TWI387894B - System and method for catching location of user and offering user customization of local information - Google Patents

Description

System and method for detecting user location and providing customized information service

A system and method for detecting a location of a user and providing a customized information service, and in particular, a system and method for providing local information according to a customer's location.

In recent years, the technology and market of portable electronic devices (such as mobile phones, PDAs, and notebook computers) have become more and more mature, and wired or wireless Internet access functions have gradually become the basic functions required for such portable electronic devices. The mobile service generated by this function has also become the focus of attention of operators and users.

Among them, Mobile Location-based Servicce (MLBS) is the application service mainly used by users, that is, by positioning technology, such as Global Positioning System or "mobile base station", Determine the location of portable electronic devices and provide various location-related mobile services accordingly. The content of mobile location services can be divided into six types: security services, information services, navigation services, tracking services, leisure and business services. . In recent years, in order to satisfy users who have traveled to foreign countries and even foreign countries due to travel, business, etc., the so-called "local service" has been gradually introduced; it provides users with various local information, such as restaurants, according to the location of the user. , hotels, road information and route guidance information are all in the field of local services.

However, the local services provided at this stage are still not perfect; specifically, users located in foreign countries/countries can use their portable electronic devices to provide The local service solves the most basic needs of food and clothing, while other in-depth local information still needs to be collected and utilized through the Internet; when users collect more in-depth information on the ground, they often The language differences with the location, and the resources available to collect information on the ground are limited. For example, when you want to learn about local customs or find online dictionaries that can translate local and local languages, most people choose to search through their local search engines; however, this search action is often time consuming and not effective. Zhang, that is, users can not find the complete required information in a short time.

In summary, it can be seen that there has been a long-standing problem in the prior art that it is unable to effectively provide further local information, and therefore it is necessary to propose an improved technical means to solve this problem.

In view of the problems of the prior art that cannot effectively provide further local information, the present invention discloses a system for detecting a location of a user and providing a customized information service, and a method thereof, wherein: the detected user disclosed in the present invention The system of providing customized information services is suitable for portable electronic devices with wired or wireless Internet access, including client, relay, server and information server. The client of the system includes a processing module for issuing an authentication request including the client data of the client, and receiving the local information and the local information that should be authenticated, and issuing a connection according to the local information. Requirement, for further issuing service request and receiving service information of the service request; the relay end is used to transmit the client's authentication request; the server package The authentication module is configured to: after receiving the authentication request sent from the relay end, generate the local information and the local information according to the customer data included in the authentication request and the relay end that transmits the request, and transmit The territorial information and the local information to the client that issued the authentication request; and the information server is configured to receive the service request sent by the client and process it after responding to the connection request sent by the client, and process the The service information generated by the service request is transmitted to the client.

The method for detecting a location of a user and providing a customized information service disclosed by the present invention firstly sends an authentication request containing the customer data by the client, and the authentication request is transmitted by the relay terminal; the server receives and confirms the authentication request. After that, the local information and the local information are generated according to the customer data and the relay information, and the local information and the local information are transmitted back to the client; the client requests the connection according to the local information. And when at least one information server responds to the connection request, sends a service request to the information server; finally, each information server generates corresponding service information according to each received service request, and returns the information. To the client.

The system and method disclosed by the present invention are as above, and the difference from the prior art is that the present invention has the function of confirming the ownership and location of the client by the process of authentication, and obtaining the required information service by the local information provided by the server. Through the above technical means, the present invention can achieve the technical effect of effectively providing further and complete local information.

The embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings and embodiments, thereby illustrating how to apply the technical means to solve the technical problems. The process of achieving technical success can be fully understood and implemented.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a system for detecting a user's location and providing a customized information service according to the present invention. Please refer to "Figure 1". The system 10 for detecting the location of the user and providing customized information services is suitable for portable electronic devices with line or wireless Internet access, such as mobile phones, PDAs or notebook computers, including customers. The terminal 100, the relay terminal 200, the server terminal 300 and the information server 400 are provided.

The client 100 includes a processing module 110 for issuing an authentication request including the client data of the client 100, and receiving the corresponding local information and local information, and issuing a connection request according to the local information to further The service request is sent and the corresponding service information is received; specifically, the customer data may include the customer account number/identity certificate number/mobile phone number and password, as shown in Table (1): Here, the detailed and logical sequence of the solution is explained, and the local information, local information, connection requirements, service requests and service information are left to be described in detail.

The relay terminal 200 is configured to transmit an authentication request sent by the client 100. The type of the relay terminal 200 is relative to the form of the client 100. If the client 100 is a mobile phone, the relay terminal 200 is a wireless base station. The client 100 is a notebook computer with a line Internet function, and the relay terminal 200 can be a bridge, a root or a repeater. Must explain The number of radio base stations/repeaters through which the authentication request is transmitted is often more than one, so the relay station 200 is referred to as the radio base station/repeater through which the authentication request passes.

The server 300 includes an authentication module 310, configured to generate and confirm the authentication request, generate the local information and the local information according to the client data of the authentication request, and transmit the local information and the local information. To the client 100. Specifically, the authentication module 310 compares the personal data corresponding to the customer data of the authentication request in the database (not shown) according to the authentication request (including the customer data in the table (1)). After the confirmation is correct, the local data is extracted from the personal data to generate the local information; the authentication module 310 simultaneously determines the location of the client 100 according to the IP or other information of the relay 200, and based on the local information and the location of the client 100. Generate local information. The local data may be customized by the client 100 and stored in the database of the server 300, and may be attached to the authentication request, so that the authentication module 310 of the server 300 retrieves the authentication request after confirming the authentication request. Territorial information to generate territorial information.

After responding to the connection request of the client 100, the information server 400 receives the service request sent by the client 100, and transmits the service information generated by processing the service request back to the client 100. Specifically, the client 100 provides a connection request to the at least one information server 400 according to the local information transmitted by the server 300. The local information transmitted by the server 300 may include the information server 400. The related information is such that the client 100 is connected to the specific information server 400 according to the related materials.

Continuing the above example, assume that the client with the account number victor8051 is 100 The location is "Taiwan/Taipei". The authentication module 310 of the server 300 determines that the location of the client 100 is "Japan/Tokyo", and the authentication module 310 sends information including the following websites according to the information: "中中Japanese Dictionary, "Tokyo News", "Tokyo Meteorology", "Tokyo Transportation Network", "Imperial Tokyo of Taiwan Traveler's Blog", "Tokyo Short-Term Language School", "Unnecessary Japanese Law" and "Japanese Unique" Customs, etc. The characteristics of these websites are that their use of text and web page layout is "local orientation" and their website content is "local orientation"; the purpose is to enable users of the client 100 to access these "intimate" websites. Get the perfect information on Tokyo.

The client 100 connects to the specific information server 400 (ie, the above website) according to the local information including the information of the information server; after the connection is successful, the user can read the information service from the client 100. The service items displayed by the terminal 400 enable the client 100 to click on the service items to issue a service request to each of the information server 400. The information server 400 processes the service requests after receiving the service request transmitted by the client 100, and transmits the service information generated by processing the service requests back to the client 100. The above example shows that one of the successful information service terminals "Chinese-Japanese Dictionary" displays the following service items on the client: "single word query", "full translation" and "recommended query skills", the client can click The "single word query" item enters the "Good Morning" character and sends a service request to the information service network that contains the service items, and the information service network will process the service generated by the service request. News" "Returned to the library."

FIG. 2 is a flow chart showing the steps of a method for detecting a user's location and providing a customized information service according to the present invention. Referring to FIG. 2, first, a client sends an authentication request including client data (step 210), and the relay terminal transmits the authentication request to the server (step 220); the server includes the authentication request received. Confirming the customer data (step 230). If the customer data fails to pass the authentication, the server sends a notification to the client to notify the authentication failure. If the server confirms the customer data, the customer information is transmitted and transmitted according to the customer information. The relay end of the authentication request generates the local information and the local information (step 240), and transmits the local information and the local information to the client (step 250); the client according to the local information to the plurality of The information server sends a connection request (step 260), and after the information server responds to the connection request (step 270), the client can send a service request to each information server (step 280), and each information server will The service information generated by processing the service requests is transmitted back to the client (step 290).

Summarizing the above description, when confirming the authentication request sent by the client, the server of the present invention judges according to the client data of the client and the relay data that the authentication request is sent, and generates the information corresponding to the client's territory. Information and return the information to the client; the client automatically connects to a plurality of specific information servers based on the local information, and selects the service items listed by the information server. Sending a service request to each information server; finally, the information server transmits the service information generated by the processing service request to the client, so that the client can efficiently obtain the filtered and perfect local information through the server. .

In summary, it can be seen that the difference between the present invention and the prior art is that there is a functional technical means for obtaining the information service required by the local information provided by the server by confirming the ownership and location of the client by the process of the server authentication. By means of this technical means, it is possible to solve not only the problem of the prior art that cannot provide effective local information, but also to provide the local information oriented to the customer, and to help the user to quickly understand and The technical benefits of using local information services.

While the embodiments of the present invention have been described above, the above description is not intended to limit the scope of the invention. Any changes in the form and details of the embodiments may be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. The scope of the invention is to be determined by the scope of the appended claims.

10‧‧‧System for detecting the location of users and providing customized information services

100‧‧‧Client

110‧‧‧Processing module

200‧‧‧Relay

300‧‧‧Server

310‧‧‧Certificate Module

400‧‧‧Information Service

Step 210‧‧‧ A client sends an authentication request containing customer information

Step 220‧‧‧ A relay receives and transmits the authentication request

Step 230‧‧‧ The server acknowledges the authentication request received

Step 240‧‧‧ The server generates local information and local information according to the customer data and the relay terminal

Step 250‧‧‧ The server transmits the local information and the local information to the client

Step 260‧‧‧ The client sends a connection request based on the local information

Step 270‧‧‧ At least one information server should respond to the connection request

Step 280‧‧‧ The client sends a service request to each of the information servers

Step 290 ‧ ‧ each information server generates service information according to each service request, and transmits the service information to the client

1 is a block diagram of a system for detecting a location of a user and providing a customized information service according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flow chart showing the steps of the method for detecting a user location and providing a customized information service according to the present invention.

10‧‧‧System for detecting the location of users and providing customized information services

100‧‧‧Client

110‧‧‧Processing module

200‧‧‧Relay

300‧‧‧Server

310‧‧‧Certificate Module

400‧‧‧Information Service

Claims (12)

A system for detecting a user's location and providing a customized information service is applicable to a portable electronic device having a line or wireless Internet access function, comprising: a client, including a processing module, for issuing an authentication request and receiving a corresponding The territorial information and the local information, and the connection request according to the local information, to further issue the service request and receive the corresponding service information, wherein the authentication request includes the customer information of the client; Transmitting the authentication request; a server, comprising an authentication module, configured to: after receiving and confirming the authentication request, generating, according to the authentication request, the customer information and the relay terminal to generate local information and local information, and transmitting The territorial information and the local information are sent to the client; and the at least one information server is configured to receive the service request sent by the client after responding to the connection request of the client, and generate the corresponding service request. Service information is delivered to the client. The system for detecting a user's location and providing a customized information service as described in claim 1, wherein the local information further includes information server data, and the client is further configured to issue the information according to the information server data. Connection requirements. A system for detecting a user's location and providing a customized information service as described in claim 1, wherein the service information may be language translation information, weather information or news information. The system for detecting a user's location and providing a customized information service as described in claim 1, wherein the server is configured to generate the local information according to the IP address of the relay. A system for detecting a location of a user and providing a customized information service as described in claim 1, wherein the customer data includes territory information, and the server is configured to generate territory information based on the territory information. A method for detecting a user's location and providing a customized information service is applicable to a portable electronic device having a line or wireless Internet access function, comprising the following steps: a client sends an authentication request, and the authentication request includes customer data; Receiving and transmitting the authentication request by the terminal; the server confirms the authentication request received, and generates the local information and the local information according to the customer data, and the local terminal transmits the local information and the local information To the client; the client sends a connection request according to the local information; at least one information server should respond to the connection request; the client sends a service request to each information server; and each information server is based on each The service requests to generate service information and transmits the service information to the client. The method for detecting a user's location and providing a customized information service as described in claim 6 of the patent application, wherein the local information further includes information server data. The method for detecting a location of a user and providing a customized information service according to claim 7 of the patent application, wherein the client sends a connection request according to the local information, and further includes the client according to the local The information of the information server to send out the connection requirements. The method for detecting a user's location and providing a customized information service as described in claim 6 of the patent application, wherein the service information may be language translation information, weather information or news information. The method for detecting a location of a user and providing a customized information service according to claim 6, wherein the server confirms the authentication request received, and generates local information and the relay according to the customer data. The step of the local information further includes the server confirming the authentication request received, and generating the local information and the local information step according to the customer data and the IP address of the relay. A method for detecting a location of a user and providing a customized information service as described in claim 6 of the patent application, wherein the customer information includes territorial information. The method for detecting a location of a user and providing a customized information service as described in claim 11, wherein the server confirms the authentication request received, and generates the local information separately from the relay according to the customer data. And the step of the local information, further comprising the step of the server confirming the authentication request received, and generating the local information and the local information according to the local data of the customer data and the relay end.