KR100626285B1 - Charging System For Mobile Communication And Method Thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a mobile communication-based charging system and a method for charging a mobile communication service fee used by another person's mobile communication terminal to his mobile service fee.

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a system for billing a mobile communication using a wireless terminal of another person, the system comprising: a wireless terminal of another person transmitting a preset service request code and personal terminal information and password of a user using the wireless terminal of another person; Permit the mobile communication service using the wireless terminal of the other person based on the personal terminal information and the password of the user according to the service request code and to the user who used the mobile communication service using the wireless terminal of the other person. A service control station for charging a usage fee is provided.

Description

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1 is a block diagram illustrating a charging system based on a mobile communication according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a billing method based on mobile communication according to an embodiment of the present invention shown in FIG. 1.

The present invention relates to a mobile communication system, and more particularly, to a mobile communication-based billing system and a method for charging a mobile communication service fee used by another person's mobile communication terminal to a mobile communication service fee.

As the modern society has advanced, the development of technology has led to the implementation of a wireless communication system. Such a mobile communication system provides a user with a mobile communication system by using a mobile communication terminal wirelessly connected to a mobile communication base station.

The number of users has exploded due to the convenience of wireless that the mobile communication system can use the mobile communication system anytime and anywhere for the past several decades. Has become universal as a necessity that should not be left out of the life of the man.

However, such a mobile communication terminal has a disadvantage in that power is supplied through the battery due to the wireless feature, and when the power charged in the battery is discharged, the user cannot temporarily use his mobile communication terminal.

In addition, due to the fact that the mobile communication terminal is wireless, a user frequently leaves or loses his mobile communication terminal elsewhere, and even in this case, the user cannot temporarily use his mobile communication terminal. have.

If the user is temporarily unable to use his or her mobile terminal due to the aforementioned reasons or other reasons, the user may use another's mobile terminal.

However, the current mobile communication based billing system does not charge mobile communication service charges according to who used the mobile communication service, but according to whose mobile communication terminal used the mobile communication service. The service usage fee is charged to the holder of the mobile communication terminal.

For this reason, if a user who cannot use his or her mobile communication terminal wants to use another's mobile communication terminal, the user may be charged for using the mobile communication service.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a mobile communication-based charging system and a method for charging a mobile communication service fee using a mobile communication terminal of another person to the mobile communication service fee.

In the mobile communication-based billing system according to an embodiment of the present invention, in a system for billing a mobile communication using another's wireless terminal, a preset service request code and personal terminal information of a user using another's wireless terminal And another person's wireless terminal for transmitting the password; Permit the mobile communication service using the wireless terminal of the other person based on the personal terminal information and the password of the user according to the service request code and to the user who used the mobile communication service using the wireless terminal of the other person. A service control station for charging a usage fee is provided.

The mobile communication-based charging system of the present invention comprises: a home location register which receives the service request code and requests the service control station to permit the mobile communication service through the wireless terminal of the other person according to the service request code; An automatic response system for guiding a request for inputting personal terminal information and a password of the user through a voice message under the control of the service control station; And a charging server for charging a user for a mobile communication service using the wireless terminal of the other person to the user using the wireless terminal of the other person under the control of the service control station.

The home location register stores the personal terminal information and the password of the user who uses the wireless terminal of the other person and determines whether the personal terminal information and the password of the user received through the wireless terminal of the other person match. And transmitting the information to the mobile communication service billing history of the other person and deleting the mobile communication service fee using the wireless terminal of the other person from the mobile communication service billing history of the other person and charging the mobile communication service billing history of the user. And transmit to the service control station.

And a short message service center for transmitting a short message indicating that the mobile communication service fee using the other person's wireless terminal is charged as the mobile communication service fee of the user instead of the mobile communication service fee of the other person.

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for billing a mobile communication using a wireless terminal of another person, the method comprising: receiving a preset service request code through the wireless terminal of another person; Requesting, by the service control station, to transmit the personal terminal information and the password of the user who uses the wireless terminal of the other person to the third wireless terminal in response to the service request code; The service control station includes charging the user a fee for using a mobile communication service using the wireless terminal of the other person based on the personal terminal information and the password of the user.

The mobile communication-based charging method of the present invention comprises the steps of: receiving a service request code entered through a wireless terminal of another person to a home location register; The home location register requesting a mobile communication service through the service from the service control station; Transmitting, by the service control station, a voice message previously stored in an answering machine to a wireless terminal of another person, requesting input of personal terminal information and a password of the user; At the request, the home location register comparing the personal terminal information and password of the user stored in advance with the personal terminal information and password of the user inputted from the wireless terminal of the other person; The service control station may further include allowing the mobile communication service based on whether the personal terminal information and the password of the user match the personal terminal information and the password of the user.

The service control station transmits the charging information of the home location register to the charging server to delete the mobile communication service fee used by the user using the wireless terminal of the other person from the mobile communication service charging history of the other person and the user. The method further includes the step of imposing the billing details of the mobile communication service.

The service control station transmits a short message that the short message system charges the mobile communication service fee used by the other person's wireless terminal device to the mobile communication service fee of the user instead of the mobile communication service fee of the other person. The method may further include transmitting to another user's calling terminal and a user's terminal.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. 1 and 2.

1 is a block diagram illustrating a charging system based on a mobile communication according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, the mobile communication-based charging system includes a calling terminal 10, a called terminal 20, a wireless switching network 30, a service control station 110, an auto answering system 120, and a short message service center ( 130 and the charging server 140.

The calling terminal 10 is a terminal of another person who cannot use his terminal temporarily, and the called terminal 20 is a terminal that a user who wants to use the calling terminal 10 of another person wants to make a call.

The wireless switching network 30 provides a basic wireless call service and a data communication service to the calling terminal 10 and the called terminal 20. The wireless switching network 30 may include a base transceiver station (BTS) 40 and 50, a base station controller (BSC) 60 and 70, and an intelligent network switch (SSP). A Mobile Switching Center (MSC) 80, 90, and a Home Lpcation Resister (HLR) 100, including (85), (95).

The originating and terminating base station (40, 50) checks the location of a plurality of terminals including the calling terminal 10 and the called terminal 20 to transmit and receive voice signals between the calling terminal 10 and the called terminal 20 Do this.

The originating and terminating base station controllers 60 and 70 control the originating and terminating base stations 40 and 50 and perform various call processing functions such as incoming and outgoing call processing support and message processing of the originating and terminating base stations 40 and 50.

The originating and terminating radio switching centers 80 and 90 form a communication path between a plurality of terminals including the originating and terminating terminals 10 and 20, and thus control overall call processing and call processing. In addition, the source and destination radio switching centers 80 and 90 each include an intelligent network switch 85 and 95, and each intelligent network switch 85 and 95 of the source and destination wireless switching centers 80 and 90 may be a source and destination terminal. 10 and 20 recognize various intelligent network services required by the mobile communication system.

The home location register 100 is a database that stores service profiles related to subscriber information of the calling and called terminals 10 and 20, and includes the calling and called terminals 10 and 20, as well as the telephone numbers of the calling and called terminals 10 and 20. , A terminal identification number (MIN), a terminal unique number (ESN: Electronic Serial Number), and a mobile communication service applied by a subscriber of the calling and receiving terminals 10 and 20.

The service control station (SSP) 110 is a server that manages various intelligent network services of mobile communication services requested by the calling and terminating terminals 10 and 20.

An automatic response system (ARS) 120 performs a function of transmitting a prestored voice message to a plurality of terminals including the calling and receiving terminals 10 and 20 under the control of the service control station 110. do.

The Short Message Service Center (SMSC) 130 has a function of transmitting a specific short message to a plurality of terminals including the originating and terminating terminals 10 and 20 under the control of the service control station 110. Do this.

The charging server 140 performs a function of charging a mobile communication service fee of each of a plurality of terminals including the originating and terminating terminals 10 and 20 under the control of the service control station 110.

The service will be briefly described through the mobile communication-based charging system shown in FIG. 1 as follows.

A user who is temporarily unable to use his or her terminal attempts to make a call using another caller's terminal 10, and a user who uses another caller's terminal uses a separate code number (for example, * 1114). Enter to request this service.

Through the separate code number input by the user, the intelligent network switch 85 in the outgoing wireless switching center 80 notifies the home location register 100 that the user is requesting this service.

When the home location register 100 receives the service request from the intelligent network switch 85, the home location register 100 first checks whether the user is a subscribed user, and then requests the service from the service control station 110.

When the service control station 110 receives the service request from the home location register 100, the service control station 110 instructs the answering machine 120 to transmit a pre-stored voice message for user authentication of the service.

The user inputs the user's information for user authentication by voice message from the answering machine 120, and the service control station 110 stores the received user's information and the user's information stored in the home location register 100. In comparison, the user who wants to use another calling terminal 10 is authenticated.

If the user authentication is successful, the service control station 110 transmits to enter the number of the terminating terminal 20 through the automatic guidance system 120, the wireless communication network 30 is the originating terminal ( 10) and the normal call is made between the called terminal 20.

When the call is completed, the service control station 110 via the short message service center 130 in a short message to the calling terminal 10 and the user's terminal, the subject of the charge of the call is not the owner of the calling terminal 10. Send a prompt that says "user".

In addition, the service control station 110 transmits the billing information received from the home location register 100 to the billing server 140, the billing server 140 is billing history of the originating terminal 10 by the billing information transmitted Delete and insert the corresponding billing information into the user's mobile communication usage history using the calling terminal 10 of the other person.

Hereinafter, the mobile communication fee self-billing method will be described with reference to FIG. 2.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating a mobile communication fee self-billing method according to an embodiment of the present invention shown in FIG. 1.

The user who is temporarily unable to use his terminal enters a separate code number (for example, * 1114) using another person's calling terminal 10 to use the mobile communication service through the service (S200). In step S210, the control unit 110 connects to the service control station 110 that controls the service through the home location register 100.

At this time, the home location register 100 recognizes that the user is requesting the service through the intelligent network switch 85 that recognizes the mobile communication intelligent network service to access the service control station 110, and the mobile location is stored in advance. According to the information of the user of the communication service, the user has a procedure for confirming whether the user applied for the service.

When the service control station 110 receives the request for the service from the home location register 110, the answering terminal 120 transmits a prestored voice message for user authentication to use the service through the answering machine 120. Will be sent to (S220).

When the voice message regarding user authentication of the service is transmitted from the answering machine 120 to the calling terminal 10 of the other person to the calling terminal 10 of the other person, the user receives the service through the calling terminal 10 of the other person. Information for use is input (S230).

The information on the user authentication of the service may include information such as a password for using the service, including a terminal number of a user who intends to use another calling terminal 10.

The input information is compared with the information of the user stored in the home location register 100 connected to the service control station 110 through the service control station 110 (S240), and if the information entered by the user is the home location register When the information matches the user's information stored at 100, the user can make a call with the destination terminal 20 through this service. However, if the information input by the user does not match with the stored information, the service control station 110 transmits a new authentication information to the calling terminal 10 of the other person through the answering machine 120. Reenter the information. If authentication fails several times, the service is terminated.

Upon successful authentication of the user, the user requests a wireless call from the wireless switching network 30 by inputting a number of the called terminal 20 to which the user wants to talk through the calling terminal 10 of another person (S250).

The wireless switching network 30 transmits a wireless call request of the calling terminal 10 through the calling and destination base stations 40 and 50 and the calling and destination base station controllers 60 and 70, and the home and the switching center 80 and 90 and the home. A call between the calling terminal 10 and the called terminal 20 is executed through the location register 100 (S260).

When the call is completed, the service control station 110, via the short message service center 130, a short message regarding that the person to be charged for the call is a user who uses the calling terminal 10 of another person other than the holder of the calling terminal 10. The message is transmitted to the calling terminal 10 of the other person and the terminal of the user. (S270)

Thereafter, the service control station 110 deletes the billing history of the holder of the calling party 10 of the other person stored in the home location register 100 and the billing history of the user using the calling party 10 of the other person for the call. The billing history for the call is inserted into the billing history of the user using the originating terminal 10 of another person by transmitting the billing history to the billing server.

Through such a system, even though the terminal of another person is used, the mobile communication service fee used by the user can be charged to the mobile communication service fee.

As described above, in the mobile communication-based billing system and method according to the present invention, a user who is temporarily unable to use his or her terminal uses another's terminal and the mobile communication service fee used by the user is his or her mobile communication service. We can charge for use fee.

Those skilled in the art will appreciate that various changes and modifications can be made without departing from the technical spirit of the present invention. Therefore, the technical scope of the present invention should not be limited to the contents described in the detailed description of the specification but should be defined by the claims.

Claims (8)

In the system for billing for mobile communication using another person's wireless terminal, A wireless terminal of another person that transmits a preset service request code, personal terminal information and password of a user who uses another wireless terminal; Permit the mobile communication service using the wireless terminal of the other person based on the personal terminal information and the password of the user according to the service request code and to the user who used the mobile communication service using the wireless terminal of the other person. A service control station for charging a usage fee; A home location register which receives the service request code and requests the service control station to permit the mobile communication service through the wireless terminal of the other person according to the service request code; An automatic response system for guiding a request for inputting personal terminal information and a password of the user through a voice message under the control of the service control station; And a charging server that charges a user for a mobile communication service using the wireless terminal of the other person to a user using the wireless terminal of the other person under the control of the service control station. delete The method of claim 1, The home location register, Storing the personal terminal information and the password of the user who uses the wireless terminal of the other person and transmitting the personal terminal information and the password of the user received through the wireless terminal of the other person to the service control station; Deletes the mobile communication service charge using another person's wireless terminal from the mobile communication service charge history of the other person and transmits the information to the service control station to charge the mobile communication service charge to the mobile communication service charge history of the user; Mobile communication based charging system, characterized in that. The method of claim 1, And a short message service center for transmitting a short message indicating that the mobile communication service fee using the other person's wireless terminal is charged as the mobile communication service fee of the user instead of the mobile communication service fee of the other person. Mobile communication based billing system. In the method of settingtle billing for mobile communication using another person's wireless terminal, Receiving a preset service request code through the wireless terminal of another person; Requesting, by the service control station, to transmit the personal terminal information and the password of the user who uses the wireless terminal of the other person to the third wireless terminal in response to the service request code; The service control station transmits the charging information of the home location register to the charging server in order to charge the user the fee for using the mobile communication service using the wireless terminal of the other person based on the personal terminal information and the password of the user. And removing the mobile communication service fee used by the user using the wireless terminal of the other person from the mobile communication service billing history of the other person, and charging the user with the mobile communication service billing history. Telecom-based charging method. The method of claim 5, Receiving a service request code entered through the wireless terminal of another person to a home location register; The home location register requesting a mobile communication service through the service from the service control station; Transmitting, by the service control station, a voice message previously stored in an answering machine to a wireless terminal of another person, requesting input of personal terminal information and a password of the user; At the request, the home location register comparing the personal terminal information and password of the user stored in advance with the personal terminal information and password of the user inputted from the wireless terminal of the other person; The service control station further comprises the step of allowing the mobile communication service based on whether the user's personal terminal information and password and the user's personal terminal information and password match. delete The method of claim 5, Sending a short message to the calling terminal of the other person and the user's terminal to charge the mobile communication service fee used by the other person's wireless terminal with the user's mobile communication service fee instead of the other person's mobile communication service fee. The mobile communication-based charging method further comprising the step of transmitting.

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