Location-based service system and method for generating secondary information

• US 8,831,638 B2
• Filed: 10/06/2011
• Issued: 09/09/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 10/07/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Naver Corporation
• Original Assignee: NHN Business Platform Corp. (Naver Corporation)
• Inventors: Yang, Byoung Seok, Kim, Jin Sung
• Primary Examiner(s): TAYLOR, NATHAN SCOTT
• Application Number:
  US13/267,359
• Publication Number:
  US 20120270565A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,069 Days
• Field of Search: 455/456.3, 709/206, 701/424, 701/532, 701/517, 701/420, 34099519-99521, 340/990
• US Class Current: 455/456.3
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/185 by embedding added-value information into content, e.g. geo-tagging

Abstract

Provided are a location-based service system and method for generating secondary information. The location-based service system, which includes a processor, may include an information receiving unit to receive location information corresponding to a location in a route of a user, and an information adding unit to add to multimedia content that the user created, using the processor, at least a part of the received location information and location-related information which is associated with the received location information.

Claims

1. A location-based service system including a processor, comprising:

an information receiving unit to receive, from a database of the system, location information associated with a location selected by a user of a user terminal and corresponding to a location in a route of the user terminal, the route of the user terminal being determined based on at least one tracked location of the user terminal;

an additional information generation unit to generate additional location-related information using the received location information;

an additional information providing unit to provide the additional location-related information to the user, so that the user selects at least a portion of the additional location-related information to add to multimedia content generated by the user; and

an information adding unit, using the processor, to add the received location information and the additional location-related information selected by the user to the multimedia content generated by the user;

wherein the additional information generation unit includes an extraction unit to extract a keyword from the received location information, and a generation unit to generate, as the additional location-related information, a result of searching for the extracted keyword.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the additional location-related information comprises map information indicating the tracked location selected by the user.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the information receiving unit further receives information associated with a transportation apparatus which the user is on board or the user desires to get on board in relation to the route.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the information adding unit further adds the information associated with the transportation apparatus to the user-generated multimedia content.

5. The system of claim 3, further comprising:

a transportation information providing unit to provide the information associated with the transportation apparatus to the user.

6. A method for providing location-based service using a processor, comprising:

receiving, from a database of the system, location information associated with a location selected by a user of a user terminal and corresponding to a location in a route of the user terminal, the route of the user terminal having at least one tracked location;

generating, using the processor, additional location-related information using the received location information;

providing the additional location-related information to the user, so that the user selects at least a portion of the additional location-related information to add to user-generated multimedia content; and

adding, using the processor, the received location information and the additional location-related information selected by the user to the user-generated multimedia content;

wherein the generating of the additional location-related information comprises extracting a keyword from the received location information, and generating, as the additional location-related information, a result of searching for the extracted keyword.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the location-related information comprises map information indicating the tracked location selected by the user.

8. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

receiving information associated with a transportation apparatus which the user is on board or the user desires to get on board in relation to the route.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

adding the information associated with the transportation apparatus to the generated multimedia content.

10. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

providing the information associated with the transportation apparatus to the user.

11. A method for providing location-based service using a processor, comprising:

receiving, from a database of the system, location information associated with a location selected by a user of a user terminal and corresponding to a location in a route of the user terminal, the route of the user terminal having at least one tracked location;

generating, using the processor, additional location-related information using the received location information;

providing the additional location-related information to the user, so that the user selects at least a portion of the additional location-related information to add to the user generated multimedia content; and

adding, using the processor, the received location information and the additional location-related information selected by the user to the user-generated multimedia content,

wherein the generating additional location-related information includes;

extracting a keyword from the received location information; and

generating, as the additional location-related information, a result of searching for the extracted keyword.