KR102666547B1 - Method and system for providing meal appointment based schedule matching, management and communucation social networking platform - Google Patents

Abstract

According to an embodiment of the present invention, a platform providing server provides a meal appointment-based schedule matching and management service method, comprising: receiving a meal appointment creation request including information about participants from a user terminal; Obtaining schedule information for each participant from the participants' terminals, and generating a recommended schedule for a preset number of dates in the earliest order among the schedules available to all participants; A method for providing a meal appointment-based schedule matching and management service is provided, including transmitting confirmed schedule information finally selected from among the recommended schedules to the participants' terminals to be registered.

Description

Meal appointment-based schedule matching, management and communication social networking platform providing method and system {METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING MEAL APPOINTMENT BASED SCHEDULE MATCHING, MANAGEMENT AND COMMUNUCATION SOCIAL NETWORKING PLATFORM}

The present invention relates to a method and system for providing a social networking platform for schedule matching, management, and communication based on meal appointments. More specifically, in relation to meal appointments, the present invention relates to a method and system for automatically checking a participant's available schedule and allowing the schedule to be set. It relates to methods and systems.

As the demand for smartphones increased, a variety of specialized services began to be provided. As part of the service, services such as scheduling, saving, managing, and sending notifications for various appointments were activated.

On the other hand, when making an appointment between people, it is common to set a date and location in advance. In this case, since only the participants' schedules are known, there has been the inconvenience of taking a lot of time to coordinate schedules. Recently, As this inconvenience is accompanied, a phenomenon of avoiding the promise itself is also occurring.

As a method to shorten the process of transmitting and negotiating promises, the prior art is Korean Patent Publication No. 2013-0020427 (published on February 27, 2013) and Korea Patent Publication No. 2009-0128096 (published on December 15, 2009). ), and Korean Patent No. 10-1231067 (announced on February 7, 2013) were proposed. This includes a configuration that collects the schedule to make an appointment and confirms consent, a configuration that sets the appointment time by considering the time table when a schedule agreement exists, and a configuration that allows the user to easily make appointment times, locations, participants, etc. with multiple appointment participants. A structure for conveying and sharing information is disclosed.

However, despite this technology, the user had to manually coordinate the appointment time, and there was no advantage other than the fact that the existing offline schedule coordination was simply done systematically.

Therefore, a meal-based schedule matching and management technology that includes a simple schedule matching process is needed.

The present invention is intended to solve the problems of the prior art.

The purpose of the present invention is to enable users to omit the effort and time required for scheduling and selecting a location when making a meal appointment, and to efficiently recommend an optimized schedule and location that can satisfy participants. , to improve communication efficiency between participants.

The purpose of the present invention is to enable users to easily obtain information and statistical information about past and future meal schedules.

The objects of the present invention are not limited to the objects mentioned above, and other objects not mentioned can be clearly understood from the description below.

According to an embodiment of the present invention for achieving the above-described purpose, a platform providing server receives a meal appointment creation request containing information about participants from a user terminal as a method of providing a meal appointment-based schedule matching and management service. steps; Obtaining schedule information for each participant from the participants' terminals, and generating a recommended schedule for a preset number of dates in the earliest order among the schedules available to all participants; A method for providing a meal appointment-based schedule matching and management service is provided, including transmitting confirmed schedule information finally selected from among the recommended schedules to the participants' terminals to be registered.

The method may further include providing a chat room function that allows communication between the participants to the participants' terminals.

The method may further include generating a preset number of places as recommended place information within a preset radius based on the location information received from the user terminal, in order of most use as past meal meeting places.

According to one embodiment of the present invention, when users make a meal appointment, they can omit the effort and time required to coordinate schedules and select a location, and efficiently recommend an optimized schedule and location that will satisfy participants. This can be done and communication efficiency between participants can also be improved.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the user can easily obtain information and statistical information about past and future meal schedules.

1 is a diagram illustrating a schematic configuration of a meal appointment-based schedule matching, management, and communication system according to an embodiment of the present invention.
Figure 2 is a block diagram for explaining the internal configuration and detailed operation of a platform providing server according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The detailed description of the present invention described below refers to the accompanying drawings, which show by way of example specific embodiments in which the present invention may be practiced. These embodiments are described in sufficient detail to enable those skilled in the art to practice the invention. It should be understood that the various embodiments of the present invention are different from one another but are not necessarily mutually exclusive. For example, specific shapes, structures and characteristics described herein with respect to one embodiment may be implemented in other embodiments without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. Additionally, it should be understood that the location or arrangement of individual components within each disclosed embodiment may be changed without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. Accordingly, the detailed description that follows is not intended to be taken in a limiting sense, and the scope of the invention is limited only by the appended claims, together with all equivalents to what those claims assert, if properly described. Similar reference numbers in the drawings refer to identical or similar functions across various aspects.

Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the attached drawings in order to enable those skilled in the art to easily practice the present invention.

1 is a diagram illustrating a schematic configuration of a meal appointment-based schedule matching, management, and communication system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, a system according to one embodiment is configured to include a plurality of user terminals 100 and a platform providing server 200.

The user terminal 100 and the platform providing server 200 are connected to a communication network, for example, a mobile communication network, a local area network (LAN), a metropolitan area network (MAN), and a wide area network (WAN). ), World Wide Web (WWW), and wireless communication network (WiFi: Wireless Fidelity).

The user terminal 100 has a computing function and may be implemented in any form as long as it is a device capable of communicating with the outside. For example, it may be implemented as a smartphone, tablet PC, desktop, laptop, PDA, etc., but is not limited thereto.

An application for receiving services provided by the platform providing server 200 may be installed on the user terminal 100. These applications may be downloaded and installed from the platform providing server 200 or another app store server. However, the service provided by the platform providing server 200 may be implemented on a specific web page accessed through a web browser installed on the user terminal 100.

The user terminal 100 may transmit an appointment creation request to the platform providing server 200, and the platform providing server 200 sets the appointment date, etc. in response to this request, and sends the set information to the participant's user terminal 100. It performs the function of transmitting to .

Figure 2 is a block diagram for explaining the internal configuration and detailed operation of a platform providing server according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to Figure 2, the platform providing server 200 according to one embodiment includes an appointment creation request receiving unit 210, a schedule recommending unit 220, a schedule notifying unit 230, and a communication function providing unit 240. It can be configured.

The appointment creation request receiver 210, schedule recommendation unit 220, schedule notification unit 230, and communication function provider 240 may be program modules or hardware capable of communicating with an external device. These program modules or hardware may be included in the platform providing server 200 or other devices capable of communicating therewith in the form of operating systems, application modules, and other program modules, and may be physically stored in various known storage devices. there is. Meanwhile, such program modules or hardware include, but are not limited to, routines, subroutines, programs, objects, components, data structures, etc. that perform specific tasks or execute specific abstract data types according to the present invention.

The appointment creation request receiving unit 210 receives an appointment creation request from the user terminal 100. The appointment creation request may include category information and participant information. Category information may be information selected from breakfast, lunch, or dinner during a meal appointment. Participant information may be information about a participant selected by the user. The user terminal 100 may store information about a number of other users, such as names and phone numbers. The user may select other users stored in the user terminal 100 and send an appointment creation request.

Additionally, according to another embodiment, a messenger program may be installed in the user terminal 100, and a chat room in which multiple users participate may be opened in the messenger program. The user may select one or more chat rooms among chat rooms existing in the corresponding messenger program and transmit a request for creating an appointment. In this case, the participants in the chat room become participants in the appointment.

The schedule recommendation unit 220 performs a function of recommending one or more schedules based on category information and participant information included in the appointment creation request.

According to one embodiment, schedule information may be received from the user terminal 100 of the participants in the appointment. To this end, a schedule application may be installed on each user terminal 100, and each user may input and save a schedule for each date and time in the schedule application.

The schedule recommendation unit 220 specifies the time for each breakfast, lunch, or dinner based on the category information included in the appointment creation request. For example, breakfast may be specified as 8-10 am, lunch may be specified as 12-2 pm, and dinner may be specified as 6-8 pm.

Thereafter, for a time specified based on the category information included in the appointment creation request, all participants select a preset number of dates from the earliest possible date, based on the schedule information received from the user terminal 100 of each participant. A recommended schedule is created and transmitted to the user terminal 100 and the user terminals 100 of the participants.

According to one embodiment, if the available date for all participants in a specific appointment is not within a first critical period from the present time (from the time of generating the appointment creation request), the number of contacts is based on contact pattern information between participants during a preset period in the past. A date that is available to all participants except for the user with the fewest is created as the first recommended schedule. In addition, based on information on contact patterns between participants during a preset period of time in the past, dates available to all participants except for the second user with the least number of contacts are created as a second-ranked recommendation schedule. If it is impossible to create the first-priority recommendation schedule within the first critical period, that is, if there are no available dates for all participants except the user with the fewest contacts within the first critical period, the second-priority recommendation schedule is It may be promoted to the first recommended schedule.

The number of contacts is calculated cumulatively based on the number of times each participant participated in the contact. For example, in Participation Vehicles A~C, if there were 2 contacts between participants A and B, and 3 contacts between B and C, then the number of contacts for Participant A was 2, for B 5 times, and for C. The number of contacts is 3. Additionally, when participants are identified through a chat room within a messenger program, the number of times a message has been entered into the chat room during a preset period in the past becomes the number of contacts for each participant.

Meanwhile, the first critical period may be set to be equal to the total number of contacts of participants during a preset period in the past. That is, the smaller the number of contacts between participants, the longer the first critical period can be set. At this time, when participants are identified through a chat room within the messenger program, the number of times a message has been entered into the chat room during a preset period in the past becomes the number of contacts.

The schedule notification unit 230 sends the schedule information finally selected by one or more of the candidate schedules generated by the schedule recommendation unit 220 and transmitted to the user terminals 100 to the user terminals 100 of the meal appointment participants. send to The final selection may be made through preference information or voting information for each schedule received from the user terminal 100 of the participants among the candidate schedules.

The meal schedule finalized by transmitting the schedule may be automatically registered in the schedule application of the corresponding user terminals 100. Schedule information may include date information and time information.

The communication function providing unit 240 may provide a communication function that allows participants in a specific meal appointment to communicate with each other. For example, after schedule confirmation and registration are completed, a chat room can be created where participants in the appointment can communicate with each other.

In addition, the communication function provider 240 may provide recommended meal place information within a preset radius based on the location based on the location information of the user terminal 100 or location information directly designated by the user. In the appointment created by this service, a preset number of places may be provided as recommended places in the order of places frequently used by users during a preset period in the past, among dining places existing within the radius. .

Additionally, the communication function provider 240 may provide statistical results based on the number of meal schedules created and confirmed for each user in the relationship with each of his or her acquaintances.

According to one embodiment, when users make a meal appointment, the effort and time required to coordinate schedules and select a location can be omitted, and an optimized schedule and location that can satisfy participants can be efficiently recommended. , communication efficiency between participants can also be improved.

According to one embodiment, the user can easily obtain information and statistical information about past and future meal schedules.

The description of the present invention described above is for illustrative purposes, and those skilled in the art will understand that the present invention can be easily modified into other specific forms without changing the technical idea or essential features of the present invention. will be. Therefore, the embodiments described above should be understood in all respects as illustrative and not restrictive. For example, each component described as single may be implemented in a distributed manner, and similarly, components described as distributed may also be implemented in a combined form.

The scope of the present invention is indicated by the patent claims described below, and all changes or modified forms derived from the meaning and scope of the claims and their equivalent concepts should be construed as being included in the scope of the present invention.

100: user terminal
200: Platform server provided
210: Appointment creation request receiver
220: Schedule recommendation section
230: Schedule notification department
240: Communication function provision department

Claims (3)

As a method for the platform providing server to provide a schedule matching service for meal appointments between participants,
(a) receiving a meal appointment creation request including information about participants from a user terminal;
(b) obtaining schedule information for each participant from the participants' terminals, and generating a recommended schedule for a preset number of dates in the earliest order among the schedules available to all participants; and
(c) transmitting the confirmed schedule information finally selected from among the recommended schedules to the participants' terminals to be registered in the schedule application,
In step (b),
If the date on which all the participants are available is not within the first critical period from the time of request for creating a meal appointment, all participants except the user with the least number of contacts are available based on the contact pattern information between participants during the past preset period. 1. Including the step of generating a date within a critical period as a first priority recommendation schedule,
The first critical period is set to be inversely proportional to the total number of contacts of the participants during a preset period in the past. According to paragraph 1,
A method of providing a schedule matching service, further comprising providing a chat room function that enables communication between the participants to the terminals of the participants. According to paragraph 1,
A schedule matching service providing method further comprising generating a preset number of places as recommended place information within a preset radius based on the location information received from the user terminal in the order of most frequently used past meal meeting places.