KR101590412B1 - Recording media for using service between near terminal and service apparat0us - Google Patents

Abstract

Disclosed are a recording medium for using service between neighboring terminals, and a service providing apparatus. When identifying neighboring terminals for using service between the neighboring terminals, the coverage of service use between neighboring terminals can be efficiently expanded by determining neighboring terminals for which a terminal has directly searched and neighboring terminals of the neighboring terminals which have been directly searched, as neighboring terminals of the terminal.

Description

TECHNICAL FIELD [0001] The present invention relates to a recording medium and a service providing apparatus,

The present invention relates to a technology for using services between peripheral terminals, and more particularly, to a peripheral terminal for service use between peripheral terminals, in which not only peripheral terminals directly searching for the terminal but also peripheral terminals The present invention relates to a recording medium and a location information management apparatus capable of effectively expanding the coverage of service use between peripheral terminals by confirming peripheral terminals as peripheral terminals of the terminal.

Currently, a location-based service, which is commonly used, provides cell-based location information or GPS-based location information measured by a terminal to a server. When a server receives location information of a terminal and location information And a location based service between the selected terminal and the selected peripheral terminal is provided.

However, since the above-described universal location-based service method is not a method of directly locating a terminal (peripheral terminal) actually located in the vicinity of the terminal, there is a reliability limit of the peripheral terminal selected through distance calculation in the server.

Recently, a technique has been developed in which a mobile station directly searches for neighboring mobile stations based on short-range wireless communication such as Bluetooth, and uses location-based services between mobile stations and neighboring mobile stations that have been identified.

However, in the case of the short-range wireless communication, since the coverage available for communication is very limited, as described above, the location-based service based on the direct search of peripheral terminals has a very narrow coverage.

In recent years, a beacon terminal is installed at a specific location such as a shop or a building, and a terminal searching for a beacon terminal (aka, a peripheral device) based on short-range wireless communication such as Bluetooth is provided with information matched with the beacon terminal, A beacon-based service that provides event information of the installed shops or buildings has appeared and is gradually developing.

However, in the beacon-based service as described above, coverage for the use of the service is very narrow because the coverage available for the short-range wireless communication is very limited.

Accordingly, the present invention proposes a scheme for efficiently expanding service coverage of services between neighboring terminals such as location-based services and beacon-based services.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and an object of the present invention is to provide a recording medium and a location information management apparatus capable of efficiently expanding the coverage of service use between peripheral terminals.

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a computer-readable recording medium comprising: searching for a terminal located in a vicinity of a specific terminal; Providing the searched search information to a server and registering a first terminal according to the search information in a server as a peripheral terminal of the specific terminal; And checking information about the first terminal from the server and information about a second terminal that is registering the first terminal with a peripheral terminal or registered with a peripheral terminal of the first terminal, And enabling the service associated with at least one of the first terminal and the second terminal to be available.

Preferably, the second terminal registers the first terminal as a peripheral terminal or a terminal registered as a peripheral terminal of the first terminal or a time at which the first terminal is registered as a peripheral terminal, The time registered in the peripheral terminal may be a terminal that does not pass the preset expiration time.

Preferably, each of the first terminal and the second terminal is a beacon terminal or a user terminal, and when the first terminal is a beacon terminal, the second terminal transmits the first terminal to the peripheral terminal If the first terminal is a user terminal, the server may be a terminal registered as a peripheral terminal of the first terminal.

Preferably, the service may be at least one of a message push service, a one-to-one or group messenger service, and a beacon-based event information service provided on the basis of the server.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided a service providing apparatus comprising: a receiving unit for receiving peripheral terminal search information from a specific terminal; An information management unit for registering the first terminal according to the neighboring terminal search information in the terminal formation information for each terminal in which the neighboring terminal is registered for each terminal, And information on the first terminal and information on a second terminal registered in the peripheral terminal or registered in the peripheral terminal of the first terminal, based on the information on the first terminal, And an information providing unit for providing information to the specific terminal and allowing the specific terminal to confirm the information about the first terminal and the second terminal.

Preferably, the network formation information of the first terminal among the network formation information for each terminal includes basic information and registration time information of the terminal registered in the peripheral terminal of the first terminal, And available service information may be included.

Preferably, each of the first terminal and the second terminal is a beacon terminal or a user terminal, and when the first terminal is a beacon terminal, the information providing unit may transmit the first terminal among the terminal- A terminal that has not yet passed a predetermined expiration time in accordance with the registration time information of the first terminal among terminals registered in the peripheral terminal as a neighboring terminal based on the network formation information of the terminal registered in the peripheral terminal, , It is possible to determine the second terminal.

Preferably, each of the first terminal and the second terminal is a beacon terminal or a user terminal, and when the first terminal is a user terminal, It is possible to determine, as the second terminal, a terminal whose registration time information does not exceed a predetermined expiration time among the terminals registered in the peripheral terminal of the first terminal based on the network formation information.

Preferably, when a service use request related to at least one of the first terminal and the second terminal is received from the specific terminal, a message push service according to the service use request, a one-to-one or group messenger service, And a service providing unit for providing at least one of the services.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a recording medium and a service providing apparatus for using a service between neighboring terminals, the apparatus comprising: It is possible to effectively extend the coverage of service utilization between peripheral terminals by confirming peripheral terminals of the terminal as peripheral terminals of the terminal.

1 is an exemplary diagram illustrating an example in which the coverage of service use between peripheral terminals is expanded according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.
2 is a configuration diagram illustrating a system including a terminal equipped with a recording medium and a service providing apparatus according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.
3 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of a terminal according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.
4 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of a service providing apparatus according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.
5 is a flowchart illustrating an operational flow of a terminal according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.
6 is a flowchart illustrating an operational flow of a service providing apparatus according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 7 is an exemplary diagram illustrating network formation information for each terminal managed by a service providing apparatus according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention. Referring to FIG.

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

FIG. 1 shows an example in which the coverage of service use between peripheral terminals is expanded according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 1, some of the plurality of terminals 1, 2,... 8 may be fixedly installed, and some terminals may be irregularly moved by a user having the terminal.

For example, in the case of terminals 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, and 8, a terminal that can be irregularly moved by a user possessed may be a general user terminal.

In the case of the terminals 3 and 6, the terminals 3 and 6 may be beacon terminals fixedly installed at specific locations such as shops or buildings.

Each of the plurality of terminals 1, 2, ... 8 is basically assumed to be equipped with a local wireless communication function such as Bluetooth.

Each of the terminals 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, and 8, which are user terminals, transmits a search message based on the short-range wireless communication, and transmits the search message to the neighboring terminals (user terminal or beacon terminal) It is possible to perform a search function.

When each of the terminals 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, and 8 as the user terminals and each of the terminals 3 and 6 as the beacon terminals receives the search message based on the local area wireless communication, So that the terminal that has transmitted the message can search for the terminal itself that has returned the search response message as a neighboring terminal.

For example, as shown in FIG. 1, when the terminal 1 transmits a search message based on the short-range wireless communication and searches for a nearby terminal, the terminals 2 and 3, which receive the search message, Message to the terminal 1.

Accordingly, the terminal 1 can search each of the terminals 2 and 3 that have returned the search response message for the search message of the terminal 1 as a neighboring terminal.

Thereafter, in the conventional case, the terminal 1 can use a peripheral terminal-based service (aka location-based service) with the terminal 2 (user terminal) searching directly as a peripheral terminal.

Of course, in the conventional case, the terminal 1 can use a peripheral terminal service (aka, a beacon-based service) with the terminal 3 (beacon terminal) directly searching as a peripheral terminal.

That is, in the conventional case, the terminal 1 can use only a terminal-based service or a beacon-based service only between the terminals 2 and 3 that have directly searched.

As a result, in the conventional case, since the communication coverage A of the short-range wireless communication used by the terminal 1 in searching for the neighboring terminal is very limited, the coverage of the service of the neighboring terminals such as the location-based service and the beacon- It is very narrow like the communication coverage A of the communication.

Accordingly, the present invention proposes a method for effectively expanding service coverage of services between neighboring terminals.

More specifically, the present invention proposes a computer-readable recording medium and a service providing apparatus (server) including instructions for realizing the proposed method.

Hereinafter, a system including the terminal 100 and the service providing apparatus 200 on which the computer-readable recording medium of the present invention is mounted will be briefly described with reference to FIG.

The terminal 100 is a terminal equipped with the computer readable recording medium of the present invention and capable of performing the following functions by the commands recorded on the computer readable recording medium of the present invention.

Hereinafter, for convenience of explanation, it is assumed that the terminal 100 shown in FIG. 1 and the terminal 1 that is a user terminal are the same.

The terminal 100 searches for a terminal located near the terminal 100 itself.

More specifically, the terminal 100 can perform a function of searching for a nearby terminal (user terminal, or beacon terminal) based on the near field wireless communication by transmitting a near field wireless communication based search message.

For example, as shown in FIG. 1, when a terminal 100 (which is the same as the terminal 1) searches for a terminal located in the vicinity by transmitting a short distance wireless communication based search message, the terminal 2, 3 will return a search response message to the terminal 100.

Accordingly, the terminal 100 can search each of the terminals 2 and 3 that have returned the search response message for the search message of the terminal 100 as a peripheral terminal.

At this time, it is preferable that the terminal 100 periodically perform a search function for searching for a terminal located in the vicinity of the terminal 100 at predetermined intervals (for example, 10 minutes). Further, Can also be performed.

The terminal 100 provides the searched search information to the server, that is, the service providing apparatus 200 of the present invention, and registers the first terminal according to the search information in the service providing apparatus 200 as a peripheral terminal of the terminal 100 .

If the terminal 100 searches for the terminals 2 and 3 through the search function as described above, the search information searched by the terminal 100 may include basic information (e.g., a MAC address identifier, A terminal identifier such as a number).

Therefore, the first terminal according to the search information means each of the terminals 2 and 3 including basic information in the search information.

The service providing apparatus 200 manages the network formation information for each terminal in which peripheral terminals are registered for each terminal.

More specifically, it is preferable that the service providing apparatus 200 manages network formation information for each user terminal in which peripheral terminals are registered.

Hereinafter, the network formation information for each terminal will be described as being network formation information for each user terminal.

When the search information is received from the terminal 100 as described above, the service providing apparatus 200 transmits the first network setup information to the terminal 100, It is registered as a peripheral terminal.

In this way, when the terminal 100 periodically provides search information for searching for a terminal located at a neighboring location to the service providing apparatus 200 every search cycle (for example, 10 minutes), the service providing apparatus 200 transmits the search information to the terminal 100 ) Of the terminal 100 in the real time and registering the terminal in the vicinity of the terminal 100 to update the network formation information of the terminal 100 (same as the terminal 1 in FIG. 1) to the latest information.

Of course, terminals other than the terminal 100 (same as the terminal 1 of FIG. 1), that is, terminals 2, 4, 5, 7, 8 which are user terminals in FIG. 1, The service providing apparatus 200 will provide search information that periodically searches for a terminal located in the periphery every cycle (e.g., 10 minutes), and the service providing apparatus 200 will provide search information The network formation information can also be updated and updated with the latest information.

Therefore, the service providing apparatus 200 can update and manage the network formation information for each terminal with the latest information at all times.

In addition, the terminal 100 provides the search information to the server, that is, the service providing apparatus 200, the first terminal directly searching for the terminal 100 itself from the service providing apparatus 200, that is, the terminal 2, 3 and the information about the second terminal that registers the first terminal (terminals 2 and 3) as peripheral terminals or the peripheral terminals of the first terminals (terminals 2 and 3).

For example, if the terminal 100 searches for a neighboring terminal according to a user's input of a neighboring terminal confirmation request, the terminal 100 searches the service providing apparatus 200 for the search information searched through the search function You can also ask for information confirmation while providing.

The service providing apparatus 200 transmits the first network setup information to the first terminal according to the search information received from the terminal 100, It is possible to register the network forming information in the peripheral terminal of the terminal 100 and confirm whether the information confirmation request is also received from the terminal 100. [

Accordingly, if the information providing apparatus 200 receives the information confirmation request, the service providing apparatus 200 transmits the information about the first terminal, i.e., the terminal 2 or 3 according to the search information received from the terminal 100, (E.g., terminals 4, 5, 6, and 8) that are registered as peripheral terminals of the first terminal (terminals 2 and 3) or registered as peripheral terminals of the first terminals To the terminal 100.

Accordingly, in the terminal 100, the information about the first terminal directly searched by the terminal 100 itself, that is, the information about the terminals 2 and 3, and the information about the first terminal (terminals 2 and 3) (Terminals 4, 5, 6, and 8) that are registered in the peripheral terminals of the first terminals (terminals 2 and 3) and can confirm the information of the first terminals (terminals 2, 3) and the second terminal (the terminal 4, 5, 6, 8).

As described above, according to the present invention, not only the terminals 2 and 3 directly searching for peripheral terminals, but also terminals 4, 5, 6, and 8 It can be confirmed as a peripheral terminal of the terminal 100 so that the mesh network based on the terminals 2 and 3 that have directly searched for in the terminal 100, that is, the terminal 2, 4, 6, and 8, which have a peripheral terminal relation based on the terminal 3, and a terminal 8 having a terminal relation based on the terminal 3, do.

As a result, according to the present invention, by extending the peripheral terminal range of the terminal 100 to the terminals 4, 5, 6, and 8 through the result of forming the mesh network based on the terminals 2 and 3 searched directly by the terminal 100, It is possible to extend the service coverage of the service of the peripheral terminals available to the terminal 100 from the existing limited coverage A to the broad coverage A + B + C.

Hereinafter, the configuration of a terminal according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIG.

3, the terminal 100 according to the present invention includes a search unit 110, a search information providing unit 120, a peripheral terminal check unit 130, and a service using unit 140 .

The search unit 110 searches for a terminal located in the vicinity of the specific terminal.

Here, the specific terminal is a terminal on which the computer readable recording medium of the present invention is mounted, and means a terminal, that is, the terminal 100 itself.

That is, the search unit 110 searches for a terminal located in the vicinity of a specific terminal, that is, the terminal 100 itself.

More specifically, the search unit 110 may perform a function of searching for a nearby terminal (user terminal, or beacon terminal) based on the near field wireless communication by transmitting a search message based on the near field wireless communication.

At this time, it is preferable that the search unit 110 periodically performs a search function for searching for a nearby terminal, for every predetermined search cycle (for example, 10 minutes). Further, It can be performed even when it is inputted.

Hereinafter, for convenience of explanation, it is described that the search unit 110 searches for the terminal 2 (user terminal) and the terminal 3 (beacon terminal) through the present search function.

The search information providing unit 120 provides the search information currently searched by the search unit 110 to the server, that is, the service providing apparatus 200 of the present invention.

If the search unit 110 searches for the terminals 2 and 3 through the search function as described above, the search information searched by the terminal 100 includes basic information (e.g., MAC address identifier, A device identifier such as a device number).

When the search information is received from the terminal 100 as described above, the service providing apparatus 200 transmits the network formation information for each terminal to the network formation information of the terminal 100 (the same as the terminal 1 in Fig. 1) And registers the first terminal according to the search information, i.e., terminals 2 and 3, as peripheral terminals of the terminal 100. [

The peripheral terminal confirmation unit 130 registers the information about the first terminal directly searched by the terminal 100 directly from the service providing apparatus 200, that is, the information about the terminals 2 and 3 and the first terminal Or information about a second terminal (for example, terminals 4, 5, 6 and 8) registered in the peripheral terminals of the first terminals (terminals 2 and 3) It becomes possible to use a service (also called a peripheral terminal service) related to at least one of the terminals 2, 3, and the second terminals (terminals 4, 5, 6, 8).

More specifically, if the current search function of the search unit 110 is performed in response to a user's input of a peripheral terminal confirmation request, the search information providing unit 120 transmits the search information to the service providing apparatus 200), and request information confirmation together.

The service providing apparatus 200 transmits the first network setup information to the first terminal according to the search information received from the terminal 100, It is possible to register the network forming information in the peripheral terminal of the terminal 100 and confirm whether the information confirmation request is also received from the terminal 100. [

Accordingly, if the information providing apparatus 200 receives the information confirmation request, the service providing apparatus 200 transmits the information about the first terminal, i.e., the terminal 2 or 3 according to the search information received from the terminal 100, (E.g., terminals 4, 5, 6, and 8) that are registered as peripheral terminals of the first terminal (terminals 2 and 3) or registered as peripheral terminals of the first terminals To the terminal 100.

The peripheral terminal identification unit 130 identifies information about the first terminal, that is, information about the terminals 2 and 3 and information about the first terminals (terminals 2 and 3) from the service providing apparatus 200, (Terminal 4, 5, 6, 8) registered in the terminal or registered in the peripheral terminal of the first terminal (terminal 2, 3).

Here, the information about the terminal (the first terminal or the second terminal) that can be checked from the service providing apparatus 200 includes basic information (e.g., a terminal identifier) of the terminal and service information available in association with the terminal .

Here, the second terminal may be a time when the first terminal is registered as a peripheral terminal or a terminal registered as a peripheral terminal of the first terminal, or a time registered as a peripheral terminal of the first terminal It is preferable that the terminal does not pass the preset expiration time.

The second terminal (terminals 4, 5, 6, and 8) registers the first terminal (terminals 2 and 3) as peripheral terminals in the service providing apparatus 200, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 of FIG. 1 registered as peripheral terminals of the terminals 2, 3, (For example, 15 minutes), that is, the terminals 4, 5, 6, and 8 are not registered. In other words, the terminal 7 among the terminals 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 in FIG. 1 is connected to the peripheral terminals of the first terminals (terminals 2 and 3) The registered time will be the terminal that has passed the expiration time (for example, 15 minutes).

This means that the terminals 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8, which have a peripheral terminal relationship with the terminals 2 and 3 that have searched directly at the terminal 100, The more reliable the terminal 100 can be.

Each of the first terminal and the second terminal described above is a beacon terminal or a user terminal.

In this case, when the first terminal is a beacon terminal, the second terminal is a terminal that registers the first terminal as a peripheral terminal in the server, that is, the service providing apparatus 200.

Also, the second terminal is a terminal registered in the server, that is, the peripheral terminal of the first terminal in the service providing apparatus 200, when the first terminal is a user terminal.

The first terminal directly searched by the terminal 100, that is, the terminal 2 of the terminals 2 and 3 is a user terminal and the terminal 3 is a beacon terminal. Also, among the second terminals, i.e., terminals 4, 5, 6, and 8, terminals 4, 5, and 8 are user terminals and terminal 6 is a beacon terminal.

In this case, if the first terminal is a beacon terminal, that is, the terminal 3 that is a beacon terminal, the second terminal is a terminal that registers the first terminal, that is, the terminal 3 (beacon terminal) And corresponds to the terminal 8.

In other words, the terminal 8 having the peripheral terminal relation based on the terminal 3 (beacon terminal) searched directly from the terminal 100 is the second terminal for the terminal 3 (beacon terminal) as the first terminal.

In the case of the terminal 2 as the user terminal, that is, the first terminal is the terminal 2 registered in the peripheral terminal of the first terminal, that is, terminal 2 (user terminal) in the service providing apparatus 200 4, and 6 (terminal 7 is excluded from the expiration time elapse).

In other words, the terminals 4, 5, and 6 having a peripheral terminal relationship based on the terminal 2 (user terminal) searched directly from the terminal 100 are the second terminals to the terminal 2 (user terminal) as the first terminal.

The process of determining the second terminal will be described in more detail later in the description of the configuration of the service providing apparatus 200, which is a main body thereof.

As described above, the service utilization unit 140 determines whether the first terminal (i.e., the terminal 2 or 3) (E.g., terminals 4, 5, 6, and 8), information related to at least one of the first terminal (terminal 2, 3) and the second terminal Terminal services.

Here, the service, that is, the peripheral terminal service may be at least one of a message push service, a one-to-one or group messenger service, and a beacon-based event information service provided based on the above server, that is, the service providing apparatus 200.

More specifically, the service utilization unit 140 displays information about the terminals 2 and 3 and information (basic information, service information) about the second terminals (e.g., terminals 4, 5, 6, and 8) And allows the user of the terminal 100 to recognize the service. When the service type and the terminal are selected from the user, the service between the selected terminal and the peripheral terminal of the selected service type is used based on the service providing apparatus 200 .

For example, basic information (terminal identifier) of each of the terminals 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8 is displayed on the screen of the terminal 100, and in the case of terminals 2, 4, According to the service information, at least one of a service available in the corresponding terminal, for example, a message push service, a one-to-one or a group messenger service, is displayed. In the case of the terminals 3 and 6 which are beacon terminals, : Event information providing service of the building A, and terminal 6: Event information providing service of the shop A can be displayed.

Hereinafter, for example, it is assumed that the message push service is selected as the service type from the user on the screen of the terminal 100 and the terminal 4 is selected.

In this case, the service using unit 140 requests the service providing apparatus 200 to use the message push service with the terminal 4, and transmits a message (e.g., a created message or a stored message) input from the user of the terminal 100 To the service providing apparatus 200 and allows the service providing apparatus 200 to transmit the message requested to be transmitted from the terminal 100 to the terminal 4 so that the user can use the neighboring terminal service, have.

It is also assumed that a one-to-one messenger service is selected as the service type from the user on the screen of the terminal 100 and the terminal 5 is selected.

In this case, the service using unit 140 requests the service providing apparatus 200 to use the one-to-one messenger service with the terminal 4, establishes a chat room composed of the terminal 100 and the terminal 4 in the service providing apparatus 200, A conversation input from a user of the terminal 100 and a conversation input from the terminal 5 can be visually displayed through the chat room so that a one-to-one messenger service related to the neighboring terminal services, i.e., the terminal 5, can be used.

It is also assumed that a group messenger service is selected as the service type from the user on the screen of the terminal 100 and the terminals 4, 5, and 8 are selected.

In this case, the service using unit 140 requests the service providing apparatus 200 to use the group messenger service with the terminals 4, 5, and 8 and transmits the group messenger service using the terminal 100 and the terminals 4, 5 , 8, and displays the conversation text input from the user of the terminal 100 and the conversation text input from the terminals 4, 5, 8 through the chat room, 5,8 and related messenger services can be used.

It is also assumed that the terminal 6 of the event information providing service of the store A is selected from the user on the screen of the terminal 100 as the service type.

In this case, the service using unit 140 requests the service providing apparatus 200 to use the beacon-based event information providing service of the terminal 6 and notifies the service providing apparatus 200 of the use of the beacon- By acquiring the event information, the beacon-based event information providing service related to the terminal-to-terminal service, i.e., the terminal 6 can be used.

At least one of the searching unit 110, the search information providing unit 120, the peripheral terminal checking unit 130 and the service using unit 140 may be a recording medium Program, or the like) and can be mounted on the terminal 100.

Hereinafter, the configuration of the service providing apparatus 200 according to the preferred embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIG.

4, the service providing apparatus 200 according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a receiving unit 210 for receiving peripheral terminal search information from a specific terminal, An information management unit 220 for registering a first terminal according to the neighboring terminal search information as a neighboring terminal of the specific terminal, and an information management unit 220 for storing information on the first terminal, Or information about a second terminal registered in a peripheral terminal of the first terminal to the specific terminal and transmits information about the first terminal and the second terminal in the specific terminal And an information providing unit 230 for confirming the information.

The service providing apparatus 200 may further include a service providing unit 240.

The receiving unit 210 receives peripheral terminal search information from a specific terminal.

Here, the specific terminal is a terminal providing peripheral terminal search information to the service providing apparatus 200, and for convenience of description, the terminal 100 (the same as the terminal 1 in FIG. 1) is referred to I will explain.

That is, the receiving unit 210 receives peripheral terminal search information from a specific terminal, that is, the terminal 100. [

The information management unit 220 registers the first terminal according to the neighboring terminal search information received from the terminal 100 to the peripheral terminal of the terminal 100 in the network formation information for each terminal in which the peripheral terminal is registered for each terminal .

If the terminal 100 searches for the terminals 2 and 3 through the present search function as in the above example, the search information (= peripheral terminal search information) received from the terminal 100 includes Basic information (e.g., a terminal identifier) will be included.

Therefore, the first terminal according to the neighboring terminal search information means each of the terminals 2 and 3 including the basic information in the neighboring terminal search information.

That is, the information management unit 220 registers the first terminal, that is, the terminal 2 or 3 according to the peripheral terminal search information received this time from the terminal 100, into the terminal formation information of the terminal 100 as a peripheral terminal of the terminal 100 .

More specifically, the service providing apparatus 200 manages network formation information for each terminal in which peripheral terminals are registered for each terminal.

More specifically, it is preferable that the service providing apparatus 200 manages network formation information for each user terminal in which peripheral terminals are registered. Hereinafter, the network formation information for each terminal will be described as being network formation information for each user terminal.

7, the service providing apparatus 200 can manage the network formation information 7A for each terminal as shown at the top of FIG.

Hereinafter, the network formation information of the terminal 2, which is the user terminal, in the first and second terminals, i.e., the first terminal 2 and the third terminal 3, of the network formation information 7A for each terminal will be described as follows.

7, the network formation information of the terminal 2 includes basic information and registration time information of the terminals 4, 5, 6 and 7 registered in the peripheral terminals of the terminal 2, Service information is included.

At this time, it is assumed that the neighboring terminal search information is received from the terminal 100 (same as the terminal 1) through the receiving unit 210 as described above.

In this case, the information managing unit 220 adds the network formation information of the terminal 100 to the network formation information of the terminal 100 (i.e., the terminal 1) I.e., terminals 2 and 3, as peripheral terminals of the terminal 100. [

7, the basic information of the terminals 2 and 3, the registration time information (present time: 11:55), and the service information are recorded in the network formation information of the terminal 100 (same as the terminal 1) The network formation information of the terminal 100 and the terminal 1 are updated to the latest information and the network formation information B is generated for each terminal by registering the terminals 2 and 3 as peripheral terminals of the terminal 100 It will be updated.

Here, the service providing apparatus 200 stores and manages subscription registration information for each user terminal of each user subscribed to the inter-terminal services provided by the service providing apparatus 200 and the beacon terminals of the respective companies. At this time, the subscription registration information is information registered at the time of subscription to the service, and may mean basic information (e.g., a terminal identifier) of the terminal (user terminal, beacon terminal) and service information available through the peripheral terminal service of the present invention have.

Accordingly, the service information of the terminals 2 and 3 required when registering the terminals 2 and 3 as peripheral terminals of the terminal 100 can be confirmed from the registration information managed in the service providing apparatus 200 in advance.

In this way, the service providing apparatus 200 always stores the network formation information for each terminal as the latest information according to the neighboring terminal search information received from each (user) terminal including the terminal 100 (same as the terminal 1) Update management is possible.

The information providing unit 230 registers information on the first terminal, i.e., the terminals 2 and 3, and the terminals 2 and 3 as peripheral terminals, based on the network formation information per terminal, (E.g., terminals 4, 5, 6, and 8) registered in the terminal 100 to the terminal 100, 4, 5, 6,

More specifically, when the peripheral terminal search information is received from the terminal 100 (same as the terminal 1) through the receiving unit 210 as described above, the information providing unit 230 transmits an information confirmation request from the terminal 100 It can be confirmed that they are received together.

If the information request is received, the information providing unit 230 searches the first terminal according to the search information received from the terminal 100 based on the latest network formation information (B) 3 and the second terminal (for example, terminals 4 and 5) which are registered in the peripheral terminals of the first terminals (terminals 2 and 3) or registered in the peripheral terminals of the first terminals (terminals 2 and 3) 6 and 8 to the terminal 100.

Hereinafter, a process of determining a second terminal to provide information to the terminal 100 in the information providing unit 230 will be described in detail.

As described above, each of the first terminal and the second terminal is a beacon terminal or a user terminal.

If the first terminal is a beacon terminal, the information providing unit 230 transmits the first terminal to the neighboring terminal 200 based on the network formation information of the terminal, which registers the first terminal as a peripheral terminal, As the second terminal, the terminal whose registration time information of the first terminal does not pass the predetermined expiration time.

The first terminal directly searched by the terminal 100, that is, the terminal 2 of the terminals 2 and 3 is a user terminal and the terminal 3 is a beacon terminal.

In this case, when the first terminal is the beacon terminal, that is, the terminal 3 that is the beacon terminal, the information providing unit 230 identifies the terminal that registers the terminal 3 as the neighboring terminal among the network formation information B per terminal . Referring to FIG. 7, one terminal 8 will be identified.

Then, based on the network formation information of the identified terminal, the information providing unit 230 sets the time corresponding to the registration time information of the terminal 3 among the confirmed terminals registering the terminal 3 as a peripheral terminal to a predetermined expiration time (e.g. 15 Min) has elapsed is determined to be the second terminal.

7, one terminal 8 is identified as a terminal registering the terminal 3 as a neighboring terminal, the current time is 11:55, and the network formation information of the terminal 8 indicates that the time corresponding to the registration time information of the terminal 3 Since the expiration time of 11:45 (for example, 15 minutes) has not elapsed, the information providing unit 230 will determine the terminal 8 as the second terminal for the terminal 3 (beacon terminal) as the first terminal.

On the other hand, when the first terminal is a user terminal, the information providing unit 230 selects, from the terminals registered in the peripheral terminal of the first terminal based on the network formation information of the first terminal, And determines the terminal whose time based on the information does not pass the preset expiration time as the second terminal.

In the case of the terminal 2 that is the user terminal, that is, the terminal 2, the information providing unit 230 sets the network formation information of the terminal 2 among the terminal-specific network formation information (B) , It confirms the terminal registered in the peripheral terminal of the terminal 2. Referring to FIG. 7, terminals 4, 5, 6, and 7 will be identified.

Then, the information providing unit 230 determines the terminal that has not passed the preset expiration time (for example, 15 minutes) based on the registration time information among the terminals registered in the peripheral terminal of the terminal 2 to the second terminal do.

7, terminals 4, 5, 6 and 7 are confirmed as terminals registered in the peripheral terminal of the terminal 2, the current time is 11:55, and the network formation information of the terminal 2 shows that the terminals 4, 5 , Since the time 11:50 according to the registration time information of 6 has not passed the expiration time (for example, 15 minutes) and the time 11:30 according to the registration time information of the terminal 7 has passed the expiration time (for example, 15 minutes) , The information providing unit 230 will determine the terminals 4, 5 and 6 as the second terminal for the terminal 2 (user terminal) as the first terminal.

The information providing unit 230 searches the first terminal or terminal 100 according to the neighboring terminal search information received from the terminal 100 based on the network formation information B per terminal managed as the latest information, 4, 6, and 8 as the second terminal having the peripheral terminal relationships based on the terminals 2 and 3 that have directly searched for the terminals 4,

Then, the information providing unit 230 provides the terminal 100 with information on the first terminal, that is, the terminals 2 and 3, and information on the second terminals, i.e., terminals 4, 5, 6, and 8, And the second terminal having the peripheral terminal relation based on the terminals 2 and 3, that is, terminals 4, 5, 6, and 8, are directly checked.

Accordingly, the terminal 100 confirms the information about the terminals 2 and 3 directly searched at the terminal 100 and the second terminal having the terminal relation based on the terminals 2 and 3, that is, terminals 4, 5, 6 and 8 , A service related to at least one of the first terminal (terminals 2 and 3) and the second terminals (terminals 4, 5, 6, and 8) can be used.

When the service providing unit 240 receives a service use request related to at least one of the first terminal (terminal 2, 3) and the second terminal (terminal 4, 5, 6, 8) from the terminal 100, A message push service according to a use request, a one-to-one or group messenger service, and a beacon-based event information providing service.

For example, when the terminal 100 receives a request for use of a group messenger service with the terminals 4, 5 and 8, the service provider 240 establishes a chat room composed of the terminal 100 and terminals 4, And makes it possible to check the conversation text input from the user of the terminal 100 and the conversation text input from the terminals 4, 5 and 8 through the opened chat room, , And 8 group messenger services.

For example, when the service providing unit 240 receives a beacon-based event information providing service use request related to the terminal 6 from the terminal 100, the service providing unit 240 transmits event information of the shop A matched with the beacon terminal 6 And provides the beacon-based event information providing service between the terminal 100 and the terminal 6 by providing the beacon-based event information to the terminal 100. [

As described above, according to the present invention, not only the terminals 2 and 3 directly searching for peripheral terminals, but also terminals 4, 5, 6, and 8 The peripheral terminal of the terminal 100 can be identified as the peripheral terminal of the terminal 100 and the range of the peripheral terminal of the terminal 100 can be defined as the terminal 4, , 8 to extend the service coverage of the service of the peripheral terminals available for the terminal 100 from the existing limited coverage A to the broad coverage A + B + C.

Hereinafter, a method of operating a terminal according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIG. Hereinafter, for convenience of description, reference will be made to the reference numerals mentioned in FIGS. 1 to 4 and 7 described above.

Here, for convenience of explanation, the terminal 1 shown in Fig. 1 will be described as a terminal of the present invention.

The operation method of the terminal 1 according to the present invention searches for a terminal located in the vicinity of the terminal 1 (S100).

At this time, it is preferable that the operation method of the terminal 1 according to the present invention periodically performs a search function for searching for a terminal located in the periphery at predetermined intervals (for example, 10 minutes). Further, Or even when a terminal confirmation request is inputted.

That is, the operation method of the terminal 1 according to the present invention searches for a terminal located in the vicinity of the terminal 1 in response to input of a peripheral terminal confirmation request (S100).

In the operation method of the terminal 1 according to the present invention, the search information currently searched is provided to the server, that is, the service providing apparatus 200 of the present invention (S110).

At this time, if the search function in step S100 is performed according to the input of the peripheral terminal confirmation request by the user, the operation method of the terminal 1 according to the present invention may include providing search information to the service providing apparatus 200, Can be requested together.

When the search information is received from the terminal 1 as described above, the service providing apparatus 200 transmits the network formation information 7A for each terminal, especially the network formation information of the terminal 1 to the first terminal according to the currently received search information, 2 and 3 are registered as peripheral terminals of the terminal 1 (S120). Accordingly, the network formation information 7A for each terminal managed by the service providing apparatus 200 is updated to the network formation information 7B for each terminal.

Meanwhile, the service providing apparatus 200 transmits the network formation information for each terminal, particularly the network formation information of the terminal 1 to the peripheral terminal of the terminal 1, according to the search information received from the terminal 1 as described above While confirming whether or not the information confirmation request is also received from the terminal 1.

Accordingly, if the information providing apparatus 200 receives the information confirmation request, the service providing apparatus 200 transmits, to the first terminal according to the search information received from the terminal 1, i.e., (E.g., terminals 4, 5, 6, 8) that are registered in the peripheral terminals of the first terminals (terminals 2, 3) To the terminal 1 (S130).

The operation method of the terminal 1 according to the present invention is a method of operating the terminal 1 by searching the service providing apparatus 200 for information about the first terminal directly searching for itself, Information on the second terminal (terminals 4, 5, 6, 8) registered in the terminal or registered in the peripheral terminals of the first terminal (terminals 2, 3) can be confirmed (S140).

The operation method of the terminal 1 according to the present invention is a method of operating the terminal 1 according to the first embodiment of the present invention in which information about the first terminal directly searched by the terminal 1, When information on the terminals (e.g., terminals 4, 5, 6, and 8) is confirmed, these information are displayed on the screen so that the user of the terminal 100 can recognize the information. , The service providing apparatus 200 may request the use of the service according to the request (S150).

For example, the operation method of the terminal 1 according to the present invention can request the service providing apparatus 200 to use the group messenger service with the terminals 4, 5, and 8, or can use the beacon- You may request access.

The operation method of the terminal 1 according to the present invention is a method of operating the terminal 1 in response to a service use request in step S150 by providing a group messenger service for exchanging conversation texts with the terminals 4, Or a beacon-based event information providing service that receives event information of the store A matched with the terminal 6 (S160).

Hereinafter, an operation method of a service providing apparatus according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. Hereinafter, for convenience of description, reference will be made to the reference numerals mentioned in FIGS. 1 to 4 and 7 described above.

The operation method of the service providing apparatus 200 according to the present invention receives peripheral terminal search information from a specific terminal (S200).

At this time, the specific terminal will be described as being the terminal 1 in accordance with the above-described example.

That is, the operation method of the service providing apparatus 200 according to the present invention receives peripheral terminal search information from the terminal 1 (S200).

The operation method of the service providing apparatus 200 according to the present invention is a method of operating the service providing apparatus 200 according to the present invention when the peripheral terminal search information is received from the terminal 1, And registers it in the terminal (S210).

In the case where the terminal 1 has searched for the terminals 2 and 3 through the present search function as in the above example, the search information (= peripheral terminal search information) received from the terminal 1 includes basic information : Terminal identifier).

Therefore, the first terminal according to the neighboring terminal search information means each of the terminals 2 and 3 including the basic information in the neighboring terminal search information.

That is, the operation method of the service providing apparatus 200 according to the present invention is a method for operating the service providing apparatus 200 according to the present invention, in which the first terminal according to the neighboring terminal search information received from the terminal 1, And registers it as a peripheral terminal. Accordingly, the network formation information 7A for each terminal managed by the service providing apparatus 200 is updated to the network formation information 7B for each terminal.

The operation method of the service providing apparatus 200 according to the present invention is a method of operating the first terminal, i.e., the terminal 2 or 3 according to the search information received from the terminal 1, To the peripheral terminal of the terminal 1 while confirming whether or not the information confirmation request is also received from the terminal 1.

If the information confirmation request is received, the operation method of the service providing apparatus 200 according to the present invention does not end in step S210 described above, (2, 3) to the peripheral terminal or to the peripheral terminal of the first terminal (2, 3, 2) according to the search information received from the first terminal (E.g., terminals 4, 5, 6, and 8) to the terminal 1.

More specifically, if an information confirmation request is received, the operation method of the service providing apparatus 200 according to the present invention determines whether or not the first terminal, i.e., (S220).

The first terminal directly searched by the terminal 1, that is, the terminal 2 of the terminals 2 and 3 is a user terminal and the terminal 3 is a beacon terminal.

In this case, when the first terminal is the beacon terminal, that is, the terminal 3 that is the beacon terminal, the method of operating the service providing apparatus 200 according to the present invention is a method in which the terminal 3 among the terminal- Confirm the registered terminal. Referring to FIG. 7, one terminal 8 will be identified.

The operation method of the service providing apparatus 200 according to the present invention is a method in which the time according to the registration time information of the terminal 3 among the terminals that have been registered in the peripheral terminal of the terminal 3, And determines the terminal that has not passed the set expiration time (e.g., 15 minutes) as the second terminal.

7, one terminal 8 is identified as a terminal registering the terminal 3 as a neighboring terminal, the current time is 11:55, and the network formation information of the terminal 8 indicates that the time corresponding to the registration time information of the terminal 3 The operation method of the service providing apparatus 200 according to the present invention is such that the expiration time of 11:45 (for example, 15 minutes) Terminal.

Meanwhile, when the first terminal is a user terminal, the method of operating the service providing apparatus 200 according to the present invention may be configured such that, based on the network formation information of the first terminal among the network formation information for each terminal, The second terminal determines a terminal whose registration time information has not yet passed the predetermined expiration time among registered terminals.

The operation method of the service providing apparatus 200 according to the present invention may be applied to the case where the first terminal is a user terminal, that is, the terminal 2, which is a user terminal, Based on the network formation information of the terminal 2, the terminal registered in the peripheral terminal of the terminal 2 is confirmed. Referring to FIG. 7, terminals 4, 5, 6, and 7 will be identified.

Hereinafter, the operation method of the service providing apparatus 200 according to the present invention will be described with reference to an operation method of a terminal 200 that has not yet passed a preset expiration time (for example, 15 minutes) As a second terminal.

7, terminals 4, 5, 6 and 7 are confirmed as terminals registered in the peripheral terminal of the terminal 2, the current time is 11:55, and the network formation information of the terminal 2 shows that the terminals 4, 5 , Since the time 11:50 according to the registration time information of 6 has not passed the expiration time (for example, 15 minutes) and the time 11:30 according to the registration time information of the terminal 7 has passed the expiration time (for example, 15 minutes) , The operation method of the service providing apparatus 200 according to the present invention may determine the terminals 4, 5, and 6 as the second terminals for the terminal 2 (user terminal) as the first terminal.

As described above, the operation method of the service providing apparatus 200 according to the present invention is a method for operating the service providing apparatus 200 according to the present invention, based on the network formation information B per terminal managed with the latest information, 4, 6, and 8 as a second terminal having a peripheral terminal relationship based on the terminals 2 and 3 that are directly searched in the terminal 1.

Hereinafter, an operation method of the service providing apparatus 200 according to the present invention is to provide information on the first terminal, i.e., the terminal 2, 3, and information on the second terminal, i.e., terminals 4, 5, (S230), information about the terminals 2 and 3 directly searched at the terminal 1 and terminals 2, 4, 5, 6 and 8 having the peripheral terminal relation based on the terminals 2 and 3 are checked.

The operation method of the service providing apparatus 200 according to the present invention is a method of operating a service using the service related to at least one of the first terminal (terminal 2, 3) and the second terminal (terminal 4, If the request is received (S240 Yes), at least one of a message push service according to the service use request, a one-to-one or group messenger service, and a beacon-based event information providing service is provided (S250).

For example, the operation method of the service providing apparatus 200 according to the present invention is a method of operating the service providing apparatus 200 according to the present invention, when a request to use the instant messenger service with the terminals 1, The user can view the conversation text input from the user of the terminal 1 and the conversation text input from the terminals 4, 5 and 8 through the opened chat room, 8 group messenger service can be provided.

In another example, when the beacon-based event information providing service use request related to the terminal 6 is received from the terminal 1, the operation method of the service providing apparatus 200 according to the present invention is a method in which a beacon- A event information to the terminal 1, it is possible to provide beacon-based event information providing services between the terminals 1 and 6.

As described above, according to the present invention, in the case of confirming a neighboring terminal for use of a service between neighboring terminals, not only the nearby terminals (for example, 2 and 3) (For example, 1) to neighboring terminals (e.g., 4, 5, 6, 8) of peripheral terminals (e.g., 2, 3) Can be derived.

The operation method of the terminal and the operation method of the service providing apparatus according to the embodiment of the present invention can be implemented in the form of a program command which can be executed through various computer means and recorded in a computer readable recording medium. The computer-readable recording medium may include a program command, a data file, a data structure, and the like, alone or in combination. The program instructions recorded on the recording medium may be those specially designed and constructed for the present invention or may be those known and used by those skilled in the computer software. Examples of computer-readable media include magnetic media such as hard disks, floppy disks and magnetic tape; optical media such as CD-ROMs and DVDs; magnetic media 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 machine language code such as those produced by a compiler, as well as high-level language code that can be executed by a computer using an interpreter or the like. The hardware devices described above may be configured to operate as one or more software modules to perform the operations of the present invention, and vice versa.

While the present invention has been particularly shown and described with reference to exemplary embodiments thereof, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the disclosed exemplary embodiments, but, on the contrary, It will be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes in form and details may be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined by the appended claims.

According to the recording medium and the service providing apparatus for using the service between the peripheral terminals according to the present invention, since the coverage of the service use between peripheral terminals is efficiently expanded, the use of the related technology It is not only the possibility of commercialization or operation of a device to be applied, but also a possibility that can be practically and practically carried out, so it is an invention that is industrially applicable.

100: terminal
110: searching unit 120: searching information providing unit
130: peripheral terminal confirmation unit 140:
200: Service providing device
210: Receiver 220: Information manager
230: information providing unit 240: service providing service

Claims (9)

Searching for a terminal located in the vicinity of a specific terminal;
Providing the searched search information to a server and registering a first terminal according to the search information to a peripheral terminal of the specific terminal in network formation information for each terminal in which peripheral terminals are registered for each terminal managed by the server ; And
Information on the first terminal and information on the second terminal registered in the peripheral terminal of the first terminal or registered in the peripheral terminal of the first terminal based on the information on the first terminal, And making the service related to at least one of the first terminal and the second terminal available in the specific terminal. The method according to claim 1,
The second terminal,
A time of registering the first terminal as a peripheral terminal or a terminal registered as a peripheral terminal of the first terminal or a terminal registered as a peripheral terminal of the first terminal or a terminal registered as a peripheral terminal of the first terminal, Wherein the terminal is a terminal that has not elapsed time. The method according to claim 1,
Wherein each of the first terminal and the second terminal is a beacon terminal or a user terminal,
The second terminal,
When the first terminal is a beacon terminal, the server registers the first terminal as a peripheral terminal,
And when the first terminal is a user terminal, the server is a terminal registered as a peripheral terminal of the first terminal. The method of claim 3,
The service includes:
A message push service provided on the basis of the server, a one-to-one or group messenger service, and a beacon-based event information providing service. A receiving unit for receiving peripheral terminal search information from a specific terminal;
An information management unit for registering the first terminal according to the neighboring terminal search information in the terminal formation information for each terminal in which the neighboring terminal is registered for each terminal, And
Based on the per-terminal network formation information, information on the first terminal and information on a second terminal registered in the peripheral terminal of the first terminal or registered in the peripheral terminal of the first terminal, And providing the terminal with a service associated with at least one of the first terminal and the second terminal in the specific terminal. 6. The method of claim 5,
Wherein the network formation information of the first terminal among the terminal-
The basic information and the registration time information of the terminal registered in the peripheral terminal of the first terminal and the service information available in relation to the peripheral terminal of the first terminal. The method according to claim 6,
Wherein each of the first terminal and the second terminal is a beacon terminal or a user terminal,
The information providing unit,
Wherein when the first terminal is a beacon terminal, based on network formation information of a terminal registering the first terminal as a peripheral terminal among network formation information per terminal, Wherein the second terminal determines a terminal whose time according to the registration time information of the first terminal does not pass the preset expiration time. The method according to claim 6,
Wherein each of the first terminal and the second terminal is a beacon terminal or a user terminal,
The information providing unit,
When the first terminal is a user terminal, based on the network formation information of the first terminal among the network formation information for each terminal, a time in accordance with the registration time information among the terminals registered in the peripheral terminal of the first terminal, And determines the terminal not exceeding the set expiration time as the second terminal. 6. The method of claim 5,
When a service use request related to at least one of the first terminal and the second terminal is received from the specific terminal, at least one of a message push service, a one-to-one or a group messenger service, and a beacon- And a service providing unit for providing the service providing unit with the service providing unit.

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