KR100622073B1 - Method for providing active short message service - Google Patents

Abstract

Transmitting a text message including a search text input by a user to a service provider server through a wireless terminal device to a specific telephone number; Checking, by the service provider, a search text of an incoming text message connected to a specific phone number, and transmitting the checked phone number and search text to the WAP server; The WAP server automatically configures parameters of the corresponding WAP page after searching the database for information corresponding to the received search text; WAP server planting the parameters of the corresponding WAP page in the URL and transmits along with the telephone number of the wireless terminal device to the service provider server; The service provider server makes a call to the received telephone number of the wireless terminal device and transmits the URL containing the parameter of the WAP page to the user wireless terminal device requesting the search; And a user accessing the WAP server based on the URL transmitted through the wireless terminal device, and the WAP server reads parameters included in the URL checked from the connected wireless terminal device and creates and provides a corresponding WAP page in real time. An active short service method including a is disclosed.

WAP, wireless server, callback, short service, wireless page

Description

Method for providing active short message service             

1 is a network configuration to which the short service method of the present invention is applied.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of the WAP server of FIG. 1.

3 is a flowchart illustrating an active short service method according to the present invention.

The present invention relates to an active short message service method, and more particularly, to an active short message service method for more actively providing information desired by a user of a wireless terminal device in a wireless communication environment including a wireless terminal device, a short message service center, and a WAP server. It is about.

In general, a short message service (hereinafter, referred to as SMS) has been used for the simple purpose of transmitting a short message such as a text from one terminal device to another terminal device.

On the other hand, WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) was developed due to the need to connect to a server connected to the Internet directly from a wireless terminal device, and WAP was designed to view data written in a new language called WML (Wireless Markup Language) with a dedicated browser. As a result, they could receive various online services based on multimedia beyond simple text-based information services.

Accordingly, SMS is emerging as an object to play a more active role, not just text transmission.

For example, with the opening of wireless networks, there is a need to promote WAP server addresses to wireless terminal devices, and SMS can be a good means for such promotion.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a short message service method capable of actively applying SMS to obtain a necessary information by accessing a wireless web server from a wireless terminal device.

Other objects and features of the present invention will be more clearly understood from the embodiments described below.

According to the present invention, a text message including a search text input by a user through a wireless terminal device is transmitted to a specific telephone number to a service provider server; Checking, by the service provider, a search text of an incoming text message connected to a specific phone number, and transmitting the checked phone number and search text to the WAP server; The WAP server automatically configures parameters of the corresponding WAP page after searching the database for information corresponding to the received search text; WAP server planting the parameters of the corresponding WAP page in the URL and transmits along with the telephone number of the wireless terminal device to the service provider server; The service provider server makes a call to the received telephone number of the wireless terminal device and transmits the URL containing the parameter of the WAP page to the user wireless terminal device requesting the search; And a user accessing the WAP server based on the URL transmitted through the wireless terminal device, and the WAP server reads parameters included in the URL checked from the connected wireless terminal device and creates and provides a corresponding WAP page in real time. An active short service method including a is disclosed.

Preferably, the provided WAP page may be configured by classifying the extracted information for the search text into categories to facilitate selection by the user of the wireless terminal device.

Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying drawings will be described an embodiment of the present invention.

1 is a block diagram illustrating a network to which the short service method of the present invention is applied, and FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a WAP server of FIG.

As shown, the wireless terminal device 100 is connected to the short message service center (SMSC) server 200, WAP server 300 via a wireless network.

As the wireless terminal device 100, a mobile phone, an IMT-2000 or a wireless PDA may be applied.

The WAP server 300 may be operated as a single server, as shown in FIG. 2 in order to distribute the load of the server, a push server 310, a DB server 320 and a download server 330. Can be operated separately.

3 is a flowchart illustrating an active short service method according to the present invention.

The user of the wireless terminal device 100 makes a call to a specific phone number and inputs a search text in a text message and transmits it (step S30). The specific phone number may be known by, for example, a user accessing a content providing server by wire and may be a phone number of the SMSC server 200. In addition, the SMSC server 200 may be operated by a separate company or directly operated by a content providing server.

The SMSC server 200 checks incoming search text connected to a specific phone number and checks the phone number of the confirmed wireless terminal device 100 and time information in which the search text is input and transmits it to the WAP server 300 (step). S31).

The WAP server 300 automatically configures parameters of the corresponding WAP page after retrieving information corresponding to the received search text from a database (not shown), and injects the parameters of the corresponding WAP page into a URL to the phone number of the wireless terminal device. Together with the SMSC server 200 (step S32).

The SMSC server 200 makes a call to the telephone number of the received wireless terminal device 100 and transmits a URL including parameters of the WAP page called back from the WAP server 300 (step S33). .

The user of the wireless terminal device 100 accesses the WAP server through the transmitted URL (step S34), and the WAP server 300 reads parameters included in the URL checked from the connected wireless terminal device 100 in real time. The corresponding WAP page is created and provided (step S36). In this case, the WAP server 300 may configure the WAP page by classifying the information corresponding to the search text into categories to facilitate selection by the user later.

This will be described with an actual example as follows.

First, if the call to a specific telephone number "019-XXX-XXXX" through the wireless terminal device 100 having a telephone number of "011-XXX-XXXX" as an example, the SMSC server 200 is connected, the search text "strict" Enter to send.

The SMSC server 200 checks the phone numbers " 011-XXX-XXX " and " strict " of the wireless terminal device, and delivers them to the WAP server 300. The WAP server 300 builds itself in response to the " strict " Extract relevant information from the compiled database and configure the parameters of the WAP page.

The WAP server 300 transmits the URL "www.yyyy.com?key=qualification" of the WAP page in which the phone number of the wireless terminal device and the search character "striction" are combined as parameters, to the SMSC server 200, and the SMSC server. 200 calls the telephone number of the delivered wireless terminal device and transmits the URL of the WAP page in which " qualification " is combined as a parameter.

When the user of the wireless terminal device selects the URL of the WAP page in which the transmitted "qualification" is combined as a parameter and accesses the WAP server 300, the WAP server 300 is included in the URL checked from the connected wireless terminal device. The parameter "qualification" is read and a WAP page is created and provided in real time.

In this case, as described above, a WAP page may be provided in which the extracted information is classified into categories so that a user of the wireless terminal device may easily select necessary information. For example, "1. Uhm Jung Hwa Ringtone", "2. Uhm Jung Hwa Coloring", "3. Karaoke", "4. Music Album", "5. Dance Karaoke" and the like can be set.

Therefore, the user can easily obtain necessary information through the WAP page provided from the WAP server.

Therefore, according to the present invention, SMS can be actively used as a useful tool for information retrieval in a wireless network environment, not simply for text transmission.

Although the above has been described with reference to the preferred embodiment of the present invention, various changes and modifications can be made at the level of those skilled in the art. It is natural that such changes or modifications fall within the scope of the present invention without departing from the spirit of the present invention. Therefore, the scope of the present invention should not be limited to the above-described embodiment, but should be determined by the claims described below.

 As described above, by actively using SMS as a useful tool for information retrieval in a wireless network environment, there is an advantage in promoting the address of the WAP content server.

In addition, by reducing the time required for the user to access and search the WAP server, it is possible to reduce the cost of using the WAP.

Moreover, there is an advantage that users who are difficult to access the wireless service can easily access using SMS.

Claims (2)

Transmitting a text message including a search text input by a user to a service provider server through a wireless terminal device to a specific telephone number; Checking, by the service provider, a search text of an incoming text message connected to the specific phone number and transmitting the confirmed phone number and search text to the WAP server; The WAP server extracting relevant information corresponding to the received search text from a database and configuring parameters of the corresponding WAP page with the related information; The WAP server embedding a parameter of the corresponding WAP page in a URL and transmitting the WAP server to the service provider server together with the telephone number of the wireless terminal device; The service provider server making a call to the received telephone number of the wireless terminal device and transmitting the URL including the parameter of the WAP page to the user wireless terminal device requesting the search; And The user accesses the WAP server based on the transmitted URL through the wireless terminal device, and the WAP server reads the parameter included in the URL checked from the connected wireless terminal device in real time, and the corresponding WAP page. Active short service method comprising the steps of providing and providing. The method of claim 1, wherein the provided WAP page is configured by classifying information extracted for the search text into categories to facilitate selection by a user of the wireless terminal device.

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