Sound signal-based local interactive platform system and local interactive service providing method using same

• US 10,348,791 B2
• Filed: 11/17/2017
• Issued: 07/09/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 03/08/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ipopcorn Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Ipopcorn Company Limited
• Inventors: Choi, Jae-Joon, Kim, Kyung-Hoon, Yoon, Ju-No, Lee, Hyun-Min
• Primary Examiner(s): Scott, Randy A
• Application Number:
  US15/816,456
• Publication Number:
  US 20180159910A1
• Time in Patent Office: 599 Days
• Field of Search: 709219, 709225, 709228, 370231, 370235, 370252, 370332, 455 631, 455450, 455522
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/165 Management of the audio stream, e.g. setting of volume, audio stream path
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/60 Network streaming of media packets
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/60 Scheduling or organising the servicing of application requests, e.g. requests for application data transmissions using the analysis and optimisation of the required network resources admission control or resource allocation H04L47/70
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information

Abstract

The present invention relates to a technology for providing a place/time-based local interactive service, which provides multi-formatted content information to a user moving while carrying a smart terminal having a dedicated application installed therein. In particular, when moving into a place where a specific wired/wireless AP is installed, a user who carries a smart terminal with a dedicated application activated therein can receive multi-formatted content information previously mapped with the place using a place/time, without a separate manipulation of the smart terminal. According to the present invention, time periods during which the user carrying the smart terminal stays at the place where the specific wired/wireless AP is installed are accumulated and managed using time coins, and the user is then given a benefit according to the accumulated time periods.

Claims

1. A sound signal-based local interactive platform system, comprising:

a wired/wireless AP (100) that has unique identification information for a location where the AP is placed and that outputs a sound signal of a high frequency band in a preset variation pattern corresponding to the location of the AP;

a computer-readable recording medium, which is mounted in a smart terminal having a serial number, and which stores therein a program that when in an activated state, detects in real-time the serial number and the sound signal and transmits the unique identification information corresponding to the sound signal and the serial number to a location server (300);

the location server (300) that receives the serial number and the sound signal from the smart terminal, and that transmits the serial number and the unique identification information corresponding to the sound signal to a content server (400); and

the content server (400) that receives the serial number and the unique identification information from the location server; and

that transmits in real-time multi-formatted content information including audio data and video data, which is previously mapped with the unique identification information, to the smart terminal to be output.

2. The sound signal-based local interactive platform system of claim 1, wherein in the wired/wireless AP,

one or more inversion interval values for inverting an output of the sound signal are preset, a variation time for a section in which the sound signal is inverted according to an inversion interval value selected from among the one or more inversion interval values is preset, and when two or more inversion interval values are preset, the variation pattern is preset by inverting the output of the sound signal sequentially depending on the two or more inversion interval values on every occurrence of overflow exceeding the variation time.

3. The sound signal-based local interactive platform system of claim 2, wherein the smart terminal automatically outputs in real-time the multi-formatted content information received from the content server.

4. The sound signal-based local interactive platform system of claim 1, wherein the smart terminal stores time, during which the sound signal output in real-time from the wired/wireless AP is detected, as cumulative data, and then transmits the cumulative data to the content server via the location server, and

the content server accumulates the received cumulative data as a time coin that a user may use through manipulation of the smart terminal, and maps the time coin with the multi-formatted content information.

5. A sound signal-based local interactive service providing method, comprising:

(a) presetting a variation pattern for a sound signal that is output from a wired/wireless AP having unique identification information for a location where the AP is placed, the preset variation pattern corresponding to the location of the AP;

(b) previously mapping multi-formatted content information, which includes audio data and video data, with the variation pattern in a content server;

(c) outputting a sound signal according to the preset variation pattern from the wired/wireless AP to the outside;

(d) detecting, by a smart terminal having a serial number, in real-time the sound signal output from the wired/wireless AP;

(e) by a location server, receiving the serial number and the detected sound signal from the smart terminal, and transmitting the serial number and the unique identification information corresponding to the sound signal to the content server; and

(f) by the content server, receiving the serial number and the unique identification information from the location server, and transmitting the multi-formatted content information corresponding to the unique identification information to the smart terminal to be output.

6. The sound signal-based local interactive service providing method of claim 5, wherein step (a) comprises:

(a-1) presetting one or more inversion interval values for inverting an output of the sound signal;

(a-2) presetting a variation time for a section in which the sound signal is inverted according to an inversion interval value selected from among the one or more inversion interval values; and

(a-3) when two or more of the inversion interval values are preset, presetting the variation pattern by inverting the output of the sound signal sequentially depending on the two or more of the inversion interval values on every occurrence of overflow exceeding the variation time.

7. The sound signal-based local interactive service providing method of claim 5, wherein the step (d) further comprises:

(d-1) storing, by the smart terminal, time during which the sound signal output in real-time from the wired/wireless AP is detected as cumulative data; and

(d-2) transmitting the stored cumulative data to the content server via the location server,

wherein the step (f) further comprises accumulating, by the content server, the cumulative data received via the location server as a time coin that may provide a benefit through manipulation of the smart terminal, and

the step (b) further comprises previously mapping the time coin with the multi-formatted content information.

8. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium in which a program for implementing the sound signal-based local interactive service providing method, wherein the method comprises:

(a) presetting a variation pattern for a second signal that is output from a wired/wireless AP having unique identification information for a location where the AP is placed, the preset variation pattern corresponding to the location of the AP;

(b) previously mapping multi-formatted content information, which includes audio data and video data, with the variation pattern in a content server;

(c) outputting a sound signal according to the preset variation pattern from the wired/wireless AP to the outside;

(d) detecting, by a smart terminal having a serial number, in real-time the sound signal output from the mired/wireless AP;

(e) by a location server, receiving the serial number and the detected sound signal from the smart terminal, and transmitting the serial number and the unique identification information corresponding to the sound signal to the content server; and

(f) by the content server, receiving the serial number and the unique identification information from the location server, and transmitting the multi-formatted content information corresponding to the unique identification information to the smart terminal to be output.

9. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium of claim 8, wherein the step (a) comprises:

(a-1) presetting one or more inversion interval values for inverting an output of the sound signal;

(a-2) presetting a variation time for a second in which the second signal is inverted according to an inversion interval value selected from among the one or more inversion interval values; and

(a-3) when two or more of the inversion interval values are preset, presetting the variation pattern by inverting the output of the sound signal sequentially depending on the two or more of the inversion interval values on every occurrence of overflow exceeding the variation time.

10. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium of claim 8, wherein the step (d) comprises:

(d-1) storing, by the smart terminal, time during which the sound signal output in real-time from the wired/wireless AP is detected as cumulative data; and

(d-2) transmitting the stored cumulative data to the content server via the location server,

wherein the step (f) further comprises accumulating, by the content server, the cumulative data received via the location server as a time coin that may provide a benefit through manipulation of the smart terminal, and

the step (b) further comprises previously mapping the time coin with the multi-formatted content information.