KR20160012307A - Method and server for providing tour spot community service using gps - Google Patents

Abstract

According to an embodiment of the present invention, provided is a method for providing a tour spot community service, which is a method for providing a community by a tour spot community service server using a tour spot community application and a GPS on a user terminal. The method comprises the following steps of: receiving location information from the user terminal which obtains the location information via the GPS; searching for tourists within a predetermined distance in the received location information; transmitting a list of the tourist who have been searched, to the user terminal; and transmitting information on a selected tourist to the user terminal if a user selects a tourist from the list via the user terminal.

Description

TECHNICAL FIELD [0001] The present invention relates to a method and a server for a tourist community using GPS,

The present invention relates to a method and a server for a tourist community using GPS, and more particularly, to provide a community-based service using a tourist community application on a user terminal and a location-based tourist community service using GPS.

In recent years, the improvement of the average standard of living and the development of transportation have made foreign trips everyday, and the meeting between travelers has become one of the main factors of the trip so as to become the purpose of the trip.

Also, according to the spread of smart phones, it is becoming natural for people to meet with various applications, and a lot of applications have been introduced to connect people near by using a GPS or the like.

However, there has been an inconvenience that it is necessary to communicate with neighboring people through writing or real-time chatting in order to acquire travel-related information of surrounding travelers and find a companion through these applications.

Accordingly, there has been a demand for an application having a function of automatically recommending a companion suitable for a user by inputting a travel route and a travel schedule from a user.

The present invention is intended to disclose a tourist community service method using GPS.

An object of the present invention is to provide a user with information on a traveler traveling on a similar route by analyzing a user's travel route through GPS.

It is another object of the present invention to provide a user with information on a traveler having a travel route and a travel schedule that at least partially coincides with a travel route and a travel schedule inputted through a user terminal.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a function for requesting a companion matching proposal to a user, thereby making it easier to find a companion.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a discount coupon for a tourist product close to the location of the user terminal when the companion matching is accomplished, thereby activating the use of the tourist community application and the companion matching function.

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for providing an online community using a tourist community application and a GPS on a user terminal, the method comprising: acquiring location information through the GPS; Receiving the location information from the user terminal; Searching for travelers within a certain distance from the received location information; Transmitting a list of the searched travelers to the user terminal; And transmitting the information on the selected traveler to the user terminal when the user selects the traveler through the user terminal.

The tourist community service server may analyze the travel route of the user through the received location information, and the information on the traveler may be information on a traveler traveling on a route similar to the user.

The user can input a travel route and a travel schedule through the user terminal, and the tourist spot community service server provides information on the traveler having the travel route and the travel schedule at least partially matching the inputted travel route and the travel schedule can do.

The tourist community service server can provide a function of requesting a companion matching proposal to a traveler who has obtained the information as described above.

When the companion matching is completed, the tourist spot community service server can provide a discount coupon for a tourist product within a certain distance from the location of the user terminal.

The step of transmitting a list of the travelers to the user terminal comprises transmitting the articles written to the community provided by the tourist community service server by the tourist community service server, And displaying the articles in the order of the distance between the travelers, the order in which the articles are written, or the popularity of the articles.

The information about the tourists provided by the tourist community service server may be information about the local tour guide and may include emergency contact information for contacting the guide.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a tourist community service server for providing an online community using a tourist community application on a user terminal and a GPS, A position information obtaining unit that receives the position information from the position information obtaining unit; A traveler searching unit for searching for a traveler within a certain distance from the received location information; And a traveler information providing unit for transmitting a list of the searched travelers to the user terminal and transmitting information on the selected traveler to the user terminal when the user selects a traveler from the list .

The traveler information providing unit analyzes the travel route of the user through the received location information and transmits information on the traveler who travels on a route similar to the user to the user terminal.

The travel information providing unit receives the travel route and the travel schedule from the user and transmits information about the traveler having the travel route and the travel schedule that match at least a part of the travel route and the travel schedule to the user terminal have.

The tourist area community service server may further include a companion matching unit for providing the user with a function of requesting a companion matching proposal with the traveler.

The companion matching unit may provide a discount coupon for a tourist product within a certain distance from the location of the user terminal when the companion matching is completed.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of providing an online community using a tourist community application and a GPS, the method comprising: acquiring location information through the GPS; Transmitting the location information to a tourist area community service server; Receiving a list of tourists within a certain distance from the location information from the tourist community service server; Transmitting information of a traveler selected by the user to the tourist community service server; And receiving and displaying detailed information about the selected traveler from the tourist community service server.

According to the present invention, a user can receive information of a traveler moving on a route similar to a travel route of a user analyzed through GPS.

According to the present invention, when a user inputs a travel route and a travel schedule through a user terminal, information on travelers having similar travel routes and travel schedules can be provided.

According to the present invention, the process of searching for a companion can be simplified by applying for a companion matching proposal based on information of a traveler acquired through a tourist community application.

1 is a diagram schematically showing the overall configuration of a tourist destination community service system according to an embodiment of the present invention.
2 is a diagram schematically showing a configuration of a tourist location community service server according to an embodiment of the present invention.
3 is a view schematically showing a screen provided by a tourist community service server to a user terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.
4 is a view showing a screen for a list of posts of a community provided by a tourist spot community service server according to an embodiment of the present invention.
5 is a diagram schematically illustrating a flow of providing a tourist community service according to an embodiment of the present invention.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings. The present invention may, however, be embodied in many different forms and should not be construed as limited to the embodiments set forth herein. In order to clearly illustrate the present invention, parts not related to the description are omitted, and similar parts are denoted by like reference characters throughout the specification.

Throughout the specification, when a part is referred to as being "connected" to another part, it includes not only "directly connected" but also "indirectly connected" . Also, when an element is referred to as "comprising ", it means that it can include other elements, not excluding other elements unless specifically stated otherwise.

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

1 is a diagram schematically showing the overall configuration of a tourist destination community service system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, the overall system of the present invention may include a user terminal 100, a tourist site community service server 200, and a communication network 300.

The user terminal 100 and the tourist area community service server 200 can communicate through the communication network 300. Here, the communication network 300 may be configured without discriminating the communication modes such as wired and wireless, and may be a LAN (Local Area Network), a Metropolitan Area Network (MAN), a Wide Area Network), and the like. Preferably, the communication network 300 in the present invention may be the well-known World Wide Web (WWW).

The user terminal 100 can determine the location of the user terminal 100 through a GPS (Global Positioning System) receiver. In detail, the GPS receiver on the user terminal 100 calculates the position of the user terminal 100 through communication with a plurality of GPS satellites. For example, it is possible to determine the position of the user terminal 100 by measuring distances from the three GPS satellites to the GPS receiver on the user terminal 100, respectively, and calculating the measured distances by triangulation.

The user terminal 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention may be implemented as a digital device including a GPS receiver. The user terminal 100 includes memory means such as a smart phone, a mobile phone, a tablet PC, a personal computer (e.g., a desktop computer, a notebook computer, etc.), a workstation, a PDA, a web pad, And can be one of digital devices having computation capability.

The user terminal 100 according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention may be a digital device that performs a desired operation through a predetermined data process. The user terminal 100 may include an input unit and a display unit. The user terminal 100 may provide a status of an operation performed by a user's predetermined operation command through an input unit to a user through a display unit.

In FIG. 1, the display unit of the user terminal 100 is implemented by a touch screen method and functions as an input unit itself. However, the input unit may be implemented by a keyboard or a keypad, and may be provided separately from the display unit.

The user terminal 100 according to one embodiment can receive a tourist community service from the tourist spot community service server 200. [

Specifically, the user terminal 100 may receive information on travelers who are within a certain distance from the location of the user terminal 100, along with tourist information, from the tourist site community service server 200.

The user terminal 100 can receive an operation command such as selection of a surrounding traveler from the user through the input unit and can provide the information received from the tourist spot community service server 200 to the user through the display unit.

To this end, the user terminal 100 may include an application for receiving a tourist community service, and the application may be downloaded from the tourist community service server 200 or other servers.

The tourist community service server 200 according to the embodiment can provide the online community to the user based on the bulletin board form on the tourist community service server 200.

2 is a diagram schematically showing the configuration of a tourist area community service server 200 according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2, the tourist community service server 200 may include a location information obtaining unit 210, a traveler searching unit 220, a traveler information providing unit 230, and the like.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the tourist spot community service server 200 may further include a companion matching unit 240 and a community service provider 250.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the location information obtaining unit 210, the traveler searching unit 220, the tourist information providing unit 230, the companion matching unit 240, May be program modules or hardware capable of communicating. Such program modules or hardware may be included in the tourist community service server 200 or other devices capable of communicating with it in the form of an operating system, application program modules and other program modules, and may be physically stored on various known storage devices . Such program modules or hardware, on the other hand, encompass but are not limited to routines, subroutines, programs, objects, components, data structures, etc. that perform particular tasks or implement particular abstract data types in accordance with the invention.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the location information obtaining unit 210 may receive location information obtained from the GPS satellites by the user terminal 100 from the user terminal 100. [ The tourist spot community service server 200 can provide the location-based tourist community service to the user using the acquired location information.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the traveler searching unit 220 can search for a list of travelers who are close to the acquired location, based on the acquired location information of the user terminal 100. In addition, the list of the searched travelers and the list of the articles written by the travelers on the community can be transmitted to the user terminal 100 and provided to the user.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, when the user selects a traveler through the user terminal 100, the tourist information providing unit 230 may transmit information on the traveler to the user terminal 100. [

The information on the traveler may include a gender, an age, a nationality, a travel route, a travel schedule, etc. of the traveler, and only a part of the information may be disclosed to the user depending on the choice of the traveler.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the tourist information providing unit 230 may continuously receive the location information of the user and analyze the travel route of the user, Can be provided to the user.

According to another embodiment of the present invention, the traveler information providing unit 230 can receive the information on the travel route and the travel schedule from the user, and can input the travel route and the travel Information on a traveler having a schedule can be provided to the user.

According to one embodiment of the present invention, the companion matching unit 240 may provide the user with the ability to subscribe for a companion matching proposal with a traveler traveling on a path similar to a user. The user can select whether or not to accompany the traveler based on the information of the traveler. If the traveler who receives the companion matching suggestion accepts the matching, the matching is achieved.

The companion matching unit 240 provides a discount coupon for a tourist product existing within a certain distance from the position of the user terminal 100 based on the location information of the user terminal 100 when the companion matching is completed, The service can be activated.

According to one embodiment of the present invention, the community service provider 250 may provide the online tourist community to the users. The community service provider 250 can provide the user with a bulletin board function, a real-time chat function, an interworking function with the SNS service being performed, and the user can communicate with other travelers through the function.

3 is a view schematically showing a screen provided by the tourist community service server 200 to the user terminal 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 3, the tourist community application searches through the list of travelers who are within a predetermined distance from the location of the user terminal 100 based on the location information acquired through the GPS on the user terminal 100, To the user.

According to an exemplary embodiment, the list of the travelers may be provided in a text format and may be provided in the form of a profile photo registered by the travelers at the location of the travelers on the map, as shown in FIG.

By selecting one of the list of travelers, the user can obtain the information of the corresponding traveler. According to an embodiment of the present invention, the information may include the age, gender, nationality, distance to the user, travel schedule, travel route, kind of preferred tourist spot, and the like.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, a tourist community application can provide a function of converting the information of a tourist into a private space when the user does not want his or her information to be disclosed to other travelers, You can also provide the ability to select only a subset and switch to private.

However, a tourist community application may impose a function limitation corresponding to the degree of non-disclosure to a user who does not disclose part or all of his / her information (for example, restriction of information browsing function of other travelers).

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the user can select one of the list of provided tourists and chat with the corresponding traveler in real time. It is also possible to invite nearby travelers to the chat room, so that not only one-on-one chat but also many chat.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the tourist community application can continuously receive position information acquired by the user's terminal through the GPS, analyzes the travel information, and provides information about the traveler traveling on a route similar to the user to the user can do.

According to another embodiment of the present invention, the tourist community application can receive the travel route and the travel schedule from the user. The tourist community application compares the travel route and the travel schedule of the user who has input the travel route and the travel route entered by the other travelers to provide the user with information about the traveler having the travel route and the travel schedule at least partially matching the user can do.

As described above, the user can grasp a traveler who travels on a route similar to himself or a traveler who has a similar travel route and travel schedule, and can apply for a suggestion for a companion matching to the corresponding traveler. Also, before applying for such a companion matching proposal, the user can communicate with the corresponding tourist and the tourist community via posts and comments, and it is also possible to communicate through the real-time chat mentioned above.

The user may also receive a companion matching proposal from other travelers. In this case, the user can obtain information on the traveler who has applied for the companion matching proposal, and can select whether to accept the companion matching proposal.

The application for the companion matching proposal may include information on the duration of the companion, the travel route, the list of the tourist sites to be visited, the expense problem, etc. Accordingly, the traveler who receives the companion matching suggestion can select whether to accept the proposal, It may be required to change some of the above conditions.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, when the companion matching is performed as described above, the tourist community application may receive a discount coupon for a tourist product within a certain distance from the position of the user terminal 100 or a traveler Can be provided.

The tourism product may include a facility requiring an admission fee, such as a museum or an art museum, a package travel product provided by a travel agency, a nearby famous restaurant, a traffic facility, and the like.

In this way, when a companion matching is performed, a benefit such as a discount coupon for a tourist product can be provided to induce the use of the tourist community application and the companion matching function.

4 is a diagram illustrating a screen for a list of posts of a community provided by the tourist spot community service server 200 according to an embodiment of the present invention.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the tourist area community service server 200 can provide a bulletin board function based on a server, a real time chatting function, and the like. Based on these features, multiple users can build social-type communities by posting, commenting on posts, chatting, and sharing travel information and travel-related content within the community. .

Referring to FIG. 4, the user can confirm the articles written on the online community provided by the tourist community service server 200 through the user terminal 100.

The order in which the articles written on the online community on the user terminal 100 are displayed may be a distance between the location of the user terminal 100 and the travelers who wrote the articles, a time in which the articles are written, or a popularity of the articles.

The popularity of the articles written in the community may be based on the number of views of the articles, the recommendation function of articles in the community, and the number of times the articles are recommended.

As shown in FIG. 4, the article written by the traveler on the community may be a topic not related to the trip, and the user can select a corresponding article and write a comment on the article. In addition, the user can communicate with other users by using the comment function, and can perform real-time communication with other travelers through the chat room function.

In addition, the user can select the author's profile picture for a specific article to check information about the author. The information may include information about an ongoing travel schedule and a travel route, and the user may apply for a companion matching proposal to a corresponding author.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the tournament information provided by the tourist community service server 200 may be information on local tour guides. These guides are certified by travel organizations, and users can also find information about certification bodies through the tourist community application.

The reason for providing information about local tour guides is that they may need information that is not available to general tourists when they have a question during travel or when they are in an emergency.

The tourist community service server 200 may provide the user with emergency contact information to contact the local tour guide and the user may use this information to request assistance from a local tour guide in the vicinity of the emergency will be. In addition, the function of acquiring the emergency network information of the local tour guide may be possible only through payment of a certain amount.

5 is a diagram schematically illustrating a flow of providing a tourist community service according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 5, the tourist area community service server 200 can acquire the location information of the user terminal 100 through GPS (S501).

Based on the obtained location information, the tourist area community service server 200 can search for the travelers within a certain distance (S503). According to an embodiment of the present invention, the user can search the range of the searched distance on the tourist community application Can be set.

When the travelers are searched, a list of the searched travelers is transmitted from the tourist community service server 200 to the user terminal 100 (S505), and the user can confirm the information about the travelers through the list. In addition, the user may proceed to step S511 for selecting a traveler and applying for a companion matching proposal.

The user can input his / her travel route and travel schedule to the tourist community service server through the user terminal 100 (S507). This input may be input via text or may be entered by selecting a point on the map and a travel date within the functionality provided by the tourist community application.

The tourist area community service server 200 analyzes a travel route and a travel schedule input from the user, searches for a traveler who matches at least a part of the travel route and the travel schedule, and transmits information of the corresponding traveler to the user terminal 100 (S509).

If the user finds a traveler who wants to accompany the user, the user can request the companion matching proposal to the traveler (S511).

When a traveler who has applied for the companion matching proposal agrees, the companion matching is accomplished, so that the contacts of each other can be disclosed and managed as a companion group in the tourist community application.

The user and the matched companion can coordinate the details of the common travel route, the itinerary and the trip through the community service provided by the tourist community application (S512). This process can be performed on a bulletin board or a real-time chat room which is only disclosed to the companion group.

In the process of coordinating trips, if a conflict between a user and a matched companion occurs, the user may release the companion matching on the tourist community application.

According to one embodiment of the present invention, at the companion matching occasion, the tourist community application can provide additional functions and benefits to both the user and the matched traveler.

As one of the above-mentioned benefits, a discount coupon for a tourist product within a certain distance from the location of the user terminal 100 at the time of companion matching can be provided through the tourist community application (S513).

Also, companion matching may be possible not only in one-to-one relationship, but also in companion matching, in which case other companions may be added to form a larger companion group. At this time, when one person is added to a group composed of plural persons, unanimity of existing group members may be required, or a majority may decide to add a companion member.

Embodiments of the present invention as described above may be in the form of a computer program embodied in the form of program instructions that may be executed on various computer components in combination with hardware. The computer program may include program instructions, data files, data structures, and the like, alone or in combination. The computer program may include machine code as produced by a compiler, as well as high-level language code that may be executed by a computer using an interpreter or the like.

While the present invention has been particularly shown and described with reference to exemplary embodiments thereof, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the disclosed exemplary embodiments, but, on the contrary, Those skilled in the art will appreciate that various modifications, additions and substitutions are possible, without departing from the scope and spirit of the invention as disclosed in the accompanying claims.

Therefore, the spirit of the present invention should not be construed as being limited to the above-described embodiments, and all of the equivalents or equivalents of the claims, as well as the following claims, I will say.

100: User terminal
200: Tourist Area Community Service Server
300: Network

Claims (14)

A method for providing an online community using a tourist community application on a user terminal and a GPS,
Receiving the location information from the user terminal that has obtained location information through the GPS;
Searching for travelers within a certain distance from the received location information;
Transmitting a list of the searched travelers to the user terminal; And
And transmitting information on the selected traveler to the user terminal when the user selects the traveler through the user terminal.
The method according to claim 1,
And analyzing the movement path of the user through the received location information,
Wherein the information on the traveler is information on a traveler traveling on a route similar to the user.
The method according to claim 1,
Further comprising receiving a travel route and a travel schedule from the user,
Wherein the information on the traveler is information on a traveler who has a travel route and a travel schedule that are at least partially identical to the inputted travel route and travel schedule.
The method according to claim 2 or 3,
Further comprising the step of providing the user with the ability to apply for a companion matching proposal with the traveler.
5. The method of claim 4,
Further comprising the step of providing a discount coupon for a tourist product within a certain distance from the location of the user terminal when the companion matching is accomplished.
The method according to claim 1,
The step of transmitting the list of travelers to the user terminal comprises:
And transmitting the articles written by the travelers to the community provided by the tourist community service server,
Further comprising the step of displaying the articles on the user terminal in the order of the distance between the user terminal and the travelers, the order in which the articles are written, or the popularity of the articles.
The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the information on the traveler includes information on a local tour guide and emergency contact information on which the guide can be contacted.
A computer program stored on a medium for performing the method according to any one of claims 1 to 7 in combination with hardware.
1. A tourist community service server for providing an online community using a tourist community application on a user terminal and GPS,
A position information obtaining unit that receives the position information from the user terminal that has obtained position information through the GPS;
A traveler searching unit for searching for a traveler within a certain distance from the received location information; And
And a traveler information providing unit for sending a list of the searched travelers to the user terminal and transmitting information on the selected traveler to the user terminal when the user selects a traveler from the list.
10. The method of claim 9,
Wherein the traveler information providing unit analyzes the travel route of the user through the received location information and transmits information on travelers who travel on a route similar to the user to the user terminal.
10. The method of claim 9,
The traveler information providing unit receives the travel route and the travel schedule from the user, and transmits information on the traveler having the travel route and the travel schedule that are at least partially identical to the inputted travel route and the travel schedule to the user terminal , Tourist destination community service server.
The method according to claim 10 or 11,
And a companion matching unit for providing the user with a function of requesting a companion matching proposal with the traveler.
13. The method of claim 12,
Wherein the companion matching unit provides a discount coupon for a tourist product within a certain distance from the position of the user terminal when the companion matching is achieved.
A method for a user terminal to provide an online community using a tourist community application and GPS,
Obtaining location information via the GPS;
Transmitting the location information to a tourist area community service server;
Receiving a list of travelers from a tourist community service server within a certain distance from the location information;
Transmitting information of a traveler selected by the user to the tourist community service server; And
And receiving and displaying detailed information on the selected traveler from the tourist destination community service server.

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