KR100785942B1 - System and method for checking state of mobile station - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a system for checking a state of a mobile communication terminal and a service method thereof. The disclosed state checking system checks an operation state of a mobile communication terminal requested for inspection according to a user's setting in a mobile communication system, and notifies the result thereof. A state check system of a mobile communication terminal is a visitor location register or a home location register for acquiring and storing operation state information of a mobile communication terminal, and a visitor location register or a request for checking and notification of operation state information from a mobile communication terminal. A status check server that reads the operation status information from the home location register, and a message service center that generates a message including the operation status information at the request of the status check server and notifies the mobile communication terminal, Of the mobile communication terminal By checking the operation status and notifying the result, it is possible to check the operation status of the other party periodically or discontinuously even if it does not try to connect with the other party, and it is also possible to check the operation status of a plurality of mobile communication terminals at once. have.

Active state, call waiting, out of service area, power off

Description

Status checking system of mobile communication terminal and its service method {SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CHECKING STATE OF MOBILE STATION}

1 is a block diagram of a system for checking a state of a mobile communication terminal according to the present invention;

2 is a flowchart illustrating a state check setting process by a state check system of a mobile communication terminal according to the present invention;

3 is a flowchart illustrating a state checking and notification process by a state checking system of a mobile communication terminal according to the present invention;

<Explanation of symbols for main parts of the drawings>

110: mobile communication terminal 120: wireless access network

121: base station transmitter 123: base station controller

130: mobile switching center / visitor location register 140: home location register

150: short message service center 160: health check server

171: User Settings Database 173: State Information Database

The present invention relates to a state check of a mobile communication terminal, and relates to a state check system and a service method of a mobile communication terminal for checking and notifying an operation state of a mobile communication terminal according to a user's setting.

The development of the information and communication field, which is essential in the highly information society, is spreading all over the world, and accordingly, the research and development related to the information and communication field is actively progressing.

In particular, the development of the mobile communication field among the information and communication field is not only wide market, but also research and development is rapidly progressing, and is actively participating in the mobile communication field from all over the world.

Among these various wired and wireless communication technologies, portable communication devices can be easily carried by users, and they can carry out phone calls on the go, as well as receive and confirm simple messages, thereby becoming a necessity of life.

Since the portable communication device receives a voice signal or a predetermined message of the other party, which is wirelessly output from the base station, the reception state is different according to the current position of receiving the radio wave.

For example, when a user with a portable communication device is on the ground, the user can smoothly receive the radio wave transmitted from the base station, but when the user is in a shadowed area such as the basement or the inside of a building, the electric field strength of the radio wave is weak. It often happens that you do not receive it. In addition, the battery may be completely out of power and unable to talk.

On the other hand, in the current mobile communication system, when the called-party mobile communication terminal is out of the service area or the power is turned off, the calling mobile communication terminal informs the operation state through the announcement.

However, this is only to guide the call incapable state when requesting a call, so it was possible to check the operation state of the other party only when a call was attempted, and there was a problem in that it was not possible to check the operation state of a plurality of mobile communication terminals at once.

The present invention has been proposed to solve such a conventional problem, and to provide a system for checking the status of a mobile communication terminal for checking the operation state of the mobile communication terminal requested to be checked according to the user's setting and notifying the result thereof. There is a purpose.

Another object of the present invention is to check the status of the mobile communication terminal for notifying the result after checking the requested operation status of the database by setting the database of the setting information on the inspection and notification method of the operation state by the user To provide a service method.

According to an aspect of the present invention, a system for checking a state of a mobile communication terminal according to an aspect of the present invention checks an operation state of a requested mobile communication terminal according to a user's setting and notifies the result thereof. A state check system of a mobile communication terminal, comprising: a visitor location register or a home location register for acquiring and storing operation state information of the mobile communication terminal; and when a check and notification for the operation state information are requested from the mobile communication terminal; Message service for generating a status check server for reading the operation status information from a visitor location register or a home location register and a message including the operation status information in response to a request of the status check server to notify the mobile communication terminal. Includes the center.

According to another aspect of the present invention, a method for checking a state of a mobile communication terminal may include: a state of a mobile communication terminal which checks an operation state of a mobile communication terminal requested for inspection according to a user's setting and notifies a result thereof; An inspection service method comprising: (a) a status checking server storing the requested operation status checking and notification condition in a user setting database when the mobile communication terminal requests inspection and notification of the operation status through the mobile communication system; (B) the status checking server reading the driving status information from a visitor location register or a home location register in the mobile communication system based on the stored check and notification conditions; and (c) the status checking In response to a request from the server, the message service center includes the driving state information. Generating the message by transmitting to the mobile terminal.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. In addition, in describing the present invention, when it is determined that the detailed description of the related known configuration or function may obscure the gist of the present invention, the detailed description thereof will be omitted.

1 is a block diagram of a system for checking a state of a mobile communication terminal according to the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, the state checking system of the present invention includes a mobile station (MS) 110, a wireless access network 120, a mobile switching center (MSC) / visitor location register (VLR). Register (130), Home Location Register (HLR) 140, Short Message Service Center (SMSC) 150, Health Check Server 160, User Settings Database 171, State information database 173 and the like.

The mobile communication terminal 110 is a terminal capable of voice communication and data communication with each other through a mobile communication network.

The wireless access network 120 serves to guarantee the mobility of the mobile communication terminal 110 and performs handover and wireless support management functions. The radio access network 120 includes a base station transmitter 121 and a base station controller 123 and supports both synchronous and asynchronous. In this case, the base station transmitter 121 will be a base transceiver station (BTS), the base station controller 123 will be a base station controller (BSC), and in the case of asynchronous, the base station transmitter 121 is a radio transceiver subsystem (RTS). The base station controller 123 may be a radio network controller (RNC). Of course, the wireless access network 120 is not limited thereto, and may include a GSM network other than a CDMA network and an access network of a fourth generation mobile communication system to be implemented in the future.

The base station transmitter 121 receives the call request signal from the calling mobile terminal 110 through the traffic channel of the signal channel, and transmits the received call request signal to the base station controller 123. In addition, the base station transmitter 121 is a network endpoint device that is directly connected to the mobile communication terminal 110 by performing baseband signal processing, wired and wireless conversion, and transmission and reception of wireless signals.

The base station controller 123 controls the base station transmitter 121, assigns and releases radio channels to the mobile communication terminal 110, controls the transmission output of the mobile communication terminal 110 and the base station transmitter 121, and inter-cell soft handover. And determining hard handover, transcoding and vocoding, global positioning system (GPS) clock distribution, and operation and maintenance functions for the base station. The base station controller 123 forwards the call request signal received through the base station transmitter 121 to the mobile switching center / visitor location register 130.

The mobile switching center / visitor location register 130 performs basic and additional service processing, incoming and outgoing call processing of a subscriber, location registration procedure and handover procedure, and interworking with other networks. The mobile switching center includes an access switching subsystem (ASS) that performs distributed call processing, an INS (interconnection network subsystem) that performs centralized call processing, a central control subsystem (CCS) that centralizes operations and maintenance, It includes a subsystem such as a Location Registration Subsystem (LRS) that performs storage and management of information for mobile subscribers. The visitor location register is a database that stores information of visited subscribers in the area serviced by the mobile switching center. The visitor location register temporarily retrieves the information of the mobile communication terminal 110 and the subscriber whose location is registered to the area in charge thereof from the home location register 140. Save it. The visitor location register is typically mounted at the exchange but may be installed separately.

The home location register 140 receives the location information of the called-party mobile communication terminal 110 and performs functions such as registration recognition, registration deletion, location checking, and the like, while waiting for a call on the driving state of the mobile communication terminal 110. It is managed separately such as out of service area and power off. In addition, the home location register 140 stores profile information of the calling party and the called party mobile communication terminal 110. Here, the profile information refers to subscribed additional service information such as a mobile identification number (MIN), an electronic serial number (ESN), and a status check service according to the present invention.

The short message service center 150 provides a short message service for generating and transmitting a short message. The short message service center 150 generates and transmits a message related to a status check at the request of the status check server 160 and transmits the message to the mobile communication terminal 110. .

The state check server 160 checks whether the additional service is subscribed through the profile information of the mobile communication terminal 110 stored in the home location register 140 when the status checking service according to the present invention is requested from the mobile communication terminal 110. It provides the service setting screen to set the status check and notification method later. When the mobile communication terminal 110 completes the state check setting through the service setting screen, the mobile station 110 stores the setting information in the user setting database 171 and checks the operation state of the mobile communication terminal 110 based on the state check setting information. The result of the check is stored in the state information database 173, and the mobile communication terminal 110 is transmitted and notified based on a preset notification method.

Although the core functions and operations of the respective components constituting the status check system of the mobile communication terminal shown in FIG. 1 have been described so far, additional functions and operations are required to provide the status check service according to the present invention. Functions and operations will be embodied from the description below.

To this end, the service process for checking and notifying the operation state of the mobile communication terminal in the state checking system of the present invention will be described in more detail with reference to FIGS. 2 and 3 as follows.

First, a user of the mobile communication terminal 110 requests the state check server 160 to set up a state check service along a preset access path. For example, a dedicated function key may be operated, a telephone number assigned to the status check server 160 may be connected, or a predetermined wireless Internet address connection may be used (S201).

Then, the status check server 160 provides the mobile communication terminal 110 with a status check setting screen through which the mobile communication terminal 110 can perform environment setting for the status checking service according to the present invention (S203).

Here, the user of the mobile communication terminal 110 inputs identification information (eg, a phone number) of the mobile communication terminal 110 to which he / she wants to receive a check service for an operation state, and receives a check period and a check result. A notification method and the like are set together (S205).

The mobile communication terminal 110 that can be set as the target of inspection may be limited to the mobile communication terminal opened in its own name, but the mobile communication terminal opened in the name of another person, that is, other than the mobile communication terminal currently applying for service. The mobile terminal may be set as a target. For example, a plurality of phone numbers of acquaintances (parents or lovers) to check the operation state of the mobile communication terminal at any time may be set.

On the other hand, the notification method for the inspection result is freely selectable within the range supported by the system. In the embodiment of FIG. 1, since the short message service center 150 is provided as a component for notifying the status check result, the user may select a short message notification method. Of course, if a multimedia message service center is provided in the system, a multimedia message notification method may be selected. If an automatic response system (ARS) is provided in the system, an automatic voice guidance message notification method may be selected. .

When a series of setting processes are completed by the user, the state check server 160 temporarily stores user setting conditions for the state check and notification method in the user setting database 171, and the mobile communication terminal 110 set as the state check target. In order to ask the users of the status check service, the short message service center 150 requests the creation and transmission of the message (S207).

The short message service center 150 generates a short message indicating information of the user requesting the status check service and the status check permission in step S201, and transmits the short message to the mobile communication terminal 110 of the status check target (S209).

At this time, when the user of the mobile communication terminal 110 that is the subject of the status check sends a reply message allowing the status check, the user setting database (based on the user setting conditions for the status check and notification method temporarily stored in step S207) 171) is updated (S211, S213), and if a reply message allowing the status check is not received within the preset time or a disallowed message is received, the user setting conditions for the temporarily checked status check and notification method are stored in step S207. It deletes from the database 171 (S211, S215).

On the other hand, the reply message is automatically transmitted to the status check server 160 by a relatively simple operation such as operating a "confirmation key" when transmitting a short message asking for status check permission to the mobile communication terminal 110 to be checked. Preferably.

Thereafter, the status checking server 160 notifies the mobile communication terminal 110 that is requesting service through the short message service center 150 of the processing result of step S213 or step S215 (S217).

Although the preferred setting procedure for the status check service has been described so far, an optional setting procedure depending on whether or not to allow from step S209 to step S215 may be omitted. That is, when the setting is completed in step S205, the user setting database 171 is immediately updated without temporarily storing the user setting conditions for the status checking and notification method in step S207.

Next, the state check server 160 searches the user setting database 171 and extracts the state check and notification method set in step S205 (S301 and S303).

The visitor location register 130 or the home location register 140 reads the driving state information of the mobile communication terminal 110 to be checked and updates the state information database 173 according to the extracted state check method. . Here, since the visitor location register 103 or the home location register 140 obtains and stores the driving state information of the mobile communication terminal 110, a detailed description thereof will be omitted (S305 and S307).

Thereafter, the status check server 160 requests the short message service center 150 to generate and transmit a message about the status check result according to a preset notification method, and the short message service center 150 checks mobile communication. A short message including driving state information of the terminal 110 is transmitted to the mobile communication terminal 110 requesting service. That is, the driving state of the mobile communication terminal 110 is provided in a state of being separated from the call waiting, leaving the service area, power off, etc. (S309 and S311).

As described above, the notification method for the inspection result is freely selected and implemented within the range supported by the system. In the embodiment of FIG. 1, if the multimedia message service center is provided in the system, the status check result may be notified through the multimedia message. If the automatic response system is provided in the system, the status check result is notified through the voice guidance message. You may.

The above description is merely illustrative of the present invention, and it is obvious that the techniques of the present invention can be easily modified and implemented by those skilled in the art. Such modified embodiments should be construed as naturally included in the technical spirit described in the claims of the present invention.

As described above, the present invention checks the operation state of the mobile communication terminal that is requested to be checked according to the user's setting and notifies the result, thereby periodically or discontinuously checking the operation state of the other party even if the user does not try to connect with the other party. It can be confirmed, there is an effect that can check the operation status of the plurality of mobile communication terminals at once.

Claims (9)

A state checking system of a mobile communication terminal that checks an operation state of a requested mobile communication terminal according to a user's setting in a mobile communication system and notifies a result thereof, A visitor location register or home location register for obtaining and storing operation state information of the mobile communication terminal; A status checking server that reads the operation state information from the visitor location register or home location register when a request for inspection and notification of the operation state information is requested from the mobile communication terminal; Message service center for generating a message including the operation status information to notify the mobile communication terminal in response to a request of the status checking server Status check system of the mobile communication terminal comprising a. The method of claim 1, The state checking system is a terminal different from the mobile communication terminal requesting inspection and notification of the operation state information and the mobile communication terminal to be subjected to the operation state check. The status checking server requests generation and notification of the message to the message service center only when a permission message for the checking and notification is received from the mobile terminal to be checked; Status check system of a mobile communication terminal, characterized in that. The method according to claim 1 or 2, The message service center is any one of a short message service center and a multimedia message service center. Status check system of a mobile communication terminal, characterized in that. The method according to claim 1 or 2, The message service center is an answering machine Status check system of a mobile communication terminal, characterized in that. A state checking service method of a mobile communication terminal that checks an operation state of a requested mobile communication terminal according to a user's setting in a mobile communication system and notifies a result thereof, (a) when the mobile communication terminal requests checking and notification of the operation state through the mobile communication system, a state checking server storing the requested operation state checking and notification condition in a user setting database; (b) the status checking server reading the driving status information from a visitor location register or a home location register in the mobile communication system based on the stored check and notification conditions; (c) a message service center generates a message including the driving state information and transmits the message to the mobile communication terminal at the request of the state check server; Status check service method of a mobile communication terminal comprising a. The method of claim 5, The state check service method, In the step (a), the mobile communication terminal requesting the inspection and notification of the operation state information and the mobile communication terminal to be the target of the operation state check in step (b) are different terminals, In step (a), (a1) setting, by the mobile terminal, the condition checking and notification condition to the status checking server; (a2) generating, by the message service center, a message for inquiring permission of the operation status check and transmitting the message to the mobile communication terminal to be checked according to a request of the status check server; (a3) storing the requested operation state checking and notification condition in the user setting database when a reply message allowing the operation state checking is received from the mobile communication terminal to be checked; Status check service method of a mobile communication terminal comprising a. The method according to claim 5 or 6, The message is any one of a short message, a multimedia message, an automatic response guide message. Status check service method of a mobile communication terminal, characterized in that. The method of claim 5, In the status checking service method, the status checking server reads the driving status information periodically or discontinuously based on the stored notification condition in step (b), and the message service center in step (c) Periodically or discontinuously generating a message including the driving state information at the request of the state checking server and transmitting the message to the mobile communication terminal; Status check service method of a mobile communication terminal, characterized in that. The method of claim 5, The state checking service method may include a plurality of mobile communication terminals to be subjected to the operating state checking in the step (b). Status check service method of a mobile communication terminal, characterized in that.

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