KR101273768B1 - Method and apparatus for application discovery - Google Patents

Abstract

A method and apparatus for recommending an app that provides a service related to a region according to a location of a mobile terminal is provided. The mobile terminal provides the server with information that changes as the mobile terminal moves. The server determines the recommended apps by comparing the information transmitted by the terminal with the information of the registered apps, and transmits the determined recommended apps to the mobile terminal. The server determines the recommended apps using the geographic location information of the mobile terminal or the list of SSIDs accessible by the mobile terminal.

Description

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR APPLICATION DISCOVERY}

The embodiments below relate to a method and apparatus for discovering an application.

An apparatus and method for recommending an app that provides a service related to a region according to a location of a mobile terminal is disclosed.

An app means an application used in a mobile terminal.

Apps can be created by various developers through open libraries or web technologies (HTML, JavaScript). Developers can register their apps in an integrated app server, such as an app store. The user of the mobile terminal can browse the app required by the user through a search function provided by the app store, and select a specific app and install it in his mobile terminal.

The mobile terminal has a characteristic of moving with the user. As an invention for recommending specific content based on the location of a mobile terminal, there is Korean Patent Publication No. 2006-0008471. Korean Patent Laid-Open Publication No. 2006-0008471 (published January 27, 2006) recommends a specific location within a local community system based on the location of a mobile terminal. Apps that can be used in a mobile terminal can also be considered one of these contents.

Among the apps that can be used in a mobile terminal, there are many apps that provide services related to a particular area. For example, an app that provides coupons provided by stores located in a specific shopping mall, or an app that provides a map in a specific format to the shopping mall may be used.

Even if the user has installed a large number of apps in his mobile terminal, the user should determine and confirm by himself which of the installed apps is available in his current situation (ie, location).

In addition, in order for a user to install an app suitable for the current situation on his mobile terminal, the user must search for an app that matches his current situation among various apps registered in the app server using a general search function. In addition, the user should check the results of the search to see if the found app actually serves his purpose.

An embodiment of the present invention may provide an apparatus and method for determining a recommended app for a mobile terminal using geographical location information of the mobile terminal or a list of SSIDs accessible by the mobile terminal.

An embodiment of the present invention may provide an apparatus and method for displaying recommended apps determined by geographical location information or a list of accessible SSIDs, and performing download and installation of recommended apps.

According to one aspect of the present invention, registering at least one application providing a service related to a region to generate registration information of each of the applications, receiving an application discovery request from a mobile terminal-the application discovery request is Service triggering information changed as the mobile terminal moves; selecting at least one recommended application whose registration information corresponds to the service triggering information among the registered applications; Is transmitted to the application discovery result including the list of recommended applications.

The service triggering information may be geographic location information of the mobile terminal.

The registration information may include geographical location information indicating a geographical location of an application server providing the application.

The selecting of the recommended applications may include selecting the at least one recommended app based on a match between the geographical location information of the mobile terminal and the geographical location information of each of the at least one applications.

The service triggering information may be a list of SSIDs detected by the mobile terminal.

The registration information may include SSID information indicating an SSID of a network providing the application.

The selecting of the recommended applications may include selecting the at least one recommended app based on a match between the list of SSIDs and SSID information of each of the at least one applications.

The application recommending method may further include removing an application already installed in the mobile terminal from the list of recommended applications.

The application recommending method may include receiving an app download request from the mobile terminal, wherein the app download request includes a list of at least one selected app, and wherein the selected app is one of the at least one recommended app. The method may further include transmitting the at least one selected app to the mobile terminal.

According to another aspect of the present invention, in a method of recommending an application by a mobile terminal, generating an application discovery request including service triggering information that is changed as the mobile terminal moves, and sending the application discovery request to a server. Transmitting, receiving an application discovery result including a list of at least one recommended application from the server, and displaying a number of the at least one recommended application, wherein the recommended application is registered with the server. An application recommendation method is provided, wherein a registration information of an application is an application corresponding to the service triggering information among at least one application providing a service related to a region.

The method of recommending an application may further include analyzing the list of the at least one recommendation application to classify the recommended applications into apps installed in the mobile terminal and apps not installed in the mobile terminal.

The displaying of the number of the at least one recommended application may include displaying the number of the installed apps and displaying the number of the non-installed apps.

The number of the at least one recommended application may be displayed as part of an icon of an app of the mobile terminal.

The application recommending method may include: transmitting an app download request including a list of at least one selected app of the at least one recommended application to the server, receiving installation files of the at least one selected app from the server; The method may further include installing the at least one selected app in the mobile terminal using the installation files.

The at least one selected app may be installed in the same folder.

According to another aspect of the present invention, an app registration system for registering at least one application providing a service related to a region to generate registration information for each of the applications, a transceiver for receiving an application discovery request from a mobile terminal- The application discovery request includes service triggering information that changes as the mobile terminal moves; and an app discovery system for selecting at least one recommended application whose registration information among the registered applications corresponds to the service triggering information; And the transmitting and receiving unit transmits an application discovery result to the mobile terminal, wherein the application discovery result includes a list of the recommended applications.

According to another aspect of the present invention, a control unit for generating an application discovery request including service triggering information changed as the mobile terminal moves, transmitting the application discovery request to a server, at least one recommendation from the server And a display unit for receiving an application discovery result including a list of applications and a display unit for displaying the number of the at least one recommended application, wherein the recommended application includes at least one service that provides a service related to a region registered in the server. Among the applications, a mobile terminal is provided in which a registration information of an application corresponds to the service triggering information.

An apparatus and method are provided for determining a recommended app for a mobile terminal using geographical location information of the mobile terminal or a list of SSIDs accessible by the mobile terminal.

An apparatus and method are provided for displaying recommended apps determined by geographic location information or a list of accessible SSIDs, and performing download and installation for recommended apps.

1 illustrates an app that recommends an app that provides a service related to an area according to an embodiment of the present invention.
2 is a structural diagram of a server according to an embodiment of the present invention.
3 is a structural diagram of a mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.
4 is a flowchart of an app recommendation service according to an embodiment of the present invention.
5 illustrates registration information of an app according to an embodiment of the present invention.
6 shows a setting screen of a mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.
7 illustrates an app discovery screen according to an embodiment of the present invention.
8 is a flowchart illustrating an app installation method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. However, the present invention is not limited to or limited by the embodiments. Like reference symbols in the drawings denote like elements.

In the embodiments and examples of the present invention, the application and the app are used interchangeably.

1 illustrates an app that recommends an app that provides a service related to an area according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The App Discovery App (ADA) 110 is an app that recommends an app that provides a service related to a region. The ADA may be displayed as an icon 110 in the user's mobile terminal 100.

The ADA may recommend apps related to the location (or region), depending on the location (or region) of the user. For example, when a user visits a specific shopping mall, the ADA may 1) recommend an discount coupon that can be used by a company in the shopping mall, or 2) an app that provides a map displaying detailed information of the shopping mall. Etc. can be recommended.

The types of apps that ADA recommends can be divided into two types, depending on the installation status. The first kind is a pre-installed recommended app. The pre-installed recommended apps are pre-installed apps in the mobile terminal 100 among the apps recommended by the ADA 110. The second kind is the un-installed recommended app. Un-installed recommended apps are provided for downloading and installation through an app server, but are not installed in the user's mobile terminal 100.

The icon 110 of the ADA may indicate the number of recommended apps. The mobile terminal 100 (or ADA) may display the number of recommended apps by dividing the number of recommended apps 120 installed and the number of recommended apps 130 not installed.

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

The service of the ADA is provided by the interworking between the mobile terminal 100 and the server 200. The server 200 provides a list of recommended apps to the terminal.

The server 200 may provide an app store service. The app store service refers to a service that provides a search and download for apps registered in the server 200.

The server 200 may provide an app recommendation service. The web recommendation service refers to a service that recommends apps related to the location (or region) according to the location (or region) of the mobile terminal 100.

The server 200 may include a transceiver 210, an app discovery system 220, an authentication system 230, an app registration system 235, an app discovery database 240, and an app purchase (purchasing). ) May include a history DB 245.

The app discovery system 220 may include an extraction unit 250, an app discovery unit (or app discovery module) 260, and a purchase checker 270.

The transceiver 210 may operate as an app discovery triggering information aggregator. The app discovery triggering information synthesizer may refer to a module that receives an app discovery request from the mobile terminal 100.

The extractor 250 may refer to a matching module. The extractor 250 may distinguish the geographical location or the SSID from the app discovery request.

The extractor 250 may include a geo-location extractor 252 and a service set identifier (SSID) extractor 254.

The location extractor 252 may extract information about the current location of the mobile terminal 100. The SSID extractor 254 may extract information on SSIDs accessible by the mobile terminal 100.

The app discovery unit 260 may represent an app discovery module. The app finder 260 may include a location matcher 262 and an SSID matcher 264.

The location matching unit 262 may extract information of apps associated with the location from among registered apps using information about the current location of the mobile terminal 100. The SSID matching unit 264 may extract information of apps associated with the SSIDs among registered apps using information on SSIDs accessible by the mobile terminal 100.

The purchase check unit 270 may represent a purchase check module. The purchase checker 270 may compare the details of the recommended apps and the apps already purchased by the user of the mobile terminal 100 in order to prevent duplicate recommendation of pre-installed apps in the mobile terminal 100.

Specific functions of the components 210 to 270 will be described in detail below with reference to FIG. 4 and the like.

3 is a structural diagram of a mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The mobile terminal 100 may include a transceiver 310, a global positioning system (GPS) 320, a controller 330, a battery 340, and a display 350.

The transceiver 310 is a network interface of the mobile terminal 100.

The controller 330 may be a processor that executes the ADA 110.

The battery 340 may supply power necessary for the operation of the mobile terminal 100.

The GPS 320 may generate geographic location information of the mobile terminal 100 and provide the generated geographic location information to the controller 330. Geographic location information is information that changes as the mobile terminal 100 moves.

The transceiver 310 may detect SSIDs of wireless networks (eg, Wi-Fi) accessible by the mobile terminal 100, and provide the controller 330 with a list of detected SSIDs. have. As the mobile terminal 100 moves, wireless networks accessible by the mobile terminal 100 change. Accordingly, the retrieved SSIDs are information changed as the mobile terminal 100 moves.

4 is a flowchart of an app recommendation service according to an embodiment of the present invention.

In operation 400, the app registration system 235 registers at least one app that provides a service related to a region, and generates registration information of each app. The app registration system 235 may store registration information of each app in the app discovery DB 240. An example of the generated registration information is described in detail below with reference to FIG. 5.

In step 410, the controller 330 generates an app discovery request.

The controller 330 may periodically execute step 410. The period may be determined by a value set by a user. In addition, the controller 330 may determine whether to start step 410 based on the information related to the battery 340. For example, the controller 330 may execute step 410 only when the remaining amount of the battery 330 is equal to or greater than a set value.

The app discovery request includes service triggering information. The service triggering information is information changed as the mobile terminal 100 moves. Therefore, recommendation apps for the current location of the mobile terminal 100 may be determined through the service triggering information.

The service triggering information may be 1) geographic location information of the mobile terminal 100 and / or 2) a list of SSIDs detected by the mobile terminal 100 described above with reference to FIG. 3.

The app discovery request may include user information. The user information may include a user identifier (UID) and a password of the UID. The UID may be an ID of an app store service and / or an app recommendation service provided by the server 200.

In operation 420, the transceiver 210 of the server 200 receives an app discovery request transmitted by the transceiver 310 of the mobile terminal 100.

If the app discovery request includes user information, step 425 may be performed.

In step 425, the authentication system 230 authenticates the user of the mobile terminal 100 using the user information. Authentication system 230 may impose age restrictions or country restrictions on app store services and / or app recommendation services to users identified using user information. The authentication system 230 can check whether the app discovery service is allowed for the authenticated user.

In operation 430, the extractor 250 extracts service triggering information from the received app discovery request.

Step 430 may include step 432 and step 434.

In step 432, the location extractor 252 checks whether the geographic location information is included in the app discovery request. If the geographic location information is included in the app discovery request, the location information extraction unit 252 extracts the geographic location information from the app discovery request.

In step 434, the SSID extractor 252 checks whether a list of SSIDs is included in the app discovery request. If the list of SSIDs is included in the app discovery request, the location extractor 252 extracts the list of SSIDs from the app discovery request.

In operation 440, the app discovery unit 260 selects at least one recommended app from among registered apps. Here, the recommended app is an app corresponding to the received service triggering information.

Step 440 may include step 442 and step 444.

In operation 442, when the geographical location information is extracted, the location matching unit 262 may select at least one recommended app based on a match between the extracted geographical location information and the geographical location information of each of the registered apps.

In operation 444, when the list of SSIDs is extracted, the SSID matching unit 264 may select at least one recommended app based on the extracted list of SSIDs and the SSID information of each of the registered apps.

In operation 450, the app discovery unit 260 generates an app discovery result. The app discovery result includes a list of at least one recommended app.

In some cases, the list of recommended apps may need to be limited to a list of apps that the user of the mobile terminal 100 has not already purchased. In operation 455, the purchase checker 270 may remove an app already installed in the mobile terminal 100 from the list of at least one recommended app. The purchase check unit 270 may check the app already installed in the mobile terminal 100 with reference to the app purchase history DB 245. The purchase check unit 270 may check the apps previously purchased by the user of the mobile terminal 100 with reference to the app purchase history DB 245 and in the list of recommended apps so that only apps that the user has not yet purchased are recommended. You can uninstall apps that you have already purchased.

Alternatively, the purchase chunk 270 may divide the list of at least one recommended app into a list of pre-installed apps and a list of un-installed apps. In this case, the app discovery result may include a list of pre-installed apps and a list of non-installed apps.

In operation 455, the transceiver 210 of the server 200 transmits an app discovery result to the transceiver 310 of the terminal 100.

In operation 460, the controller 330 analyzes the list of at least one recommended app in the app discovery result, so that the recommended apps are pre-installed in the mobile terminal 100 and un-installed apps in the mobile terminal 100. Can be divided into If the result of the app discovery by step 445 includes a list of pre-installed apps and a list of un-installed apps, the controller 330 refers to at least one by referring to the list of pre-installed apps and the list of un-installed apps. Each of the recommended apps can be divided into pre-installed or un-installed apps.

In operation 465, the controller 330 may display the number of at least one recommended app on the display 350. The controller 330 may display the number of recommended apps as part of the icon of the ADA 110.

The number of pre-installed apps and the number of non-installed apps may be displayed separately. For example, the controller 330 may display the number of pre-installed apps and the number of non-installed apps on the display unit 350. The controller 330 may display the number of pre-installed apps as part of the icon of the ADA 110. The controller 330 may display the number of un-installed apps as part of the icon of the ADA 110.

In operation 470, the controller 330 may display information on each of the un-installed apps among the at least one recommended app on the display 350. The user of the mobile terminal 100 may select at least one app that is desired to be installed among non-installed apps. Apps to be installed may be selected for each category of apps. Apps to be installed may be determined directly by the user according to the information of the app.

In step 475, the controller 330 recognizes at least one selected app and generates an app download request. The app download request includes a list of at least one selected app of the at least one recommended app. The selected app is one of the at least one recommended apps.

In operation 480, the transceiver 310 of the mobile terminal 100 transmits an app download request to the transceiver 210 of the server 200.

In operation 485, the transceiver 210 of the server 200 transmits installation files of at least one selected app to the transceiver 310 of the mobile terminal 100.

In operation 490, the controller 330 installs at least one selected app in the mobile terminal 100 using the installation files. A detailed method of installing the selected apps in the mobile terminal 100 is described in detail below with reference to FIG. 8.

In operation 495, the purchase checker 270 stores information indicating that at least one selected app is installed in the mobile terminal 100 in the app purchase history DB 245.

5 illustrates registration information of an app according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The registration information 500 of the app includes at least one item. Each item has a specific type of value. The registration information 500 is an item such as a triggering method 510, a geographic location information 520, an SSID information 530, a physical MAC address 540, an app discovery lookup time ( 550, geographic location distance 560, and app category 570.

The triggering method 510 determines how the app is to be provided as the recommended app. The value of the triggering method 510 is "location information" and / or "SSID". If the value of the triggering method 510 includes "location information", the app may be selected as the recommended app through the matching of step 442. If the value of the triggering method 510 includes "location information", the app's registration information 500 has a geographic location information 520 item. If the value of the triggering method 510 includes "SSID", the app may be selected as the recommended app through matching of step 444. If the value of the triggering method 510 includes "SSID", the registration information 500 of the app has an SSID information 530 item.

The geographical location information 520 represents the geographical location of the server providing the app. The value of the geographic location information 520 may be a GPS point value or a list of GPS point values. In operation 442, the location matching unit 262 compares the geographic location information extracted from the service triggering information with the value of the geographic location information 520 of the app registration information 500 to select the app as a recommended app. You can decide whether or not. For example, if the location indicated by the extracted geographical location information is within a certain distance from any one of the locations indicated by the GPS point values of the geographical location information 510 of the app, the location matching unit 262 detects the app. You can choose as a recommended app.

SSID information 530 represents the SSID of the server providing the app. The value of the SSID information 320 may be a SSID or a list of SSIDs. In operation 444, the SSID matching unit 264 compares the list of SSIDs extracted from the service triggering information with a value of the SSID information 530 of the app registration information 500 to select the app as a recommended app. Can be determined. For example, the SSID matching unit 264 recommends the app when one SSID of the extracted SSIDs is the same as any SSID among the SSIDs indicated by the SSID list of the SSID information 530 of the app. Can be selected as.

The physical MAC address 540 represents the physical MAC address of the network (or server) that provides the app. Multiple networks may use the same SSID. That is, the names of SSIDs may overlap. Accordingly, the SSID matching unit 264 may reconfirm whether the SSID extracted from the service triggering information matches the SSID information 530 in the SSID information 530 of the app by checking the physical MAC address 540. For example, the SSID extractor 254 may extract information on physical MAC addresses of SSIDs accessible by the mobile terminal 100. The SSID matching unit 264 may check whether the physical MAC address 540 of the app selected as the recommended app matches the physical MAC address in the service triggering information.

The aforementioned geographic location information 520, SSID information 530, and physical MAC address 540 may be classified as app discovery triggering information.

App discovery lookup time 540 represents a period for performing app discovery. For example, the app discovery lookup time 540 can represent a period of time to apply step 440 for a particular app. The value of the app discovery lookup time 540 may use a unit representing time such as minutes.

The geographic location distance 560 sets a range to search for the recommended app based on the geographic location of the mobile terminal 100. For example, in step 442, the location matching unit 262 may register a registered app having the geographical location information 520 indicating a location within the geographical location distance 560 from the extracted geographical location information of the mobile terminal 100. You can choose as a recommended app. The value of the geographic location distance 560 may use a unit indicating a distance such as a meter.

App category 570 represents a category of the app. In operation 465, the controller 330 may classify at least one recommended app by category and display it on the display 350. In addition, the controller 330 may display a category of each of the at least one recommended app on the display 350. The value of the app category 570 may be a list of at least one category. In other words, a registered app may belong to two or more categories.

6 shows a setting screen of a mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Items for setting a triggering method in the display unit 350 of the mobile terminal 100 are provided. The geographical location setting item 610 determines whether to use the web recommendation service based on the geographical location according to ON / OFF. The SSID setting item 620 determines whether to use the web recommendation service based on the SSID according to ON / OFF.

In addition, service setting items are provided in the display unit 350 of the mobile terminal 100. The distance setting item 630 determines the sensitivity of the web recommendation service based on the geographical location. For example, in step 442, the location matching unit 262 may register a registered app having the geographical location information 520 whose distance from the extracted geographical location information of the mobile terminal 100 is equal to or less than the value of the setting item 630. You can choose as a recommended app. When the user selects the distance setting item 630, the distance setting selection screen 660 may be displayed. The user may select a specific distance as a value of the distance setting item 630. In response to an input from the user, the selected distance 670 is displayed on the display 350.

The execution time setting item 640 may set a specific time (or time zone) for requesting a web discovery service. For example, the value of the execution time setting item 640 may set a time (or time zone) to start the step 410.

The execution cycle setting item 650 may set a cycle for requesting the web discovery service. For example, the execution cycle setting item 650 may set a cycle for executing the step 410.

7 illustrates an app discovery screen according to an embodiment of the present invention.

In operation 470, the display unit 350 may classify and display information on paid apps, free apps, and already installed apps among recommended apps on the app discovery screen 710.

The apps displayed by the display unit 350 may be apps related to the current situation of the user (or the mobile terminal 100). For example, when the user visits the Seoul station, an app related to the train reservation may be displayed in the display unit 350.

When the user selects the paid app display button 720, the display unit 350 may display information of only paid apps among recommended apps. When the user selects the free app display button 730, the display unit 350 may display information of only free apps among the recommended apps. The paid apps and free apps may be apps that are not yet installed in the mobile terminal 100. For example, the display unit 350 may display information of each of the free apps such as a name and an icon in the app window 750.

When the user selects the pre-installed app display button 740, the display unit 350 may display information of only pre-installed apps in the mobile terminal 100 among recommended apps.

8 is a flowchart illustrating an app installation method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Steps 810 through 870 may be descriptive of step 490.

In operation 810, apps to be installed are output to the display unit 350.

In step 820, the user selects a method to install and inputs the selected installation method.

Here, the user may select an app to be installed according to 1) the category of the app, 2) the information of the app, and 3) the discount rate of the app. In addition, the installation method, 1) how to install the app individually, 2) how to determine whether to install the app by group, 3) how to select all the apps collectively, and 4) whether to install according to the rating of the app How to determine the.

The controller 330 receives the installation method selected by the user.

In the following, a method of collectively installing apps in a specific folder (for example, when installed apps are selected by a group, collectively, or selected according to a rating) and a method of individually installing apps are described.

In operation 830, the controller 330 determines whether the apps are individually installed.

If not installed separately, steps 840 through 860 are performed.

In step 840, the user enters the name of the folder, the control unit 330 receives the name of the input folder.

In operation 850, the controller 330 creates a folder having the input name.

In step 860, the controller 330 installs apps in the created folder. Thus, at least one selected app can be installed in the same folder.

In step 870, the controller 330 individually installs the apps. At this time, the controller 330 may receive a location (for example, a specific folder) to install the app from the user every time one app is installed.

Method according to an embodiment of the present invention is implemented in the form of program instructions that can be executed by various computer means may be recorded on a computer readable medium. The computer readable medium may include program instructions, data files, data structures, etc. alone or in combination. The program instructions recorded on the medium may be those specially designed and constructed for the present invention or may be available to those skilled in the art of computer software. Examples of computer-readable recording media include magnetic media such as hard disks, floppy disks, and magnetic tape, optical media such as CD-ROMs, DVDs, and magnetic disks, such as floppy disks. Magneto-optical media, and hardware devices specifically configured to store and execute program instructions, such as ROM, RAM, flash memory, and the like. Examples of program instructions include not only machine code generated by a compiler, but also high-level language code that can be executed by a computer using an interpreter or the like. The hardware device described above may be configured to operate as at least one software module to perform the operations of the present invention, and vice versa.

As described above, the present invention has been described by way of limited embodiments and drawings, but the present invention is not limited to the above embodiments, and those skilled in the art to which the present invention pertains various modifications and variations from such descriptions. This is possible.

Therefore, the scope of the present invention should not be limited to the described embodiments, but should be determined by the equivalents of the claims, as well as the claims.

100: mobile terminal
200: Server

Claims (16)

Performed by the application recommendation server,
Registering at least one application providing a service related to a region to generate registration information of each of the applications;
Receiving an application discovery request from a mobile terminal, wherein the application discovery request includes service triggering information that changes as the mobile terminal moves;
Selecting at least one recommended application whose registration information among the registered applications corresponds to the service triggering information;
Removing an application already installed in the mobile terminal from the list of at least one recommended application; And
Transmitting an application discovery result to the mobile terminal, wherein the application discovery result includes a list of the recommended applications;
Including, application recommendation method. The method of claim 1,
The service triggering information is geographic location information of the mobile terminal, and the registration information includes geographic location information indicating a geographic location of an application server providing the application,
Selecting the recommended applications,
Selecting the at least one recommended app based on a match between the geographic location information of the mobile terminal and the geographic location information of each of the at least one applications.
Including, application recommendation method. The method of claim 1,
The service triggering information is a list of SSIDs detected by the mobile terminal, and the registration information includes SSID information indicating an SSID of a network providing the application.
Selecting the recommended applications,
Selecting the at least one recommended app based on a match between the list of SSIDs and SSID information of each of the at least one applications
Including, application recommendation method. delete The method of claim 1,
Receiving an app download request from the mobile terminal, the app download request including a list of at least one selected app, wherein the selected app is one of the at least one recommended apps; And
Transmitting the at least one selected app to the mobile terminal.
Further comprising, application recommendation method. In the method for the mobile terminal to recommend the application,
Generating an application discovery request including service triggering information changed as the mobile terminal moves;
Sending the application discovery request to a server;
Receiving an application discovery result including a list of at least one recommended application from the server;
Displaying a number of the at least one recommended application;
Sending an app download request including a list of at least one selected app of the at least one recommended application to the server;
Receiving installation files of the at least one selected app from the server; And
Installing the at least one selected app in the mobile terminal using the installation files
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The recommendation application is an application recommendation method, the registration information of the application of the at least one of the applications that provide a service related to the region registered in the server corresponding to the service triggering information. The method according to claim 6,
The service triggering information is geographic location information of the mobile terminal, and the registration information includes geographic location information indicating a geographic location of an application server providing the application. The method according to claim 6,
The service triggering information is a list of SSIDs detected by the mobile terminal, and the registration information includes SSID information indicating an SSID of a network providing the application. The method according to claim 6,
Analyzing the list of the at least one recommended application, and classifying the recommended applications into apps installed in the mobile terminal and apps not installed in the mobile terminal.
Further comprising:
Displaying the number of the at least one recommended application,
Displaying the number of installed apps; And
Displaying the number of the non-installed apps
Including, application recommendation method. The method according to claim 6,
Wherein the number of the at least one recommended application is displayed as part of an icon of an app of the mobile terminal. delete The method according to claim 6,
Wherein said at least one selected app is installed in the same folder. An app registration system for registering at least one application providing a service related to a region to generate registration information of each of the applications;
A transceiver for receiving an application discovery request from a mobile terminal, wherein the application discovery request includes service triggering information changed as the mobile terminal moves; And
An app discovery system, wherein the registration information among the registered applications selects at least one recommended application corresponding to the service triggering information, and removes an application already installed in the mobile terminal from the list of the at least one recommended application.
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The transceiver unit transmits an application discovery result to the mobile terminal, and the application discovery result includes the list of the recommended applications. The method of claim 13,
The service triggering information is geographic location information of the mobile terminal, and the registration information includes geographic location information indicating a geographic location of an application server providing the application,
And the app discovery system selects the at least one recommended app based on a match between the geographic location information of the mobile terminal and the geographic location information of each of the at least one applications. The method of claim 13,
The service triggering information is a list of SSIDs detected by the mobile terminal, and the registration information includes SSID information indicating an SSID of a network providing the application.
And the app discovery system selects the at least one recommended app based on a match between the list of SSIDs and SSID information of each of the at least one applications. A controller configured to generate an application discovery request including service triggering information that changes as the mobile terminal moves;
A transmission / reception unit which transmits the application discovery request to a server and receives an application discovery result including a list of at least one recommended application from the server; And
A display unit for displaying the number of the at least one recommended application
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The transceiver unit transmits an app download request including a list of at least one selected app of the at least one recommended application to the server, receives installation files of the at least one selected app from the server,
The control unit installs the at least one selected app in the mobile terminal using the installation files,
The recommendation application is a mobile terminal, wherein the registration information of the application among the at least one application providing a service related to the region registered in the server corresponds to the service triggering information.

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