USER TERMINAL DEVICE, SERVER DEVICE, SYSTEM COMPRISING SAME, AND ADVERTISEMENT SERVICE METHOD THEREOF

• US 20150170210A1
• Filed: 06/11/2013
• Published: 06/18/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 06/11/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Rhee, Young-ho, Kim, Jae-hwan, Kim, Chang-won
• Application Number:
  US14/407,346
• Publication Number:
  US 20150170210A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0207 Discounts or incentives, e.g. coupons or rebates
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0241 Advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0267 Wireless devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/4594 Address books, i.e. directories containing contact information about correspondents telephone directories in user terminals H04M1/27453
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/724 User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/4878 Advertisement messages

Abstract

An advertisement service method is provided. The advertisement service method includes registering a contact number of at least one advertiser in a phonebook, receiving advertisement information issued from an advertiser registered in the phone book from a server device, alarming a reception of the received advertisement information, and displaying, on the user terminal device, the received advertisement information in response to a confirmation request signal regarding the received advertisement information being received.

Claims

1. A method of providing an advertisement service of a user terminal device, the method comprising:

registering a contact number of at least one advertiser in a phone book;

receiving advertisement information issued from an advertiser registered in the phone book from a server device;

alarming a reception of the received advertisement information; and

displaying, on the user terminal device, the received advertisement information in response to a confirmation request signal regarding the received advertisement information being received.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the alarming comprises:

displaying a number icon indicating a number of received advertisement information, which is not confirmed, on a home screen; and

displaying an alarm message regarding the unconfirmed advertisement information in response to the number icon being selected.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the alarming comprises:

displaying an alarm menu on a phone book screen; and

displaying an alarm message regarding unconfirmed advertisement information on the phone book screen in response to the alarm menu being selected.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the alarming comprises displaying a sliding dialogue window including an alarm message indicating that there is an unconfirmed advertisement message.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the registering comprises:

reading a Quick Response (QR) code or a bar code;

detecting contact information of an advertiser from the QR code or the bar code; and

adding the detected contact information to the phone book.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising, in response to the confirmation request signal regarding the received advertisement information not being input for a predetermined time, deleting the received advertisement information.

7-13. -13. (canceled)

14. A method of providing an advertisement service of a user terminal device, the method comprising:

displaying, on the user terminal device, a phone book screen including a contact information search area;

in response to a search word being input to the contact information search area, transmitting the search word to a server device;

receiving advertisement information corresponding to the search word from among advertisement information registered in a database of the server device;

searching for contact information corresponding to the search word from among contact information stored in the user terminal device; and

displaying the searched contact information and the received advertisement information on the phone book screen.

15. The method of claim 14, further comprising, in response to new contact information being stored on the user terminal device, transmitting the new contact information to the server device and registering the new contact information in the database of the server device.

16. The method of claim 14, wherein the received advertisement information is aligned and displayed on the phone book screen with reference to at least one of a distance from a location of the user terminal device, a number of registrations, a number of calls, and a number of recommendations.

17. A user terminal device, comprising:

a storage configured to store an application;

a display configured to display an execution screen of the application;

a communicator configured to perform communication with a server device; and

a controller configured to, in response to intrinsic information being input on the execution screen, transmit the intrinsic information to the server device, and to, in response to available information corresponding to the intrinsic information being registered in the server device, display an alarm message corresponding to the available information on the execution screen.

18. The user terminal device of claim 17, wherein the controller is further configured to, in response to the alarm message being selected, receive the available information from the server device and store the received available information in the storage so that a wallet program shares the received available information stored in the storage, and to, in response to the wallet program being executed, provide a settlement service which reflects the received available information by the wallet program.

19. The user terminal device of claim 17,

wherein the application is at least one of a phone book program, a calendar program, and a gallery program,

wherein the intrinsic information includes at least one of a phone book of the user terminal device, contact information of an advertiser stored in the phone book, schedule information written in a calendar screen, a photo stored in the user terminal device, and metadata of the photo, and

wherein the received available information includes at least one of a coupon, a stamp card, an invitation letter, and an event card.

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24. A server device, comprising:

a communication interface configured to perform communication with a shop management system and a user terminal device;

a shop database configured to record shop information received from the shop management system for each shop;

a user database configured to record user information received from the user terminal device for each user; and

a controller configured to compare the shop information recorded in the shop database and the user information recorded in the user database to search for matched information, and to, in response to matching the user information and the shop information being searched for, issue a coupon included in the searched shop information to a user terminal device corresponding to the searched user information.

25-44. -44. (canceled)