WO2009093148A1 - Base de données et procédés de diffusion d'information - Google Patents

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WO2009093148A1
WO2009093148A1 PCT/IB2009/050100 IB2009050100W WO2009093148A1 WO 2009093148 A1 WO2009093148 A1 WO 2009093148A1 IB 2009050100 W IB2009050100 W IB 2009050100W WO 2009093148 A1 WO2009093148 A1 WO 2009093148A1
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  • the invention relates a method of broadcasting information, a database, a communication system, a program element, and finally to a computer-readable medium.
  • NFC Near field communication
  • a method of broadcasting information to a group of users comprises the steps of receiving tag identification relating to a tag and reader identification relating to a reader at a database, storing tag information associated with said tag identification and reader information associated with said reader identification in said database, defining a group of users, and broadcasting said stored information to said group of users.
  • the tag may be an RFID tag and/or the reader may be a reading device like a mobile phone, e.g. an NFC phone.
  • the group of users are defined based on a criterion, e.g. may comprise some or all users, to which specific, stored information shall be broadcasted.
  • the broadcasted information may particularly comprise the tag information associated with the tag identification and/or the reader information associated with the reader identification.
  • the database may be a secure database, in particular a remote secure database.
  • the broadcasting may be done using SMS and/or mobile messaging and/or web-based messaging.
  • the tag identification and/or the tag information and/or the reader identification and/or the reader information may be certified by a provider, e.g. before it is sent to the database and/or before it is stored in the database.
  • the provider may be the owner of the database or may be a trusted company, e.g. a provider independent of the owner of the database.
  • a database which comprises a receiving unit adapted for receiving tag identification relating to a tag and reader information relating to a reader, a storing unit adapted for storing tag information associated with said tag identification and reader information associated with said reader identification, a defining unit adapted for defining a group of users, and a broadcasting unit for broadcasting said stored information to said group of users.
  • a communication system which comprises a database according to an exemplary aspect of the invention, a tag, and a reader, wherein the reader is adapted to read out said tag identification from said tag and to send said tag identification and reader identification to said database.
  • the communication system may further comprise a mobile communication network adapted to perform the sending or transmitting of the reader information and/or reader identification and/or the tag information and/or the tag identification.
  • a program element which, when being executed by a processor, is adapted to control or carry out a method according to an exemplary aspect of the invention.
  • a computer-readable medium in which a computer program is stored which, when being executed by a processor, is adapted to control or carry out a method according to an exemplary aspect of the invention.
  • the tag information and/or the reader information may relate to a specific property of an operator, user or person including the presence at a specific location, e.g. the visit of a specific restaurant or a specific shop, the performing of a specific action, e.g. the entering or leaving of a specific location or the selling or buying of a specific article, or the identity of the specific operator, e.g. of a specific salesperson, customer, taxi driver or meter- reader.
  • tag may particularly denote every kind of "contactless transmission element” or “wireless transmission element” like a near field communication element, e.g. an NFC/RFID tag comprising a memory for storing at least identification information, including active tags or passive tags.
  • secure database may particularly denote that the database is secured against attacks via unauthorized paths or from unauthorized persons, e.g. stored information like specific data sets of the secure database may be only altered after an authorization has been performed.
  • the database can be located at a specific secure location and/or may be operated by an operator different to the operator of the reading device and of the tag.
  • the term "user” or “operator” may particularly denote every operator or user in the communication system and is not be restricted to the operator or owner of the whole system but may relate to every single user or operator in the system, e.g. every user of a reading device or every user of a tag may be an operator in the sense of this application.
  • a database or a communication system having a database with data sets correlated to specific tags it is possible to provide an easy way to communicate and in particular to update information of properties of the operator.
  • the different properties may relate to a specific location, e.g. an actual position of an operator of the reading device and/or of the tag.
  • a reading device may read a tag arranged in a restaurant, e.g.
  • a reading device owned by a customer of that restaurant.
  • the reading of that tag can cause the sending of a signal to the database containing reader and/or tag information or a data set relating to that specific tag, i.e. restaurant.
  • information or data set may include the information that the operator or user of the specific reader or reading device, which is identified by the specific reading device, is presently at the specific restaurant.
  • a database or a communication system comprising a database for providing or creating a social network in an easy and efficient way.
  • This social network can be updated with data sets stored in a secure database, which may be correlated to a specific operator of the tag and/or the reading device. Additionally the stored reader and/or tag information or data sets may be broadcasted to a group of users which group may be defined in advance, depending on a specific criterion.
  • a social network can be defined or established having members which fulfill the specific criterion.
  • NFC- enabled mobile devices e.g. mobile phones
  • an alternative communication system e.g. for improving the generation or updating of a social network. Since prices of both active and passive devices will fall considerably, one can conclude that applications based on the interactions between citizens owning NFC-enabled phones and huge distributed networks of passive tags will be implemented with high certainty.
  • the method further comprises the step of reading out said tag identification from a tag by using a reader and sending said tag identification and said reader identification to the database.
  • said tag identification contains the tag information.
  • the tag information which can be stored in the database, can be read out directly from the tag and can be stored directly in said database.
  • said tag information may be read out from the tag instead of said tag identification and may be directly stored in the database.
  • said reader identification contains said reader information.
  • said reader information may be directly sent to said database instead of said reader identification and directly stored there.
  • reader identification and reader information may be sent together to the database.
  • said group of user is defined based on a criterion.
  • the criterion may be one out of the group consisting of all users reading out the same tag, being listed in a list defined by a specific user, time, location, specific relations between users, user profile, and information stored in the database.
  • the specific relations between users for example may be chatting and/or messaging interactions between friends in the past.
  • the criterion for being a member of said group may be that all users of said group have read out said same tag and/or that the users are being in a list defined by the specific user.
  • the specific user may be the user reading out said tag by using said reader.
  • every user reading out a specific tag can become a member of a specific group comprising all users reading out said specific tag.
  • the criterion time and location may relate to the time a specific user is at a specific location, e.g. a group may comprise every user or member which was at a given location at a given time.
  • the criterion which is based on relation between users, may relate to the fact that every user can define a list of friends, to which the user adds every other user he likes to add.
  • a user may add every user he contacted in the past, e.g. by using the database or by a service provided by the database, wherein the adding may either be done by the user himself or automatically by the database or the system.
  • the tag information is dynamically changed.
  • such tag information can define information, which changes over time, e.g. the tag information may relate to a music title which is presently played at a given location, e.g. a restaurant or super market. Since the music titles change over time the tag information changes as well so that the tag information always relates to the present music title.
  • the method further comprises the step of updating a user profile based on the broadcasted information.
  • the user profile may be a web user profile associated with the tag owner or reader owner.
  • Such an updating may include the changing of information indicating the location the specific user is at a specific time.
  • the method further comprises the step of determining an importance value depending on the tag information and/or the reader information.
  • such an importance value may also or alternatively depend on the number of groups a specific user and/or owner of the reader and/or the tag is member of. For example, an owner of a reader or reader device being member of a high number of groups may get a higher importance value than an owner of a reader being member of a smaller number of groups. The same may apply for the owner of the tag. Furthermore, it may be possible to give different tags or readers a different importance value, e.g. it is possible to distinguish between tags or readers having a high importance value and tags or readers having a lower importance value. In particular, the importance value may as well be based on the number of members in the defined group of users the information is broadcasted.
  • the determined importance value can be seen as a number showing the impact of a user or a tag on the market or the attraction of a user or a tag. That means, a restaurant with a high number of group members (i.e. customers) will be chosen by other people of the community with high probability whereas a restaurant with a low number will probably be shunned. Similarly, customers with a lot of friends (who are currently updated with the latest restaurant visits by the system) are more attractive to the restaurants because of the higher advertising effect. Hence, restaurants with a bonus program in place will spend more bonus points for customers with a high number of friends.
  • the tag information and/or reader information may correspond to a specific property, which corresponds to a relation between an operator of the tag and an operator of the reading device.
  • a relation between the operator of the tag and of the reading device may be that the operator of the tag is a restaurant and the operator of the reading device actually eats something in that specific restaurant, i.e. that the operator of the reading device is a customer of the operator of the tag.
  • tag and reading devices are interchangeable, i.e. the operator of the tag may be a customer while the operator of the reading device may be the restaurant owner.
  • the specific property of the operator is an identification of the operator. In particular, such identification may be used to authorize or authenticate a specific person, e.g. a specific salesperson, taxi driver or meter-reader.
  • a meter-reader shows a tag to a reading device of a house owner which communicates with the secure database to check whether the tag really authorize the owner or operator of the tag as a meter-reader.
  • the specific property corresponds to an action of the operator of the tag and/or of the reading device.
  • the specific property may be the action of eating in a restaurant or the buying of a specific good.
  • the reader is a mobile device.
  • the mobile device may be a mobile phone or a PDA.
  • the mobile device may include means to calculate its position based on GPS triangulation or GSM triangulation so that the position of the respective mobile device may form a part of information or data sets transmitted or communicated in the communication system.
  • the reading device and/or the tag may be a mobile device, i.e. it is possible that the reading device, e.g. a mobile phone, is transported to a stationary tag, e.g. fixed at a specific location, or that the tag is transported to a stationary reading device.
  • the communication system further comprises a mobile communication network, which is adapted to perform the transmitting of a signal to the secure database.
  • the mobile communication network may be a standard GSM or UMTS based communication network.
  • all or most communication in the communication system may be contactless, e.g. the communication between the tag, the reading device, the secure database.
  • the communication system further comprises a server, which is adapted to communicate with the database and the reading device.
  • the server may be a so-called social network server, e.g. a server adapted to perform social network applications including connecting operator profiles with each other or enabling blogging.
  • the server may optionally include a further database.
  • the server and/or the secure database may comprise an automatic semantic analyzer adapted to translate a written text into a sequence of events possibly leading to a simplified way to update a blog or web log. For updating the blog the data sets correlating to the specific identification information may be used. By using such an automatic semantic analyzer it may be possible to avoid that a web terminal is necessary for updating the weblog. Furthermore, time may be saved otherwise needed for updating the weblog.
  • the reader is adapted to request a data set of the plurality of data sets from the database.
  • the reader may be further adapted to request a data set from the server.
  • the database and/or the server may be adapted to send the requested data set to the reader.
  • the database is a remote secure database.
  • the remote secure database may be arranged at a different location from the tag and/or the reader.
  • the remote database may be operated by an operator different to the operator of the tag and/or of the reading device.
  • one exemplary aspect of the invention can be seen in the use of passive NFC/RFID identification tags and related communication and storage infrastructure that allows an easy to use way for people or commercial establishments for creating, sharing and reporting content in the in a social-network environment.
  • the NFC tag owner can choose which data set, e.g. action or event phrase, should be associated to the tag (e.g. "Entering bar X", "Recommends restaurant Y", "bought more than 100 Euro in clothes") and populates via the web a secured tag-database with the chosen association.
  • the tag owner may decide also to associate a real action to that tag or not (e.g.
  • a user or creator that wants to make himself visible to others, and therefore create content may simply wipe the tag with the NFC-enabled mobile.
  • the mobile collects the specific tag ID, which is then transmitted together with the user ID via normal cellular network to a server of the cellular network.
  • This server has access to the secure tag-database or tag-ID database, and can link the user ID with the specific action phrase associated with that the tag just read.
  • normal action-phrases may be considered for use in a content-creating (or blogging) context, and therefore the next action, which may be performed by the server, is to establish a contact with the specific Social- Networking application used by that user.
  • tags associated with different actions other applications might be triggered.
  • the Social-Networking application server may be completely and entirely aware of every connection among individuals that are part of its network, and may also have entirely access to every data or content linked or owned by each user. Therefore, in this context, the only action required may be to update the specific user profile, with the action phrase just received from the tag-database, possibly also with timing information.
  • a user or consumer may basically be interested on querying one or both databases (tag-ID and Social-Network).
  • the method used for querying may be done via the mobile device itself or via another tag (with query actions associated in the tag-ID database).
  • the query can be constrained by space or by time (real-time, last week or last month statistics for example).
  • the consumer might be interested to know which friends from his Social- Network group are currently in which bars in a specific region, might choose to keep receiving updates as they change places in that area, might choose to receive only general statistics about past presences or experiences of friends in those places, or even might choose to have only real-time statistics or info about certain places without any friends being involved.
  • An advantage of the scheme presented above is based on the ease-to-use and intuitive method of touching an NFC/RFID tag, on the real-time updated nature of the system that can accomplished with such technology and on the fact that each tag may be associated with a context, actions and properties.
  • a user does not have to wait that his friend has time to sit down and write about his night out or his experience in a restaurant, which would lead to a time offset of a couple of hours, and most probably days, if he ever does the updating at all.
  • the establishments e.g. restaurants or supermarkets, cited in such blog descriptions first may get control over the data and secondly may use this data for any purpose, as they may have access to it.
  • Fig. 1 schematically illustrates communication system operating in a creator mode.
  • Fig. 2 schematically illustrates communication system operating in a consumer mode.
  • Fig. 3 schematically illustrates communication system operating in a populate mode.
  • Fig. 4 schematically illustrates a flow chart of method of broadcasting information according to an exemplary embodiment of the invention.
  • Fig. 1 schematically shows a communication system 100 operating in a creator mode.
  • the communication system 100 comprises a plurality of NFC tags 101, 102, 103, and 104, e.g. RFID tags, an NFC-enabled mobile 105, a mobile communication network 106, a secure tag database or ID tag database 107 and a social network database or server 108.
  • NFC tags 101, 102, 103, and 104 e.g. RFID tags
  • an NFC-enabled mobile 105 e.g. RFID tags
  • a mobile communication network 106 e.g. RFID tags
  • a secure tag database or ID tag database 107 e.g.
  • a social network database or server 108 e.g.
  • a real communication network comprises a great number of mobiles and tags, however for sake of brevity only one mobile and four tags are depicted in Fig. 1.
  • creator mode the communication system 100 works as follows.
  • a user or owner of the mobile 105 wants to make himself visible to the social network he wipes his mobile 105 over a tag 101..104 arranged in a specific location, e.g. restaurant, bar or supermarket, so that the tag identification number or tag ID is read by the mobile 105, which transmit the tag ID together with a user ID, which characterizes or identifies the mobile 105, to the mobile communication network 106.
  • the mobile communication network 106 then transmits the tag ID and the user ID to the secure tag database 107, which looks up a specific data set associated to the specific tag ID.
  • the specific data set is then be used to update the account content of the user associated with the specific user ID.
  • the secure tag database may communicate with the social network database 108.
  • Fig. 2 schematically illustrates a consumer mode of the communication system 100 of Fig. 1.
  • a user can receive information from the communication system 100 in an easy way, which can in particular useful for identification purposes.
  • a user may also wipe his NFC-enabled mobile 105 over a specific tag 101..104. The mobile 105 then sends the user ID and the tag ID, together with respective query criteria, to the mobile communication network 106.
  • the query criteria may be inputted by the user itself or may be associated with the tag 101..104 itself, i.e. a tag that is dedicated to a specific query.
  • a tag 101..104 can be used for identification of a specific person or a specific good.
  • Some examples may be the identification or to authenticate a meter-reader at home by wiping the mobile 105 over a tag 101..104 presented by a person claiming to be a meter-reader, to identify a taxi driver or a cab by wiping the mobile 105 over a tag 101..104 fixed to the cab, e.g. in the windscreen, or over a tag 101..104 presented by the taxi driver.
  • Another specific query may be the identification of a specific good, like a music song, which is present in a supermarket or restaurant or which is played in the supermarket.
  • a user of the mobile 105 hears a song in the supermarket and would like to know the title of this song he just wipes his mobile 105 over a provided tag 101..104.
  • tag 101..104 it is also possible to update the users profile in a creator mode, similar to the mode described above in connection with Fig. 1, with particular title information or the fact that the user enjoyed listening to that specific moment in time.
  • the mobile communication network 106 transmits the user ID, the tag ID and the query criteria to the secure tag database 107 (or the query criteria associated with the tag is retrieved from the secure tag database) and/or to the social network database 108 which performs an independent search or a coupled search for the respective information relating to the query.
  • the information is then sent back to the mobile communication network 106 and then to the mobile 105.
  • this information can be the verification that the person presenting the tag is in fact authorized to perform a meter reading or to drive the specific cab.
  • the title may be send to the user of the mobile 105 and/or the user may be coupled to an online music store who sells this music title or to an Internet music platform from which the title may be downloaded.
  • a consumer queries for friends, who have recently (or in the past) updated his/her profile by using the creator mode of the mobile communication network, i.e. touched tags in a place or a region.
  • a user queries for activities performed by a friend traveling frequently to New York in case the user wishes to travel to New York in order to get some information about some interesting places to visit.
  • Fig. 3 schematically illustrates a populate mode of the communication system 100 of Fig. 1.
  • the populate mode is particularly useful for adding new tags 101..104 to or update data sets in the secure tag database 107.
  • the tag 101..104 which shall be added to the secure database 107 is read by a mobile 105, e.g. of the owner of the tag 101 or by the operator of the secure tag database 107.
  • the respective tag ID is thus transmitted to the mobile 105 which sends the tag ID, an ID of the respective owner of that tag and property information associated with that specific tag 101 to the mobile communication network 106 which then in turn sends these information and IDs to the secure tag database 107.
  • read property information associated with the tag 101..104 is added directly to the secure database 107 via a web interface.
  • Fig. 4 schematically illustrates a flow chart of a method of broadcasting information 400.
  • a first step 401 tag identification is read out from a tag by using a reader or reading device. Additionally, tag information may be read out as well.
  • the tag identification and reader identification and/or reader information is sent to a database.
  • the tag identification relating to the tag and the reader identification relating to a reader is received at a database.
  • tag information associated with the tag identification and reader information associated with the reader identification is stored in the database.
  • a group of users is defined to which the information, i.e. the tag information and/or the reader information, shall be sent.
  • the information is broadcasted to the group of user.
  • a user moreover has to search all his friend's blog postings, and expect that he wrote in one of them about, e.g. a specific place, if this user is interested to know if his friend has ever been there. Furthermore, this job has to be performed for all of his friends in the respective social-network which would be a cumbersome task. Also, most of the time the user will only care if a friend had a great experience in a specific bar-district, or which bars he visited, when the user himself will be there and want to make a decision on where to go leading to a problem of context specificity in the known systems which may be reduced or solved when using a communication system according to an exemplary embodiment of the invention.

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La présente invention concerne un procédé de diffusion d'information vers un groupe d'utilisateurs, le procédé comprenant les étapes suivantes: la réception (403) d'identification d'étiquette concernant une étiquette (101, 102, 103, 104) et une identification de lecteur concernant un lecteur (105) au niveau d'une base de données; le stockage (404) de l'information d'étiquette associée à ladite identification d'étiquette et de l'information de lecteur associée à ladite identification de lecteur dans ladite base de données; la définition (405) d'un groupe d'utilisateurs; et la diffusion (406) de ladite information stockée vers ledit groupe d'utilisateurs.
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