KR100738034B1 - Method and device for providing un-received information based on area - Google Patents

Abstract

A method and an apparatus for providing non-received information based on an area are provided to reduce an installation cost and an operation cost by providing non-received information only to a mobile terminal located within a region where call communication is impossible for a time longer than a predetermined time. A communicating unit(230) communicates with a communication network. A database(210) obtains identification information of a mobile terminal which has changed to one or more of a communication unavailable state and a communication available state in one or more previously designated particular areas and non-received information about one or more of a call or a message which has been attempted to the mobile terminal as a destination terminal, and stores it. When the mobile terminal is changed from the communication unavailable state to the communication available state, a controller(250) extracts the non-received information from the database(210) and provides it to the mobile terminal by using the communicating unit(230).

Description

Method and device for providing un-received information based on area

1 is a schematic diagram showing an overall system for providing a region-based non-arrival information providing service according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a functional block diagram of a service providing apparatus for providing region-based non-arrival information according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Figure 3 is an illustration of a guide message of the incoming call information providing service according to an embodiment of the present invention.

4 is an exemplary diagram of a method for providing an incoming call information using a call back message by a service providing device according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart illustrating a process of performing an incoming call information providing service in the entire system of FIG. 1 according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention. FIG.

6 and 7 are flowcharts illustrating a process of a service providing apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention for performing an incoming call information providing service.

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10-1, 10-2, ... 10-n: mobile terminal

30: service area

40: mobile communication network

50: base station

70: exchanger

90: location register

100: service providing device

The present invention relates to non-arrival information providing, and more particularly, to a method and apparatus for providing non-arrival information based on region.

Recently, as mobile terminals capable of mobile communication such as mobile phones have been widely spread, many people in Korea have mobile terminals.

A mobile communication service is available only in an area where a base station and the like are provided, and a location is registered in the mobile communication network with power supplied to the mobile terminal.

If a user goes abroad or is located in a poor communication area, the user cannot receive a mobile communication service. Therefore, the KTF or SKT stores the unreceived information on a message such as a call or an SMS received by a mobile terminal that is in an incapable communication state because the power is turned off or in a poor communication area. When communication is possible, the service provides the corresponding unreceived information.

However, the conventional unreceived information providing service has a time limit (for example, 48 hours in the case of KTF) for communication efficiency within the time for the efficiency of the database storing and managing the unreceived information. If it does not transition, it does not provide unreceived information. Of course, it is also possible to provide an unreceived information providing service for all mobile terminals without time limit, but in this case, there is a problem that the facility and its operating cost according to the database and its management apparatus for storing a large amount of data occurs do.

However, in recent years, the number of subscribers leaving for overseas travel, overseas business trip, etc. is increasing, so it may be more likely that the incapable state of the mobile terminal may be maintained for a long time beyond the time limit. Therefore, inconveniences of existing customers are increasing due to unreceived information service.

Accordingly, the present invention has been made to solve the above-described problems, and provides an unreceived information service only for a mobile terminal located in a specific area that is likely to be in a long-term communication failure state such as an airport, a passenger ship dock, a bus terminal, etc. Its purpose is to provide a method and an apparatus thereof.

In addition, the present invention can reduce the installation cost and operating cost by providing the unreceived information only to the mobile terminal that is in a communication inability for more than a predetermined time in a specific region, and can be parallel with the existing unreceived information providing service. Another object is to provide a method and apparatus for providing region-based unreceived information.

Other objects of the present invention will become more apparent through the preferred embodiments described below.

According to a first aspect of the present invention for achieving the above object, in a method for providing an incoming call information to a mobile terminal coupled to a service providing device through a communication network, (a) inability to communicate in one or more predetermined specific area; Storing identification information of the mobile terminal to provide unreceived information for the mobile terminal transitioned to a state; (b) storing unreceived information on any one or more of a call and a message attempted using the mobile terminal as a called terminal; And (c) when the mobile terminal transitions to a communicable state, providing the non-arrival information to the mobile terminal, and a recording medium recording a region-based non-arrival information providing method and a program for executing the method. Is provided.

Here, the step (c) may provide the unreceived information only when the mobile terminal transitions to the communicable state in the specific region.

In addition, the step (c), (c1) receiving any signal through the communication network from the mobile terminal transitioned to the communication possible state; (c2) using the identification information of the mobile terminal to determine whether the service target; (c3) extracting unreceived information corresponding to the mobile terminal when the mobile terminal transitions to an incommunicable state in a predetermined region and is a service target; And (c4) transmitting the unreceived information to the mobile terminal.

In addition, the step (c4) may transmit a call back message (call back message) that allows the mobile terminal to confirm the incoming call information.

According to a second aspect of the present invention for achieving the above object, there is provided a method for a service providing device to provide unreceived information to a mobile terminal coupled via a communication network, comprising: (e) inability to communicate in one or more predetermined specific areas; Receiving any signal from a mobile terminal that has transitioned from a state to a communicable state; (f) extracting, by the mobile terminal, unreceived information stored to correspond to any one or more of a call and a message attempted by using the mobile terminal as a called terminal in the incapable communication state; And (g) providing a method for providing unreceived information based on a region and providing a program for executing the method, comprising: providing the unreceived information to the mobile terminal.

Here, the step (g) may transmit a call back message (call back message) that allows the mobile terminal to check the incoming call information.

Further, according to the first and second aspects described above, any signal received from the mobile terminal which has transitioned to the communicable state may be a location registration signal for initialization.

The service providing apparatus may recognize that the service providing apparatus is located in the specific area by using the location registration signal.

In addition, the non-arrival information may be provided only when a communication incapacity state of the mobile terminal exceeds a preset time.

According to a third aspect of the present invention for achieving the above object, an apparatus for providing unreceived information to a mobile terminal coupled via a communication network, comprising: a communication unit for communicating with the communication network; Identification of the mobile terminal transitioned to one or more of an incommunicable state and a communicable state in one or more predetermined specific regions, and an unreceived call to any one or more of calls and messages attempted using the mobile terminal as a destination terminal. A database for acquiring and storing information through the communication network; And a controller configured to extract the unreceived information from the database and provide the received information to the mobile terminal using the communication unit when the mobile terminal transitions from the incapable communication state to the communicable state. An apparatus is provided.

Here, the control unit may transmit a call back message for confirming the non-arrival information before transmitting the unreceived information.

The control unit may be further configured to recognize a transition to the communicable state of the mobile terminal and the location of the mobile terminal by the communication network receiving a location registration signal from the mobile terminal that has transitioned to the communicable state. Based incoming information providing device.

In addition, the predetermined specific area may be one or more of an airport, a passenger ship marina, and a bus terminal.

The controller may provide the unreceived information only when the communication incapacity state of the mobile terminal exceeds a preset time.

As the invention allows for various changes and numerous embodiments, particular embodiments will be illustrated in the drawings and described in detail in the written description. However, this is not intended to limit the present invention to specific embodiments, it should be understood to include all modifications, equivalents, and substitutes included in the spirit and scope of the present invention.

Terms including ordinal numbers such as first and second may be used to describe various components, but the components are not limited by the terms. The terms are used only for the purpose of distinguishing one component from another. For example, without departing from the scope of the present invention, the first component may be referred to as the second component, and similarly, the second component may also be referred to as the first component. The term and / or includes a combination of a plurality of related items or any item of a plurality of related items.

When a component is referred to as being "connected" or "connected" to another component, it may be directly connected to or connected to that other component, but it may be understood that other components may be present in between. Should be. On the other hand, when a component is said to be "directly connected" or "directly connected" to another component, it should be understood that there is no other component in between.

The terminology used herein is for the purpose of describing particular example embodiments only and is not intended to be limiting of the present invention. Singular expressions include plural expressions unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. In this application, the terms "comprise" or "have" are intended to indicate that there is a feature, number, step, operation, component, part, or combination thereof described in the specification, and one or more other features. It is to be understood that the present invention does not exclude the possibility of the presence or the addition of numbers, steps, operations, components, components, or a combination thereof.

Unless defined otherwise, all terms used herein, including technical or scientific terms, have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art. Terms such as those defined in the commonly used dictionaries should be construed as having meanings consistent with the meanings in the context of the related art and shall not be construed in ideal or excessively formal meanings unless expressly defined in this application. Do not.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings, and in describing the present invention with reference to the accompanying drawings, the same or corresponding components are designated by the same reference numerals regardless of the reference numerals. Duplicate explanations will be omitted.

1 is a schematic diagram showing an overall system for providing a region-based non-arrival information providing service according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, the entire system includes a mobile communication network 40, mobile terminals 10-1, 10-2,... 10-n, 10, and a service providing device 100.

The mobile communication network 40 includes a base station 50, an exchange 70, a location register 90, and the like, and each component thereof will be apparent to those skilled in the art, and thus detailed description thereof will be omitted. The mobile communication network 40 provides a mobile communication service such as a message transmission service through a call, SMS, LMS, MMS, etc. to the mobile terminal 10. Here, the location register 90 is a device for storing location information of the mobile terminal 10 such as a home location register (HLR) or a visitor location register (VLR).

The mobile terminal 10 may be equally applicable to all terminals capable of performing wireless communication through the mobile communication network 40 such as a mobile phone such as a personal communication service (PCS) terminal and a personal digital assistant (PDA). .

The service providing device 100 is a mobile communication because the mobile terminal 10 is in a communication incapable state (for example, a state in which the power is off or there is no base station 50 nearby or in a place where the communication state is unstable). If the call (SMS), SMS, LMS, MMS, etc. received from the mobile terminal 10 cannot be delivered because the communication is not possible through the mobile communication network 40 such as a state not located in the serviceable area, the call is not received. While storing the information, the mobile terminal 10 is in a communication enabled state (for example, a state in which communication through the mobile communication network 40 is possible, such as when the power is on or located in a mobile communication service area). It serves to provide the corresponding unreceived information when the transition occurs. A method of the service providing apparatus 100 recognizing a state (communicable state or incapable communication state) of the mobile terminal 10 will be described later.

The unreceived information may be a message that has not been delivered, time information of an incoming call, call information (for example, a phone number of a calling terminal), and the like.

In particular, the apparatus 100 for providing a service according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention does not apply only to the mobile terminal 10 that transitions to an incommunicable state or a communicable state at a predetermined location (hereinafter, referred to as a “service area”). Incoming information can be provided. Therefore, the service providing apparatus 100 sets the service area 30 to an area in which there is a high possibility of transition to an incommunicable state or a communicable state, such as an airport or a passenger ship dock, and is likely to remain in an incapable communication state for a long time. Incoming information provision service can be provided. Here, the service area 30 may preferably be a unit of coverage of the base station 50 as shown in the figure. That is, the service area 30 may be set in a range in which one or more base stations 50 may cover a communication service. Of course, when the base station 50 has its service coverage divided into a plurality of sectors, the service area 30 may be a sector unit of the base station 50. For convenience of understanding, for example, the coverage of the base station 50 located in Incheon Airport may be set as the service area 30.

Therefore, the user of the mobile terminal 10 is incapable of communicating due to a long-term business trip, travel, etc., and thus confirms all of the unreceived information on calls and messages that are not received by the mobile terminal 10 transitioning to a communicable state. Can be.

The method for recognizing that the location of the mobile terminal 10 transitioned to the incapable communication state or the communicable state is the service area 30 may include: a corresponding base station with which the mobile terminal 10 in a communicable state communicates. Can be recognized using (50). For example, when the mobile terminal 10 has transitioned to the incapable communication state, the service providing device 100 recognizes the region where the location was last registered through the location register 90 to the incapable communication state of the mobile terminal 10. Can recognize the transition region. In addition, when the mobile terminal 10 transitions to a communicable state, the service providing apparatus 100 may inquire of the location register 90 from time to time to recognize a state transition and a transition region of the mobile terminal 10, or The location registration signal transmitted from the base station 50, the exchanger 70, and the location register 90 may be recognized by the location registration signal transmitted from the 10 to the mobile communication network 40.

Here, when the mobile terminal 10 provides the unreceived information when the mobile terminal 10 transitions from the service area 30 to the communicable state irrespective of the transition area to the incapable communication state, the service providing apparatus 100 may have a greater number of times. More preferably, the service providing apparatus 100 is a service area 30 in which the service providing apparatus 100 is both incapable of communicating with the mobile terminal 10 and transitioned to a communicable state. Only incoming information may be provided if necessary.

In addition, the service providing apparatus 100 may provide unreceived information only when the communication incapacity state of the mobile terminal 10 exceeds a preset time.

Here, a method in which an arbitrary device coupled to the mobile communication network 40 (that is, the service providing device 100) acquires the location information of the mobile terminal 10 in units of the base station 50 (or base station sector) is still present. Since it is a well-known technique used, it will be obvious to those skilled in the art. In addition, since a service (for example, a catch call service of KTF, etc.) that manages and provides unreceived information for any mobile terminal 10 in the mobile communication network 40 is currently provided, It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that an arbitrary device acquires and manages unreceived information by interworking with the mobile communication network 40, and thus the detailed description thereof will be omitted.

Hereinafter, a configuration of a service providing apparatus 100 for providing region-based non-arrival information according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention will be described.

2 is a functional block diagram of a service providing apparatus for providing region-based unreceived information according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 3 is a guide message of an unreceived information providing service according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention. 4 is an exemplary view illustrating a method of providing an unreceived information by a service providing apparatus according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention using a callback message.

Referring to FIG. 2, the service providing apparatus 100 includes a database 210, a communication unit 230, and a control unit 250, and the control unit 250 includes a registration unit 252, an extraction unit 254, and the like. It may include a provider 256.

The database 210 stores non-arrival information. The unreceived information may be received from the exchange 70 of the mobile communication network 40. For example, when any calling terminal attempts to call or transmits a message to a specific called terminal which is incapable of communication, the service providing apparatus 100 attempts to transmit a message to a call connection or a called terminal and fails. Call terminal identification information (for example, telephone number, etc.), identification information on whether it is a call or a message, identification information (for example, telephone number, etc.) and calling attempt time from the exchange 70. Alternatively, unreceived information such as a message transmission time may be received.

In addition, the database 210 may not communicate or communicate in the service area 30 so as to provide unreceived information only to the mobile terminals 10 that have transitioned from one or more predetermined service areas 30 as described above. Stores information about the mobile terminals 10 transitioned to the enabled state.

The communication unit 230 is a means for communicating with one or more of the switch 70, the location register 90, and the base station 50 of the mobile communication network 40, or with the mobile terminal 10. That is, the service providing apparatus 100 may receive unreceived information from the mobile communication network 40 through the communication unit 230 or may provide unreceived information to the mobile terminal 10.

In this case, the service providing device 100 may provide the unreceived information to the mobile terminal 10, but may immediately provide the unreceived information, using a call back message (Figs. 3 and 4). See also). That is, the service providing device 100 transmits a message service device (eg, a short message service center (SMSC), a long message service center (LMSC), a multimedia message service center (MMSC), etc.) of the mobile communication network 40. A device providing a service may transmit a callback message including Internet page information, an automatic response system (ARS) phone number, etc., to confirm unreceived information.

Accordingly, as shown in the user interface (UI) screen 300 of the mobile terminal 10 illustrated in FIG. 3, when the mobile terminal 10 transitions back to a domestic airport in a foreign country and communicates with the unreceived information received by the mobile terminal 10. According to the guide message (see reference numeral 300, that is, call back message), the user of the mobile terminal 10, as shown in Figure 4, the OK button 430, the call button 410, the Internet access button 450 By pressing any one, the unreceived information may be received from the service providing apparatus 100 through a callback message. Here, although the drawing uses an SMS as a callback message as an example, it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that the present invention is not limited thereto.

Referring back to FIG. 2, the control unit 250 recognizes the mobile terminal 10 having the state transition in the service area 30 through the mobile communication network 40, and moves in the incapable communication state. Stores unreceived information on calls and messages corresponding to the terminal 10, and moves the stored unreceived information corresponding to the corresponding mobile terminal 10 when any mobile terminal 10 transitions to a communicable state. The database 210 and the communication unit 230 are controlled to be provided to the terminal 10.

Before looking at the functions of each component according to the function of the controller 250, the unreceived information providing service according to the preferred embodiment of the present invention can be implemented in three ways.

The first is to provide the unreachable information providing service only to the mobile terminal 10 transitioned to the incapable communication state in the service area 30, the second is only to the mobile terminal 10 transitioned to the communication state in the service area 30; The third service is to provide the corresponding service to the mobile terminal 10 which has transitioned from the service area 30 to the communication incapacity state and then transitions to the communication state in the service area 30. In describing the functions of each component of the control unit 250 for the convenience of explanation, the service is provided only when the service area 30 transitions to the incommunicable state and the communicable state as in the third method. It will be described with an example provided.

When the registration unit 252 of the control unit 250 receives the information on the mobile terminal 10 transitioned from the mobile communication network 40 in the predetermined service area 30, the registration unit 252 may receive identification information about the mobile terminal 10. Stored in the database 210. Here, when there are a plurality of service areas 30, identification information of the service area 30 may be further stored together with information about the mobile terminal 10 which has been in a state in which communication is not possible. This is to provide the unreceived information only when the transition to the communicable state in the same service area 30 as the service area 30 transitioned to the communication incapable state. Of course, even if the service area 30 transitioned to the communication incapable state and the communication possible state may provide the unreceived information, in this case, it is not necessary to store the identification information of the service area 30.

In addition, the registration unit 252 transmits the mobile terminal 10 until the mobile terminal 10 transitioned to the communication incapable state (the time limit may be set, for example, one month, of course). Information about the attempted and failed call and message transmission is collected from the mobile communication network 40, and stored and updated as unreceived information in the database. As described above, it is obvious to those skilled in the art that the service providing apparatus 100 collects unreceived information from the mobile communication network 40 because it is a well-known technique that is still used today. Of course, as described above, since there is a device that still provides unreceived information, such as KTF's catch call service, the service providing device 100 may acquire unreceived information by interworking with another service device such as a catch-call service device. It will be apparent to those skilled in the art.

The extractor 254 receives the identification information of the mobile terminal 10 that has transitioned from the mobile communication network 40 to the communication state in the service area 30 and stores the unreceived information corresponding to the mobile terminal 10. To extract from the database 210. Here, the mobile communication network 40 may provide the service providing apparatus 100 with information about the mobile terminal 10 only for the mobile terminal 10 that has undergone a state transition in the service area 30. Of course, the mobile communication network 40 may provide the service providing apparatus 100 with information about all the mobile terminals 10 having a state transition regardless of the region. In this case, the service providing apparatus 100 provides the corresponding mobile terminal. 10 directly determines whether or not a state transition has occurred in the service area 30.

The providing unit 256 functions to provide the unreceived information to the mobile terminal 10 transitioned from the communication disabled state to the communication enabled state. The provider 256 may provide the unreceived information directly to the mobile terminal 10, but may provide the received information using a callback message as described above. Accordingly, the providing unit 256 may perform an ARS function, a function of providing a web page containing unreceived information, and a function of transmitting unreceived information as an MMS message through the MMSC. Of course, in addition to the specific information providing method described above, it will be apparent that all methods of providing the unreceived information to the mobile terminal 10 through the communication network may be equally applied.

Here, according to another embodiment of the present invention, the exchange unit 70 or the location register 90 of the mobile communication network 40 may perform the functions of the communication unit 230 and the control unit 250 of the service providing apparatus 100. have. That is, the exchange 70 or the location register 90 coupled with the database 210 may perform the function of the service providing apparatus 100 according to the embodiment of the present invention.

Hereinafter, a process of performing an incoming call information providing service according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention will be described.

5 is a flowchart illustrating a process of performing an unreceived information providing service in the entire system of FIG. 1 according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, and FIGS. 6 and 7 illustrate an apparatus for providing a service according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention. A flowchart illustrating a process of performing an incoming call information providing service.

The service providing process according to FIG. 5 will be described with an example of providing the corresponding service only when the area where the communication is not available and the area transitioned to the communication state is the service area 30. Of course, even if only one of the incommunicable state and the communicable state is the service area 30, the corresponding service may be provided, and each service method according to this will be described with reference to FIGS. 6 and 7.

Referring to FIG. 5, when the mobile terminal 10 becomes incapable of communication in any one or more predetermined service areas 30 (step 510), the mobile communication network 40 recognizes this (step 520) and communicates. In operation 530, information on the corresponding mobile terminal 10 which is in an incapable state is provided to the service providing apparatus 100. That is, the mobile communication network 40 may provide information about the mobile terminal 10 to the service providing apparatus 100 when the area where the corresponding mobile terminal 10 is last registered is the service area 30. . Of course, as described above, the mobile communication network 40 may provide the service providing apparatus 100 with information about all the mobile terminals 10 that have become incapable of communication, and the service providing apparatus 100 may include the corresponding mobile terminal ( 10 may directly determine whether the location of the service 10 is included in the service area 30.

 According to another embodiment, the mobile terminal 10 in which the service providing apparatus 100 transitions from the service area 30 to the mobile communication network 40 (for example, the location register 90) from time to time exists. It can be recognized.

The service providing apparatus 100 transmits unreceived information on a call and / or message attempted to be transmitted using the mobile terminal 10 transitioned to the incapable communication state in the service area 30 as the called terminal. Collect from mobile communication network 40 until 10 transitions to a communicable state (step 540).

When the mobile terminal 10 transitions to the communicable state in the service area 30 (step 550), the mobile terminal 10 performs initialization for communication with the mobile communication network 40 (560), and the mobile terminal 10 during initialization is performed. The service providing apparatus 100 recognizes that the corresponding mobile terminal 10 has transitioned to the communicable state through any signal transmitted from the mobile terminal 10 (step 570). Here, the arbitrary signal may be a location registration signal for registering the location information in the location register 90, the service providing apparatus 100 and the switch 70 or the location register 90 receiving the location registration signal In association with each other, the state transition of the mobile terminal 10 may be recognized. Of course, in addition to the location registration signal described above, all the methods for recognizing the mobile terminal 10 transitioned from the incapable communication state to the communicable state as described above in connection with the mobile communication network 40 may be equally applied. Of course it is.

The service providing apparatus 100 extracts previously received unstored information corresponding to the mobile terminal 10 transitioned to the communicable state (step 580), and provides the received information to the mobile terminal 10 (step 590).

Referring to FIG. 6, which shows a process of providing an unreceived information providing service only when the service area 30 transitions to an incapable communication state, in step 610, the service providing device 100 communicates in the service area 30. Recognize the mobile terminal 10 transitioned to the disabled state. Recognized identification information (eg, a phone number) for the corresponding mobile terminal 10 is stored in the service providing apparatus 100.

In operation 620, the apparatus 100 for providing a service collects information about a message to be transmitted to the mobile terminal 10 and / or a call to be attempted from the mobile communication network 40.

In operation 630, it is determined whether the corresponding mobile terminal 10 has transitioned to the communicable state. That is, the mobile terminal 10 determines whether the mobile terminal 10 is in a state capable of communication by receiving it from the mobile communication network 40 or inquiring from time to time directly to the mobile communication network 40. If there is no state transition, the process returns to step 620 to continuously collect unreceived information.

When the mobile terminal 10 has transitioned to the communicable state, in operation 640, the service providing apparatus 100 extracts previously received unstored information corresponding to the mobile terminal 10 and provides the same to the mobile terminal 10. . The mobile terminal 10 may be provided with unreceived information even when the mobile terminal 10 transitions to a communicable state in any area where communication is possible.

As described above, the service providing apparatus 100 may provide the unreceived information only when the communication incapacity state of the mobile terminal 10 continues for a predetermined time or more.

In addition, the service providing device 100 does not immediately provide the unreceived information immediately, but provides only the notification message through the callback message, and then, upon request from the mobile terminal 10, the unreceived information is transmitted by MMS, SMS, Web. It may be provided to the mobile terminal 10 through a page or the like.

Referring to FIG. 7, which illustrates a process of providing an unreceived information providing service only when the service area 30 transitions to the communicable state, in step 710, the service providing device 100 transitions to an incapable communication state. Recognize (10).

In operation 720, the service providing apparatus 100 collects, from the mobile communication network 40, information about a message to be transmitted to the mobile terminal 10 and / or a call to be attempted. Of course, in this case, even when the mobile terminal 10 transitions to a communication incapable state in any area, the mobile terminal 10 may receive unreceived information when the mobile terminal 10 transitions to the communication enabled state in the service area 30.

In operation 730, the service providing apparatus 100 determines whether the corresponding mobile terminal 10 has transitioned to the communicable state. If the result is no state transition, the service providing apparatus 100 proceeds to operation 720 and continuously collects unreceived information. do.

If the mobile terminal 10 transitions to the communicable state, the service providing apparatus 100 determines whether the corresponding area is the service area 30 in step 740. If it is determined that the service area is not 30, the incoming call information is not provided.

As a result of the determination in step 740, when the corresponding mobile terminal 10 has transitioned to the communicable state in the service area 30, in step 750, the device for providing a service 100 is previously stored to correspond to the corresponding mobile terminal 10. The incoming information is extracted and provided to the mobile terminal 10.

The method of the present invention as described above may be implemented in a program and stored in a computer-readable recording medium (CD-ROM, RAM, ROM, floppy disk, hard disk, magneto-optical disk, etc.).

The present invention is not limited to the above embodiments, and many variations are possible by those skilled in the art within the spirit of the present invention.

As described above, according to the present invention, there is an effect of providing the undelivered information service only to a mobile terminal located in a specific area which is likely to be in a long-term communication failure state such as an airport, a passenger ship dock, a bus terminal, etc. .

In addition, the present invention can reduce the installation cost and operating costs by providing the unreceived information only to the mobile terminal that is in a communication inability for more than a predetermined time in a specific area, and the area that can be parallel to the existing unreceived information providing service It is possible to provide a method and apparatus for providing non-arrival information based on the information.

Although described above with reference to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, those skilled in the art that various modifications of the present invention without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention described in the claims below And can be changed.

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In the method for providing the unreceived information to the mobile terminal coupled to the service providing device via a communication network, (a) storing the identification information of the mobile terminal to provide unreceived information for the mobile terminal transitioned to an incapable communication state in one or more predetermined specific areas; (b) storing unreceived information on any one or more of a call and a message attempted using the mobile terminal as a called terminal; And and (c) providing the unreceived information to the mobile terminal when the mobile terminal transitions to a communicable state. The method of claim 1, The step (c), the area-based non-arrival information providing method characterized in that the mobile terminal provides the incoming call information only when the transition to the communication state in the specific area. The method of claim 1, wherein step (c) comprises: (c1) receiving an arbitrary signal through the communication network from the mobile terminal transitioned to the communicable state; (c2) using the identification information of the mobile terminal to determine whether the service target; (c3) extracting unreceived information corresponding to the mobile terminal when the mobile terminal transitions to an incommunicable state in a predetermined region and is a service target; And (c4) a method for providing non-arrival information based on region, comprising the step of transmitting the non-arrival information to the mobile terminal. The method of claim 3, wherein Step (c4) is, And a call back message for transmitting the call back message to allow the mobile terminal to confirm the incoming call information. In the method for providing the unreceived information to the mobile terminal coupled to the service providing device via a communication network, (e) receiving any signal from a mobile terminal that has transitioned from a non-communicable state to a communicable state in at least one predetermined specific area; (f) extracting, by the mobile terminal, unreceived information stored to correspond to any one or more of a call and a message attempted by using the mobile terminal as a called terminal in the incapable communication state; And and (g) providing the non-arrival information to the mobile terminal. The method of claim 5, Step (g) is, And a call back message for transmitting the call back message to allow the mobile terminal to confirm the incoming call information. The method according to claim 3 or 5, And any signal received from the mobile terminal transitioned to the communicable state is a location registration signal for initialization. The method of claim 7, wherein And the service providing apparatus recognizes the location in the specific area by using the location registration signal. The method according to claim 1 or 5, And providing the undelivered information only when the communication incapable state of the mobile terminal exceeds a preset time. An apparatus for providing unreceived information to a mobile terminal coupled through a communication network, A communication unit for communicating with the communication network; Identification of the mobile terminal transitioned to one or more of an incommunicable state and a communicable state in one or more predetermined specific regions, and an unreceived call to any one or more of calls and messages attempted using the mobile terminal as a destination terminal. A database for acquiring and storing information through the communication network; And When the mobile terminal transitions from the communication incapacity state to the communication possible state, a region-based non-arrival information providing apparatus comprising a control unit for extracting the unreceived information from the database and providing the received information to the mobile terminal using the communication unit . The method of claim 10, And the controller transmits a call back message for confirming the unreceived information before transmitting the unreceived information. The method of claim 10, The controller may recognize a transition to the communicable state of the mobile terminal and the location of the mobile terminal by the communication network receiving a location registration signal from the mobile terminal that has transitioned to the communicable state. Incoming information provision device. The method of claim 10, And said predetermined area designated at least one of an airport, a passenger ship marina, and a bus terminal. The method of claim 10, And the controller is configured to provide the undelivered information only when the communication incapable state of the mobile terminal exceeds a preset time. The service providing apparatus is tangibly embodied to be executed by a digital processing apparatus to perform a method of providing unreceived information to a mobile terminal coupled through a communication network, and a program is recorded which can be read by the digital processing apparatus. In the recording medium, Storing identification information of the mobile terminal to provide unreceived information for the mobile terminal transitioned to an incapable communication state in at least one predetermined region; Storing unreceived information on at least one of a call and a message attempted using the mobile terminal as a called terminal; And And recording a program for executing the step of providing the unreceived information to the mobile terminal when the mobile terminal transitions to a communicable state. The service providing apparatus is tangibly embodied to be executed by a digital processing apparatus to perform a method of providing unreceived information to a mobile terminal coupled through a communication network, and a program is recorded which can be read by the digital processing apparatus. In the recording medium, Receiving any signal from a mobile terminal that has transitioned from a non-communicable state to a communicable state in at least one predetermined specific area; Extracting, by the mobile terminal, unreceived information stored corresponding to any one or more of a call and a message attempted by using the mobile terminal as a called terminal in the incapable communication state; And And a program for executing the step of providing the unreceived information to the mobile terminal.

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