APPARATUS AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM FOR PROVIDING PROFILE INFORMATION OF SOCIAL NETWORK SERVICE

• US 20170048349A1
• Filed: 12/02/2015
• Published: 02/16/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 08/12/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group)
• Original Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group)
• Inventors: AHN, Geon Guk
• Granted Patent: US 10,189,481 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2530/18 Distance travelled
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2540/30 Driving style
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2556/50 of positioning data, e.g. GPS [Global Positioning System] data
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 40/09 Driving style or behaviour
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/535 Tracking the activity of the user network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/40 for vehicles, e.g. vehicle-to-pedestrians [V2P]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/44 for communication between vehicles and infrastructures, e.g. vehicle-to-cloud [V2C] or vehicle-to-home [V2H]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/20 Transfer of user or subscriber data
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/06 adapted for operation in multiple networks or having at least two operational modes, e.g. multi-mode terminals

Abstract

An apparatus for providing profile information, in which a mobile device is connected to a vehicle device through a first communication network and connected to a profile information providing server through a second communication network, includes a driving information collection unit configured to collect driving information of a vehicle, a driving state determination unit configured to determine a driving state of a mobile device user based on the driving information, and a communication unit configured to transmit a driving state determination result to the profile information providing server.

Claims

1. A mobile device connected to a vehicle device through a first communication network and connected to a profile information providing server through a second communication network, comprising:

a driving information collection unit configured to collect driving information of a vehicle;

a driving state determination unit configured to determine a driving state of a mobile device user based on the driving information; and

a communication unit configured to transmit a driving state determination result to the profile information providing server.

2. The mobile device of claim 1, further comprising:

a contents storage unit configured to store contents which represent driving states of the mobile device user; and

a contents search unit configured to search a content based on the driving state determination result among the stored contents,

wherein the communication unit transmits the searched contents to the profile information providing server.

3. The mobile device of claim 2, wherein

the stored contents include at least one of an image, a picture, a message, music, and a moving image.

4. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein

the mobile device includes a global positioning system (GPS) module, and

wherein the driving information collection unit uses the GPS module to indirectly collect the driving information of the vehicle.

5. The mobile device of claim 4, wherein

the driving information includes a position, a moving distance, and a moving time of the vehicle, and

wherein the driving state determination unit calculates a vehicle speed based on the moving distance and the moving time and determines the driving state of the mobile device user as one of low speed driving, middle speed driving, high speed driving, and a stop based on the calculated vehicle speed.

6. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein

the driving information collection unit directly collects the driving information of the vehicle from the vehicle device.

7. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein

the first communication network is a wireless local area network.

8. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein

the second communication network is a mobile communication network.

9. A computer readable recording medium in which programs executed by a mobile device connected to a vehicle device through a first communication network and connected to a profile information providing server through a second communication network are stored, the computer readable recording medium comprising:

a driving information collection unit configured to collect driving information of a vehicle;

a driving state determination unit configured to determine a driving state of a mobile device user based on the driving information; and

a communication unit configured to transmit a driving state determination result to the profile information providing server.

10. The computer readable recording medium of claim 9, further comprising:

a contents storage unit configured to store contents which represent driving states of the mobile device user; and

a contents search unit configured to search a content based on the driving state determination result,

wherein the communication unit transmits the searched content to the profile information providing server.

11. A profile information providing server connected to a first mobile device and a second mobile device through a first communication network, comprising:

a communication unit configured to receive a driving state of a first mobile device user from the first mobile device; and

a profile information storage unit configured to store a content which corresponds to the received driving state of the first mobile device user as the profile information of the first mobile device user and providing the stored profile information to the second mobile device.

12. The profile information providing server of claim 11, wherein

the communication unit receives the content corresponding to the driving state of the first mobile device user from the first mobile device, and

the profile information storage unit stores the received content as the profile information of the first mobile device user.

13. The profile information providing server of claim 11, further comprising:

a contents storage unit configured to store contents which represent driving states of the first mobile device user; and

a contents search unit configured to search the content corresponding to the driving state of the first mobile device user among the stored contents,

wherein the profile information storage unit stores the searched content as the profile information of the user.

14. A profile information providing server for providing profile information, in which a profile information providing server is connected to a first mobile device and a second mobile device through a first communication network, comprising:

a communication unit configured to receive driving information of a vehicle connected to a first mobile device from the first mobile device through a second communication network;

a driving state determination unit configured to determine a driving state of a first mobile device user based on the received driving information;

a contents storage unit configured to store contents which represent driving states of the first mobile device user;

a contents search unit configured to search a content corresponding to the driving state of the first mobile device user; and

a profile information storage unit storing the searched content as profile information of the first mobile device user and providing the stored profile information to the second mobile device.

15. The profile information providing server of claim 14, wherein

the driving state of the first mobile device user includes speed information of the vehicle.

16. The profile information providing server of claim 14, wherein

the driving state of the first mobile device user includes position information of the vehicle.

17. The profile information providing server of claim 14, wherein

the driving state of the first mobile device user includes weather information corresponding to a position of the vehicle.