Method and apparatus for providing notification information

• US 10,306,402 B2
• Filed: 12/28/2015
• Issued: 05/28/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 12/24/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Kwak, Byung-Chang, Park, Jun-Ho
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Dinh
• Application Number:
  US14/979,783
• Publication Number:
  US 20160192134A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,247 Days
• 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 4/023 using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets or of distance thresholds

Abstract

The present disclosure provides a method and an apparatus for providing notification information. The method includes identifying terminal location information in an area including a terminal; identifying at least one piece of setting location information in an area which is set by a user; providing corresponding first notification information when there occurs a notification event corresponding to the terminal location information; and providing at least one piece of corresponding second notification information when there occurs a notification event corresponding to the at least one piece of setting location information.

Claims

1. A method for providing notification information in a server, the method comprising:

identifying, by a processor of the server, terminal location information including a current location of a first terminal;

identifying, by the processor, setting location information corresponding to an area which is set by the first terminal, wherein the setting location information includes information about at least one location different from the current location of the first terminal;

identifying, by the processor, a second terminal corresponding to the setting location information;

upon a first notification event corresponding to the terminal location information occurring, transmitting, by a communication interface of the server, first notification information corresponding to the first notification event to the first terminal;

upon a second notification event corresponding to the setting location information occurring regardless of a current location of the second terminal, transmitting, by the communication interface, second notification information corresponding to the second notification event to the first terminal and the second terminal;

upon a disaster or a weather accident occurring in the setting location, determining, by the processor, that the second notification event occurs; and

generating, by the processor, the second notification information including the current location of the second terminal,

wherein the second terminal is pre-registered in the first terminal.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein each of the first notification information and the second notification information includes weather information, news information, shopping information, environmental information, sports information, entertainment information, social media information, personal family information or disaster information.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

periodically obtaining, by the processor, a current location of the first terminal;

comparing, by the processor, the current location of the first terminal with a previous location of the first terminal; and

if the location of the terminal is changed, providing, by the processor, notification information corresponding to the changed location of the first terminal to the first terminal.

4. A server for providing notification information, the server comprising:

a communication interface; and

a processor configured to;

identify terminal location information including a current location of a first terminal,

identify setting location information corresponding to an area which is set by the first terminal, wherein the setting location information includes information about at least one location different from the current location of the first terminal,

identify a second terminal corresponding to the setting location information,

upon a first notification event corresponding to the terminal location information occurring, control the communication interface to transmit first notification information corresponding to the first notification event to the first terminal, and

upon a second notification event corresponding to the setting location information occurring regardless of a current location of the second terminal, control the communication interface to transmit second notification information corresponding to the second notification event to the first terminal and the second terminal,

upon a disaster or a weather accident occurring in the setting location, determine that the second notification event occurs, and

generate the second notification information including the current location of the second terminal,

wherein the second terminal is pre-registered in the first terminal.

5. The server of claim 4, wherein each of the first notification information and the second notification information includes weather information, news information, shopping information, environmental information, sports information, entertainment information, social media information, personal family information or disaster information.

6. The server of claim 4, wherein the processor is further configured to periodically obtain a current location of the first terminal.

7. The server of claim 6, wherein the processor is further configured to:

compare the current location of the first terminal with a previous location of the first terminal, and

if the location of the terminal is changed, provide notification information corresponding to the changed location to the first terminal.