US 10,455,381 B2 · Apparatus and method for providing function of electronic device corresponding to location

Abstract

Provided is a method and apparatus for providing a function corresponding to a location in an electronic device. The electronic device includes: at least one sensor; a communication module comprising communication circuitry; and a processor, wherein the processor is configured to: obtain location information of the electronic device; obtain, using the at least one sensor, context information associated with a user of the electronic device based on a location corresponding to the location information; determine whether a designated activity occurs with respect to a product or a service corresponding to the location based on the context information; and provide a function associated with the product or the service based on the occurrence of the designated activity.

Claims20

Dependent claims

An electronic device, comprising:

at least one sensor;
a communication module comprising communication circuitry;
and
a processor,
wherein the processor is configured to:
obtain location information of the electronic device at a time within a predetermined time slot when a designated activity occurs;
obtain, using the at least one sensor, context information associated with a user of the electronic device at a location corresponding to the location information;
determine whether the designated activity occurs based on the context information;
and
provide a function associated with a product or a service related to the designated activity.

7 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

15/392,166Filed 28 Dec 2016

Priority

KR 10-2016-00009365 Jan 2016

Published

US 2017/0195862 A16 Jul 2017

Granted

22 Oct 2019

Term ends

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Classification5 codes

H04W 4/185
Information format or content conversion, e.g. adaptation by the network of the transmitted or received information for the purpose of wireless…:…
H04W 4/021
Services making use of location information: services related to particular areas, e.g. point of interest [POI] services, venue services or geofences
H04W 4/027
Using location based information parameters: using movement velocity, acceleration information
H04W 72/0446
Based on the type of the allocated resource: resources in time domain, e.g. slots or frames

Apparatus and method for providing function of electronic device corresponding to location

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Apparatus and method for providing function of electronic device corresponding to location

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Abstract

Claims20