Method, terminal, server, and system for providing a service

• US 9,135,648 B2
• Filed: 06/22/2012
• Issued: 09/15/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 06/24/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: KT Corporation
• Original Assignee: KT Corporation
• Inventors: Lee, Sang-Bum
• Primary Examiner(s): Phan, Hai
• Assistant Examiner(s): Bousono, Orlando
• Application Number:
  US13/530,980
• Publication Number:
  US 20120326848A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,180 Days
• Field of Search: 340 101- 1052, 3405721-5729, 235/375
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/51 Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/60 Scheduling or organising the servicing of application requests, e.g. requests for application data transmissions using the analysis and optimisation of the required network resources admission control or resource allocation H04L47/70
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/18 Information format or content conversion, e.g. adaptation by the network of the transmitted or received information for the purpose of wireless delivery to users or terminals

Abstract

A method, terminal, server, and a system for providing a service are provided. In a method of providing a plurality of applications pursuant to identifying a tag by a user terminal, the user terminal identifies the tag to obtain tag information and transmits a request for a service to a service providing server, which then obtains a plurality of application identification information corresponding to the tag information and generates and provides to the user terminal an applications list corresponding to the plurality of application identification information.

Claims

1. A system for providing a service, comprising:

an application code storing server configured to map at least one from among a service category and application identification information in tag information, and to store the at least one from among the service category and the application identification information;

an object directory service (ODS) server configured to obtain a plurality of application identification information corresponding to the tag information from the application code storing server pursuant to a service provision request of a user terminal that includes the tag information; and

a service providing server configured to generate an applications list including the plurality of application identification information and transmit the applications list to the user terminal,

wherein the service provision request further comprises user terminal information,

wherein the service providing server is configured to store a selection frequency pursuant to the plurality of application identification information in a database, the selection frequency relating to a number of times applications are selected, and

wherein the applications list is generated by arranging extracted application identification information pursuant to the user terminal information in an order of the selection frequency.

2. The system claim 1, wherein the plurality of application identification information are all related to a same service category.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the user terminal information is at least one from among gender, age and location.

4. The system claim 1, wherein the user terminal registers the tag information in the ODS server and registers, in the application code storing server, the at least one from among the service category and the application identification information.

5. The system claim 1, wherein one entity registers the tag information in the ODS server and another entity registers, in the application code storing server, the at least one from among the service category and the application identification information.

6. A method of providing a plurality of applications pursuant to identifying a tag by a user terminal, the method comprising:

obtaining tag information by identifying a tag;

receiving a service provision request including the tag information from the user terminal, the service provision request being received by a service providing server;

obtaining a plurality of application identification information corresponding to the tag information pursuant to the service provision request, the plurality of application identification information being obtained by the service providing server; and

generating an applications list including the plurality of application identification information and providing the applications list to the user terminal, the applications list being generated and provided by the service providing server,

wherein the generating of the applications list comprises;

obtaining terminal information of the user terminal;

storing, by the service providing server, a selection frequency pursuant to the plurality of application identification information in a database, the selection frequency relating to a number of times applications are selected; and

generating the applications list by arranging the plurality of application identification information in an order of the selection frequency corresponding to the terminal information.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the tag is identified by the user terminal.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein the obtaining of the plurality of application identification information is performed by obtaining all of the application identification information of which a service category is the same, and which corresponds to the tag information.

9. A method of providing a plurality of applications pursuant to identifying a tag by a user terminal, the method comprising:

obtaining tag information by identifying a tag;

receiving a service provision request including the tag information from the user terminal, the service provision request being received by a service providing server;

obtaining a plurality of application identification information corresponding to the tag information pursuant to the service provision request, the plurality of application identification information being obtained by the service providing server; and

generating an applications list including the plurality of application identification information and providing the applications list to the user terminal, the applications list being generated and provided by the service providing server,

wherein the generating of the applications list comprises;

checking resolution information of the user terminal based on the terminal information of the user terminal; and

if a quantity of extracted application identification information exceeds a quantity of output based on the resolution information, generating the applications list by selecting an amount of the application identification information among the extracted application identification information that is less than the quantity of output, in an order of selection frequency, the selection frequency relating to a number of times applications are selected.