KR100392093B1 - Method for union downloaded bell sound - Google Patents

Abstract

According to the present invention, when a user and a ringtone receiver are subscribers of different mobile carriers, the ringer files of the outgoing carrier selected by the user are received through wired and wireless Internet and the mobile communication network, thereby automatically converting them to the standards of the mobile carrier. In addition, the present invention relates to a method for providing a ringtone integrated download service for providing a ringtone download service between mobile carriers without integrating a specification of a ringtone file among mobile carriers.

The present invention, if the user enters the phone number of the receiver mobile communication terminal through the user terminal, the first mobile communication company transmits the phone number information to the service providing server; Analyzing the telephone number information in the service providing server to select a corresponding second mobile carrier; Transmitting telephone number information to the selected second mobile communication company, and requesting information of the receiver mobile communication terminal; When the second mobile communication company transmits the information of the receiver mobile communication terminal to the service providing server, the service providing server transmits the information of the receiver mobile communication terminal to the first mobile communication company; A first mobile communication company detects a list of ringtone files downloadable from the receiver mobile communication terminal, and transmits and displays a list of detected ringtone files to the user terminal; If the user selects a random ringtone file, the service providing server converts the selected ringtone file into a ringtone file of the second carrier and transmits it to the second carrier; The second mobile telecommunication company is characterized in that for transmitting the ringtone file converted by the service providing server to the receiver mobile communication terminal.

Description

How to provide ringtone integrated download service {Method for union downloaded bell sound}

The present invention relates to a ringtone integrated download service providing method, and more specifically, to a ringtone file of the outgoing mobile carrier selected by the user only when the user and the ringtone receiver are subscribers of different mobile carriers. The present invention relates to a method for providing a ringtone integrated download service that allows a mobile phone company to provide a ringtone download service without having to integrate the standard of a ringtone file by automatically converting it to meet the standards of a mobile communication company.

In general, ringtone files between mobile carriers are different from each other, so a user using a mobile communication terminal of any one carrier cannot download a ringtone file of another mobile carrier other than the ringtone file of the corresponding mobile carrier. Moreover, even when using a mobile communication terminal of a mobile communication company, downloading of the ringtone of the mobile communication company may be restricted according to the specifications of each terminal. Therefore, in the related art, each mobile telecommunication company has no choice but to provide a limited service for providing a ring tone to a user of the mobile telecommunication company or another person using the same mobile telecommunication company. This limited service causes a problem that the efficiency and popularity of the service are degraded because the service is not shared with other mobile carriers.

In addition, even if the standard of the ringtone file is integrated between the respective mobile carriers are currently only available to the mobile communication terminals that are currently limited to provide a limited service.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to solve such problem (s), and an object of the present invention is to expand the scope of a ringtone download service for a mobile communication terminal, thereby to popularize the service and to expand the market scale. It provides a ringtone integrated download service providing method.

1 is a system configuration diagram showing the overall configuration of a ringtone integrated download service providing system applied to the present invention,

2 is a flowchart illustrating a process of providing a ringtone integrated download service according to the present invention;

3 is a diagram showing a sample of ringtone data for each mobile carrier,

4 is a view showing a conversion state of the ringtone data according to the present invention.

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101: user mobile communication terminal 102: user Internet terminal

201: recipient mobile communication terminal 300: first mobile communication company

301 and 402: base station 302: mobile communication network

303: ARS server 304: Internet network

305: wired Internet server 306: wireless Internet server

400: second carrier 401: SMS / WAP server

500: service providing server 501: input unit

502: sound source data converter 503: output unit

A feature of the present invention for achieving such an object (s) is that a service providing server for relaying a ringtone file transmission between a first mobile carrier, a second mobile carrier, a first mobile carrier and a second mobile carrier can communicate. A method for transmitting a ringtone file to a receiver having a receiver mobile communication terminal registered with a second mobile carrier by a user having a user terminal including a mobile communication terminal and an internet terminal registered with the first mobile carrier, When the user inputs the telephone number of the receiver mobile communication terminal through the user terminal, the first mobile communication company transmits the telephone number information to the service providing server; Analyzing the telephone number information in the service providing server to select a corresponding second mobile carrier; Transmitting telephone number information to the selected second mobile communication company, and requesting information of the receiver mobile communication terminal; When the second mobile communication company transmits the information of the receiver mobile communication terminal to the service providing server, the service providing server transmits the information of the receiver mobile communication terminal to the first mobile communication company; A first mobile communication company detects a list of ringtone files downloadable from the receiver mobile communication terminal, and transmits and displays a list of detected ringtone files to the user terminal; If the user selects a random ringtone file, the service providing server converts the selected ringtone file into a ringtone file of the second carrier and transmits it to the second carrier; The second mobile communication company is to transmit the ringtone file converted by the service providing server to the receiver mobile communication terminal.

Here, the telephone number information preferably includes a mobile carrier identification number for distinguishing a mobile carrier.

In addition, the receiver's mobile communication terminal information preferably includes the type of the second mobile communication company in which the receiver's mobile communication terminal is registered and the type of the receiver mobile communication terminal.

The service providing server may store and store a data conversion code for converting the sound source data of the ringtone file provided by the first mobile communication company into the sound source data of the ringtone file recognizable by the second mobile communication company. After converting the header information and the sound source data of the ringtone file provided by the to the header information and the sound source data of the ringtone file that can be recognized by the second mobile communication company, it is preferable to transmit to the second mobile communication company.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiment (s) of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. First, in adding reference numerals to the elements of each drawing, it should be noted that the same elements are denoted by the same reference numerals as much as possible even if they are displayed on different drawings. In addition, in the following description there are shown a number of specific details, such as components of the specific circuit, which are provided only to help a more general understanding of the present invention that the present invention may be practiced without these specific details. It is self-evident to those of ordinary knowledge in Esau. In describing the present invention, when it is determined that a detailed description of a related known function or configuration may unnecessarily obscure the subject matter of the present invention, the detailed description thereof will be omitted.

1 is a system configuration diagram showing the overall configuration of the integrated ringtone download service providing system applied to the present invention, Figure 2 is a flow chart showing the process of performing the integrated ringtone download service providing method according to the present invention, FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a sample of ring data for each mobile carrier, and FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a conversion state of ring data according to the present invention.

Referring to Figure 1, the configuration of the present invention will be described.

A plurality of mobile communication providers 300 and 400 that can be connected to the mobile communication terminals 101 and 201 or the Internet terminal 102 (hereinafter, referred to collectively as the 'terminal') Each is connected to the service providing server 500. That is, the first mobile telecommunication company 300 connectable to the user terminals 101 and 102 is connected to the second mobile telecommunication company 400 connectable to the receiver terminal 201 through the service providing server 500.

At this time, the first mobile communication company 300 is an ARS server (Automatic Response Service Server) connected to the base station 301 relaying the user mobile communication terminal 101 and the base station 301 through the mobile communication network 302 ( 303, a wired Internet server 305 and a wireless Internet server 306 connected to the base station 301 or the user Internet terminal 102 through the Internet network 304.

In addition, the second mobile communication company 400 may include an SMS / WAP server (Short Message Service / Wireless Application Protocol Server) 401 that receives a ringtone file provided from the service providing server 500, and an SMS / WAP server 401. A base station 402 is connected to the receiver mobile communication terminal 201.

In addition, the service providing server 500 serves as a gateway server between the first mobile communication company 300 and the second mobile communication company 400, the input unit for classifying the various information input from the first mobile communication company (300) 501 and a sound source data converter 502 for converting sound source data between the first mobile communication company 300 of the user and the second mobile communication company 400 of the receiver using information input through the input unit 501; , An output unit 503 for outputting the ringtone file converted by the sound source data conversion unit 502 to the second mobile communication company 400 of the receiver.

Referring to Figures 2 to 4 with respect to the operation of the present invention having such a configuration as follows.

First, in the present invention, the user connects to the first mobile communication company 300 through the terminals 101 and 102, and the wired Internet server 305, the wireless Internet server 306, and the ARS server of the first mobile communication company 300. It is noted that 303 may be selectively used respectively, and the usage manners through the respective servers 303, 305, and 306 may all achieve the same result.

A user accesses the ARS server 303 or the wireless Internet server 306 in the first mobile communication company 300 using the mobile communication terminal 101 or uses the Internet terminal 102 in the first mobile communication company 300. When connected to the wired Internet server 305 (S101), the first mobile communication company 300 transmits various menu information that can be provided to the user and displays menu items on the user's terminal (101, 102) (S102).

In this case, when the user selects a ringtone download service among various menu items displayed on the terminals 101 and 102 (S103), the first mobile communication company 300 directly downloads the user's mobile communication terminal 101 or determines whether the receiver is directly downloaded. The mobile communication terminal 201 requests to select whether to transmit.

In this case, when the user selects to transmit to his mobile communication terminal 101, the first mobile communication company 300 does not perform data conversion of the ringtone file in the same manner as the currently operating method. Transfer to the terminal 101. Accordingly, the user can download the ring tone selected by the user to his mobile terminal 101 (S104).

On the other hand, if the user requests to transmit to the receiver's mobile communication terminal 201 (S105), the first mobile carrier 300 requests the user to enter the phone number of the receiver's mobile communication terminal 201 (S106).

Accordingly, when the user inputs the telephone number of the receiver's mobile communication terminal 201 using the terminals 101 and 102 (S107), the first mobile communication company 300 receives the telephone number information of the receiver mobile communication terminal 201. Is transmitted to the service providing server 500, the service providing server 500 from the phone number information of the transmitted receiver mobile communication terminal 201 (for example, 011, 016, 017, 018, 019, etc.), and then the receiver mobile communication terminal 201 is connected to the SMS / WAP server 401 of the second mobile communication service provider 400 according to the discriminated information of the mobile communication service provider. It transmits the phone number information of the request to request the information (type of the mobile communication terminal 201 and the downloadable file format, etc.) of the corresponding mobile communication terminal 201 (S108).

Accordingly, the SMS / WAP server 401 of the second mobile communication company 400 analyzes the phone number information of the receiver mobile communication terminal 201 transmitted from the service providing server 500 to the mobile communication terminal 201 of the corresponding receiver. After detecting various types of information, the detected information of the receiver mobile communication terminal 201 is transmitted to the first mobile communication company 300 through the service providing server 500 (S109).

The first mobile communication company 300 detects a list of ringtone files that can be downloaded to the mobile communication terminal 201 of the receiver by using the information of the receiver mobile communication terminal 201 transmitted from the second mobile communication company 400, and the user. The terminal 101, 102 of the transmission, and accordingly, the user terminal 101, 102 is displayed a list of ringtone files that can be downloaded to the mobile communication terminal 201 of the receiver (S110).

Therefore, when the user selects any one of the list of ringtone files displayed by using the terminal (101, 102) (S111), the information on the file list selected by the user through the first mobile carrier 300 service providing server 500 S112, the service providing server 500 converts the ringtone file into a file format suitable for the receiver mobile communication terminal 201, and then transmits the ringtone file to the second mobile communication company 400 (S113).

Here, the method of converting the form of the ringtone file will be described in more detail.

In general, there are three types of ringtone files: single, four, and sixteen chords. Here, in the case of a single tone, all mobile carriers use SMS as a means of downloading a ringtone file. However, SMS files of CDMA and PCS use different ringtone file standards (data type and size) because they have different formats and specifications. . Therefore, the ringtone file size is different from 80 [Byte] to 100 [Byte], and the ringtone file format is different depending on the mobile carrier, so that the service can be provided between the entire ringtone file standards provided by the mobile carrier. A sound source data conversion unit 502 for converting the number into a file specification suitable for a case should be provided (see FIGS. 3 and 4).

That is, as shown in FIG. 3, the sound source data conversion unit 502 in the service providing server 500 stores corresponding ring data according to the type of each mobile communication company and the mobile communication terminal in a table form.

In this case, the sound source data of the ringtone data as shown in FIG. 3 may be converted into respective sound source data according to the type of the receiver mobile communication terminal 201 or the second mobile communication company 400.

In addition, after the sound source data is converted according to the format of the second mobile communication company 400, when the ring data is transmitted from the service providing server 500 to the second mobile communication company 400, the header (title, speed, number of notes, etc.) The information is converted into the ringtone data format (data file size, title, speed, number of notes, etc.) of the second mobile communication company 400, and the converted header information and sound source data are combined to the second mobile communication company 400. send.

In addition, in the case of four-chord MA1 and sixteenth chord MA2, since all mobile carriers adopt the Yamaha sound source standard, the head (singer name, song title) information is applied to the ringtone data according to each carrier's environment. Convert it and use it. In addition, the same information can be applied to not only ringtone information but also characters, karaoke, music cards, and video information services.

That is, in the case of character information, character data is formed differently according to the screen size and color of the browser of each mobile communication terminal, but the authoring tool is used the same for each mobile communication company, and the character data of the first mobile communication company 300 is used. Since it is used in a terminal of the same model of another mobile carrier, only the header (title) information is converted and used according to each mobile carrier environment. In addition, a terminal model that is not in another mobile communication company is prepared in advance in the service providing server 500, stored and used.

In the case of karaoke information, there are two types of karaoke data, four chords and 16 chords as sound sources, and karaoke data is formed differently according to the screen size and color of the browser of each mobile communication terminal. , MAP, JAVA, and so on using the script to provide in advance in the service providing server 500, save and use.

In the case of the 16th chord, since the Yamaha authoring tool is used, the karaoke data of all the mobile communication companies is the same. Therefore, only header (title) information is converted and used to suit each mobile communication company environment.

The music card information is the same as the karaoke information, and the character bell information is the same as the character information.

In addition, in the case of video information, a large amount of information is received and processed in real time by high-speed wireless data communication in the IMT-2000 network. Since the video information of all mobile carriers is the same, the header (title) is appropriate for each mobile carrier's environment Only convert information.

As described above, although the specific embodiment (s) have been described in the detailed description of the present invention, various modifications are possible without departing from the scope of the present invention. Therefore, the scope of the present invention should not be limited to the described embodiment (s), but should be defined by the claims below and equivalents thereof.

As a result, according to the method for providing a ringtone integrated download service according to the present invention, the following advantage (s) occurs.

In other words, the user can download a ringtone only from his or her mobile terminal or send a ringtone to other mobile carrier subscribers freely from the conventional case, thus providing convenience to users. The sales area can be expanded due to the expansion of the service area.

Claims (4)

A mobile communication service, which is connected to a first mobile communication company, a second mobile communication company, the first mobile communication company and the second mobile communication service provider, which relays the transmission of a ringtone file, is communicatively connected and registered with the first mobile communication company. A method for transmitting a ringtone file to a receiver having a receiver mobile communication terminal registered with the second mobile carrier by a user having a user terminal including a terminal and an internet terminal, the method comprising: When the user inputs the telephone number of the receiver mobile communication terminal through the user terminal, transmitting the telephone number information to the service providing server; Analyzing the phone number information at the service providing server and selecting a corresponding second mobile communication company; Transmitting the telephone number information to the selected second mobile communication company and requesting information of the receiver mobile communication terminal; When the second mobile communication company transmits information of the receiver mobile communication terminal to the service providing server, the service providing server transmitting information of the receiver mobile communication terminal to the first mobile communication company; Detecting, by the first mobile communication company, a list of ringtone files downloadable from the receiver mobile communication terminal, transmitting the displayed list of ringtone files to the user terminal and displaying the list; When the user selects an arbitrary ringtone file, the service providing server converting the selected ringtone file into a ringtone file of the second carrier and transmitting the same to the second carrier; And And the second mobile communication company transmits the ringtone file converted by the service providing server to the receiver mobile communication terminal. The method of claim 1, wherein the telephone number information, Ringtone integrated download service providing method comprising a carrier number for identifying the carrier. The method of claim 1, wherein the receiver's mobile terminal information is And a type of the second mobile communication company in which the mobile communication terminal of the receiver is registered and a type of the receiver mobile communication terminal. The method of claim 1, wherein the service providing server, Storing a data conversion code for converting sound source data of a ringtone file provided by the first mobile communication company into sound source data of a ringtone file recognizable by the second mobile communication company, and storing the data conversion code in the table provided by the first mobile communication company Ringtone integrated download service, characterized in that for converting the header information and the sound source data of the ringtone file to the header information and the sound source data of the ringtone file that can be recognized by the second mobile communication company, and then transmitted to the second mobile communication company How to Provide.