KR100925377B1 - System for providing open daiary service using contact information list of mobile termianl and method thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

Provided are a system and a method for providing an open diary service for setting an open diary to be disclosed only in a contact address set in a portable terminal and maintaining the public setting even if information of a contact allowed to be disclosed is changed.

A system for providing an open diary service by using an address book of a portable terminal includes: an address book DB storing an address book synchronized with an address book stored in the portable terminal, and a plurality of diary contents synchronized with the multimedia content stored in the portable terminal. And a service providing server converting the diary content selected by the user of the portable terminal among the diary contents DB and the diary contents stored in the diary contents DB as open diary contents and publishing only the preset contacts among the contacts stored in the address book DB. do.

Mobile Diary, Handheld Terminal, Open Diary, Address Book, Sync

Description

System and method for providing open diary service using address book of portable terminal {SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING OPEN DAIARY SERVICE USING CONTACT INFORMATION LIST OF MOBILE TERMIANL AND METHOD THEREOF}

The present invention relates to a system and method for providing an open diary service using an address book of a portable terminal, and more particularly, to set the off diary to be disclosed only to a contact set in the address book of the portable terminal, and the disclosure is permitted. The present invention relates to a system and method for providing an open diary service that maintains a public setting even if information of a contact is changed.

With the spread of mobile devices capable of generating various contents, people can easily record or store things they want to record as portable devices.

Accordingly, various mobile content data such as text, voice, image, video, etc., generated through various input means of the portable terminal, for example, a keypad, a microphone, and a camera, are directly transmitted to a web page having a diary or blog. Technology has been proposed.

On the other hand, in order to efficiently input and manage address book information stored in the portable terminal, the address book data used in the portable terminal and the address book data managed in the web environment are synchronized, so that the address book stored in the portable terminal can be searched and managed on the web. Techniques for this have been proposed.

As the first prior art, Korean Patent Laid-Open Publication No. 2004-0051088 synchronizes address book information used in a mobile phone with address book information managed in a web environment to enable unification of management and data transmission between them, and user address information When a change is made, it discloses a 'personal address book information management and provision method through wire / wireless communication means' by modifying stored data and transmitting the changed phone number to a contact designated by a user by SMS, telephone, or email.

However, the first prior art registers and manages an address book in a web server by synchronizing address book information used in a portable terminal with address book information managed in a web environment, and when the user's information is changed, the address book is changed to a place designated by the user. Although a technology for transmitting a telephone number is disclosed, a technology for providing a mobile diary that can be simultaneously used in a portable terminal and the web by using multimedia contents such as a photo, a memo, and a schedule stored in the portable terminal and the mobile address using the address book There is no disclosure of a technique for exposing the contents of the diary to others.

In addition, as the second prior art, Korean Laid-Open Patent No. 2006-0118276 records one's daily life through a portable terminal, and the recorded contents allow the disclosure of some contents and addition of comments to an authorized person. Disclosed is a method for providing a personal mobile diary service.

However, the second prior art creates a photo book, a diary, and the like through a portable terminal using a portable Internet infrastructure, and when another portable terminal to which an authentication number is assigned makes a connection request to its own terminal, the authentication number is checked to establish a connection. By approving, only the technique which discloses created diaries etc. is disclosed, but the technique which provides a mobile diary in connection with a web server is not disclosed. In addition, the second prior art can only be provided with the diary service through the mobile terminal to which the authentication number is assigned, and does not disclose a technique of releasing the contents of the mobile diary to others through a telephone number or a user ID of a web server. .

One embodiment of the present invention provides a system and a method for synchronizing and providing an address book of a portable terminal so as to be searchable and manageable on the web.

In addition, an embodiment of the present invention is a system and method capable of selecting or batch-transmitting a change of a contact of a user to a contact registered in an address book, and updating information changes of a contact registered in the address book in real time. To provide.

In addition, an embodiment of the present invention provides a system and method that can be set to allow the publishing of the diary content registered in the mobile diary of the user only a part of the contacts in the address book.

As a technical means for achieving the above-described technical problem, a first aspect of the present invention is a system for providing an open diary service using the address book of the portable terminal, the address book stored in the portable terminal and the mutually synchronized address book A multimedia content selected by a user of the portable terminal, among a multimedia contents DB for storing a plurality of multimedia contents synchronized with the multimedia contents stored in the portable terminal, and the multimedia contents stored in the diary contents DB, stored in the address book DB. It provides an open diary service providing system that includes a service providing server that is open only to preset contacts among the contacts.

As a technical means for achieving the above technical problem, a second aspect of the present invention is a method for providing an open diary service using an address book of a portable terminal, a plurality of multimedia content uploaded from the portable terminal as a diary content Converting and storing the at least one diary content selected by the user into an open diary content in response to a user's request of the portable terminal; It provides an open diary service providing method comprising the step of allowing the disclosure of the open diary content only for a contact.

According to one of the above-described problem solving means of the present invention, there is provided a system and method for providing an open diary service that can be synchronized to provide the address book of the portable terminal so that search and management on the Web.

According to another one of the above-described problem solving means of the present invention, it is possible to select or batch transfer the user's contact changes to the contacts registered in the address book, and to update the information changes of the contacts registered in the address book in real time. The present invention provides a system and method for providing an open diary service.

According to yet another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a system and method for providing an open diary service which can be set to allow the disclosure of diary contents registered in the mobile diary of the user only to a part of the contacts in the address book. to provide.

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, and like reference numerals designate like parts throughout the specification.

Throughout the specification, when a part is "connected" to another part, this includes not only "directly connected" but also "electrically connected" with another element in between. . 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 the following description and claims, the term synchronization or synchronization means data synchronization, and means a data processing technique for matching data by comparing and exchanging data existing in both. In the present specification, synchronization or sink means synchronizing mutually so that the data of the portable terminal and the data of the web server are updated at the same time even if any one of data stored in the portable terminal or data managed by the web server is updated.

Hereinafter, a system and method for providing a mobile diary service according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. 1 to 6.

1 is a diagram illustrating a connection relationship between an open diary service providing system according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, the mobile diary service providing system includes a portable terminal 100, a computer 200, a network 300, and an open diary service providing system (hereinafter referred to as a service providing system 400). Here, the service providing system 400 includes an open diary service providing server (hereinafter referred to as a service providing server 410) and a database server 420.

The portable terminal 100 is a wireless communication device that guarantees portability and mobility, and includes a personal communication system (PCS), a global system for mobile communications (GSM), a personal digital cellular (PDC), a personal handyphone system (PHS), and a personal digital assistant (PDA). All types of handhelds such as Digital Assistant (IMT), International Mobile Telecommunication (IMT) -2000, Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) -2000, W-Code Division Multiple Access (W-CDMA), Wireless Broadband Internet (Wibro) terminals, etc. Handheld) based wireless communication device.

In addition, the computer 200 may include a laptop, a desktop, a laptop, and the like equipped with a web browser.

The network 300 may be a wired or mobile radio network such as a local area network (LAN), a wide area network (WAN) or a value added network (VAN), a mobile radio network, or a satellite network. It can be implemented in all kinds of wireless networks such as Bluetooth, Bluetooth, Wireless Broadband Internet (Wibro), and High Speed Dwonlink Packet Access (HSDPA).

The service providing system 400 provides an open mobile diary service to the portable terminal 100 through the network 300, and includes a service providing server 410 and a database server 420.

In this case, the service providing server 410 provides a web address book that synchronizes the address book of the user registered in the mobile terminal 100 to be searchable and managed on the Web, and changes the user's contact information to the address book. Among the plurality of registered contacts, the contact information may be transmitted to the contact selected by the user, and the contact change of the friends registered in the address book may be updated in real time. In addition, the service providing server 410 may allow the diary contents to be published only for the contacts set in the address book and maintain the diary contents disclosure even if the information of the contacts allowed to be published is changed.

Meanwhile, the database server 520 stores various information for providing an open diary service such as address book data uploaded from the portable terminal 100 and user information of the portable terminal 100.

Hereinafter, the configuration of a system for providing an open diary service will be described in detail.

2 is a detailed configuration diagram of an open diary service providing system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 2, the service providing system 400 includes a service providing server 410 and a database server 420.

The service providing server 410 includes a communication network interface 411, a content management module 412, a content conversion module 413, an address book management module 414, a synchronization module 415, and a public setting module 416.

The communication network interface 411 communicates with the portable terminal 100 and the computer 200 through the network 300. The communication network interface 411 may adopt a method of supporting both wired and wireless communication functions.

The content management module 412 classifies a plurality of multimedia contents uploaded from the portable terminal 100 by time information, location information, and attribute information, respectively, and stores them in the diary content DB 421 for each user.

In addition, the content management module 412 generates the diary content in the form of a web page by using the classified multimedia content, and stores it in the diary content DB 421. Accordingly, the user can search the diary content posted on the Internet web site through the computer 200. 3 is an exemplary screen of the diary content in the form of a web page generated in this way.

Meanwhile, the content management module 412 may generate diary content in the form of a mobile web page using the classified multimedia content and store it in the diary content DB 421. Therefore, the user may access the mobile web page by using the wireless Internet service through the portable terminal 100, thereby retrieving the diary content posted on the mobile web page. 4 is an exemplary screen of diary content in the form of a mobile web page generated as described above.

The multimedia content is a photo, voice, video, schedule, text memo, SMS text message, MMS text message, call generated by various input means provided in the portable terminal 100, for example, a microphone, a camera, etc. Data such as records.

The content conversion module 413 converts the diary content selected by the user from among a plurality of diary contents stored in the diary content DB 421 into open diary content to be disclosed to other users. This conversion process can be performed, for example, by setting the attribute of the diary content to "public". Therefore, the diary content should include attribute information related to whether or not the open diary content is published. Alternatively, the multimedia content may be configured to include attribute information related to whether the open diary content is disclosed.

The address book management module 414 stores the address book data uploaded from the portable terminal 100 in the address book DB 422. The address book data is stored in the portable terminal 100 and includes a plurality of contacts for transmitting / receiving SMS text messages, voice calls, and data with the terminal user. Each contact stored in the address book DB 422 includes not only a telephone number but also attribute information related to whether the open diary contents are disclosed.

The synchronization module 415 mutually synchronizes the multimedia content and the diary content stored in the diary content DB 421 and the address book data stored in the address book DB 422 with the multimedia content, the diary content, and the address book data stored in the portable terminal 100, respectively. . In this case, the synchronization may be performed twice a day, every day, every week, etc. set by the user. In addition, the user may be configured to set the time zone to be synchronized directly, or may be configured to perform the synchronization at the time set by the server.

Through the synchronization process as described above, not only the attributes related to whether or not the diary contents are published are synchronized with each other, but also the attributes related to the visibility set for each contact of the address book data are also synchronized.

The disclosure setting module 416 sets whether to allow the open diary contents to be published for a contact selected by the user among the contacts on the address book data stored in the address book DB 422.

The database server 420 includes a diary content DB 421 and an address book DB 422.

The diary contents DB 421 classifies and stores a plurality of multimedia contents uploaded from the portable terminal 100 by time information, location information, and attribute information. In addition, the diary content DB 421 stores the diary content in the form of a web page or a mobile web page generated by the content management module 413 based on the uploaded multimedia content. In addition, as described above, the multimedia content and the diary content stored in the diary content DB 421 are mutually synchronized with the content stored in the portable terminal 100.

The address book DB 422 stores address book data uploaded from the portable terminal 100. In addition, as described above, each contact data and attribute information of each contact stored in the address book DB 422 are mutually synchronized with the address book data of the portable terminal 100.

5 is a flowchart illustrating a content disclosure setting method of a mobile diary according to an embodiment of the present invention.

In operation S11, the service providing system 400 receives the multimedia content from the portable terminal 100. The upload process is performed by synchronizing the multimedia content stored in the mobile terminal 100 and the content stored in the diary content DB 421. The synchronization process may be automatically performed at a predetermined cycle or may be performed by a user's request. have.

In step S12, the uploaded multimedia contents are classified and stored according to time information, location information, and attribute information, and the classified multimedia contents are converted into diary contents in the form of a web page and stored in the diary contents DB 421. .

If the uploaded multimedia content is set to "public", the diary content is converted into a publicly available form. If the uploaded multimedia content is set to "private", only the user who uploaded the diary content is also uploaded. Converted into a form that can be queried.

The attribute information related to “disclosure” of the multimedia content as described above may be set directly in the mobile terminal 100 after generating the content, or may be set by accessing the service providing system 400 through the computer 200 later. have.

In operation S13, the service providing system 400 transmits the diary contents stored in the diary contents DB 421 to the portable terminal 100 or the computer 200. In other words, the user may access the service providing system 400 through the portable terminal 100 or the computer 200 to receive the diary content, and then display the diary content on the screen of the portable terminal 100 or the computer 200. have.

When the displayed diary content is "public", only the user who uploaded the multimedia content may inquire, and when the property is "private", only the user who is allowed to publish may be inquired.

Next, in step S14, the portable terminal 100 or the computer 200 displays the diary content received from the service providing system 400 on the screen.

In operation S15, the user converts the diary contents, which are desired to be released to other users, among the diary contents displayed on the screen of the portable terminal 100 or the computer 200 to the open diary contents. As such, the authority to convert the attributes of the content is generally granted only to the user who uploaded the content. This conversion process can be performed, for example, by setting the attribute of the diary content to "public".

In step S16, the service providing system 400 receives the change information of the diary content converted as the open diary content from the portable terminal 100 or the computer 200, and then proceeds to step S17, and the corresponding diary. The attribute information change history of the content is stored in the diary content DB 421.

So far, for convenience of description, it has been described by way of example that the step (S16) and step (S17) is performed separately from the step (S11), the present invention is not necessarily limited thereto. Since step S11, which is a synchronization process of the multimedia content, is performed periodically, the attribute information of the multimedia content may be updated together when step S11 is executed. Therefore, it will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art that steps S16 and S17 are not necessarily a process executed separately from step S11.

Next, in step S18, the service providing system 400 receives the address book data from the portable terminal 100, and then proceeds to step S19 to store the uploaded address book data in the address book DB 422. On the contrary, in step S18, the portable terminal 100 downloads the address book data from the service providing system 400, and then proceeds to step S19 to store the downloaded address book data in a memory (not shown) of the portable terminal. Can also be stored in In other words, step S18 and step S19 mean a step of synchronizing address book data of the portable terminal 100 with address book data stored in the address book DB 422 of the service providing system 400.

This synchronization process may be performed at the same time as the synchronization process of the multimedia content in step S11, and this synchronization process may be automatically performed at regular intervals or at the request of the user.

In operation S20, the portable terminal 100 displays an address book for setting whether to allow the open diary contents to be displayed on the screen. The address book may be displayed on the computer 200 instead of the portable terminal 100. In other words, after accessing the address book data by accessing the service providing system 400 through the computer 200, it may be displayed on the screen of the computer 200.

In step S21, the user sets whether to allow the open diary contents to be published for each contact on the address book data displayed on the screen of the portable terminal 100 or the computer 200. The setting of whether to allow the disclosure may be performed by, for example, setting an attribute of each contact on the address book data to “public disclosure”.

In step S22, the service providing system 400 receives the information change history of the address book data in which the open diary content is allowed to be published, and then proceeds to step S23, and the information change history is stored in the corresponding address book DB ( 422).

Like the synchronization process of the multimedia content data, the above-described information change history storing process of the address book data may be performed through the address book synchronization process. In other words, the above has been described by way of example that steps S22 and S23 are executed separately from steps S18 and S19, but the present invention is not necessarily limited thereto. Since the attribute information related to whether each contact is allowed to be published can be updated together when the address book data is synchronized in steps S18 and S19, steps S22 and S23 are performed in steps S18 and S ( It is not executed separately from S19) and may be executed together.

As described above, according to the method for providing a mobile diary service of the present invention, the address book is synchronized and updated only by changing one of the terminal address book and the web address book, and the disclosure of the open diary content may be allowed only to the contact address set in the address book. have. In addition, even if the information of the contact allowed to disclose the open diary content is changed, the open setting of the open diary content for the contact may be maintained.

6 is a diagram illustrating an example of a terminal address book and a web address book according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 6, a user accesses a mobile web page using a wireless internet service through a portable terminal 100, thereby searching an address book posted on a mobile web page, and an address book in a form posted on an internet web site. You can also query

As described above, the service providing system 400 according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention may update any address book in the address book stored in the portable terminal 100 or the address book posted on the web in synchronization with each other. When the contact information of the user of the portable terminal 100 is changed, the contact change information may be selected or collectively transmitted to a plurality of contacts in the address book. In addition, even if the contacts of friends registered on the address book are changed, the changes can be updated in real time.

One embodiment of the present invention can also be implemented in the form of a recording medium containing instructions executable by a computer, such as a program module executed by the computer. Computer readable media can be any available media that can be accessed by a computer and includes both volatile and nonvolatile media, removable and non-removable media. In addition, computer readable media may include both computer storage media and communication media. Computer storage media includes both volatile and nonvolatile, removable and non-removable media implemented in any method or technology for storage of information such as computer readable instructions, data structures, program modules or other data. Communication media typically includes computer readable instructions, data structures, program modules, or other data in a modulated data signal such as a carrier wave, or other transmission mechanism, and includes any information delivery media.

Although the methods and systems of the present invention have been described in connection with specific embodiments, some or all of their components or operations may be implemented using a computer system having a general purpose hardware architecture.

The foregoing description of the present invention is intended for illustration, and it will be understood by those skilled in the art that the present invention may be easily modified in other specific forms without changing the technical spirit or essential features of the present invention. will be. Therefore, it should be understood that the embodiments described above are exemplary in all respects and not restrictive. For example, each component described as a single type may be implemented in a distributed manner, and similarly, components described as distributed may be implemented in a combined form.

The scope of the present invention is shown by the following claims rather than the above description, and all changes or modifications derived from the meaning and scope of the claims and their equivalents should be construed as being included in the scope of the present invention. do.

1 is a diagram illustrating a connection relationship between an open diary service providing system according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a detailed configuration diagram of an open diary service providing system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3 is an exemplary screen of diary content in the form of a web page according to an embodiment of the present invention.

4 is an exemplary screen of diary content in the form of a mobile web page according to an embodiment of the present invention.

5 is a flowchart illustrating a content disclosure setting method of a mobile diary according to an embodiment of the present invention.

6 is a diagram illustrating an example of a terminal address book and a web address book according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Claims (11)

In the system for providing an open diary service using the address book of the portable terminal, An address book DB for storing an address book synchronized with the address book stored in the portable terminal; A diary content DB for storing a plurality of multimedia contents synchronized with the multimedia contents stored in the portable terminal; A service providing server that publishes multimedia contents selected by a user of the portable terminal among the multimedia contents stored in the diary contents DB only for preset contacts among the contacts stored in the address book DB. Including but not limited to: Wherein each contact in the synchronized address book includes attribute information related to whether a telephone number and open diary contents are disclosed, and the attribute information is synchronized and updated. The method of claim 1, The service providing server is an open diary service providing system for generating a diary content in the form of a web page using the multimedia content to store in the diary content DB. The method of claim 2, The service providing server, Content conversion module for converting the diary content selected by the user among the plurality of diary content stored in the diary content DB as open diary content to be disclosed to other users Open diary service providing system comprising a. The method of claim 3, wherein The converting process is performed by setting an attribute of the diary content to the public. delete The method of claim 1, The multimedia content includes an attribute information related to whether or not to open the open diary content, the attribute information is updated diary service providing system is synchronized. In the method for providing an open diary service using the address book of the portable terminal, Converting and storing a plurality of multimedia contents uploaded from the portable terminal as diary contents; In response to a user's request of the portable terminal, converting the diary contents selected by the user from the plurality of diary contents into open diary contents; and Setting to allow the open diary content to be published only for preset contacts among the contacts in the address book of the portable terminal; Including but not limited to: Wherein each contact of the address book data includes attribute information related to whether the open diary contents are published, and the attribute information is periodically synchronized. The method of claim 7, wherein Storing multimedia contents uploaded from the portable terminal in a diary contents DB; Synchronizing multimedia contents stored in the portable terminal with multimedia contents stored in the diary contents DB; Open diary service providing method comprising more. The method of claim 8, Wherein each of the multimedia contents includes attribute information related to whether or not the open diary contents are published, and the attribute information is periodically synchronized. The method of claim 7, wherein Storing the address book data uploaded from the portable terminal in an address book DB; Synchronizing address book data stored in the portable terminal with address book data stored in the address book DB; Open diary service providing method comprising more. delete

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