KR100728628B1 - System and Method for Providing of Information about Real-time Circumstance Between Subscribers in Mobile Communication Network, Mobile Communication Terminal Therefor - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention provides a system and method for providing subscriber real-time situation information in a mobile communication network and a method for a mobile communication terminal in which a subscriber can easily check the situation of another mobile communication terminal by collecting and managing situation information of the subscriber station in a mobile communication network.

The real-time situation information providing system of the present invention is a subscriber management unit for receiving and storing subscriber information from a mobile communication terminal of a user who wants to disclose situation information, and a situation transmitted according to a specified condition from a mobile communication terminal wishing to disclose situation information. When the context information update unit and the mobile communication terminal request the context information of another mobile communication terminal to store and update the information for each mobile communication terminal number, the context information is extracted by extracting the stored context information according to the target mobile communication terminal number. It includes a status information detection unit for transmitting to the requested mobile communication terminal.

According to the present invention, it is possible to check the current situation of the desired counterpart terminal in the mobile communication network in real time, and determine whether to call according to the current situation of the counterpart before the call attempt, thereby improving the completion rate of the call, as well as unnecessary cost and time. This can be prevented from being wasted.

Contextual information, SVD

Description

System and method for providing real-time situation information between subscribers in mobile communication network, and a mobile communication terminal for this purpose {System and Method for Providing of Information about Real-time Circumstance Between Subscribers in Mobile Communication Network, Mobile Communication Terminal Therefor}

1 is an exemplary diagram of a communication network to which the present invention is applied;

2 is a detailed configuration diagram of a real-time contextual information providing system shown in FIG. 1;

3 is a block diagram of a mobile communication terminal according to the present invention;

4 is a flowchart illustrating a method of providing real-time situation information according to an embodiment of the present invention.

<Description of the symbols for the main parts of the drawings>

10: real time situation information providing system 110: control unit

120: interface 130: database

140: subscriber management unit 150: situation information update unit

160: situation information detection unit 170: location comparison and message generation unit

30: mobile communication terminal 370: situation information management unit

3710: information acquisition module 3720: data conversion module

3730: context information upload module 3740: context information download module

3750: terminal mode monitoring module 3760: location tracking module

3770: terminal performance information providing module 3780: history management module

The present invention relates to a system and method for providing context information of a communication terminal, and more particularly, to collect and manage context information of a subscriber terminal in a mobile communication network so that a subscriber can easily check the situation of another mobile communication terminal. The present invention relates to a system and method for providing subscriber real-time situation information in a mobile communication network and a mobile communication terminal for the same.

Currently, call service between subscriber stations in a mobile communication system is provided as a one-way service. That is, when the caller attempts to make a call, the situation of the called terminal cannot be known at all, and after the call is attempted, the caller can check the status of the called terminal at the exchanger to know whether the call is in progress or powered off. If the call is to be connected between the calling terminal and the called terminal, if the call is not available to send the announcement corresponding to each situation to the calling terminal to release the call.

Accordingly, since the calling party tries to call unconditionally even when the called terminal is busy or the power is turned off, it is necessary to pay unnecessary call charges that occur until the completion of the call after the call attempt. There is this.

In addition, even if the called party cannot answer the incoming call in a situation such as a meeting, and the user switches to the mode of his mobile communication terminal, the calling party can confirm the called party's situation only after attempting the call. There is a problem of wasting.

The present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned disadvantages and problems, and when the mobile communication terminal collects the situation information and uploads it according to a specified condition, the mobile communication terminal stores the information and stores it, and requests the context information of the target mobile communication terminal. There is a technical problem to provide a real-time contextual information providing system and method that can easily check the contextual information of the desired terminal by transmitting the contextual information.

Another technical problem of the present invention is to collect and register situation information according to a specified condition in order to provide its own situation information to another mobile communication terminal, or perform other mobile communication according to a specified condition to confirm the situation information of another mobile communication terminal. It is to provide a mobile communication terminal that can receive and reflect the status information of the terminal.

The real-time situation information providing system of the present invention for achieving the above technical problem is a subscriber management unit for receiving and storing subscriber information from the mobile communication terminal of the user who wants to disclose the situation information; A situation information updating unit for storing and updating the situation information transmitted by the mobile communication terminal number according to a specified condition from the mobile communication terminal wishing to release the situation information; And a context information detector for extracting the context information stored according to the target mobile communication terminal number and transmitting the context information to the requesting mobile communication terminal when the mobile communication terminal requests the context information of the other mobile communication terminal. .

In addition, the mobile communication terminal of the present invention includes an information collection module for collecting the situation information of the mobile communication terminal in conjunction with the terminal mode monitoring module for checking the mode change of the terminal; A data conversion module for converting the information collected by the information collection module into a wireless transmission format; And a contextual information upload module for transmitting the contextual information converted by the data conversion module to a real-time contextual information providing system.

In addition, the real-time situation information providing method of the present invention for achieving the above-described technical problem is that the first mobile communication terminal that has allowed the disclosure of the situation information after collecting the situation information and converting the data format, the situation information specified in the transmission condition Storing the contextual information by the real-time contextual information providing system as transmitted to the real-time contextual information providing system together with the transmission time information according to the present invention; Storing, by the real-time contextual information providing system, the contextual information and the contextual information transmission time for each mobile communication terminal number which transmitted the contextual information; Extracting, by the second mobile communication terminal, situation information of the target mobile communication terminal requested by the second mobile communication terminal, as the other mobile communication terminal requests status information; And transmitting, by the real-time contextual information providing system, the extracted contextual information to the second mobile communication terminal to compare and store update times.

Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying drawings will be described in detail a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

1 is an exemplary diagram of a communication network to which the present invention is applied. The mobile communication network to which the present invention is applied is a network having a SVD (Simultaneous Voice and Data) function, and SVD means a technology capable of simultaneously transmitting and receiving voice and data.

Hereinafter, for convenience of explanation, the mobile communication terminal 30 for uploading the situation information and the mobile communication terminal 32 for downloading the situation information will be described and described. Of course, both can be provided.

The real-time situation information providing system 10 of the present invention is connected to the mobile communication terminals 30 and 32 through the mobile communication network 20, periodically receives and stores the situation information from the mobile communication terminal 30, mobile communication When the terminal 32 requests the context information of the other mobile communication terminal 30, the terminal 32 transmits the context information of the target mobile communication terminal 30.

Here, it is preferable that the mobile communication terminal 30 transmits and updates the situation information to the real-time situation information providing system 10 at every designated time and whenever an event (call start, mode change, power off, etc.) occurs. For example, the mobile communication terminal 32 requesting the context information of the other mobile communication terminal may also request the context information at a specified period or input a command for performing a specific event to the real-time context information providing system 10 of the corresponding mobile communication terminal. Status information can be requested.

Meanwhile, the mobile communication network 20 according to the present invention includes a base station (BTS, 210) for performing wireless section communication with the mobile communication terminals 30 and 32 and performing protocol conversion, and a base station for managing and controlling a plurality of base stations. Location information of the controller (BSC, 220), the exchange (MSC, 230) performing the call exchange to provide services to the mobile communication terminal (30, 32), the mobile communication terminal (30, 32), the state of additional service use, etc. It is connected to the home location register (HLR, 240), the data core network (DCN, 260) for managing the packet data service node (PDSN, 250) for providing data services to the mobile communication terminal (30, 32) It is done by

The real-time situation information providing system 10 receives and stores the situation information from the mobile communication terminal 30 of the user who wishes to disclose his or her situation information, while the mobile communication terminal 32 is connected to the other mobile communication terminal 30. In the case of requesting the status information, after confirming whether the target mobile communication terminal user wanted to disclose the status information, and if it is determined that the desired status information is disclosed, the mobile device searches for the status information of the target mobile communication terminal 30 and requests it. Provided to communication terminal 32.

Here, the context information includes not only mode information of the mobile communication terminal (standby mode, call mode, data service use mode, switching mode during a meeting, etc.) but also location information, terminal performance information (such as availability of a video call), call history information, and the like. It may include. If location information is included in the situation information, the mobile communication terminal preferably includes a GPS receiver and has a function of measuring a location.

FIG. 2 is a detailed configuration diagram of the real-time contextual information providing system shown in FIG. 1.

The real-time situation information providing system 10 according to the present invention includes a control unit 110 for controlling the overall operation, an interface 120 for performing data transmission and reception with a communication network such as a mobile communication network 20, a database 130, a situation The subscriber management unit 140 stores and manages subscriber information such as a mobile communication terminal number of a user who wants information disclosure in the database 130, and transmits context information transmitted from the mobile communication terminal to the database 130 for each mobile communication terminal number. As the context information update unit 150 and the mobile communication terminal request the context information of the other mobile communication terminal to store and periodically update the database 130 as the situation information is transmitted, according to the target mobile communication terminal number Including the situation information detection unit 160 for querying the database 130 and transmitting to the mobile communication terminal under the control of the control unit 110 The.

The real-time situation information providing system 10 of the present invention may further include a location comparison and message generating unit 170, and the location comparison and message generating unit 170 may provide a location of the mobile communication terminal that provides the situation information. And when the location of the mobile communication terminal requesting the status information is close to each other, a function of generating a message for notifying that the location is close to the two mobile communication terminals. To this end, when the mobile communication terminal requests the context information, it must of course transmit its own location information. In this case, the mobile communication terminal must be able to perform a location measurement function by a device such as a GPS receiver.

3 is a configuration diagram of a mobile communication terminal according to the present invention, and illustrates a case in which the mobile communication terminal has both the status information upload and download functions.

The mobile communication terminal of the present invention is a general component for wireless communication (duplexer 310, wireless transceiver 320, frequency converter 330, modem chip 340, memory 350 and input and output driver 360) In addition to the situation information management unit 370 is further included.

The contextual information management unit 370 converts the information collected by the information collection module 3710 and the information collection module 3710 for collecting the current mode information of the mobile communication terminal into a wireless transmission format, or provides a real-time contextual information providing system ( 10) Real-time conversion of the situation information, which has been converted in accordance with the conditions specified in the data conversion module 3720 and the data conversion module 3720, for converting the situation information of the other mobile communication terminal received from 10) into a format that can be used by the mobile communication terminal. The context information upload module 3730 for transmitting to the context information providing system 10 and the context information of another mobile communication terminal transmitted from the real-time context information providing system 10 and converted in the data conversion module 3720 may be stored. The context information download module 3740 is provided for display.

Here, the data conversion module 3720 preferably converts the situation information collected by the information collection module 3710 into a TCP / IP packet data format, and the format-converted data is pushed or pulled. By the real-time situation information providing system 10. Similarly, the real-time contextual information providing system 10 transmits the contextual information of the target mobile communication terminal to the mobile communication terminal requesting the contextual information in the form of TCP / IP packet data, and transmits the data in a push / pull or data paging method.

In addition, the information collection module 3710 is connected to the mobile terminal mode monitoring module 3750 for monitoring in real time the mode of the mobile communication terminal (standby mode, call mode, data service use mode, switching mode during the meeting, etc.) Collect mode information of the terminal.

In addition, the mobile communication terminal is a location tracking module (3760) for detecting the current position of the terminal by the GPS receiver and the position measurement function, the terminal performance information for checking the performance information of the terminal (video call availability, call coverage area, etc.) At least one of the providing module 3770 and a history management module 3780 for storing and managing call history for each call target may be further provided. The information collection module 3710 may include a location tracking module 3760 and terminal performance information. Various situation information about the mobile communication terminal is collected in association with at least one of the providing module 3770 and the history management module 3780.

On the other hand, the mobile communication terminal receives the situation information of the other mobile communication terminal from the real-time situation information providing system 10 in order to display the situation information, the condition specified by the number list of the mobile communication terminal registered in the address book of the mobile communication terminal According to the present invention, it is preferable to request the situation information by transmitting the situation information providing system 10, and the real time situation information providing system 10 checks the received terminal number list, and only the situation information of the user who wants to disclose the situation information. It is preferable to extract and provide to the mobile communication terminal.

Here, the uploading and downloading of the situation information of the mobile communication terminal may be performed at a predetermined time period or when an event occurs in the mobile communication terminal.

The context information of the other mobile communication terminal received from the real-time context information providing system 10 may be reflected in the address book of the mobile communication terminal. That is, the context information of the mobile communication terminal may be displayed using a specific icon or text together with other mobile communication terminal identification information of the address book. For example, if an icon for recognizing 'call' or a call is displayed beside the identification information 011-123-4567 or if the identification information is clicked, a pop-up window indicating the status information of the target mobile communication terminal is displayed. Display to allow the user to check the other party's situation. In addition, even when providing at least one of location information, terminal performance information, and history information in addition to the mode information of the target mobile communication terminal, the context information of the target mobile communication terminal in parallel with the identification information or through a separate pop-up window. To check.

In summary, the mobile communication terminal of the present invention includes an information collection module 3710, a data conversion module 3720, and a context information upload module 3730 that interoperate with the terminal mode monitoring module 3750 to upload context information. In addition, a data conversion module 3720 and a context information download module 3740 are provided to download the context information.

4 is a flowchart illustrating a method of providing real-time situation information according to an embodiment of the present invention, which will be described below with reference to FIGS. 2 and 3.

In order to provide context information between mobile communication terminals, it is preferable that at least one mobile communication terminal registers with the real-time contextual information providing system 10 to allow disclosure of its own context information.

The information collection module 3710 of the first mobile communication terminal that allows the disclosure of the situation information collects its current mode information in association with the terminal mode monitoring module 3750 and converts and stores the data format (S10). In conjunction with the location tracking module 3760, the terminal performance information providing module 3770 and the history management module 3780 it is also preferable to collect the current location information, available service information, call history for each mobile communication terminal.

Then, the first mobile communication terminal checks whether the updated condition of the collected and format-converted situation information is satisfied (S20), and transmits the collected situation information to the real-time situation information providing system 10 when the update condition is satisfied. Here, the updating of the status information may be performed whenever a preset time period is satisfied or whenever an event occurs in the mobile communication terminal.

The situation information update unit 150 of the real-time situation information providing system 10 receiving the situation information from the first mobile communication terminal stores the situation information in the database 130 for each mobile communication terminal number that transmitted the situation information. It is preferable to clarify the relationship between the situation information by storing the time of transmitting the situation information together (S40).

As described above, in the situation where the first mobile communication terminal and the real-time situation information providing system 10 interoperate to update the situation information, the second mobile communication terminal requesting the situation information of the other mobile communication terminal is the other mobile communication terminal ( When requesting the changed situation information by transmitting the list of numbers of the mobile communication terminal stored in its address book (S50), the situation information detection unit 160 of the real-time situation information providing system 10 inquires the database 130, The context information of the target mobile communication terminal requested by the mobile communication terminal is extracted (S60) and transmitted to the second mobile communication terminal (S70).

Here, the second mobile communication terminal may request context information for at least one mobile communication terminal, and the real-time context information providing system 10 may include a database 130 among target mobile communication terminal numbers transmitted from the second mobile communication terminal. ) May extract the context information of the mobile communication terminal registered in the) and transmit it to the second mobile communication terminal. In addition, the second mobile communication terminal may request the status information according to a specified condition, and more preferably to the real-time situation information providing system 10 every predetermined time period or when an event occurs in the second mobile communication terminal. Request status information of another mobile communication terminal.

Upon receiving the situation information of the desired mobile communication terminal in step S70, the second mobile communication terminal writes the situation information update time of each target mobile communication terminal received from the real-time situation information providing system 10 and the second mobile communication terminal. Compare the stored situation information update time of each target mobile communication terminal (S80), and if it is determined that the situation information received from the real-time situation information providing system 10 is up-to-date information (S90). .

By doing so, the second mobile communication terminal can confirm the current situation of the first mobile communication terminal in real time, and check the situation of the first mobile communication terminal before attempting to call the first mobile communication terminal, If the communication terminal is confirmed to be in a call, for example, it is possible to prevent unnecessary time and cost from being consumed by not attempting a call.

Meanwhile, the real-time situation information providing system 10 transmits the situation information of the other mobile communication terminal to the second mobile communication terminal (S70), and then, compares the location of the second mobile communication terminal with the message generation unit 170. Comparing the location with the current location of the mobile communication terminal that requested the status information by the second mobile communication terminal, if the two mobile communication terminals exist within a specified radius, a message for notifying that the two terminals are in close proximity is created. 2 can be transmitted to the mobile communication terminal. To this end, when the first mobile communication terminal transmits the situation information to the real-time situation information providing system 10, it needs to collect and transmit its own location information, and the second mobile communication terminal transfers the information to the real-time situation information providing system 10. Of course, when requesting sulfur information, you must provide your own location information.

As such, those skilled in the art will appreciate that the present invention can be implemented in other specific forms without changing the technical spirit or essential features thereof. Therefore, the above-described embodiments are to be understood as illustrative in all respects and not as restrictive. The scope of the present invention is shown by the following claims rather than the detailed description, and all changes or modifications derived from the meaning and scope of the claims and their equivalents should be construed as being included in the scope of the present invention. do.

According to the present invention described above, since the current situation of the desired counterpart terminal in the mobile communication network can be checked in real time, whether or not the call can be determined according to the current situation of the counterpart before the call attempt can improve the completion rate of the call, of course, unnecessary You can avoid wasting money and time.

In addition, it is possible to induce a call by notifying the two mobile communication terminals located in the near distance, thereby generating a profit of the mobile communication network operator.

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As a real-time situation information providing system connected to a mobile communication network having an SVD function, A subscriber management unit receiving and storing subscriber information from a mobile communication terminal of a user who wants to disclose context information including mode information of the mobile communication terminal; A situation information update unit for storing and updating the situation information for each mobile communication terminal number as the mobile communication terminal wishing to publish the situation information transmits the situation information according to a specified condition; And A context information detection unit for extracting context information stored according to a target mobile communication terminal number and transmitting the context information to the requesting mobile communication terminal when the mobile communication terminal requests context information of another mobile communication terminal; Real-time situation information providing system comprising a. The method of claim 1, The real-time situation information providing system, when the situation information including the location information is transmitted from the mobile communication terminal that wants to disclose the situation information, and the location information is transmitted from the mobile communication terminal requesting the situation information, the movement requesting the situation information When the location of the communication terminal and the target mobile communication terminal are compared and the mobile communication terminal requesting the context information and the target mobile communication terminal exist within a specified radius, the mobile terminal or the target mobile communication terminal requesting the context information is approached. Real-time situation information providing system further comprises a location comparison and message generating unit for notifying that the location exists. delete The method of claim 1, The contextual information may further include location information, performance information, and call history information of the mobile communication terminal. A mobile communication terminal connected to a real-time situation information providing system through a mobile communication network having an SVD function, An information collection module for collecting context information of the mobile communication terminal in association with a terminal mode monitoring module for checking a mode change of the terminal; A data conversion module for converting the information collected by the information collection module into a wireless transmission format; And A mobile terminal having a context information management unit comprising a; context information upload module for transmitting a context information formatted by the data conversion module to a real-time context information providing system when an event occurs in a designated time period or when the event occurs in the mobile communication terminal. . The method of claim 5, The mobile communication terminal further includes at least one of a location tracking module for identifying a current location of the terminal, a terminal performance information providing module for checking performance information of the terminal, and a history management module for storing and managing call history for each call object. The information collecting module collects context information of a mobile communication terminal in association with at least one of the location tracking module, the terminal performance information providing module, and the history management module. The method according to claim 5 or 6, And the data conversion module converts the situation information collected by the information collection module into a TCP / IP packet data format. The method according to claim 5 or 6, The contextual information upload module transmits the format-converted contextual information to the real-time contextual information providing system by a push or pull method. delete The method according to claim 5 or 6, The data conversion module further includes a function of converting the situation information of the other mobile communication terminal received from the real-time situation information providing system into a format that can be used in the mobile communication terminal, The situation information management unit requests the situation information of another mobile communication terminal to the real time situation information providing system, and is transmitted from the real time situation information providing system, and stores the situation information of another mobile communication terminal which is converted in format by the data conversion module. And a situation information download module for displaying and displaying. The method of claim 10, The situation information downloading module requests the situation information to the real-time situation information providing system at a specified time period or when an event occurs in the mobile communication terminal. A situation information providing method in a real-time situation information providing system connected to a mobile communication network having an SVD function, After the first mobile communication terminal which intends to disclose the situation information including the mode information of the mobile communication terminal collects the situation information and converts the data format, the situation information is transmitted along with the transmission time information according to a specified transmission condition. Storing, by the real-time contextual information providing system, the contextual information as transmitted to an information providing system; Storing, by the real-time contextual information providing system, the contextual information and the contextual information transmission time for each mobile communication terminal number which transmitted the contextual information; Extracting, by the second mobile communication terminal, situation information of the target mobile communication terminal requested by the second mobile communication terminal, as the other mobile communication terminal requests status information; And Transmitting, by the real-time contextual information providing system, the extracted contextual information to the second mobile communication terminal, comparing and storing update times; Real-time contextual information providing method comprising a. delete The method of claim 12, The contextual information may further include location information, terminal performance information, and call history information. The method of claim 12, And transmitting the context information according to the designated transmission condition when the set time period is satisfied or when an event occurs in the mobile communication terminal. The method of claim 12, The second mobile communication terminal provides real-time situation information, wherein the second mobile communication terminal requests the situation information of another mobile communication terminal to the real-time situation information providing system when an event occurs in a predetermined time period or when the second mobile communication terminal occurs. Way. The method of claim 12, The first mobile communication terminal transmits situation information including location information to the real-time situation information providing system, the second mobile communication terminal provides location information when requesting the situation information, and the real time situation information providing system. After the step of transmitting the status information of the other mobile communication terminal to the second mobile communication terminal, When the second mobile communication terminal and the target mobile communication terminal exists within a specified radius by comparing the current location of the second mobile communication terminal and the current location of the target mobile communication terminal that the second mobile communication terminal requested the status information. And notifying that the second mobile communication terminal or the target mobile communication terminal exists at a location in close proximity to the second mobile communication terminal or the target mobile communication terminal.

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