Method for disaster notification service not requiring collecting of location information, and disaster notification server and application system thereof

• US 10,186,133 B2
• Filed: 01/14/2016
• Issued: 01/22/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 01/16/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Eeya Media Inc.
• Original Assignee: Eeya Media Inc.
• Inventors: Jang, Boo Joong
• Primary Examiner(s): Girma, Fekadeselassie
• Application Number:
  US15/543,906
• Publication Number:
  US 20170358196A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,104 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/10 responsive to calamitous events, e.g. tornados or earthquakes
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 27/006 with transmission via telephone network
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 19/04 the ringing-current being generated at the substations
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/02 Protecting privacy or anonymity, e.g. protecting personally identifiable information [PII]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/021 Services related to particular areas, e.g. point of interest [POI] services, venue services or geofences
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/022 with dynamic range variability
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/06 Selective distribution of broadcast services, e.g. multimedia broadcast multicast service [MBMS]; Services to user groups; One-way selective calling services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/18 Information format or content conversion, e.g. adaptation by the network of the transmitted or received information for the purpose of wireless delivery to users or terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/90 Services for handling of emergency or hazardous situations, e.g. earthquake and tsunami warning systems [ETWS]

Abstract

A method for a disaster notification service not requiring collecting of location information, and systems thereof. The method includes the steps of: receiving, from at least one registration system, disaster information including a disaster location and disaster notification information; specifying, a set of location information, each including location information which corresponds to the disaster location of each of at least one item of disaster information; transmitting, the specified set of location information to a plurality of user terminals; if any one of the plurality of user terminals determines that the location of the user terminal is included in matching location information included in the set of location information, receiving, a content transmission request including identification information of the matching location information; and transmitting, content including the matching disaster notification information corresponding to the matching location information in response to reception of the content transmission request.

Claims

1. A method for a disaster notification service comprising steps of:

receiving, by a disaster notification server, disaster information comprising a disaster location of a disaster and disaster notification information;

specifying, by the disaster notification server, a location information set comprising location information corresponding to each disaster location of the at least one piece of disaster information;

sending, by the disaster notification server, the specified location information set to a plurality of user terminals without regard to individual locations of the user terminals;

receiving a content transmission request, comprising identification information of matching location information, from any one of the plurality of user terminals if the any one user terminal determines that a location of the user terminal is included in the matching location information included in the location information set; and

sending, by the disaster notification server, content comprising matching disaster notification information corresponding to the matching location information to the user terminal in response to the reception of the content transmission request,

wherein each of the user terminals determines whether or not its location corresponds to the disaster location.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising a step of specifying, by the disaster notification server, a first disaster area comprising a disaster location corresponding to first disaster information when the first disaster information is registered,

wherein the step of specifying the location information set comprises specifying information about the specified first disaster area as first location information corresponding to the first disaster information.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising a step of further specifying (n−

1) (n is a natural number of 2 or more) second to n-th disaster areas comprising the first disaster area and having a wider range than the first disaster area,

wherein;

the step of specifying the location information set comprises specifying information about the specified first disaster area and the further specified (n−

1) disaster areas as the first location information corresponding to the first disaster information; and

the k-th (k is a natural number of 2 or more to n or less) disaster area is an area which comprises a (k−

1)-th disaster area and which is set to have a wider range than the (k−

1)-th disaster area.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein if the user terminal determines the first location information to be the matching location information corresponding to the location of the user terminal, the user terminal plays back the matching disaster notification information only when the location of the user terminal is included in an m-th disaster area corresponding to predetermined m (m is a natural number of 1 or more to (n−

1) or less) of n disaster areas included in the first location information.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein:

if the user terminal determines the first location information to be the matching location information corresponding to the location of the user terminal, the matching disaster notification content is transmitted to the user terminal; and

if the user terminal determines that the location of the user terminal changes to a direction of a (p−

1)-th disaster area in a state in which the location corresponds to a p-th (p is a natural number of 1 or more to n or less) disaster area of n disaster areas included in the first location information, the user terminal plays back warning content.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the step of receiving the content transmission request comprising the identification information of the matching location information from the user terminal comprises receiving the content transmission request further comprising identification information of at least one piece of false location information;

the step of sending, by the disaster notification server, the content comprising the matching disaster notification information corresponding to the matching location information to the user terminal in response to the reception of the content transmission request comprises sending the content, further comprising disaster notification information corresponding to the identification information of the false location information, to the user terminal; and

only the matching disaster notification information is played back by the user terminal.

12. A non-transitory computer readable medium having a computer program product installed in a data processing device and recorded to execute the method according to claim 1.

7. A method for a disaster notification service comprising steps of:

when a disaster notification server sends a location information set comprising location information corresponding to each disaster location of at least one piece of disaster information to a plurality of user terminals without regard to individual locations of the user terminals, the at least one piece of disaster information comprising the disaster location and disaster notification information being registered with the disaster notification server;

determining, by an application system installed in any one of the plurality of user terminals, whether a location of the user terminal is included in matching location information, which is any one piece of location information included in the location information set;

sending, by the application system, a content transmission request comprising identification information of the matching location information to the disaster notification server if the application system determines that the location of the user terminal is included in the matching location information; and

receiving, by the application system, content comprising matching disaster notification information corresponding to the matching location information from the disaster notification server as a response to the transmission of the content transmission request,

wherein each of the user terminals determines whether or not its location corresponds to the disaster location.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the matching location information is implemented as information comprising n (n is a natural number of 2 or more) first to n-th disaster areas, wherein a k-th (k is a natural number of 2 or more to n or less) disaster area is an area which comprises a (k−

1)-th disaster area and which is set to have a wider range than the (k−

1)-th disaster area.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising a step of playing back, by the application system, the matching disaster notification information in the user terminal only when the location of the user terminal is included in an m-th disaster area corresponding to predetermined m (m is a natural number of 1 or more to (n−

1) or less) of the n disaster areas included in the matching location information.

10. The method of claim 8, further comprising a step of playing back, by the user terminal, warning content when the application system determines that the location of the user terminal changes to a direction of a (p−

1)-th disaster area in a state in which the location corresponds to a p-th (p is a natural number of 1 or more to n or less) disaster area of the n disaster areas included in the matching location information.

11. The method of claim 7, wherein:

the step of sending the content transmission request comprises sending, by the application system, the content transmission request further comprising identification information of at least one piece of false location information;

the step of receiving the content comprises receiving, by the application system, the content further comprising disaster notification information corresponding to the identification information of the false location information; and

the application system plays back only the matching disaster notification information.

13. A disaster notification server, comprising:

a location information set specification unit configured to specify location information set comprising location information corresponding to a each disaster location of at least one piece of disaster information when disaster information comprising the disaster location and disaster notification information is received;

a communication unit which sends the specified location information set to a plurality of user terminals and receives a content transmission request comprising identification information of matching location information if any one of the plurality of user terminals determines that a location of the user terminal is included in the matching location information included in the location information set; and

a controller configured to send content comprising matching disaster notification information corresponding to the matching location information to the user terminal in response to the reception of the content transmission request,

wherein;

the communication unit is configured to receive the content transmission request further comprising identification information of at least one piece of false location information;

the controller is configured to send the content further comprising disaster notification information corresponding to the identification information of the false location information to the user terminal; and

only matching disaster notification information is played back by the user terminal.

14. The disaster notification server of claim 13, wherein the location information set specification unit specifies a first disaster area comprising a disaster location corresponding to first disaster information when the first disaster information is registered and specifies information about the specified first disaster area as first location information corresponding to the first disaster information.

15. The disaster notification server of claim 14, wherein:

the location information set specification unit is further configured to specify (n−

1) (n is a natural number of 2 or more) second to n-th disaster areas comprising the first disaster area and having a wider range than the first disaster area and specify information about the specified first disaster area and the further specified (n−

1) disaster areas as the first location information corresponding to the first disaster information; and

the k-th (k is a natural number of 2 or more to n or less) disaster area is an area which comprises a (k−

1)-th disaster area and which is set to have a wider range than the 1(k−

1)-th disaster area.

16. An application system installed in a user terminal, comprising:

a communication module configured to receive location information set comprising location information corresponding to each disaster location of at least one piece of disaster information from a disaster notification server without regard to a location of the user terminal, the at least one piece of disaster information comprising the disaster location and disaster notification information being registered with the disaster notification server;

a location determination module configured to determine the location of the user terminal; and

a control module configured to determine whether the determined location of the user terminal is included in matching location information, which is any one of pieces of location information included in the location information set,

wherein the control module sends a content transmission request comprising identification information of the matching location information to the disaster notification server through the communication module if it is determined that the location of the user terminal is included in the matching location information and receives content comprising matching disaster notification information corresponding to the matching location information from the disaster notification server as a response to the transmission of the content transmission request.

17. The application system of claim 16, wherein:

the matching location information is implemented as information comprising n (n is a natural number of 2 or more) first to n-th disaster areas; and

a k-th (k is a natural number of 2 or more to n or less) disaster area is an area which comprises a (k−

1)-th disaster area and which is set to have a wider range than the (k−

1)-th disaster area.

18. The application system of claim 17, wherein the control module determines whether the location of the user terminal is included in an m-th disaster area corresponding to predetermined m (m is a natural number of 1 or more to (n−

1) or less) of the n disaster areas included in the matching location information and plays back the matching disaster notification information in the user terminal only when the location of the user terminal is included in the m-th disaster area.

19. The application system of claim 17, wherein the control module plays back the matching disaster notification information in the user terminal only when the location of the user terminal is included in an n-th disaster area corresponding to predetermined p (p is a natural number of 1 or more to (p−

1) or less) of the n disaster areas included in the matching location information.

20. The application system of claim 16, wherein:

the control module is configured to send the content transmission request further comprising identification information of at least one piece of false location information and receive the content further comprising disaster notification information corresponding to the identification information of the false location information; and

the control module is configured to play back only the matching disaster notification information of disaster notification information included in the received content.