KR20030077486A - The method and system for searching location information with mobile phone's message service - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a service method and system for receiving location information of a destination using a mobile phone message. According to the present invention, the service provider that grasps the location information of the destination and sends it as a message; A user possessing a mobile phone to receive location information of a specific destination from the service provider; Communication service providers that provide communication services, including message delivery between the service provider and the user; consists of a phone number or address of the destination you want to visit, the service provider service location information of the destination It searches whether it is stored in the provider's database, and if the location information is stored, provides the location information as a text, graphic, video, or program through a communication service provider through a message of the user's mobile phone.

The mobile phone is a generic term for a wireless communication device that can send and receive voice calls and messages.

Description

Location method and system using mobile phone message {The method and system for searching location information with mobile phone's message service}

With the development of society, the importance of logistics in the economy is becoming more and more important. In particular, in recent years, with the development of the Internet, e-commerce is very active, and accordingly, logistics delivery services such as quick service and parcel delivery service are booming.

In addition, the development of IT technology and communication service allows users to check their location on GIS using technology such as GPS or triangulation, and various location information utilizing products and services such as car navigation are available using this. have.

At present, the positioning technology is greatly developed, but most of them provide services related to positioning of the current location by the GPS satellites or the other party's location through the address, which can be confirmed only by a PC or a dedicated terminal connected to the Internet. The disadvantage is that it is possible.

Recently, a service that displays the current location of a person who has a mobile phone on a GIS map as a SW embedded in a mobile phone using a GPS satellite, but this requires a mobile phone with a specific S / W and H / W. In addition, there is a disadvantage in that it provides only the current location, not the location information of the destination he wants to go.

Therefore, in the present, the universal way to obtain the location information of the destination that he wants to visit is to obtain the map of the destination from the GIS system or paper map connected to the PC, to get the map of the destination, or to live in the destination. The only way to call and ask is to ask.

The present invention relates to a location service method and system using a mobile phone message. More specifically, when a user requests location information of a destination to be searched by phone number, address, or business name, the location information of the destination is about or The present invention relates to a service method of providing a form of a mobile phone message of a user when the location information of the corresponding destination is stored after checking whether the service provider's database is stored in the form of GIS information.

According to the method proposed by the present invention, the user may enter the phone number or address of the destination he wants to visit, and may have the convenience of receiving the location information of the destination as a message.

In the above method, the telephone number and the address of the destination are input into the service provider's system. The web server is input through the ARS system connected to the telephone network through a landline or a mobile phone, or connected to the Internet through a PC or a mobile phone. Can be entered through the system.

The location information provided in the message may be provided in the form of a text, a graphic, a video, or a program.

When the location information of the destination provides the location information of the destination in a store, a building, etc. located in the destination as a map (which can be provided in the form of a text, a graphic, a video or a program), the map information is displayed as a message to the user's mobile phone. If not provided as a map, even if not provided as GIS information, provided as GIS information, if not available in both the map or GIS informs the user that it is impossible to provide.

1 is a schematic diagram illustrating a system for transmitting location information in a mobile phone message according to the present invention.

2 is a flow chart illustrating a process of transmitting a searched location information as a message of a mobile phone by searching the database for location information of a restaurant based on this, when a phone number of a restaurant, which is a specific place, is input using a phone according to an embodiment of the present invention. to be.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating a process of searching for a location information of a restaurant in a database and transmitting the searched location information as a message of a mobile phone based on the input of an address of a restaurant, which is a specific place using the Internet, according to an embodiment of the present invention. to be.

4 is a diagram illustrating a case where location information is provided as a message from a service provider as an embodiment of the present invention.

An embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings. For the convenience of description, the object of providing location information is limited to a restaurant, but it can be applied to everything that can be expressed in a specific region including a company.

1 is a system configuration diagram of a method for confirming location information for transmitting location information using a mobile phone message according to the present invention. This is a system configuration schematically showing when the service provider 100 wants to provide location information of a particular restaurant to the cell phone holders 300 through the communication service provider 200.

A user using the system proposed by the present invention accesses the ARS system 130 through a telephone network, or accesses a web server 120 through an internet network, and provides the service provider's database with location information of a restaurant to be provided. When searching at 110 to send a message in the form of a message from the mobile phone holder 300 via the communication service provider 200 through the message transmission system 140, the location information of the restaurant is the database of the restaurant phone 110 It can be expressed or searched by number, address, GPS position data, longitude and latitude.

In general, the location information of the restaurant is stored in the database 110 in the form of text data, graphic data, video data or a program describing the location of the restaurant, the location information of the restaurant requested by the user is a database ( If it does not exist in the 110, but can be retrieved through the GIS system 150, the map data in the GIS system is sent to the mobile phone holder 300 as a message.

2 is an example using the system proposed by the present invention, when a telephone number of a restaurant, which is a specific place, is entered by using a telephone, the location information of the restaurant is searched from a database based on the restaurant number, and the retrieved location information is a message of a mobile phone. As a flow chart illustrating the process of transmission as.

When the user using the system proposed by the present invention calls the ARS system 130 of the service provider 100 and is connected to the service provider (step S210), the ARS system of the service provider provides the location information that the user wants to find. Ask for a phone number or address to find the user, the user enters the phone number of the restaurant he wants to go to (step S2210). The service provider 100 checks whether the entered telephone number of the restaurant exists in the database 110 and terminates if it does not exist, and if so, retrieves the location information from the database.

The searched location information may exist in the form of a text, graphic, video, or program. After the process of asking whether to specify the mobile phone number of the mobile phone holders to receive the location information as a message (step S240), a separate mobile phone If no number is specified, the location information retrieved from the database is sent as a message to the caller number of the user who has called the ARS system 130 (step S250). If a separate mobile phone number is specified and entered (step S260), The location information retrieved from the database is sent to the inputted mobile number as a message (step S270).

3 is an example of using the system proposed in the present invention, when the address of a restaurant, which is a specific place, is input using the Internet, the location information of the restaurant is retrieved from a database based on the restaurant address, and the retrieved location information is a message of a mobile phone. This is a flowchart showing the process of transmitting.

When the user using the system proposed by the present invention connects to the web server 120 of the service provider 100 via the Internet (step S310), the web server of the service provider can find the location information that the user wants to find. Requesting data such as a number or address, the user inputs address information of a restaurant that he / she wants to visit (step S320). The service provider 100 checks whether the location information of the restaurant is stored in the database 110 based on the address of the restaurant thus input (step S330).

If the result of the check is not stored in the database 110, the GIS system 150 investigates whether it can be found (step S360), and if the GIS system 150 finds it, the result found in the GIS system as a message. In step S370, if it is not found in the GIS system, the process ends.

If the result of the check is stored in the database 110, after receiving the mobile phone number of the mobile phone holders to receive the stored location information as a message (step S340), the location information found in the database is sent to the inputted phone number as a message. do.

The location information may be in the form of a text, a graphic, a video, or a program.

4 is a diagram illustrating a case where location information is provided as a message from a service provider as an embodiment of the present invention. Location information may be provided to mobile phone holders from service providers as text, graphics, video, and programs.

On the LCD screen, the date and time of receiving the message (T411), the name of the person who sent the message (T412), the telephone number (T413) of the sender of the message, and the contents (T414) of the message are displayed.

When the location information is provided in text (T410), the contents of the message (T414) may be expressed in various texts such as a way of accessing a specific place, a search method, and the like, and the location information is provided graphically ( T420) is provided with a graphic screen that implicitly expresses a method of accessing a specific place to be searched for.

If the location information is provided as a video, a video file is provided that implicitly expresses how to access the specific place that was wanted to be found. If the location information is provided as a program, the method of accessing the specific place that was wanted to be found is implied. The program represented by is provided.

Although the above has been described with reference to the preferred embodiment of the present invention, various changes can be made at the level of those skilled in the art. As described above, the method of accessing the service provider's system can be accessed from both the telephone network and the Internet network. The method of searching the database for location information indicating the location of a specific place to be transmitted in a message includes a telephone number, Since it is optional as an address, longitude, latitude, etc., it can apply without being specific to the above-mentioned example.

Therefore, the scope of the present invention should not be limited to the above embodiment, but should be defined by the claims described below.

As described above, when using the positioning service using the mobile phone message according to the present invention, when you go to a specific company and business, you can go to the business as the phone number of the business, so it is easy to check the location by simply calling. The advantage is that you can easily find a location in a difficult downtown area.

As another benefit of the present invention, when a majority of customers gather at a moment such as a hotel, a restaurant, a conference, a seminar, a meeting, etc., a call for a location may be concentrated at a moment, and the location of the customer's mobile phone There is an advantage that the information can be transmitted in a moment as a mobile phone message. In particular, when a meeting is held in a particular place, the caller may have a lot of trouble explaining the location if the call from people who have already asked for the location is concentrated. By requesting the information provider's system to inform the caller of the location information by referring to the telephone number or address of the place, the location information is transmitted as a mobile phone message, which is very convenient.

Claims (8)

An information provider for providing a service for transmitting location information of a specific place stored in the system as a mobile phone message; A user requesting to provide information to the information provider's system; Communication service providers that provide various communication services, including mobile phone message transmission between the information provider and the user; Made up of When the user accesses the system of the information provider and requests the location information of a specific place to be transmitted as a mobile phone message to the mobile phone specified by the user, a location confirmation system for transmitting it as a message to the mobile phone specified by the user through a communication service provider; Way. The location system and method according to claim 1, wherein the location information indicating the location of the specific place that the user receives as a message is provided in the form of a text, a graphic, a video, or a program. The method of claim 1, wherein the user accesses the information provider's system by accessing the information provider's web server through an Internet network connected to a PC or a mobile phone. System and method. In the above, after the user is authenticated by the web server, the user inputs the mobile phone number to receive the mobile phone message and the location of the specific place, so that the information provider system can transmit the mobile phone message through the communication service provider. do. The method and system according to claim 1, wherein the user accesses the information provider's system via the ARS system connected to the telephone network. In the above, the user calls a specific phone number provided by the information provider, and then, according to the guidance message provided, inputs the user authentication process and the mobile phone number to receive the mobile phone message and the location of the specific place. The system is characterized in that the mobile phone to send a message through the service provider. The method of claim 1, wherein the method of finding or refering to a specific place is a telephone number used by a business or a company located in the place, and the positioning system which enables to search the location information of the place stored in the database of the information providing system. And method. In the above, the retrieved location information is transmitted as a mobile phone message to the mobile phone number indicated by the user. The method of claim 1, wherein the method of finding or designating a specific place comprises: using a location in which the location of the place is represented by letters and numbers as it is, so as to search for location information of the place stored in a database of the information providing system. System and method. In the above, the retrieved location information is transmitted as a mobile phone message to the mobile phone number indicated by the user. The method of claim 1, wherein the method for searching for or referring to a specific place includes searching for location information of the corresponding place stored in a database of the information providing system using position data values used by referring to the location of the place in a GPS satellite. Positioning systems and methods. In the above, the retrieved location information is transmitted as a mobile phone message to the mobile phone number indicated by the user. The method of claim 1, wherein the method of finding or refering to a specific place comprises using a longitude and latitude data value expressing the location of the place as it is, so that the location information of the place stored in the database of the information providing system can be retrieved. System and method. In the above, the retrieved location information is transmitted as a mobile phone message to the mobile phone number indicated by the user.