KR100700628B1 - Method for providing and obtaining information of an object - Google Patents

Abstract

A method for obtaining and providing object information is provided to enable a mobile terminal user to easily obtain the information for a desired object, and enable a website manager to conveniently check the users wanting to know goods information and legally offer the goods information to the users. The mobile terminal generates multimedia data by receiving an image of the desired object and a query message(S202). Basic information provided from the mobile terminal is obtained(S203). The multimedia data and the basic information are transmitted to a mash-up server(S204). A mash-up service message including the detail information of the desired object and website connection information to obtain the information for the desired object is received from an information providing terminal(S209).

Description

Method for providing information and obtaining information about the object {Method for providing and obtaining information of an object}

1 is a block diagram schematically showing the overall mashup service system configuration according to the present invention;

2 is a flowchart of a mashup service in a mashup service system according to the present invention;

3 is a flowchart illustrating a method of obtaining information in a mobile communication terminal according to the present invention;

4 is an exemplary view for explaining a method of obtaining information in a mobile communication terminal according to the present invention;

5A and 5B are flowcharts illustrating an information providing method of an information providing terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention;

6 and 7 are exemplary diagrams for explaining the brief information displayed in the information providing terminal according to the present invention;

8 is an exemplary view for explaining mashup content displayed in the information providing terminal according to the present invention.

The present invention relates to an information obtaining method and an information providing method relating to an object executed in an information providing terminal connected to a mobile communication terminal and an Internet web site.

Until recently, a mobile communication terminal was only a communication device that provided only a communication service such as a telephone call or a text / voice transmission. Recently, however, mobile communication terminals have been developed to provide various entertainment functions such as game / video download, internet search function and camera, radio, and TV broadcasting in addition to communication functions. Meanwhile, with the development of the Internet in recent years, various information providing terminals connected to Internet portal sites such as Naver, Daum, Empas, web sites such as blogs, personal homepages, and shopping mall sites such as auctions are increasing. These mobile communication terminals and information providing terminals are exploring ways to allow users to use more terminals while sharing various services.

On the other hand, an Internet shopping mall site operator or an advertising site operator may send a message via e-mail, short message (SMS) or multimedia message (MMS) to the website to inform more people about the product. It is not transmitting to the mobile terminal. However, these messages are regarded as illegal spam mails and are easy to delete. Furthermore, sites that send mail promoting products that the user is not interested in are essentially blocked. Accordingly, Internet shopping mall site operators or advertisement site operators are in need of a technology capable of quickly grasping what information a mobile terminal user really wants to know and providing the information to the mobile terminal legally.

The present invention has been proposed in the above background, and an object of the present invention is to provide a technology that enables a mobile communication terminal user to easily obtain information about an object that the user wants to know.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a technology that enables a web site administrator who wants e-commerce to easily identify users who want to know the product information, and legally provide the product information to the users.

According to an aspect of the present invention, a mobile communication terminal generates multimedia data by receiving an image and a query message of an object to obtain information, collects basic information provided by the terminal, It is equipped with a mashup application that sends basic information to the mashup server. Such a mashup application may be integrally mounted on the mobile communication terminal when the terminal is manufactured or downloaded and mounted on the mobile communication terminal from the information providing terminal. Here, the mashup server receives the multimedia data and basic information from the mobile communication terminal to generate the mashup content.

According to this aspect, a mobile terminal user may discover unusual objects, for example, watches, bags, clothes or cars, jewelry, MP3s, cameras, etc., which are found while traveling in various areas. If you want to know the information, it is possible to obtain information about the objects by simply operating the mashup application mounted on the terminal and then photographing the object with a camera provided in the terminal and inputting a query message.

An information providing terminal according to another aspect of the present invention accesses a mashup server, downloads and stores mashup contents generated and stored in a mashup server, displays brief information on mashup contents on a screen, and any one of the displayed brief information If selected, the mashup content corresponding to the selected brief information is displayed on the screen. In addition, the information providing terminal receives a comment from the user and transmits it to the mashup server, receives the detailed information about the object and the identification number of the mobile communication terminal to receive the message, generates a mashup service message and transmits it to the message providing server. . Here, the mashup service message transmitted from the information providing terminal to the mobile communication terminal should be interpreted as following the e-mail or short message service (SMS) or multimedia message service (MMS) format.

According to this aspect, for example, a web site manager who wants to use electronic commerce can easily identify users who want to know the product information, and can also legally provide the product information to the corresponding users. Meanwhile, the web site administrator may use the mashup service message as a means of communication between members of the community site, thereby increasing the number of web site visits of members and further encouraging new member registration.

The foregoing and further aspects of the present invention will become apparent from the following examples. Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings so that those skilled in the art can easily understand and reproduce the present invention. In addition, terms to be described below are terms defined in consideration of functions in the present invention, which may vary according to intention or custom of a user or an operator. Therefore, the definition should be made based on the contents throughout the specification.

1 is a block diagram schematically showing the overall mashup service system configuration according to the present invention.

As shown, the overall mashup service system according to the present invention includes a mobile communication terminal 110, a mashup server 120, an information providing terminal 130, a message providing server 140 and a web site 150.

 The mobile communication terminal 110 is capable of wireless communication with a camera function that is currently well known, and furthermore, it is preferable that data communication is possible with a removable flash memory card such as a multimedia card. Meanwhile, the mobile communication terminal 110 and the information providing terminal 130 are connected through wired and wireless internet networks.

Although not shown in FIG. 1, the mobile communication terminal 110 transmits a voice signal to a wireless communication unit or a communication unit including wired communication such as a LAN card and a network adapter to extract voice and data signals from a wireless signal transmitted and received through an antenna. And a voice processing unit for inputting and outputting a voice, a control unit for receiving user operation commands and data, a display unit for displaying menus and operating states, a memory and a control unit for storing main programs and temporary data.

According to a characteristic aspect of the present invention, the mobile communication terminal 110 receives an image and a query message of an object to obtain information, generates multimedia data, collects basic information provided by the terminal, and provides multimedia data and basic information. The mashup application for transmitting the mashup server is mounted. The mashup application may be integrally mounted on the mobile communication terminal when the terminal is manufactured or downloaded and mounted on the mobile communication terminal from the information providing terminal 130.

The mashup server 120 receives multimedia data and basic information from the mobile communication terminal and generates mashup content. The mashup server 120 is a server linked to the wired / wireless internet network. When the mashup server 120 receives the multimedia data transmitted from the mobile communication terminal 110 and the basic information provided by the mobile communication terminal 110, the mashup server 120 is based on the basic information in the multimedia data. It is implemented to generate mashup content by tagging and to transmit the generated mashup content to the information providing terminal 130. In general, tagging means processing a keyword (or tag value) that can represent an image or text. For example, when the terminal location information included in the basic information is a location value corresponding to a meteor ball in Daejeon, the mashup server 120 may be implemented to give a tag value of 'the meteor ball in Daejeon' to the multimedia data. The mashup server 120 transmits the generated mashup content to the information providing terminal 130. Therefore, the user of the information providing terminal 130 may check the corresponding mashup content by using the Yuseong-gu in Daejeon as a search word.

In one embodiment, the mashup server 120 is implemented to generate mashup content according to the RSS data format, and may be implemented to comply with RSS transmission protocol. Here, RSS is an abbreviation such as Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary and is an XML-based standard communication format. The initial development of RSS has been done by Netscape, up to version 0.9 of RSS, and now RSS-DEV Working Group's RSS 1.0 and UserLand's RSS 2.0 are competing to adopt industry standards.

The information providing terminal 130 is provided with a communication device such as a LAN card or a modem for communication with a display as a keypad, a touch panel, a voice recognition device or a keyboard and an output device as a conventional CPU, memory, and input device. In addition, the information providing terminal 130 may be implemented as an operating system and a pointing device capable of supporting a graphical user interface, for example, a device supporting a mouse. The information providing terminal 130 of the present invention may access the mashup server 120 and automatically download mashup content from the mashup server 120.

The information providing terminal 130 accesses the mashup server 120, downloads and stores mashup contents generated and stored in the mashup server 120, displays brief information on the mashup contents on the screen, and displays any of the displayed brief information. If one is selected, the mashup content corresponding to the selected brief information is displayed on the screen. In addition, the information providing terminal 130 receives a comment from the user and transmits it to the mashup server, receives the detailed information about the object and the identification number of the mobile communication terminal to receive the message to generate a mashup service message and the message providing server Transmit to 140.

The message providing server 140 is an apparatus for exchanging messages between the information providing terminal 130 and the mobile communication terminal 110, and is an e-mail service server, a short message service server, and a multimedia data service server that are already widely used. It should be interpreted to include.

The web site 150 is a collection of information stored in various web servers so that users can provide the information whenever they need it on the Internet. The web site user accesses a web server through the Internet through his communication terminal and then enters a specific web site to retrieve information.

2 is a flowchart of a mashup service in a mashup service system according to the present invention.

As shown, the mashup service system according to the present invention receives the image and the query message of the object to obtain the information to generate the multimedia data, collect the basic information provided by the terminal, mashup the multimedia data and the basic information The mobile communication terminal 110 to which the mashup application to be transmitted to the server is mounted, the mashup server 120 which receives the multimedia data and basic information from the mobile communication terminal and generates the mashup content, and the mashup server 120 is connected to the mashup server 120. Download and display the mashup content generated and stored in the server 120 on the screen, receives a comment from the user and transmits it to the mashup server 120, the identification number of the mobile communication terminal to receive the detailed information and the message about the object Create a mashup service message by receiving it and provide it It includes the information providing terminal 130 transmitted to the server 140.

First, the mobile communication terminal 110 drives a mashup application mounted in the terminal according to a user's operation (S201), and generates multimedia data including an image of an object that the user wants to know and a query message input by the user (S202). ). Thereafter, the mobile communication terminal 110 collects basic information provided by the terminal (S203). Here, the basic information provided by the mobile communication terminal 110 includes at least terminal identification information, current time and terminal location information. Thereafter, the mobile communication terminal 110 transmits the multimedia data and the basic information to the mashup server 120 (S204).

When the multimedia data and the basic information are input from the mobile communication terminal 110, the mashup server 120 generates a mashup content by tagging the multimedia data based on the basic information (S205). Thereafter, the mashup server 120 transmits the mashup content to the information providing terminal 130 (S206).

The information providing terminal 130 accesses the mashup server 120 and downloads and displays the mashup contents generated and stored in the mashup server 120 on the screen (S207), and receives a detailed information about the object and a message. Generates a mashup service message by receiving the identification number of (S208). Thereafter, the information providing terminal 130 transmits the mashup service message to the mobile communication terminal (S209). Although not shown in Figure 2, the information providing terminal 130 of the present invention may receive a comment from the user and transmit it to the mashup server 120.

3 is a flowchart illustrating an object obtaining method in a mobile communication terminal according to the present invention, and FIG. 4 is an exemplary view for explaining an object obtaining method in a mobile communication terminal according to the present invention. Hereinafter, an object obtaining method in a mobile communication terminal will be described with reference to FIGS. 3 and 4.

First, referring to FIG. 3, the mobile communication terminal drives a mashup application according to a user's operation command (S301). At this time, the mashup application is a map (41) and weather information (43) of the area where the current terminal is located on the screen window of the mobile communication terminal as shown in Figure I and '1. Content creation, 2. GPS value refresh '. When the user selects and inputs '1' (content creation), the mobile communication terminal displays a screen prompting the user to input an image 45 and an inquiry message 47 of an object to obtain information as shown in II of FIG. . Referring back to FIG. 3, when an image of an object and a query message are input according to a user manipulation, the mobile communication terminal generates multimedia data including the same (S302). Here, the image of the object may be photographed using a camera mounted on the mobile communication terminal.

Referring back to III of FIG. 4, the mobile communication terminal displays a screen prompting the user to input community site selection information for uploading the multimedia data generated in operation S302. Referring to FIG. 3 again, the mobile communication terminal receives input of community site selection information for uploading multimedia data (S303). Thereafter, the mobile communication terminal collects basic information provided by the terminal (S304). Here, the basic information provided by the terminal includes terminal identification information, current time and terminal location information. Thereafter, the terminal transmits the generated multimedia data, basic information, and community site selection information to the mashup server (S305).

Here, when the multimedia data and the basic information are input from the mobile communication terminal, the mashup server generates a mashup content by tagging the multimedia data based on the basic information and transmits the mashup content to the information providing terminal. The information providing terminal accesses the mashup server, downloads and displays the mashup contents generated and stored in the mashup server, displays them on the screen, receives the detailed information about the object and the identification number of the mobile communication terminal to receive the message, and generates a mashup service message. This is transmitted to the mobile communication terminal. In this specification, a mashup service message transmitted from an information providing terminal to a mobile communication terminal should be interpreted as following an e-mail or short message service (SMS) or multimedia message service (MMS) format.

The mobile communication terminal receives the mashup service message transmitted from the information providing terminal (S306) and displays it on the screen. In one embodiment, the mashup service message transmitted from the information providing terminal may include web site access information for obtaining detailed information of the object and information about the object. Thereafter, the mobile communication terminal accesses the web site using the web site access information according to a user operation command (S307).

5A and 5B are flowcharts illustrating an information providing method performed by an information providing terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

First, referring to FIG. 5A, the information providing terminal accesses a mashup server (S501) and downloads and stores new mashup contents. Thereafter, the information providing terminal receives the mashup content display method information according to the user operation command (S502). In one embodiment, the mashup content display method may be implemented in various ways, such as a map view, a text view, and the like.

Thereafter, the information providing terminal displays brief information on the mashup contents on the screen (S503). Here, the brief information on the mashup content means some content included in the mashup content. In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the information providing terminal may be implemented to display brief information on the mashup contents on the screen according to the mashup content display method information input according to a user operation command.

According to an embodiment, when the mashup content display method information is a map view method, the information providing terminal may display the mashup content generation locations on the map by using terminal location information included in the basic information of the mashup content. . In another embodiment, the information providing terminal may be implemented such that a query message or a comment of the mashup content is displayed on the screen when the mashup content display method information is a text viewing method.

Thereafter, when any one of the pieces of brief information displayed on the screen is selected and input (S504), the information providing terminal displays the mashup content corresponding to the selected piece of brief information on the screen (S505). In one embodiment, the mashup content displayed on the screen includes an image of an object, a query message, a comment, a comment input window, and a 'send message' function menu.

Thereafter, the information providing terminal receives the detailed information on the object of the mashup content displayed on the screen and an identification number of the mobile communication terminal to receive the message, and generates a mashup service message (S506). Thereafter, the information providing terminal transmits the generated mashup service message to the mobile communication terminal using the message providing server (S507).

Hereinafter, referring to FIG. 5B, the information providing steps S511 to S515 performed by the information providing terminal in the present embodiment are the same as the information providing steps S501 to S505 performed to the information providing terminal in the embodiment of FIG. 5A. It will be omitted. In the present embodiment, the information providing terminal receives a comment on the mashup content displayed on the screen (S516) and transmits it to the mashup server (S517).

6 and 7 are exemplary diagrams for explaining the brief information displayed in the information providing terminal according to the present invention.

First, referring to FIG. 6, the information providing terminal may display, on the screen, a map 60 including a location where the mashup content is generated and brief information including display information 61 indicating the mashup content generation location. In addition, referring to FIG. 7, the information providing terminal may display a comment input window 71 included in the mashup content, a comment A written in a mobile phone, and a comment B written in a web site. 6 and 7, the present invention is divided and displayed, but the present invention is not limited thereto, and the display information 61 and the comment input window 71 indicating the location of the map 60 and the mashup content are created in the mobile phone. You can display both comments (A) and comments (B) written on the website on one screen.

8 is an exemplary view for explaining mashup content displayed in the information providing terminal according to the present invention.

As illustrated, when any one of the pieces of brief information displayed on the screen is selected and input according to a user's manipulation, the information providing terminal displays the mashup content corresponding to the selected piece of brief information on the screen. In one embodiment, the mashup content displayed on the screen includes an image of an object, a query message, a comment, a comment input window, and a 'send message' function menu. In this case, when the information providing terminal transmits a message according to a user's operation command is selected and inputted, a picture of the object, a detailed information input window, information of the recipient of the message and information of the sender, and 'send' and 'rewrite' Display the function menu on the screen. Accordingly, the information providing terminal user may leave a comment in the comment input window or may compose and send a message including detailed information of the object to the mobile communication terminal that has requested the creation of mashup content.

As described above, according to the present invention, a mobile communication terminal user discovers unusual objects, for example, watches, bags, clothes or cars, jewelry, MP3s, cameras, etc., which are found while traveling in various regions. If you want to know the information on the field, run the mashup application mounted on the terminal and then useful information to obtain information about the object with a simple operation of shooting the object with a camera equipped with the terminal and inputting a query message have.

In addition, according to the present invention, for example, a web site administrator who wants an electronic commerce can easily identify users who want to know the product information, and furthermore, there is a useful effect of legally providing the product information to the corresponding users.

In addition, according to the present invention, by using the mashup service message as a means of communication between members of the community site, the web site administrator can increase the number of visits to the web site of members, and furthermore, it is useful to induce new members.

Although the present invention has been described with reference to the accompanying drawings, it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that many various obvious modifications are possible without departing from the scope of the invention from this description. Therefore, it should be interpreted by the claims described to include many such variations.

Claims (13)

In the method for obtaining information using a mashup service system in a mobile communication terminal, The mashup service system receives mashup content from a mashup server and a mashup server that receives multimedia data and basic information from a mobile communication terminal and generates mashup content, displays the mashup content on a screen, and generates a mashup service message for the mashup content according to a user operation. Including a information providing terminal for transmitting to the mobile communication terminal, The information obtaining method executed in the mobile communication terminal is: Generating multimedia data by receiving an image and a query message of an object to obtain information; Collecting basic information provided by the terminal; Transmitting the multimedia data and basic information to a mashup server; And Receiving a mashup service message including detailed information of an object from the information providing terminal; Information acquisition method is executed in the mobile communication terminal comprising a. The method of claim 1, wherein in the step of receiving a mashup service message including detailed information of an object from the information providing terminal, The mashup service message further includes a web site access information for obtaining information on an object. The method of claim 2, wherein the information obtaining method executed in the mobile communication terminal comprises: Accessing a corresponding web site using the web site access information according to a user manipulation command; Information acquisition method is executed in the mobile communication terminal further comprising. The method of claim 1, wherein the information obtaining method executed in the mobile communication terminal comprises: And receiving input of community site selection information for uploading the generated multimedia data. Transmitting the multimedia data and basic information to a mashup server; And transmitting the multimedia data, basic information, and community site selection information to a mashup server. The method of claim 1, wherein in the step of collecting basic information provided by the terminal, And the basic information includes terminal identification information, current time and terminal location information. In the method for providing information using a mashup service system in the information providing terminal, The mashup service system receives mashup content from a mashup server and a mashup server that receives multimedia data and basic information from a mobile communication terminal and generates mashup content, displays the mashup content on a screen, and generates a mashup service message for the mashup content according to a user operation. Including a information providing terminal for transmitting to the mobile communication terminal, The multimedia data transmitted from the mobile communication terminal includes an image and a query message of an object to obtain information, and the basic information includes terminal identification information, current time and terminal location information. The information providing method executed in the information providing terminal has: Accessing the mashup server and downloading and storing new mashup contents; Displaying brief information on the mashup contents on a screen; Displaying mashup content corresponding to the selected summary information on a screen when any one of the displayed summary information is selected; Generating a mashup service message by receiving detailed information about an object of mashup content displayed on the screen and an identification number of a mobile communication terminal to receive a message; And Transmitting the generated mashup service message to a mobile communication terminal using a message providing server; Information providing method executed in the information providing terminal comprising a. The method of claim 6, wherein the information providing method executed in the information providing terminal comprises: Receiving a comment on the mashup content displayed on the screen and transmitting the comment to the mashup server; Information providing method executed in the information providing terminal, characterized in that it further comprises. The method of claim 6, wherein the information providing method executed in the information providing terminal comprises: The method may further include receiving mashup content display method information. Displaying brief information about the mashup content on the screen, And displaying brief information on the mashup contents on the screen according to the mashup contents display method information. The method of claim 6, wherein when any one of the displayed brief information is selected, displaying the mashup content corresponding to the selected short information on the screen; The mashup content displayed on the screen includes an image of an object, a query message, a comment, a comment input window, and a 'sending message' function menu. The method of claim 8 or 9, wherein in the step of receiving the mashup content display method information, The mashup content display method information is a map view method, In the step of displaying brief information on the mashup content on the screen according to the mashup content display method information, When the mashup content display method information is a map view method, information provided by the information providing terminal is displayed on the map using the terminal location information included in the basic information of the mashup content. Way. The method of claim 8 or 9, wherein in the step of receiving the mashup content display method information, the mashup content display method information is a text viewing method. In the step of displaying brief information on the mashup content on the screen according to the mashup content display method information, When the mashup content display method information is a text viewing method, the information providing method executed in the information providing terminal, characterized in that to display a query message or a comment of the mashup content on the screen. The method of claim 8 or 9, wherein in the step of receiving the mashup content display method information, the mashup content display method information is a text and a map view method, In the step of displaying brief information on the mashup content on the screen according to the mashup content display method information, When the mashup content display method information is a text and a map viewing method, the location of the mashup content generation and a query message or comment of the mashup content are displayed on a screen using the terminal location information included in the basic information of the mashup content. Information providing method executed in the information providing terminal, characterized in that. The method of claim 6, wherein generating the mashup service message, And generating a mashup service message by additionally receiving web site access information for obtaining information.

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