KR100858375B1 - Apparatus and method for providing strong-point based location information - Google Patents

Abstract

An apparatus for providing position-based location information and a method thereof are provided to offer contents information to a mobile communication terminal directly without requesting a central server to provide contents, thereby shortening an information providing time. A contents collecting unit collects contents to provide to a terminal. A contents processing unit processes the collected contents based on the location information of a transmitter(200), generates contents corresponding to the area of the transmitter in the contents collected by the contents collecting unit as the location information contents of the transmitter, and transmits the generated local information contents to the transmitter. A transmitter management unit stores the location information of the transmitter and manages the transmitter.

Description

Apparatus and method for providing strong-point based location information}

The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for providing local information, and more particularly, to an apparatus and method for providing regional information based on a base.

With the recent development of mobile communication terminals and related technologies, the types of content services that can be provided to mobile communication terminals are also increasing. That is, in addition to the voice call service, a short message service (SMS) and a wireless Internet service are provided, and each service is further subdivided according to an information providing method.

Meanwhile, among various wireless Internet services using a mobile communication terminal, a location based service (LBS) has gained much attention due to its wide utility and convenience. The location-based service refers to a communication service that locates a mobile communication terminal such as a mobile phone and a personal digital assistant (PDA) and provides additional information related to the identified location.

A service that provides information of a region desired by a user by using such a wireless Internet service and a location-based service may store information of each region in advance by a mobile carrier, and then, when receiving a user's request signal, from among the information of each region previously stored. It is a method of unilaterally transmitting the information of the region selected by the user to the user. Therefore, it is not possible to check the latest information of the region selected by the user, and there is a problem in that only the information based on the type of service to which the owner of the mobile communication terminal is subscribed and the current location information of the mobile communication terminal is provided to the owner.

Accordingly, the present invention is to solve the above problems of the prior art, and to provide a system and method for providing region information based on the transmitter position rather than the receiver position by extending the service area of the receiver receiving the service. do.

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided an apparatus for providing region information.

A content collecting unit collecting content to be provided to the terminal; A content processing unit which processes the collected content based on location information of the transmitter to generate content corresponding to the area of the transmitter as the regional information content of the transmitter, and transmits the local information content to the transmitter; ; And a transmitter manager to store the location information of the transmitter and manage the transmitter.

Another aspect of the present invention for achieving the technical problem of the present invention is a method for providing region information to a terminal in a transmitter,

If the terminal enters an area of the transmitter, inquiring whether the terminal uses the area information; If the terminal wants to receive the region information, determining whether the information requested by the terminal is region information corresponding to the region within the region of the transmitter; And if the requested area information is information corresponding to an area within the transmitter area, providing area information corresponding to location information of the transmitter stored in the transmitter to the terminal.

According to the above-described embodiment, since the content information can be directly provided to the mobile communication terminal without requesting the content providing to the central server, the information providing time can be shortened.

Further, in addition to the service subscribed to the mobile communication terminal, a service that can be provided by the transmitter can be provided to the mobile communication terminal.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings so that those skilled in the art may easily implement the present invention. As those skilled in the art would realize, the described embodiments may be modified in various different ways, all without departing from the spirit or scope of the present invention. In the drawings, parts irrelevant to the description are omitted in order to clearly describe the present invention. Like parts are designated by like reference numerals throughout the specification.

In addition, when a part is said to "include" a certain component, which means that it may further include other components, except to exclude other components unless otherwise stated. In addition, the terms “… unit”, “… unit”, “module”, etc. described in the specification mean a unit that processes at least one function or operation, which may be implemented by hardware or software or a combination of hardware and software. have.

In this specification, a mobile station (MS) is a terminal, a mobile terminal (MT), a subscriber station (SS), a portable subscriber station (PSS), a user device (User). It may also refer to an Equipment (UE), an Access Terminal (AT), or the like, and may include all or some functions of a mobile terminal, a subscriber station, a portable subscriber station, a user device, and the like.

In the present specification, a base station (BS) is an access point (AP), a radio access station (Radio Access Station, RAS), a Node B (Node B), a base transceiver station (Base Transceiver Station, BTS), MMR ( Mobile Multihop Relay) -BS and the like, and may include all or part of functions such as an access point, a radio access station, a Node B, a base transceiver station, and an MMR-BS.

1 is a schematic diagram of a regional information providing system according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 1, the regional information providing system according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention is referred to as a plurality of APs (Access Points) connected to the central server 100 and the central server 100, for convenience of description. 200, 210, and 220). The area information providing system provides area information where the transmitter 200 is located or area information where other transmitters 210 and 220 are located to the mobile communication terminal entering the transmitter 200 area. Here, the region information may include recommended tourist attractions, regional event information, restaurant information, or store information in the region of the transmitter 200, but is not necessarily limited thereto.

The central server 100 provides a content service regarding local information to a plurality of transmitters 200, 210, and 220 and manages a plurality of transmitters 200, 210, and 220 linked to the central server 100. . In addition, updated regional information content is continuously delivered to the transmitters 200, 210, and 220 according to a preset period. In addition, it is also possible to provide information directly to the mobile communication terminal, it is possible to provide content to the mobile communication terminal the general information requested by the mobile communication terminal. Herein, the general information includes stock information, weather information, traffic information, and the like. In the embodiment of the present invention, the PAN terminal 300 is described as an example among a plurality of mobile communication terminals, but the present invention is not necessarily limited thereto.

The transmitters 200, 210, and 220 provide contents stored and received from the central server 100 to the PAN terminal 300 entering the own area, respectively, and the status information of the transmitters 200, 210, and 220. It may also be provided to the central server (100).

The PAN terminal 300 may have a built-in Bluetooth chip to perform communication of a Bluetooth wireless transmission method to perform PAN wireless communication with a plurality of transmitters 200, 210, and 220. Through this, the transmitters 200, 210, and 220 and the PAN terminal 300 may perform wireless communication in the 2.4 GHz band, but are not necessarily limited thereto.

Next, the central server 100 illustrated in FIG. 1 will be described in detail with reference to FIG. 2.

2 is a structural diagram of a central server according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 2, the central server 100 includes a content collector 110, a content processor 120, and a transmitter manager 130.

The content collector 110 collects various contents to be provided to the PAN terminal 300. In this case, various contents (for example, location information, area information, living information, traffic information, etc.) may be delivered from already established servers, or the content collecting unit 110 may collect various contents by itself. The content may be set to be collected by the content collecting unit 110 according to a predetermined period, or may be collected by being notified of the update from the servers whenever the latest information is updated.

The transmitter manager 130 manages the transmitters 200, 210, and 220 based on information on locations, transmitter states, and statuses of the plurality of transmitters 200, 210, and 220 connected to the central server 100. In addition, when the PAN terminal 300 wants to receive the general information, the transmitter management unit 130 transmits the general information requested by the PAN terminal 300 to the content processing unit 120, the PAN terminal 300 is a central server ( 100) to be provided with information.

The content processing unit 120 processes the content collected by the content collecting unit 110 to provide to the PAN terminal 300, generates the local information content, and delivers it to the transmitters 200, 210, and 220. In the case of processing the content, the content collected by the content collecting unit 110 is processed based on the location information of the transmitters 200, 210, and 220, and the content corresponding to the area of the transmitter among the collected content is the local information content of the transmitter. To create.

A method of providing region information to the PAN terminal 300 through the plurality of transmitters 200, 210, and 220 in the central server 100 will be described with reference to FIG. 3.

3 is a flowchart of a method for providing region information according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 3, the transmitter 200 confirms that the PAN terminal 300 enters its area (S100). Here, the PAN terminal 300 is a terminal in which a Bluetooth chip is embedded, and may perform wireless communication with the transmitter 200 through Bluetooth, but is not necessarily limited thereto.

The transmitter 200 transmits an area information screen inquiring whether area information is provided to the PAN terminal 300 entering the area (S110). If the owner of the PAN terminal 300 wants to be provided with information on the surrounding area of the transmitter 200 to which he enters, the owner requests the transmitter 200 to provide the corresponding area information (S120). In addition, the owner of the PAN terminal 300 may also request real-time general information such as stock information, weather information or traffic information, not local information.

The transmitter 200 determines whether the region information requested by the PAN terminal 300 is region information or general information in the region of the transmitter 200 (S130). If the area information in the area of the transmitter 200 into which the PAN terminal 300 enters, the area information stored in the transmitter 200 is processed (S140) and provided to the PAN terminal 300 (S150).

However, when the information requested by the PAN terminal 300 is general information, the transmitter 200 may provide the PAN terminal 300 with general information requested by the PAN terminal 300 to the transmitter management unit 130 of the central server 100. Request (S160). The transmitter managing unit 130 of the central server 100 requests the content processing unit 120 to process the corresponding information to provide general information received from the transmitter 200. The content processing unit 120 receives the general information collected by the content collecting unit 110 (S170), processes the processing (S180), and then provides the PAN terminal 300 (S190).

When the content is provided to the PAN terminal 300 based on the location of the transmitters 200, 210, and 220 through the above procedure, the content is directly transmitted to the PAN terminal 300 without requesting the contents to be provided to the central server 100. Since information can be provided, information providing time can be shortened. In addition to the services subscribed to by the PAN terminal 300, a service that may be provided by the transmitters 200, 210, and 220 may be provided to the PAN terminal 300.

Here, a program for realizing a function corresponding to the configuration of the above-described embodiment of the present invention or a recording medium on which the program is recorded is also included in the scope of the present invention.

Although the embodiments of the present invention have been described in detail above, the scope of the present invention is not limited thereto, and various modifications and improvements of those skilled in the art using the basic concepts of the present invention defined in the following claims are also provided. It belongs to the scope of rights.

1 is a schematic diagram of a regional information providing system according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a structural diagram of a central server according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3 is a flowchart of a method for providing region information according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Claims (9)

In the device for providing local information, A content collecting unit collecting content to be provided to the terminal; Process the collected content based on the location information of the transmitter, generate content corresponding to the area of the transmitter among the content collected by the content collector as local information content of the transmitter, and generate the generated local information content Content processing unit for transmitting to; And A transmitter manager which stores the position information of the transmitter and manages the transmitter Local information providing device comprising a. The method of claim 1, When the transmitter manager receives a request from the terminal for providing general information, wherein the general information includes one or more of stock information, weather information, or traffic information, the content processing unit is configured to determine the transmitter corresponding to the area requested by the terminal. Local information providing device for delivering local information content to the terminal. The method of claim 2, And the transmitter managing unit receives the general information provision from a transmitter connected to the terminal. The method of claim 1, The transmitter, And providing the area information content by transmitting an information providing screen to the terminal when the terminal enters the area of the transmitter. The method of claim 1, The transmitter is a regional area nework (PAN) based transmitter for performing Bluetooth communication with the terminal. In the method for providing the region information to the terminal in the transmitter, When the terminal enters an area of the transmitter, querying the terminal whether to use the area information, wherein the area information is information generated from content corresponding to the area of each transmitter; If the terminal wants to receive the region information, determining whether the information requested by the terminal is region information corresponding to the region within the region of the transmitter; And If the requested information is area information in the transmitter area, providing area information corresponding to the location information of the transmitter stored in the transmitter to the terminal; Local information providing method comprising a. The method of claim 6, Receiving and storing the area information generated based on the location of the transmitter in the central server linked to the transmitter Local information providing method further comprising. The method of claim 6, If the regional information requested by the terminal is the general information, wherein the general information includes one or more of stock information, weather information, and traffic information, providing a general server to the terminal by the central server; Local information providing method further comprising. The method of claim 6, Periodically receiving region information corresponding to an area of the transmitter from a central server interworking with the transmitter; Local information providing method further comprising.

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