KR100775755B1 - Method and system for providing local advertisement ring back tone - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method and system for providing a local advertisement ringback tone (hereinafter referred to as RBT), and more particularly, as an RBT provided to a sender, a local advertisement RBT capable of transmitting a local advertisement or local information of a region where a caller is located. The present invention provides a method and a system for providing a service. According to the present invention, a call waiting time can be used as a useful information acquisition time by providing local information or a local advertisement based on its location to a holder of a mobile terminal as a ringback tone. .

Ringback tone, location registration, local information, local advertising

Description

Local advertisement ＲＢＴ （Ｒｉｎｇ Ｂａｃｋ Ｔｏｎｅ） SERVICE PROVIDING METHOD AND SYSTEM {METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING LOCAL ADVERTISEMENT RING BACK TONE}

1 is a block diagram of a network for implementing a local advertising RBT service method according to the present invention.

Figure 2 is an internal configuration of the local advertising RBT server.

Figure 3 is a flow chart illustrating a local advertising RBT service method for each network component.

Figure 4 is a flow chart for performing a method of determining the current location of the local terminal RBT server originating terminal.

5 is an embodiment of a method for the local advertisement RBT server to select one of a plurality of registered local advertisement RBT and send it as an RBT.

The present invention relates to a method and a system for providing a local advertisement RBT service, and more particularly, to a method and a system for providing a local advertisement RBT service capable of transmitting a local advertisement or local information of a region where a caller is located as a caller's ringback tone. .

Conventionally, the ring back tone that is heard when a caller makes a call, that is, a ringback tone, has been a uniform sound emitted by an exchange. In order to deviate from such uniformity and transmit various sound sources, Korean Patent Publication No. 10-2005-0099730 discloses a ringback tone replacement sound service source set by a called party during a call using a wired or wireless telephone in a wired or wireless communication network in real time. It provides a method and apparatus for presenting as an additional service sound source. In addition, Korean Patent Laid-Open Publication No. 10-2006-0007706 provides a method and apparatus for providing a voice mail service while providing a ringback tone replacement sound in a private exchange environment such as an enterprise.

However, although the ringback tone can be set as a sound source set by the called party in the disclosed patent, there is a problem in that it cannot provide useful information based on the origin of the holder of the mobile terminal.

The present invention was devised to solve the above problems, and provides a method and system for providing a local advertisement RBT service that can provide a caller with location-based useful area information centered on the originating area of a mobile terminal as a ringback tone. Its purpose is to.

In order to achieve the above object, an area including a calling party mobile exchanger, a home location register (hereinafter referred to as HLR), an intelligent network exchange system, and a local advertisement ring back tone (hereinafter referred to as RBT) server according to the present invention. A method of providing, by an advertisement RBT service system, a service for transmitting a local advertisement or region information of an originating region to an originator's mobile terminal as an RBT, the method comprising: (a) a method of a terminal in which a calling mobile exchange enters its wireless coverage area; Requesting location registration to the HLR; (b) the originating mobile exchange receiving an originating call connection request of the terminal; (c) the mobile exchange receiving the outgoing call connection request, transmitting a setup request to a call to an intelligent network switching system; (d) the intelligent network switching system checking whether the calling number is a local advertisement RBT service subscriber and sending a service performance request to the local advertisement RBT server when the service subscriber is the service subscriber; (e) searching, by the local advertisement RBT server, a local advertisement or region information of a region corresponding to the caller's location; and (f) setting the voice channel to the terminal by the local advertisement RBT server and transmitting the local advertisement or local information voice guidance retrieved in step (e) to the caller terminal as an RBT.

After the step (f), (g) the local advertisement RBT server sending an incoming connection hold request message to the intelligent network switching system;

(h) after the preset amount of local advertisements are sent as RBT, the local advertisement RBT server sending an incoming connection request message to the intelligent network switching system.

According to another aspect of the present invention, in the local advertising RBT service system that provides a service for transmitting a local advertisement or local information of the originating area as a ring back tone (hereinafter referred to as RBT) to the sender's mobile terminal, A mobile switch for receiving an originating signal of a terminal; A home location register (hereinafter referred to as HLR) for storing information of a subscriber located within a subscription area of the mobile terminal subscriber; An intelligent network switching system for determining whether to subscribe to an additional service of a mobile terminal and connecting the additional service server to the mobile terminal; A local advertisement RBT server for transmitting a local advertisement or region information of the calling region to the sender's mobile terminal as an RBT; It includes.

The intelligent network switching system may include a subscriber management system that stores information on whether the caller subscribes to an additional service.

According to another aspect of the present invention, a local advertisement RBT server for transmitting a local advertisement or local information of the calling region as a ring back tone (hereinafter referred to as RBT) to the sender's mobile terminal to provide a local advertisement RBT service. A method, comprising: (a) receiving a local advertisement RBT service request from an intelligent network switching system; (b) determining a location of the calling terminal; (c) searching for a local advertisement and local information voice guidance corresponding to the location of the calling terminal determined in step (b) from a database; (d) determining a voice guide to be transmitted as an RBT from the local advertisement and the local information voice guide searched in step (c); (e) setting a voice channel to the calling terminal, and transmitting the local advertisement or the local information voice guidance searched in step (d) to the calling terminal as an RBT.

After the step (e), (f) sending an incoming connection hold request message to the intelligent network switching system; (g) sending the incoming connection request message to the intelligent network switching system after the preset amount of the local advertisement is sent as an RBT.

The location determination of step (b) may be performed by the originating signal receiving base station information included in the local advertisement RBT service performance request message received from the intelligent network switching system.

Also preferably, the location determination of step (b) may include: (b1) requesting location registration information of the calling terminal from the intelligent network switching system by the local advertisement RBT server; (b2) receiving, from the intelligent network switching system, a local advertisement RBT server from the intelligent network switching system, receiving the location registration information of the calling terminal received by the intelligent network switching system from the HLR; (b3) calculating the current location of the calling terminal from the location registration information;

The location registration information of the originating terminal is preferably all base station information including the originating terminal in its wireless coverage area.

The element for determining the voice guidance to be transmitted by the RBT of step (d) may be an order registered in a database as a local advertisement or local information of a region including a current point of the calling terminal.

In addition, the element for determining the voice guidance to be sent by the RBT, it may be implemented to further include a priority according to the application amount (hereinafter referred to as payment amount) when applying for registration of the local advertisement or local information RBT service.

In another embodiment, the element for determining the voice guidance to be transmitted by the RBT of the step (d) is, the local advertisement of the region including the current point of the originating terminal or registered in the database as the regional information, the local advertisement It may be an order registered in the database as a local advertisement or local information of a field previously selected by the calling terminal owner subscribed to the RBT service.

The registration of the local advertisement or the local information or the selection of the originating terminal owner may be performed through a button input according to ARS provided by the local advertisement RBT service system or input of an option on the service homepage provided by the local advertisement RBT service system. It is good to be carried out.

According to another aspect of the present invention, in the local advertisement RBT server for transmitting a local advertisement or local information of the originating region as a ring back tone (hereinafter referred to as RBT) to the sender's mobile terminal, the local advertisement RBT transmission request An RBT request message receiving module for receiving a message; A voice channel setting module for setting a voice channel to a caller terminal;

RBT transmission sound storage unit for storing voice guidance including the region-specific regional advertising and local information; A database for storing data including service area of the voice guidance and provider information of the local advertisement and the local information stored in the RBT transmitting sound source storage unit; A database search module for searching a local advertisement or local information voice guidance corresponding to a calling region of the calling terminal; An RBT transmission module for transmitting the searched local advertisement or local information voice guidance from the RBT transmission sound source storage unit as an RBT to a caller terminal; And a controller for controlling a series of processes related to RBT transmission of local advertisements or local information by controlling the respective components.

The local advertisement RBT server preferably further comprises a location calculation module for calculating the current location of the calling terminal from the location registration information of the calling terminal received from the intelligent network switching system.

Also preferably, the location registration information of the calling terminal is all base station information including the calling terminal in its wireless coverage area.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. Prior to this, terms or words used in the specification and claims should not be construed as having a conventional or dictionary meaning, and the inventors should properly explain the concept of terms in order to best explain their own invention. Based on the principle that can be defined, it should be interpreted as meaning and concept corresponding to the technical idea of the present invention. Therefore, the embodiments described in the specification and the drawings shown in the drawings are only the most preferred embodiment of the present invention and do not represent all of the technical idea of the present invention, various modifications that can be replaced at the time of the present application It should be understood that there may be equivalents and variations.

1 is a view showing the configuration of a network for implementing a local advertising RBT service method according to the present invention. Referring to the drawings, the local advertising RBT service method of the present invention is a local advertising RBT system including a local advertising RBT server 110, the originating mobile switch 120, the home location register 130 and the intelligent network exchange system 140 100 and the calling terminal 10.N and the base station 100.N are implemented in conjunction.

When the calling terminal 10.N makes a call connection request, the call is connected to the called side exchange 200 through the base station 100.N and the calling mobile switching center (MSC) 120, whereby the called terminal (not shown) Is connected to

The base station 100.N establishes a radio link with the calling terminal 10.N for the call connection request of the calling terminal 10.N and connects the call to the calling mobile switch 120. In addition, when the calling terminal 10.N enters the wireless coverage area of the base station 100.N, it detects this and notifies the calling mobile switch 120 to the visitor location register (VLR: not shown). 10.N) can be registered, and further allows the home location register (HLR) 130 to register the current location of the calling terminal.

Local advertisement RBT system 100 is a system for transmitting the area information or the local advertisement around the current location of the calling terminal by the ringing back tone (Ring Back Tone) to the calling terminal.

The originating mobile switching center (MSC) 120 is requested to establish a call requested by the calling terminal from the base station 100.N described above, and is responsible for main call processing until connection, maintenance, and termination of the call to the called terminal. . In addition, the base station 100.N receives a location registration request of the terminal entered in its wireless coverage area and requests the location registration of the terminal to the home location register 130.

The home location register 130 stores the information of the terminal inputted when the service is subscribed to the terminal. As described above, the home location register 130 receives the terminal location registration request of the calling mobile switch 120 and registers the current location of the terminal. The terminal information is sent to the calling mobile switching center 120 so that the information can be registered in the visitor location register (VLR: not shown).

The intelligent network switching system 140 receives the call channel setting request for the call request of the calling terminal sent by the calling mobile switch 120, searches for the additional service to which the calling terminal is subscribed, and adds the added service accordingly. Requests are made to the server that performs the service. Accordingly, it is preferable that the intelligent network switching system 140 has subscriber information of an exchange service and an additional service for routing a call.

The local advertisement RBT server 110 is one of the additional service performing server, and is responsible for the local advertisement RBT transmission function which is one of the additional services in response to the request of the intelligent network exchange system 140 described above. It will be described later with reference to FIG.

2 is a view showing the internal configuration of the local advertising RBT server 110. Referring to the drawings, the local advertisement RBT server 110 according to the present invention is a control unit 111, database search module 112, database 113, RBT transmission source storage unit 114, RBT request message receiving module 115 ), A voice channel setting module 116, an RBT sending module 117 and a position calculation module 118.

The control unit 111 is responsible for a series of processes associated with sending the registered local advertisement or local information voice guidance to the calling terminal as an RBT by controlling each component.

The database search module 112 serves to search a database storing data related to a registered local advertisement or local information voice guidance.

The database 113 stores data related to local advertisements or local information voice guidance. The data means information of a region to which the local advertisement or local information voice guidance is to be transmitted as an RBT, a supplier of the local advertisement or local information, etc., and prioritizes the voice guidance to be transmitted to the RBT according to the implementation method. In both cases, this information may be included. The voice guidance RBT transmission according to the priority will be described later with reference to FIG. 5. In addition, the local advertising RBT service subscriber may have data related to the field of voice guidance in case of presetting the field of RBT voice guidance to listen to when making a call. For example, the field may be divided into theaters, restaurants, bookstores, and the like.

The RBT transmission sound source storage unit 114 stores a sound source data file to be transmitted by RBT, and the RBT transmission module 117 described later transmits the RBT selected from the RBT transmission sound source storage unit 114 to the caller terminal.

The RBT request message receiving module 115 receives a local advertisement RBT execution request message, which is an additional service set in the calling party terminal, from the intelligent network switching system 140.

The voice channel setting module 116 sets a channel to transmit voice data to the calling terminal 10.N when the RBT request message receiving module 115 receives the local advertisement RBT request message.

The RBT sending module 117 transmits the RBT selected from the RBT sending sound source storage unit 114 to the caller terminal through the voice channel set by the voice channel setting module 116 as described above.

The position calculation module 118 calculates the exact position of the calling terminal 10.N from the position information of the calling terminal 10.N, and a method of determining the position of the calling terminal 10.N is shown in FIG. It will be described later with reference to.

3 is a flowchart illustrating a method for RBT service of a local advertisement for each network entity. Referring to the drawings, in the local advertising RBT service method of the present invention, when the calling terminal 10.N first enters into the wireless coverage area of the base station 100.N, the calling terminal transmits a location registration request to the base station 100.N. ) And the current location of the calling terminal is registered in the home location register 130 where the basic information of the calling terminal is registered (S305 to S310). Thereafter, the originating signal setting request of the calling terminal 10.N is received by the calling mobile switching center 120 through the base station 100.N (S315 to S320), and the calling mobile switching center 120 is connected to the intelligent network switching system ( In step 140, a call channel setting request is made (S325). The intelligent network switching system preferably has a call routing function and subscriber information of an additional service. Accordingly, by searching for additional services registered in the calling terminal (S330), if the local advertisement RBT service is registered, the local advertisement RBT server 110 performs the request for performing the local advertisement RBT service and the voice channel to transmit the RBT. The setting request is transmitted (S335). The local advertisement RBT server 110 accurately determines the region where the current calling terminal is located from the location information of the calling terminal (S340), and also determines the voice guidance to be sent currently (S345). The above-described position determination of the calling terminal will be described later with reference to FIG. 4, and an embodiment of determining voice guidance to be sent to the RBT will be described later with reference to FIG. 5. Local advertisement RBT server 110 sets the voice channel to transmit the sound source to the calling terminal (10.N) and sends a response message (S350) accordingly from the local advertising RBT server 110 from the calling terminal (10.N) A voice channel up to) is formed (S355 to S370). The selected local advertisement and the local information RBT are transmitted to the set voice channel (S375). At this time, in order to effectively provide local information, the incoming connection hold request may be sent to the intelligent network switching system 140 until the local advertisement of the amount to be basically transmitted is sent (S380). After the set amount of local advertisement RBT is sent (S385), the incoming connection request may be sent to the intelligent network switching system 140 again (S390). The set amount may be determined in various ways, but as an example, one local advertisement may attempt to connect to a call after completion of transmission.

4 is a flowchart of a method of determining a current location of a calling terminal by a local advertisement RBT server. 3 is a view illustrating in detail the calling terminal location determination process (S340) shown in FIG. Referring to the drawings, the method of determining the location of the calling terminal of the present invention first starts by requesting the local advertisement RBT server 110 requests the location registration information of the calling terminal 10.N to the intelligent network switching system 140 (S400). . Here, the location registration information may be all base station information including the calling terminal 10.N in its wireless coverage area. If only the base station information receiving the outgoing signal is used as the location registration information, when the local advertisement RBT server 110 receives the request for performing the local advertisement RBT service described above with reference to FIG. 3, the base station information may be included in the performing request. In this case, therefore, the process illustrated in FIG. 4 may not be additionally performed. However, the process of Figure 4 is preferable for more accurate position calculation. Intelligent network exchange system 140 requests the home location register 130 the location registration information of the calling terminal (10.N) (S405), the home location register (130) registers the location of the calling terminal (10.N) Search for the information (S410), and retrieve the retrieved location registration information (preferably all base station information including the calling terminal 10.N in the wireless coverage area as described above) (S415), and register the location The information is transmitted to the intelligent network switching system 140 (S420). The intelligent network switching system 140 transmits the location registration information to the local advertisement RBT server 110 (S425), and the local advertisement RBT server 110 calculates the location of the calling terminal 10.N from the location registration information. By (S430), the current position of the calling terminal (10.N) is determined (S435).

FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating an embodiment of a method in which a local advertisement RBT server selects one of a plurality of registered local advertisement RBTs and sends the same as an RBT. This figure shows how to differentiate the RBT transmission service according to the payment amount when registering the local advertisement. Of course, the specific implementation manner of this figure is only one embodiment, it will be apparent that various implementation manners are possible under the concept of the present invention. Referring to the drawings, in the RBT selection method according to an embodiment of the present invention, at least two local advertisements (shown as 'A', 'B') to be served as RBT in the same region (shown as 'a' region) If the payment amount is greater than 'A' at the time of registration, the priority of the RBT transmission service is set to 'A' (S500). If the priority is high, a high weight is set (S505). The weight is then related to the frequency sent by the RBT. In the figure, Ka and Kb are weights set to 'A' and 'B', respectively, and a and b are their counters, respectively. When one of the local advertisement RBT service subscribers makes a call to the mobile phone in the region (S510), the local advertisement RBT server checks whether the provider of the local advertisement voice guidance has the remaining balance of the settlement amount paid when the local advertisement is registered (S515). ). If there is a balance, 'A' is sent as an RBT (S520). At this time, the fee corresponding to the local advertisement RBT transmission once deducted from the payment amount at registration and decreases the weight counter (a) by one (S525). It checks whether the counter (a) is 0 (S530) and if it is not yet 0, 'A' is sent again as an RBT for an outgoing call in another area of another subscriber of the local advertisement RBT service (S510 to S530). If the counter (a) is 0, after resetting the counter to the weight set value (Ka), the next RBT sends 'B' and goes through the same process as in the case of 'A' (S540 to S565) . If there is no remaining amount of 'A' in step S515, if there is no remaining amount of payment of 'B', there is no local advertisement RBT to be sent, so the local advertising RBT service is discontinued and if the remaining amount of payment of 'B' exists, 'B' is sent as an RBT (S550 to S565).

As described above, although the present invention has been described by way of limited embodiments and drawings, the present invention is not limited thereto and is intended by those skilled in the art to which the present invention pertains. Of course, various modifications and variations are possible within the scope of equivalents of the claims to be described.

According to an aspect of the present invention, by providing a local information or local advertising based on their location to the holder of the mobile terminal as ringback tone when the call waiting time can also be used as a useful information acquisition time.

According to another aspect of the present invention, the provider of the local advertising can promote the business more effectively by providing information related to their business as a ringback tone can contribute to the activation of local business.

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A local advertisement RBT service system including a calling mobile switching center, a home location register (hereinafter referred to as HLR), an intelligent network switching system, and a local advertising ring back tone (hereinafter referred to as RBT) server may be a local advertisement of an originating region or In the method for providing a service for transmitting the local information to the sender's mobile terminal as RBT, (a) requesting, by the calling mobile switch, the HLR for location registration of a terminal entering its wireless coverage area; (b) the originating mobile exchange receiving an originating call connection request of the terminal; (c) the mobile exchange receiving the outgoing call connection request, transmitting a setup request to a call to an intelligent network switching system; (d) the intelligent network switching system checking whether the calling number is a local advertisement RBT service subscriber and sending a service performance request to the local advertisement RBT server when the service subscriber is the service subscriber; (e) searching, by the local advertisement RBT server, a local advertisement or region information of a region corresponding to the caller's location; (f) setting the voice channel to the terminal by the local advertisement RBT server, and transmitting the local advertisement or local information voice guidance retrieved in step (e) to the caller terminal as an RBT; (g) the local advertisement RBT server sending an incoming connection hold request message to the intelligent network switching system; And (h) the local advertisement RBT server sending an incoming connection request message to the intelligent network switching system after a preset amount of the local advertisement is sent as an RBT; Local advertising RBT service providing method comprising a. delete In the local advertising RBT service system that provides a service for transmitting the local advertising or local information of the originating region as a ring back tone (hereinafter referred to as RBT) to the sender's mobile terminal, A mobile switch for receiving an originating signal of the mobile terminal; A home location register (hereinafter referred to as HLR) for storing information of a subscriber located in a subscription area of the mobile terminal subscriber; An intelligent network switching system for determining whether to subscribe to an additional service of a mobile terminal and connecting the additional service server to the mobile terminal; It includes a local advertising RBT server for sending a local advertisement or local information of the calling region to the sender's mobile terminal as RBT, The intelligent network switching system, Local advertisement RBT service system comprising a subscriber management system for storing information on whether the caller subscribed to the additional service. delete In a method of providing a local advertising RBT service by a local advertising RBT server that sends a local advertisement or local information of the calling region as a ring back tone (hereinafter referred to as RBT) to the sender's mobile terminal, (a) receiving a local advertisement RBT service execution request from an intelligent network switching system; (b) determining a location of the calling terminal; (c) searching for a local advertisement and local information voice guidance corresponding to the location of the calling terminal determined in step (b) from a database; (d) determining a voice guide to be transmitted as an RBT from the local advertisement and the local information voice guide searched in step (c); (e) setting a voice channel to the calling terminal and transmitting the local advertisement or the local information voice guidance searched in the step (d) to the calling terminal as an RBT; (f) sending an incoming connection hold request message to an intelligent network switching system; And (g) sending an incoming connection request message to the intelligent network switching system after a preset amount of local advertisement is sent as RBT; Local advertising RBT service providing method comprising a. delete The method according to claim 5, Position determination of the step (b), Performing as the originating signal receiving base station information included in a local advertisement RBT service performance request message received from the intelligent network switching system. Local advertising RBT service providing method characterized in that. The method according to claim 5, Position determination of the step (b), (b1) requesting, by the local advertisement RBT server, location registration information of the calling terminal to the intelligent network switching system; (b2) receiving, from the intelligent network switching system, a local advertisement RBT server from the intelligent network switching system, receiving the location registration information of the calling terminal received by the intelligent network switching system from the HLR; (b3) calculating a current position of the calling terminal from the location registration information; Local advertising RBT service providing method, characterized in that consisting of. The method according to claim 8, Location registration information of the calling terminal, All base station information including the calling terminal in its wireless coverage area; Local advertising RBT service providing method characterized in that. The method according to claim 5, The element for determining the voice guidance to be sent by the RBT of step (d), It is an order registered in the database as a local advertisement or local information of the region including the current point of the calling terminal. Local advertising RBT service providing method characterized in that. The method according to claim 10, In the element for determining the voice guidance to be sent by the RBT, When the application for registration of the local advertising or local information RBT service further includes the priority according to the application amount Local advertising RBT service providing method characterized in that. The method according to claim 10, The element for determining the voice guidance to be sent by the RBT of step (d), Registered in the database as a local advertisement or local information of the field pre-selected by the originating terminal owner subscribed to the local advertisement RBT service, among those registered in the database as a local advertisement or region information of the region including the current point of the calling terminal. Being in order Local advertising RBT service providing method characterized in that. The method according to claim 10 or 12, The registration of the local advertisement or local information of claim 10 or the selection of the originating terminal owner of claim 12, Is performed through the input of a button according to the ARS provided by the local advertising RBT service system or the selection of a service on the service homepage provided by the local advertising RBT service system. Local advertising RBT service providing method characterized in that. In the local advertisement RBT server for sending a local advertisement or local information of the originating region to the sender's mobile terminal as Ring Back Tone (hereinafter referred to as RBT), An RBT request message receiving module for receiving a local advertisement RBT sending request message; A voice channel setting module for setting a voice channel to a caller terminal; RBT transmission sound storage unit for storing voice guidance including the region-specific regional advertising and local information; A database for storing data including service area of the voice guidance and provider information of the local advertisement and the local information stored in the RBT transmitting sound source storage unit; A database search module for searching a local advertisement or local information voice guidance corresponding to a calling region of the calling terminal; An RBT transmission module for transmitting the searched local advertisement or local information voice guidance from the RBT transmission sound source storage unit as an RBT to a caller terminal; A controller in charge of a series of processes related to the RBT transmission of local advertisements or local information by controlling the respective components; And Location calculation module for calculating the current location of the calling terminal from the location registration information of the calling terminal received from the intelligent network switching system Local advertisement RBT server comprising a. delete The method according to claim 14, Location registration information of the calling terminal, All base station information including the calling terminal in its wireless coverage area; Local advertising RBT server, characterized in that;

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