KR20140015680A - Method for managing appointment service using mobile phone - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method for providing an appointment management service using a plurality of mobile terminals owned by a plurality of appointment participants, and provided is an appointment management method including the following steps: one terminal transmits appointment chatting event generation-related information to one or more other mobile terminals excluding itself; an appointment time and appointment venue information are matched in the appointment chatting event when the appointment chatting event is generated; the other mobile terminals transmit an agreement for use of their location information; the plurality of mobile terminals participating in the appointment chatting event exchange location information with each other. [Reference numerals] (100) Control unit; (110) Display unit; (120) Input unit; (130) Storage unit; (140) Audio processing unit; (150) Location tracing unit; (160) Wireless communication unit

Description

Method for providing appointment management service using mobile terminal {Method for managing appointment service using mobile phone}

The present invention relates to a mobile terminal, and more particularly, a mobile terminal that manages a plurality of mobile terminal users at a specific day and at a specific place by using the mobile terminal so that the user can conveniently manage the appointment time and place and conveniently visit. The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for providing appointment management service.

Location-based service (LBS) refers to a variety of information services provided in relation to the measured location after measuring the location of the mobile terminal using a mobile communication network or satellite signal, etc. In order to implement the service, mobile communication network technology , Location tracking technology, mobile communication technology and information technology should be integrated.

These location-based services provide services such as finding friends, finding friends, emergency rescue, car navigation, location-based content and traffic information by identifying locations of individuals and vehicles through mobile communication base stations or global positioning systems (GPS). It is used not only in the mobile communication service industry but also in all industries such as e-commerce, transportation, environment, medical care and administration.

Meanwhile, in order to select an appointment place, a conventional mobile terminal user has to orally acquire an information about the location of the other party and the location of the user, and then arbitrarily select an appropriate location and obtain a consent. In order to solve this problem, some efforts have been made to manage appointments using mobile phones.

SK Telecom's Pinky Pinky app is part of this effort. This application uses the mobile phone of the people who participate in the appointment to notify them by designating the appointment time and place of appointment, and features such as a way to go to the appointment participant to find the appointment place conveniently Providing. However, this application manages the appointment more effectively as part of the schedule management that has been done on the Internet, determine the place of appointments, and determine the appointment place and appointment appointments without having to keep in constant contact with each other, the appointments of the appointment participants There was not enough to meet the needs of customers, such as not easily confirmed.

On the other hand, Korean Patent Laid-Open No. 2012-61206 relates to a system and method for providing destination arrival information between mobile terminals, and receives appointment information including a destination, a moving means, a movement route, an appointment time, and a location of the mobile terminal from a mobile terminal, Receiving the traffic situation information from the route information system to provide an invention comprising the step of determining whether or not the mobile terminal can arrive at the appointment place in time. However, the present invention focuses on whether the destination can be reached in time or not, which is insufficient to manage various appointments.

In addition, Korean Patent Publication No. 2010-4207 relates to a method and apparatus for providing a location information-based scheduling service of a mobile terminal. The present disclosure is to identify location information of a first mobile terminal and location information of a plurality of second mobile terminals. The process of determining, presenting a route to the user of the first mobile terminal to the appointment place, and when the user arrives at the appointment place, it is used within the time until the other party of the second mobile terminal arrives at the appointment place An invention is provided that includes a process of providing possible contents. Although the present invention has a function of determining an appointment location using a plurality of mobile terminals, the present invention does not have a function more than grasping a user of a mobile terminal that does not arrive even after an appointment time, and still satisfies the needs of various users. Had a difficult point.

In addition, for example, if the appointment time and place is informed to the majority by designating the appointment time and place as "about 7 pm on OO day at Gangnam station", the place of appointment may be changed flexibly in the case of determining a place such as a specific restaurant later. If this occurs, all of the above-described prior art had a problem that can only be useless.

In addition, in the related art, there is a problem in that parties participating in an appointment do not have a method of not checking each other with respect to a situation in which they are moving in order to gather at an appointment place, and thus have to check each other frequently.

Accordingly, the present invention has been made to solve the above-described problems, and is intended to provide appointment management functions of various consumers using a mobile phone.

As a technical means for solving the above problems, an aspect of the present invention is a method for managing appointments using a plurality of portable terminals provided by a plurality of appointment participants, one or more other mobile terminal other than itself Sending information related to appointment chat event generation to the client; When the appointment chat event is generated, the appointment chat event is matched with the appointment time information and the appointment place information, and the other mobile terminal transmits the agreement information of the use of its own location information; The plurality of mobile terminals participating in the appointment chat event provide a method of managing appointments using a portable terminal, the method comprising exchanging location information with each other.

Preferably, the appointment time and appointment location information may be modified by information transmitted from a plurality of mobile terminals participating in the appointment chat event.

In addition, the appointment chat event may be implemented in the form of a group chat.

The appointment place information may further include delivering the appointment place information to another mobile terminal by using the portable terminal of the appointment participant who has arrived at the appointment place, wherein the appointment place information is present in the mobile terminal of the appointment participant who has arrived at the appointment place. It is preferable to input using location information.

According to the present invention, there is provided a means for managing appointments more conveniently, simply and effectively than in the prior art.

According to the present invention, there is an effect that can better protect the personal information, such as the location information of the individual.

It will also keep you informed about what's happening as the parties are traveling to meet up.

In addition, the present invention can conveniently monitor the changes of the parties even in a fluid situation, such as appointment time, change of appointment location or undecided, so that even if you do not make a phone call between the parties, you can easily gather to the appointment place It can be effective.

1 is a view for explaining a schematic configuration of a mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.
2 is a flowchart illustrating a process for managing an appointment according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. In this case, it should be noted that like elements are denoted by like reference numerals as much as possible. Further, the detailed description of known functions and configurations that may obscure the gist of the present invention will be omitted.

A portable terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention is a terminal that can use a location-based service, preferably a mobile phone, a personal digital assistant (PDA), a code division multiple access (CDMA) terminal, a wideband code (WCDMA) Division Multiple Access (GSM) terminal, Global System For Mobile Communication (GSM) terminal, International Mobile Telecommunication 2000 (IMT-2000) terminal, Smartphone (SmartPhone) terminal and Universal Mobile Telecommunication System (UMTS) terminal, Notebook, Personal computer It will be apparent that the present invention can be applied to a portable terminal such as a personal computer and the like.

1 is a view for explaining a schematic configuration of a mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

1, a portable terminal according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a controller 100, a display 110, an input 120, a storage 130, an audio processor 140, a position tracker 150, and the like. It is configured to include a wireless communication unit 160 and the like. Each configuration of such a mobile terminal is configured using known hardware and software, and the present invention can be implemented using these known configurations.

2 is a flowchart illustrating a process for managing an appointment according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 2, first, a mobile terminal sends information related to an appointment chat event generation to other mobile terminals (S101).

In more detail, the control unit 100 of the first mobile terminal detects an input signal of the input unit 120 for generating an appointment chat event. The controller 100 displays a list of counterpart mobile terminals from the inside or the outside of the mobile phone on the display unit 110 and detects an input signal of the input unit 120 that is input to select a counterpart designated as another mobile terminal. Although the second portable terminal is expressed as singular for convenience of description, the second portable terminal corresponds to a plurality of terminals. That is, the controller 100 may select one or more counterparts to be designated as other portable terminals through the input unit 120.

Then, the first mobile terminal generates an appointment chat event. Here, it is preferable that a party to join the appointment generates an appointment chat event. Referring to the case where the first mobile terminal generates the appointment event, the one or more second mobile terminals selected by the first mobile terminal form a unit of the appointment chat event together with the first mobile terminal. To this end, the first mobile terminal 200 transmits the information regarding the appointment chat event generation to the second mobile terminals. The generation related information transmitted at this time is almost similar to the related information when generating a group chat of a mobile phone chat program such as KakaoTalk. Therefore, the main differences are explained mainly.

Mobile phones with people who make appointments such as meetings on a particular day are preferably equipped with an application such as an application for performing an appointment chat event. For example, when three people decide to meet together at a specific location on a specific evening, one of the mobile terminals may be the first mobile terminal 200, and at this time, an appointment event is generated by the terminal. can do. Appointment chat can be understood as a concept similar to KakaoTalk's group chat, for example, and the three can be grouped into a group called appointment chat.

Next, when the appointment chat event is generated, the appointment chat event matches the appointment time and appointment location information, and the other portable terminal transmits information on whether to use its location information. (S103)

In the case of grouping by appointment chat, when the first mobile terminal 200 intends to group the group by unit, it is preferable to implement all mobile terminals to transmit information related to consent to provide their location information. For example, when the first portable terminal 200 generates an appointment chat event, the first portable terminal 200 receives consent to provide its own location information, and all other mobile terminals also receive confirmation of consent when proceeding to the appointment chat. Can be implemented.

This may correspond to one of the features of the present invention, which allows the user to agree to provide location information of each mobile phone user only during an appointment chat grouped in groups, so that the leakage of personal information can be relatively easily prevented. Is maximized.

In other words, since the location information of the user's mobile terminal leaving the appointment chat is provided only while the appointment chat is in progress and not provided elsewhere, the user who uses this function can safely use the appointment chat function without worrying about the leakage of personal information. It becomes usable. This is, of course, if you do not want to tell their location information may not agree to provide location information when the appointment chat begins.

According to another variation, it is possible to implement to block the provision of personal location information automatically after a certain time (about 1-2 hours) elapsed after the appointment time.

Once an appointment chat event is generated that groups a plurality of mobile terminals, the event time and the location of the appointment are matched with the event. This is one of the other features of the present invention. Although the appointment time information and the appointment place information are preferably matched with the information from the first mobile terminal 200, the information may be provided through other mobile terminals. However, it is effective to display the information on the upper part of the screen on which the appointment chat is implemented. That's because all of the appointment participants can see this information. In addition, any participant in the appointment chat can modify this information, and the modified information is also updated in the mobile phone of the entire appointment chat participant. In some cases, when information is changed, an alarm function may be provided to notify other mobile phones of the information change.

On the other hand, the appointment place may be clearly specified as "ooho in front of exit 1 of Gangnam Station" and the like, but it is also possible that only an approximate location may be provided first without specifying an exact location such as "Gangnam Station". This is because in general, the appointment place is precisely set, but when making an appointment, only a rough location is specified, and a user who arrives first is determined to be a place such as a specific restaurant, depending on the circumstances of the area. Conventional appointment management applications, such as this situation was not available at all. This is another major feature of the present invention. This will be described in detail later.

In general, a method of providing location information may be similar to a method of displaying a destination on a Google map or a Naver map. For example, a method of displaying and inputting a map is a method of inputting an address, a method of searching and inputting a specific name, and the like. In addition to the location information, it is also possible to add brief description information for accessing the appointment place. For example, it is in the form of "oonam restaurant, turn right 10m at Gangnam station exit 3". This may be a feature for appointment participants who are not used to using map services.

Next, since the appointment chat event is generated, it is possible to track the location of each appointment participant (S105). Each mobile terminal can secure both its own location information and location information of other mobile terminals and display these information on the map of each mobile terminal. At this time, it is also possible to calculate and display the distance to itself in the portion adjacent to the ID or name of the appointment chat party. That is, when the appointment chat is started and the location information is agreed to be provided, it can be implemented to provide almost information until the appointment time. Therefore, participants in the appointment chat can check the distance to the other party from the moment they participate in the appointment chat, and as the appointment time gets closer, the distance between each other can be visually confirmed so that the feeling of intimacy can be felt more.

Each appointment participant can also see where each participant is coming from. In fact, when a large number of people are coming to a specific area for a meeting, there are many inconveniences such as when they arrive each other and when they arrive to meet each other. However, if an appointment chat event is created and the location can be determined by the location information of each person, the person who has already arrived at the appointment place and those who are now on the move can immediately see the progress of the meeting through the mobile terminal. It is convenient.

Next, a description will be given of the case where the appointment time only specifies a rough location and the user who arrives first according to the circumstances of the area decides to a place such as a specific restaurant. According to the prior art, in this case, the position description should be directly given to each of the appointment participants, and in some prior art appointment management applications, the utilization of this technology was not much at all.

According to one embodiment of the present invention, when the appointment chat event is generated and the appointment time is approached with 'Gangnam station' as an appointment place, the appointment participants gather toward Gangnam station. Among them, the first participant who arrives will select an appointment place as a specific place near Gangnam Station. In that case, the participant must change the appointment.

The changing method may be to use the methods for initially setting an appointment place, but in addition, the arriving participant may set a destination on the map using his current location information. In this case, if the current position is somewhat inaccurate, the user may correct and input the correct position. Once the exact location of the appointment is confirmed, participants participating in the appointment location will reflect this information. In this case, it is preferable to implement to confirm the change.

In addition, it is also possible to provide a road guide for the participant to arrive using the current location of each participant and the confirmed appointment place information. This can be implemented using known methods.

In addition to the location information, it is also possible to add brief description information for accessing the appointment place. For example, turn right at Gangnam Station Exit 3, 10m, and look like oo restaurant.

According to another method, the location information and the address information of the appointment place may be automatically input only by inputting the phone number of the confirmed appointment place. This feature is already implemented in some car navigation systems and can be implemented using it.

On the other hand, the appointment place can be more convenient and more accurately determined when using the current location of the arrival.

According to one method, it provides a picture of a signage and a business card of a confirmed appointment place, and utilizes the information contained in the picture and the current location information of the arrival person to make an accurate appointment place using a separate database or information disclosed on the web. It is also possible to specify the position of. Applications implemented by embodiments of the present invention can provide this possibility. For example, mutual information of a shop may be derived by recognizing character information from information of a signboard or a picture, and referring to the mutual information and the location information of an arrival person, it is possible to obtain more detailed information such as a building floor number room.

On the other hand, although the word "promise" is used in the specification and claims of the present invention, it is not particularly limited as long as it is a form for gathering a large number of people at a certain time and a certain place such as various conferences and various weddings. It can be understood to include.

 On the other hand, the embodiments of the present invention disclosed in the specification and drawings are merely presented specific examples to easily explain the technical details of the present invention and help the understanding of the present invention, and are not intended to limit the scope of the present invention. It is to be understood by those skilled in the art that other modifications based on the technical idea of the present invention are possible in addition to the embodiments disclosed herein.

Claims (5)

In the method of appointment management using a plurality of mobile terminals equipped with a plurality of appointment participants,
Transmitting, by the mobile terminal, information related to appointment chat event generation to one or more other mobile terminals;
When the appointment chat event is generated, the appointment chat event is matched with the appointment time information and the appointment place information, and the other mobile terminal transmits the agreement information of the use of its own location information;
And a plurality of portable terminals participating in the appointment chat event, wherein the plurality of portable terminals exchange their location information with each other.
The method according to claim 1,
The appointment time and appointment place information can be modified by the information transmitted from a plurality of mobile terminals participating in the appointment chat event appointment management method using a mobile terminal.
The method according to claim 1,
The appointment chat event is a appointment management method using a mobile terminal, characterized in that implemented in the form of a group chat.
The method according to claim 1,
The appointment place information is a promise management method using a mobile terminal, characterized in that further comprising the step of delivering the appointment place information to the other mobile terminal by using the mobile terminal of the appointment participant arrived at the appointment place.
5. The method of claim 4,
The appointment place information is input appointment management method using a mobile terminal, characterized in that input using the current location information of the mobile terminal of the appointment participant arrived at the appointment place.

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