KR20050122686A - Mobile communication system and method for providing service of paging vehicle driver - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a mobile communication system and method for providing a car owner calling service.

A mobile communication system for providing a car owner calling service for calling a car owner by inputting a vehicle number to a mobile communication terminal, comprising: a mobile communication terminal for performing a call; A wireless access network for exchanging data with a mobile communication terminal wirelessly; A mobile telecommunication switching center for allowing a wireless access network to be efficiently operated; A home location register containing information of the mobile communication terminal; A visitor location register that temporarily stores subscriber information of the mobile communication terminal; A car owner calling service server for checking whether a vehicle number is subscribed to a car owner calling service; And a car owner contact database in which a car owner's contact information for a vehicle number is stored.

Advantageous Effects of Invention According to the present invention, the owner's vehicle number is entered into the mobile communication terminal to call the owner of the vehicle, thereby making it easy and quick to contact the owner of the vehicle, and the conventional equipment or contact information for calling the owner of the vehicle is written on the vehicle. By eliminating the installation of the memo and the installation of the call device, there is an effect of not impairing the appearance of the vehicle.

Description

Mobile communication system and method for providing vehicle owner calling service {Mobile Communication System and Method for Providing Service of Paging Vehicle Driver}

The present invention relates to a vehicle owner calling service system and method. More specifically, it relates to a car owner calling service system and method for calling a car owner through a mobile network by entering the owner's vehicle number on a mobile terminal if communication with the car owner is required.

In Korea, automobiles are becoming a necessity in modern life so that its distribution exceeds 14 million. With the expansion of roads in line with the rapidly increasing number of cars, the nation has entered the daily life zone, and as the number of jobs that require five-day work a week has increased recently, people traveling by car are increasing due to the increase in the leisure activity population. Increased. Therefore, the penetration rate of automobiles is expected to increase gradually.

However, due to the widespread use of automobiles, various problems such as pollution problems, noise problems, traffic congestion problems, and parking problems are occurring, and among them, the problem of parking facilities that do not keep up with the speed of dissemination of cars is becoming a bigger problem.

For example, if a car is required to enter a narrow alley, it is impossible to enter because a car is parked in a narrow alley or to leave a parking lot. This can be called a parking problem.

In the above case, when parking a car in a narrow alley or a parking lot entrance, if a user writes down his or her contact information on the driver's side glass of the vehicle or gives a certain impact to a certain part of the vehicle, the owner of the car is parked wirelessly. Efforts have been made to reduce the damage to others who are uncomfortable due to the parking of their own car by installing a notification device.

However, if the car owner parked does not leave a contact or does not have a notification device, there is no way to contact the car owner, and if the notification device is installed, it may damage the aesthetics of the vehicle and incur additional costs. have.

In order to solve the above problems, the present invention, by configuring the vehicle number owner call service server in the mobile communication system, if the vehicle owner's vehicle number is transmitted through the mobile communication terminal, the owner call service server can be contacted with the vehicle owner It is an object of the present invention to provide a mobile communication system and method for providing a car owner calling service.

Accordingly, according to a first object of the present invention, in a mobile communication system for providing a car owner calling service for calling a car owner by inputting a vehicle number to a mobile communication terminal, a sender performs a text message transmission or voice call between receivers. A mobile communication terminal for; A wireless access network for exchanging data with a mobile communication terminal wirelessly; A mobile communication switching center having a control function for efficiently operating a wireless access network and an interworking function with an exchange of a public switched telephone network; A home location register (HLR) having information on a mobile identification number (MIN), a mobile device serial number (ESN), and a service type of a mobile communication terminal; When location registration of the mobile communication terminal is performed, a visitor location register (VLR) for temporarily storing subscriber information of the mobile communication terminal; A car owner calling service server for checking whether a vehicle owner call service subscribed to a vehicle number input from a mobile communication terminal; And a car owner contact database connected to the car owner call service server, the car owner contact database storing contact information of the car owner for the vehicle number.

According to a second object of the present invention, there is provided a method for providing a car owner calling service for calling a car owner by inputting a car number into a mobile communication terminal, the method comprising: (a) registering a car number through a car owner call service server; Determining whether or not; (b) the car owner calling service server looks up the car owner's contact from the car owner contact database and sends it to the mobile telecommunications bureau; and (c) requesting a call to the car owner through the car owner's contact received in step (b).

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. First of all, in adding reference numerals to the components of each drawing, it should be noted that the same reference numerals are used as much as possible even if displayed on different drawings. In addition, in describing the present invention, when it is determined that the detailed description of the related well-known configuration or function may obscure the gist of the present invention, the detailed description thereof will be omitted.

1 is a block diagram schematically illustrating a mobile communication system for providing a vehicle owner calling service according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

A mobile communication system for providing a vehicle owner calling service according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention includes a transmitting mobile communication terminal 110, a wireless access network 120, a mobile communication switching center 130, a home location register 132, and a visitor location register. 134, Short Message Service (SMS) center 136, car owner call service server 140, car owner contact database 150, Internet 160, receiving wireless access network 170 And a receiving mobile communication terminal 180 or the like.

The transmitting mobile communication terminal 110 is a terminal capable of voice communication and data communication with a counterpart through a mobile communication network. The transmission mobile communication terminal 110 used in the present invention receives a vehicle number written on the license plate of the car owner and requests a call from the car owner when the user wants to contact the car owner.

2 is a diagram illustrating a screen of a mobile communication terminal of a user provided with a car owner connection service according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

Reference numeral 200 denotes a browser menu screen of the transmitting mobile communication terminal 110 providing a car owner connection service. Here the user chooses to send a call or text message to contact the car owner.

200A and 200B show the process when the user wants to talk to the car owner. On the screen of the 200A, the user enters the vehicle number written on the license plate of the car owner he wants to call. 200B is a browser screen in which the transmitting mobile communication terminal 110 makes a call request according to the vehicle number input by the user.

210A through 210C show the progression when a user sends a text message to the car owner. On the screen of 210A, the user enters the vehicle number of the car owner he wants to contact. Then enter the text of the text message to be sent on the screen of 210B. Screen 210C is a screen of a browser indicating that a text message input by a user is being transmitted to a car owner. The transmitting mobile communication terminal 110 used in the present invention is a PDA (Personal Digital Assistant), a cellular phone, a PCS (Personal Communication Service) phone, a GSM (accessible to a car owner call service server 140 through a mobile communication network). Global System for Mobile (WD) phones, Wideband CDMA (W-CDMA) phones, CDMA-2000 phones, Mobile Broadband System (MBS) phones, and the like.

In addition, the transmitting mobile communication terminal 110 is connected to the mobile communication network through the wireless access network 120, as well as providing a voice call function to perform a normal voice call by wireless communication with different mobile communication terminal, It refers to a terminal for creating a short message to be transmitted using a text writing function and then transmitting the written message to a mobile communication network. In addition, the mobile communication terminal 110 is a terminal capable of receiving a data communication service by accessing the Internet through a provided web browser or the like.

To this end, the transmitting mobile communication terminal 110 includes a wireless application protocol (WAP) which is an Internet access protocol, a MIE (Microsoft Internet Explorer) based on HTML using an HTTP protocol, and a handheld device transport protocol (HDTP). Transport protocol), i-Mode of NTT DOKOMO, or 'NATE' of SK Telecom, etc., to access the Internet 160 via a mobile communication network. Among the Internet access protocols used in mobile terminals, MIE uses a shortened version of HTML, which is abbreviated m-HTML, and i-Mode uses a language called compact HTML (c-HTML), which is a subset of HTML. .

The receiving mobile communication terminal 180 is a mobile communication terminal of the vehicle owner, and is a terminal having the same function as the transmitting mobile communication terminal 110 mentioned above. Although the embodiment of the present invention is limited to a mobile communication terminal, wired telephones, pagers, and the like can be used.

The transmitting radio access network 120 transmits the location information of the transmitting mobile communication terminal 110, the registrant information, and the call request signal from the transmitting mobile communication terminal 110 to the mobile communication switching center 130, and the transmitting base station transmitter 122. And a transmitting base station controller 124 and a repeater (Enhancer: not shown).

The receiving wireless access network 170 also includes a receiving base station transmitter 172, a receiving base station controller 174, a repeater, and the like, and transmits the location information and the registrant information of the receiving mobile communication terminal 180 to the mobile communication switching center 130. In response to the call request from the transmitting mobile communication terminal 110 through the mobile communication switching station 130, the mobile communication switching unit 180 transmits a call request to the receiving mobile communication terminal 180.

Here, in the synchronous case, the transmitting and receiving base station transmitters 122 and 172 will be base-station transmission systems (BTSs), and the transmitting and receiving base station controllers 124 and 174 will be base-station controllers (BSCs). In this case, the transmitting and receiving base station transmitters 122 and 172 will be Radio Transceiver Subsystems (RTS), and the transmitting and receiving base station controllers 124 and 174 will be Radio Network Controllers (RNCs). Of course, the wireless access network 120 according to an embodiment of the present invention is not limited thereto, and may include a GSM network other than a CDMA network and an access network of a fourth generation mobile communication system to be implemented in the future.

Each transmitting base station transmitter 122 is arranged in units of cells, receives a call request signal from the transmitting mobile communication terminal 110 through a traffic channel among signal channels, and receives the received call request signal. Location registration is performed to determine the location of a mobile communication terminal transmitted to the transmitting base station controller 124 or existing in the cell area under its control. Also, the transmitting base station transmitter 122 is a network ending device directly connected to the transmitting mobile communication terminal 110 by performing baseband signal processing, wired / wireless conversion, and transmission and reception of a wireless signal.

The receiving base station transmitter 172 determines the position of the receiving mobile communication terminal 180 existing in its cell area, and receives the call request signal transmitted from the mobile communication switching station 130 through the receiving base station controller 174. It transmits to the receiving mobile communication terminal 180 existing in the cell area having jurisdiction.

The transmitting and receiving base station transmitters 122 and 172 can obtain information such as latitude and longitude at which the transmitting and receiving base station transmitters 122 and 172 are located from a global positioning system (GPS). The location information of 122 and 172 is transmitted to the transmitting and receiving mobile communication terminals 110 and 180 through a system parameter message of the forward link call channel. The transmitting and receiving mobile communication terminals 110 and 180 use the location information of the transmitting and receiving base station transmitters 122 and 172 of the cell to which they belong to determine the moving distance of the transmitting and receiving mobile communication terminals 110 and 180. By calculating, new location information can be registered.

Location registration is a process of informing the mobile telecommunications station 130 via the transmitting or receiving base station transmitters 122 and 172 of the location, status, identifier, slot period and other features of the transmitting or receiving mobile communication terminals 110 and 180. As a procedure, the base station transmitters 122 and 172 can effectively call the transmitting or receiving mobile communication terminals 110 and 180 when the base station transmitters 122 and 172 want to establish an incoming call to the transmitting or receiving mobile communication terminals 110 and 180. . The location registration of the transmitting or receiving mobile communication terminal 110 may be performed when the power of the transmitting or receiving mobile communication terminal 110 or 180 is turned on or off. When 180 moves between mobile communication switching stations 130 and when parameters of the transmitting and receiving mobile communication terminals 110, 180 are changed.

The transmit and receive base station controllers 124 and 174 control the base station transmitters 122 and 172, and assign and release radio channels for the transmit and receive mobile communication terminals 110 and 180, and transmit and receive mobile communication terminals 110, 180) and transmission output control of base station transmitters 122 and 172, intercell soft handoff and hard handoff determination, transcoding and vocoding, GPS clock distribution, base station Perform operation and maintenance functions for In addition, the transmitting and receiving base station controllers 124 and 174 transmit the subscriber information of the location registered transmitting and receiving mobile communication terminals 110 and 180 to the mobile communication switching center 130. The transmitting base station controller 124 transmits the call request signal transmitted from the transmitting mobile communication terminal 110 through the transmitting base station controller 124 to the mobile communication switching station 130, and vice versa, the receiving base station controller 174 is the mobile communication switching center. The call request signal transmitted from 130 is transmitted to the receiving mobile communication terminal 180 through the receiving base station transmitter 172.

The mobile communication switching center 130 performs basic and additional service processing, incoming and outgoing signal processing of a subscriber, location registration procedure and handoff procedure, and interworking with other networks. The mobile switching center 130 of the IS-95 / A / B / C system is configured to perform an access switching subsystem (ASS) performing distributed call processing, an INS (interconnection network subsystem) performing centralized call processing, and operation. And a subsystem such as a Central Control Subsystem (CCS) in charge of the centralization of maintenance, and a Location Registration Subsystem (LRS) that performs storage and management of information on mobile subscribers.

In addition, the mobile switching center 130 for the third and fourth generation may include an Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) switch (not shown). The ATM switch increases the transmission speed and the efficiency of line use by transmitting packets on a cell basis. Let's do it.

When the mobile communication switching center 130 registers the location of the mobile communication terminals 110 and 180 through the transmitting and receiving wireless access networks 120 and 170, the visitor location register (VLR) is referred to as 'VLR'. 134 transmits and receives subscriber information of the mobile communication terminals 110 and 180 temporarily, and then transmits and receives to a home location register (HLR) 132. Request registration of the location of the mobile communication terminals (110, 180).

Here, the HLR 132 is a database that stores service profiles related to subscriber information of the users of the transmitting and receiving mobile communication terminals 110 and 180, and includes the subscriber's telephone number and the transmitting and receiving mobile communication terminals 110 and 180. It has information on a mobile identification number (MIN), a terminal serial number (ESN), and a type of service. The HLR 132 stores the subscriber information including information of the transmitting and receiving wireless access networks 120 and 170 and the mobile communication switching station 130 where the transmitting and receiving mobile communication terminals 110 and 180 are located. The mobile communication switching center 130 is composed of a control unit, a call unit and a peripheral device, and also has a charging data collection function for the transmitting and receiving mobile communication terminals (110, 180).

The VLR 134 temporarily stores subscriber information and notifies the HLR 132 when the transmitting and receiving mobile terminals 110 and 180 perform location registration, and transmits and receives the mobile terminal from the HLR 132. A function of utilizing the functions of position control, call processing, external operation processing, etc. of the transmitting and receiving mobile communication terminals 110 and 180 while taking over and managing a copy of the terminal identification number, the terminal unique number, and the service information of the 110 and 180, etc. Perform.

The SMS center 136 is connected to the mobile switching center 130 and has a function of delivering a short message to mobile communication subscribers. The SMS center 136 uses a mobile communication network to transmit and receive numbers and letters bidirectionally between various text delivery systems (PC communication system, Internet server system, mobile communication terminal, etc.) and subscribers. Of course, the mobile subscriber can also send text messages through the transmitting mobile terminal. If the character requested by the sender is not immediately transmitted to the receiving mobile terminal, it is stored in the SMS center 136 until the time specified by the sender or the receiver reaches a state in which it can be received. When the receiver acknowledges the message transmitted by the sender, it is deleted by the SMS center 136. After a predetermined time has elapsed or a character that has not been delivered by the sender designated valid time is deleted.

The car owner call service server 140 is a subscriber of the mobile communication terminal 110 from the HLR 132 and the VLR 134 when requesting a call with the car owner from the transmitting mobile communication terminal 110 via the mobile communication switching center 130. Get information and check whether the car owner has subscribed to the car owner calling service from the connected car owner contact database 150, and if the car owner has subscribed to the service, retrieve the car owner's contact information from the car owner contact database 150. Confirm and retrieve the saved owner's contact.

The car owner call service server 140 is also connected to the Internet 160. Accordingly, a user who wants to receive a car owner call service may access a terminal (not shown) connected to the Internet 132 in addition to the transmission mobile communication terminal 110. That is, in general, in order to receive a car owner call service, a user drives a web browser provided in the transmitting mobile communication terminal 110 to access the car number linking server 140 through a mobile communication network. However, a terminal such as a notebook computer, a desktop computer, a PDA, and a TV connected to the Internet 160 may also access the car owner call service server 140.

In addition, a user connected to the car owner call service server 140 may register, modify, and delete contact information of the car owner through a program included in the car owner call service server 140.

3 is a flowchart illustrating a process of receiving a car owner calling service according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

When a user who wants to be in contact with the vehicle owner enters the vehicle number recorded in the license plate of the vehicle owner into the transmitting mobile communication terminal 110 and presses a call button, a call is generated and transmitted to the mobile communication switching center 130 (S310).

Here, in the preferred embodiment of the present invention is limited to the embodiment when the user requests the call connection by entering the vehicle number of the car owner, it is also possible for the user to send a text message to the car owner. In this case, in step S310, the user enters the vehicle owner's vehicle number and the text to be sent and presses a call button to transmit a connection call to the mobile communication switching center 130.

 The mobile communication switching center 120 requests the contact information of the owner of the vehicle through the home location register 132 and the visitor location register 134 through the home location register 132 and the visitor location register 134. ).

The contact information of the owner of the automobile is limited to a mobile communication terminal in the preferred embodiment of the present invention, but a landline telephone number and a pager number may be used.

The car owner call service server 140 checks whether the contact information of the car owner with respect to the car owner's vehicle number input from the transmitting mobile communication terminal 110 is registered in the car owner call service server 140 (S330).

If, in step S330, the car owner call service server 140 does not register the contact information of the car owner, the car owner call service server 140 notifies the mobile communication switching center 130 that the mobile communication switching center 130 is not registered. The registration tells the mobile communication terminal 110 through the announcement such as 'not registered in the service requested by the car owner' (S350).

If it is determined in step S330 that the car owner's contact information is registered in the car owner call service server 140, the car owner call service server 140 inquires the owner's contact information from the car owner contact database 150 (S340). Requests a connection with the car owner through the car owner contact (S360).

In step S360, the transmitting mobile communication switching center 130 that has received the call signal including the car owner contact transmits the call signal for the call connection to the receiving mobile communication terminal 180 based on the location information of the receiving mobile communication terminal 180. (S370).

In this case, when the transmitting mobile communication terminal 110 sends a text message to the receiving mobile communication terminal 180, the text message is transmitted to the receiving mobile communication terminal 180 using the text message transmission service through the SMS center 136 in step S360. send.

The receiving mobile communication terminal 180 which has received the call signal in step S370 generates a ring tone, and the transmitting mobile communication terminal 110 and the receiving mobile communication terminal 180 of the vehicle owner side are in a state where a call is possible (S380). .

The above description is merely illustrative of the technical idea of the present invention, and those skilled in the art to which the present invention pertains may make various modifications and changes without departing from the essential characteristics of the present invention. Therefore, the embodiments disclosed in the present invention are not intended to limit the technical idea of the present invention but to describe the present invention, and the scope of the technical idea of the present invention is not limited by these embodiments. The protection scope of the present invention should be interpreted by the following claims, and all technical ideas within the equivalent scope should be interpreted as being included in the scope of the present invention.

As described above, according to the present invention, when contact with the owner of the car is required, the owner's vehicle number is entered into the mobile communication terminal to call the owner of the car, thereby easily and quickly contacting the owner of the car.

In addition, it is possible to eliminate the appearance of the vehicle by eliminating the installation of a conventional device or a memo with a contact number and a call device for calling the vehicle owner.

1 is a block diagram schematically illustrating a mobile communication system for providing a vehicle owner calling service according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention;

2 is a diagram illustrating a screen of a mobile communication terminal of a user provided with a car owner connection service according to an embodiment of the present invention;

3 is a flowchart illustrating a process of receiving a car owner calling service according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

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110: transmitting mobile communication terminal 120: transmitting wireless access network

122: transmitting base station transmitter 124: transmitting base station controller

130: mobile communication switching center 132: home location register

134: Visitor Location Register 136: SMS Center

140: Car Owner Call Service Server

150: Car Owners Contact Database

170: receiving wireless access network 172: receiving base station transmitter

174: receiving base station controller 180: receiving mobile communication terminal

Claims (13)

A mobile communication system for providing a car owner calling service for calling a car owner by inputting a vehicle number to a mobile communication terminal, A mobile communication terminal for a sender to transmit a text message or a voice call between recipients; A wireless access network that exchanges data with the mobile communication terminal wirelessly; A mobile communication switching center having a control function for allowing the wireless access network to operate efficiently and an interworking function with an exchange of a public switched telephone network; A home location register (HLR) having information on a mobile identification number (MIN), a terminal serial number (ESN), and a service type of the mobile communication terminal; A visitor location register (VLR) for temporarily storing subscriber information of the mobile communication terminal when location registration of the mobile communication terminal is performed; A vehicle owner call service server configured to confirm whether or not a vehicle owner call service is subscribed to a vehicle number input from the mobile communication terminal; And A car owner contact database, which is connected to the car owner call service server and stores the car owner's contact information for the vehicle number. A mobile communication system for providing a car owner calling service comprising a. The vehicle owner calling service of claim 1, wherein And a service for requesting a call with the vehicle owner through the vehicle number input to the mobile communication terminal or a service for transmitting a text message to the vehicle owner. The method of claim 1, wherein the mobile communication terminal A mobile communication system for providing a vehicle owner calling service, wherein the vehicle owner calling service is provided by inputting the vehicle number. 2. The vehicle owner call service server of claim 1, wherein Mobile communication providing a car owner calling service, which is also connected to the Internet and can be connected to a wireless terminal including a desktop computer, a notebook computer, a personal digital assistant (PDA), and a TV connected to the Internet. system. The method of claim 1, wherein the mobile communication terminal PDA, cellular phone, PCS (Personal Communication Service) phone, GSM (Global System for Mobile) phone, W-CDMA (Wideband CDMA) phone, CDMA-2000 phone, MBS (Mobile Broadband System) phone, characterized in that Mobile communication system providing car owner calling service. The method of claim 4, wherein A mobile communication system for providing a car owner calling service, wherein the wireless terminal or the mobile communication terminal accesses the car owner calling service server and registers, modifies, and deletes the contact information of the car owner. The method of claim 1, wherein the contact of the car owner is A mobile communication system for providing a car owner calling service comprising at least one of a mobile communication terminal number, a landline number, and a pager number. The method of claim 1, wherein the mobile communication system And a Short Message Service (SMS) center connected to the mobile communication switching center to generate a short message to be delivered to the mobile communication terminal. A method for providing a car owner calling service for calling a car owner by inputting a vehicle number to a mobile communication terminal, (a) determining whether or not the vehicle number is registered through the car owner calling service server; (b) the car owner calling service server inquires of the car owner's contact from a car owner contact database and sends it to a mobile communication switching center; (c) requesting a call to the car owner through the contact of the car owner received in step (b); Method for providing a car owner calling service comprising a. 10. The system of claim 9, wherein the owner call service server is And a service for requesting a call with the vehicle owner through a vehicle number input to a mobile communication terminal or a service for transmitting a text message to the vehicle owner. 10. The contact of claim 9 wherein the contact of the car owner is And at least one of a mobile communication terminal number, a landline number, and a pager number. The method of claim 9, The terminal connectable to the car owner call service server includes a desktop computer, a notebook computer, a mobile phone, and a TV. 10. The method of claim 9 wherein the method of providing a car owner calling service is (d) accessing the owner call service server through the Internet to register, modify and delete the contact of the car owner; Method for providing a car owner calling service, characterized in that it further comprises.