SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROVIDING ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ABOUT GROUP OF DEVICES

• US 20140068017A1
• Filed: 08/29/2013
• Published: 03/06/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 08/30/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: LEE, Hyun-jung
• Application Number:
  US14/013,363
• Publication Number:
  US 20140068017A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/219
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0241 Advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]

Abstract

A system and method of providing additional information with respect to a group of devices. A method of receiving additional information with respect to a group including first and second devices, the method performed by the first device, includes operations of receiving user-interested information from a second device; obtaining common interest information with respect to a user of the first device and a user of the second device, based on user-interested information of the first device and the user-interested information of the second device; forming a group based on the common interest information with respect to the first device and the second device; providing the common interest information and group information about the group to a server; and receiving the additional information, with respect to the common interest information, from the server.

Claims

1. A method of receiving additional information with respect to a group comprising first and second devices, the method comprising:

receiving, by a processor, user-interested information from the second device;

obtaining common interest information with respect to a user of the first device and a user of the second device, based on user-interested information of the first device and the received user-interested information of the second device;

forming a group based on the obtained common interest information;

providing the common interest information and information about the formed group to a server; and

receiving additional information, with respect to the common interest information, from the server.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the method is performed by the first device, and

wherein the group is formed based on the obtained common interest information with respect to the first device and the second device.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the additional information is provided from the server to the second device included in the group.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the receiving of the user-interested information from the second device comprises receiving the user-interested information from the second device via near field communication.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the user-interested information comprises at least one of an interest field, a gender, an age, a profession, a hobby, a relation, an area, a content usage history, an application usage history, and a phone-call time that relate to a user.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the user-interested information is generated based on a user input via a user interface.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein, when the number of devices comprised in the group is equal to or greater than a preset number, the forming of the group further comprises forming a sub-group of the group.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the obtaining of the common interest information comprises generating the common interest information based on similarity between items included in the user-interested information of the first device and the user-interested information of the second device.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the information about the formed group comprises at least one of a plurality of pieces of information about an age, a profession, a main interest, and an area that represent the formed group.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the additional information comprises at least one of advertisement information, coupon information, and local information determined based on the obtained common interest information.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the information about the formed group comprises information about a number of devices comprised in the group, and

wherein the additional information varies according to the number of the devices comprised in the group.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein, when the number of the devices comprised in the group is equal to or greater than a preset number, the additional information comprises predetermined coupon information.

13. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving user-interested information from a third device;

updating the common interest information based on the user-interested information of the first device, the user-interested information of the second device, and the user-interested information of the third device; and

updating the group based on the updated common interest information.

47. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program which, when executed by a computer, performs the method of claim 1.

14. A method of providing additional information with respect to a group comprising first and second devices, the method comprising:

receiving common interest information and group information from the first device;

determining the additional information based on the common interest information and the group information; and

providing the additional information to the first device,

wherein the common interest information is generated by the first device, based on user-interested information of the first device and user-interested information of the second device.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the method is performed by a server;

wherein the group information is about a group formed by the first device; and

wherein the group is formed by the first device, based on the common interest information.

16. The method of claim 14, further comprising providing the additional information to the second device included in the group.

17. The method of claim 14, wherein the user-interested information of the second device is provided from the second device to the first device via near field communication.

18. The method of claim 14, wherein the user-interested information comprises at least one of an interest field, a gender, an age, a profession, a hobby, a relation, an area, a content usage history, an application usage history, and a phone-call time that are related to a user.

19. The method of claim 14, wherein, when the number of devices comprised in the group is equal to or greater than a preset number, a sub-group of the group is formed by the first device.

20. The method of claim 14, wherein the common interest information is generated by the first device, based on similarity between items that are comprised in the user-interested information of the first device and the user-interested information of the second device.

21. The method of claim 14, wherein the group information comprises at least one of a plurality of pieces of information about an age, a profession, a main interest, and an area that represent the group.

22. The method of claim 14, wherein the additional information comprises at least one of advertisement information, coupon information, and local information that are determined based on the common interest information.

23. The method of claim 14, wherein the group information comprises information about the number of devices comprised in the group, and

wherein the additional information varies according to the number of the devices comprised in the group.

24. The method of claim 23, wherein, when the number of the devices comprised in the group is equal to or greater than a preset number, the additional information comprises predetermined coupon information.

48. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program which, when executed by a computer, performs the method of claim 14.

25. A method of providing additional information with respect to a group comprising first and second devices, the method comprising:

receiving user-interested information from each of the first device and the second device;

obtaining common interest information with respect to a user of the first device and a user of the second device, based on the received user-interested information of the first device and the received user-interested information of the second device;

forming a group based on the obtained common interest information;

generating the additional information based on the obtained common interest information and group information about the group; and

providing the additional information to the first device and the second device.

26. The method of claim 25, wherein the method is performed by a server;

and

wherein the forming of the group is based on the obtained common interest information with respect to the first device and the second device.

27. The method of claim 25, wherein the user-interested information comprises at least one of an interest field, a gender, an age, a profession, a hobby, a relation, an area, a content usage history, an application usage history, and a phone-call time that are related to a user.

28. The method of claim 25, wherein, when the number of devices comprised in the group is equal to or greater than a preset number, the forming of the group further comprises forming a sub-group of the group.

29. The method of claim 25, wherein the obtaining of the common interest information comprises generating the common interest information based on similarity between items that are comprised in the user-interested information of the first device and the user-interested information of the second device.

30. The method of claim 25, wherein the group information comprises at least one of a plurality of pieces of information about an age, a profession, a main interest, and an area that represent the group.

31. The method of claim 25, wherein additional information comprises at least one of advertisement information, coupon information, and local information that are determined based on the common interest information.

32. The method of claim 25, wherein the group information comprises information about the number of devices comprised in the group, and

wherein the additional information varies according to the number of the devices comprised in the group.

33. The method of claim 32, wherein, when the number of the devices comprised in the group that is formed by the server is equal to or greater than a preset number, the additional information comprises predetermined coupon information.

34. The method of claim 25, further comprising:

receiving user-interested information from a third device;

updating the common interest information based on the user-interested information of the first device, the user-interested information of the second device, and the user-interested information of the third device; and

updating the group based on the updated common interest information.

49. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program which, when executed by a computer, performs the method of claim 25.

35. A device for receiving additional information with respect to a group of devices from a server, the device comprising:

an interest information obtaining unit to obtain user-interested information from another device;

a common interest information obtaining unit to obtain common interest information with respect to a user of the device and a user of the other device, based on user-interested information of the device and the user-interested information of the other device;

a group forming unit to form a group of devices based on the common interest information with respect to the device and the other device;

an information providing unit to provide the common interest information and group information about the group to a server; and

an additional information receiving unit to receive the additional information, with respect to the common interest information, from the server.

36. A server for providing additional information with respect to a group of devices, the server comprising:

a common interest information obtaining unit to obtain common interest information from a first device;

an additional information determining unit to determine the additional information based on the common interest information and group information about a group that is formed by the first device; and

an additional information providing unit to provide the additional information to the first device,

wherein the common interest information is obtained by the first device, based on user-interested information of the first device and user-interested information of a second device.

37. The server of claim 36, wherein the group of devices is formed by the first device, based on the common interest information.

38. A server for providing additional information with respect to a group of devices, the server comprising:

an interest information receiving unit to receive user-interested information from each of a first device and a second device;

a common interest information obtaining unit to obtain common interest information with respect to a user of the first device and a user of the second device, based on the user-interested information of the first device and the user-interested information of the second device;

a group of devices forming unit to form a group based on the common interest information with respect to the first device and the second device;

an additional information determining unit to determine the additional information based on the common interest information and group information about the group; and

an additional information providing unit to provide the additional information to the first device and the second device.

39. A method of providing additional information with respect to a group of devices, the method comprising:

providing advertisement information to a first device;

including the first device into the group, when the advertisement information is output from the first device; and

providing the additional information with respect to the group to the first device.

40. The method of claim 39, wherein the method is performed by a server.

41. The method of claim 39, further comprising receiving user-interested information of the first device from the first device, and

wherein the including of the first device comprises including the first device into the group, based on the user-interested information and common interest information with respect to the group.

42. The method of claim 41, wherein the additional information is generated based on at least one of the user-interested information, the common interest information with respect to the group, and group information about the group.

43. The method of claim 41, wherein the including of the first device comprises including the first device into the group, based on similarity between items that are comprised in the user-interested information and the common interest information with respect to the group.

44. The method of claim 42, wherein the group information comprises at least one of a plurality of pieces of information about an age, a profession, a main interest, and an area that represent the group.

45. The method of claim 41, wherein the user-interested information comprises at least one of an interest field, a gender, an age, a profession, a hobby, a relation, an area, a content usage history, an application usage history, and a phone-call time that are related to a user.

46. The method of claim 39, further comprising forming a sub-group of the group, when the number of devices comprised in the group is equal to or greater than a preset number.