KR20020047942A - Information providing service method using phone number - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: An information providing service method by using the telephone number is provided to receive update information at real time from an information registration company terminal, store the information as a discriminator according to telephone number, offer the information on the corresponding company according to the request by using the telephone number of the client's company. CONSTITUTION: An information register company provides update information including one's own telephone number to an information providing service server(70) at real time by using wire/wireless terminal(60). The server(70) updates the corresponding information to a database(80) by means of the company's telephone number as a discriminator. A client(10) installed to a car photographs a signboard of a store by a camera(11) and transmits an MPEG(Moving Picture Expert Group) image of the store having the telephone number to an MPEG character decoding unit(12). So, the telephone number is recognized by the decoding unit(12), transmitted to an encoding unit(13) and then provided to a wireless communication terminal(14). The terminal(14) requests the information of the store from the information providing service server(70). Then, the server(70) searches the requested store information from the database(80) and then transmits the searched data to the terminal(14).

Description

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The present invention relates to an information providing service method using a telephone number and a computer-readable recording medium recording a program for realizing the method, and more particularly, to update information and a telephone number in real time from an information registration company terminal. Realizing the information providing service method and the method for receiving and storing the information using the telephone number as an identifier and searching and providing the information about the corresponding company using the telephone number as the client requests the information using the telephone number. The present invention relates to a computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program.

Conventional local information providing service methods include a method using a global positioning system (GPS) and a method using location information of a wireless communication base station.

In the conventional method using GPS, when a subscriber finds his current location using GPS and requests information on a corresponding area to a local information providing service server, the local information providing service server is a restaurant or tourist spot in the corresponding area. And provide information such as geographic information.

However, the conventional method using GPS has a disadvantage in that it cannot provide accurate company information due to an error of GPS, so that only general information about the entire area can be provided.

Meanwhile, in the conventional method using the location information of the wireless communication base station, if the subscriber finds his current location using the location information of the wireless communication base station and requests the information on the corresponding area from the local information providing service server, the local information providing service. The server searches and provides information such as restaurants, tourist attractions, and geographic information in the area, or when the subscriber requests information about the area where the subscriber is located, the network side knows the current location of the subscriber using the location information of the wireless communication base station. When the information is delivered to the local information service server, the local information service server searches for and provides information such as restaurants, tourist attractions, and geographic information in the area.

However, such a conventional method using the wireless communication base station location information also causes a large error due to the large radius covered by one wireless communication base station. Therefore, even in this method, since it is impossible to provide accurate company information, there is a drawback that only general information about the area can be provided.

The present invention has been proposed to solve the above problems, and receives the update information and the phone number in real time from the information registration company terminal to store the information using the telephone number as an identifier, and the client requests the information using the business phone number Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a method of providing an information service for searching and providing information on a corresponding company by using a telephone number, and a computer-readable recording medium recording a program for realizing the method.

1 is an embodiment configuration of an information providing service system using a phone number to which the present invention is applied.

2 is a flow chart of an embodiment of a real-time information registration process of the information providing service method using a phone number according to the present invention.

3 is a flow chart of an embodiment of an information providing service method using a phone number according to the present invention;

4 is a flowchart of another embodiment of an information providing service method using a telephone number according to the present invention;

* Explanation of symbols for the main parts of the drawings

10: the client installed in the car 11: the camera unit

12: MPEG 7 character decryption unit 13: encoding unit

14, 20: wireless communication terminal 15: decoding unit

16: display unit 30: wireless communication network

40: wired communication network 50: wired terminal

60: information registration company terminal 70: information service server

80: database

In accordance with another aspect of the present invention, there is provided an information providing service method applied to an information providing service apparatus using a phone number, wherein the information providing service apparatus receives basic information about a predetermined company and uses the telephone number as an identifier. A first step of storing in a database; A second step of receiving, by the information providing service device, the change information and the phone number for the stored information and updating the change information in the database using the phone number; A third step of requesting information about a corresponding company from the terminal through a phone number extracted and encoded from an image of a company signboard; And a fourth step of the information providing service apparatus, which has received the information request from the terminal, searching the database by using the telephone number, delivering the information about the corresponding company to the terminal, and decoding and outputting the information. .

In addition, another method of the present invention, in the information providing service method applied to the information providing service apparatus using a phone number, the information providing service apparatus receives the basic information about a predetermined company to the database using the telephone number as an identifier A first step of storing; A second step of receiving, by the information providing service device, the change information and the phone number for the stored information and updating the change information in the database using the phone number; A third step of requesting information about a corresponding company from a terminal through a telephone number input from a user; And a fourth step in which the information providing service device, which has received the information request from the terminal, searches the database by using the telephone number and transmits information on the corresponding company to the terminal for output.

In addition, another method of the present invention, in the information providing service method applied to a wireless communication terminal for requesting and receiving information using a telephone number, the camera unit photographs the signboards of the buildings around the MPEG (image) MPEP: Moving Pictures Expert Group) First step of delivering to the character decryption unit; A second step of the MPEP 7 character decoding unit recognizing a telephone number from the photographed image and transferring the number to the encoding unit; A third step of encoding, by the encoding unit, the recognized telephone number and transmitting the encoded telephone number to a wireless communication terminal unit; A fourth step of transmitting, by the wireless communication terminal unit, the encoded information to an information service server through a wireless communication network and requesting information on a corresponding company; A fifth step of receiving, by the wireless communication terminal unit, information on a corresponding company extracted by searching and extracting a database by using the telephone number received from the wireless communication terminal unit; A sixth step of transmitting, by the wireless communication terminal unit, the received information to a decoding unit; And a seventh step in which the decoding unit decodes the received information and displays the same through a display unit.

On the other hand, the present invention, in order to provide the information providing service using a phone number, the information providing service device having a processor, the information providing service device receives the basic information about a predetermined company by using the telephone number as an identifier A first function of storing in a database; A second function of receiving, by the information providing service device, the change information and the telephone number for the stored information and updating the change information in the database using the telephone number; A third function of requesting information on a corresponding company from a terminal through an encoded phone number extracted from an image of a signboard of the company; And a program for realizing a fourth function of retrieving the database using the telephone number, the information providing service apparatus requesting the information from the terminal, and transmitting the information about the corresponding company to the terminal to be decoded and outputted. Provide a computer readable recording medium.

In addition, the present invention, in order to provide the information providing service using a phone number, the information providing service device having a processor, the information providing service device receives the basic information about a predetermined company by using the telephone number as an identifier A first function of storing in a database; A second function of receiving, by the information providing service device, the change information and the telephone number for the stored information and updating the change information in the database using the telephone number; A third function of requesting information on a corresponding company from a terminal through a telephone number input from a user; And a program for realizing a fourth function for the information providing service apparatus, which has been requested for information from the terminal, to search the database by using a telephone number and to transmit information about the corresponding company to the terminal for output. Provide a readable recording medium.

The above objects, features and advantages will become more apparent from the following detailed description taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings. Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 is an embodiment configuration diagram of an information providing service system using a phone number to which the present invention is applied, and shows an example of a wired / wireless communication network to which the present invention is applied. It is noted that various types of communication networks such as mobile communication networks (IMT-2000) and the Internet can be applied to wired and wireless communication networks to be connected.

First, the information registration company provides the information providing service server 70 through the wired / wireless communication networks 30 and 40 in real time using their wired / wireless terminal 60 together with their telephone numbers. Then, the information providing service server 70 updates the corresponding information in the database 80 using the telephone number of the business as an identifier.

At this time, the information stored in the database 80, if the establishment is a restaurant, the total number of seats, the current number of seats remaining, parking availability, meal menu, etc. information about the company or evaluation information about the restaurant of the general public ( Bulletin board, etc.), and information such as the number of seats remaining and parking availability may be updated in real time. In addition, in order to prevent slander from competitors, the evaluation information of the public may allow the operator to block the slander information in advance.

On the other hand, in the client 10 installed in the car, the driver checks the phone number of the business sign that passes while driving, so it is inconvenient to enter the business sign of the surrounding buildings in the camera unit 11 to capture the image (MPEP: Moving Pictures Expert Group) 7 to the character decryption unit 12.

Then, the MPEP 7 character decoding unit 12 recognizes the telephone number from the captured image and transmits it to the encoding unit 13. Then, the encoding unit 13 generates header information that the recognized telephone number and subsequent information is a telephone number, and transmits the header information to the wireless communication terminal 14.

Then, the wireless communication terminal 14 transmits the information encoded by the encoding unit 13 to the information providing service server 70 through the wireless communication network 30 to request information about the corresponding business.

Then, the information providing service server 70 extracts a phone number from the received information, searches the database 80 with the corresponding phone number, and retrieves information about the corresponding business in the form of voice, text, or graphic wireless communication network 30. Transfer to the wireless communication terminal 14 through. At this time, if there is no information on the telephone number, a guide message indicating that there is no information on the corresponding business is transmitted to the wireless communication terminal 14.

Then, the wireless communication terminal 14 recognizes that the received information is an information providing service and delivers it to the decoding unit 15. Then, the decoding unit 15 decodes the received information and displays it on the display unit 16. In this case, the display unit 16 may be a large display device used for a vehicle navigation system or the like. If there is no large display device, the display device of the wireless communication terminal 14 may be used.

On the other hand, unlike the client 10 installed in the auto, the walking user directly enters the telephone number of the business sign using the wireless communication terminal 20 or wired terminal 50 of the wireless communication network 30 or wired The information service may be requested to the information providing service server 70 through the communication network 40.

Then, the information providing service server 70 searches the database 80 by the phone number using the received phone number to retrieve information about the business in the form of voice or text, such as wireless communication network 30 or wired communication network ( 40 is transmitted to the wireless communication terminal 20 or the wired terminal 50 through. At this time, if there is no information on the telephone number, a guide message indicating that there is no information on the corresponding business is transferred to the wireless communication terminal 20 or the wired terminal 50.

Then, the wireless communication terminal 20 or the wired terminal 50 recognizes that the received information is an information service and displays it through its display unit or outputs it by voice.

2 is a flow chart of an embodiment of a real-time information registration process of the information providing service method using a phone number according to the present invention.

First, when a user (business operator) accesses an information providing service through a communication network (201), the information providing service server 70 receives a contract from the business operator to subscribe to the information providing service, and the necessary basic information (telephone number in the case of a restaurant). , The address of the store, the total number of seats, parking, menu, promotional information, etc.) is input and stored in the database 80 as a telephone number as an identifier to register the store as an information provider of the information service (202). .

In addition, the information providing service server 70 transmits and installs a client program necessary for providing real time information to the information registration company terminal 60 (203). At this time, when the business operator wants to input change information, the client program does not need to be installed.

Subsequently, when the operation of the information registration company terminal 60 starts, the installed program recognizes the calculation count information and transmits the changed information and the phone number to the information providing service server 70 through the communication network (204). In this case, the information may be delivered in real time whenever one information is changed, but in this case, the information transmission acts as a load on the communication network or a communication fee may be excessively applied. In the case of morning, lunch, and dinner time, it is preferable to transmit change information every other period of about 5 minutes every other time. In addition, since the program recognizes the calculation count information and extracts the changed information, it can be easily implemented by those skilled in the art by a known technique and will not be described in detail here.

Meanwhile, when the information providing service server 70 receives the change information and the telephone number through the communication network, the information providing service server 70 updates the change information in the database 80 using the corresponding telephone number (205).

In FIG. 2, the above-described procedure of the user subscribing to the information providing service is described. In the terminal 60 of the company which has already subscribed to the information providing service, the program is executed to repeatedly perform steps 204 and 205.

3 is a flowchart illustrating an information providing service method using a phone number according to the present invention.

First, when operating the client 10 installed in the car in order to receive the information service, the driver checks the phone number of the business sign that passes while driving, it is inconvenient to input the camera sign 11 to shoot the business sign of the surrounding buildings The image is transferred to the moving pictures expert group (MPEP) 7 character decoding unit 12 (301).

Then, the MPEP 7 character decoder 12 recognizes the telephone number from the captured image and transmits the telephone number to the encoder 13 (302). Then, the encoding unit 13 generates header information that the recognized telephone number and subsequent information is a telephone number and transmits the header information to the wireless communication terminal 14 (303).

Then, the wireless communication terminal 14 transmits the information encoded by the encoding unit 13 to the information providing service server 70 through the wireless communication network 30 to request information about the corresponding business (304).

Then, the information providing service server 70 extracts a phone number from the received information, searches the database 80 with the corresponding phone number, and retrieves information about the corresponding business in the form of voice, text, or graphic wireless communication network 30. Transfer to the wireless communication terminal 14 through (305). At this time, if there is no information on the telephone number, a guide message indicating that there is no information on the corresponding business is transmitted to the wireless communication terminal 14.

Then, the wireless communication terminal 14 recognizes that the received information is an information providing service and transmits it to the decoding unit 15 (306). Then, the decoding unit 15 decodes the received information and displays it on the display unit 16 (307).

In FIG. 3, a method for receiving an information service through a client 10 installed in a vehicle is described. However, the information service can also be received through a wireless communication terminal 20 or a wired terminal 50 used by a pedestrian. have. This will be described in detail with reference to FIG. 4 as follows.

4 is a flowchart illustrating another embodiment of an information providing service method using a phone number according to the present invention.

First, when a walking user directly receives a telephone number of a business signage through the wireless communication terminal 20 or the wired terminal 50 (401), the wireless communication terminal 20 or the wired terminal 50 is a wireless communication network 30 Alternatively, the telephone number is transmitted to the information providing service server 70 through the wired communication network 40 to request information on the corresponding business (402).

Then, the information providing service server 70 searches the database 80 by the phone number using the received phone number to retrieve information about the business in the form of voice or text, such as wireless communication network 30 or wired communication network ( 40 is transmitted to the wireless communication terminal 20 or the wired terminal 50 (403). At this time, if there is no information on the telephone number, a guide message indicating that there is no information on the corresponding business is transferred to the wireless communication terminal 20 or the wired terminal 50.

Then, the wireless communication terminal 20 or the wired terminal 50 recognizes that the received information is an information service, and displays it through its display unit or outputs it by voice (404).

Meanwhile, in the present invention as described above, the terminal 10, 20, 50 and the information providing service server 70 to provide the information in real time because it requests the information provided in the call setup state and provides information accordingly. Can be. This is possible because there is no time delay due to the call setup due to the call setup, and there is no special delay other than the propagation delay in the network and the delay (about a few msec) in the information service server 70.

As described above, the method of the present invention may be implemented as a program and stored in a recording medium (CD-ROM, RAM, ROM, floppy disk, hard disk, magneto-optical disk, etc.) in a computer-readable form.

The present invention described above is not limited to the above-described embodiments and the accompanying drawings, and various substitutions, modifications, and changes are possible in the art without departing from the technical spirit of the present invention. It will be apparent to those of ordinary knowledge.

As described above, the present invention receives the update information and the telephone number in real time from the information registration company terminal, stores the information using the telephone number as an identifier, and the information on the corresponding company as the client requests the information using the telephone number. By providing a search by using the phone number, there is an effect that can provide in real time detailed information about a specific company rather than a general information about a certain area.

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An information providing service method applied to an information providing service apparatus using a telephone number, A first step of receiving, by the information providing service apparatus, basic information on a predetermined company and storing the information in a database using a telephone number as an identifier; A second step of receiving, by the information providing service device, the change information and the phone number for the stored information and updating the change information in the database using the phone number; A third step of requesting information about a corresponding company from the terminal through a phone number extracted and encoded from an image of a company signboard; And A fourth step in which the information providing service device that has received the information request from the terminal searches the database by using a telephone number and transmits information on the corresponding company to the terminal to be decoded and output; Information providing service method using a phone number comprising a. The method of claim 1, The process of extracting the phone number from the image of the company signboard, Method for providing information using a phone number, characterized in that to extract a phone number from the image taken by the company sign using an MPEG (MPEG) 7 character decoder. An information providing service method applied to an information providing service apparatus using a telephone number, A first step of receiving, by the information providing service apparatus, basic information on a predetermined company and storing the information in a database using a telephone number as an identifier; A second step of receiving, by the information providing service device, the change information and the phone number for the stored information and updating the change information in the database using the phone number; A third step of requesting information about a corresponding company from a terminal through a telephone number input from a user; And A fourth step in which the information providing service device, which has received the information request from the terminal, searches the database using a telephone number and transmits information on the corresponding company to the terminal for output; Information providing service method using a phone number comprising a. An information providing service method applied to a wireless communication terminal for requesting and receiving information using a telephone number, A first step in which the camera unit photographs a signboard of a nearby building and transmits the image to a moving picture expert group (MPEP) 7 character decoding unit; A second step of the MPEP 7 character decoding unit recognizing a telephone number from the photographed image and transferring the number to the encoding unit; A third step of encoding, by the encoding unit, the recognized telephone number and transmitting the encoded telephone number to a wireless communication terminal unit; A fourth step of transmitting, by the wireless communication terminal unit, the encoded information to an information service server through a wireless communication network and requesting information on a corresponding company; A fifth step of receiving, by the wireless communication terminal unit, information on a corresponding company extracted by searching and extracting a database by using the telephone number received from the wireless communication terminal unit; A sixth step of transmitting, by the wireless communication terminal unit, the received information to a decoding unit; And A seventh step in which the decoding unit decodes the received information and displays the same through a display unit; Information providing service method using a phone number comprising a. In order to provide an information providing service using a telephone number, to an information providing service apparatus having a processor, A first function of receiving, by the information providing service device, basic information about a predetermined company and storing the information in a database using a telephone number as an identifier; A second function of receiving, by the information providing service device, the change information and the telephone number for the stored information and updating the change information in the database using the telephone number; A third function of requesting information on a corresponding company from a terminal through an encoded phone number extracted from an image of a signboard of the company; And A fourth function for the information providing service device that has received the information request from the terminal to search the database by using a telephone number and to transmit information about the corresponding company to the terminal to be decoded and output; A computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program for realizing this. In order to provide an information providing service using a telephone number, to an information providing service apparatus having a processor, A first function of receiving, by the information providing service device, basic information about a predetermined company and storing the information in a database using a telephone number as an identifier; A second function of receiving, by the information providing service device, the change information and the telephone number for the stored information and updating the change information in the database using the telephone number; A third function of requesting information on a corresponding company from a terminal through a telephone number input from a user; And A fourth function for the information providing service device, which has received the information request from the terminal, to search the database by using the telephone number and to transmit information about the corresponding company to the terminal for output; A computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program for realizing this.