KR100357530B1 - A system and the method of providing bell - Google Patents

Abstract

The ringtone providing system of the present invention includes an information database for storing service information including a login ID and a login password of a service user, a customer number, a type of a service advertisement ringtone, incentive details, and a digital communication terminal number, and an advertisement provided to a service user. The advertisement ringtone database storing ringtone data, authenticating the service user, presenting a list of advertisement ringtones, and a ringtone providing server that outputs the advertisement ringtone transmission signal to the exchange, and when the incoming call signal is transmitted to the digital communication terminal through the exchanger. After calculating the incentive to be given to the service user using the ringtone exposure time obtained from the difference of two times and the type of the advertising ringtone stored in the information database, the incentive information is calculated. Incentive calculation server storing in the base and service user's incentive calculated from the incentive calculation server, if the customer number is entered and requested to pay the incentive, the incentive is paid and the incentive payment is stored in the information database. Include a server.

Description

Ringtone provision system and its provision {A SYSTEM AND THE METHOD OF PROVIDING BELL}

The present invention relates to a system for providing a ringtone of a digital communication terminal such as a mobile communication telephone and a method for providing the same. More particularly, when the service user selects an advertisement ringtone through the Internet, the ringtone of the digital communication terminal is selected. The present invention relates to a ringtone providing system and a method of providing the same.

The Internet, which began with ARPANET to efficiently share information about US military research through the network, is now a huge and efficient information storage medium and information medium connected to numerous computer networks around the world. The Internet is used for various purposes such as e-mail, newsgroups, file transfers, information transmission and retrieval, etc. As the number of internet-connected networks and the number of Internet users increase rapidly, commercial services of the Internet, that is, Internet business, are rapidly spreading. There is a trend.

As the Internet business spreads, Internet advertisements, which are qualitatively different from the conventional advertisements, have emerged one after another, and a demand for replacing ringtones of monotonous mobile communication terminals is generated by using such Internet advertisements.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of the above, and proposes a system for providing an incentive for a service user to replace the ringtone of his digital communication terminal with an advertisement ringtone and listen to the advertisement ringtone through the Internet, and a method of providing the same. It is for.

1 is a block diagram of a ringtone providing system according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

Figure 2 is a block diagram of a ringtone providing server for an embodiment of the present invention.

3 is a block diagram of a digital communication terminal for an embodiment of the present invention.

Figure 4 is a flow chart for explaining the operation of the ringtone providing server, incentive calculation server and incentive payment server for an embodiment of the present invention.

5 is a flowchart illustrating a ringtone providing method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

In order to achieve the above object, when the service user selects an advertisement ringtone to be used as a ringtone of his digital communication terminal through a ringtone providing system, the ringtone providing system transmits the selected advertisement ringtone to the digital communication terminal through an exchange. After that, the service user grasps the time when the advertisement ringtone is heard and the type of the advertisement ringtone to provide incentives to the service user.

A ringtone providing system according to a feature of the present invention includes an information database, an advertisement ringtone database, a ringtone providing server, an incentive calculation server, and an incentive payment server.

The information database stores service information including a login ID and login password of the service user, a customer number, a type of a service advertisement ringtone, incentive details, and a digital communication terminal number.

The advertisement ringtone database stores advertisement ringtone data provided to service users.

The ringtone providing server authenticates the service user, presents a list of advertisement ringtones, and outputs to the exchange an advertisement ringtone transmission signal including transmission command data, digital communication terminal number, ringtone reset data, and selected advertisement ringtone data.

The incentive calculation server receives the time when the incoming call signal is transmitted to the digital communication terminal and the end of the incoming call signal through the exchange, and uses the ringtone exposure time obtained by the difference of two times and the type of advertisement ringtone stored in the information database. After calculating the incentive to be given to the service user, and stores the incentive in the information database.

The incentive payment server receives the incentive of the service user calculated by the incentive calculation server, and if the customer number is entered to request the payment of the incentive, the incentive is paid, and the remaining incentive is stored in the information database. At this time, each of the advertisement ringtone data is given a different incentive.

Ringtone providing method according to a feature of the present invention

Determining, by the ringer providing system, the authentication of the service user by using the input ID and login password of the service user;

The ringtone providing system presenting the advertisement ringtone list to the service user to the service user;

The advertisement ringtone providing system stores the number of the selected advertisement ringtone, and outputs the advertisement ringtone transmission signal including the transmission command data, the digital communication terminal number, the ringtone reset data, and the selected advertisement ringtone data to the digital communication terminal to set the advertisement ringtone. step,

The ringtone providing system receives a time point at which an incoming call signal is input to the digital communication terminal and a time point at which the incoming call signal ends through the exchange to obtain a ringtone exposure time, and calculates an incentive using the ringtone exposure time and the type of advertisement ringtone. And

When the ringtone providing system has a payment request of a service user, the ringtone providing system includes paying as much as the demand in the incentive.

Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

1 is a block diagram of a ringtone providing system according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 1, the ringtone providing system according to an embodiment of the present invention is a system for setting an advertisement ringtone selected by a service user as a ringtone of a digital communication terminal 100 of a service user through an exchange 90. Information database 110, advertising ringtone database 120, ringtone providing server 130, incentive calculation server 160, incentive payment server 170 is included.

The information database 110 includes a service including a digital communication terminal number such as a service user's login ID and login password, a customer number, a type of a service advertisement ringtone, a time when the advertisement ringtone is exposed, incentive details, and a telephone number of the service user. Save the information. At this time, the incentive details include incentives accumulated to date and incentives paid to the service user, and the incentive in the embodiment of the present invention is cash. In addition, the time when the advertisement ringtone is exposed means the time until the call comes to the service user's digital communication terminal and the set advertisement ringtone rings and the service user makes a real call.

The advertisement ringtone database 120 stores advertisement ringtone data provided to the service user. At this time, each of the advertisement ringtone data is given a different incentive. That is, the incentive given to the service user differs according to the type of advertisement ringtone set by the service user as the ringtone of the digital communication terminal 100 of the user.

The ringer providing server 130 determines the authentication of the service user, presents a list of advertisement ringtones that the service user can select, and includes an advertisement including transmission command data, digital communication terminal number, ringtone reset data, and selected advertisement ringtone data. Outputs the ring tone transmission signal to the switch (90).

At this time, the transmission command data is command data for the exchange receiving the advertisement ringtone transmission signal to transmit the ringtone reset data and the selected advertisement ringtone data according to the digital communication terminal number.

2 is a block diagram of a ringtone providing server 130 for an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 2, the ringtone providing server 130 for an embodiment of the present invention includes a service user authentication unit 131, an advertisement ringtone list unit 133, an advertisement ringtone temporary execution unit 135, and an incentive display unit. 137.

The service user authentication unit 131 determines the authentication of the service user by comparing the login ID and password written by the service user with the login ID and password of the service user stored in the information database 110. When authentication of the service user is completed, the ringtone providing server 130 provides a message according to the authentication completion and fetches the advertisement information from the advertisement ringtone list unit 133.

This means that the advertisement ringtone list unit 133 presents a list of advertisement ringtone data stored in the advertisement ringtone database 120 and incentive information given to each advertisement ringtone. When the service user selects one of these, the number of the corresponding advertisement ringtone is stored in the information database 110.

The advertisement ringtone execution unit 135 receives the number information of the temporarily selected advertisement ringtone from the information database 110 and receives the ringtone information corresponding to the number information of the temporarily selected advertisement ringtone from the advertisement ringtone database 120. By doing this, the service user assists the service user's final selection by listening to the ringtone. Therefore, the service user listens to a plurality of ringtones and selects the final ringtone, and the number information of the selected advertisement ringtone is displayed in the information database 110. Are stored in.

The incentive display unit 137 is to display in real time the details of the incentive according to the ringtone corresponding to the number information of the pre-selected advertisement ringtones to the service user of the digital communication terminal, the incentive calculated from the incentive calculation server 160 It receives the history information and displays the reception result.

At this time, the ringtone providing server used in the embodiment of the present invention is a web server.

3 is a block diagram of a digital communication terminal for an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 3, the digital communication terminal 100 for the embodiment of the present invention includes a transmitter / receiver 101, a modulator / demodulator 102, a central controller 103, a memory 104, and signal conversion. The unit 105 includes a ring tone output unit 106 and a connection signal unit 107.

The transmitting / receiving unit 101 receives and amplifies the advertisement ringtone transmission signal output from the exchanger 90 and outputs the data to be transmitted to the exchanger 90 on the oscillation signal.

The modulator / demodulator 102 decodes and demodulates the coded advertisement ring tone transmission signal, and codes and modulates data to be output.

The central control unit 103 analyzes the demodulated advertisement ringtone transmission signal and converts the existing ringtone into advertisement ringtone data according to the ringtone reset data. At this time, if the digital communication terminal 100 is set to the vibration mode, the central control unit 103 checks it and transmits it to the exchanger 90. In addition, the central controller 103 controls the service user not to set another ringtone after the ringtone is set as an advertisement ringtone.

The memory 104 stores advertisement ringtone data instead of the previously set ringtone under the control of the central controller 103 receiving the ringtone reset data.

The signal conversion unit 105 converts the advertisement ringtone data, which is a digital signal, into an analog signal when the incoming call signal is input to the central control unit 103 at the exchanger 90 and the central control unit 103 wants to ring.

The ringtone output unit 106 outputs the advertisement ringtone data changed into an analog signal by the signal converter 105 in the form of sound to the service user.

The connection signal unit 107 outputs a connection signal to the exchange 90 to make a call when an incoming call signal is input and a ring tone sounds. Therefore, the time point of the advertisement ringtone exposure time is when the switch 90 outputs the incoming call signal, and the end point is when the switch 90 receives the connection signal.

Therefore, when a call is attempted from the third party to the digital communication terminal 100, an incoming call signal is transmitted to the digital communication terminal 100 of the service user through the switch 90, and at this time, the incentive calculation server ( The 160 receives the time when the incoming call signal is transmitted and the time when the connection signal is input to the exchange 90. That is, time difference information is received from the time when the incoming call signal is transmitted to the time received by the digital communication terminal 100 of the service user. Then, the ringtone exposure time and information database ( After calculating the incentive to be given to the service user using the respective incentive information according to the type of advertisement ringtone stored in 110, the calculated incentive is added to the information database 110 and stored.

After the incentive payment server 170 receives the prestored incentive history information in the information database 110, if the service user requests the payment of the incentive by inputting his / her customer number, the incentive remaining and the remaining incentive The history information is stored in the information database 110.

At this time, the incentive payment server 170 for the embodiment of the present invention may be a payment server in the bank, or may be a payment server of a supplier providing a ringtone service. Also, the incentive for embodiments of the present invention is cash.

4 is a flowchart illustrating an operation of a ringtone providing server 130, an incentive calculation server 160, and an incentive payment server 170 for an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 4, when the service user selects the advertisement ringtone, the ringtone providing server 130 transmits the advertisement ringtone transmission signal to the service user's digital communication terminal 100 through the exchanger 90. 100 sets the advertising ringtone. At this time, the ringtone providing server 130 stores the advertisement ringtone number selected by the service user in the information database 110.

Subsequently, when an incoming call signal is input to the digital communication terminal 100 through the switch 90, the switch 90 outputs this time point to the incentive calculation server 160 and the switch 90 in the digital communication terminal 100. When the connection signal is input to the switch, the switch 90 also outputs this time point to the incentive calculation server 160.

The incentive calculation server 160 which receives the time point of the incoming call signal and the time point of the connection signal from the switch 90 calculates the ringtone exposure time by the difference between these two time points, and the advertisement selected by the service user from the information database 110. Incentives to be paid to the user of the service are received and stored in the information database 110.

Thereafter, when the incentive payment request of the service user is input to the incentive payment server 170, the incentive payment server 170 pays the incentive requested in the incentive of the corresponding service user stored in the information database 110, The difference is stored in the information database 110.

This series of processes is done in real time.

Next, the operation of the ringtone providing system according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

5 is a flowchart illustrating a ringtone providing method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in Figure 5, the ringtone providing method according to an embodiment of the present invention, the service user authentication step (S500), the advertisement ringtone selection step (S510), the advertisement ringtone temporary execution step (S520), the advertisement ringtone final selection step In operation S530, an advertisement ringtone transmission step S540 and an incentive calculation step S550 are included.

When the service user who wants to receive the advertisement ringtone connects to the Internet network through a terminal such as a PC, the user enters his login ID and password for the login in the service user authentication unit 131 of the ringtone providing server 130. The authentication unit compares the service user's login ID and password in the information database 110 and determines the authentication of the service user (S500).

The advertisement ringtone list unit 133 presents a list of advertisement ringtones that can be provided to the service user authenticated by the service user authentication unit 131 and incentives granted to each advertisement ringtone (S510).

Among these, when the service user selects one advertisement ringtone and inputs a signal for instructing the operation of the advertisement ringtone execution unit 135 to determine whether the advertisement ringtone is desired, the advertisement ringtone temporary execution unit 135 receives the advertisement. To execute the ringtone (S520).

The advertisement ringtone list 133 finally selects the advertisement ringtone desired by the service user through the advertisement ringtone execution unit 135 and gives the final selection command to the advertisement ringtone list unit 133. Stores the number of the ringtone, and outputs the advertisement ringtone transmission signal including the transmission command data, the digital communication terminal number, the ringtone reset data and the selected advertisement ringtone data to the exchange (90) (S530).

The exchanger 90 receiving the advertisement ringtone transmission signal outputs the advertisement ringtone transmission signal to the digital communication terminal 100 of the service user by using the digital communication terminal number of the service user in the advertisement ringtone transmission signal. In operation S540, an advertisement ringtone is set in the memory 104 of the 100.

Thereafter, when an incoming call signal is input to the digital communication terminal 100 through the switch 90, the switch 90 outputs this time point to the incentive calculation server 160, and the digital communication terminal 100 switches the switch 90. When the connection signal is input to the switch, the switch 90 also outputs this time point to the incentive calculation server 160. The incentive calculation server 160 which receives the time point of the incoming call signal and the time point of the connection signal from the switch 90 calculates the ringtone exposure time by the difference between these two time points, and the advertisement selected by the service user from the information database 110. By receiving the type of ringtone, the incentive to be paid to the service user is calculated and stored in the information database 110, and sent to the incentive payment server 170 to prepare the incentive payment server to pay the incentive to the service user. In this case, when the service user receives the incentive payment through the incentive payment server 170, the incentive payment server 170 calculates the remaining incentive and stores it in the information database 110 (S550).

In explaining such a ringtone providing system and a method of providing the present invention, the digital communication terminal 100 includes the function of a telephone.

The embodiments of the present invention described above are not limited to the embodiments caused by the present invention but only one embodiment, and many modifications and variations are possible besides the above embodiments.

For example, the ringtone providing system and the method of the present invention can be implemented not only through the Internet but also through other network networks.

The ringtone providing system and the method of providing the same according to the present invention allow the service user to replace the ringtone of his digital communication terminal with an advertisement ringtone and receive an incentive by listening to the advertisement ringtone.

Claims (15)

A system for providing a service for setting an advertisement ringtone selected by a service user as a ringtone of a digital communication terminal of a service user through an exchange, An information database for storing service information including a login ID and a login password of the service user, a customer number, a type of a service advertisement ringtone, incentive details, and a digital communication terminal number; An advertisement ringtone database for storing advertisement ringtone data provided to the service user; A ringtone providing server for authenticating the service user, presenting a list of the advertisement ringtones, and outputting an advertisement ringtone transmission signal including transmission command data, digital communication terminal number, ringtone reset data, and selected advertisement ringtone data to the exchange; The incentive to be given to the service user is calculated by using the exposure time of the advertisement ringtone provided from the ringtone providing server to the digital communication terminal of the service user and the type of advertisement ringtone stored in the information database. An incentive calculation server for storing in the information database; And When the incentive calculation server receives the service user's incentives calculated, the customer number is input and the incentive is paid if the incentive is requested. The incentive payment server stores the remaining incentives in the information database. system. The method of claim 1, Advertising ringtone data is a ringtone providing system, characterized in that different incentives are given according to the ringtone type. The method of claim 1, The ringtone providing server, The ringtone providing system further comprises an ad ringtone temporary execution unit that helps the service user to make a final selection by executing the advertisement ringtone selected by the service user to the service user. The method of claim 1, The ringtone providing server is a ringtone providing system, characterized in that the web server. The method of claim 1, The digital communication terminal, A transmitter / receiver for receiving and amplifying the advertisement ringtone transmission signal and outputting data to be transmitted to an exchange signal on an oscillation signal; A modulator / demodulator for decoding and demodulating the coded advertisement ring tone transmission signal and encoding and modulating data to be output; A central control unit for analyzing the demodulated advertisement ring tone transmission signal and converting the existing ring tone into advertisement ringtone data; A memory for storing advertisement ringtone data in place of a previously set ringtone under the control of the central controller receiving the ringtone reset data; A signal conversion unit converting the advertisement ring tone data, which is a digital signal, into an analog signal when an incoming call signal is input to the central control unit by the exchange; A ringtone output unit for outputting the advertisement ringtone data converted into an analog signal by the signal converter to a service user in a sound form; And And a connection signal unit for outputting a connection signal to the exchange to make a call when an incoming call signal is input and a ring tone sounds. The method of claim 5, The central control unit, And when the digital communication terminal is set to the vibration mode, checks it and transmits it to the exchange. delete The method of claim 1, The ringtone exposure time is a ringtone providing system, characterized in that the difference between the two times receiving the time when the incoming call signal and the end of the incoming call signal from the exchange. A ringtone providing system for providing a service for setting a ringtone of a digital communication terminal of a service user through an exchange, the advertisement ringtone selected by a service user, Determining, by the ring tone providing system, an authentication of a service user by using an input ID and a login password of a service user; The ringtone providing system presenting a list of advertisement ringtones to a service user; The advertisement ringtone providing system stores the number of the selected advertisement ringtone, and outputs the advertisement ringtone transmission signal including the transmission command data, the digital communication terminal number, the ringtone reset data, and the selected advertisement ringtone data to the digital communication terminal so that the advertisement ringtone is generated. Setting step; Obtaining, by the ringtone providing system, a ringtone exposure time that is a time when the advertisement ringtone is heard by a service user, and calculating an incentive using the ringtone exposure time and a type of the advertisement ringtone; And When the ringtone providing system has a payment request of the service user, the incentive to pay as much as the request. The method of claim 9, The ringtone providing system further comprises the step of temporarily executing the advertisement ringtone selected by the service user. The method of claim 9, Each of the advertisement ringtones is provided with a different incentive ringtone providing method. The method of claim 9, The ringtone providing system is a ringtone providing method characterized in that made on the Internet. The method of claim 9, The digital communication terminal, If the vibration mode is set, the ringtone providing method characterized in that the check and transmit to the exchange. delete The method of claim 9, The ringtone exposure time is, And a time point at which an incoming call signal is input to the digital communication terminal through an exchange and a time point at which the incoming call signal ends.