KR100459048B1 - Mobile internet connection method using telephone number - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a wireless internet access method, and provides a wireless internet access method using a telephone number for accessing the wireless internet without inputting an uncomfortable URL address by inputting only a telephone number into a mobile communication terminal capable of wireless internet. Features of the present invention include a first step of a mobile communication terminal accessing an ARS server through a telephone number input by a user; A second step of determining whether the mobile communication terminal is connected by checking telephone information connected from the ARS server when the connection is made; A third step of confirming whether the wireless Internet is possible in the case of the mobile communication terminal as a result of the determination; A fourth step of transmitting, by the ARS server, a text message including a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) of the wireless Internet server to the mobile communication terminal if the wireless Internet is available as a result of the checking; A fifth step of the mobile communication terminal accessing the wireless internet server by using the transmitted URL of the text message; And a sixth step of providing a wireless Internet service to the mobile communication terminal connected to the wireless Internet server.

Description

Mobile internet connection method using telephone number}

The present invention relates to a wireless internet access method, and more particularly, to a wireless internet access method using a telephone number that can access the wireless internet without inputting an uncomfortable URL address by only inputting a telephone number into a mobile communication terminal capable of wireless internet.

Many companies have ARS (Automatic Response System) facilities or homepages for their promotion, various customer service, and after-sales service. Growing.

However, the ARS facility has a problem in that the number of concurrent users is limited to the number of circuits, so that the processing of many concurrent users is impossible, and in order to accommodate a large number of users, it is necessary to secure the number of circuits at an additional cost. In addition, since information is transmitted by voice, menu switching is inconvenient, and information processing takes a lot of time, thereby increasing a user's call charge.

The wireless Internet service does not have a problem such as limiting the number of concurrent users such as ARS and inconvenient menu switching, and has an advantage of providing various services including lower communication costs and text, voice, and images than voice calls. However, the existing wireless Internet has to enter a URL with a small button of the mobile communication terminal, and since most URLs (Uniform Resource Locator) are made in English, it is inconvenient to check and enter the alphabetic characters of the numeric buttons one by one. Of course, the wireless Internet service affiliated with a wireless carrier may be accessed through a mobile service provider's Internet service that can be accessed through a shortcut button provided on a mobile phone, but the service may be provided only to users subscribed to the affiliated mobile service provider. In order to access the wireless Internet service, a browsing procedure of moving menus of various levels is required in the mobile service provider's Internet service.

An object of the present invention for solving the above problems is to provide a wireless Internet access method using a telephone number that can be connected to the wireless Internet without entering an uncomfortable URL address by inputting only a telephone number to a mobile communication terminal capable of wireless Internet.

1 is a system block diagram for wireless Internet access in accordance with the present invention.

2 is a flowchart illustrating a wireless Internet access process according to the present invention.

3 is a flowchart illustrating a first embodiment of a wireless Internet access process according to the present invention.

4 is a flowchart illustrating a second embodiment of a wireless Internet access process according to the present invention.

5 is a flowchart illustrating a third embodiment of a wireless Internet access process according to the present invention.

<Description of Symbols for Major Parts of Drawings>

10: mobile communication terminal 20: mobile communication company

30: PSTN 32: Internet

40: ARS Server 50: Wireless Internet Server

52: database

A feature of the present invention for achieving the above object is a first step of the mobile communication terminal accesses the ARS server through the telephone number input by the user; A second step of determining whether the mobile communication terminal is connected by checking telephone information connected from the ARS server when the connection is made; A third step of confirming whether the wireless Internet is possible in the case of the mobile communication terminal as a result of the determination; A fourth step of transmitting, by the ARS server, a text message including the URL of the wireless Internet server to the mobile communication terminal if the wireless Internet is available as a result of the checking; A fifth step of the mobile communication terminal accessing the wireless internet server by using the transmitted URL of the text message; And a sixth step of providing a wireless Internet service to the mobile communication terminal connected to the wireless Internet server.

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

1 is a system block diagram for a wireless Internet access according to the present invention, and comprises a mobile communication terminal 10, a mobile communication company 20, an ARS server 40 and a wireless Internet server 50.

The mobile communication terminal 10 is provided with a WAP (WAP) browser or a ME browser to enable wireless Internet access, and a mobile phone, a PDA, and an IMT-2000 terminal that can be connected to a URL included in a text message are preferable.

The mobile telecommunication company 20 connects the mobile communication terminal 10 to the ARS server 40 and the wireless Internet server 50 through a public switched telephone network (PSTN) 30 and the Internet 32. In addition, the phone number of the mobile communication terminal 10 is transmitted to the ARS server 40, and the model name of the mobile communication terminal 10 is returned in response to the ARS server 40 requesting an electronic serial number (ESN) inquiry. The ARS server 40 transmits a text message transmitted from the ARS server 40 to the mobile communication terminal 10 through a short message service (SMS).

The ARS server 40 checks the connected phone information, that is, the prefix information, and in case of a mobile communication terminal, transmits the corresponding phone number to the wireless Internet server 50 and checks whether the terminal is capable of wireless internet. The text message including the URL of 50 is transmitted, and when it is determined that the wireless Internet is not available in the wireless internet server 50 or the wireless internet server 50, the ARS service using voice is provided. In addition, when the connected phone is a mobile communication terminal, the mobile communication company 20 requests the ESN inquiry of the corresponding terminal, and checks whether the wireless internet is a terminal capable of wireless internet through the model name transmitted in response to the corresponding telephone number if wireless internet is possible. The text message including the URL of the wireless Internet server 50 is transmitted. In addition, when the connected telephone is a mobile communication terminal, a voice message for confirming the terminal function is output to the corresponding user, and in response, the wireless Internet is connected by checking a DTMF (Dual Tone Multi Frequency) signal transmitted from the mobile communication terminal 10. If possible, a text message including the URL of the wireless Internet server 50 is transmitted to the corresponding phone number.

The wireless Internet server 50 has a database 52 that stores a connection record of the wireless Internet server 50, and checks whether a telephone number transmitted from the ARS server 40 exists in the database 52, If the telephone number exists, the ARS server 40 requests the text message including the URL of the wireless Internet server 50 to the telephone number. In addition, the access record of the mobile communication terminal 10 connected to the wireless Internet is stored in the database 52, and a WAP page is transmitted to the mobile communication terminal 10 to provide a wireless Internet service.

The ARS server 40 provides the user with the same information as the wireless Internet server 50 using CTI (Computer-Telephony Integration).

2 is a flowchart illustrating a wireless Internet access process according to the present invention.

When the user enters a phone number into the mobile phone 10 and then makes a call connection (S200), the user is connected to the ARS server 40 via the mobile telecommunication company 20 and the PSTN 30. The ARS server 40 checks the Prifix information of the connected telephone information to determine whether the mobile phone (S210, S220). As an example of such verification process, if the prefix information of the phone information is 01X, the mobile phone is confirmed. If it is confirmed that the mobile phone is a wireless Internet capable terminal (S230), and if the wireless Internet is capable of transmitting a text message including the URL of the wireless Internet server 50 to the caller's telephone number connected to the ARS server 40 (S240). The user who has received the text message to the mobile phone 10 selects "connect", "connect" or "call" as the URL of the transmitted text message to access the wireless Internet server 50 (S250). The internet server 50 provides the wireless internet service S260 to the mobile phone 10. If the mobile phone is not in step S220 or if the wireless Internet is not available in step S230, the ARS service S270 using voice is provided. When the text message transmission is completed, the ARS server 40 disconnects the mobile phone 10 to prevent unnecessary waste of call charges.

3 is a flowchart illustrating a first embodiment of a wireless internet access process according to the present invention, FIG. 4 is a flowchart illustrating a second embodiment of a wireless internet access process according to the present invention, and FIG. 5 is a wireless view according to the present invention. A flowchart illustrating a third embodiment of the internet access process. In the present invention, the process of confirming whether the mobile communication terminal connected to the ARS server is capable of the wireless Internet is an important part, which can be achieved by the three methods shown in FIGS. 3 to 5, and a plurality of them can be mixed.

The first method is a verification method using the access record of the wireless Internet server 50 shown in FIG.

When it is confirmed by the mobile phone through the steps S300 to S302, the caller's telephone number is transmitted to the wireless Internet server 50 (S303). The wireless Internet server 50 receiving the telephone number retrieves the telephone number from the database 52 in which the access record is stored (S304), and if the telephone number is present (S305), the ARS server 40 sends the telephone number. Request transmission of a text message including the URL of the wireless Internet server 50 to the telephone number, that is, the calling telephone number (S306). When the text message transmission is completed, the user who received the text message to the mobile phone 10 to the ARS server is connected to the wireless Internet server 50 by using the URL of the transmitted text message (S307), the wireless Internet server If the connection to the 50 is normally established, the wireless Internet server 50 stores the telephone number of the mobile phone 10 in the database 52 and then provides the wireless Internet service S309 to the mobile phone 10. . If the corresponding telephone number does not exist in the database 52 in step S305, the ARS service S310 using voice is provided. In this method, even in the case of the mobile phone 10 that is not connected to the wireless Internet server 50, even if wireless Internet is available, there is a possibility that the wireless Internet service cannot be received because the telephone number does not exist in the database 52. . Therefore, in order to construct a lot of data in the database 52, the telephone number verification process of step S305 may be omitted.

The second method is a confirmation method through the ESN inquiry request to the mobile communication company 20 shown in FIG. The ESN is a number uniquely assigned to each terminal 10 for each manufacturer of the mobile communication terminal 10, and is registered in advance with the mobile communication service provider 20 before selling the terminal. The mobile communication terminal 10 transmits the ESN to the exchange of the mobile communication company 20 together with the telephone number so as to recognize itself anywhere.

The method also checks the ESN inquiry of the mobile phone 10 to the mobile communication company 20 when it is confirmed by the mobile phone through steps S400 to S402 (S403). The mobile telecommunication company 20 receiving the ESN inquiry request inquires the ESN of the mobile phone 10 and transmits model information of the mobile phone 10 to the ARS server 40 (S404). The ARS server 40 checks whether the wireless Internet is a mobile phone through the model information of the received mobile phone 10 (S405), and if the wireless Internet is available, the text including the URL of the wireless Internet server 50 as a corresponding phone number. The message is sent (S406). The user who has received the text message to the mobile phone 10 is connected to the wireless Internet server 50 using the URL of the transmitted text message (S407), and receives the wireless Internet service (S408). If it is determined in step S405 that the wireless Internet is impossible, the ARS service S409 is provided.

The third method is a method of confirming a mobile phone function from a user directly in the ARS server 40 shown in FIG.

When it is confirmed by the mobile phone through the steps S500 to S502, the mobile phone 10 outputs a voice message for confirming the mobile phone function (S503). For example, it outputs a voice message that says "Press 1 if your phone has wireless internet, 2 if not, and 3 if you don't know." After outputting the voice message, the DTMF signal transmitted from the mobile phone 10 is checked in response (S504), thereby confirming whether the mobile phone is wireless internet enabled (S505). If the mobile phone is wireless Internet enabled, and transmits a text message containing the URL of the wireless Internet server 50 to the phone number (S506). The user who has received the text message to the mobile phone 10 is connected to the wireless Internet server 50 by using the URL of the transmitted text message (S507), and receives the wireless Internet service (S508). If it is determined in step S505 that the wireless Internet is impossible, the ARS service S509 is provided.

In addition, since the database 52 of the first method can be constructed using the second and third methods, the connection to the wireless Internet server 50 in the second and third methods (S407 and S507) is normally performed. If so, the wireless Internet server 50 may further include storing the telephone number of the mobile phone 10 in the database 52.

As described above, according to the present invention, when accessing the ARS server with a phone number, a text message including the URL of the wireless Internet site is transmitted, and the user can access the wireless Internet site through the transmitted text message, thereby making it easy to enter an uncomfortable URL. There is an advantage to being able to access a wireless internet site. In addition, even if the company only promotes the ARS phone number without affiliation with a mobile communication service provider, it is effective to lead the user to a low cost wireless Internet service.

Claims (8)

A first step of the mobile communication terminal accessing the ARS server through the telephone number input by the user; After accessing the ARS server, transmitting, by the ARS server, a text message including a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) of a wireless Internet server to the mobile communication terminal; A third step of the mobile communication terminal accessing the wireless internet server using the URL of the transmitted text message; And a fourth step of providing a wireless internet service to the mobile communication terminal connected to the wireless internet server. The method for confirming whether the mobile communication terminal connected after the first step is capable of wireless internet is performed by using a connection record of the wireless internet server. Transmitting a caller's telephone number to the wireless Internet server; Retrieving the transmitted telephone number from a database in which a connection record of the wireless Internet server is stored; And And transmitting the search result to the ARS server. The method of claim 1, further comprising providing an ARS service using voice when the wireless Internet is not available after the first step. delete delete A first step of the mobile communication terminal accessing the ARS server through the telephone number input by the user; After accessing the ARS server, transmitting, by the ARS server, a text message including a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) of a wireless Internet server to the mobile communication terminal; A third step of the mobile communication terminal accessing the wireless internet server using the URL of the transmitted text message; And a fourth step of providing a wireless internet service to the mobile communication terminal connected to the wireless internet server. The method of checking whether the mobile terminal connected after the first step is capable of wireless Internet is confirmed through an ESN inquiry request. Requesting an ESN inquiry of the mobile communication terminal from a mobile communication company; Receiving corresponding mobile communication terminal model information from the mobile communication company in response to the ESN inquiry request; And Checking whether the wireless Internet is possible through the model information of the received mobile communication terminal Wireless Internet access method using a phone number, characterized in that made. delete The method of claim 1, further comprising: disconnecting the mobile communication terminal from the ARS server when the text message transmission is completed in addition to the second step. The method of claim 1, further comprising storing the telephone number of the mobile communication terminal in a database of the wireless Internet server when the connection to the wireless Internet server is normally performed in addition to the third step. Wireless Internet access method using.