Apparatus and method for providing a customized one-stop information service to a mobile user

• US 20030120725A1
• Filed: 10/23/2002
• Published: 06/26/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 12/24/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Inventors: Lim, Myung-Eun, Lim, Soojung, Yun, Bo-Hyun, Park, Sang Kyu, Wang, Ji Hyun, Chung, Eui Sok
• Application Number:
  US10/277,984
• Publication Number:
  US 20030120725A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/535 Tracking the activity of the user network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols

Abstract

In an apparatus for providing an one-stop service in a mobile web application server system a mobile terminal receives the OSS from the mobile web application server in order to use the OSS. A screen-processing module includes a java server page and a java sublet for an OSS generated in the form of a mobile web application server page. A service processing means generates an OSS log to process the OSS and represents a corresponding specialized site in the form of a service bean. An external service generates the mobile web application server system and performs a connection to OSS contents. An external system provides contents in accordance with certain information provided from the external service. A site providing system provides a corresponding specialized site to the service bean in the service processing means.

Claims

1. An apparatus for providing an one-stop service (OSS) in a mobile web application server system, comprising:

a mobile terminal for receiving the OSS from the mobile web application server in order to use the OSS;

a display processing module including a java server page and a java sublet for an OSS generated in the form of a mobile web application server page;

a service processing means for generating an OSS log to process the OSS and representing a corresponding specialized site in the form of a service bean;

an external service for generating the mobile web application server system and performing a connection to OSS contents;

an external system for providing contents in accordance with certain information provided from the external service; and

a for providing a corresponding specialized site to the service bean in the service processing means.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the service processing means further includes:

a user manager for generating and managing an OSS log that is a use breakdown of the OSS; and

a service bean for representing a corresponding specialized site in the form of a service bean by connecting to the site providing system after an OSS log is completed by the user manager.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the external service includes:

a personalized bean for generating the mobile web application server system; and

a contents storing management bean for managing the connection to the OSS contents.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the external system includes:

a personalized server, which is generated by the user manager in the service processing means, for learning interests of a user in accordance with an OSS log that is a use breakdown of an OSS provided through the personalized bean; and

a contents storing manager for preparing and providing contents appropriate for the service items by referring to one-stop service items stored in a database connected to the external system.

5. A method for adding a service item in a mobile web application server system having a service processing means and an external service, comprising the steps of:

selecting an additional service in the service processing means;

generating an OSS profile with a description of contents and characteristics of the selected service;

updating a service document type definition (DTD) after the OSS profile is generated by the service processing means;

distributing the updated service DTD;

generating a service bean by using a service bean in the service processing means after the OSS profile is generated by the service processing means;

providing the generated service bean to a site providing system; and

collecting and comprising optimal contents based on the OSS profile when a new OSS is generated in order to provide contents related to a specific service by using a contents storing management bean in the external service and a contents storing manager in the external system, after the OSS profile is generated by the service processing means.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the service contents are descriptions on information needed for using information provided by the service, and wherein the service characteristics are information, which is used in a personalized scheme such as main use time and estimated expenses of the service.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein the service DTD analyzes and updates OSS log information by using an OSS log information format technique that is internally used in a mobile web application server system, and can be implemented by using the site providing system to be distributed and maintained in a personalized module and a storing manager included in the mobile web application server system.

8. The method of claim 5, wherein the DTD is a XML document type that represents, maintains and manages service technique information.

9. The method of claim 5, wherein the service bean is a proxy server capable of connecting to the site providing system regardless of various platforms and framework environments.

10. A method for providing an OSS log that is a use breakdown of an OSS in a mobile web application server system having a service processing means and an external service, comprising the steps of:

performing an OSS log by using profile information and past services use information of a user received from a mobile terminal;

generating the OSS log in a user manager in the service processing means;

performing a synchronization of service items included in the OSS to thereby perform an OSS configuration service in the user manager in the service processing means, after the OSS log is generated;

providing the service items as services based on a specific location by categorizing performance conditions into time/expense/location, after performing the synchronization;

maintaining and managing a user session after maintaining OSS state information by relating timing information with a purpose of the user in the user manager in the service processing means; and

learning interests of the user for a certain time by returning a personalized module of the OSS log in a personalized bean in the external service to a personalized server in an external system, after maintaining and managing the user session by using the user manager.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the past services use information of the user is recorded in the OSS use log by using a result of OSS use.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the OSS log is an OSS use breakdown of the user, which includes contents to be connected and each breakdown of an OSS having service items generated in response to a demand of the user, wherein a form of a description on the OSS log is determined by an OSS DTD generated based on a service profile, and is used in an input of a personalized module, a user session management and a cooperation between OSS configuration services.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein the purpose of the user records all interactions of the user, generates a new value by using the interactions, and operates in the form of user session retainment and management.

14. The method of claim 10, wherein the personalized module dynamically generates an OSS suitable for the demand of the user by learning interests of the user.

15. The method of claim 10, further comprising the step of generating dynamically a personalized OSS by learning interests of the user by referring to a personalized module provided from the personalized bean in the personalized server.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the learning of interests of the user is performed by using the OSS log, wherein the OSS log is returned to the personalized module after a corresponding OSS service is completed, and the personalized module performs the learning of interests of the user during certain time by storing the OSS log.

17. A method for generating an OSS in a mobile web application server system having a display processing module, a service processing means, and an external service, comprising the steps of:

performing a display of an OSS dynamically generated by an OSS generated by using service items selected by a user and an OSS which is recommended based on the usage of a majority of users and corresponds to interests of the user;

generating the OSSs to be displayed by the display processing module in a user manager in the service processing means;

managing the OSSs after integrating limitations related to the display processing module, the limitations being processed by controlling a personalized bean in the external service; and

processing an OSS cooperation based on an OSS log including a linkage representing particulars on cooperation between services provided by the display processing module and limitations including a menu selected by the screen-processing module.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the OSS generation is processed by using OSS limitations that confine contents of services comprised based on an input of the user'"'"'s condition.

19. The method of claim 17, wherein the service cooperation provided by the display processing module is processed based on internal information of the OSS log, and used respectively in a level 1 service cooperation and a level 2 service cooperation of the limitations and the linkages included in the OSS log, wherein the level 1 service cooperation is executed through a global control of the OSS by using the limitations, the level 2 service cooperation service a cooperation between a connection service and a global condition in accordance with a service linkage, and timing superposition and distance adjacency of said each of service items are applied to the level 2 cooperation.