COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, SERVICE KIOSK, AND SERVICE PROVIDING SYSTEM AND METHOD

• US 20100077080A1
• Filed: 05/07/2009
• Published: 03/25/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 09/23/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Inventors: KU, Tai-yeon, MOON, Kyeong Deok
• Application Number:
  US12/436,922
• Publication Number:
  US 20100077080A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/226
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9574 of access to content, e.g. by caching
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/51 Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/568 Storing data temporarily at an intermediate stage, e.g. caching

Abstract

A service providing method includes: transmitting service kiosk information from a service kiosk to a communication terminal at a prescribed time interval; and if a communication terminal requests a service newspaper through the transmitted service kiosk information, creating the service newspaper in accordance with terminal information of the communication terminal and transmitting the service newspaper to the communication terminal. Further, the service providing method includes, if the communication terminal requests a service through the service newspaper, dividing and buffering the requested service page by page in accordance with physical feature information from the terminal information and transmitting the requested service to the communication terminal.

Claims

1. A service providing method comprising:

transmitting service kiosk information from a service kiosk to a communication terminal at a prescribed time interval;

if a communication terminal requests a service newspaper through the transmitted service kiosk information, creating the service newspaper in accordance with terminal information of the communication terminal and transmitting the service newspaper to the communication terminal; and

if the communication terminal requests a service through the service newspaper, dividing and buffering the requested service page by page in accordance with physical feature information from the terminal information and transmitting the requested service to the communication terminal.

2. The serving providing method of claim 1, wherein transmitting the requested service to the communication terminal includes:

when the communication terminal is out of the service area of the service kiosk while the requested service is executed, searching another service kiosk that provides the requested service;

if the different service kiosk is searched, transmitting the terminal information; and

providing the requested service from the another service kiosk to the communication terminal in accordance with the terminal information.

3. The service providing method of claim 1, wherein in transmitting the service kiosk information, the service kiosk information is transmitted through a prescribed port in the form of advertisement indicating presence of the service kiosk.

4. The service providing method of claim 1, wherein the terminal information includes user preference information regarding favorites, physical feature information regarding a memory, a CPU, a display and an input device, and software feature information regarding OS, graphic library, service framework and service viewer.

5. The service providing method of claim 1, wherein the service newspaper is created to have a service list and service accounting information.

6. The service providing method of claim 5, wherein the service newspaper is displayed through a service newspaper viewer provided in the communication terminal.

7. A service kiosk comprising:

a service assembler for creating a service newspaper in accordance with terminal information of a communication terminal and creating a plurality of services in accordance with the terminal information;

a service registry/repository for storing, managing and providing the services, together with service information; and

a kiosk processor for receiving a service newspaper request from the communication terminal, transmitting the service newspaper, extracting and analyzing a service requested by the communication terminal from among the services, dividing and buffering the requested service page by page in accordance with physical feature information from the terminal information, and sequentially transmitting the requested service to the communication terminal.

8. The service kiosk of clam 7, wherein the kiosk processor includes:

a service broker for performing transmission of the service kiosk information, reception of the service newspaper request, transmission of the service newspaper, transmission of the requested service, and service roaming to a service broker of a different service kiosk through communication;

a accounting processor for transmitting service accounting information to the service broker to be incorporated into the service newspaper, and

a buffer for buffering the requested service with a size corresponding to the physical feature information, and sequentially transmitting the requested service to the service broker.

9. The service kiosk of claim 8, wherein, when the communication terminal is out of the service area of the service kiosk while the requested service is being executed, the service broker performs service roaming to search a different service kiosk that provides the requested service and to cause the different service kiosk to provide the requested service.

10. The service kiosk of claim 9, wherein the service broker transmits the terminal information to the different service kiosk to perform service roaming.

11. The service kiosk of claim 8, wherein the terminal information includes user preference information regarding favorites, physical feature information regarding a memory, a CPU, a display and an input device, and software feature information regarding OS, graphic library, service framework and service viewer.

12. A communication terminal comprising:

a communication module for performing wireless communication; and

a state manager for receiving and searching service kiosk information through the communication module, transmitting terminal information to a service kiosk, providing a service newspaper to be received in accordance with the terminal information and receiving and executing a service from the service kiosk in a page unit.

13. The communication terminal of claim 12, wherein the state manager displays the service newspaper through a newspaper viewer.

14. The communication terminal of claim 13, wherein the terminal information includes user preference information regarding favorites, physical feature information regarding a memory, a CPU, a display and an input device, and software feature information regarding OS, graphic library, service framework and service viewer.

15. A service proving system comprising:

a communication terminal for mounting a state manager thereon to receive and search service kiosk information, transmitting terminal information according to a service newspaper request, providing the service newspaper to be received, and sequentially receiving and executing a service requested through the service newspaper page by page; and

a service kiosk for creating the service newspaper according to the terminal information, transmitting the created service newspaper to the communication terminal, analyzing the requested service, dividing and buffering the requested service in accordance with physical feature information from the terminal information in a page unit, and transmitting the requested service to the communication terminal in a page unit.

16. The service providing system of claim 15, wherein the service kiosk includes:

a service kiosk processor for performing transmission of the service kiosk information through communication with the communication terminal, reception of the terminal information and transmission of the service newspaper, transmission of the requested service, processing of service accounting information, and service roaming to a different service kiosk;

an service assembler for creating the service newspaper in accordance with the terminal information and creating a plurality of services in accordance with the terminal information; and

a service registry/repository for storing, managing, and providing the services, together with service information.

17. The service providing system of claim 16, wherein the service kiosk processor includes:

a service broker for performing transmission of the service kiosk information through communication with the communication terminal, reception of the terminal information and transmission of the service newspaper, transmission of the requested service, and service roaming to a different service kiosk when the communication terminal is out of the service area,

an accounting processor for processing the service accounting information to be incorporated into the service newspaper, and

a buffer for buffering the requested service with a size corresponding to the physical feature information, and sequentially transmitting the requested service to the service broker.

18. The service providing system of claim 17, wherein, when executing a service roaming, the service broker transmits the terminal information to the different service kiosk.

19. The service providing system of claim 18, wherein the terminal information includes user preference information regarding favorites, physical feature information regarding a memory, a CPU, a display and an input device, and software feature information regarding OS, graphic library, service framework and service viewer.

20. The service providing system of claim 17, wherein the service newspaper is formed page by page to have a service list and the service accounting information.