SERVER AND SERVICE PROVIDING METHOD THEREOF

• US 20130204982A1
• Filed: 09/28/2011
• Published: 08/08/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Lee, Nam-geol, Lee, Il-Ho, Kim, Seon-hak
• Application Number:
  US13/876,977
• Publication Number:
  US 20130204982A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/219
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/08 for authentication of entities cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication H04L9/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0876 based on the identity of the terminal or configuration, e.g. MAC address, hardware or software configuration or device fingerprint
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1063 Application servers providing network services systems providing special services to telephonic subscribers H04M3/42
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/60 Subscription-based services using application servers or record carriers, e.g. SIM application toolkits

Abstract

Methods and apparatus are provided for providing a hub service is provided. Access is provided to a user terminal device. It is determined whether the user terminal device is a pre-registered device. A service hub program set for the user terminal is transmitted from the server to the user terminal device, when the user terminal device is the pre-registered device. At least one application program corresponding to the service hub program and the user terminal device is transmitted from the server to the user terminal device.

Claims

1. A service method of a server for providing a hub service, the service method comprising the steps of:

providing access to a user terminal device;

determining whether the user terminal device is a pre-registered device;

transmitting a service hub program set for the user terminal from the server to the user terminal device, when the user terminal device is the pre-registered device; and

transmitting at least one application program corresponding to the service hub program and the user terminal device, from the server to the user terminal device.

2. The service method of claim 1, wherein the service hub program is a program adaptively generated for an organization according to a request of the organization to which a user of the user terminal device is belonged, the service hub program generates an icon container comprising an icon for the application program in the user terminal device, and the at least one application program is a program that is selectively used for the service hub program and the user terminal device.

3. The service method of claim 1, wherein determining whether the user terminal device is the pre-registered device comprises:

receiving unique information and user information of the user terminal device, from the user terminal device;

determining whether the user terminal device is a device registered by an organization that requests the hub service for the server by comparing the unique information and the user information with pre-stored device information; and

transmitting an authentication result to the user terminal device,

wherein the service hub program is transmitted to the user terminal device when a transmission request is received from the user terminal device that has received authentication result.

4. The service method of claim 1, further comprising:

when the user terminal device is the pre-registered device, transmitting a first list of at least one preset application program corresponding to the service hub program and the user terminal device, and a second list of icons of the at least one application program, to the user terminal device.

5. The service method of claim 4, wherein transmitting the at least one application program to the user terminal device comprises:

receiving a download request or an update request for at least one of the at least one preset application program of the first list; and

transmitting application programs or update data to the user terminal device according to the download request or the update request.

6. The service method of claim 4, wherein the first list is a list of at least one application program to provide for a group or a user level of the user among all of application programs provided to an organization of the user of the user terminal device.

7. The service method of claim 6, wherein the first list and the second list are regenerated when at least one of the user terminal device, the organization, the group, and an application program setting status is changed.

8. The service method of claim 1, further comprising:

limiting access of the user terminal device belonging to a user party, when a load occurs in the user party.

9. The service method of claim 1, further comprising:

limiting the hub service, when a load occurs in a particular service.

10. The service method of claim 1, further comprising:

storing backup information of at least one of unique information of the user terminal device, user information of the user terminal device, service hub program information provided for the user terminal device, and application program information for the service hub program; and

providing the backup information as sharing information.

11. The service method of claim 1, wherein transmitting the application program to the user terminal device comprises:

receiving a request for checking whether to download or update the application program, from the user terminal device;

generating a list of application programs to newly download or update according to the request and sending the list to the user terminal device; and

when receiving a download request or an update request for at least one of the application programs of the list, transmitting the requested application program or update data to the user terminal device.

12. The service method of claim 1, further comprising:

periodically checking whether a state of the user terminal device is changed.

13. The service method of claim 12, further comprising:

when the state of the user terminal device is changed, generating a list of application programs to delete among the at least one application program provided to the user terminal device, and transmitting the list to the user terminal device.

14. The service method of claim 1, further comprising:

when the state of the user terminal device is changed, transmitting an instruction to delete at least one of the at least one application program provided to the user terminal device, the service hub program, and data generating in every program execution, to the user terminal device.

15. The service method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving location information that occurs when the service hub program is initially executed in the user terminal device; and

selecting the service hub program to use in the user terminal device and an application program to be managed in a lump by the service hub program using unique information and the location information of the user terminal device.

16. A server for providing a hub service, comprising:

a contents server unit for storing service hub programs and application programs;

a front server unit for, when a user terminal device is provided access, determining whether the user terminal device is a pre-registered device; and

a main server unit for, when the user terminal device is the pre-registered device, controlling the front server unit to transmit a service hub program corresponding to the user terminal device and at least one application program corresponding to the service hub program and the user terminal device, among the service hub programs and the application programs stored to the contents server unit, to the user terminal device.

17. The server of claim 16, wherein the service hub program is a program adaptively generated for an organization according to a request of the organization to which a user of the user terminal device is belonged, the service hub program generates an icon container comprising an icon for the application program in the user terminal device, and the at least one application program is a program that is selectively used for the service hub program and the user terminal device.

18. The server of claim 16, wherein the front server unit comprises:

an authentication manager for receiving unique information and user information of the user terminal device from the user terminal device, determining whether the user terminal device is a device registered by an organization that requests the hub service for the server by comparing the unique information with pre-stored device information, and transmitting an authentication result to the user terminal device; and

a service handler for, when a transmission request is received from the user terminal device that has received the authentication result, transmitting the service hub program corresponding to the user terminal device, to the user terminal device.

19. The server of claim 16, wherein the front server unit comprises:

an access limiter for, when a load occurs in a user party, limiting access of the user terminal device belonging to the user party.

20. The server of claim 19, wherein the main server unit comprises:

an access limit policy establisher for establishing and executing an access limit policy for controlling operations of the access limiter.

21. The server of claim 16, wherein the front server unit comprises:

a service limiter for, when a load occurs in a service, limiting the service.

22. The server of claim 21, wherein the main server unit comprises:

a service limit policy establisher for establishing and executing a service limit policy for controlling operations of the service limiter.

23. The server of claim 16, further comprising:

an open server unit for storing backup information of at least one of unique information of the user terminal device, user information of the user terminal device, service hub program information provided for the user terminal device, and application program information for the service hub program, and providing the backup information as sharing information.

24. The server of claim 16, wherein, when receiving a request for checking whether to download or update the application program from the user terminal device, the service handler generates and transmits a list of application programs to newly download or update, to the user terminal device, and when receiving a download request or an update request for at least one of the application programs of the list, the service handler transmits the requested application program or update data to the user terminal device.

25. The server of claim 16, wherein, when a location of the user terminal device leaves an effective area, the main server unit disables the service hub program or at least one application program for the service hub program with respect to the user terminal device.

26. The server of claim 16, wherein the main server unit periodically checks whether a state of the user terminal device is changed.

27. The server of claim 26, wherein, when the state of the user terminal device is changed, the front server unit generates a list of application programs to delete among the at least one application program provided to the user terminal device, and transmits the list to the user terminal device.

28. The server of claim 16, wherein, when the state of the user terminal device is changed, the front server unit transmits an instruction to delete at least one of the at least one application program provided to the user terminal device, the service hub program, and data generating in every program execution, to the user terminal device.

29. The server of claim 16, wherein the front server unit receives location information that occurs when the service hub program is initially executed in the user terminal device, and selects the service hub program to use in the user terminal device and an application program to be managed in a lump by the service hub program using unique information and the location information of the user terminal device.

30. The server of claim 16, wherein the main server unit provides the front server unit with information relating to the service hub program to provide to the organization of the user of the user terminal device and information relating to the at least one application program to provide to the user, and the front server unit transmits the service hub program and the at least one application program to the user terminal device according to the provided information.