KR20050080782A - A method for providing recipient's status indication service in mobile communication and a system thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method and system for transmitting user information in a terminal, and more particularly, to a method and system for transmitting status information of a called party to a caller terminal.

A method for transmitting status information of a called party to a calling party terminal according to the present invention comprises the steps of: maintaining predetermined recording means for storing the called party's terminal number and the called state information corresponding to the terminal number; Receiving a call establishment request with a terminal of the terminal; extracting a terminal number of the called party from the call establishment request; retrieving call state information corresponding to the extracted terminal number with reference to the recording means; and And transmitting the retrieved call state information to the caller terminal.

According to the present invention, a method and apparatus are provided for enabling a caller terminal to express a mood or condition of a called party.

Description

A method for providing a call status indication service of a wireless communication user and a system thereof {A METHOD FOR PROVIDING RECIPIENT'S STATUS INDICATION SERVICE IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION AND A SYSTEM THEREOF}

The present invention relates to a method and system for transmitting the user's status information to the user terminal, and more particularly, to a method and system for transmitting the status information of the called party to the caller terminal.

Recently, as the number of mobile communication users increases, users' desire to express their personality has increased, so that not only terminal accessories but also ringtones or LCD screens displayed when there is an incoming call, and images of LCD screens displayed during call waiting Users' demands for revealing their own personalities through differentiation are deepening.

However, the above requirements are satisfied only by changing the appearance of the terminal or specifying the terminal function of the called party without interaction between the calling party and the called party, and there is a disadvantage that the user's personality cannot be revealed.

In addition, in the current mobile communication environment, there is a Calling Identification Display (CID) service in which a caller's phone number is displayed on a called party's terminal, but the caller selectively subscribes and receives a user's personality. It was impossible.

As a remedy, SK Telecom has provided a service called “lettering”. Lettering is a service that allows a caller's phrase or nickname to be displayed on the called party's terminal when making a call. In addition, the existing 'coloring' service is provided from the perspective of the called party as a service that changes the simple ring back tone to the distinctive ring tone selected by the called party during the incoming caller.

However, the lettering service also has a limitation in that it transmits only the sender's information unilaterally and the caller cannot know the information about the called party. In addition, in the case of the lettering service, there is a situation in which the service can not be provided depending on the support of the service provider or the terminal. Even in the case of coloring, there is a limit in expressing a user's personality with limited ring back tone provided by CP, and there is a problem in that the presenter's mood or state cannot be expressed.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to improve the above-described prior art, and an object of the present invention is to provide a method and apparatus for expressing a mood or state of a called party in a calling terminal.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a method and apparatus for displaying various incoming call state information for each time zone and allowing a user to make various expressions.

It is still another object of the present invention to provide a method and an apparatus capable of displaying various incoming call state information for each caller so that a user can make various expressions.

In addition, another object of the present invention is to provide a method and apparatus that can be confirmed by transmitting the registration or change to the terminal of the called party when registering or changing the reception state information, the user can confirm the registration or change will be.

In order to achieve the above object and to solve the problems of the prior art, the present invention comprises the steps of maintaining the terminal number of the called party and a predetermined recording means for storing the reception status information corresponding to the terminal number, from the caller terminal to the called party; Receiving a call establishment request with a terminal of the terminal; extracting a terminal number of the called party from the call establishment request; retrieving call state information corresponding to the extracted terminal number with reference to the recording means; and And transmitting the retrieved called state information to the caller terminal.

A system for transmitting called party status information to a calling party terminal according to one aspect of the present invention includes predetermined recording means for storing and maintaining the called party's terminal number and called status information corresponding to the terminal number, and from the calling terminal to the user terminal. A call request receiving unit for receiving a call establishment request of the caller, an information retrieval unit for extracting a number of the user terminal which is a called party from the call establishment request and retrieving call state information corresponding to the terminal number, and the retrieved call state information; An information transmission unit for transmitting to the terminal.

Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying drawings will be described an embodiment of the present invention;

1 is a diagram illustrating a reception state information transmission system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Two terminals 120 and 130 are connected through the server 110. The first terminal 120 makes a call call setup request to the second terminal 130 through the server 110. The server 110 receives the call call setup request of the first terminal 110, extracts the number of the second terminal 130 from the call call setup request, and transmits the call call setup request to the second terminal 130. . In addition, until the second terminal determines whether to accept the call setup request, the second terminal user transmits the reception status information previously set by the second terminal user to the first terminal 110. This allows the first terminal user to know the state of the second terminal user, and when the second terminal user accepts the call call setup request, the server stops displaying the incoming call status information on the first terminal and Set a call call between the terminal and the second terminal.

Here, the called state information is information indicating the current state of the called party (second terminal in this example), which may be multimedia data including any one or more of a text, an image, and a voice. ) Until a call call between the user (second terminal) and the caller (first terminal) is set up. Through the call state information, the caller can grasp the present state of the called party even when the caller does not set up the call call, and the caller can express his or her current mood or state to the caller by sending the call state information.

2 is a flowchart illustrating a method of transmitting user state information according to an embodiment of the present invention.

First, in step 210, the called party terminal number and the call state information corresponding to the terminal number are stored.

The reception status information is as described above, and the called party terminal number and the reception status information corresponding to the terminal number are recorded and maintained using predetermined recording means. The called state information may be one or more per called party's terminal number and may be changed arbitrarily by the called party. The called party may register the calling party's terminal number and store the called state information per terminal number of the calling party in a predetermined recording means, and may store the called state information for each time zone differently.

In a next step 220, a call setup request from the calling terminal to the called terminal is received. The caller sends a call setup request to the called party's terminal, and the call setup request is transmitted to the called party's terminal through the predetermined server 110.

In the next step 230, the called party terminal number is extracted from the call setup request received in step 220; The reception status information corresponding to the terminal number is retrieved by referring to the predetermined recording means. First, the called party terminal number is extracted and the call state information corresponding to the called party terminal number is retrieved. In some cases, the called state information retrieved may be one or more, and it is determined whether the called state information is registered for each caller terminal number. When the called party has different call state information for each caller terminal number, the caller terminal number is extracted from the call call setup request, and the call state information corresponding to the caller terminal number is retrieved. In addition, when the user changes the incoming call state information for each time zone, the call state setting time is checked and the incoming call state information corresponding to the call call establishment request time is searched.

In step 250, the called state information retrieved in step 240 is transmitted to the caller terminal. The call state information transmitted to the calling party terminal may be one or more of text, image, or voice, and the text or image may be controlled to be displayed on the terminal liquid crystal (LCD), and the voice may be controlled to be played on the user terminal. Can be. The caller terminal may notify the caller of the current mood or state of the caller by downloading and playing the call state information until the caller accepts the call setup request.

When the called party accepts the call setup request through the above steps, the call setup is established with the caller. Until the called party accepts the call setup request, the caller terminal may display the called state information. In addition, the display of the call reception status information may be stopped even when the caller does not accept the call setup request and rejects the call setup, or when the called party cannot connect to the mailbox because the call setup cannot be established. The call state information may be continued from the time when the caller starts the call setup request to the called party until the called person shows a certain reaction such as accepting the call or rejecting the call.

FIG. 3A is a diagram showing a table appearing in a predetermined recording unit when the incoming state information is changed according to a time zone according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in the figure, the user's incoming state information is divided into four time zones. 23 o'clock to 7 o'clock sleeps, 7 o'clock to 11 o'clock refreshes morning, and 11 o'clock to 19 o'clock for busy information In the time zone of ~ 23 o'clock, the call status information of 'Please wait a bit' is stored. In this way, the reception state information may be specified differently according to the time zone. In this example, the called party is classified into four time zones and specifies different call state information. For example, when the caller requests a call call setup at 3 am, the caller may receive information about the state of “sleeping sleep” and transmit it to the caller's terminal. If the call is requested at 6 pm (18:00), the call status information of "busy" may be transmitted and may appear on the caller terminal.

In this figure, only the text is displayed, but not only the text but also the image and the voice may be used, and two or more of them may be mixed and applied. In addition, the reception status information designated by the called party can be arbitrarily changed for each time zone, and the reception time information can be designated by dividing the called party arbitrarily.

For example, when the called party designates the text information 'sleeping sleep ~' and the 'sleeping forest princess' image and' lullaby 'voice information together as the call status information at the time of '23 o'clock to 7 o'clock', 23 The caller requesting the call setting from 0 o'clock to 7 o'clock sees the image of 'sleeping forest princess' along with the text information 'sleeping sleep ~' as well as receiving the 'lullaby' voice information to the caller terminal. Information is available.

FIG. 3B is a diagram illustrating a table appearing in a predetermined recording unit when the call state information is different for each caller terminal number according to an embodiment of the present invention.

In this figure, all six caller terminal numbers are registered, and different call state information is designated for each caller terminal. In the case of the terminal whose caller terminal number is '010-4024-6530', the text information 'Study Hard' is specified. In the case of the terminal '011-782-5419', the text information 'Hello!' In the case of the terminal of 016-9613-2452, the text information of 'sleepy sleepy' is displayed. In the case of the caller terminal of '018-454-1613', the text information of 'Nice to meet ♡' and the voice information of the song 'A national song' are displayed. In addition, the caller terminal of '019-9218-7456' is designated and stored with text information of 'Happy Birthday' and voice information of 'Happy Birthday' song. In addition, as another form of voice information, TTS (Text-To-Speech) is used by the user to transmit the call status information in the form of text information such as a short message (SMS), which is converted into voice information and reproduced as a call waiting sound. Can be. As described above, according to the present invention, the called party can control different call state information according to the number of the terminal making the call setup request.

As in the example of FIG. 3A, even when the call state information is designated differently for each call number, the call state information may be represented in the form of an image, a voice as well as a text, and a mixture thereof may be used.

When the number of the calling party terminal that has made the call setup request is not the calling party number registered in the table, the called party may predetermine a default value and transmit the called state information designated as the default value. For example, when a user registers 'national gymnastics' as voice information with text information 'Happy New Year' as a default value, a call setup request is received from a caller terminal of a calling number not shown in the table above. When the voice information of the 'national gymnastics song' along with the default text information 'Happy New Year' may be transmitted to the caller terminal.

4 is a diagram illustrating an example of a method of changing the called state information according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The called party may register or change the called state information through the wired / wireless internet 420, the ARS 430, or the mobile internet 440. The registered or changed reception state information may be recorded and stored in the recording means of the predetermined server 410 as the called party terminal number and the data corresponding to the terminal number.

In the present invention, the called party can be controlled to register or change the called state information by accessing the website provided by the present invention through the wired / wireless Internet 420. The called party may register the called party's terminal number in a predetermined form provided by the present invention, and may input different reception status information by time zone or calling number, and may change the received reception status information.

The called party may register and change the called state information through the ARS 430. The called party may access the ARS 430 to register or change the called state information according to a predetermined announcement broadcast.

In addition, the called party may register or change the called state information through the mobile Internet 440. Depending on the terminal, it is possible to register or change the reception status information by accessing a predetermined site provided by the present invention by accessing the WAP according to the terminal, and to register and change the reception status information using dedicated software provided to the terminal. Depending on the type of terminal, the status information may be changed by transmitting a short message (SMS) to the service number provided by the present invention.

In this way, the registered or changed reception status information is stored in a predetermined server 410, and when a call setup request is received, the terminal number of the called party may be extracted from the call setup request and displayed on the caller terminal. Incoming call state information can be transmitted to the calling terminal. In addition, when the incoming state information is registered or changed, it may be controlled to be confirmed by the called party by sending it to the called party terminal in the form of a short message (SMS).

5 is a block diagram of a system for transmitting call state information according to another embodiment of the present invention.

The call reception state information transmitting system 500 includes a predetermined recording means 510, a call request receiving unit 520, an information retrieving unit 530, an information transmitting unit 540, and a call setting unit 550.

The predetermined recording means 510 stores and maintains the called party terminal number and the call state information corresponding to the terminal number. The called state information may be any one or more of text, image, or voice information, as well as a list of caller terminal numbers or time zone information designated by the called party. Since different call state information may be specified for each time zone information or caller terminal number, the corresponding call state information for each time zone information or caller terminal number may be stored.

The call request receiving unit 520 receives a call call establishment request with the called party terminal from the caller terminal, and the information retrieval unit 530 extracts the number of the called party terminal from the call call setting request and receives a call state corresponding to the terminal number. Retrieve information. If there is at least one called state information corresponding to the called party terminal number and the called state information is differently designated for each calling party terminal number, the information retrieval unit 530 extracts the calling party terminal number from the call call setup request and sends the caller. The presence or absence of the reception state information corresponding to the terminal number can be retrieved. In addition, when the incoming state information is designated for each time zone, it is possible to find out the time at which the call setup request is received and search for the incoming state information corresponding to the time.

The information transmitter 540 controls the caller terminal to transmit the retrieved call state information to the caller terminal for display on the caller terminal, and the call setup unit 550 when the caller accepts the call setup request. Set up a call between users.

Embodiments of the invention also include computer-readable media containing program instructions for performing various computer-implemented operations. The computer readable medium may include program instructions, data files, data structures, etc. alone or in combination. The medium or program instructions may be those specially designed and constructed for the purposes of the present invention, or they may be of the kind well-known and available to those having skill in the computer software arts. Examples of computer-readable recording media include magnetic media such as hard disks, floppy disks, and magnetic tape, optical media such as CD-ROMs, DVDs, and magnetic disks, such as floppy disks. Magneto-optical media, and hardware devices specifically configured to store and execute program instructions, such as ROM, RAM, flash memory, and the like. The medium may be a transmission medium such as an optical or metal wire, a waveguide, or the like including a carrier wave for transmitting a signal specifying a program command, a data structure, or the like. Examples of program instructions include not only machine code generated by a compiler, but also high-level language code that can be executed by a computer using an interpreter or the like.

6 is an internal block diagram of a general purpose computer system that may be employed to construct a system for transmitting called party status information in accordance with the present invention.

Computer system 600 includes one or more processors 610 connected to a main memory including random access memory (RAM) 620 and read only memory (ROM) 630. The processor 610 may also be called a central processing unit (CPU). As is well known in the art, the ROM 630 serves to transfer data and instructions to the CPU unidirectionally, and the RAM 620 typically transfers data and instructions bidirectionally. Used to. RAM 620 and ROM 630 may include any suitable form of computer readable media. Mass storage 640 is bidirectionally coupled to processor 610 to provide additional data storage capability, and may be any of the computer readable recording media described above. The mass storage device 640 is used to store programs, data, and the like, and is a secondary memory device such as a hard disk which is generally slower than the main memory device. Certain mass storage devices such as CD ROM 660 may be used. The processor 610 may include one or more input / output interfaces such as a video monitor, trackball, mouse, keyboard, microphone, touchscreen display, card reader, magnetic or paper tape reader, voice or handwriting reader, joystick, or other known computer input / output device. 650 is connected. Finally, the processor 610 may be connected to a wired or wireless communication network through the network interface 670. Through this network connection, the procedure of the method described above can be performed. The apparatus and tools described above are well known to those skilled in the computer hardware and software arts.

The hardware device described above may be configured to operate as one or more software modules to perform the operations of the present invention.

As described above, the present invention has been described by way of limited embodiments and drawings, but the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments, which can be variously modified and modified by those skilled in the art to which the present invention pertains. Modifications are possible. Accordingly, the spirit of the present invention should be understood only by the claims set forth below, and all equivalent or equivalent modifications thereof will belong to the scope of the present invention.

According to the present invention, a method and apparatus are provided for enabling a caller terminal to express a mood or condition of a called party.

In addition, according to the present invention, different call state information can be displayed for each time zone, so that the user can make various expressions.

In addition, according to the present invention, different call state information can be displayed for each caller, so that the user can make various expressions.

In addition, according to the present invention, when registering or changing the reception state information can be confirmed by transmitting the registration or change to the terminal of the called user can confirm the registration or change.

1 is a block diagram showing a call reception information transmission system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a flowchart illustrating a method of transmitting call state information according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3A is a diagram showing a table appearing in a predetermined recording unit when the incoming state information is changed according to a time zone according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3B is a diagram showing a table appearing in a predetermined recording means when the call state information is different for each caller terminal number according to an embodiment of the present invention.

4 is a diagram illustrating an example of a method of changing the called state information according to an embodiment of the present invention.

5 is a block diagram of a system for transmitting call state information according to another embodiment of the present invention.

6 is an internal block diagram of a general purpose computer system that may be employed to construct a system for transmitting call state information in accordance with the present invention.

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500: incoming status information transmission system

510: recording means 520: call request receiving unit

530: information retrieval unit 540: information transmission unit

Claims (7)

In the method for transmitting the status information of the called party to the caller terminal, Maintaining predetermined recording means for storing the terminal number of the called party and the reception status information corresponding to the terminal number; Receiving a call establishment request from the calling party terminal with the called party's terminal; Extracting the called party's terminal number from the call establishment request; Retrieving call state information corresponding to the extracted terminal number by referring to the recording means; And Transmitting the retrieved call state information to the caller terminal; Recipient status information transmission method comprising a. The method of claim 1, And the call state information is multimedia data including at least one of a text, an image, and a voice. The method of claim 1, The recording means includes storing at least one calling party terminal number set in correspondence with the called party's terminal number and call state information corresponding to the calling party terminal number, The step of retrieving the call state information corresponding to the terminal number by referring to the recording means, Extracting the caller terminal number included in the call establishment request; And Retrieving the called state information corresponding to the calling party terminal number by referring to the recording means; User status information transmission method comprising a. The method of claim 1, And the call state information is displayed from the call request time of the caller until the time of setting up a call call between the callee and the caller. The method of claim 1, The incoming call state information may be registered and changed through wired or wireless Internet, mobile communication, or ARS. A computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program for executing the method of any one of claims 1 to 5. In the system for transmitting the status information of the called party to the caller terminal, Predetermined recording means for storing and retaining the called party's terminal number and the called state information corresponding to the terminal number; A call request receiver for receiving a call setup request from the caller terminal with the user terminal; An information retrieval unit for extracting a number of the user terminal which is a called party from the call establishment request and retrieving call state information corresponding to the terminal number; And Information transmitting unit for transmitting the retrieved call state information to the caller's terminal Recipient status information transmission system comprising a.