KR20130102671A - Acquiring apparatus and method of position information of telephone calling terminal - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: Apparatus and a method for obtaining location information of a calling terminal are provided to enable an application installed in a smart terminal to automatically recognize the phone number of a caller when the caller makes a call in an emergency to an organization providing emergency services using the smart terminal, thereby allowing an external receiver to acquire the location of the smart terminal. CONSTITUTION: A calling terminal (10) comprises a terminal phone module, a calling phone number recognition module, an emergency call number determination module, and a location information module. The terminal phone module performs telecommunications. The calling phone number recognition module automatically recognizes the phone number of when the calling terminal makes a call. The emergency call number determination module determines whether the phone number of the call receiver is an emergency call number based on the calling phone number recognition module. If the phone number of the call receiver is the emergency call number, the location information module automatically acquires and transmits location information of the current location of the calling terminal. [Reference numerals] (10) Calling terminal; (11) Call making; (12) Call number recognition; (13) Emergency call number determination; (14) Location identification; (15) Location information transmission; (20) Receiving device; (21) Call receiving; (22) Location information reception; (23) After service

Description

Acquiring apparatus and method of position information of telephone calling terminal

The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for obtaining location information of a telephone call terminal, comprising: a receiver receiving a call from a telephone call terminal having a telephone function, a telephone number recognition function, a telephone number discrimination function, and a location information module; The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for acquiring location information of a calling terminal.

In general, a mobile communication device (hereinafter referred to as a 'smart terminal') including an iPad, a Galaxy Tab, and a smartphone is known. Such a smart terminal, as well as a telephone function, can install an app to communicate with each other or send and receive data, and recently equipped with a location information module for acquiring information on the current position of a mobile terminal such as GPS, CPS or WPS. It is being developed and distributed as a device.

The positional information of such a smart terminal may be indispensable information in some cases, and prompt delivery of the information is required. For example, it is common to make a phone call to 119 asking for help, verbally explaining his or her position, or use CPS to locate a rescue requester. However, in urgent situations (in case of injury or kidnapping), it may not be possible to explain in words, and the location through the CPS passes the base station location information of the carrier closest to the requester so that the error level is approximately 2 km beyond the approximate location. It can only be verified, but it is relatively ineffective in emergency situations. In addition, the situation is accompanied with various risk factors due to the error range of the CPS, WPS location information lookup according to the technical environment. Therefore, when making a rescue request call, the appearance of a technology that automatically transmits the location information of the wireless terminal to the other party is expected.

As one of the conventional methods for automatically providing such location information, for example, in Patent Document 1, a specific application program called an intelligent agent is installed in advance in a wireless terminal, and the location information of the wireless terminal is acquired by executing the agent. Display on the screen of the wireless terminal.

Patent Publication 10-2007-0037161

By the way, many of the conventional position information providing methods including the technique of Patent Literature 1 provide position information at the terminal requesting the position information and at the terminal receiving the position information request. In case of an urgent situation in which the user needs to call 119 or 112, it is difficult to apply the conventional method in the case where the location information of the terminal is to be automatically transmitted without the request for the location information.

In addition, the prior art is to transmit the location information only when requesting the location information. That is, acquisition of location information and telephone call have no correlation. Therefore, in the situation of distress, fire, crime report, abduction, etc., apart from making a call to a police station or a fire station, launch the app, press the location information acquisition button, find and select a specific phone number, and acquire Since the operation of transmitting the location information has to be done manually one by one, it was inconvenient and unreasonable structure.

As another example of the prior art, there is a technology configured such that, for example, based on the current position of the wireless terminal, the wireless terminal is provided with restaurant information near the position. Even in this case, the user must install the app in advance on the terminal. In this case, when you run the installed app, click the 'Find Restaurants Near Me' button, the location information acquisition function, which is one of the functions provided in the app, the location information module (GPS, CPS, WPS, etc.) Reads the location information, sends the location information to an external server, and the server searches the database based on the location information, and feeds back the restaurant information near the location corresponding to the location information to the terminal for display. It is supposed to be.

The present invention, which was devised to solve the above problems, installs a specific app on the wireless terminal, and automatically dials the calling number in the app when making a call using the smart terminal to the agency requesting an emergency, such as 119, 112 In the case of a phone number requiring an emergency such as 119 and 112, the present invention is to provide an apparatus and a method for externally obtaining location information of a wireless terminal.

An apparatus of the present invention for solving the above problems, the receiving device for making a telephone communication in response to the calling terminal that made the call, a telephone number recognition device for recognizing the calling telephone number of the calling terminal that made the call, Telephone number board device for determining whether the telephone number is an emergency telephone number (112, 119), and location information acquisition device of the telephone call terminal consisting of a location transmitter for extracting the location information of the calling terminal and transmitting it to the receiving device The calling terminal may include: a calling terminal module for making a telephone communication; an outgoing telephone number recognition module capable of recognizing the calling number; and a telephone number for determining whether the recognized outgoing telephone number is an emergency number. determining module, the location information module to acquire information of position information indicating the current location of the calling terminal, when the telephone number in a hurry Comprises location information transmitting module for automatically sending location information to each server, the reception apparatus, the mobile station in response to a call from the phone module, the receiving device phone modules forming the telephone communication and a position for receiving the location information It consists of an information receiving module and a post-processing module that performs a predetermined post-processing operation by using the location information, the telephone number recognition device is a telephone number or a predetermined telephone number that requires an emergency when the telephone number is sent. Outgoing telephone number recognition module for determining and the telephone number determination module for determining whether the recognized telephone number is a telephone number of the emergency or a predetermined telephone number. The location information transmission module is composed of a location information transmission module that automatically transmits location information to a server of a corresponding institution during an outgoing call (call) in the case of an emergency phone number or a predetermined phone number determined by the phone number determination module . It is characterized by.

Preferably, the location information module acquires the location information using at least one of GPS, CPS, and WPS.

In addition, the device telephone module is preferably a module assigned to a telephone call of the emergency call, a predetermined telephone number.

In addition, the post-processing operation is described by locating the position in an urgent request such as 119 or 112 (or locating the calling party in the case of a predetermined telephone number, or locating in the urgent request below). In the dispatch service, the dispatch service is preferably any one of services that provide location movement route information.

In addition, the location information extraction module, location information module, location information transmission module, location information receiving module and post-processing module is preferably activated when the call to the telephone number requesting an emergency.

On the other hand, in the method of the present invention for solving the above problems, the phone number of the calling terminal of the calling terminal and the predetermined phone number for the emergency by automatically recognizing the calling telephone number of the calling terminal, the location information is automatically extracted, A method of obtaining location information of a telephone call terminal transmitted to a receiving device for telephony in response to a calling terminal, the method comprising: a telephone step in which a telephone call made by the calling terminal is answered by the receiving device, and telephone communication is performed; Outgoing phone number recognition step for recognizing the phone number, phone number determination step for determining whether the recognized phone number is an emergency phone number, and location information automatically if the determined phone number is an emergency phone number Obtaining the location information extraction step , the extracted location information is transmitted to the corresponding institution server that can handle the emergency Position information transfer step , and the post-processing step is performed by using the position information in the receiving device, a predetermined post-processing operation is performed.

Here, it is preferable to recognize the outgoing telephone number recognition when the outgoing call is attempted.

In addition, the telephone number determination is preferably determined after the outgoing telephone number recognition.

In addition, it is preferable that the location information device is automatically operated to extract location information when the phone calls for emergency by phone number determination.

In addition, the location information is preferably obtained using any one or more of GPS, CPS and WPS.

In addition, the location information transmission is preferably automatically transmitted to the corresponding institution server of the determined phone number when the call.

In addition, the receiving device is preferably assigned to the location of the call origin in case of an emergency call phone call.

In addition, the post-processing operation is preferably any one of services for providing location movement in the dispatch request in the dispatch service in the dispatch service in the emergency request such as 119, 112 and the like.

In addition, the outgoing call number recognition step, the outgoing call number determination step is preferably activated when the call (call) attempt.

In addition, the location information extraction step, location information transmission and reception step and post-processing step is preferably activated when it is determined that the telephone number for requesting emergency or a predetermined telephone number in the outgoing telephone number determination step.

1 is a block diagram of an apparatus for obtaining and transmitting location information by recognizing and determining an emergency telephone number by identifying a calling number of a telephone call terminal of the present invention.
2 is a flowchart of a method for obtaining location information of a telephone call terminal of the present invention.

Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying drawings, the present invention will be described in detail. However, the parts showing the same function by the same configuration may be omitted by keeping the same reference numerals even if the drawings are different.

1 is a block diagram of an apparatus for obtaining location information of a telephone call terminal of the present invention. 2 is a flowchart of a method for obtaining location information of a telephone call terminal of the present invention.

Position information acquisition device of the telephone call terminal 10 of the present invention, as shown in Figure 1 , consisting of an outgoing telephone number recognition module, emergency telephone number determination module, the location information module of the calling device 10 .

The receiving device 20 is a device for making telephone communication in response to the calling terminal 10 that has made a call. For example, the receiving device 20 may be assigned to an emergency call, such as 112, 119, a predetermined call number, the location of a calling call, an accident report receiving call of an auto insurance company, and the like.

The calling terminal 10 includes a terminal telephone module 11 , an outgoing telephone number recognition module 12 , a telephone number determining module 13, and a location information module 14 . That is, the calling terminal 10 is a device having a telephone function, a data communication function, a function of acquiring its current location information (functions such as GPS, CPS, WPS, etc.), and generally a smartphone, a PDA, or the like. However, the present invention is not limited thereto, and any device including a navigation device, a notebook computer, and the like should be interpreted as being included. In the calling terminal 10, it is necessary to install an application for recognizing a telephone number, determining an emergency telephone number, and automatically transmitting location information in the case of an emergency telephone number for the implementation of the present invention.

The terminal telephone module 11 is a module for establishing telephone communication. In other words, it is a module that can make or receive calls or form a call. The telephone communication may include not only the telephone communication of the voice call of the mobile terminal but also the telephone communication by VoIP.

The outgoing telephone number recognition module 12 is a module for recognizing a telephone number to which an outgoing call is attempted. Examples of recognizing a telephone number include selecting an emergency number stored in a calling terminal or attempting to call by directly entering a telephone number.

The telephone number determination module 13 is a module for determining whether the telephone number recognized by the telephone number determination module is an emergency telephone number when the call attempt is made. As an example of a module for determining an emergency telephone number, for example, when a telephone number of 119, 112 is entered (or an emergency button stored in the calling terminal) is attempted to be called, the telephone number recognized by the telephone number recognition module is urgent. For example, to determine if it is a phone number. That is, it is a module for distinguishing whether the telephone number recognized by the telephone number recognition module is an emergency telephone number.

The positional information module 14 is a module for acquiring positional information, which is information indicating the current position of the calling terminal 10. Here, the location information may be configured to be acquired using any one or more of GPS, CPS, and WPS.

The receiving device 20 includes a device telephone module 21 , a positional information receiving module 22, and a post-processing module 23, in addition to a normal CPU, memory, data communication unit , and the like. These may be implemented in hardware, but may also be configured as software modules executed in the receiving device 20.

The device telephone module 21 is a module which performs telephone communication in response to a telephone call from the terminal telephone module 11. For example, the device telephone module 21 may be a module assigned to an emergency call such as 112 or 119. The telephone communication may include not only the telephone communication of the voice call of the mobile terminal but also the telephone communication by VoIP.

The device telephone module 21 is a means for receiving a telephone call from the calling terminal 10 and obtaining identification information such as a telephone number or an IP address. Acquisition of a phone number or IP address can be implemented in various ways by the prior art.

The location information receiving module 22 is a module for receiving location information automatically transmitted when the call terminal 10 makes a call.

The post-processing module 23 is a module which performs a preset post-processing operation by utilizing the location information of the calling terminal 10. The post-processing operation may be predetermined according to a service provided by the operator of the receiving device 20. For example, the post-processing operation may be any one of an emergency rescue request, a dispatch instruction in dispatch service, and a service for providing location movement route information.

For example, the post-processing operation performed by the post-processing module 23 may be a dispatch instruction in dispatch service. That is, for example, if the operator of the receiving device 20 is an automobile insurance company, the post-processing operation may be a reception of the location of the faulty vehicle so that the service engineer can be dispatched to the location of the calling terminal 10. For example, the dispatch instruction can be delivered to the service engineer's smartphone.

For example, the post-processing operation performed by the post-processing module 23 may be the location of the requestor in the emergency rescue request. That is, for example, if the operator of the receiving device 20 is the police station, the post-processing operation may be the reception of the location of the emergency rescue requester, and the location may be grasped from the calling terminal 10 of the emergency rescue requester. have.

The operation of the apparatus of the present invention having the above configuration will be described.

Location information acquisition method of the telephone call terminal of the present invention, by using the telephone number recognition device of the telephone call terminal 10 of the present invention, the phone number of the calling terminal 10 attempted to call the telephone number recognition module ( 12) to determine whether it is an emergency phone number in the telephone number determination module 13 and, in the case of an emergency phone number, the location information of the calling terminal 10 that has sent the call is extracted from the location information module 14 and simultaneously sent. The location information acquisition method of the telephone call terminal 10 is automatically transmitted to the receiving device 20 to make a telephone communication in response to the call terminal 10;

Telephone step (S20) , outgoing telephone number recognition (S30) , emergency telephone number determination (S40) , location information extraction step (S50) , location information transmission and reception steps (S51, S52) and post-processing step (S70) )

The telephone step S20 is a step of attempting to make a call by the calling terminal 10. The telephone communication may include not only the telephone communication of the voice call of the mobile terminal but also the telephone communication by VoIP. When the telephone connection is completed, identification information of the calling terminal 10, for example, a telephone number or an IP address, is obtained at the receiving terminal.

The outgoing telephone number recognition step (S30) is a step of recognizing the telephone number attempted to make a call in the telephone number recognition module when the calling terminal 10 is attempted to make a call (S20).

The telephone number determination step (S40) is a step of determining whether the telephone number recognized in the outgoing telephone number authentication step (S30) is an emergency telephone number. If it is determined as an emergency telephone number, location information extraction and telephone connection are performed simultaneously.

The location information extraction step (S40) is a step of extracting location information , which is information indicating a current location of the calling terminal 10, by the location information module 14. For example,.

The location information transmission and reception step (S51, S52) , if the location information extracted from the calling terminal 10 is determined to be an emergency call in the phone number determination step (S40) automatically receives the location information 20 The step of transmitting from. As a result, the location information of the calling terminal 10 can be known by the receiving device 20.

The post-processing step (S70) is a step in which the position information is utilized in the receiving apparatus 20, that is, based on the position information, a preset post-processing operation is performed. The post-processing based on the location information may be implemented in various forms according to the operator of the receiver 20 as described above.

According to the apparatus and method of the present invention as described above, when the calling terminal 10 makes an emergency call, the location information of the calling terminal may be automatically transmitted to the receiving device 20. Since the positional information is information calculated by a combination of complementary systems such as GPS, CPS, and WPS, the positional information is relatively accurate. In addition, since the user's position of the calling terminal 10 can automatically send his / her location information to the other party when an emergency call is made, the receiving device 20 receives the position of the calling terminal 10 without any further action. Can send to

As mentioned above, although this invention was demonstrated by the specific Example, this invention is not limited to this, Comprising: All the improvement and the modification made within the range of a claim should be interpreted that it belongs to the scope of the present invention.

In the above example, an example of a configuration for transmitting the position information of the calling terminal 10 to the receiving device 20 has been described, but the present invention is not limited thereto. For example, even when a user directly enters an emergency phone number into the calling terminal 10, the terminal 10 may determine this and automatically transmit location information to the other party.

In the above example, an example of a configuration of transmitting the location information of the calling terminal 10 to the receiving device 20 in a one-time description has been described, but the present invention is not limited thereto. For example, the location information extraction step (S40), the location information transmission and reception steps (S50, S60), and the post-processing step (S70), it is preferable to automatically start repeatedly in sequence every preset period. As a result, as in the above example, in an application example, for example, the location of the requester who has an emergency, the location information of the object is automatically and periodically identified after one call.

The present invention can be applied to an apparatus and method for obtaining location information of a telephone call terminal.

10: calling terminal, 11: terminal telephone module, 12: telephone number recognition module, 13: emergency telephone number determination module, 14: location information module, 20: receiving device, 21: device phone module, 22: receiving location information, 23 : After treatment

Claims (15)

Call is in response to the calling terminal by calling a telephone designated as forming the telephony receiver, wherein the recognizing the calling telephone number of the calling terminal to determine whether the emergency telephone number or telephone number that is specified in advance. Emergency telephone number or pre- In the case of a number, the location information acquisition device of the telephone call terminal for automatically extracting the location information and transmitting the location information to the receiving device,
The calling terminal,
A terminal telephone module for making a telephone communication;
An outgoing call number recognition module for automatically recognizing a phone number when an outgoing call is made by the calling party;
A telephone number determination module for distinguishing emergency telephone numbers as the telephone numbers are recognized in the telephone number recognition module;
In the case of emergency phone number distinguished from the emergency phone number determination module, the location information module automatically acquires and transmits location information, which is information indicating the current location,
The receiving apparatus includes:
A device telephone module for making telephone communication in response to a telephone call from the terminal telephone module;
A location information receiving module for receiving the location information automatically transmitted from the calling terminal;
Apparatus for obtaining location information of a telephone call terminal, characterized in that the post-processing module is configured to perform a preset post-processing operation by utilizing the location information. The method according to claim 1,
The outgoing call number recognition module is a device for obtaining location information of a call originating terminal, characterized in that automatically recognizes a call (call) request phone number. The method according to claim 1 or 2,
The phone number determination module is a device for obtaining location information of a call originating terminal, characterized in that it is determined whether the outgoing call number automatically recognized by the outgoing call number recognition module is an emergency call number or a predetermined phone number. The method according to claim 1 or 2,
The device telephone module is a module that is assigned an emergency call phone call or a predetermined phone number
Location information acquisition device of the telephone call terminal. The method according to claim 1 or 2,
The location information extraction module, when it is determined that the outgoing phone number determination module is determined to be an emergency phone number or a predetermined phone number, characterized in that for automatically extracting the location information and transmitting the location information automatically to the receiving device, characterized in that Location information acquisition device of the telephone call terminal. The method according to claim 1 or 2,
The post-processing operation is any one of an emergency rescue request, espionage report, smuggling report, drug offender report, forest fire report, accident report, dispatch instruction in dispatch service.
Location information acquisition device of the telephone call terminal, characterized in that. The method according to claim 1 or 2,
The location information module, location information transmission module, location information receiving module, and post-processing module are automatically repeatedly sequentially started at predetermined intervals.
Location information acquisition device of the telephone call terminal, characterized in that. Automatically recognizes the outgoing phone number of the calling terminal that made the call to determine whether it is an emergency phone number or a predetermined phone number, and when it is an emergency phone number or a predetermined phone number, automatically acquires location information and performs phone communication. A method of obtaining location information of a telephone call terminal in which location information is automatically transmitted to a device,
A telephone step in which a telephone call made by the calling terminal is answered by the receiving apparatus, and telephone communication is performed;
An outgoing call number recognition step of recognizing an outgoing call number sent by the calling terminal;
A telephone number determination step of distinguishing whether the telephone number recognized in the telephone number recognition step is an emergency telephone number stored in the calling terminal;
A location information extraction step of automatically extracting location information which is information indicating a current location of the calling terminal when the phone number is determined as an emergency phone number;
A location information transmission step of automatically transmitting the extracted location information to a reception device;
A post-processing step in which the location information is utilized by the receiving apparatus to perform a preset post-processing operation.
Location information acquisition method of the telephone call terminal, characterized in that consisting of. The method according to claim 8,
The outgoing call number recognition method for obtaining location information of a call originating terminal, characterized in that to recognize all phone numbers attempting to make a call. The method according to claim 8 or 9,
The telephone number determination method for determining the location information of the calling terminal, characterized in that it is determined whether the outgoing telephone number recognized in the outgoing telephone number recognition step is an emergency telephone number or a predetermined telephone number. The location information is obtained by using any one or more of the GPS, CPS and WPS location information acquisition method of the telephone call terminal. The method according to claim 8 or 9 or 10,
The receiving device is assigned to the telephone number of the emergency call or pre-specified phone.
Location information acquisition method of the telephone call terminal characterized in that. The method according to claim 8 or 9 or 10,
The location information device automatically operates when the outgoing call number is determined to be an emergency phone number or a predetermined phone number in claim 9 to obtain current location information of the calling terminal and automatically transmits the obtained location information to the receiving device. Location information acquisition method of the telephone call terminal, characterized in that. The method according to claim 8 or 9,
And the post-processing operation is any one of an emergency rescue request, espionage report, smuggling report, drug crime report, forest fire report, accident report, dispatch instruction in dispatch service. 10. The method of claim 8 or 9, wherein the location information extraction step, location information transmission and reception step, and post-processing step are automatically repeated in sequence every predetermined period.
Wherein the location information extraction step, location information transmission and reception step and post-processing step, the location information acquisition method of the call originating terminal, characterized in that it is automatically repeated in sequence every preset period.

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