INFORMATION DELIVERY SYSTEM AND INFORMATION DELIVERY METHOD USING THE SAME

• US 20080253364A1
• Filed: 04/11/2008
• Published: 10/16/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 04/11/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: TANAKA, MASASHI
• Granted Patent: US 8,953,582 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/352
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/54 Presence management, e.g. monitoring or registration for receipt of user log-on information, or the connection status of the users
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services

Abstract

A mobile type service provider terminal registers a service providing area to a presence management server before a service starts. The presence management server creates a status management table of the mobile type service provider terminal. When the presence of the mobile type service provider terminal is detected in an area, the terminal registers information contents, which are delivered to subscribers, to an information delivery server. When the information delivery server stores the registered information contents to an information contents database and completes the creation of an information providing table, it notifies a service control server of the information. The service control server creates a message with reference to the information notified from the information delivery server and delivers it to the subscribers.

Claims

1. An information delivery system in which a mobile type service provider terminal moves in a service providing area and provides a service to a subscriber terminal in the vicinity of the service providing area, comprising a presence management server that manages the presence information of the service provider terminal.

2. The information delivery system according to claim 1, wherein the presence management server manages whether or not the service provider terminal exists in a particular area as presence information.

3. The information delivery system according to claim 1, further comprising:

an information delivery server that previously registers and manages the information which is desired to be delivered from the service provider terminal to the subscriber terminal; and

a service control server that notifies a subscriber terminal participating to the service of the service provider of the delivery of the information registered to the information delivery server when the status of presence of the service provider changes.

4. The information delivery system according to claim 3, wherein the information managed by the information delivery server can be updated while the service provider terminal moves.

5. The information delivery system according to claim 3, wherein a message is defined between the service control server and the subscriber terminal making use of the MESSAGE function of SIP (Session Initiation Protocol).

6. The information delivery system according to the claim 5, wherein the service control server pushes application control information to the subscriber terminal making use of the message defined between the subscriber terminal and the service control server and controls the application provided to the subscriber terminal.

7. The information delivery system according to claim 5, wherein the service control server delivers the message defined between the subscriber terminal and the service control server to the subscriber terminal.

8. The information delivery system according to any of claim 3, wherein the information delivery server comprises table means for managing the information of the service providing area, the information of the service provider, contents list information, and contents type information.

9. The information delivery system according to any of claim 3, wherein the service control server comprises table means for managing the information of the service providing area, the information of the service provider and the information of a service utilizing user.

10. A presence management server for an information delivery system in which a mobile type service provider terminal moves in a service providing area and provides a service to a subscriber terminal in the vicinity of the service providing area, the presence management server comprising:

table means for managing the status of the service provider; and

presence management means for managing the presence of the service provider terminal.

11. An information delivery server for an information delivery system in which a mobile type service provider terminal moves in a service providing area and provides a service to a subscriber terminal in the vicinity of the service providing area, the information delivery server comprising:

table means for managing the information of the service providing area, the information of the service provider, contents list information and contents type information; and

information delivery means,

wherein the information delivery server previously registers and manages the information which is desired to be delivered from the service provider terminal to the subscriber terminal.

12. A service control server used to an information delivery system, in which a mobile type service provider terminal moves in a service providing area and provides a service to a subscriber terminal in the vicinity of the service providing area, together with the information delivery server according to claim 11, the service control server comprising:

table means for managing the information of the service providing area, the information of the service provider, and the information of a service utilizing user,

wherein the service control server notifies a subscriber terminal participating to the service of the service provider of the delivery of the information registered to the information delivery server when the status of presence of the service provider changes.

13. An information delivery method used to an information delivery system in which a mobile type service provider terminal moves in a service providing area and provides a service to a subscriber terminal in the vicinity of the service providing area, wherein a presence management server manages the presence information of the service provider terminal.

14. The information delivery method according to claim 13, wherein the presence management server manages whether or not the service provider terminal exists in a particular area as presence information.

15. The information delivery method according to claim 13, wherein:

an information delivery server previously registers and manages the information which the information delivery server desires to deliver from the service provider terminal to the subscriber terminal; and

a service control server notifies a subscriber terminal participating to the service of the service provider of the delivery of the information registered to the information delivery server when the status of presence of the service provider changes.

16. The information delivery method according to claim 15, wherein the information managed by the information delivery server can be updated while the service provider terminal moves.

17. The information delivery method according to claim 15, wherein a message is defined between the service control server and the subscriber terminal making use of the MESSAGE function of SIP (Session Initiation Protocol).

18. The information delivery method according to claim 17, wherein the service control server pushes application control information to the subscriber terminal making use of the message defined between the subscriber terminal and the service control server and controls the application provided to the subscriber terminal.

19. The information delivery method according to claim 17, wherein the service control server delivers the message defined between the subscriber terminal and the service control server to the subscriber terminal.

20. The information delivery method according to claim 18, wherein the definition of the message includes the identification information of the service provider, a command for controlling the application, and a message type and a message body showing the contents of the command.

21. The information delivery method according to claim 20, wherein a first command for automatically starting the application and a second command for updating an application being displayed are included as the command.

22. The information delivery method according to claim 20, wherein a type of the message type includes WEB URL (Uniform Resource Locator) for accessing a WEB server, Vo DURL for accessing a video delivery VoD (Video on Demand) by the unicast, multicast group address for accessing a video delivery by the multicast and the broadcast, and text information showing that a phone number and a message are used to make a phone call.

23. The information delivery method according to claim 15, wherein the information delivery server comprises table means for managing the information of the service providing area, the information of the service provider, contents list information, and contents type information.

24. The information delivery method according to claim 15, wherein the service control server comprises table means for managing the information of the service providing area, the information of the service provider, and the information of a service utilizing user.