KR100812395B1 - Method and apparatus for auto answer message service based on location information - Google Patents

Abstract

A method for an ARS service based on location information and an apparatus therefor are provided to offer the location information of a place, in which a called mobile communication terminal is positioned during absence, to a calling mobile communication terminal without the separate operation of the called mobile communication terminal. A method for an ARS(Automatic Response System) service based on location information comprises the following steps of: checking whether a called mobile communication terminal is during absence not responding a call connection request(S200); collecting the location information of the called mobile communication terminal when it is determined that the called mobile communication terminal is during absence(S203); and requesting the transmission of an ARS message to a calling mobile communication terminal on the basis of the collected location information(S204). The location information includes a location value and first location instruction information. The location value indicates the spatial location of a current place on the called mobile communication terminal. The first location instruction information is subjective meaning information which a user determines for the current place of the called mobile communication terminal.

Description

Method for providing location information-based auto-response message and device therefor {Method and Apparatus for auto answer message service based on location information}

1 is a view illustrating a process in which an auto-reply message service device receives location information on a specific location from a called mobile communication terminal to provide an auto-reply message service based on location information according to an embodiment of the present invention. Block flow chart,

2 is a block diagram for explaining a process of providing an auto-reply message service to an originating mobile communication terminal by an auto-reply message service device according to another embodiment of the present invention;

3 is a block flow diagram illustrating a process of providing a location information based answering machine service to a calling mobile terminal according to another embodiment of the present invention.

4 is a block flow diagram illustrating a process of providing an auto attendant message service to an originating mobile communication terminal by a mobile switch including an auto attendant message service device according to another embodiment of the present invention based on location information;

5 is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration of an automatic reply message service apparatus according to another embodiment of the present invention.

The present invention provides a location information-based automatic response message service method for providing an originating mobile terminal with an automatic message capable of easily informing such a situation based on the location information of the called mobile terminal that cannot respond to the call connection request. And an apparatus therefor.

When the called mobile terminal is turned off or in a place where the call right is released, the calling mobile terminal does not respond even if the calling mobile terminal makes a call connection request. In addition, even if the called-party mobile terminal is located within the coverage area and the mobile communication terminal is turned on, even if the called-party mobile terminal does not respond to the call connection request for a predetermined time or more, the call is placed between the calling-party mobile terminal and the called-party mobile terminal. No connection

In this regard, a voicemail service or a message transmission service is proposed, so that even if the user of the called mobile communication terminal does not respond to the call connection request of the calling mobile terminal user, the user of the calling mobile communication terminal wants to deliver a message. It was possible to provide.

However, there is an increasing demand for a method for providing information to the calling mobile terminal, such as the reason why the called mobile terminal cannot respond to the call connection request or how long it will not respond to the call connection request. .

Therefore, if the user of the called mobile communication terminal cannot respond to the call connection request from the calling mobile communication terminal, a service method for informing such situation to the calling mobile communication terminal making the call connection request has been proposed.

However, the proposed method merely provides uniformly pre-written or selected phrases by the user to the called-party mobile terminal, and clearly informs the user of the called-party mobile terminal of the current state of the called-party mobile terminal. There was a limit.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention for solving the above problems is that, when the called mobile communication terminal is not responding to the call connection request of the calling mobile communication terminal, the calling mobile communication terminal does not need to be operated by the calling mobile terminal. The present invention provides a service method and an apparatus therefor capable of easily informing a terminal of information about a place where a called-party mobile communication terminal is absent.

In order to achieve the object of the present invention as described above, the automatic response message service method of the present invention,

A first step of checking whether the called-party mobile communication terminal is in the absence state of not responding to the call connection request;

A second step of collecting location information of the called-party mobile communication terminal when it is determined in the first step that the called-party mobile communication terminal is in the absent state; And,

And a third step of requesting to send an automatic response message to the calling mobile terminal based on the location information collected in the second step.

Preferably, before the first step,

Receiving a location information registration request for a place where the called mobile terminal is located from a called mobile terminal;

A step 1b of collecting location information of a place where the called-party mobile communication terminal is located; And,

The method may further include step 1c of storing the location information.

In order to achieve the object of the present invention as described above, the automatic response message service device of the present invention,

An interface module for receiving or requesting a data processing request from an external device, and performing a process necessary to receive externally provided location information data to manage data communication with an external device;

Information collected from the called-party mobile terminal, the first location name information which is subjective semantic information determined by the user regarding the current location of the mobile communication terminal or an objective determined by ordinary knowledge of the place; A message creation module for creating an automatic response message according to the present invention based on the second location name information, which is semantic information, or for creating a message requesting an external message service server to create an automatic response message according to the present invention;

A control module for controlling and managing functions and actions among devices constituting the auto-reply message service device with respect to the message received through the interface module;

A location information management module for storing location information provided from the called party's mobile communication terminal in a database and determining a location name of a place where the called party's mobile communication terminal is present from a first location name or a second location name; And,

The database storing identification information, which is information for identifying the called party's mobile communication terminal, such as a call number of the called party's mobile communication terminal, and location information indicating information regarding a place where the called party's mobile communication terminal is present; It is composed.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. However, in describing in detail the operating principle of the preferred embodiment of the present invention, if it is determined that the detailed description of the related known functions or configurations may unnecessarily obscure the subject matter of the present invention, the detailed description thereof will be omitted. The same reference numerals are used for parts having similar functions and functions throughout the drawings.

Throughout the specification, when a part is "connected" to another part, this includes not only "directly connected" but also "electrically connected" with another element in between. . In addition, when a part is said to "include" a certain component, which means that it may further include other components, except to exclude other components unless otherwise stated.

In addition, the term module described herein refers to a unit for processing a specific function or operation, which may be implemented in hardware or software, or a combination of hardware and software.

1 is a view illustrating a process in which an auto-reply message service device receives location information on a specific location from a called mobile communication terminal to provide an auto-reply message service based on location information according to an embodiment of the present invention. Is a block flow diagram.

Referring to FIG. 1, first, a location information registration request of a place where a called party's mobile communication terminal is located is received (S100). The step S100 is performed by receiving a location information registration request message including identification information which is information for identifying a called-party mobile communication terminal, such as a call number. The location information registration request message may be provided directly from the called mobile communication terminal, or may be provided through a called mobile communication exchange or a separate server providing a location based service.

In a preferred embodiment applicable to the present invention, the location information may include a location value for indicating a spatial location of a place where the corresponding mobile communication terminal is present, such as latitude and longitude, or a number; And first location name information, which is subjective semantic information determined by the user with respect to a place where the corresponding mobile communication terminal is present, such as 'work' or 'home'. In this case, unlike the first location name information, objective semantic information determined by a general knowledge of a general person, not a specific user, for a specific place, for example, information such as a hospital, a Seoul station, a school, a library, etc., is called a second location name. . In a preferred embodiment applicable to the present invention, the second location name may be registered in advance in the auto-reply message service device separately from the process shown in FIG. 1, and may be registered based on geographical name data of a map.

Next, it is checked whether the called-party mobile communication terminal requesting the location registration is the service subscriber (S101). If it is determined that the called-party mobile communication terminal is not the service subscriber, according to an embodiment of the present invention. To terminate the provision of the service, the service guide message may be sent to the called-party mobile communication terminal (S102), and then the procedure may be terminated.

If it is determined in step S101 that the corresponding service subscriber, the mobile station and the location information for the current location is collected (S103). In a preferred embodiment applicable to the present invention, the location information is collected based on the location registration request message received in step S100. If the message does not include the location information of the called-party mobile communication terminal, the called-party mobile communication switch or location-based service is based on the identification information of the called-party mobile communication terminal included in the location registration request message. Location information can be collected through a separate server that provides.

In an embodiment applicable to the present invention, the location information collected in step S103 may include coordinate value information of a place where the called-party mobile communication terminal was located and first location name information corresponding to the coordinate value. desirable. If the first location name information does not exist, it is preferable to further include notifying the called party's mobile communication terminal and receiving necessary information.

When the location information is collected through the step S103, the location information is stored together with the identification information on the called party's mobile communication terminal (S104). In this case, when the message server has second location name data registered in advance corresponding to the coordinate value, the second location name data, the coordinate value and the first location name data may be stored in association with each other.

If there is the first location name data registered corresponding to the coordinate value of the location information to be stored in step S104, it is notified to the called-party mobile communication terminal and updated with new location information to maintain existing location information. After inputting the selection value of whether or not to proceed, the necessary procedure can be performed.

In a preferred embodiment applicable to the present invention, the auto-response message service device is provided with information on the object of the automatic response message service provision based on the location information according to the present invention from the called-party mobile communication terminal (not shown). ) May be further included. Accordingly, only the originating mobile communication terminal which is the target of the service provision can receive the answering machine service based on the location information from the answering machine message service device. In this case, the information on the object of service provision may be in the form of specifying a mobile communication terminal that is a target of the service or specifying a mobile communication terminal that is not a target of the service.

2 is a block diagram illustrating a process of providing an auto-reply message service to an originating mobile communication terminal by an auto-reply message service device according to another embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 2, the auto-reply message service device checks whether the called-party mobile communication terminal is in a missed state with respect to the call connection request of the calling-party mobile communication terminal (S201). The missed state is a state where the called-party mobile communication terminal is present in the coverage area and the power is also turned on. Therefore, the call is not connected to the calling-party mobile communication terminal by not responding to the call connection request from the calling-party mobile communication terminal for more than a predetermined time. It means not.

When it is determined through the step S201 that the called mobile terminal is in a callable state, a general call processing procedure is performed to connect a call between the called mobile terminal and the calling mobile terminal (S202).

If it is determined through the step S201 that the called-party mobile communication terminal is in the absent state, the call connection request to the called-party mobile communication terminal is stopped, and the location information on the current location of the called-party mobile communication terminal is present. Collect (S203). Step S203 collects location value information of a current location of the called-party mobile communication terminal in the absence state, and retrieves location information corresponding to the location value information from the location information stored in the auto-reply message service device. Next, the first location name information may be collected from the location information having the corresponding location value. In this case, the contrasting operation of the position value information does not mean only accurate one-to-one matching, and it is preferable to recognize that the position value has the same position value if the distance between the two position values is within a certain threshold range. In this case, when there is no location information registered corresponding to the location value in step S203, the second location name information corresponding to the location value is collected.

Next, on the basis of the first location name or second location name information collected in step S203, the automatic notification that the user of the called-party mobile communication terminal is in a place corresponding to the first location name or the second location name. Request to send a response message to the calling mobile terminal (S204).

In step S204, the auto-reply message service device directly composes the auto-reply message and sends the message to the calling mobile terminal, or the server, for example, SMSC, which the auto-reply message service device processes the message in a mobile communication network. Message Service Center) or MMSC (Multimedia Message Service Center) may request to send the auto-reply message to the calling mobile terminal.

3 is a block flow diagram illustrating a process of providing a location information based auto-reply message service to a calling mobile terminal according to another embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 3, first, the calling mobile terminal 100 creates a call origination message requesting a voice call connection with the called mobile terminal 600 and sends it to the called mobile terminal 600 ( S300).

The calling party mobile exchanger 200 receiving the call origination message from the calling party mobile terminal 100 requests the home location register 300 to query the location of the called party mobile terminal 600 for voice call connection. (S301), the home location register 300 inquires the location of the destination mobile communication terminal via the destination mobile switch 500 (S302, S303).

At this time, the home location register 300 searches for additional service information subscribed to by the called-party mobile communication terminal 600 and confirms that the information is subscribed to the location-based answering service according to the present invention (S304). The resultant value is provided to the calling party mobile switch 200 together with the location inquiry result value of the called-party mobile communication terminal received in step S303 (S305).

When the calling mobile switch 200 confirms that the called mobile terminal 600 subscribes to the service based on the information received through the step S305, the location of the called mobile terminal received in the step S305 is determined. The inquiry result value is transmitted to the destination mobile switch 500 (S307).

Next, the called-side mobile exchange 500 transmits a call connection request message to connect a call with the calling-party mobile communication terminal 100, and the called-party mobile communication terminal 600 responds to the call connection request message. If it is confirmed that the user is not in response for a certain threshold time (S307), the auto-reply message service device 400 is notified of this (S308).

The auto-reply message service device 400 confirming that the called-party mobile communication terminal 600 is in the absent state through step S308 is based on the location inquiry result value of the called-party mobile communication terminal received in step S306. After retrieving the location information stored in the message service device 400, if the first location name or the first location name of the location information does not exist, the second location name information is collected (S309), and the called party mobile communication. After creating an autoresponse message indicating that the user of the terminal is located in the place corresponding to the first location name or the second location name (S310), the autoresponder message is sent to the calling mobile terminal 100 (S311). , S312).

In a preferred embodiment applicable to the present invention, between step S308 and step S309 is a step of confirming whether the calling mobile terminal 100 is the object of service provision according to the present invention is added to the The service can be provided only to the calling party's mobile terminal 100. This is to prevent the risk of leaking personal information of the mobile communication terminal user unnecessarily, and information about the calling mobile terminal which is the object of providing the service is previously received from the called mobile terminal 600. Can be provided.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram illustrating a process of providing an answering message service to an originating mobile terminal by a mobile switch including an answering machine service apparatus according to another embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 4, first, the calling mobile terminal 100 creates a call origination message requesting a voice call connection with the called mobile terminal 600 and sends it to the called mobile terminal 600 ( S400).

The calling party mobile exchanger 200 receiving the call origination message from the calling party mobile terminal 100 requests the home location register 300 to query the location of the called party mobile terminal 600 for voice call connection. (S401), the home location register 300 inquires the location of the called mobile communication terminal through the called mobile switch 500 (S402, S403).

At this time, the home location register 300 searches for additional service information subscribed to by the called-party mobile communication terminal 600 and confirms that the information is subscribed to the location information based answering machine according to the present invention (S404). The resultant value is provided to the calling party mobile switch 200 together with the location inquiry result value of the called-party mobile communication terminal received in step S403 (S405).

If it is determined that the called-party mobile communication terminal 600 has subscribed to the service on the basis of the information received through the step S405, the originating mobile switch 200 receives the location of the called-party mobile communication terminal received in the step S405. The inquiry result value is transmitted to the destination mobile switch 510 together with the call connection request (S406).

Next, the called-side mobile exchanger 510 transmits a call connection request message to connect a call with the calling-party mobile communication terminal 100, and the called-party mobile communication terminal 600 transmits the call connection request message to the call-connection request message. If it is determined that the user is not in response for a certain threshold time (S407), the location information stored in the home location register 300 is retrieved based on the location inquiry result value of the called-party mobile communication terminal received in step S406. Next, when the first location name or the first location name of the location information does not exist, the second location name information is collected (S408), so that the user of the called-party mobile communication terminal receives the first location name or the second location name. After creating an autoresponse message indicating that the user is in a place corresponding to (S409), the autoresponder message is sent to the calling mobile terminal 100 (S410, S411).

In a preferred embodiment applicable to the present invention, between step S407 and step S408, a step of checking whether the calling mobile terminal 100 is subject to service provision according to the present invention is added to the service. The service can be provided only to the calling party's mobile terminal 100. This is to prevent the risk of leaking personal information of the mobile communication terminal user unnecessarily, and information about the calling mobile terminal which is the object of providing the service is previously received from the called mobile terminal 600. Can be provided.

5 is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration of an automatic reply message service apparatus according to another embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 5, the automatic response message service device 400 according to an embodiment of the present invention may include an interface module 410, an authentication module 420, a message writing module 430, a control module 440, and location information management. Module 450 and database 460.

The interface module 410 is a module that manages data communication performed by the auto-reply message service device with an external device. The interface module 410 receives or requests a data processing request and performs processing required to receive externally provided location information data. do.

The authentication module 420 confirms whether the user of the mobile communication terminal is a legitimate subscriber of the service according to the present invention. According to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the scope or contents of a service that can be provided through the service device may be limited according to the authentication result performed by the authentication module 420. In addition, the authentication module 420 checks whether the user of the mobile communication terminal is a user who can be provided with the automatic response message according to the present invention.

The message composition module 430 is information collected from a called-party mobile communication terminal, and the first location name information, which is subjective semantic information determined by a user with respect to a place where the corresponding mobile communication terminal is present, or that a general person has about the place. Compose an auto-reply message according to the present invention based on the second location name information which is objective semantic information determined by common knowledge, or prepare a message requesting an external message service server to compose the auto-reply message according to the present invention. Device. In this case, the expression except for the location name in the automatic response message may be provided from the called party's mobile communication terminal.

The control module 440 is a device for controlling and managing the functions and operations of the devices constituting the automatic response message service device 400 with respect to the messages received through the interface module 410. If the terminal is in the missed state that does not respond to the call connection request, the message composition module 430 composes a message.

The location information management module 450 stores the location information provided from the called-party mobile communication terminal in the database 460 and stores the location name of the current location of the called-party mobile communication terminal as the first location name or the second location. Decide among the people. In addition, when necessary, the second location name information may be collected and stored in the database 460 in association with an apparatus for storing and managing external map data.

The database 460 stores identification information which is information for identifying the called party's mobile terminal, such as a call number of the called party's mobile communication terminal, and location information indicating information about a place where the called party's mobile communication terminal is currently located. A first location name storage unit 461 that stores first location name information, which is subjective semantic information that a user has with respect to a place where a corresponding mobile communication terminal is present, such as 'work' or 'home'. And a second location name storage unit 462 in which objective semantic information of a general person, not a specific user, for example, a second location name information such as a hospital, a Seoul station, a school, a library, etc., is stored for a specific place unlike the first location name information. It is configured to include).

The present invention described above is not limited to the above-described embodiments and the accompanying drawings, and it is common in the art that various substitutions, modifications, and changes can be made without departing from the technical spirit of the present invention. It will be apparent to those skilled in the art.

According to the present invention, when the called-party mobile communication terminal is not responding to the call connection request of the calling-party mobile communication terminal, the called-party mobile communication terminal is sent to the calling-party mobile communication terminal without any manipulation of the called-party mobile communication terminal. Location information of a place located in the absence can be easily provided to the calling mobile terminal.

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A first step of checking whether the called-party mobile communication terminal is in the absence state of not responding to the call connection request; A second step of collecting location information of the called-party mobile communication terminal when it is determined in the first step that the called-party mobile communication terminal is in the absent state; And, And a third step of requesting to send an automatic response message to the calling mobile terminal based on the location information collected in the second step. The location information may include a location value for indicating a spatial location of a current location of the called mobile communication terminal; And And the first location name information, which is subjective semantic information determined by a user with respect to a current location of the called mobile communication terminal. The method of claim 1, Before the first step, Receiving a location information registration request for a place where the called mobile terminal is located from a called mobile terminal; A step 1b of collecting location information of the called-party mobile communication terminal; And, The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of storing the location information. The method of claim 2, Wherein step 1a is performed through the process of receiving a location registration request message containing the identification information for identifying the called-party mobile communication terminal, the location information-based automatic response message service method. delete The method of claim 1, And the location information further includes second location name information, which is objective semantic information determined by general knowledge of a general person with respect to a specific place. delete The method of claim 2, And checking whether the called-party mobile communication terminal requesting registration of the location information is the service subscriber between the steps 1a and 1b. The method of claim 2, If the first location name information does not exist in the location information collected in the step 1b, notifying the called-party mobile communication terminal of this, and further comprising supplementing necessary information. Based auto-reply message service method. The method of claim 2, Receiving location information based automatic response message, characterized in that it further comprises the step of receiving identification information for the originating mobile communication terminal that can receive the automatic response message based on the location information according to the present invention from the called-party mobile communication terminal Service method. The method of claim 1, The second step is to collect the location value information of the current location of the called-party mobile communication terminal in the absence state, and retrieves the location information corresponding to the location value information from the location information stored in the auto-reply message service device And then collecting the first location name information from the location information having the corresponding location value. The method of claim 10, Searching for location information corresponding to the location value information may be performed through a process of retrieving the corresponding location information, if the distance between the two location values is within a predetermined threshold range and having the same location value. A location information based answering machine service method. The method of claim 5, The second step is to collect the location value information of the current location of the called-party mobile communication terminal in the absence state, and retrieves the location information corresponding to the location value information from the location information stored in the auto-reply message service device Then, the first location name information is collected from the location information having the corresponding location value. If there is no first location name registered in correspondence with the location value, the general public for a specific place corresponding to the location value is determined. The location information-based auto-reply message service method is performed by collecting second location name information which is objective semantic information determined by common knowledge. The method of claim 1, The third step is performed through a process of requesting a server processing a message in a mobile communication network to compose the automatic response message and send the message to a calling mobile terminal. Way. An interface module for receiving or requesting a data processing request from an external device, and performing a process necessary to receive externally provided location information data to manage data communication with an external device; Information collected from the called-party mobile terminal, the first location name information which is subjective semantic information determined by the user regarding the current location of the mobile communication terminal or an objective determined by ordinary knowledge of the place; A message creation module for creating an automatic response message according to the present invention based on the second location name information, which is semantic information, or for creating a message requesting an external message service server to create an automatic response message according to the present invention; A control module for controlling and managing functions and actions among devices constituting the auto-reply message service device with respect to the message received through the interface module; A location information management module for storing location information provided from the called party's mobile communication terminal in a database and determining a location name of a place where the called party's mobile communication terminal is present from a first location name or a second location name; And, The database storing identification information, which is information for identifying the called party's mobile communication terminal, such as a call number of the called party's mobile communication terminal, and location information indicating information regarding a place where the called party's mobile communication terminal is present; Location information based auto-reply message service device. The method of claim 14, The authentication module is an automatic response message service apparatus based on location information, characterized in that whether the user of the mobile communication terminal is a user capable of receiving an automatic response message according to the present invention. The method of claim 14, The location information management module collects the second location name information in association with a device for storing and managing external map data and stores the location information in the database. delete

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