JP2010028350A - Position-use service provider, access means notifying service device, user terminal device, service providing system and service providing method - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To inform the existence of services to a user when there are a plurality of services of providing services corresponding to a position of a user terminal. <P>SOLUTION: This device includes: a position detecting part 206 for detecting the position of the user terminal based on a radio wave transmitted by a user terminal 100 connected via a radio communication system; a services providing part 210 for providing services corresponding to a position of the user terminal 100; an identifier obtaining part 208 for obtaining an identifier of the user terminal 100; and an Internet connecting part 216 for transmitting the identifier of the user terminal 100 and an identifier of its own device to a notification service device 200 registering a notifying means to the user terminal 100. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a location use service providing device, an access means notification service device, a user terminal device, a service providing system, and a service providing method.

  In a wireless communication system such as a wireless LAN, a technique for providing a service according to the position of a user terminal is known. Conventionally, when providing such information, as described in Patent Document 1 below, for example, each service provider provides a service for detecting a position, and the user provides a service to the service. Individual services were accessed based on access means provided by the provider by some means.

  In addition, when a user intends to receive services from a plurality of service providers, a service that a plurality of service providers cooperate to develop as the same service, or described in Patent Document 2 It is common to use a plurality of commonly used authentication servers using such a personal information management server.

JP 2007-124406 A JP 2002-183484 A

  However, in the method of providing access means for each service provider as described in Patent Document 1, the user must use a different service access method for each limited use location unit. Also, the user must know in advance that the current location is providing some kind of location information service.

  In addition, in order to improve the system utilization rate, there is a means for a service provider to send service-related information to a user who does not have user information by means other than the means used to acquire the user's location information. It was necessary.

  Also, in the usage mode in which multiple providers share the authentication server, the authentication result is provided to the service provider not intended by the user, so it is not satisfactory in terms of management of personal information. .

  Therefore, the present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and an object of the present invention is to determine the existence of a service when there are a plurality of services that provide services according to the position of the user terminal. It is an object of the present invention to provide a new and improved location use service providing apparatus, access means notification service apparatus, user terminal apparatus, service providing system, and service providing method that can be provided.

  In order to solve the above problems, according to an aspect of the present invention, a position detection unit that detects a position of a user terminal based on radio waves transmitted by a user terminal connected via a wireless communication system, and the user The service providing unit that provides a service according to the location of the terminal, the identifier acquiring unit that acquires the identifier of the user terminal, and the access unit notification service device in which the notification unit to the user terminal is registered, the user There is provided a location use service providing apparatus comprising: a transmission unit that transmits an identifier of a terminal and an identifier of its own apparatus.

  Further, the means for notifying the user terminal may be a mail address of the user terminal.

  The identifier of the user terminal may be an identifier used in a wireless communication system that connects the user terminal and the location use service providing apparatus.

  Moreover, in order to solve the said subject, according to another viewpoint of this invention, it communicates with the said position utilization service provision apparatus from the position utilization service provision apparatus which provides the service according to the position of a user terminal. A receiving unit that receives the identifier of the user terminal and the identifier of the location use service providing device, and access to the location use service providing device from information registered in advance based on the identifier of the location use service providing device An access means extraction section for extracting means, a notification means extraction section for extracting notification means to the user terminal from pre-registered information based on the identifier of the user terminal, and the extracted access means for the notification And an access means notification service device comprising: a transmission unit for transmitting to the user terminal using the means.

  Further, the means for notifying the user terminal may be a mail address of the user terminal.

  The identifier of the user terminal may be an identifier used in a wireless communication system that connects the user terminal and the location use service providing apparatus.

In order to solve the above problem, according to another aspect of the present invention, a service providing system including a user terminal, a location use service providing device, and an access means notification service device, the location use service providing device. A position detection unit that detects the position of the user terminal based on radio waves transmitted from the user terminal connected via the wireless communication system, a service providing unit that provides a service according to the position of the user terminal, The access means notification service device comprises: an identifier acquisition unit that acquires the identifier of the user terminal; and a transmission unit that transmits the identifier of the user terminal and the identifier of the own device to the access means notification service device. An identifier of the user terminal that is communicating with the location use service providing device from the location use service providing device; A receiving unit that receives the identifier of the location use service providing apparatus, and an access means extraction that extracts an access means to the location use service providing apparatus from pre-registered information based on the identifier of the location use service providing apparatus And
Based on the identifier of the user terminal, a notification means extraction unit that extracts notification means to the user terminal from information registered in advance, and the extracted access means are transmitted to the user terminal using the notification means. And a service providing system including a transmission unit.

  In order to solve the above problem, according to another aspect of the present invention, a registration unit for registering information including an identifier of the own device with respect to the access means notification service device, and the access means notification service device There is provided a user terminal device comprising: an access means receiving unit that receives an access means to a location use service device capable of providing a service according to the location of the device itself.

A service receiving unit that receives the service transmitted by the location use service device;
And a display unit that displays the service.

  In order to solve the above problem, according to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a service providing method in a service providing system including a user terminal, a location use service providing device, and an access means notification service device, wherein the location A step in which the information use service providing apparatus detects the position of the user terminal based on a radio wave transmitted by the user terminal connected via the wireless communication system; and the position information use service providing apparatus comprises the identifier of the user terminal. The location information utilization service providing device transmits an identifier of the user terminal and an identifier of the own device to the access means notification service device, and the access means notification service device includes: Based on the identifier of the location information use service providing apparatus, the information is registered from information registered in advance. A step of extracting access means to the location information use service providing device, and a step of extracting the notification means to the user terminal from pre-registered information by the access means notification service device based on the identifier of the user terminal And a method of providing the access means notification service device with the extracted access means to the user terminal using the notification means.

  ADVANTAGE OF THE INVENTION According to this invention, when there exists a some service which provides the service according to the position of a user terminal, it becomes possible to provide a user with presence of a service.

  Exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. In addition, in this specification and drawing, about the component which has the substantially same function structure, duplication description is abbreviate | omitted by attaching | subjecting the same code | symbol.

  FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram showing a configuration of a service providing system (communication system) 500 according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 1, the service providing system 500 includes a user terminal 100, a location use service providing device 200, a notification service device 300, and the Internet 400. The service providing system 500 provides a service based on location information for indoor use, for example.

  The location use service providing apparatus 200 and the notification service apparatus 300 are connected via the Internet 400. In addition, the user terminal 100 and the notification service device 300 are connected via the Internet 400.

  As shown in FIG. 1, the service providing system 500 includes a plurality of location use service providing devices 200. The user terminal 100 is connected to an arbitrary location use service providing apparatus 200 via a wireless communication system such as a wireless LAN (W-LAN) or Bluetooth within a range in which the radio waves reach. Note that the user terminal 100 and the location use service providing apparatus 200 may be connected via the Internet 400.

  The user terminal 100 is a mobile device such as a mobile phone or a PDA (Personal Digital Assistance), and can use a radio wave generation source such as a wireless LAN or Bluetooth, an access means for the Internet 400, and a location use service providing apparatus 300. An application (such as a Web browser) is provided.

  FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram illustrating a configuration of the user terminal 100. The user terminal 100 includes an antenna 102, a wireless communication unit 104, a service reception unit 106, a control unit 108, a data storage unit 110, an Internet connection unit 112, a registration unit 114, and a display unit 116. Here, the control unit 108 has a function of controlling each block in FIG. The wireless communication unit 104 creates various data frames and data packets, and generates a modulated signal in a carrier frequency band. The modulated signal is transmitted as a radio signal from the antenna 102. The transmitted signal includes an identifier unique to each user terminal 100. At the time of reception, the wireless communication unit 104 down-converts the wireless signal received by the antenna 102 and converts it into a bit string, thereby decoding various data. The unique identifier is stored in the data storage unit 110.

  The Internet connection unit 112 connects to the Internet 400. When connected to the Internet 400, the control unit 108 obtains access means to the location use service providing apparatus 200 sent from the notification service apparatus 300 via the Internet 400. Further, the service receiving unit 106 functions as an access means receiving unit that receives the location use service when accessing the location use service providing apparatus 200 via the Internet connection unit 112. When the registration unit 114 is connected to the notification service device 300 via the Internet connection unit 112, the registration unit 114 informs the notification service device 300 of the notification means (mail address) and communication method (wireless LAN, Bluetooth, etc.) to the user terminal 100. sign up. The display unit 116 is a display such as an LCD that displays the service received by the service receiving unit 106.

  The position use service providing apparatus 200 receives radio waves transmitted from the user terminal 100, specifies the position of the user terminal 100 from the received intensity and the like, and provides a service according to the position of the user terminal 100. Examples of services according to the position include services such as in-store navigation such as shopping centers.

  FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram illustrating a configuration of the location use service providing apparatus 200. The location use service providing apparatus 200 includes an antenna 202, a wireless communication unit 204, a location detection unit 206, an identifier acquisition unit 208, a service provision unit 210, a control unit 212, a data storage unit 214, and an Internet connection unit 216. The wireless communication unit 204 creates various data frames and data packets, and generates a modulated signal in the carrier frequency band. The modulated signal is transmitted from the antenna 202 as a radio signal.

  At the time of reception, the wireless communication unit 204 down-converts the wireless signal received by the antenna 202 and converts it into a bit string, thereby decoding various data. The identifier acquisition unit 208 analyzes the received various data frames and acquires the identifier, protocol, and the like of the user terminal 100 that is the transmission source of the wireless signal.

  The position detection unit 206 detects the position of the user terminal 100 from the received intensity based on the radio waves transmitted by the user terminal 100 and received by the wireless communication unit 204, such as a wireless LAN and Bluetooth. The identifier acquisition unit 208 acquires the identifier of the user terminal 100 such as a MAC address or Bluetooth ID.

  Further, the Internet connection unit 216 notifies the identifier of the user terminal 100 acquired by the identifier acquisition unit 208 and the identifier of the location use service providing device 200 stored in the data storage unit 214 via the Internet 400. Sent to 300. As the identifier of the location use service providing apparatus 200, for example, a number uniquely determined for each location use service providing apparatus 200 can be used.

  The service providing unit 210 creates a service corresponding to the position information detected by the position detecting unit 206 and provides the service to the user terminal 100. Examples of the service provided here include information such as store navigation created based on position information. Service information is sent to the user terminal 100 by the Internet connection unit 216 mainly via the Internet 400 on a Web browser basis. The control unit 212 controls the operation of each functional block shown in FIG.

  FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram illustrating a configuration of the notification service apparatus 300. The notification service device 300 uses a service usage method for a user terminal 100 when a location use service providing device 200 detects the user terminal 100 and detects the user terminal 100 within the service providing range. Provide a service to notify The notification service device 300 includes an Internet connection unit 304, an identifier acquisition unit 306, a control unit 308, and a data storage unit 310. The Internet connection unit 304 receives information transmitted from the user terminal 100 and the location use service providing apparatus 200 via the Internet 400. In addition, the Internet connection unit 304 transmits information extracted from the data recording unit 310 by the control unit 308 described later to the user terminal 100. The identifier acquisition unit 306 receives the identifier of the user terminal 100 and the identifier of the location use service providing apparatus 200 from the information received by the Internet connection unit 304.

  The data storage unit 310 holds information on the user terminal 100 (identifiers and the like) and information on notification means (for example, the mail address of the user terminal) when notifying the user terminal 100 of how to use the service. In addition, the data storage unit 310 holds access means (for example, the URL of each location use service providing apparatus 200) for each of the plurality of location use service providing apparatuses 200. The control unit 308 controls the operation of each functional block shown in FIG. 4 and registers the information on the user terminal 100 and the information on the location use service providing apparatus 200 received via the Internet 400 in the data storage unit 310. Further, the control unit 310 is based on the notification means extraction unit that extracts the notification means (mail address) to the user terminal 100 from the data recording unit 310 based on the identifier of the user terminal 100 and the identifier of the location use service providing apparatus 200. Thus, it functions as an access means extraction unit that extracts the access means (URL) to the location use service providing apparatus 200 from the data recording unit 310.

  The location use service providing apparatus 200 registers access means from the user terminal 100 in advance in the notification service apparatus 300. FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram showing data registered by the location use service providing apparatus 200. The data shown in FIG. 5 is registered in the data storage unit 310 of the notification service device 300. According to the data in FIG. 5, the access means (URL) to each location use service providing apparatus 200 can be acquired from the identifier (position use service ID) of the location use service providing apparatus 200.

  FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram showing data registered in the notification service device 300 by the user terminal 100. The data shown in FIG. 6 is also registered in the data storage unit 310 of the notification service device 300. As shown in FIG. 6, in the data storage unit 310, communication means (W-LAN, Bluetooth, etc.) used by the user terminal 100, an identifier (terminal ID (MAC address, Bluetooth ID, etc.)) of the user terminal 100, user terminal A notification means (email address) to 100 is registered. According to the data shown in FIG. 6, the communication means and mail address of the user terminal 100 can be acquired based on the identifier of the user terminal 100.

  The notification service device 300 receives the type of communication means (wireless LAN, Bluetooth, etc.) of the user terminal 100 and the identifier of the user terminal 100 from the location use service providing device 200. The communication service device 300 refers to the identifier of the user terminal 100 registered in the data storage unit 310. When the identifier received from the location use service providing device 200 is registered in the data storage unit 310, the communication service device 300 uses the identifier to the user terminal. Get 100 email addresses. Further, the notification service device 300 acquires an access means (URL) for the location use service providing device 200 based on the identifier of the location use service providing device 200 transmitted from the location use service providing device 200.

  Then, the notification service device 300 notifies the user terminal 100 of the usage method (mainly URL) of the location use service providing device 200 using the acquired mail address of the user terminal 100 as a transmission destination. As described above, notification to the user terminal 100 can use means such as e-mail registered in the data storage unit 310.

  FIG. 7 is a sequence diagram showing the flow of processing by the system of this embodiment. First, in step S <b> 1, a user using the user terminal 100 registers the identifier of the user terminal 100 and a notification unit for the user terminal 100 in the notification service device 300. The identifier of the user terminal 100 is information used when the location use service providing apparatus 200 acquires a location, such as a MAC address when using a wireless LAN, a Bluetooth ID when using Bluetooth, and the notification service device is operated by a user operation. 300 is registered. Note that the identifier information of the user terminal 100 may be extracted by a device such as a personal computer and registered in the notification service apparatus 300 from these devices. The identifier of the user terminal 100 is stored in the data storage unit 310 in the state shown in FIG. As the notification means for the user terminal 100, the mail address of the user terminal 100 is mainly assumed. However, a dedicated application may be prepared so that the user terminal 100 can receive information from the notification service apparatus 300. Good.

  Next, in step S2, the user having the user terminal 100 that generates radio waves physically moves to the radio wave detection area of a certain location use service providing apparatus 200 and enters that area. Thereby, the radio wave of the user terminal 100 is detected by the location use service providing apparatus 200.

  When the location use service providing apparatus 200 detects a radio wave such as a wireless LAN or Bluetooth used for location detection in the provided service, the identifier (MAC address, Bluetooth ID, etc.) of the user terminal 100 and a protocol (wireless LAN, Bluetooth, etc.).

  Here, when the user terminal 100 is a user of the radio wave detection position use service providing apparatus 200, information on the user terminal 100 is obtained on the position use service providing apparatus 200 side based on the acquired identifier of the user terminal 100. Can be recognized. Therefore, the location use service providing apparatus 200 can provide the service directly to the user terminal 100 without sending information to the notification service apparatus 300. In this case, whether or not to perform subsequent processing using the notification service device 300 can be arbitrarily determined. In addition, if the user terminal 100 has previously registered a user in the location use service providing apparatus 200 and there is a means for notifying the user terminal 100 directly from the location use service providing apparatus 200, the notification service apparatus 300 is used. Instead, the user terminal 100 may be notified using that means.

  In the next step S <b> 3, the location use service providing apparatus 200 transmits the identifier and protocol of the user terminal 100 detected from the radio wave and the identifier of the location use service providing apparatus 200 itself to the notification service apparatus 300.

  When the identifier and protocol of the user terminal 100 transmitted from the location use service providing apparatus 200 are registered by the user terminal 100 and stored in the data storage unit 310 as shown in FIG. In step S4, information (for example, URL of the location use service providing apparatus 200) regarding the access method to the location use service providing apparatus 200 is transmitted to the registered access destination (mail address) of the user terminal 100. At this time, the method of including the identifier of the user terminal 100 in the access method is defined in advance, and the service provided by the corresponding information use service corresponding to the position of the user terminal 100 may be immediately received. .

  In the next step S5, the user terminal 100 uses the access means (mainly the URL transmitted by e-mail) to the location use service providing device 200 notified from the notification service device 300, based on the location use service providing device. 200 is used. After this, the location use service providing apparatus 200 may newly request user registration for the own service.

  As described above, according to the present embodiment, in the place where the user of the user terminal 100 has performed for the first time, even if the user does not have the information of the location information service provider, the location information can be obtained by the notification from the notification service device 300. Recognize that the service is available.

  Further, the personal information of the user is only in the notification service device 300, and the location use service providing device 200 side does not even receive information on whether or not the user information is registered in the notification service device 300. Information can be protected reliably. In addition, the notification service device 300 can only obtain information on whether or not it is within the area of the specific location use service providing device 200 at a certain moment, and thus can reliably protect personal information.

  Further, when the provider of the location use service providing apparatus 200 discovers a new user terminal 100, the provider can act on the user only with the address of the user terminal 100. Therefore, it becomes possible to acquire more users of the location use service.

  As mentioned above, although preferred embodiment of this invention was described referring an accompanying drawing, it cannot be overemphasized that this invention is not limited to the example which concerns. It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various changes and modifications can be made within the scope of the claims, and these are naturally within the technical scope of the present invention. Understood.

It is a schematic diagram which shows the structure of the service provision system which concerns on one Embodiment of this invention. It is a schematic diagram which shows the structure of a user terminal. It is a schematic diagram which shows the structure of a position utilization service provision apparatus. It is a schematic diagram which shows the structure of a notification service apparatus. It is a schematic diagram which shows the data registered by the position utilization service provision apparatus. It is a schematic diagram which shows the data registered into the notification service apparatus by the user terminal. It is a sequence diagram which shows the flow of the process by the system of this embodiment.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 100 User terminal 200 Location use service provision apparatus 206 Position detection part 208 Identifier acquisition part 210 Service provision part 216 Internet connection part 300 Notification service apparatus 304 Internet connection part 306 Identifier acquisition part 308 Control part 310 Data storage part 400 Internet 500 Service provision system

Claims (10)

A position detection unit that detects the position of the user terminal based on radio waves transmitted by the user terminal connected via the wireless communication system;
A service providing unit that provides a service according to the position of the user terminal;
An identifier acquisition unit for acquiring an identifier of the user terminal;
A transmitting unit for transmitting the identifier of the user terminal and the identifier of the own device to the access means notification service device in which the notification unit to the user terminal is registered;
A location use service providing apparatus comprising:   The location use service providing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the notification means to the user terminal is a mail address of the user terminal.   The location use service providing apparatus according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the identifier of the user terminal is an identifier used in a wireless communication system that connects the user terminal and the location use service providing apparatus. Reception of receiving an identifier of the user terminal that is communicating with the position use service providing apparatus and an identifier of the position use service providing apparatus from a position use service providing apparatus that provides a service according to the position of the user terminal And
An access means extracting unit for extracting an access means to the location use service providing apparatus from information registered in advance based on the identifier of the location use service providing apparatus;
Based on the identifier of the user terminal, a notification means extraction unit that extracts a notification means to the user terminal from information registered in advance;
A transmitting unit that transmits the extracted access means to the user terminal using the notification means;
An access means notification service device.   5. The access means notification service device according to claim 4, wherein the notification means to the user terminal is a mail address of the user terminal.   The access means notification service apparatus according to claim 4 or 5, wherein the identifier of the user terminal is an identifier used in a wireless communication system connecting the user terminal and the location use service providing apparatus. A registration unit for registering information including an identifier of the own device with respect to the access means notification service device;
An access means receiving unit for receiving an access means from the access means notification service device to a location use service device capable of providing a service according to the location of the device;
A user terminal device comprising: A service receiver that receives the service transmitted by the location use service device;
A display unit for displaying the service;
The user terminal device according to claim 7, comprising: A service providing system comprising a user terminal, a location use service providing device, and an access means notification service device,
The location use service providing device comprises:
A position detection unit that detects the position of the user terminal based on radio waves transmitted by the user terminal connected via the wireless communication system;
A service providing unit that provides a service according to the position of the user terminal;
An identifier acquisition unit for acquiring an identifier of the user terminal;
A transmission unit for transmitting the identifier of the user terminal and the identifier of the own device to the access means notification service device;
The access means notification service device
A receiving unit that receives, from the location use service providing device, an identifier of the user terminal that is communicating with the location use service providing device, and an identifier of the location use service providing device;
An access means extracting unit for extracting an access means to the location use service providing apparatus from information registered in advance based on the identifier of the location use service providing apparatus;
Based on the identifier of the user terminal, a notification means extraction unit that extracts a notification means to the user terminal from information registered in advance;
A transmitting unit that transmits the extracted access means to the user terminal using the notification means;
A service providing system comprising: A service providing method in a service providing system comprising a user terminal, a location use service providing device, and an access means notification service device,
The position information utilization service providing device detects the position of the user terminal based on radio waves transmitted by the user terminal connected via a wireless communication system;
The location information utilization service providing device acquires an identifier of the user terminal;
The location information service providing device transmits an identifier of the user terminal and an identifier of the own device to the access means notification service device;
The access means notifying service device extracting access means to the location information utilization service providing device from pre-registered information based on the identifier of the location information utilization service providing device;
The access means notification service device, based on the identifier of the user terminal, extracting the notification means to the user terminal from information registered in advance;
The access means notification service device transmits the extracted access means to the user terminal using the notification means;
A service providing method comprising:

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