KR20090119820A - System and method for providing point of interest in destination around - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A system and a method for providing a point of interest around destination are provided to generate rote search statistic data by preparing statistics of points that users frequently use. CONSTITUTION: A POI(Point Of Interest) corresponding to route data is stored at a POI database, and a categorized route search statistical information is stores at a statistical information database in relation to the POI. A search request including destination information and a route search category is received from a user(602). The POI corresponding to the destination information is searched from the POI database. The route search statistical information is searched from the statistical information database, wherein the route search statistical information is placed in the searched POI and is related to the route search category(604).

Description

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING POINT OF INTEREST IN DESTINATION AROUND}

The present invention searches for a point of interest with a large number of search requests from among a plurality of points of interest located within a predetermined radius from a destination requested by the user with route search statistical information, and provides the point of interest when providing a point of interest corresponding to the destination. The present invention also relates to a method and system for providing a point of interest for providing surrounding information that users frequently search for by providing statistical information.

The navigation system is a system that provides route information for driving a vehicle such as a vehicle by using a satellite and has point of interest (POI) information based on map data. The point of interest is data that displays major facilities, stations, airports, terminals, hotels, and the like on a map. Accordingly, the navigation system may provide route data including road information and a point of interest based on map data existing on the route in consideration of the position of the driving vehicle.

However, in most cases, users do not go to the actual destination by searching for a destination, but look at the map and determine the actual destination before searching for a route. This is because a terminal or a server providing a navigation service cannot include all trade names and addresses of the whole country. Therefore, users search for a point of interest around an actual destination with a keyword and then go to the actual destination.

For example, users must enter one of A's business name, phone number, and address as a search term in order to find a restaurant named "A" near Gangnam Station Exit 7 100m, but actually enter "Gangnam Station" as a search term. At this time, the places where users actually go are restaurants called "A", not Gangnam Station.

However, the navigation system wants to provide a service that provides a statistic of the destinations that users frequently visit. However, in general, if the user statisticalizes the search term searched for the destination, there is a problem in that incorrect statistical information is generated because all the places frequently found by the users are identified as "Gangnam Station". However, if the user statisticalizes "A restaurant near Gangnam Station" as the point where the user finally searched the route, it is possible to find out where the users actually go. In addition, if the user's information (gender, age, etc.) is statistically provided, various services can be provided. As described above, the present invention proposes a method of statistically calculating a point where a user actually visited and providing the search path statistical information.

The present invention has been made to solve the problems of the prior art as described above, in order to generate the path search statistical information that statistically statistics the points that users frequently find, the interest selected by the user as a final destination from a plurality of points of interest It is an object of the present invention to provide a point of interest providing method and system for generating the route search statistical information based on the point, the personal information of the user and the number of times that the point of interest is selected as the final destination by the user.

In addition, the method and system for providing a point of interest according to the present invention searches for a point of interest corresponding to the destination in order to provide a point of interest located near a destination for which the user has requested a search, and is located within a predetermined radius from the point of interest. Its purpose is to identify and provide statistical path search statistics.

In order to achieve the above object and to solve the above problems of the prior art, a method for providing a point of interest around a destination according to an embodiment of the present invention is to store a point of interest corresponding to the route data in the point of interest database Maintaining route search statistical information for each category in association with the point of interest in a statistical information database. Receiving a search request including destination information and a route search category from a user, retrieving a point of interest corresponding to the destination information from the point of interest database, and pre-selected from the retrieved point of interest from the statistical information database Identifying route navigation statistical information located within a radius and associated with the route navigation category, and providing the retrieved point of interest and the identified route navigation statistics.

In addition, the method for providing a point of interest around a destination according to another embodiment of the present invention includes storing a point of interest corresponding to route data in a point of interest database, receiving route search information from a terminal, Searching for a point of interest corresponding to route search information, providing a point of interest list including the found point of interest to the terminal, receiving a point of interest selected from the terminal from the point of interest list, the point of interest Providing route data guiding to the terminal, generating route search statistical information by accumulating the number of points of interest, the category of the point of interest, and the number of times the points of interest are selected from other users, and the generated route search. Statistical information is sorted by category Maintaining the database; and when receiving a search request including a destination and a category from the terminal, providing the search statistical information associated with the category among the path searching statistical information of the point of interest corresponding to the destination. It features.

In addition, the system for providing a point of interest according to an embodiment of the present invention is a point of interest database for storing a point of interest corresponding to the route data, a statistical information database for maintaining the path search statistical information for each category in association with the point of interest; A search request receiver which receives a search request including a destination information and a route search category from a user, searching for a point of interest corresponding to the destination information from the point of interest database, and pre-selected from the searched point of interest from the statistical information database; And an information retrieval unit located within a radius and retrieving route search statistical information associated with the route search category, and an information providing unit providing the retrieved point of interest and the identified route search statistical information.

In the method and system for providing a point of interest according to the present invention, route search statistical information is based on a point of interest selected by the user as the final destination, personal information of the user, and the number of times the user has selected the point of interest as the final destination among a plurality of points of interest. By generating, there is an effect that can generate the path search statistical information that is statistically statistics of the points that users frequently find.

In addition, the method and system for providing a point of interest according to the present invention searches for a point of interest corresponding to a destination for which the user has requested a search, and identifies route search statistical information located within a predetermined radius from the point of interest, thereby surrounding the destination. It is effective to provide a point of interest located at.

In addition, in the method and system for providing a point of interest according to the present invention, by maintaining the route search statistical information based on the user's personal information, among the plurality of points of interest belonging to a specific region, a certain gender or a certain age group frequently finds the top few high statistics. It is possible to provide statistical information of the route search.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings and the contents described in the accompanying drawings, but the present invention is not limited or limited to the embodiments.

1 is a diagram illustrating a network connection of a system for providing a point of interest around a destination according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Point of interest providing system 130 of the present invention is to provide a road guidance service, it is obvious that can be performed in the terminal or server. More specifically, the point-of-interest providing system 130 of the present invention is characterized by providing a point of interest that users frequently finds among points of interest belonging to a specific region by category (restaurant, tavern, real estate business, etc.). To this end, the point-of-interest providing system 130 receives a search for a destination from the terminal 110 through the satellite 120 and provides the point-of-interest and route search statistical information corresponding to the destination.

The point of interest providing system 130 stores the point of interest corresponding to the route data in the point of interest database. The point of interest (POI) is data that displays on a map coordinates of major facilities, stations, airports, terminals, hotels, and the like. That is, the point-of-interest providing system 130 measures the exact time and distance from three satellites, calculates the position of the terminal 110 according to the triangulation method of three different distances, and calculates the position of the terminal 100. In consideration of this, road information and route data including the point of interest may be provided based on map data existing on the route.

The terminal 110 receives the route search information from the user and transmits the route search information to the point of interest providing system 130. The route search information is any one of an address, a business name, a telephone number, and a point of interest for a destination to be searched for. In this case, the terminal 110 may also transmit user information of the terminal. The user information may include any one or more of a name, an address, a gender, an age, and a contact.

The point of interest providing system 130 searches for a point of interest corresponding to the route search information from the point of interest database. In this case, a plurality of points of interest may be searched according to the path search information. The point of interest providing system 130 transmits a point of interest list including the plurality of points of interest to the terminal 110.

The terminal 110 displays the list of points of interest, selects one point of interest from the user, and transmits the selected point of interest to the point of interest providing system 130.

The point of interest providing system 130 provides the terminal 110 with route data leading to the selected point of interest. That is, the point of interest providing system 130 may provide route data from the current position of the terminal 110 to the point of interest.

In addition, the point-of-interest providing system 130 may generate route search statistical information by accumulating the number of points of interest, the category of the point of interest, the user information, and the number of times the point of interest is selected. The category may be classified according to a service provided by a store such as a restaurant, a tavern, a convenience store, cosmetics, clothing, and the like. The point of interest providing system 130 maintains route search statistical information for each category in a statistical information database in association with the point of interest. For example, the route search statistical information for the point of interest "Gangnam Station", "restaurant (category), 20s (age), women (gender), 50 times (number of selections)" Levis (trade name) " Contains information. The point of interest providing system 130 stores the generated route search statistical information in a statistical information database.

Subsequently, when the point of interest providing system 130 receives a search request including destination information and a route search category from the terminal 110, the point of interest providing system 130 is located within a predetermined radius of the point of interest corresponding to the destination information and the point of interest. The mobile terminal 110 may search for route search statistical information associated with the route search category and provide it to the terminal 110.

Hereinafter, a detailed configuration of the present invention for providing route search statistical information will be described with reference to FIG. 2.

As illustrated, the point of interest providing system 200 includes a point of interest database 201, a statistical information database 202, a search request receiving unit 203, an information searching unit 204, an information providing unit 205, and statistical information. The generation unit 206 is included.

Point of interest database 201 stores points of interest corresponding to the route data. The route data includes road information and points of interest based on map data. The road information includes road types such as highways, national roads, local roads, and lane information such as one lane, two lanes, and four lanes. The road information may be updated at predetermined intervals according to lane changes, newly established roads, and location changed roads. In addition, the point of interest is data displayed on a map in coordinates. For example, the point of interest may be "Jongno 3-ga Subway", "Seoul Theater", "National Tax Service", etc. based on the Jongno-gu area of Seoul.

The statistical information database 202 stores route search statistical information for each category in association with the point of interest. The route search statistical information is information obtained by statistically analyzing interest points frequently searched by users among points of interest belonging to a specific region.

Referring to FIG. 3, the statistical information database 202 stores route search statistical information including a category, a point of interest, an age, a gender, a selection number, and a business name. The category may be classified according to services provided by restaurants, pubs, convenience stores, cosmetics, and clothing. The point of interest is a point of interest (Gangnam station) belonging to the category within a specific region, and the age (20 or 30) and the gender (female or male) are user information selected for the business name. The number of times (50 or 30) is calculated by accumulating the number of requests for route guidance to the business name, and the business name (Rus or Herzen) is the name of the place where the user most searches among restaurants located in the specific area. The statistical information database 202 may store coordinates associated with the business name to provide route data when the user inputs the business name as a destination.

The statistical information generator 206 accumulates the selected point of interest, the category of the point of interest, the user information selecting the point of interest, and the number of times the point of interest are selected to provide the above-described path search statistical information. The search path statistical information is generated. That is, the statistical information generating unit 206 may be located within a specific point of interest and identify the points frequently searched by the users, and then generate the path search statistical information by statistically categorizing according to the category, gender, and age. In addition, the statistical information generating unit 206 may regenerate the path search statistical information of the point of interest for each category for a predetermined period and update the statistical information database 202. This is because, due to the characteristics of the present invention that the user provides a lot of places to search, route search statistical information may be changed according to the user's propensity to use. In this way, by updating the change of the route search statistical information every predetermined period, there is an effect that can provide better information.

The search request receiving unit 203 receives a search request including destination information and a route search category from the user. The destination information may be a point of interest and may be, for example, "Gangnam Station", "Seoul City Hall", "Sejong Cultural Center", and the like. The route search category may be a classification name of a place to be searched for in the destination information, and may be, for example, "restaurant", "restaurant", "beauty salon", "cosmetic", etc. If you want to know the restaurants that are located, in order to know the restaurants that users visit a lot, you can request a search by entering a search term "gangnam station restaurants".

The information retrieval unit 204 retrieves a point of interest corresponding to the destination information from the point of interest database 201 and is located within a radius predetermined from the retrieved point of interest from the statistical information database 202. Identifies route navigation statistics associated with a search category. For example, as described above, when a search is requested for "Gangnam Station Restaurant", the user may search for "Gangnam Station" as a point of interest, and search for a restaurant that users frequently find among "restaurants" located within a radius of 5 km from Gangnam Station. The radius for identifying the route search statistical information may be set when the user requests a search, or may be set in the point of interest providing system 200.

The information provider 205 provides the searched point of interest and route search statistical information. In this case, the information providing unit 205 may provide a predetermined number of path search statistical information having a higher statistical value among the identified path search statistical information. For example, the restaurant may provide only the top five restaurants among many restaurants that users have visited. The number of providing the search path statistical information may be set when the user requests a search as described above, or may be set in the point of interest providing system 200.

Referring to FIG. 4, when the user requests a search for "restaurants near Gangnam Station," the information providing unit 205 routes "RAW, 1309, Seocho-dong, Seocho-gu, Seoul", "Levis, and Yeoksam-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul". Search statistics can be provided. In this case, when the user selects "RAW" in the route search statistical information, the information providing unit 205 provides route data for guiding a route from the current location of the user to "RAW". can do.

Meanwhile, the search request receiving unit 203 may receive age information or gender information along with destination information and route search category in the search request. In this case, the information retrieval unit 204 retrieves boundary search statistical information associated with the age information or the gender information from the statistical information database 202.

For example, when the user requests a search with "Gangnam Station restaurant that 20s find" in order to find out where people of a certain age frequently visit, the information search unit 204 may search for "Gangnam Station", " You can search for "restaurants" classified as "twenties". In addition, when a request is made to search for "Gangnam Station restaurant that a woman finds", the information search unit 204 may search for "restaurants" classified as "Gangnam Station" and "Women" from the statistical information database 202. Or, if a request is made to search for "Gangnam Station restaurant that a woman in their 20s is looking for," the information search unit 204 searches for "restaurants" classified as "Gangnam Station", "20s", and "women" from the statistical information database 202. You can search. This is possible because the route search statistical information stores the business name associated with the category, the point of interest, and the user information (age, gender) as described with reference to FIG. 3.

Accordingly, the information provider 205 may provide the searched route search statistical information. Referring to FIG. 4, when the user requests a search for “Gangnam Station restaurant where many women in their 20s are frequently searched”, the information providing unit 205 may be “Pavilion, 619, Yeoksam 1-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul,” “Soybean Forest, Seocho-gu, Seocho-gu, Seoul. May provide pathfinding statistics.

As such, according to the present invention, by maintaining the route search statistical information based on the user's personal information, among the plurality of points of interest belonging to a specific region, a specific gender or a certain age group frequently finds the top several route search statistical information with high statistics. There is an effect that can be provided.

5 is a flowchart illustrating a method for generating statistical path search information according to an embodiment of the present invention. The method for generating route search statistical information according to the present embodiment may be performed by the point of interest providing system 200 as illustrated in FIG. 2.

First, the point of interest database 201 of the point of interest providing system 200 stores the point of interest corresponding to the route data (step 501). The route data includes road information and points of interest based on map data. In addition, the point of interest is data displayed on a map by coordinates, for example, "Jongno 3-ga", "Coex", etc. may be the point of interest.

The terminal or the user inputs route search information to the point of interest providing system 200 (step 502). The route search information is any one of an address, a business name, a telephone number, and a point of interest for a destination to be searched for. For example, the terminal or the user said one of "Yeoksam-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul", "Levis (trade name)", "02-123-4567 (phone number)", "Gangnam station (point of interest)" Can be entered as route search information.

When the point-of-interest providing system 200 is a server, the route search information is received from the terminal 110, and when the point-of-interest providing system 200 is mounted and used in the terminal, Route search information may be input. In this case, the point-of-interest providing system 200 may also receive user information together with the route search information. The user information may include any one or more of a name, address, gender, age, and contact information.

The information retrieval unit 204 retrieves a point of interest corresponding to the route search information from the point of interest database 201, and the information providing unit 205 provides a point of interest list including the retrieved point of interest (step 503). ). In this case, a plurality of points of interest may be searched according to the path search information.

The user (or terminal) receives the point of interest list and selects a point of interest from the user (step 504). The point of interest list is a list including a plurality of points of interest, and a point of interest and an address may be displayed.

The information provider 205 provides route data to guide the selected point of interest (step 505). That is, the information provider 205 may provide the route data by including road information and the point of interest in the map data from the current location of the user to the point of interest.

The statistical information generator 206 accumulates the number of times the point of interest, the category of the point of interest, the user information, and the number of points of interest are selected to generate path search statistical information (step 506). The statistical information generator 206 stores the route search statistical information for each category in the statistical information database 201 in association with the point of interest (see FIG. 3).

6 is a flowchart illustrating a method for providing a point of interest around a destination according to an embodiment of the present invention. The method for providing a point of interest around a destination according to the present embodiment may be performed by the point of interest providing system 200 as illustrated in FIG. 2.

First, the point-of-interest providing system 200 maintains a point-of-interest database 201 that stores a point of interest and a statistical information database 202 that stores route search statistical information (step 601).

The search request receiving unit 203 receives a search request including destination information and a route search category from the user (step 602). The destination information may be a point of interest, and the route search category may be a classification name of a place to be searched for in the destination information. For example, when the user wants to know a restaurant in Gangnam station, the user may request a search by inputting a search term as “Gangnam station restaurant” in order to know a restaurant that a lot of users visit.

The information retrieval unit 204 retrieves a point of interest corresponding to the destination information from the point of interest database 201 (step 603).

The information retrieval unit 204 identifies route search statistical information associated with the route search category and located within a predetermined radius from the point of interest retrieved from the statistical information database 202 (step 604). The radius for identifying the route search statistical information may be set when the user requests a search, or may be set in the point of interest providing system 200.

The information provider 205 provides the searched point of interest and route search statistical information (step 605). In this case, the information providing unit 205 may provide a predetermined number of path search statistical information having a higher statistical value among the identified path search statistical information.

7 is a flowchart illustrating a method for generating statistical path search information according to another embodiment of the present invention.

As shown, the terminal receives an address, a business name, etc. from the user and requests a search to the center (step 1), and the center requests search data including the address, the business name, etc. to the search server (step 2). ). The search server searches for a point of interest corresponding to the search data by referring to the point of interest database and transmits a list of search results to the center (step 3). The center transfers the search result list to the terminal (step 4), and the terminal selects an item to be searched for in the search result list (step 5). Accordingly, the terminal proceeds to the route search to the selected point (step 6), and delivers route search information and user personal information to the center (step 7). The center forwards the route search information and the user personal information to a statistics server (step 8), and the statistics server builds a statistical information database (step 9). The statistics server may generate route search statistical information based on the route search information and the user personal information to build the statistical information database.

8 is a flowchart illustrating a method for providing a point of interest around a destination according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown, the terminal transmits an address, a business name, and the like to the center to request a search (step 1), and the center requests search data including the address, the business name, and the like to the search server (step 2). The search server searches for a point of interest corresponding to the search data by referring to a point of interest database and transmits a list of search results to the center (step 3), and the center transmits the list of search results to the terminal ( Step 4). In addition, the center requests statistical data to the statistical server (step 5), and the statistical server refers to the statistical information database to retrieve the statistical data and deliver it to the center (step 6). By transmitting the statistical data to the terminal (step 7), the center may provide the user with the search result and the statistical data of the search request point.

The method for providing a point of interest around a destination according to the present invention may be implemented in the form of program instructions that can be executed by various computer means and recorded in a computer readable medium. The computer readable medium may include program instructions, data files, data structures, etc. alone or in combination. Program instructions recorded on the media may be those specially designed and constructed for the purposes of the present invention, or they may be of the kind well-known and available to those having skill in the computer software arts. Examples of computer-readable recording media include magnetic media such as hard disks, floppy disks, and magnetic tape, optical media such as CD-ROMs, DVDs, and magnetic disks, such as floppy disks. Magneto-optical media, 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 not only machine code generated by a compiler, but also high-level language code that can be executed by a computer using an interpreter or the like. The hardware device described above may be configured to operate as one or more software modules to perform the operations of the present invention, and vice versa.

As described above, the present invention has been described by way of limited embodiments and drawings, but the present invention is not limited to the above embodiments, and those skilled in the art to which the present invention pertains various modifications and variations from such descriptions. This is possible.

Therefore, the scope of the present invention should not be limited to the described embodiments, but should be determined not only by the claims below but also by the equivalents of the claims.

1 is a diagram illustrating a network connection of a system for providing a point of interest around a destination according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of a system for providing a point of interest according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3 is a diagram illustrating an example of a statistical information database according to the present invention.

4 is a diagram illustrating an example of providing route search statistical information according to an embodiment of the present invention.

5 is a flowchart illustrating a method for generating statistical path search information according to an embodiment of the present invention.

6 is a flowchart illustrating a method for providing a point of interest around a destination according to an embodiment of the present invention.

7 is a flowchart illustrating a method for generating statistical path search information according to another embodiment of the present invention.

8 is a flowchart illustrating a method for providing a point of interest around a destination according to an embodiment of the present invention.

<Explanation of symbols for the main parts of the drawings>

200: point of interest providing system

201: Point of Interest Database

202: statistical information database

203: search request receiving unit

204: information retrieval unit

205: information provider

206: statistical information generating unit

Claims (1)

Searching for a destination; And Providing Point of Interest (POI) around the searched destination Point of interest providing method comprising a.

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