Mobile terminal, access point related content providing server, access point related content acquiring method, mobile terminal program

• US 9,615,389 B2
• Filed: 09/02/2016
• Issued: 04/04/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 04/24/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Optim LLC
• Original Assignee: Optim LLC
• Inventors: Sugaya, Shunji
• Primary Examiner(s): Kassim, Khaled
• Assistant Examiner(s): ALI, SYED
• Application Number:
  US15/255,276
• Publication Number:
  US 20160374127A1
• Time in Patent Office: 214 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/95 Retrieval from the web
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9537 Spatial or temporal dependent retrieval, e.g. spatiotemporal queries
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/5007 Internet protocol [IP] addresses
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72445 for supporting Internet browser applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/021 Services related to particular areas, e.g. point of interest [POI] services, venue services or geofences
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/11 Allocation or use of connection identifiers
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/26 Network addressing or numbering for mobility support

Abstract

A content based on location information is provided to a mobile terminal. The mobile terminal 10 is communicatively connected to an access point related content providing server that includes a storage unit having an access point related content database 250 in which IP addresses and URLs of contents are associated with each other and are stored. The mobile terminal 10 performs a communication with a wireless access point to access a public network, acquires an IP address of the wireless access point, and transmits the acquired IP address to the access point related content providing server. The mobile terminal 10 receives an URL of a content that is associated with the transmitted IP address or location information identified by the transmitted IP address, and acquires the content designated by the received URL.

Claims

1. A method of acquiring a content by a mobile terminal, the method comprising:

acquiring an IP address of a wireless access point or a router connected to the wireless access point;

transmitting the IP address to a content providing server;

receiving from the content providing server an URL of a content that is associated with location information within a predetermined range from a location of the mobile terminal that is identified based on the IP address by the content providing server;

acquiring the content designated by the URL;

displaying the content;

monitoring movement of the mobile terminal to change the displayed content; and

in response to the mobile terminal moving and connecting to a second wireless access point, receiving from the content providing server a second URL of a second content that is associated with a second IP address of the second wireless access point or a second router connected to the second wireless access point, and changing the displayed content to the second content designated by the second URL,

wherein the content is a content that has a largest weight among a plurality of contents that are associated with location information, each of the plurality of contents having a corresponding weight.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving from the content providing server an URL of a content that is associated with the IP address.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the content is a content that has a shortest distance from the location of the mobile terminal among a plurality of contents that are associated with location information.

4. A content providing server communicatively connected to a mobile terminal, the content providing server comprising:

a storage unit comprising a first content database in which location information and URLs of contents are associated with each other and are stored,

one or more controllers which execute one or more modules comprising;

a requestor IP (Internet Protocol) address reception module which receives from the mobile terminal an IP address of a wireless access point to which the mobile terminal is connected or a router connected to the wireless access point;

a location information identification module which identifies a location of the mobile terminal based on the received IP address; and

a first content extraction module which extracts from the first content database an URL of a content that is associated with location information within a predetermined range from the location of the mobile terminal; and

a content providing module that provides the mobile terminal with the extracted URL,

wherein, in response to the mobile terminal moving and connecting to a second wireless access point, the first content extraction module extracts from the first content database a second URL of a second content that is associated with a second IP address of the second wireless access point or a second router connected to the second wireless access point, and the content providing module provides the mobile terminal with the second URL to allow the mobile terminal to change the content to the second content designated by the second URL, and

wherein the content is a content that has a largest weight among a plurality of contents that are associated with location information, each of the plurality of contents having a corresponding weight.

5. The content providing server of claim 4, wherein the storage unit further comprises a second content database in which IP addresses and URLs of contents are associated with each other and are stored, and

wherein the one or more modules further comprises a second content extraction module which extracts from the second content database an URL of a content that is associated with the received IP address.

6. The content providing server of claim 4, wherein the content is a content that has a shortest distance from the location of the mobile terminal among a plurality of contents that are associated with location information.

7. A non-transitory recording medium that stores a program for executing a content acquiring method on a mobile terminal, the content acquiring method comprising:

acquiring an IP address of a wireless access point or a router connected to the wireless access point;

transmitting the IP address to a content providing server;

receiving from the content providing server an URL of a content that is associated with location information within a predetermined range from a location of the mobile terminal that is identified based on the IP address by the content providing server;

acquiring the content designated by the URL;

displaying the content;

monitoring movement of the mobile terminal to change the displayed content; and

in response to the mobile terminal moving and connecting to a second wireless access point, receiving from the content providing server a second URL of a second content that is associated with a second IP address of the second wireless access point or a second router connected to the second wireless access point, and changing the displayed content to the second content designated by the second URL,

wherein the content is a content that has a largest weight among a plurality of contents that are associated with location information, each of the plurality of contents having a corresponding weight.

8. The non-transitory recording medium of claim 7, wherein the content acquiring method further comprises receiving from the content providing server an URL of a content that is associated with the IP address.

9. The non-transitory recording medium of claim 7, wherein the content is a content that has a shortest distance from the location of the mobile terminal among a plurality of contents that are associated with location information.