KR100400917B1 - method and apparatus for a voice mail broadcasting service on Unix operating System - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention is to improve the efficiency of using the memory area of the storage device by configuring a hard link packet that can be accessed by a plurality of file names of the broadcast message recorded for delivery to a number of people in the voice mailbox of the Unix environment.

The present invention provides a service process for performing a general operation for updating call information on a broadcast transmission request and a voice message from a call subscriber and a subscriber number for each representative number or a predetermined subscriber group in charge of a voice mailbox. Data process for inquiring each subscriber number belonging to corresponding representative number or subscriber group number from subscriber database according to subscriber database to be set, broadcast call request signal authorized from service process, and according to inquiry result of data process A broadcast processing process for requesting a call history update of a subscriber mailbox, a hard link configuration means for updating a voice message for broadcast transmission under the control of a service process according to a call history update request of the broadcast processing process, and an updated broadcast transmission voice message To store it characterized in that it comprises a subscriber mailbox.

Therefore, since the voice message for broadcast transmission is composed of hard links, stability and reliability are provided for the implementation of the system by efficiently using the memory area of the limited subscriber voice mailbox.

Description

Method and apparatus for a voice mail broadcasting service on Unix operating system

The present invention relates to a broadcast service device of a voice mail box, and more particularly, to configure a broadcast message recorded to be delivered to various people by configuring a hard link packet (Hard Link Packet) that can be accessed by a plurality of file names. The present invention relates to a voice broadcasting service apparatus and method in a voice mailbox of a Unix environment for improving memory area usage efficiency.

In general, a voice broadcasting service transmits a voice message having the same contents to a plurality of recipients. The voice broadcasting service temporarily stores a voice message to be transmitted in a memory and then automatically transmits the voice message to a designated receiving terminal. A method of simultaneously transmitting or sequentially transmitting to multiple receiving terminals is used.

In the conventional voice mailbox, as shown in FIG. 1, the voice broadcast service device performs an operation for broadcast processing by a process in charge of a corresponding subscriber or operator terminal for a voice message input for broadcast transmission from a subscriber or operator. And a plurality of service processes (1) for performing the process of listening to the broadcast message from any subscriber and controlling the transmission of the recorded message by the process in charge of the subscriber, and the general information and the recorded message for the broadcast transmission processing request. And a broadcast processing process for copying the original recorded message to each of the designated subscribers by accessing the general information stored in the queue 2 and the queue 2 temporarily storing information on the subscriber for broadcast transmission. 3) and the recording copied for each subscriber in the broadcast processing process (3) It comprises a storage device 4 for storing the message to the subscriber-specific address.

The operation of the voice broadcasting service apparatus of the conventional voice mailbox having the structure as described above is as follows.

If a recorded message for broadcast transmission, information designating the subscriber, and information requesting broadcast transmission are detected by a corresponding process of a plurality of processes from any subscriber or operator terminal connected to the call, the corresponding service is provided. The process preprocesses the general information necessary for the broadcast transmission input from the operator terminal or the connected subscriber terminal and stores it in the queue 2, which is a temporary storage means.

When the message requesting the voice broadcasting service is stored in the queue 2 as described above, the broadcasting processing process 3 performs general data information stored in the queue 2 according to an interrupt signal for a set time interval or a request for performing a broadcasting. Access and copy the original recorded message to each of the subscribers designated for broadcast transmission, and then store it in the designated address of the storage device 4.

As described above, when the voice message copied for broadcast transmission is stored at the designated address of the storage device 4, a signal requesting the listening or deletion of the voice message from the subscriber station is detected by the service process 1. If the subscriber terminal is in charge of the subscriber terminal, the process of accessing the voice message stored in its own address of the storage device 4 and notifying the subscriber terminal requesting to listen to the message is detected. The voice message stored at its own address is deleted from the storage device 4.

As described above, in the conventional voice mailbox, the broadcast transmission service apparatus needs to copy one by one to the subscriber using the original voice message and store it in the storage device when the number of subscribers using the voice broadcast message calling service increases. There is a problem that the burden is increased and the efficiency of the system is reduced.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned general problems, and an object thereof is to provide a hard link for accessing a single data block with multiple file names for a broadcast message recorded for delivery to multiple people in a voice mail box in a Unix environment. The message processing function for broadcast transmission can be easily implemented without being limited by the memory capacity of the storage device.

1 is a diagram illustrating a voice broadcasting service apparatus in a voice mailbox of a conventional Unix environment.

2 is a diagram showing the configuration of a voice broadcasting service apparatus in a voice mailbox of a Unix environment according to the present invention;

3 is a view showing the configuration of a hard link in the voice mailbox of the Unix environment according to the present invention.

4 is a view showing deletion of a hard link configured in a voice mailbox of a Unix environment according to the present invention.

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10: service process 20: data process

30: subscriber database 40: broadcast processing process

50: hard link configuration 60: subscriber voice mailbox

The present invention for achieving the object as described above, in the voice broadcasting service apparatus of the voice mailbox, extracting the representative number or group representative number designated for the broadcast transmission request and voice message and broadcast transmission from the subscriber set up call; Subscriber database in which subscriber number is assigned and set for each representative number or schedule subscriber group in charge of voice mailbox, and corresponding representative number or subscriber group number according to broadcast call request signal authorized from the service process. A data process for inquiring each subscriber number belonging to the subscriber database, a broadcast processing request for updating the call history of the corresponding subscriber mailbox according to the inquiry result of the data process, and a call history update request for the broadcast processing process. Ta D) a hard link construction means for updating a voice message for broadcast transmission under the control of a service process, and a subscriber voice mailbox for storing the updated broadcast transmission voice message.

In addition, when the voice message for broadcast transmission and the broadcast call request signal are detected from any subscriber, the present invention temporarily stores the input voice message and simultaneously extracts the representative number and the group number for the broadcast call. Retrieving each subscriber number assigned to the representative number and the group number from the subscriber database, updating call history information for each retrieved subscriber number to form a hard link, and updating the updated call history information to the subscriber And storing the voice mailbox.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

As can be seen in Figure 2, the voice broadcasting service apparatus in the voice mailbox of the Unix environment according to the present invention is a service process 10, data process 20, subscriber database 30, broadcast processing process 40 , The hard link configuration unit 50 and the subscriber voice mailbox 60, the service process 10 is composed of a plurality of connected to the link to the subscriber and operator terminal connected to the broadcast transmission from the plurality of subscriber and operator terminal If a recorded message and a request for updating the history information are detected, a preprocessing operation for extracting the corresponding representative number or subscriber group representative number and storing it as data, that is, the path of the original voice file, representative number / group number, call history (Voice / letter / number), broadcast call request, and the like, and the broadcast processing process 40 Controls the configuration of hard links that can access the call history of each subscriber's mailbox from one data block to different file names in accordance with the request for updating the update history. When a request is detected, an operation of performing a corresponding function is performed.

The data process 20 analyzes the information pre-processed and authorized from the service process 10 and then inquires about the numbers of each subscriber belonging to the corresponding representative number or group number from the database 30.

Subscriber database 30 is set by assigning a corresponding subscriber number for each representative number or a predetermined subscriber group in charge of its voice mailbox.

The broadcast processing process 40 outputs a request signal for updating the call history of each subscriber mailbox assigned to the representative number or the group number read and applied by the data process 20.

The hard link configuration unit 50 configures the call history of each subscriber for broadcast transmission, that is, voice message information, call history information, other information, etc. as a hard link under the control of the service process 10, and updates the call history. Performs the update function to reconfigure the corresponding subscriber history according to the request.

The subscriber voice mailbox 60 is responsible for storing a broadcast transmission packet composed of hard links so that the hard link configuration unit 50 can access one data block by several file names.

In the present invention having the function described above, the operation for broadcast transmission of a voice message is as follows.

Voice message for designating and broadcasting the representative number of multiple subscribers or voice number for a certain set of subscriber groups from the subscriber terminal or operator terminal set up in a call set up with any subscriber or operator terminal When a signal for requesting input and broadcast transmission is detected by the corresponding process of the service process 10 including a plurality of processes, the corresponding service process extracts a voice message from the input broadcast transmission request signal and temporarily stores it in a buffer which is its storage means. It stores the call log (character call / number call / voice call) and the designated representative number or group representative number from the broadcast call request signal.

Thereafter, the extracted call history (character call / number call / voice call) and the representative number or the representative number of the group are formed into a packet and applied to the data process 20, and the data process 20 analyzes the applied packet. From the subscriber database 30, the number of each subscriber and the number of each subscriber set in the representative number or the representative number of a certain subscriber group are inquired and the inquiry result is applied to the broadcast processing process 40 side.

The broadcast processing process 40 normalizes a call history update request signal of a subscriber assigned to a corresponding representative number or a subscriber mailbox assigned to a corresponding subscriber group according to a signal applied from the data process 20 among the plurality of service processes 10. When distributed to the process in operation, the process applies the voice message, call history information, and other general information stored temporarily according to the call log update request of the subscriber's mailbox to the hard link component 50. .

As shown in FIG. 3, the hard link configuration unit 50 may identify each subscriber assigned to a voice message, a call history, a representative number, or a representative number of a certain subscriber group. An accessible hard link is configured to update the call history for broadcast transmission and then store the updated call history in the subscriber voice mailbox 60 through the service process 10.

As shown in FIG. 3, the hard link configuration allocates different subscriber directory entries to files included in one data block.

For example, the directory entry of subscriber 1 connected to the first link is' / MailBox / 3000/00/01 / ', and the directory entry of subscriber 2 connected to the second link is' / MailBox / 3000 /. 00/02 / ', and the directory entry of subscriber N connected to the N-th link is set to' / MailBox / 3000/00 / 0N / '.

As described above, a request for listening to a voice message stored in a voice mailbox in a call setup with a corresponding subscriber receiving a message transmission call while the updated call log is set in the subscriber mailbox 60 through the configuration of the hard link is performed by the service process 10. ), The service process 10 in charge of the corresponding subscriber terminal accesses data on the file name designated from the subscriber terminal from the subscriber voice mailbox 60 and listens to the corresponding subscriber terminal.

Subsequently, when a request for deleting a message is detected from the subscriber station, as shown in FIG. 4, the corresponding process of the service process 10 that detects the request for deleting the listened voice message receives data for the corresponding file name. Delete from the mailbox 60.

In the deletion operation of the voice message as described above, a file for another subscriber set to a different subscriber file name in one data block is retained in the corresponding data block unless a deletion request from a corresponding corresponding subscriber is detected.

As described above, the present invention uses hard links as file names that designate different subscribers in one data block for a message to be broadcasted to a large number of users in a voice mailbox using a Unix environment. The efficient use of the memory area provides stability and reliability to the implementation of the system.

In addition, the efficient use of the memory area of the subscriber voice mailbox enables the storage of a large number of voice messages, thereby providing reliability in providing a voice mailbox service.

Claims (4)

In the voice broadcasting service apparatus of a voice mailbox, A service process for extracting a broadcast transmission request, a voice message, and a representative number from a subscriber station which has been set up a call; A subscriber database in which subscriber numbers are assigned and set for each representative number or group in charge of the voice mailbox; A data process for inquiring in the subscriber database of each subscriber number belonging to the corresponding representative number or subscriber group number according to the broadcast call request signal authorized from the service process; A broadcast processing process for requesting an update of a call history of a corresponding subscriber mailbox according to the inquiry result of the data process; Hard link construction means for updating a voice message for broadcast transmission under the control of a service process in accordance with a call history update request of the broadcast processing process; And a subscriber voice mailbox for storing the updated broadcast transmission voice message. The method according to claim 1, The voice message service for the broadcast transmission is a voice broadcast service device in a voice mailbox of a Unix environment, characterized in that each of the subscribers for each representative number or group number is composed of a hard link that is assigned to one link. In the voice message broadcasting service method, When the voice message for broadcast transmission and the broadcast call request signal are detected from any subscriber, temporarily storing the input voice message and extracting a representative number and a group number for the broadcast call; Retrieving each subscriber number assigned to the extracted representative number and group number from a subscriber database; Updating call history information for each retrieved subscriber number to form a hard link; And storing the updated call history information in a subscriber voice mailbox. The method according to claim 3, The hard link of the updated call history information includes a voice message, and the voice broadcast service method of the voice mailbox of the Unix environment, wherein each subscriber is configured with a different file name and configured in one data block.