KR100590699B1 - Method and system for providing content with information of latest application - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method and system for providing content along with information on the latest application.

The present invention comprises the steps of (a) generating content and content notification information and transmitting a content short message including the content notification information to the mobile communication terminal; (b) the mobile terminal outputting a content short message and confirming whether the receipt of the content is selected by the mobile subscriber; (c) checking, by the mobile communication terminal, whether the latest application is provided by using the content notification information when the reception confirmation of the content is selected as a result of the checking in step (b); (d) if the mobile communication terminal has the latest application as a result of checking in step (c), executing the latest application; (e) allowing an access request of the mobile communication terminal according to a predetermined algorithm of the latest application and transmitting content to the mobile communication terminal; And (f) outputting the content by the mobile communication terminal.

According to the present invention, it is possible to reduce the load burden caused by the communication of the mobile communication terminal, and to efficiently manage network resources due to the reduction of unnecessary traffic in the mobile communication network, as well as to reduce the amount of data communication transmitted and received for content provision. have.

Content, Application, Version, Mobile Invoice, Content, Application, Version, Mobile

Description

Method and System for Providing Content with Information of Latest Application}

1 is a system for providing mobile billing content with information about the latest application in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention;

2 is a block diagram schematically showing a content providing server according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention;

3 is a flow chart for explaining a method for providing mobile billing content with information about the latest application according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention;

4 is a view for explaining a process of outputting a mobile bill content by the mobile communication terminal receives the information about the latest application, installs and executes the latest application according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

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110: mobile communication terminal 120: mobile communication network

122: wireless base station 124: mobile communication switching center

126: data core network 130: application providing server

140: SMS server 150: content providing server

160: COIS 210: control unit

220: memory unit 230: display unit

240: key input unit 250: NIC

260: Database Server 270: Content Database

The present invention relates to a method and system for providing content along with information on the latest application. More specifically, in the transmission of content to a mobile communication terminal, a mobile communication terminal using a short message service (SMS) provided by the mobile communication system with information about the latest application for identifying the content. The present invention relates to a method and a system for transmitting a content by allowing a mobile communication terminal to determine whether a mobile device has the latest application, and having the latest application.

The mobile communication system has been developed through the first generation analog AMPS (Advanced Mobile Phone System) method and the second generation cellular (Cellular) / Personal Communication Service (PCS) method. The third generation mobile communication system IMT-2000 (International Mobile Telecommunication 2000), which is enacted as a standard in ITU-R, is commercially available. IMT-2000 is CDMA 2000 1X, 3X, EV-DO, Wideband CDMA (WCDMA), etc., and is used in IS-95A and IS-95B networks by using the IS-95C network that has evolved from the existing IS-95A and IS-95B networks. It is a service that can provide wireless Internet at a transmission speed of up to 144 Kbps, much faster than the supported data transmission speed of 14.4 Kbps or 56 Kbps. In particular, by using IMT-2000 service, it is possible to provide various multimedia services (AOD, VOD, etc.) at a faster speed as well as improving existing voice and wireless broadcasting service (WBS) service quality.

In addition, recently, as a part of overcoming the limitations in providing the wireless Internet service of the aforementioned mobile communication system, a portable Internet system (HPi: High Speed) capable of using a high-speed wireless Internet service at a low cost while moving Portable Internet System or WiBro (Wireless Broadband Internet System) is under development. The portable internet system uses various types of portable terminals such as laptops, PDAs, and handheld PCs to access various types of information and contents by accessing the Internet in indoor and outdoor stationary environments and mobile environments at walking speeds and low to medium speeds. It is a service. In addition, it enables mobile subscribers to use the wireless Internet while moving at a speed of 60 km / h, provides a downlink transmission speed of 24 Mbps, and a downlink transmission of 50 Mbps using a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) system. It is an IP (Internet Protocol) based wireless data system that can provide speed.

The mobile subscriber can use the mobile communication system to carry voice communication while carrying the mobile communication terminal, and wirelessly access the Internet through the mobile communication system using the wireless Internet technology to transmit text, images, Multimedia data services such as voice or video are provided. The wireless Internet allows a mobile subscriber to search and download a variety of information by accessing the Internet using a mobile communication terminal without time or space constraints.

Recently, with the development of internet and multimedia data technology, contents providers (CPs) that provide various contents such as multimedia communication, network games, and video games have emerged, and various services provided by contents providers are provided to mobile terminals. The number of mobile subscribers to use has increased.

In this regard, the content provided by the content provider in the information providing server using a virtual machine (VM) -based platform, which is produced in a Java language or C language, is a wireless Internet application. Application) generated and transmitted to a mobile communication terminal carried by a mobile subscriber through a mobile communication system, and the downloaded mobile communication terminal is running a virtual machine application through a mounted virtual machine. In addition, the virtual machine supplements some of the disadvantages of the WAP method so that the user can directly receive only necessary information except unnecessary information.

Here, the virtual machine refers to software that serves as an interface between the compiled binary code and the microprocessor that actually executes the instructions of the program. Once a virtual machine is provided on a platform, any Java program called bytecode can run on that platform. Java is designed to use virtual machines to allow applications to run on any platform without having to be rewritten or recompiled for each platform.

On the other hand, the application program running on such a virtual machine is called a virtual machine application, the content provider produces a variety of information on the Internet into such a virtual machine application to provide to the mobile communication terminal through the mobile communication network, mobile subscribers are mobile communication terminal Various information in the content is checked by executing a virtual machine application using a virtual machine mounted on the device or reading the content by executing a virtual machine application.

Recently, as information contained in content provided by a content provider is diversified and technology for generating content has evolved, an implementation technology for an application that reads content and outputs information has been developed. (Update) continues. As a result, the application has various program versions. Therefore, the applications and the contents executed in the mobile communication terminal each need a content and an application suitable for them.

However, until now, the mobile communication terminal cannot confirm whether or not it stores an application that can check the received content in itself before receiving and confirming the content, and receives and executes the content from the content providing unit that generates and provides the content. When it wasn't possible, it only had the simple ability to receive and run an application from a particular server that provided it.

 In order to solve this problem, the present invention, in transmitting the content to the mobile communication terminal, the information on the latest application for checking the content is transmitted to the mobile communication terminal using a short message service provided by the mobile communication system. Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a method and system for transmitting a content after having a mobile communication terminal determine whether the mobile device has the latest application to have the latest application.

In order to achieve the above object, according to the first object of the present invention, a mobile communication terminal for executing an application to check the content, a mobile communication network for providing a mobile communication service, an application providing server for providing an application, Claims [1] A method for transmitting content to a mobile terminal in a system including an SMS server providing a short message service (SMS) and a content providing server providing content, the method comprising: (a) Generating content and content notification information and transmitting a content short message including the content notification information to the mobile communication terminal; (b) the mobile terminal outputting a content short message and confirming whether the receipt of the content is selected by the mobile subscriber; (c) checking, by the mobile communication terminal, whether the latest application is provided by using the content notification information when the reception confirmation of the content is selected as a result of the checking in step (b); (d) if the mobile communication terminal has the latest application as a result of checking in step (c), executing the latest application; (e) allowing an access request of the mobile communication terminal according to a predetermined algorithm of the latest application and transmitting content to the mobile communication terminal; And (f) outputting the content by the mobile communication terminal.

In addition, according to a second object of the present invention, in a system for transmitting content to a mobile communication terminal, a mobile communication including a wireless data service or a wireless Internet service connected to the mobile communication terminal wirelessly, the mobile communication terminal A mobile communication network providing a service; An application providing server connected to the mobile communication network to generate and store an application and to transmit the application to the mobile communication terminal when the application is requested to be transmitted from the mobile communication terminal; An SMS server providing a short message service (SMS) to a mobile communication terminal using a mobile communication network, generating a content short message, and transmitting the short message service to the mobile communication terminal; And generate content notification information and transmit the content notification information to the SMS server to control the SMS server to generate the content short message and transmit the content short message to the mobile communication terminal, and generate the content according to the request of the mobile communication terminal to the mobile communication terminal. It provides a content providing system comprising a content providing server for transmitting.

According to a third object of the present invention, content is transmitted using a wireless data service or a wireless Internet service provided by a mobile communication network in response to a request of a mobile communication terminal that executes an application to check content. A server for generating and storing content, and after generating content notification information, the content notification information is moved as a content short message by using a short message service (SMS) server. A control unit which transmits the content to the mobile communication terminal after controlling the mobile communication terminal to have the latest version of the application by using the content notification information by transmitting to the communication terminal; A memory unit which temporarily stores contents generated by the controller and content notification information or stores a program executed by the controller; A key input unit for receiving data or a command for operating the server from an administrator who manages the server; A display unit which outputs an operation process or an error of the server and a processing status according to key input from the key input unit; A network interface card (NIC) providing a communication interface for communicating with a mobile communication network and an SMS server; And a content database server for storing, searching, deleting, editing, and adding content.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. First of all, in adding reference numerals to the components of each drawing, it should be noted that the same reference numerals are used as much as possible even if displayed on different drawings. In addition, in describing the present invention, when it is determined that the detailed description of the related well-known configuration or function may obscure the gist of the present invention, the detailed description thereof will be omitted.

In addition, hereinafter, the present invention will be described under the assumption that a code division multiple access (CDMA) 2000 system is used as the mobile communication system. However, the CDMA 2000 system is a system designated for convenience of description and the mobile communication system used in the present invention is not limited thereto.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram schematically illustrating a system for providing mobile billing content together with information on a latest application according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

The system for providing mobile billing content together with information about the latest application according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention includes a mobile communication terminal 110, a mobile communication network 120, an application providing server 130, and a short message service (SMS). Message Service (hereinafter referred to as SMS) server 140, content providing server 150 and a customer information system (COIS: Customer Oriented Information System (hereinafter referred to as "COIS") 160).

The mobile communication terminal 110 is wirelessly connected to the mobile communication network 120 to provide a voice call function for performing a normal voice call by wireless communication with another mobile communication terminal or a landline phone, and also provides an SMS server 140. By using a wireless data service or a wireless Internet service provided by the mobile communication network 120 to access the content providing server 150 and the content (that is, in a preferred embodiment of the present invention "mobile) A terminal capable of receiving and playing an invoice ").

In addition, the mobile communication terminal 110 receives a mobile bill short message including information on the mobile billing application from the content providing server 150 by using the SMS service, and then the mobile communication subscriber selects confirmation of the mobile bill. It is determined whether the user has the invoice application and whether the mobile invoice application is the latest version of the mobile invoice application, and if the mobile invoice application is not equipped with the latest version of the mobile invoice application or not, the mobile communication network 120 Access to the application providing server 130 provided by) requests, receives, installs and executes the latest version of the mobile billing application.

To this end, the mobile communication terminal 110 creates, edits, modifies, and stores a short message as well as a basic configuration as a mobile communication terminal for using a voice communication service and a wireless data service or a wireless Internet service provided by the mobile communication network 120. And a short message application to perform a task such as deleting and to send and receive a short message using the SMS server 140 and to output the transmitted and received message on the screen. Then, the mobile communication terminal 110 executes the mobile billing application or the latest version of the mobile billing application received from the application server 130, which is already stored, and outputs the mobile billing content received from the content providing server 150 on the screen. It is provided with a means capable of.

Therefore, the mobile communication terminal 110 is equipped with such a means by mounting a virtual machine (VM). Such virtual machines include Shinjisoft's GVM (General VM) developed by Mobile C and SK Telecom's SK-VM and Sun Microsystems using J2ME (Java 2 Micro Edition) specification. Kilobyte VM (KVM), etc. may be used, and the Wireless Internet Platform for Interoperability (WIPI), which is a mobile standard platform standard created by the Korea Wireless Internet Standardization Forum, may be used.

In the present invention, the mobile bill content is a charge for the mobile communication subscriber by calculating the mobile communication service usage fee of the mobile communication subscriber in units of daily, monthly, yearly, etc., and terminal identification number (MIN: Mobile) of the mobile communication terminal 110. A predetermined tag that can distinguish items of text is attached to a text including an identification number, a name of a mobile communication subscriber, selected plan information, and various charge details. For example, "<App. Title> January 2005 mobile bill <App. MIN> 011-333-3333 <App. Name> Hong Gil-dong ....." In front of the text, the <App. Title>, <App. MIN>, <App. By attaching a tag such as Name>, the mobile billing application checks the tag to check the text item and outputs the corresponding text using the Graphic User Interface (GUI). To be.

In addition, in the present invention, the mobile billing application reads the above-described mobile billing content and outputs the mobile bill details on the screen using a GUI according to a predetermined tag included in the mobile billing content. That is, when the mobile billing application is executed, it performs an authentication procedure for checking whether the mobile subscriber is a legitimate use of a mobile subscriber according to a predetermined algorithm, and if the authentication is successful, the mobile terminal accesses the content providing server to receive the mobile billing content. Read the received mobile bill content and output the content contained in it to the screen using the GUI. However, the above-described authentication procedure can be selectively performed by modifying the algorithm of the application.

In addition, the mobile billing application reads the mobile billing content and outputs the tag and the text included in the mobile billing content as described above, and outputs the text corresponding to each tag. Therefore, the content providing server 150 providing the mobile billing content and the application providing server 130 providing the mobile billing application interoperate with each other so that the mobile billing application can read and output the mobile billing content. It is desirable to create and provide a billing application.

The mobile communication network 120 includes a wireless base station 122, a mobile switching center (MSC) 124, and a data core network (DCN) 126, and the mobile communication terminal 110 Is connected wirelessly with the application providing server 130, the SMS server 140, and the content providing server 150, the mobile communication terminal 110 is a mobile communication such as voice communication service and wireless data service or wireless Internet service. It performs various functions to perform service.

Here, the radio base station 122 performs a location registration function, a function of allocating a radio channel, various functions required for radio call processing such as handoff, and the like. The mobile communication switching center 124 performs basic and additional service processing for providing a voice communication service, incoming and outgoing call processing of a subscriber, location registration procedure and handoff procedure, and interworking with other networks. The data core network 126 may include a high speed data service for providing a packet data communication service, an internet / intranet access service, a virtual private network (VPN) access service, a simple IP and a mobile IP service, Performs Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) authentication, billing, and packet compression.

The application providing server 130 is implemented as a conventional network server. Network servers are computer systems and computer software that are typically connected to subordinate devices capable of communicating with other network servers through a computer network, such as a private intranet or the Internet, to receive and perform a task request and provide a result of the task. It means (network server program). However, in addition to such a network server program, it should be understood as a broad concept including a series of applications running on a network server and in some cases various databases built therein. Such a network server may be implemented using a network server program that is variously provided according to an operating system such as DOS, Windows, Linux, UNIX, or Macintosh. In addition, the application providing server 130 generates and stores the mobile billing application and transmits the latest mobile billing application to the mobile communication terminal 110 when the mobile billing application is requested to transmit the mobile billing application.

SMS server 140 is implemented as a network server, such as the application providing server 130 described above, using the mobile communication network 120 to transfer the numbers, letters between the mobile communication terminal 110 and a variety of text delivery system (not shown) This function delivers a short message to send and receive in both directions.

In addition, the SMS server 140 is connected to the mobile communication network 120, the content providing server 150, when receiving the mobile bill notification information from the content providing server 150 generates a mobile bill short message and establishes a mobile communication network 120 Transmits the data to the mobile communication terminal 110.

The content providing server 150 is a network server connected to the SMS server 140 and the mobile communication network 120 to provide the mobile communication terminal with the generated or received and stored content. In addition, the content providing server 150 receives the bill data from the COIS 160 to generate the mobile bill content, and sends the mobile bill notification information to the SMS server 140 to request the transmission of the mobile bill short message and the mobile communication terminal Provides a guide message for mobile billing to 110. In this case, the content providing server 150 transmits its own Uniform Resource Locator (URL) to control the SMS server 140 to transmit the mobile bill short message as a call back URL short message. In addition, the content providing server 150 transmits the mobile bill content to the mobile communication terminal upon receiving a request for transmission of the mobile bill content from the mobile communication terminal 110.

In the present invention, the mobile bill notification information includes a guide message, information on the mobile bill application, and the URL of the content providing server 150. Here, the guide message is "Hello, this is SK Telecom. To confirm your invoice for January 2005, please let us know that your mobile bill has been issued. In addition, the mobile bill notification information may include authentication data for confirming whether a valid mobile communication subscriber. The authentication data is used when the mobile billing application is executed to perform the authentication procedure, and the mobile communication terminal 110 is compared with the authentication data received from the mobile subscriber to perform authentication by the determination of the same.

In addition, the information on the mobile billing application in the present invention includes the type and version information of the mobile billing application that can check the mobile billing content. That is, the information about the mobile billing application includes application designation information that the mobile communication terminal 110 must have a certain application and a version or a higher version of the application in order to output the mobile billing content. The mobile communication terminal 110 checks the information on the mobile billing application and checks the type and version information of the application required for outputting the mobile billing content, and fails to have the required application or an application of a version higher than the required version. Accesses the application providing server 130 and requests transmission.

The COIS 160 stores information related to mobile communication subscribers using the mobile communication terminal 110 to subscribe, change, adjust, terminate, mobile network management, statistical data calculation, and mobile communication terminal subscribers' mobile communication services. A sales business system that performs functions such as billing management, such as customer management, billing, storage, and non-payment management, such as after service (AS) for 110, a network server and a database (Database) for performing such a function. It is a broad concept system that includes). In addition, the COIS 160 stores the usage information on the mobile communication service of the mobile communication terminal 110, collects information on the usage fee, generates and stores the bill data, and then provides the content providing server 150 at a certain point in time or at a predetermined period. To send).

2 is a block diagram schematically illustrating a content providing server according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

The content providing server 150 according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a control unit 210, a memory unit 220, a display unit 230, a key input unit 240, and a network interface card (NIC). NIC ') 250, database server 260, and content database 270.

The controller 210 controls all components of the content providing server 150. In particular, when receiving the bill data from the COIS 160 as described with reference to FIG. 1, the controller 210 generates the mobile bill contents and the mobile bill notification information, and then generates a database. The server 260 stores the contents in the content database 270 and transmits the mobile bill notification information to the SMS server 140 to request the mobile terminal 110 to transmit a callback URL short message. In addition, the controller 210 transmits the mobile bill content according to the request of the mobile communication terminal 110. To this end, the control unit 310 includes a calculation module such as a microprocessor.

The memory unit 220 temporarily stores data processed by the controller 210 or stores a program for performing a function of the content providing server 150 and stores data necessary for the operation of the content providing server 150. To this end, the memory unit 220 is a nonvolatile memory for storing a predetermined program and data. The memory unit 220 may modify the contents in a unit of EEPROM (Block) that can modify the contents in a byte unit. And a flash memory capable of modifying the flash memory and a synchronous DRAM random access memory (SDRAM) for temporarily storing the generated data.

The display unit 230 allows the administrator who manages the content providing server 150 to check the operation process or the error of the content providing server 150 and the processing status according to the key input from the key input unit 340. LED: Output in the form of Panel or Monitor using Light Emitting Diode.

The key input unit 240 is used by an administrator to manually input data or commands to operate the content providing server 150. The network interface card 350 is a communication module that provides a communication interface for communicating with the data core network 126, the SMS server 140, and the COIS 160 of the mobile communication network 120.

The database server 260 is implemented as a network server to control data input and output of the content database 270. That is, the database server 260 stores the mobile bill contents in the content database 270 and performs operations such as searching, deleting, editing, and adding the mobile bill contents.

The content database 270 refers to a data structure implemented in a storage space of a computer system by using a database management system (DBMS) program. The content database 270 can freely search, delete, edit, and add data. The data storage type. In addition, the content database 270 stores, retrieves, deletes, edits, and adds mobile bill contents under the control of the database server 260.

3 is a flow chart illustrating a method for providing mobile billing content with information about the latest application in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

The COIS 160 collects billing details of the mobile communication service usage of the mobile subscriber, generates bill data, and transmits the bill data to the content providing server 150 at a predetermined point in time or at a predetermined period, and the content providing server 150 receives the content data ( S310).

The content providing server 150 receiving the content data from the COIS 160 generates a mobile bill contents by attaching a tag to the content data of a mobile subscriber who has subscribed to the mobile billing service, and stores the information of the mobile bill. And generate mobile bill notification information by attaching its URL information and authentication data (for example, social security number, etc.) to check whether the mobile subscriber subscribed to the mobile billing service is a legitimate subscriber, if necessary. The mobile bill notification information is transmitted to the SMS server 140 to request transmission of the mobile bill short message (S320).

The SMS server 140, which is requested to send the mobile bill short message from the content providing server 150, generates the mobile bill short message as a callback URL short message using the received mobile bill notification information, and then establishes the mobile communication network 120. It transmits to the mobile communication terminal 110 by using (S330). Here, the SMS server 140 generates a callback URL short message so that the information about the application and the authentication data are not output on the screen and the callback is made to the URL of the content providing server 150.

The mobile communication terminal 110 that receives the mobile bill short message from the SMS server 140 using the mobile communication network 120 executes the stored short message application and outputs it on the screen with the mobile bill short message. That is, the mobile communication terminal 110 outputs only the guide message on the screen and checks whether content confirmation is selected by the mobile communication subscriber (S340).

If the mobile terminal 110 checks the information on the application included in the mobile bill short message when the content check is selected as the result of checking in step S340, whether the mobile communication terminal 110 stores an application required for confirming the mobile bill contents If so, check whether the version of the stored application is greater than or equal to the required version (S350).

If the mobile communication terminal 110 does not store or store the application required to confirm the mobile bill contents as a result of the check in step S350, the mobile communication network 120 determines that the version of the stored application is not the required version or more. Access to the application providing server 130 using a wireless data service or a wireless Internet service provided to request and receive the mobile billing application of the required version or more (S360). The mobile communication terminal receiving the mobile billing application from the application providing server 130 executes the received mobile billing application (S370).

On the other hand, the mobile communication terminal 110 stores the application required to confirm the mobile billing content as a result of the check in step S350, and if the version is more than the required version, proceeds to step S370 to store the mobile billing application. Run

In the present invention, when the content providing server 150 provides content (mobile billing content) to the mobile communication terminal 110, the type of application and version information of the application required for receiving and confirming the content are transmitted. As a result, the mobile communication terminal 110 directly checks whether the application is stored, and has the latest application (the latest version of the mobile billing application), and then transmits the content (mobile billing content).

The mobile communication terminal 110 that executes the mobile billing application in step S370 performs an authentication procedure according to the algorithm defined in the mobile billing application to check whether it is a legitimate use of the mobile communication subscriber (S380). In the present invention, the authentication procedure of step S380 performed by the mobile communication terminal 110 may selectively perform the process according to the version or algorithm of the mobile billing application.

The mobile communication terminal 110 accesses the content providing server 150 after executing the mobile billing application when it is confirmed by the legitimate use of the mobile subscriber or as a result of the check in step S380, or when not performing the authentication procedure. Request transmission of the content to receive the mobile bill content (S390).

The mobile communication terminal 110 receiving the mobile bill contents from the content providing server 150 outputs the received mobile bill contents on the screen provided with the mobile billing application in operation (S392).

4 is a view for explaining a process of outputting a mobile bill content by the mobile communication terminal receives the information about the latest application, installs and executes the latest application according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

4A illustrates a mobile bill short message displayed on the screen of the mobile communication terminal 110. When the content providing server 150 transmits the callback URL short message using the SMS server 140, the content providing server 150 is outputted as 4A on the screen of the mobile communication terminal 110. At this time, if the mobile subscriber checks the guidance message displayed on the screen of the mobile communication terminal 110 and selects a 'call' button to check the bill, the mobile communication terminal 110 is not output to the screen. The information about the application included in the mobile bill short message is checked to determine whether it is storing in its own memory the latest application specified by the information about the application (i.e., the mobile billing application of the specified version or more). 4B illustrates a process of checking a version of an application stored by the mobile terminal 110 on the screen.

4C shows a state in which the mobile communication terminal 110 outputs a process of receiving the latest application from the application providing server 130 on the screen. When the mobile communication terminal 110 checks the version of the stored application and does not store the latest application, the mobile terminal 110 accesses the application providing server 130 and receives the latest application. When the reception is completed, the mobile communication terminal 110 executes the latest application received.

4D illustrates a state in which the mobile terminal 110 outputs a process of performing an authentication procedure according to an algorithm of a mobile content application on a screen. If the mobile content application executed by the mobile communication terminal 110 is algorithmized to perform an authentication procedure, the mobile communication terminal 110 outputs a message on the screen as shown in 4D and receives authentication data from the mobile communication subscriber. Although 4D is shown to enter the seven digits of the social security number (or carrier number) of the mobile subscriber, the authentication data in the present invention is not limited to the seven digits of the social security number (or carrier number), it is determined whether the mobile subscriber is a legitimate user. It may be data that can be checked (for example, various data such as ID (Identification) and password or a random number using a security card entered at the time of mobile billing service subscription), and various authentication methods using the authentication data may be implemented. have.

4E illustrates a process in which the mobile communication terminal 110 outputs a process of accessing the content providing server 150 to the screen. If the authentication is successful, the mobile communication terminal 110 accesses the content providing server 150 using a wireless data service or a wireless internet service provided by the mobile communication network 120 and receives the mobile bill contents.

4F illustrates the mobile terminal 110 outputting the mobile bill contents on the screen. The mobile communication terminal 110 outputs the mobile bill content received from the content providing server 150 to the screen using the executed mobile bill application.

In the above description, only the mobile bill contents have been described as an embodiment to which the present invention is applied. However, the present invention is not limited thereto, and all fields such as games, multimedia, and advertisements can be output and executed using an application installed in a mobile communication terminal. It can be applied for the contents of.

The above description is merely illustrative of the technical idea of the present invention, and those skilled in the art to which the present invention pertains may make various modifications and changes without departing from the essential characteristics of the present invention. Therefore, the embodiments disclosed in the present invention are not intended to limit the technical idea of the present invention but to describe the present invention, and the scope of the technical idea of the present invention is not limited by these embodiments. The protection scope of the present invention should be interpreted by the following claims, and all technical ideas within the equivalent scope should be interpreted as being included in the scope of the present invention.

As described above, according to the present invention, in providing content to a mobile communication terminal, the mobile communication terminal is transmitted by transmitting information about an application for identifying the content together with a short message for checking whether the content is received. By having the latest application and transmitting the content, the mobile terminal can access the application providing server to check the latest version of the application, thereby reducing the load on the mobile terminal. As a mobile communication network, it is possible to efficiently manage network resources due to the reduction of unnecessary traffic.                     

In addition, according to the present invention, by using the existing SMS to check the bill in a simple text and outputs to the GUI to look good by using a mobile bill application to facilitate the convenience of the mobile subscribers for this purpose By transmitting the mobile bill contents in the form of text and tags rather than in the form of large size files or data that burden the traffic, it is possible to reduce the amount of data communication transmitted and received in providing the mobile bill service.

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A mobile communication terminal that checks the content by executing an application, a mobile communication network providing a mobile communication service, an application providing server providing the application, and a short message service (SMS). In the system comprising an SMS server for providing a content and a content providing server for providing the content, the method for transmitting the content to the mobile communication terminal, (a) generating the content and the content notification information and transmitting a content short message including the content notification information to the mobile communication terminal; (b) the mobile terminal outputting the content short message and confirming whether or not a confirmation of receipt of the content is selected by the mobile subscriber; (c) checking, by the mobile communication terminal, whether the latest application is provided by using the content notification information when the reception confirmation of the content is selected as a result of the checking of the step (b); (d) executing the latest application when the mobile communication terminal has the latest application as a result of checking in step (c); (e) allowing an access request of the mobile communication terminal according to a predetermined algorithm of the latest application and transmitting the content to the mobile communication terminal; And (f) outputting the contents by the mobile communication terminal; Content providing method comprising a. According to claim 1, The content providing method, Between step (c) and step (d), (c1) if the mobile communication terminal does not have the latest application as a result of checking in the step (c), accessing the application server and requesting transmission of the latest application; And (c2) the mobile terminal receiving and executing the latest application from the application server Content providing method comprising a further. The method of claim 2, wherein step (c1) comprises: (c11) checking, by the mobile communication terminal, whether the application specified in the information about the application is provided using the information about the application included in the content notification information; (c12) if the mobile communication terminal has the designated application as a result of the checking in step (c11), check the version information of the provided application and compare it with the version information specified in the information about the application. Checking whether a version of is greater than or equal to the specified version; And (c13) when the mobile communication terminal determines that the version of the application provided is not greater than or equal to the specified version, as a result of the checking in step (c12), the latest application that is an application having a version greater than or equal to the specified version; Requesting to send Content providing method comprising a. According to claim 1, The content providing method, Between the step (d) and the step (e), (d1) performing, by the mobile terminal, an authentication procedure for confirming the use of a legitimate mobile subscriber using the content notification information according to a predetermined algorithm of the latest application; Content providing method comprising a further. The method of claim 1, wherein the content notification information, And a guide message for confirming whether the content has been received, information about an application, and URL (Uniform Resource Locator) information of the content providing server, wherein the information about the application includes the type and version information of the application. How to provide content. The method of claim 1, wherein the content is: Mobile bill contents including a text as a detail for billing the mobile subscriber to use the mobile communication service fee of the mobile subscriber using the mobile terminal and a predetermined tag for distinguishing the item of the text. And outputting to the mobile communication terminal by the application. In the system for transmitting the content (Content) to the mobile communication terminal, A mobile communication network wirelessly connected to the mobile communication terminal to provide a mobile communication service including a wireless data service or a wireless internet service to the mobile communication terminal; An application providing server connected to the mobile communication network to generate and store an application and to transmit the application to the mobile communication terminal upon receiving a request for transmission of the application from the mobile communication terminal; An SMS server for providing a short message service (SMS) to the mobile communication terminal using the mobile communication network and generating a content short message to the mobile communication terminal; And Connected to the mobile communication network to generate content notification information and transmit it to the SMS server, thereby controlling the SMS server to generate a content short message and to transmit the content short message to the mobile communication terminal, and generate the content according to a request of the mobile communication terminal. Content providing server for transmitting to the mobile communication terminal Content providing system comprising a. The method of claim 7, wherein the content providing server, The content short message is generated and transmitted to the SMS server by generating a content notification information including a guide message for confirming whether the content is received, information about the application, and information about its own Uniform Resource Locator (URL). Requesting transmission to a terminal, wherein the information about the application includes information on the type and version of the application. The method of claim 8, wherein the SMS server, The content short message is generated as a call back URL short message by using the URL information included in the content notification information, and the mobile communication terminal outputs only the guide message and the information about the application and the URL information. The content providing system, characterized in that for generating the content short message so as not to output. The method of claim 9, wherein the mobile communication terminal, After the content short message is received from the SMS server, when the confirmation of the content is selected by the mobile subscriber, the latest application is checked by using the content notification information included in the content short message. If not provided, the content providing system, characterized in that by accessing the application providing server to request, receive, install and run the latest application, and if the latest application is provided, the latest application provided. The method of claim 7, wherein the content is, Mobile bill contents including a text as a detail for billing the mobile subscriber to use the mobile communication service fee of the mobile subscriber using the mobile terminal and a predetermined tag for distinguishing the item of the text. And output to the mobile communication terminal by the application. In the server for transmitting the content using a wireless data service or a wireless Internet service provided by the mobile communication network in response to a request of the mobile communication terminal for executing the application (Application) to check the content, After generating and storing the content, and generating the content notification information, the content notification information to the mobile communication terminal as a content short message using a Short Message Service (SMS) server. A control unit which transmits the content to the mobile communication terminal after controlling the mobile communication terminal to have the latest version of the application by using the content notification information by transmitting; A memory unit for temporarily storing the content and the content notification information generated by the control unit or storing a program executed by the control unit; A key input unit for receiving data or a command for operating the server from an administrator who manages the server; A display unit which outputs an operation process or an error of the server and a processing state according to a key input from the key input unit; A network interface card (NIC) providing a communication interface for communicating with the mobile communication network and the SMS server; And Content database server for storing, searching, deleting, editing, and adding the content Content providing server comprising a.

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