KR100605529B1 - System and Method for changing additional service data of calling subscriber using additional service data of called subscriber - Google Patents

Abstract

According to the present invention, additional service information subscribed to by a called party recognized by a calling subscriber during a call is notified to a calling subscriber during a call or after a call by using a short message, so that the calling subscriber can purchase additional service information that is immediately needed without a special search. To this end, the present invention relates to a system and method for changing supplementary service information of an originating subscriber.

In a system for providing an additional service through a mobile communication network, an originating subscriber receives an outgoing subscriber information and a receiving subscriber information obtained by a call request with a called party, checks the additional service information registered by the called party, and then sends Means for generating a message for notifying the subscriber station of the additional service information registered by the called subscriber; Means for updating the additional service information of the calling subscriber with the additional service information registered by the called subscriber when the response to the notified message is received from the calling subscriber, and accumulating the number of sales of the additional service information of the called subscriber. do.

Mobile, communication, ringback tone, value added service, update, change, ring back tone, sale

Description

System and method for changing additional service data of calling subscriber using additional service data of called subscriber}             

1 is a block diagram of a conventional subscriber-based ringback tone service system.

2 is a block diagram of a service system according to the present invention;

3 is a processing flowchart of a service providing server according to the present invention;

The present invention relates to a system and a method for changing additional service information of an outgoing subscriber using additional service information registered by a called party. More particularly, the present invention provides a short message to notify the calling subscriber of additional service information subscribed to by a called party. A system that allows the calling subscriber to purchase additional service information required by the calling subscriber, changes the additional service information of the calling subscriber, increases the service benefits of the selling of the called subscriber, and increases the sales volume of the additional service of the telecommunications company; It is about a method.

Currently, mobile operators are providing various additional services to subscribers. The additional service includes a subscriber-based ringback tone service that provides ringback tones by a subscriber-defined melody.

1 is a block diagram of a conventional subscriber-based ringback tone service system.

The service system is a switch that communicates with the home location register (10) through a home location register (HLR) 10, a common line signal (No. 7) network 20 based on a Signaling Transfer Protocol (Signalling Transfer Protocol) (O_MSC / VLR, T_MSC / VLR) (31,32), sound source providing device 50, IP that is connected to the No.7 network 20 and communicates with the exchange (31,32) through a gateway 40 Sound source providing control server 70 for data communication with the sound source providing apparatus 50 through the network 60, subscriber storage database 80, gateway connected to the home location register 10 via the IP network 60 And a web server 100 connected to the IP network 60 through 90 to communicate with the sound source providing apparatus 50 and the sound source providing control server 70.

The home location register (10) stores subscriber information, and stores first information on subscription to a ringback tone service and second information for routing to the sound source providing apparatus (50) as profile information on a called subscriber. The information is set and stored as supplementary service subscription information of the called party profile.

The exchanges 31 and 32 communicate with the home location register 10 when registering the location of the called party, receive and store the preset first and second information, and store the received first when requesting a call connection of the called party. And receiving a sound source for replacing a ringback tone by communicating with the sound source providing apparatus 50 based on the second information, and providing the received sound source as a ringback tone replacement sound to the caller.

The sound source providing device 50 stores various sound sources and communicates with the exchanges 31 and 32 through the gateway 40 to provide the stored sound sources to the exchange.

The sound source providing control server 70 communicates with the sound source providing apparatus 50 through the IP network 60 to provide the type of sound source to be provided by the sound source providing apparatus 50 to the switchboards 31 and 32. It determines the identification of the called party requested by the call connection, the identification information of the caller corresponding thereto.

The web server 100 is connected to the sound source providing device 50 or the sound source providing control server 70 through the IP network 60, to add the sound source stored in the sound source providing device 50, or to the sound source This is for changing the information for specifying the sound source of the provision control server 70 and the corresponding sound source code, which can be performed by a subscriber through a web page provided by the web server 100.

If any caller calls the called subscriber and requests a call connection, the calling switch 31 requests the home location register 10 for the location information of the called subscriber terminal.

The home location register 10 requests routing information from the destination exchange 32 according to the request, and accordingly, the destination exchange 32 transmits routing information, that is, a TLDN (Temporary Local Directory) to the home location register 10. Answer by giving a number).

The home location register 10 transmits the routing information of the destination exchange to the originating exchange 31, and thus the originating exchange 31 trunks to the destination exchange 32 based on the routing information. Requests call connection to form mutual channel.

Subsequently, the destination exchange 32 receives the service setting information received from the home location register 10 at the time of registering the location and the subscriber is a subscriber of the service and activates the service based on routing information to the sound source providing device 50. If it is determined that the state, based on the routing information request the ISUP call connection to the sound source providing apparatus 50 to form a cross-trunk call path, at this time also provides the incoming telephone number and the outgoing telephone number. As a result, the call exchanger 31, the call exchanger 32, and the sound source providing device 50 are in a state in which a call path is formed. For reference, the service setting information and the routing information are provided in a location registration response message provided from the home location register 10 to the destination exchange 32 when the location is registered.

The sound source providing device 50 queries the sound source providing control server 70 by requesting a sound source code based on the received incoming and outgoing telephone number information, and the sound source providing control server 70 according to the request. The specified sound source code is searched in association with the provided incoming and outgoing telephone number, and the searched sound source code is transmitted to the sound source providing device 50. The sound source providing apparatus 50 transmits a sound source corresponding to the received sound source code from the pre-stored sound source to the caller through the formed call path as a substitute sound instead of ringback tone.

On the other hand, the terminating exchange 32, when the incoming subscriber receives a call while the replacement sound is being transferred instead of the ringback tone as described above, requests the sound source providing device 50 to release the ISUP call to provide the sound source providing device 50. The call is released, and at the same time, a call is made between the calling party and the called party through the call path interconnected with the calling exchange 31.

The ringback tone service as described above may inform the calling subscriber the melody selected by the called subscriber replacing the existing uniform ringback tone. The commercial success of this ringback tone service was due to the fact that it could satisfy the desire of modern people to express their individuality.

However, the sound source providing apparatus of the ring back tone service system stores a huge amount of sound. In this state, the subscriber must spend a lot of time searching to select the desired sound source. Moreover, you can't be sure if you're really looking for a melody without hearing the melody you've searched for in advance. In addition, even if you like the ringback tone melody selected by a specific called party, if you do not know the title, it is difficult to select it as your ringback tone melody.

Therefore, in the present invention, additional service information (for example, ringback tone sound) subscribed to by the called party recognized by the calling subscriber during the call is notified to the calling subscriber by a short message during the call or after the call is terminated, so that the calling subscriber does not have a special search. It is an object of the present invention to provide a system and method for changing additional service information of a calling subscriber by purchasing additional service information needed immediately.
Another object of the present invention is to change the additional service information of the calling subscriber that can increase the service benefits for the service sales of the called subscriber, and increase the sales volume of the additional service of the telecommunications company, as the additional service of the called party to sell to the caller. A system and method are provided.

The system according to the present invention for achieving the above object is a system for providing an additional service through a mobile communication network, the calling subscriber receives the outgoing subscriber information and the called subscriber information obtained by the call request with the called subscriber, Means for generating a message for notifying the additional service information registered by the called subscriber to the calling subscriber terminal after checking the additional service information registered by the called subscriber; Means for updating the supplementary service information of the calling subscriber with supplementary service information registered by the called subscriber when receiving a response to the notified message from the calling subscriber, and accumulating the number of sales of supplementary service information of the called subscriber; It is characterized by including.

In addition, the system according to the present invention, in the subscriber-based ringback tone service system including a home location register, a sound source providing apparatus, a sound source providing control server, connected to the sound source providing control server and the home location register via an IP network. Receiving the calling subscriber information, the called subscriber information and the sound source code registered by the called subscriber from the sound source providing control server, generating a message including the sound source information registered by the called subscriber, and transmitting it to the calling subscriber; When a response to the transmitted message is received from the subscriber, the sound source information registered by the calling subscriber is changed to sound source information registered by the called subscriber, and the number of sales of the additional service information of the called subscriber is updated.

In addition, the method according to the present invention is a method for changing supplementary service information of a subscriber in a system for providing supplementary services through a mobile communication network, wherein the calling party subscriber information and the called party subscriber information obtained by a call request from the called party and A first step of receiving additional service information registered by the called subscriber; A second step of generating and transmitting a message for notifying additional service information registered by the called subscriber to the calling subscriber terminal; A third step of updating the additional service information of the calling subscriber with the additional service information registered by the called subscriber when receiving a response to the transmitted message from the calling subscriber; And a fourth step of updating the number of sales of the additional service information of the called subscriber.

In addition, the method according to the present invention, in the method of changing the additional service information of the subscriber in a system for providing an additional service through a mobile communication network, the calling subscriber receives the calling subscriber information and the called subscriber information obtained by the call request with the called subscriber Receiving, and confirming additional service information registered by the called subscriber; A second step of generating and transmitting a message for notifying additional service information registered by the called subscriber to the calling subscriber terminal; A third step of updating additional service information of the calling subscriber with additional service information registered by the called subscriber when receiving a response to the transmitted message from the calling subscriber; And a fourth step of updating the number of sales of the additional service information of the called subscriber.

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

2 is a block diagram of a service system according to the present invention.

The service system according to the present invention includes a service providing server 101 connected to the IP network 60 in the conventional subscriber-based ringback tone service system to perform a function for providing the service. The service providing server 101 is also connected to a short message (SMS) server 102 and although not shown in the figure the SMS server 102 is connected to a mobile communication network. In FIG. 2, the home location register (HLR) 10, the sound source providing apparatus 50, the sound source providing control server 70, the web server 100 and the gateway 90 are provided with the functions of a conventional subscriber-based ringback tone service system. Do the same.

The service providing server 101 for the present invention receives the information and the sound source code of the calling party and the called party provided from the sound source providing control server 70 and listens to the short message (SMS) server 102 by the current calling party. The message including the sound source information of the called party is transmitted. Accordingly, the short message server 102 provides sound source code information of the called subscriber to the calling subscriber terminal. In this case, it is preferable that the short message includes a swap push function. That is, the calling subscriber sees the received short message and directly operates the confirmation key, thereby directly accessing the service providing server 101. Then, the calling subscriber simply responds to whether to change the sound source code, so that his ringback tone sound source is changed to the sound source of the called subscriber just listened to. The above process will be described in more detail with reference to FIG. 3.

When the calling party calls the called party's phone number, if the called party is a ringback tone service subscriber, the calling party is provided with a melody selected by the called party as ringback tone. This process is known in the art and the detailed description thereof is omitted in the present invention.

At this time, the sound source providing control server 70 provides the telephone number of the calling subscriber, the telephone number of the called subscriber, the sound source code information selected by the called subscriber to the service providing server 101. Accordingly, the service providing server 101 receives the calling and receiving subscriber telephone numbers and the sound source code information (201).

Thereafter, the service providing server 101 transmits a service subscription query message including the telephone number of the calling subscriber to the home location register. When receiving a response message to the query from the home location register, it is determined whether the calling subscriber is a subscriber to the ringback tone service (202). If the calling subscriber does not subscribe to the service, the service is terminated. If the calling subscriber subscribes to the service, the service providing server 101 generates a message in the form of "Please press the confirmation key to purchase the music just listened" to the calling subscriber terminal. It transmits to the SMS server 102 so that it can be transmitted (203).

In step 204, a connection is established according to the message and a response is received. If a response according to the message is not received for a certain time, it ends. However, when the response is received by being connected to the calling subscriber terminal according to the response of the calling subscriber terminal, the service providing server 101 reconfirms the purchase intention, and then sends the calling subscriber telephone number to the sound source providing control server 70 according to the purchase request. And the sound source code information is transmitted (205). Accordingly, the ringback tone melody of the calling subscriber is changed. The service providing server accumulates the sales count of the called subscriber (206). This is to provide a bonus to the called party according to the number of sales.

In the description of one embodiment of the present invention described above it is described as having a separate service providing server to provide a service according to the present invention, the function according to the present invention to the sound source providing control server without a separate server It is also possible to add. This case is described as follows.

The sound source providing control server 70 receives an inquiry about the sound source code registered by the called subscriber while receiving the calling subscriber number and the called subscriber number from the sound source providing apparatus 50. This is a known technique of conventional subscriber based ringback tone service. Then, the sound source providing control server 70 retrieves the registered sound source code based on the called subscriber's telephone number and provides it to the sound source providing apparatus.

The sound source providing control server 70 inquires whether the calling subscriber has subscribed to the service to the home location register. When a response is received from the home location register and it is confirmed that the calling subscriber is subscribed to the service, the sound source providing control server asks whether to purchase the melody registered by the called subscriber with the calling subscriber telephone number provided from the sound source providing apparatus. Send it. Here, the sound source providing control server 70 may transmit the message to the calling subscriber terminal at the same time as transmitting the sound source code information to the sound source providing apparatus, or may transmit the message after waiting a predetermined time.

After the message is transmitted, when the sound source providing control server receives a response from the calling subscriber terminal, the sound source providing control server changes the registered melody of the calling subscriber to the melody registered by the called subscriber. Of course, the sound source providing control server may change the sound source code after reconfirming whether to change the sound source code to the calling subscriber. Then, the sound source providing control server updates the sales count of the called party. This is also to provide incentives to the called party according to the sales frequency of the called party.
Here, updating the number of sales of the called subscriber can increase the service benefits for the service sale of the called subscriber and can increase the sales amount of additional services of the telecommunications company.

Meanwhile, the present invention described above only refers to the ringback tone service. However, this also applies to other services. For example, in the case of a service for providing the calling subscriber with the avatar registered by the called subscriber, it is possible to provide the same by the same procedure.

Furthermore, the present invention described above can be modified as follows.

First, when the sound source providing control server is notified of the calling subscriber's telephone number and the called subscriber's telephone number, it will be possible to be notified from the home location register up to whether the calling subscriber subscribes to the service. In this case, the service providing server or the sound source providing control server will not need to query whether the calling subscriber subscribes to the service.

In transmitting the short message to the next calling subscriber, it may be possible to send the short message to the calling subscriber when a signal indicating that the call is terminated from the exchange is input.

Furthermore, when additional service information registered by the called subscriber is sold, it may be possible to notify the called subscriber terminal of the details. Such various modifications are sufficiently predictable by those skilled in the art based on the present invention. Therefore, the scope of the present invention should be determined by the claims including such predictable modifications.

According to the present invention as described above, when the calling subscriber is notified of the additional service information recognized during the call attempt with the called party, it is possible to immediately change the additional service information of their own, to save the search time by changing the additional service information In terms of the operator, it is possible to promote the sale of additional service information.

Claims (13)

In a system for providing an additional service through a mobile communication network, The calling subscriber receives the calling subscriber information and the called subscriber information obtained by the call request with the called subscriber, confirms the additional service information registered by the called subscriber, and then notifies the calling subscriber terminal of the added service information registered by the called subscriber. Means for generating a message to: Means for updating the supplementary service information of the calling subscriber with supplementary service information registered by the called subscriber when receiving a response to the notified message from the calling subscriber, and accumulating the number of sales of supplementary service information of the called subscriber; System comprising a. delete The method according to claim 1 or 2, And said message generating means generates and transmits said message at the end of a call between a calling party and a called party. The method of claim 3, wherein And said message generating means generates said message when said calling subscriber subscribes to an additional service. In the subscriber-based ringback tone service system including a home location register, a sound source providing apparatus, and a sound source providing control server, A sound source registered with the called subscriber by being connected to the sound source providing control server and the home location register through an IP network, receiving incoming subscriber information, called subscriber information, and a sound code registered by the called subscriber from the sound source providing control server, respectively. Generate a message including information and transmit the message to the calling subscriber; When the response to the message transmitted from the calling subscriber is received, the sound source information registered by the calling subscriber is changed to sound information registered by the called subscriber, and the number of sales of additional service information of the called subscriber is updated. System. delete The method according to claim 5 or 6, And the additional service providing server generates and transmits the message when a call is terminated between a calling party and a called party. The method of claim 7, wherein And the service providing server queries the home location registrar whether the calling subscriber subscribes to an additional service, and generates and transmits the message when the calling subscriber subscribes to an additional service. In a method of changing additional service information of a subscriber in a system providing additional service through a mobile communication network, A first step of the originating subscriber receiving the outgoing subscriber information and the called subscriber information obtained by the call request with the called subscriber and the additional service information registered by the called subscriber; A second step of generating and transmitting a message for notifying additional service information registered by the called subscriber to the calling subscriber terminal; A third step of updating the additional service information of the calling subscriber with the additional service information registered by the called subscriber when receiving a response to the transmitted message from the calling subscriber; And And updating a number of sales of the additional service information of the called subscriber. In a method of changing additional service information of a subscriber in a system providing additional service through a mobile communication network, A first step of the calling subscriber receiving the calling subscriber information and the called subscriber information obtained by the call request with the called subscriber and confirming the additional service information registered by the called subscriber; A second step of generating and transmitting a message for notifying additional service information registered by the called subscriber to the calling subscriber terminal; A third step of updating additional service information of the calling subscriber with additional service information registered by the called subscriber when receiving a response to the transmitted message from the calling subscriber; And And updating a number of sales of the additional service information of the called subscriber. delete The method according to claim 9 or 10, And wherein said second step is made after a call is terminated between said calling party and said called party. The method according to claim 9 or 10, And after the performing of the first step, checking whether the calling subscriber subscribes to the additional service, and wherein the second step is performed when the calling subscriber subscribes to the additional service.

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