easily complete advice. The concrete operation of the service server 100 will be described later.

The user terminal 200 refers to a communication terminal that can use an application provided by the service server 100 in a wired / wireless communication environment. The user terminal 200 may be a portable terminal of the user. In more detail, the user terminal 200 may be a computer (e.g., a desktop, a laptop, a tablet, etc.), a media computing platform (e.g., a cable, a satellite set top box, a digital video recorder), a handheld computing device (E.g., a PDA, an email client, etc.), any form of mobile phone, a form of wearable device that can be attached or attached to a user's body, or any other type of computing or communication platform However, the present invention is not limited thereto.

Meanwhile, the server 100 may communicate with other user terminals 300 used by other users than users. The description of the user terminal 200 described above can be applied to the other user terminals 300 as they are. However, for convenience of explanation, the terminal of another user is referred to as another user terminal 300 in the context of the user of the user terminal 200 using the advising method of the present invention. Accordingly, it is needless to say that the user of the other user terminal 300 may also be a user of the user terminal 200 described in this specification.

Meanwhile, the service server 100, the user terminal 200, and the other user terminals 300 can communicate through a communication network. In this case, the communication network means a communication network that provides connection paths so that the user terminals 200 and 300 can access the service server 100 and then transmit and receive data. The communication network may be a wired network such as LANs (Local Area Networks), WANs (Wide Area Networks), MANs (Metropolitan Area Networks), ISDNs (Integrated Service Digital Networks), wireless networks such as wireless LANs, CDMA, Bluetooth, However, the scope of the present invention is not limited thereto.

2 is a block diagram showing an example of the internal configuration of the service server 100 shown in FIG.

2, the service server 100 includes a communication unit 110, a memory 120, a program storage unit 130, a control unit 140, a database 150, a user information management unit 161, An advice element determining unit 164, an advice providing unit 165, an advice verifying unit 166,

The communication unit 110 provides a communication interface required to provide transmission / reception signals between the service server 100 and the user terminals 200 and 300 in the form of packet data. Here, the communication unit 110 may be a device including hardware and software necessary for transmitting / receiving a signal such as a control signal or a data signal through a wired / wireless connection with another network device.

The memory 120 performs a function of temporarily or permanently storing data processed by the controller 140. Here, the memory 120 may include magnetic storage media or flash storage media, but the scope of the present invention is not limited thereto.

The program storage unit 130 may store a program including instructions for instructing all the processes executed by the control unit 140, which will be described later, according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The control unit 140 is a kind of central processing unit that determines the user context factor and the advisory factor to complete the advice and provides the user advisory component to the user terminal 200 when a situation satisfies the user context factor . That is, the control unit 140 may operate the control software installed in the program storage unit 130, and may control the respective units in the service server 100 to provide advice to the user terminal 200. [

Here, the control unit 140 may include all kinds of devices capable of processing data, such as a processor. Herein, the term " processor " may refer to a data processing apparatus embedded in hardware, for example, having a circuit physically structured to perform a function represented by a code or an instruction contained in the program. As an example of the data processing apparatus built in hardware, a microprocessor, a central processing unit (CPU), a processor core, a multiprocessor, an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) circuit, and a field programmable gate array (FPGA), but the scope of the present invention is not limited thereto.

The database 150 may include a user database for storing user information and a counseling data face for storing advice that each user has completed. The advice database may store information about context elements and corresponding advisory elements included in the completed advice of each user.

The user information management unit 161 can acquire information of a user using the user terminal 200. [ At this time, the user information may include all information related to the user, such as information on the characteristics of the user himself / herself, information on the current state of the user, and information on the user's surrounding environment. For example, the user information may include information on the user's personal characteristics, such as information on the residence, age, sex, school, workplace, height, weight, body fat, BMI, The current position, the heart rate, the moving speed, and the like, and information on the user's surrounding environment may include information on weather, temperature, humidity, surrounding facilities, and the like. The user information obtaining unit may obtain the user information by using the information inputted directly by the user, the information measured by the user terminal 200, and the information pre-stored in the user terminal 200 by using the user terminal 200 have. The information obtained by the user terminal 200 may be stored in the database 150.

In addition, the user information management unit 161 can determine one or more groups to which the user belongs based on the acquired user information. In this case, the group to which the user belongs may be a group automatically generated by the user information management unit 161 based on the user information, or may be a group in which the user directly subscribes. According to an embodiment of the present invention, the user information management unit 161 may automatically create a group according to the user's residence, age, sex, school, and workplace of the user information, and group the corresponding users.

The advice input determination unit 162 determines whether or not to input advice from the user terminal 200 and determines whether to start a procedure for generating a new advice. As described above, according to the embodiment of the present invention, the user can set advice according to the interface provided by the service server 100. To this end, the advice input determining unit 162 determines whether or not to input the advice first Can be acquired from the user terminal 200. In one embodiment of the present invention, when the user selects the "enter advice" button displayed on the user terminal 200, the advice input determination unit 162 starts a procedure for generating new advice.

The context factor determination unit 163 may generate one or more context elements based on the user information or provide the context element of one or more other users obtained from the other user terminal to the user terminal 200. [ Here, the user information may include all information about the user acquired by the user information acquiring unit. More specifically, the context factor determination unit 163 generates and provides a context factor based on the user information, or provides the context factor of another user obtained from another user terminal belonging to the same group as the user to the user terminal 200 . One or more contextual information provided to the user terminal 200 may be selected by the user and used for the completed advice described below.

In an alternative embodiment, the context factor determination unit 163 may first select a category of the context factor to be generated based on the user information. According to one embodiment of the present invention, the category of the context element may be the category of the context element, with all the features that can represent the user's current situation. For example, the category of contextual factors may be step number, current time, weather, target, heart rate, location, and so on. The context factor determination unit 163 generates a context factor in consideration of the current user's situation in the category of the selected context factor.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, if the category of the selected context element is 'weather' and the current weather is 'clear', the generated context element may be 'weather: clear'. Also, in another example, if the category of the selected context element is a 'place' and a park is nearby, the generated context element may be 'Place: near the park'.

In an alternative embodiment, the context factor determination unit 163 may obtain one or more contextual elements of another user from another user terminal 300 and may provide the obtained contextual elements to the user terminal 200 . The server 100 according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention may obtain the contextual elements of the other users and the corresponding advisory elements from the other user terminals 300. [ Therefore, according to an embodiment of the present invention, the obtained context element is provided to the user terminal 200 so that users can use the context element of other users as their context element.

At this time, the context factor determination unit 163 may acquire one or more context elements of another user belonging to the same group as the group to which the user belongs, and provide the obtained context factor to the user terminal 200. [ At this time, the context factor determination unit 163 may provide a context factor that is frequently used in the group to which the user belongs, or may provide context information of a specific user of the group to which the user belongs.

As described above, according to the embodiment of the present invention, by providing the user context 200 to the user terminal 200, the user can select the context information of the other user, so that even though the context information of the situation Make it available for completion.

In an alternative embodiment, the context factor determination unit 163 may acquire one or more contextual elements of another user from another user terminal 300, acquire other user's advisory elements corresponding to the acquired contextual elements, (200). That is, the context factor determination unit 163 may acquire a context element of the other user and a corresponding set of advisory elements and provide the acquired context element to the user terminal 200. At this time, the advice element corresponding to the context element selected by the user becomes the user advice element determined by the advice element determination unit 164 described later. This allows the user to utilize a set of counseling elements corresponding to contextual elements of other users to complete the advice.

The advice element determination unit 164 determines a user advice element corresponding to the user context element. More specifically, the advice element determination unit 164 determines the content input from the user terminal 200 as a user advice element, or determines, by the user terminal 200, one or more advice elements of the other user corresponding to the user context element The selected advisory element can be determined as a user advisory element. At this time, the advisory element of one or more other users corresponding to the user contextual element is one or more advisory elements registered by the other user who registers the contextual element matched with the user contextual element corresponding to the matched contextual element, ) ≪ / RTI >

In an alternative embodiment, the advice element determination unit 164 may directly receive the advice element corresponding to the user context element as a user advice element. For example, the user may directly input the advice element corresponding to the selected context element to the user terminal 200, and directly input the user advisory element corresponding to the user context element.

In an alternative embodiment, the advising element determination unit 164 may acquire and provide one or more advisory elements of another user of the group to which the user belongs, from another user terminal 300. At this time, the advice element of the other user may be one or more advice elements registered by the other user who registers the context element matched with the user context element in correspondence with the matched context element. According to one embodiment of the present invention, the advice element determination unit 164 provides the advice element of another user so that the user can use the advice element of another user to complete the advice. For example, when the user context element is' weather: clear ', the advice element determination unit 164 determines that the other user who has registered' weather: clear 'as a context element registers the advice element corresponding to' weather: And '3 km running' to the user terminal 200.

In an alternative embodiment, advisory element determination section 164 may provide one or more advisory elements of another user belonging to the same group as the group to which the user belongs to user terminal 200. [ At this time, the context factor determination unit 163 may provide a frequently used advisory element in the group to which the user belongs, or may provide advisory elements of another user in the group to which the user belongs.

In an alternative embodiment, the advice element determination unit 164 may obtain one or more advisory elements of other users that satisfy predetermined criteria based on the statistics among other users belonging to the same group as the group to which the user belongs. For example, the advice element determination unit 164 may obtain only the advice elements of the users whose weight is lower than 10% among the users belonging to the group. In addition to this example, predetermined criteria for statistics of various items can be set without limitation based on user information.

In an alternative embodiment, when the context factor determination unit 163 acquires a context element of the other user and a corresponding set of advisory elements and provides the acquired context element to the user terminal 200, the advisory element determination unit 164 determines, The advising element corresponding to the element can be determined as the user advising element. This allows the user to utilize a set of counseling elements corresponding to contextual elements of other users to complete the advice.

Next, the adviser providing unit 165 completes the advice and provides the user advice element corresponding to the user context element to the user terminal 200 when a situation satisfying the user context element occurs. That is, the advise provider 165 completes the advice based on the determined user context element and the user advisory element, and provides it to the user according to the completed context. The advice provided by the adviser providing unit 165 is made up of (user context element, user advisory element) and can be understood as a kind of command in which the content called advisory element is displayed when the sufficient condition of the context element is satisfied. In accordance with the completed advice, advise provider 165 provides a user advisory element to user terminal 200 if the user context element is satisfied.

The advice verifying unit 166 can verify and approve that the advice completed by the adviser providing unit 165 is appropriate. The advice verifying unit 166 according to an embodiment of the present invention may excessively exceed the user's physical ability when the completed advice takes user information into account or refuse the approval if the advice is inappropriate. Further, the advice verifying unit 166 according to another embodiment of the present invention may approve advice without verification if the user is a verified user.

The additional instruction execution unit 167 may execute the additional instruction in accordance with the input of the user terminal if the user advice element includes a query as to whether to execute an additional instruction. According to an embodiment of the present invention, the user advice element may be merely content to encourage the user's behavior, but may be content including a query as to whether to execute an additional command. For example, if the user advice element according to an embodiment of the present invention is 'listen to a music when running at the current speed', if the user approves the query, an additional command to execute a music can be executed have. This allows the present invention not only to provide a user advice element corresponding to a user contextual element but also to facilitate the execution of other related commands associated therewith.

According to one embodiment of the present invention, the functions of part or all of the above-described server 100 may also be performed in the user terminal 200. [ That is, the user information management unit 161, the advice input determination unit 162, the circumstance element determination unit 163, the advice element determination unit 164, the advice provisioning unit 165, the advice verification unit 166, The functions of part or all of the instruction execution unit 167 can be performed in the user terminal 200. [ In this case, each of the above-described functions can be suitably modified when being performed in the user terminal 200. [

3 is a diagram illustrating a time-series execution sequence of a method for providing advice according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 3, a method of providing advice in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention firstly determines whether to input advice from a user terminal 200 (S01).

Next, one or more contextual elements created or obtained based on the user information are provided to the user terminal 200 (S02).

Next, a signal for selecting one or more of the context elements from the user terminal 200 is received, and the selected context element is determined as a user context element (S03).

Next, the advisory element input from the user terminal 200 or the advisory element selected from one or more advisory elements acquired from the other user terminal 300 is determined as a user advisory element corresponding to the user context element (S04).

Next, it is detected whether a situation satisfying the user context element has occurred (S05).

Next, when a situation satisfying the user context element occurs, a user advisory element corresponding to the user context element is provided to the user terminal 200 (S06).

The user terminal 200 displays a user advisory element (S07).

4 is a diagram illustrating an example of determining a user contextual element in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.

According to one embodiment of the present invention, one or more context elements are generated based on user information, and when a user selects one or more of the context elements displayed in the user terminal 200, the selected context element is determined as a user context element . In the embodiment of FIG. 4, although the context elements are all displayed in text, according to another embodiment of the present invention, context elements can be represented in various presentation formats. For example, among the context factors, information on the weather may include information such as sunny, cloudy, and visually different emoticons.

4 (a) shows an example in which context elements generated based on user information are displayed. In this embodiment, it is assumed that the user A who uses the user terminal 200 is currently walking 1,000 steps, the heart rate is normal, is presently in the playground, and the surrounding weather is clear. The generated context elements based on such user information can be displayed as shown in Fig. 4 (a).

More specifically, in the example of FIG. 4 (a), the circumstantial elements of 'weather: fine weather', 'steps: 1000 steps', 'place: playground', and 'heart rate: normal' It can be seen that the contextual elements provided are displayed on the user terminal 200 and displayed. In this embodiment, the user can select a desired context element as a user context element by selecting the desired context elements 'weather: clear' and 'place: playground'. As illustrated in Figure 4 (a), the user contextual element may comprise a plurality of contextual elements. When the user context element includes a plurality of context elements, a corresponding advice element may be provided to the user terminal 200 when all the plurality of context elements are satisfied.

In the embodiment of FIG. 4 (b), the context elements of the users of the group 'xx university' to which the user A using the user terminal 200 belongs are acquired and provided to the user terminal 200. More specifically, other users of 'xx University' may have used circumstantial elements of 'weather: cloudy', 'place: near the park', 'time: PM10: 00', 'calories: 100 kcal' . In this embodiment, the user can select the desired context elements 'weather: cloudy' and 'place: near the park' to determine the context element of the selected other user as the user context element.

5 is a diagram illustrating an example of obtaining context information of another user of a group to which a user belongs according to an embodiment of the present invention.

First, referring to FIG. 5 (a), a group to which a user belongs can be displayed based on user information. At this time, the group to which the user belongs can be grouped by user information such as school, region, age, height, and weight. FIG. 5 (a) shows an embodiment in which 'XX University', '16-year-old male', and '00 East 'exist as a group of users and a user selects' XX University' as a group for obtaining context factors .

5B shows statistical items and numerical criteria for filtering other users of the group in order to obtain context factors of other users satisfying the statistics desired by the user among other users of the group selected by the user And a screen that can be set. For example, a user may wish to obtain context information of other users whose BMI index is in the lower 10% of the group of his or her XX university. In this case, as shown in (b) of FIG. 5, the user sets a statistical numerical standard by checking 'BMI index' as a statistical item and fitting the scroll bar on the right side to the lower 10% can do.

Next, FIG. 5C illustrates a screen showing the context elements of statistically filtered other users in the group selected by the user. More specifically, when the user selects the group 'XX University' as shown in FIG. 5A and the other users of the group are filtered as shown in FIG. 5B, the filtered other users of the 'XX University' The context may be displayed. The dual user can determine the user context factors by selecting "weather: fine" and "location: near the park".

6 is a diagram illustrating an embodiment for determining a user advisory element in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.

In the embodiment of FIG. 6, it is illustrated that the advisory element is determined when the determined user context element is 'weather: clear' and 'place: near the park'.

In the embodiment of FIG. 6 (a), a case is shown in which the advisory element corresponding to the user context element is directly input from the user. Referring to FIG. 6 (a), the user context factor can be directly input to the user context factor 'weather: clear' and 'place: near the park'. The user can input advisory content such as 'Try the 10 km in the nearby park because the weather is clear' on the screen displayed on the user terminal 200. In the embodiment of FIG. 6 (a), the input advisory content is a user advisory element corresponding to the user contextual element.

In the embodiment of FIG. 6 (b), one or more advisory elements selected by the other user using the same contextual element as the user contextual element in correspondence with the contextual element are displayed. Referring to FIG. 6 (b), the acquired advice elements are displayed on the user terminal 200 in response to user contextual factors such as 'weather: clear' and 'place: near the park'. At this time, the obtained advice elements may be advice elements of other users corresponding to the matching context elements when matching the user contextual elements with the contextual elements of other users. For example, in the embodiment of FIG. 6B, in response to the circumstantial elements of 'weather: fine weather' and 'place: near the park', the other user's advising elements are 'walking for 3km on a clear day' Run a park within 30 minutes'. In the embodiment of FIG. 6 (b), the 'advising element' of another user selected by the user, 'walking 3 km in a clear day park' may be determined as a user advisory element.

In the embodiment of FIG. 6 (c), one or more advisory elements of other users satisfying a predetermined criterion based on statistics are displayed among other users belonging to the same group as the group to which the user belongs. More specifically, the embodiment shown in FIG. 6C may be an embodiment showing advisory elements corresponding to the context elements of the selected group of other users in the selected group described in FIG. In the embodiment of FIG. 6 (c), among other users belonging to the user's group, corresponding to the user context factor 'weather: clear' and 'place: near the park' The advisory elements illustrate the case of 'walking for 5km on a clear day' and 'running a park within 15 minutes'. In the embodiment of FIG. 6 (c), the user's advisory element may be determined to be 'walking for 5 km on a clear day's park', which is the advisory element of another user selected by the user.

7 is a diagram illustrating an embodiment in which a contextual element and an advisory element of another user are provided together according to an embodiment of the present invention.

According to one embodiment of the present invention, a contextual element of another user and a corresponding set of advisory elements may be acquired and provided to the user terminal 200. [ That is, it is possible to provide the user terminal with the relationship of other users (context element, advice element) together so that the user can select the completed advice itself. According to the embodiment of FIG. 7, the user terminal 200 according to the embodiment of the present invention is provided with the advice of other users of 'xx school' (weather: sunny & place: near the park, Walking) and (currently walking steps ≥9000 & weather: passing, walking a little longer is 1000 steps. Walk indoors) can be provided. At this time, the advice of the other user displayed on the user terminal 200 may be displayed in the form of 'context element => advice element'. By selecting the displayed completed advice, the user can determine both the user context element and the user advisory element together.

Figure 8 is an illustration of an example of advice provided in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.

8A is a diagram illustrating an embodiment in which the user terminal 200 outputs a user advice element when a situation satisfying the user context element occurs. In the embodiment of FIG. 8 (a), the completed advice (weather: sunny & place: near the park, the weather is clear! Walk 3 km from the nearby park) and "weather: sunny & place: near the park" There is a situation that 'the weather is clear! A walk for 3km in a nearby park 'is displayed on the screen. At this time, an emoticon or the like related to the user advice element may be additionally displayed.

FIG. 8 (b) is a diagram illustrating an embodiment that includes a query as to whether a user advisory element will execute additional instructions. In the embodiment of FIG. 8 (b), the completed advice (listen to the [BoomBoomPow] music when the running speed is? 9 km / h & And a user advisory element is output. At this time, if the user selects 'Yes' for the query included in the user advice element, the user terminal 200 can play [BoomBoomPow] music.

FIG. 8 (c) is a diagram illustrating another embodiment that includes a query as to whether the user advisory element will execute an additional command. In the embodiment of FIG. 8 (c), the completed advice (running distance ≥10 km & average speed = 9 km / h, today is 10 km, average 9 km. And a user advice element is output. At this time, if the user selects 'Yes' for the query included in the user advisory element, the user terminal 200 may execute another application for posting.

9 is a diagram illustrating an example in which a user terminal is a wearable device, according to another embodiment of the present invention.

Figs. 9A to 9C show examples in which the embodiments described in Figs. 4 to 8 described above are implemented on a wearable device. More specifically, referring to FIG. 9A, one or more context elements generated based on the user information may be output to the display of the wearable device so that the user A can select it. In this case, the content of 'Weather: Sunny' in FIG. 9 (a) may be transformed into an image or an emoticon appropriately in consideration of the size of the display of the wearable device as indicated by a sea-shaped emoticon. Next, FIG. 9 (b) shows advisory elements registered by the students of the group "XX University" to which the user A belongs in the context of "weather: clear". FIG. 9 (c) illustrates a screen in which advice of '3-km walk', which is a advice element selected by the user, is displayed when a situation satisfying 'weather: clear' occurs.

In addition to the example described in FIG. 9, all of the embodiments described herein may be implemented in a wearable device. That is, according to an embodiment of the present invention, all the processes performed by the user terminal and the other user terminals can be implemented in the wearable device.

Through the embodiments of the present invention as described above, it is possible to allow the user to easily complete the advice by providing the user with an interface for setting the context element and the corresponding advice element. In addition, embodiments of the present invention enable sharing of contextual elements, advice elements, and completed advice among similar users, thereby facilitating competition among users and motivating users to exercise.

The specific acts described in the present invention are, by way of example, not intended to limit the scope of the invention in any way. For brevity of description, descriptions of conventional electronic configurations, control systems, software, and other functional aspects of such systems may be omitted. Also, the connections or connecting members of the lines between the components shown in the figures are illustrative of functional connections and / or physical or circuit connections, which may be replaced or additionally provided by a variety of functional connections, physical Connection, or circuit connections. Also, unless explicitly mentioned, such as " essential ", " importantly ", etc., it may not be a necessary component for application of the present invention.

The use of the terms " above " and similar indication words in the specification of the present invention (particularly in the claims) may refer to both singular and plural. In addition, in the present invention, when a range is described, it includes the invention to which the individual values belonging to the above range are applied (unless there is contradiction thereto), and each individual value constituting the above range is described in the detailed description of the invention The same. Finally, the steps may be performed in any suitable order, unless explicitly stated or contrary to the description of the steps constituting the method according to the invention. The present invention is not necessarily limited to the order of description of the above steps. The use of all examples or exemplary language (e.g., etc.) in this invention is for the purpose of describing the present invention only in detail and is not to be limited by the scope of the claims, It is not. It will also be appreciated by those skilled in the art that various modifications, combinations, and alterations may be made depending on design criteria and factors within the scope of the appended claims or equivalents thereof.

The embodiments of the present invention described above can be implemented in the form of program instructions that can be executed through various computer components and recorded in a computer-readable recording medium. The computer-readable recording medium may include program commands, data files, data structures, and the like, alone or in combination. The program instructions recorded on the computer-readable recording medium may be those specifically designed and configured for the present invention or may be those known and used by those skilled in the computer software arts. Examples of computer-readable media include magnetic media such as hard disks, floppy disks and magnetic tape, optical recording media such as CD-ROM and DVD, magneto-optical media such as floptical disks, medium, and hardware devices specifically configured to store and execute program instructions, such as ROM, RAM, flash memory, and the like. Examples of program instructions include machine language code, such as those generated by a compiler, as well as high-level language code that can be executed by a computer using an interpreter or the like. The hardware device may be modified into one or more software modules for performing the processing according to the present invention, and vice versa.

While the present invention has been particularly shown and described with reference to exemplary embodiments thereof, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the disclosed embodiments, but, on the contrary, Those skilled in the art will appreciate that various modifications and changes may be made thereto without departing from the scope of the present invention.

Accordingly, the spirit of the present invention should not be construed as being limited to the above-described embodiments, and all ranges that are equivalent to or equivalent to the claims of the present invention as well as the claims .

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Claims (26)

A context element determination unit that provides at least one context element generated based on user information to the user terminal and determines the selected context element as a user context element;
An advice element determination unit that selects a user advice element corresponding to the user context element from the user terminal and determines the selected user advice element as a user advice element corresponding to the user context element; And
An adviser providing the determined user advisory element to the user terminal when a situation satisfying the user context element occurs after the user advisory element is determined;
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Wherein each of the one or more contextual elements generated based on the user information includes a category determined based on the current state of the user and attribute values for the category. delete The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the advisory element determination unit determines the content input from the user terminal as a user advisory element. The method according to claim 1,
The advisory element determination unit may determine,
The advice component selected by the user terminal among the advisory elements of at least one other user corresponding to the user context element as the user advisory component. 5. The method of claim 4,
Wherein the advisory element of the one or more other users corresponding to the user context element comprises:
Wherein one or more advisory elements registered by the other user who registered the contextual element matching the user contextual element correspond to the matched contextual element. 5. The method of claim 4,
Wherein the other user is a user belonging to the same group as the group to which the user of the user terminal belongs. The method according to claim 6,
Wherein the group is a group automatically generated based on user information or a group that the user directly subscribes to. The method according to claim 6,
Wherein the other user is a user who satisfies a predetermined criterion based on statistics among users belonging to the group to which the user belongs. The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the user information includes information on at least one of a current position, a heart rate, and a movement speed,
Wherein the contextual element relates to one or more of time, weather, location, user goals, user heart rate, user steps, calories burned, travel distance, and travel speed. The method according to claim 1,
An additional instruction execution unit for executing the additional instruction according to an input of the user terminal, when the user advice element includes a query as to whether to execute an additional instruction; Wherein the advice provision system further comprises: The method according to claim 1,
An advice verifier for verifying and authorizing the user contextual element and the corresponding user advisory element; Wherein the advice provision system further comprises: The method according to claim 1,
An advice input determining unit for determining whether or not to input advice from the user terminal; Wherein the advice provision system further comprises: The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the at least one contextual element is generated from a wearable device of a user. delete Providing an advice provision system comprises providing at least one contextual element generated based on user information to a user terminal,
The advice provision system determining the selected context element as a user context element;
Wherein the advice providing system comprises: receiving a user advisory element corresponding to the user context element from the user terminal and determining the selected user advisory element as a user advisory element corresponding to the user context element; And
Providing the advisory providing system with the determined user advice element to the user terminal when a situation satisfies the user context element after the user advice element is determined;
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Wherein each of the one or more contextual elements generated based on the user information includes a category determined based on the current state of the user and an attribute value for the category. delete 16. The method of claim 15,
Wherein the step of determining the advisory element determines the content input from the user terminal as a user advisory element. 16. The method of claim 15,
Wherein the step of determining the advisory component comprises:
The advice component selected by the user terminal among the advisory components of one or more other users corresponding to the user context component as the user advisory component. 19. The method of claim 18,
Wherein the advisory element of the one or more other users corresponding to the user context element comprises:
Wherein one or more advisory elements registered by the other user who has registered the contextual element matching the user contextual element correspond to the matched contextual element. 19. The method of claim 18,
And the other user belongs to the same group as the group to which the user of the user terminal belongs. 21. The method of claim 20,
Wherein the other user is a user who satisfies a predetermined criterion based on statistics among users belonging to the group to which the user belongs. 16. The method of claim 15,
Executing the additional instruction in accordance with an input of the user terminal when the advice provision system includes a query as to whether the user advice element is to execute an additional instruction; Further comprising the step of providing advice. 16. The method of claim 15,
Wherein the advising provisioning system comprises: a consulting step of verifying and approving the user context element and the corresponding user advice element; Further comprising the step of providing advice. 16. The method of claim 15,
An advice input determining step of the advice providing system obtaining whether or not to input advice from the user terminal; Further comprising the step of providing advice. A context element determination unit that displays one or more context elements generated based on the user information and determines the selected context element as a user context element;
An advice element determination unit that selects a user advice element corresponding to the user context element from the user terminal and determines the selected user advice element as a user advice element corresponding to the user context element; And
An adviser providing a user advisory element corresponding to the user context element when a situation satisfying the user context element occurs after the user advisory element is determined;
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Wherein each of the one or more contextual elements generated based on the user information includes a category determined based on the current state of the user and an attribute value for the category. delete

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