KR20050102991A - Method and apparatus for generating vibration on mobile communication terminal - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for generating vibration in a mobile communication terminal, and to a method and apparatus for generating vibration in accordance with a telephone number of a caller by setting a vibration corresponding to a telephone number.

According to the present invention, a method for generating vibration in a mobile communication terminal includes: maintaining vibration pattern data corresponding to a telephone number; Receiving a call request from a caller to identify the caller's phone number; Determining whether the terminal of the user who has received the call request is in a vibration mode; Identifying the vibration pattern data corresponding to the caller's telephone number when the determined terminal is in the vibration mode; And generating vibration of the mobile communication terminal according to the identified vibration pattern data.

According to the present invention, by generating different vibrations in the receiver's mobile phone according to the caller's telephone number, the caller can be identified using the vibration.

Description

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR VIBRATION IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL {METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING VIBRATION ON MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL}

The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for generating vibration in a mobile communication terminal, and to a method and apparatus for generating vibration in accordance with a telephone number of a caller by setting a vibration corresponding to a telephone number.

The brilliant development of mobile communication today has rapidly promoted the popularization of mobile phones (or mobile phones), transforming our lives so that most people now carry their phones with them at all times. In addition, the mobile phone has the effect of allowing the user to more easily access the communication network while efficiently allocating system resources of the conventional communication system.

Mobile phone-related communication services are not just providing communication services for voice calls, but also provide a variety of additional services to suit the user's preferences. As one of these additional services, a so-called "ringtone download" service that can select a ringtone of a mobile phone to suit a user's preference is widely used. That is, a mobile phone user pays a predetermined fee by connecting to a pay site providing a ringing tone through a wired / wireless network, and receives the selected ringing tone from his or her mobile phone and stores it in the memory of the mobile phone. It becomes available as ring tone. Examples of the ringtones currently offered include songs from popular singers, birds, and human voices, and in terms of sound quality, ranging from single-tone to four-, 16-, 40-, and 64-chord rings. It became possible.

If one ring tone corresponding to a telephone number is set among several ring tones, a ring tone corresponding to the caller's telephone number may be generated when the call is received. So without checking the phone number, you can find out who the call is from by ringing.

However, in recent years, the ringtone of a mobile phone is recognized as a noise, and thus, a necessity of changing a mobile phone to a vibration mode by using public transportation of subways and buses or in public places is on the rise. In addition, if you are in class or during a meeting, you need to change your phone to vibrate mode or turn off your phone. When the mobile terminal is changed to the vibrate mode, the ring tone can be set differently according to the caller's phone number so that the other party can be identified only by the ring tone, while the vibration is the vibration generated regardless of the caller's phone number. Since this is the same, there was a hassle to check the caller's phone number on the LCD of the mobile phone.

Therefore, the user can set the vibration differently according to the caller's phone number to check the other party only by vibrating, create or edit the vibration pattern desired by the user, and use the vibration download service to generate interesting vibration patterns or the latest vibration patterns. It is necessary to provide a service for downloading and generating various vibrations.

Thus, there is a demand for a method and apparatus for efficiently using a mobile communication terminal by generating various vibrations according to a user's request.

The present invention has been made to improve the prior art as described above, by setting the vibration corresponding to the telephone number to generate different vibrations according to the caller's telephone number, a method that can identify the caller only by the vibration of the mobile communication terminal And an apparatus.

It is still another object of the present invention to provide a method and apparatus for enabling a user to generate vibration pattern data desired by the user using the strength of the vibration and the length of the vibration.

It is still another object of the present invention to provide a method and apparatus for downloading various vibration patterns generated by another person or a predetermined service provider to a user's mobile communication terminal and using the same in vibration of their mobile communication terminal.

In order to achieve the above object and to solve the problems of the prior art, the present invention maintains the vibration pattern data corresponding to the telephone number, receiving a call request from the caller to identify the caller's telephone number, the call request Determining whether the user's terminal is in a vibration mode, identifying the vibration pattern data corresponding to the caller's phone number when the determined terminal is in the vibration mode, and moving the mobile terminal according to the identified vibration pattern data. It provides a vibration generating method in a mobile communication terminal comprising the step of generating a vibration of the communication terminal.

According to an aspect of the present invention, in a mobile communication terminal for generating a vibration, a vibration database for holding a vibration identifier and vibration pattern data associated with the vibration identifier, a telephone number and a telephone number database for maintaining a vibration identifier associated with the telephone number A terminal telephone number search unit for receiving a call request from a caller to identify the caller's telephone number, and searching for a vibration identifier corresponding to the caller's telephone number by referring to the telephone number database; And a terminal vibration generator for extracting vibration pattern data corresponding to the retrieved vibration identifier and generating vibration in accordance with the extracted vibration pattern data.

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

1 is a block diagram showing the internal configuration of a mobile communication terminal according to the present invention.

The mobile communication terminal 100 according to the present invention includes a terminal phone number search unit 110, a terminal vibration generator 120, a terminal vibration pattern generator 130, a terminal vibration pattern editor 140, and a terminal vibration pattern downloader. 150, vibration database 160, and telephone number database 170.

The terminal phone number search unit 110 receives a call request from the caller, identifies the caller's phone number, and searches the vibration identifier corresponding to the caller's phone number with reference to the phone number database 170.

The terminal phone number search unit 110 searches the telephone number database 170 for the caller's telephone number. The terminal phone number search unit 110 determines whether the terminal of the user receiving the call request is in the vibration mode, and if the determined terminal is in the vibration mode, referring to the telephone number database 170 to obtain a vibration identifier corresponding to the caller's telephone number. Search.

The terminal vibration generator 120 extracts vibration pattern data corresponding to the vibration identifier searched by the terminal phone number search unit 110 with reference to the vibration database 160 to generate vibrations according to the extracted vibration pattern data.

The terminal vibration generator 120 extracts the vibration pattern data corresponding to the vibration identifier searched by the terminal phone number searcher 110 from the vibration database 160. The terminal vibration generator 120 generates a vibration of the mobile communication terminal by executing a predetermined program according to the vibration pattern data extracted from the vibration database 160.

In addition, the terminal vibration generator 120 receives a preview command of the vibration pattern data generated by the terminal vibration pattern generator 130 and generates a vibration according to the generated vibration pattern data. Thus, the user can actually feel what vibration pattern corresponds to the vibration identifier by performing the preview command of the present invention.

In addition, the vibration pattern generator 120 receives a text message and a multimedia message from the caller to determine whether the user's terminal is in the vibration mode. Text messaging is an abbreviation of Short Messaging Service. It is a text message service that allows mobile phone users to send and receive short sentences of about 40 characters without additional equipment. Multimedia message is an abbreviation of Multimedia Messaging Service, and it is a service that can attach and send files such as pictures, videos, background music, and voice as well as text service that exchanges short sentences of about 40 characters. Text and multimedia messages include the caller's phone number. When the determined terminal is in the vibration mode, the vibration pattern generator 120 identifies vibration pattern data corresponding to the text message and the multimedia message to generate vibration of the mobile communication terminal according to the identified vibration pattern data. That is, even when a text message is received, different vibration patterns are generated according to the caller's telephone number.

As an embodiment of the present invention, the vibration pattern generator 120 receives a text message and a multimedia message from the caller, and searches the vibration identifier corresponding to the caller's phone number by referring to the telephone number database 170. The vibration pattern generator 120 extracts vibration pattern data corresponding to the vibration identifier searched by referring to the vibration database 160 to generate vibration according to the extracted vibration pattern data.

The terminal vibration pattern generation unit 130 receives continuous data on the strength and length of vibration from the user, and combines the input continuous data into a vibration pattern to generate a vibration pattern file of a predetermined format. The terminal vibration pattern generation unit 130 executes a predetermined program installed in its user terminal to generate the vibration pattern file. The program may be installed by a user terminal manufacturer at the time of purchase of the user terminal and provided to the user or downloaded by the user using the Internet.

Therefore, the terminal vibration pattern generation unit 130 receives the strength and length of the vibration from the user using the key button of the mobile communication terminal. The terminal vibration pattern generation unit 130 receives the intensity and length of the vibration using the numbers and letters of the key button from the user, and combines the input intensity and length into the vibration pattern which is continuous data of a certain length. You can create a vibration pattern file.

For example, when the mobile terminal 100 receives a key button "W" of the mobile terminal from the user, the mobile communication terminal 100 recognizes the vibration as a weak intensity, and when the key button "M" of the mobile terminal is input, the mobile terminal 100 receives a vibration of medium intensity. When the key button "S" of the mobile communication terminal is inputted, it can be recognized as a vibration of strong intensity. In addition, when the key button "1" of the mobile communication terminal is input, it is recognized as a vibration of short length for 1 second, and when the key button "3" of the mobile communication terminal is input, it is recognized as a vibration of long length for 3 seconds. have.

The terminal vibration pattern editing unit 140 edits the generated vibration pattern file and stores the generated vibration pattern file in the vibration database. The terminal vibration pattern editing unit 140 generates a vibration pattern by the preview command of the vibration pattern generated by the user in the terminal vibration generator 120, and then, if the vibration pattern is not desired by the user, the vibration pattern generated by the user may be of a different type. You can edit the vibration pattern. The terminal vibration pattern editing unit 140 stores the vibration pattern file edited at the request of the user as the vibration pattern data in the vibration database 160.

In addition, the vibration pattern editing unit 140 may receive a basic vibration installed by the user terminal manufacturer at the time of purchase of the mobile communication terminal, edit the vibration pattern as desired by the user, and store the new vibration as a new basic vibration. The vibration pattern editing unit 140 edits the basic vibration installed by the manufacturer into new vibration pattern data and stores it in the vibration pattern database 160. Therefore, although the basic vibration of the same mobile communication terminal is the same as the manufacturer, the basic vibration may be generated by a new vibration pattern according to the user's taste by performing the present invention, thereby representing the user's personality.

The terminal vibration pattern downloader 150 receives a vibration pattern file by connecting to a predetermined server and stores the received vibration pattern file in the vibration database 160. The terminal vibration pattern downloader 150 receives a vibration pattern file selected by the user from various vibration pattern files by accessing a predetermined server providing vibration using a user's terminal.

In addition, the user may access a predetermined server that provides vibration using his computer, preview and confirm various vibration pattern files, and then select one vibration pattern file to transmit a command to the user's terminal. In this case, the terminal vibration pattern download unit 150 may receive the vibration pattern file that the user has already selected and transmitted after connecting to the Internet using the user's terminal. The terminal vibration pattern downloader 150 stores the received vibration pattern file as vibration pattern data in the vibration database 160.

The user accesses a predetermined server using his computer and stores the selected vibration pattern file in the user's computer. The vibration pattern downloader 150 receives the selected vibration pattern file by connecting the user's computer with a data cable. The vibration pattern downloader 150 stores the received vibration pattern file in the vibration database 160 as vibration pattern data.

According to another embodiment of the present invention, the vibration pattern can be downloaded from the server to the user's mobile communication terminal using wired / wireless internet or wired / wireless data communication.

In addition, the terminal vibration pattern downloader 150 transmits the vibration pattern data generated by the user in the terminal vibration generator 120 to a predetermined web server providing vibration to be registered in the web server. Accordingly, the vibration pattern data generated from the plurality of users may be provided to a second user who registers with the web server and needs new vibration pattern data.

The vibration database 170 and the telephone number database 180 of the mobile communication terminal 100 will be described in detail later with reference to FIGS. 2A and 2B.

2A is a diagram showing an example of an internal configuration of a vibration database according to the present invention.

The vibration database 200a maintains a vibration identifier 210 and vibration pattern data 220 associated with the vibration identifier. The vibration database 200a stores vibration pattern data 220 generated and edited at the request of a user in association with the vibration identifier 210 or receives a vibration pattern file from a predetermined server that provides vibration. Data 220 may be stored.

The vibration identifier 210 is an identifier for identifying the vibration pattern data 220. The vibration identifier 210 may be directly input by the user according to the vibration pattern data 220 generated by the user. In addition, the vibration identifier 210 may be set in association with the vibration pattern file received from a predetermined web server.

The vibration pattern data 220 is stored in the vibration database 200a in association with the vibration identifier 210. The vibration pattern data 220 may be stored in a predetermined file format.

For example, the vibration identifier 210 is "basic vibration" and the vibration pattern data 220 associated with the vibration identifier 210 is set to "basic vibration.vib". The mobile communication terminal 100 searches for the vibration identifier 210 corresponding to the telephone number of the caller who received the call request by referring to the telephone number database 170. When the searched vibration identifier 210 is the “basic vibration”, the mobile communication terminal 100 searches for the corresponding vibration pattern data 220 with reference to the vibration database 160. The mobile communication terminal 100 generates vibration according to a predetermined program as the "basic vibration. Vib" which is the searched vibration pattern data 220.

2B is a diagram showing an example of the internal configuration of the telephone number database according to the present invention.

Phone number database 200b maintains phone number 230 and vibration identifier 240 associated with the phone number. The telephone number database 200b may store a vibration identifier corresponding to the telephone number by receiving a telephone number from the user or receiving a telephone number from the user.

The phone number 230 is a caller's phone number stored in the user's terminal, and the vibration identifier 240 is selected from a vibration list in association with the phone number and stored in the phone number database.

For example, the telephone number database 200b has a telephone number 230 of "010-123-4567", and a vibration identifier 240 associated with the telephone number is stored as "strong and weak". The mobile communication terminal 100 searches the telephone number of the caller who has received the call request with reference to the telephone number database 200b, and vibrates when the retrieved telephone number 230 is "010-123-4567". The vibration identifier 240 corresponding to the telephone number 230 "010-123-4567" is searched for by referring to the database 200a. When the searched vibration identifier 240 is "strong or weak", the mobile communication terminal 100 extracts the vibration pattern data 220 having the vibration identifier 210 as "strong or weak" by referring to the vibration database 200a. The extracted vibration pattern data 220 generates "vibration strength and weakness.vib" according to a predetermined program. The vibration identifier is an identifier for identifying the vibration pattern, and may have a form different from that of the present embodiment.

3 is a view showing an example of a vibration pattern file according to the present invention.

The mobile communication terminal 100 may store the vibration pattern file 310 and the vibration pattern data associated with the vibration pattern file.

The vibration pattern file 310 receives continuous data about the intensity of vibration and the length of the vibration from the user and is generated in a predetermined file format.

The vibration pattern data 320 combines continuous data about the strength of the vibration and the length of the vibration. For example, the vibration pattern data 320 receives a key button "M" of the mobile communication terminal from the user and generates a vibration pattern having a medium intensity of 6 seconds in length by receiving the key button "6" of the mobile communication terminal.

Accordingly, the mobile communication terminal 100 sets the vibration pattern data 320 to "MMMMMM" and generates the vibration pattern of the vibration pattern file 310 as "basic vibration.vib". When the vibration pattern data corresponding to the caller's telephone number is a vibration pattern having a medium intensity of 6 seconds in length, the mobile communication terminal generates a vibration with "dudududududu". In addition, the strong vibration receives the key button "S" of the terminal. Thus, "weak and weak.vib" corresponds to a vibration pattern in the form of "dududududududu".

4A is a flowchart illustrating a procedure of generating vibration in a mobile communication terminal according to the present invention.

The mobile communication terminal 100 maintains the vibration pattern data corresponding to the telephone number (S410). The vibration database 200a of the mobile communication terminal maintains a plurality of vibration identifiers 210 and vibration pattern data 220 associated with the vibration identifiers. The telephone number database 200b also maintains a telephone number 230 and a vibration identifier 240 associated with the telephone number. The mobile communication terminal 100 receives a telephone number from the user from among the plurality of vibration pattern data and selects a vibration identifier corresponding to the selected telephone number. The mobile communication terminal 100 maintains the vibration pattern data as the vibration pattern data corresponding to the telephone number in response to the selected vibration identifier.

Next, the mobile communication terminal 100 receives a call request from the caller to identify the caller's telephone number (S420). The mobile communication terminal 100 identifies the caller's telephone number by referring to the telephone number database 200b.

The mobile communication terminal 100 determines whether the terminal of the user who receives the call request is in the vibration mode (S430). In general, the mobile communication terminal 100 was able to identify the other party by a ring tone corresponding to the caller's phone number in the ring tone mode. When the mobile communication terminal is in a public place or in class, the mobile communication terminal uses the vibration mode of the present invention. By generating a corresponding vibration in accordance with the caller's phone number can identify the other party.

When the determined terminal is in the vibration mode, the mobile communication terminal 100 identifies the vibration pattern data corresponding to the caller's phone number (S440). The mobile communication terminal 100 searches for the vibration identifier corresponding to the caller's telephone number with reference to the telephone number database 200b, and identifies the vibration pattern data corresponding to the searched vibration identifier with reference to the vibration database 200a. .

Finally, the mobile communication terminal 100 generates a vibration according to the identified vibration pattern data (S450).

4B is a flowchart illustrating a sequence in which a user generates a vibration pattern in a mobile communication terminal according to the present invention.

The mobile communication terminal 100 receives continuous data on the strength of vibration and the length of vibration from the user (S460). The mobile communication terminal 100 executes a predetermined program installed in its user terminal to generate a vibration pattern file. The program may be installed by a user terminal manufacturer at the time of purchase of the user terminal and provided to the user or downloaded by the user using the Internet.

The mobile communication terminal 100 generates predetermined vibration pattern data by combining the input continuous data (S470). The mobile communication terminal 100 receives the intensity and length of the vibration using the numbers and letters of the key buttons from the user and combines the intensity and the length of the vibration into a vibration pattern which is continuous data of a certain length.

For example, when the mobile terminal 100 receives the key button "W" of the mobile terminal from the user, the mobile terminal 100 recognizes the vibration as a weak intensity, and receives the key button "M" of the mobile communication terminal as the vibration of the medium intensity. When the key button "S" of the mobile communication terminal is received, the card is recognized as a strong vibration. In addition, when the user presses the key button "1" of the mobile communication terminal from the user, the mobile communication terminal 100 recognizes the vibration as a short length for 1 second, and when the key button "3" of the mobile communication terminal is input, It can be recognized as a vibration of long length. Thus, the mobile communication terminal can recognize the strength of vibration and the length of vibration by the combination of key buttons.

The mobile communication terminal 100 generates new vibration pattern data by combining the strength of the vibration and the length of the vibration. In addition, the mobile communication terminal may generate the vibration pattern generated by the user with a preview command and then edit the generated vibration pattern into another type of vibration pattern when the vibration pattern is not desired by the user. In this case, when the preview command is performed, the present invention vibrates the mobile communication terminal 100 according to the corresponding vibration pattern, so that the user can easily identify what vibration the corresponding vibration pattern has.

Finally, the mobile communication terminal 100 transmits the generated vibration pattern data to a predetermined web server to be registered in the web server (S480). The mobile communication terminal 100 accesses a mobile communication network by executing a command for requesting a mobile communication network connection from a user. The mobile communication terminal 100 connects to a predetermined server that provides vibration through the mobile communication network. The mobile communication terminal 100 registers the vibration pattern data generated by executing a series of programs provided by the server so as to register the vibration pattern data in the web server. Accordingly, the vibration pattern data generated from the plurality of users may be provided to a second user who registers with the web server and needs new vibration pattern data.

4C is a flowchart illustrating yet another sequence of generating vibration in a mobile communication terminal according to the present invention.

The mobile communication terminal 100 maintains vibration pattern data in response to the text message and the multimedia message (S491). The mobile communication terminal 100 receives one vibration pattern data from among a plurality of vibration pattern data in response to a text message and a multimedia message. The mobile communication terminal 100 maintains vibration pattern data selected in response to the text message and the multimedia message.

Next, the mobile communication terminal 100 receives a text message and a multimedia message from the sender (S492). The mobile communication terminal 100 determines whether the terminal of the user who receives the text message and the multimedia message is in the vibration mode (S493).

When the determined terminal is in the vibration mode, the mobile communication terminal 100 identifies the vibration pattern data corresponding to the text message and the multimedia message in operation S494. In addition, the mobile communication terminal 100 searches for the vibration identifier corresponding to the caller's telephone number by referring to the telephone number database 200b. The mobile communication terminal 100 identifies the vibration pattern data corresponding to the vibration identifier searched with reference to the vibration database 200a.

Finally, the mobile communication terminal 100 generates a vibration in accordance with the identified vibration pattern data (S495). Therefore, the mobile communication terminal 100 may generate vibrations according to the vibration pattern data maintained in correspondence to the text message and the multimedia message, and the vibration maintained in response to the caller's phone number included in the text message and the multimedia message. The vibration may be generated according to the pattern data.

5 is a diagram illustrating a network connection for downloading a vibration pattern file according to the present invention.

The user accesses the mobile communication network 520 by executing a predetermined program using the mobile communication terminal 510. The mobile communication terminal 510 connects to a predetermined server 530 that provides vibration through the mobile communication network.

The server 530 provides a menu for providing a plurality of contents and receives a vibration pattern menu from a user. The server 530 may be a web server that provides ringtones, picture friends, coloring, and vibration patterns. The server 530 may generate a vibration by receiving a preview command by selecting one vibration pattern file from a plurality of vibration pattern files. In addition, the server 530 provides a vibration identifier associated with the vibration pattern file to the user so that the user can predict the vibration pattern file.

The server 530 receives a vibration pattern file to be downloaded from the plurality of vibration pattern files from the user. The server 530 downloads the vibration pattern file selected from the user to the user's terminal. The server 530 may pay a predetermined fee to the user when downloading the vibration pattern file.

The mobile communication terminal 510 receives a telephone number corresponding to the vibration pattern file downloaded from the user and stores the telephone number in the telephone number database. The mobile communication terminal 510 may store a phone number selected in association with a vibration pattern file from a user as a vibration identifier associated with the vibration pattern file in the phone number database.

6 is a block diagram illustrating an internal configuration of a server for generating a vibration pattern according to the present invention.

The server 600 includes a user interface 610, a vibration pattern generator 620, a download unit 630, and a vibration pattern preview unit 640.

The user interface 610 receives continuous data about the strength of the vibration and the length of the vibration from the user. The user interface 610 provides a user with a predetermined program that can receive input on the strength and length of vibration. The program can be installed on the server to receive continuous data about vibrations from the user, or it can be downloaded from the server and downloaded to the user's computer. The user interface 610 may provide a predetermined number and letter in association with a computer keyboard by a predetermined program in association with the strength of the vibration and the length of the vibration. The user interface 610 may receive a predetermined time with respect to the intensity of vibration and the length of the vibration from the user.

The vibration pattern generator 620 combines the continuous data input through the user interface 610 to generate a vibration pattern file of a predetermined format. The vibration pattern generator 620 combines the vibration intensity and the vibration length into continuous data, such as a ringtone, at a predetermined time. The vibration pattern generator 620 generates a combination of continuous data in a predetermined file format that can be transmitted and received. The vibration pattern generator 620 may receive a vibration identifier associated with the generated vibration pattern file.

The download unit 630 downloads the generated vibration pattern file to the user terminal. The download unit 630 receives a download command for the vibration pattern file generated by the user and transmits the generated vibration pattern file to the user terminal that has downloaded the download command. The download unit 630 also transmits the vibration identifier associated with the generated vibration pattern file to be stored in the vibration database of the user terminal.

The vibration pattern preview unit 640 receives a preview command of the vibration pattern file generated from the user, and visually displays the vibration pattern of the vibration pattern data to provide the user. The vibration pattern preview unit 640 visually displays the vibration pattern of the vibration pattern data generated by the user to check whether the generated vibration pattern data is a vibration pattern desired by the user.

7 is a flowchart illustrating a procedure of generating a vibration pattern in the server according to the present invention.

The server 600 provides a user interface for inputting continuous data on the intensity of vibration and the length of vibration to the user (S710). The server 600 receives continuous data about the vibration intensity and the vibration length from the user through the user interface.

The server 600 generates the vibration pattern data in a predetermined file format by combining the input continuous data (S720). The server 600 combines the intensity of the vibration and the length of the vibration into a continuous data in a constant time. The server 600 generates the combined continuous data in a predetermined file format that can be transmitted and received. The server 600 may receive a vibration identifier associated with the generated vibration pattern file.

The server 600 receives a preview command of the vibration pattern data generated from the user (S730). The server 600 may preview the vibration pattern data generated by the user to confirm whether the vibration pattern data generated by the user is the vibration pattern desired by the user.

The server 600 visually displays the vibration pattern of the vibration pattern data and provides it to the user (S740). Since the server 600 may not generate vibration as in the user's terminal, the server 600 may visually display the vibration pattern of the vibration pattern data generated by the user to check whether the vibration pattern data generated is the vibration pattern desired by the user.

8A to 8E are diagrams showing an example of setting a vibration pattern in a mobile communication terminal according to the present invention.

In FIG. 8A, the mobile communication terminal 100 receives a command for requesting a phone book from a user. The mobile communication terminal 100 may receive a selection of a phone number to be stored in association with the vibration identifier from the user. The mobile communication terminal 100 directly receives a phone number to be stored in association with the vibration identifier from the user or provides the user with a phone number stored in the phone number database 200b to select a phone number to be stored in association with the vibration identifier from the stored phone numbers. I can receive it. In FIG. 8A, the mobile communication terminal 100 receives a "search by name" menu from the user in the phone book.

In FIG. 8B, the mobile communication terminal 100 provides a screen for receiving a name of a caller associated with a stored phone number. The mobile communication terminal 100 may receive an entire text corresponding to the caller's name from the user and may receive one of the caller's names. For example, the mobile communication terminal 100 may receive an input of "yi" from the user in order to find a caller of "yi", and may receive one of "yi" or "sun" or "shin". In this case, when only a part of characters is input from the name, the mobile communication terminal 100 provides names of all callers including the corresponding characters. In FIG. 8B, the mobile communication terminal receives a letter "ken" from the user (not shown).

In FIG. 8C, the mobile communication terminal 100 provides all the callers including the letter "key" in the caller's name. In FIG. 8C, the mobile communication terminal 100 selects a caller stored under the name “Jang Dong Gun” from among callers including the letter “Gun”.

In FIG. 8D, the mobile communication terminal 100 provides a stored list of callers " Jang Dong Gun " stored in the telephone number database 200b. The mobile communication terminal 100 may store a ring tone and a vibration identifier in association with the caller “Jang Dong Gun”. When the mobile communication terminal 100 receives a change request for the vibration identifier corresponding to "Jang Dong Gun" from the user, the mobile communication terminal 100 may change the vibration identifier by providing a vibration list. In FIG. 8D, the mobile communication terminal 100 stores and sets the vibration identifier as “lightning vibration” in the “Jang Dong Gun” telephone number list.

In FIG. 8E, the mobile communication terminal 100 provides a vibration setting screen to the user in response to the vibration identifier. The mobile communication terminal 100 provides a user with a vibration identifier of a vibration list stored in the vibration database 200a. The mobile communication terminal 100 receives one vibration identifier from the user and stores the vibration identifier in the telephone number database corresponding to the telephone number of the caller. The mobile communication terminal 100 receives a vibration identifier as "lightning vibration" from the user.

9 is a flowchart illustrating a procedure of downloading a vibration pattern file in the mobile communication terminal according to the present invention.

The user connects to a predetermined server through the mobile communication network using the mobile communication terminal 100 (S910). The user may pay a mobile network operator a predetermined fee for connecting the mobile network.

The server 600 receives a vibration pattern menu from a user among content menus that provide ringing sounds, picture friends, coloring, and vibration patterns (S920). The server 600 may generate a vibration by receiving a preview command by selecting one vibration pattern file from a plurality of vibration pattern files in a vibration pattern menu of a server from a user. In addition, the server 600 provides a vibration identifier associated with the vibration pattern file to the user so that the user can predict the vibration pattern file.

The server 600 receives a vibration pattern file to be downloaded from the plurality of vibration pattern files from the user (S930). The server 600 downloads the vibration pattern file selected from the user to the user's terminal (S940). The server 600 may request a user to pay a predetermined fee when the vibration pattern file is downloaded. The server 600 may store the vibration pattern file downloaded to the user's terminal in association with the vibration identifier of the vibration database 200a.

The mobile communication terminal 100 receives a phone number corresponding to the vibration pattern file downloaded from the user (S950). The mobile communication terminal 100 may receive an input for requesting a list of telephone numbers from a user and provide a stored telephone number to receive a selection of a telephone number to be stored corresponding to the vibration pattern file from the telephone number list. In addition, the mobile communication terminal 100 may directly receive a telephone number to be stored corresponding to the vibration pattern file from the user.

The mobile communication terminal 100 stores the telephone number selected in response to the vibration pattern file from the user in the telephone number database (S960). The mobile communication terminal 100 may store the telephone number selected in association with the vibration pattern file from the user in the telephone number database 200b as the vibration identifier associated with the vibration pattern file.

In the above embodiment, the vibration pattern data has been described as including data regarding the intensity of the vibration and the length of the vibration, but may also include other features that can distinguish the vibration in addition to the intensity of the vibration or the length of the vibration. For example, the shape or vibration of the generated vibration may vary according to the characteristics of the vibrator generating the vibration of the mobile phone, and the characteristics of the vibration may be included in the vibration pattern data. Therefore, by controlling the vibrator can control the vibration intensity or the length of the vibration as well as other characteristics associated with the vibration to generate different vibration patterns. The vibration pattern generator may generate vibration pattern data including the characteristic information of the vibration, and the vibration pattern file may include the vibration pattern data. Such embodiments also fall within the scope of the invention in accordance with the claims of the invention.

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.

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

According to the present invention, by setting the vibration corresponding to the telephone number to generate different vibrations according to the caller's telephone number, it is possible to identify the caller only by the vibration of the mobile communication terminal.

According to the present invention, the user can generate the vibration pattern data desired by the user using the strength of the vibration and the length of the vibration.

According to the present invention, various vibration patterns generated by another person or a predetermined service provider are downloaded to a user's mobile communication terminal and used for vibration of their mobile communication terminal.

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.

1 is a block diagram showing the internal configuration of a mobile communication terminal according to the present invention.

2A illustrates an example of an internal configuration of a vibration database according to the present invention.

2B illustrates an example of an internal configuration of a telephone number database according to the present invention.

3 is a view showing an example of a vibration pattern file according to the present invention.

4A is a flowchart illustrating a sequence of generating vibration in a mobile communication terminal according to the present invention.

4B is a flowchart illustrating a procedure of generating a vibration pattern in a mobile communication terminal according to the present invention.

4C is a flowchart illustrating yet another sequence of generating vibration in a mobile communication terminal according to the present invention.

5 is a diagram illustrating a network connection for a mobile communication terminal to download a vibration pattern file from a predetermined server according to the present invention.

Figure 6 is a block diagram showing the internal configuration of a server according to the present invention.

7 is a flowchart illustrating a procedure of generating a vibration pattern in the server according to the present invention.

8A to 8E illustrate an example of setting a vibration pattern in a mobile communication terminal according to the present invention.

9 is a flowchart illustrating a procedure of downloading a vibration pattern file from a predetermined server in a mobile communication terminal according to the present invention.

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110: terminal phone number search unit

120: terminal vibration generating unit

130: terminal vibration pattern generation unit

140: terminal vibration pattern editing unit

150: terminal vibration pattern download unit

160: vibration database

170: phone number database

Claims (14)

In the method for generating vibration in a mobile communication terminal, Maintaining vibration pattern data corresponding to the telephone number; Receiving a call request from a caller to identify the caller's phone number; Determining whether the terminal of the user who has received the call request is in a vibration mode; Identifying the vibration pattern data corresponding to the caller's telephone number when the determined terminal is in the vibration mode; And Generating vibration of the mobile communication terminal according to the identified vibration pattern data Vibration generation method in a mobile communication terminal comprising a. The method of claim 1, Maintaining vibration pattern data corresponding to the telephone number, Maintaining a plurality of vibration pattern data; Receiving one selection from among the plurality of vibration pattern data corresponding to the telephone number from a user of the mobile communication terminal; And Maintaining the selected vibration pattern data as vibration pattern data corresponding to the telephone number; Vibration generation method in a mobile communication terminal comprising a. The method of claim 1, Receiving continuous data about the intensity of the vibration and the length of the vibration from the user; And Generating predetermined vibration pattern data by combining the input continuous data; Vibration generation method in a mobile communication terminal further comprising. The method of claim 3, Transmitting the generated vibration pattern data to a predetermined web server to be registered in the web server. Vibration generation method in a mobile communication terminal further comprising. The method of claim 1, Maintaining a vibration identifier in association with the vibration pattern data; Receiving a preview command including a vibration identifier from a user; And Generating vibration of the mobile communication terminal according to the vibration pattern data associated with the received vibration identifier Vibration generation method in a mobile communication terminal further comprising. Maintaining vibration pattern data in response to a text message or a multimedia message; Receiving a text message or a multimedia message from the sender; Identifying vibration pattern data corresponding to the text message or the multimedia message; And Generating vibration of the mobile communication terminal according to the identified vibration pattern data Vibration generation method in a mobile communication terminal comprising a. The method of claim 6, Maintaining a plurality of vibration pattern data; Receiving a selection from the plurality of vibration pattern data in response to a text message or a multimedia message from a user; And Maintaining the selected vibration pattern data as vibration pattern data corresponding to the text message or the multimedia message. Vibration generation method in a mobile communication terminal comprising a. Providing a user interface for inputting continuous data about the intensity and length of vibration to a user; Receiving continuous data about the intensity of vibration and the length of vibration through the user interface from the user; And Generating vibration pattern data in a predetermined file format by combining the input continuous data; Vibration generation method in a mobile communication terminal comprising a. The method of claim 8, Receiving a preview command of the generated vibration pattern data from the user; And Visually displaying the vibration pattern of the vibration pattern data and providing the same to the user Vibration generation method in a mobile communication terminal further comprising. A computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program for executing the method of any one of claims 1 to 9. In a mobile communication terminal for generating a vibration, A vibration database for holding a vibration identifier and vibration pattern data associated with the vibration identifier; A telephone number database for maintaining a telephone number and a vibration identifier associated with the telephone number; A terminal telephone number search unit for receiving a call request from a caller to identify the caller's telephone number and searching for a vibration identifier corresponding to the caller's telephone number by referring to the telephone number database; And Terminal vibration generator for extracting vibration pattern data corresponding to the searched vibration identifier with reference to the vibration database to generate a vibration in accordance with the extracted vibration pattern data Mobile communication terminal for generating a vibration comprising a. The method of claim 11, A terminal vibration pattern generation unit which receives continuous data on the strength and length of vibration from a user and combines the input continuous data into a vibration pattern to generate a vibration pattern file of a predetermined format; And The terminal vibration pattern editing unit which edits the generated vibration pattern file and stores it in the vibration database. A mobile communication terminal for generating vibrations further comprising. The method of claim 11, A terminal vibration pattern download unit which receives a vibration pattern file by connecting to a predetermined server and stores the received vibration pattern file in the vibration database. A mobile communication terminal for generating vibrations further comprising. A user interface that allows a user to enter continuous data about the strength and length of vibration; A vibration pattern generation unit for generating the vibration pattern file of a predetermined format by combining the continuous data input through the user interface; A download unit which downloads the generated vibration pattern file to a user terminal; A vibration pattern preview unit which receives a preview command of the generated vibration pattern file from the user and visually displays the vibration pattern of the vibration pattern data and provides the vibration pattern to the user. Vibration pattern generating device comprising a.