KR20140031156A - Location-based contents transfer system and providing method thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

Disclosed are a location-based content transmitting system and a providing method for the same. The location-based content transmitting system includes a control module receiving a transmission request including a receiver information of which predetermined content is transmitted from a sender terminal; a location confirming module to confirm the location of one or more receiver terminals corresponding to the receiver information; and a transmission module performing a transmission process to transmit the content corresponding to the transmission request to one or more receiver terminals when the location of at least one of the receiver terminals is confirmed as a content obtained location corresponding to the transmission request. The content obtained location is characterized by being determined based on the location of the sender terminal. [Reference numerals] (110) Control module; (120) Location confirming module; (130) Transmission module; (200) Caller terminal; (300) Receiver terminal; (400) External system; (500) Content system

Description

Location-based contents transfer system and providing method

The present invention relates to a location-based content delivery system and a method thereof, and more particularly, to a system and method in which the transmission of content can be made based on the location of the receiver.

Various services are provided to easily communicate by transmitting predetermined content or messages. For example, technologies for content transmission services that allow users to exchange various contents or messages with their acquaintances through mobile phone text messaging services such as SMS and MMS and / or various instant messanger programs are well known. have. In the following specification, not only various coupons, photos, videos, web pages, etc. but also texts through SMS, MMS, or instant messenger will be defined as contents.

Conventional content delivery service has been convenient because the content (eg, text message) sent by the sender is immediately sent to the receiver. However, according to the conventional content delivery service, communication of users has meaning only by the transmitted content itself, and the transmission protocol or transmission scheme has no significant value for communication. That is, in the past, communication has been entirely dependent on the type or content of the transmitted content, but the transmission scheme has no meaning in the communication between the sender and the receiver. Therefore, effects such as sympathy with each other through the transmission scheme could not be expected.

Meanwhile, various services are provided based on the location of the user and the location of the user. For example, a service for identifying a user's current location by using a GPS, etc. included in the user's mobile phone, and informing a restaurant or other convenient facility around a current location of the user is provided.

Meanwhile, marketing using various content delivery services as described above is being actively performed. For example, an electronic coupon or a gift icon (hereinafter, referred to as a digital coupon), which can be discounted at a specific store through SMS, MMS, or a specific menu service, is provided to the users to provide the user with the specific store. Can be derived from.

However, not all users who have been provided with the digital coupon go directly to the corresponding store and use the provided digital coupon. For example, the user may forget the fact that the digital coupon is stored in his mobile phone and the expiration date may pass. Alternatively, when a coupon or the like related to a store that the user does not want to visit or use is randomly provided to the users, the provided digital coupon may be different from the general spam message.

As a result, there is a problem that unnecessary resources can be wasted in large quantities of content transmission of digital coupons that are not guaranteed to be used in the store, and users are not only required services but also digital coupons for services that are not of interest. There may be inconvenience in being provided.

Therefore, a technical idea of providing a digital coupon only to users who find a corresponding store that provides a predetermined service so that the user can immediately use the provided digital coupon is required.

In addition, the content transmission scheme itself is based on the location of the receiver, so that the sender can check the content only at the desired location of the caller in the corresponding place, such as a place containing the user's memories, so that the users can remind each other's memories or increase the rapport. Technical ideas are required.

Therefore, the technical problem to be achieved by the present invention is that if the caller specifies the location from which the receiver will acquire the content, i.e., the content acquisition location, the content is delivered to the recipient only if the location of the recipient corresponds to the specified content acquisition location. By providing a location-based content delivery scheme to provide a location-based content delivery system that can give a meaningful communication tool to the content delivery scheme itself between the sender and the receiver.

In addition, a digital coupon can be provided only when a customer (ie, a receiver) actually visits a specific store, thereby providing a location-based content delivery system that allows a customer who wants to receive the content to flow into the specific store. It is.

The location-based content delivery system for solving the technical problem, a control module for receiving a transmission request containing the receiver information to be transmitted from the sender terminal, the predetermined content, the location of at least one receiver terminal corresponding to the receiver information; A positioning module for checking, and a transmission process for transmitting the content corresponding to the transmission request to the at least one receiver terminal when the location of the at least one receiver terminal is identified as a content acquisition position corresponding to the transmission request. And a transmission module for performing the content acquisition position, wherein the content acquisition position is determined based on the position of the caller terminal.

According to the location-based content delivery system and method according to the present invention, the content is received only if the sender specifies a location from which the recipient will acquire the content, i.e., the content acquisition location, and the location of the recipient corresponds to the specified content acquisition location. In this case, it is possible to give a meaningful communication tool to the content delivery scheme itself between the sender and the receiver through the location-based content delivery scheme.

In addition, the digital coupon can be provided only when the customer (ie, the receiver) actually visits the specific store, so that the customer who wants to receive the contents can be introduced into the specific store.

In addition, even when a plurality of stores are located nearby, it is possible to accurately determine the location of the receiver, thereby having an effect of specifying the content acquisition location in units of stores. In addition, through this, various store-specific marketing is possible, or a content delivery scheme in which a content that a sender wants to transmit only in a specific store can be delivered to a receiver.

1 shows a schematic configuration of a location-based content delivery system according to an embodiment of the present invention.
2 illustrates an example of a UI for content transmission according to an embodiment of the present invention.
3 illustrates an embodiment of notification information by a location-based content delivery system according to an embodiment of the present invention.
4 shows an example in which the content acquisition position according to the technical spirit of the present invention is a specific store.
5 shows a schematic flow of a method for providing a location-based content delivery system according to an embodiment of the present invention.
6 is a schematic flowchart of a method for providing a location-based content delivery system according to another exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

In order to fully understand the present invention, operational advantages of the present invention, and objects achieved by the practice of the present invention, reference should be made to the accompanying drawings and the accompanying drawings which illustrate preferred embodiments of the present invention.

Also, in this specification, when any one element 'transmits' data to another element, the element may transmit the data directly to the other element, or may be transmitted through at least one other element And may transmit the data to the other component.

Conversely, when one element 'directly transmits' data to another element, it means that the data is transmitted to the other element without passing through another element in the element.

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the preferred embodiments of the present invention with reference to the accompanying drawings. Like reference symbols in the drawings denote like elements.

1 shows a schematic configuration of a location-based content delivery system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, the location-based content delivery system 100 according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention may include a control module 110, a location module 120, and a transmission module 130.

The location-based content delivery system 100 may transmit and receive information required for a content delivery service according to the technical spirit of the present invention with the caller terminal 200 and / or the receiver terminal 300.

The location-based content delivery system 100 receives the content to be transmitted from the caller terminal 200, and when the received content satisfies a condition as will be described later, that is, the location where the receiver terminal 300 corresponds to the content acquisition location If present in, it can be transmitted to the receiver terminal (300).

According to an implementation example, the content is stored in the location-based content delivery system 100 and / or a predetermined content system 500, the location-based content delivery system 100 from the caller terminal 200 When the content identification information is received and the condition is satisfied, the content system 500 may directly transmit the content corresponding to the content identification information.

Meanwhile, in order to implement the technical idea of the present invention, the location-based content delivery system 100 should be able to check whether the location of the receiver terminal 300 corresponds to the content acquisition location. To this end, the location-based content delivery system 100 may receive information on the location of the receiver terminal 300 directly from the receiver terminal 300, or from a predetermined external system 400 of the receiver terminal 300. It may also receive information about the location. In some implementations, the location-based content delivery system 100 may directly determine the location of the receiver terminal 300. For example, the caller terminal 200 and / or the receiver terminal 300 may be provided with a position determination means (for example, GPS, etc.) that can determine its own position, the position determined by the position determination means The location-based content delivery system 100 may receive the information. According to an embodiment, in order to implement the technical idea of the present invention, a predetermined application may be installed in the sender terminal 200 and / or the receiver terminal 300, and the installed application, that is, the application system may include a radio finger. You can also use radio fingerprints to pinpoint your location. The identified location may be transmitted to the location-based content delivery system 100. This will be described later.

Alternatively, the location-based content delivery system 100 from the external system 400 that can determine the location of the caller terminal 200 and / or the receiver terminal 300 is the caller terminal 200 and / or Information about the location of the receiver terminal 300 may be received, and the external system 400 may be a mobile communication company system. Alternatively, a predetermined location based service (LBS) system capable of determining the location of the caller terminal 200 and / or the receiver terminal 300 may be the external system 400. The LBS system is composed of, for example, at least one sensor, when the sender terminal 200 and / or the receiver terminal 300 is sensed, based on the sensed signal the caller terminal 200 and / or the It may be a system for determining the location of the receiver terminal 300. Alternatively, the location-based content delivery system 100 may be a system that can determine the location of the caller terminal 200 and / or the receiver terminal 300, such as a mobile communication company system.

The caller terminal 200 and / or the receiver terminal 300 may be implemented as a mobile terminal (for example, a smart phone, a tablet PC, etc.), but is not limited thereto. It may include any type of data processing device that can implement the technical spirit of the invention. A predetermined application for implementing the technical idea of the present invention may be installed in the sender terminal 200 and / or the receiver terminal 300. The application may be organically combined with hardware of the sender terminal 200 and / or the receiver terminal 300 to implement an application system according to the spirit of the present invention.

Herein, a module may mean a functional and structural combination of hardware for carrying out the technical idea of the present invention and software for driving the hardware. For example, the module may mean a logical unit of a predetermined code and a hardware resource for performing the predetermined code, and does not necessarily mean a physically connected code or a kind of hardware. Can be easily inferred by the average expert in the technical field of the present invention.

Although the location-based content delivery system 100 is illustrated as one physical device in FIG. 1 for convenience of description, the location-based content delivery system 100 does not necessarily need to be implemented as a plurality of physical devices. . The location-based content delivery system 100 may be a system in which a plurality of physical devices are organically combined directly or through a network.

The control module 110 may control resources and / or functions of other components (eg, the positioning module 120 and / or the transmission module 130, etc.) to implement the technical idea of the present invention. .

In addition, the control module 110 may receive a transmission request including receiver information to receive a predetermined content from the caller terminal 200. The transmission request may include at least the receiver information. In addition, the transmission request may include the content or the content identification information for identifying the content. In addition, the transmission request may further include information on a content acquisition location for the receiver to obtain the content.

The receiver information may mean information on the receiver terminal 300 to receive the content. For example, when the receiver terminal 300 is a mobile phone, the corresponding mobile phone number may be the receiver information. That is, the receiver information may mean predetermined information for specifying the receiver terminal 300 to which the content is to be transmitted.

The content is previously created in the content (for example, SMS, MMS, etc. including text and / or images) created through the caller terminal 200 or the location-based content delivery system 100 or the predetermined content system 500. It may be at least one of stored content (eg, digital coupon such as an electronic coupon or gifticon).

In order to transmit the content to the receiver terminal 300, the transmission request includes content identification information for identifying content previously stored in the location-based content delivery system 100 or a predetermined content system 500, and / Alternatively, content created through the caller terminal 200 may be included. Alternatively, the content may include information created by the caller terminal 200 and content identification information for identifying predetermined content stored in the location-based content delivery system 100 or the content system 500. .

For example, when the content identification information is included in the transmission request, the control module 110 may be configured to store the content among the contents previously stored in the location-based content delivery system 100 or the predetermined content system 500. The transmission module 130 may be controlled so that content corresponding to content identification information may be transmitted to the receiver terminal 300.

In addition, when the transmission request includes the content created through the sender terminal 200, the control module 100 is the transmission module (100) so that the content included in the transmission request is transmitted to the receiver terminal (300). 130 may be controlled. A process for the transmission module 130 to transmit the content to the receiver terminal 300 will be described later.

On the other hand, the transmission request may include information about the content acquisition location. The content acquisition location may mean a location where a receiver can receive the content according to the technical idea of the present invention. The content acquisition location may be a location of the caller terminal 200 or a specific location designated from the caller terminal 200.

For example, the content acquisition location may be a location of the caller terminal 200. In this case, the caller must locate the receiver terminal 300 at a location corresponding to his current location (eg, a specific store where a caller is located, a specific space, or a predetermined range from the current location). This may be the case if it is desired to be transmitted to 300. Alternatively, the caller may designate a predetermined location different from his current location. In this case, the receiver terminal 300 must be located at a location corresponding to the designated location (for example, a specific store corresponding to the location specified by the caller, a specific space, or a range within a predetermined range from the designated location), so that the content cannot be displayed. This may be the case when it is desired to be transmitted to the receiver terminal 300.

The location of the caller terminal 200 may be determined by the caller terminal 200, and the content acquisition position may be determined based on the determined position of the caller terminal 200. In this case, the caller terminal 200 may include a configuration capable of determining a location, such as a GPS module. Alternatively, a predetermined application installed in the caller terminal 200 may check the location of the caller terminal 200. The application may accurately know where the caller terminal 200 is located at a store or indoors in a store or at a store using a radio fingerprint. Of course, the application may be installed in the receiver terminal 300, and the application may accurately determine the location of the receiver terminal 300 in the same manner regardless of indoor or outdoor. To this end, the application may receive various RF signals received at the corresponding location for each location, and store the characteristics of the received RF signal in advance. That is, the fingerprint of the position-specific RF signal can be stored in advance. According to an implementation example, the fingerprint of the location-specific RF signal may be stored in the location-based content delivery system 100. In order to determine the location, the location of the sender terminal 200 and / or the receiver terminal 300 may be determined by searching for an RF fingerprint that is the same as or similar to the current RF signal. In this case, the location of the sender terminal 200 and / or the receiver terminal 300 can be accurately determined without installing a special device in the indoor as well as the outdoor, and the error of the position is much reduced compared to the GPS. Therefore, as will be described later, even when a plurality of adjacent stores are located in a specific building or a specific space, there is an effect of accurately identifying which store the location of the receiver terminal 300 is located. In addition, there is an effect that the content delivery service can be performed based on a more detailed location rather than based on the location of the receiver terminal 300 existing within a predetermined boundary based on a specific location. For example, the caller may designate a specific store as a content acquisition location. Then, when using location information such as GPS, the content acquisition location may be set within a predetermined range based on the designated location. However, in this case, there may be a case other than the specific store within the range corresponding to the content acquisition location. That is, in the case of determining the location in a manner such as GPS, it may not be possible to distinguish a specific space (or store). However, in the case of performing the location determination based on the radio fingerprint, even if the predetermined first location and the second location are located near each other, it is possible to determine whether they are different stores or spaces. There is an effect that can be performed by space (or store). The position determination method based on the radio finger print has been disclosed in Korean Deukrok Patent (10-1089995, "Finger print method position tracking system and its method"), and active researches on this are being conducted.

The technical idea of the present invention may be more diversified and positively used by the content delivery service according to the present invention when the location can be identified by space (or store). In addition, as an example of a method of identifying a location by space (or store), only a method of determining a location based on a radio fingerprint can be used. The detailed description will be omitted for the specific method to clarify the technical features of the present invention. In addition to the position determination method based on the radio fingerprint, at least one sensor is installed for each store or space, and the position of the caller terminal 200 and / or the receiver terminal 300 is determined from a system corresponding to the installed at least one sensor. By grasping, the location can be determined by the space (or store).

Alternatively, a predetermined external system 400 may determine the current location of the caller terminal 200 and / or receiver terminal 300. The external system 400 may be a mobile communication company system capable of determining the location of the caller terminal 200 and / or the receiver terminal 300. According to an embodiment, the location-based content delivery system 100 may directly determine the location of the sender terminal 200 and / or the receiver terminal 300. For example, when the location of the caller terminal 200 is the content acquisition location, the mobile communication company system determines the location of the caller terminal 200 to determine information on the location of the caller terminal 200 determined by the control module. The location corresponding to the transmitted location information may be determined as the content acquisition location.

In addition, when the caller terminal 200 is implemented as a computer connected to a network other than a mobile terminal such as a mobile phone, the external system 400 (eg, an IPS system, etc.) may be assigned an IP address assigned to a computer connected to the network. The current location of the caller terminal 200 may be determined using a network identifier. In this case, the ISP system may store predetermined location information for each network identifier in advance.

As described above, methods for determining the location of a predetermined user terminal (ie, the sender terminal 200 and / or the receiver terminal 300) in the external system 400 are well known. Omit it.

Meanwhile, according to an embodiment, when the caller terminal 200 performs a predetermined additional action, the content acquisition position may be specified. That is, the caller may perform a predetermined additional action through the caller terminal 200, and then the application system installed in the caller terminal 200 determines the current position of the caller terminal 200 and determines the caller terminal ( The location of 200 may be specified as a content acquisition location. When the content transmission request is performed through a predetermined UI, the content acquisition location may be included in the transmission request and transmitted to the location-based content delivery system 100.

The additional action may mean, for example, the caller shaking the caller terminal 200 several times or selecting a predetermined UI for the current location. The current position of the caller terminal 200 may be a position of a point in time at which the caller performs the additional action through the caller terminal 200, and obtains the content based on the current position of the caller terminal 200. The location can be determined.

For example, before a caller writes content using his or her mobile phone (or after writing the content) or selects a predetermined UI for checking the current location, the caller shakes the mobile phone or selects a separate positioning UI. When additional actions such as are performed, a position at which the additional action is performed may be determined as the content acquisition position. Then, the caller inputs the mobile number of the receiver to which the content is to be transmitted and makes a request for transmission, so that the content is provided to the receiver terminal 300 when the receiver terminal 300 enters a location corresponding to the content acquisition location. Can be.

In some implementations, the content acquisition location may mean information on a specific location designated by the caller terminal 200 in a predetermined manner. For example, the content acquisition location may be a specific area or a specific space selected by the caller from predetermined map information displayed on the caller terminal 200. Alternatively, the caller terminal 200 may receive a specific region name, a name of a specific store, or a specific address from the caller, and a location corresponding to the received information may be determined as the content acquisition location.

The positioning module 120 may check the position of the receiver terminal 300 corresponding to the receiver information.

That is, when the control module 110 receives the transmission request from the caller terminal 200, the positioning module 120 specifies the receiver terminal 300 corresponding to the receiver information included in the transmission request and The location of the specified receiver terminal 300 can be confirmed. The receiver information may include information about at least one receiver terminal 300.

For example, information about the location of the receiver terminal 300 may be transmitted from the receiver terminal 300 to the positioning module 120. In this case, the receiver terminal 300 may be provided with a position determining means such as a GPS module. In addition, information on the location of the receiver terminal 300 may be received from an application system installed in the receiver terminal 300, and at this time, location determination based on a radio fingerprint may be performed.

Alternatively, the positioning module 120 may receive the information on the position of the receiver terminal 300 from a predetermined external system 400 to check the position of the receiver terminal 300. In addition, the positioning module 120 may directly determine the location of the receiver terminal 300.

As such, the positioning module 120 may check the position of the receiver terminal 300 and check whether the identified position of the receiver terminal 300 corresponds to the content acquisition position.

As described above, the content acquisition location may be a specific district (Gangnam-gu, Sinsa-dong, etc.), a specific place (eg, Gangnam Station, Hakdong Park, etc.), and / or a specific space (eg, a specific store or a specific building, etc.). .

The location determining module 120 may determine whether the receiver terminal 300 enters a location corresponding to the content acquisition location. For example, it is determined whether the receiver terminal 300 is located within a predetermined range (for example, a radius of 500 m, etc.) or a specific space (for example, a specific store, etc.) with respect to the location designated as the content acquisition location. It is possible to check whether the location of the receiver terminal 300 corresponds to the content acquisition location.

Meanwhile, as described above, the content acquisition location may be set within a predetermined range based on a specific region or a specific reference location. However, when the content acquisition location may be set to a specific space (or store), a very meaningful service type may be generated. have. For example, when a predetermined content is transmitted only when the receiver terminal 300 is located at a specific store, a customer may be introduced to the store. In addition, the sender may want the receiver to enter the specific store to provide the desired content to the receiver. However, in this case, when the receiver does not enter the specific store and exists only in a nearby location, when the content is transmitted to the receiver terminal 300, the caller may not provide a desired result as a service. Therefore, as described above, it may be a very meaningful task to identify the location of the caller terminal 200 and / or the receiver terminal 300 by identifying a specific space (or store). In particular, in an environment where a plurality of stores are adjacent to each other, such a classification is virtually impossible by location information obtained by a GPS or a mobile communication company system, and an error may be more severe in an indoor environment.

Therefore, the technical idea that can solve this problem is shown in FIG.

4 shows an example in which the content acquisition position according to the technical spirit of the present invention is a specific store.

First, referring to FIG. 4A, when an electronic coupon that can be discounted in the restaurant A is provided to a customer who visits the restaurant A, the content obtaining position is a specific space called the restaurant A. It can be internal. As described above, when the location of the caller terminal 200 and / or the receiver terminal 300 is determined through the GPS module or the mobile communication system, the caller terminal 200 and / or the receiver terminal 300 are identified. The position of may be identified to a certain range (eg, the circle shown in FIG. 4A) as shown in FIG. 4A. In this case, in addition to the restaurant A, the range may include several stores. Therefore, it may be very difficult to determine whether the receiver terminal 300 is located in the restaurant A or simply located nearby or in another store nearby. In particular, when the space shown in the drawing is indoors, it may be more difficult to determine the location of the receiver terminal 300. In this case, the electronic coupon may be erroneously transmitted to the receiver terminal 300 that enters a store other than the A restaurant 10.

Therefore, when the content acquisition position is set to a specific space (or a specific store), the positioning module 120 may use a position determination method based on a radio fingerprint as described above.

Alternatively, the location of the receiver terminal 300 may be determined through a predetermined sensor system as shown in FIG. 4B. Of course, the location of the caller terminal 200 can also be grasped.

For example, as illustrated in FIG. 4B, a predetermined sensor system is installed at the entrance of the restaurant A (or inside the restaurant A) 10, and the receiver terminal 300 is connected to the restaurant A. FIG. When entering (10), the sensor system may perform a predetermined communication with the receiver terminal 300 to determine whether the receiver terminal 300 has entered the restaurant A (10).

As such, when it is confirmed that the receiver terminal 300 enters the restaurant A, the positioning module 120 receives information that the receiver terminal 300 enters the restaurant A from the sensor system. Can be received. In addition, it may be determined whether the restaurant A 10 corresponds to the content acquisition position. As such, when the location of the receiver terminal 300 is confirmed, the electronic coupon may be provided only to the customer who visited the restaurant A.

On the other hand, the transmission module 120, as described above, when the position of the receiver terminal 300 is confirmed as the position corresponding to the content acquisition position by the positioning module 120, the content of the receiver terminal ( A transmission process for transmitting to 300 may be performed.

As described above, the content acquisition location may be a specific area (Gangnam-gu, Sinsa-dong, etc.) or a specific place (eg, Gangnam Station, Hakdong Park, etc.), and / or a specific space (eg, a specific store or a specific building, etc.). have. That is, when the receiver terminal 300 exists at a position corresponding to the content acquisition position, the transmission module 130 may perform a transmission process for transmitting the content to the receiver terminal 300.

The transmission process may refer to a series of processes in which the content is transmitted from the location-based content delivery system 100 to the receiver terminal 300. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, the transmission process may be a process of transmitting the content received from the caller terminal 200 to the receiver terminal 300. Alternatively, when content identification information is received from the caller terminal 200, the content previously stored in the location-based content delivery system 100 or the content stored in a predetermined content system 500 is transferred to the receiver terminal 300. It may be a process that is sent. When the content is stored in the content system 500, the transmission module 130 may output a control signal for transmitting content corresponding to the content identification information to the content system 500.

The content system 500 may be a system that stores various contents. For example, various and valuable digital coupons such as coupons, discount coupons, gifticons, and the like may be stored in the content system 500 in advance.

2 illustrates an example of a UI for content transmission according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 2A, first, the caller may select one of the positioning UI 1 or the positioning UI 2 among the UIs displayed on the caller terminal 200. When the positioning UI 1 is selected, the current location of the caller terminal 200 may be displayed on the map 6 displayed on the caller terminal 200. Alternatively, as described above, after the location checking UI 1 is selected, when the caller performs a predetermined additional action through the caller terminal 200, the caller terminal 200 on the map 6 is displayed. The location (ie, the location where the additional action is performed) may be displayed, and the displayed location may be determined as the content acquisition location. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, the content acquisition location may be a certain area, not any one point as shown in the drawing.

On the other hand, when the caller selects the positioning UI (2), as shown in Figure 2b may be input the desired position from the caller through a separate UI. For example, a UI for receiving an address of a specific region, a name of a specific place, a name of a specific store, and / or a specific region may be displayed, and a content acquisition location may be input through the UI. The location of the specific area designated by the caller may then be displayed on the map 6. According to an embodiment, after the caller selects the positioning UI 2, the caller may receive the content acquisition position directly through the map 6.

As such, when the content acquisition position is determined by the caller terminal 200, the caller may select the content creation UI 3 to create content (eg, a text such as a message). In this case, a separate UI for creating the content may be displayed.

Alternatively, when the content to be transmitted to the receiver terminal 300 is a digital coupon such as an electronic coupon or a gift icon, a predetermined coupon UI 4 for selecting the digital coupon may be selected. When the coupon UI 4 is selected, a list of selectable digital coupons may be listed up in the caller terminal 200. The selectable digital coupon may be content previously stored in the location-based content delivery system 100 or the content system 500. According to the embodiment, the selectable digital coupon may vary according to the location of the caller terminal 200. That is, the content that can be transmitted may be determined according to the location of the caller terminal 200. For example, when the caller terminal 200 is located in a first store, a digital coupon related to the first store may be listed up, and when the caller terminal 200 is located in a second store, the second coupon may be listed. Digital coupons related to the store may be listed up. The content acquisition location may also be automatically determined based on the location of the caller terminal 200. When the content acquisition position is determined as the first store, not only the first store in which the caller terminal 200 currently exists, but also the same type of store (eg, the same franchise store) may be determined as the content acquisition position. Then, the recipient can visit the first store to obtain the content. Therefore, a content delivery service based on the location of the receiver terminal 300 may be implemented. In addition, there is an effect that location-based content services are available for each store or space.

When the deliverable content is listed up and predetermined content is selected by the sender, identification information corresponding to the selected content may be included in the transmission request and transmitted to the location-based content delivery system 100.

The sender may select the transmission UI 5 when the creation of the content or the selection of the content is completed. When the transmission UI 5 is selected, a predetermined UI for receiving receiver information for specifying the receiver terminal 300 to receive content may be displayed. When the caller inputs the receiver information, a transmission request corresponding to the content may be transmitted to the location-based content delivery system 100.

On the other hand, according to an embodiment, the control module 110, when the transmission request is received, the transmission module to transmit predetermined notification information to the receiver terminal 300 to receive corresponding to the receiver information included in the transmission request 130 may be controlled. The notification information will be described with reference to FIG. 3.

3 shows an embodiment of the notification information by the location-based content delivery system according to the present invention.

First, FIG. 3A illustrates a case in which the control module 110 receives a transmission request for transmitting a predetermined electronic coupon to a receiver terminal 300 from a specific sender (or an operator of a specific store). It may be an example of the displayed notification information. Then, notification information including information on the caller, information on a location where the electronic coupon can be received, and / or information indicating that the electronic coupon has been transmitted may be displayed on the receiver terminal 300. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a location where the electronic coupon can be transmitted, that is, a predetermined UI (store location confirmation) for identifying a content acquisition location may be displayed together, and when the UI is selected, information about the content acquisition location Can be displayed (eg, directions, transportation, etc.).

That is, by notifying the receiver that there is content transmitted from a specific sender, the receiver can be induced to move to the corresponding location to confirm the content of the content.

For example, notification information that provides a discount coupon or a digital coupon for a particular menu service to a user who visits the restaurant for a regular customer or a user who uses a location-based content delivery system according to the present invention. Induce the inflow to the restaurant by sending, and may provide the discount coupon or gifticon only to users who visited the restaurant directly.

In addition, as shown in FIG. 3B, the notification information is not immediately transmitted when the transmission request is received, but is transmitted from a specific caller when the receiver terminal 300 enters a location corresponding to the content acquisition location. It is also possible to transmit the notification information that the existing content exists. In this case, the location where the notification information is provided to the receiver may be wider than the content acquisition location while including the content acquisition location. Therefore, when the receiver is located in the vicinity of the content acquisition location, there is an effect of notifying that there is a content acquisition location for acquiring the content transmitted from the sender in the vicinity of the recipient.

Of course, in some embodiments, the notification information may not be transmitted. For example, when the sender and the receiver have a relationship with a lover or a friend, the receiver may not know whether to transmit the content, but when the receiver moves to the content acquisition location, the content may be directly transmitted to utilize the content as an event format. have.

5 shows a schematic flow of a method for providing a location-based content delivery system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 5, the location-based content delivery system 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention may receive a content transmission request from the caller terminal 200 according to the technical spirit of the present invention (S10).

Then, the location-based content delivery system 100 can confirm the location of the receiver terminal 300 corresponding to the recipient information (s20), the location of the identified receiver terminal 300 corresponds to the content acquisition position It may be determined (S30).

If the location of the receiver terminal 300 corresponds to the content acquisition position, the location-based content delivery system 100 may perform a transmission process for transmitting the content to the receiver terminal 300 ( s40). If it is determined that the position of the receiver terminal 300 does not correspond to the content acquisition position, the process returns to step S20 to check the position of the receiver terminal 300.

6 is a schematic flowchart of a method for providing a location-based content delivery system according to another exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

In FIG. 6, a predetermined application system for implementing the technical idea of the present invention may be installed in the sender terminal 200 and / or the receiver terminal 300. For convenience, the application system installed in the caller terminal 200 will be defined as a first application system, and the application system installed in the receiver terminal 300 will be defined as a second application system. Of course, the applications installed in the sender terminal 200 and the receiver terminal 300 may be the same application.

As described above, the first application system installed in the caller terminal 200 may receive from the caller terminal 200 a transmission request including receiver information to which predetermined content is to be transmitted (S11). Then, the received transmission request may be transmitted to the server (that is, location-based content delivery system 100) (s22).

Then, the server (location-based content delivery system 100) may determine whether the location of the receiver terminal 300 corresponding to the recipient information corresponds to the content acquisition position corresponding to the transmission request (s33). . FIG. 6 illustrates a case in which the server acquires information on the location of the receiver terminal 300 from the receiver terminal 300, but the location of the receiver terminal 300 may be confirmed in various ways. As described above.

As a result of the determination, when the location of the receiver terminal 300 corresponds to the content acquisition location, the second application system installed in the receiver terminal 300 may receive the content from the server or the predetermined content system 500. (S44).

The method for providing a location-based content delivery system according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention may be implemented as computer readable codes on a computer readable recording medium. A computer-readable recording medium includes all kinds of recording apparatuses in which data that can be read by a computer system is stored. Examples of the computer-readable recording medium include a ROM, a RAM, a CD-ROM, a magnetic tape, a hard disk, a floppy disk, an optical data storage device, and the like in the form of a carrier wave . The computer readable recording medium may also be distributed over a networked computer system so that computer readable code can be stored and executed in a distributed manner. And functional programs, codes and code segments for implementing the present invention can be easily inferred by programmers in the art to which the present invention belongs.

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, is intended to cover various modifications and equivalent arrangements included within the spirit and scope of the appended claims. Accordingly, the true scope of the present invention should be determined by the technical idea of the appended claims.

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A control module for receiving a transmission request including receiver information to which predetermined content is to be transmitted from a caller terminal;
A positioning module for checking a position of at least one receiver terminal corresponding to the receiver information; And
And a transmission module for performing a transmission process for transmitting the content corresponding to the transmission request to the at least one receiver terminal when the location of the at least one receiver terminal is identified as the content acquisition position corresponding to the transmission request. ,
The content acquisition position is,
Location-based content delivery system, characterized in that determined based on the location of the caller terminal.

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