KR100451196B1 - Method for local information service - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to an additional service of a mobile communication terminal, and more particularly, to a local information service method that is suitable for providing information of a region where a terminal is located with a picture. Conventional information service has a problem that it is difficult to provide efficient information due to the limitation of the expression of the character because it provides only the character information even if the random distribution of the character information irrespective of the region or the provision of local information. In view of the above problems, the present invention includes the steps of checking the position of the cell according to the movement of the mobile communication terminal having a download fun function; Providing information on a corresponding mobile communication terminal to an MMS and a DLF server by a base station of the cell; The MMS and Down Load Fun (DLF) server checks the information of the corresponding cell and transmits information including an image to the corresponding mobile communication terminal; The terminal can recognize the information provided by the user through the browser that supports the download fun function and display the information through a browser that supports the download fun function, so that the user can efficiently recognize the information provided. This has the effect of increasing the availability of users' information.

Description

Local service method {METHOD FOR LOCAL INFORMATION SERVICE}

The present invention relates to an additional service of a mobile communication terminal, and more particularly, to a local information service method that is suitable for providing information of a region where a terminal is located with a picture.

As the use of mobile communication terminals increases, various marketing aiming at mobile communication terminal users is actively progressed, and one of them is to send advertisements using text messages to users.

The basic method of transmitting an appropriate text message to any of the users of the mobile communication terminal is the random text message transmission method shown in FIG.

At present, the most widely used method is to randomly calculate a phone number of a mobile communication terminal to transmit a text message, and to allow a user to confirm it. However, due to the limitation of text messages, there is a lack of understanding of the corresponding information, and it is often erased without confirmation due to overuse of unnecessary messages.

In addition, since the ads are randomized, the efficiency is also reduced, and most of the advertisements are for online services such as toll service rather than physical service.

In order to improve the random message transmission to create more specific demands, a text information service according to a region has been introduced. Character information service according to the region has an advantage that can provide information about the offline. This will be described with reference to FIG. 2.

2 illustrates an example of a conventional local text information service. When a terminal user moves between cells, the cell base station in the moving direction registers the location of the terminal. The location of the registered terminal is transmitted along with the telephone number of the terminal to a text message service (SMS) server. The text message server SMS determines whether there is provision information for a cell located in the terminal among pre-input local text information. If there is no corresponding information, there will be no information on the corresponding terminal.

If local information about the cell to which the terminal has moved exists in the text message service server, the text message service server transmits text information stored in the terminal. The terminal user checks the message according to the reception tone. Therefore, since the information of the received message is information where the user is physically located, the possibility of utilizing the information is greatly increased.

The information may be public information, such as cultural assets, tourist attractions, or local events in the area, or may be advertisements of companies existing in the area. However, in this case, the utilization of the information is reduced because of the limitation of the representation of the character. For example, even in a restaurant advertisement adjacent to a user terminal, it is difficult to find a restaurant in a location described by text and the user is likely to give up. In addition, the advertising effect is weak because the possibility of doubting the content described in the text is very high.

In addition to the above methods, a method of binding and transmitting text information to confirm it through a browser is also currently known, but does not overcome the inherent limitations of text information.

As described above, the conventional information service has a problem in that it is difficult to provide efficient information due to the limitation of the expression of characters because only the character information is provided even if the random information is distributed regardless of the region or the area information is provided.

It is an object of the present invention to provide a local information service method capable of maximizing information efficiency by transmitting local information including a picture to a terminal of a corresponding region.

1 is a flowchart of a conventional text advertisement providing method.

2 is a flowchart of a conventional local information service.

3 is a flowchart illustrating a method for providing local information service of the present invention.

The present invention for achieving the above object comprises the steps of identifying the location of the cell according to the movement of the mobile communication terminal having a download fun function; Providing, by the base station of the cell, information on the mobile communication terminal to an MMS and a DownLoad Fun (DLF) server; The MMS and the DLF server checking the information of the corresponding cell and transmitting information including an image to the corresponding mobile communication terminal; The terminal may include receiving the download fun data including the image and displaying the image inclusion information received through a browser supporting the download fun function.

Currently, various communication functions have been added to mobile terminals, and wireless Internet functions including data communication functions have become commonplace. The wireless Internet function has been developed to the extent that various text information and picture information can be received according to the improvement of the browser used, and the type of information that can be represented as the display device of the terminal is advanced is also information including multimedia. It is becoming diverse.

The browser of the terminal has a function of receiving a picture as its version is improved. In Up Browser version 4.1.25 and above, in particular, image information can be downloaded using a wallpaper defined for downloading images from MMC objects. However, this occurs when a user connects to the wireless Internet and searches for desired information, and is not automatically used.

In the present invention, OpenWave's DownloadLoad Fun (DLF) function is used. Since the terminal with the download fun function can download multimedia information including an image, a basic requirement for providing image information to the terminal with such a function is prepared. The download fun function must be used with a browser capable of using this function, and an up browser supports the download fun. The download fun function is to receive data using an MMC object provided by the up browser, and to display data after reception.

Therefore, it should be noted that the terminal used in the present invention is a terminal having a browser supporting the download fun function.

According to the present invention, when a mobile user terminal enters a predetermined cell radius, local information about a corresponding cell is transmitted to a user including a picture, which will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

3 is a flowchart of one embodiment of the present invention, showing a basic embodiment.

First, when a terminal user moves a cell, registering location information of the terminal at a base station of the moved cell; Providing related information such as the registered base station information and the telephone number of the terminal to a multimedia messaging service server and a DLF server; Checking whether there is region information in the cell by the MMS server and ending if there is no; If the cell has regional information, receiving the browser local information including a picture from a DLF server and transmitting the corresponding information to the terminal; The terminal receives the browser information using the DLF function and displays the same.

The steps described above will be described in more detail.

Since the terminal continuously communicates with the base station of the cell to which the mobile station moves out of the cell to a new cell, the mobile base station can recognize this. Therefore, the base station of the cell can obtain the information of the terminal that moved the cell.

The registered base station information and related information, such as the telephone number of the terminal, are provided to the MLF server which transmits a common message to a plurality of users and manages the transmission and the DLF server which holds the data for download fun. The MMS server and the DLF server may be a single server or separate servers.

The MMS server checks whether there is local information in the cell, and if there is no transmission content, nothing is transmitted to the terminal. If there is local information corresponding to the cell, it is determined whether the information has been transmitted to the terminal within a predetermined time. If the information has been transmitted, no retransmission is performed. If the information has not been transmitted or a predetermined time has elapsed, the information is transmitted to the terminal. Download local information from the DLF server to provide. In other words, the same information is not retransmitted to the same terminal within a predetermined time.

The DLF server has information including a picture that can be received by a browser supporting the download fun function.

The information downloaded from the DLF server is transmitted to the terminal by using a multimedia message service (MMS), which is a batch transmission of multimedia messages to a plurality of users, and is currently used for batch transmission of text, voice or fax. It is a service that is. However, in the present invention, the data transmitted to the MMS is data used in the download fun, and includes text and pictures therein. If the download fun function is improved and the browser function is improved, data combining sound, video, and text may also be transmitted.

The terminal having the download fun function receives the data and receives and displays information including image data through the up browser. In this case, if the version of the up-browser is 4.1.26L or more, the user may receive the data so that the user cannot recognize it. This function is called a silent mode and is transparent to the user. This is one of the key features of the up browser, the provisioning function, which records the preparation data dynamically and transparently and can read and write objects (MMC objects) allowed by MMC commands. The contents of writing / reading defined MMC objects are the part that developers should implement during the design stage.

Information received through the above function is displayed on the basic screen of the terminal, it may be retrieved through a browser.

If the local information including the picture as the present invention is provided to the user, the user can more efficiently recognize the content to be displayed. For example, restaurants, tours, and shops can be described with pictures, along with directions and coupons.

In addition, if user information is known in advance, it is also possible to provide customized information according to taste.

As described above, the present invention enables the user to provide local information together with the picture to the user terminal by using a download fun function that can receive information including a picture without a user connection. Because it can be confirmed by the information provided can be efficiently recognized, thereby increasing the user's availability of information.

Claims (4)

Identifying a location of a corresponding cell according to a movement of a mobile communication terminal having a download fun function; Providing, by the base station of the cell, information on the mobile communication terminal to an MMS and a DownLoad Fun (DLF) server; The MMS and the DLF server checking the information of the corresponding cell and transmitting information including an image to the corresponding mobile communication terminal; And the terminal receiving the download fun data including the image and displaying the image containing information received through a browser supporting the download fun function. The method of claim 1, wherein the MMS downloads the DLF information stored in the DLF server and transmits it to all terminals first entering the corresponding cell. The method of claim 1, wherein the MMS transmits only customized information by referring to information about a user of the mobile terminal first entering a corresponding cell. The method of claim 1, wherein the MMS does not retransmit the same information to the same terminal within a predetermined time.