JP2012221090A - Terminal information activation system and terminal information activation method - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a terminal information activation system and a terminal information activation method for enabling a user to easily receive a new service to be provided by an application server in terminal equipment.SOLUTION: A terminal information activation system includes: terminal equipment 10; a service undertaker server 30; and a terminal management server 20. The terminal equipment 10 includes: a sensor device 101; an information working part 102 for working information whose sensing has been performed; and a function addition control part 121 for, when a service is added, making the information working part 102 work the information into configurations to be used for the added service. The terminal management server 20 includes: an information analysis part 111 for analyzing the worked information; and an identification information management part 112 for generating worked terminal identification information corresponding to terminal identification information. The service undertaker server 30 transmits service data and the worked terminal identification information to the terminal management server 20, and the terminal management server 20 transmits the received information to the terminal equipment 10.

Description

  The present invention relates to a terminal information utilization system, and more particularly to a terminal information utilization system that provides a service from a service provider server to a terminal device in accordance with the behavior of the terminal device.

  In recent years, an increasing number of portable terminals have various sensors such as GPS and acceleration sensors and can obtain their own position information. In response to this, information services using the location information of mobile terminals have appeared. For example, when the location information of a mobile terminal user is transmitted to a server, a location information cooperation service is provided in which the server sends back information on a store near the user to the mobile terminal. By using an acceleration sensor and a camera with a built-in portable terminal, it is possible to obtain even terminal user operations such as walking and running. Therefore, it becomes possible to provide a service based on the operation of the terminal user and its history. In this way, by using a portable terminal equipped with various sensors, a terminal-server cooperation service based on terminal information obtained from the sensors can be realized.

  Here, the operation history utilization system which provides a service to a user using the operation history of a terminal is demonstrated using patent document 1. FIG. In the operation history utilization system in Patent Document 1, a terminal home appliance such as a television or a video detects a user operation on the terminal home appliance. The detected operation history of the user is managed as a database. When a request for service provision is made from the terminal home appliance to the application server (service concierge), the application server obtains information necessary for the service from the database, and then transmits a control signal to the terminal home appliance. Perform remote control. In this way, the application server provides a service in response to a request from the terminal home appliance. The service provided by the application server predicts and supports the user's device operation, and provides useful information to the user via the video and audio output unit of the terminal home appliance.

JP 2004-185612 A

  However, the operation history utilization system disclosed in Patent Document 1 provides a predetermined type of information called an operation history of the terminal device to the application server. That is, the terminal device can only provide the application server with information determined when the terminal device is manufactured or when the terminal device is shipped. Therefore, when a new service is provided by the application server, there is a problem that the terminal device cannot provide information corresponding to the new service to the application server. Furthermore, when providing a service to a terminal device, the application server needs to specify the terminal device using user identification information such as an IP address and a telephone number set in the terminal device. For this reason, there is also a problem that the terminal device must transmit user identification information to the application server even when the trust to the business operator operating the application server is not sufficient.

  In order to solve such problems, an object of the present invention is to provide a terminal information utilization system and a terminal information utilization method capable of receiving a new service provided by an application server easily and safely in a terminal device. To do.

  A terminal information utilization system according to a first aspect of the present invention provides a terminal business and a service business that provides services to the terminal device according to the behavior of the terminal device using information generated in the terminal device. An operator server, a terminal management server connected to the terminal device and the service provider server via a network, and the terminal device is operated by a user who operates the device state of the terminal device and the terminal device. A sensor device that collects at least one of actions, information processing means that processes information collected by the sensor device into a form used in the service provider server, and a service provided to the terminal device in the service provider server The information collected by the sensor device is added to the Function addition control means for controlling the information processing means so as to be processed into a form used for a service, the terminal management server, information analysis means for analyzing information processed in the information processing means, Identification information management means for generating processed terminal identification information corresponding to the terminal identification information of the terminal device and transmitting it to the service provider server, wherein the service provider server The service data corresponding to the service to be provided and the processed terminal identification information of the terminal device that provides the service are transmitted to the terminal management server, and the terminal management server receives the service data from the service provider server. Transmitting the terminal identification information of the terminal device corresponding to the processed terminal identification information and the service data to the terminal device; That.

  The terminal information utilization method according to the second aspect of the present invention includes a terminal device and a service business that provides the terminal device with a service according to the behavior of the terminal device using information generated in the terminal device. Terminal information utilization method in a terminal information utilization system comprising an operator server, a terminal management server connected to the terminal server and the service provider server via a network, wherein the terminal device is a device of the terminal device Collect at least one of a state and an operation behavior of a user who operates the terminal device, process the collected information into a form used in the service provider server, and provide the terminal device in the service provider server When the service to be added is added, the collected information is used for the added service. The terminal management server analyzes the processed information, generates processed terminal identification information corresponding to the terminal identification information of the terminal device, and converts the processed terminal identification information into the service provider A service data transmitted from the service provider server, corresponding to a service provided to the terminal device, and the processed terminal identification information of the terminal device providing the service; The terminal identification information of the terminal device corresponding to the processed terminal identification information and the service data are transmitted to the terminal device.

  According to the present invention, it is possible to provide a terminal information utilization system and a terminal information utilization method that allow a new service provided by an application server to be received easily and safely in a terminal device.

It is a block diagram of the terminal utilization system concerning Embodiment 1. FIG. It is a block diagram of the terminal utilization system concerning Embodiment 1. FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram of a terminal device according to a first embodiment; It is a block diagram of the terminal management server concerning Embodiment 1. FIG. It is a block diagram of the service provider server concerning Embodiment 1. FIG. It is a figure which shows the flow of the data in the terminal utilization system concerning Embodiment 1. FIG. It is a block diagram of the terminal utilization system concerning Embodiment 2. FIG. FIG. 3 is a configuration diagram of a mobile terminal according to a second exemplary embodiment. It is a figure which shows the flow of the data in the terminal management server concerning Embodiment 2. It is a figure which shows the flow of the data between the terminal management server concerning Embodiment 2, and a service provider server. It is a figure which shows the flow of the data between the terminal management server concerning Embodiment 2, and a service provider server.

(Embodiment 1)
Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. A configuration example of the terminal information utilization system according to the first exemplary embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. The terminal information utilization system includes a terminal device 10, a terminal management server 20, and a service provider server 30.

  The terminal device 10 is, for example, a mobile communication device, and may be a mobile phone terminal, a PHS (Personal Handy-phone System) terminal, a smartphone terminal, or the like. The terminal device 10 uses the sensor device 101 that collects at least one of the device state of the terminal device 10 and the operation behavior of the user who operates the terminal device 10, and information collected by the sensor device 101 in the service provider server 30. When a service provided to the terminal device 10 is added to the information processing unit 102 to be processed into a form and the service provider server 20, the information collected by the sensor device 101 is processed into a form used for the added service And a function addition control unit 121 for controlling the information processing unit 102 so as to cause the information processing unit 102 to control the information processing unit 102.

  The terminal management server 20 generates an information analysis unit 111 that analyzes information processed by the information processing unit 102, and processed terminal identification information corresponding to the terminal identification information of the terminal device 10, and transmits the generated terminal identification information to the service provider server. And an identification information management unit 112.

  The service provider server 30 receives information generated in the terminal device 10. Further, the service provider server 30 analyzes the behavior of the terminal device 10 using the received information, and provides the terminal device 10 with a service according to the behavior of the terminal device 10.

  The service provider server 30 transmits service data corresponding to a service provided to the terminal device 10 and processed terminal identification information of the terminal device 10 providing the service to the terminal management server 20.

  Further, the terminal management server 20 transmits the terminal identification information of the terminal device 10 corresponding to the processed terminal identification information received from the service provider server 20 and the service data to the terminal device 10.

  As described above, by using the function addition control unit 121, the terminal device 10 generates necessary information according to the service provided from the service provider server 30 and transmits it to the service provider server 30. can do. Further, the terminal management server 20 generates the processed terminal identification information corresponding to the terminal identification information of the terminal device 10, so that the terminal device 10 transmits the terminal identification information to the service provider server 30. The service provided by the service provider server 30 can be received.

  Then, the detailed structural example of the terminal information utilization system concerning Embodiment 1 of this invention is demonstrated using FIG. The terminal information utilization system includes a terminal device 10, a terminal management server 20, and a service provider server 30, which are connected by a communication network 40.

  The terminal device 10 includes a network interface (network I / F) 15 that communicates with the outside of the terminal, a sensor group 16 including one or more sensors that sense the state of the terminal, and a human interface that controls input and output for the terminal user. A group (human I / F group) 17 and a terminal sandbox 12 for executing a program for controlling the operation of the terminal device 10 in cooperation with the terminal management server 20. In addition, the terminal device 10 may include a general terminal application 11 that is not managed under the technique of the present invention. The sensor group 16 corresponds to the sensor device 101 in FIG.

  When executing the unit instruction sequence constituting the program-controlled software, the terminal sandbox 12 investigates the range of influence of the instruction sequence and executes the instruction sequence within the specified limit range.

  The terminal management server 20 manages a network interface (network I / F) 23 for communicating with the terminal device 10 and the service provider server 30, and user identification information of the terminal device 10, and the service provider server 30 and the terminal device A terminal control unit 21 that mediates communication with the terminal 10, and a terminal information analysis unit 22 that secondarily analyzes the terminal information received from the terminal device 10 and transmits the result to the service provider server 30. .

  The service provider server 30 includes a network interface (network I / F) 32 for communicating with the terminal management server 20 and a service logic unit 31 that provides a service to the terminal device based on the analysis result of the terminal information. Is done.

  Next, a configuration example of the terminal device 10 according to the first embodiment of the present invention, particularly a detailed configuration example of the terminal sandbox 12, will be described with reference to FIG. The terminal sandbox 12 is provided between the terminal-side service application 13 that provides a service to a user who operates the terminal device 10 in cooperation with the service provider server 30, and between the terminal-side service application 13 and the service provider server 30. Network access control unit 123 that controls the communication, terminal information collection unit 14 that performs primary processing of information obtained from the sensor group 16 and the human interface group 17 (hereinafter referred to as terminal information), and an instruction from the terminal management server 20 A function addition control unit 121 that adds or updates a part of the functions of the terminal service application 13 and the terminal information collection unit 14, and a device that manages access from the terminal information collection unit 14 to the sensor group 16 and the human interface group 17. And an access control unit 122. The terminal information collection unit 14 corresponds to the information processing unit 102 in FIG.

  The terminal information collection unit 14 further processes the terminal information output from the sensor group 16 and the human interface unit 17 for the first time, and the terminal information according to the intention of the service provider and the terminal management server operator. An additional primary processing unit 142 that performs additional processing, a primary information storage unit 143 that stores terminal information as time passes, and provides means for accessing the stored information, a terminal management server 20, and a terminal sand Primary information for collecting terminal-side user identification information 145 necessary for communication with the box 12 and transmitting the primary-processed terminal information (hereinafter, temporarily processed terminal information) and the user identification information 145 to the terminal management server 20 A transmission unit 144.

  The primary processing performed in the primary processing unit 141 or the additional primary processing unit 142 is a form in which the terminal information collected from the sensor group 16 or the human I / F 17 can be used in the terminal management server 20 or the service provider server 30. Is to process. Moreover, the primary information transmission part 144 collects the terminal information collected from the sensor group 16 or the human I / F 17 for every predetermined period, and outputs it via the network I / F 15. For example, the primary information transmission unit 144 accumulates information collected every few milliseconds and processed by the primary processing unit 141 for a predetermined period, and outputs the information via the network I / F 15 every few seconds. The timing for collecting terminal information and the period for storing processed information can be changed.

  Then, the detailed structural example of the terminal management server 20 concerning Embodiment 1 of this invention is demonstrated using FIG. The terminal control unit 21 receives the primary processed terminal information and the user identification information 145 from the terminal device 10, and replaces the primary user identification information 145 with another processing identification information, and the correspondence of the identification information replacement A user identification information management unit 212 that manages the relationship, a service analysis communication control unit 213 that sends a service-specific analysis result to be described later to the service provider server 30, and communication between the service provider server 30 and the terminal device 10 And a communication path control unit 214 to be managed. The temporary information receiving unit 211 and the user identification information management unit 212 correspond to the identification information management unit 112 in FIG.

  The terminal information analysis unit 22 includes a secondary processing unit 221 that performs higher-level analysis processing on the primary information received from the terminal device, a service-specific analysis unit 222 that performs analysis processing according to the service provider service, A secondary information storage unit 223 that stores secondary processing results and provides an access means for the stored information, and a service specific analysis unit monitors access to the secondary information storage and controls the access. And a next information access control unit 224. The terminal information analysis unit 22 corresponds to the information analysis unit 111 in FIG.

  The analysis processing performed in the secondary processing unit 221 and the service specific analysis unit 222 is, for example, analyzing the behavior of the terminal device 10 using the primary processed terminal information received from the terminal device 10.

  Subsequently, a configuration example of the service provider server 30 according to the first exemplary embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. The service logic unit 31 includes a service analysis remote control unit 311 that remotely controls the service specific analysis unit 222 while communicating with the service analysis communication control unit 213, and comprehensive terminal information obtained from the service analysis remote control unit 311. A service determining unit 312 that determines service contents for the terminal device 10 based on the analysis result, and a service that provides the service determined by the service determining unit 312 in cooperation with the terminal-side service application 13 via the communication path control unit 214. Providing unit 313.

  Next, the overall operation of the terminal information utilization system according to the first exemplary embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. The present invention includes a mechanism for preventing an operation to access personal information with malicious intent, but here, first, how is the information on the terminal device 10 side when there is no such malicious intent. Whether or not the service is provided to the service provider server 30 will be described. Reference numerals 51 to 57 and 61 to 63 in FIG. 6 indicate information generated in each device or information transmitted from each device.

  In the terminal device 10, the primary processing unit 141 samples the states of the sensor group 16, the human interface group 17, or both at regular intervals. Alternatively, the primary processing unit 141 receives device events output from the sensor group 16 and the human interface group 17. Information gathered in the primary processing unit 141 from the sensor group 16 and the human I / F 17 in this way is referred to as raw terminal information 51. Also, the raw terminal information 51 is stored in the primary information storage unit 143 over a certain period.

  The primary processing unit 141 constructs significant information useful for service provision from the current raw terminal information and the past raw terminal information stored in the primary information storage unit 143. For example, noise is removed from the raw terminal information obtained from the acceleration sensors included in the sensor group 16 to obtain the acceleration vector, or the terminal user's line-of-sight vector is calculated from the camera image that is the raw terminal information. It is a process. The primary processed terminal information 52 obtained by such processing is sent to the terminal management server 20 from the primary information transmission unit 144 as a pair with the raw user identification information 145 (53 in FIG. 6).

  In the terminal management server 20, the primary information receiving unit 211 removes the raw user identification information from the received “set of the raw user identification information and the primary processed terminal information” 53, and gives the processing identification information instead ( 54 in FIG. The processing identification information is newly issued by the primary information receiving unit 211 so as to be associated with the raw user identification information on a one-to-one basis. The primary information receiving unit 211 stores, in the user identification information management unit 212, a combination of the raw user identification information and the newly added processing identification information (55 in FIG. 6). That is, when the user identification information management unit 212 is inquired, the original user identification information corresponding to the given processing identification information is uniquely obtained.

  The terminal information analysis unit 22 performs more advanced analysis, recognition, and analysis processing than the primary processing unit 141 for the primary processed terminal information (54 in FIG. 6) to which the processing identification information is given. The advanced analysis is, for example, the movement of the terminal from the acceleration vector of the terminal device (whether the user is moving while holding the terminal device 10 or the terminal device 10 is left horizontally) or the terminal device This is a process of estimating the user's moving means to be held, or obtaining the terminal user's attention location from the terminal user's line-of-sight vector. Of these processes, analysis results and the like commonly used in many services are performed by the secondary processing unit 221. On the other hand, processing specific to a specific service, for example, processing such as estimating the physical exercise amount and calorie consumption of the terminal user from the movement history of the terminal user is performed by the service specific analysis unit 222. The analysis result thus obtained is sent to the service provider server 30 from the service analysis communication control unit 213 in combination with the above-described processing identification information (56 in FIG. 6).

  In the service provider server 30, the service determination unit 312 selects a terminal device to be serviced based on the received analysis result (57 in FIG. 6). Alternatively, the service provider server 30 may provide a service to the terminal device selected by the terminal management server. Further, the service determination unit 312 determines a service content to be provided, and then generates a set of processing identification information and a provided service (61 in FIG. 6). For example, in a service example that provides a health promotion menu to a terminal user with a small amount of exercise, the estimated physical exercise amount is less than a certain amount among a large number of analysis results (corresponding to 57 in FIG. 6) for a large number of terminal devices. This means service logic processing such as selecting a certain item and determining an optimal health promotion menu for a user with a small estimated physical exercise amount.

  The service providing unit 313 refers to the combination of the processing identification information and the provided service (61 in FIG. 6) and transmits the processing identification information of the service target terminal device to the communication path control unit 214 in the terminal management server 20. In response to this, the communication path control unit 214 inquires of the user identification information management unit 212 to obtain the original user identification information for the processing identification information. Thereafter, the communication path control unit 214 starts an operation that mediates data transfer between the service provider server 30 and the terminal device 10. As a result, the service providing unit 313 can communicate with the terminal-side service application 13, and the determined provided service (62 in FIG. 6) is provided to the terminal device in cooperation with both.

  Next, a mechanism and operation for performing processing specific to the service provider's service will be described. Referring to FIG. 2, on the terminal device 10 side, service-specific primary processing for the sensor group 16 and the human interface group 17 is incorporated into the additional primary processing unit 142 and realized. For example, a program for executing processing incorporated in the additional primary processing unit 142 is downloaded from the terminal management server 20 via the communication network by the function addition control unit 121 and installed in the additional primary processing unit 142. Similarly, a program for executing terminal-side output processing in order to perform service-specific terminal-side output processing or the like (for example, screen drawing) is downloaded from the terminal management server 20 by the function addition control unit 121, and the terminal-side service application 13 is installed.

  Referring to FIG. 4, on the terminal management server 20 side, a service specific part of the advanced secondary processing for the primary processed terminal information is incorporated in the service specific analysis unit 222. The program for executing the processing incorporated in the service specific analysis unit 222 may be in a form in which the service provider creates a program and provides it to the terminal management server operator, or in accordance with the intention of the service provider. A terminal management server operator may create and incorporate a program. The service specific analysis unit 222 may receive the secondary processing result from the secondary processing unit 221, and by accessing the secondary information storage unit 223 via the secondary information access control unit 224, the service specific analysis unit 222 receives the secondary processing result along the time series. The next processing result may be received. The service specific analysis unit 222 uses the received secondary processing result for analysis according to the service.

  With the mechanism on the terminal device side and the terminal management server side, processing unique to the service provider service can be added and realized.

  Next, a description will be given of a mechanism for preventing an operation to access personal information with malicious intent. Referring to FIG. 3, on the terminal device 10 side, the additional primary processing unit 142 created in accordance with the intention of the service provider tries to obtain raw terminal information from the sensor group 16 and the human interface group 17. At this time, the sensor group 16 and the human interface group 17 are accessed only via the device access control unit 122. As a result, the device access control unit 122 can reject an access that is not specified or an access with a predetermined frequency or more. This access control policy can be created as a standard policy by the operator of the terminal management server 20 and applied to the device access control unit 122, for example. In addition, the access control policy is that the operator of the terminal management server 20 dynamically changes the access control policy of the device access control unit 122 through the function addition control unit 121 at the request of the user who operates the terminal device 10. Operation is also possible.

  Referring also to FIG. 4, on the terminal management server 20 side, a service specific analysis unit 222 that includes processing in accordance with the service provider's intention is stored in the secondary information storage unit 223 and subjected to secondary processing. Access information. At this time, access by the service specific analysis unit 222 is possible only via the secondary processing unit 221 or the secondary information access control unit 224. In the access via the secondary processing unit 221, only the result information processed by the secondary processing unit 221 is output to the service specific analysis unit 222. Via the secondary information access control unit 224, the service specific analysis unit 222 can independently access the secondary information storage unit 223, but the access is restricted by an access control policy determined by the operator of the terminal management server 20. . For example, the secondary information access control unit 224 applies an access control policy that rejects access other than a predetermined attribute or access with a predetermined frequency or more. In addition, the service analysis communication control unit 213 monitors the amount of data that the service specific analysis unit 222 transmits to the service provider server 30, and warns the operator of the terminal management server 20 if there is a certain amount of transmission. Alternatively, communication with the service provider server 30 is blocked. As a result, the service specific analysis unit 222 is prevented from maliciously leaking information such as encoding or encrypting the information stored in the secondary information storage unit 223 and transmitting the encoded information to the service provider server.

  Thus, in this embodiment, both the terminal device 10 and the terminal management server 20 can monitor and limit access to and outflow of personal information.

  In the present embodiment, the service analysis remote control unit 311 can operate in cooperation with the service analysis communication control unit 213 in both directions. When the service provider operating the service provider server 30 wants to select a terminal device for proactively providing a service, the service analysis remote control unit 311 uses the service analysis communication control unit 213 to determine the terminal selection criterion. It transmits to the specific analysis part 222. The service specific analysis unit 222 accesses the secondary processed information stored in the secondary information storage unit 223, selects a terminal device that matches the instructed selection criteria, and processes identification information of the selected terminal device Is returned to the service analysis remote control unit 311 via the service analysis communication control unit 213. As a result, it is possible to proactively search for a terminal device that matches the conditions required by the service provider from the service provider side and provide a service corresponding to the terminal device.

  As described above, the terminal information utilization system according to the first exemplary embodiment of the present invention uses the function addition control unit 121 to allow the terminal device 10 to respond to the intention of the service provider or the terminal management server operator. A function for performing additional processing on the terminal information can be added. Therefore, the terminal device 10 can generate not only predetermined information but also new information used when a new service is provided by the service provider, and can transmit the new information to the terminal management server 20.

  Furthermore, by providing a service specific analysis unit 222 in the terminal management server 20 as well, when a new service is provided by the service provider, a new analysis is performed on the information transmitted from the terminal device 10, and a new Can be used for service.

  Furthermore, by replacing some or all of the terminal-side additional primary processing unit 142, the terminal-side service application 13, and the service-specific analysis unit 222 in the terminal management server with service-specific processing, other mechanisms in the present embodiment A variety of services can be realized using as is. Since the context collection and analysis according to the service and the service execution unit on the terminal side can be created as a module in a short time, the service provider can use this embodiment to create a new service using the user context. Can be launched quickly.

  When a service based on a more advanced recognition process is performed, a recognition module can be separately procured and incorporated into the system. For example, consider a case in which there is an advanced recognition module that estimates the health status of a terminal user from time series data of acceleration and camera-captured images, and an advanced information service using this recognition function is realized. The recognition processing is performed by matching the pre-processing portion for outputting the feature quantity with reference to the raw data of the acceleration and the camera image, and matching the feature quantity with a separately prepared pattern database to output the user health state. It is divided into likelihood calculation parts, the former is mounted on the primary processing unit 141 or the additional primary processing unit 142 in the terminal information collection unit, and the latter is installed in the service specific analysis unit 222 and the secondary information storage unit 223 in the terminal information analysis unit. Implement. The service provider obtains the determination result of the user health condition and the processing identification information, and performs the actual service. As described above, this embodiment can also be used for the purpose of realizing a terminal-server cooperation service by introducing advanced recognition processing developed by a person other than the service provider.

  In the terminal information utilization system according to the first exemplary embodiment of the present invention, the terminal device and the service provider communicate with each other via the reliable terminal management server, so that the user identification information is disclosed directly to the service provider. Is avoiding. In addition, user context information obtained from sensors and human interfaces is managed by being closed in a reliable terminal management server, and service providers bring part of the service logic into the terminal management server. Since it is configured to access information, and a mechanism for monitoring and controlling these accesses is provided, it is avoided that user context information remains undisclosed and undisclosed to service providers. Yes. With such a mechanism, it is possible to realize a service using a user context while appropriately protecting personal information of a terminal user.

(Embodiment 2)
Subsequently, a configuration example of the terminal information utilization system according to the second exemplary embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. In the terminal information utilization system in FIG. 7, for example, a Java (registered trademark) application is used for the portable terminal 510.

  The terminal information utilization system in FIG. 6 includes one or more portable terminals 510, one terminal management server 520, and one or more service provider servers 530. The terminal management server 520 and the service provider server 530 are connected to the Internet 501 by network interface cards (NICs) 524 and 534, respectively. The portable terminal 510 is connected to the Internet 501 via a wireless LAN interface 512 and a wireless access point (wireless AP) 502. The terminal management server 520, the service provider server 530, and the wireless AP 502 may be directly connected to the Internet 501 or may be connected to the Internet 501 via a gateway or the like from another intranet.

  The mobile terminal 510 includes a CPU 511, an OS 516 that operates on the CPU 511, a Java VM (Java virtual machine) 517 that operates on the OS and functions as a terminal sandbox, a set of Java applications 509 that operate on the Java VM, A GPS sensor 513, an acceleration sensor 514, a touch screen sensor 515, a Flash ROM 518, and an information recording card 519 are included. Although not shown in FIG. 6, the mobile terminal 510 includes a main storage memory for operating the OS, Java, and the like, an LCD (liquid crystal display), and the like.

  Each of the terminal management server 520 and the service provider server 530 includes a server CPU (521, 531), a server OS (522, 532) operating thereon, and a network interface card (NIC) (524, 534). And hard disk drives (525, 535). The functions of the terminal control unit (21 in FIG. 4), the terminal information analysis unit (22 in FIG. 4), and the service logic (31 in FIG. 5) are a set of applications that operate on the server OS (522, 532) (523). 533).

  Then, the detailed structural example of the portable terminal 510 concerning Embodiment 2 of this invention is demonstrated using FIG. The terminal information collection unit (14 in FIG. 3) and the terminal-side service application (13 in FIG. 3) are implemented as Java applications constituting the Java application group 509, that is, the terminal information collection application 551 and the terminal-side service Java application 553. . The terminal-side service Java application 553 waits for a communication connection request from the terminal management server using a predetermined TCP port number.

  The function of the device access control unit (122 in FIG. 3) is the device driver group 541 incorporated in the OS 516 corresponding to the GPS sensor 513, the acceleration sensor 514, and the touch screen sensor 515, and the Java VM 517 to drive the device driver. It is implemented as a native code interface (JNI) group 542 to be incorporated and a Java class group 543 using them. That is, the Java class group 543 rejects device access beyond the range determined by the operator of the terminal management server 520, and this access control policy can be changed from the terminal management server 520 through the OSGi control unit 545. The Java application group 509 can access the GPS sensor 513, the acceleration sensor 514, or the touch screen sensor 515 only by calling the Java class group 543, whereby various device accesses from the Java application group 509 are performed by the terminal management server. It is under the control of 520 operators.

  The function addition control unit (121 in FIG. 3) is implemented using the OSGi bundle function controlled by the OSGi control unit 545, and the additional primary processing unit (142 in FIG. 3) and the terminal-side service application (13 in FIG. 3) Are distributed from the terminal management server 520 as software modules described in Java, and installed as an additional primary processing application 552 and a terminal-side service Java application 553 in the mobile terminal, respectively.

  The terminal information collection application 551 operates as follows. That is, the terminal information collection application 551 performs GPS at regular intervals (for example, every 30 seconds for GPS, every 0.1 seconds for an acceleration sensor, every 0.1 seconds for a touch screen sensor, etc.). Sensor data of the sensor 513, the acceleration sensor 514, and the touch screen sensor 515 are read. Furthermore, the terminal information collection application 551 removes noise by low-pass filter processing, and if the additional primary processing application 552 is installed, calls that function and obtains its return value. The terminal information collection application 551 records sensor data values for a certain past period in the FlashROM 518, and performs low-pass filter calculation using the past sensor data values recorded in the FlashROM 518 in the low-pass filter processing. The terminal information collection application 551 also collects untransmitted sensor data values from the flash ROM 518 at regular intervals (for example, every 3 seconds), and transmits untransmitted sensor data values to the terminal management server 520 through TCP / IP communication using the wireless LAN interface 512. Send a set of. At this time, the IP address information on the portable terminal 510 side is also notified to the terminal management server 520 side by TCP / IP communication.

  Next, the operation of the application group 523 of the terminal management server 520 according to the mobile phone 2 according to the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. The terminal control application 561 included in the application group 523 receives the sensor data value set 570 by TCP / IP communication, generates a unique value for the IP address information of the communication partner, and uses it as a processing terminal ID. A set 571 of the address and the processing terminal ID is registered in the user identification information table 564. Next, the terminal control application 561 sets the processing terminal ID and the sensor data value set as a set 572 and passes it to the terminal information analysis application 562. The terminal information analysis application 562 is included in the application group 523.

  The terminal information analysis application 562 performs a process of estimating the movement of the terminal user from the sensor data value obtained from the terminal control application 561. This is because the acceleration information included in the sensor data value is recorded and stored in a predetermined area of the hard disk drive 525 in the terminal management server, and the time-series change of the accumulated acceleration information is prepared as an acceleration change pattern during a specific operation (for example, Pattern matching with stationary, walking, running, train ride, car ride, etc.) and the most likely one (for example, “currently walking” estimation result) To do. This estimation result is also recorded as a history in the hard disk drive 525.

  The terminal information analysis application 562 also passes the processing terminal ID and the terminal user action estimation result set 573 and a pointer to the history information to the service specific analysis application 563. The service specific analysis application 563 is included in the application group 523. The service-specific analysis application 563 refers to the past one-week history of the user motion estimation result once a week, obtains a value obtained by evaluating the terminal user's exercise amount and tendency in 10 levels, and uses the result as the terminal information analysis result The processing terminal ID and the set 574 are returned to the terminal control application 561.

  The terminal control application 561 receives the set 574 of the terminal information analysis result and the processing terminal ID, and transmits this to the service determination application (581 in FIG. 10) in the service provider server 530 by TCP / IP (575 in FIG. 9). ).

  Next, the operation of the application group of the service provider server 530 will be described with reference to FIG. Reference numerals 575 to 577 and 583 to 584 in FIG. 10 indicate information generated in each device or information transmitted from each device. The service determination application 581 receives the set 575 of the terminal information analysis result and the processing terminal ID from the terminal control application 561, knows the movement amount of the terminal user from the value of the terminal information analysis result, and stores the content ( The health promotion menu suitable for the terminal user is determined in consideration of business knowledge and the information stored in the hard disk drive 535 of the service provider server. Then, the service determination application 581 passes the determined content and the processing terminal ID set 576 to the service providing application 582.

  When the service providing application 582 receives the service determination content and the processing terminal ID set 576, first, the processing terminal ID is transmitted to the terminal control application 561 in the terminal management server 520 (577 in FIG. 10), and the corresponding portable terminal Establishing communication channel with. The terminal control application 561 searches the user identification information table 564 based on the given processing terminal ID 577, obtains the IP address information of the corresponding portable terminal, and newly starts the communication mediation process 565. The communication mediation process 565 establishes a TCP / IP communication path with a partner specified by an IP address and a predetermined port number (a port number on which the terminal-side service application waits). Thereafter, the communication mediation process 565 continues the process of mediating TCP / IP communication data between the service providing application 582 and the terminal-side service Java application 553. As a result, the service providing application 582 can communicate with the terminal-side service Java application 553 via the communication mediation process 565, and the determined health promotion menu content 583 is transmitted to the terminal-side service application for execution, and the service for the terminal user Provision is made.

  The service provider can not only receive the context information from the mobile terminal 510 side but perform the service, but can also select the terminal from the service provider and provide the service. That is, referring to FIG. 11, the service determination application 581 transmits terminal selection logic necessary for determining a service to be executed to the terminal control application 561 as a terminal selection conditional expression 590. The terminal control application 561 transmits this conditional expression to the service specific analysis application 563, and the service specific analysis application 563 performs terminal selection according to the conditional expression and returns the result to the terminal control application 561. The subsequent steps are the same as those described above. As a result, the service provider side can independently select terminals and provide a service that is context-linked to them. Reference numerals 575 to 576 and 590 in FIG. 11 indicate information generated in each device or information transmitted from each device.

(Other embodiments)
When providing a service according to the usage status of a general consumer mobile terminal such as a smart phone or a mobile phone, the present invention can be applied to a purpose of constructing a terminal-server cooperation system for implementing the service. . The present invention also provides a network education system in which teachers provide guidance and advice to the mobile terminals of each student, and remote medical examinations by doctors and health institutions for mobile terminals with biosensors that are often held by elderly people and follow-up patients. It can also be applied to applications that provide network usage services in specific application fields, such as network medical systems that monitor health conditions. Furthermore, even when there are a plurality of network service cases having different service contents even in the same application field (for example, the education field), when the plurality of cases are collectively realized in the SaaS form on the cloud, this book The invention can be applied.

  Note that the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment, and can be changed as appropriate without departing from the spirit of the present invention.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Terminal device 11 General terminal application 12 Terminal sandbox 13 Terminal side service application 14 Terminal information collection part 15 Network I / F
16 Sensor group 17 Human I / F
20 Terminal Management Server 21 Terminal Control Unit 22 Terminal Information Analysis Unit 23 Network I / F
30 Service Provider Server 31 Service Logic Department 32 Network I / F
121 function addition control unit 122 device access control unit 123 network access control unit 141 primary processing unit 142 additional primary processing unit 143 primary information storage unit 144 primary information transmission unit 145 user identification information 211 primary information reception unit 212 user identification information management unit 213 Service analysis communication control unit 214 Communication path control unit 221 Secondary processing unit 222 Service specific analysis unit 223 Secondary information storage unit 224 Secondary information access control unit 311 Service analysis remote control unit 312 Service determination unit 313 Service provision unit 501 Internet 502 Wireless AP
509 Java application 510 portable terminal 511 CPU
512 Wireless LAN interface 513 GPS sensor 514 Acceleration sensor 515 Touch screen sensor 516 OS
517 Java VM
518 Flash ROM
519 Information recording card 520 Terminal management server 521 CPU
522 OS
523 Application 524 NIC
525 Hard Disk Drive 530 Service Provider Server 531 CPU
532 OS
533 Application 534 NIC
535 hard disk drive

Claims (7)

A terminal device;
A service provider server that provides the terminal device with a service corresponding to the behavior of the terminal device using information generated in the terminal device;
A terminal management server connected to the terminal device and the service provider server via a network,
The terminal device
A sensor device that collects at least one of a device state of the terminal device and an operation behavior of a user who operates the terminal device;
Information processing means for processing the information collected by the sensor device into a form used in the service provider server;
When a service to be provided to the terminal device is added in the service provider server, the information processing means is controlled so that the information collected by the sensor device is processed into a form used for the added service. And a function addition control means for
The terminal management server
Information analyzing means for analyzing the information processed in the information processing means;
Identification information management means for generating processed terminal identification information corresponding to the terminal identification information of the terminal device and transmitting it to the service provider server;
The service provider server transmits service data corresponding to a service provided to the terminal device and the processed terminal identification information of the terminal device providing the service to the terminal management server,
The terminal information utilization system, wherein the terminal management server transmits terminal identification information of the terminal device corresponding to the processed terminal identification information received from the service provider server and the service data to the terminal device. The function addition control means includes
When the service provided to the terminal device is added in the service provider server, the information processing is performed so that information in a form necessary for providing the added service is generated in the service provider server. The terminal information utilization system according to claim 1, wherein the processing content of information in the means is changed. The information analysis means includes
3. The processed information is analyzed so as to generate information necessary for the added service when a service to be provided to the terminal device is added in the service provider server. Terminal information utilization system. The service provider server is:
Terminal selection means for selecting the terminal apparatus that provides a service based on information analyzed by the information analysis means from among the plurality of terminal apparatuses;
The terminal according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein a service to be provided to the terminal device selected by the terminal selection unit is determined, and the determined service is provided to the terminal device. Information utilization system. The function addition control means includes
An additional function executed to generate new information used for the added service is received via the network, and the received additional function is installed in the information processing unit. 5. The terminal information utilization system according to any one of 4 above. The terminal management server
The amount of data transmitted to the service provider server is monitored, and a warning message is displayed or communication with the service provider server is interrupted when the amount of communication exceeds a predetermined reference value. The terminal information utilization system according to any one of claims 1 to 5, further comprising a communication control unit. A terminal device, a service provider server that provides the terminal device with a service corresponding to the behavior of the terminal device using information generated in the terminal device, the terminal device, the service provider server, and a network A terminal information utilization method in a terminal information utilization system comprising a terminal management server connected via
The terminal device
Collect at least one of the device state of the terminal device and the operation behavior of the user who operates the terminal device,
The collected information is processed into a form used in the service provider server, and when the service provided to the terminal device is added in the service provider server, the collected information is added. Processed into the form used for the service,
The terminal management server
Analyzing the processed information,
Generate processed terminal identification information corresponding to the terminal identification information of the terminal device,
Send the processed terminal identification information to the service provider server,
The service data corresponding to the service provided to the terminal device, transmitted from the service provider server, and the processed terminal identification information of the terminal device providing the service are received, and the processed terminal identification is received. A terminal information utilization method for transmitting terminal identification information of the terminal device corresponding to information and the service data to the terminal device.

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