KR102232056B1 - Method for providing restaurant information and service server providing the same - Google Patents

Abstract

The present application relates to a method for providing restaurant information and a service server for the same. The method for providing restaurant information according to an embodiment of the present invention includes an input of a user applied to a user terminal or a location of the user terminal. A point of interest setting step of setting a point of interest (POI); A restaurant information extraction step of extracting restaurant information associated with the point of interest; And displaying the extracted restaurant information in the form of a marker on a map and providing the extracted restaurant information to the user terminal.

Description

Method for providing restaurant information and service server providing the same}

The present application relates to a restaurant information providing method and a service server therefor, and to a restaurant information providing method capable of providing various restaurant information using a marker displayed on a map, and a service server therefor.

In general, when a customer visits a place other than the area they are familiar with, they do not know exactly which places are good or bad for restaurants in the area. However, recently, a number of various services that introduce restaurants in each region are provided on the web, and customers can obtain information on restaurants in each region through the Internet in advance.

In other words, customers can obtain information on restaurants by accessing a dedicated web page to introduce restaurants, or obtain information on various restaurants from posts created by users, such as blogs and SNS (Social Network Service). Based on this, it is possible to more easily select restaurants in the region.

However, since there are many evaluations or advertisements by restaurant officials for various information on restaurants posted online, there is a limit of low reliability, such as disappointment when visiting.

The present application is intended to provide a restaurant information providing method capable of intuitively providing various information on a restaurant using a marker displayed on a map, and a service server therefor.

The present application is to provide a restaurant information providing method and a service server for the same, which can improve the reliability of the restaurant by providing nearby restaurants recommended by a user belonging to a workplace or company.

A method for providing restaurant information according to an embodiment of the present invention relates to a method for providing restaurant information in a service server, and according to a user input applied to a user terminal or a location of the user terminal, a point of interest of the user (POI: A point of interest setting step of setting Point of Interest); A restaurant information extraction step of extracting restaurant information associated with the point of interest; And displaying the extracted restaurant information in the form of a marker on a map and providing the extracted restaurant information to the user terminal.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, a service server includes: a point of interest setting unit configured to set a point of interest (POI) of the user according to a user input applied to a user terminal or a location of the user terminal; A restaurant information extracting unit that extracts restaurant information associated with the point of interest; And a marker display unit that displays the extracted restaurant information in the form of a marker on a map and provides it to the user terminal.

In addition, the solution to the above-described problem does not enumerate all the features of the present invention. Various features of the present invention and advantages and effects thereof may be understood in more detail with reference to the following specific embodiments.

According to a method for providing restaurant information and a service server for the same according to an embodiment of the present invention, various information on a restaurant can be intuitively provided to a user by using the color, size, and transparency of markers displayed on a map. have. Therefore, the user can quickly obtain information on the restaurant with only the marker.

According to a method for providing restaurant information and a service server for the same according to an embodiment of the present invention, since nearby restaurants that are directly recommended by a user belonging to a workplace or company are provided, reliability of the restaurant can be improved.

However, the effect that can be achieved by the method for providing restaurant information and the service server therefor according to the embodiments of the present invention is not limited to those mentioned above, and other effects not mentioned are the present invention from the following description. It will be clearly understood by those of ordinary skill in the art to which this belongs.

1 is a schematic diagram showing a restaurant information providing system according to an embodiment of the present invention.
2 is a block diagram showing a service server according to an embodiment of the present invention.
3 is a schematic diagram showing a member registration procedure according to an embodiment of the present invention.
4 is a schematic diagram showing a point of interest setting according to a user's location according to an embodiment of the present invention.
5 is a schematic diagram showing input of a recommended restaurant according to an embodiment of the present invention.
6 is a schematic diagram showing a marker according to an embodiment of the present invention.
7 is a schematic diagram illustrating a marker according to an embodiment of the present invention, and showing a change in display of a marker according to a zoom-in or zoom-out input.
8 to 9 are flowcharts illustrating a method of providing restaurant information according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments disclosed in the present specification will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings, but the same or similar elements are assigned the same reference numerals regardless of the reference numerals, and redundant descriptions thereof will be omitted. The suffixes "module" and "unit" for constituent elements used in the following description are given or used interchangeably in consideration of only the ease of preparation of the specification, and do not have meanings or roles that are distinguished from each other by themselves. That is, the term'unit' used in the present invention means a hardware component such as software, FPGA, or ASIC, and the'unit' performs certain roles. However,'part' is not limited to software or hardware. The'unit' may be configured to be in an addressable storage medium or may be configured to reproduce one or more processors. Thus, as an example, the'unit' refers to components such as software components, object-oriented software components, class components, and task components, processes, functions, properties, procedures, Includes subroutines, segments of program code, drivers, firmware, microcode, circuitry, data, database, data structures, tables, arrays and variables. The functions provided in the components and'units' may be combined into a smaller number of components and'units', or may be further divided into additional components and'units'.

In addition, in describing the embodiments disclosed in the present specification, when it is determined that a detailed description of related known technologies may obscure the subject matter of the embodiments disclosed in the present specification, the detailed description thereof will be omitted. In addition, the accompanying drawings are for easy understanding of the embodiments disclosed in the present specification, and the technical idea disclosed in the present specification is not limited by the accompanying drawings, and all changes included in the spirit and scope of the present invention It should be understood to include equivalents or substitutes.

1 is a schematic diagram showing a system for providing restaurant information according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, the restaurant information providing system according to an embodiment of the present invention may include a user terminal 1 and a service server 100.

Hereinafter, a system for providing restaurant information according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. 1.

The user terminal 1 may execute various types of applications, and may display the running application by visual or auditory display and provide it to the user. The user terminal 1 may include a display unit for visually displaying an application, and may include an input unit receiving a user input, a communication unit, a memory storing at least one program, and a processor.

The user terminal 1 may be a mobile terminal such as a smart phone or a tablet PC, and according to embodiments, a fixed device such as a desktop may also be included. Specifically, the user terminal 1 includes a mobile phone, a smart phone, a laptop computer, a digital broadcasting terminal, a personal digital assistants (PDA), a portable multimedia player (PMP), a slate PC, and Tablet PC (tablet PC), ultrabook (ultrabook), wearable device (wearable device, for example, a watch-type terminal (smartwatch), glass-type terminal (smart glass), HMD (head mounted display)), etc. may be included. .

The user terminal 1 may access an App store or a play store, and download and install various applications. Depending on the embodiment, it may be downloaded through wired or wireless communication with the service server 100 or other devices (not shown).

Meanwhile, the user terminal 1 may be connected to the service server 100 through a communication network. Here, the communication network may include a wired network and a wireless network, and specifically, various types of networks such as a local area network (LAN), a metropolitan area network (MAN), and a wide area network (WAN). May include a network. In addition, the communication network may include a well-known World Wide Web (WWW). However, the communication network according to the present invention is not limited to the networks listed above, and may include a known wireless data network, a known telephone network, a known wired or wireless television network, and the like.

The service server 100 may be connected to the user terminal 1 through an application, and may provide various online services in response to a request of the user terminal 1. Here, the service server 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention may provide a restaurant information providing service that provides information on restaurants that are renowned for having good taste of food.

Specifically, the service server 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention may request a recommendation for restaurants around each workplace from an office worker, etc., and may generate restaurant information based on recommendations from office workers. That is, since restaurant information is provided by receiving recommendations from office workers who know the area well, it is possible to provide restaurant information with high reliability.

In addition, the service server 100 may provide the location of restaurants by displaying markers on the map, and provide various information on restaurants to users by using various display means included in the marker. I can. That is, since the user can intuitively recognize information on the restaurant from the marker, it is possible to quickly and accurately search for the restaurant he wants.

2 is a block diagram showing a service server according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 2, the service server 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention may include a point of interest setting unit 110, a restaurant information extracting unit 120, and a marker display unit 130.

Hereinafter, a service server according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. 2.

The point of interest setting unit 110 may set a point of interest (POI) of the user according to the user's input applied to the user terminal 1 or the location of the user terminal 1. Here, the point of interest may be a location on a map corresponding to a workplace or school to which the user belongs, and the service server 100 may provide information about restaurants located in the vicinity based on the point of interest.

Specifically, the point of interest setting unit 110 may set the user's work or school inputted from the user terminal 1 as a point of interest when registering as a member for the service server 100. That is, a user may register as a member in the service server 100 to receive a restaurant information providing service from the service server 100, and in this case, as shown in FIG. Can be requested. In this case, the point of interest setting unit 110 may set a workplace or school input by the user as a point of interest of the corresponding user.

Here, the point-of-interest setting unit 110 may request input of additional information for verifying whether or not the user is actually working at a corresponding workplace when registering as a member. For example, the point-of-interest setting unit 110 may request the user to input a work email address, and then check whether the actual work has been performed by sending a verification email to the received work email address. In addition, depending on the embodiment, it is also possible to request the user to upload an image such as an employee ID or a student ID to verify whether the user belongs to a corresponding workplace or school. Through this, it is possible to secure the reliability of the restaurant information provided by the service server 100, and it is possible to prevent abusing such as randomly recommending a specific restaurant by a user who is not actually working at the corresponding workplace.

On the other hand, depending on the embodiment, in addition to the user's workplace or school, it is possible to arbitrarily set a point of interest according to a user's input. In this case, the point of interest setting unit 110 may recommend points of interest that can be set based on the location of the user terminal 1. Specifically, as shown in Fig. 4, the location (u) of the user terminal 1 and a plurality of candidate points (w1, w2, w3, w4) are displayed on the map, and a plurality of candidate points (w1, w2) are displayed. , w3, w4), a candidate point (w1, w2, w3, w4) selected by the user may be set as a point of interest.

Here, each candidate point (w1, w2, w3, w4) may be a workplace or school entered by other users when registering as a member, and the user selects the corresponding candidate point (w1, w2, w3, w4) as a point of interest. Accordingly, information about restaurants around the relevant point of interest can be provided. For example, when a user goes on a business trip to a partner company located in another region, the partner company may be set as a point of interest, and restaurant information directly recommended by office workers belonging to the partner company may be provided from the service server 100. .

The restaurant information extracting unit 120 may generate and store restaurant information associated with the point of interest, and may extract restaurant information associated with the point of interest at the request of the user terminal 1. Here, the restaurant information associated with the point of interest may be information on restaurants existing within a predetermined distance radius from the point of interest, or information on restaurants recommended by users belonging to the point of interest.

According to an embodiment, the restaurant information extraction unit 120 may collect recommended restaurants input by the user terminal 1 when a user signs up as a member, and may generate restaurant information from each of the recommended restaurants. Specifically, the restaurant information extraction unit 120 may provide a plurality of restaurant candidates located within a set distance (eg, 1 km) from a point of interest when a user registers as a member. You can request to enter a restaurant as a recommended restaurant.

That is, as shown in Fig. 5, by dividing the display unit of the user terminal 1, a map indicating the location of the point of interest w and the restaurant candidate m is displayed in the first area d1, In the 2 area d2, a candidate list including restaurant candidates m may be displayed. The user can check the location of the restaurant candidates (m) shown in the first area (d1) and the specific information on the restaurant candidates (m) shown in the second area (d2). You can specify and enter it as a recommended restaurant. Depending on the embodiment, even a restaurant that is not included in the restaurant candidate group provided by the restaurant information extraction unit 110 may be directly searched by the user and input as a recommended restaurant.

The restaurant information extraction unit 110 can primarily generate a restaurant candidate group from a plurality of UGC (User Generated Contents) published online, and then generate restaurant information using recommended restaurants selected by the user from among the restaurant candidate groups. can do. Here, the restaurant information extraction unit 110 can crawl the restaurant-related posts uploaded to blogs, cafes, and SNS (Social Network Service), and the name and location of each restaurant from the posts collected through crawling. Can create restaurant candidates by collecting various information such as, type, review, opinion, and evaluation.

However, in the case of UGC, posts uploaded by restaurant operators, etc. are included, and thus, when the restaurant information is extracted using only UGC, a problem such as a decrease in the reliability of the restaurant information may occur. Therefore, in this case, after creating a restaurant candidate group using UGC, it is supplemented with recommended restaurants that belong to each point of interest and actually use nearby restaurants, thereby improving the reliability of the extracted restaurants. I can make it.

The restaurant information extraction unit 120 may generate restaurant information by collecting recommended restaurants collected from a plurality of user terminals 1 and sorting them according to the number of recommendations for each restaurant. Here, the restaurant information may include the name of the extracted restaurants, the location, the ranking ranking between each restaurant, business hours, food images of the restaurant or interior and exterior images of the restaurant, the number of recommendations or reviews of users for the restaurant, and the like.

In addition, since the restaurant information extraction unit 120 generates restaurant information using recommended restaurant information collected from users belonging to each point of interest, the restaurant information may be linked to each point of interest. Accordingly, when the point of interest is "Naver", restaurant information linked to the point of interest may be generated such as "restaurants around Naver" or "restaurants recommended by Naver employees".

On the other hand, depending on the embodiment, it is possible to allow each user to enter a recommended restaurant on a regular or regular basis in addition to the membership registration, and the restaurant information extracting unit 120 may reflect this and update the restaurant information. However, in this case, the number of recommendations entered by the user may be limited, such as allowing only up to three recommendations per user per month, or prohibiting duplicate recommendations for the same restaurant. Through this, it is possible to prevent abusing, such as intensively recommending a specific restaurant by an arbitrary user.

The marker display unit 130 may display the extracted restaurant information in the form of a marker on a map and provide it to the user terminal 1. The marker display unit 130 may display various restaurant information extracted from the restaurant information extraction unit 120 on a marker, and a user may intuitively recognize various types of restaurant information using the marker.

As shown in FIG. 6, the marker m is displayed on a location corresponding to each restaurant included on the map, so that the location of the restaurant can be provided to the user. In addition, the number of markers m displayed on the map may be limited to a predetermined number according to the ranking of each restaurant. For example, among a plurality of restaurant information set for a point of interest, it may be limited to display only 10 markers according to the order in which the ranking is high. However, the number of markers displayed on the map can be arbitrarily changed according to the user's input. In addition, markers may be displayed according to the type of restaurant, and the number of markers displayed for each type may be variously set according to a user's input. For example, it is possible to display 10 markers for each type of restaurant, such as Korean, Western, Japanese, and snacks, or display only 10 markers in the order of the highest ranking among all types.

Here, the ranking of restaurants may be calculated in consideration of evaluation factors such as the number of recommendations by users for restaurants, the number of searches by users for restaurants, ratings given to restaurants by users using restaurants, and advertisement fees paid by restaurants. For example, a weight is assigned to each evaluation factor and then summed, so that a restaurant with a high summation result may be sequentially determined as a high ranking.

Meanwhile, the marker may include a plurality of display means, and various restaurant information can be displayed using each display means. Here, the display means may include the size, color, transparency of the marker, a thumbnail image included in the marker, a number displayed on the border of the marker, and the like.

Here, each restaurant information may be displayed by using any one of the various display means of the marker or the first to fourth display means combining them. For example, a ranking of restaurants displayed on a map may be displayed using a first display means of a marker, and business hours of the restaurants may be displayed using a second display means. In addition, the third display means may display food images or interior and exterior interiors of the restaurant, and the fourth display means may display the number of times users recommend or review the restaurant.

Specifically, as shown in FIG. 6, the size or color of the marker may be selected by the first display means m1, and the ranking of restaurants may be displayed using the size or color of the marker. In this case, markers corresponding to the first ranking to the 10th ranking may be displayed relatively large, and the markers of the remaining rankings may be displayed relatively small. In addition, ranking 1st to 3rd ranking may be indicated in red, ranking 4th to 10th ranking may be indicated in blue, and other rankings may be indicated in green. Accordingly, the user can easily check the ranking of restaurants corresponding to each marker by using the size or color of the marker.

In addition, the transparency of the marker may be selected as the second display means. In this case, the restaurant that is open at the current time when the user searches for the restaurant information may be displayed opaquely, and the restaurant whose business hours have ended may be displayed in a translucent manner. For example, when a user searches for restaurant information at 10 am, a samgyeopsal restaurant or a wine bar may be before the start of business. Accordingly, a marker corresponding to a samgyeopsal restaurant or a wine bar may be displayed in a translucent manner, indicating that it is not currently available.

In addition, it is possible to display a food image of a restaurant or an interior and exterior image of a restaurant in the center of the marker by using the thumbnail image as the third display means m2. However, in order for the thumbnail image to be included in the marker, the size of the marker must be relatively large, and according to an exemplary embodiment, the thumbnail image may be displayed only in the case of ranking 1st to 10th ranking.

In the case of the fourth display means m3, it may be a number displayed on the border of the marker, and may be used to indicate the number of recommendations or reviews for the corresponding restaurant. The ranking of the corresponding restaurant can be checked through the size or color of the marker, but the user can more directly recognize the popularity of the corresponding restaurant through a number such as the number of recommendations displayed on the marker. Accordingly, the fourth display means m3 may be further included and provided to the user.

In this way, in the case of providing restaurant information using a marker including a plurality of display means, the user can first distinguish the currently open restaurant among the plurality of markers by using transparency, and use the size or color of the marker. Thus, among the markers, restaurants with a high ranking of popularity can be selected. Thereafter, among the selected restaurants, food images displayed as thumbnails or internal and external interior images are checked, and the number of recommendations or reviews for the restaurant is checked, etc., so that the restaurant he/she wants to visit can be selected. That is, it is possible to intuitively check the restaurant information for each restaurant by using a marker, and based on this, it is possible to determine the restaurant to be visited.

Additionally, the marker display unit 130 according to an embodiment of the present invention may display a billboard indicating a real-time event performed in each restaurant on a map. That is, in response to an input of an operator who operates a restaurant, a billboard (a) indicating a real-time event may be displayed together with a marker (m) on a map, as shown in FIG. 6(a). Here, the service server 100 may provide a separate interface for setting a billboard to an operator's terminal device (not shown), and may generate a billboard according to the content input to the corresponding interface and display it on a map.

Here, the number of advertisement boards displayed on the map may be limited in advance, and when a request for setting the advertisement boards greater than or equal to the limit is received, advertisement boards to be displayed may be determined according to the ranking of each advertisement board. Here, the ranking of the billboard may be determined according to evaluation factors such as ranking of restaurants and advertisement fees paid by the restaurants. In addition, depending on the embodiment, it is also possible to limit the zoom level at which the billboard is displayed. The map may include a plurality of zoom levels, and may provide a map of various scales according to a zoom in input and a zoom out input. Here, the advertisement board may be provided to be displayed at some of the plurality of zoom levels, and whether the advertisement board is displayed for each zoom level may be determined according to a ranking among the advertisement boards at each zoom level.

In addition, according to the user's zoom-in or zoom-out input applied to the user terminal 1, the marker display unit 130 according to an embodiment of the present invention is displayed on the map. Markers (m) to be displayed can be clustered. Specifically, when the number of markers included in the unit area is greater than or equal to the set number by the zoom-in or zoom-out input, only the markers of a predetermined number of restaurants with a high ranking among restaurants included in the unit area may be displayed.

For example, when a plurality of restaurants are included in one building, if a plurality of markers are displayed at the same time, it is difficult to check the restaurant information displayed on the marker by overlapping each other. Accordingly, when more than a set number of markers are included in a predetermined unit area, only markers corresponding to a predetermined number of restaurants may be displayed by clustering them. Specifically, referring to FIG. 7(a), in the zoom-in state, 4 and 7 markers may be displayed in areas c1 and c2, respectively. However, as shown in Fig. 7(b), when zoom-out is performed, c1 and c2 can be reduced to c3 and c4, and in this case, it can be seen that only two representative markers are displayed.

Meanwhile, the marker display unit 130 may display an animation indicating the increase in the number of recommendations on the marker of the restaurant in real time in the case of a restaurant in which the number of recommendations of a user increases in real time among restaurants displayed on a map. That is, as shown in Fig. 6(a), when the number of recommendations increases in real time, an animation (b) in which the heart rises is displayed to intuitively recognize that the number of recommendations for the corresponding restaurant is increasing. I can.

In addition, when one of the markers displayed on the map is selected by the user, the marker display unit 130 may provide a comment input window through which users can input comments in real time for the corresponding restaurant. That is, users can communicate with each other through the comment input window, and it is possible to exchange information on the number of waiting people or business hours of the restaurant in real time, or to exchange opinions on the taste of food or service status in real time. For example, "I'm waiting now~", "Crab pasta is the best!" Users can exchange and utilize information about the restaurant in real time through comments left by users.

8 is a flowchart illustrating a method of providing restaurant information according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 8, a method of providing restaurant information according to an embodiment of the present invention may include a point of interest setting step (S100), a restaurant information extraction step (S200), and a marker display step (S300). Here, each of the steps may be performed by the service server.

Hereinafter, a method of providing restaurant information according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. 8.

In the point of interest setting step S100, a user's point of interest (POI) may be set according to the user's input applied to the user terminal or the location of the user terminal. Here, the point of interest may be a location on a map corresponding to a workplace or school to which the user belongs, and the service server may provide information about restaurants located around the corresponding point of interest.

Specifically, when signing up for a service server as a member, the user's work or school inputted from the user terminal may be set as a point of interest. That is, the user may register as a member to the service server in order to receive the restaurant information providing service from the service server, and in this case, the user may be requested to input the current workplace or school. In this case, the service server may set a workplace or school input by the user as a point of interest of the corresponding user.

Depending on the embodiment, when users sign up for membership in the point of interest setting step (S110), it is possible to request input of additional information to verify whether or not the corresponding workplace is actually worked. For example, it is possible to request the user to input a work email address, and then check the actual work status by sending a verification email to the received work email address. In addition, depending on the embodiment, it is also possible to request the user to upload an image such as an employee ID or a student ID to verify whether the user belongs to a corresponding workplace or school.

On the other hand, depending on the embodiment, in addition to the user's workplace or school, it is possible to arbitrarily set a point of interest according to a user's input. In this case, the service server may recommend points of interest that can be set based on the location of the user terminal. Specifically, the location of the user terminal and a plurality of candidate points may be displayed on a map, and a candidate point selected by the user among the plurality of candidate points may be set as a point of interest. Here, each candidate point may be a workplace or a school input by other users when registering as a member, and the user may receive information on restaurants around the corresponding point of interest as the user selects the candidate point as a point of interest.

In the restaurant information extraction step (S200), restaurant information associated with the point of interest may be generated and stored, and restaurant information associated with the point of interest may be extracted at the request of the user terminal. Here, the restaurant information associated with the point of interest may be information on restaurants existing within a predetermined distance radius from the point of interest, or information on restaurants recommended by users belonging to the point of interest.

Depending on the embodiment, the service server may collect recommended restaurants input by the user terminal when the user signs up for membership, and may generate restaurant information from each of the recommended restaurants.

Specifically, as shown in Fig. 9, the service server can pre-generate a restaurant candidate group from a plurality of UGC (User Generated Contents) published online, and is located within a set distance from a point of interest among the restaurant candidate groups. Candidate can be extracted and provided to the user terminal (S210). Thereafter, a predetermined number (for example, 3) of recommended restaurants selected by the user among the restaurant candidates may be received from the user terminal (S220), and the points of interest and the points of interest using the recommended restaurants collected from a plurality of user terminals. Linked restaurant information may be generated (S230).

Here, in the restaurant information extraction step (S200), after collecting recommended restaurants collected from a plurality of user terminals, restaurant information may be generated by sorting according to the number of recommendations for each restaurant. The restaurant information may include the name of the extracted restaurants, the location, the ranking among each restaurant, business hours, food images of the restaurant or interior and exterior images of the restaurant, the number of recommendations or reviews of users for the restaurant, and the like.

In addition, in the restaurant information extraction step (S200), since restaurant information is generated using recommended restaurant information collected from users belonging to each point of interest, restaurant information associated with the point of interest may be generated. Accordingly, when the point of interest is "Naver", restaurant information linked to the point of interest may be generated such as "restaurants around Naver" or "restaurants recommended by Naver employees".

On the other hand, depending on the embodiment, it is possible to allow each user to enter the recommended restaurant on a regular or regular basis in addition to the membership registration, and the service server may reflect this and update the restaurant information. However, in this case, the number of recommendations entered by the user may be limited, such as allowing only up to three recommendations per user per month, or prohibiting duplicate recommendations for the same restaurant. Through this, it is possible to prevent abusing, such as intensively recommending a specific restaurant by an arbitrary user.

In the marker display step S300, the extracted restaurant information may be displayed on a map in the form of a marker and provided to the user terminal. The service server can display various restaurant information on the marker, and the user can intuitively recognize various types of restaurant information using the marker.

The marker is displayed on a location corresponding to each restaurant included on the map, and the location of the restaurant may be provided to the user. In this case, the markers displayed on the map are displayed according to the ranking order of each restaurant, and may be limited to a predetermined number. In addition, the types of restaurants in which markers are displayed (eg, Korean, Chinese, Japanese, etc.) and the number of markers displayed for each type can be variously changed according to a user's input.

Here, the ranking of restaurants may be calculated in consideration of evaluation factors such as the number of recommendations by users for restaurants, the number of searches by users for restaurants, ratings given to restaurants by users using restaurants, and advertisement fees paid by restaurants. For example, a weight is assigned to each evaluation factor and then summed, so that a restaurant with a high summation result may be sequentially determined as a high ranking.

Meanwhile, the marker may include a plurality of display means, and various restaurant information can be displayed using each display means. Here, the display means may include the size, color, transparency of the marker, a thumbnail image included in the marker, a number displayed on the border of the marker, and the like.

Here, each restaurant information may be displayed by using any one of the various display means of the marker or the first to fourth display means combining them. For example, a ranking of restaurants displayed on a map may be displayed using a first display means of a marker, and business hours of the restaurants may be displayed using a second display means. In addition, the third display means may display food images or interior and exterior interiors of the restaurant, and the fourth display means may display the number of times users recommend or review the restaurant.

Specifically, the size or color of the marker may be selected as the first display means, and the ranking of restaurants may be displayed using the size or color of the marker. In addition, the transparency of the marker may be selected as the second display means. In this case, the restaurant that is open at the current time when the user searches for restaurant information may be displayed opaquely, and the restaurant whose business hours have ended may be displayed translucently. In addition, using the thumbnail image as the third display means, a food image of a restaurant or an interior and exterior image of a restaurant may be displayed at the center of the marker. In the case of the fourth display means, it may be a number displayed on the border of the marker, and may be used to indicate the number of recommendations or reviews for the corresponding restaurant. The ranking of the corresponding restaurant can be checked through the size or color of the marker, but the user can more directly recognize the popularity of the corresponding restaurant through a number such as the number of recommendations displayed on the marker. Accordingly, the fourth display means may be further included and provided to the user.

Additionally, in the marker display step S300, a billboard indicating a real-time event performed by each restaurant may be displayed on a map. That is, in response to an input of an operator who operates a restaurant, a billboard indicating a real-time event may be displayed together with a marker on a map. Here, the number of advertisement boards displayed on the map may be limited in advance, and when a request for setting the advertisement boards greater than or equal to the limit is received, advertisement boards to be displayed may be determined according to the ranking of each advertisement board. Here, the ranking of the billboard may be determined according to evaluation factors such as ranking of restaurants and advertisement fees paid by the restaurants. In addition, depending on the embodiment, it is also possible to limit the zoom level at which the billboard is displayed. The map may include a plurality of zoom levels, and may provide a map of various scales according to a zoom in input and a zoom out input. Here, the advertisement board may be provided to be displayed at some of the plurality of zoom levels, and whether the advertisement board is displayed for each zoom level may be determined according to a ranking among the advertisement boards at each zoom level.

In addition, in the marker display step S300, the markers m displayed on the map are clustered according to the user's zoom-in or zoom-out input applied to the user terminal ( clustering). Specifically, when the number of markers included in the unit area is greater than or equal to the set number by the zoom-in or zoom-out input, only the markers of a predetermined number of restaurants with a high ranking among restaurants included in the unit area may be displayed.

On the other hand, in the marker display step S300, in the case of a restaurant in which the number of recommendations by the user increases in real time among restaurants displayed on the map, an animation indicating the increase in the number of recommendations may be displayed on the marker of the restaurant in real time. For example, when the number of recommendations increases in real time, an animation in which a heart rises may be displayed to intuitively recognize that the number of recommendations for a corresponding restaurant is currently increasing.

In addition, in the marker display step S300, when any one of the markers displayed on the map is selected by the user, a comment input window through which users can input comments in real time for the corresponding restaurant may be provided. That is, users can communicate with each other through the comment input window, and it is possible to exchange information on the number of waiting people or business hours of the restaurant in real time, or to exchange opinions on the taste of food or service status in real time.

The present invention described above can be implemented as a computer-readable code on a medium on which a program is recorded. The computer-readable medium may be one that continuously stores a program executable by a computer, or temporarily stores a program for execution or download. In addition, the medium may be a variety of recording means or storage means in a form in which a single piece of hardware or several pieces of hardware are combined. The medium is not limited to a medium directly connected to a computer system, but may be distributed on a network. Examples of media include magnetic media such as hard disks, floppy disks and magnetic tapes, optical recording media such as CD-ROMs and DVDs, magneto-optical media such as floptical disks, And ROM, RAM, flash memory, and the like may be configured to store program instructions. In addition, examples of other media include an app store that distributes applications, a site that supplies or distributes various software, and a recording medium or a storage medium managed by a server. Therefore, the detailed description above should not be construed as restrictive in all respects and should be considered as illustrative. The scope of the present invention should be determined by reasonable interpretation of the appended claims, and all changes within the equivalent scope of the present invention are included in the scope of the present invention.

The present invention is not limited by the above-described embodiments and the accompanying drawings. It will be apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art to which the present invention pertains, that components according to the present invention can be substituted, modified, and changed within the scope of the technical spirit of the present invention.

1: user terminal 100: service server
110: point of interest setting unit 120: restaurant information extraction unit
130: marker display unit S110: point of interest setting step
S120: restaurant information extraction step S130: marker display step

Claims (18)

In the method of providing restaurant information of the service server,
A point of interest setting step of setting a point of interest (POI) of the user according to the user's input applied to the user terminal or the location of the user terminal;
A restaurant information extraction step of extracting restaurant information associated with the point of interest; And
Including a marker display step of displaying the extracted restaurant information in the form of a marker on a map and providing it to the user terminal,
The marker display step
A method of providing restaurant information by clustering markers displayed on the map according to a user's zoom-in or zoom-out input applied to the user terminal.
The method of claim 1, wherein the marking of the marker
And displaying the restaurant information at a location corresponding to the restaurant included on the map, and displaying the restaurant information using a plurality of display means included in the marker.
The method of claim 1, wherein the marking of the marker
A method of providing restaurant information, comprising displaying a predetermined number of markers set according to a ranking order among restaurants included in the map.
The method of claim 3, wherein the ranking of the restaurants is
Including as an evaluation factor at least one of the number of recommendations by users for the restaurant, the number of searches by users for the restaurant, a rating given to the restaurant by users using the restaurant, and advertisement fees paid by the restaurant, A method of providing restaurant information, characterized in that determining by using a result of adding weights to the elements.
The method of claim 2, wherein the plurality of display means
And at least one of a size, color, transparency of the marker, a thumbnail image included in the marker, and a number displayed on a border of the marker.
The method of claim 2, wherein the marking of the marker
Displaying the ranking of the restaurants displayed on the map by using the first display means of the marker,
Displaying the business hours of the restaurants using a second display means,
Displaying the food image of the restaurant using a third display means,
A method for providing restaurant information, comprising displaying the number of recommendations or reviews of users for the restaurant by using a fourth display means.
The method of claim 6, wherein the marking of the marker
Using the size or color of the marker as the first display means, differently display the size or color of the marker according to the ranking of the restaurants,
Using the transparency of the marker as the second display means, restaurants currently open are displayed as opaque, and restaurants whose business hours have ended are displayed semitransparently,
Using the thumbnail image as the third display means, the food image of the restaurant is displayed in the center of the marker,
The method of providing restaurant information, characterized in that the fourth display means indicates the number of recommendations or the number of reviews using a number displayed on a border of the marker.
The method of claim 1, wherein the marking of the marker
In response to an input of an operator who operates the restaurant, a billboard indicating a real-time event is displayed together with a marker on the map.
delete The method of claim 1, wherein the marking of the marker
If the number of markers included in the unit area by the zoom-in or zoom-out input is greater than or equal to the set number, only the markers of a predetermined number of restaurants with a high ranking among the restaurants included in the unit area are displayed. How to provide information.
In the method of providing restaurant information of the service server,
A point of interest setting step of setting a point of interest (POI) of the user according to the user's input applied to the user terminal or the location of the user terminal;
A restaurant information extraction step of extracting restaurant information associated with the point of interest; And
Including a marker display step of displaying the extracted restaurant information in the form of a marker on a map and providing it to the user terminal,
The marker display step
In the case of a restaurant in which the number of recommendations by a user increases in real time among restaurants displayed on the map, an animation indicating the increase in the number of recommendations is displayed on a marker of the restaurant in real time.
The method of claim 1, wherein the marking of the marker
When any one of the markers is selected, a method for providing restaurant information, characterized in that providing a comment input window that can be input in real time.
The method of claim 1, wherein the step of setting a point of interest
When registering as a member for the service server, the method of providing restaurant information, characterized in that the user's workplace or school inputted from the user terminal is set as the point of interest.
The method of claim 1, wherein the step of setting a point of interest
A candidate point selected by a user among a plurality of candidate points displayed on the map is set as the point of interest,
The above candidate locations are
When registering as a member for the service server, the method of providing restaurant information, characterized in that each workplace or school input by a plurality of users.
The method of claim 13, wherein the step of extracting the restaurant information
When registering as a member of the service server, a restaurant information providing method comprising receiving a recommended restaurant located within a set distance from the point of interest, and generating restaurant information associated with the point of interest.
In the method of providing restaurant information of the service server,
A point of interest setting step of setting a point of interest (POI) of the user according to the user's input applied to the user terminal or the location of the user terminal;
A restaurant information extraction step of extracting restaurant information associated with the point of interest; And
Including a marker display step of displaying the extracted restaurant information in the form of a marker on a map and providing it to the user terminal,
The restaurant information extraction step
Extracting restaurant candidates located within a set distance from the point of interest from among a plurality of restaurant candidates generated from a plurality of User Generated Contents (UGCs) published online, and providing them to the user terminal;
Receiving a predetermined number of recommended restaurants among the restaurant candidates from the user terminal; And
And generating restaurant information linked to the point of interest by using the recommended restaurants collected from a plurality of user terminals.
A computer program stored in a medium to execute the method of providing restaurant information according to any one of claims 1 to 8 and 10 to 16 in combination with hardware.
A point of interest setting unit configured to set a point of interest (POI) of the user according to the user's input applied to the user terminal or the location of the user terminal;
A restaurant information extracting unit that extracts restaurant information associated with the point of interest; And
Including a marker display unit that displays the extracted restaurant information in the form of a marker on a map and provides it to the user terminal,
The marker display unit
A service server for clustering markers displayed on the map according to a user's zoom-in or zoom-out input applied to the user terminal.

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