KR20070046274A - Method for offering information of goods on mobile communication terminal - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method for providing a goods information service in a mobile communication terminal, and when driving the Z goods information service in a method of a mobile communication terminal for providing the goods information service, by recognizing the RFID tag attached to the goods Collecting information of the item; and, if the item information is collected, checking whether the item information comparison menu for the collected item information is selected, and if the item information comparison menu is selected, data for comparing the item information. Transmitting the goods information providing server to check whether the goods information data is received from the server, and if the goods information data is received, statistically processing the displayed data and displaying the same. By providing information about your products, you will not be able to visit them Can be provided to help you make efficient purchasing activities.

Commodity information, price information, information comparison, location information, RFID tags,

Description

METHOD FOR OFFERING INFORMATION OF GOODS ON MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL}

1 is a diagram showing the configuration of a system for providing an article information service in a mobile communication terminal according to the present invention;

2 is a block diagram of a mobile communication terminal according to the present invention;

3 is a diagram illustrating a procedure for providing an article information service in a mobile communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention;

4 is a diagram illustrating a procedure for providing a goods information service to a mobile communication terminal in a goods information management server according to an embodiment of the present invention; and

5 is a diagram illustrating a screen of article information data received from a server in a mobile communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The present invention relates to a method for providing an article information service in a mobile communication terminal, and in particular, provides an article information service efficiently by using the article information recorded in an RFID tag and the location information of the mobile communication terminal in the mobile communication terminal. It relates to a method for doing so.

Recently, due to the convenience of the portable terminal, the use of the mobile communication terminal is rapidly spreading. Accordingly, service providers (terminal manufacturers) are competitively developing terminals having more convenient functions to secure a large number of users.

For example, the mobile communication terminal may be a phone book, a game, a scheduler, a short message service, a multimedia message service, a broadcast message service. ), Internet service, e-mail, morning call, MP 3 (MPEG Layer 3), and digital camera.

In addition to the additional service function, users of the mobile communication terminal need an additional service function that can help real life. In other words, it requires an additional service function that can help the user's daily life, such as purchase activities or consumption activities.

For example, in the case of purchasing goods in the Internet shopping, a service for providing product comparison information is being implemented to compare and purchase prices of various Internet shopping malls.

Similarly, when a product is purchased at a department store or a discount store, the mobile communication terminal provides a service that can help the user's purchasing activity by providing product information of each store, such as the product price comparison service of the Internet. In need.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a method for providing a goods information service in a mobile communication terminal to assist a user in purchasing activities.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a method for providing article information by using the information of the article recorded in the RFID tag and the location information of the terminal in the mobile communication terminal.

According to a first aspect of the present invention for achieving the above object, a method of a mobile communication terminal for providing an article information service in a mobile communication terminal, when driving the article information service, by recognizing the RFID tag attached to the article Collecting information data of the article; and if information data of the article is collected, checking whether a comparison menu with respect to the collected article information data is selected, and if the comparison menu is selected, supplies information to the article information providing server. And transmitting the data for comparison and checking whether the item information data is received from the server, and if the item information data is received, statistically processing and displaying the received data.

According to a second aspect of the present invention for achieving the above object, the method of the article providing server for providing article information to the mobile communication terminal, when a message requesting the comparison of article information from the mobile communication terminal is received; Analyzing the received message; and if the received message is analyzed, collecting item information data of the corresponding store based on the data of the analyzed message; and if the item information data is collected, collecting the collected item. And transmitting information data to the mobile communication terminal.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. In describing the present invention, when it is determined that a detailed description of a related known function or configuration may unnecessarily obscure the subject matter of the present invention, the detailed description thereof will be omitted.

Hereinafter, the present invention will be described a method for providing an efficient article information service using a radio frequency identification tag (RFID) and location information of a terminal in a mobile communication terminal. Here, the location information may be checked using the power of the mobile communication terminal, the time difference of arrival of the radio wave, the radio wave reception angle of the antenna, and the GPS (Global Positioning System). In the following description, a method of obtaining the location information through GPS is described as an example of the location information checking method.

1 illustrates a configuration of a system for providing an article information service in a mobile communication terminal according to the present invention.

The article 102 having the RFID tag attached thereto receives power from the energy generated from the RFID reader mounted on the mobile communication terminal 100, thereby providing information of the article recorded in the internal memory. Transmit to the RFID reader (step 108). Here, the RFID tag refers to a radio wave identification tag that can wirelessly manage information of various objects such as food, animals, and things.

When the mobile communication terminal 100 collects the item information data stored in the RFID tag of the article 102 through the RFID reader, the location information of the mobile communication terminal 100 using the GPS receiver of the mobile communication terminal. Obtain (step 114). Here, the location information is obtained through the GPS satellites 106. Thereafter, the collected article information and the location information are transmitted to the article information providing server 104 (step 110).

The article information providing server 104 stores the information of each store (for example, the store name, the store location, the goods held by the store, and information about the goods held by the store), thereby receiving the goods received from the mobile communication terminal 100. After collecting the information, the collected data is transmitted to the mobile communication terminal 100 by using the information included in the message for requesting information comparison (step 112). Thereafter, when the article comparison information data is received from the article information providing server 104, the mobile communication terminal 100 displays the article comparison information on a display unit.

2 shows a block configuration of a mobile communication terminal according to the present invention. The mobile communication terminal described below includes both a cellular phone, a personal communication system (PCS), a personal data assistant (PDA), and an international mobile telecommunication-2000 (IMT2000) terminal. The following description will be given with the general configuration of the above examples.

Referring to FIG. 1, a controller (MPU: Micro-Processer Unit) 200 controls the overall operation of the mobile communication terminal. For example, it performs processing and control for voice call and data communication, and purchases using article information collected through RFID reader 224 and location information of the mobile communication terminal in addition to the usual functions. It serves to control the function for providing price information of the goods to be. Therefore, in the following description, description about the process and control of the normal control part 200 is abbreviate | omitted.

The read only memory (ROM) 202 stores microcodes of programs and various reference data for processing and control of the controller 200. In particular, a program for transmitting the collected item information data, the search range of the item information, and the location information according to the present invention, and a program for analyzing and statistically processing the received data are stored. A random access memory (RAM) 204 is a working memory of the controller 200 and stores temporary data generated during various program executions. Flash ROM 206 stores various updatable archiving data such as phone books, outgoing messages and incoming messages. In particular, it stores the search range which is preset for the automatic search according to the present invention.

The RFID reader 224 may collect data recorded in the internal memory of the RFID tag attached to the article. That is, the RFID tag collects article information that is periodically transmitted using energy generated from the RFID reader 224 as a power source.

The GPS receiver 226 is used to obtain position information of the mobile communication terminal by receiving a radio wave transmitted from a GPS (Global Positioning System) satellite.

Key pad 208 is a numeric key buttons of 0-9, menu button (menu), cancel button (clear), confirmation button, call button (TALK), end button (END), Internet access button, A plurality of function keys, such as navigation key (or direction key) buttons (▲ / ▼ / ◀ / ▶) and a text input key, are provided, and key input data corresponding to a key pressed by a user is provided to the controller 200. In particular, according to the present invention receives a product information search range is provided to the control unit 200.

The display unit 210 displays status information generated during the operation of the mobile communication terminal, a limited number of characters, a large amount of video and still images, and the like. The display unit 210 may use a color liquid crystal display (LCD). In addition, the display unit 210 displays the article information data collected from the RFID tag and the article information data statistically processed by the control unit according to the present invention.

The codec (Coder-Decoder) 212 connected to the control unit 200 and the speaker 216 and the microphone 214 connected to the codec 212 are voice input / output blocks used for phone calls and voice recording. . The codec 212 converts the PCM data provided from the controller 200 into an analog voice signal, transmits the same through the speaker 216, and converts the voice signal received through the microphone 214 into PCM data. To the control unit 200.

In addition, the RF unit 220 reduces the frequency of the radio frequency signal received through the antenna 218 to the baseband processor 222 and provides the baseband signal from the baseband processor 222. The frequency is raised and transmitted through the antenna 218. The baseband processor 222 processes a baseband signal transmitted and received between the RF unit 220 and the controller 200. For example, in case of transmission, the channel coding and spreading of data to be transmitted are performed, and in case of reception, the function of despreading and channel decoding of the received signal is performed. .

3 illustrates a procedure for providing an article information service in a mobile communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 3, in step 301, the controller 200 checks whether the article information service for collecting and comparing the article information is operated.

When the article information service is driven, the controller 200 proceeds to step 303 and checks whether the RFID tag is recognized. For example, when the mobile communication terminal approaches the specific article, the RFID tag attached to the specific article transmits a signal using energy generated from the RFID reader 224 as a power source. At this time, the RFID reader 224 may recognize the existence of the RFID tag by recognizing the signal transmitted from the RFID tag.

When the RFID tag of the specific article is recognized, the controller 200 proceeds to step 305 and collects item information data (eg, article name, article price, expiration date, date of manufacture, etc.) sent by the recognized RFID tag.

When the item information data is collected, the control unit 200 proceeds to step 307 to determine whether a data comparison menu for comparing the collected item information with information of goods existing in another store is selected.

If the data comparison menu is not selected, the controller 200 returns to step 303 and checks whether another item information is additionally collected.

On the other hand, if the data comparison menu is selected, the control unit 200 proceeds to step 309 and checks whether a search method is set to obtain information of the items to be compared with the information of the specific article. The search method may be classified into an automatic search, a section search, and a store search. The automatic search searches in the basic range without specifying the user or searches the basic search range set by the user prior to driving the article information service. The section search searches for a store existing within a section set by the user, and the store search performs a search only for a specific store designated by the user.

In operation 311, the controller 200 determines whether the set search method is an automatic search.

If the set search method is automatic search, the control unit 200 proceeds to step 313 and checks the location information of the mobile communication terminal using the GPS receiver 226 mounted to the mobile communication terminal.

When the location information of the mobile communication terminal is confirmed, the control unit 200 proceeds to step 315 in which the search range to perform the automatic search, the location information of the identified mobile communication terminal, and the goods information collected from the RFID tag. Send data to the server. Thereafter, the controller 200 proceeds to step 317.

On the other hand, if the set search method is not an automatic search, the control unit 200 proceeds to step 321 to determine whether the set search method is a section search.

If the set search method is section search, the controller 200 proceeds to step 323 to set a search section. For example, if a user wants to search for a store within a radius of 5 km from the user's location, a radius of 5 km may be set as a search section.

In step 313, the controller 200 checks the location information of the mobile communication terminal using the GPS receiver. In operation 315, the controller 200 transmits the set search period, the location information of the checked mobile communication terminal, and the item information data collected from the RFID tag to the server. Thereafter, the controller 200 proceeds to step 317.

If the set search method is not section search, the control unit 200 proceeds to step 325 and checks whether the set search method is a store search. If the set search method is not a store search, the control unit 200 returns to step 311.

On the other hand, if the set search method is a store search, the control unit 200 proceeds to step 327 and checks whether a store to be searched is set. For example, if the user wants to obtain product information of the A department store, B mart, and C outlet, the user may set the A department store, B mart, and C outlet as a search store.

In step 315, the control unit 200 transmits the item information data collected from the set store to be searched and the RFID tag to a server.

In operation 317, the controller 200 determines whether data is received from the server.

When data is received from the server, the controller 200 displays the received data on the display unit 210 as shown in FIG. 5. If the received data is not statistically processed data, the mobile communication terminal may display the statistically processed data. In addition, although the price information of the goods of each store is displayed in FIG. 5, information other than the said price information can also be displayed.

4 illustrates a procedure for providing a goods information service to a mobile communication terminal in a goods information management server according to an embodiment of the present invention. Here, the item information management server refers to a server that holds the information of each store (for example, store name, store location, items held by the store, information on the items held by the store).

Referring to FIG. 4, the controller of the article information management server checks whether data is received from the mobile communication terminal in step 401. That is, it is checked whether a message for requesting comparison of article information is received, including location information, search range, and article information data of the mobile communication terminal.

In operation 403, the controller of the server analyzes the received data. That is, the store to be searched is determined according to the location information and the search range, and the received item information is analyzed to determine the item to be searched.

In step 405, the controller of the server collects the information of the searched item from the search store based on the analyzed data. In other words, after checking whether the item to be searched exists in the store to be searched, and collecting the information of the item to be searched if the item to be searched exists.

For example, when the location information of the mobile communication terminal is A department store, the search range is within a radius of 5 km, and a message requesting a comparison of information about items such as orange juice, milk, and red pepper paste is received by the server, The control unit of the server first searches stores within a radius of 5 km from the department store A. As a result of the search, if there are B-marts and C-outlets within a radius of 5 km, it checks whether the goods exist in the B-marts and C-outlets, and collects information on the goods in the B-marts and C outlets .

When the information of the searched article is collected, the controller of the server proceeds to step 407 and transmits the collected searched article information to the mobile communication terminal. Here, the server may statistically process the collected search item information and transmit it to the mobile communication terminal.

Thereafter, the controller of the server terminates the present algorithm.

Meanwhile, in the detailed description of the present invention, specific embodiments have been described, but various modifications are possible without departing from the scope of the present invention. Therefore, the scope of the present invention should not be limited to the described embodiments, but should be determined not only by the scope of the following claims, but also by the equivalents of the claims.

As described above, by using the information of the goods recorded in the RFID tag and the location information of the mobile communication terminal to provide the user with the information of the same type of goods existing in different stores, even if the user does not visit the various stores directly Information such as price, expiration date, date of manufacture, size, etc. of the goods existing in the various stores can be obtained to help the user to purchase the goods efficiently.

Claims (14)

In the method of the mobile communication terminal for providing goods information service in the mobile communication terminal, Collecting the information of the article by recognizing the RFID tag attached to the article when driving the article information service; Checking whether a product information comparison menu for the collected product information is selected; If the item information comparison menu is selected, transmitting the collected item information to the item information providing server and checking whether the item information comparison data is received from the item information providing server; And when the article information comparison data is received, displaying the received article information comparison data. The method of claim 1, When the item information comparison menu is selected, checking whether a data retrieval method is set; Setting a product information search section according to the set search method; And transmitting the collected article information and the set search section information to a article information providing server. The method of claim 2, Checking the location information of the mobile communication terminal when the set search method is section search; And setting a search range according to the location information. The method of claim 3, wherein The location information is confirmed using any one of a method of using the time difference of the radio wave, the power of the terminal, the radio wave reception angle of the antenna, and the GPS satellites. The method of claim 2, If the set search method is a store search, further comprising: setting a store to be searched. The method of claim 2, If the search method is set as an automatic search, checking whether an automatic search range is specified in advance; If the automatic search range is predetermined, further comprising: checking the predetermined search range. The method of claim 6, If the automatic search range is not specified in advance, further comprising the step of identifying the search range used for the search before the search. The method of claim 1, When the article information data is received, checking whether the received article information data is statistically processed; And if the received article information data is not statistically processed, displaying the received article information data by statistically displaying the received article information data. The method of claim 1, The article information providing server is a server for providing comparison data with respect to the article information to the mobile communication terminal. The method of claim 1, The article information includes at least one of a product name, price, expiration date, date of manufacture, size. In the method of the article information providing server for providing article information to the mobile communication terminal, When receiving a message requesting a comparison of item information from the mobile communication terminal, checking the item information and the search section of the received message; Collecting item information data of the corresponding store by using the identified item information and the search section; And when the article information data is collected, transmitting the collected article information data to the mobile communication terminal. The method of claim 11, The article information providing server is a server that holds information of a store selling goods. The method of claim 11, The store information may include at least one of a store name, a store location, a product held by a store, and information on a product held by the store. The method of claim 11, And when the article information data is collected, statistically processing the article information data and transmitting the same to the mobile communication terminal.

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