JP2005295082A - Data supply server and data supplying method - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a data server which can download ringer melody data having originality capable of differentiating from other portable telephones without increasing the number of downloadable ringer melody data. <P>SOLUTION: A user for downloading ringer melody data is made to select an edition pattern of ringer melody data and after the ringer melody data is edited by an edition pattern selected by the user oneself with its selection pattern in a data supply server, it is downloaded to a portable telephone. A portable telephone editing the same ringer melody data can be differentiated even with a small number of ringer melody data by editing them. Since the edition pattern for differentiation is selected by the user, a degree of freedom of selection can be imparted to the user side. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to a data supply server and a data supply method for transferring incoming melody data (hereinafter referred to as ringtone data) to a mobile terminal such as a mobile phone through a wide area line such as an Internet communication line network or a local network.

  In recent years, telephones are shifting from permanent telephones shared by a plurality of people to mobile phones possessed by each individual person. For this reason, in order to differentiate incoming calls from others, a plurality of ring tones are stored in advance in a mobile phone, and the ring tones are selected and used according to the user's preference.

  However, it is not preferable to store a plurality of such ringtones in advance in order to secure a memory capacity in the mobile phone, and in order to prepare ringtones that are preferred by all users, a larger number of ringtones are required. There is a controversial problem that it is preferable to memorize the ringtone data.

  Therefore, rather than preparing a large number of ringtone data in the memory in the mobile phone in advance, users who are concerned about ringtone data can use their communication line such as a wide area line including the Internet communication line network. A method of downloading ringtone data has been proposed (see Patent Document 1).

  Moreover, different ringtone data for each mobile phone means whether it is an incoming call to one's own mobile phone or another person's mobile phone when it is simultaneously received by each mobile phone as described above. It started with the function of identifying, or as a development type, the role of differentiating ringtones in advance according to the phone number of the incoming caller and identifying the incoming caller with the ringtone. The ringtones are changed as if they were dressed like fashion.

JP 2002-218107 A

  As described above, in recent years, downloading ringtone data from a server has become a general method for acquiring ringtone data. Accordingly, each mobile phone communication network provider (so-called mobile phone carrier) is called. Company) has been competing to provide distinctive ringtones. For example, it offers services such as competing for the number of chords, what is called “Chaku-Uta”, or downloading music in samba or hip-hop style.

  Under such circumstances, ringtone supply manufacturers are developing in order to bring out the characteristics of ringtones.

  However, when the mobile phone communication network provider or the provider of the ringtone provider provides the mobile phone user to make a selection, various types and numbers of ringtone data can be used to expand the range of selection. Therefore, if the number is too large, the size of the display of the mobile phone may be relatively small, and there is a limit to increasing the number of selections.

  Without increasing the number of ringtone data that can be downloaded in this way, even if the same ringtone data has been set by age and gender, it should be a ringtone that can be differentiated from other mobile phones. An object of the present invention is to provide a data supply server that can provide ringtone data that can be received.

  In view of the above problems, according to the present invention, a single ringtone selected by a user from a plurality of ringtones and a single character voice selected from a plurality of ringtones (character voices) are combined as in the prior art. It is provided by downloading.

That is, (1) storage means storing a plurality of incoming melody data, a plurality of character voice data, and selection screen data for prompting selection so that the plurality of incoming melody data and the plurality of character voice data can be visually displayed And a communication means connected to the mobile phone through the wide area communication line network and transmitting the incoming melody data and the character voice data from the storage means to the mobile phone through the wide area communication line network. Because
The storage means has a function of transmitting the selection screen data from the storage means to the mobile phone on condition that the mobile phone is connected by the communication means, and the selection after transmitting the selection screen data. From the mobile phone that has transmitted the screen data, a selection signal for one ring melody data and one character voice data is received from the plurality of ring melody data and a plurality of character voice data, and the storage means is based on the selection signal. A selection synthesis program having a function of extracting the incoming melody data and character voice data from and a function of synthesizing the extracted incoming melody data and character voice data;
Control means for executing control for transmitting, to the mobile phone, the combined incoming melody data of the incoming melody data and the character data selected by the mobile phone via the communication means based on the selected synthesis program. A data supply server.

  According to the above invention, based on the selection screen data, the user of the mobile phone sets desired ringtone data from the plurality of ringtone melody data and character voice data to be combined with the desired ringtone data. From the selected character voice data, original synthesized melody data can be generated and downloaded. Thus, even when a plurality of mobile phones are received at the same place, the ring tone generated by the mobile phone when the mobile phone is received can be original. Even if the same ringing melody is set for each other, it becomes possible for the user to easily identify whether the call is incoming to his mobile phone. In other words, in recent years, the ring melody provided by the ring melody data provider has become extremely diverse, but in the end, users prefer the famous music and the music popular at that time. In many cases, people of similar ages gather and are often set to the same ringing melody, so there is a problem that the role of identifying incoming calls with other mobile phones cannot be fulfilled. It is possible to reduce the concern.

  The selection screen data for prompting selection so that the plurality of ring melody data and the plurality of character voice data can be visually displayed are the ring melody data name prepared in advance corresponding to the ring melody data, and the character voice data. This means image data in which character voice data names prepared in advance are formed with character image data.

  In addition, according to the above-described invention, the user can select and use a synthesized ringtone having originality, but the method of synthesis, that is, what kind of character at what timing with respect to the time axis of the ringtone The inventor of the present application has proposed that it is useful to provide a user of a mobile phone with a room for selecting whether to synthesize simple voice data, and provides the following invention.

(2) Storage means for storing a plurality of ring melody data, a plurality of character voice data, and a plurality of ring melody data and selection screen data as character image data corresponding to the plurality of character voice data, and the selection Combining means for combining the incoming melody data selected according to the screen data and the character voice data as synthetic incoming melody data, and temporary storage means for temporarily storing the synthetic incoming melody data synthesized by the synthesizing means; A data supply server comprising a communication means connected to a mobile phone through a wide area communication line network and transmitting the synthetic incoming melody data from the temporary storage means to the mobile phone via the wide area communication line network,
The storage means has a function of transmitting the selection screen data from the storage means to the mobile phone on condition that the mobile phone is connected by the communication means;
The mobile phone that has transmitted the selection screen data after transmitting the selection screen data receives a selection signal for each of the ringing melody data and character voice data from the plurality of ringing melody data and character voice data. Function and
A function of transmitting composite pattern selection screen data to the mobile phone in order to display a composite pattern selection screen of a plurality of composite patterns on the mobile phone triggered by receiving the selection signal;
A function of receiving a composite pattern selection signal selected by the composite pattern selection screen from the mobile phone;
The incoming melody data and the character voice data corresponding to the selection signal are extracted by a synthetic pattern corresponding to the synthetic pattern selection signal, and the synthetic incoming melody data synthesized by the synthesizing means is stored in the temporary storage means. A program with functions is stored,
A data supply server comprising: control means for executing control for transmitting the synthetic ringing melody data to the mobile phone by the mobile phone via the communication means based on the program.

  According to the above invention, since the synthetic pattern can be selected by the user of the mobile phone, there is a merit that a synthetic ringing melody having more originality can be selected.

  According to the present invention, for example, when people having the same age and the same hobby gather, even if the same ringing melody may be set by those people, the synthesized incoming call synthesized with certain character voice data The possibility that the melody data is exactly the same ringing melody is low, and the possibility that it is possible to identify whether or not it has arrived on your mobile phone is increased, and the originality of the synthetic ringing melody itself is improved and the interest is enhanced. It becomes possible to improve.

  An embodiment to which the present invention is applied will be described below with reference to FIGS. In FIG. 1, reference numeral 1 denotes an Internet communication line network as a wide area communication line network. In this embodiment, an example in which the data supply server of the present invention is applied to an Internet communication line network is illustrated. However, the present invention is not limited to such a wide area communication line network but is applied to a communication line network of a local network. Of course.

  The Internet communication line network 1 includes a plurality of data supply servers 10,..., 10 and a plurality of data supply servers 10,. .., can be connected to 10. Since such a connection method is well known, detailed description thereof will be omitted.

  FIG. 2 shows a hardware configuration of the data supply server 10. The data supply server 1 includes a CPU 11A, a ROM 11B (read only memory) that stores a plurality of synthesis programs having different synthesis patterns of control programs, ringtone data, and character voices, and synthesis pattern selection screen data of the plurality of synthesis programs. , A control means 11 comprising a RAM 11C as a work area of the CPU 11A, a display 12, a BGM database 13 storing a plurality of incoming melody data, a character voice data database 14 storing a plurality of character voice data, and the composition A buffer memory 16 that temporarily stores synthesized incoming melody data synthesized by a program, and a communication interface 17 that performs transmission / reception such as sending the synthesized ringtone data to an external mobile phone 20 are mainly used. It has a configuration.

  The synthesis program selects selection screen data of a plurality of ring melody data stored in advance in the BGM database 13 storing a plurality of ring melody data on condition that the mobile phone 20 is connected by the communication interface 17 as a communication means. And a function of extracting selection screen data of a plurality of character voice data stored in advance in the character voice data database 14 storing a plurality of character voice data, and transmitting the selection screen data to the connected mobile phone 20 It has. In addition, the composition program transmits the selection screen data to the mobile phone 20 and then inputs the selection screen data from the mobile phone 20 by the user of the mobile phone 20 using the input means of the mobile phone 20. A function of receiving a selection signal for one incoming melody data and one character voice data from the plurality of incoming melody data and a plurality of character voice data, and storing them in the buffer memory 16 is provided. This selection signal is generated when the user selects a selection screen displayed on the mobile phone 20 based on the selection screen data by using an input means (for example, a multi-directional switch or a button switch) while visually recognizing the selection screen. Further, the synthesis program transmits the composite pattern selection screen data to the mobile phone 20 in order to display a composite pattern selection screen of a plurality of composite patterns on the mobile phone 20 when the selection signal is received. Stored in the buffer memory 16 by the function, the function of receiving the composite pattern selection signal selected from the mobile phone 20 while visually recognizing the composite pattern selection screen, and the composite pattern corresponding to the composite pattern selection signal The incoming melody data and the character voice data corresponding to the selected signal are extracted from the BGM database 13 and the character voice data database 14, and the synthesized incoming melody data synthesized by the control means 11 as a synthesis means is stored in the buffer memory 16. With the ability to store That.

  Reference numeral 16 in FIG. 2 is a customer voice database, and the user of the mobile phone 20 can extract voice data such as his own voice, family voice or lover voice together with an ID code to the customer voice database 16 in advance. In this state, the voice data and the ringtone data stored in the BGM database 13 are synthesized by the above-mentioned synthesis program executed by the control means as the synthesis means, and the synthesized ringtone data is synthesized. Can be used as a ringtone for the received synthetic incoming melody data.

  FIG. 3 is a hardware block diagram of the cellular phone 20, and includes a control means 21 comprising a CPU 21A, a ROM 21B storing various programs and a RAM 21C serving as a work area for the CPU 21A, a speaker 22 for calling, a microphone 23, A music speaker 24, a liquid crystal display 25, an operation switch group 26 as the operation means, a memory card slot 27 as an external storage means, and a transmission / reception means 28 including an antenna. The selection screen and the composite pattern selection screen are displayed on the liquid crystal display 25. While the user of the mobile phone 20 visually recognizes the displayed selection screen, the user operates the operation switch group 26 as input means to operate the user. Selection input can be executed according to one's own intention. Then, the selection information selected and input is transmitted from the Internet communication line network to the data supply server 10 via the relay station 2 via the transmission / reception means 28.

  Next, the flow of downloading the ringtone data will be described based on the flowcharts of FIGS.

  The user turns on the power switch of the mobile phone 20 to increase the power, and operates the operation switch group 26 to display a menu screen for connection to the Internet communication network 1 on the liquid crystal display 25 (step S1). This menu screen is stored in advance in the ROM 21B as storage means or stored in an external storage medium and stored in the RAM 21C via the memory card slot 27, and is stored in the liquid crystal display 25 based on the stored image data. Is displayed.

  Next, while the user visually recognizes the menu screen, the user can download the synthetic ringtone data by operating the operation switch group 26 according to the guidance on the menu screen. Is input (step S2), the connection processing of the input address to the data supply server 10 is executed under the control of the control means 21 (step S3). On the other hand, the data supply server 10 always determines whether or not there is an access from the mobile phone 20 at any time, and when it is determined that the connection request signal transmitted by the connection process is received (step S4), The control unit 11 executes the authentication process based on the identification information received together with the connection request signal (step S6). This identification information is automatically determined in advance to the ROM 21B or RAM 21C of the mobile phone 20 when, for example, it is determined whether or not the mobile phone number is accessed from the mobile phone or when a membership system is introduced. The identification electronic information for identifying a specific member from a plurality of stored members corresponds to this.

  When authentication is permitted, as described above, selection screen data of a plurality of ring melody data stored in advance in the BGM database 13 storing a plurality of ring melody data, and a character voice storing a plurality of character voice data Selection screen data of a plurality of character voice data stored in advance in the data database 14 is extracted to prepare initial screen data (step S7).

  Next, the initial data is transmitted to the mobile phone 20 (step S8).

  Then, the cellular phone 20 receives the initial data (step S9), and the control means 21 stores the initial data in the RAM 21C as the storage means and displays a selection screen on the liquid crystal display 25 (step S10).

  While the selection screen is displayed on the liquid crystal display 25 of the mobile phone 20, the user of the mobile phone 20 visually recognizes the selection screen, and the desired incoming melody data and character voice to be synthesized according to the user's intention. The controller 21 prompts the user to select data, and determines whether the selection has been made (step S11).

  When the control means 21 determines that the selection has been completed, the control means 21 transmits the selection information as a selection signal to the data supply server 10 (step S12). The data supply server 10 receives this selection signal (step S13). When receiving a selection signal for specifying one incoming melody data and character voice data from the plurality of incoming melody data and plural character voice data, the control means 11 stores the selection signal in the buffer memory 16.

  After receiving the selection signal, the control means 11 transmits the composite pattern selection screen data to the mobile phone 20 in order to display a composite pattern selection screen of a plurality of composite patterns on the mobile phone 20 (step S15). ). The composite pattern selection screen data is received by the mobile phone 10 (step S16) and displayed as a composite pattern selection screen on the liquid crystal display 25 (step S18). When the control unit 21 displays the composite pattern selection screen and then determines that the user of the mobile phone 10 has selected a composite pattern using the operation switch group 26 (step S19), the composite pattern selection information is displayed. Is transmitted to the data supply server 10.

  Upon receiving this synthesized pattern selection signal, the control means 11 stores the synthesized pattern selection signal in the buffer memory 16 and the previously stored ringing melody data and character voice data from the BGM database 13 and the character voice data database 14. Based on the synthesis pattern program specified by the selected synthesis pattern selection signal, the control means 11 as the synthesis means synthesizes the incoming melody data and the character voice data (step S22). -2) The synthesized incoming melody data is stored in the buffer memory 16 (step S22-3). Steps S22-1 to S22-3 correspond to step S22 of the composition process.

  The incoming melody data stored in the buffer memory 16 is transmitted to the mobile phone 20 under the control of the control means 11 (step S23).

  The mobile phone 20 receives the transmitted composite incoming melody data and stores it in the RAM 21C (step S24).

  The stored composite incoming melody data is automatically reproduced by the automatic reproduction program stored in the ROM 21B, and is stored in the liquid crystal display 25 based on the storage necessity determination screen data stored in the ROM 21B in advance at the end of the reproduction. Is determined (step S25). There are many ringtone download services that have a function for viewing in this way, but it is more useful when the situation after composition changes variously depending on the composition pattern selected by the user as in this embodiment. It will be a thing. The synthesized ring melody data is not what the user likes, and there is a possibility that the synthesized pattern selected earlier, the character voice data that is the synthesis source, or the ring melody data may be changed and re-synthesized. Therefore, as a modified example in this step S25, when the storage is refused, the change screen data stored in the ROM 21B in advance is used to display the change screen on the liquid crystal display 25, and the composition selected previously. It is also possible to select whether to change any one of the pattern, the character voice data to be synthesized, or the incoming melody data, or to stop the operation by inputting the operation switch group 26.

  In order to leave such a room for selection (so that it is not necessary to perform the selection work from the beginning again), the synthesized pattern stored in the buffer memory 16, the character voice data to be synthesized, or the incoming melody data It is important that the selection information for identifying is controlled so as not to be erased until it is determined that the storage is rejected by the control of the control means 11.

  When the composite incoming melody data is stored in step S25, the communication between the data supply server 10 and the mobile phone 20 is terminated by the control of the control means 21.

  The present invention is useful when applied to mobile phones that have spread remarkably in recent years, and even in situations where one person owns one mobile phone, differentiation of ringtones in each mobile phone Can be applied by the user's own choice. In other words, even if the number of incoming melody data that the mobile phone provider provides in advance is prepared, there is a limit to the number of data to be prepared in advance, and the Internet communication network as a wide area communication line is used for popular music Even if it is configured to be downloaded through, because the music to be downloaded is popular with the same music by age, gender, etc., the present invention has the problem that people who gather in the same place set the same ringtone Can be reduced.

It is explanatory drawing which shows the network block diagram concerning embodiment of this invention. It is a hardware block diagram of the data supply server connected to the network of FIG. It is a hardware block diagram of the mobile telephone connected to the network of FIG. It is a flowchart for demonstrating the flow of the download of the synthetic | combination ringtone data which concern on embodiment of this invention. It is a flowchart for demonstrating the flow of the download of the synthetic | combination ringtone data which concern on embodiment of this invention. It is a flowchart for demonstrating the flow of the download of the synthetic | combination ringtone data which concern on embodiment of this invention.

Explanation of symbols

1 Internet communication network 2 Relay station 10 Data supply server 20 Mobile phone

Claims (2)

Storage means for storing a plurality of ringing melody data, a plurality of character voice data, and a plurality of the ringing melody data and selection screen data for prompting selection so that the plurality of character voice data can be visually displayed; and a wide-area communication line A data supply server comprising a communication means connected to a mobile phone through a network and transmitting the ringtone data and character voice data from the storage means to the mobile phone via the wide area communication line network;
The storage means has a function of transmitting the selection screen data from the storage means to the mobile phone on condition that the mobile phone is connected by the communication means, and the selection after transmitting the selection screen data. From the mobile phone that has transmitted the screen data, a selection signal for one ring melody data and one character voice data is received from the plurality of ring melody data and a plurality of character voice data, and the storage means is based on the selection signal. A selection synthesis program having a function of extracting the incoming melody data and character voice data from and a function of synthesizing the extracted incoming melody data and character voice data;
Control means for executing control for transmitting, to the mobile phone, the combined incoming melody data of the incoming melody data and the character data selected by the mobile phone via the communication means based on the selected synthesis program. A data supply server. Storage means for storing a plurality of ring melody data, a plurality of character voice data, and a plurality of ring melody data and selection screen data as character image data corresponding to the plurality of character voice data, and the selection screen data A combining means for combining the incoming melody data and the character voice data selected in response as combined incoming melody data, a temporary storage means for temporarily storing the combined incoming melody data combined by the combining means, and wide area communication A data supply server comprising a communication unit connected to a mobile phone through a line network and transmitting the composite incoming melody data from the temporary storage unit to the mobile phone via the wide area communication line network,
The storage means has a function of transmitting the selection screen data from the storage means to the mobile phone on condition that the mobile phone is connected by the communication means;
The mobile phone that has transmitted the selection screen data after transmitting the selection screen data receives a selection signal for each of the ringing melody data and character voice data from the plurality of ringing melody data and character voice data. Function and
A function of transmitting composite pattern selection screen data to the mobile phone in order to display a composite pattern selection screen of a plurality of composite patterns on the mobile phone triggered by receiving the selection signal;
A function of receiving a composite pattern selection signal selected by the composite pattern selection screen from the mobile phone;
The incoming melody data and character voice data corresponding to the selection signal are extracted by a synthetic pattern corresponding to the synthetic pattern selection signal, and the synthetic incoming melody data synthesized by the synthesizing means is stored in the temporary storage means. A program with functions is stored,
A data supply server comprising: control means for executing control for transmitting the synthetic ringing melody data to the mobile phone by the mobile phone via the communication means based on the program.

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