OPERATING METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DISASTER INFORMATION

• US 20160029194A1
• Filed: 07/09/2015
• Published: 01/28/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 07/24/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: PARK, Hey Young, BAE, Jong Kyu, JANG, Woo Hyuk, PARK, Jae Hyun, YOON, Yeo Rok, LEE, Ki Won, LEE, Je Hyun, LIM, Ki Young, CHOI, Jong Yeol
• Application Number:
  US14/795,259
• Publication Number:
  US 20160029194A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6209 to a single file or object, e.g. in a secure envelope, encrypted and accessed using a key, or with access control rules appended to the object itself
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2111 Location-sensitive, e.g. geographical location, GPS
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2149 Restricted operating environment
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/265 Personal security, identity or safety
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• 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 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/90 Services for handling of emergency or hazardous situations, e.g. earthquake and tsunami warning systems [ETWS]

Abstract

Disclosed is an electronic device including a memory storing collected location information of the electronic device, and a processor configured to convert the collected location information into code information which represents a specific area of the earth. The electronic device transmits the code information to a disaster information providing device for which location information management is required in association with the provision of disaster information. Further disclosed is a disaster information providing system including the providing device and a plurality of mobile electronic devices. Disaster-related information is provided to those devices determined to be located within a damage zone, as determined by location information obtained by the respective devices and provided to the disaster information providing device.

Claims

1. An electronic device comprising:

a memory storing collected location information of the electronic device; and

a processor coupled to the memory, and configured to convert the collected location information into code information representing a specific area, and to transmit the code information to a disaster information providing device for which location information management is required in association with the provision of disaster information.

2. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the current code information is transmitted to the disaster information providing device in response to detecting a change in the code information corresponding to a change in location of the electronic device.

3. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the processor converts the code information into Geohash information.

4. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the processor receives, from the disaster information providing device, disaster-related information corresponding to a disaster that has occurred in a location corresponding to the code information.

5. The electronic device of claim 4, further comprising a display, wherein the processor outputs the received disaster-related information in different display forms to the display according to a grade of the received disaster-related information.

6. The electronic device of claim 5, wherein the processor controls so that an image in which a plurality of damage zones arranged around a disaster occurrence place and a current location of the electronic device among the plurality of damage zones are marked is output to the display.

7. The electronic device of claim 5, wherein an image corresponding to damage zones of which the number and sizes are differently defined according to at least one of the disaster occurrence place, a disaster type, or a disaster scale is output to the display.

8. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the processor controls collection of the location information in real time, periodically at a certain period, or in response to base station switching or specified event occurrence.

9. A disaster information providing device comprising:

a server storage module storing disaster information comprising at least one of a disaster occurrence place, a disaster type, or a disaster scale, and storing a plurality of code information corresponding to locations of respective electronic devices; and

a server control module coupled to the server storage module and configured to calculate at least one damage zone on a basis of at least one of the disaster occurrence place, the disaster type, or the disaster scale, and to transmit disaster-related information to a subset of the electronic devices each having a location matched to the damage zone, as determined by the code information.

10. The disaster information providing device of claim 9, wherein the server control module determines a plurality of cells each having an area at least partly within the damage control area, and each cell identifiable by a respective code of the code information.

11. The disaster information providing device of claim 10, wherein, upon receiving location information comprising latitude and longitude information from the electronic device, the server control module calculates the code information corresponding to the location information and transmits the code information to the electronic device, and upon receiving a code information registration request from the electronic device, the server control module stores the code information of the electronic device in the server storage module.

12. The disaster information providing device of claim 9, wherein the server control module defines at least one of the number of the damage zones or sizes of the damage zones differently according to a population density of the disaster occurrence place, the disaster type, or the disaster scale.

13. The disaster information providing device of claim 9, wherein the server control module preferentially filters the code information of electronic devices on a basis of the code information corresponding to a damage zone adjacent to the disaster occurrence place among a plurality of damage zones to calculate identification information of the electronic devices to which the disaster-related information is able to be transmitted.

14. The disaster information providing device of claim 9, wherein the server control module preferentially transmits the disaster-related information to the damage zone adjacent to the disaster occurrence place among a plurality of damage zones.

15. The disaster information providing device of claim 9, wherein the server control module generates the disaster-related information to be transmitted to a plurality of damage zones with different contents and at different times.

16. The disaster information providing device of claim 15, wherein the server control module operates at least one buffer for storing the disaster-related information to be transmitted to each damage zone at different times.

17. The disaster information providing device of claim 9, wherein the server control module determines the number of digits of the code information according to at least one of the disaster occurrence place, the disaster type, or the disaster scale, the number of digits of the code information being associated with a size of a cell area within which an electronic device is positioned.

18. The disaster information providing device of claim 9, wherein the server control module determines the number of digits of the code information to be applied according to a size of the damage zone, the number of digits of the code information being associated with a size of a cell area within which an electronic device is positioned.

19. The disaster information providing device of claim 9, wherein the server control module differentiates the number of digits of the code information of the electronic device to store the code information for each level, the number of digits of the code information being associated with a size of a cell area within which an electronic device is positioned.

20. The disaster information providing device of claim 9, wherein the server control module compares a radius of the damage zone defined according to the disaster occurrence, the disaster type, and the disaster type with a distance from a center of the disaster occurrence place to a nearest corner of a cell corresponding to the code information, and wherein a cell of which the distance is shorter than the radius is designated a cell at least partly within the damage zone, and disaster information is transmitted to devices within the designated cell as determined by the code information.