KR20170006217A - Method for exchanging contacts based on same input information, apparatus, user device, and application for contacts management implementing the same method - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method for allowing a contact management device to exchange contacts between users, comprising: a step of receiving a contact switching key from a temporary terminal; a step of setting up the temporary terminal and terminals which transmit the same information as the contact switching key as a contact switching group; and a step of identifying users of terminals included in the contact switching group and transmitting the contact of identified users to each terminal included in the contact switching group.

Description

Field of the Invention [0001] The present invention relates to a contact information exchange method, a contact information exchange method, a contact information exchange method, a contact information exchange method,

The present invention relates to contact management.

The user stores various information such as the name, telephone number, and e-mail of the other party in the terminal. Then, the user can make a call or send a text to the other party based on the stored contact information.

However, the user who wants to store the contact information of the other party must directly input various information such as the name, phone number, and e-mail of the other party. Alternatively, the user can more easily receive the other party's contact from another person, and store the received contact in the terminal. As such, the user adds contacts individually, so if a large number of contacts need to be stored, the user must add multiple contacts one by one in sequence. Therefore, in a meeting where N people gather, when each of N people wants to store contacts of other people attending the meeting in his / her terminal, the maximum Nx (N-1) contacts must be stored, There is a problem that takes a long time.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is an object of the present invention to provide a contact information exchange method based on the same input information, a contact management device implementing the same, a user terminal, and a contact application.

A method of exchanging contacts between users in a contact management apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention includes receiving a contact exchange key from an arbitrary terminal and transmitting the contact exchange key to the terminal, Setting a contact exchange group, identifying users of terminals included in the contact exchange group, and transmitting at least some contacts of the identified users to each terminal included in the contact exchange group.

The contact exchange key may include at least one of text information, image information, code information, terminal motion information, sound information, and position information.

And setting an effective time of the contact exchange key, wherein the setting of the contact exchange group may set the terminals that transmitted the same information as the contact exchange key as the contact exchange group during the validity time.

At least one of the valid time and the start time of the validity time may be determined by the arbitrary terminal.

The validity time may be determined according to the type of the contact exchange key.

The step of receiving the contact exchange key further includes receiving a matching condition together with the contact exchange key, and setting the contact exchange group as the contact exchange group includes receiving, from among the terminals transmitting the same information as the random access terminal and the contact exchange key, And sets the terminals satisfying the condition as the contact switching group.

The step of receiving the contact exchange key further receives an exchange contact type together with the contact exchange key, and the transmitting step may transmit the contact corresponding to the exchange contact type to each terminal included in the contact exchange group .

In the setting of the contact exchange group, the terminals existing within a predetermined distance from the terminals transmitting the same information as the contact exchange key may be set as the contact exchange group.

Wherein the transmitting step transmits the at least a part of the contacts to a terminal of the contact exchange group, and the at least some contacts can be the contacts of the opponents of the terminal.

Wherein the transmitting comprises: identifying a new user corresponding to the new terminal when a new terminal is added to the contact exchange group; identifying the new user corresponding to the new terminal to the terminals included in the contact exchange group before adding the new terminal; You can send contacts.

According to another embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a method for a contact management apparatus to exchange contacts among users, the method comprising: receiving a request for issuing a contact exchange key from an arbitrary terminal; issuing a specific contact exchange key including specific information to the arbitrary terminal; The method comprising the steps of: receiving a contact exchange key from each of a plurality of terminals; setting, as a contact exchange group, terminals that have transmitted the same contact exchange key as the specific contact exchange key for a certain period of time among the plurality of terminals; Extracting users corresponding to the terminals included in the exchange group, and transmitting the contacts of the extracted users to the terminals included in the contact exchange group.

Setting a valid time for the specific contact exchange key, and the predetermined time may be the valid time.

Wherein the setting of the validity time comprises: a time at which the specific contact exchange key is issued, a time at which the specific contact exchange key is first received after issuing the specific contact exchange key, The timer of the validity time can be operated from any one of the starting points.

The setting of the contact exchange group may determine terminals to be included in the contact exchange group among the plurality of terminals based on the contact exchange key received from the plurality of terminals and the position information of the plurality of terminals.

The specific information may include at least one of text information, image information, code information, terminal motion information, and sound information.

The step of receiving the contact exchange key from each of the plurality of terminals includes receiving the contact information of the terminal user together with the contact exchange key from each of the plurality of terminals and storing the received contacts corresponding to the terminal can do.

According to another embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a method for a first terminal to exchange contacts with at least one second terminal by executing an application operating in conjunction with hardware including a processor, a memory and a display, Receiving the contact exchange key from the contact switching device, transmitting the contact exchange key to the contact switching device, and receiving the user contact of the second terminal from the contact switching device, And transmits the contact switching key to the switching device.

The contact exchange key may include at least one of text information, image information, code information, terminal motion information, and sound information.

In the step of receiving the contact exchange key, the image information or the code information displayed in the arbitrary terminal may be input by the contact exchange key, and the image information or the code information may be information issued by the contact exchange apparatus to the arbitrary terminal.

In the step of receiving the contact exchange key, the sound information output from the arbitrary terminal may be input to the contact exchange key, and the sound information may be information issued by the contact exchange apparatus to the arbitrary terminal.

The method further comprises receiving a matching condition on an interface screen of the application and transmitting the matching condition to the contact switching device, and the second terminal transmits the contact switching key to the contact switching device And may be a terminal that satisfies the matching condition among the terminals.

The method may further include receiving at least one of an effective time of the contact exchange key and a start time of the valid time on the interface screen of the application and transmitting the received at least one information to the contact switching device And the second terminal may be a terminal that has transmitted the contact exchange key within the valid time to the contact switching device.

The method further includes receiving an exchange contact type from an interface screen of the application, and transmitting the received exchange contact type to the contact exchange apparatus, wherein the user contact of the second terminal is a contact contact type Quot; contact "

A user terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention is a user terminal comprising a communication module for communicating with a contact switching device, a display, a memory for storing an application program, and a communication module for executing the application program in cooperation with the display, Wherein the application program displays an interface screen for requesting a contact switching key input on the display and transmits the contact switching key received from the interface screen to the contact switching device, Instructions for displaying a contact of one party on the interface screen and storing the contact of the other party at a designated location in accordance with the setting, and the other party transmits the contact exchange key to the contact switching device The user.

According to the embodiment of the present invention, the user can easily obtain the contact information of people who input the same information as the contact information from the contact management device within a predetermined time. According to the embodiment of the present invention, many people can exchange contacts in a short time with a simple procedure of inputting mutually agreed information to their terminals.

1 is a schematic block diagram of a contact switching system according to an embodiment of the present invention.
2 is a configuration diagram of a contact management apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.
3 is a diagram conceptually illustrating a same input information management method of the contact management apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.
FIGS. 4 to 6 are each an example of an interface screen showing a contact exchange key input method according to an embodiment of the present invention.
7 is an illustration of an interface screen illustrating a method of inputting a contact exchange key according to another embodiment of the present invention.
Figure 8 is a flow diagram of the same input information based contact exchange method according to one embodiment of the present invention.
9 is a flowchart of the same input information-based contact exchange method according to another embodiment of the present invention.
10 is a flow diagram of the same input information based contact exchange method according to another embodiment of the present invention.
11 is a diagram schematically showing a hardware structure of a user terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings so that those skilled in the art can easily carry out the present invention. 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 an element is referred to as "comprising ", it means that it can include other elements as well, without excluding other elements unless specifically stated otherwise. Also, the terms " part, "" module," and " module ", etc. in the specification mean a unit for processing at least one function or operation and may be implemented by hardware or software or a combination of hardware and software have.

1 is a schematic block diagram of a contact switching system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, the system includes a contact management apparatus 100 and a plurality of user terminals 200, 300-1, 300-2, ..., 300-n. For the sake of explanation, assume that n is 4.

The contact management apparatus 100 communicates with a plurality of user terminals 200, 300-1, 300-2, 300-3, and 300-4. The contact management apparatus 100 is connected to a plurality of user terminals 200, 300-1 and 300-4 based on the same input information received from the plurality of user terminals 200, 300-1, 300-2, 2, ..., 300-4. Here, the "same" input information may mean that the input information (e.g., text) is exactly the same, but may include a similar degree depending on the input information (e.g., a photo image). For example, when the user promises to shoot the vase placed on the table and transmit it to the contact management apparatus 100, the photographed image may not be exactly the same depending on the photographing position. However, the contact management apparatus 100 may analyze the received images and determine that they are the same input information if they are similar to a certain standard or more.

Assume that the user terminal 200 is the terminal of the user KAY and the remaining terminals 300-1 to 300-4 are terminals of the user ANA, BRIAN, CECILIA, and DAVID. (KAY, ANA, BRIAN, CECILIA, and DAVID) exchanges contacts with each other, KAY takes the terminal screen of the KAY as an example, ) Is added as an example. KAY, ANA, BRIAN, CECILIA, and DAVID do not necessarily have to be close to each other for contact exchange, but they are supposed to be in a meeting and in a space within a certain distance.

The plurality of user terminals 200 and 300-1 to 300-4 includes a communication module capable of connecting to the remote contact management apparatus 100 through a communication network and may be a mobile terminal, And the like. Hereinafter, a user terminal will be described as an example of a mobile terminal having mobility, but the terminal type is not limited to a mobile terminal.

The plurality of user terminals 200 and 300-1 to 300-4 mount and execute the contact application implementing the present invention. The plurality of user terminals 200 and 300-1 to 300-4 communicate with the contact management apparatus 100 through a contact application. The contact application is software / program implemented in a programming language, which is combined with various hardware and software of the user terminal to implement the present invention.

The contact application receives specific information from the user and transmits the received information to the contact management apparatus 100. [ Here, the specific information is defined as "contact exchange key ", and the contact exchange key may be various types such as text information, image information, terminal motion information, sound information, and position information. The contact exchange key is determined by the users wishing to exchange the contact, and the user can enter the determined contact exchange key (e.g., specific text, specific image, etc.) into the contact application. Or the contact exchange key is issued by the contact management apparatus 100 and the users enter the contact exchange key (for example, specific text, specific image, QR code, terminal movement pattern, specific sound, etc.) . In addition to the contact exchange keys, users can enter various matching conditions (region, sex, age, etc.) to exchange contacts with people who meet the matching conditions.

The contact management apparatus 100 can specify the contact exchange objects based on whether or not the contact exchange keys transmitted from the user terminals are the same. Users who have entered the same contact exchange key can exchange contacts. When the contact management apparatus 100 further receives information such as matching conditions from the user terminals, the contact management apparatus 100 can specify the contact exchange objects based on the received information.

The contact application receives at least one contact from the contact management device (100). The contact application displays the received contact on the display screen of the user terminal and adds the contact selected by the user or all contacts received to the contact storage. For example, if KAY, ANA, BRIAN, CECILIA, and DAVID enter the same contact exchange key within a certain period of time at each terminal, the terminal 200 of KAY receives the other contact information (ANA, BRIAN, CECILIA, DAVID). If the KAY first inputs the contact exchange key, the terminal 200 of the KAY can individually receive other persons' contacts in the order in which the other person enters the contact exchange key. Alternatively, the terminal 200 of the KAY may receive contacts of other persons collectively receiving the contact exchange key for a certain period of time after a predetermined time has elapsed.

KAY can acquire ANA, BRIAN, CECILIA and DAVID contacts at once by entering specific information into the contact application without having to enter the contacts of ANA, BRIAN, CECILIA, DAVID individually.

2 is a configuration diagram of a contact management apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 2, the contact management apparatus 100 includes a user terminal interface unit 110 and a contact exchange subject determination unit (simply referred to as a "decision unit ") 130. The contact management apparatus 100 may further include a contact storage unit 150.

The user terminal interface unit 110 receives the information transmitted from the user terminals and transmits the received information to the determination unit 130. The user terminal interface unit 110 transmits the information transmitted from the determination unit 130 to the user terminals. The information transmitted from the determination unit 130 is the contact information of the users.

The determination unit 130 manages information received from user terminals according to time. The determination unit 130 binds the users of the terminals transmitting the same information (the contact exchange key) to the contact exchange group (simply referred to as "group") for a predetermined period of time (valid time of the contact exchange key).

The determination unit 130 may determine the contact exchange target by further using the location information of the user terminal together with the same contact exchange key. For example, the determination unit 130 receives the location information of the user terminals, and includes only the users who are within a certain distance from the reference location among the users who input the same contact exchange key into the contact exchange group. The reference location may be a location of the user terminal that originally transmitted the contact exchange key, a location selected on the map by the user, or an address entered by the user (e.g., Sampyeong-dong, Seongnam).

The determination unit 130 may receive a request for a contact exchange key from any user terminal. The determination unit 130 may issue a contact exchange key to the user terminal. When the user terminals transmit the issued contact exchange key, the determination unit 130 can group them. The determination unit 130 may issue various types of contact exchange keys that can be input to the contact application such as text, image, code information (QR code, bar code, etc.), terminal movement pattern, sound,

The determination unit 130 searches the contact storage unit 150 for the contacts of the users who have input the same contact exchange key. If the contact exchange key contains the specific contact type (phone number, email, instant messenger ID, name, etc.) corresponding to the exchange target, search for the contact corresponding to the contact type.

The determination unit 130 transmits the contacts of the users who input the same contact exchange key to the terminals of the users through the user terminal interface unit 110. [ Contacts of users who have entered the same contact exchange key can be grouped into group contacts. The determination unit 130 transmits the group contact to the users included in the group. At this time, the determination unit 130 may transmit the contacts of the other parties, excluding the recipient contacts, to each recipient in the group contact. If the determination unit 130 can store or know the contact list stored in the user terminal, the contact information stored in the recipient terminal among the group contacts can be known. In this case, the determination unit 130 may transmit the unsaved contacts except the contacts stored in the recipient terminal among the group contacts to each recipient.

The point in time when the determination unit 130 processes the contact exchange between the persons who input the same contact exchange key can be variously designed. According to one embodiment, the determination unit 130 waits for a certain period of time from the time when the first contact exchange key is received and transmits all the users (KAY, ANA, BRIAN, CECILIA, DAVID) As a group. The determination unit 130 may simultaneously transmit group contacts to users included in the determined group. In this case, the terminal 200 of the KAY receives the contacts of other people who input the same contact exchange key after inputting the contact exchange key. At this time, the terminal 200 of the KAY receives all the contacts included in the group (in this case, the terminal 200 of the KAY displays the information included in the group by the KAY), or receives the contacts of other persons included in the group Or receive contacts of people who are not stored in their terminal. According to another embodiment, upon receiving the same contact exchange key from at least two user terminals 200 and 300-1, the determination unit 130 generates a group including KAY and ANA. The determination unit 130 transmits the contact of the ANA to the terminal 200 of the KAY and transmits the contact of the KAY to the terminal 300-1 of the ANA. If the terminal 300-2 of the BRIAN transmits the contact exchange key within a predetermined time, the determination unit 130 adds the BRIAN to the group and sends the contact information of the BRIAN to the terminals 200 and 300-1 of the KAY and the ANA Lt; / RTI > In this case, the terminal 200 of the KAY receives the contact of the ANA after receiving the contact exchange key, and sequentially receives the contact of the BRIAN. The determination unit 130 transmits the contact information of the KAY and the ANA to the terminal 300-2 of the BRIAN. If the determination unit 130 can not additionally receive the same contact exchange key from the time when the first contact exchange key is received until the predetermined time passes, the determination unit 130 may delete the received contact exchange key. For example, after KAY first inputs the contact exchange key, if the other users do not input the contact exchange key within the valid time, the determination unit 130 deletes the contact exchange key of the KAY. Therefore, the group for the contact exchange is not created by the contact exchange key of the KAY. At this time, the contact exchange key of the KAY is deleted from the valid contact exchange key list, and can be moved to the separate contact exchange key history list. If the ANA later inputs the contact exchange key, the determination unit 130 waits for the same contact exchange key for a certain period of time from the reception of the ANA contact exchange key.

The contact storage unit 150 stores contacts of users. When a user installs a contact application on his or her terminal, the contact of the user can be transferred to the contact management apparatus 100 and stored in the contact storage unit 150. [ The information included in the contact may be varied and may include, for example, a name (or nickname), a telephone number, an email, a messenger identity, and the like. The contact may further include extension information set by the user (e.g., profile picture, address, homepage address, school or company information, etc.). The contact storage unit 150 can exchange all the information stored in the user's contact without any special settings and conditions. On the other hand, if the type of exchange contact is set for each user (for example, KAY is set as the exchange range, name, phone number, and e-mail are set as the exchange range, and ANA is set as the exchange range) And manage the types of exchange contacts together. The user can preset the exchange contact type in the contact application or input the exchange contact type while inputting the contact exchange key.

On the other hand, the user contacts can be individually stored and managed in the user terminal, and can be transmitted to the contact management apparatus 100 together with the contact exchange key. Then, the determination unit 130 may store the user contact information corresponding to the contact exchange key, and may generate the group based on the generated contact information and the group contact information.

3 is a diagram conceptually illustrating a same input information management method of the contact management apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3, the contact management apparatus 100 receives the contact exchange key (for example, the keyword A) from the terminal 200 of the KAY at a certain time point t1. The contact management apparatus 100 sets a timer corresponding to the valid time (for example, one minute) of the keyword A from t1. If the contact management apparatus 100 does not further receive the keyword A for the valid period of time, the contact management apparatus 100 deletes the keyword A.

The contact management apparatus 100 receives the keyword A from the terminals 300-1, 300-2, 300-3, and 300-4 of ANA, BRIAN, CECILIA, and DAVID before the timer expires. Then, the contact management apparatus 100 groups KAY, ANA, BRIAN, CECILIA, and DAVID into groups. The contact management apparatus 100 transmits group contacts (contacts of KAY, ANA, BRIAN, CECILIA, and DAVID) to the terminals 200, 300-1, 300-2, 300-3, and 300-4. The contact management apparatus 100 can delete the keyword A since the keyword A is no longer valid when the timer set for the keyword A ends.

If the contact management apparatus 100 receives the keyword A again at t2 after the timer set at the keyword A received at t1 ends, the timer of the keyword A is set again from t2.

On the other hand, the operation time (effective time) of the timer can be set differently according to the contact exchange key. The validity time may be set by the user who first transmitted the contact exchange key. In this case, the reference time at which the user can set the timer is determined, and the user can set the valid time within the reference time. Or the validity time may be set differently depending on the type of the contact exchange key. For example, if the contact exchange key is text information, the validity time is 1 minute. If the contact exchange key is image information, the validity time is 3 minutes. If the contact exchange key is terminal movement information, the validity time may be 5 minutes.

The operation start point of the timer may be a point of time at which the contact management apparatus 100 first receives the contact exchange key or a point of time set by the contact management apparatus 100. [ Alternatively, the timer may be set by the user who has transmitted the contact exchange key. The contact management apparatus 100 may receive the contact exchange key (for example, image B) from any user terminal at a certain time t3 . The contact management apparatus 100 sets a timer corresponding to a predetermined time (for example, three minutes) from t3. The contact management apparatus 100 groups the user terminals that have transmitted images similar to the image B or the image B at a predetermined level or more before the timer expires.

FIGS. 4 to 6 are each an example of an interface screen showing a contact exchange key input method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 4A, the contact application screen 400 provides an area 400a in which a contact exchange key can be input.

The users enter the keyword (for example, strawberry) promised in the area 400a. Then, the contact application transmits the input information (strawberry) to the contact management apparatus 100. [

Referring to FIGS. 4 (b) and 4 (c), the contact application screen 400 displayed on the terminal 200 of the KAY displays the persons ANA, BRIAN, and CECILIA who input "strawberry". The terminal 200 of the KAY receives the contact of the person who entered "strawberry " from the contact management apparatus 100. Since the terminal 200 of the KAY is also the person who entered "strawberry" in the KAY, the KAY can display the information contained in the group (for example, "I"). The details of the contact are hidden, and the name and photo can be displayed first.

If the effective time of the contact exchange key "strawberry " remains, the progress bar 400b may be displayed as shown in Fig. 4 (b). After the validity period of the contact exchange key "strawberry" has elapsed, the progress bar 400b may disappear as shown in FIG. 4 (c).

The KAY may selectively store the contact by pressing the Add button 400c from among the contacts displayed on the screen 400 of the contact application.

The KAY may store all the contacts displayed on the screen 400 of the contact application by pressing the save contact full save button 400d.

Referring to FIG. 5A, the contact application screen 410 provides an area 410a where a contact exchange key can be entered.

Users enter the photo (e.g., strawberry image) promised in area 410a. Then, the contact application transmits the input information (strawberry image) to the contact management apparatus 100. [

Referring to FIGS. 5B and 5C, the contact application screen 410 displayed on the terminal 200 of the KAY is displayed on the screen of the user ANA, BRIAN, CECILIA ). The terminal 200 of the KAY receives the contact information of the person who inputs a photograph similar or similar to "strawberry image " from the contact management apparatus 100. The details of the contact are hidden, and the name and photo can be displayed first.

Referring to FIG. 6A, the contact application screen 420 requests input of a contact exchange key related to terminal movement. At this time, the contact application screen 420 may display the phrase " Please shake your phone at the same time as the people who want to add each other ". Location information may be further displayed on the screen 420 of the contact application.

When users shake their terminals at the same time, the contact application of each terminal transmits the input terminal motion information to the contact management apparatus 100. At this time, the contact management apparatus 100 groups only the terminal movement information received from the similar position based on the position information of the user terminals.

Referring to FIGS. 6B and 6C, the screen 420 of the contact application displayed on the terminal 200 of the KAY displays contacts of people who input terminal movement information at a near position.

The contact application can provide an area where the user can enter additional matching conditions with the contact keyword. The inputted condition is transmitted to the contact management apparatus 100 together with the contact keyword. For example, a user can send a matching area with a contact keyword. The matching area may be an area associated with the user's current location, but may be a specific area name. The user can transmit the matching user information (sex, age, occupation, school, etc.) along with the contact keyword.

The contact application can provide an area where the user can input the valid time of the contact keyword and the start time of the validity time (timer start time of the contact keyword). The entered valid time or start time may be transmitted to the contact management apparatus 100 together with the contact keyword.

7 is an illustration of an interface screen illustrating a method of inputting a contact exchange key according to another embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to Fig. 7A, the contact application screen 430 may display a specified movement pattern and display a phrase "Please shake your phone with the pattern below with people who want to add contacts to each other ". . The movement pattern can be randomly selected among a plurality of movement patterns stored in the contact application. Or the movement pattern can be received from the contact management apparatus 100. [

One of the KAY, ANA, BRIAN, CECILIA, and DAVID (for example, KAY) displays a movement pattern at its own terminal and the rest of the users can move their terminal according to the movement pattern while viewing the terminal screen of KAY have. Or the terminal of the KAY may transmit a movement pattern to another terminal to share a movement pattern.

When the users shake their terminals at the same time with the same movement pattern, the contact application of each terminal transmits the input terminal motion information to the contact management apparatus 100. The contact management apparatus 100 determines users who have moved the terminal in the same pattern within a predetermined time as the contact exchange group.

Referring to FIG. 7 (b), the ANA receives a specific code (for example, a QR code) from the contact management apparatus 100. The screen of the application of ANA displays the QR code.

The screen 440 of the contact application of the KAY (or ANA) may display the phrase "Please scan the QR code issued to ANA " to the mobile phone. When the KAY scans (shoots) the QR code of the ANA terminal by pressing the QR code scan button 440a, the contact application of the KAY transmits the received QR code to the contact management device 100. [

BRIAN, CECILIA, and DAVID also scan the QR code of the ANA with their respective mobile phones, the contact application of each terminal transmits the received QR code to the contact management device 100. The contact management apparatus 100 determines the users who have transmitted the QR code issued to the ANA to be the contact exchange group including the ANA.

Referring to FIG. 7C, the ANA receives a specific sound from the contact management apparatus 100. The ANA application outputs a specific sound through the speaker of the terminal.

The screen 450 of the contact application of the KAY (or ANA) displays the phrase "Please record a minute sound generated from ANA's mobile phone ". When the KAY records a sound output from the terminal of the ANA through its terminal, the contact application of the KAY transmits the input sound to the contact management apparatus 100. [

BRIAN, CECILIA, and DAVID also record the sound of ANA on their respective mobile phones, and the contact application of each terminal transmits the input sound to the contact management device 100. [ The contact management apparatus 100 determines users who have transmitted sounds issued to the ANA as contact exchange groups including the ANA.

As shown in Fig. 7, the movement pattern information, the code information, and the sound information, which are issued from the contact management apparatus 100, may be called an issuance key.

Figure 8 is a flow diagram of the same input information based contact exchange method according to one embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 8, the contact management apparatus 100 receives the contact exchange key A from an arbitrary user terminal (S110). The contact management apparatus 100 may further receive matching conditions such as matching area, matching user information (sex, age, etc.). The contact management apparatus 100 can further receive the validity time of the contact keyword and the start time of the validity time.

The contact management apparatus 100 sets the valid time of the contact exchange key A (S120). The start time of the validity time may be the time point at which the contact exchange key A is received for the first time, may be the start time set from the terminal that transmitted the contact exchange key A, or may be the start time arbitrarily set by the contact management apparatus 100 .

The contact management apparatus 100 sets the user terminals that have transmitted the contact exchange key A for a valid period of time to the contact exchange group (S130). The contact management apparatus 100 may include only the terminals existing within a certain distance from the reference position among the user terminals transmitting the same contact exchange key for the valid time in the contact exchange group. When the user further inputs a matching condition such as a matching area, matching user information (sex, age, etc.), the contact management device 100 determines whether the matching condition is satisfied among the user terminals that transmitted the contact exchange key A during the valid period Only terminals can be included in the contact exchange group.

The contact management apparatus 100 transmits the contacts of at least some of the contacts of the users included in the contact exchange group to the user terminals included in the contact exchange group (S140). The contact management apparatus 100 may store the contacts of the users in advance, or may receive the contacts with the contact exchange key A. The recipient can receive the contacts of all the users included in the contact exchange group, receive the contacts of the users other than the user included in the contact exchange group, or receive the contact information of the users included in the contact exchange group It is possible to receive the contact information of the non-stored users.

The contact management apparatus 100 deletes the contact exchange key A after the expiration time (S150). The contact management apparatus 100 may manage a valid contact exchange key from the list of contact exchange keys and delete the contact exchange key that has passed the validity time from the list of contact exchange keys. Then, the contact management apparatus 100 can manage the contact exchange key that has passed the validity time from the contact exchange key list to the separate contact exchange key history list.

9 is a flowchart of the same input information-based contact exchange method according to another embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 9, the contact management apparatus 100 receives a request for issuing a contact exchange key from an arbitrary user terminal (S210).

The contact management apparatus 100 issues the contact exchange key A to the arbitrary user terminal (S220). The contact exchange key A includes specific information, for example, a specific keyword, a specific image, a specific terminal movement pattern, a specific sound, and the like.

The contact management apparatus 100 sets the user terminals that have transmitted the contact exchange key A to the contact exchange group during the valid time of the contact exchange key A in step S230. The contact management apparatus 100 can also include the contact exchange key A in the contact exchange group even if the user terminal having issued the contact exchange key A transmits the contact exchange key A to the contact management apparatus 100. [ Or the contact management apparatus 100 can automatically include the user terminal that has issued the contact exchange key A in the contact exchange group related to the contact exchange key A. [

The contact management apparatus 100 transmits the contacts of the users included in the contact exchange group to the user terminals included in the contact exchange group (S240).

The contact management apparatus 100 sets the valid time from the time of issuing the contact exchange key A or sets the valid time from the time of first receiving the contact exchange key A issued from any user terminal or from the start time set by the user have.

10 is a flow diagram of the same input information based contact exchange method according to another embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 10, the user terminal 200 transmits the contact exchange key to the contact management apparatus 100 (S310). The user terminal 200 may further transmit matching conditions such as a matching area, matching user information (sex, age, occupation, school, etc.). The user terminal 200 can further transmit the validity time of the contact keyword, the start time of the validity time, and the like.

The user terminal 200 receives the contact information of the user who has transmitted the same contact exchange key as the contact exchange key from the contact management apparatus 100 (S320).

The user terminal 200 displays the received contact on the display screen, and stores some contacts selected by the user or all the received contacts (S330).

11 is a diagram schematically showing a hardware structure of a user terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

11, a user terminal is comprised of hardware including a memory 1100, a processor 1200, a display 1300, and a communication module 1400. The user terminal may further include at least one storage device 1500. The contact application is a program for executing the operations described with reference to the drawings in the present invention. The contact application is loaded at a designated location on the user terminal and executes the programmed operation in combination with the hardware including the memory 1100, the processor 1200 and the display 1300 of the user terminal.

The memory 1100 stores instructions for executing the contact application of the present invention, or temporarily stores the instructions loaded from the storage device. Processor 1200 executes the stored or loaded instructions in memory 1100 to drive the contact application of the present invention. Display 1300 can receive user input, e.g., receive touch input.

As described above, according to the embodiment of the present invention, the user can easily obtain the contact information of people who input the same information as the contact information from the contact management device within a predetermined time. According to the embodiment of the present invention, many people can exchange contacts in a short time with a simple procedure of inputting mutually agreed information to their terminals.

The embodiments of the present invention described above are not implemented only by the apparatus and method, but may be implemented through a program for realizing the function corresponding to the configuration of the embodiment of the present invention or a recording medium on which the program is recorded.

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, It belongs to the scope of right.

Claims (24)

A method for a contact management device to exchange contacts between users,
Receiving a contact exchange key from an arbitrary terminal,
Setting the terminal and the terminals transmitting the same information as the contact exchange key to the contact exchange group; and
Identifying users of the terminals included in the contact exchange group and transmitting at least some contacts of the identified users to the terminals included in the contact exchange group
/ RTI > The method of claim 1,
The contact exchange key
A text information, image information, code information, terminal motion information, sound information, and position information. The method of claim 1,
Further comprising setting an effective time of the contact exchange key,
The step of setting to the contact exchange group
And sets the terminals that transmitted the same information as the contact exchange key to the contact exchange group during the valid time. 4. The method of claim 3,
Wherein at least one of the valid time and the start time of the valid time is determined by the arbitrary terminal. 4. The method of claim 3,
Wherein the validity time is determined according to the type of the contact exchange key. The method of claim 1,
The step of receiving the contact exchange key
Further receiving a matching condition together with the contact exchange key,
The step of setting to the contact exchange group
The terminals meeting the matching condition among the terminals transmitting the same information and the same information as the contact exchange key are set to the contact exchange group
How to exchange contacts. The method of claim 1,
The step of receiving the contact exchange key
Further receiving an exchange contact type together with the contact exchange key,
The transmitting step
And the contact corresponding to the exchange contact type is transmitted to each terminal included in the contact exchange group. The method of claim 1,
The step of setting to the contact exchange group
And the terminals existing within a predetermined distance from the terminals transmitting the same information as the contact exchange key are set as the contact exchange group. The method of claim 1,
The transmitting step
Transmitting at least some of the contacts to an arbitrary terminal of the contact exchange group,
Wherein the at least some contacts are the contacts of the opponents of the terminal. The method of claim 1,
The transmitting step
When a new terminal is added to the contact exchange group, identifies a new user corresponding to the new terminal, and transmits the contact information of the new user to the terminals included in the contact exchange group before the new terminal is added Exchange method. A method for a contact management device to exchange contacts between users,
Receiving a request for issuing a contact exchange key from an arbitrary terminal,
Issuing a specific contact exchange key including specific information to the arbitrary terminal,
Receiving a contact exchange key from each of a plurality of terminals,
Setting, as a contact exchange group, terminals that have transmitted the same contact exchange key as the specific contact exchange key for a predetermined time among the plurality of terminals;
Extracting users corresponding to the terminals included in the contact exchange group, and transmitting the contacts of the extracted users to the terminals included in the contact exchange group
/ RTI > 12. The method of claim 11,
Further comprising the step of setting a valid time in the specific contact exchange key,
And the predetermined time is the valid time. The method of claim 12,
The step of setting the valid time
From a time point of issuing the specific contact exchange key, a point of time at which the specific contact exchange key is first received after issuing the specific contact exchange key, and a start point set by a terminal among the plurality of terminals, A contact exchange method for operating a timer of validity time. 12. The method of claim 11,
The step of setting to the contact exchange group
And determining the terminals to be included in the contact exchange group among the plurality of terminals based on the contact exchange key received from the plurality of terminals and the position information of the plurality of terminals. 12. The method of claim 11,
The specific information is
And at least one of text information, image information, code information, terminal movement information, and sound information. 12. The method of claim 11,
The step of receiving the contact exchange key from each of the plurality of terminals
Receiving a contact of the user of the terminal together with the contact exchange key from each of the plurality of terminals, and
Storing the received contacts corresponding to the terminal
/ RTI > CLAIMS What is claimed is: 1. A method for exchanging contacts with at least one second terminal by running an application running in conjunction with hardware comprising a processor, a memory and a display,
Receiving a contact exchange key from an interface screen of the application,
Transmitting the contact exchange key to the contact switching device, and
Receiving a user contact of the second terminal from the contact switching device
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And the second terminal is the terminal that has transmitted the contact exchange key to the contact exchange apparatus. The method of claim 17,
The contact exchange key
And at least one of text information, image information, code information, terminal movement information, and sound information. The method of claim 18,
The step of receiving the contact exchange key
Receiving image information or code information displayed at an arbitrary terminal with the contact switching key,
And the image information or code information is information issued by the contact switching device to the arbitrary terminal. The method of claim 18,
The step of receiving the contact exchange key
The sound information output from the arbitrary terminal is input to the contact exchange key,
And the sound information is information issued by the contact switching device to the arbitrary terminal. The method of claim 17,
Receiving a matching condition on an interface screen of the application, and
Transmitting the matching condition to the contact switching device
Further comprising:
And the second terminal is a terminal that satisfies the matching condition among terminals transmitting the contact exchange key to the contact switching apparatus. The method of claim 17,
Receiving at least one of a valid time of the contact exchange key and a start time of the validity time on the interface screen of the application;
Transmitting at least one piece of input information to the contact switching device
Further comprising:
And the second terminal is the terminal that has transmitted the contact exchange key within the valid time to the contact switching apparatus. The method of claim 17,
Receiving an exchange contact type from an interface screen of the application, and
Transmitting the received exchange contact type to the contact switching apparatus
Further comprising:
Wherein the user contact of the second terminal is a contact corresponding to the type of the contact. As a user terminal,
A communication module for communicating with the contact switching device,
display,
A memory for storing application programs, and
And a processor for executing the application program in cooperation with the communication module, the display, and the memory,
The application program
Wherein the display unit displays an interface screen requesting to input a contact exchange key on the display, transmits the contact exchange key received from the interface screen to the contact exchange apparatus, and transmits the contact information of the other party received from the contact exchange apparatus to the interface screen And instructions for storing the contact of the other party at a designated location according to the setting,
Wherein the other party is a user who has transmitted the contact exchange key to the contact switching device.

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