KR20010083834A - Method for internet connection using mobile radio communication terminal - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A method for connecting to the Internet using a mobile communication terminal is provided for a user to connects to the homepage of the corresponding company promptly by inputting a telephone number without inputting an additional homepage address when a user connects to the Internet homepage using a mobile terminal. CONSTITUTION: When it is necessary for user to connect a wireless Internet by a mobile communication terminal, a wireless Internet menu is displayed on a liquid crystal display, and it is judged whether a URL input is selected(S103). If the URL input is selected and a telephone number of the corresponding keypad company is inputted, the inputted telephone number is transmitted through a wireless Internet network(S105). A wireless web server receives the transmitted telephone number and judges whether a URL matched to the telephone number exists(S108). If a URL matched to the telephone number does not exist, a guiding message informing the result is transmitted to the mobile communication terminal. If a URL matched to the telephone number exists, a homepage service of the corresponding company is executed in the mobile communication terminal(S110).

Description

Internet connection method using mobile communication terminal {METHOD FOR INTERNET CONNECTION USING MOBILE RADIO COMMUNICATION TERMINAL}

The present invention relates to a wireless Internet Uniform Resource Locator (URL) connection using a mobile communication terminal, and more particularly, automatically moves to a homepage of a company using a phone number of a corresponding company on a wireless Internet screen of a mobile communication terminal. The present invention relates to an internet access method using a mobile communication terminal.

In addition, the present invention relates to an internet access method for receiving a short message service (SMS) text message from a content provider by inputting a phone number in a wireless Internet environment of a mobile communication terminal and automatically moving to a homepage address of the content company.

Recently, thanks to the innovative development of data communication technology, the implementation of high speed Internet (INTERNET) communication network has been realized, which has led to the popularization of the Internet. There are a variety of paid and free websites that provide various kinds of information on the Internet. For example, various information and paid information sites that provide information such as various homepages or securities information to promote company information or personal information. A shopping mall site that displays various product lists including advertisements and purchases them on the Internet, if desired, is placed on the screen.

In particular, recently, mobile communication terminals such as cellular phones, PCS phones, PDAs, etc., which obtain various information by accessing the URL address of the Internet, have been developed and widely used all over the world. A mobile communication system called IMT-2000 capable of transmitting data at high speed, namely an image mobile communication terminal, has been developed. These mobile communication terminals are commonly used by short message service (SMS) that can send and receive short messages between mobile subscribers and wireless Internet that extends wired internet to wireless area through wired internet. The mobile communication terminal has a built-in program called a web browser that can search an Internet site.

Here, the URL refers to a format that can consistently express the address of a resource accessible from the Internet. The URL refers to the name of a protocol required to access the resource, a domain name for identifying a specific computer on the Internet, and a location of a computer file. It consists of a path name that is hierarchically indicated.

In addition, the short message service (SMS) allows a digital mobile telephone subscriber to send a short sentence to another mobile telephone subscriber in Korean or English, and receive a message through a public telecommunication network or a data communication network including the Internet.

In general, SMS has been provided in two ways: sending a message to a mobile communication terminal by connecting to a PC communication or the Internet, or conversely, sending a message to the Internet from a terminal, and sending and receiving texts between mobile communication terminals subscribed to the same operator. In order to use the SMS service, a separate mobile communication terminal as described above is required, and a message can be received even during a voice call. If the mobile subscriber cannot turn off the mobile communication terminal to receive the message, the subscriber can store the transmitted data, and then the subscriber can turn on the mobile communication terminal and check the message at the same time. In addition, SMS, which was previously available only to subscribers of the same company, can freely send and receive text messages between mobile terminals, ranging from interworking with other companies' services and wireless calls to mobile phones and wireless data communications.

In addition, SMS technology can send and receive text information of up to 160 characters, and can access various URLs of the aforementioned content service companies to obtain various information such as stock information and weather forecasts. E-commerce, securities information, sports information is possible.

Such SMS information service is possible only by accessing the URL of the content provider from the Internet.

Next, an example of a conventional Internet connection using the mobile communication terminal as described above will be described with reference to FIGS. 1 and 2.

First, when the mobile subscriber presses the Internet mode key on the keypad of his mobile terminal, the Internet mode screen shown in FIG. 1 is displayed on the liquid crystal display of the mobile terminal. Accordingly, the mobile phone subscriber selects a URL direct input menu for internet access using the up-down key of the keypad on the Internet mode screen displayed on the liquid crystal display. The mobile communication terminal then displays the URL direct input menu screen on the liquid crystal display as shown in FIG. 2 in accordance with the URL direct input menu setting. And when the mobile subscriber enters the URL of the Internet homepage he wants using the numbers or letters on the keypad and then presses the OK button, the mobile communication terminal uses the web browser to access the homepage of the corresponding company through the wireless wireless Internet network. You will be connected to

Then, the data of the homepage of the company connected through the wireless Internet network is transmitted or vice versa.

According to the aforementioned method of accessing the Internet homepage of the mobile communication terminal according to the related art, it can be seen that the mobile phone subscriber is connected to the URL of the Internet by inputting the numbers, letters and symbols of the keypad provided in the mobile communication terminal. .

However, the above method of accessing the Internet homepage of the conventional mobile communication terminal requires a complicated procedure of several steps in order for the mobile subscriber to access the Internet homepage through the mobile communication terminal. In connection with the keypad of the mobile communication terminal, letters, symbols, or numbers must be input manually, as well as an inconvenience of having to remember and input the address of the Internet homepage.

In addition, mobile phone subscribers who are not familiar with the functions of the mobile communication terminal have been pointed out such that the use of such an Internet access function is almost impossible.

Accordingly, the inconvenience of having to directly input a time delay and a URL by the method of accessing the Internet homepage of the conventional mobile communication terminal is improved, and it is not necessary to memorize the address of the homepage at the time of internet access. It is desirable to provide an internet connection method of a mobile communication terminal that enables access.

Accordingly, it is an object of the present invention to provide an internet access method using a mobile communication terminal which allows a mobile communication terminal to immediately access a homepage of a company without inputting a separate homepage address by inputting only a phone number when accessing the internet homepage. The Internet access method is characterized in that the user enters only the telephone number of the corresponding company and moves to the wireless Internet homepage of the company in the URL input environment of the mobile communication terminal without inputting a homepage address such as letters, numbers and symbols.

Another object of the present invention is to receive a short message service (SMS) containing the address of the wireless Internet homepage from the corresponding company by inputting the telephone number of the corresponding company when the mobile terminal accesses the homepage of the Internet and uses the SMS. The present invention provides an internet access method using a mobile communication terminal to automatically move to a homepage of a corresponding company.

Other objects of the present invention will become more apparent from the following detailed description and the accompanying drawings.

1 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of a wireless Internet access method using a conventional mobile communication terminal,

FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram illustrating input of a URL for wireless Internet access to the mobile communication terminal of FIG. 1;

3 is a block diagram showing an embodiment provided in the description of a wireless Internet access system using a mobile communication terminal according to the present invention;

4 is a view for explaining the process of accessing the Internet homepage by phone number on the wireless Internet screen according to the present invention,

5 is another exemplary view for explaining a process of accessing an Internet homepage by a phone number on a wireless Internet screen according to the present invention;

6 is a signal flow diagram illustrating an embodiment provided for explaining a wireless Internet access method using a mobile communication terminal according to the present invention.

<Description of the symbols for the main parts of the drawings>

100: mobile communication terminal 101: keypad

102: liquid crystal display 110: communication base station

120: mobile communication exchange 130: web server

140: content providing system 150-1 to 150-n: company

According to the Internet access method using the mobile communication terminal of the present invention for achieving the above objects, (1) when a wireless Internet connection is required by the mobile communication terminal, the wireless Internet menu is displayed on the LCD screen and the URL input is selected. Determining whether it has been done; (2) if the URL input is selected and a telephone number of a corresponding company is input from the keypad, transmitting the input telephone number through a wireless Internet network; (3) receiving, by the wireless Internet web server, the transmitted telephone number and determining whether there is a URL matching the telephone number among URLs previously stored in a database; (4) if there is no URL matching the telephone number as a result of the determination, transmitting a guide message to the mobile communication terminal indicating that there is no URL matching the telephone number; And (5) if there is a URL matching the telephone number, accessing and accessing the homepage of the corresponding company.

Optionally, if there is a URL matching the telephone number in step (3), sending an SMS with the wireless Internet homepage address of the corresponding company to the mobile communication terminal; Opening the transmitted SMS and pressing the Internet confirmation key, characterized in that it comprises the step of performing step (6).

In this way, when accessing the Internet homepage, the subscriber of the mobile phone does not enter the homepage address such as letters, numbers and symbols of the keypad in the URL input environment of the mobile communication terminal. It is possible to access the homepage, and also receive the SMS containing the address of the wireless Internet homepage can be seen that you can access the homepage of the company.

As a result, when accessing the Internet homepage with an existing mobile communication terminal, the delay of time required to go through various steps and the inconvenience of having to directly input URLs such as letters, numbers, and symbols are eliminated. There is no need to memorize the address of the homepage of the city can access the Internet homepage with only the phone number of the company, thereby maximizing the use of the mobile communication terminal and has the advantage of providing a quality service.

And, there may be a plurality of embodiments of the present invention, the following most preferred embodiments will be described in detail.

Through this preferred embodiment, the objects, other objects, features and advantages of the present invention will become more apparent from the following description with an embodiment according to the present invention in connection with the accompanying drawings shown for illustrative purposes.

Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying drawings will be described in detail a preferred embodiment of the Internet access method using a mobile communication terminal according to the present invention.

Figure 3 is a block diagram showing an embodiment provided in the description of a wireless Internet access system using a mobile communication terminal according to the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 3, when the Internet mode key and the Internet homepage corresponding telephone number are input from the keypad 101, the mobile terminal transmits the wireless internet signal as a wireless signal and receives an SMS text message including the homepage address from the service provider. 102, a communication base station 110 for transmitting and receiving data received from the service provider or a telephone number corresponding to the wireless Internet homepage transmitted from the mobile communication terminal 100, and a communication base station ( The mobile communication switch 120 which connects the wireless Internet homepage connection corresponding signal of the mobile communication terminal 100 input from the mobile communication terminal 100 to the Internet communication network, the telephone number and the pre-stored URL that correspond to the wireless Internet homepage input through the Internet communication network. Determines whether there is a URL matching the telephone number, and accordingly, Web server 130 including a database for moving to the homepage of the body (150-1 to 150-n) and manage the wireless Internet homepage information and phone numbers of the company, and the company (150-1 to) And a content providing system 140 that transmits the SMS including the information of 150-n and the Internet homepage address to the mobile communication terminal 100 through the mobile communication switch 120 and the communication base station 110.

6 shows a web server 130 connected through an internet communication network when a phone number of a desired company is input from a corresponding company 150-1 to 150-n on the wireless Internet screen of the mobile communication terminal 100. If there is a URL that matches the phone number by searching whether there is a matching URL, the mobile Internet homepage of the company is automatically moved, and the mobile phone subscriber is sent an SMS including the homepage address to the mobile communication terminal 100. Signal flow diagram illustrating an embodiment provided in the description of the wireless Internet access method using a mobile communication terminal according to the present invention to allow the user to open the SMS and press the Internet confirmation key to access the home page.

Hereinafter, a method of accessing the Internet using a mobile communication terminal according to the present invention will be described in more detail with reference to FIGS. 3 to 6.

First, when the mobile subscriber wants to access his / her desired homepage using the mobile communication terminal 100 to which the present invention is applied, the Internet mode key on the keypad 101 provided in the mobile communication terminal 100 is provided. When pressing, the mobile communication terminal 100 displays the Internet menu screen on the liquid crystal display 102, and then the mobile communication terminal 100 selects the URL input mode by operating the up-down key of the keypad 101. On the liquid crystal display 102 of FIG. 4, a text message for inputting a telephone number for accessing a desired Internet homepage is displayed as shown in FIG. 4. At this time, when the subscriber of the mobile phone enters a telephone number, for example, "02-345-6789" by pressing a numeric key of the keypad 101 and inputs an Internet confirmation key, the mobile communication terminal 100 uses the web browser of the present invention. The server link address for accessing the wireless Internet web server 130 and the information of the telephone number corresponding to the homepage of the company "02-345-6789" is loaded on the high frequency signal and transmitted through the antenna. The transmitted high frequency signal is received by the communication base station 110 located in a predetermined cell and input to the mobile communication switch 120.

The mobile communication exchanger 120 processes the high frequency signal input from the communication base station 110, extracts the server link address and the telephone number, and provides the same to the web server 130 of the present invention. Accordingly, the web server 130 receives a phone number corresponding to the Internet homepage processed by the mobile communication exchanger 120 and searches for a URL matching the phone number among URLs previously stored in the database. In this case, if there is no URL matching the phone number, a message indicating that there is no URL matching the phone number is transmitted to the mobile communication terminal 100 in the reverse order of the above procedure to display the liquid crystal display 102 and match the phone number. If there is a URL to be connected to the homepage of the company (150-1 to 150-n) corresponding to the telephone number to move the screen of the mobile communication terminal 100 to the corresponding homepage URL.

That is, the mobile communication terminal 100 and the web server 130 of the present invention, as shown in Figure 6, the mobile communication terminal 100 proceeds from the initial state (step S100) to the wireless Internet connection determination step (S101) It is determined whether the Internet mode key is input from the keypad 101.

If the Internet mode key is input from the keypad 101 in the wireless internet access determination step (S101), the wireless internet menu display step (S102) is performed to display the wireless internet menu on the screen of the liquid crystal display 102 of the mobile communication terminal 100. The display proceeds to the URL input selection step (S103), and it is determined whether the URL input mode by the operation of the up-down key of the keypad 101 is selected. At this time, when the mobile subscriber selects the URL input mode by operating the up / down keys provided in the keypad 101 of the mobile communication terminal 100, the mobile communication terminal 100 is connected to the liquid crystal display 102 of FIG. After displaying a text message to enter the phone number of the company to access the Internet homepage of the company on the screen, proceeds to the phone number input step (S104) and waits for the input of the phone number.

When the mobile subscriber presses a numeric key on the keypad 101 to input a phone number, the mobile terminal proceeds to step S105 to determine whether the Internet confirmation key is input from the keypad 101.

In this case, the telephone number is used as a general telephone number and can also be used as a homepage address on the wireless Internet, and can be referred to as an "internet telephone number" of a corresponding company. For example, if a homepage of a company desired by a child communication subscriber is "aity.co.kr" and the phone number of the company is "02-345-6789", the mobile communication pressurizer does not enter the homepage address of the corresponding company. If you enter only the phone number of the company is connected to the web server 130 of the present invention can be connected to the homepage of the desired company to be described later.

Subsequently, if there is no input of the Internet confirmation key in the step of determining whether the telephone number has been transmitted (S105), the process proceeds to step S104 and continues to wait for input of the phone number. The communication terminal 100 transmits the telephone number to the web server 130 of the present invention through the above-described communication base station 110 and the mobile communication exchanger 120 by putting the telephone number on a high frequency signal (step S106).

If the telephone number corresponding to the homepage, i.e., "02-345-6789" is input from the mobile communication exchanger 120, the web western unit 130 proceeds to the homepage collation step (S107) and selects from among URLs of various companies stored in the database. After checking whether there is a URL of the business matching the input telephone number, the process proceeds to the URL matching determination step S107. In the URL matching determination step S108, the existence of the URL matching the input telephone number is determined and determined. As a result, if there is no URL that matches the input telephone number among the URLs of the various companies, the process proceeds to the telephone number input step (S104) and a message indicating that there is no URL that matches the telephone number is a mobile communication terminal ( 100). If there is a URL matching the phone number as a result of the determination of the URL matching step (S108), the process proceeds to the URL access step (S110) through the short SMS sending step (S109) or does not go through the SMS sending step (S109). Immediately proceeding to the URL access step (S110) two methods for connecting the mobile communication terminal 100 to the homepage of the company is used.

That is, one of the two methods of the Internet access method of the present invention, which does not go through the SMS transmission step (S109), when there is a URL matching the phone number with the result determined from the above-described URL matching determination step (S108). The mobile terminal 100 moves to the matched homepage URL of the corresponding company through the internet communication network, and then executes the normal homepage service on the mobile communication terminal 100.

In another method of accessing the homepage of the company through the SMS transmission step (S109), first, if there is a URL matching the phone number, the homepage address of the corresponding company is determined (S108). URL) to the content providing system. Then, the content providing system 140 transmits the homepage address of the corresponding company to the mobile communication terminal 100 through the mobile communication exchanger 120 and the communication base station 110 by using the short message service (SMS). On the liquid crystal display 102 of the terminal 102, as shown in Fig. 5, a text message "Homepage address has been delivered" is displayed. At this time, when the mobile communication subscriber opens the SMS displayed on the liquid crystal display 102 by operating a key of the keypad 101, the homepage address of the telephone number of the corresponding company is displayed on the screen of the liquid crystal display 102 as shown in FIG. Is displayed. In this state, when the mobile subscriber presses the Internet identification key of the keypad 101, the mobile terminal proceeds to the URL access step S110 through the above-described method and moves to the homepage URL of the company through the Internet communication network. On the 100, the normal homepage service is executed. In addition, the input of the telephone number for the homepage of the corresponding company described above was transmitted by pressing the numeric keys of the keypad one by one, but it is also possible to set the telephone numbers of the frequently used companies in one hotkey and send them.

On the other hand, as a comparative example, when a user attempts to access the Internet homepage using a conventional technology, that is, a mobile communication terminal, it is necessary to input a combination of letters, symbols or numbers, delay of connection time and address of the homepage. Unlike the inconvenience of having to remember, it can be seen that the present invention can access the Internet homepage using only the telephone number of the corresponding company without memorizing the address of the homepage at the time of internet access.

As a result, according to the present invention, when trying to access the Internet homepage with a mobile communication terminal, the time delay that has to go through several steps and the inconvenience of having to directly enter the homepage address of the company is eliminated. There is an advantage to not having to memorize the address of the homepage.

In addition, while specific embodiments of the present invention have been described and illustrated above, it is obvious that the present invention may be variously modified and implemented by those skilled in the art.

Such modified embodiments should not be individually understood from the technical spirit or the prospect of the present invention, and such modified embodiments should fall within the appended claims of the present invention.

According to the Internet access method using the mobile communication terminal of the present invention apparent from the above description, in the URL input environment of the mobile communication terminal, the mobile telephone subscriber does not enter the Internet homepage address, but only enters the telephone number of the corresponding company to wireless Since it can be connected to the Internet homepage, time delay and inconvenience in use can be eliminated, and the use of the mobile communication terminal can be maximized and quality service can be provided.

Claims (3)

(1) displaying a wireless Internet menu on the LCD screen and determining whether a URL input has been selected when the mobile terminal requires a wireless Internet connection; (2) if the URL input is selected and a telephone number of a corresponding company is input from the keypad, transmitting the input telephone number through a wireless Internet network; (3) receiving, by the wireless Internet web server, the transmitted telephone number and determining whether there is a URL matching the telephone number among URLs stored in a database; (4) if there is no URL matching the phone number, transmitting a guide message indicating that there is no URL matching the phone number to the mobile communication terminal; And (5) if there is a URL matching the telephone number, moving to a homepage address of the corresponding company, and executing a homepage service on the mobile communication terminal. The method according to claim 1, Internet access method using a mobile communication terminal, characterized in that for setting the phone number to the shortcut key of the keypad to transmit. (1) displaying a wireless Internet menu on the LCD screen and determining whether a URL input has been selected when the mobile terminal requires a wireless Internet connection; (2) if the URL input is selected and a telephone number of a corresponding company is input from the keypad, transmitting the input telephone number through a wireless Internet network; (3) receiving, by the wireless Internet web server, the transmitted telephone number and determining whether there is a URL matching the telephone number among URLs stored in a database; (4) if there is no URL matching the phone number, transmitting a guide message indicating that there is no URL matching the phone number to the mobile communication terminal; (5) if there is a URL matching the telephone number, transmitting an SMS including the homepage address of the corresponding company and displaying the same on the screen of the mobile communication terminal; (6) opening the displayed SMS and pressing an internet confirmation key to transmit the homepage address included in the SMS; And And (7) receiving the transmitted home page address to execute a home page service on the mobile communication terminal.