System for providing behavior information notification service and method for providing behavior information notification service

• US 9,537,874 B2
• Filed: 01/03/2013
• Issued: 01/03/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 01/03/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Lee, Ji Cheol, Son, Jung Je, Choi, Sung Ho
• Primary Examiner(s): ZHAO, DON GORDON
• Application Number:
  US14/370,735
• Publication Number:
  US 20140380510A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,461 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/109 Time management, e.g. calendars, reminders, meetings or time accounting
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/107 wherein the security policies are location-dependent, e.g. entities privileges depend on current location or allowing specific operations only from locally connected terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/126 the source of the received data

Abstract

The present invention has the aim of providing a method of an activity information notification service in which a server can receive activity information from a user of a target terminal, depending on his or her privacy setting, and then transmit the received activity information to a selected receiving user, and in which any receiving user can transmit a notification request to a target user in order to receive desired activity information. According to an embodiment of the present invention, a method of an activity information notification service at a server, the method includes steps of receiving activity information from a target terminal; determining a receiving terminal to which the received activity information will be transmitted, depending on a privacy setting of the target terminal stored in a storage unit; and transmitting the activity information to the determined receiving terminal.

Claims

1. A terminal for providing a notification, the terminal comprising:

an input unit configured to receive information for requesting the notification, the information including information on a location and at least one of an arrival of a target device at the location and a departure of the target device from the location;

a transceiver configured to communicate with a server; and

a controller configured to

control the transceiver to transmit, to the server, a message to request information related to the target device based on the information for requesting the notification,

control the transceiver to receive, from the server, the information related to the target device, and

generate, by the terminal, if the information related to the target device corresponds to the at least one of the arrival of the target device at the location or the departure of the target device from the location, a control signal for the notification.

2. The terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to control the transceiver to receive the information related to the target device from the server during a time period.

3. The terminal of claim 1, wherein the information related to the target device is received if the target device is set to provide information of the target device.

4. The terminal of claim 1, further comprising:

a display unit configured to display the notification associated with at least one of the arrival of the target device at the location or the departure of the target device from the location.

5. A method for providing a notification by a terminal, the method comprising:

receiving, via an input unit of the terminal, information for requesting the notification, the information including information on a location and at least one of an arrival of a target device at the location and a departure of the target device from the location;

transmitting, to a server, a message to request information related to the target device based on the information for requesting the notification;

receiving, from the server, the information related to the target device; and

generating, by the terminal, if the information related to the target device corresponds to the at least one of the arrival of the target device at the location or the departure of the target device from the location, a control signal for the notification.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein receiving the information related to the target device comprises:

receiving the information related to the target device during a time period.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein receiving the information related to the target device comprises:

receiving the information related to the target device if the target device is set to provide information of the target device.

8. The method of claim 5, further comprising:

displaying the notification associated with at least one of the arrival of the target device at the location or the departure of the target device from the location.

9. A terminal for providing a notification, the terminal comprising:

a transceiver configured to communicate with a server; and

an input unit configured to receive information for requesting the notification including a location and at least one of an arrival of a target device at the location or a departure of the target device from the location; and

a controller configured to;

control the transceiver to transmit, to the server, a message to request information on a location of the target device,

identify whether the information on the location of the target device is received from the server, and

generate, if the information on the location of the target device is received from the server, a control signal for the notification, at the terminal, associated with at least one of the arrival of the target device at the location or the departure of the target device from the location based on the information for requesting the notification and the information on a location of the target device.

10. The terminal of claim 9, wherein the controller is further configured to control the transceiver to receive the information on the location of the target device from the server during a time period.

11. The terminal of claim 9, wherein the controller is further configured to control the transceiver to receive the information on the location of the target device if the target device is set to provide information of the target device.

12. The terminal of claim 9, further comprising:

a display unit configured to display the notification associated with at least one of the arrival of the target device at the location or the departure of the target device from the location.

13. A method for providing a notification by a terminal in a communication system, the method comprising:

receiving, via a input unit of a terminal, information for requesting the notification including a location and at least one of an arrival of a target device at the location or a departure of the target device from the location;

transmitting, to a server, a message to request information on a location of the target device;

identifying whether information on the location of the target device is received from the server; and

generating, if the information on the location of the target device is received from the server, a control signal for the notification, at the terminal, associated with at least one of the arrival of the target device at the location or the departure of the target device from the location based on the information for requesting the notification and the information on a location of the target device.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein receiving the information on the location of the target device comprises:

receiving the information on the location of the target device from the server during a time period.

15. The method of claim 13, wherein receiving the information on the location of the target device comprises:

receiving the information on the location of the target device if the target device is set to provide information of the target device.

16. The method of claim 13, wherein further comprising:

displaying the notification associated with at least one of the arrival of the target device at the location or the departure of the target device from the location.