KR100361021B1 - System and method for linking a communication using a name of object - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention discloses a communication connection system using an object name and a method thereof. The communication connection method of the present invention comprises the steps of (a) inputting the object name of the receiver through the sender terminal and attempting to connect by transmitting to the switching system; (b) retrieving the received object name from an address DB and converting the received object name into a corresponding address in an address conversion apparatus connected to the switching system; And (c) interconnecting the sender terminal and the receiver terminal according to the translated address by the switching system.

Description

System and method for linking a communication using a name of object}

The present invention relates to a communication access system and method using an object name, and more particularly, to a name or alias representing an object instead of an identification number such as a telephone number, a mobile phone number, a homepage address, and an e-mail address. The present invention relates to a communication connection system and a method for enabling a communication connection simply by using an attribute, and the like.

Today, due to the development of various means of communication, users can not only use classic communication devices such as telephones and faxes, but also new communication devices such as PCS phones, mobile communication devices such as personal digital assistants (PDAs), and the Internet and e-mail. The media are in contact.

However, in order to use the various communication means as described above, a user must directly input a unique identification number representing a counterpart for each communication medium, that is, a phone number, a mobile phone number, a homepage address, an e-mail address, and the like.

In the days of lack of communication, users could only memorize one or two phone numbers, but in today's wide variety of communication media, users must identify and memorize identification numbers of these communication media. It must be a heavy burden to do.

In particular, telephone and mobile phone numbers are expressed only in Arabic numerals, unlike e-mail addresses or domain names, so there is no means to imply or express the other party. Therefore, it is common to record or create a phone book for each person and try to confirm the call.

Furthermore, telephone numbers, mobile phone numbers, homepage addresses, and e-mail addresses corresponding to one person do not have any correlation with each other, so it is not easy to manage them collectively.

The present inventor sets up a new identification means which is easy to remember in association with the communication party's name, alias or attribute, instead of the existing telephone number, which has no inherent meaning, and the user uses this identification means to communicate with the other party. The necessity of a communication connection means that can be easily communicated has been reduced. In addition, such a communication connection should be able to access not only a telephone or a mobile phone but also an e-mail and a homepage.

In addition, there is a necessity to manage all telephone numbers, mobile numbers, e-mail addresses, homepage addresses, etc. for the same person so that all of them can be accessed by identification means memorized by the user.

The present invention has been made in accordance with the above problems and needs, instead of the existing telephone number, mobile phone number, e-mail address, homepage address, using the object name representing the name or alias of the communication partner, the telephone number, etc. It is an object of the present invention to provide a communication connection system and method for allowing a connection to a counterpart without knowing.

It is still another object of the present invention to provide a communication access system and method for collectively managing a telephone number, a mobile phone number, an e-mail address, and a homepage address for the same person and accessing all of them by the aforementioned object name. .

1 is a schematic diagram showing the configuration of a communication connection system using an object name according to the present invention.

2 is a diagram illustrating an example of a data table stored in an address DB of a communication access system using an object name according to the present invention.

3 is a block diagram showing an embodiment in which a communication connection system using an object name according to the present invention is applied to a mobile communication network.

4 is a flowchart illustrating a process of a communication connection method using an object name according to the present invention.

5 is a block diagram showing an embodiment in which a communication connection system using an object name according to the present invention is applied to a public switched telephone network (PSTN).

6 is a diagram schematically illustrating a hierarchical structure of an address DB provided in a system according to the present invention.

7 is a flowchart illustrating a process of searching for an object name according to the address DB layer of FIG. 6.

8 is another example schematically showing the hierarchical structure of the address DB provided in the system according to the present invention.

9 is a flowchart illustrating a process of searching for an object name according to the address DB layer of FIG. 8.

In order to achieve the above object, a communication access method using an object name according to the present invention includes: (a) inputting an object name of a receiver through a sender terminal and attempting to connect by transmitting to the switching system; (b) retrieving the received object name from an address DB and converting the received object name into a corresponding address in an address conversion apparatus connected to the switching system; And (c) interconnecting the sender terminal and the receiver terminal according to the translated address by the switching system.

The input object name includes at least one [element], preferably,

Expression of an object = [identifier] [element] (delimiter) ···· (delimiter) [element].

It is expressed as

Preferably, the [elements] represent names, aliases, attributes, etc. of objects.

In addition, the step (b) may include (b.1) determining whether an identification code exists in the input object expression, and if not present, processing according to an existing method; (b.2) in the step, if there is an identification code, setting the first [element] to a token; (b.3) searching whether the same object name as the set token exists in the address DB; (b.4) in the step of determining if there is a next [element] if the same object name exists; (b.5) in the above step, if there is a next [element], determining whether it is a medium, and if it is a medium, converting to an address of the medium; (b.6) in the step, if the next [element] is not a medium, updating to "token = token + next [element]" and then returning to step (b.3); (b.7) in step (b.3), if the same object name does not exist in the address DB, determining whether the next [element] exists; (b.8) if the next [element] exists in step (b.7), updating to "token = token + next [element]" and returning to step (b.3); and (b.9) outputting an error message if the next [element] does not exist in step (b.7).

According to another aspect of the invention, the exchange system 50 for connecting and connecting the sender terminal and the receiver terminal; And an address DB 40 in which object address information including an object name is stored, an address register 32 for registering object address information in the address DB 40, and the caller terminal. An address translation device (30) comprising an address interpretation and conversion unit (31) for interpreting the object name inputted and transmitted to the switching system and searching for existence in the address DB and converting the object name into the address of the corresponding object; A system is provided.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. Prior to this, terms or words used in the present specification and claims should not be construed as being limited to the common or dictionary meanings, and the inventors should properly explain the concept of terms in order to explain their own invention in the best possible way. Based on the principle that can be defined, it should be interpreted as meaning and concept corresponding to the technical idea of the present invention. Therefore, the embodiments described in the specification and the drawings shown in the drawings are only the most preferred embodiment of the present invention and do not represent all of the technical idea of the present invention, various modifications that can be replaced at the time of the present application It should be understood that there may be equivalents and variations.

Definition of term

As used herein and in the claims, an "object" refers to an individual, organization, or institution as a sender that transmits a signal to communicate and a receiver to which a communication connection is made. Thus, "object name" refers to a name, alias, attribute, etc. set to represent a communication subject or counterpart.

In addition, the "address" used herein encompasses a telephone number, a mobile phone number, a homepage address, an e-mail address, etc., and will be simply abbreviated as an address.

According to the present invention, a caller can access a receiver's landline phone, cellular phone, e-mail (i.e. mail server), homepage (i.e., web server) using a wired or wireless terminal such as a landline phone, a mobile phone, a PDA, etc. Here, the former is referred to as a "caller terminal" and the latter is defined as a "receiver terminal".

In addition, the expressions such as "for example" or "for example" described herein exemplarily list the most preferable configuration, and thus there may be other variations which can be easily employed by those skilled in the art at the time of filing. It is revealed.

Representative Embodiments of the Invention

1 is a schematic diagram representing a communication connection system using an object name according to the present invention. As shown, the communication connection system of the present invention is composed of an existing exchange system 50 and an address translation apparatus 30 interoperating with the exchange system 50.

As used herein, the term "exchange system" refers to any system that connects and connects communication terminals with each other using a telephone number, a mobile phone number, an e-mail address, a homepage address, and the like, which are identification numbers representing the other party. Examples include wired telephone (hereinafter referred to as "telephone") switching system, mobile communication switching system, internet network and the like.

The telephone exchange system refers to a system for interconnecting an outgoing call 11 and an incoming call 21 as a public switched telephone network (PSTN) including a telephone station and an exchange.

The mobile communication switching system is a mobile communication network including a base station, a control station, an exchange station, and a gateway that connects mobile communication terminals 10 and 20 to each other, such as PCS phones and cellular phones, or between mobile communication terminals and telephones. .

The Internet network includes not only a wired network but also a wireless Internet network which can be connected to a counterpart web server 22 or an electronic mail server 23 through a wireless Internet terminal such as a mobile phone 10 or a PDA based on WAP, for example. . In addition, the Internet network should be understood to include a wired or wireless Internet access concept according to the Internet access technology through the voice recognition that is being actively developed in recent years.

Since the concept of the switching system according to the present embodiment is so comprehensive that the gist of the present invention is to achieve a communication connection using an object name instead of an existing identification number, any communication connection is made using this identification number. This is because it can be applied to both exchange systems. Therefore, since the configuration of the exchange system is conventional and the gist of the present invention is not in the exchange system itself, detailed description thereof will be omitted below.

The technical idea of the present invention described above may be achieved by interworking with the exchange system 50 and the address translation device 30. The address conversion device 30 receives a caller inputs a preset object name in order to attempt to make a call according to the present invention and receives a phone number, a mobile phone number, a homepage address, and an e-mail address (hereinafter referred to as "address"). It converts to).

The address conversion device 30 includes, in addition to the usual CPU, input / output device, and communication interface, an address analysis and conversion unit 31 which analyzes an input object name and searches for an address DB 40 to be described later and converts it into a corresponding address. And an address registration unit 32 for inputting and registering the address information of the object, and an address DB 40 containing the address information of the object. The address DB 40 includes a database management system (DBMS) 33. Is managed and controlled by

Then, the correspondence between the database structure, that is, the object name and the address contained in the address DB 40 will be described.

<Correspondence of object name and address>

According to the present invention, the user enters the object name of the receiver through the caller terminal 10 to attempt a call. In this regard, the present inventor has filed a Korean Patent Application No. 2000-27281, "Expression method and system for consistently referring to the destination of an object", and the object structure described in the application specification relates to the present invention. The matter is to be incorporated into the present specification as may be a guide for interpretation in order to understand and support the present invention.

The object name is a name, an alias or an attribute representing a receiver, which is preset and registered by a user or a third party. Examples of the object name include "Korea University," "Patent Office", and "Korea Communications."

end. The construction of object names

The object names consist of at least one or more [elements] as follows.

[Object name] = [element] (delimiter) [element] (delimiter) ··· (delimiter) [element]

Here, [element] refers to a character string not separated by a decimal point or a space, such as "Korea University", "Patent Office", and "Korea Telecom", and is the minimum unit information, and (delimiter) denotes each [element] or A character for separating the identification code described later is preferably represented by a decimal point. Therefore, the object name can be reexpressed as

[Object name] = [element]. [Element]. ····. [Element]

The object name may consist of two or more [elements], which may differ between individuals and organizations. That is, in the case of a group such as "Patent Office" and "Korea Telecom", an object is identified by only one [element], so the object name becomes the name of the object such as "Patent Office" or "Korea Telecom". For example, if the object name consists of only one [element] as "Hong Gil-dong", the problem is indistinguishable because there are many people with the same name.

In order to solve this problem, the object name of an individual is preferably composed of two [elements], such as "Fast. Herein, the first [element] 'fast' or 'thought' indicates an alias or attribute of the object, and the second [element] indicates an object's name, but their order is not limited by the present invention.

In addition, there may be cases where a group is composed of two or more [elements]. For example, the object name for the Department of Computer Science and Engineering in Korea University may be expressed as "Korea University. Department of Computer Science and Engineering."

Furthermore, the object name may be made up of three or more [elements], such as "Fast. Hong Gil-dong. Friend" or "Korea University. Department of Computer Science and Engineering. Administration."

I. Representation of object

If the user wants to make a phone call with a recipient named Hong-Gil-Dong, the expression of the object to be input to the caller terminal 10 is as follows.

Object_expression = [identifier] [object name]. [Media]

The identification code is header information indicating that the input expression is an expression using the object name according to the present invention. Etc. may be used, and the present invention will be described using # as an example. Therefore, as will be described later, when the data received from the caller starts with #, the exchange system accepts this as object name information and operates the address conversion device 30 to convert the address to the corresponding address. Will be processed accordingly.

[Medium] is information indicating a communication medium of a receiver to which a caller wants to connect, which also constitutes a [element]. That is, the medium is any one of a telephone, a mobile phone, a home (home page), and an e-mail. Although reference is made to the limited media in the present invention, it should be understood that the present invention is applicable to various communication media including fax.

In sum, the above can be expressed as follows.

Object_expression = # [object name]. [Media]

= # [Element]. ···. [Element]. [Media]

= # [Element]. ···. [Element]. [Element]

If the object name for the receiver named Hong-Gil-Dong is 'Fast, Hong-Kil-Dong' and wants to make a phone call with the receiver, the expression of the object is as follows.

Hong Gil-dong's Object Expression = #Fast.

Optionally, if [Media] is not displayed, it is preferable to convert the address to a communication medium designated by default in advance. For example, if the default is set to phone, Hong Gil-dong's object representation could be "# fast.Hong Gil-dong".

Hong Gil-dong's Object Expression = #Fast.

= # Fast.Hong Gil Dong

The input object name is finally converted into a phone number of Hong Gil-dong.

An example of the data table for the above object name and the corresponding address is shown in FIG. 2. Referring to the drawings, each record represented by an object name is composed of fields such as a phone number, a mobile phone number, an e-mail address, and a homepage address. Preferably. The address information may further include general information such as an ID, a password, an address, etc. of the communication user who stores the information.

Such object information is registered in advance in the address DB 40, and this registration may be performed by the call operator and a third party. That is, the user may access the address translation apparatus 30 and input the address information together with the object name of the desired recipient by the address registration unit 32 to register it. In addition, it is preferable that information on public organizations, institutions, hospitals, facilities, etc. not directly related to the user is stored in the address DB 40 together with the object name.

The registration of the object information, although not specifically disclosed in the specification and drawings, may be performed according to a conventional method, for example, a user connects to an address translator server through the Internet using a client terminal and provides the same. Registration can be completed by inputting necessary information on the registration screen. As an alternative, a mobile communication terminal such as a cellular phone may be used to register address information in the same manner after accessing an address translation apparatus via a WAP gateway.

<Example of communication connection using mobile communication terminal>

Next, a process of accessing an object using a mobile communication terminal will be described in order to find a specific embodiment in which a communication connection is made according to the present invention.

3 illustrates a schematic configuration of a system for connecting to an object using a mobile communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention. That is, a mobile communication network is disclosed as an example of the switching system shown in FIG.

Referring to the drawings, the communication connection system of the present invention is connected to the exchange system for setting up a call so as to enable a call between the mobile communication terminals 10 and 20 serving as a mobile station (MS), and the exchange system. And an address translation apparatus 30 for converting the input object name into a media address.

The switching system is a typical mobile communication network (BTS) (Base Transceiver Station) (51) 55 that acts as an interface of the mobile communication terminal (10) 20 to send and receive messages and manage radio resources, and the base station A base station controller (BSC) 52, 54 that manages and an exchange station that is connected to the control station and other stations and other networks, connects subscribers to subscribers and performs mobile communication services such as billing processing of users. A mobile services switching center (MSC) 53, and a location register (LR) 57 for accessing the switching center to manage the location information of the subscriber.

A communication connection method according to the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. 4, which shows an operation process of the communication connection system configured as described above.

end. Enter object name

First, the caller inputs the object name of the desired receiver to the mobile communication terminal 10 according to the above-described expression and then attempts to make a call. In other words, examples of the input object expression may be "# fast.Hong Gil-dong.mobile phone", "#patent office.phone", "# apgujeong.ohsunghwan.home".

I. Distinguishing Object Expressions

The mobile communication terminal 10 transmits a call setup signal to the base station 51 with respect to the input object expression, which is transmitted to the switching center 53 again. Once the signal is received at the switching center 53, it is judged whether an identification code (#) exists in the received signal (step S200).

If the identification code (#) is not present, the signal is a normal signal, and thus is processed by the switching center 53 according to the existing telephone number processing method (step S300). The signal is transmitted to the address translation apparatus 30 because it corresponds to the connection by the.

All. Interpretation and Address Translation of Object Expressions

The object expression transmitted to the address translation device 30 is interpreted and converted by the address interpretation and conversion unit 31. The first process is to separate the object name input by [element] and divide the first [element] into the minimum unit token. (Step S210).

Subsequently, if the token is set, the address DB 40 is searched to determine whether the same object name as the set token exists (step S220). For example, an object expression "#Patent Office" is searched for whether the same object name as "Patent Office" exists, and if the same object name exists, it is determined whether the next [element] exists in the object expression (step S250), and it is a medium. That is, it is determined whether it corresponds to one of a telephone, a mobile phone, a home (home page), and an e-mail (step S260).

As a result of the determination, if the next [element] is a medium, the address is converted to the corresponding medium of the object (step S270). For example, if the next [element] of the "Patent Office" object name is "telephone", this is a medium, so the entered object expression is converted into the Office of the Patent Office.

In the above step S250, if the next [element] does not exist, for example, if the object expression is only "Patent Office" and there is no [element] for the medium designation, it may be preferably converted to a predetermined default address ( Step S290). Thus, if the default address is designated as a telephone, the object expression "# Patent Office" is soon addressed to the telephone number of the Patent Office. More preferably, the default address may be set to the calling terminal terminal medium, i.e., if the calling terminal is a mobile phone, the default address is "mobile phone", if the phone is "telephone", and if the client terminal is "home" This can be

In step S260, if the next [element] does not correspond to the medium, for example, when the object expression is "#KIPO." And the next [element] is "medium", the token is " Token = token + next [element] "is updated (step S280). That is, the object name is reset to "Patent Office. Application Section" in which the next [element] is added.

Subsequently, the procedure returns to the step S220 to search for the existence of the object name corresponding to the reset token, and if present, to go through the same process as the above-described steps S250 to S290.

On the other hand, when the object name corresponding to the first [element] does not exist in step S220, for example, when the object expression is "# fast.honggildong.mobile phone", the first token value "fast" is entered into the address DB 40. If it is not present, it is determined whether there is a further [element] (step S230), and if there is a further [element], the token is updated to the value added with this [element] (step S280). In other words, the renewed token becomes "fast. Hong Gil-dong".

The same object name is searched again for the updated token (step S220), and if present, the process is performed according to the above-described steps S250 to S290.

If the object name corresponding to the updated token does not exist, this means that there is an error in the input of the object expression, so the address translator 40 transmits an error message, which is transmitted to the sender terminal 10 through the base station 51. Is transmitted (step S240).

la. Connection of objects

When the address is converted into a desired communication medium among the phone number, the mobile phone number, the e-mail address, and the homepage address according to the object name inputted from the caller terminal 10 through the above process, the converted address is transferred to the switching center 53. Once returned, the switching center 53 connects the sender and the receiver according to the changed address.

For example, when the object name is converted into the receiver's cellular phone, the switching center 53 sets up a call after searching the location information of the receiver's cellular phone 20 in the location register 57.

If it is converted into the telephone number of the receiver, the switching center 53 connects to the public telephone network (PSTN) 60 via a gateway station 56 and connects to the telephone 21 of the receiver.

In addition, in the case of being converted into the recipient's e-mail address or homepage address, for example, after connecting to the Internet network 61 through a gateway exchange station 56 serving as a WAP gateway, the recipient's web server 22 or a mail server is connected. Let's do it.

<Example of communication connection using a wired telephone>

Next, an example in which the caller connects to the receiver using a landline phone will be described. 5 is an exchange system such as a public switched telephone network (PSTN) for connecting an outgoing call 11 and an incoming call 21 according to a communication access system using an object name of the present invention, and an address translation interworking with the call exchange system. The configuration of the device 30 is shown.

In operation, the caller enters the object name using the outgoing call 11 and transmits it to the telephone station 71. Here, the input of the object name requires the input of the identification code and the character as described above, so it is input using the telephone button. In this case, the above-described identification code (#) and delimiter (.) May be replaced with the one corresponding to the landline button.

As an alternative, it is also possible to have a voice recognition system to convert the talker's voice into an object name and transmit it to the telephone station 71. Such an object name input technique is not limited by the present invention and may be variously modified and implemented at a level of ordinary skill in the art.

First, the signal input from the outgoing call 11 is sent to the exchange 70 via the telephone station 71, and in the exchange 70, as described above, the received signal is a signal based on an existing telephone number method. The existence of the identification code (#) is determined to distinguish whether the object name is used.

As a result, if the identification code (#) is present, the exchange 70 sends the signal to the address translator 30 to convert it to the address of the corresponding object. The exchange 70 connects to the receiving telephone 21 via the receiving telephone station 72 according to the converted address.

As an alternative, the signal received from the telephone station 71 is analyzed and if it is a connection signal using an object name, it is sent to the address changing apparatus 30, and the address translation apparatus 30 converts it into the address of the corresponding object. It can also be sent to the exchange 70.

<Example of communication connection according to address database scheme>

Up to now, the overall process of analyzing and converting the object expression input from the sender terminal 10 by the address translation apparatus 40 and then connecting to the receiver terminal 20 corresponding to the object has been described. However, such communication access service can be performed more efficiently according to the classification of objects, which is related to the structure of the address database.

According to another embodiment of the present invention, the address data stored in the address DB 40 may be largely divided into a private address list 100 and a public address list 110, as shown in FIG. 6.

The private address list 100 is address information of an object registered directly by the user as being associated with the user, and the public address list 110 is an object that is set in advance regardless of the user, such as "Gangnam-gu Office" and "Patent Office". Address information.

The private address list is composed of a registered address list 101, a use address list 102 and a fixed address list 103.

Here, the registered address list 101 is address information registered directly by the sender who is a communication user, and is composed of object names and addresses of friends, family members, groups related to themselves, and the like. "Fast. Hong Gil-dong", "Smile. Kim Hyung-il", For example, "Apgujeong. Oh Sung-hwan."

The use address list 102 stores a kind of communication access history information, and separately stores address information of an object to which the user has accessed at least once. And address information are also stored. Therefore, the user can search his or her use address list 102 to register the necessary address information in the registered address list (101).

The fixed address list 103 is stored in the address information of the object prior to the registered address list 101 and the use address list 102, "119", "fire department", "police", "emergency room", etc. That's an example. For the object stored in the fixed address list 103, even if the same object name exists in another address list, the connection is not allowed, and only the address stored in the fixed address list 103 is converted and connected. The registration and use of the fixed address list 103 may be selectively performed by a communication user.

The procedure for searching whether the same object name exists in the address DB configured as described above is shown in FIG. As shown, the fixed address list 103 is first searched for the input object name (step S400). As a result, if the object name exists in the fixed address list 103, even if the same object name exists in the other address list is ignored and converted to the corresponding address stored in the fixed address list 103 (S270).

If the object name does not exist in the fixed address list 103, the registered address list 101 is searched (step S410), and if the registered address list 101 does not exist, the used address list 102 is subsequently searched. (Step S420). Here, the search order of the registered address list 101 and the use address list 102 may be changed as necessary.

As such, if the same object name does not exist despite the search result for the private address list 100, the public address list 110 is then searched (step S430).

In the present embodiment, more preferably, the private address list 100 may be a keyword search. Thus, if the user enters "fast," for example, object names containing these elements are retrieved from the private address list 100 and provided to the user, and the user can select any one from this list and attempt to connect. have.

According to the present invention, although the address DB 40 is illustrated as being provided in the address translation apparatus 30, the address DB may be present in a distributed form without being limited thereto. Alternatively, the private address list 100 may be registered and stored directly in the memory of the user terminal 10 or 20.

<Example of Communication Connection According to Classification of Public Address List>

According to the present invention, as shown in FIG. 8, the public address list 110 may be divided into a local address list 111 and a global address list 112.

It is preferable that the global address list 112 is in order.

For example, if a caller attempts to access a communication while located in Gangnam-gu, the user's area becomes Gangnam-gu, and the local address list 111 becomes address information about an object located in Gangnam-gu. In addition, to indicate that the address corresponding to the local address list 111, the local address list has information on a separate representative name, such representative name is hospital, dental, pharmacy, bookstore, restaurant, theater, etc. It becomes the name representing the group.

More specifically, when a user enters an object name (representative name), for example, "#dental" using the caller terminal 10 in a specific region and attempts to access, the caller's location is a base station corresponding to the corresponding communication cell. It is grasped by (51 in FIG. 2) and stored in the position registration part 57. FIG. At the same time, the private address list 100 is searched according to the above-described process to determine whether the same object name exists, and if it does not exist, as shown in the flowchart of FIG. 9, is the object name representative of the local address book? (Step S431).

As a result, if it is not the representative name of the local address book, then the global address list is searched (step S433). 57, the location information of the sender is grasped, and all objects (dentals) belonging to the representative name are searched in the region where the sender is located, and then converted into the object address closest to the sender (step S432).

Alternatively, in this step, all objects belonging to the representative name may be searched, and then the list may be provided to the sender, and the sender may select the connection to connect.

On the other hand, in the case of a telephone, instead of the base station, the location information of the user may be determined according to the area to which the telephone station belongs or the station number of the caller.

Although the present invention has been described with reference to specific drawings and embodiments, the present invention is not limited thereto. Various modifications may be derived by those skilled in the art.

According to the present invention, the user can conveniently and conveniently communicate with the other party anytime and anywhere if the user only knows the name or attributes of the other party without memorizing the telephone number, mobile phone number, homepage address, e-mail address, etc. of the counterpart. Communication connection is possible.

Furthermore, since a plurality of addresses according to various communication media can be integrated and expressed as a single concept and can be connected to a desired medium, the burden of address memorization according to the number of communication media can be completely eliminated.

Claims (22)

(a) attempting to connect by entering an object name of a receiver through a caller terminal including a cellular phone and a PDA and transmitting it to a switching system; (b) retrieving the received object name from an address DB and converting the received object name into a corresponding address in an address conversion apparatus connected to the switching system; And (c) the exchange system interconnecting the sender terminal and the receiver terminal according to the translated address. The method of claim 1, wherein the input object name is expressed as follows, including at least one [element]. Expression of an object = [identifier] [element] (delimiter) ···· (delimiter) [element]. The method of claim 2, wherein step (b) comprises: (b.1) determining whether an identification code exists in the input object expression, and if not present, processing according to an existing method; (b.2) if there is an identifying code in the step, setting the first [element] to a token; (b.3) searching whether the same object name as the set token exists in the address DB; (b.4) in the step of determining if there is a next [element] if the same object name exists; (b.5) in the above step, if there is a next [element], determining whether it is a medium, and if it is a medium, converting to an address of the medium; (b.6) in the step, if the next [element] is not a medium, updating the token as follows and returning to the step (b.3) Token = token + next [element]; (b.7) in step (b.3), if the same object name does not exist in the address DB, determining whether the next [element] exists; (b.8) if the next [element] exists in step (b.7), updating the token as follows and returning to step (b.3): Token = token + next [element]; And (b.9) in the step (b.7), if the next [element] does not exist; outputting an error message. 4. A method as claimed in claim 3, further comprising the step (b.4) of translating to a preset default address if the next [element] does not exist. The communication connection method according to claim 2, wherein the [element] indicates a name, an alias, an attribute, etc. of an object. The method of claim 1, wherein the receiver terminal is a mobile communication terminal, a telephone, a homepage, or an electronic mail. The method of claim 1, wherein the address includes a telephone number, a mobile phone number, a homepage address, and an e-mail address. The method of claim 1, wherein the switching system includes a mobile communication network, a public switched telephone network (PSTN), and an internet network. The method of claim 1, wherein the address DB, A private address list comprising address information of objects associated with the user; And A public address list consisting of address information of an object set irrespective of a user, and in the step (b), the private address list is searched first and then the public address list is searched if the same object name does not exist. Connection method. The method of claim 9, wherein the private address list, A registered address list including address information of objects registered and input by a user directly; And And a user address list including address information of an object accessed by the user at least once. The method of claim 10, wherein the private address list, And a fixed address list including address information of objects searched in preference to the registered address list and the used address list. The method of claim 9, wherein the public address list, A local address list consisting of address information of objects located in a region where a user is located; And Communication connection method characterized in that the search in the order of the global address list. The method of claim 12, wherein when a user inputs a representative name of an object, an object close to the user is searched for from an object belonging to the representative name from the local address list and converted into the address. The method of claim 12, wherein when a user inputs a representative name of an object, objects belonging to the representative name are searched from the local address list, and a list is provided to the user, and the user selects a desired object from the list and attempts to connect. A communication connection method characterized by the above-mentioned. An exchange system 50 for interconnecting and connecting a sender terminal and a receiver terminal including a cellular phone and a PDA; And Input from the caller terminal, an address DB (40) storing object address information including an object name, an address register (32) for registering object address information in the address DB (40), which is linked with the switching system. And an address translation device 30 including an address interpretation and conversion unit 31 for interpreting the object name transmitted to the exchange system, searching for the existence in the address DB, and converting the object name into the address of the corresponding object. system. The communication connection system according to claim 15, wherein the receiver terminal is a mobile communication terminal, a telephone, a homepage, or an electronic mail. The communication access system according to claim 15, wherein said address comprises a telephone number, a mobile telephone number, a homepage address and an e-mail address. 16. A communication connection system according to claim 15, wherein said switching system comprises a mobile communication network, a public switched telephone network (PSTN) and an internet network. The method of claim 15, wherein the address DB, A private address list comprising address information of objects associated with the user; And Communication access system, characterized in that consisting of a public address list consisting of the address information of the object set irrespective of the user. The method of claim 19, wherein the private address list, A registered address list including address information of objects registered and input by a user directly; And And a user address list including address information of objects accessed by the user at least once. The method of claim 20, wherein the private address list, And a fixed address list comprising address information of objects searched in preference to the registered address list and the used address list. The method of claim 19, wherein the public address list, A local address list consisting of address information of objects located in a region where a user is located; And A communication access system comprising a global address list consisting of address information of an object irrespective of a user's location.