KR20130108723A - Method and apparatus for providing sharing service based on position - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A location based sharing service method and an apparatus thereof are provided to share location information about a sharing manager's client and registered sharing participants' clients between the sharing manager's client and the registered sharing participants' clients. CONSTITUTION: An information sharing management block (1087) receives location information about a sharing manager's client and sharing participants' clients which have been registered. The information sharing management block registers the received location information at a relevant sharing group within a sharing group database. The information sharing management block provides the route guide information of the sharing manager's client for each sharing participant's client. The information sharing management block provides each location information which has been registered to share for the sharing manager's client and the registered sharing participants' clients at the same time. [Reference numerals] (1081) Interface block; (1083) Share group generation block; (1085) Share group management block; (1087) Information sharing management block; (1089) Share group DB

Description

Location-based shared service method and its device {METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING SHARING SERVICE BASED ON POSITION}

The present invention relates to a location-based sharing service technique, and more particularly, sets and registers a mobile device, which can be defined as a mobile client, into a sharing group divided into a sharing manager client and a sharing participant client, thereby guiding location information and route between each other. A method and apparatus for location based sharing service suitable for sharing information.

As is well known, when a plurality of vehicles are intended to be moved in the same destination or in the same direction, a route is performed using a portable terminal (or a wireless terminal) having navigation functions mounted on the vehicle or a navigation function possessed by a vehicle driver or a passenger. It is common to be guided.

That is, the driver of each vehicle sets a landmark such as a destination address, a road name near the destination, a terrain near the destination, and moves to the destination while receiving route guidance.

Republic of Korea Patent Publication No. 2011-0091401 (Published: 2011. 08. 11.)

However, the conventional method has a problem in that both the driver and the passengers of each vehicle have to go through a user interface for setting a destination, and when a plurality of vehicles move without a destination, Alternatively, the vehicle may miss a vehicle that proceeds earlier due to the speed of the vehicle.

According to an aspect of the present invention, when a specific mobile client accesses a shared service server and requests registration of a shared group, the present invention may include: creating a shared group in which the specific mobile client is a shared manager client and registering the shared group in a shared group DB; When any mobile client requests to join the shared group, registering the mobile client as a shared participant client in the shared group DB, and providing route sharing information of the shared manager client to each shared participant client. And executing a sharing service that simultaneously provides location information of the sharing manager client and location information of the registered sharing participant client to the sharing manager client and the registered sharing participant client. .

According to another aspect of the present invention, when a specific mobile client requests registration of a shared group, a shared group creation block for creating a shared group that makes the specific mobile client a shared manager client, and stores the generated shared group information. A shared group management block which registers the mobile client as a shared participant client to the corresponding shared group in the shared group DB when a mobile client requests participation in the shared group; Receives the location information of the manager client and the location information of the registered sharing participant client and registers it in the corresponding sharing group in the sharing group DB, provides the path guide information of the sharing manager client to each shared participant client, and registers for sharing Shared management of each location information It provides location-based shared service units, including the sharing of information management provides simultaneous block to clients and registered participants shared clients.

According to the present invention, the path guide information of the shared manager client is shared with each shared partner client while any mobile client sets and registers a shared group as a shared manager client and other mobile clients register as a shared partner client. To share the location information of the shared manager client and the registered participant client's location information with the shared manager client and the registered shared participant client, so that a plurality of vehicles may move to the same destination. The user's ease of use can be greatly improved, and the current location of each participant in the sharing group can be shared and monitored in real time.

1 is a schematic diagram of a location sharing service system suitable for applying a location-based sharing service device according to the present invention;
2 is a block diagram of a mobile device suitable for applying a location-based sharing service method according to the present invention;
3 is a block diagram of a location-based shared service device according to the present invention;
4 is a flowchart illustrating a main process of setting and registering a sharing group to provide a location-based sharing service according to the present invention;
5 is a flowchart illustrating a main process of registering as a sharing participant client to provide a location-based sharing service according to the present invention;
6 is a flow chart illustrating a process of withdrawing a participant from a sharing group when providing a location-based sharing service according to the present invention.

The technical aspect of the present invention is that, unlike the above-described conventional method in which each mobile client intending to travel in the same destination or direction receives a desired route guidance by setting a destination, respectively, a specific mobile client establishes a shared group as a shared manager client. Set up and register, any mobile clients register as a shared participant client to the shared group, provide route sharing information of the shared manager client to each shared participant client, location information of the shared manager client and location of the registered shared participant client By simultaneously providing information to the sharing manager client and the registered sharing participant client, the present invention can effectively solve the problems of the conventional manner by realizing the purpose through this technical means.

Here, the mobile client may be a navigation device mounted on a vehicle or a portable terminal (or wireless terminal) having a navigation function possessed by a vehicle driver or a passenger, and these terminals (navigation, portable terminal) are defined as a mobile device. Can be.

In the following description of the present invention, detailed description of known functions and configurations incorporated herein will be omitted when it may make the subject matter of the present invention rather unclear. In addition, terms to be described below are terms defined in consideration of functions in the present invention, which may be changed according to intention or custom of a user, an operator, or the like. Therefore, the definition should be based on the technical idea described throughout this specification.

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

1 is a schematic diagram of a location sharing service system suitable for applying a location-based sharing service device according to the present invention, which includes a mobile client group 102 and a mobile communication network 104 composed of a plurality of mobile clients 102/1 102 / n. ), A wired communication network 106 and a shared service server 108, and the like.

Referring to FIG. 1, each of the mobile clients 102/1 102 / n in the mobile client group 102 may be navigation mounted in a vehicle of a user who wants to receive a location-based sharing service or the like provided according to the present invention. A mobile terminal (or a wireless terminal) having a navigation function possessed by a vehicle driver or a passenger, and the like. Each of these mobile clients may be defined as a mobile device.

Here, each mobile client may be defined as a sharing manager client or a shared participant client when receiving a location based sharing service by connecting to the shared service server 108 via the mobile communication network 104 and the wired communication network 106.

The mobile communication network 104 may be, for example, any one of a second generation (2G) mobile communication network, a third generation (3G) mobile communication network, a fourth generation (4G) mobile communication network, a fifth generation (5G) mobile communication network, or at least two or more mobile devices. It may mean a wireless communication network including a communication network in combination, the wired communication network 106 may mean a communication network including a wired Internet.

Figure 2 is a block diagram of a mobile device (or mobile client) suitable for applying the location-based sharing service method according to the present invention, the shared service configuration block 1021, location information transmission block 1023, location / path guidance receiving Block 1025, information display block 1027, and the like.

Referring to FIG. 2, the shared service setting block 1021 is a shared group name, whether the shared group is public and private, and whether the mobile group (or mobile device) requests a registration (setting registration) of the sharing group according to a user's operation. When setting the number of people, information to be shared, and the like, related information (sharing group information) is transmitted through an interface block (not shown) and transmitted to the shared service server 108 through the mobile communication network 104 and the wired communication network 106, and the like. In this case, when the mobile client (or mobile device) sets up and registers a sharing group, the client may be registered with the shared service server 108 as a sharing manager client.

Here, the sharing target information may include any one or more of destination information, route guidance information, and location information. That is, the mobile client can set whether to share the destination information, share the route guidance information, or share only the location information based on the user's operation, and this setting can be changed at any time by the sharing manager client. .

In addition, the shared service setting block 1021 may perform a function such as searching for a telephone number or the like at the same time as creating a shared group or inputting a specific telephone number to transmit a text message for creating a shared group according to a user's operation. Can provide.

Furthermore, the shared service setting block 1021 may connect to the shared service server 108 through the mobile communication network 104 and the wired communication network 106 to register and register the mobile client as a sharing participant client with a desired sharing group. At this time, you can set a nickname and the like to distinguish yourself. In this case, when the sharing participant client does not set a nickname, for example, the 4-digit number after the telephone number may be replaced with the nickname for identification with other sharing participant clients.

Here, registering any mobile client as a shared participant client in the desired sharing group may mean that it has agreed to send its location information to each participant (Share Manager client and other shared participant clients) within that shared group. Can be.

Next, the location information transmission block 1023 includes a GPS module and the like, and when the mobile client is registered as a sharing manager client or a sharing participant client in a specific sharing group, the mobile client at a predetermined predetermined time period. Location information (eg, GPS coordinate values) may be provided to a remote shared service server 108 through an interface block (not shown).

In addition, the location / path guidance reception block 1025 is transmitted from the shared service server 108 when the mobile client is registered as a sharing manager client or a sharing participant client in a specific sharing group, and is connected with the wired communication network 106. Receives share target information (destination information, route manager information of the sharing manager client) including location information received via the mobile communication network 104, and processes it into a displayable signal through a monitor (display panel) to display the information display block ( 1027) may be provided. Here, the received location information will be the location information of other shared participant clients participating in the shared group when the mobile client is the shared manager client, and the location manager's shared manager client of the shared group when the mobile client is the shared participant client. Location information and location information of other sharing participant clients.

In this case, the location / path guidance receiving block 1027 may display only the location information of the sharing manager client and the sharing participant client, only the destination information, or the sharing through the information display block 1025 according to a user's selection. Only the route guidance of the administrator client may be displayed, the route guidance from the current location of the mobile client to the location of the shared administrator client may be displayed, or two or more information may be mixed and displayed.

In addition, the location / route guide receiving block 1025 provides a function of generating a route guide information set by the user and transmitting the generated route guide information to a remote shared service server 108 when the mobile client is a shared manager client. can do.

The information display block 1027 includes, for example, a display panel (monitor), a panel driver, and the like, and functions to display (display) various types of information transmitted from the position / path guide reception block 1025 on the display panel. Can provide. In this case, the current location (location information) of the sharing manager client and the sharing participant client may be represented by an icon representing a nickname or a four-digit number after the telephone number. The icon may be expressed in a form having an identifying power (eg, size, color, shape, etc.).

Referring back to FIG. 1, the shared service server 108 refers to a location based shared service device of the present invention that provides location based sharing services to each mobile client according to the present invention. 108 may be configured, for example, in the form as shown in FIG. 3.

3 is a block diagram of a location-based shared service device according to the present invention, which includes an interface block 1081, a share group creation block 1083, a share group management block 1085, an information sharing management block 1087, and a share group. DB 1089 and the like.

Referring to FIG. 3, the share group creation block 1083 is sent from a specific mobile client (mobile device) at a remote location and via the interface block 1081 share group information (eg, share group name, whether the share group is public and private). When a sharing group registration request message is received, including the number of participants, and information to be shared, a mobile group is created as a sharing manager client of the created sharing group after creating a sharing group in which the received sharing group information is set. It may provide a function such as registering in the sharing group DB 1089. Here, the sharing target information may include any one or more of destination information, route guidance information, and location information.

Next, the shared group management block 1085 registers the mobile client as a shared participant client of the shared group when any mobile client connects to the shared service server 108 and requests to join the pre-registered shared group. Register a next-participating share participant client as a new share manager client when any share manager client leaves the share group, or register a share participant client specified by the share manager client as a new share manager client, When both the shared manager client and the shared participant client registered in the group leave, the corresponding shared group registered in the shared group DB 1089 may be deleted.

Here, a text message, such as a mobile messenger, may be exchanged between the sharing manager client and the sharing participant client or the sharing participant client. For this purpose, although not illustrated in FIG. 1, the shared service server may be a messenger server (or mobile). Messenger server), and the like.

The information sharing management block 1087 receives the location information of the shared manager client of each registered sharing group, the location information of the shared participant clients, the path guide information of the shared manager client, and the like, and shares the corresponding information in the sharing group DB 1089. Register to the group as shared group information, provide each shared participant's route guidance information (or route guidance information including destination information) of the shared administrator client of each shared group, and the shared administrator client and share registered for sharing. Each location information of the participant clients (eg, location information including an icon and a nickname, etc.) may be simultaneously provided to the corresponding shared manager client and the shared participant clients.

In addition, the information sharing management block 1087 determines that the shared participant client has terminated the service program when there is no transmission / reception of location information for a predetermined number of times from a specific shared participant client registered to each sharing group. It may provide a function of forcibly disabling the participant client from the shared group.

To this end, the sharing group DB 1089 may store sharing group information for each sharing group, location information of sharing manager clients and sharing participant clients for each sharing group, and route guidance information for each sharing manager client.

Next, a description will be given of a series of procedures for providing a location-based sharing service to each mobile client using the location-based sharing service apparatus having the above-described configuration.

4 is a flowchart illustrating a main process of setting and registering a sharing group to provide a location-based sharing service according to the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 4, when a specific mobile client connects to the shared service server 108 via the mobile communication network 104 and the wired communication network 106 (step 402), the shared service server 108 configures the setting of the sharing group. A main menu screen including a selection item, etc. for the user is extracted and provided to the mobile client.

Next, when the mobile client selects (requests) the setting of the sharing group from the main menu screen (step 404), the shared service server 108 retrieves the information selection menu screen for selecting the sharing group information, and the mobile client To provide.

In response, the mobile client user sets the sharing group information by entering a sharing group name, selecting whether to share the public group or not, and selecting the sharing target information (step 406), and then “OK”. When the item is selected (clicked, etc.) (step 408), the sharing service setting block 1021 of the mobile client includes sharing group information (e.g., sharing group name, whether the sharing group is public and private, the number of participants, information to be shared, etc.). And generates a sharing group registration request message and transmits the shared group registration request message to the shared service server 108 via the mobile communication network 104 and the wired communication network 106 (step 410).

As a result, in the shared group creation block 1083 in the shared service server 108, a shared group in which the received shared group information is set is created, and the mobile client is a shared manager client of the created shared group. 1089) (step 412). Here, the sharing target information may include any one or more of destination information, route guidance information, and location information.

At this time, the user of the sharing manager client may transmit a text message for the creation of the sharing group to the desired mobile clients by searching for a phone number or inputting a specific phone number at the same time as creating the sharing group.

Next, a description will be given of a series of processes in which mobile clients register as shared participant clients in a shared group registered through the processes described above.

5 is a flowchart illustrating a main process of registering as a sharing participant client to provide a location-based sharing service according to the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 5, when a specific mobile client connects to the shared service server 108 via the mobile communication network 104 and the wired communication network 106 (step 502), the shared service server 108 requests the current status of the sharing group. A main menu screen including a selection item for the user is fetched and provided to the mobile client.

Next, when the mobile client requests the status of the sharing group in the main menu screen (step 504), the sharing group management block 1085 in the shared service server 108 searches for the sharing group DB 1089 and registers the registered share. A shared group status list including a group name of the groups is generated, and the generated shared group status list is transmitted to the corresponding mobile client (step 506).

Therefore, the user of the mobile client can select one of the plurality of sharing groups included in the sharing group status list displayed through the display panel as a group joining target (step 508). If a nickname is input after selection, a group join request message (eg, a group join request message optionally including a nickname) is generated and transferred to the shared group management block 1085 in the shared service server 108.

In response, the shared group management block 1085 in the shared service server 108 registers the mobile client with the shared group DB 1089 as a shared participant client of the selected shared group (step 510).

Thereafter, route guidance information of the sharing manager client registered in the corresponding sharing group is transmitted to each registered sharing participant client, and the location information of the sharing manager client and the location information of the registered sharing participant client are shared manager client and registered sharing participant. The shared service is sent to the client at the same time (step 512). In this case, a text message such as a mobile messenger may be exchanged between the sharing manager client and the sharing participant client or between the sharing participant client.

Next, a description will be given of a series of processes in which the sharing manager client or the sharing participant client registered in the sharing group leaves the sharing group through the processes described above.

6 is a flowchart illustrating a process of withdrawing a participant from a sharing group when providing a location-based sharing service according to the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 6, in a situation in which a sharing manager client and a sharing participant client are registered with a sharing group and are being provided with a sharing service (step 602), a specific mobile client (a sharing manager client or a sharing participant client) is, for example, displayed on a display panel. You can request to leave the shared group by selecting the withdrawal item (or withdraw icon) shown in step 604. If a user of the mobile client requests withdrawal of the shared group, the shared group management block in shared service server 108 ( In step 1085, it is checked whether the mobile client is a shared manager client or a shared participant client (steps 606 and 608).

If it is determined in step 606 that the mobile client requesting the withdrawal of the shared group is a shared manager client, the shared group management block 1085 registers (selects) a new shared manager client for the shared group. (Step 610), wherein the new sharing manager client may be a sharing participant client next joining the sharing group or a sharing participant client designated by the sharing manager client requesting withdrawal.

Thereafter, in the sharing group management block 1085, the existing sharing manager client is withdrawn from the corresponding sharing group (that is, deletion of the sharing group information in the sharing group DB 1089) (step 612).

If it is determined that the mobile client requesting the withdrawal of the sharing group is a shared participant client as a result of the check in step 608, the sharing group management block 1085 determines that the sharing participant client that has requested the withdrawal of the sharing group from the shared group. Leave (i.e. delete shared group information in shared group DB 1089) (step 614).

Meanwhile, although not illustrated in FIG. 6, when a situation in which both the sharing manager client and the sharing participant client registered in a specific sharing group occurs, the sharing group management block corresponds to the corresponding share registered in the sharing group DB 1089. By deleting all information related to the group, the registration for the shared group is terminated.

Furthermore, the information sharing management block monitors whether there is no transmission / reception of location information for a predetermined number of times from each sharing participant client registered to each sharing group, although the illustration in FIG. 6 is omitted. When it is determined that there is no transmission / reception of location information for a predetermined number of times, a function of forcibly withdrawing the corresponding sharing participant client from the sharing group may be provided.

In the above description, the present invention has been described with reference to preferred embodiments, but the present invention is not necessarily limited thereto, and a person having ordinary skill in the art to which the present invention pertains can make various changes without departing from the technical spirit of the present invention. It will be readily appreciated that branch substitutions, modifications and variations are possible.

102: mobile client group
102/1 102 / n: mobile client
108: shared service server
1021: shared service configuration block
1023: location information transmission block
1025: location / path guide receiving block
1027: information display block
1081: interface block
1083: shared group creation block
1085: shared group management block
1087: information sharing management block
1089: shared group DB

Claims (15)

When a specific mobile client accesses a shared service server and requests registration of a shared group, creating a shared group using the specific mobile client as a shared manager client and registering the shared group in a shared group DB;
Registering any mobile client as a shared participant client in the sharing group DB when any mobile client requests participation in the shared group;
Shared service providing route sharing information of the sharing manager client to each sharing participant client and simultaneously providing location information of the sharing manager client and location information of the registered sharing participant client to the sharing manager client and the registered sharing participant client. Process of running
Location-based shared service method comprising a.
The method of claim 1,
Registering the sharing group,
Setting at least one of a sharing group name, public and private information, and information to be shared as sharing group information for the sharing group based on a request from the specific mobile client;
Location-based shared service method.
3. The method of claim 2,
The sharing target information,
At least one of destination information, route guidance information, and location information
Location-based shared service method comprising a.
The method of claim 1,
The method comprises:
Registering the next-participating shared participant client as a new shared manager client when the shared manager client leaves the sharing group during execution of the shared service;
Location-based shared service method further comprising.
The method of claim 1,
The method comprises:
Registering the shared participant client designated by the sharing manager client as a new sharing manager client when the sharing manager client leaves the sharing group during execution of the sharing service;
Location-based shared service method further comprising.
The method of claim 1,
The method comprises:
Deleting the shared group registered in the shared group DB when both the shared manager client and the shared participant client registered in the shared group are withdrawn during execution of the shared service
Location-based shared service method further comprising.
The method of claim 1,
The method comprises:
Forcibly withdrawing the specific sharing participant client from the sharing group when there is no transmission / reception of location information for a predetermined number of times from the specific sharing participant client registered to the sharing group during the execution of the sharing service.
Location-based shared service method further comprising.
The method of claim 1,
The icon displayed as the location information of the sharing manager client,
The icon displayed as the location information of each sharing participant client is displayed in a form that is distinguishable.
Location-based shared service method.
A sharing group generation block for creating a sharing group for making the specific mobile client a sharing manager client when a specific mobile client requests registration of the sharing group;
A sharing group DB for storing the generated sharing group information;
A sharing group management block that registers any mobile client as a shared participant client to the shared group in the shared group DB when any mobile client requests participation in the shared group;
Receives the location information of the sharing manager client and the location information of the registered sharing participant client to register with the corresponding sharing group in the sharing group DB, provides the path guide information of the sharing manager client to each sharing participant client, Information sharing management block for simultaneously providing each location information registered for the sharing manager client and the registered sharing participant client
Location-based shared service device comprising a.
The method of claim 9,
The shared group creation block,
Setting at least one of a sharing group name, public and private information, and information to be shared as sharing group information for the sharing group based on a request from the specific mobile client;
Location based shared services device.
11. The method of claim 10,
The sharing target information,
At least one of destination information, route guidance information, and location information
Location-based shared service device comprising a.
The method of claim 9,
The shared group management block,
When the sharing manager client leaves the sharing group, registering a next-participating sharing participant client as a new sharing manager client.
Location based shared services device.
The method of claim 9,
The shared group management block,
When the sharing manager client leaves the sharing group, registering the sharing participant client designated by the sharing manager client as a new sharing manager client.
Location based shared services device.
The method of claim 9,
The shared group management block,
Deleting the shared group registered in the shared group DB when both the shared manager client and the shared participant client registered in the shared group leave
Location based shared services device.
The method of claim 9,
The information sharing management block,
Forcibly withdrawing the particular sharing participant client from the sharing group when there is no transmission / reception of location information for a predetermined number of times from the specific sharing participant client registered in the sharing group.
Location based shared services device.

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