KR20140054591A - Method and apparatus for providing download service - Google Patents

Abstract

In order to download an application or data, a user directly inputs a uniform resource locator (URL) to set up a download route, or reads information such as quick response code QR code with a user′s mobile phone and uses URL information extracted according to a read result for a connection. These methods commonly cause a user a unnecessary standby time and involve inconvenience in that a user has to read and type a text in a particular location or execute a QR code recognition application. The present invention enables a web browser of a client terminal to download multimedia content or advertising content through a short range network without inputting content resource information such as URL information and thus intends to provide a download service technology that may enhance usage convenience and expand a content providing service.

Description

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING DOWNLOAD SERVICE [0001]

The present invention relates to a download service, and more particularly to a method and system for downloading multimedia contents or advertisement contents via a local network without inputting content resource information, for example URL (Uniform Resource Locator) information, into a web browser of a client terminal An appropriate download service device and a download service method.

Generally, in order to download an application or data, a user directly inputs a URL to set a download path, reads information such as a QR code (Quick Response Code) or the like on a user's cellular phone, Follow the way you set it up to connect.

This method inconveniently incurs an unnecessary wait time from the user's point of view, inconveniences the user to view the announcement text at a specific location, or to execute the QR code recognition application.

In particular, in the case of exhibition halls, the degree of congestion may increase, which may increase the inconvenience.

Korean Patent Laid-Open Publication No. 10-2011-0136499, System and method for providing content and information using QR code, publication date December 21, 2011

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of such conventional technical limitations and it is an object of the present invention to provide a multimedia content or advertisement content So as to provide a download service technique capable of enhancing usability and expanding a content providing service.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a client terminal apparatus including a client information extracting unit for extracting client information through authentication of a client terminal apparatus connected to a local area network, And a download page generation unit configured to generate a download page corresponding to the client information and the compatibility information from the previously stored download profile information, Can be provided.

Here, the client information may include at least one of a mobile communication telephone number, a member ID, a model name, an operating system (OS) version, or location information of the client terminal device.

Also, the download page may include information linked with the download profile information.

In addition, the download service device may provide the download profile information to the client terminal device.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for managing a client terminal device, the method comprising: generating a download page based on information of the client terminal device and information of the local network when the client terminal device is connected to the local area network; And providing the download service to the client terminal through the local network.

Here, the information of the client terminal apparatus may include at least one of a mobile communication telephone number, a member ID, a model name, an OS version, or location information of the client terminal apparatus.

In addition, the information of the local area network may include an access point information.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for controlling a client terminal device, the method comprising: determining whether an event satisfying a specific condition is generated when a client terminal device is connected to a local area network; And generating a push message or an event page based on the user information of the client terminal apparatus and providing the push message or the event page to the client terminal apparatus.

According to the present invention, it is possible to provide a local area communication network (for example, a Wi-Fi network) without inputting contents resource information, for example, URL (Uniform Resource Locator) ), A femtocell, etc.), it is possible to increase the UI (User Interface) convenience on the user side and expand the content providing service from the viewpoint of the service provider.

1 is an illustration of a communication system including a download service device according to an embodiment of the present invention;
2 is a configuration block diagram of a download service apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention;
3 is a flowchart illustrating a download service providing method according to an embodiment of the present invention,
4 is a flow chart illustrating an event page providing process as a download service method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Brief Description of the Drawings The advantages and features of the present invention, and the manner in which it may be achieved, will become apparent with reference to the embodiments described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. It should be noted, however, that the present invention is not limited to the embodiments described below, but may be implemented in various other forms. It is to be understood that both the foregoing general description and the following detailed description of the present invention are exemplary and explanatory and are intended to provide further explanation of the invention as claimed. It is just defined. Like numbers refer to like elements throughout.

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. The following terms are defined in consideration of the functions in the embodiments of the present invention, which may vary depending on the intention or custom of the user or operator. Therefore, the definition should be based on the contents throughout this specification.

Before describing the embodiments, the present invention can be applied to Wi-Fi, femtocell, and the like without inputting content resource information such as URL (Uniform Resource Locator) information to a web browser of a client terminal The multimedia contents or the advertisement contents can be downloaded through the same local area network, thereby enhancing the usability and expanding the contents providing service. From this technical idea, the objects of the present invention can be easily achieved.

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

1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an entire communication system including a download service apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention and includes a client terminal group 100, a local area network 10, a download service apparatus 200, and the like can do.

1, the client terminal device group 100 may include a plurality of client terminal devices 100/1 to 100 / N, and may provide a download service through a local area network A plurality of types of client terminal devices such as a smart phone, a smart pad, a tablet PC, and the like may be included as a group of devices to be used in the present invention. In particular, each of the client terminal devices 100/1 to 100 / N includes a web browser device for displaying at least one of a download page or an event page or a push message provided through a local area network 10 .

The client terminal device group 100 may provide a short-range wireless communication service to a subscriber by interfacing with the local area network 10 through a short-range wireless connection. The short-range wireless communication service may be Wi-Fi communication or femto cell communication service. The short-distance wireless communication service may be a Wi-Fi communication service, a femto cell communication service, May be connected to the download service apparatus 200.

In particular, any client terminal device in the client terminal device group 100, for example, client terminal device 1 100/1, may attempt to connect to the local area network 10 according to the embodiment of the present invention, When the connection with the local area network 10 is successful, receives at least one of the download page, the event page, or the push message from the local area network 10 and transmits the received information to the client terminal 1 via the web browser of the client terminal unit 1 Display processing, and can play a role of downloading arbitrary display information, for example, when the link of the download page is selected by the user.

At this time, in the embodiment of the present invention, when the link of the download page is selected, the corresponding content is downloaded. However, downloading of the content may be executed in various ways according to the state of the client terminal device group 100 There will be. For example, a specific download application may be executed and the content may be downloaded through the application.

The local area network 10 connects the client terminal device group 100 and the download service device 200 and connects the client terminal device group 100 to the download service device 200 through the relay service with the download service such as the download service device 200 according to the embodiment of the present invention. And transmits the download page corresponding to the download profile provided from the download service apparatus 200, for example, the multimedia content or the advertisement content, to the client 200, To the terminal device group 100.

The local area network 10 provides a local communication environment between the client terminal device group 100 and the download service device 200 and may include a wireless communication environment such as Wi-Fi, femtocell, and the like. In the case where the wireless communication environment is Wi-Fi, an access point may be included in the local area network 10, and this fact will be easily understood by those skilled in the art, do.

The download service apparatus 200 according to the embodiment of the present invention can perform information extraction and compatibility check of the client terminal apparatus group 100. [ Here, the information extraction may include, for example, a process of extracting the model name, the OS version, the location information, and the like for the client terminal device, and the compatibility check may include a process of checking the compatibility information of the client terminal device based on the extracted information . ≪ / RTI > The specific operation of the download service apparatus 200 will be described in detail with reference to the flowcharts of FIGS. 3 and 4.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating a download service apparatus 200 according to an embodiment of the present invention. The client information extractor 202, the compatibility checker 204, the download page generator 206, A download profile DB (DataBase) 208, a download service management unit 210, and the like.

2, the client information extracting unit 202 extracts the client information from any client terminal apparatuses in the client terminal apparatus group 100 provided through the access point in the local area network 10, for example, the client terminal apparatus 1 100/1 of the terminal information, location information, and the like.

The compatibility checker 204 checks the performance of the client terminal device 1 100/1 based on the client information (terminal information, location information, etc.) for the client terminal device 1 100/1 extracted from the client information extractor 202 And application compatibility information.

The download page generation unit 206 corresponds to the extraction information of the client information extraction unit 202 and the inspection information of the compatibility check unit 204 among the download profiles stored in the download profile DB 208, The download page can be created.

The download profile DB 208 stores a download profile, for example, a multimedia content, an advertisement content, and the like. If necessary, an optional multimedia profile may be selected by the download page generation unit 206.

Such a download profile DB 208 may be a relational database management system (RDBMS) such as, for example, Oracle, Infomix, Sybase, DB2 or the like, (Object-Oriented Data Base Management System, OODBMS) such as Orion, O2, etc., and can be implemented in accordance with the purpose of the present invention. field.

The download service management unit 210 may provide the download page generated by the download page generation unit 206 to the client terminal device 1 100/1 through the local area network 10. [ In addition, the download service management unit 210 may download the client information based on the extracted client information in the event that an event satisfying a specific condition set by the administrator has occurred (for example, at noon or when a 300th accessor has occurred) A specific event page, or a push message to the client terminal device 100/1.

Hereinafter, the download service method according to the embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the flowcharts of FIGS. 3 and 4 together with the above-described configurations. In FIG. 3 and FIG. 4, a specific client terminal device of the client terminal group 100 is exemplified as the client terminal device 100/1.

3 is a flowchart illustrating a download service method, specifically, a process of generating a download page according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3, the client terminal apparatus 1 100/1 is connected to the local area network 10 and is connected to the access point 12 in the local area network 10, Information, for example, an SSID (Subsystem Identification), and select an SSID for download (S100).

When the SSID for download is selected, the client terminal device 1 (100/1) can attempt to connect to the access point 12 (S102). At this time, when the connection to the access point 12 is attempted, the terminal information and the client ID of the client terminal device 1 100/1 may be selectively transmitted together. At this time, the client ID may include, for example, a mobile communication telephone number, membership information, and the like.

When the connection of the client terminal unit 1 100/1 is approved by the access point 12 (for example, the password of the SSID is input) (S104), the access point 12 transmits the client terminal unit 100 / 1) and the access point information (e.g., IP information) of the access point 12 to the download service apparatus 200 (S106).

Upon receiving the client information and the IP information from the access point 12, the download service apparatus 200 extracts the location information of the client terminal apparatus 1 100/1 and obtains the terminal information of the client terminal apparatus 1 100/1 (Multimedia contents, advertisement contents) stored in the download profile DB 208 through the member ID of the client terminal device 1 (100/1) or the like, The download page corresponding to the extraction information of the extraction unit 202 and the inspection information of the compatibility checking unit 204 can be generated (S108). For example, any multimedia content may be linked to a download page.

The download page generated through the download service apparatus 200 may be provided to the client terminal apparatus 1 100/1 through the access point 12 (S110) (S112).

Thereafter, the client terminal device 1 (100/1) can download the corresponding content by selecting the link of the provided download page (S114).

4 is a flowchart illustrating a process of generating a download service method, specifically, a push message or an event page, according to an embodiment of the present invention.

4, the client terminal apparatus 1 (100/1) is connected to the local area network 10 and is connected to the access point 12 in the local area network 10, Information, for example, an SSID (Subsystem Identification), and select an SSID for download (S200).

When the SSID for download is selected, the client terminal device 1 100/1 can attempt to connect to the access point 12 (S202). At this time, when the connection to the access point 12 is attempted, the terminal information and the client ID of the client terminal device 1 100/1 may be selectively transmitted together. At this time, the client ID may include, for example, a mobile communication telephone number, membership information, and the like.

When the connection of the client terminal unit 1 100/1 is approved by the access point 12 (for example, when the password of the SSID is input) (S204), the access point 12 transmits the client terminal unit 100 / 1) and the access point information (for example, IP information) of the access point 12 to the download service apparatus 200 (S206).

Thereafter, the download service apparatus 200 can determine whether an event satisfying a specific condition set by the operator has occurred (S208). If an event has occurred, the download service apparatus 200 generates a push message based on the information of the client terminal apparatus 100/1 Or an event page (S210). Here, an event that satisfies a specific condition may be an event that satisfies, for example, a case of noon or a case of connecting to an n-th access terminal, etc., and based on the client information of the client terminal device 1 (100/1) Message or event page.

The generated push message or event page may be transmitted to the client terminal device 100/1 via the access panel 12 (S212) (S214).

As described above, according to the embodiment of the present invention, multimedia contents or advertisement contents are downloaded through a local area network such as Wi-Fi, femtocell, etc., without inputting content resource information such as URL information into a web browser of a client terminal , Thereby increasing the usability and expanding the content providing service.

Meanwhile, the download service method of the present invention, which provides various embodiments as described above, can be implemented as a code that can be executed by a computer on a computer-readable recording medium. The computer- And may include any type of recording device in which data that can be read by the recording device is stored. Such a computer readable recording medium may include, for example, a non-volatile memory such as a ROM, a flash memory, a magnetic storage, and the like, a volatile memory such as a RAM, The computer-executable code or program may be stored in a client terminal (or USIM) according to an embodiment of the present invention, or may be distributedly stored in a networked computer system.

In addition, although an application or an applet capable of performing a download service according to an embodiment of the present invention has been described as being stored in a recording medium in a client terminal device or a smart card, However, the present invention is not limited to the scope of the present invention. For example, the above-mentioned information is permanently stored in the virtualization device (or server) on the network, and the client terminal of the multimedia function on which the smart card or the smart card can be mounted is provided with cloud computing, Environment. That is, it should be noted that the above-described information may be stored in a virtualization device on a network, and the information may be used anytime and anywhere through a client terminal that may include a smart card or various forms of multimedia functions.

It should also be noted that the applications for the download service according to the embodiment of the present invention can be utilized in the field of M2M communication supporting intelligent communication services between objects and objects so that they can be used and managed at any time and place in real time.

According to the present invention, it is possible to download multimedia contents or advertisement contents via a local area network such as Wi-Fi, femtocell, etc. without inputting contents resource information such as URL (Uniform Resource Locator) information into a web browser of a client terminal It is expected that ease of use will be increased and content providing services will be expanded.

100: Client terminal group
200: Download service device
202: Client information extracting unit
204: compatibility checker
206: Download page generating unit
208: Download Profile DB
210: Download service management unit

Claims (8)

A client information extracting unit for extracting client information through authentication of a client terminal device connected to a local area network;
A compatibility checking unit for extracting performance and application compatibility information of the client terminal device based on client information of the client terminal device extracted through the client information extracting unit;
And a download page generation unit for generating a download page corresponding to the client information and the compatibility information from the previously stored download profile information
Download service device. The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the client information includes at least one of a mobile communication telephone number, member ID, model name, OS (Operating System) version or location information of the client terminal device
Download service device. The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the download page includes information that is linked to the download profile information
Download service device. The method of claim 3,
Wherein the download service device provides the download profile information to the client terminal device
Download service device. Generating a download page based on information of the client terminal and information of the local network when the client terminal is connected to the local area network;
And providing the generated download page to the client terminal through the local area network
Download Service How to download the device. 6. The method of claim 5,
Wherein the information of the client terminal apparatus includes at least one of a mobile communication telephone number of the client terminal apparatus or member ID or model name or OS version or location information
Download Service How to download the device. 6. The method of claim 5,
The information of the local area network includes information of an access point
Download Service How to download the device. Determining whether an event satisfying a specific condition is generated when the client terminal apparatus is connected to a local area network;
And generating a push message or an event page based on the user information of the client terminal apparatus and providing the generated push message or event page to the client terminal apparatus when an event satisfying the specific condition occurs
Download Service How to download the device.

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