KR20060112555A - Method to display arrival information of mobile station on computer monitor - Google Patents

Abstract

A method for informing a computer of incoming call information of a mobile phone is provided to prevent an incoming call or message from interfering with a user and allow the user to immediately check incoming call or message information. When a call is transmitted to a destination terminal(200) according to a voice call request of an origination terminal(100)(S401), a mobile communication unit of the destination terminal(200) receives the call together with CID(Caller Identification) information(S402). The call termination is informed to a termination sensing unit, and the termination sensing unit obtains the received CID information(S403). The termination sensing unit generates call termination notification information and transmits it to a computer(300)(S404). The second short distance communication unit of the computer provides the call termination notification information to a termination information processing unit and the termination information processing unit recognizes the call termination information(S405) and extracts the CID information(S406). The termination information processing unit creates the CID information into data that can be read by a PC controller and provides it to a display unit so as to be displayed as characters or/and an icon on a monitor of the computer(300)(S407).

Description

Method to display arrival information of mobile station on computer monitor}

1 is a simplified configuration diagram showing a network environment to which the present invention is applied.

2 is a block diagram of a mobile phone according to the present invention.

3 is a block diagram of a computer according to the present invention.

4 is a data flow diagram showing a method for notifying a computer of call information received on a mobile phone according to a first embodiment of the present invention.

5 is a data flow diagram illustrating a method for notifying a computer of an incoming SMS message of a mobile phone according to a second embodiment of the present invention.

Description of the main parts of the drawing

100, 200: Mobile phone 300: Computer

210: mobile communication unit 220: first local area communication unit

230: mobile control unit 240: incoming detection unit

250: storage unit 310: second local area communication unit

320: PC control unit 330: Mobile synchronization unit

340: SMS processing unit 350: CID processing unit

The present invention relates to an additional service of a mobile phone, and more particularly, to a method of informing a computer of incoming call information of a mobile phone that informs a computer of incoming call and text message information to a computer so that a user can visually check the incoming call.

With the development of mobile communication technology, the use of mobile phones is becoming common. Such a mobile phone has a big advantage that it is possible to easily make a voice call and data communication with others anytime, anywhere. However, since it is possible to call anywhere anytime, it has caused problems for people around them by indiscriminate use in public places such as subways and theaters.

Therefore, as a courtesy for the use of mobile phones at present, when using a mobile phone in a public place or a large number of places, it is recommended to consider the other person by changing to vibration mode or turning off the power in some cases.

However, when working in the office using a computer, when the user sets the mobile phone in vibrate mode, there is a problem that you miss the important call or text message because you do not immediately notice the incoming call or incoming text message.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to solve a conventional problem, and to provide a method of informing a computer of incoming call information of a mobile phone so that a user can immediately know when a call or a text message is received even when the user is busy.

The present invention for achieving the above object, the receiving terminal is a first step of receiving incoming information from the calling terminal; The called terminal determines a caller information included in the called information and a type of the called information; a second step: the called terminal generates call notification information including identification information of the caller information and the called information; step; The called terminal transmits the called notification information to a computer through short-range wireless communication; and the computer displays the received called notification information on a screen to confirm the caller information and the type of the called information. It provides a method for notifying the computer of the incoming call information of the mobile phone comprising a fifth step.

The short range wireless communication is preferably one of Bluetooth communication or infrared communication or wireless LAN, home RF, and ultra wide band system (UWB).

The caller information included in the call notification information may be one of a caller's mobile phone number, a caller's name, or a caller's photo information. When the caller information of the call notification information is the caller's name, In the third step, the caller's mobile phone number included in the caller information identified in the second step is compared with a previously stored address book to identify the caller's name corresponding to the caller's mobile phone number, and the caller name determined as the caller information is determined. do.

In the third step, when caller picture information corresponding to the caller mobile phone number is registered in the address book, the caller picture information is determined as caller information instead of the caller's name. In the third step, if the incoming information is a short message, the content of the short message is included in the incoming notification information, and the computer of the fifth step displays the content of the short message according to a user's request. Mark on.

Meanwhile, the present invention provides a computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program for executing the method.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. In the following description of the present invention, detailed descriptions of well-known functions or configurations will be omitted if it is determined that the detailed description of the present invention may unnecessarily obscure the subject matter of the present invention. Terms to be described later are terms defined in consideration of functions in the present invention, and may be changed according to intentions or customs of users or operators. Therefore, the definition should be made based on the contents throughout the specification.

First, a network environment to which the present invention is applied will be described. 1 is a simplified configuration diagram illustrating a network environment to which the present invention is applied.

As shown in Figure 1, the network of the present invention is a data communication with the destination terminal 200 and the destination terminal 200 to perform voice and data communication through the mobile communication network, the short-range wireless communication with the destination terminal 200 It includes a computer 300 to perform the. The calling terminal 100 and the called terminal 200 are PCS, cellular phone, PDA, etc., collectively referred to as a mobile phone. Computer 300 is a typical desktop computer or notebook computer released for personal use.

According to the present invention having such a network configuration, when a call or SMS message or a multimedia message is received from the calling terminal 100 in the called terminal 200, call notification information corresponding to the received information is received from the computer 300. Informs the computer 300 by transmitting through the contracted short-range wireless communication. Then, the computer 300 outputs the call notification information received from the called terminal 200 through the monitor so that the user can visually recognize this.

Accordingly, the cellular phone 100, 200 of the present invention has a configuration as shown in Figure 2 to inform the computer 300 of the incoming information when a call or SMS message or multimedia message is received. 2 is a block diagram of a mobile phone according to the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 2, the mobile phones 100 and 200 of the present invention may include a mobile communication unit 210, a first local area communication unit 220, a mobile control unit 230, an incoming call detection unit 240, and a storage unit 250. It includes.

The mobile communication unit 210 is configured to interface with a mobile communication network, and corresponds to a mobile communication module such as a CDMA module, a GSM module, or a WCDMA module, and receives data from the mobile communication network and transmits the data to the mobile communication network.

The first local area communication unit 220 is a configuration for interfacing with the computer 300, the computer 300 by embedding a module for short-range wireless communication, such as Bluetooth (Infrared communication) or IrDA (Infrared Communication) or Wireless LAN (Wireless LAN) Performs near field communication with.

The call detection unit 240 generates call notification information corresponding to the call reception information received through the mobile communication unit 210 and provides it to the first local area communication unit 220. That is, when the incoming call detection unit 240 receives the reception of the incoming call information from the mobile control unit 230, the caller information (CID information) and the identification information of the incoming call information (call, SMS message, multimedia message) from the mobile communication unit 210 Obtains and creates an incoming call notification information including the same and provides it to the first local area communication unit 220.

The storage unit 250 stores the incoming information received through the mobile communication unit 210.

The mobile control unit 200 performs overall control of each component, and in particular, when the incoming information is received through the mobile communication unit 210, the incoming call detection unit 240 is notified of this and the incoming call notification unit 240 provides the incoming call notification information. Control to be transmitted to the computer 300 through the first local area communication unit 220.

On the other hand, the present invention, in addition to the mobile phone (100,200) for the present invention, the computer 300 is also added to a new configuration for achieving the object of the present invention as shown in FIG. 3 is a block diagram of a computer according to the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 3, the computer 300 of the present invention includes a second short range communication unit 310, a PC controller 320, an incoming call information processing unit 330, and a display unit 340.

The second local area communication unit 310 is for interfacing with the mobile phones 100 and 200, and uses the same communication protocol as the first local area communication unit 220 of the mobile phones 100 and 200 to communicate with the first local area communication unit 220. Local area wireless communication is performed to receive the call notification information from the called terminal 200. The second short range communication unit 310 is also one of a bluest module or an infrared communication module corresponding to the first short range wireless communication unit 220.

The incoming information processing unit 330 provides the incoming notification information received by the second local area communication unit 310 in a form that can be processed by the PC controller 320. The PC controller 320 provides the call notification information received from the call reception processor 330 to the display unit 340 to be output on the screen of the monitor.

Hereinafter, a method of informing a computer of incoming call information of a mobile phone according to a first embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. 4. FIG. 4 is a data flow diagram illustrating a method of notifying a computer of information received by a mobile phone according to a first embodiment of the present invention, and showing an example where the incoming information is an incoming call.

When a call is transmitted from the mobile communication network to the called terminal 200 according to the voice call request of the calling terminal 100 (S401), the mobile communication unit 210 of the called terminal 200 receives caller information (CID information) and the like. In addition, the call is received (S402).

Then, the incoming call is notified to the incoming call detection unit 240 by the mobile control unit 230, the incoming call detection unit 240 obtains the caller information received by the mobile communication unit 210 (S403). Then, the incoming call detection unit 250 generates call notification information including an identification code and caller information indicating that the received information is call information and transmits it to the computer 300 through the first local area communication unit 220 ( S404).

When the second short-range communication unit 310 of the computer 300 receives the call notification information through the first short-range communication unit 220, the second short-range communication unit 310 receives the call notification information under the control of the PC control unit 320. To provide, the incoming information processing unit 330 analyzes the received call notification information to determine that the information received on the mobile phone is the incoming call information (S405), and extracts the caller information (S406).

The incoming information processing unit 330 makes the received call information and the extracted caller information into data in a form that can be read by the PC controller 320, and provides the received information to the display unit 340 through the PC controller 320 so that Characters and / or icons are displayed on the monitor (S407).

For example, the call appearance information is displayed on the monitor. For example, the message "Call from 011-123-2456" is displayed on the monitor screen, or the message "Call from Kim Sky" is displayed on the monitor screen. Is displayed. Alternatively, the caller's picture information is displayed on the computer's monitor instead of the caller's mobile number or caller's name.

In this case, when the calling party information indicates a specific person of 'Kim Sky', the process of comparing the incoming call number with the address book information by the incoming detection unit 240 of the mobile phone should be added. Therefore, in this case, if the mobile phone number included in the caller information is a phone number registered in the address book, the caller provides the computer 300 with the name registered in the address book as caller information instead of the phone number. In the case where the calling party information is displayed as the picture information of the caller, the present invention performs the process of comparing the calling phone number with the address book information, and if the picture information of the caller is registered in the address book, the picture information is used as the caller information. Provided at 300.

On the other hand, the present invention, even if the incoming information is an SMS message or a multimedia message, the incoming information is notified to the user through a computer through the same process as the above-mentioned incoming call. However, an incoming call notification for an SMS message or a multimedia message may be indicated by text or an icon in a letter form indicating an SMS message or an image film type icon indicating a multimedia message.

As such, when the computer terminal displays that the call has been received on the receiving terminal 200, the called party knows that the call has been received through the monitor (S408), and accordingly, the caller makes a call with the caller in response to the call (S409). .

Hereinafter, a method of informing a computer of incoming call information of a mobile phone according to a second embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. 5. FIG. 5 is a data flow diagram illustrating a method of notifying a computer of incoming information of a mobile phone according to a second embodiment of the present invention, and illustrates an example in which the incoming information is an SMS message.

When the SMS message is transmitted from the SMSC (Short Message Service Center) of the mobile communication network to the called terminal 200 according to the request for sending the SMS message (S501), the mobile communication unit 210 of the called terminal 200 The SMS message is received together with the caller information (CID information) (S502).

Then, the incoming SMS message is notified to the incoming call detection unit 240 by the mobile controller 230, and the incoming call detection unit 240 obtains caller information received by the mobile communication unit 210 (S503). Then, the incoming call detection unit 250 generates an incoming call notification information including an identification code and caller information and an SMS message indicating that the received information is an SMS message, and transmits it to the computer 300 through the first local area communication unit 220. (S504).

When the second local area communication unit 310 of the computer 300 receives the incoming notification information through the first local area communication unit 220, the second local area communication unit 310 provides the incoming notification information to the incoming information processing unit 330 under the control of the PC controller 320. In addition, the incoming information processing unit 330 analyzes the received incoming notification information to determine that the information received on the mobile phone is an SMS message and extracts the sender information (S505).

The destination information processing unit 330 makes the extracted caller information and the SMS message into data in a form that can be read by the PC control unit 320 (S506), and provides it to the display unit 340 through the PC control unit 320 to provide the computer 300. A text message is displayed on the monitor by a text or / and an icon to indicate that the text message has arrived (S507). In this case, even when the text message arrives, the caller's mobile phone number can be displayed without searching the address book or the caller's name registered in the address book can be displayed by searching the address book.

When the called party confirms that the short message has arrived through the monitor of the computer and requests a short message confirmation by pressing a specific key, the incoming information processing unit 330 displays the content of the short message on the monitor through the display unit 340 ( S508).

When the called person confirms the SMS message through the computer 300, the incoming information processing unit 330 notifies the called terminal 200 through the second local area communication unit 310 informing the SMS message confirmation (S509). The receiving terminal 200 processes the received SMS message as a user confirmed message (S510).

The technical spirit of the present invention has been described above with reference to the accompanying drawings, but this is by way of example only and not intended to limit the present invention. In addition, it is obvious that any person skilled in the art can make various modifications and imitations without departing from the scope of the technical idea of the present invention.

According to the present invention, when a call or a message is received by a mobile phone, it is immediately displayed through a computer so that the user can know it, thereby preventing work from being interrupted by a call or a message and preventing the incoming information immediately without missing the incoming information. It is effective.

Claims (7)

The called terminal comprises a first step of receiving incoming information from the calling terminal; The called terminal determines a caller information included in the called information and a type of the called information; The called terminal generating a call notification information including caller information and identification information of the called information; The called terminal transmits the called notification information to a computer through short-range wireless communication; and And the fifth step of allowing the called party to confirm the caller information and the type of the called information by displaying the received call notification information on the screen. The method of claim 1, The short-range wireless communication is a method of informing the computer of the incoming call information of the mobile phone, characterized in that one of Bluetooth communication or infrared communication or wireless LAN or home RF or UWB (Ultra Wide Band system). The method of claim 1, And the caller information included in the call notification information is one of a caller's mobile phone number, a caller's name, or a caller's photo information. The method of claim 3, When the caller information of the call notification information is the caller name, the third step corresponds to the caller mobile phone number by comparing the caller mobile phone number included in the caller information identified in the second step with a previously stored address book. And determining the caller's name and determining the caller's name as the caller's information. The method of claim 4, wherein In the third step, when caller picture information corresponding to the caller mobile phone number is registered in the address book, the caller picture information is determined as caller information instead of the caller's name. How to inform. The method according to claim 1 or 2, In the third step, if the incoming information is a short message, the content of the short message is included in the incoming notification information. Accordingly, the fifth step of the computer to inform the computer of the incoming call information of the mobile phone, characterized in that for displaying the contents of the short message on the screen according to the user's request. On your phone, A first step of receiving incoming information from the calling terminal; The called terminal determines a caller information included in the called information and a type of the called information; The called terminal generating a call notification information including caller information and identification information of the called information; And The called terminal is a computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program for executing the fourth step of transmitting the called notification information to a computer through short-range wireless communication.

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