KR100738931B1 - Method and server for providing a abroad short message service using a emoticon - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to an overseas short message service method and a server thereof. When a short message is transmitted from an originating mobile communication terminal that is roaming overseas to an incoming mobile communication terminal in a domestic network, an emoticon displaying the roaming country in the short message is displayed. The present invention provides an overseas short message service method using an emoticon, and converts and converts it into an emoticon message, and a server thereof.

Emoticon Message Conversion Server, GLR, SMSS, SMSC, Emoticon, Roaming

Description

Method and server for providing a abroad short message service using a emoticon}

1 is a configuration diagram of an embodiment of a communication network for providing an emoticon message according to the present invention;

Figure 2 is an embodiment configuration for an emoticon message conversion server to which the present invention is applied,

3 is a flow chart of an embodiment of a method for providing an emoticon message according to the present invention;

Figure 4 illustrates an embodiment showing an emoticon message according to the present invention.

* Explanation of symbols on the main parts of the drawing

10: outgoing mobile communication terminal 80: incoming mobile communication terminal

20: Gateway Location Register (GLR)

30: Short Message Service Server (SMSS)

40: Short Message Service Center (SMSC)

50: HLR (Home Location Register)

60: MSC (Mobile Switching Center)

70: emoticon message conversion server

The present invention relates to an overseas short message service method and a server thereof, and more particularly, when a short message is transmitted from an originating mobile communication terminal roaming overseas to an incoming mobile communication terminal in a domestic network, a roaming state is included in the contents created by the user. It relates to an overseas short message service method using the emoticon is inserted, an emoticon representing a representative symbol of the server.

Recently, according to the development of communication technology, additional services provided to a mobile communication terminal are also variously provided for the convenience of the user. Among them, a short message service (SMS) simply writes a user's intention in a message format. Pass it to the other party.

On the other hand, the user uses an emoticon to more effectively deliver a short message, the emoticon is a combination of general characters (eg, English, Korean, etc.), special characters (eg, symbols, ruled lines, etc.), numbers.

In other words, the emoticon is written by the user himself or is widely known. For example, "^^", "^. ^" Or "a rose" is used as an expression of "good feeling." > --'--, --- ", etc. It is simply expressed in the form of an image to effectively convey the intention of" accept my heart "as shown in [Figure 1] below.

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However, as mobile communication providers gradually expand the overseas roaming service of mobile communication terminals, there is an active movement to provide overseas short message service between domestic and foreign networks.

However, in the conventional short message service according to the conventional method, the called party cannot inform the called party that the user is roaming unless the user writes the fact that the user is roaming in the short message transmitted by the user who is roaming. Therefore, the called party cannot see only whether the user is roaming and where the roaming country is.

In this conventional method, when the user needs to inform the called party of the roaming country when the user sends a short message (when a child traveling abroad informs his or her parents of his / her location, a person on a business trip abroad knows his / her location to the customer, etc.). If you want to inform, etc.) is a hassle to enter the information about the roaming country one by one, and if you send without inputting information about the roaming country, there is an additional cost to check again later.

On the other hand, a user who travels abroad and uses a short message service overseas wants to send a message containing a symbol representing the destination of the trip, that is, the roaming country, to the called party in the domestic network. Therefore, the user needs a service that can send a short message including the symbol of the destination to which the user travels to the called party, as the postcard in which the symbol of the destination is drawn to friends and family in the past.

Therefore, while maintaining compatibility with foreign short message service technology according to the conventional method, the user informs the receiver of his / her roaming position, and satisfies the demand for a service that can compose a short message including a symbol of the roaming country. There is an urgent need for telecommunications providers to provide revenue generation from the use of paid short message services.

The present invention has been proposed to solve the above problems and to meet the above requirements, and corresponds to a short message when a short message is transmitted from an outgoing roaming mobile terminal that is roaming overseas to an incoming mobile communication terminal in a domestic network. The object of the present invention is to provide an overseas short message service method using an emoticon, which converts and transmits an emoticon message indicating a roaming country, and a server thereof.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides an overseas short message service method for transmitting a short message from an originating mobile communication terminal that is roaming to an incoming mobile communication terminal in a domestic network, wherein the initial short message created by the originating mobile communication terminal is provided. Converting to a protocol used in a domestic network, converting to a converted short message, and confirming that the outgoing mobile communication terminal is subscribed to the roaming emoticon service; A second step of confirming subscriber information for converting a converted short message into an emoticon message and roaming country identification information of an outgoing mobile communication terminal according to the roaming emoticon service; A third step of converting the converted short message into an emoticon message by combining the subscriber message and the emoticon corresponding to the roaming country identification information, which the subscriber intends to deliver to the other party as a result of confirming the subscriber information and the roaming country identification information; And confirming the location information of the incoming mobile communication terminal, and transmitting the emoticon message to the incoming mobile communication terminal. 4.

In addition, in a short message service server that transmits a short message from a roaming mobile communication terminal to an incoming mobile communication terminal in a domestic network, a short message received from a foreign network is converted into a protocol used in a domestic network. A subscriber authentication unit which checks the terminal information of the destination mobile communication terminal receiving the setting information for converting into an emoticon message and receives the emoticon message and receives the corresponding country identification information from the gateway location register; An emoji extraction unit configured to extract the emoticon of the corresponding country by receiving the information verified by the subscriber authentication unit and the corresponding country identification information; And an emoticon combiner for converting a converted short message into an emoticon message and sending an emoticon message by combining a subscriber message, which is a content that a subscriber intends to deliver to the other party, and an emoticon extracted from the emoticon extractor. Contains a service server.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. In the following description of the present invention, detailed descriptions of well-known functions or configurations will be omitted if it is determined that the detailed description of the present invention may unnecessarily obscure the subject matter of the present invention. Terms to be described later are terms defined in consideration of functions in the present invention, and may be changed according to intentions or customs of users or operators. Therefore, the definition should be made based on the contents throughout the specification.

Meanwhile, an embodiment of the present invention will be described by taking an example of a communication network that provides an overseas short message service (SMS). However, the scope of the present invention is not limited thereto, and the present invention may be applied to a communication network that provides a general short message service such as Long Message Service (LMS) or Multimedia Message Service (MMS).

In addition, prior to explaining the present invention, for convenience of description, the short message will be described separately according to the step of transmitting the message.

In other words, a short message that enters a domestic network via an overseas short message service provider that interoperates with a mobile communication provider is called an "initial short message", and the initial short message corresponds to a protocol used in a domestic network by a GLR (gateway location register). The converted short message is called a "convert short message".

In addition, a short message in which a specific emoticon is combined in addition to a sentence (hereinafter, referred to as a "subscriber message") consisting of letters / numbers / symbols corresponding to the contents that the subscriber wants to deliver to the other party in the converted short message is an “emoji message”. Finally, the short message provided to the called terminal is the 'emoticon message'.

Here, an emoticon generally refers to a text message used to convey one's feelings or intentions to the other party. In the present invention, a text message is inserted to indicate a symbol of a country roaming in a converted short message. do.

1 is a configuration diagram of an embodiment of a communication network for providing an emoticon message according to the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 1, the communication network includes an outgoing mobile communication terminal 10, an incoming mobile communication terminal 80, a gateway location register (GLR), 20, and a short message server (Short). Message Service Server, hereinafter referred to as "SMSS", 30), Short Message Service Center (hereinafter referred to as "SMSC", 40), Home Location Register (hereinafter referred to as "HLR", 50) , Mobile Switching Center (hereinafter referred to as "MSC", 60), and emoticon message conversion server 70. In addition, the communication network includes a basic component providing a mobile communication function, such as a base station controller (BSC), a base station (BS) and the like.

Hereinafter, an emoticon message service provided by the present invention is referred to as a "roaming emoticon service", and a user subscribed to the roaming emoticon service is referred to as a "subscriber."

The outgoing mobile communication terminal 10 is a terminal of a subscriber using an overseas roaming service. Since the outgoing mobile communication terminal 10 is recognized as a terminal using a roaming service in an overseas mobile communication network, the initial short message transmitted from the outgoing mobile communication terminal 10 is through an overseas short message service provider interworking with a domestic mobile communication service provider. It is delivered to the domestic network (ie, GLR 20).

The GLR 20 performs a virtual home location register (HLR) function for the outgoing mobile communication terminal 10. That is, the GLR 20 is an additional service subscribed to the location information stored in the original home location register (HLR) of the outgoing mobile terminal 10 when the outgoing mobile terminal 10 uses a roaming service. Information (hereinafter referred to as "service profile") and the like.

In addition, the GLR 20 is a protocol of each communication network for roaming service between foreign and domestic networks using different Mobile Application Protocol (MAP) protocols (ANSI-41, GSM (Europe), PDC (Japan), UMTS, etc.). Convert to match

In addition, the GLR 20 performs a function of converting the telephone number of the mobile communication terminal to match the protocol of each communication network. That is, the GLR 20 is a mobile identification number (MIN) used in ANSI-41, an international mobile subscriber identity (IMSI) used in GSM (Europe), or a mobile subscriber (MSN) used in PDU (Japan). Performs a mutual conversion function between numbers).

Accordingly, the GLR 20 converts the initial short message into a converted short message according to a protocol used by the domestic mobile communication service provider.

The GLR 20 checks the service profile of the calling mobile communication terminal 10 through the converted short message, and checks whether the calling mobile communication terminal 10 is a terminal subscribed to the roaming emoticon service.

The SMSS 30 provides an interface for delivering a short message between a domestic mobile communication service provider and an overseas short message service provider.

In addition, the SMSS 30 manages short message service (SMS) user information, through which SMSC 40 is assigned an incoming mobile communication terminal 80 which is a destination to which the converted short message is to be transmitted.

In addition, the SMSS 30 has a load balancing function that allows the SMSC 40 to properly balance the load to be handled and the SMSC 40 to which the terminating mobile communication terminal 80 is assigned. Routing function to send the converted short message to

The SMSC 40 checks the converted short message received from the SMSS 30, and if it is determined that the outgoing mobile communication terminal 10 is a terminal subscribed to the roaming emoticon service in the GLR 20, the converted short message is the emoticon message conversion server. Transmit request to 'emoticon message' while transmitting to (70).

In this case, the SMSC 40 may transmit the converted short message according to a normal short message transmission procedure unless the calling mobile communication terminal 10 is a terminal subscribed to the roaming emoticon service.

In addition, the SMSC 40 checks the location information of the incoming mobile communication terminal 80 at the HLR 50 and receives the 'emoji message' received from the emoticon message conversion server 70 through the MSC 60. Send an emoji message to 80.

The HLR 50 is a home location register of the incoming mobile communication terminal 80 and manages location information of the incoming mobile communication terminal 80. Therefore, the HLR 50 informs the SMSC 40 in response to the request for the location information of the incoming mobile communication terminal 80.

The MSC 60 is a mobile switch to which the terminating mobile communication terminal 80 is assigned, and transmits an 'emoji message' received from the SMSC 40 to the terminating mobile communication terminal 80.

The emoticon message conversion server 70 converts a short message received by the SMSC 40 into a converted short message by combining an emoticon representing a roaming country symbol (for example, the "goddess of liberty" of the United States) of the outgoing mobile communication terminal 10. Is converted to 'emoji message'.

In addition, the emoticon message conversion server 70 needs to check the roaming country symbol of the outgoing mobile communication terminal 10, and requests the corresponding country identification information from the GLR 20.

Hereinafter, the emoticon message conversion server 70 will be described in more detail with reference to FIG. 2. 2 is a configuration diagram of an emoticon message conversion server 70 to which the present invention is applied.

The emoticon message conversion server 70 is a message receiving unit 71, subscriber authentication unit 72, message determination unit 73, emoticon extraction unit 74, emoticon combiner 75, message transmitter 76, subscriber DB 77, roaming country emoticon DB (78).

The message receiving unit 71 receives the converted short message from the SMSC 20, and the message transmitting unit 76 transmits the 'emoji message' to which the converted short message is converted, to the SMSC 20.

The subscriber DB 77 includes a mobile communication terminal phone number, an emoticon insertion prohibition option, an emoticon automatic insertion option, a subscriber message splitting option, and terminal information of each mobile communication terminal (as terminal information of an originating / incoming mobile communication terminal, for example, MMS). Service support function, display specification information of the terminal, etc.) are stored.

The roaming country emoticon DB 78 corresponds to a table representing roaming country identification information and corresponds to the table, and has a different size (for example, 1,2,3, ..., 78,79,80 bytes, etc.) and represents a symbol of a roaming country. One or more emoticons are stored.

The emoticon in the roaming country emoticon DB 78 preferably displays the roaming country symbol and the country name, including the country name (eg, "-" in the United States).

The subscriber authenticator 72 checks whether the subscriber is subscribed to the roaming emoticon service through the personal information of the subscriber (eg, mobile phone terminal number, terminal information of the mobile communication terminal, etc.) stored in the subscriber DB 77. .

In addition, the subscriber authentication unit 72 transmits setting information (eg emoticon insertion prohibition option, emoticon auto insertion option, subscriber message split option, etc.) and emoticon message for converting into an emoticon message stored in the subscriber DB 77. Terminal information (eg, LCD pixel and screen size, message transmission method, MMS support or not, manufacturer information) of the received terminating mobile communication terminal 80 is provided to the emoticon extraction unit 74.

In addition, the subscriber authentication unit 72 requests the country identification information from the GLR 20, receives the response, and provides it to the emoticon extraction unit 74.

The message determining unit 73 calculates the size of the subscriber message in the converted short message, and subtracts the size of the subscriber message from the message transmission limit value (for example, 80 bytes, etc.) (hereinafter, referred to as "surplus capacity"). Calculate

The emoticon extracting unit 74 calculates setting information for converting into an emoticon message provided by the subscriber authenticator 72, terminal information of the incoming mobile communication terminal 80, corresponding country identification information, and the message discriminating unit 73. The emoticon according to the surplus capacity is extracted from the roaming country emoticon DB (78).

In this case, the emoticon extracting unit 74 does not need to consider the excess capacity calculated by the message determining unit 73 in the case of a terminal having no limit on the incoming capacity, regardless of the message transmission limit value (eg, a multimedia message). In case of limiting message transmission limit, surplus capacity should be considered.

Meanwhile, the emoticon extracting unit 74 extracts an emoticon having an optimal size for the surplus capacity from the roaming country emoticon DB 78 as an example of considering the surplus capacity.

As another example, the emoticon extracting unit 74 belongs to the size of the subscriber message calculated by the message determining unit 73 according to the message classification section (for example, 10 byte interval) set by the subscriber in advance (or predetermined). The section and the section belonging to the surplus capacity calculated through this are identified, and the emoticon having the surplus capacity of the calculated message is extracted from the roaming country emoticon DB 78.

For example, when the subscriber message classification section is set to the 10-byte interval, if the subscriber message is 23 bytes, the emoticon extractor 74 determines that the subscriber message is a message belonging to the 20 to 30-byte interval, and has a size of 50 bytes or less. Determine the emoticon having the best emoticon. Accordingly, the size of the emoticon message is "23 bytes + 50 bytes = 73 bytes" and does not exceed the message transmission limit value.

As another example, the emoticon extractor 74 sets a surplus capacity for emoticons to be limited and extracts the emoticon from the roaming country emoticon DB 78. In this case, the subscriber message is provided by subtracting the surplus capacity from the message transmission limit value. In addition, if the subscriber message exceeds the subtracted size, the subscriber message is divided into a plurality of messages by the subscriber message splitting option, or the capacity of the excess subscriber message is omitted.

For example, if the capacity for emoticons is 8 bytes and the message transmission limit value is 80 bytes, the subscriber message should be created in a limited capacity of 72 bytes subtracting the excess capacity from the message transmission limit value.

In addition, when the emoticon extractor 74 confirms that the subscriber message division option is not set in the subscriber authentication unit 72, it is preferable to extract the optimal emoticon as described above, but the subscriber message division option is set. If it is confirmed that the process of extracting the best emoticon may not be considered.

The emoticon combiner 75 estimates a result value of the sum of the subscriber message size calculated by the message determination unit 73 and the size of the emoticon extracted by the emoticon extractor 74, and the estimated result value determines the transmission limit value. If not exceeded, combine subscriber messages and emoticons. At this time, the emoticon combiner 75, if the terminal information of the incoming mobile communication terminal 80 confirmed by the subscriber authentication unit 72 is not limited to the incoming capacity, such as a multimedia support terminal (for example, MMS phone) to the transmission limit value of the message Try to combine subscriber messages and emoticons instantly, without regard to them.

Meanwhile, when the estimated result exceeds the transmission limit, the emoticon combiner 75 divides the subscriber message into a plurality of messages and confirms that the subscriber message splitting option is set in the subscriber authenticator 72. Combine messages and emoticons respectively.

In addition, the emoticon combining unit 75 confirms that the estimated result value exceeds the transmission limit value and the subscriber message segmentation option is not set in the subscriber authenticator 72, so that only the subscriber message is sent to the terminating mobile communication terminal 80. Send, or combine subscriber messages and incomplete emoticons.

In addition, the process of combining the subscriber message and the extracted emoticon by the emoticon combiner 75 may be implemented in various ways. The first method is to insert an emoticon at the front or the rear of the subscriber message, but the second method is to extract the emoticon. The subscriber message is inserted in all or part of the blank characters.

3 is a flowchart illustrating an embodiment of a method for providing an emoticon message according to the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 3, the outgoing mobile communication terminal 10 is a roaming emoticon service subscription terminal while using an overseas roaming service, and the incoming mobile communication terminal 80 is in a domestic network.

First, when the outgoing mobile communication terminal 10 composes and transmits an initial short message (S100), the initial short message is transmitted to the GLR 20 in the domestic network via an overseas text service provider linked with the mobile communication service provider. (S101).

The GLR 20 converts the received initial short message into a protocol used in the domestic network (converted to a converted short message), and confirms that the roaming emoticon service is subscribed by querying the service profile of the outgoing mobile communication terminal 10 ( S102).

Thereafter, the GLR 20 transmits the converted short message to the SMSC 40 via the SMSS 30 (S103). The SMSC 40 transmits the converted short message to the emoticon message conversion server 70 as the outgoing mobile communication terminal 10 in the GLR 20 confirms that the roaming emoticon service is subscribed (S104).

Here, the SMSC 40 checks the location information of the incoming mobile communication terminal 80 and transmits a short message in a known manner when the outgoing mobile communication terminal 10 is not subscribed to the roaming emoticon service or the service is deactivated.

Meanwhile, the emoticon message conversion server 70 receives the converted short message and undergoes a subscriber authentication process (S106). At this time, the emoticon message conversion server 70 checks whether the user has subscribed to the roaming emoticon service through the subscriber's personal information, and checks the setting information for converting the emoticon message and the terminal information of the incoming mobile communication terminal 80.

In particular, the emoticon message conversion server 70 requests the corresponding country identification information from the GLR 20 and receives a response (S107, S108).

Thereafter, the emoticon message conversion server 70 performs a conversion process from the converted short message to the emoticon message while checking the corresponding country identification information (S109).

First, the emoticon message conversion server 70 checks the converted short message, calculates the size of the subscriber message and calculates the surplus capacity (S110).

The emoticon message conversion server 70 extracts an optimal emoticon according to the result of the determination of the converted short message, and combines the subscriber message with the emoticon to generate an emoticon message (S111 and S112).

Thereafter, the emoticon message conversion server 70 transmits the emoticon message to the SMSC 40 (S113), and the SMSC 40 stores the received emoticon message (S114).

The SMSC 40 proceeds to check the location of the incoming mobile communication terminal 80 in the state of storing the emoticon message. The process is known, SMSC 40 is to confirm the location information to the HLR (50).

Thereafter, the SMSC 40 transmits an emoticon message to the incoming mobile communication terminal 80 via the MSC 60 (S116).

Therefore, the incoming mobile communication terminal 80 may check the message sent by the subscriber and the country in which the subscriber is roaming while checking the emoticon message (S117).

Figure 4 is an exemplary view showing an emoticon message according to the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 4, a subscriber roaming in the United States writes a subscriber message "where is it?" Through the outgoing mobile terminal 10 and transmits an initial short message to the incoming mobile terminal 80. After the initial short message entering the network is converted into a short message, and the converted short message is converted into an emoticon message, the called party is represented by the subscriber's message "where is it?" And the United States through the incoming mobile terminal 80. Check the emoticon message containing the Statue of Liberty emoticon and the country name.

While the content of the present invention has been described by way of examples, the embodiments of the present invention are merely illustrative of the present invention and should not be construed as limiting the scope of the present invention. Those skilled in the art to which the present invention pertains may modify or alter the present invention in various forms within the principles and scope described in the claims herein.

As described above, the emoticon indicating the roaming country is transmitted to the short message transmitted by the mobile communication terminal in the roaming, whereby the called party knows the roaming country.

In addition, the present invention has an effect that can be provided to the mobile operators to generate revenue from the use of the paid text message service.

Claims (6)

In an overseas short message service method for transmitting a short message from a roaming outgoing mobile terminal to an incoming mobile terminal in a domestic network, A first step of converting an initial short message created by an outgoing mobile communication terminal into a protocol used in a domestic network, converting the converted short message into a converted short message, and confirming that the outgoing mobile communication terminal subscribes to a roaming emoticon service; A second step of confirming subscriber information for converting a converted short message into an emoticon message and roaming country identification information of an outgoing mobile terminal according to the roaming emoticon service; A third step of converting the converted short message into an emoticon message by combining the subscriber message and the emoticon corresponding to the roaming country identification information, which the subscriber intends to deliver to the other party as a result of confirming the subscriber information and the roaming country identification information; And A fourth step of checking the location information of the called mobile communication terminal and transmitting the emoticon message to the called mobile communication terminal; Overseas short message service using an emoticon comprising a. delete The method of claim 1, The third step, Calculating a surplus capacity which is a subtraction of the size of the subscriber message from the size of the subscriber message and the message transmission limit value; And Extracting an emoticon for the surplus capacity and converting the converted short message into an emoticon message by combining a subscriber message and an emoticon; Overseas short message service using an emoticon comprising a. The method of claim 1, The overseas short message service method using an emoticon, wherein the emoticon includes a corresponding country in the third step. In an overseas short message service server for transmitting a short message from a roaming outgoing mobile terminal to an incoming mobile terminal in a domestic network, The short message received from the foreign network is converted to the protocol used by the domestic network, while receiving the converted short message and confirming the setting information for converting into an emoticon message and the terminal information of the receiving mobile communication terminal receiving the emoticon message, and the gateway location register Subscriber authentication unit that requests and responds to the country identification information from the; An emoticon extraction unit for receiving the information verified by the subscriber authentication unit and the corresponding country identification information to extract the emoticon of the corresponding country; And An emoticon combiner for converting a converted short message into an emoticon message by combining a subscriber message, which is a content that a subscriber intends to deliver to the other party, and an emoticon extracted from the emoticon extractor, and transmitting an emoticon message; Overseas short message service server using an emoticon including. The method of claim 5, Calculating the size of the subscriber message while receiving the converted short message from the subscriber authentication unit, calculating the surplus capacity which is the size of the subscriber message from the message transmission limit value, and informs the emoticon extractor of the subscriber message size and surplus capacity. The message determination unit; More, The emoticon extracting unit extracts an emoticon in accordance with the surplus capacity and combines it with a subscriber message to convert the short message into an emoticon message.

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