KR100774841B1 - System for providing load guide service by using roaming service and method for providing the same - Google Patents

Abstract

A system and a method for providing an overseas road guidance service using a roaming service are provided to provide a location and road guidance information to a user who travels or is on a business trip to a foreign country through a radio data roaming. A road guidance server(400) receives an overseas road guidance service request signal from a mobile terminal(200), which receives GPS information from an artificial satellite(100) and has an international roaming function, through an international roaming section including an overseas base station(300), generates road guidance service information, and transmits the generated information to the mobile terminal through the international roaming section. An overseas geographical information management server(500) is provided in a foreign area where the mobile terminal is located, stores geographical information of the foreign area, and transfers the geographical information for the road guidance service information by interworking with the road guidance server.

Description

System for Providing Load Guide Service by Using Roaming Service and Method for Providing the Same}

1 is a configuration diagram showing the environment of an overseas road guidance service system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a signal flow chart for explaining the operation of the overseas road guidance service according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Figure 3 is an exemplary view for explaining the operation of the overseas road guidance service according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Explanation of symbols on the main parts of the drawings

100: satellite 200: mobile communication terminal

300: base station 400: directions server

410: database 500: overseas geographic information management server

600: Internet network

The present invention relates to an overseas road guidance service system using a roaming service and an overseas road guidance service method. In particular, a user of a mobile communication terminal using a roaming service may use a roaming service that can use a road guidance service using a roaming service abroad. It relates to a foreign road guidance service system and a foreign road guidance service method used.

Recently, a wireless internet service has been introduced to provide a data communication service using the Internet, in addition to a text and voice service, and the development of mobile communication terminal technology and a rapid increase in the penetration rate further enhance the development of such a wireless internet environment. Accelerated. Recently, in order to provide a communication service that transcends space, a wireless Internet service that provides an Internet communication service to a mobile communication service subscriber through a wireless communication network has emerged, and many companies have been developing technology for the wireless Internet.

Among various wireless Internet services using a mobile communication terminal, in particular, location based services (LBS) have gained much attention due to their wide availability and convenience. Location-based service refers to a communication service that locates a mobile communication terminal such as a mobile phone, a personal digital assistant (PDA), a notebook PC, and provides additional information related to the identified location. Location-based services include responding to rescue requests, reporting crimes, geographic information systems (GIS) for providing information on neighboring areas, differentiating mobile rates based on location, traffic information, vehicle navigation and logistics control, location-based CRM ( It can be used in various fields and situations such as customer relationship management.

In order to use the location-based service, it is essential to know the location of the wireless communication terminal. The technology for identifying the location of the wireless communication terminal is called Position Determination Technology (PDT). A network-based method and a Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite that uses the location of the base station to determine the location of the terminal. It is distinguished into a handset-based method that tracks the location of a device by using a signal of, and recently, a hybrid method has been developed that improves location accuracy by mixing two technologies.

GPS is a system that can be located anywhere in the world by 24 GPS satellites orbiting the earth at an altitude of about 20,000 kilometers, using radio waves in the 1.5 GHz band, and on the ground called the Control Station. A coordination center is established to collect and synchronize the information transmitted from the GPS satellites, and the user knows where he is through the GPS receiver.

Among GPS-based location-based services, information such as the shortest distance from the current location of the mobile terminal to the destination and the current location being moved is displayed on the mobile communication terminal in the form of two-dimensional or three-dimensional graphics by using a GPS signal. Navigation services have recently attracted attention.

However, there are various ways for the user of the mobile communication terminal to use the road guidance service in Korea by using GPS information. However, when the user of the mobile communication terminal moves abroad, the mobile communication terminal uses a mobile communication terminal to provide a navigation service. I don't have directions.

The present invention has been made to solve the above problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide an overseas route guidance service to a user of a mobile communication terminal in a foreign country using a mobile communication terminal in which a roaming service is set.

Another object of the present invention is to construct an overseas road guidance service system for providing an overseas road guidance service to a user of a mobile communication terminal in a foreign country using a mobile communication terminal in which roaming service is set.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention receives global positioning system (GPS) information from a satellite and receives an overseas route guidance service request signal through an international roaming section including an overseas base station from a mobile communication terminal having an international roaming function. A road guide server for generating road guide service information and transmitting the road guide service information to the mobile communication terminal through the base station; And an overseas geographic information management server provided in an overseas area in which the mobile communication terminal is located, storing geographic information of the overseas area, and delivering geographic information for the road guidance service information in connection with the road guidance server. It relates to a foreign road guidance service system using a roaming service.

In addition, the present invention receives a global positioning system (GPS) information from a satellite and receives a request signal for starting a foreign road guidance service from the mobile communication terminal having the international roaming function through an international roaming section including an overseas base station step; Searching, via a database, a route guidance server using the GPS information about the country and region where the mobile communication terminal is located; Receiving the destination information set according to the information on the destination setting by matching the searched country and region with the road guidance server and transmitting information on the destination setting to the mobile communication terminal; Receiving the destination information, generating the vector information including the GPS information of the mobile communication terminal and the destination information, and transmitting the generated destination information to an overseas geographic information management server; Receiving geographic information corresponding to the GPS information and geographic information of the destination from the overseas geographic information management server according to the vector information; Generating information for an overseas road guidance service corresponding to the destination at a location corresponding to the GPS information; And transmitting the information for the overseas route guidance service to the mobile communication terminal.

In the present invention, the mobile terminal includes a browser (Browser) that can transmit and receive the road guidance service information, the browser is a WAP browser based on the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP), HTML using the HTTP protocol Microsoft Internet Explorer (MIE) based on, and I-mode based on the handheld device transport protocol (HDTP) is characterized in that any one selected from the crowd.

In the present invention, the geographic information includes traffic information, tourism information, and map information of the overseas region, and the road guide server is linked with the overseas geographic information management server through an internet network.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 is a configuration diagram showing the environment of an overseas road guidance service system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As illustrated in FIG. 1, an overseas road guidance service system according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention receives a global positioning system (GPS) information from a satellite 100 and has a roaming function capable of international roaming service. Receiving an international road guidance service request signal from the mobile communication terminal 200 through the international roaming interval including the base station 300 abroad, generates road guidance service information, and again generates an international roaming interval including the base station 300. The road guidance server 400 for transmitting to the mobile communication terminal 200 and the overseas location where the mobile communication terminal 200 is located are stored in the traffic information, tourism information, map information, etc. of the corresponding area, and the road guidance server ( It is configured to include an overseas geographic information management server 500 for transmitting a variety of information about the road guidance service information in conjunction with 400.

The mobile communication terminal 200 has a roaming function capable of international roaming service, receives GPS information from the satellite 100, and provides means for accessing the road guidance server 400 through the base station 300, that is, the road guidance service information. As a terminal equipped with a browser capable of transmitting and receiving, such a WAP browser based on the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP), MIE (Microsoft Internet Explorer) based on HTML using the HTTP protocol, handheld device trans It may be an I-mode based on a port protocol (HDTP: Handheld Device Transport Protocol), but is not limited thereto.

For example, when a user of the mobile communication terminal 200 travels to New York, USA, when the user requests a route guidance service of a route from Broadway in Brooklyn to Brooklyn, the base station 300 receives GPS information. Through the transmission to the domestic road guidance server 400 along with the overseas road guidance service request signal from the road guidance server 400 receives the road guidance service information of the route from the Broadway of Manhattan to Brooklyn.

The base station 300 is a base station provided in an overseas region where the mobile communication terminal 200 is located. For example, the base station 300 is located in Manhattan, New York, and includes a base station controller (not shown) and a switch (not shown). The controller controls wireless communication with respect to the mobile communication terminal 200, for example, wireless call or text message transmission and reception, and transmits and receives road guidance service information using a roaming service according to each GPS information of the mobile communication terminal 200. To control.

In addition, the exchange of the base station 300 is, for example, a switch such as a mobile switching center (MSC), etc., and stores subscriber information registered in the road guidance service using a roaming service, and uses the roaming service to be provided by the present invention. The guide service information is transmitted to the corresponding mobile communication terminal 200.

The route guidance server 400 is a server located in Korea, and the corresponding region from the overseas geographic information management server 500 interworking through the Internet network 600 according to the overseas route guidance service request signal received through the base station 300. That is, it receives geographic information including traffic information, tourism information, map information, etc. of Manhattan and Brooklyn, New York, and stores it in the database 410, and uses the geographic information to route the route from Broadway in Manhattan to Brooklyn. Create guide service information. The road guide service information generated by using the geographic information is transmitted to the mobile communication terminal 200 through the base station 300 by the road guide server 400 and displayed, and the user of the mobile communication terminal 200 displays. It is possible to receive the guidance service using the guide information.

Therefore, after detecting the current location of the mobile communication terminal 200 in the foreign country by using the foreign road guidance service system configured as described above, and matching the current location of the detected mobile communication terminal 200 to the overseas geographic information, the mobile communication Search the driving route from the current location of the terminal 200 to the destination through the map information, and performs a route search and guidance service function to guide the mobile communication terminal 200 to the destination along the searched driving route. .

Hereinafter, a method of providing an overseas route guidance service using the overseas route guidance service system will be described with reference to FIGS. 2 and 3.

2 is a signal flow diagram for explaining the operation of the overseas road guidance service according to an embodiment of the present invention.

First, when a user of a mobile communication terminal 200 located in a foreign country such as New York, USA, drives a program for an overseas road guidance service built in the mobile communication terminal 200 or accesses a wireless site, the mobile communication terminal 200 ) Starts the overseas road guidance service and transmits the overseas road guidance service request signal along with the GPS information about the current location of the mobile communication terminal 200 to the road guidance server 400 through the base station 300 (S201).

In this case, when accessing a wireless site through the mobile communication terminal 200, a WAP browser based on a wireless application protocol (WAP) provided in the mobile communication terminal 200, or HTML based on the HTTP protocol. You can connect to a wireless site using MIE (Microsoft Internet Explorer).

As the directions server 400 receives the overseas directions service request signal along with the GPS information, a search is performed through the database 410 about the country and region where the mobile communication terminal 200 is currently located using the GPS information. (S202).

For example, when the user of the mobile communication terminal 200 is located in Broadway, New York, USA, the road guidance server 400 searches the database 410 using GPS information, and searches for the "001" corresponding to the US. Check and match the country code for and the area code for "20" for New York.

The road guide server 400 transmits the information about the destination setting to the mobile communication terminal 200 based on the searched and matched country and region information (S203).

The mobile communication terminal 200 receiving the information on the destination setting displays an item related to the destination setting, for example, a destination name in a list form on the screen window of the mobile communication terminal or displays a predetermined input window. The user of 200) can select a destination such as Brooklyn from a list or input it through an input window, and select a car, a train, etc. as a means of transportation to the selected or input destination. The server transmits to the guide server 400 (S204).

The road guide server 400 receiving the destination information generates vector information including GPS information and destination information of the mobile communication terminal 200 and transmits the vector information to the overseas geographic information management server 500 through the Internet network 600. Information is transmitted (S205). Here, the vector information may include a destination code for a destination such as Brooklyn and a transportation code for a selected transportation.

The overseas geographic information management server 500 that receives the vector information according to the vector information including the GPS information and the destination information of the mobile communication terminal 200, maps of the surrounding area around New York corresponding to the GPS information, Geographic information such as traffic and maps to destination Brooklyn, geographic information such as traffic is retrieved and transmitted to the road guidance server 400 (S206).

The road guide server 400 that receives the geographic information of the current location of the mobile communication terminal 200 according to the vector information and the geographic information from the destination Brooklyn to the foreign road corresponding to the destination Brooklyn from the current location of New York Information for the guide service is generated (S207).

Here, the information for the overseas guidance service generated by the directions server 400 includes a map page from the current location of New York to the destination Brooklyn as shown in FIG. 3 and Brooklyn in New York Broadway such as "A". It may include information about the route to.

Such foreign road guidance service information is transmitted to the mobile communication terminal 200 having a roaming function by the road guidance server 400, and the mobile communication terminal 200 displays the received foreign road guidance service information on the screen in FIG. It is displayed as shown (S208). Here, the directions server 400 is a destination from New York, where the current location in the form of a short message service (SMS) or MMS (Multimedia Messaging service) including a call back URL for the map information among the overseas directions service information Map information to Brooklyn may be transmitted to the mobile communication terminal 200.

Accordingly, the user of the mobile communication terminal 200 receives a road guide service along the route of "A" as shown in FIG. 3 and may move to a destination Brooklyn by using a car or a subway.

In addition, the mobile communication terminal 200 continuously receives GPS information from the satellite 100 and transmits the GPS information from the satellite 100 to the road guidance server 400 through the base station 300, thereby moving to the destination Brooklyn. In step S209, GPS information of the mobile communication terminal 200 is uploaded. Here, the mobile communication terminal 200 may continuously receive GPS information from the satellite 100 and deliver the GPS information to the road guidance server 400 through the base station 300 every minute or in real time.

According to the uploaded GPS information of the mobile communication terminal 200, the road guidance server 400 may determine whether the path to the destination is well followed by the current location information of the changed mobile communication terminal 200, and a new vector Generates information and transmits the new vector information to the overseas geographic information management server 500 (S210).

Here, when it is determined that the "A" route to the destination according to the received GPS information, the route guidance server 400 delivers the route departure information to the mobile communication terminal 200 of the mobile communication terminal 200 The user may be notified through a speaker unit (not shown).

The overseas geographic information management server 500 receiving the new vector information searches for new geographic information around the current location and new geographic information to the destination according to the current location of the changed mobile communication terminal 200 included in the new vector information. Transmission to the route guidance server 400 (S211).

The route guidance server 400 re-searches the shortest route to the destination Brooklyn based on the new geographic information around the current location and the new geographic information to the destination. The road guide service information is generated (S212).

Here, the re-search means that when the user of the mobile communication terminal 100 moves out of the route on the existing route or when the user moves out of the route, a delay or congestion section occurs in front of the user to go to Brooklyn by using a route other than the existing route. When the route guidance server 400 re-searches the shortest route to generate new route information and route guidance information according to route planning, and includes such new route information and route guidance information. The new road guide service information is transmitted to the mobile communication terminal 200.

After generating the new road guide service information, the road guide server 400 transmits the new road service information to the mobile communication terminal 200 so that the mobile communication terminal 100 is the destination according to the new road guide service information Brooklyn. The new route can be displayed on the screen window and the directions can be performed (S213).

Therefore, overseas geographic information that provides geographic information of the corresponding country so that it can be useful to users of mobile communication terminals traveling overseas or traveling by providing overseas route guidance service based on mobile communication terminal capable of data international roaming service It is possible to establish an overseas route guidance service system by interworking with a management server, and provide route guidance services to the location and destination of a mobile communication terminal user in a corresponding region based on GPS information using wireless data roaming in a foreign country.

Although the technical spirit of the present invention has been described in detail according to the above-described preferred embodiment, it should be noted that the above-described embodiment is for the purpose of description and not of limitation.

In addition, those skilled in the art will understand that various embodiments are possible within the scope of the technical idea of the present invention.

As described above, the present invention is based on a mobile communication terminal capable of data international roaming service, the road including a road guidance server for providing an international road guidance service in conjunction with an overseas geographic information management server that provides geographic information of the country. By establishing a guidance service system, the user of a mobile communication terminal traveling or traveling abroad uses wireless data roaming in a foreign country to follow the directions of the location and destination of the user of the mobile communication terminal in the corresponding area according to the GPS information. Can provide overseas route guidance service.

Claims (13)

Receives global positioning system (GPS) information from a satellite and receives an overseas route guidance service request signal from an international roaming terminal including an overseas base station through an international roaming section to generate route guidance service information. A route guidance server for transmitting route guidance service information to the mobile communication terminal through the international roaming interval; And An overseas geographic information management server provided in an overseas area where the mobile communication terminal is located to store geographic information of the overseas area and deliver geographic information for the road guidance service information in connection with the road guidance server. Overseas road guidance service system using a roaming service comprising a. The method of claim 1, The mobile communication terminal And a browser capable of transmitting and receiving the route guidance service information, wherein the browser includes a WAP browser based on a wireless application protocol (WAP) and a MIE (Microsoft Internet Explorer) based on HTML using an HTTP protocol. And a crowd selected one consisting of an I-mode based on a handheld device transport protocol (HDTP). The method of claim 1, The geographic information is a foreign road guidance service system using a roaming service, characterized in that it comprises traffic information, tourism information and map information of the overseas area. The method of claim 1, The road guidance server is a foreign road guidance service system using a roaming service, characterized in that the interlocking with the overseas geographic information management server via the Internet. Receiving global positioning system (GPS) information from a satellite and receiving a request signal for starting a foreign road guidance service from an international roaming terminal having an international roaming function through an international roaming section including an overseas base station; Searching, via a database, a route guidance server using the GPS information about the country and region where the mobile communication terminal is located; Receiving the destination information set according to the information on the destination setting by matching the searched country and region with the road guidance server and transmitting information on the destination setting to the mobile communication terminal; Receiving the destination information, generating the vector information including the GPS information of the mobile communication terminal and the destination information, and transmitting the generated destination information to an overseas geographic information management server; Receiving geographic information corresponding to the GPS information and geographic information of the destination from the overseas geographic information management server according to the vector information; Generating information for an overseas road guidance service corresponding to the destination at a location corresponding to the GPS information; And Transmitting information for the overseas road guidance service to the mobile communication terminal; Overseas guidance service providing method comprising a. The method of claim 5, Receiving GPS information from the satellite and uploading GPS information of the mobile communication terminal to the road guide server through an international roaming section including the base station of the foreign country; According to the uploaded GPS information of the mobile terminal, the road guidance server determines whether to follow a path to a destination included in the information for the overseas road guidance service, and generates new vector information to generate the overseas geographic information management server. Transmitting to; Receiving new geographic information according to the changed location information of the mobile communication terminal included in the new vector information and new geographic information to the destination from the overseas geographic information management server receiving the new vector information; Re-searching the shortest route to the destination based on the new geographical information and the new geographical information to the destination to generate new road guidance service information including the new shortest route information; And Transmitting the new road guidance service information to the mobile communication terminal; Overseas guidance service providing method comprising the more. The method of claim 5, Receiving a request signal for starting the overseas road guidance service Overseas road guidance generated when accessing a wireless site using a WAP browser based on a wireless application protocol (WAP) provided in the mobile communication terminal or a MIE (Microsoft Internet Explorer) based on HTML using an HTTP protocol. Overseas road guidance service providing method characterized in that for receiving the service request signal through the international roaming interval including the base station abroad. The method according to claim 5 or 6, The information about the destination setting Overseas road guidance service providing method characterized in that the destination name in the form of a list displayed on the screen window of the mobile communication terminal and the means of transportation to the destination. The method according to claim 5 or 6, The information about the destination setting And a destination name input through a predetermined input window displayed on a screen window of the mobile communication terminal and a means of transportation to the destination. The method according to claim 5 or 6, The foreign road guidance service information And map information, wherein the map information is in the form of a short message service (SMS) or a multimedia messaging service (MMS) including a call back URL. The method according to claim 5 or 6, And the destination information includes a destination code for the destination and a transportation code for a selected transportation means. The method according to claim 5 or 6, The road guidance server provides a foreign road guidance service, characterized in that the interworking with the overseas geographic information management server through the Internet. The method of claim 6, Uploading the GPS information of the mobile communication terminal to the road guidance server And receiving the GPS information and delivering the GPS information to the road guidance server every minute or in real time through an international roaming section including the overseas base station.

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