KR100665133B1 - System and method for providing telephone number mapping service terminal location confirmation - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a system and a method for providing tNUM telephone number mapping (ENUM) service according to terminal location checking.

In the present invention, after pre-registering the ENUM information including at least two or more destination terminal phone number received from the service registrant terminal and the location of each destination terminal, the location to the location query server according to the ENUM information inquiry request of the service user Request the location information of the mobile terminal. Thereafter, after comparing the current location of the called terminal provided from the location query server with the existing location of each pre-registered called terminal, a location flag indicating that the service registrant is currently located in the telephone number of the called terminal according to the comparison result. Is displayed and provided to the service user terminal with pre-registered ENUM information.

Through this, accurate telephone connection between the service registrant and the user, and thereby, increased service satisfaction can be achieved.

ENUM service, registrants / users, real-time location checks, location flags

Description

System for providing ENNM service using terminal location checking and method thereof {SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING TELEPHONE NUMBER MAPPING SERVICE TERMINAL LOCATION CONFIRMATION}

1 is a view for conceptually explaining the ENUM service to be commercialized.

2 is a diagram illustrating a schematic configuration of an ENUM service providing system using terminal location checking according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating a detailed configuration of the ENUM service providing system shown in FIG. 2.

4 is a flowchart sequentially illustrating an operation process of the ENUM service providing system illustrated in FIG. 3.

5 is a table illustrating ENUM information according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The present invention relates to an ENUM (tElephone Number Mapping, hereinafter 'ENUM') service providing system and method thereof, and more particularly, to a system and method for providing the ENUM service according to the terminal-specific location check. .

Since 2005, if a phone number is entered in the address bar instead of an English-language complex Internet address, it is expected to be able to directly access an institution, a company, or a personal homepage. ENUM service will be introduced to use the number as an Internet address.

In the ENUM service, if an Internet user enters a phone number of an individual, a business, or an organization in the address input box instead of a URL (Uniform Resource Locator, hereinafter referred to as 'URL'), the corresponding address server (generally, a domain name server) Find the correct URL and connect automatically. At this time, the Internet user must enter both the country code and area code before the telephone number.

In other words, ENUM service is a technology that links E.164, a general public network international telephone number system, with various address systems such as telephone, e-mail, facsimile, and Internet phone to guarantee the commonality and uniqueness of Internet application services. International standardization organizations such as the Internet Engineering Task Force are working on technology standardization. A display example of such an ENUM service is attached to FIG. 1.

FIG. 1 is a diagram conceptually illustrating an ENUM service that will be commercialized in the future, and is being piloted at a Korean Internet Information Center.

As shown in Fig. 1, the ENUM service first registers ENUM information in which DNS (Domain Name Server) 110 is a telephone number (SIP client address, mobile telephone number or PSTN telephone number, etc.) which can be received from the registrant A first.

Then, when the user B who wants to connect to the telephone service requests the service, the DNS 110 presents (or inquires to) the ENUM information of the pre-registered registrant A to the user B, and the presented ENUM information. The user (B) attempts to connect the call to the incoming telephone number selected. At this time, the terminal having the called telephone number includes a SIP client (Session Initiation Protocol, 151), a mobile (mobile, 152) and a PSTN telephone (152).

As such, the ENUM service enables the user B to look up the incoming phone numbers that the registrant A pre-registers in the DNS 110, and then connects a call with a terminal having the phone number selected by the user B. Try.

However, this ENUM service can often occur when the user (B) selects the number of the landline phone, the voice call with the registrant (A) does not occur, because the registrant (A) is not located where the landline phone is located. to be. That is, because the place moved.

As described above, since the user B cannot know the current location of the registrant A in real time, he or she can only select an arbitrary telephone number among the incoming phone numbers of the registrant A pre-registered according to the ENUM service. none.

This, in turn, causes the user B to select another incoming telephone number again, and the server providing the ENUM service also has to retry the call connection to the reselected incoming telephone number.

The technical problem to be solved by the present invention is to solve this problem, by providing a flag (flag) according to the location check for each pre-registered destination terminal with the telephone number to the service user terminal, the correct telephone connection between the service user and the registrant And to provide an ENUM service providing system and method using the terminal location confirmation that can achieve a service satisfaction increase accordingly.

In the ENUM service providing system using the terminal location confirmation in accordance with a feature of the present invention for achieving the above object, in a system for providing a service number mapping (ENUM) service to the service registrant and service user terminal connected via a wired or wireless communication network, An ENUM information registration unit for pre-registering ENUM information including at least two telephone numbers for each called terminal received from the service registrant terminal and a location of each called terminal; A location checking request unit requesting a location query server to look up location information of a destination terminal having a location mobility among the pre-registered destination terminals according to a service user's ENUM information inquiry request; Comparing the current location of the called terminal provided from the location query server with the existing location of each pre-registered called terminal, if the same address exists, it indicates that the service registrant is currently located in the phone number of the called terminal corresponding to the same address. A position information comparing unit which displays a position flag on the ENUM information of the ENUM information registering unit; And provide the pre-registered ENUM information with the displayed location flag to the service user terminal, and call between the called terminal and the service user terminal corresponding to the telephone number selected by the service user based on the displayed location flag. ENUM service provider that performs the connection.

The apparatus further includes a location information management unit configured to reflect the current location of the called terminal provided from the location inquiry server to the pre-registered ENUM information.

In addition, the ENUM service providing method using the terminal location confirmation in accordance with an aspect of the present invention, a method for providing a service number terminal (ENUM) service to the service registrant and service user terminal connected via a wired or wireless communication network, a) the service Pre-registering ENUM information including at least two telephone numbers for each called terminal received from the registrant terminal and a location of each called terminal; b) requesting location information inquiry of a destination terminal having a location mobility among the pre-registered destination terminals to a location inquiry server according to a request for a service user's ENUM information inquiry; c) comparing the current location of the called terminal provided from the location query server with the existing location of each pre-registered called terminal, and then a position indicating that the service registrant is currently located in the telephone number of the called terminal according to the comparison result. Displaying a flag in the ENUM information; D) providing the pre-registered ENUM information with the displayed location flag to the service user terminal, and a called terminal and the service user terminal corresponding to the telephone number selected by the service user based on the displayed location flag; Performing a telephone connection between them.

In addition, a recording medium storing a program according to an aspect of the present invention, a recording medium comprising a method for providing a telephone number mapping (ENUM) service to a service registrant and a service user terminal connected via a wired or wireless communication network, a) A function of pre-registering ENUM information including at least two telephone numbers for each called terminal received from the service registrant terminal and a location of each called terminal; b) a function of requesting a location query server to query location information of a destination terminal having a location mobility among the pre-registered destination terminals according to a request for a service user's ENUM information inquiry; c) comparing the current location of the called terminal provided from the location query server with the existing location of each pre-registered called terminal, and then a position indicating that the service registrant is currently located in the telephone number of the called terminal according to the comparison result. Displaying a flag in the ENUM information; D) providing the pre-registered ENUM information with the displayed location flag to the service user terminal, and a called terminal and the service user terminal corresponding to the telephone number selected by the service user based on the displayed location flag; And a computer readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program including a function of making a telephone connection therebetween.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings so that those skilled in the art may easily implement the present invention. As those skilled in the art would realize, the described embodiments may be modified in various different ways, all without departing from the spirit or scope of the present invention. In the drawings, parts irrelevant to the description are omitted in order to clearly describe the present invention. Like parts are designated by like reference numerals throughout the specification.

2 is a diagram illustrating a schematic configuration of an ENUM service providing system using terminal location checking according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 1, an ENUM service providing system (100, tElephone Number Mapping, hereinafter referred to as 'ENUM') using terminal location confirmation according to an embodiment of the present invention is a service registrant terminal 300 through a wired / wireless communication network 200. ) And a service user terminal 400, and also have a structure connected to a location lookup server 500.

In addition, the location inquiry server 500 forms a structure interconnected with the called terminal 600, and the called terminal 600 includes various terminals having phone numbers ranging from a landline phone to a mobile phone, an IMT-2000 and a PDA.

Then, the ENUM service providing system 100 forming the above-described connection structure, first, the ENUM service providing system 100 by the registrant for the ENUM information transmitted by the service registrant terminal 300 through the wired and wireless communication network (200) Register each.

In this case, the ENUM information includes at least two phone numbers for each terminal that can be called by the service registrant, and also includes an address where each called terminal is located.

By the way, among the recipient terminal 600, the mobile terminal (for example, mobile, PDA, IMT-2000, etc.) having a location portability that is portable by the service registrant is registered with only ENUM information.

Thereafter, the ENUM service providing system 100 periodically or in response to a request for the service user's ENUM information inquiry, and thus has a mobile terminal (e.g., mobile or IMT-2000, PDA, etc.) that the service registrant is portable among the destination terminals. Request location information to location query server 500.

Then, the location query server 500 requests the location information to the corresponding destination terminal, the destination terminal according to the presence of the GPS (Global Positioning System, hereinafter referred to as 'GPS') built-in GPS information form or PSMM (Pilot) Strength Measurement Message, hereinafter referred to as 'PSMM'.

Thereafter, the ENUM service providing system 100 compares the location information of the called terminal provided from the location query server 500 with the existing location of each called terminal pre-registered by the service registrant. A location flag indicating that the service registrant is currently located is provided to the service user on the telephone number of the called terminal.

 On the other hand, if there is no identical address as a result of the comparison, the ENUM service providing system 100 displays the location flag indicating that the service registrant is currently located on the telephone number of the mobile terminal having the location mobility such as mobile, IMT-2000, PDA, etc. To provide.

Through this, the service user can grasp the current location of the service registrant in real time, and attempts a telephone connection with the service registrant accordingly.

As such, the ENUM service providing system according to an embodiment of the present invention enables the service user to grasp the current location of the service registrant in real time using location registration for each pre-registered destination terminal, and then has a higher probability of telephone connection. By providing the service user or registrant can bring increased service satisfaction.

Next, a detailed configuration of the ENUM service providing system 100 constituting the above structure will be described.

FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating a detailed configuration of the ENUM service providing system shown in FIG. 2.

As shown in FIG. 3, the ENUM service providing system 100 according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes an ENUM information registering unit 110, a location requesting unit 120, a location information managing unit 130, and a location information comparing unit 140. ) And an ENUM service provider 150, and further include an ENUM DB 160 and a location DB 170.

The location query server 500 includes a Geographical Information System (GIS DB) 510 and a location information DB 520.

In detail, the ENUM information registration unit 110 registers the ENUM information transmitted by the service registrant terminal 300 through the wired / wireless communication network 200 for each registrant.

In this case, the ENUM information, as mentioned above, includes at least two phone numbers for each terminal that can be called by the service registrant, and also includes an address where each called terminal is located.

By the way, among the recipient terminal 600, the mobile terminal (for example, mobile, PDA, IMT-2000, etc.) having a location portability that is portable by the service registrant is registered with only ENUM information.

The location confirmation request unit 120 requests the location information server 500 to query the location information of the called terminal periodically by an internal timer or in response to an ENUM information inquiry request of the service user. At this time, if the location confirmation request unit 120 includes the telephone number of the destination terminal having the location mobility in the pre-registered ENUM information, the location inquiry server 500 requests the location information inquiry of the destination terminal.

The location information management unit 130 reflects and manages current location information of the called terminal provided from the location query server 500 (generally, provided in units of 'dong') to pre-registered ENUM information.

The location information comparison unit 140 compares the current location information of the called terminal provided from the location query server 500 with the existing location of each pre-registered called terminal, and if there is the same address, the called party corresponds to the address. Displays a location flag indicating that the service registrant is currently located in the telephone number of the terminal.

 On the other hand, if there is no identical address as a result of the comparison, the location information comparison unit 140 displays the location flag indicating that the service registrant is currently located on the telephone number of the destination terminal having the location mobility such as mobile, IMT-2000, PDA, and the like.

 The ENUM service provider 150 provides the telephone number and the address of the called terminal marked with the location flag to the service user terminal 400 to allow the service user to attempt a telephone connection with the service registrant.

Next, when the location information transmitted by the destination terminal is in the form of GPS information, the location inquiry server 500 recognizes the address of a 'dong' unit belonging to the corresponding location in the GPS information in the form of text. Save as.

As described above, in the embodiment of the present invention, the location of the called terminal is determined and provided in units of 'dong', but this is not limited to the present invention, and in some cases, it is provided in a more accurate (address) form. You may.

If the location information type transmitted by the called terminal is PSMM, the location information DB 520 checks the ID (ID) and the PN value of the base station to determine the 'dong' unit address of the area where the base station is located and stores it in text form. .

Then, the operation process of the ENUM service providing system using the terminal location confirmation that constitutes the above configuration.

4 is a flowchart sequentially illustrating an operation process of the ENUM service providing system illustrated in FIG. 3.

As shown in FIG. 4, first, the ENUM information registration unit 110 registers the ENUM information received from the service registrar terminal 300 for each registrant (S410), and the ENUM information for each of at least two terminals that can be received by the service registrant. It includes the phone number and the address where each called terminal is located.

Thereafter, the location confirmation request unit 120 requests location information search of the called terminal to the location inquiry server 500 periodically or according to the service user's ENUM information inquiry request by an internal timer (S420).

At this time, if the location confirmation request unit 120 includes the telephone number of the destination terminal having the location mobility in the pre-registered ENUM information, the location inquiry server 500 requests the location information inquiry of the destination terminal.

Then, the location inquiry server 500 requests a location inquiry to the destination terminal 600 having location mobility (S430), and the destination terminal 600 transmits its location inquiry result to GPS information or PSMM according to whether GPS is embedded. Provided (S440).

Then, the GIS DB 510 of the location query server 500 grasps the address of the 'dong' unit to which the destination terminal current location belongs from the GPS information provided from the destination terminal 600 and stores it in text form (S450). After that, it is provided to the location information management unit 130 (S460).

On the other hand, the location information DB 520 of the location query server 500 checks the ID (ID) and the PN value of the base station in the PSMM provided from the destination terminal 600 to determine the 'dong' unit address of the area where the base station is located. After grasping, it is stored in text form (S450). Then, the location information management unit 130 is provided (S460).

Then, the location information management unit 130 reflects the current location information (generally, provided in units of 'dong') of the called terminal provided from the location query server 500 to the pre-registered ENUM information (update, S470). .

Subsequently, the location information comparison unit 140 compares the current location information of the called terminal provided from the location query server 500 with the existing location of each pre-registered destination terminal. A location flag indicating that the service registrant is currently located is displayed on the telephone number of the called terminal.

 On the other hand, if there is no identical address as a result of the comparison, the location information comparison unit 140 displays the location flag indicating that the service registrant is currently located on the telephone number of the destination terminal having the location mobility such as mobile, IMT-2000, PDA, and the like. 5 is a view showing an example of displaying the ENUM information including the location flag.

As shown in FIG. 5, the ENUM information according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a location flag and address information.

Subsequently, when the ENUM information inquiry request is received from the service user, the ENUM service provider 150 provides the service user terminal 400 with the telephone number of the called terminal indicated by the location flag and the address thereof (S490) to allow the service user to perform Attempt to make a telephone connection with the registrant (S500).

In this case, a SIP server, a mobile gateway, a PSTN gateway, and the like provide a telephone connection between terminals according to the type of the called terminal.

As such, the ENUM service providing system and the method using the terminal location confirmation according to an embodiment of the present invention, by providing the location flag according to the location confirmation for each destination terminal to the service user terminal with the destination telephone number, accurate phone calls with the service registrant Connection and thus increased service satisfaction.

The drawings and detailed description of the invention are merely exemplary of the invention, which are used for the purpose of illustrating the invention only and are not intended to limit the scope of the invention as defined in the claims or in the claims. Therefore, those skilled in the art will understand that various modifications and equivalent other embodiments are possible from this. Therefore, the true technical protection scope of the present invention will be defined by the technical spirit of the appended claims.

ENUM service providing system and method using the terminal location confirmation according to the present invention by providing a flag (flag) according to the location confirmation for each destination terminal to the service user terminal with the destination telephone number, precise telephone connection with the service registrant and There is an effect that can increase the service satisfaction.

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In the system for providing a telephone number mapping (ENUM) service to a service registrant and a service user terminal connected through a wired or wireless communication network, An ENUM information registration unit for pre-registering ENUM information including at least two telephone numbers for each called terminal received from the service registrant terminal and a location of each called terminal; A location checking request unit requesting a location query server to look up location information of a destination terminal having a location mobility among the pre-registered destination terminals according to a service user's ENUM information inquiry request; Comparing the current location of the called terminal provided from the location query server with the existing location of each pre-registered called terminal, if the same address exists, it indicates that the service registrant is currently located in the phone number of the called terminal corresponding to the same address. A position information comparing unit which displays a position flag on the ENUM information of the ENUM information registering unit; And Provide the pre-registered ENUM information with the displayed location flag to the service user terminal, and make a telephone connection between the called terminal and the service user terminal corresponding to the telephone number selected by the service user based on the displayed location flag; ENUM service provider to perform ENUM service providing system using a terminal location check comprising a. According to claim 1, Location information management unit for reflecting the current location of the destination terminal provided from the location query server reflected in the pre-registered ENUM information ENUM service providing system using a terminal location check further comprising. The method of claim 2, The ENUM information registration unit, An ENUM service providing system using a terminal location check that the service registrant is portable and has a location mobility terminal that pre-registers a phone number with ENUM information. The method of claim 3, wherein The location information comparison unit, If the comparison is not the same address, ENUM service providing system using the terminal location confirmation to display the location flag on the telephone number of the destination terminal having the location mobility. The method of claim 2, The location check request unit, ENUM service providing system using the terminal location check requesting the location query server to query the location information of the called terminal with the location mobility periodically according to an internal timer (timer). The method of claim 2, The location information management unit, ENUM service providing system using the terminal location confirmation receiving the current location of the called terminal consisting of 'dong' unit from the location query server. The method of claim 6, The location query server, A GIS DB for identifying and storing an address in GPS (Global Positioning System) information received from the mobile terminal having the location mobility; And Location information DB for identifying and storing the address of the region where the base station is located by checking the base station ID (ID) and PN value in the PSMM (Pilot Strength Measurement Message) received from the mobile terminal having the location mobility ENUM service providing system using a terminal location check comprising a. In the method of providing a tElephone Number Mapping (ENUM) service to a service registrant and a service user terminal connected through a wired or wireless communication network, a) pre-registering ENUM information including at least two telephone numbers for each called terminal received from the service registrant terminal and a location of each called terminal; b) requesting location information inquiry from the pre-registered destination terminal among the pre-registered destination terminals according to the ENUM information inquiry request of the service user; c) comparing the current location of the called terminal provided from the location query server with the existing location of each pre-registered called terminal, and then a position indicating that the service registrant is currently located in the telephone number of the called terminal according to the comparison result. Displaying a flag in the ENUM information; And d) providing the pre-registered ENUM information with the indicated location flag to the service user terminal, and between the called terminal and the service user terminal corresponding to the telephone number selected by the service user based on the displayed location flag; Steps to Make a Call ENUM service providing method using a terminal location check comprising a. The method of claim 8, e) managing the current location of the called terminal provided from the location query server by reflecting the pre-registered ENUM information; ENUM service providing method using a terminal location check further comprising. The method of claim 9, Step c) is Displaying a location flag on a telephone number of a called terminal corresponding to the same address if there is the same address as a result of the comparison; And If there is no identical address as a result of the comparison, displaying a location flag on the telephone number of the destination terminal having the location mobility; ENUM service providing method using a terminal location check comprising a. The method of claim 9, Step a) is The service registrant is portable so that the destination terminal having a location mobility in advance to register the phone number as ENUM information ENUM service providing method using a terminal location check comprising a. The method of claim 9, Step b), Requesting the location inquiry server to query the location information of the called terminal with the location mobility periodically according to an internal timer. ENUM service providing method using a terminal location check comprising a. The method of claim 9, In step e), Receiving and managing the current location of the called terminal in 'dong' unit from the location query server ENUM service providing method using a terminal location check comprising a. A recording medium comprising a method for providing a telephone number mapping (ENUM) service to a service registrant and a service user terminal connected through a wired or wireless communication network. a) pre-registering ENUM information including at least two telephone numbers for each called terminal received from the service registrant terminal and a location of each called terminal; b) a function of requesting a location query server for location information inquiry of a destination terminal having a location mobility among the pre-registered destination terminals in response to a request for a service user's ENUM information inquiry; c) comparing the current location of the called terminal provided from the location query server with the existing location of each pre-registered called terminal, and then a position indicating that the service registrant is currently located in the telephone number of the called terminal according to the comparison result. Displaying a flag in the ENUM information; And d) providing the pre-registered ENUM information with the displayed location flag to the service user terminal, and between the called terminal and the service user terminal corresponding to the telephone number selected by the service user based on the displayed location flag; The ability to make a phone call A computer-readable recording medium having a program recorded thereon.

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