KR100826830B1 - Method of transmitting information to mobile terminal using short message and information service system for the same - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention provides a first step of setting a number and information providing time of a subscriber mobile terminal in an information providing server, and storing one or more contents and a unique code of each content in the subscriber mobile terminal; A second step of the information providing server obtaining information from an external information DB; A third step of transmitting, by the information providing server, an SMS message including the information and a unique code of content to be displayed together with the information to the subscriber mobile terminal; And a fourth step of calling the content corresponding to the unique code included in the SMS message and displaying it on the screen together with the information after the subscriber mobile terminal receives the SMS message. It's about the system.

According to the present invention, since the predetermined content is stored in the mobile terminal in advance and only the unique code for calling the stored content is transmitted at the time of providing the information, the amount of data to be transmitted in the SMS message from the information providing server can be greatly reduced. In addition, it is possible to provide information to the subscriber more vividly by configuring the information providing screen using a variety of content stored in the mobile terminal.

Information, SMS, Contents, Flash

Description

Method of transmitting information to mobile terminal using short message and information service system for the same}

1 is a block diagram of an information providing system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a flowchart illustrating an information providing process according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3 is a diagram illustrating an information providing screen of a mobile terminal.

* Description of the symbols for the main parts of the drawings *

10: mobile terminal 20: mobile communication network

30: SMSC 40: Information provision server

41: subscriber DB 42: content DB

43: SMS processing unit 44: WAP server

50: Information DB

The present invention relates to a method for providing predetermined information to a mobile terminal by using an SMS message in an information providing server. More specifically, predetermined content is stored in advance in a mobile terminal, and one of the contents is stored in the SMS message. The present invention relates to a method for integrating and displaying the received data and the matched content on a screen of a mobile terminal by including a unique code matching with.

Recently, mobile terminals are a comprehensive information medium that can use various additional services such as SMS (Short Message Service), MMS (Multimedia Message Service), wireless Internet, games, and location-based services (LBS). It is taking place.

Among these, SMS is able to transmit short messages of about 80 bytes (80 characters in English and 40 characters in Korean) even when voice calls are not possible, and it is most widely used because of low cost compared to voice calls. It is also used as a medium for providing predetermined information or transmitting an advertisement message to the mobile terminal of the.

However, since the amount of data that can be transmitted via SMS is limited, text-based information is usually provided, and wireless Internet is inevitably used to transmit large contents such as images and flash animations to a mobile terminal.

However, providing specific information through the wireless Internet to which the packet fee is applied has a problem in that the cost burden of the service user is high.

Disclosure of Invention The present invention has been made to solve such a problem, and an object of the present invention is to provide a method for displaying various contents related to information provided on an information providing screen of a mobile terminal while providing information to a mobile terminal of a subscriber using SMS. have.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a first step of setting a number and information providing time of a subscriber mobile terminal in an information providing server, and storing one or more contents and a unique code of each content in the subscriber mobile terminal. ; A second step of the information providing server obtaining information from an external information DB; A third step of transmitting, by the information providing server, an SMS message including the information and a unique code of content to be displayed together with the information to the subscriber mobile terminal; And after the subscriber mobile terminal receives the SMS message, calling the content corresponding to the unique code included in the SMS message and displaying the content on the screen together with the information.

The content may be an image or a flash animation.

In the third step, the information providing server compresses the data and then transmits the data in an SMS message format. In the fourth step, the subscriber mobile terminal may include decompressing the received data.

In addition, the present invention, the subscriber mobile terminal for storing one or more content and the unique code of each content; An information DB for storing information; An information providing server for obtaining information from the information DB and transmitting an SMS message including the unique code of the content to be displayed together with the information to the subscriber mobile terminal; It provides an information providing system including a Short Message Service Center (SMSC) for relaying the transmission of the SMS message.

The information providing server in the information providing system, the subscriber DB for storing subscriber information including the number of the subscriber mobile terminal; A content DB for storing a plurality of contents and unique codes for the plurality of contents; It may include an SMS processing unit for generating an SMS message including the information obtained from the information DB and the unique code of the content to be displayed with the information.

Hereinafter, with reference to the drawings will be described a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

1 is a schematic configuration diagram of an information providing system according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, wherein a mobile terminal 10, a mobile communication network 20, an SMSC 30, an information providing server 40, and an information DB 50 are shown. Include.

The mobile terminal 10 includes not only a cellular phone and a PCS phone but also an electronic device such as a PDA having a mobile communication function, and must support a text message transmission and reception function.

In particular, for the information providing service according to an embodiment of the present invention, the subscriber's mobile terminal 10 stores various contents such as images and flash animations in advance and unique codes of the respective contents, and is provided by the information providing server 40. The stored information is matched with the stored content and displayed together on the information providing screen.

Specifically, the mobile terminal 10 of each subscriber has a flash application, and the flash application decompresses the data contained in the SMS message transmitted from the information providing server 40 and the LoadXML function. A function of interpreting the analyzed data, calling the contents stored in the terminal using the interpreted information, and displaying the information on the information providing screen.

The mobile communication network 20 includes a base station transmitter (BTS) connected to a mobile terminal 10 through a wireless channel; A base station controller (BSC) which performs functions such as allocating and releasing radio channels for the mobile terminal 10, controlling transmission outputs of the mobile terminal 10 and the base station transmitter, and determining handoff between cells; Mobile Switching Center (MSC) for performing functions such as incoming / outgoing call processing of subscribers, handoff procedure processing, interworking with other networks, and the like.

The SMSC 30 converts the received information into an SMS message and transmits the information to the opposite side. In particular, in the embodiment of the present invention, the SMSC 30 transmits the information provided by the information providing server 40 to the mobile terminal 10. do.

The information DB 50 is a DB for storing predetermined information. The information DB 50 may be a DB of an external organization, or may be a DB built by an operator operating the information providing server 40.

In particular, the embodiment of the present invention is more useful for providing information that changes with time, such as weather, stock information, game information, etc. In this case, the information DB 50 corresponds to the Meteorological Agency DB, securities company DB, broadcaster DB, etc. Can be.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the information providing server 40 preferably includes a subscriber DB 41, a content DB 42, an SMS processing unit 43, a WAP server 44, and the like. Although not shown in the figure, a control unit for controlling overall server operation and a communication unit for communication with the information DB 50 are, of course, provided.

The subscriber DB 41 stores information on the subscriber who wants the information provision service, in particular, the telephone number of the subscriber mobile terminal. At this time, the subscriber DB 41 is not necessarily installed inside the information providing server 40, but may be physically spaced apart from the information providing server 40.

The content DB 42 stores various contents such as images and flash animations to be displayed on the screen together with the received information stored in the mobile terminal 10 of the subscriber and unique codes of the respective contents.

The SMS processor 43 transmits the information obtained from the information DB 50 to the SMSC 30 and requests the subscriber to transmit the information to the mobile terminal 10 of the subscriber. At this time, the SMS message includes the unique code of the content matching the information as well as the information obtained from the information DB (50).

The request for transmission may be at the request of the customer's information or at a time set in advance when the service is subscribed.

The WAP server 44 is for transmitting the content and the unique code stored in the content DB 42 to the subscriber's mobile terminal using the WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) upon service subscription.

Hereinafter, a preferred embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. 1 and FIG. 2 which is a flowchart.

First, a person who wants to use the information providing service according to an embodiment of the present invention provides subscriber information such as his mobile terminal's telephone number and stores it in the subscriber DB 41 of the information providing server 40.

And the mobile terminal 10 of the subscriber stores the contents related to the information service, such as images, flash animation and the unique code of each content.

Although there is no limitation in the method of storing the information, it is preferable to download the contents stored in the content DB 42 through the WAP server 44 by accessing the wireless Internet to the information providing server 40. (ST 11)

After such an initial setting process, the information providing server 40 provides predetermined information in the form of an SMS message to the mobile terminal 10 of the subscriber. Information provision may be made in response to a subscriber requesting information provision by accessing the information provision server 10, or may be made at a predetermined time when the service is subscribed.

The information provided by the information providing server 10 includes text-oriented information and a unique code that allows a mobile terminal to call a large amount of content such as an image and a flash animation matching the information.

For example, in the case of providing weather information as shown in Figure 3, the SMS message sent by the information providing server 40 "Seoul regional day weather", "16 (Sun) 6-13, 17 (Mon) Text-based information such as 5-18, 18 (Tue) 7-21, 19 (Wed) 9-18, 20 (Thu) 8-21 "are provided.

At this time, the image data such as clouds or the sun is not provided, but a unique code corresponding to each image is transmitted together with the text-oriented information.

In this case, when there is a large amount of information to be transmitted, the data may be compressed and transmitted, or may be transmitted as a long SMS capable of transmitting about 240 bytes. (ST 12)

The mobile terminal 10 of the subscriber extracts necessary information, for example, weather information and a content unique code transmitted together with the weather information, from the SMS message received from the information providing server 50. In this case, if the data is compressed and transmitted, the decompression procedure should be performed. (ST 13)

Subsequently, the information extracted using the LoadXML function is analyzed by the flash application mounted on the mobile terminal 10 of the subscriber, and the content corresponding to the content unique code received from the contents previously stored in the mobile terminal 10 is called. (ST 14)

In addition, the called content and the information received from the information providing server 40 are displayed together on the screen of the mobile terminal 10, through which the subscriber can see the information providing screen as shown in FIG. . (ST 15)

According to the present invention, since the predetermined content is stored in the mobile terminal in advance and only the unique code for calling the stored content is transmitted at the time of providing the information, the amount of data to be transmitted in the SMS message from the information providing server can be greatly reduced. In addition, it is possible to provide information to the subscriber more vividly by configuring the information providing screen using a variety of content stored in the mobile terminal.

Claims (6)

A first step of setting a number and information providing time of a subscriber mobile terminal in an information providing server, and storing one or more contents and a unique code of each content in the subscriber mobile terminal; A second step of the information providing server obtaining information from an external information DB; A third step of transmitting, by the information providing server, an SMS message including the information and a unique code of content to be displayed together with the information to the subscriber mobile terminal; After the subscriber mobile terminal receives the SMS message, calling the content corresponding to the unique code included in the SMS message and displaying the content on the screen together with the information; Information providing method including The method of claim 1, The information providing method characterized in that the content is an image or flash animation The method of claim 1, In the third step, the information providing server compresses the data and then transmits it in the form of SMS message, In the fourth step, the subscriber mobile terminal comprises a step of decompressing the received data A subscriber mobile terminal for storing one or more contents and a unique code of each of the contents; An information DB for storing information; An information providing server for obtaining information from the information DB and transmitting an SMS message including the unique code of the content to be displayed together with the information to the subscriber mobile terminal; Short Message Service Center (SMSC) for relaying the transmission of the SMS message; Information provision system including The method of claim 4, wherein The information providing server, A subscriber DB for storing subscriber information including a number of the subscriber mobile terminal; A content DB for storing a plurality of contents and unique codes for the plurality of contents; An SMS processing unit for generating an SMS message including information obtained from the information DB and a unique code of a content to be displayed together with the information; Information provision system including delete

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