WO2017116147A1

WO2017116147A1 - Terminal control apparatus and method using notification message

Info

Publication number: WO2017116147A1
Application number: PCT/KR2016/015429
Authority: WO
Inventors: 남진하; 이난주
Original assignee: 주식회사 안랩
Priority date: 2015-12-28
Filing date: 2016-12-28
Publication date: 2017-07-06
Also published as: JP6710762B2; KR20170077334A; KR101799524B1; JP2019506783A

Abstract

A terminal control apparatus using a notification message according to an embodiment of the present invention may comprise: a sensing unit for sensing a notification message output request received by a user terminal through a packet based message; an analysis unit for receiving the notification message output request from the sensing unit so as to determine whether the notification message output request includes a predetermined character string; and a control unit for performing control such that the user terminal performs a predetermined operation, on the basis of the result of the determination, wherein the user terminal is configured to output a notification message on the basis of the notification message output request when the notification message output request is received.

Description

Device and method for controlling terminal using notification message

The present invention relates to a terminal control apparatus and method using a notification message output to a user terminal, and more particularly, to analyze a notification message output request for causing a user terminal to output a certain notification message, and based on the analysis result. The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for controlling a user terminal to perform a certain operation.

With the development of information and communication technology, the types of electronic devices are diversified. In particular, recently, among electronic devices, portable electronic devices equipped with a mobile operating system (OS), such as a smartphone or a tablet computer, have been widely spread. Examples of such mobile operating systems include Android, i-OS, or Windows mobile.

Most mobile operating systems, including Android, provide program notifications. This is for a specific application program (hereinafter, abbreviated as "application") to deliver predetermined information to a user regardless of whether the application is executed. In more detail, when a predetermined event (eg, missed call reception, software update, etc.) occurs to notify the user in a specific application, the notification function is used to notify the occurrence of the event even if the application is not running. The user can be informed via a message.

In order to implement such a notification function, a mobile operating system, for example, Android has a notification manager (norification manager). When the notification manager receives a notification request from each application, the notification manager extracts notification information from the data received with the request. The notification manager stores the extracted notification information in the android status notification buffer according to the request order, and the stored notification information is output to the display of the user terminal as a notification message.

Such a notification function may contribute to the user's convenience by delivering a message required by the user regardless of whether the application is executed or not. However, although it is very easy to allow the user terminal to output the notification message at a remote location by various applications, a function of controlling the user terminal to perform an operation other than outputting the notification message by using the notification function. As for the development, the development is insufficient.

An object of the present invention is to provide a user's convenience by using a notification message output request for outputting a notification message to a user terminal to control various operations of the user terminal.

However, the problem to be solved of the present invention is not limited to those mentioned above, another problem to be solved is not mentioned can be clearly understood by those skilled in the art from the following description. will be.

The terminal control apparatus using the notification message according to an embodiment of the present invention, the sensing unit for detecting the notification message output request received to the user terminal via a packet-based message, the notification message output request received from the detection unit An analysis unit to determine whether the notification message output request includes a predetermined string and a controller to control the user terminal to perform a predetermined operation based on the determination result, wherein the user terminal outputs the notification message. When receiving the request, it may be set to output a notification message based on the notification message output request.

The analyzer may extract a predetermined string from the notification message output request by using a regular expression and transfer the extracted string to the controller.

The control unit may control the user terminal to be locked when the notification message output request includes the predetermined string.

The controller may control the lock state to be released when a password included in the notification message output request together with the predetermined string is input to the user terminal through a predetermined method.

The controller may control the password not to be output through the notification message when the user terminal outputs the notification message.

The control unit may control the user terminal to notify the contact included in the notification message output request together with the predetermined character string, that the lock state is set.

The controller may control the user terminal not to output the notification message when the notification message output request includes a predetermined number or more of strings belonging to the predetermined string.

The controller may control the user terminal to check whether the URL is malicious and output the test result when it is determined by the analysis unit that the notification message output request includes uniform resource locator (URL) information. can do.

The controller may control the user terminal to maintain a state of outputting the notification message when the notification message output request includes the predetermined string.

The terminal control method using the notification message according to an embodiment of the present invention, detecting the notification message output request received to the user terminal through a packet-based message, whether the notification message output request includes a predetermined string; And determining that the user terminal performs a predetermined operation based on the determination result, and when the user terminal receives the request for outputting the notification message, the notification based on the request for outputting the notification message. It can be set to output a message.

The determining may include extracting the predetermined string from the notification message output request using a regular expression.

The controlling may include controlling the user terminal to be locked when the notification message output request includes the predetermined string.

The controlling may include controlling to release the locked state when the password included in the notification message output request is input to the user terminal through a predetermined method. Can be.

The controlling may include controlling the password not to be output through the notification message when the user terminal outputs the notification message.

The controlling may include controlling, by the user terminal, notifying that the locked state is set to a contact included in the notification message output request together with the predetermined string.

The controlling may include controlling the user terminal not to output the notification message when the notification message output request includes a predetermined number of strings belonging to the predetermined string.

In the controlling step, when it is determined that the notification message output request includes uniform resource locator (URL) information by the determining step, the user terminal inspects whether the URL is malicious and examines the result of the inspection. Controlling to output.

The controlling may include controlling the user terminal to keep the output state of the notification message when the notification message output request includes the predetermined string.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the notification message output request for outputting the notification message to the user terminal may be analyzed, and the operation of the user terminal may be controlled based on the analysis. Accordingly, any application that generates a notification message can easily control the terminal from a remote location. In particular, the function of determining the output mode of the notification message according to the content of the message protects the user's information and provides convenience in using the terminal. We can plan.

1 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of a terminal control apparatus using a notification message according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2A and 2B are diagrams for explaining a conventional lost device control function and a lost device control function of the terminal control device using the notification message according to an embodiment of the present invention, respectively.

3 is a view for explaining a notification message inspection function of the terminal control device using the notification message according to an embodiment of the present invention.

4 is a diagram illustrating a URL checking function of a terminal control apparatus using a notification message according to an embodiment of the present invention.

5 is a flowchart illustrating a method of controlling a terminal using a notification message according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Advantages and features of the present invention and methods for achieving them will be apparent with reference to the embodiments described below in detail with the accompanying drawings. However, the present invention is not limited to the embodiments disclosed below, but can be implemented in various different forms, and only the embodiments make the disclosure of the present invention complete, and the general knowledge in the art to which the present invention belongs. It is provided to fully inform the person having the scope of the invention, which is defined only by the scope of the claims.

In describing the embodiments of the present invention, if it is determined that a detailed description of a known function or configuration may unnecessarily obscure the gist of the present invention, the detailed description thereof will be omitted. In addition, terms to be described below are terms defined in consideration of functions in the embodiments of the present invention, which may vary according to intentions or customs of users and operators. Therefore, the definition should be made based on the contents throughout the specification.

1 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of a terminal control apparatus using a notification message according to an embodiment of the present invention. The terminal control apparatus 100 of FIG. 1 may include a detector 110, an analyzer 120, and a controller 130. However, since the terminal control apparatus 100 of FIG. 1 is only an embodiment of the present invention, the spirit of the present invention is not limitedly interpreted through FIG. 1. Although the terminal control apparatus 100 may exist separately from the user terminal 10 to be controlled by the terminal control apparatus 100, preferably, the terminal control apparatus 100 may be implemented in the user terminal 10 as part of the user terminal 10. Can be. Hereinafter, it will be described on the premise that the terminal control device 100 is implemented in the user terminal 10 for convenience.

The user terminal 10 of the present embodiment is a popularized portable electronic device on which a mobile operating system is installed, and may be, for example, a smartphone. Hereinafter, it will be described on the assumption that the mobile operating system of the user terminal 10 is Android, but this is for convenience of description only and is not intended to limit the spirit of the present invention.

The user terminal 10 may be configured to receive a notification message output request and to output a notification message based on the notification message output request. The notification message is a message that is output through the display of the user terminal 10 to inform the user of a certain content, and as described above, the specific application is intended to deliver predetermined information to the user regardless of whether the application is executed. . The notification message output request may generally be received through a packet-based message from outside the user terminal 10, but may also occur within the user terminal 10.

The detector 110 may detect a notification message output request received by the user terminal 10. When registering a BroadcastReceiver, which is one of the components of Android, to the notification system of Android, the detector 110 may receive a notification message output request, and transmit the contents of the notification message output request to the analyzer 120. Can be.

The analyzer 120 may analyze the notification message output request received from the detector 110 to determine whether the notification message output request includes a predetermined string. The notification message output request may include the content of the notification message to be output by the user terminal 10, and specifically, may include a title of the message, a body of the message, an icon output with the message, and the like.

The controller 130 may control the user terminal 10 to perform a predetermined operation based on the determination result of the analyzer 120. Detailed examples of predetermined operations to be performed by the user terminal 10 will be described later. The terminal control apparatus 100 including the controller 130, the detector 110, and the analyzer 120 may be implemented by a computing device including a general microprocessor.

Hereinafter, an operation of the terminal control apparatus 100 according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIG. 1.

First, the user terminal 10 may receive a notification message output request from the outside. The notification message output request may be transmitted from a computer such as another user terminal or a server connected to the user terminal 10 through a network. The network may include a wired or wireless network, and when connected to a wireless network, may preferably be Wi-Fi, 3G, 4G, long-term evolution (LTE), or the like. Such a notification message output request may be transmitted using various applications capable of outputting a notification message. The application may be an online instant messenger such as KakaoTalk or LINE or a social network service such as Facebook or Twitter. , SNS) application.

The request for outputting the notification message transmitted to the user terminal 10 may be detected by the detector 110 of the terminal control apparatus 100, and the contents thereof may be transmitted to the analyzer 120. The analysis unit 120 may analyze the contents of the notification message output request and determine whether a predetermined string exists in the contents. The determination process of the analysis unit 120 may be made using a regular expression, and the process of determination using the regular expression is obvious to those skilled in the art, and thus, further description thereof will be omitted.

Based on the determination result made by the analyzer 120, the controller 130 may control the user terminal 10 to perform a specific operation. By the process described above, the user of the user terminal 10 through the one of a variety of applications that can output a notification message, a predetermined string to the user terminal 10 from another user terminal or server, etc. The user terminal 10 can be easily controlled from a remote location by transmitting a request for outputting a notification message. For example, a user of the user terminal 10 transmits a KakaoTalk message including a specific character string to his user terminal 10 through an acquaintance user terminal, so that the user terminal 10 performs an operation corresponding to the character string. Can be controlled. As another example, a user may output a notification message including the string to his user terminal 10 by leaving a Facebook message containing a specific string to a user's own account through an account of an acquaintance in a remote place. In this way, the user terminal 10 may control to perform an operation corresponding to the character string.

As described above, according to the exemplary embodiment of the present invention, the user can easily control his or her user terminal 10 remotely from any application having a function of outputting a notification message. However, when the user's contact is exposed, the user terminal 10 may be controlled by a remote person regardless of the user's will, so for security purposes, the predetermined string may be set to a string that cannot be easily guessed by others. You can change it. Alternatively, the user terminal 10 may be configured to perform an operation corresponding to the predetermined string only when a specific password is included in the notification message output request together with the predetermined string.

Hereinafter, a function that may be performed by the user terminal 10 under the control of the controller 130 will be described in detail through embodiments. For example, when the notification message output request includes a predetermined string, the controller 130 may perform a lost device control function for controlling the user terminal 10 to be locked.

A portable electronic device such as a smart phone may store user's personal information or data for personal use. Thus, a user who has lost a portable electronic device may wish to lock the lost device in a locked state to prevent information leakage by the learner.

2A is a diagram for explaining a conventional lost device control function. Referring to FIG. 2A, when a lost device is to be locked using SMS, it can be seen that the lost device can be locked by transmitting a specific message and password to the lost device through SMS. However, in the case of the method through SMS, as shown in FIG. 2A, a password for releasing a lock is easy to be exposed, and there is a problem that reception of SMS is excluded according to priority.

Another conventional method for controlling a lost device may include a method using Android push notification through GCM (google cloud messaging). However, the method through GCM also has a problem in that infrastructure construction costs are high. In order to solve these problems of the prior art, the lost device control function according to an embodiment of the present invention can be used.

According to the lost device control function, if it is determined by the analysis unit 120 that the notification message output request includes a predetermined character string, the controller 130 may control the user terminal 10 to be in a locked state. In addition, the controller 130 may control the lock state to be released when the password included in the notification message output request is input to the user terminal 10 through a predetermined method. If the notification message output request includes contact information together with a predetermined string, the controller 130 may control the user terminal 10 to notify that the locked state is set to the corresponding contact.

2B is a view for explaining a lost device control function of a terminal control apparatus using a notification message according to an embodiment of the present invention. Referring to FIG. 2B, a user who has lost the user terminal 10 is lost from another person's terminal 11 through an application capable of outputting a notification message (KakaoTalk according to the example of FIG. 2B). The user terminal 10 may transmit a packet-based text message including a predetermined string, a password, and a contact for reply. Referring to FIG. 2B, the string “#lock” in the message input window is a preset string for setting the lock state, the number 1234 is a password for releasing the lock state, and the telephone number 010-0000-0000 is a contact for reply. Each corresponds to When the message inputted as described above, that is, a request for outputting a notification message is transmitted to the user terminal 10, the user terminal 10 may be locked by the string “#lock”, and the user terminal 10 may lock the terminal. The contact may be notified that the status is set to 010-0000-0000. The release of the lock state is possible by inputting the transmitted password 1234 to the user terminal 10, and this input may be performed on a keypad that is output to the display of the user terminal 10 through, for example, a touch screen function. It can be made by pressing the area corresponding to 1, 2, 3, 4 in order. The user terminal 10 may notify the contact that the lock state is released even when the lock state is released.

At this time, when the password is exposed through the notification message output through the display of the user terminal 10, the purpose of the lock state setting may not be achieved. Therefore, the controller 130 may control the user terminal 10 to output only the portion except the password when outputting the notification message, or may control the output of the notification message itself. Accordingly, as can be seen in Figure 2b, it is possible to prevent the exposure of the password due to the output of the notification message.

Through the lost device control function according to an embodiment of the present invention as described above, the user of the lost user terminal 10 can easily be any of the applications having a function of outputting a notification message to the user terminal 10 thereof. Can be locked to prevent the leakage of personal information. In addition, the lost device control function according to an embodiment of the present invention provides a function for preventing the exposure of the password, it is possible to achieve a higher level of security in setting the locked state of the lost user terminal (10). .

Hereinafter, an embodiment of another function that may be performed by the user terminal 10 under the control of the controller 130 will be described in detail. In detail, when the notification message output request includes a predetermined string, the controller 130 may perform a notification message inspection function to prevent the user terminal 10 from outputting the notification message. In addition, when the analysis unit 120 determines that the notification message output request includes uniform resource locator (URL) information, the controller 130 checks whether the user terminal 10 is malicious in the URL and checks the result. You can perform the URL check function that controls the output.

Recently, indiscriminate advertisements or notifications have been performed through notification messages of a mobile operating system. Accordingly, a user of a portable electronic device having a mobile operating system may be in a situation in which a user needs to delete an unnecessary notification message. In addition, due to the large number of unnecessary notification messages, it may happen that important notification messages are not seen. The present embodiment, which will be described in detail below, may provide a solution to this problem.

3 is a diagram illustrating a notification message inspection function of a terminal control apparatus using a notification message according to an embodiment of the present invention. Referring to FIG. 3, in the case of an advertisement message, which is a typical type of message that a user does not want to receive, the notification message includes terms related to shopping such as “discount,” “sale,” and “coupon.” You can see that there are many. As such, based on one or more predetermined strings defined by referring to the strings mainly included in the type of message that the user does not want to receive, the controller 130 may request that the notification message output request be a predetermined number of the predetermined strings. If the above string is included, the user terminal 10 may control not to output a notification message corresponding to the notification message output request. The predetermined number may be 1, but may be a larger natural number. In addition, the predetermined string may be changed according to a user's needs. Through the notification message inspection function, the user can block unwanted notification messages and can effectively check only necessary messages, thereby enhancing convenience in using a terminal.

4 is a diagram illustrating a URL checking function of a terminal control apparatus using a notification message according to an embodiment of the present invention. Referring to FIG. 4, it can be seen that the notification message may include URL information indicating a specific web page. Among these URLs, there may be a malicious URL that may be damaged by the user terminal 10 when accessing a web page corresponding to the URL. Therefore, in the present embodiment, when the notification message output request includes the URL information, the controller 130 may control the user terminal 10 to check whether the URL is malicious and output the result of the test. Such checking and output may be performed at the same time as the message arrives, but may also be performed when the user wants to access a web page corresponding to the URL. The form of the test result output may be, for example, the form of output of a warning message through the display of the user terminal 10. Through such a URL checking function, the user can prevent the user terminal 10 from being harmed by malicious code in advance.

On the other hand, when the output of the different notification message is repeated several times, the previously output notification message may be released by the notification messages that are output later. At this time, the user may pass without checking the previously output notification message, and may cause a difficult situation for the user when the previously output notification message is an important message. Accordingly, when the notification message output request includes important contents, the controller 130 may control the user terminal 10 to maintain the state of outputting the notification message corresponding to the notification message output request. Whether or not it includes important content may be determined based on whether the notification message output request includes a predetermined string. Through this function, the user can prevent the disadvantages that may occur by passing through the important notification message.

5 is a flowchart illustrating a method of controlling a terminal using a notification message according to an embodiment of the present invention. However, since the terminal control method of FIG. 5 is only an embodiment of the present invention, the spirit of the present invention is not limitedly interpreted through FIG. 5, and descriptions of parts overlapping with FIGS. 1 to 4 may be omitted. .

Referring to FIG. 5, each step of the method for controlling a terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described. First, a notification message output request received by the user terminal 10 may be detected (S100). Next, it may be determined whether the notification message output request includes a predetermined string (S200). In this step, a predetermined string may be extracted from the notification message output request using a regular expression. Next, the user terminal 10 may be controlled to perform a predetermined operation based on the determination result (S300). The user terminal 10 is a device configured to receive a notification message output request and to output a notification message based on the notification message output request.

An operation that may be performed by the user terminal 10 according to the control based on the determination result is as follows. First, when the notification message output request includes a predetermined string, the user terminal 10 may allow the user terminal 10 to be locked. In addition, when the password included in the notification message output request together with the predetermined string is input to the user terminal 10 through a predetermined method, the user terminal 10 may allow the locked state to be released. In this process, the user terminal 10 may not output the password. If the contact information is included in the notification message output request together with the predetermined string, the user terminal 10 may notify the contact that the lock state is set.

Meanwhile, when the notification message output request includes a predetermined string, the user terminal 10 may prevent the user terminal 10 from outputting the notification message. In addition, when it is determined that the notification message output request includes uniform resource locator (URL) information, the user terminal 10 may check whether the URL is malicious and output the test result. In addition, when the notification message output request includes a predetermined string, the user terminal 10 may continue to output the notification message.

In the terminal control method according to an embodiment of the present invention, by controlling the user terminal 10 to perform the operation described above, it is possible to achieve the user's convenience.

Combinations of each block of the block diagrams and respective steps of the flowcharts attached to the present invention may be performed by computer program instructions. These computer program instructions may be mounted on a processor of a general purpose computer, special purpose computer, or other programmable data processing equipment such that instructions executed through the processor of the computer or other programmable data processing equipment may not be included in each block or flowchart of the block diagram. It will create means for performing the functions described in each step. These computer program instructions may be stored in a computer usable or computer readable memory that can be directed to a computer or other programmable data processing equipment to implement functionality in a particular manner, and thus the computer usable or computer readable memory. It is also possible for the instructions stored in to produce an article of manufacture containing instruction means for performing the functions described in each block or flowchart of each step of the block diagram. Computer program instructions may also be mounted on a computer or other programmable data processing equipment, such that a series of operating steps may be performed on the computer or other programmable data processing equipment to create a computer-implemented process to create a computer or other programmable data. Instructions that perform processing equipment may also provide steps for performing the functions described in each block of the block diagram and in each step of the flowchart.

In addition, each block or step may represent a portion of a module, segment or code that includes one or more executable instructions for executing a specified logical function (s). It should also be noted that in some alternative embodiments, the functions noted in the blocks or steps may occur out of order. For example, the two blocks or steps shown in succession may in fact be executed substantially concurrently or the blocks or steps may sometimes be performed in the reverse order, depending on the functionality involved.

The above description is merely illustrative of the technical idea of the present invention, and those skilled in the art to which the present invention pertains may make various modifications and changes without departing from the essential quality of the present invention. Therefore, the embodiments disclosed in the present invention are not intended to limit the technical idea of the present invention but to describe the present invention, and the scope of the technical idea of the present invention is not limited by these embodiments. The scope of protection of the present invention should be interpreted by the following claims, and all technical ideas that fall within the scope of equivalents should be construed as being included in the scope of the present invention.

Claims

A detector configured to detect a notification message output request received to the user terminal through a packet based message;

An analyzing unit receiving the notification message output request from the sensing unit and determining whether the notification message output request includes a predetermined string;

And a controller configured to control the user terminal to perform a predetermined operation based on the determination result.

The user terminal is configured to output a notification message based on the notification message output request when receiving the notification message output request.

Terminal control device using the notification message.
The method of claim 1,

The analysis unit extracts a predetermined string from the notification message output request using a regular expression, and delivers the extracted string to the controller.

Terminal control device using the notification message.
The method of claim 1,

The controller controls the user terminal to be in a locked state when the notification message output request includes the predetermined string.

Terminal control device using the notification message.
The method of claim 3, wherein

The control unit controls to release the locked state when a password included in the notification message output request together with the predetermined string is input to the user terminal through a predetermined method.

Terminal control device using the notification message.
The method of claim 4, wherein

The controller controls the password not to be output through the notification message when the user terminal outputs the notification message.

Terminal control device using the notification message.
The method of claim 3, wherein

The control unit controls the user terminal to notify that the lock state is set to a contact included in the notification message output request together with the predetermined string.

Terminal control device using the notification message.
The method of claim 1,

The controller may control the user terminal not to output the notification message when the notification message output request includes the predetermined string.

Terminal control device using the notification message.
The method of claim 1,

The controller, if it is determined by the analysis unit that the notification message output request includes URL (uniform resource locator) information, controls the user terminal to check whether the URL is malicious and output the test result.

Terminal control device using the notification message.
The method of claim 1,

The controller may be configured to control the user terminal to continuously output the notification message when the notification message output request includes a predetermined number or more of strings belonging to the predetermined string.

Terminal control device using the notification message.
Detecting a request for outputting a notification message received through the packet-based message to the user terminal;

Determining whether the notification message output request includes a predetermined string;

Controlling the user terminal to perform a predetermined operation based on the determination result;

The user terminal is configured to output a notification message based on the notification message output request when receiving the notification message output request.

Terminal control method using the notification message.
The method of claim 10,

The determining step

Extracting the predetermined string from the notification message output request using a regular expression;

Terminal control method using the notification message.
The method of claim 10,

The controlling step

If the notification message output request includes the predetermined string, controlling the user terminal to be in a locked state;

Terminal control method using the notification message.
The method of claim 12,

The controlling step

And controlling a lock state to be released when a password included in the notification message output request together with the predetermined string is input to the user terminal through a predetermined method.

Terminal control method using the notification message.
The method of claim 13,

The controlling step

And controlling the password not to be output through the notification message when the user terminal outputs the notification message.

Terminal control method using the notification message.
The method of claim 12,

The controlling step

And controlling, by the user terminal, notifying that the lock state is set to a contact included in the notification message output request together with the predetermined string.

Terminal control method using the notification message.
The method of claim 10,

The controlling step

If the notification message output request includes a predetermined number of strings belonging to the predetermined string, controlling the user terminal not to output the notification message.

Terminal control method using the notification message.
The method of claim 10,

The controlling step

And if it is determined by the determining that the notification message output request includes uniform resource locator (URL) information, controlling the user terminal to output the test result by checking whether the URL is malicious.

Terminal control method using the notification message.
The method of claim 10,

The controlling step

If the notification message output request includes the predetermined string, controlling the user terminal to maintain a state of outputting the notification message;

Terminal control method using the notification message.
An application program stored on a computer-readable recording medium, performing each step according to the method of any one of claims 10 to 18.
A computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program comprising instructions for performing each step according to the method of claim 10.