KR101730429B1 - Device and method for providing zone based service - Google Patents

Abstract

A method of providing a region-based service of a server disclosed in this specification includes receiving a service request message of a terminal; The method comprising: obtaining region identification information corresponding to a source MAC address of the service request message from a local database; and the local database includes at least one of a region identification information and a MAC address pair, An access point (AP) performing wireless communication with a terminal in a specific area indicated by the area identification information, or an address of a local server connected to the AP; Generating a response message corresponding to the request message based on the obtained area identification information; And transmitting the response message.

Description

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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for providing a location-based service, and more particularly, to an apparatus and method for providing a service related to a specific area.

Among the multimedia services provided by the mobile terminal, there are location based services such as a location tracking service, a location based information providing service, and a car navigation service provided based on the location of the terminal. Generally, a location-based service considers a location of a mobile terminal identified by using a location measurement device such as GPS built in a mobile terminal, and recently, a service providing content associated with a specific area to which a network device connected to the mobile terminal belongs Is presented.

The present invention proposes a method and apparatus for providing a service specialized in the area even if the mobile terminal does not receive additional information from the mobile terminal in order to identify the area to which the mobile terminal belongs.

To this end, a method of using a location information of an access point for transmitting a service request message of a mobile terminal is provided.

In order to solve the above-described problems, the present invention provides a method of providing a region-based service of a server.

The method comprises the steps of: (a) receiving a service request message of a terminal; (b) obtaining region identification information corresponding to a source MAC address of the service request message from a local database; and the local database includes at least one of a region identification information and a MAC address pair, Address is an address of an access point (AP) performing wireless communication with a terminal in a specific area indicated by the area identification information or a local server connected to the AP; (c) generating a response message corresponding to the request message based on the obtained area identification information; And (d) transmitting the response message.

In addition, the service request message is a message requesting a service list available to the terminal, and the response message may include a service list associated with an area indicated by the area identification information.

In addition, the response message may include a service URL (Uniform Resource Locator) associated with the region identification information, and status information for automatic movement to the URL.

Also, the AP may be in the same broadcast network as the server.

In addition, the response message may include content associated with an area indicated by the area identification information.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided an apparatus for providing a region-based service.

The apparatus includes a local database unit including at least one of a MAC (Medium Access Control) address pair of an area identification (ID) and an access point (AP), and the MAC address is used to perform wireless communication with a terminal in a specific area indicated by the area identification information (AP) or an address of a local server connected to the AP; A communication unit for receiving a service request message of the terminal and transmitting a response message in response to the request message; And a control unit for obtaining the area identification information corresponding to the source MAC address of the service request message and generating the response message based on the obtained area identification information.

In the method of providing a region-based service according to an embodiment of the present disclosure, when a terminal enters a service zone, the server identifies an area to which the terminal belongs by using a MAC address of an AP belonging to the service zone, It is not necessary to acquire additional information for identifying the location of the terminal from the terminal in order to provide a service specialized for the terminal.

1 is an exemplary diagram illustrating the configuration of a zone casting service providing system according to an embodiment disclosed herein.
2 is a diagram illustrating a method of providing a zone casting service according to an embodiment disclosed herein.
3 is an exemplary configuration diagram of a server according to an embodiment disclosed herein.

The disclosures herein apply to systems that provide region-based services. However, the present invention is not limited thereto, and can be applied to all area-based service systems and methods to which the technical idea disclosed in this specification can be applied, as well as to a location based service.

It is noted that the technical terms used herein are used only to describe specific embodiments and are not intended to limit the invention disclosed herein. In addition, the technical terms used herein should be interpreted in a sense generally understood by a person having ordinary skill in the art to which the invention disclosed in this specification belongs, unless otherwise defined in this specification, Should not be construed in an overly broad sense or an overly reduced sense. Further, when a technical term used herein is an erroneous technical term that does not accurately express the spirit of the present invention, it should be understood that technical terms that can be understood by a person skilled in the art are replaced. Also, the general terms used in the present specification should be interpreted in accordance with the predefined or prior context, and should not be construed as being excessively reduced in meaning.

Also, the singular forms "as used herein include plural referents unless the context clearly dictates otherwise. In the present application, the term "comprising" or "comprising" or the like should not be construed as necessarily including the various elements or steps described in the specification, Or may be further comprised of additional components or steps.

Furthermore, terms including ordinals such as first, second, etc. used in this specification can be used to describe various elements, but the elements should not be limited by the terms. The terms are used only for the purpose of distinguishing one component from another. For example, without departing from the scope of the invention disclosed herein, the first component may be referred to as a second component, and similarly, the second component may also be referred to as a first component.

When an element is referred to as being "connected" or "connected" to another element, it may be directly connected or connected to the other element, but other elements may be present in between. On the other hand, when an element is referred to as being "directly connected" or "directly connected" to another element, it should be understood that there are no other elements in between.

Hereinafter, the terminal may be referred to as a UE (User Equipment), a Device, an ME (Mobile Equipment), or an MS (Mobile Station). The terminal may be a portable device having a communication function such as a mobile phone, a PDA, a smart phone, a notebook, or the like, or may be a portable device such as a PC or a vehicle-mounted device.

A location-based service used in a mobile terminal is a service that enables a user to perform a specific function and an operation according to the location of a user by changing the configuration of a menu and a service according to a service area. Among these location-based services, a service associated with a specific region may be referred to as a zone-based service.

The area-based service may be configured to select a menu corresponding to the location when the user of the mobile terminal enters a specific area. However, according to the method of providing the area-based service according to the embodiment disclosed herein, In order to select the menu of the user, the user can receive the area-based service without any additional input.

Before describing the present invention with reference to the drawings, the terms used in this specification will be briefly described to help understand the invention disclosed in this specification. The description of the terms is intended to assist in understanding the present invention and can not be used to limit the technical ideas of the invention disclosed herein unless explicitly defined in the description of the invention.

1) A zone casting service is a service in which a terminal receives service information associated with the service zone from a server in a service zone and provides the service information to a user using a zone casting application (application program) It is a regional based service. In particular, the service provided by the zone casting service provides customized information for a geographical region in which the service zone is located. For example, the service may be provided in the geographical area where the terminal is located, Services provided, and services provided, in preference to information related to other geographical areas. Hereinafter, a service refers to a zone casting service.

2) The geographical area means within a specific building or geographical area. For example, the geographical area refers to the single building in the case where sales or services are provided in a single building such as a hotel or a department store, or in a building in a certain local area such as a shopping mall, And in the case where the service is provided, it may mean the certain geographical range.

3) The service zone refers to an area that can be connected to a network constructed in a specific geographical area and can receive a zone casting service for the specific geographical area from a server that provides the zone casting service. For example, the service zone may refer to all geographical areas, such as a building such as a department store, a theater, a hotel, or all of a certain geographic area. In another example, the service zone may refer to a region within the geographic region, wherein the zone casting service provided in the service zone corresponding to the geographic region may be associated with a particular store within the geographic region, Lt; / RTI >

4) The service information provided through the zone casting service refers to all information related to the service, such as a service, a service list, a content for the service, and the like belonging to the service zone. Here, a service belonging to a service zone can be expressed in various ways such as an icon, an image, and a text.

5) The zone casting application is an application program for receiving a zone casting service and can be used at any place in the service zone. If the zone casting application is out of the service zone, Connection information of other services can be provided. The zone casting application may be installed in the terminal, or may be downloaded and installed from a server providing the zone casting application automatically or manually after entering the service zone.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings, wherein like reference numerals refer to like or similar elements throughout the several views, and redundant description thereof will be omitted. In the following description, well-known functions or constructions are not described in detail since they would obscure the invention in unnecessary detail. It is to be noted that the accompanying drawings are only for the understanding of the present invention and should not be construed as limiting the scope of the present invention. The spirit of the present invention should be construed as extending to all modifications, equivalents, and alternatives in addition to the appended drawings.

1 is an exemplary diagram illustrating the configuration of a zone casting service providing system according to an embodiment disclosed herein.

The zone casting service disclosed herein will be described in detail with reference to FIG. The zone casting service providing system includes the terminal 100 and the server 200, and may include other necessary network devices.

The server 200 provides the customized information for the geographical area 300 to which the service zone 310 belongs to the terminal 100-1 located in the service zone 310. [ The server 200 can be divided into a local server located in the service zone 310 and an external server located outside the service zone 310. However, It can be implemented in one server, which is just a distinction. Hereinafter, it will be explained that the local server and the external server are not distinguished from each other and one server provides information. Also, the server 200 may be implemented as one or more servers that actually perform the same function.

The terminal 100 may access the network using a wire / wireless communication method in order to perform communication with the server 200 in the service zone 310. For this purpose, the control unit of the terminal 100 may control the wireless communication unit to perform wireless communication with the server 200. The wireless communication unit may include one or more components (not shown) for performing wireless communication between the terminal and a wireless communication system or wireless communication between the terminal and a network on which the terminal is located. For example, the wireless communication unit may include a broadcast receiving module, a mobile communication module, a wireless Internet module, a short distance communication module, and a location information module.

For example, the control unit of the terminal 100 controls the wireless Internet module to perform wireless communication with the server 200 using a WLAN (Wi-Fi), Wibro, or the like, And can perform wireless communication with the server 200 according to a communication method. In addition, the controller of the terminal 100 may control the mobile communication module to perform wireless communication with the server 200 by a wireless scheme using a mobile communication network.

The network devices constituting the zone casting service providing system may include access points 312 and 322 for wireless connection within each service zone 310 and 320, for example. Hereinafter, a method according to an embodiment of the present invention for interacting with a server 200 that enters a specific service zone 310 and provides a zone casting service within the service zone 310 will be described in detail. Explain.

When the terminal 100 enters the service zone 310, the terminal 100-1 determines whether a zone casting service is provided in the service zone 310, Or tactile. For example, the terminal 100-1 may announce that a zone casting service is provided in the service zone 310 by using text, image, icon, vibration, voice, or the like.

After the terminal 100 enters the service zone 310, when the user's request information for using the zone casting service is input, the terminal 100-1 transmits an access point corresponding to the service zone 310 Search. Thereafter, the terminal 100-1 accesses a server providing service information provided in the service zone through one of the searched access points.

Here, the server 200 is a part of a network built in the service zone 310, and connecting to the server 200 has the same meaning as connecting to the network. Therefore, in the following, connection to the server and connection to the network have the same meaning.

Herein, the input of the service request information of the user may mean a case where the zone casting application is executed on the terminal 100-1. The service request information can be input by various methods such as voice, selection of a zone casting application displayed on the screen, movement of the terminal, and the like.

The server 200 may include a local server (not shown) located inside the service zone and an external server (not shown) located outside the service zone.

The local server is a server installed in a service zone, and stores service information corresponding to the service zone. In addition, service information stored in the terminal connected to the local server is provided.

The local server stores the service information corresponding to the service zone in a database (DB) in various forms such as a service type and a service providing place. Here, the information DB stored in the local server corresponds to a service information provided in a specific area, that is, a service zone, in which the local server is included.

For example, when the service zone is a hotel, the local server stores various service information such as service information provided at the hotel, i.e., local information about the hotel, room service information, restaurant information provided at the hotel, have.

The external server refers to a server that stores location information of a service zone in which a zone casting service is provided, as a database (DB). The external server is generally located outside the service zone where the current terminal has entered, but may be located in the service zone.

The access point 312 corresponds to a wireless communication device for accessing the local server. The access point 312 uses an independent power source and has a module capable of short-range communication. In addition, the location information of the area where the access point 312 is installed is stored in the local server. In this specification, an access point 312 supporting Wi-Fi wireless access is exemplarily described as an access point 312 included in a zone casting service providing system according to an embodiment of the present invention. However, the access point 312 is not limited to the wireless connection scheme for other short distance communication such as NFC / RFID, ZigBee, Bluetooth, and the like.

2 is a diagram illustrating a method of providing a zone casting service according to an embodiment disclosed herein.

Hereinafter, with reference to FIG. 1 and FIG. 2, a method according to an embodiment of the present invention, in which a terminal is located in a service zone and receives an area-related service, A description will be given of an exemplary method of receiving data through an access point supporting a wireless access scheme.

The wireless LAN type zone casting service providing system may include a terminal 100 and an access point 312 connected to the terminal 100 to provide a wireless communication service. 1 and 2, a zone casting service providing system using the wireless LAN access point 312 may include a router for setting a route of data based on IP address information, A Session Initiation Protocol Proxy Server (SIP proxy server), which is a server that manages information on neighboring access points of the access point 312, And an authentication server (AS) that performs authentication according to the 802.11X protocol for the point 312.

The zone casting service providing system using the wireless LAN access point 312 may be a system compliant with the IEEE 802.11 standard.

The service zone 310 may be a region where a basic service set (BSS) is formed according to the IEEE 802.11 standard, and the configuration of a wireless LAN in the service zone 310 may include And may be in the form of an Infrastructure BSS (Infrastructure BSS). Alternatively, the service zone 310 may be an area where an extended service set (ESS) is formed according to the IEEE 802.11 standard, wherein the ESS connects one or more BSSs And an access point 312 located in the service zone 310 may be comprised of one or more access points having the same Service Set Identifier (SSID) .

In the zone casting service providing system according to the embodiment disclosed herein, in a geographical area 300 corresponding to a hotel building, a service zone corresponding to the lobby of the hotel building and to which an AP 312 indicating an SSID such as "Lobby " It is assumed that there is a service zone 320 to which the AP 322 belonging to the conference building of the hotel building and SSID such as the "Conference " belongs and the terminal 100 enters the service zone 310 Will be described by way of example.

At this time, the service zone 310 has network and sub-network information such as "100.0.0.0/24 ", and the APs 312 and 322 and the server network side to which the server 200 belongs" 192.168.100.0 0A: 0B: 0C: 0D: 0E: 12 ", and "0A: 0B: 0C: 0D: 0E: 12B " are assumed in the APs 312 and 322, &Quot; 22 "are connected to the server network side.

First, the terminal 100 enters a service zone and transmits a message for a service request through an AP 312 belonging to the service zone (S110). The service request message may be a message corresponding to an HTTP Request type, and the HTTP request may be a service request using URL (Uniform Resource Locator) information for providing a basic service for the service zone. As shown in FIG. 2, the URL is a location identifier of a service providing zone casting service in the server 200.

The terminal 100 may store URL information for providing the basic service in advance, or may acquire URL information through an AP belonging to the service zone.

Next, the AP 312 receives the service request message from the terminal 100 and sets the MAC address of the AP to the source MAC in order to transmit the service request message to the server 200 (S120).

As described above, when the service request message is transmitted to the server 200 through the AP 312 because the service request message is an application request message of the HTTP request type, Encapsulation is performed according to the function of the image. Therefore, the AP 132 encapsulates the service request message according to a function on the network designated by the AP 132, and transmits the source MAC address of the MAC layer to the AP 132 according to a communication method between the AP 132 and the server 200. [ To the MAC address of the MAC address 132. [

However, in the above-described example, the network in the service zone 310 by the AP 132 is different from the network to which the server 200 belongs, and the function of the router or NAT (Network Address Translation) The source MAC address may be changed according to a result of the AP 132 performing the function, but the method of converting the source MAC (S120) is not limited to this method.

Next, the AP 312 requests the server 200 for a service by transmitting the service request message in which the source MAC is converted to the server 200 (S130). On the server network side to which the AP 312 and the server 200 belong, the source MAC address converted in the previous step S120 is not changed with respect to the service request message by performing the step S130 . For example, the interface on the server network side of the AP 132 and the server 200 are configured to belong to the same broadcast network so that the source MAC address of the service request message transmitted from the AP 132 is not changed . That is, in the above example, if the server 200 has network and sub-network information such as "192.168.100.0/24 ", the source MAC address of the service request message is not changed during the process of S130 .

Next, the server 200 receives the service request message and generates a service response message corresponding to the request (S140). The service response message is configured to include information associated with the service zone 310 in which the terminal 100 is located.

For this, the server 200 may include an area database unit including at least one of the area identification information and the MAC address pair. The server 200 confirms the source MAC address of the received service request message and acquires the area identification information corresponding to the confirmed source MAC address from the local database unit. The server 200 generates the response message to provide the service information corresponding to the obtained area identification information.

The server 200 can determine an appropriate service zone for the service request message by referring to the zone identification information as an identifier corresponding to each service zone.

The response message may be generated to include a location identifier (URL) for providing service information corresponding to the obtained area identification information so that the terminal 100 can redirect.

For example, when the terminal 100 initially requests a list of services available in the service zone 310 in step S110, the response message may include a service available in response to the request And may include a service location identifier that includes a list or can obtain the service list.

The response message may be in the form of HTTP Response. In this case, the response may be included in the body part of the HTTP response and the location identifier of the service list may be included in the header part.

3 is an exemplary configuration diagram of a server according to an embodiment disclosed herein. The configuration of a server in a zone casting service system according to the embodiment disclosed herein will be described with reference to FIG.

The server 200 provides an area-based service, and includes an area database 210 including at least one area identification information and a pair of MAC addresses; A communication unit 220 receiving a service request message of the terminal and transmitting a response message in response to the request message; And a controller 230 for obtaining the area identification information corresponding to the source MAC address of the service request message and generating the response message based on the obtained area identification information.

One or more MAC addresses may correspond to one piece of the area identification information included in the area database 210. Therefore, the area database 210 may have the same area identification information as the MAC The addresses may include different pairs.

The MAC address may be a MAC address of an access point (AP) performing wireless communication with a terminal in a specific area indicated by the area identification information. However, the MAC address stored in the local database 210 may be the MAC address of a device that is permanently connected to an AP belonging to a specific service zone. That is, as long as the number of the area identification information corresponding to the MAC address does not overlap, the MAC address may be a MAC address of an AP belonging to a specific service zone, or may be a device exclusively relaying data connected to an AP belonging to a specific service zone .

The area database 210 may store the area identification information and the MAC address pair before processing the service request message. The network configuration unit may generate the MAC address of the AP 312 and the area identification information indicating the service zone to which the AP 312 belongs, (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) or the like that sets network information of the AP 312 using a pair.

Claims (6)

A method of providing a region-based service of a server,
(a) receiving a service request message of a terminal;
(b) obtaining region identification information corresponding to a source Medium Access Control (MAC) address of the service request message from a local database;
Wherein the MAC address includes at least one of an AP (Access Point) for performing wireless communication with a terminal in a specific area indicated by the area identification information or a local server connected to the AP Address;
(c) generating a response message corresponding to the request message based on the obtained area identification information; And
(d) transmitting the response message,
The step (b)
Encapsulating the service request message according to a function on the AP network and converting the source MAC address into the MAC address of the AP according to a communication method with the AP. The method according to claim 1,
The service request message is a message for requesting a list of available services of the terminal,
Wherein the response message includes a service list associated with an area indicated by the area identification information. The method of claim 1, wherein the response message includes a service URL (Uniform Resource Locator) associated with the region identification information and status information for automatic movement to the URL. The method of claim 1, wherein the AP belongs to the same broadcast network as the server. 2. The method of claim 1,
And a content associated with an area indicated by the area identification information. An apparatus for providing a location based service,
An area database unit that includes at least one pair of MAC (Medium Access Control) address of the area identification information and an access point (AP);
The MAC address is an address of an access point (AP) performing wireless communication with a terminal in a specific area indicated by the area identification information or a local server connected to the AP;
A communication unit for receiving a service request message of the terminal and transmitting a response message in response to the request message; And
And a control unit for obtaining the area identification information corresponding to the source MAC address of the service request message and generating the response message based on the obtained area identification information,
The AP,
Encapsulates the service request message according to a function on an AP network, and converts the source MAC address into a MAC address of the AP according to a communication method with the AP.

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