System for managing relationship and history of combined space of interest (SOI) object and content

• US 9,460,114 B2
• Filed: 09/14/2012
• Issued: 10/04/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 05/15/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group)
• Original Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group)
• Inventors: Park, Cheol-Woo
• Primary Examiner(s): Yen, Syling
• Application Number:
  US13/617,706
• Publication Number:
  US 20130018883A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,481 Days
• Field of Search: 707/736, 707/706, 707/713, 707/722, 707/758, 707/781, 707/999.005, 340/932.2, 701/533
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/29 Geographical information databases

Abstract

A system for managing a relationship or a history of a space of interest (SOI) containing information of a space having a certain area or structure and a content, the system comprising: an SOI-content selection unit configured to newly generate a desired SOI and contents or select the desired SOI or contents among existing SOIs or contents; a term of use setting unit configured to set a duration of use or a theme of use of the generated or selected SOI and contents; and an SOI-content relationship management unit configured to generate contents of an SOI that connects the generated or selected SOI and contents and configured to manage the contents of the SOI.

Claims

1. A system for managing a relationship or a history of a space of interest (SOI) containing information of a space having a certain area or structure and contents, the system comprising:

a computer having a memory that stores computer program instructions, which when executed by a processor, cause the computer to operate as a plurality of units including;

an SOI-content selection unit configured to (i) newly generate a desired SOI or contents or (ii) select a desired SOI or contents among existing SOIs or contents;

a term of use setting unit configured to set one or more selected from the group consisting of;

a duration of use and a theme of use of the generated-or-selected SOI and contents;

an SOI-content relationship management unit configured to (i) generate SOI-content relationship information that indicates a relationship between the generated-or-selected SOI and the contents and (ii) manage the SOI-content relationship information;

an SOI-content history management unit configured to manage a change history over time when at least one of the SOI, the contents, and the SOI-content relationship information is changed by storing change history information including a time at which the change occurs; and

an SOI-content history recovery unit configured to search for specific changes within the change history in response to an external request indicating a desired time or range of time, identify one or more specific changes within the change history associated with the desired time or range of time based on the stored change history information, and display information associated with the one or more identified specific changes,

wherein the SOI comprises (i) an SOI ID that specifies the SOI and (ii) one or more selected from a group consisting of;

location information that indicates a location of the SOI, exterior appearance information that indicates an exterior appearance of the SOI, and SOI time information that indicates time at which the SOI is generated.

2. The system according to claim 1, wherein, when the theme of use includes a plurality of SOIs and the SOI is included in the theme of use, SOI-SOI relationship information is created that indicates a relationship between the SOI and at least one of the other SOIs.

3. The system according to claim 2, wherein the SOI-SOI relationship information includes an SOI sequence number that sequentially indicates a relationship among the plurality of the SOIs.

4. The system according to claim 1, wherein the contents comprises a content ID that specifies the contents.

5. The system according to claim 1, wherein the contents comprise one or more selected from the group consisting of:

content information that indicates the contents and content time information that indicates a time at which the contents were generated.

6. The system according to claim 1, wherein, when the theme of use includes one or more contents, and the content is included in the theme of use, content-content information is created that indicates a relationship between the content and at least one of the other contents.

7. The system according to claim 6, wherein the content-content relationship information comprises:

a first content ID that specifies the content; and

a second content ID that specifies the other content included in the theme of use.

8. The system according to claim 6, wherein the content-content relationship information includes a content sequence number that indicates a relationship among the plurality of the contents according to contents of the theme of use.

9. The system according to claim 1, wherein the SOI-content relationship management unit manages the contents of the SOI through (i) the SOI-content relationship information indicating the relationship between the generated-or-selected SOI and contents included in the contents of the SOI and (ii) SOI-content property information indicating display property of the contents of the SOI.

10. The system according to claim 9, wherein each of the SOI-content relationship information and the SOI-content property information include a relationship ID, which is directly mapped to the generated-or-selected SOI and contents.

11. The system according to claim 10, wherein the relationship ID comprises a SOI ID of the generated-or-selected SOI or a content ID of the generated-or-selected content.

12. The system according to claim 9, wherein the SOI-content relationship information comprises:

a relation user ID indicating a user who requests for connection between the generated-or-selected SOI and contents; and

a relation mapping time indicating a time at which the contents of the SOI were generated.

13. The system according to claim 1, wherein the theme of use includes a plurality of contents of SOIs and the SOI-content relationship information includes a content of SOI sequence number that sequentially indicates a relationship among the plurality of the SOIs.

14. The system according to claim 9, wherein the SOI-content property information comprises:

display device information indicating a type of a display device on which the contents of the SOI are displayed.

15. The system according to claim 10, wherein the SOI-content property information comprises one or more selected from the group consisting of:

display information for visually displaying the contents of the SOI and scale information indicating a map scale of a map on which the contents of the SOI are displayed.

16. The system according to claim 15, wherein the display information includes information about one or more selected from the group consisting of:

a type, a color, and a thickness of a line for visually representing the contents of the SOI, wherein the type, the color, the thickness of the line is controlled in response to the scale information or display device information.

17. The system according to claim 10, wherein the SOI-content relationship information and the SOI-content property information are modifiable in response to an external request.

18. The system according to claim 10, wherein the SOI-content history management unit is configured to determine, when at least one of the SOI, the contents, the SOI-content relationship information and the SOI-content property information is changed, whether a change is to be managed as the change history and configured to store a corresponding change that is determined to be managed as the change history in a change history database (DB) according to a type thereof.

19. A method for managing a relationship or a history of a space of interest (SOI) containing information of a space having a certain area or structure and contents, the method comprising:

newly generating, by a computer having a memory that stores computer program instructions, a desired SOI or contents or selecting the desired SOI or contents among existing SOIs or contents;

setting, by the computer, one or more selected from the group consisting of;

a duration of use and a theme of use of the generated-or-selected SOI and contents;

generating, by the computer, SOI-content relationship information that indicates a relationship between the generated-or-selected SOI and the contents and managing the SOI-content relationship information;

managing, by the computer, a change history over time when at least one of the SOI, the contents, and the SOI-content relationship information is changed by storing change history information including a time at which the change occurs;

searching, by the computer, for specific changes within the change history in response to an external request indicating a desired time or range of time;

identifying, by the computer, one or more specific change, within the change history associated with the desired time or range of time based on the stored change history information;

displaying, by the computer, information associated with the one or more identified specific changes,

wherein the SOI comprises (i) an SOI ID that specifies the SOI and (ii) one or more selected from a group consisting of;

location information that indicates a location of the SOI, exterior appearance information that indicates an exterior appearance of the SOI, and SOI time information that indicates time at which the SOI is generated.

20. A non-transitory computer program product comprising computer-usable medium having control logic stored therein for causing a computer to perform a method for managing a relationship or a history of a space of interest (SOI) containing information of a space having a certain area or structure and contents, the control logic comprising computer readable program code means for causing the computer to:

newly generate a desired SOI or contents or select the desired SOI or contents among existing SOIs or contents;

set one or more selected from the group consisting of;

a duration of use and a theme of use of the generated-or-selected SOI and contents;

generate SOI-content relationship information that indicates a relationship between the generated-or-selected SOI and the contents and managing the SOI-content relationship information;

manage a change history over time when at least one of the SOI, the contents, and the SOI-content relationship information is changed by storing change history information including a time at which the change occurs;

search for specific changes within the change history in response to an external request indicating a desired time or range of time;

identify one or more specific changes, within the change history associated with the desired time or range of time based on the stored change history information; and

display information associated with the one or more identified specific changes,

wherein the SOI comprises (i) an SOI ID that specifies the SOI and (ii) one or more selected from a group consisting of;

location information that indicates a location of the SOI, exterior appearance information that indicates an exterior appearance of the SOI, and SOI time information that indicates time at which the SOI is generated.