JP2016224967A - Mobile terminal, access point related content acquisition method, and mobile terminal program - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a mobile terminal with content based on positional information.SOLUTION: An access point related content providing server 200 comprises a storage unit that has stored the IP address of a request source and the URL of content in association with each other, and is communicatively connected with a mobile terminal 10. The server receives the IP address of a radio access point or a router connected with the mobile terminal 10 from the mobile terminal 10, extracts the URL of content stored in association with the received IP address from the storage unit, and provides the extracted URL for the mobile terminal 10.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

Description

  The present invention relates to a mobile terminal that acquires or provides content based on position information, an access point related content acquisition method, and a mobile terminal program.

  In recent years, with the spread of high-function mobile terminals called smartphones and tablets, the number of opportunities for users to go out and use content while moving has increased explosively. In addition, content that users expect to view on the go is increasing.

  On the other hand, many users are currently browsing web content using search engines, and so-called pull-type content provision, in which users see what they want to see, has become the mainstream, and there is a problem that precious content does not reach the user. It has occurred.

  In response to such a problem, a recommendation system that makes a recommendation using a user attribute without causing the user to perform pre-registration work by using an acquired user face image is disclosed.

JP2013-73420A

  According to Patent Document 1, a mobile terminal acquires a user's face image, extracts a feature amount from the acquired user's face image, transmits the extracted feature amount to a recommendation server, and the recommendation server Receives feature quantities, stores at least a plurality of feature quantities, performs matching processing between the received feature quantities and the stored feature quantities, performs recommendations such as applications based on the matching results, and carries the recommendation results Send to the terminal. And the structure which a portable terminal receives a recommendation result from a recommendation server and displays the received recommendation result is disclosed.

  However, since the method described in Patent Document 1 can only make recommendations based on personal information such as faces, there remains a problem that it is not possible to make recommendations based on environmental information such as location and time zone. It was.

  In view of these demands, the present invention specifies the current location of the user from the IP address of the wireless LAN access point, and then provides the user with the URL of the content related to that location, thereby responding to the location information to the user. It is an object of the present invention to provide a mobile terminal capable of providing content, an access point related content acquisition method, and a mobile terminal program.

  The present invention provides the following solutions.

The invention according to the first aspect comprises an access point communication means for communicating with a wireless access point;
IP address acquisition means for acquiring an IP address of the wireless access point or a router to which the wireless access point is connected;
IP address transmitting means for transmitting the acquired IP address to a server;
URL receiving means for receiving, from the server, the URL of the content having the largest predetermined weight among the IP address transmitted or the content specified by the IP address;
Content acquisition means for acquiring content specified by the received URL;
Provided is a portable terminal characterized by comprising:

  According to the first aspect of the invention, the mobile terminal acquires an IP address of a wireless access point with which the mobile terminal communicates or a router to which the wireless access point is connected, and transmits the acquired IP address to a server. From the server, the URL of the content with the largest weighting is received from the transmitted IP address or the content specified by the IP address, and the content specified by the received URL is acquired.

  According to the present invention, after specifying the IP address of the wireless LAN access point, the mobile terminal that can provide the user with the content corresponding to the IP address by providing the user with the URL of the content related to the location, the access point It is possible to provide a related content acquisition method and a portable terminal program.

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an outline of an access point related content providing system 1. FIG. 2 is an overall configuration diagram of the access point related content providing system 1. FIG. 3 is a functional block diagram of the mobile terminal 10, the access point related content providing server 200, and the web server 300. FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing a procedure of access point related content providing processing executed by the mobile terminal 10, the access point related content providing server 200, and the web server 300. FIG. 5 is an example of a display unit of the mobile terminal 10 that displays received content. FIG. 6 is an example of a schematic diagram when the access point to which the mobile terminal 10 is connected is changed. FIG. 7 is an example of an access point related content table in the access point related content database 250. FIG. 8 is an example of a position related content table in the position related content database 251.

  Hereinafter, the best mode for carrying out the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. This is merely an example, and the technical scope of the present invention is not limited to this.

[Outline of Access Point Related Content Providing System 1]
FIG. 1 is a diagram for explaining the outline of an access point related content providing system 1 which is a preferred embodiment of the present invention. The access point related content providing system 1 includes a mobile terminal 10, an access point related content providing server 200, and a web server 300.

  In the access point related content providing system 1, the mobile terminal 10 first connects to the access point 20 in order to communicate with the public network (step S01). At the same time, the mobile terminal 10 acquires the IP address of the access point 20. The IP address here refers to a global IP address. When the access point 20 is a simple relay device and does not have a global IP address, the IP address of the router to which the access point 20 is connected is acquired.

  Next, the portable terminal 10 transmits the acquired IP address to the access point related content providing server 200 (step S02). Receiving the IP address, the access point related content providing server 200 extracts the URL of the content associated with the received IP address from the access point related content database 250 (step S03).

  Next, the access point related content providing server 200 transmits the extracted URL to the mobile terminal 10 (step S04). If there are a plurality of extracted URLs, the content with the highest weight may be selected by referring to the weights determined in advance for each content.

  The mobile terminal 10 that has received the URL transmits a request to the web server 300 based on the URL (step S05). The web server 300 transmits a web page, an image, a moving image, an application, etc. as a response to the portable terminal 10 (step S06). The content can be reproduced on the portable terminal 10 by executing or reproducing the data received by the application executed on the portable terminal 10 (step S07).

  Here, in principle, the access point related content providing server 200 only provides the URL of the content, not the content itself. This is because not only the content stored on the access point related content providing server 200 but also the information about the relationship between the location information and the content in another server is provided, so that the information that can be handled increases.

  As described above, it is possible to provide content related to the current position of the user only by connecting to the access point 20 without inputting any URL. 1 is an overview of an access point related content providing system 1.

[System configuration of access point related content providing system 1]
FIG. 2 is a system configuration diagram of an access point related content providing system 1 which is a preferred embodiment of the present invention. The access point related content providing system 1 includes a mobile terminal 10, an access point related content providing server 200, a web server 300, and a public network 3 (Internet network, third generation, fourth generation communication network, etc.). .

  The mobile terminal 10 is a home or business appliance that has functions to be described later, can perform data communication, and is used while being carried around. The mobile terminal 10 may be, for example, an information home appliance such as a smartphone, a tablet terminal, a netbook terminal, a slate terminal, an electronic book terminal, and a portable music player, in addition to a mobile phone and a mobile information terminal.

  The access point related content providing server 200 is a server that has the functions described later and provides a URL of content according to the IP address of the access point to which the mobile terminal 10 is connected.

  The web server 300 may be a general web server for providing web content to the mobile terminal 10.

[Description of each function]
The configuration of each device will be described with reference to FIG.

  The portable terminal 10 includes a CPU (Central Processing Unit), a RAM (Random Access Memory), a ROM (Read Only Memory), and the like as the control unit 11, and a device for enabling communication with other devices as the communication unit 12. For example, a device compatible with WiFi (Wireless Fidelity) compliant with IEEE 802.11 is provided.

  In the portable terminal 10, the control unit 11 reads a predetermined program, so that the access point communication module 13, IP address acquisition module 14, IP address transmission module 15, URL reception module 16, content cooperates with the communication unit 12. The acquisition module 17 is realized.

  Similar to the mobile terminal 10, the access point related content providing server 200 includes a CPU, RAM, ROM, and the like as the control unit 201, and as a communication unit 202, for example, a WiFi compatible device or a wired cable compliant with IEEE802.11. A device that realizes data communication with other electrical appliances and a wireless access point, such as a device that can be connected by the wireless access point. The access point related content providing server 200 includes a data storage unit such as a hard disk, a semiconductor memory, a recording medium, a memory card, or the like as the storage unit 203 for storing data and files. The storage unit 203 includes an access point related content database 250 and a location related content database 251.

  In the access point related content providing server 200, when the control unit 201 reads a predetermined program, the request source IP address receiving module 204, the access point related content providing module 205, the location information specifying module cooperates with the communication unit 202. 206 is realized. Further, in the access point related content providing server 200, the control unit 201 reads a predetermined program, thereby realizing the related content extraction module 207 and the neighborhood content extraction module 208 in cooperation with the storage unit 203.

  As with the mobile terminal 10, the web server 300 includes a CPU, RAM, ROM, and the like as the control unit 301, and can be connected as a communication unit 302 using, for example, a WiFi compatible device compliant with IEEE 802.11 or a wired cable. A device that realizes data communication with other electrical appliances and wireless access points.

  In the web server 300, the web content providing module 303 is realized in cooperation with the communication unit 302 by the control unit 301 reading a predetermined program.

[Access point related content provision processing]
FIG. 4 is a flowchart of an application installation process executed by the mobile terminal 10, the access point related content providing server 200, and the web server 300. The processing performed by the module of each device described above will be described together with this processing.

  First, the access point communication module 13 of the mobile terminal 10 starts communication with the access point (step S11). Here, the access point is used for communication by a device to connect to a public wireless network via wireless communication.

  Next, the IP address acquisition module 14 of the mobile terminal 10 acquires the IP address of the access point with which the mobile terminal 10 is communicating (step S12). Here, the IP address indicates not a private IP address but a global IP address. When the access point itself does not have a global IP address, the global IP address of the router to which the access point is connected is acquired.

  Next, the IP address transmission module 15 of the mobile terminal 10 transmits the acquired IP address to the access point related content providing server 200 (step S13). The request source IP address receiving module 204 of the access point related content providing server 200 receives this (step S14).

  The location information specifying module 206 of the access point related content providing server 200 specifies the current location of the mobile terminal 10 from the received IP address (step S15).

  Next, the related content extraction module 207 of the access point related content providing server 200 extracts the URL of the content stored in association with the received IP address from the access point related content database 250 (step S16).

  FIG. 7 is an example of an access point related content table in the access point related content database 250. In the access point related content table, the IP address of the access point, the content name, the URL of the content, and the weight of the content are stored in association with each other.

  Further, regarding the IP address, the IP address may be expressed as a pattern by using “%” representing a plurality of arbitrary numbers such as “200.168.9.1%”. For example, “20.168.9.1%” corresponds to “20.168.9.11”, “200.168.151”, and “200.168.9.1”. When a plurality of contents are extracted in the extraction of the related contents, contents with the highest weight may be extracted with reference to weighting, or contents with the highest degree of matching by pattern may be extracted.

  Further, the neighboring content extraction module 208 of the access point related content providing server 200 extracts the content associated with the position information within a predetermined range from the position related content database 251 with reference to the specified position information (step). S16).

  FIG. 8 is an example of a position related content table in the position related content database 251. In the position-related content table, position information, content URL, and content weight are stored in association with each other. Here, the position information is represented by latitude and longitude, but may be indicated by a place name, a building name, or an identifier thereof.

  The neighborhood content extraction module 208 extracts location information within a predetermined range based on the specified location information, and extracts associated content from the location related content table. In addition, when a plurality of contents are extracted, the weight with the largest weight may be extracted with reference to the weight, or the content with the smallest distance from the reference position information may be extracted.

  The access point related content providing module 205 of the access point related content providing server 200 transmits the URL of the extracted content to the mobile terminal 10 (step S17).

  When the URL receiving module 16 of the mobile terminal 10 receives the URL of the content (step S18), the content acquisition module 17 transmits a request for the content to the web server 300 designated as the access destination by the URL (step S19).

  When the web content provision module 303 of the web server 300 requests a request (step S20), it transmits a web page, an image, a moving image, streaming distribution, etc. corresponding to the request as a response (step S21), and the content acquisition module of the mobile terminal 10 17 receives this (step S22). The mobile terminal 10 may reproduce, execute, etc. the received content. When the received content is an application, installation or the like may be performed automatically.

  FIG. 5 is an example of a display unit of the mobile terminal 10 that displays received content. In FIG. 5, the acquired URL is displayed in the address bar 51, and the received content is displayed in the window 52. In addition, a wireless communication icon 53 is displayed, indicating that the mobile terminal 10 is connected to any access point.

  FIG. 6 is an example of a schematic diagram when the access point to which the mobile terminal 10 is connected is changed. In FIG. 6, IP addresses 61 and 62 are assigned to the access points 20A and 20B, respectively, and are installed in buildings 63 and 64, respectively.

  Here, when the mobile terminal 10 first connects to the access point 20A, the content 65 related to the IP address 61 is received from the access point related content providing server 200 and displayed. Thereafter, when the mobile terminal 10 moves along the route 67 and connects to the access point 20B, the content 66 corresponding to the IP address 62 is received and displayed. These series of processes may be constantly monitored by an application resident on the mobile terminal 10.

  The processing procedure of the access point related content providing process executed by the mobile terminal 10, the access point related content providing server 200, and the web server 300 has been described above.

  The means and functions described above are realized by a computer (including a CPU, an information processing apparatus, and various terminals) reading and executing a predetermined program. The program is provided in a form recorded on a computer-readable recording medium such as a flexible disk, CD (CD-ROM, etc.), DVD (DVD-ROM, DVD-RAM, etc.), for example. In this case, the computer reads the program from the recording medium, transfers it to the internal storage device or the external storage device, stores it, and executes it. The program may be recorded in advance in a storage device (recording medium) such as a magnetic disk, an optical disk, or a magneto-optical disk, and provided from the storage device to a computer via a communication line.

  As mentioned above, although embodiment of this invention was described, this invention is not limited to these embodiment mentioned above. The effects described in the embodiments of the present invention are only the most preferable effects resulting from the present invention, and the effects of the present invention are limited to those described in the embodiments of the present invention. is not.

  1 access point related content providing system, 10 portable terminal, 200 access point related content providing server, 250 content location database, 300 web server

Claims (3)

An access point communication means for communicating with a wireless access point;
IP address acquisition means for acquiring an IP address of the wireless access point or a router to which the wireless access point is connected;
IP address transmitting means for transmitting the acquired IP address to a server;
URL receiving means for receiving, from the server, the URL of the content having the largest predetermined weight among the IP address transmitted or the content specified by the IP address;
Content acquisition means for acquiring content specified by the received URL;
A portable terminal characterized by comprising. Communicating with a wireless access point;
Obtaining an IP address of the wireless access point or a router to which the wireless access point is connected;
Transmitting the acquired IP address to a server;
Receiving, from the server, the URL of the content with the largest predetermined weight among the IP address transmitted or the content specified by the IP address;
Obtaining content specified by the received URL;
An access point related content acquisition method comprising: On your mobile device,
Communicating with a wireless access point;
Obtaining an IP address of the wireless access point or a router to which the wireless access point is connected;
Transmitting the acquired IP address to a server;
Receiving from the server the URL of the content with the largest predetermined weight among the IP address transmitted or the content specified by the IP address;
Obtaining content specified by the received URL;
A program for a mobile terminal, characterized in that