KR101654837B1 - Method and Apparatus for Providing Counterpart's Reputation - Google Patents

Abstract

A method and apparatus for providing reputation information to a calling party is disclosed.
According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method and apparatus for providing a user of a terminal with reputation information of the other party's phone number of an incoming / outgoing call so as to avoid an unwanted call such as a spam phone.

Description

FIELD OF THE INVENTION [0001] The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for providing reputation information to a calling party,

The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for providing reputation information on a called party's telephone number of an incoming / outgoing call so that a user of the terminal can avoid an unwanted call such as a spam phone.

The contents described in this section merely provide background information on the present embodiment and do not constitute the prior art.

In general, a spam phone refers to an advertisement, a fraud, or a phishing phone that is sent to an unspecified number of people. As the mobile communication terminal becomes popular in recent years, the number of spam phones received by the mobile communication terminal is increasing. However, most of these spam phones are randomly transmitted, so it is difficult for the receiver to know them in advance.

In the conventional spam phone processing method, if the calling number is a phone number corresponding to the spam list generated in the terminal, the calling number is regarded as a spam phone and is blocked. In addition, if a spam phone number is registered in a communication company server to block spam, or if the calling number is a one-ring type phone number that rings and rings once, the calling number is blocked.

However, the above-mentioned method has a problem that the user has to register the spam phone numbers one by one, and blocking the spam phone by the one ring method has a problem of judging that the spam phone is a spam phone when the spam phone is received in the missed phone.

According to the above-described conventional method, since there is no information sharing among users, each user responds to the spam phone individually after experiencing the spam phone, so that it is absolutely effective in preventing the spam phone Can not do it.

The main object of the present invention is to provide a method and apparatus for providing a user of a terminal with reputation information of the other party's phone number of an incoming and outgoing call so that an unwanted call such as a spam phone can be avoided.

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided an information processing apparatus including a display unit, a storage unit for storing an address book, an address book search unit for searching for a phone number of a calling or called party from the address book, A reputation information inquiry unit for inquiring reputation information about the telephone number to a server that manages the reputation information database, and a call history screen for providing a call record when receiving reputation information about the telephone number from the server, And a reputation information providing unit for displaying a visual effect indicating that reputation information on the telephone number is present on a notification screen informing the call reception failure.

According to a further aspect of the present invention there is provided a non-transitory computer readable storage medium for storing one or more programs comprising instructions, To cause the electronic device to retrieve, from the address book, the other telephone number of the outgoing or incoming call; If the telephone number is a telephone number that is not registered in the address book, query the server managing the reputation information database to inquire reputation information about the telephone number; When receiving the reputation information on the telephone number from the server, displays a call record screen providing the call record of the electronic device or a notification screen informing of the incoming failure call that the time indicating that the reputation information on the telephone number exists Thereby displaying an effect.

As described above, according to the present embodiment, when a call is received from a phone number that is not registered in the address book, the reputation information of other users corresponding to the caller's phone number of the call is displayed on the incoming call notification screen, .

Particularly, according to the present embodiment, since reputation information on an unregistered telephone number is displayed on the call record, it is possible to maliciously use the information of 'absence call' on the call record so as to induce the receiver to make a call or to make an unreasonable charge It is expected to prevent the damage of 'One-Ring Spam'.

1 is a view schematically showing a system for providing flat information according to an embodiment of the present invention.
2 is a block diagram of a mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 3 is a flowchart of an embodiment of a method for providing a reputation information of a caller when a call is received according to the present invention.
4 is a flow diagram of an embodiment of a method for a terminal associated with the present invention to provide caller reputation information after a call incoming.
5 to 8 are state diagrams of a display screen on which an embodiment of a method of controlling a terminal related to the present invention is implemented.

Hereinafter, some embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to exemplary drawings. It should be noted that, in adding reference numerals to the constituent elements of the drawings, the same constituent elements are denoted by the same reference symbols as possible even if they are shown in different drawings. In the following description of the present invention, a detailed description of known functions and configurations incorporated herein will be omitted when it may make the subject matter of the present invention rather unclear.

This embodiment provides the reputation information of other users with respect to the telephone number that is not registered in the address book to the incoming call notification screen and the call recording screen so that the user can avoid an unwanted call such as a spam phone, We propose a method and system for sharing evaluation with other users.

1 is a view schematically showing a system for providing flat information according to an embodiment of the present invention.

1, the flat information providing system 100 according to the present embodiment includes a server 110 for managing reputation information, a plurality of terminals 120a to 120n for exchanging information with the server 110 via a communication network, 120n.

The server 110 is a server that manages the database 112 in which the reputation information of terminal users for a plurality of telephone numbers is stored. The server 110 receives user's evaluation information on the called party's telephone number from at least one of the plurality of terminals 120a to 120n. In addition, the server 110 collects the received evaluation information and manages it as reputation information on the telephone number. The reputation information includes statistical information (for example, a result of selection of one of "no" and "okay") of a plurality of uses regarding whether or not a call with the telephone number was an undesired calling (For example, 'invitation to join a card', 'product introduction', etc.) of a text or keyword format for a call with the corresponding telephone number.

When the server 110 receives a query message requesting reputation information for a specific telephone number from the terminal 120, the server 110 searches the database 112 for reputation information corresponding to the telephone number, (120).

The terminal 120 is an electronic device capable of transmitting and receiving various data via a network. If there is a call connection request from the calling terminal via the network, the terminal 120 may perform a voice communication with the calling terminal or request a call connection to the called terminal to perform a voice communication. The terminal 120 may be a tablet PC, a laptop, a personal computer (PC), a smart phone, a personal digital assistant (PDA) Communication Terminal) or the like.

The terminal 120 according to the present embodiment acquires reputation information about the caller's telephone number of the incoming call through inquiry about the server and reflects the acquired reputation information on the incoming call notification screen and the call record detailed screen informing the reception of the call And the application 122 is mounted in an embedded form. Of course, the terminal 120 may load the application 122 in a form installed in the OS in the terminal 120 by a user's operation or command.

The terminal 120 according to the present embodiment performs an operation of originating / receiving an audio / video call using the installed application 122. When the call is received, the terminal 120 acquires reputation information about the caller's telephone number through inquiry of the server when the caller's telephone number of the call is an unregistered telephone number in the address book, and transmits the acquired reputation information to the caller Incoming call notification screen, call log detail screen, and the like. Also, the terminal 120 provides a graphical user interface for inputting evaluation information on the caller's telephone number, and transmits the evaluation information input from the user to the server.

Hereinafter, with reference to FIG. 2, it is assumed that a terminal 120 related to an embodiment of the present invention is implemented as a mobile communication terminal, and a configuration thereof will be schematically described. 2 is a block diagram of a terminal related to an embodiment of the present invention.

The terminal 120 includes a memory 202, a memory controller 204, a processor 206, a peripheral interface 208, a communication circuit 212, an audio circuit 214, a speaker 216, a microphone 218, (I / O) subsystem 220, a touch screen 226, other input or control devices 228, and an external port 248. These components communicate through one or more communication buses or signal lines 210. Fig. 2 shows a terminal having various components, but not all illustrated components are essential components. The terminal may be implemented with more or less components or configurations of different components than those shown in FIG. The various components shown in FIG. 2 may be implemented in hardware, software, or a combination of hardware and software, including one or more signal processing or application specific integrated circuits.

Hereinafter, the components will be described in order.

The memory 202 may comprise a high speed random access memory. The memory 202 may also include one or more magnetic disk storage devices, non-volatile memory such as flash memory devices, or other non-volatile semiconductor memory devices. Access to the memory 202 by other components of the terminal 120, such as the processor 206 and the peripheral interface 208, may be controlled by the memory controller 204.

The peripheral interface 208 couples the input / output peripheral of the terminal 120 to the processor 206 and the memory 202. The processor 206 executes various software programs or a set of instructions stored in the memory 202 to perform various functions for the terminal 120 and processes the data.

The communication circuit 212 transmits and receives electromagnetic waves. The communication circuit 212 converts electrical signals to electromagnetic waves and vice versa and communicates with the communication network and other communication devices through the electromagnetic waves.

Audio circuitry 214, speaker 216 and microphone 218 provide an audio interface between the user and terminal 120.

The I / O subsystem 220 provides an interface between the input / output peripheral of the terminal 120 and the peripheral interface 208, such as the touch screen 226 and other input / The I / O subsystem 220 includes one or more input controllers 224 for the touch screen controller 222 and other input or control devices.

The touch screen 226 provides an output interface and an input interface between the device and the user. The touch screen controller 222 sends and receives electrical signals to and from the touch screen 226. The touch screen 226 displays a visual output to the user.

The terminal 120 also includes a power system 230 that powers various components.

In some embodiments, the software components include an operating system 232, a communication module (or instruction set) 234, a graphics module (or instruction set) 240, a text input module 242, and one or more applications ) ≪ / RTI >

The operating system 232 includes various software components or devices that control and manage general system tasks (e.g., memory management, storage device control, power management, etc.) and may include various hardware and software components Lt; / RTI >

The communication module 234 provides communication functionality with other devices via one or more external ports 248 and also includes various software components for processing the data received by the communication circuitry 212 and the external port 248, . The external port 248 (e.g., USB, FIREWIRE, etc.) is used for direct connection to another device or for indirect connection via a network (e.g., Internet, wireless LAN, etc.).

Graphics module 240 includes a number of well known software components for providing and displaying graphics on touch screen 226.

The text input module 234 provides a soft keyboard for entering text into various applications (such as contacts, email, IM, blogging, browsers, and any other applications that require text input).

The one or more applications 250 may include a browser, an address book manager, a contact list, an email, an instant message, a word processing, a keyboard emulation, a widget, a JAVA enabled application, Digital rights management, voice recognition, voice duplication, positioning functions (such as those provided by GPS), and music player functionality.

In this embodiment, the one or more applications 250 may include a reputation information providing and evaluating function. To this end, the one or more applications 250 may include an address book searching unit 251, a reputation information querying unit 252, A flat panel information providing part 253 and an evaluation performing part 254.

The address book searching unit 251 searches the address book for the telephone number of the other party of the outgoing or incoming call.

The reputation information inquiry unit 252 inquires of the server 110 managing the reputation information database if the phone number of the other party is a telephone number that is not registered in the address book as a result of searching the address book searching unit 251.

When the reputation information providing unit 253 receives the reputation information on the telephone number from the server 110 as a response to the inquiry, the reputation information providing unit 253 reflects the received reputation information and displays the incoming notification screen and / . That is, the reputation information providing unit 253 can display the reputation information on the other party's phone number in one area of the call record detail screen providing the detailed call record for the outgoing or incoming call, The flat information corresponding to the other party's telephone number can be displayed in one area of the notification screen. Herein, the reputation information includes statistical information that is obtained by combining a plurality of users' selection results as to whether or not the call with the telephone number was an unwanted call. In addition, the reputation information may include evaluation information in the form of a text or a keyword for a call with the corresponding telephone number.

On the other hand, in providing reputation information providing unit 253, the notification screen and / or the call log screen, if the reputation information for the relevant phone number exists, it is possible to display a visual effect indicating this. In other words, the reputation information providing unit 253 can display the visual effect indicating that the reputation information corresponding to the related caller's telephone number exists when the information on the incoming call is displayed on the notification screen. Further, in displaying the information on the call record on the call record screen, the reputation information providing unit 253 can display a visual effect indicating that there is reputation information corresponding to the other party's telephone number associated with the call item.

When the user selects any item on the call record screen, the call record detail screen for the related party number is entered. At this time, the reputation information inquiry unit 252 queries the reputation information about the other party number again, The reputation information providing unit 253 acquires the latest reputation information, and the reputation information providing unit 253 provides a call record detail screen reflecting the latest reputation information.

The evaluation performing unit 254 receives the user's evaluation of the other party's telephone number of the outgoing or incoming call and transmits the inputted evaluation information to the server 110 in order to register in the reputation information database managed by the server. In some embodiments, the evaluation performing unit 254 provides an evaluation performing screen in which a graphical user interface for allowing a user to input evaluation information on the other party's telephone number is displayed. The evaluation performing screen may be displayed with an object that can select whether or not the call with the telephone number was an unwanted call and an object capable of inputting an evaluation of the text form of the call from the telephone number is additionally displayed . The evaluation execution screen for a certain telephone number can be provided only once for each telephone number.

Hereinafter, an embodiment of a control method of a terminal related to the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. 3 to FIG. FIGS. 3 and 4 are flowcharts of an embodiment of a method of controlling a terminal related to the present invention, and FIGS. 5 to 8 are state diagrams of a display screen on which an embodiment of a method of controlling a terminal related to the present invention is implemented.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart of an embodiment of a method for providing a reputation information of a caller when a call is received according to the present invention.

First, when a call is received to the terminal 120, the terminal 120 searches the address book of the terminal 120 for the caller's telephone number of the call (S310).

The terminal 120 determines whether the telephone number of the caller is a telephone number registered in the address book (S320). If the telephone number of the caller is a telephone number registered in the address book, the terminal 120 outputs the caller information corresponding to the caller (S380). In this case, the subscriber can confirm the caller information registered in the address book in the terminal 120, and can immediately accept call connection (call).

If the phone number of the caller is a phone number not registered in the address book, the terminal 120 queries the server 110 managing the reputation information database 112 for reputation information corresponding to the phone number of the caller ( S330). The step S330 may be performed before the incoming notification screen is provided or during the provision of the incoming notification screen.

The server 110 which received the inquiry retrieves the reputation information corresponding to the caller's telephone number from the reputation information database 112 using the caller's telephone number as a keyword. If it is determined that the telephone number of the caller is a telephone number registered in the flat information database 112 and if the telephone number of the caller is a telephone number registered in the flat information database 112, To the terminal (120).

If the reputation information is received from the server 110 (Yes in S340), the terminal 120 displays the reputation information for the phone number on the incoming notification screen informing the incoming call of the call (S350). FIG. 5 illustrates an incoming alert screen in which reputation information is displayed. As shown in FIG. 5, flat information corresponding to the telephone number is displayed in one area of the call record detail screen. The reputation information includes statistical information that combines a plurality of users' selection results as to whether or not the call with the telephone number was an unwanted call. FIG. 5 illustrates statistical information 510 in the form of 'dislike 230', 'okay 4', and the like. Alternatively, statistical information may be displayed in a graph form. In addition, the reputation information may include evaluation information in the form of a text or a keyword for a call with the corresponding telephone number. 5 illustrates the evaluation information 520 of the keyword format in which the evaluation information is 'invitation to join the card'. Based on the reputation information displayed on the incoming notification screen, the subscriber can determine the possibility of a spam phone or the like and can accept or reject the call connection (call) immediately. In step S360, the terminal displays a visual effect indicating that there is reputation information on the phone number on the missed call notification screen or call record screen informing the call reception failure of the call.

On the other hand, if the reputation information is not received from the server 110 or the caller's telephone number is notified to the reputation information database 112 that the telephone number is not registered (NO in S340) The phone number of the sender is displayed without reputation information (S370).

4 is a flow diagram of an embodiment of a method for a terminal associated with the present invention to provide caller reputation information after a call incoming.

First, the terminal 120 may provide a notification in the screen or the call log screen, and displays if the reputation information for the associated telephone number is present, visual effect notifying (S410). 6, the terminal 120 displays a visual effect 610 indicating that the reputation information corresponding to the related caller's telephone number exists when the information on the incoming call is displayed on the notification screen can do. 7, in displaying the information related to the call record on the call log screen, the terminal 120 stores reputation information corresponding to the caller's phone number related to the call item associated with the unregistered phone number in the address book A visual effect 710 indicating the presence can be displayed. 6 and 7 illustrate visual effects 610 and 710 in the form of images, but other visual effects such as text, graphs, numbers, and color changes may be applied. Of course, the notification item or currency item associated with the telephone number registered in the address book displays information reflecting the address book information.

When the user selects any item from the missed call notification screen or the call log screen, the user enters the detailed call log screen. The terminal 120 queries the server 110 for reputation information corresponding to the other party's phone number of the item before displaying the call record detail screen. That is, the terminal 120 queries the server once again for reputation information on the other party's phone number to obtain the latest reputation information before entering the call record detailed screen for any item on the call record screen (S420- S430).

Next, the terminal 120 reflects the reputation information received from the server 110 and provides a call record detail screen for the other party's phone number (S440). FIG. 8 illustrates a call record detail screen in which reputation information is displayed. As shown in FIG. 8, in one area of the call record detail screen, reputation information corresponding to the other party's telephone number is displayed. The reputation information includes statistical information that combines the results of selection by a plurality of users as to whether or not the call with the other party's telephone number was an unwanted call. In FIG. 8, statistical information 810 in the form of 'dislike 230' and 'okay 4' are illustrated. Alternatively, statistical information can be displayed in a graph form. Also, the reputation information may include evaluation information of a text or keyword format for a call with the other party's telephone number. 8 illustrates the evaluation information 820 of the keyword format in which the evaluation information is 'invitation to join the card'.

On the other hand, in one area of the call record detailed screen, a user of the terminal 120 performs an evaluation that can perform its own evaluation on the other party's telephone number, as shown in the "evaluate" button 830 illustrated in FIG. 8 An object for entering the screen may be displayed. If the user directly touches an appropriate key operation of the input device 228 on the terminal 120 or the corresponding object on the touch screen 226 (Yes in S450), the terminal enters an evaluation for the other party's phone number An evaluation execution screen in which a graphical user interface capable of displaying an evaluation result is displayed (S460). That is, the terminal 120 provides a graphical interactive user interface in which the user interacts to enter ratings for the other party's telephone number. For example, on the evaluation execution screen, an object (e.g., a 'dislike' button, a 'okay' button) that can selectively input an evaluation of whether or not a call with the other party's phone number is an unwanted call, An object may be provided that can input an evaluation of the text or keyword format. The terminal 120 transmits the input evaluation information to the server 110 in order to register the evaluation information on the other party's telephone number input from the user.

The method of providing reputation information of a counterpart telephone number according to an embodiment of the present invention can be implemented as a computer-readable code on a computer-readable recording medium. That is, the method of providing reputation information of the other party's telephone number according to the embodiment of the present invention can be implemented by executing a computer program stored in a computer-readable recording medium in the terminal. A computer-readable recording medium includes all kinds of recording apparatuses in which data that can be read by a computer system is stored. That is, a computer-readable recording medium includes a magnetic storage medium (e.g., ROM, floppy disk, hard disk, etc.), an optical reading medium (e.g., CD ROM, And the like). The computer-readable recording medium may also be distributed over a networked computer system so that computer readable code can be stored and executed in a distributed manner.

The foregoing description is merely illustrative of the technical idea of the present embodiment, and various modifications and changes may be made to those skilled in the art without departing from the essential characteristics of the embodiments. Therefore, the present embodiments are to be construed as illustrative rather than restrictive, and the scope of the technical idea of the present embodiment is not limited by these embodiments. The scope of protection of the present embodiment should be construed according to the following claims, and all technical ideas within the scope of equivalents thereof should be construed as being included in the scope of the present invention.

110: server 112: reputation information database
120a-120n: terminals 122a-120n:
251: address book searching unit 252: reputation information query unit
253: Flat panel information providing unit 254:

Claims (9)

A display unit;
A storage unit for storing an address book;
An address book searching unit for searching, from the address book, the other party's telephone number of an outgoing call and an incoming call;
A reputation information query unit for inquiring a reputation information corresponding to the telephone number to a server for managing the reputation information database when the telephone number is a telephone number that is not registered in the address book; And
When a reputation information corresponding to the telephone number is received from the server, a visual effect indicating that presence of the reputation information corresponding to the telephone number exists on a call recording screen providing a call record or a notification screen informing of an incoming failure call And a flat information providing unit,
The flat-
Displaying reputation information corresponding to the telephone number on a call record detail screen providing a detailed call record for the outgoing call and incoming call,
The flat information query unit,
Further comprising: querying the server with reputation information corresponding to the telephone number before providing the call record detail screen, and updating the reputation information corresponding to the telephone number. delete delete The method according to claim 1,
Displaying an evaluation execution screen including a graphical user interface object capable of inputting selection information on whether a call with the telephone number is an undesired call or not, And an evaluation executing unit which transmits the evaluation result to the electronic apparatus. 5. The method of claim 4,
Wherein the evaluation-
A graphical user interface object for allowing the user to input evaluation information on the call with the telephone number in text or keyword format is further displayed on the evaluation execution screen and evaluation information of the text or keyword format inputted from the user is displayed To the server. The method according to claim 1,
The flat-
And statistical information collecting a result of selection by a plurality of users regarding whether or not the call with the telephone number was an undesired call. The method according to claim 6,
The flat-
Further comprising evaluation information of a plurality of users ' text or keyword format for the call with the telephone number. The method according to claim 1,
The flat-
And displays reputation information on the telephone number on a reception notification screen informing the reception of the call. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing one or more programs including instructions,
Wherein the instructions, when executed by an electronic device having a touch screen display, cause the electronic device to:
To retrieve a telephone number of an outgoing call and an incoming call from an address book;
If the telephone number is a telephone number that is not registered in the address book, query the server managing the reputation information database to query reputation information corresponding to the telephone number;
When receiving reputation information corresponding to the telephone number from the server, reputation information corresponding to the telephone number exists on a call recording screen providing a call record of the electronic device or a notification screen informing of an incoming failure call So as to display the visual effect;
Display reputation information corresponding to the telephone number on the call record detail screen providing a detailed call record for the outgoing call and incoming call;
Wherein the server further queries the reputation information corresponding to the telephone number from the server to update the reputation information corresponding to the telephone number before providing the call record detail screen,
Computer readable storage medium.

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