Method and device for providing service using data broadcasting of mobile device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10412534-B2
Application number	US-201514757557-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 24, 2015
Priority date	Dec 26, 2014
Publication date	Sep 10, 2019
Grant date	Sep 10, 2019

Abstract

A service providing method including transmitting user ID information to a service terminal, receiving first service information from a server, and controlling a user terminal to provide a service using received first service information.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A user terminal comprising:
a communicator;
a sensor configured to generate sensing data based on sensed surroundings of the user terminal; and
a controller configured to:
determine user context information mapped with the sensing data using mapping information representing mapping between the sensing data and the user context information;
broadcast, via the communicator, user ID information and the user context information to an unspecified terminal using a short-range wireless communication method;
receive, via the communicator, service information from a server; and
provide a service using the service information,

wherein the service information is provided from the server to the user terminal in response to a service request provided to the server by a service terminal that receives the user ID information and the user context information from the user terminal, and
wherein the service request is determined by the service terminal based on the user ID information and the user context information received from the user terminal.

2. The user terminal of claim 1 , wherein the service information comprises at least one among service information generated by the server according to the user context information, and service information provided by the service terminal to the server.

3. The user terminal of claim 1 , wherein the user ID information comprises at least one among a user ID, terminal ID information of the user terminal, and network ID information of the user terminal.

4. The user terminal of claim 1 , further comprising an input interface configured to receive a user input, wherein
the controller is further configured to control the communicator to broadcast user context information acquired using the input interface, and
the service information comprises at least one among service information generated by the server according to the user context information, and service information generated by the service terminal according to the user context information.

5. The user terminal of claim 1 , wherein the controller is further configured to control the communicator to broadcast the determined user context information.

6. The user terminal of claim 4 , wherein the controller is further configured to determine whether transmission conditions for broadcasting the determined user context information have been satisfied, and, in response to the determining, control the communicator to broadcast the determined user context information.

7. The user terminal of claim 4 , wherein
the controller is further configured to, in response to the user context information being broadcast, transmit a message to an external terminal according to history information, the message comprising a control message that is transmitted by the user terminal, and
in response to the user context information being broadcast, generate the history information comprising the control message transmitted by the user terminal and ID information corresponding to the external terminal having received the message.

8. The user terminal of claim 7 , wherein the controller is further configured to update the history information using a control input that is made by the external terminal to the user terminal after state information is broadcast.

9. The user terminal of claim 1 , wherein the user terminal does not perform a network connection with the service terminal.

10. A service terminal comprising:
a communicator configured to receive user ID information and user context information broadcast from a user terminal using a short-range wireless communication method, and transmit a service provision request to a server, wherein the service terminal is not specified by the user terminal when the user terminal broadcasts the user ID information and the user context information using the short-range wireless communication method; and
a controller configured to control the communicator to receive the user ID information and the user context information, to determine the service provision request based on the user ID information and the user context information, and to transmit the service provision request to the server in response to receiving the user ID information and the user context information from the user terminal.

11. The service terminal of claim 10 , wherein the controller is further configured to control the communicator to transmit the user ID information to the server.

12. The service terminal of claim 10 , wherein
the controller is further configured to control the communicator to transmit the user context information to the server.

13. The service terminal of claim 12 , wherein
the communicator is further configured to receive service information from the server, and
the controller is further configured to control the service terminal to provide a service using the service information, and
the service information is generated by the server having received the user context information from the service terminal, according to the user context information.

14. The service terminal of claim 10 , wherein
the controller is further configured to determine corresponding service information mapped with the received user context information using mapping information representing mapping between the user context information and the service information, and control the communicator to transmit the corresponding service information to the server.

15. A server comprising:
a communicator configured to receive a service provision request comprising user ID information and user context information from a service terminal having received the user ID information and the user context information broadcast from a user terminal using a short-range wireless communication method, and transmit service information to the user terminal, wherein the service terminal is not specified by the user terminal when the user terminal broadcasts the user ID information and the user context information using the short-range wireless communication method; and
a controller configured to determine the user terminal using the user ID information and generate the service information according to the service provision request, and control the communicator to transmit the service information to the user terminal in response to receiving the user ID information and the service provision request from the service terminal,
wherein the service provision request is generated by the service terminal based on the user ID information and the user context information received from the user terminal.

16. The server of claim 15 , wherein
the controller is further configured to determine corresponding service information mapped with the received user context information using mapping information representing mapping between user context information and service information, and control the communicator to transmit the determined service information to the user terminal.

17. A service providing method performed by a user terminal, the service providing method comprising:
determining user context information mapped with sensing data using mapping information representing mapping between the sensing data and the user context information;
broadcasting user ID information and the user context information to an unspecified terminal using a short-range wireless communication method;
receiving service information from a server; and
controlling the user terminal to provide a service using the received service information,
wherein the service information is provided from the server to the user terminal in respons

Assignees

• Samsung Electronics Co Ltd

Inventors

• Lee Kang-Min
• Jo Hyun-Geun
• Cho Hyung-Rae

Classifications

• G06Q30/0259

  based on store location · CPC title

• H04W4/80

  Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication · CPC title

• G06Q30/0267

  Wireless devices · CPC title

• G06Q30/0281

  Customer communication at a business location, e.g. providing product or service information, consulting · CPC title

• G06Q30/0261

  based on user location · CPC title