KR101465517B1 - Apparatus for providing additional information when performing message services included in telecommunication device and method using the same - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to an additional information providing apparatus and method for providing additional information when a message transmission service is performed in a communication terminal, and is connected to an additional information providing server through a network and performs a message transmission service through a communication network A supplementary information providing apparatus included in a communication terminal for providing additional information when a message transmission service is performed, the apparatus comprising: a supplementary information providing unit configured to provide supplementary information set for a recipient phone number to receive a message before a message transmission service is performed, An additional information receiving unit for receiving additional information from a server; And an additional information display management unit for displaying the received additional information on a display unit, and a method using the additional information providing apparatus.

Description

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention [0001] The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for providing additional information when a message service is performed in a communication terminal,

The present invention relates to an additional information providing apparatus and method for providing additional information when a message service is performed in a communication terminal. More particularly, the present invention relates to a supplementary information providing apparatus and a supplementary information providing method, The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for providing various types of additional information to a communication terminal in a stage prior to performing a message service.

With the rapid spread of so-called smart phones in recent years, the conventional mobile communication service environment, which mainly focuses on calls, is being switched to data communication services and various types of services are being proposed. Especially, the environment is changed to browse a web page by using the Internet or install an application (application) so that a desired service can be provided anywhere by using a so-called smart phone.

However, there is no significant difference from the conventional method in relation to the message service, which is one of the main functions of the mobile communication terminal. That is, the conventional message service in which a user inputs a telephone number or selects a contact from an address book to transmit the message has no difference from the conventional method in terms of the basic method and the user's interface environment.

In this regard, it is desired to develop a method capable of providing various types of additional information through a display unit of a communication terminal in a stage before a message service is performed, such as when a user wants to transmit a message or when receiving a message .

Meanwhile, Korean Patent Application Publication No. 10-2009-0128982 (an information providing system and method for providing multimedia contents during a call) discloses a method for providing multimedia contents to a terminal side during a call. However, this method is basically applied when carrying out a call service, and also when a multimedia content is provided by a content server linked to a mobile communication network when a call request is already made in a calling terminal, not when a call is attempted There is a limitation in that it is performed only for the called terminal. Furthermore, there is also a limitation in that the multimedia contents are temporarily displayed only in a state in which the called terminal indicates that the telephone has come.

In this regard, it is possible to provide various types of additional information based on the called telephone number at a stage before performing the message transmission service to the calling terminal to which the message is to be transmitted, and before providing the message reception service to the called terminal receiving the message It is desired to provide various types of additional information based on the outgoing telephone number.

Korean Patent Publication No. 10-2009-0128982 (December 16, 2009)

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of the above limitations, and it is an object of the present invention to provide a method and apparatus for transmitting a message from a calling terminal, The present invention provides an apparatus and method for providing various types of additional information through a communication terminal.

Further, according to the present invention, when additional information is registered for a predetermined forwarding telephone number or an outgoing telephone number and a user generates a message transmission request signal by inputting the forwarding telephone number, or when a message transmitted from the outgoing telephone is received Information such as advertisement information, publicity information, events, and announcements can be stored as additional information in association with the incoming or outgoing phone number or the outgoing phone number by providing the additional information at a stage prior to performing the message transmission or reception service. And an object of the present invention is to provide an apparatus and method for transmitting additional information to a user who performs a message service through an incoming or outgoing telephone number in a simple and efficient manner.

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of providing additional information, which is included in a communication terminal that is connected to an additional information providing server through a network and performs a message transmission service through a communication network, An additional information receiving unit for receiving additional information from a supplementary information providing server set for a destination telephone number to receive a message before performing a message transmission service when a message transmission request event is detected; And an additional information display management unit for displaying the received additional information on a display unit. The present invention also provides an additional information providing apparatus for providing additional information to a communication terminal when performing a message transmission service.

Here, the additional information may include advertisement information.

The additional information may be transmitted from the additional information providing server in the form of a web page.

The supplementary information includes service menu information to be provided to the user, and the supplementary information display management unit of the communication terminal constructs a service menu interface based on the service menu information, displays the service menu interface through the display unit, The communication terminal can perform an operation corresponding to the selected service menu based on the interface.

The additional information receiving unit may further include an additional information providing determining unit that determines whether additional information is provided to the incoming phone number to receive the message when a message transmission request event is detected, If it is determined that the additional information is provided to the number, the additional information may be received from the additional information providing server set for the called telephone number to receive the message before performing the message transmission service.

The additional information provision determination unit may include an additional information management table in which additional information is provided corresponding to each telephone number and address information of the additional information providing server is stored in advance.

The additional information provision determination unit may be configured to transmit the called telephone number to the additional information management server and receive a response signal indicating whether additional information is provided from the additional information management server and address information of the additional information providing server.

Also, the additional information display management unit may display a message transmission request unit for performing a message transmission service to the called telephone number while displaying the additional information through the display unit, and when the user selects the message transmission request unit, The terminal may be configured to transmit the message to the called telephone number.

In addition, the service menu interface may include a message transmission request unit for performing a message transmission service to the called telephone number, and may transmit a message to the called telephone number when the user selects the message transmission request unit.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of providing additional information when a message transmission service is performed in an additional information providing apparatus connected to a supplementary information providing server through a network and performing communication service through a communication network A first step of transmitting an additional information request signal to a supplementary information providing server set for a destination telephone number to receive a message before a message transmission service is performed when a message transmission request event is detected; A second step of receiving additional information from the additional information providing server; And a third step of displaying the received additional information on a display unit. The present invention provides a method of providing additional information to a communication terminal in performing a message transmission service.

Here, the additional information includes service menu information to be provided to the user, and the third step configures and displays the service menu interface based on the service menu information through the display unit, So that the communication terminal can perform an operation corresponding to the selected service menu.

The third step may include displaying a message transmission requesting unit for performing a message transmission service on the incoming phone number through the display unit while displaying the additional information through the display unit. When the user selects the message transmission requesting unit, And send the message to the called telephone number.

In addition, the service menu interface may include a message transmission request unit for performing a message transmission service to the called telephone number, and may transmit a message to the called telephone number when the user selects the message transmission request unit.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided an additional information providing apparatus, which is included in a communication terminal connected to an additional information providing server through a network and performs a message receiving service through a communication network, An additional information receiving unit for receiving additional information from a supplementary information providing server set for an outgoing phone number from which a message is transmitted before a message display process is performed when a message reception event is detected; And an additional information display management unit for displaying the received additional information on a display unit. The present invention also provides an additional information providing apparatus for providing additional information to a communication terminal when performing a message reception service.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for providing additional information when a message reception service is performed in an additional information providing apparatus connected to a supplementary information providing server through a network and performing communication service through a communication network A first step of transmitting an additional information request signal to a supplementary information providing server set for an outgoing phone number from which a message is transmitted before a message display process is performed when a message reception event is detected; A second step of receiving additional information from the additional information providing server; And a third step of displaying the received additional information on a display unit. The present invention provides a method of providing additional information to a communication terminal in performing a message receiving service.

According to the present invention, when a message is to be transmitted from a calling terminal, when a message is received from a called terminal both before a message transmission service is performed and before a message reception service is performed, various additional information is transmitted to a communication terminal It is possible to provide an apparatus and a method that can be provided through the Internet.

According to the present invention, when additional information is registered with respect to a predetermined incoming or outgoing telephone number and a user inputs a corresponding incoming telephone number to generate a message transmission request signal, or when a message transmitted from the outgoing telephone is received The additional information can be provided at a stage prior to the execution of the corresponding message transmission or reception service, thereby storing information such as advertisement information, publicity information, events, and announcements in association with the incoming or outgoing phone number as additional information It is possible to provide an apparatus and method for transmitting additional information in a simple and efficient manner to a user who performs a message service through the corresponding incoming or outgoing telephone number.

In particular, when the present invention is applied to a customer center or call center of a company, various types of additional information are stored in correspondence with the representative numbers of the customer center or the call center, and the user wants to transmit the corresponding representative number as the called telephone number Or if the user desires to send a message according to the representative number, the user may start transmitting the message or start the operation of receiving the message. In this way, The service menu of the customer center and the call center can be configured as the additional information, so that the management and operation of the customer center and the call center can be efficiently performed, and the convenience of the user can be increased .

1 is a diagram illustrating a connection relationship between a communication terminal including the additional information providing apparatus according to the present invention, a supplementary information providing server, and a supplementary information management server.
2 is a diagram showing an internal configuration of an additional information providing apparatus 100 included in the communication terminal 10 and the communication terminal 10 according to the present invention.
FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating an embodiment of a method of providing additional information performed by the additional information providing apparatus 100 of the communication terminal 10 as described with reference to FIG. 1 and FIG.
4 is a view showing another embodiment of a method for providing additional information performed by the additional information providing apparatus 100 of the communication terminal 10 as described with reference to FIG. 1 and FIG.
5 to 11 illustrate screens displayed on the display unit of the communication terminal 10 to which the additional information is provided by the additional information providing apparatus 100 according to the present invention.
12 is a diagram for explaining an example in which the configuration of the additional information providing apparatus 100 included in the communication terminal 10 for implementing the present invention is implemented by an application program (application).
13 is a diagram showing an example of the internal configuration of the application program management unit 52. As shown in Fig.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 is a diagram illustrating a connection relationship between a communication terminal including the additional information providing apparatus according to the present invention, a supplementary information providing server, and a supplementary information management server.

Referring to FIG. 1, an additional information providing apparatus (hereinafter, referred to as an additional information providing apparatus) for providing additional information at the time of performing a message service according to the present invention is included in the communication terminal 10.

In the present invention, the message service refers to a concept including a message transmission service and a message reception service.

The communication terminal 10 performs various communication services including a message transmission / reception service and a call service through a communication network and is also connected to the additional information providing server 20 and the additional information management server 30 through a network.

Although not explicitly shown in FIG. 1, the communication network means a conventional network that performs communication services by any one of or a combination of a public switched telephone network (PSTN), a mobile communication network, and an Internet network, And the like. Through the communication network, the communication terminal 10 is provided with a call service as is known from the related art.

1, a network is a concept including a known wired / wireless Internet, a mobile communication network, or a combination thereof. In the present invention, as a concept compared with a communication network for providing the communication service described above, Quot; data packet "

The communication terminal 10 refers to a mobile communication terminal or a wired communication terminal as a well-known publicly known means for receiving a communication service through a communication network. The communication terminal 10 of the present invention includes an application program Application, application), and is preferably a so-called "smart phone" having an internet connection means. As is well known, the communication terminal 10 may include a display unit (not shown) for performing input and output functions in the form of a touch screen. In addition, the communication terminal 10 includes an operating system (OS) for managing the overall operation of the terminal.

Here, the communication terminal 10 may be a calling terminal or a called terminal. In the present invention, a calling terminal means a communication terminal transmitting a message, and a calling terminal means a communication terminal receiving a message.

Such a communication terminal 10 is characterized by the following points in the present invention. First, when the communication terminal 10 is the calling terminal, if a message transmission request signal is generated by the user and a message transmission request event is detected, the destination telephone number to receive the message in the pre- And displays the received additional information on the display unit.

In the case where the communication terminal 10 is a called terminal, when a message is received via the communication network and a message reception event is detected, the additional information is provided from the additional information providing server 20 set for the outgoing telephone number And displays the received and received additional information on the display unit.

Here, the additional information may include advertisement information. Further, the additional information may be in the form of image, moving image or text data, and may be provided from the additional information providing server 20 in the form of a web page constituted by a combination thereof.

Meanwhile, the additional information may include service menu information to be provided to the user. In this case, the communication terminal 10 has a service menu interface for allowing the user to select a desired service menu based on the received service menu information And can be provided through a display unit. Here, the service menu interface means an interface for providing services for providing additional services in a menu form so that the user can select them. When the user selects a specific service menu based on the service menu interface, the communication terminal 10 can perform an operation corresponding to the service menu, such as requesting and receiving a linked web page.

If the additional information includes the service menu information, the additional information itself including the service menu information may be provided in the form of a web page. In addition, a service menu interface may be included in the web page itself to be provided to the communication terminal 10.

2 is a diagram showing an internal configuration of an additional information providing apparatus 100 included in the communication terminal 10 and the communication terminal 10 according to the present invention.

The additional information providing apparatus 100 of FIG. 2 is included in the communication terminal 10 and may be included as a part of an operating system (OS) of the communication terminal 10 or may be installed and installed in the form of an application . It may also be implemented in hardware within the communication terminal 10. [

2, only the additional information providing apparatus 100 is shown as a configuration of the communication terminal 10 related to the present invention. Note that other general configurations of the communication terminal 10 are omitted because they are not directly related to the present invention do.

Referring to FIG. 2, the additional information providing apparatus 100 included in the communication terminal 10 includes an additional information receiving unit 110 and a supplementary information display managing unit 120.

When the communication terminal 10 is the calling terminal and the message transmission requesting event is detected in the communication terminal 10, the additional information receiving unit 110 receives the message transmission service, And receives the additional information from the set additional information providing server 20. [

In addition, when the communication terminal 10 is a destination terminal, when receiving a message reception event in the communication terminal 10, the side information receiving unit 110 performs a message display process of displaying the received message through the display unit And receives the additional information from the additional information providing server 20 set for the outgoing telephone number from which the message was previously transmitted.

When the communication terminal 10 is a calling terminal, the communication terminal 10 provides an input interface (keypad, touch screen, etc.) through which a telephone number can be input, When the message transmission selection button displayed on the interface is selected, an interface for transmitting a message to the corresponding telephone number is displayed. If a user selects a transmission button after inputting a message, a message transmission service is performed to transmit the message to the called telephone number. On the other hand, message transfer may occur when selecting the recipient's name from the address book instead of directly entering the telephone number.

In the case where the message is to be transmitted to the destination terminal of a specific telephone number through the communication terminal 10, a process for transmitting the message through the communication network in the communication terminal 10, A message transmission event occurs and this can be detected by an event detection unit (not shown) included in the operating system in the communication terminal 10. [ When a message transmission request event is detected in the event detection unit, the sub information reception unit 110 stops (stops) the message transmission service process in the communication terminal 10 for message transmission before performing the message transmission service ), Transmits an additional information request signal to the additional information providing server 20 set for the incoming telephone number to which the message is to be received, and receives the additional information as a response thereto from the additional information providing server 20.

On the other hand, when the communication terminal 10 is a called terminal, when the message is received through the communication network, the communication terminal 10 displays a message through the display unit or an interface indicating that the message has been received do. When the message is directly displayed on the display unit, the called terminal user confirms the displayed received message, and if the interface indicating that the message has been received is displayed, if the called terminal user selects the corresponding interface, And a message display process for displaying a message is performed.

When a message is received through the communication terminal 10 as described above, a message reception event occurs in the communication terminal 10 according to a predetermined operation in the operating system 10, and an event detection unit (Not shown). When the event detection unit detects a message reception event, the sub information reception unit 110 does not start (stop) the process of displaying the message on the display unit of the communication terminal 10 before performing the message display process, Information request signal to the additional information providing server 20 set for the outgoing telephone number from which the message is transmitted, and receives additional information as a response thereto from the additional information providing server 20. [

The additional information providing unit 110 may further include a supplementary information provision determination unit (not shown). When the message transmission request event or the message reception event is detected, And performs a function of determining whether additional information is provided to the outgoing telephone number from which the message is transmitted. If it is determined by the additional information provision determination unit that the additional information is to be provided to the called telephone number or the outgoing telephone number, the called telephone number to which the message is to be transmitted or the set number And transmits the additional information request signal to the information providing server 20 and receives the additional information from the additional information providing server 20. [

When the event detection unit of the communication terminal 10 detects a message transmission request event or a message reception event, the supplementary information provision determination unit determines whether or not the calling telephone number corresponding to the detected message transmission request event or the calling telephone number corresponding to the message reception event The additional information provision determining unit may determine whether or not to provide supplementary information corresponding to each telephone number to the storage means in the communication terminal 10 and provide additional information (For example, an IP address) of the additional information providing server 20 in advance in an additional information management table (not shown), and forwards the call to the destination telephone number corresponding to the detected message transmission request event Whether additional information is provided to the telephone number and the address of the additional information providing server 20 Confirms.

If the additional information providing unit 110 is not provided with additional information, the additional information providing unit 110 transmits the result to the additional information receiving unit 110, and the additional information receiving unit 110 transmits the result to the communication terminal 10, This general procedure allows the message transmission service or message display process to be performed. If the additional information is set to be provided, the address information of the additional information providing server 20 for providing the additional information is transmitted to the additional information receiving unit 110 from the additional information management table.

On the other hand, the additional information provision determination unit may determine whether additional information is provided by the external supplementary information management server 30, instead of performing the above-described process. In this case, the additional information provision determination unit may transmit the incoming telephone number or the outgoing telephone number to the additional information management server 30, and transmit a response signal indicating whether additional information is provided from the additional information management server 30, Information is received. At this time, the additional information management server 30 has a database similar to the above-described additional information management table, and determines whether additional information and address information are provided based on the database.

On the other hand, the sub information display management unit 120 displays the sub information received from the sub information receiver 110 through the display unit.

As described above, the additional information may be provided in the form of a web page including service menu information or a service menu interface. When the user selects a specific service menu based on the service menu interface displayed on the display unit, And performs an operation corresponding to the service menu, such as a request and display of a web page. For example, in the case of a request for a web page, the sub information display management unit 120 transmits a request to the operating system to execute the web browser together with the address information of the corresponding web page, So that the web page is received and displayed. For example, if the service menu selected by the user is "dialing ", the operating system transmits a request to the operating system to execute an application program for making a telephone call with the telephone number, and the operating system calls .

When the web page including the service menu interface is provided as the additional information, the service menu interface may include a message transmission request unit for transmitting the message to the called telephone number when the communication terminal 10 is the calling terminal. When the message transmission request unit is selected, a message transmission service process is performed so that the communication terminal 10 transmits a message to the called telephone number. Here, the message transmission request unit may be included in an interface for requesting a message transmission, which is basically provided by the operating system of the communication terminal 10 itself.

If the communication terminal 10 is a called terminal, the service menu interface may include a message confirmation request unit for displaying the received message. When the user selects the message confirmation request unit, the received message is transmitted to the communication terminal 10, A message display process is performed to display the message on the display unit. Here, the message confirmation requesting unit may be included in an interface for displaying the message basically provided in the operating system of the communication terminal 10 by itself.

The additional information providing server 20 and the additional information management server 30 will be described with reference to FIG.

The additional information providing server 20 performs a function of transmitting the additional information to the communication terminal 10. [ The address information of the additional information providing server 20 is acquired by the additional information provision determining unit of the communication terminal 10 and is transmitted to the additional information providing server 110 when the additional information request signal is transmitted by the address information acquired by the additional information receiving unit 110 20 provide additional information to the communication terminal 10 in response.

As described above, the additional information may be advertisement information. It may also be in the form of images, moving images, textual data, or a web page composed by a combination of these. Further, the additional information may include service menu information. Further, the additional information may be provided in the form of a web page including a service menu interface based on the service menu information.

Meanwhile, the advertisement information may be provided by a separate advertisement server (not shown). Of course, the advertisement server may be integrally configured in the additional information providing server 20. In addition, the additional information management server 30 described above may be integrally configured in the additional information providing server 20. [

Meanwhile, the additional information providing server 20 may include an additional information database (not shown) for storing additional information to be provided to the communication terminal 10. [ As described above, whether the additional information is provided is determined based on the incoming phone number or the originating phone number, so that the additional information providing server 20 can separately store the additional information corresponding to a plurality of incoming or outgoing phone numbers.

As described above, when the request for providing additional information is received from the additional information providing determination unit 30, the additional information management server 30 determines whether the additional information is provided and provides the address information of the additional information providing server 20 . However, as described above, the configuration of the additional information management server 30 may be omitted when the additional information provision determination unit determines whether supplementary information is provided by itself through the supplementary information management table.

3 is a diagram showing an embodiment of a method of providing additional information performed by the additional information providing apparatus 100 of the communication terminal 10 as described with reference to Figs. 1 and 2. The communication terminal 10 includes a calling terminal .

3, when a message transmission request event is detected in the event detection unit of the communication terminal 10 (S100), the additional information provision determination unit of the communication terminal 10 determines whether or not an incoming phone number The supplementary information provision determination unit transmits an incoming phone number corresponding to the message transmission request event to the supplementary information management server 30 in step S110.

As described above, the additional information management server 30 determines whether or not to provide the additional information to the telephone number through the additional information management database stored in advance based on the received telephone number, And confirms the address information of the information providing server 20 (S120). If it is confirmed that the additional information is to be provided, the response signal and the address information of the additional information providing server 20 are transmitted to the communication terminal 10 (S130). If it is confirmed that the additional information is not provided, transmits a corresponding response signal to the communication terminal 10.

The additional information provision determination unit of the communication terminal 10 transmits the received address information to the additional information reception unit 110 when receiving the response signal indicating the provision of the additional information and the address information of the additional information providing server 20. [ If a response signal indicating that no additional information is to be provided is received, the procedure is terminated and the message transmission service process is performed according to a general procedure as described above.

When the response signal indicating that additional information is to be provided to the incoming telephone number and the address information of the additional information providing server 20 are received, the additional information receiving unit 110 of the communication terminal 10 transmits the address information And transmits an additional information request signal to the additional information providing server 30 based on the received additional information request signal (S140). When the additional information request signal is received from the communication terminal 10, the additional information providing server 30 transmits the additional information previously stored to the communication terminal 10 (S150).

When the additional information is received from the additional information providing server 30, the additional information display management unit 120 of the communication terminal 10 displays the received additional information through the display unit (S160).

As described above, the additional information may include advertisement information and may be provided in the form of a web page. The provided web page may also include a service menu interface for the user to select. When the web page including the service menu interface is received as additional information, the additional information display management unit 120 displays the web page on the display unit and displays an operation corresponding to the service menu selected by the user on the basis of the service menu interface to the communication terminal 10 (S170).

As described above, this operation may be a request and a reception of a web page. The web page at this time may be provided by the additional information providing server 20 or may be provided through a separate web server. Of course, in this case, the service menu stores address information for linking to a web page. When the user selects the service menu, the service menu requests and receives a web page based on the address information of the web page, and displays the web page on the display unit .

Meanwhile, as described above, the service menu interface may include a message transmission request unit for transmitting a message to an incoming telephone number. If the user selects the message transmission request unit (S180), the message can be transmitted to the incoming telephone number A message transmission service process is performed (S190). It should be noted that in FIG. 3, the same components as the exchanges included in the communication network and the communication network are omitted.

Meanwhile, the embodiment of FIG. 3 corresponds to a case of determining whether additional information is provided by the additional information management server 30, and the configuration of the additional information management server 30 is omitted as described with reference to FIG. 1 and FIG. In this case, the determination as to whether or not to provide additional information is performed by the additional information provision determining unit of the communication terminal 10 itself. That is, the operations corresponding to steps S110 to S130 are performed in the additional information provision determination unit of the communication terminal 10. [

4 is a diagram showing an embodiment of a method of providing additional information performed by the additional information providing apparatus 100 of the communication terminal 10 as described with reference to Figs. 1 and 2. The communication terminal 10 includes a receiving terminal .

Referring to FIG. 4, when a message is transmitted from a calling terminal through a communication network (S200), a message reception event is detected in the event detection unit of the communication terminal (called terminal 10) as described above (S210).

The present invention is characterized in that when the communication terminal 10 is a called terminal, the additional information is displayed at a stage prior to the execution of the message display process of displaying the received message through the display unit, There are two cases: when the message is received immediately and when the message is received, and when the user displays the message on the display unit.

For example, when the communication terminal 10 is set so that the message is immediately received and displayed on the display unit of the communication terminal 10, the reception of the message itself is set as the message reception event. On the other hand, if a message is displayed immediately on the display unit of the communication terminal 10 and a message indicating that a message has been received is displayed on the display unit, The user can set the selection input as a message reception event.

In this manner, when the message reception event is detected, the additional information provision determination unit of the communication terminal 10 determines whether the supplementary information is provided to the outgoing telephone number corresponding to the detected message reception event. To this end, And transmits the outgoing telephone number corresponding to the reception event to the additional information management server 30 (S220).

As described above, the additional information management server 30 determines whether or not to provide the additional information to the telephone number through the additional information management database stored in advance based on the received telephone number, And confirms the address information of the information providing server 20 (S230). If it is determined that the additional information is to be provided, the corresponding response signal and the address information of the additional information providing server 20 are transmitted to the communication terminal 10 (S240). If it is confirmed that the additional information is not provided, transmits a corresponding response signal to the communication terminal 10.

The additional information provision determination unit of the communication terminal 10 transmits the received address information to the additional information reception unit 110 when receiving the response signal indicating the provision of the additional information and the address information of the additional information providing server 20. [ If a response signal indicating that no additional information is to be provided is received, the procedure is terminated as described above and a message display process is performed according to a general procedure.

When the response signal indicating that the additional information is to be provided to the outgoing telephone number and the address information of the additional information providing server 20 are received, the additional information receiving unit 110 of the communication terminal 10 transmits the address information And transmits the additional information request signal to the additional information providing server 30 based on the received additional information request signal (S250). When receiving the additional information request signal from the communication terminal 10, the additional information providing server 30 transmits the additional information stored in advance to the communication terminal 10 (S260).

When the additional information is received from the additional information providing server 30, the additional information display managing unit 120 of the communication terminal 10 displays the received additional information through the display unit (S270).

As described above, the additional information may include advertisement information, and may be provided in the form of a web page. The provided web page may also include a service menu interface for the user to select. When the web page including the service menu interface is received as additional information, the additional information display management unit 120 displays the web page on the display unit and displays an operation corresponding to the service menu selected by the user on the basis of the service menu interface to the communication terminal 10 (Step S280).

As described above, this operation may be a request and a reception of a web page. The web page at this time may be provided by the additional information providing server 20 or may be provided through a separate web server. Of course, in this case, the service menu stores address information for linking to a web page. When the user selects the service menu, the service menu requests and receives a web page based on the address information of the web page, and displays the web page on the display unit .

Meanwhile, as described above, the service menu interface may include a message confirmation request unit for receiving a message and displaying it on the display unit. If the user selects the message confirmation request unit (S290), the message is displayed on the display unit (Step S300). It should be noted that in FIG. 4, the same components as the exchanges included in the communication network and the communication network are omitted.

The embodiment of FIG. 4 is similar to the embodiment of FIG. 3 except that the additional information management server 30 determines whether additional information is provided. As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the additional information management server 30 30 may be omitted. In this case, the additional information provision determining unit of the communication terminal 10 determines whether or not to provide additional information. That is, operations corresponding to steps S220 to S240 are performed in the additional information provision determination unit of the communication terminal 10. [

5 and Fig. 5 illustrate screens displayed on the display unit of the communication terminal 10 to which the additional information is provided by the additional information providing apparatus 100 according to the present invention as described with reference to Figs. 1 to 4, When the communication terminal 10 is the calling terminal, that is, when the message transmission service is performed.

5 and 6 show a screen of a display unit when a message transmission request signal (a message transmission request event) is generated in the communication terminal 10, This is the case when you enter a number. In this state, when a letter-envelope button provided at the lower right is selected, a message transmission request event occurs. 6 shows a case where a contact is selected in the address book. When selecting "Shinhan Bank" in FIG. 6, a message transmission request signal is generated to an incoming telephone number stored corresponding to the contact.

7, when a message transmission request event is generated and detected by the event detection unit of the communication terminal 10 as shown in FIG. 5 and FIG. 6, This is a screen showing the state of receiving the additional information. In the case of FIG. 7, advertisement information is received as additional information.

FIG. 8 is a screen showing another case in which the additional information is received by the additional information providing server 20, and shows a state in which the additional information is implemented in the form of a web page and received. It can be seen that the web page of FIG. 8 includes a service menu interface including service menu such as "financial product", "economic brief", "interest today" and the like. When the user selects a desired service menu through the service menu interface, the communication terminal 10 performs an operation corresponding to the service menu. For example, when a service menu of the "financial product" is selected, a web page linked to the "financial product" is requested as shown in Fig. 9 and received and displayed on the display unit.

On the other hand, in the lower part of FIG. 8, it can be seen that a message transmission request unit ("1577-8000, message transmission") for transmitting a message to the incoming telephone number is provided. When the user selects the message transmission request unit, the communication terminal 10 performs a message transmission service process so that the message can be transmitted to the called telephone number 1577-8000.

Meanwhile, it is also possible to display a call connection request unit for allowing a call to be connected instead of the message transmission request unit. When the user selects the call connection request unit, the communication terminal 10 performs a process for connecting the call to the incoming phone number.

10 and 11 show a screen of the display unit in which the call connection request unit is displayed and a screen of the display unit in which the call is connected to the corresponding phone number when the user selects the call connection request unit.

It is needless to say that the telephone number displayed next to the call request unit in FIG. 10 is a number used for the first incoming telephone number to receive a message from the communication terminal 10, but may also indicate another number.

5 to 11, the present invention is particularly useful when providing services such as a customer center and a call center of a company. The customer center or call center operates the customer center or the call center. The customer center or the call center generally selects the menu by inputting the button by the ARS method based on the voice call, so it takes a very long time It takes. In this case, when the present invention is applied, additional information is provided in correspondence with a representative telephone number of a customer center or a call center of a company, and when a user inputs a corresponding representative telephone number to generate a message transmission request signal, Can be visually expressed on the display unit of the communication terminal of the user, thereby improving the convenience of the user.

4 to 8 show menus of a general web page for the purpose of providing information. However, service menus may be classified in the form of, for example, 1. inquiry, 2, transfer service, 3. agent connection, , It is possible to configure the telephone to be directly connected to the service or to cause the message to be transmitted.

According to the present invention, as shown in FIG. 7, the advertisement information can be provided corresponding to the incoming telephone number, so that the company can easily and efficiently transmit the advertisement / advertisement of the company, the event or the announcement to the customer.

5 to 11 are for a case where the communication terminal 10 is a calling terminal, that is, when a message is transmitted. However, when the communication terminal 10 is a called terminal, that is, .

For example, when the communication terminal 10 is a destination terminal, if the message is set to be displayed immediately on the display unit upon reception of the message, the additional information is displayed as shown in FIGS. 7 and 8 Can be displayed. When the message is received, the message is not directly displayed on the display unit, and an interface indicating that the message has been received is displayed on the display unit. If the user selects the communication terminal 10 so that the message is displayed, 7 and 8 can be displayed in the previous step before the message is displayed.

9 to 11 can be displayed according to the user's selection even in the following process.

Next, a method for actually implementing the communication terminal 10 including the additional information providing apparatus 100 according to the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. 12 and 13. FIG.

First, the additional information providing apparatus 100 included in the communication terminal 10 as shown in FIG. 2 for carrying out the present invention may be integrated into an operating system included in the communication terminal 100. Alternatively, it may be installed and implemented in the form of an application program (application) in the communication terminal 10 afterwards. In particular, operating systems such as, for example, androids are particularly well suited to the present invention, since terminal manufacturers or application manufacturers are open to receiving call service events from an operating system (OS) and performing various processes. For example, when a message transmission request event occurs in the Android operating system, the event detection unit of the operating system of the communication terminal 10 may detect the message transmission request event and then operate the additional information providing apparatus 100 implemented in the form of an application program have.

12 is a diagram for explaining an example in which the configuration of the additional information providing apparatus 100 included in the communication terminal 10 for implementing the present invention is implemented by an application program (application).

Referring to FIG. 12, the communication terminal 10 includes an event transmission unit 51 and an application program management unit 52 in an operating system (OS). The configuration of FIG. 12 exemplifies the actual configuration of the Android operating system, and although there may be differences in terminology in other operating systems, the basic principle is similar.

The event transmission unit 51 receives various events generated from the hardware or application program (application) of the communication terminal 10 and confirms the application program to which the received event is to be transmitted by the application program management unit 52, And notifies that an event has occurred, thereby executing a function of the application program.

The application program management unit 52 stores in advance a list of application programs to receive the event according to the type of the event. The list of such application programs is registered in the application program management unit 52 when the application programs are installed.

13 is a diagram showing an example of the internal configuration of the application program management unit 52. As shown in Fig.

Referring to FIG. 13, the application program management unit 52 includes an event type 521 and a list 522 of application programs to receive the event. In Fig. 13, "event transmission request" and "call connection" events are exemplarily shown as types of events. The "message transmission request" event may be an event for transmitting a message, such as inputting a telephone number on a keypad, selecting a contact in the address book, requesting a message to be transmitted from an application, etc. When such a "message transmission request" The detection unit (not shown) detects this and notifies the event transmission unit 51. The event transmission unit 51 transmits a list of application programs set for the event to an application program list 522 as shown in FIG. 12 Check and run the checked application.

In Fig. 13, two application programs registered as application program # 1 and application program # 2 are registered for the "message transmission request" event. The application program management unit 52 notifies the event transmission unit 51 that the application program # 1 and the application program # 2 are registered for the "message transmission request" event and the event transmission unit 51 notifies the application program # 1, Program # 2 sends a signal indicating that a "call connection request" event has occurred.

Here, when transmitting an event to the application programs # 1 and # 2, the event transmission unit 51 may simultaneously notify the event to all of the application programs in the application program list, notify only one of them of the priority event, It is possible to use a method of notifying an event to the next application when the execution of the application is completed or the execution is stopped. This is possible by setting how to notify the event in the application program management unit 52.

For example, in the case of the "message transmission request" event, it is possible to notify the event to the application program # 1 first, and notify the application program # 2 when the execution of the application program # 1 ends. In this case, when the confirmation request signal is received from the event transmission unit 51, the application program management unit 52 first informs the information of the application program # 1. When the event transmission unit 51 receives the information of the application program # 1 as an acknowledgment signal for the event from the application program management unit 52, the event transmission unit 51 transmits the event to the application program # 1. And then loaded into the operating system and executed.

On the other hand, in case of the "message transmission request" event, the application program # 1 and the application program # 2 may be simultaneously notified of the event. In this case, when the confirmation request signal is received from the event transmission unit 51, the application program management unit 52 informs all of the application programs # 1 and # 2. The event transmitting unit 51 receives the information of the application programs # 1 and # 2, notifies the application programs # 1 and # 2 that an event has occurred at the same time, and the application programs # 1 and # 2 are executed together in parallel.

The present invention described in FIGS. 1 to 11 can be implemented based on the principle described with reference to FIGS. 12 to 13, and includes the additional information receiving unit 110 and the additional information display management unit 120 as shown in FIG. The additional information providing apparatus 100 may be implemented in the form of one application program.

For example, when a message transmission request event occurs, a general application program in the communication terminal 10 executed to perform a message transmission service is, for example, a message manager. Generally, when a message transmission request event occurs Only the message manager will be registered and executed as application program # 1 in the application program list as shown in FIGS. 11 and 12 to perform the message transmission service process.

In this case, the additional information providing apparatus 100 having the additional information receiving unit 110 and the additional information display managing unit 120 according to the present invention is implemented as an application program and installed in the communication terminal 10, And can register as application # 1 in the list 522. In addition, set the execution order of the application program in the application program list to be executed sequentially as described above.

That is, in the case of the "message transmission request" event, when an application program for implementing the sub information providing apparatus 100 according to the present invention is registered in the application program # 1 and only the application program # 1 is set to run preferentially, Only the application program # 1 (i.e., the additional information providing apparatus 100 according to the present invention) is preferentially executed, and therefore the application program # 2 (message manager) is not executed and is stopped.

In this case, when a message transmission request signal (message transmission request event) is generated as one of the events, the event transmission unit 51 transmits the message transmission request signal to the application program management unit 52, And the application program management unit 52 notifies only the information of the application program # 1 (the additional information providing apparatus 100 according to the present invention) registered for the event to the event transmission unit 51, 51 executes only the application program # 1 (the additional information providing apparatus 100 according to the present invention).

Therefore, since the additional information providing apparatus 100 including the additional information receiving unit 110 and the additional information display managing unit 120 as described with reference to FIGS. 1 to 11 is uniquely executed as the application program # 1, It is possible to provide the communication terminal 10 with the additional information according to the present invention.

12 and 13 illustrate the case where the communication terminal 10 is a calling terminal, but even when the communication terminal 10 is a called terminal, the same applies except that the event is a message reception event . However, in the case where the message is received as described above, the additional information providing apparatus 100 according to the present invention operates and provides additional information at a stage prior to performing a message display process of displaying a message. Therefore, Step is set as a message reception event. In the case of performing the message display process as described above, there are cases in which a message is displayed immediately upon receiving a message, and a message is displayed in response to a user's selection. Accordingly, when prompting a message to be displayed immediately, Is set as a message reception event, and when a message is to be displayed by the user's selection, the selection of the user is set as a message reception event.

While the present invention has been particularly shown and described with reference to exemplary embodiments thereof, it is clearly understood that the same is by way of illustration and example only and is not to be construed as limiting the scope of the invention as defined by the appended claims. Points should be noted.

For example, the method of implementing the present invention using the application program described with reference to FIG. 12 and FIG. 13 is an exemplary one, and it goes without saying that other methods may be used depending on the type of the operating system or the internal configuration of the operating system.

In addition, the communication terminal 10 in the above embodiment is not limited to a smart phone which is a mobile communication terminal. For example, the present invention can be applied not only to a mobile communication terminal but also to a terminal providing a function of installing an application program as a wired telephone terminal or a terminal for providing an mVoIP service. In addition, even in the case of a wired terminal to which an application program can not be installed, it is also possible to integrate it into an operating system in the terminal or to implement it in a separate hardware configuration.

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Claims (15)

An additional information providing device which is included in a communication terminal that performs a message transmission service through a communication network and is connected to the additional information providing server through a data packet network that is separate from the communication network and provides additional information when a communication terminal performs a message transmission service As a result,
When a message transmission request event is detected in a communication terminal, additional information set for a destination telephone number to receive a message before performing a message transmission service, additional information for receiving additional information through a data packet network separate from the communication network, A receiving unit; And
An additional information display management unit for displaying the additional information received by the additional information receiving unit on the display unit,
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Wherein the additional information display management unit comprises:
A message transmission request unit for displaying a message transmission service to the called telephone number while displaying the supplementary information through a display unit; and if the user selects the message transmission request unit, the communication terminal transmits a message to the called telephone number Wherein the additional information is provided to the communication terminal when the message transmission service is performed.
The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the additional information includes advertisement information. The additional information providing apparatus provides additional information to a communication terminal when performing a message transmission service.
The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the additional information is transmitted from an additional information providing server in the form of a web page.
The method according to claim 1,
The additional information includes service menu information to be provided to a user,
The additional information display management unit of the communication terminal configures and displays the service menu interface on the display unit based on the service menu information so that the communication terminal performs the operation corresponding to the service menu selected by the user based on the service menu interface And providing the additional information to the communication terminal when performing the message transmission service.
The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the additional information receiver comprises:
Further comprising a supplementary information providing determination unit for determining whether supplementary information is provided to a destination phone number to receive a message when a message transmission request event is detected,
When the additional information provision determining unit determines that the additional information is to be provided to the called telephone number, the additional information is received from the additional information providing server set for the called telephone number to receive the message before performing the message transmission service The additional information being provided to the communication terminal when the message transmission service is performed.
6. The method of claim 5,
Wherein the additional information provision determination unit includes an additional information management table in which additional information is provided corresponding to each telephone number and address information of the additional information providing server is stored in advance in the message transmission service. And an additional information providing device for providing information.
6. The method of claim 5,
Wherein the additional information provision determining unit transmits the called telephone number to the additional information management server and receives a response signal indicating whether additional information is provided from the additional information management server and address information of the additional information providing server. The additional information providing apparatus providing additional information to the communication terminal.
delete 5. The method of claim 4,
Wherein the service menu interface includes a message transmission requesting unit for performing a message transmission service to the called telephone number, and when the user selects the message transmission requesting unit, the service menu interface transmits a message to the called telephone number. And provides the additional information to the communication terminal when performing the additional information.
A method for providing additional information when a message transmission service is performed in an additional information providing device included in a communication terminal performing a message transmission service through a communication network and connected to an additional information providing server through a data packet network separate from the communication network,
A first step of transmitting an additional information request signal to a supplementary information providing server set for a destination telephone number to receive a message before a message transmission service is performed when a message transmission request event is detected in the communication terminal;
A second step of receiving additional information from the additional information providing server; And
A third step of displaying the additional information received in the second step on the display unit
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In the third step,
A message transmission request unit for displaying a message transmission service to the called telephone number while displaying the supplementary information through a display unit; and if the user selects the message transmission request unit, the communication terminal transmits a message to the called telephone number And providing the additional information to the communication terminal when performing the message transmission service.
11. The method of claim 10,
The additional information includes service menu information to be provided to a user,
Wherein the third step includes configuring a service menu interface based on the service menu information and displaying the service menu interface through a display unit and causing the communication terminal to perform an operation corresponding to a service menu selected by the user based on the service menu interface A method of providing additional information to a communication terminal when performing a message transmission service.
delete 12. The method of claim 11,
Wherein the service menu interface includes a message transmission requesting unit for performing a message transmission service to the called telephone number, and when the user selects the message transmission requesting unit, the service menu interface transmits a message to the called telephone number. A method for providing additional information to a communication terminal during execution.
An additional information providing device which is included in a communication terminal that performs a message reception service through a communication network and is connected to an additional information providing server through a data packet network separate from the communication network and provides additional information when a communication terminal performs a message receiving service As a result,
An additional information receiving unit that receives additional information from a supplementary information providing server set for an outgoing telephone number that originated the message before performing a message display process when a message reception event is detected in the communication terminal; And
A sub information display management unit for displaying the sub information received by the sub information receiver on the display unit,
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Wherein the additional information display management unit comprises:
A message confirmation requesting unit for displaying the received message on the display unit while displaying the additional information through a display unit, and displaying the message on the display unit when the user selects the message confirmation requesting unit. And provides the additional information to the communication terminal when the message reception service is performed.
A method for providing additional information when a message reception service is performed in an additional information providing apparatus included in a communication terminal performing a message reception service through a communication network and connected to an additional information providing server through a data packet network separate from the communication network,
A first step of transmitting a supplementary information request signal to a supplementary information providing server set up for a calling telephone number from which a message is transmitted before a message display process is performed when a message reception event is detected in the communication terminal;
A second step of receiving additional information from the additional information providing server; And
A third step of displaying the additional information received in the second step on the display unit
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In the third step,
A message confirmation requesting unit for displaying the received message on the display unit while displaying the additional information through a display unit, and displaying the message on the display unit when the user selects the message confirmation requesting unit. A method for providing additional information to a communication terminal when performing a message reception service.

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