APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING CONTENTS SERVICES

• US 20120135755A1
• Filed: 11/21/2011
• Published: 05/31/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 11/25/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Inventors: LEE, Hoon Ki, Lee, Jong Hoon, Kim, Jung Tae, Paik, Eui Hyun
• Application Number:
  US13/301,465
• Publication Number:
  US 20120135755A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/456.2
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/021 Services related to particular areas, e.g. point of interest [POI] services, venue services or geofences
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/50 Service provisioning or reconfiguring

Abstract

Provided are an apparatus and a method of dynamic radar for providing an immediate service according to a user'"'"'s location on the basis of a location where a user is positioned and a social relationship with other users. The present invention allows a user to retrieve desired information and receive a necessary service by providing an environment to dynamically execute a location-based service to the user through a dynamic radar and allows a provider providing a service and the user to form a direct community. According to the present invention, the user can retrieve various information such as surrounding events or a digital community through a radar when the user is positioned at a predetermined location and configure an immediate service execution environment by installing the necessary service directly in a terminal.

Claims

1. An apparatus for providing a contents service, comprising:

a location acquiring unit acquiring a current location value of a user terminal accessed by a user;

an event tracking unit dynamically tracking events based on the acquired location value; and

a contents service providing unit providing a contents service associated with an event selected among the tracked events.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the event tracking unit includes:

an event extracting portion extracting events associated with a location determined by the acquired location value whenever the location value is acquired; and

an event transmitting portion transmitting the extracted events to the user terminal associated with the acquired location value in real time.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising a shared information generating unit generating execution environment sharing information for sharing an execution environment of the contents service on the basis of a profile defining the execution environment for each contents service,

wherein the contents service providing unit provides the contents service together with the execution environment sharing information associated with the corresponding contents service at the time of providing the contents service.

4. The apparatus of claim 3, further comprising a shared information determining portion determining one piece of execution environment sharing information on the basis of information regarding the user terminal or information regarding the service environment when execution environment sharing information associated with the corresponding contents service is at least two.

5. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the location acquiring unit additionally acquire location values of interested-party terminals accessed by interested parties having the social relationship with the user and further includes:

an interested party extracting unit extracting interested parties positioned within a predetermined distance from the user on the basis of the location values of the interested-party terminals; and

a community service providing unit providing a community service with which the extracted interested parties and the user are commonly associated.

6. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the contents service providing unit includes:

an event selecting portion selecting a predetermined event by user input among the tracked events;

an access information processing portion transmitting access information of the user terminal to a provider server which registers the selected event;

a first determining portion determining whether a content associated with the selected event is present;

a second determining portion determining whether the contents service is provided on the basis of user input depending on the provided information in the case in which the content associated with the selected event is present, when information regarding the event is provided to the user terminal by the provider server;

a user terminal analyzing portion analyzing the user terminal in the case in which the contents service is provided; and

an execution environment processing portion transmitting information regarding the service execution environment to the user terminal at the time of transmitting the contents service when the user terminal is analyzed as a terminal which can execute the service.

7. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising an event registering unit registering events,

wherein the event registering unit includes:

an event registration request processing portion receiving an event registration request from a provider computer which the provider accesses;

an event registration information generating portion requesting event registration information for registering events to the provider computer when the event registration request is received and generating the received event registration information in an event profile format when the event registration information by the request is received;

a service registration judging portion inquiring whether a contents service to be registered simultaneously at the time of registering the events is present and judging whether the contents service is registered on the basis of a reply to the inquiry; and

a registration portion registering the events so as to be dynamically tracked on the basis of the generated event registration information.

8. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the event registering unit further includes:

a contents service registration information generating portion requesting the contents service registration information for registering the contents service to the provider computer in the case in which the contents service to be registered is present and generating the received contents service registration information in a package registration profile format when the contents service registration information by the request is received; and

a terminal information generating portion generating terminal information regarding a terminal which can execute the contents service,

wherein the registration portion registers the events so as to be dynamically tracked on the basis of the generated contents service registration information and the generated terminal information.

9. A method for providing a contents service, comprising:

acquiring a current location value of a user terminal accessed by a user;

dynamically tracking events based on the acquired location value; and

providing a contents service associated with an event selected among the tracked events.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the tracking of the event includes:

extracting events associated with a location determined by the acquired location value whenever the location value is acquired; and

transmitting the extracted events to the user terminal associated with the acquired location value in real time.

11. The method of claim 9, further comprising generating execution environment sharing information for sharing an execution environment of the contents service on the basis of a profile defining the execution environment for each contents service,

wherein in the providing of the contents service, the execution environment sharing information associated with the corresponding contents service is also provided together with the contents service at the time of providing the contents service.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising determining one piece of execution environment sharing information on the basis of information regarding the user terminal or information regarding the service environment when execution environment sharing information associated with the corresponding contents service is at least two.

13. The method of claim 9, wherein in the acquiring of the location, location values of interested-party terminals accessed by interested parties having the social relationship with the user are additionally acquired and the acquiring of the location further includes:

extracting interested parties positioned within a predetermined distance from the user on the basis of the location values of the interested-party terminals; and

providing a community service with which the extracted interested parties and the user are commonly associated.

14. The method of claim 9, wherein the providing of the contents service includes:

selecting a predetermined event by user input among the tracked events;

transmitting access information of the user terminal to a provider server which registers the selected event;

determining whether a content associated with the selected event is present;

determining whether the contents service is provided on the basis of user input depending on the provided information in the case in which the content associated with the selected event is present, when information regarding the event is provided to the user terminal by the provider server;

analyzing the user terminal in the case in which the contents service is provided; and

transmitting information regarding the service execution environment to the user terminal at the time of transmitting the contents service when the user terminal is analyzed as a terminal which can execute the service.

15. The method of claim 9, further comprising registering events,

wherein the registering of the events includes:

receiving an event registration request from a provider computer which the provider accesses;

requesting event registration information for registering events to the provider computer when the event registration request is received and generating the received event registration information in an event profile format when the event registration information by the request is received;

inquiring whether a contents service to be registered simultaneously at the time of registering the events is present and judging whether the contents service is registered on the basis of a reply to the inquiry; and

registering the events so as to be dynamically tracked on the basis of the generated event registration information.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the registering of the events further includes:

requesting the contents service registration information for registering the contents service to the provider computer in the case in which the contents service to be registered is present and generating the received contents service registration information in a package registration profile format when the contents service registration information by the request is received; and

generating terminal information regarding a terminal which can execute the contents service,

wherein in the registering, the events are registered so as to be dynamically tracked on the basis of the generated contents service registration information and the generated terminal information.