Method and system for distributing business application and contents for mobile equipment using application store and wireless AP

• US 9,092,812 B2
• Filed: 02/01/2012
• Issued: 07/28/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 02/01/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: KT Corporation
• Original Assignee: KT Corporation
• Inventors: Kim, Jee Eun, Kim, Hye Jung, Oh, Chae Eun
• Primary Examiner(s): Rosen, Nicholas D
• Application Number:
  US13/363,976
• Publication Number:
  US 20120197765A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,273 Days
• Field of Search: 705/26.1, 705/27.1, 455/456.1, 455/456.2, 455/456.3, 455/456.6
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0601 Electronic shopping [e-shopping]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0641 Shopping interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 64/00 Locating users or terminals or network equipment for network management purposes, e.g. mobility management

Abstract

A method and a system that automatically searches an application store corresponding to the Internet Protocol (IP) address of a connected Access Point (AP) for applications and content with a smart mobile device (mobile terminal) by which a user can download the desired applications and that notifies a user of the results of the search, thus allowing the user to install the applications without requiring a separate search operation.

Claims

1. A method of distributing digital content using a mobile terminal, comprising:

searching, by the mobile terminal, for a plurality of internet access points; and

transmitting, by the mobile terminal, to an application store a request for content, wherein the request comprises a plurality of addresses including an address for each of the internet access points respectively, and

receiving, by the mobile terminal, the requested content from the application store, wherein the content is selected based on the addresses in the request.

2. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

comparing, by the mobile terminal, signal strengths received from the plurality of internet access points;

selecting a closest one of the plurality of the internet access points based on the signal strengths;

obtaining the address of the closest one of the plurality of internet access points; and

transmitting, from the mobile terminal to the application store, the obtained address.

3. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

comparing, by the mobile terminal, signal strengths received from a plurality of internet access points respectively;

selecting at least two of the plurality of the internet access points whose respective signal strengths are greater than or equal to a predetermined value;

obtaining, by the mobile terminal, respective addresses of the at least two selected internet access points, and

transmitting, from the mobile terminal to the application store, at least one of the obtained addresses.

4. The method according to claim 1,

wherein the application store comprises a storage unit which stores a table which links respective unique identifiers to a plurality of addresses of a plurality of respective internet access points,

wherein the application store selects at least one unique identifier which corresponds to at least one of the addresses provided by the mobile terminal based on the stored table,

wherein the application store transmits the selected one unique identifier to the mobile terminal, and

wherein if the mobile terminal requests to connect with a web page that provides access to the content, where the web page corresponds to the unique identifier, the mobile terminal is provided with the web page which allows access to the content.

5. The method according to claim 4, further comprising:

transmitting by the application store respective unique identifiers, corresponding to a plurality of IP addresses, to the mobile terminal based on the stored table, and

wherein if a list of the received unique identifiers is displayed on a display screen of the mobile terminal, a user interface is provided in which a user selects one of the received unique identifiers, the mobile terminal requests to connect to the web page based on the selected unique identifier, and the application store provides the requested web page, which provides the content to the mobile terminal.

6. The method according to claim 4, wherein if at least one of the unique identifiers is received by the mobile terminal, the mobile terminal transmits a notification request to a push server, receives a notification from the push Noti server, and the mobile terminal selects an option in the notification, the option indicating a request to receive a corresponding web page.

7. The method according to claim 6, wherein the push server comprises a storage unit which stores a table indicating whether an event which provides information about each of a plurality of mobile terminals, including the at least one mobile terminal, has been requested, and wherein if the information included in a message for the notification request received from the at least one mobile terminal has been registered in the storage unit in advance of the request, the push server provides a notification based on the notification request.

8. The method according to claim 1,

wherein the application store comprises a storage unit which stores a table which links respective unique identifiers to a plurality of addresses of a plurality of respective internet access points.

9. The method according to claim 1,

wherein the application store selects at least one unique identifier which corresponds to at least one of the addresses provided by the mobile terminal based on a stored table which links respective unique identifiers to a plurality of addresses of a plurality of respective internet access points.

10. The method according to claim 1,

wherein the application store transmits a selected one unique identifier to the mobile terminal.

11. The method according to claim 1,

wherein if the mobile terminal requests to connect with a web page that provides access to the content, where the web page corresponds to a unique identifier, transmitted from the application store, the mobile terminal is provided with the web page which allows access to the content.

12. A system for distributing digital content, comprising:

an application store server which provides the digital content to a mobile terminal,

wherein the application store server comprises;

a reception unit configured to receive a request with a plurality of addresses from the mobile terminal when the mobile terminal obtains the addresses of a plurality of internet access points; and

a content provision unit which searches and provides content corresponding to the request.

13. The system according to claim 12, wherein the mobile terminal compares strengths of signals received from the plurality of internet access points, obtains the address of the internet access point closest to the mobile terminal, and transmits the address of the internet access point closest to the mobile terminal to the application store server.

14. The system according to claim 12, wherein the application store server further comprises:

a transmission unit; and

a storage unit, which stores a table which links respective unique identifiers corresponding to the plurality of addresses,

wherein the content provision unit searches the storage unit for unique identifiers corresponding to the addresses, and transmits the unique identifiers to the mobile terminal via the transmission unit in conformity with a communication protocol, and

wherein when a connection request for the received unique identifiers is received from the mobile terminal, the content provision unit provides a corresponding web page which provides the content to the mobile terminal via the transmission unit in conformity with the communication protocol.

15. The system according to claim 14, wherein the content provision unit searches the database for respective unique identifiers corresponding to a plurality of IP addresses, and transmits found unique identifiers to the mobile terminal via the transmission unit in conformity with the communication protocol, and

when the connection request for a unique identifier selected from a list of the received unique identifiers is received from the mobile terminal, the content provision unit provides a web page for providing the content to the mobile terminal via the transmission unit in conformity with the communication protocol.

16. The system according to claim 14, wherein the mobile terminal comprises:

a processing unit which controls the mobile terminal such that, when the unique identifier is received, a notification request is transmitted by the mobile terminal to a push server, and when a notification is received from the push server, and the notification is displayed on a display screen of the mobile terminal; and

a web page activation unit, which, when a user selects to make a connection request, receives and displays the web page provided by the application store server.

17. A method of distributing digital content using a mobile terminal, comprising:

searching, by the mobile terminal, for an internet access point; and

transmitting, by the mobile terminal, to an application store a request for content, wherein the request comprises an address of the internet access point, and

receiving, by the mobile terminal, the requested content from the application store, wherein the content is selected based on the address in the request, wherein

the application store comprises;

a storage unit which stores a table which links respective unique identifiers to a plurality of addresses of a plurality of respective internet access points,

wherein the application store selects at least one unique identifier which corresponds to the address provided by the mobile terminal based on the stored table,

wherein the application store transmits the selected one unique identifier to the mobile terminal, and

wherein if the mobile terminal requests to connect with a web page that provides access to the content, where the web page corresponds to the unique identifier, the mobile terminal is provided with the web page which allows access to the content.

18. A system for distributing digital content, comprising:

an application store server which provides the digital content to a mobile terminal,

wherein the application store server comprises;

a reception unit configured to receive a request with an address from the mobile terminal when the mobile terminal obtains the address of an internet access point; and

a content provision unit which searches and provides content corresponding to the request;

wherein the application store server further comprises;

a transmission unit; and

a storage unit, which stores a table which links respective unique identifiers corresponding to a plurality of addresses,

wherein the content provision unit searches the storage unit for a unique identifier corresponding to the address of the internet access point, and transmits the unique identifiers to the mobile terminal via the transmission unit in conformity with a communication protocol, and

wherein when a connection request for the received unique identifiers is received from the mobile terminal, the content provision unit provides a corresponding web page which provides the content to the mobile terminal via the transmission unit in conformity with the communication protocol.