Providing location path

• US 20090222587A1
• Filed: 06/03/2008
• Published: 09/03/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 02/28/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Point-I Co., Ltd. (IOKCOMPANY Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Point-I Co., Ltd. (IOKCOMPANY Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Kim, Won-Tae, Ahn, Byung-Ik, Shin, Myoung-Jin
• Application Number:
  US12/156,566
• Publication Number:
  US 20090222587A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/246
• 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: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/024 Guidance services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/20 Services signaling; Auxiliary data signalling, i.e. transmitting data via a non-traffic channel

Abstract

The server for providing location path, comprising: a server communication unit for interlocking with a mobile communication terminal and an E-mail reception server; a server control unit for receiving location path data and E-mail account information from the mobile communication terminal by controlling the server communication unit, creating location tracking data converted to a data format, which is supported by at least one or more predetermined navigation program, from the location path data, and transmitting the location tracking data to the E-mail reception server corresponding to the E-mail account information by controlling the server communication unit; and a server storage unit for storing at least one of the location path data, the E-mail account information, and the location tracking data.

Claims

1. A server for providing a location path, comprising:

a server communication unit for cooperating with a mobile communication terminal and an E-mail reception server;

a server control unit for controlling the server communication unit to receive location path data and E-mail account information from the mobile communication terminal, creating location tracking data converted to a data format supported by at least one or more predetermined navigation program from the location path data, and controlling the server communication unit to transmit the location tracking data to the E-mail reception server corresponding to the E-mail account information; and

a server storage unit for storing at least one or more of the location path data, the E-mail account information, and the location tracking data.

2. The server of claim 1, further comprising:

a format conversion unit for creating the location tracking data converted to the data format supported by the at least one or more predetermined navigation program from the location path data, wherein the server control unit controls the format conversion unit to create the location tracking data.

3. The server of claim 1, further comprising:

an E-mail transmission unit for transmitting the location tracking data to the E-mail reception server corresponding to the E-mail account information, wherein the server control unit controls the E-mail transmission unit to transmit the location tracking data.

4. A system for providing a location path, comprising:

a location tracking server for receiving location path data and E-mail account information, creating location tracking data converted to a data format supported by at least one or more predetermined navigation program from the received location path data, and transmitting the location tracking data using the E-mail account information;

an E-mail reception server for receiving the location tracking data from the location tracking server, and transmitting the location tracking data when a transmission request signal for the location tracking data attached to the E-mail account information is received;

a user terminal for receiving the location tracking data, and displaying the location tracking data using the at least one or more predetermined navigation program; and

an internet for relaying a transmitting/receiving data between the E-mail reception server and the user terminal.

5. The system of claim 4, further comprising:

a mobile communication terminal for receiving navigation data from a satellite by means of an equipped global positioning system module, calculating a current location, creating the location path data from the current location to a specific destination when the specific destination is input, and transmitting the location path data and the E-mail account information to the location tracking server when an E-mail transmission request signal for the location path data is received; and

a mobile communication network for relaying transmitting/receiving data between the location tracking server and the mobile communication terminal.

6. A method for providing a location path, comprising the step of:

receiving location path data and E-mail account information from a mobile communication terminal at a location tracking server;

creating location tracking data converted to a data format supported by at least one or more predetermined navigation program from the location path data at the location tracking server;

transmitting the location tracking data using the E-mail account information at the location tracking server;

receiving and storing the location tracking data at an E-mail reception server;

checking whether a transmission request signal for the location tracking data attached to the E-mail account information is received or not at the E-mail reception server;

transmitting the location tracking data, if the transmission request signal for the location tracking data is received, at the E-mail reception server; and

receiving the location tracking data, and displaying the location tracking data by means of the at least one or more predetermined navigation program at a user terminal.