KR100233916B1 - Sending method for telling about waited voice mail in a personal communication service exchange - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a voice message waiting notification method suitable for informing a subscriber that voice is waiting by using a short message center (SMC) in a personal communication exchange. Because it implements only piptone to inform subscribers subscribed to voice mail service that the message is stored in voice mail, it is difficult to distinguish whether the number is stored, whether the message is stored or whether the service according to other additional services has been entered. In the present invention, in the process of providing a voice message waiting notification function in the personal communication switch, the present invention informs the subscriber's terminal that the message is waiting by voice or text through the short message service unit 180. To allow subscribers to listen to messages By doing so, the above-described drawbacks can be improved.

Description

Voice Message Waiting Notification Method in Personal Communication Switch

The present invention relates to a voice message waiting notification method, and more particularly, to a voice message waiting notification method for notifying a subscriber that voice is waiting by using a short message center (SMC) in a personal communication exchange. .

In the prior art, since the personal communication service is implemented to notify subscribers subscribed to the voice mailbox service only in piptone that the message is stored in the voice mailbox, the number or the message is stored or other additional services. There was a flaw that was difficult to discern whether was entered.

The present invention has been made in order to solve the above-mentioned drawbacks of the prior art, the subscriber to the voice mail service, the message is stored in the voice mail to the subscriber through the short message service to inform the subscriber by text and pip tone The purpose is to provide a method.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a base station for wirelessly accessing a predetermined wireless communication subscriber, a base station controller for controlling a connection of a call by controlling a base station, and transmitting / receiving a call from a base station controller. A personal mobile communication exchange that connects the calling subscriber who has called the call with the called party, a voice mail service unit that allocates memory for each personal area of the mobile subscriber and stores the voice, and between the terminal and the personal communication system network or a short message. Short message service unit that provides a service for exchanging short letters and numbers between an external device capable of selectively transmitting and receiving messages and a personal communication system network, and subscriber parameter and location information of all terminals registered in its own area. That consists of a home location registrar that stores and manages In a new exchange system, when a voice mailbox is received from a predetermined set of outgoing subscribers by the voice mailbox service unit, storing the message left by the subscriber in the voice mailbox service unit and notifying the home location register that the voice mailbox has been received; Transmitting an ACK message indicating that the voice mailbox has been received to the voice mailbox service unit, informing the short message service unit that the message waiting notification message has been received, and analyzing the message waiting notification message. Determining the location of the corresponding personal communication exchange in which the subscriber is located, receiving the information of the corresponding personal communication exchange in which the subscriber is located from the home location register, informing the user that the message is received, and receiving a Short Message Center Deliverable (SMSDPP). Point to Point) Transmitting a signal to a corresponding personal communication exchange to which the called party belongs; determining whether the called party is busy or not; Displaying a pip tone or text for locating a subscriber and notifying a message waiting; and transmitting an arc signal to the corresponding personal communication switch 150 indicating that a short message paging signal has been received from a called subscriber; If the call is determined in the step, and the terminal is turned on, paging to the corresponding message destination terminal to find the location of the subscriber and transmitting an Application Data Delivery Service (ADDS) transmission signal to the message destination terminal, and the corresponding message destination terminal Arc signal indicating that an ADDS transmission has been received Transmitting the call to the corresponding personal communication switch, the corresponding personal communication exchange to which the called party belongs, sending an arc signal for the SMSDPP signal to the short message service part, and the short message service part sends a message waiting notification signal to the voice mailbox service part. A voice message waiting notification method in a personal communication exchange comprising transmitting an arc signal for a method.

1 is a system configuration diagram of a personal communication exchange suitable for notifying of waiting for a voice message according to the present invention;

2 is a flow chart illustrating the step of notifying of waiting for a voice message at a personal communication exchange in accordance with the present invention.

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110: base station 130: base station controller

150: personal communication exchange 152: base station controller matching unit

154: call control unit 156: visiting subscriber management unit

158: voice mailbox matching unit 160: home location register matching unit

162: short message matching unit 170: voice mailbox service unit

180: short message service section 190: home location register

The above and other objects and various advantages of the present invention will become more apparent from the preferred embodiments of the invention described below with reference to the accompanying drawings by those skilled in the art.

Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying drawings will be described in detail a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

The configuration of the present invention is to transmit a call from the base station 110 and the base station controller 130 for controlling the connection of the call by controlling the base station 110 described above, the wireless connection to the wireless communication subscriber and the base station 110; / Personal mobile communication switch 150 that connects the originating subscriber who has received / received a call to the originating / received call and the called party, and the voice mailbox service unit which allocates memory to each personal area of the mobile subscriber and stores the voice. And a short message service unit 170 which provides a service for exchanging short letters and numbers between an external device capable of selectively transmitting / receiving short messages between the terminal and the network of the personal communication system and the personal communication system network. ) And a home location register 190 that stores and manages subscriber parameters and location information for all terminals registered within its own area. It is made.

First, referring to FIG. 1, a system configuration diagram of a personal communication switch suitable for notifying of waiting for a voice message is described. The base station 110 wirelessly connects to a personal communication subscriber of a corresponding area and is located in an area controlled by the base station 110. It manages subscribers, connects calls, and manages locations of subscribers belonging to the base station 110. Radio signal transmission and reception with the subscriber, system synchronization, radio encoding and decoding, signal strength and quality measurement, baseband signal processing, diversity, and radio resource management are performed.

The base station controller 130 connects with a plurality of base stations 110, controls each base station 110 to wirelessly receive a signal from the base station 110, and controls a process of the received signal to control the personal communication switch 150. ) Is a device that performs functions such as matching with the base station controller matching unit 152, inter-cell handoff processing, call control, and the like, and communicates with the personal communication exchange 150 and the internal interface of the personal communication exchange 150. Connected by a link, one base station controller 130 controls a plurality of base stations (110).

The personal communication exchange 150 is connected to a plurality of base station controllers 130, and the base station that manages its own data in the case of other exchanges and local calls by wirelessly receiving data from the plurality of base station controllers 130 through the plurality of base stations 110. It connects to the controller 130, connects the call through the switching operation and performs the charging process.

The voice mailbox service unit 170 allocates a memory for each personal area of the mobile communication subscriber and stores the voice in the corresponding personal area, and transmits a signal to notify the corresponding subscriber that the voice is stored in the personal mailbox.

The short message service unit 170 provides a service for exchanging short letters and numbers between the terminal and the network of the personal communication system or between an external device capable of selectively transmitting / receiving a short message and the personal communication system network.

The external device may be a regular telephone, a data terminal, or a terminal for short messages. The short message service unit 170 is composed of a message entry characteristic, a short message management characteristic, and a short message transmission capability. This feature is distributed across personal communication system networks and short message centers to form a short message system.

The home location register 190 has a large number of subscribers who use the code number and other service information, for example, supplementary service information, subscriber information such as whether to subscribe to a voice mail service, subscriber information about billing, and use this to charge a bill. It acts as a database.

The home location register 190 communicates with a plurality of personal communication exchanges 150, transmits and receives subscriber information to each visited subscriber management unit 156 inside the personal communication exchange 150, It contains information such as codes and numbers of subscribers managed by the personal communication exchange 150.

The base station controller matching unit 152 in the personal communication exchange 150 converts a signal received from the base station controller 130 into a signal usable in the personal communication exchange 150.

The call controller 154 in the personal communication exchange 150 is responsible for mobile call processing and other call progress related processing.

The call control unit 154 is connected to the visited subscriber management unit 156 to receive or send subscriber information, and is connected to the voice mailbox matching unit 170 by a signal matched through the voice mailbox matching unit 158 so that the called subscriber is connected. If it is determined that the voice mailbox service subscriber, the voice mailbox information received by the voice mailbox service unit 170 is voice serviced.

The visited subscriber management unit 156 in the personal communication exchange 150 is a database that is located inside the personal communication exchange 150 and receives information of subscribers and stores it for a while. For example, if a provisionally registered subscriber has moved elsewhere, this subscriber information is destroyed. If a new subscriber has entered, the subscriber's information is received from the home location register 190 and updated (up-date) with this information. do.

The voice mailbox matching unit 158 in the personal communication exchange 150 matches the voice mailbox service unit 170 and the personal communication exchange 150.

The home location register matching unit 160 in the personal communication switch 150 matches with the home location register 190 in a common line signal manner.

Referring to the step of notifying the voice message waiting in the personal communication exchange with reference to the flow chart of Figure 2, the base station 110, base station controller matching unit 152, call control unit 154 and voice mailbox matching unit from any originating subscriber When the voice mailbox is received by the voice mailbox service unit 170 through 158, the message left by the subscriber is stored in the voice mailbox service unit 170.

Then, the voice mailbox service unit 170 notifies the home location register 190 that the voice mailbox has been received (step 202).

The home location register 190 searches for the calling subscriber and find out whether the message waiting notification function of the called subscriber is activated (step 204).

The home location register 190 sends an arc message to the voice mailbox service unit 170 indicating that the voice mailbox has been well received (step 206).

The home location register 190 transmits an arc message to the short message service unit 180 indicating that the corresponding message sending subscriber has left a message to the message receiving subscriber (step 208).

The short message service unit 180 analyzes the message waiting notification message and transmits the message waiting notification message to the home location register 190 so as to determine the location of the corresponding personal communication exchange 150 where the subscriber of the message is located (step 210).

Upon receiving the subscriber's location from the home location register 190, the short message service unit 180 notifies that the message is received by the subscriber's corresponding personal communication switch 150, and receives an SMSDPP signal including piptone information. The subscriber transmits to the corresponding personal communication exchange 150 to which the subscriber belongs (step 212).

The corresponding personal communication exchange 150 to which the message called subscriber belongs is determined whether the subscriber is idle or busy. That is, it is determined whether the subscriber who has received the message is busy (step 214).

In step 214, if the subscriber is in the idle state, that is, not in a call and the terminal is turned on, the personal communication switch 150 to which the message called subscriber belongs is determined by paging to the corresponding message called terminal to find the location of the subscriber and waiting for the message. A short message paging signal displaying a pip tone or text indicating that a message has been received along with the notification is sent to indicate that the message is waiting (step 216).

An example of a message saying that a message has been received is "Message received." By sending a text or message such as a contact phone number, the corresponding message is displayed and the contact of the person who left the message is notified that the message is waiting.

Then, an arc signal indicating that the called subscriber has received the short message paging signal from the base station controller 130 is transmitted to the corresponding personal communication switch 150 (step 218).

If the subscriber is busy, i.e. on a call, and the terminal is turned on, paging to the corresponding message destination terminal finds the location of the subscriber, and the corresponding area of the voice mailbox service unit 170 in which the voice message is stored, and voices in pip tone text, etc. An ADDS transmission signal indicating that the mailbox is stored is transmitted to the corresponding message destination terminal to inform that the message has been received (step 220).

The message destination terminal receiving the ADDS transmission signal indicating that the voice mailbox is stored transmits an arc signal indicating that the ADDS transmission signal has been received to the corresponding personal communication switch 150 through the base station controller 130 (step 222). ).

The personal communication switch 150 to which the called party belongs transmits an arc signal, which is a response signal to the SMSDPP signal received in step 212, to the short message service unit 180 (step 224).

The short message service unit 180 receives the arc signal for the SMSDPP from the personal communication exchange 150 and transmits the arc signal for the message waiting notification signal to the voice mailbox service unit 170 (step 226).

As described above, the present invention, by providing a voice message waiting notification function in the personal communication exchange via the short message service unit 180 to inform the subscriber's terminal of the message waiting by voice or text, etc. The subscriber can listen to the message, thereby preventing the backlog of the voice mailbox and achieving a smooth communication.

The principles of the invention have been described above in connection with specific devices, which are described by way of example only, and are not intended to limit the scope of the invention as described in the appended claims.

Claims (1)

Transmit / receive a base station 110 wirelessly connected to a predetermined wireless communication subscriber, a base station controller 130 controlling the base station 110 to control a connection of a call, and a call from the base station controller 130, A personal mobile communication exchanger (150) which connects an outgoing subscriber who has attempted a call / received call with a corresponding called subscriber, and a voice mailbox service unit 170 which stores a voice by allocating memory for each personal area of the mobile communication subscriber; And a short message service unit 180 that provides a service for exchanging short letters and numbers between a terminal and a personal communication system network or between an external device and a personal communication system network capable of selectively transmitting and receiving short messages. Personal communication consisting of a home location register 190 that stores and manages subscriber parameters and location information for all terminals registered within the area. In a new exchange system, When a voice mailbox is received from the predetermined preset calling subscriber to the voice mailbox service unit 170, the voice mail service unit 170 stores the message left by the subscriber and indicates that the voice mailbox has been received. 190) notification; Transmitting an ACK message indicating that the voice mailbox has been received to the voice mailbox service unit 170, and notifying the short message service unit 180 that a message waiting notification message has been received by a message receiving subscriber; Analyzing the message waiting notification message to determine the location of the corresponding personal communication switch 150 where the message called subscriber is located; Receiving a message from the home location register (190) of the corresponding personal communication switch (150) at which the subscriber is located, informing the user that the message is received; Transmitting a Short Message Center Delivering Point to Point (SMSDPP) signal to the corresponding personal communication exchange 150 to which the called subscriber belongs; A determination step of determining whether the subscriber who has received the message is in a call; If it is determined in the determining step that is not in a call, displaying a pip tone or a text for paging to a corresponding message receiving terminal to find a location of a subscriber and notifying a message waiting; And transmitting an arc signal to the corresponding personal communication exchange 150 informing that the short message paging signal has been received from the called party. If it is determined in the determining step that the call is in progress and the terminal is turned on, paging to the corresponding message destination terminal to find the location of the subscriber and transmitting the application data delivery service (ADDS) transmission signal to the corresponding message destination terminal; Transmitting, by the message destination terminal, an arc signal to the corresponding personal communication switch (150) indicating that the ADDS transmission signal has been received; Transmitting the arc signal for the SMSDPP signal to the short message service unit (180) by the corresponding personal communication exchange (150) to which the called subscriber belongs; And the short message service unit (180) transmits an arc signal for a message waiting notification signal to the voice mailbox service unit (170).

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