KR100806410B1 - Method and apparatus for providing a receiver's phone-page to a caller's terminal during connecting call in a wireless communication - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to providing a called party's phone page to a caller's terminal device during a call connection in wireless communication. The present invention comprises the steps of receiving a request for a call connection from the caller to the called party, checking whether the called party subscribes to the phone page providing service by searching the phone page database from the called party's phone number, and the called party calls the phone page. If it is confirmed that the service is subscribed to the call page during the call from the phone page database of the called party's phone page characterized in that it comprises the step of providing to the caller. According to the present invention, it is possible to provide the called party's phone page to the caller during the call connection only by using the general phone number without the phone page dedicated phone number. In addition, there is an advantage that the caller can confirm the call connection with the called party even without hearing a meaningless ring back tone during the call connection.

Phone page, wireless communication, caller, called party, call connection

Description

TECHNICAL AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING A RECEIVER'S PHONE-PAGE TO A CALLER'S TERMINAL DURING CONNECTING CALL IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION}

1 is a block diagram of an entire system according to the present invention.

2 is a flow chart of a method for providing a caller's phone page to a called party in accordance with the present invention.

3 is a control flowchart of the phone page management apparatus according to the present invention.

4 is a flow chart of a method for providing a called party's phone page to a caller in accordance with the present invention.

5 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of a phone page database according to an embodiment of the present invention.

6 is a view for explaining an example of a screen displayed on the mobile phone according to the present invention.

7 illustrates another example of a screen displayed on a mobile phone according to the present invention.

8 is a view for explaining another example of a screen displayed on the mobile phone according to the present invention.

The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for providing a phone page, and more particularly, to a method and apparatus for providing a caller's phone page to a caller's terminal device during a call connection in wireless communication.

In a wireless communication, a ring tone providing service for providing a melody selected by a caller or a called party during a call connection to a caller or a called party during a call connection is widely used. Such a ring back tone providing service is capable of providing a distinctive and interesting ring back tone instead of the monotonous mechanical sound of a conventional "two bullfight".

However, some cell phone users are uncomfortable holding the phone in their ears while making a call. Since the performance of the speaker mounted on the mobile phone is generally not good, it is very tiring to listen to the speaker of the mobile phone in order to hear a meaningless ringing tone during the call connection. In addition, medical research reports that electromagnetic waves generated from cell phones are harmful to the human body have been reported.

On the other hand, a service for providing a mobile phone user with a phone-page imitating a personal homepage on the Internet has emerged. In the existing phone page provision service, the phone page subscriber has a phone page dedicated phone number separate from the general phone number, and the phone page is provided after the call is connected.                         

However, this conventional phone page provision service is disadvantageous in two respects. First, since the caller must remember not only the general phone number of the called party but also a phone page dedicated phone number, the actual use is very inconvenient. Second, since the phone page is provided after the call is connected, the caller or the called party must additionally pay a considerable fee for the phone page providing service.

The present invention derived to solve the problems of the prior art is to provide a phone page during the call connection using only a general phone number without a phone page dedicated phone number.

It is another object of the present invention to enable a caller to confirm a call connection with a called party without having to hear a meaningless ring back tone during a call connection.

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of providing a phone page displayed on a terminal device during a call connection in wireless communication, the method comprising: receiving a request for a call connection from a caller to a called party; Checking whether the called party subscribes to the phone page providing service by searching a database; and if it is determined that the called party subscribes to the phone page providing service, reading the called party's phone page from the phone page database during the call connection. It characterized in that it comprises the step of providing to the caller.

The called party may further include storing his / her phone page information in a phone page database. The method may further include displaying information to notify the caller when a call between the caller and the called party is connected.

In addition, the present invention provides a device for providing a phone page displayed on the terminal device during the call connection in the wireless communication, the call connection means for requesting a call connection from the caller to the called party, and a phone page for storing the phone page information for each phone number A call page database is searched using a database and a phone number of the called party according to a request of the call connection unit to check whether the called party subscribes to a phone page providing service, and the called party subscribes to a phone page providing service. And a phone page management means for reading the called party's phone page from the phone page database and providing it to the caller via the call connection means during the call connection.

According to the present invention as described above, it is possible to provide a phone page during a call connection using only a general phone number without a phone page dedicated phone number. In addition, there is an advantage that the caller can confirm the call connection with the called party even without hearing a meaningless ring back tone during the call connection.

As used herein, "sender" is used to refer to a wireless communication user requesting a call or a terminal device (e.g., a cell phone) that uses it. In addition, the "recipient" is used to refer to a wireless communication user or a terminal device used by the caller to be called.                     

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Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying drawings will be described embodiments of the present invention; In the drawings, like reference numerals are used to indicate like elements.

1 is a block diagram of the entire system according to the present invention. As shown, the caller 102 is composed of a caller 102, a caller phone page providing device 104, a called party 106, a caller phone page providing device 108, and a network 110. In FIG. 1 strictly speaking, the caller 102 refers to a terminal device such as a mobile phone used by the caller, and the called party 106 refers to a terminal device used by the called party. The phone page management device 114 may be operated by the same operator as the originating exchange 112 as well as other operators. When the call exchanger 112 and the phone page management device 114 are operated by another operator, the call exchanger 112 should be connected to the phone page management device 114 to an external network. Similarly, the phone page management device 120 may also be operated by another operator and the destination exchange 118, in this case, the phone page management device 120 should be connected to the destination exchange 118 and the external network.

The caller phone page providing device 104 includes a call exchanger 112, a phone page management device 114, and a phone page database 116. The originating exchange 112 receives a call connection from the caller 102 to the called party 104 and requests a call connection to the destination exchange 118 via the network 110. The phone page database 116 stores subscription information for the phone page providing service and phone page information of a subscriber who subscribes to the phone page providing service for each phone number. The phonepage management device 114 searches the phonepage database 116 using the caller 102's phone number at the request of the call exchanger 112 to check whether the caller 102 has subscribed to the phonepage providing service. When the caller 102 confirms that the caller 102 has subscribed to the phone page providing service, the caller reads the caller's phone page from the phone page database 116 during the call connection, and receives the caller through the call exchanger 112 and the destination exchange 118. 106).

The called party page providing device 108 is composed of the destination exchange 118, the phone page management device 120 and the phone page database 122. The destination exchange 118 is requested to make a call connection from the originator 102 to the called party 104 via the network 110 from the originating exchange 112. The phone page database 122 stores subscription information for the phone page providing service for each phone number and phone page information of a subscriber who has subscribed to the phone page providing service. The phone page management device 120 checks whether the called party 106 has subscribed to the phone page providing service by searching the phone page database 120 using the phone number of the called party 102 at the request of the called exchange 112. When the called party 106 is confirmed to have subscribed to the phone page providing service, the caller reads the called party's phone page from the phone page database 122 during the call connection and passes through the destination exchange 118 and the originating exchange 112. 112).

2 is a flowchart of a method for providing a caller's phone page to a called party according to the present invention. As shown, first, the caller 102 subscribes to the phone page providing service to the phone page management device 114 via the calling switch 112 and stores its phone page (S202). Later, when the calling party 102 specifies a telephone number of a called party 106 and requests a call to the calling exchange 112 (S204), the calling exchange 112 requests a call connection to the called exchange 118 ( S206). The incoming exchange 118 requesting the call connection provides the ring back tone to the called party 106 (S208), and provides the ring back tone to the caller 102 to the caller 102 via the call exchanger 112 (S210). ). The ring back tone provided by the destination exchange 118 may be a conventional “toe-to-two” machine sound or may be a specific melody selected by the called party 106. The originating exchange 112 requests the paging page request to the paging page management device 114 simultaneously with the call connection request to the terminating exchange 118 (S212). The phone page management device 114 having received the request for providing the phone page provides the phone page to the originating exchange 112 (S214).

The control flowchart of the phone page management apparatus 114 is shown in FIG. As shown, the phone page management device 114 receives a request for providing the caller's phone page from the call exchanger 112 (S302), using the caller's information, in particular the caller's phone number, 116) and checks whether the caller has subscribed to the phone page providing service (S304). If it is confirmed that the caller 102 has subscribed to the phone page providing service (S306), the phone page of the caller 102 is read from the phone page database 116 (S308). (S310). If it is confirmed in step S306 whether the caller 102 has not subscribed to the phone page providing service, the calling switch 112 informs the calling exchange 112 that the caller is a non-service subscriber or provides a default phone to the service non-subscriber. A page is provided (S312).

The call exchanger 112 provides the caller's phone page provided from the phone page management device 114 to the called party 106 via the call exchanger 118 (S216). The caller's phone page includes the caller's personal status information and may be provided in the form of a short message service. If the called party 106 approves the call by an action such as clicking a "call" button during or after the phone page provision (S218), the destination exchange 118 and the originating exchange 112 exchange the called party 106 and the caller ( 102 connects the call (S220), and then the caller 102 and the called party 106 is able to talk (S224).

4 is a flowchart of a method for providing a called party's phone page to a caller according to the present invention. As shown, first, the called party 106 subscribes to the phone page providing service to the phone page management device 120 via the destination exchange 118 and stores its phone page (S402). Later, when any caller 102 specifies the telephone number of the called party 106 and requests the call to the calling exchange 112 (S404), the calling exchange 112 requests a call connection to the called exchange 118 ( S406). The incoming exchange 118 receiving the call connection request provides the ring back tone to the called party 106 (S408), and provides the ring back tone to the caller 102 via the originating exchange 112 (S410). The ring back tone provided by the destination exchange 118 may be a conventional “toe-to-two” machine sound or may be a specific melody selected by the called party 106. The destination exchange 118 receives a call connection request from the originating exchange 112 and then makes a request for providing a phone page to the phone page management device 120 (S412). The phone page management device 120 having received the phone page provision request provides the phone page to the call exchanger 118 (S414). The control method of the phone page management device 120 is the same as the phone page management device 114 shown in FIG. 3. The destination exchange 118 provides the caller 102 of the called party provided from the phone page management device 120 to the caller 102 via the originating exchange 112 (S416). The called party's phone page is configured to include the caller's personal page information, and may be provided in the form of a short message service. If the called party 106 approves the call by an action such as clicking a "call" button during or after providing the phone page (S418), the originating exchange 112 and the destination exchange 118 are connected to the caller 102 and the called party ( 106 connects the call between (S420), and then the caller 102 and the called party 106 is able to talk (S424).

5 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of a phone page database according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown, the phone page database (116, 122 of Fig. 1), the phone number of all users who are provided with the call connection service of the exchange, information indicating whether or not subscribed to the phone page providing service, phone page content Save it. Although the phone page database of FIG. 5 includes information indicating whether or not the user subscribes to the phone page providing service, the phone page database is not necessary when the phone page database records only the phone number of the user who subscribed to the phone page providing service.

6 to 8 illustrate examples of screens displayed on a mobile phone during a call connection according to the present invention. Through the screen shown in FIG. 6, the caller can easily confirm that Hong-gil-dong, which he wanted to call, is currently traveling in Europe, and can only talk with Hong-gil-dong after May 7. In addition, through the screen shown in FIG. 7, the called party can give the caller a good image of herself. 8 is an example of a phone page provided to the caller by default when the called party does not subscribe to the phone page providing service, and the name and phone number of the called party are displayed.

The above-described embodiments are merely intended to enable those skilled in the art to easily understand and practice the present invention, and are not intended to limit the scope of the present invention. Of course, it should be noted that various modifications or changes are possible from the above embodiments within the scope of the present invention. The scope of the invention is defined in principle by the claims that follow.

According to the present invention as described above, it is possible to provide a phone page during a call connection using only a general phone number without a phone page dedicated phone number. In addition, there is an advantage that the caller can confirm the call connection with the called party even without hearing a meaningless ring back tone during the call connection.

Claims (10)

A method for providing a called party's phone page to a caller's terminal device during a call connection in wireless communication, Receiving a call request from the caller to the called party; Checking whether the called party subscribes to a phone page providing service by searching a phone page database from the called party information; If it is determined that the called party subscribes to a phone page providing service, reading the called person's phone page from the phone page database and providing the caller with the caller during the call connection. Phone page providing method characterized in that it comprises. The method of claim 1, And the phone page is provided in the form of a short message service. The method of claim 1, And the phone page database stores the phone page information of the subscriber for each subscriber's telephone number. The method of claim 1, And wherein the called party stores his / her own phone page information in a phone page database. The method of claim 1, And providing the called party's phone page to the caller through a calling exchange. The method of claim 1, And wherein the information of the called party is a phone number of the called party. The method of claim 1, And the called party's phone page is provided to the caller with a predetermined ring back tone. The method of claim 1, And the phone page includes personal status information. The method of claim 1, And displaying information indicating that the call is connected to the caller when a call is connected between the caller and the called party. An apparatus for providing a called party's phone page to a caller's terminal device during a call connection in wireless communication, Call connection means for receiving and executing a call connection from the caller to the called party; A phone page database that stores phone page information for each phone number, In response to the request for providing the phone page of the call connection unit, the phone page database is searched using the called party's phone number to check whether the called party subscribes to the phone page providing service, and the called party subscribes to the phone page providing service. A phone page management means for reading the called party's phone page from the phone page database during the call connection and providing the called party's phone page to the caller via the call connecting means. Phone page providing apparatus, characterized in that provided.

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