TWI402486B - The sharing of travel itinerary and its service platform and program products - Google Patents

Description

Method for sharing travel itinerary and its service platform and program products

The invention relates to a travel itinerary, in particular to a travel itinerary sharing service method, a service platform and a program product thereof, which can provide a shared travel itinerary.

In addition to group travel, self-service travel has become a common choice. Although self-service travel is free to determine travel itinerary, it means that people need to plan their own travel itinerary. In the past, people need to use travel books and online materials to query travel information to plan travel itineraries, which will take a lot of time.

Therefore, some websites or terminal devices such as navigation devices or mobile phones currently provide functions for travel itinerary planning, such as the Republic of China Invention Patent No. 200725320 and the 200745411 publication, and the like. Whether it is a website or a terminal device, the user is required to input the travel-related conditions, and the corresponding travel itinerary is provided to the user for reference. However, most of these travel itineraries are planned, and it is difficult to provide diversified choices. Because the travel itinerary planning is based on the existing tourist materials in the database, if the local tourism information has changed, it may lead to tourism. The itinerary is not precise enough.

With the growing popularity of interactive and shared Web 2.0, people are becoming more and more accustomed to sharing information so that information can be enriched by people.

Therefore, the inventor of the case thought that the sharing concept of Web2.0 can be utilized to construct a service platform, in addition to providing travel itinerary planning functions, as well as sharing Taiwan allows users to upload and store different travel itineraries to the service platform for sharing with other users.

Accordingly, it is an object of the present invention to provide a method of sharing a travel itinerary that allows instant sharing of travel itineraries.

Therefore, the sharing method of the travel itinerary of the present invention is performed by a terminal device and a service platform. The service platform has a database for storing a plurality of travel itineraries, and the sharing method comprises the following steps: (A) if When the service platform receives a travel itinerary request from the terminal device, the service platform provides at least a part of the travel itinerary to the terminal device; and (B) if the service platform receives a new travel itinerary from the terminal device , save to the database.

This new travel itinerary can be transmitted by the user of the terminal device to the service platform for sharing with other users.

In addition, in order to make the uploading of the travel itinerary easier and more automated, another object of the present invention is to provide a sharing method for a travel itinerary that can easily be uploaded by a travel itinerary.

Therefore, the terminal device of the present invention stores the travel itinerary and when the travel itinerary is changed, the user travels to the service platform automatically as the new travel itinerary by the user's consent or initiative. This uploading action is performed by a program product or firmware such as a plug-in software, making it easier for users to share the travel itinerary to the service platform.

In this way, the present invention is structured as a service platform, so that the user of the terminal device can actively or automatically upload the travel itinerary through its editing to a service platform. Other users can use this service platform to obtain travel itineraries shared by others, so that the amount of information for the travel itinerary can be quickly accumulated and shared for everyone.

The above and other technical contents, features and advantages of the present invention will be apparent from the following detailed description of the preferred embodiments.

Referring to FIG. 1 and FIG. 2, in addition to providing a terminal device to download a travel itinerary, the service platform 1 of the travel itinerary of the present invention can receive a travel itinerary from the terminal device and store it for use by others for the purpose of sharing the travel itinerary. The terminal device is an electronic device that can exchange information with the service platform 1, for example, the navigation device 2, the computer 2' and the mobile phone 2", etc., and the terminal device is used as the navigation device 2 as an example for convenience of description. The service platform 1 is a server and has a travel itinerary planning module 11, a database 12 and a sharing processing module 13. The travel itinerary planning module 11 and the sharing processing module 13 can be a program product or a firmware. .

The database 12 has a travel information database 121 and a travel itinerary library 122. The travel information database 121 stores a majority of travel information. Each travel information is related to different places and has categories, contact numbers, addresses, hours of operation, average cost, point of interest (POI), recommended travel time, traffic information, weather information and geographic information. Categories can be used for restaurants, monuments, landscapes, restaurants, businesses, and more. The travel itinerary database 1222 stores most travel itineraries. Each travel itinerary contains travel content, set conditions and authors. This tour The content has travel information from most locations, and the setting conditions include tourist area, travel time, number of days, cost, distance, time of stay and order of each place, and the like.

The travel itinerary planning module 11 is configured to provide a matching travel itinerary to the terminal device according to the requirements of the terminal device 2. When receiving the travel request request from the terminal device, the travel itinerary planning module 11 further requests the terminal device 2 to input conditions to provide one or more travel itineraries that meet the input conditions to the terminal device 2. For each travel itinerary, the travel itinerary planning module 11 retrieves the travel information that meets the input conditions from the travel information database 121 to form a travel itinerary, or the travel itinerary planning module 11 retrieves the match from the travel itinerary database 122. Enter the conditions of the travel itinerary. The travel itinerary planning module 11 provides a condition setting interface to request the user input condition of the terminal device 2, and the input conditions required by the condition setting interface include a tourist area, a travel time, a number of days, a fee, a distance, etc., and a travel itinerary planning module 11 requires the terminal device 2 to select at least one of the aforementioned conditions. The terminal device 2 can select to download the retrieved travel itinerary, and the travel itinerary planning module 11 further provides information about the selected travel itinerary of the terminal device for downloading and using by the terminal device. Of course, the user of the terminal device can change the information in the travel itinerary according to the actual situation (to be described later), and once the travel itinerary is changed, in this embodiment, the terminal device can be set back to the service after the transaction. Platform 1.

When the sharing processing module 13 receives the travel itinerary from the terminal device, it is stored and stored in the travel itinerary information database 122. In this embodiment, the sharing processing module 13 first confirms that the travel itinerary received does not have a travel itinerary database. After 122, it will be stored in the travel itinerary library 122.

Referring to FIG. 2 and FIG. 3 , the terminal device is a navigation device 2 and has a processor 21 , a communication module 22 , a positioning module 23 , a storage unit 24 , a display 25 and a user input control designation. Input unit 26. The communication module 22 is a wired communication network for transmitting and receiving data. Here, the communication module 22 is used to connect the service platform 1 to send and receive data. The communication module 22 can use short-distance or long-distance communication to communicate with the service platform 1 Inter-transmission data, such as General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) network, Global System For Mobile Communication (GSM) network or Internet (Internet) or Bluetooth ( Bluetooth) and so on. The positioning module 23 is configured to obtain the current location of the navigation device 2. In this embodiment, the positioning module 23 is a global positioning system receiver that receives the GPS signal to calculate the current location of the terminal device 2. The processor 21 is electrically connected to the communication module 22, the positioning module 23, the display 25 and an input unit 26 such as a touch panel or a button to control the operation of the components 22, 23, 25, 26. The storage device 24 stores at least one of related systems, programs and materials required for the operation of the navigation device 2 and may contain a storage device such as a non-volatile memory such as a flash memory and a memory card or the like. The processor 21 is further electrically connected to the storage unit 24 to load the system and the program in the storage unit 24 for execution.

The storage device 24 stores a control program 241, a map database 242, a navigation system 243, and a communication program 244. The control program 241 is an operating system such as WIN CE to provide the primary functional operation of the navigation device 2 and to control the positioning module 23 to obtain the current position. Library database 242 Store geographic information. The navigation system 243 utilizes the map database 242 to provide navigation functions, such as planning navigation paths and navigation in the path, and the like. The communication program 244 is a driver for the communication module 22, so that other systems or programs can send and receive data through the external network through the communication module 22.

The storage device 24 further stores a travel itinerary module 245. The travel itinerary module 245 is a plug-in software (Plug-in). The travel itinerary module 245 is provided by the service platform 1 for downloading and installing by the navigation device 2. Of course, the travel itinerary module 245 can also be randomly installed in the navigation device 2 in a firmware manner or loaded and installed by the navigation device 2 in a storage medium such as a CD. The travel itinerary module 245 has a planning unit 2451, an editing unit 2452 and a transaction unit 2553.

The planning unit 2451 cooperates with the travel itinerary planning module 11 of the service platform 1 for the user to obtain a new travel itinerary 2451. The planning unit 2451 pre-stores the connection address of the service platform 1 and adds a travel itinerary planning option (not shown) to the user interface of the navigation device 2 and can select the travel itinerary planning option when the user selects the travel itinerary through the input unit 26. Corresponding to issuing a travel itinerary request to the service platform 1, and then transmitting the user input condition to the service platform 1, thereby providing the service platform 1 to return the matching travel itinerary for the user to select, and downloading the user selected from the service platform 1 Travel itinerary 2454.

When the user needs to edit the travel itinerary 2454 stored in the navigation device 2, only a travel itinerary editing option (not shown) of the user interface of the navigation device 2 is selected, and the editing unit 245 will load the tour to be edited. Itinerary 2454 and provides an editing interface (not shown) for the user to edit the travel itinerary The relevant information of 2454 refers to the adjustment of the content of the travel itinerary or the setting conditions, such as the order of changing the place, the number of days of the travel itinerary, the travel time of each place, the fee, the place of addition and deletion, the introduction of the place of interest, and so on. When the editing is completed, the travel itinerary 2454 is notified and the transaction unit 2553 is notified. The storage device 24 further stores a user profile 246, the user profile of the navigation device 2 of the user profile 246, such as name, contact information, and the like. When the editing unit 2452 changes the travel itinerary 2454, the user profile 246 is further retrieved to set the author for this travel itinerary 2454.

When the travel itinerary 2454 is changed, the transaction unit 2553 may upload the travel itinerary 2454 to the service platform 1 for reuse by others. In this embodiment, the transaction unit 2553 can be selected by the user to be set in one of an automatic upload mode and an acknowledge mode. If the transaction unit 2553 is in the automatic upload mode, each time the notification of the editing unit 2452 is received, the transaction unit 2553 automatically uploads the travel itinerary 2454 to the service platform 1. If the transaction unit 2553 is in the confirmation mode, each time the notification of the editing unit 2452 is received, the transaction unit 2553 first asks the user whether to approve the upload by using a confirmation window, and automatically obtains the change after obtaining the user's consent. The travel itinerary 2454 is uploaded to the service platform 1; otherwise, if the user does not agree, the processing of the change of the travel itinerary 2454 is ended. Here, the preset transaction unit 2553 is located in the automatic upload mode as an example.

According to the foregoing architecture and relationship, a preferred embodiment of the sharing method of the travel itinerary of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG.

First, in step 30, when the user of the navigation device 2 needs to use the service When the navigation path of the platform 1 is used, the planning unit 2451 will issue a travel itinerary request to the service platform 1.

In step 31, once the service platform 1 receives the travel itinerary request, the travel itinerary planning module 11 requests the user of the navigation device 2 to enter a condition, in step 32, the travel itinerary planning module 11 receives the reply from the navigation device 2. Input conditions.

Next, in step 33, the travel itinerary planning module 11 provides a matching one or more travel itineraries according to the database 12 and the input conditions for the user of the navigation device 2 to select.

Then, in step 34, when the user is interested in one of the travel itineraries, the planning unit 2451 of the navigation device 2 can present a download request to the travel itinerary planning module 11, the download request containing the designated travel itinerary message. Next, in step 35, the travel itinerary planning module 11 returns the designated travel itinerary to the navigation device 2 to store it in the navigation device 2 in step 36 by the planning unit 2451. The user then uses the travel itinerary 2454 to navigate the tourist area using the navigation system 243.

Of course, if the user needs to change the travel itinerary 2454, the content of the tour itinerary 2454 can be changed through the editing unit 2452 in step 37. For example, as shown in FIG. 5, it is assumed that the order of the travel itinerary 2454 is A1-A2-A3-A4-A5, and the order of the places can be changed to A1-A4-A3-A5-A2; or, as shown in FIG. Delete the travel time of a location A2 and the location A3. When the editing unit 2452 completes the transaction of the travel itinerary 2454, the transaction unit 2453 will be notified.

Then, in step 38, the transaction unit 2453 is in the automatic upload mode. The travel route 2454 after the transaction is automatically transmitted to the service platform 1. In step 39, the sharing processing module 13 stores the travel itinerary 2454 into the travel itinerary database 122 for use in subsequent travel itineraries.

In summary, the present invention enables the terminal device to participate in the establishment of the travel itinerary database 122, and causes the transaction unit 2453 to automatically upload the travel itinerary 2454 of the user to the service platform 1 for instant sharing to other interested users. The service platform 1 can make the travel itinerary 122 richer and more diversified by the instant feedback travel of the terminal device.

The above is only the preferred embodiment of the present invention, and the scope of the invention is not limited thereto, that is, the simple equivalent changes and modifications made by the scope of the invention and the description of the invention are All remain within the scope of the invention patent.

1‧‧‧Service Platform

11‧‧‧Travel Itinerary Planning Module

12‧‧‧Database

121‧‧‧Travel Information Database

122‧‧‧Travel itinerary database

13‧‧‧Share processing module

2‧‧‧Navigation equipment

21‧‧‧ Processor

22‧‧‧Communication Module

23‧‧‧ Positioning Module

24‧‧‧ storage unit

241‧‧‧Control program

242‧‧‧Capital database

243‧‧‧Navigation system

244‧‧‧Communication program

245‧‧‧Travel Itinerary Module

2451‧‧‧ Planning unit

2452‧‧‧editing unit

2453‧‧‧Transaction unit

2454‧‧‧Travel itinerary

246‧‧‧ User Information

25‧‧‧ display

26‧‧‧ Input unit

2'‧‧‧ computer

2"‧‧‧Mobile Phone

30~39‧‧‧Steps

1 is a schematic diagram of a preferred embodiment of a travel itinerary sharing system of the present invention; FIG. 2 is a block diagram of the present embodiment; FIG. 3 is a block diagram of the navigation device in the embodiment; FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example of a travel itinerary in this embodiment. In this example, the order of the travel itinerary is adjusted; and FIG. 6 is a sample diagram in which the travel itinerary is changed in this embodiment. One location was deleted with a change in travel time.

1‧‧‧Service Platform

11‧‧‧Travel Itinerary Planning Module

12‧‧‧Database

121‧‧‧Travel Information Database

122‧‧‧Travel itinerary database

13‧‧‧Share processing module

2‧‧‧Navigation equipment

243‧‧‧Navigation system

245‧‧‧Travel Itinerary Module

2451‧‧‧ Planning unit

2452‧‧‧editing unit

2453‧‧‧Transaction unit

2454‧‧‧Travel itinerary

Claims (31)

A method for sharing a travel itinerary is performed by a terminal device and a service platform. The service platform has a database for storing a plurality of travel itineraries, and the sharing method comprises the following steps: (A) if the service platform is self-service When the terminal device receives a travel itinerary request, the service platform provides at least a part of the travel itinerary of the database to the terminal device; (B) the terminal device changes the travel itinerary, and takes the travel post as a new The travel itinerary is transmitted to the service platform; and (C) the service platform stores the new travel itinerary to the database. According to the sharing method of the travel itinerary described in claim 1, wherein in the step (A), the service platform first requests the terminal device to input conditions to provide a plurality of travel itineraries that meet the condition for the terminal The device chooses to download. According to the sharing method of the travel itinerary described in claim 2, in the step (A), the database further stores a plurality of travel information, and the service platform further searches for the matching from the database according to the condition. Travel information to form the travel itinerary. According to the sharing method of the travel itinerary described in claim 3, wherein in the step (A), the input condition has a tourist area, a travel time, a number of days, a fee and a distance. According to the sharing method of the travel itinerary described in claim 1, wherein in the step (B), the terminal device is connected by an external software After the change, the travel itinerary is transmitted to the service platform. A travel trip sharing system includes: a terminal device, storing a travel itinerary: a transaction unit, when the travel itinerary is changed, timely sending the travel itinerary after the transaction; and a service platform having: The database stores a majority of travel itineraries; a shared processing module is stored in the database upon receipt of the travel itinerary. According to the sharing system of the travel itinerary of claim 6, wherein the terminal device further has a planning unit for issuing a travel itinerary request request, and the service platform further has a travel itinerary planning module, the travel itinerary The planning module provides at least a portion of the travel itinerary to the terminal device upon receipt of the travel itinerary request. The sharing system of the travel itinerary according to claim 6 or 7, wherein the terminal device further has an editing unit for differentiating the travel itinerary and notifying the transaction unit upon completion of the transaction. According to the sharing system of the travel itinerary of claim 8, wherein the transaction unit can switch to one of an automatic upload mode and an acknowledgement mode, and when the change notification of the edit unit is received, the change If the unit is in the automatic upload mode, the transaction is automatically uploaded to the service platform; and in the confirmation mode, it is first confirmed whether the user agrees to upload, and automatically obtains the change after obtaining the user's consent. The travel itinerary is uploaded to the service platform. The sharing system of the travel itinerary according to claim 9 of the patent application scope, wherein the transaction unit is an external software. A method for sharing a travel itinerary is performed by a service platform having a database for storing a majority of travel itineraries, the sharing method comprising the following steps: (A) receiving a tour from a terminal device Providing at least a part of the travel itinerary of the database to the terminal device when requested by the itinerary; and (B) if the terminal device changes, the travel itinerary becomes a new travel itinerary, and the new tour itinerary is returned To the service platform, the new travel itinerary is stored in the database. According to the sharing method of the travel itinerary described in claim 11, wherein the database further stores a plurality of travel information, and in the step (A), the service platform further retrieves travel information from the database. Form at least one travel itinerary to provide. A program product for sharing a travel itinerary, when a server loads the program product, the method of any one of claims 11 and 12 can be performed. A travel service sharing service platform includes: a database for storing a majority of travel itineraries; and a travel itinerary planning module providing at least a portion of the database upon receipt of a travel itinerary request from a terminal device The travel itinerary is given to the terminal device; and a sharing processing module; If the terminal device changes and the travel itinerary becomes a new travel itinerary, and the new travel itinerary is transmitted back to the service platform, the sharing processing module stores the new travel itinerary to the database. According to the service platform shared by the travel itinerary according to claim 14, wherein the database further stores a plurality of travel information, and the service platform further retrieves the travel information from the database to form at least one travel itinerary. A method for sharing a travel itinerary is performed by a terminal device, the sharing method comprising the steps of: (A) storing a travel itinerary; and (B) uploading the travel itinerary once the travel itinerary is changed. According to the sharing method of the travel itinerary described in claim 16 of the patent application, in the step (A), a travel itinerary request is first issued to receive the travel itinerary. According to the sharing method of the travel itinerary described in claim 16, wherein in the step (B), once the travel itinerary is changed, it is first confirmed that the current mode is in an automatic upload mode or an acknowledge mode, if the current mode In the automatic upload mode, the transaction route of the transaction is automatically uploaded to a preset service platform; if the current mode is the confirmation mode, first confirm whether the user agrees to upload, and automatically obtain the user's consent. The travel itinerary is uploaded to the service platform. According to the sharing method of the travel itinerary described in claim 16 or 17 or 18, wherein in the step (B), the travel itinerary is edited Come to the transaction and upload the travel itinerary after the editing is completed. According to the sharing method of the travel itinerary described in claim 19, in the step (B), the travel itinerary is edited to change at least one of the content and the set condition of the travel itinerary. According to the sharing method of the travel itinerary described in claim 20, in the step (B), the travel itinerary has a plurality of locations, and the order of the locations in the travel itinerary or the deleted location is edited by the editor. According to the sharing method of the travel itinerary described in claim 20, wherein in the step (B), the travel itinerary has a majority of places and travel time, and the travel time of each place in the travel itinerary is edited. . A program product for sharing a travel itinerary, when a terminal device loads the program product, the method of any one of claims 16 to 22 can be performed. A terminal device for sharing a travel itinerary includes: an input unit for a user to input a control command; a communication module; a storage unit for storing a travel itinerary; and a processor; wherein, when the travel is When the transaction is changed, the travel itinerary is transmitted to a service platform via the communication module. According to the travel itinerary sharing terminal device described in claim 24, wherein the storage unit stores a travel itinerary module, and the processor executes the travel itinerary module to upload the travel itinerary to the travel route Service Platform. According to the terminal device shared by the travel itinerary described in claim 25, the travel itinerary module is an external plug-in software. A travel itinerary module is installed on a terminal device, the travel itinerary module comprises: a travel itinerary; and a transaction unit, which stores an exclusive address of a preset service platform, and is used in the travel itinerary When the transaction changes, upload the transaction tour to the service platform. The travel itinerary module according to claim 27 of the patent application scope further includes an editing unit for differentiating the travel itinerary and notifying the transaction unit after the transaction. The travel itinerary module of claim 28, wherein the editing unit is configured to edit at least one of content and setting conditions of the travel itinerary. The travel itinerary module according to claim 29 of the patent application scope further includes a planning unit for issuing a travel itinerary request request to the service platform to receive a travel itinerary from the service platform. The sharing system of the travel itinerary according to claim 30, wherein the transaction unit is switchable to one of an automatic upload mode and a confirmation mode, and when receiving the notification of the editing unit, the transaction unit If the automatic upload mode is used, the transaction is automatically uploaded to the service platform; and in the confirmation mode, it is first confirmed whether the user agrees to upload, and automatically obtains the change after obtaining the user's consent. The travel itinerary is uploaded to the service platform.