KR20080074813A - System and method for providing location information - Google Patents

Abstract

A system and a method for providing location information are provided to offer individual information and location information of the participant to the manager of a meeting and location information for a meeting place to each participant by interworking a location information service on a web community. If the manager of a meeting enters detailed information for the meeting in a meeting bulletin board, including the title, date and time, place of the meeting(S130), a system for providing location information makes a public announcement for the inputted meeting-associated information(S140). If an arbitrary user confirms the meeting-associated information and inputs a selection icon to express his intention to participate in the meeting, the system increases the number of participants and registers the user's name in a list of participants(S150). Afterwards, the system extracts each participant's personal information and transmits it to the manager's terminal(S160). In this case, the manager confirms each participant's personal information through SMS(Short Message Service)(S170). The system extracts the meeting-associated information. Based on the extracted personal information, the system provides the location information of the meeting place among the extracted meeting-associated information to each participant's terminal(S180). Each participant receives a short message containing the location information of the meeting place and confirms the place of the meeting(S190).

Description

Location information providing system and method thereof {SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING LOCATION INFORMATION}

The present invention relates to a location-based service, and more particularly, to a location information providing system and a method for interworking a location information service on a web community.

Since the 2000s, with the rapid development of Internet and mobile technology and infrastructure, the variety and expandability of related services have increased. In particular, mobile terminals have evolved into mobile phones, PDAs, smartphones, etc. With rising expectations, location-based services have become a new field of mobile communications.

In general, the location-based service determines the location of the current terminal user through a WAP connection or a VM application and service connection. In addition, based on this, by acquiring the location of a specific person, it provides application services such as 'find friend' and 'deviation notification service'.

Among these, the positioning service using a mobile communication terminal may be implemented by a method using a cell location registered in a home location register (HLR) and a method using location information by a global positioning system (GPS). In addition, there are a network-based method and a method based on a dedicated network, and a method of calculating the position of the mobile communication terminal by measuring the angle of arrival of the signal input from the mobile communication terminal (AOA), There is also a method of using a time of arrival (TOA), or a hybrid method using a combination of the two methods for more accurate positioning.

According to the conventional location-based service, the user of the mobile communication terminal may be provided with a service for finding the current location of another user registered in advance. The location information service, commonly referred to as 'friend finder', requests location information of another user by inputting an identifier (for example, a mobile communication number) corresponding to the other user who wants to find the current location through the mobile communication terminal. Then, the location information providing server receives the current location of another user's mobile communication terminal, processes the corresponding location information in a predetermined text or graphic form, and provides the same to the user.

However, in the execution of the above location information service, the location search for a specific member is caused by the limited access environment. In other words, in order to use the 'friend finder' service in the existing web community, the location search must be allowed in the WAP (mobile communication terminal). There is an inconvenience in providing location information on the web community because the 'friend finder' service between friends who already have a relationship in the web community (for example, a relationship with a village) is not linked.

On the other hand, in the past, when a community manager, such as an online club, decides to make an appointment such as a meeting schedule to activate a meeting, a meeting operator calls a corresponding person, or a member through a community web bulletin board or e-mail. We informed the members of the community, gathered the responses of those who confirmed it, and gathered their opinions.

In this way, the members who had to inform the members through web bulletin boards or e-mails to receive the opinions were connected to the bulletin boards, grasped the contents, and gathered their opinions as a result of their replies.

However, there is no service for providing the person who organizes the meeting with personal information or location information of the people who will attend the meeting, or immediately provide the meeting place information to the attendees who have announced their intention.

The present invention provides a location information providing system and a method for facilitating a friend search service on a community by providing a location information service in a web community.

The present invention provides a location information providing system and a method for allowing a host to transmit personal information and location information of an attendee to a meeting notice in a web community, and to allow location information of a meeting place to an attendee.

One embodiment of the present invention, the first step of starting the meeting-related information including the meeting date and time, the meeting place input by the organizer through the bulletin board of the web community, attendees attended through the meeting notice bulletin A second step of extracting and transmitting the personal information of the attendee to the organizer, and a third step of transmitting meeting related information input by the organizer to the attendee according to whether the attendee attends; When the meeting date and time input by the organizer arrives, the method provides a location information providing method comprising the step of receiving the location information of the attendee who entered the attendance to provide to the organizer.

The system for providing location information according to an embodiment of the present invention may include a database for maintaining map data and personal information for each member of a web community, writing a organizer for meeting related information on the web community, and In addition to providing a bulletin board that can be read by the attendee, the meeting related information registered in the bulletin board is provided to the user terminal of the attendee based on the map data stored in the database and the personal information of each member, and the attendee attends. It characterized in that it comprises a web server for providing the personal information or location information of the attendees to the user terminal of the host depending on whether or not.

According to another embodiment of the present invention, a first step of providing a friend list in which a relationship is established with an administrator of a web community is provided. It provides a location information providing method comprising a second step of providing a location information service including.

The system for providing location information according to another embodiment of the present invention is to construct a database for maintaining map data and personal information for each member of a web community, and to provide a friend list in which a relationship is established with an administrator of the web community. In addition, based on the map data stored in the database and the personal information for each member based on the request of the administrator in connection with the relationship with the official location information service including the location of each friend on the friend list and request for permission to allow location It characterized in that it comprises a web server to provide.

The system and method for providing location information according to the present invention can provide the organizer of a meeting with the personal information and the location information of the attendee by interlocking a location information service on a web community, and provide the location information of the meeting place to the attendee. have.

In addition, by providing a location-based service for a friend list already established with a manager of the web community, a friend location search and a location permission request corresponding to the friend list may be provided on the web community.

Therefore, according to the present invention, by providing a friend location search service on a web community by interworking, it is possible to improve the convenience of community use from the user's point of view and to further expand the use of the service.

Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying drawings will be described a location information providing system and method according to the present invention.

The present invention is characterized by providing a friend location search, that is, a location-based service interworking on a web community having a specific purpose such as a personal homepage such as cyworld, a blog, or a club.

1 illustrates a configuration of a system for providing location information according to the present invention.

Location information providing system according to the present invention, a web platform (WEBP) (20) for the management of member data of the web community as shown, LBS-based technology (Location-Based Service platform for location data management) (LBSP) 30 is configured to interlock.

The web based technology 20 manages a member database and a map database for displaying a location under the control of a web server 10 for providing a web community such as a personal homepage or a group.

The member database may include personal information for each member registered in the web community, a friend list in which a relationship (for example, a village, a neighbor, etc.) is established with an administrator of the web community, and personal information for each friend.

The LBS-based technology 30 is to provide location-related information of a user having a user terminal such as a mobile phone or a PDA using wired or wireless communication, and manages a member database under the control of the LBS web server 40. And performs a location query server or friend finder server function.

By sharing the member database of the web-based technology 20 in the LBS-based technology 30, it is possible to omit the authentication process for allowing the location between members when requesting a location-based service.

The LBS-based technology 30 transmits a user terminal identifier (eg, a mobile communication number) of a member to be searched based on the member database according to the request of the web server 10 to the LBS web server 40. do. The LBS web server 40 receives the current location of the corresponding user terminal through a positioning module (for example, a GPS receiver) of the user terminal according to the received user terminal identifier and displays the current location of the received user terminal on the web. By delivering to the server 10 provides a location-based service.

According to the system for providing location information of the present invention described above, a friend location search service for a member list or a friend list can be provided in a web community.

A method of providing location information in connection with a friend location service on a web community of the present invention will be described in detail.

First Example

The present embodiment relates to a location-based service interworking on a web community such as a community, and more particularly, to a member (hereinafter, referred to as an "organizer") who manages offline meetings and registers meeting related information on a web community. Provide personal information and location information of other members (hereinafter, referred to as 'attendees') who can attend the meeting, and provide meeting related information registered by the organizer to the attendees.

2, a method of providing location information according to a first embodiment of the present invention will be described. 2 illustrates the entire process of the method for providing location information according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

The location information providing system of the present invention constructs a member information database including a member list registered in a web community and personal information for each member, and a map database for maintaining map data in order to provide map data according to the member's location information. (S110).

The location information providing system provides a meeting function including a writing function for the organizer to input meeting related information and a reading function for attendees to read the meeting related information and input whether to attend the meeting (S120). ).

As shown in FIG. 3, the meeting bulletin is a menu selection tool 33 that allows a community manager to edit a menu configuration on a community in a specific tool (eg, 'decorating' tool) 31 when a community is created. ), A menu having the meeting bulletin board function can be added.

4 and 5 illustrate a writing screen of the meeting board, and FIG. 6 illustrates a reading screen of the meeting board.

The writing screen of the meeting bulletin board includes a meeting information input menu for the organizer to input meeting related information, and a notification setting menu for the organizer to input his terminal identification number (eg, a mobile communication number).

The meeting information input menu includes a name input menu 41 for inputting a meeting name, a date input menu 43 for inputting a meeting date, and a place input menu 45 for inputting a meeting place. And an information input menu 47 for entering a detailed description of the meeting.

An icon 49 (hereinafter, referred to as an alert setting icon) for moving to the notification setting menu screen is further included on the meeting information input menu.

In addition, the notification setting menu is executed when the notification setting icon is input on the menu screen of FIG. 4, and as shown in FIG. 5, an input menu for inputting personal information of an organizer for receiving information on the attendees. 51).

The input menu 51 is for inputting the organizer's mobile phone number and the like to receive information on the attendees through a short message service (SMS).

The notification setting menu may include a first selection menu 53 for selecting whether to receive personal information of the attendee, a second selection menu 55 for selecting whether to send meeting related information to the attendee, and The apparatus further includes a third selection menu 57 for selecting whether to receive location information.

The first selection menu 53 is to select whether or not to receive personal information (name (or nickname) or contact information) of the attendee by SMS when the attendee who reads the message on the meeting bulletin enters the intention to participate. . The second selection menu 55 selects whether or not to send the SMS related information of the meeting, in particular, the location information of the meeting place, to the attendee when the attendee who reads the message on the meeting bulletin inputs the participation intention. It is. The third selection menu 57 selects whether to receive the location information of the attendee by SMS when the meeting date and time arrive.

On the other hand, the read screen of the meeting bulletin board, the attendees to check the meeting-related information registered in the meeting board, the meeting-related information input by the organizer as shown in Figure 6 (meeting date and time (61), Meeting place (63), meeting contents (65), etc. are provided.

The reading screen further includes a participation selection icon 67 for the attendee to input his or her intention to participate, and an entry number icon 69 for displaying the cumulative number of attendees who entered the participation intention.

In FIG. 2, the organizer executes the writing function of the meeting bulletin board and writes detailed information about the meeting together with the meeting name, meeting date and time, the meeting place through the writing screen, and the organizer through the notification setting menu screen. Enter the terminal identification number (S130).

Meeting related information input by the organizer is known in a form that can be read on the meeting bulletin board (S140).

When the attendee requests the reading function for the known meeting related information after executing the meeting bulletin board, the meeting screen displays meeting related information including the meeting date, meeting place, and meeting contents input by the organizer through the reading screen.

When the attendee checks the meeting-related information on the reading screen and inputs a selection icon 67 to communicate the willingness to participate, the attendees accumulate the number of attendees and apply for the participation (hereinafter, 'Participants' List) (S150).

Thereafter, the personal information of the attendee who input the participation intention is extracted (S160), and the extracted personal information of the attendee is transmitted to the terminal of the organizer. At this time, the organizer receives the SMS from the location information providing system (S170) to confirm the personal information of the attendee.

In addition, extract the relevant information of the meeting selected by the attendees and provides the location information of the meeting place of the extracted meeting-related information to the terminal of the attendees based on the personal information of the attendees extracted in the step (S160). (S180). The attendee confirms the location of the meeting by receiving an SMS including location information of the meeting place from the location information providing system (S190).

Then, when the meeting time is close, for example, when the meeting reaches 30 minutes before the start of the meeting, the location information providing system requests the current location to all attendees corresponding to the stored participant list (S200) (S210).

The terminal of the attendee receives the request signal from the location information providing system, determines the current location, and transmits the current location information (S220) (S230). In this case, the location information providing system receives location information from the attendee, respectively (S240), and converts map information corresponding to the received location information into a text or graphic form and provides the terminal to the organizer (S250).

The organizer receives the location of the attendees through the terminal to check the location of the attendees before the meeting starts (S260).

In this embodiment, the personal information and the location information of the attendees are provided to the organizer of the meeting by interworking the location information service on the web community, and the location information on the meeting place is provided to the attendees.

2nd Example

In this embodiment, only a friend list that has already established a relationship (a village, a neighbor, etc.) with a manager of a web community such as cyworld or a blog is provided by interworking with a location-based service on the web community without an authentication process for allowing the location.

Referring to FIG. 7, a method of providing location information according to a second embodiment of the present invention will be described. 7 illustrates the entire process of the method for providing location information according to the second embodiment of the present invention.

The location information providing system of the present invention constructs a member information database including a member list registered in a web community and personal information for each member, and a map database for maintaining map data in order to provide map data according to the member's location information. (S310).

When the manager of the web community requests a friend list (hereinafter, referred to as 'ilchon list') with which a relationship (hereinafter referred to as 'ilchon') is set (S320), the manager and the ilchon based on the member information database The set member is searched for (S330).

* Based on the search result, the manager and the villager create a village list set (S340) to provide the village list, and receives the village list on the web community (S350) as shown in Figure 8 the village list Display 81 on the web community screen.

As shown in the illustration, the village list provides a location-based service for the village list 81 in association. The location-based service includes all the village location finder service 83, a village-based location finder service 85, and a village-based location allowance service 87.

The location-based service interworking with the web community omits the authentication process for the location permission only for members who have accepted the location permission for the location search among members corresponding to the village.

In other words, the all-town location finder service 83 is to perform a location search for all the villages at the same time the position permission has been accepted, the position-specific location service service 85 is a village in the position permission is accepted It is to find a location for the selected village manager individually. On the other hand, the location-specific service allowed for each village 87 is to allow the position to be requested directly on the web community for a village in the position permit is denied.

In FIG. 7 again, when the administrator selects all the village location service services 83 on the web community (# 1), the administrator requests a location search for all the villages where the location permission is accepted (S360).

The location information providing system requests a location search for all the villages whose location permission is accepted (S370), and the user terminal of the village that receives the location request from the location information providing system determines the current location of the current location and then the current location information. It is transmitted (S380) (S390). The location information providing system receives location information transmitted from a village (S400), collects location information for all villages, and converts map information corresponding to the collected location information into a text or graphic form on a web community. Provided (S410).

Receive map information for all the villages from the location information providing system (S420), and provides a map screen including the location information of all the villages on the web community.

9 shows a result screen for all of the one-town location finder service 83. As shown, the location information of all the villages are provided by marking on a single map screen. In addition, the all-town location finder service 83 may include a service for providing a detailed location of the corresponding village for a specific village selected by a manager among the villages displayed on the result screen.

On the other hand, if the administrator selects a location-specific location service 85 on the web community (# 2), the user requests a location search for the selected village (S510).

The location information providing system requests a location search for a selected village (S520), and the user terminal of the corresponding village that receives the location request from the location information providing system determines its current location and then transmits the current location information. (S530) (S540). The location information providing system receives location information transmitted from the corresponding village (S550) and converts the map information corresponding to the received location information into a text or graphic form and provides it on the web community (S560).

Receiving the map information for the corresponding village from the location information providing system (S570), provides a map screen including the location information of the village selected by the administrator on the web community. At this time, the map screen according to the location-specific location service 85 for each village, as shown in Figure 10 provides only the location information of the specific village selected by the user.

And, if the administrator selects a village-specific location allowance service 87 for a village that has been denied location permission (# 3), the user requests a location permission for the selected village (S610).

The location information providing system transmits a request message for location permission for a user selected village to the terminal of the village (S620), and the terminal of the village receives the position acceptance request message (S630).

As shown in FIG. 11, the location permission request message is transmitted to a terminal of a corresponding village including the content of a message requesting location permission.

When the receptionist receives the location permission request message and accepts the location request (S640), the current location information is transmitted after determining the current location (S650) (S660). The location information providing system receives location information transmitted from the corresponding village (S670) and converts the map information corresponding to the received location information into a text or graphic form and provides it on the web community (S680).

Receiving the map information for the corresponding village from the location information providing system (S690), and provides a map screen including the location information of the village that the administrator has requested the location on the web community.

The present embodiment may provide a friend location search and a location permission request corresponding to a friend list on the web community by providing a friend list that has already established a relationship with a manager of the web community by interworking a location-based service.

The method for providing location information according to the present invention may be implemented in the form of program instructions that can be executed by various computer means and recorded in a computer readable medium. The computer readable medium may include program instructions, data files, data structures, etc. alone or in combination. Program instructions recorded on the media may be those specially designed and constructed for the purposes of the present invention, or they may be of the kind well-known and available to those having skill in the computer software arts. Examples of computer-readable recording media include magnetic media such as hard disks, floppy disks, and magnetic tape, optical media such as CD-ROMs, DVDs, and magnetic disks, such as floppy disks. Magneto-optical media, and hardware devices specifically configured to store and execute program instructions, such as ROM, RAM, flash memory, and the like. Examples of program instructions include not only machine code generated by a compiler, but also high-level language code that can be executed by a computer using an interpreter or the like. The hardware device described above may be configured to operate as one or more software modules to perform the operations of the present invention, and vice versa.

As described above, although the present invention has been described with reference to limited embodiments and drawings, the present invention is not limited to the above embodiments, and those skilled in the art to which the present invention pertains various modifications and variations from such descriptions. This is possible.

Therefore, the scope of the present invention should not be limited to the described embodiments, but should be determined not only by the claims below but also by the equivalents of the claims.

1 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of a system for providing location information according to the present invention.

2 is a diagram illustrating an entire process of a method for providing location information according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3 is a diagram illustrating a tool configuration of a web community and a process of adding a meeting bulletin board.

4 and 5 are views illustrating a writing screen of a meeting bulletin board in a web community.

6 is a view illustrating a reading screen of a meeting bulletin board in a web community.

7 is a view showing the entire process of the method for providing location information according to another embodiment of the present invention.

8 is a diagram illustrating a screen in which a friend list and a friend finder service are provided in a web community.

9 to 11 illustrate a result screen according to a friend search service request in a friend list of a web community.

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10: Web Server 20: Web Based Technology (WEBP)

30: LBS Foundation Technology (LBSP) 40: LBS Web Server

Claims (9)

A first step of providing a list of friends established with a manager of a web community; A second step of providing a location information service including a location request for each friend and a location permission request on the friend list in association with the manager; Location information providing method comprising a. The method of claim 1, The first step, Searching for a friend having a relationship with an administrator of the web community; Providing a friend list of friends with whom the relationship is established; Location information providing method comprising a. The method of claim 1, The second step, Searching for a friend in a location allowed state of the friend list when requesting a location search for the friend list; Requesting a location of a user terminal of the friend only for the friend in the location allowance state; Providing location information by receiving the location of all friends in the location permission state Location information providing method comprising a. The method of claim 3, The second step, If a specific friend is selected from the location of all the friends, providing detailed location information of the friend Location information providing method further comprising. The method of claim 1, The second step, Requesting a location of a friend of a friend in a location allowed state in the friend list, requesting a location of a user terminal of the friend; Receiving location of the specific friend and providing location information Location information providing method comprising a. The method of claim 1, The second step, Transmitting a request message for location permission to a user terminal of the friend when requesting a location permission of a friend among the friends who are not allowed in the location in the friend list; Receiving a response message to the request message from the friend's user terminal; Location information providing method comprising a. The method of claim 6, The second step, Requesting a location of a user's terminal of a friend if the received response message is a location acceptance acceptance; Receiving location of the specific friend and providing location information Location information providing method comprising a. A computer-readable recording medium in which a program for executing the method of any one of claims 1 to 7 is recorded. In the location information system for providing a location-based service using a user terminal, Build a database to maintain map data and personal information for each member of the web community, In addition to providing a friend list having a relationship with the manager of the web community, and on the friend list in accordance with the relationship with the officer at the request of the manager based on the map data stored in the database and personal information for each member. Web server that provides geolocation services, including location-finding and friend permission requests Location information providing system comprising a.

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