KR20060120723A - Method and system for providing a service about communication state information in realtime - Google Patents

Abstract

A service method for supplying communication state information in real time and a system therefor are provided to offer the current communication state information of a receiving terminal to an originating terminal in real time through an SMS(Short Message Service) message or a quick voice, if the receiving terminal is in busy state or remote congestion occurs owing to a lot of traffic in a connection path when the originating terminal demands a call to the receiving terminal. An originating mobile terminal(210) demands a call to the other party's terminal(212) through a mobile communication network, or receives communication state information on the other party's terminal(212) through the mobile communication network. An information service server(230) provides the communication state information on the other party's terminal(212) to the originating terminal(210) if the other party's terminal(212) is not able to respond to the call demand. An information service DB(232) stores the communication state information on the other party's terminal(212) or the originating terminal(210) as data, and updates the stored communication state information at certain time intervals.

Description

Method and System for Providing a Service about Communication State Information in Realtime}

1 is a configuration diagram schematically showing a configuration of a conventional mobile communication system,

2 is a configuration diagram schematically showing a configuration of a communication state information providing system according to an embodiment of the present invention;

3 is a flowchart illustrating a communication state real-time information providing service method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

<Description of Symbols for Main Parts of Drawings>

100: mobile communication system 110: mobile terminal

120, 120 ': wireless base station 122: base station transmitter

124: base station controller 130: mobile switching center

132: HLR 134: VLR

200: communication status information providing system 210: calling mobile terminal

212: incoming mobile terminal 220: outgoing mobile switching center

222: destination mobile switching center 230: information providing server

232: Information Database 240: SMS Center

250: Quick Voice Server

The present invention relates to a method and system for providing communication status real-time information service, and more particularly, when a call is requested from a calling terminal to a called terminal, the called terminal is busy or busy due to a large amount of calls in its connection path. In the case of (Remote Congestion) state, the present invention relates to a communication state real-time information providing service method and system for providing real-time communication state information of a called terminal to an originating terminal through an SMS message or a quick voice.

1 is a configuration diagram schematically showing a configuration of a conventional mobile communication system.

The conventional mobile communication system 100 has a configuration including a mobile terminal 110, a wireless base station 120, a mobile switching center (MSC) (130).

The mobile terminal 110 performs a phone call with the other party's mobile terminal wirelessly after performing the call using the called number.

The wireless base station 120 includes a base station transmission system (BTS) 122 and a base station controller (BSC) 124, and the base station transmitter 122 is connected to the mobile terminal 110. The base station controller 124 manages a plurality of base station transmitters 122 and controls allocation of a communication channel to the mobile terminal 110 while transmitting and receiving wireless signals, converting a communication protocol, and encrypting / decoding. Perform.

Mobile switching center 130 processes the call request requested by base station transmitter 122 via base station controller 124. In addition, the mobile switching center 130 provides a connection path by switching so that the mobile terminal 110 can communicate wirelessly with the counterpart terminal.

The location registers 132 and 134 manage information of mobile subscribers registered in the area controlled by the wireless base station 120, and mobile subscribers registered in other areas enter the service area controlled by the wireless base station 120. This is a database that temporarily stores information of mobile subscribers when they are provided with a service. The Home Location Register (HLR) and the Visitor Location Register (VLR) Hereinafter referred to as 'VLR'. Techniques for this are well known to those skilled in the art, and thus detailed descriptions thereof will be omitted.

That is, in the mobile communication system 100 configured as described above, when a user requests a call by inputting the number of the counterpart terminal through the mobile terminal 110, the mobile switching center 130 is a called terminal based on the call request. By sending an incoming call signal to form a call path, a telephone call is made between the calling terminal and the called terminal.

By the way, when the mobile switching center 130 transmits the incoming signal to the called terminal based on the call request, it is sent when the connection path of the called terminal is busy or the communication line is abnormal and cannot send the incoming signal. A signal indicating that a call is in progress is transmitted to the terminal.

Therefore, the user using the calling terminal only recognizes the communication state of the called terminal as unconditional, and there is a problem in that it does not know the exact current communication state of the called terminal.

In order to solve the above problems, the present invention, when a call is requested from the calling terminal to the called terminal, when the called terminal is busy or the call is busy due to a large amount of calls in the connection path, the current communication status information of the called terminal SMS It is an object of the present invention to provide a method and system for providing communication status real-time information for providing in real time to a calling terminal through a message or a quick voice.

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a communication state information providing system comprising: a mobile terminal requesting a call to a counterpart terminal through a mobile communication network or receiving communication state information of the counterpart terminal through the mobile communication network; An information providing server that provides communication status information of the counterpart terminal to the mobile terminal in real time when the counterpart terminal cannot answer a call request when the call is requested by the mobile terminal; And an information providing database that stores communication state information of the subscribed mobile terminal or the counterpart terminal as data and updates the stored communication state information at predetermined time intervals.

In addition, a method for providing real-time communication status information according to another object of the present invention includes a first step of requesting a call from a calling terminal to a called terminal; A second step of determining a current communication state of the called terminal; And providing a current communication state of the called terminal to the calling terminal in real time when the current communication state is not available.

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.

2 is a configuration diagram schematically showing the configuration of a communication state information providing system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The communication state information providing system 200 according to the present invention includes an originating mobile terminal 210, a terminating mobile terminal 212, a wireless base station 120, 120 ', an originating mobile switching center 220, a terminating mobile switching center 222. , An information providing server 230, an information providing database 232, a short message service (SMS) center 240, a quick voice server 250, and the like.

In the above configuration, the outgoing mobile terminal 210 and the destination mobile terminal 212 not only performs a telephone call wirelessly, but also provides an SMS message or a quick voice communication status of the other terminal when performing an outgoing call to the other terminal. The receiving terminal. Here, the outgoing mobile terminal 210 transmits a call connection request signal including the telephone number of the incoming mobile terminal 212 that is the target of the telephone call to the outgoing mobile switching center 220 to request a call.

In the outgoing mobile terminal 210 and the incoming mobile terminal 212, the term 'outgoing' or 'incoming' is so named for convenience of description, but the outgoing and incoming calls may be interchanged at any time.

On the other hand, outgoing and incoming mobile terminals 210 and 212 according to an embodiment of the present invention is a PDA (Personal Digital Assistant), cellular phone, PCS (Personal Communication Service) phone, GSM (Global System for Mobile) phone, W-CDMA (Wideband CDMA) phone, CDMA-2000 phone, Mobile Broadband System (MBS) phone and the like. Here, MBS phone refers to a mobile phone to be used in the fourth generation system currently being discussed.

The outgoing mobile switching center 220 and the incoming mobile switching center 222 perform similar functions as the mobile switching center 130 described in FIG. 1, and if the mobile communication system is an IS-95 A / B / C system, distributed call processing ASS (Access Switching Subsystem) to perform functions, INS (Interconnection Network Subsystem) to perform centralized call processing functions, Central Control Subsystem (CCS) to centralize operation and maintenance, and to store information about mobile subscribers And a subsystem such as a Location Registration Subsystem (RLS) that performs management functions. In addition, mobile switching centers 220 and 222 for 3rd and 4th generations may include an Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) switch (not shown). Increase

The HLR 132 receives location information of the terminating mobile terminal 212 from the VLR 134 and performs functions such as registration recognition, registration deletion, and location verification. In addition, the HLR 132 stores profile information of the calling and terminating mobile terminals 210 and 212. Here, the profile information refers to a mobile identification number (MIN), an electronic serial number (ESN), and subscribed mobile communication service information of the mobile terminal.

Therefore, when a call attempt from the originating mobile terminal 210 to the terminating mobile terminal 212 occurs, the originating mobile switching center 220 passes the MIN information of the terminating mobile terminal 212 to the HLR 132 and the terminating mobile terminal 212. ) Is located in the jurisdiction of which mobile switching center and in which jurisdiction of which radio base station it is located. If the outgoing mobile switching center 220 determines that the incoming mobile terminal 212 is in the area controlled by the incoming mobile switching center 222, the calling mobile switching center 220 transmits the call attempt information to the corresponding destination switching center 222. That is, when the outgoing mobile switching center 220 receives the call connection request signal from the outgoing mobile terminal 210, the location for the incoming mobile terminal 212 to the HLR 132 based on the MIN number of the outgoing mobile terminal 210. Information (TLDN: Temporary Local Destrict Number) to determine the destination mobile switching center 222 based on the location information on the destination mobile terminal 212, and transmits a call connection request signal to the destination mobile switching center 222. In this way, a call path is established with the destination mobile switching center 222.

The destination mobile switching center 222 establishes a call path with the calling mobile switching center 220 based on the location information (TLDN) of the destination mobile terminal 212 sent from the calling mobile switching center 220, and then the wireless base station ( The incoming signal is transmitted to the incoming mobile terminal 212 via 120 ').

When the incoming mobile terminal 212 is busy or in a call where the incoming mobile terminal 212 cannot respond to the call connection request when the call connection request from the originating mobile terminal 210 is requested, the information providing server 230 is currently connected to the incoming mobile terminal 212. The current communication status information of the through the SMS center 240 transmits the SMS message, or provides a voice message through the Quick Voice server 250. In this case, the SMS message includes a callback URL for accessing the wireless Internet so as to recognize communication status information of the incoming mobile terminal 212.

The information providing database 232 stores communication state information for the subscribed calling mobile terminal 210 and / or the called mobile terminal 212 as data. In addition, the current communication state information for the originating mobile terminal 210 and / or the destination mobile terminal 212 is updated at regular time intervals.

The SMS center 240 receives the transmission message from the calling party, converts the SMS message into an SMS message, and sends the same to the receiving party.

The quick voice server 250 converts the communication status information received from the information providing server 230 into a voice message and provides the converted voice message to the calling mobile terminal 210.

Meanwhile, in the communication state information providing system 200 of FIG. 2, the calling mobile terminal 210 may access the information providing server 230 through the wireless Internet. That is, the calling mobile terminal 210 may check the current communication state information of the called mobile terminal 212 by accessing the wireless Internet through the callback URL included in the SMS message.

3 is a flowchart illustrating a communication state real-time information providing service method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

In the embodiment of the present invention, for convenience of description, a case in which the user of the originating mobile terminal 210 makes a call to the user of the incoming mobile terminal 212 will be described as an example.

When a user is located at a certain place with the originating or terminating mobile terminals 210 and 212, the originating or terminating mobile terminals 210 and 212 perform location registration with respect to a base station that is in charge of the area where the user is currently located. This location registration process is a well-known technique known in the art, so the detailed process is omitted.

While the calling or terminating mobile terminal 210,212 has completed the location registration with respect to the base station, the calling or terminating mobile terminal 210,212 is set to the telephone call mode so that it can normally make a call or talk to an incoming call. There is.

In the state where the calling mobile switching center 220 waits for communication with the calling mobile terminal 210 (S302), the user of the calling mobile terminal 210 calls the calling mobile terminal 212 to make a call to the called mobile terminal 212. 210 to input the telephone number of the destination mobile terminal 212, and enter the "Send" button which is a call connection request command for a telephone call. The originating mobile terminal 210 generates a call connection request signal as a call request signal and transmits it as a radio signal. Therefore, the call connection request signal is transmitted from the originating mobile terminal 210 to the originating mobile switching center 220 via the radio base station 120 as a radio signal. Here, the call connection request (call request) signal includes the telephone number of the calling mobile terminal 210 and the telephone number of the called mobile terminal 212.

When the calling mobile switching center 220 receives the call request signal transmitted from the calling mobile terminal 210 (S304), the called mobile terminal 212 to the HLR 132 based on the MIN number of the calling mobile terminal 210. Query the location information (TLDN: Temporary Local Destrict Number) for.

When the outgoing mobile switching center 220 receives the location information of the terminating mobile terminal 212 from the HLR 132, the terminating mobile switching center which manages the terminating mobile terminal 212 based on the location information of the terminating mobile terminal 212 ( 222 determines and transmits a call request signal to the destination mobile switching center 222, thereby establishing a call path with the destination mobile switching center 222 (S306).

In contrast, the terminating mobile switching center 222 transmits the terminating signal to the terminating mobile terminal 212 via the wireless base station 120 'based on the call request signal.

However, when the incoming mobile switching center 222 transmits an incoming signal to the incoming mobile terminal 212, when other mobile terminals occupy a call connection path via the wireless base station 120 ', When the terminating mobile terminal 212 is busy, the terminating mobile switching center 222 notifies the originating mobile switching center 220 on the ISUP that the terminating mobile terminal 212 is in a disabled state (S308). Of course, at this time, the information providing server 230 may also simultaneously receive information on a call disabled state by interworking with the originating mobile switching center 220.

Therefore, when the calling mobile switching center 220 recognizes that the called mobile terminal 212 is in a disabled state, the call request signal including the telephone numbers of the calling mobile terminal 210 and the called mobile terminal 212 and the call unavailable state are not available. It transmits the information on the MAP signal to the information providing server 230 (S310).

The information providing server 230 reads communication state information of the called mobile terminal 212 from the information providing database 232 based on the received call request signal (S312). At this time, the communication state information stored in the information providing database 232 is the communication state information updated in real time for each subscriber terminal.

The information providing server 230 transmits the communication status information on the incoming mobile terminal 212 to the calling mobile terminal 210 in real time through the SMS center 240 or the calling mobile terminal through the quick voice server 250. It transmits to the 210 in real time as a quick voice (voice message) (S314). In this case, the SMS message includes callback URL information so that the calling mobile terminal 210 can access the information providing server 230 through the wireless Internet and check the current communication state of the called mobile terminal 212.

Therefore, the calling user who carries the calling mobile terminal 210 clearly recognizes that the called mobile terminal 212 is in a busy or busy state through a voice message for communication state information. In addition, by connecting to the information providing server 230 through the callback URL included in the SMS message received to the calling mobile terminal 210 to check the communication status information of the called mobile terminal 212, the called mobile terminal 212 is It can be confirmed that the call is busy or busy.

As described above, according to the present invention, when the called terminal is busy or the call is busy due to a large amount of call in the connection path, the communication status information of the current called terminal is provided to the calling terminal in real time through an SMS message or a quick voice. A communication state real time information providing service method and system can be realized.

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 scope of protection of the present invention should be interpreted by the following claims, and all technical ideas falling within the scope of the present invention should be interpreted as being included in the scope of the present invention.

As described above, according to the present invention, when requesting a call to the other party through the mobile communication network, the other party clearly recognizes that the call is busy or busy, so that the call can be made again without questioning the situation of the other party. It is possible to greatly improve the convenience of the user.

Claims (8)

A mobile terminal for requesting a call to a counterpart terminal through a mobile communication network or receiving communication state information of the counterpart terminal through the mobile communication network; An information providing server that provides communication status information of the counterpart terminal to the mobile terminal in real time when the counterpart terminal cannot answer a call request when the call is requested by the mobile terminal; And Communication status information providing system for storing the communication status information of the subscribed mobile terminal or the counterpart terminal as data, and updating the stored communication status information at predetermined time intervals. . The method of claim 1, The information providing server may transmit the communication status information as an SMS message through an SMS (Short Message Service) center or as a voice message through a Quick Voice Server. Communication status information providing system. The method of claim 2, And the SMS message includes a callback URL for accessing the wireless Internet so as to recognize communication status information of the counterpart terminal. A first step of requesting a call from the calling terminal to the called terminal; A second step of determining a current communication state of the called terminal; And And providing a current communication state of the called terminal to the calling terminal in real time when the current communication state is not available. The method of claim 4, wherein The first step is a communication state real-time information providing method, characterized in that for transmitting the call request signal from the originating exchange station of the calling terminal to the called exchange station of the called terminal. The method of claim 4, wherein The call impossible is a communication state real-time information providing method, characterized in that the called terminal is busy or busy state. The method of claim 4, wherein In the third step, the communication status information may be transmitted as an SMS message through a Short Message Service (SMS) center or as a voice message through a Quick Voice Server. How to Provide Information. The method of claim 7, wherein The SMS message includes a callback URL for accessing the wireless Internet so as to find out the communication status information of the called terminal.

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