Patent ID: 8374626
Filing Date: 2013-02-12
Classification: G01S,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method for providing a location information service using a mobile code in a Mobile Station (MS), comprising: scanning, by an input device of the MS, a mobile code; analyzing identifier information of the scanned mobile code; determining whether the analyzed identifier information corresponds to other information that was stored in the MS before the scanning of the mobile code; acquiring, upon a determination that the identifier information corresponds to the other information stored in the MS, location information indicating a location of a building or shop associated with the mobile code, to be matched on a first cyber map in the MS, according to the other information stored in the MS corresponding to the identifier information; matching coordinates of the acquired location information on the first cyber map in the MS; and if cyber map information corresponding to the coordinates of the acquired location information does not exist in the first cyber map in the MS, updating the first cyber map with cyber map information corresponding to coordinates of corresponding location information obtained from a second cyber map in a server and matching the acquired location information on the updated first cyber map; displaying the matched first cyber map on an output device of the MS; and calculating a moving distance and a path using at least one location corresponding to the acquired location information.