KR20170133904A - Terminal apparatus and method for providing location based service - Google Patents

Abstract

According to an embodiment of the present invention, disclosed is a method for providing a location-based service, in a method for providing a location-based service by a terminal device operating under the control of a master application. The method includes a step of receiving a signal including the identification information of a first short range communication device from the first short range communication device; a step of transmitting the identification information of the first short range communication device to a server; a step of receiving at least one content data corresponding to the identification information of the first short range communication device from the server; and a step of displaying each of the at least one content data on the screen of a terminal device under the control of at least one slave application corresponding to each of the at least one content data. It is possible to prevent the battery lifespan of the terminal device from rapidly decreasing.

Description

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention [0001] The present invention relates to a terminal apparatus and a location-

The present invention relates to the field of web services. More particularly, the present invention relates to an apparatus and method for providing location-based services according to the location of a terminal device.

As the connection to the network through the mobile terminal and the mobile terminal becomes more active, the companies operating the web server provide various services to the user through the web page transmitted to the user terminal.

For example, portal site vendors provide users with various information such as weather, dictionaries, performances, travels, movies, etc. At the same time, they provide users with advertising information that encourages users to buy or purchase services. The user can search specific information at any time through a web page, and easily and easily obtain desired information.

As an example of an advertisement method for a mobile terminal, a location-based advertisement method is attracting attention. The location-based advertisement method refers to a method in which a user who receives advertisement contents related to his / her location has a high probability of purchasing a product or a service represented by the advertisement content, To the customer. Recently, GPS technology has been actively used as a new marketing technique, but the indiscreet location based advertisement method may cause a side effect of reducing the battery life of a user's mobile terminal and increasing data traffic.

A terminal device and a method for providing a location-based service according to an embodiment of the present invention are intended to prevent the battery life of a terminal device provided with a location-based service from rapidly decreasing.

Also, a terminal device according to an embodiment of the present invention and a method for providing a location-based service according to the present invention are intended to prevent an increase in data traffic of a terminal device.

In addition, a terminal device and a method for providing a location-based service according to an embodiment of the present invention aim to reduce a user's sense of rejection of a location-based service, thereby activating a location-based service.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for providing location-

A method for providing a location-based service by a terminal device operating under the control of a master application, the method comprising: receiving a signal including identification information of the first local area communication device from a first local area communication device; Transmitting identification information of the first local area communication device to the server; Receiving at least one piece of content data corresponding to identification information of the first local area communication device from the server; And displaying each of the at least one content data on a screen of the terminal device under the control of at least one slave application corresponding to each of the at least one content data.

The first short range communication device may include a beacon device, an access point (AP) device, a near field communication (NFC) device, or a high-frequency signal device.

The method comprising: transmitting location information of the terminal to the server; And receiving marketing zone information corresponding to the location information and information of a short range communication device included in each marketing zone from the server.

The location information of the terminal apparatus may include base station information to which the terminal apparatus is connected or GPS information of the terminal apparatus.

The method comprising: receiving a signal including identification information of the second local area communication device from a second local area communication device; And when the first short range communication device and the second short range communication device are included in the same marketing zone based on the identification information of the second short range communication device and the identification information of the first short range communication device, And the step of blocking the transmission of the identification information of the second short range communication device.

The step of receiving the marketing zone information and the information of the local area communication device further includes receiving information on whether the local area communication device included in the marketing zone operates as a marketing device from the server, Includes the step of transmitting identification information of the first local area communication device to the server only when the first local area communication device operates as a marketing device based on the identification information of the first local area communication device can do.

At least one vendor is registered in a marketing zone including the first short range communication device, and each of the at least one content data corresponds to each of the at least one vendor.

Each of the at least one content data may be displayed on the screen at predetermined time intervals according to a priority order of the at least one slave application.

The master application can be determined based on the installation time point among the location-based applications installed in the terminal device.

A message for confirming each operation state can be transmitted and received between the master application and the at least one slave application.

When the operation of the master application is interrupted, one of the slave applications of the at least one slave application may be determined as a new master application.

If the installation time of the previous master application re-executed after the interruption is earlier than the installation time of the current master application, the re-executed previous master application can be determined as a new master application.

The master application can be determined based on at least one of a priority and a capacity of each of the location-based applications installed in the terminal.

According to another embodiment of the present invention,

A terminal device operating under the control of a master application, comprising: a first communication unit for receiving a signal including identification information of the first short range communication device from the first short range communication device; A second communication unit for transmitting the identification information of the first short range communication device to the server and receiving at least one piece of content data corresponding to the identification information of the first short range communication device from the server; And a controller for displaying each of the at least one content data on a screen of the terminal device under the control of at least one slave application corresponding to each of the at least one content data.

Some advantages of the terminal device and the location-based service providing method according to an embodiment of the present invention are as follows.

i) It is possible to prevent the battery life of the terminal device provided with the location-based service from rapidly decreasing.

ii) It is possible to prevent an increase in data traffic of the terminal apparatus.

iii) the location-based service can be activated by reducing the user's dislike to the location-based service.

However, the terminal device according to the embodiment of the present invention and the location-based service providing method according to the present invention are not limited to the above-mentioned effects. And will be apparent to one of ordinary skill in the art.

1 is a diagram for explaining a general location-based service.
2 is a schematic diagram illustrating a location-based service according to an embodiment of the present invention.
3 is a flowchart illustrating a method for providing a location-based service according to an embodiment of the present invention.
4 is an exemplary diagram showing content data displayed on a screen of the terminal device.
5 is an exemplary diagram showing marketing zone information transmitted from a server to a terminal device.
6 is a flow diagram illustrating a method for determining a master application in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.
7 is a flowchart illustrating another method for determining a master application in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention.
8 is a flow diagram illustrating yet another method for determining a master application in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.
9 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of a terminal apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

While the present invention has been described with reference to exemplary embodiments, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the disclosed exemplary embodiments. It is to be understood, however, that the intention is not to limit the invention to the specific embodiments, but on the contrary, the intention is to cover all modifications, equivalents, and alternatives falling within the spirit and scope of the invention.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. In addition, numerals (e.g., first, second, etc.) used in the description of the present invention are merely an identifier for distinguishing one component from another.

Also, in this specification, when an element is referred to as being "connected" or "connected" with another element, the element may be directly connected or directly connected to the other element, It should be understood that, unless an opposite description is present, it may be connected or connected via another element in the middle.

In the present specification, a component represented by 'unit', 'module', or the like refers to a case where two or more components are combined into one component, or one component is divided into two or more ≪ / RTI > In addition, each of the components to be described below may additionally perform some or all of the functions of the other components in addition to the main functions of the component itself, and some of the main functions And may be performed entirely by components.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments according to the technical idea of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

1 is a diagram for explaining a general location-based service.

Referring to FIG. 1, a plurality of location-based applications may be installed in the terminal device 10, and each of the location-based applications may scan the local communication devices 11a, 11b, and 11c located nearby, do. The location-based application that has recognized the local communication devices 11a, 11b, and 11c transmits the identification information of the local communication devices 11a, 11b, and 11c to the web servers 12a, 12b, , 12b, and 12c and displays the advertisement content on the screen of the terminal device 10. [

As shown in FIG. 1, when a plurality of location-based applications are installed in the terminal device 10, each of the location-based applications performs a scan operation of the local communication devices 11a, 11b, and 11c, 10). ≪ / RTI >

In addition, since each location-based application sends and receives data to and from the corresponding web servers 12a, 12b, and 12c, the amount of data traffic on the network is inevitably increased, and advertisement contents are received from various web servers 12a, 12b, And is displayed on the screen of the terminal device 10 at a time, the user can judge it as a spam message, so that the user's interest in the advertisement content is lowered.

2 is a schematic diagram illustrating a location-based service according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 2, when a plurality of location-based applications are installed in the terminal device 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention, one of the location-based applications operates as a master application, The applications run as slave applications.

Only the master application performs the scanning operation of the local communication devices 11a, 11b, and 11c, and receives content data from the server 200 as a representative based on the scan results. The data transmission / reception operation internally occurs between the master application and the slave application, and the content data received from the server 200 is executed in the corresponding slave application. When the content data corresponds to the master application, the corresponding content data is executed by the master application.

In other words, in the embodiment of the present invention, each of the location-based applications does not operate independently, but the master application performs a scan operation on behalf of another slave application and a data transmission / reception operation with the server 200, The problem of the underlying service can be solved.

Hereinafter, a location-based service according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIG.

3 is a flowchart illustrating a method for providing a location-based service according to an embodiment of the present invention.

A plurality of location-based applications are installed in the terminal device 100. One of the location-based applications operates as a master application and the other location-based applications operate as a slave application. The terminal device 100 performing each step shown in FIG. 3 can operate under the control of the master application.

Each of the plurality of location-based applications may correspond to different vendors. For example, a location-based application may be an application provided by a vendor, and a location-based application may be an application provided by a vendor.

In step S310, the terminal device 100 receives a signal including the identification information of the first short range communication device from the first short range communication device.

The first short range communication device may include a beacon device, an access point (AP) device, an NFC (near field communication) device, or a high frequency signal device. The first short range communication device may include a terminal device 0.0 > 100) < / RTI >

In step S320, the terminal device 100 transmits the identification information of the first short range communication device to the server 200 connected through the network. The network may include a wired network and a wireless network. Specifically, the network may include various networks such as a local area network (LAN), a metropolitan area network (MAN), and a wide area network (WAN) . In addition, the network may include a known World Wide Web (WWW). However, the network according to the present invention is not limited to the above listed networks, and may include at least a known wireless data network, a known telephone network, and a known wired and wireless television network.

In step S330, the terminal device 100 receives at least one piece of content data corresponding to the identification information of the first short range communication device from the server 200. [

The server 200 may store content data corresponding to each piece of identification information of the local area communication device and extracts the content data corresponding to the identification information transmitted from the terminal device 100 and transmits the extracted content data to the terminal device 100 Lt; / RTI >

The content data may include at least one of text, audio, still image, and moving image, and each content data may correspond to each of the companies registered in the server 200.

In step S340, the terminal device 100 displays each of the at least one content data on the screen of the terminal device 100 under the control of at least one slave application corresponding to each of the at least one content data. For example, when a content data corresponds to a location-based application and b content data corresponds to a b-position period application, a content data is displayed on the terminal device 100 according to the operation of the location- b content data is displayed on the terminal device 100 according to the operation of the b location-based application.

The terminal device 100 may adjust the display order of at least one content when the content is displayed on the screen according to the control of each slave application. That is, in order to prevent each of at least one content from being simultaneously (or almost simultaneously) displayed on the screen of the terminal device 100, each of at least one content data is stored at predetermined time intervals It can be displayed on the screen.

4 is an exemplary diagram showing content data 400 displayed on the screen of the terminal device 100. As shown in FIG. 4, the advertisement content indicating the sale information is transmitted as the content data 400 to the terminal device 100 ). ≪ / RTI >

Meanwhile, in an embodiment of the present invention, the terminal device 100 may receive marketing zone information from the server 200 before performing each step shown in FIG.

For this purpose, the terminal device 100 transmits its own position information, for example, base station information or GPS information connected thereto, to the server 200, and the server 200 transmits, based on the received base station information or GPS information The marketing zone information existing within a predetermined radius centering on the position of the base station (or the position of the cell) or the GPS position can be transmitted to the terminal device 100. The terminal device 100 can receive the marketing zone information by transmitting its own location information to the server 200 when the marketing zone information corresponding to the location information of the terminal device 100 is not stored in the terminal device 100. [

FIG. 5 is an exemplary diagram showing marketing zone information transmitted from the server 200 to the terminal device 100. FIG.

5, zone 1 and zone 2 are set as marketing zones in cell 1, Beacon 1, Beacon 2, AP 1, AP 2 and HF 1 are located in Zone 1, AP 3 , HF 2, the server 200 transmits identification information of a marketing zone existing in the cell 1 in which the terminal device 100 is located, and identification information of a local communication device located in each marketing zone, To the device (100). The marketing zone is an arbitrary area set by the server 200, and at least one vendor may be registered in the marketing zone.

3, when the terminal device 100 transmits the identification information of the first local area communication device to the server 200, the server 200 confirms the marketing zone to which the first local area communication device belongs And transmits content data of a company registered in the marketing zone to the terminal.

When the terminal device 100 transmits a signal to the server 200 every time it receives a signal from the local communication device located in the marketing zone, data communication between the terminal device 100 and the server 200, The terminal device 100 can transmit the identification information of the local area communication device to the server 200 only when the signal of the local area communication device located in the marketing zone is received for the first time.

For example, the terminal device 100 identifies Beacon 1 located in Zone 1, transmits corresponding identification information to the server 200, receives and displays the content data from the server 200, ) Identifies AP 1 located in Zone 1, terminal device 100 confirms that Beacon 1 and AP 1 are located in the same marketing zone, and that the identification information of AP 1 is not transmitted to server 200 will be. Accordingly, while the terminal device 100 is located in one marketing zone, it can reduce data traffic by receiving the same content data only once.

According to an embodiment, the terminal apparatus 100 identifies Beacon 1 and determines whether the interval between the time when the content data is received from the server 200 and the time when the AP 1 is identified exceeds a predetermined interval (for example, one hour) , It may transmit the identification information of the AP 1 to the server 200 to receive the related content data. However, even if the beacon 1 is identified and the interval between the time when the content data is received from the server 200 and the time when the AP 1 is identified is within a predetermined interval, The terminal device 100 may transmit the identification information of the AP 1 to the server 200 if the other local communication device is identified in the zone 2 and the related content data is received. This means that the terminal device 100 moves in the order of Zone 1, Zone 2, and Zone 1, so that the content data corresponding to each marketing zone is provided to the terminal device.

On the other hand, as shown in FIG. 5, a flag indicating whether each short range communication device is a marketing device may be set in each short range communication device.

The flag indicating whether the device is a marketing device indicates whether the corresponding content data exists in the server 200 or not. For example, when the terminal device 100 recognizes the local communication device indicated by Y, it transmits the identification information of the local communication device to the server 200, receives the related content data from the server 200, When the terminal device 100 recognizes the displayed local area communication device, it is confirmed that the related content data does not exist and the identification information of the local area communication device is not transmitted to the server 200. [

Hereinafter, a process of determining a master application among a plurality of location-based applications installed in the terminal device 100 will be described with reference to FIGS.

6 is a flow diagram illustrating a method for determining a master application in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.

In step S610, any one of the location-based applications installed in the terminal device 100 is executed. It is assumed that any one of the location-based applications is not determined as a master application or a slave application and is executed for the first time after being installed in the terminal device 100.

The executed one of the location-based applications is connected to the server 200, receives the business information registered in the server 200 from the server 200, and transmits the business information corresponding to the business information among the applications installed in the terminal device 100 Location-based applications can be specified.

In step S620, any one of the location-based applications compares the installation time of the location-based applications installed in the terminal device 100 with the installation time of the location-based applications. Based on the business information transmitted from the server 200, any one of the location-based applications can compare the installation time of the specified location-based applications with the installation time of the location-based applications.

In step S630, if one of the location-based applications has the earliest installation time, the master application is determined to operate.

According to an embodiment, the master application and the at least one slave application can send and receive messages to each other to confirm the operating status. If the message is not received from any one of the location-based applications, then the other location-based applications are notified of the operation of the one of the location-based applications It can be judged that it has been interrupted. At this time, it is a problem to determine a new master application when the operation of the master application is interrupted.

7 is a flowchart illustrating another method for determining a master application in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention.

In step S710 , Any one of the slave applications judges whether the operation of the master application is interrupted. Any one of the slave applications can determine that the operation of the master application is stopped if a message indicating the operation status is not received from the master application.

If the operation of the master application is interrupted in step S720, any one of the slave applications compares the installation time of the slave application with the installation time of the slave application.

In step S730, if one of the slave applications has the earliest installation time, the slave application is determined as a new master application and operates.

FIG. 8 is a flowchart illustrating another method of determining a master application according to an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 8 illustrates a method of determining a master application when a location-based application previously operated as a master application is stopped and then re-executed.

In step S810, when the previous master application that has been interrupted is re-executed, the installation time of the current master application is compared with the installation time of the current master application in step S820.

In step S830, when the installation time of the previous master application is earlier than the installation time of the current master application, the previous master application determines itself as a new master application and operates.

6 to 8, it is described that the installation time of the application is the master application. However, this is only one example. For example, the order of the location-based applications (for example, Based application may operate as a master application), and the capacity of the location-based application (e.g., the location-based application with the smallest capacity may operate as a master application).

9 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a terminal device 900 according to an embodiment of the present invention.

9, a terminal device 900 according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a first communication unit 910, a second communication unit 930, a control unit 950, a display 970, and a memory 990 can do. The first communication unit 910, the second communication unit 930, the control unit 950, and the memory 990 may be implemented by at least one processor.

First, a plurality of location-based applications are installed in the memory 990. Each of the plurality of location-based applications can determine whether to operate as a master application or a slave application based on their installation time.

The first communication unit 910 receives a signal including the identification information of the first short range communication device from the first short range communication device.

The second communication unit 930 communicates with the server 200 and specifically transmits the identification information of the first local area communication device to the server 200 and transmits the identification information of the first local area communication device to the server 200 At least one content data. Also, the second communication unit 930 may receive the marketing zone information from the server 200. [

The control unit 950 displays each of the at least one content data on the screen of the display 970 under the control of at least one slave application corresponding to each of the at least one content data.

According to the terminal device and the method for providing the location-based service according to the embodiment of the present invention, the battery life of the terminal device provided with the location-based service can be prevented from rapidly decreasing, . In addition, the location-based service can be activated by reducing the user's sense of rejection of the location-based service.

Meanwhile, the embodiments of the present invention described above can be written in a program that can be executed in a computer, and the created program can be stored in a medium.

The medium may be a storage such as a magnetic storage medium (e.g., ROM, floppy disk, hard disk, etc.), an optical reading medium (e.g. CD ROM, DVD, etc.) and a carrier wave Media, but is not limited thereto.

It will be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes in form and details may be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention as defined by the following claims. You will understand. It is therefore to be understood that the above-described embodiments are illustrative in all aspects and not restrictive.

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Claims (15)

A method for providing a location-based service by a terminal device operating under the control of a master application,
Receiving a signal including identification information of the first local area communication device from the first local area communication device;
Transmitting identification information of the first local area communication device to the server;
Receiving at least one piece of content data corresponding to identification information of the first local area communication device from the server; And
And displaying each of the at least one content data on a screen of the terminal device under the control of at least one slave application corresponding to each of the at least one content data.
The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the first short-
A beacon device, an access point (AP) device, a near field communication (NFC) device, or a high-frequency signal device.
The method according to claim 1,
The location-based service providing method includes:
Transmitting location information of the terminal to the server; And
Further comprising the step of receiving marketing zone information corresponding to the location information and information of a local communication device included in each marketing zone from the server.
The method of claim 3,
The location information of the terminal device may include:
Wherein the base station information includes base station information to which the terminal device is connected or GPS information of the terminal device.
The method of claim 3,
The location-based service providing method includes:
Receiving a signal including identification information of the second short range communication device from the second short range communication device; And
When the first short range communication device and the second short range communication device are included in the same marketing zone based on the identification information of the second short range communication device and the identification information of the first short range communication device, 2 < / RTI > short-range communication device.
The method of claim 3,
Wherein the step of receiving the marketing zone information and the information of the short-
Further comprising receiving from the server information on whether or not the short range communication device included in the marketing zone operates as a marketing device,
Wherein the transmitting comprises:
And transmitting the identification information of the first local area communication device to the server only when the first local area communication device operates as a marketing device based on the identification information of the first local area communication device Based service.
The method according to claim 1,
Wherein at least one vendor is registered in a marketing zone including the first short range communication device, and each of the at least one content data corresponds to each of the at least one vendor.
The method according to claim 1,
Wherein each of the at least one content data is displayed on the screen at predetermined time intervals according to a priority order of the at least one slave application.
The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the master application is determined based on an installation time of the location-based applications installed in the terminal device.
10. The method of claim 9,
Wherein the master application and the at least one slave application send and receive messages for confirming the respective operating states.
11. The method of claim 10,
Wherein when the operation of the master application is interrupted, one of the slave applications of the at least one slave application is determined as a new master application.
10. The method of claim 9,
Further comprising the step of determining that the re-executed previous master application is a new master application if the installation time of the previous master application re-executed after the interruption is earlier than the installation time of the current master application.
The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the master application is determined based on at least one of a priority and a capacity of each of the location-based applications installed in the terminal.
13. A program stored in a medium for executing a method of providing a location based service according to any one of claims 1 to 13 in combination with hardware.
A terminal device operating under the control of a master application,
A first communication unit for receiving a signal including identification information of the first short range communication device from the first short range communication device;
A second communication unit for transmitting the identification information of the first short range communication device to the server and receiving at least one piece of content data corresponding to the identification information of the first short range communication device from the server; And
And a control unit for displaying each of the at least one content data on a screen of the terminal device under the control of at least one slave application corresponding to each of the at least one content data.

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