Method and apparatus for providing service

• US 8,937,932 B2
• Filed: 09/28/2012
• Issued: 01/20/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/29/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Kang, Tae-young, Jeon, Hee-chul, Kim, Hye-rin, Hong, Seung-hwan, Park, Da-hye, Choi, Won-young
• Primary Examiner(s): Jaroenchonwanit, Bunjob
• Application Number:
  US13/631,161
• Publication Number:
  US 20130083784A1
• Time in Patent Office: 844 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 370/338
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 17/309 Measuring or estimating channel quality parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/023 using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets or of distance thresholds
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/21 for social networking applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/30 Services specially adapted for particular environments, situations or purposes
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/50 Service provisioning or reconfiguring
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/24 Transfer of terminal data
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/12 WLAN [Wireless Local Area Networks]

Abstract

A method and apparatus for providing a service in a service providing device are provided. The method includes receiving, from a terminal, information about a wireless transmitter/receiver whose vicinity the terminal is located within; determining a differentiated service to be provided to the terminal according to the received information about the wireless transmitter/receiver; and providing the determined differentiated service to the terminal.

Claims

1. A method for providing a service in a service providing apparatus, the method comprising:

receiving, from a terminal, unique information of a wireless transmitter and information about a signal intensity of a signal that the terminal has received from the wireless transmitter;

wherein the terminal is located within vicinity of the wireless transmitter;

determining a differentiated service to be provided to the terminal according to the received unique information and the received information about the signal intensity; and

providing the determined differentiated service to the terminal.

2. The service providing method of claim 1, wherein determining the differentiated service comprises:

determining a distance between the terminal and the wireless transmitter based on the information about the signal intensity; and

determining the differentiated service according to the determined distance.

3. The service providing method of claim 1, wherein the wireless transmitter is an Access Point (AP) or a Beacon.

4. The service providing method of claim 1, wherein the unique information of the transmitter includes at least one of a Service Set IDentifier (SSID) and a Media Access Control (MAC) address.

5. The service providing method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving, from the terminal, IDentification (ID) information of the terminal; and

storing the ID information of the terminal,

wherein providing the determined differentiated service to the terminal comprises providing the determined differentiated service to the terminal according to the ID information of the terminal.

6. The service providing method of claim 1, wherein providing the determined differentiated service to the terminal comprises providing the service to the terminal via the wireless transmitter.

7. The service providing method of claim 1, wherein the determined differentiated service is at least one of a content and a service Uniform Resource Locator (URL).

8. A service providing apparatus, comprising:

a communication unit configured to receive, from a terminal, unique information of a wireless transmitter and information about a signal intensity of a signal that the terminal has received from the wireless transmitter;

wherein the terminal is located within vicinity of the wireless transmitter; and

a control unit configured to determine a differentiated service to be provided to the terminal according to the received unique information and the received information about the signal intensity, and to provide the service to the terminal.

9. The service providing apparatus of claim 8, wherein the control unit configured to determines a distance between the terminal and the wireless transmitter based on the received information about the signal intensity, and to determines the differentiated service according to the determined distance.

10. The service providing apparatus of claim 8, wherein the wireless transmitter is an Access Point (AP) or a Beacon.

11. The service providing apparatus of claim 8, wherein the unique information of the transmitter includes at least one of a Service Set IDentifier (SSID) and a Media Access Control (MAC) address.

12. The service providing apparatus of claim 8, further comprising a storage unit configured to store IDentification (ID) information of the terminal received from the terminal,

wherein the control unit configured to provides the determined differentiated service to the terminal according to the ID information of the terminal.

13. The service providing apparatus of claim 8, wherein the control unit configured to provides the service to the terminal via the wireless transmitter.

14. The service providing apparatus of claim 8, wherein the determined differentiated service includes at least one of a content and a service Uniform Resource Locator (URL).

15. A mobile device, comprising:

a communication unit configured to receive, from a wireless transmitter, unique information of the wireless transmitter;

wherein the mobile device is located within vicinity of the wireless transmitter; and

a controller configured to determine a signal intensity of a signal that the mobile device has received from the wireless transmitter, and to provide the unique information and information about the signal intensity to the service providing apparatus;

wherein the communication unit is configured to receive, from the service providing apparatus, a differentiated service which is determined by the service providing apparatus according to the provided unique information and the provided information about the signal intensity.

16. The mobile device of claim 15, the differentiated service is determined by the service providing apparatus according to a distance between the mobile device and the wireless transmitter.

17. The mobile device of claim 15, wherein the wireless transmitter is an Access Point (AP) or a Beacon.

18. The mobile device of claim 15, wherein the unique information of the transmitter includes at least one of a Service Set IDentifier (SSID) and a Media Access Control (MAC) address.

19. The mobile device of claim 15, wherein the communication unit is configured to transmit Identification(ID) information of the mobile device to the service providing apparatus,

wherein the differentiated service is determined by the service providing apparatus according to the ID information of the mobile device.

20. The mobile device of claim 15, the differentiated service is provided from the service providing apparatus via the wireless transmitter.

21. The mobile device of claim 15, wherein the differentiated service is at least one of a content and a service Uniform Resource Locator (URL).

22. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having embodied thereon a program for executing a service providing method, the method comprising:

receiving, from a terminal, unique information of a wireless transmitter and information about a signal intensity of a signal that the terminal has received from the wireless transmitter;

wherein the terminal is located within vicinity of the wireless transmitter;

determining a differentiated service to be provided to the terminal according to the received unique information and the received information about the signal intensity; and

providing the determined differentiated service to the terminal.

23. A method for receiving a service from a service providing apparatus, the method comprising:

receiving, from a wireless transmitter, unique information of the wireless transmitter;

wherein the mobile device is located within vicinity of the wireless transmitter;

determining a signal intensity of a signal that the mobile device has received from the wireless transmitter;

providing the unique information and information about the signal intensity to the service providing apparatus; and

receiving, from the service providing apparatus, a differentiated service which is determined by the service providing apparatus according to the provided unique information and the provided information about the signal intensity.

24. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program for executing the method of claim 23, by using a computer.