KR20080024716A - System and method of location information service for mobile device - Google Patents

Abstract

A location information service system for wireless terminals and a method thereof are provided to enable a user to conveniently request and confirm desired location information on the move by converting requested location information into contents suitable for a wireless Internet environment more easily and speedily through interworking with a location information providing web service technique and a mobile application server. A location information service system consists of a wireless terminal(10), a mobile application server(20), and a location information service server(30). The mobile application server(20) comprises a request processing part(21), a profile analysis module(22), and a meta language conversion engine(23). The location information service server(30) comprises a web service component(31) and a positioning component(32). The request processing part(21) creates a location information request message, based on a request from the wireless terminal(10), and transmits it to the location information service server(30). Using the location information request message, the web service component(31) obtains associated location information through the positioning component(32). The profile analysis module(22) analyzes a user profile obtained through the location information request message and confirms contents. The meta language conversion engine(23) processes the obtained location information suitably according to the type of the wireless terminal(10). The location information service server(30) transmits the processed location information to the wireless terminal(10).

Description

Location information service apparatus for wireless terminal and method thereof {System and method of location information service for mobile device}

1 is a configuration diagram of a location information service apparatus for various wireless terminals according to the present invention

2 is a flowchart of a location information service apparatus for various wireless terminals according to the present invention.

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10: wireless terminal 20: mobile application server

21: request processing unit 22: profile analysis module

23: meta-language conversion engine 30: location information service server

31: Web service component 32: Positioning component

The present invention relates to a location information service apparatus and method for a wireless terminal that enables a mobile user to create added value by providing location information related to a user's location by using a wireless terminal.

Mobile application server is a web server for wireless internet developed to provide services suitable for wireless internet environment. Especially, considering the characteristics of wireless network and various devices, mobile application server provides quality contents easily and quickly to multi-carrier at low cost.

For the service suitable for the mobile environment, the mobile application server analyzes the request information to obtain the profile of the device and provides the appropriate content. Also, in order to overcome the intermittent wireless Internet environment, the session maintenance / recovery / transition technology and It will provide content cache / auto partitioning.

On the other hand, Location Based Services (LBS) is defined as a service that provides information to create value-added services based on the provision of location-related information to mobile users, and the LBS server is an XML based web service standard. Interfaces and interfaces defined by the LBS platform will be provided.

Existing system is unable to provide the interworking function between the mobile application server and the LBS server, and thus the location information in a number of markup languages each domestic carriers are adopted to provide location-based services in the wireless Internet environment Since it must be manufactured, productivity is reduced and maintenance is also difficult.

The present invention is to solve such a problem, when the user who wants the location information requests the location information through the wireless Internet terminal by processing the location information to send the form in a form suitable for the user's wireless Internet terminal simply It is to be provided to the wireless terminal.

In the present invention, the mobile application server obtains the terminal information of the user requesting the service so as to service various wireless terminals such as a mobile phone and a PDA, and converts the information into a form suitable for the location information server, and sends the location to the mobile terminal. The information may be transmitted to the terminal by changing the type according to the type of the wireless terminal through the meta-language conversion engine of the mobile application. The information may be provided to the moving user by using the wireless terminal.

The present invention provides a wireless Internet location information service which is provided by converting content suitable for a wireless internet environment more easily and quickly through linkage between a location information providing web service technology and a mobile application server. It will be described in detail with reference to one drawing.

1 is a configuration diagram of a location information service apparatus for various wireless terminals.

In FIG. 1, the present invention provides a mobile terminal 10 which is a client carried by a mobile user, a web server mobile application server 20 for wireless internet developed to provide a service suitable for a wireless internet environment, and a mobile terminal. It is composed of a location information service server 30 for providing information related to the location to the user.

The mobile application server 20 of the present invention corresponds to the request information by analyzing a request processing unit 21 for generating a location information request signal according to a request of the wireless terminal 10 and request information from the request processing unit 21. Profile analysis module 22 for finding the content to be converted, and the meta-language conversion engine 23 converts the XML received from the location information service server 30 to the corresponding content type found from the profile analysis module 22 and returns it. It is composed.

The location information service server 30 of the present invention uses the location information request new hole of the request processing unit 21 to query the corresponding location information from the positioning component 32 to generate and transmit XML, and to request the request. Positioning component 32 for generating location information of the location where the information is to be transmitted.

In the present invention, the request processing unit 21 of the mobile application server 20 receives the request from the wireless terminal 10 as a client to generate a location information request to transmit to the web service component 31 of the location information service server 30 The profile analysis module 22 of the present invention analyzes the request information from the request processor 21 to find out the content corresponding to the request, and the meta-language conversion engine 23 of the present invention analyzes the received XML. The content is converted into the content type found from the module 22 and returned.

In addition, the web service component 31 of the present invention uses the location information request to query the location information from the positioning component 32 to generate and transmit XML.

2 is a flowchart of a location information service apparatus for a wireless terminal according to the present invention.

2, when the location information service server 30 receives the location information request message from the request processing unit 21 of the wireless terminal 10 (S10), the web service component 31 uses the location information request message. After retrieving the location information corresponding to the location information request message from the positioning component 32 (S20), the profile analysis module 22 analyzes the user profile obtained through the location information request message and checks the content (S30). The language conversion engine 23 processes the location information data in a form suitable for the wireless terminal 10 requesting the location information (S40), and transmits the obtained location information to the requesting wireless terminal 10 (S50).

As described above, in the detailed description of the present invention, specific embodiments have been described, but various modifications can be made without departing from the scope of the present invention, and the scope of the present invention is limited to the described embodiments. It should be determined by the equivalents of the claims, as well as by the claims that follow.

The present invention provides a wireless Internet location information service which is provided by converting content suitable for a wireless internet environment more easily and quickly through linkage between a location information providing web service technology and a mobile application server. You can request and verify location information as you move.

Claims (2)

A wireless terminal 10 which is a client carried by a mobile user; The request processor 21 generates a location information request signal according to the request of the wireless terminal 10, and the profile analysis module 22, which analyzes the request information from the request processor 21 and finds content corresponding to the request information. And a meta-language conversion engine 23 which converts the XML received from the location information service server 30 into a corresponding content form found from the profile analysis module 22 and returns the same. A mobile application server 20; A web service component 31 for generating and transmitting XML by inquiring the corresponding location information from the positioning component 32 using the location information request new hole of the request processing unit 21 and generating location information of a location where the request information is transmitted. A location information service device for a wireless terminal, comprising a location information service server (30) for providing information relating to a location to a moving user comprising a positioning component (32). Receiving, by the location information service server 30, a location information request message from the request processor 21 of the wireless terminal 10 (S10); The web service component 31 uses the location information request message to query the location information corresponding to the location information request message from the positioning component 32 (S20), Profile analysis module 22 confirms the content by analyzing the user profile obtained through the location information request message (S30), Processing the position information data in a form suitable for the wireless terminal 10 requesting the position information from the meta-language conversion engine 23 (S40) The location information service method for a wireless terminal, characterized in that it comprises the step (S50) of transmitting the location information to the requesting wireless terminal (10).

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