KR100860938B1 - Method and system for providing wireless internet automatic connection service in mobile communication network and mobile terminal therefor - Google Patents

Abstract

A wireless Internet automatic access service supply method and system in a mobile communication network and a mobile communication terminal therefor are provided to connect the terminal to a particular server of a wireless Internet network automatically without a user's operation, thereby being applicable to a lot of services. A message including an Internet address of an application server to which a mobile communication terminal is to be automatically connected is written(S201-S205). A parameter indicating that the corresponding message indicates automatic wireless Internet connection is added to the written message(S207). A message including the parameter and the Internet address is transmitted to the terminal(S209). A connection request for the Internet address is received from the terminal which automatically drives a wireless browser according to the parameter(S211-S215).

Description

METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING WIRELESS INTERNET AUTOMATIC CONNECTION SERVICE IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION NETWORK AND MOBILE TERMINAL THEREFOR}

The present invention relates to a wireless Internet in a mobile communication network, and more particularly, to a method and system for providing a wireless Internet automatic access service in a mobile communication network, and a mobile communication terminal for the same.

BACKGROUND With the development of computer, electronic and communication technologies, various mobile communication services using mobile communication networks have been provided. The most basic mobile communication service is a voice call service that provides voice calls wirelessly regardless of time and place. In recent years, wireless Internet services, which can receive data services through mobile communication networks, have been rapidly spreading without restriction of places. For example, various contents such as movies, videos, real-time TV, various news, and ringtones are provided through a wireless internet network.

However, most of the wireless Internet services through the above-described mobile communication network are by direct connection of the mobile communication terminal. That is, the user directly drives the wireless browser of the mobile communication terminal and enters a URL to access the application server. Therefore, from the user's point of view, every time the user accesses the wireless Internet, the user has to run the wireless browser directly.

In order to solve this problem, a wireless Internet access method using an SMS message including a callback URL is used. When the mobile terminal receives the SMS message including the callback URL, the received SMS message is displayed on the display, and the user includes the SMS message by pressing a wireless Internet access key or a call button according to the contents of the displayed SMS message. Automatically connect to the URL. However, this wireless Internet connection method does not require a user to directly enter a URL into a browser, but requires pressing a predetermined key button to start the connection. In other words, the wireless Internet connection is not made automatically regardless of the user's intention, but at the user's choice.

On the other hand, in recent years, a call-type service in which a mobile communication terminal automatically accesses the wireless Internet and receives a predetermined service regardless of the user's will is provided. An example is the NAVER pop-up service provided by KTF. In order to provide such an incoming service, a predetermined terminal platform (eg, KTF multipack platform) must be installed in a mobile communication terminal and a specific application must be installed. For example, when a user opens a folder of a mobile communication terminal, the NAVER popup application installed in the multipack platform of the mobile communication terminal automatically accesses the NAVER server, downloads various wireless contents, and displays them in real time. However, such a call type service is actually the same as a user directly accessing the wireless Internet, and there is a problem in that a dedicated application must be installed for each service.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve the above problems, and provides a method for automatically providing a wireless Internet access service using a universal wireless Internet browser without installing a dedicated platform and applications in a mobile communication terminal. And a system and a mobile communication terminal for the same.

Other objects and advantages of the present invention can be understood by the following description, and will be more clearly understood by the embodiments of the present invention. Also, it will be readily appreciated that the objects and advantages of the present invention may be realized by the means and combinations thereof indicated in the claims.

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for providing a wireless Internet automatic access service in a mobile communication network, the method comprising: creating a message including an Internet address of an application server to which a mobile communication terminal is automatically connected; Adding a parameter indicating that the message is a message for instructing automatic wireless Internet access to the message; And transmitting a message including an internet address and a parameter to the mobile communication terminal.

In addition, according to the present invention for achieving the above object, a system for providing a wireless Internet automatic access service in a mobile communication network, the message center for transmitting a message to the mobile communication terminal; And an application server which transmits identification information of a mobile communication terminal to be automatically connected to its Internet address to the message center and requests to transmit a wireless Internet automatic access message, wherein the message center is in response to a request of the application server. Compose a message including the Internet address and add a parameter indicating that the message is a message for instructing automatic wireless Internet access, and transmits the message to the mobile communication terminal.

In addition, according to the present invention for achieving the above object, a mobile communication terminal for automatically accessing the wireless Internet, the message receiving unit for receiving a message from the mobile communication network to determine whether a parameter indicating the automatic wireless Internet connection is included; An address extractor configured to receive a message from the message receiver, extract an internet address, and output a wireless browser driving signal when the parameter is included; And a wireless internet processing unit for driving the wireless browser according to the wireless browser driving signal from the address extracting unit and automatically accessing the internet address extracted from the address extracting unit.

As described above, the present invention can be applied to many types of services for providing a specific service to a mobile communication terminal at a specific time by automatically connecting the mobile communication terminal to a specific server of the wireless Internet network without user's manipulation. In addition, by using a general-purpose browser without installing a separate platform application, various types of services can be developed without being limited to a specific service.

The above objects, features and advantages will become more apparent from the following detailed description taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, whereby those skilled in the art may easily implement the technical idea of the present invention. There will be. In addition, in describing the present invention, when it is determined that the detailed description of the known technology related to the present invention may unnecessarily obscure the gist of the present invention, the detailed description thereof will be omitted. Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of a system for automatically providing a wireless internet access service according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 1, the system for automatically providing wireless access service according to the present invention includes a mobile communication terminal 110, a wireless access network 120, an exchange 130, a short message service center 140, and a home location register. 50, a packet node 160, an internet network 170, an application server 180, and an authentication server 190.

The mobile communication terminal 110 transmits and receives a voice call, a short message, and / or a multimedia message. The mobile communication terminal 110 includes a wireless browser and accesses the wireless Internet using the wireless browser to receive a wireless Internet service. The mobile terminal 110 reads the wireless Internet automatic access parameter from the message received from the message center 140 to run the wireless browser and collectively referred to as a URL (or IP address, hereinafter referred to as URL) included in the received message. Automatic connection to).

The wireless access network 120 includes a base station (BTS / NodeB) that performs wireless signal transmission and reception, wireless channel encoding and decoding, baseband signal processing, diversity (space), radio resource management, and self maintenance. It includes a base station controller (BSC / RNC) for performing functions such as matching, inter-cell handover processing, call control. The wireless access network 120 connects the mobile communication terminal 110 to the switch 130 or the packet node 160 to provide a circuit switched service and a packet switched service.

The exchanger (MSC) 130 provides an interface function with the wireless access network 120, and provides exchange function (interworking function) between mobile subscribers and fixed networks such as PSTN and ISDN. . In particular, the exchange 130 receives the short message from the short message service center 140 and transmits the short message to the mobile communication terminal 110 via the wireless access network 120.

The short message service center (SMSC) 140 is an independent node having a unique signaling point code (SPC) in a signaling system 7 (SS7) network, and includes a home location register (HLR) 150 and an exchange 130. Connected to the mobile station to determine the location of the receiver to deliver a short message to the mobile communication terminal 110 through the PLMN (Public Land Mobile Network).

In particular, in the present embodiment, the short message service center 140 receives a request for transmitting a wireless Internet automatic access short message to the mobile communication terminal 110 from the application server 180, and according to the request, the application server 180 After creating a short message including a URL address of), a parameter for instructing automatic wireless Internet connection is set and transmitted to the mobile communication terminal 110.

Alternatively, the short message service center 140 may receive a short message including a URL address from the application server 80 and a parameter for instructing automatic wireless internet connection, and transmit the short message directly to the mobile communication terminal 110. .

The home location register (HLR) 150 manages the location / status information of the mobile subscriber and the additional service profile information of the subscriber to support call routing.

The packet node 160 is connected to the wireless access network 120 to allocate an IP address to the mobile communication terminal 110 and apply the mobile communication terminal 110 through the wireless access network 120 and the Internet network 170. The server 180 is connected. In the case of synchronous (CDMA), the packet node 160 is a packet control function (PCF) for controlling packet transmission between the mobile communication terminal 110 and a packet data serving node (PDSN) and the mobile communication terminal 110. And the Packet Data Serving Node (PDSN) for allocating an IP address through Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) negotiation. Or, in the case of asynchronous (WCDMA, UMTS, etc.), it includes a SGSN (Support GPRS Service Node) that performs packet data processing and a Gateway GPRS Support Node (GGSN) that is connected to the SGSN acts as a wireless gateway.

The application server 180 is a server that provides a wireless Internet service with a unique IP address and is a server that provides a download service of wireless content such as an Internet portal server. The application server 180 may be any server that can provide a service through a wireless Internet network without being limited to a general portal server. For example, the application server 180 may be a server that provides various customer center functions such as mobile communication subscription, termination, change, usage fee inquiry, and plan change through a wireless Internet network.

The application server 180 transmits the wireless Internet automatic access SMS message to the mobile communication terminal 110 that requires automatic connection to the corresponding application server 180 so that the mobile communication terminal 110 automatically drives the wireless Internet browser. Access to the application server 180. To this end, the application server 180 transmits the identification information of the mobile communication terminal 110 and the URL address of the application server 180 to the short message service center 140 to request the transmission of the wireless Internet automatic access SMS message. Alternatively, the application server 180 creates a short message including the URL address of the application server 180 by itself, sets a parameter indicating the wireless Internet automatic access to the short message, and transmits the short message to the short message service center 140. .

The authentication server 190 stores mobile communication subscriber information and performs subscriber authentication in association with the application server 180. That is, when the authentication server 190 receives an authentication request for a specific user from the application server 180, the user is a subscriber of the wireless Internet service provided by the application server 180 or a mobile communication subscriber (eg, KTF) of the own network. Check whether the subscriber) and provide the authentication result accordingly to the application server 180.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating a method of providing a wireless Internet automatic access service in the system of FIG. 1.

As shown in FIG. 2, the application server 180 authenticates through the authentication server 190 with respect to the subscriber to automatically connect to the application server 180 (S201). For example, when the application server 180 provides a subscription service, the application server 180 requests an authentication to the authentication server 190 for a subscriber who is currently subscribed and receives an authentication result accordingly. The authentication server 190 checks whether the member subscriber maintains the mobile communication subscription until now, or whether the member subscriber has left the network and moved to another network, and transmits the result to the application server 180.

If the subscriber is a normal subscriber as a result of the authentication, the application server 180 transmits the URL (or IP address) of the corresponding application server 180 and the subscriber's mobile communication terminal 110 identification information to the short message service center 140. The wireless internet automatic access SMS request is requested (S203).

Upon receiving the SMS transmission request from the application server 180, the short message service center 140 creates a short message including the URL of the application server 180 transferred from the application server 180 (S205). The URL may be written in the callback number of the short message, or may be written in the body of the short message.

Next, the short message service center 140 sets a parameter indicating that the short message is a message for instructing automatic wireless Internet access to the created short message (S207). Then, the short message service center 140 transmits the short message to the subscriber's mobile communication terminal 110 (S209).

The mobile communication terminal 110 receiving the short message for automatic wireless internet access from the short message service center 140 extracts a URL from the short message according to a parameter indicating wireless wireless automatic access included in the short message. In operation S211, the wireless Internet browser in the terminal is driven. Preferably, the mobile communication terminal 110 does not indicate on the display that the short message is received according to a parameter indicating wireless internet automatic access included in the short message. That is, the message reception indicator is not displayed and the received message is discarded without being stored even when the message is received.

As such, the mobile communication terminal 110 extracting the URL and driving the wireless Internet browser is assigned an IP address from the packet node 160 via the wireless access network 120 (S213), and the wireless Internet according to the extracted URL. The application server 180 is accessed by a browser (S215). Thereafter, the application server 180 downloads the related content and the like to the connected mobile communication terminal 110 and provides a service.

3 is a flowchart illustrating a method for automatically providing a wireless Internet access service according to another embodiment of the present invention. The example of FIG. 3 illustrates a process of receiving a related service through the wireless Internet when a mobile subscriber accesses an ARS server, which is an application server 180 of a mobile carrier, but cannot receive a desired service from the ARS server.

As shown in FIG. 3, the subscriber accesses the ARS server 180 which is a customer center of the mobile communication company using the mobile communication terminal 110 (S301). The connection to the ARS server 180 uses a normal voice call. For example, KTF's ARS connection is made by attempting a voice call by entering 016-114 as the called number.

As such, when the subscriber accesses the ARS server 180, the ARS server 180 sends a customer announcement to the subscriber's mobile communication terminal 110 and selects a desired service from the subscriber. In general, mobile communication subscribers attempt to connect to an agent immediately after accessing the ARS server 180, but in most cases, a certain amount of time must be waited for connection with an agent. In this case, the ARS server 180 informs the mobile communication terminal 110 that the connection with the counselor can receive the related service by accessing the wireless Internet due to difficulty in connection with the counselor, and receives a selection input related to the automatic wireless internet access from the subscriber. (S303, S305).

The ARS server 180 that receives the selection input related to the automatic wireless Internet access from the subscriber's mobile communication terminal 110 authenticates through the authentication server 190 (S307). That is, it is checked whether the mobile communication terminal 110 is a terminal capable of wireless internet and whether the subscriber is a mobile network subscriber.

If the check result is a normal subscriber, the ARS server 180 transmits the URL (or IP address) of the ARS server 180 and the identification information of the mobile communication terminal 110 to the short message service center 140 and automatically accesses the wireless Internet. Request SMS transmission (S309).

Upon receiving the SMS transmission request from the ARS server 180, the short message service center 140 creates a short message including a URL of the ARS server 180 transmitted from the ARS server 180 (S311). The URL may be written in the callback number of the short message, or may be written in the body of the short message.

Next, the short message service center 140 sets a parameter indicating that the short message is a message for instructing automatic wireless internet access to the created short message (S313). Then, the short message service center 140 transmits the short message to the subscriber's mobile communication terminal 110 (S315).

The mobile communication terminal 110 receiving the short message for automatic wireless internet access from the short message service center 140 extracts a URL from the short message according to a parameter indicating wireless wireless automatic access included in the short message. In operation S317, the wireless internet browser is operated in the terminal. Preferably, the mobile communication terminal 110 does not indicate on the display that the short message is received according to a parameter indicating wireless internet automatic access included in the short message. That is, it does not display a message reception indicator and does not store the received message even when the message is received.

As such, the mobile communication terminal 110 extracting the URL and driving the wireless Internet browser is assigned an IP address from the packet node 160 via the wireless access network 120 (S319), and the wireless Internet according to the extracted URL. The ARS server 180 is connected to the browser (S321). Subsequently, the ARS server 180 provides an associated menu for processing a customer center work to the connected mobile communication terminal 110 and performs related processing according to a subscriber's selection.

4 is a block diagram of a mobile communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 4, the mobile communication terminal 110 according to the present invention includes a wireless network processor 410, a message receiver 420, a general message processor 430, a URL extractor 440, and a wireless Internet processor. (450).

The radio network processor 410 processes radio signals of a CDMA / WCDMA network. That is, it connects to a base station of a mobile communication network and performs a function of transmitting and receiving a radio signal through a pilot channel, a paging channel, a traffic channel, and the like.

The message receiver 420 receives a short message or a multimedia message processed by the wireless network processor 410. In addition, the message receiving unit 420 examines a specific field of the received message processed by the wireless network processing unit 410 and determines whether the message is a message indicating automatic wireless Internet access.

For example, if a parameter indicating automatic wireless internet access is set in a specific field, the message receiving unit 420 determines that the received message is a message for automatic wireless internet access. The message receiver 420 transmits a message for automatically accessing the wireless Internet to the URL extractor 440, and transmits a message not to the general message processor 430.

The general message processor 430 stores the message transmitted from the message receiver 420 in the message inbox and displays an indicator indicating that the message has been received on the terminal desktop and vibrates or alarms.

The URL extractor 440 parses and extracts a URL in a message transmitted from the message receiver 420, and transmits a wireless internet browser driving signal including the extracted URL to the wireless internet processor 450. At this time, the ULR extractor 440 discards the message without storing it separately. Therefore, no indication related to reception of the corresponding message is displayed on the screen of the mobile communication terminal 110.

The wireless internet processing unit 450 includes a mobile platform and a wireless internet browser, and drives the wireless internet browser according to the wireless internet browser driving signal from the URL extracting unit 440 and is transmitted from the URL extracting unit 440. Automatically connect to the URL. That is, the wireless Internet processing unit 450 is assigned a wireless resource and IP address from the mobile communication network through the wireless network processing unit 410 and automatically connects to the application server 180 corresponding to the extracted URL through a browser.

5 is a flowchart illustrating a method for automatically accessing a wireless Internet in a mobile communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 5, first, the message receiving unit 420 of the mobile communication terminal 110 receives a message received from the mobile communication network and processed by the wireless network processing unit 410 from the wireless network processing unit 410 (S501). ).

Upon receiving the message, the message receiving unit 420 determines whether the received message includes a parameter for instructing automatic wireless internet access (S503).

If the received message does not include a parameter for instructing automatic wireless Internet access, the message receiving unit 420 determines the received message as a general message and delivers it to the general message processing unit 430. The general message processing unit 430 stores the message transmitted from the message receiving unit 420 in the message inbox, displays an indicator indicating the message reception on the desktop of the terminal, and vibrates or alarms.

Meanwhile, when the received message includes a parameter for instructing automatic wireless internet access, the message receiver 420 determines the received message as a message for automatic wireless internet access and transmits the received message to the URL extractor 440. The URL extractor 440 extracts a URL included in the received message (S505).

Subsequently, the URL extractor 440 transmits a wireless internet browser driving signal including the extracted URL to the wireless internet processing unit 450, and the wireless internet processing unit 450 drives the wireless internet browser according to the driving signal (S507). ). In this case, the URL extractor 440 preferably transmits the wireless internet browser driving signal to the wireless internet processor 450 and discards the corresponding message. The wireless internet processing unit 450 automatically accesses the extracted URL through the driven wireless internet browser (S509).

As described above, the mobile communication terminal 110 stores the message in the message inbox and vibrates or alarms the general message according to the general message reception processing procedure, but does not process the wireless Internet automatic access message according to the general message reception processing procedure. . That is, it does not store the message inbox and does not display an indicator indicating that the message has been received and does not vibrate or notify. Just upon receipt of the message, it launches a wireless Internet browser to automatically access the URL recorded in the message.

In the above embodiment, the wireless Internet automatic access message has been described as a short message, but it is apparent that not only the short message but also the multimedia message can be applied. Accordingly, in the above embodiment, the short message service center is replaced with the multimedia message service center to perform the same functions and operations of the short message service center in the above embodiments.

As described above, the method of the present invention may be implemented as a program and stored in a recording medium (CD-ROM, RAM, ROM, floppy disk, hard disk, magneto-optical disk, etc.) in a computer-readable form. Since this process can be easily implemented by those skilled in the art will not be described in more detail.

The present invention described above is capable of various substitutions, modifications, and changes without departing from the technical spirit of the present invention for those skilled in the art to which the present invention pertains. It is not limited by the drawings.

1 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of a system for automatically providing a wireless internet access service according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating a method of providing a wireless Internet automatic access service in the system of FIG. 1.

3 is a flowchart illustrating a method for automatically providing a wireless Internet access service according to another embodiment of the present invention.

4 is a block diagram of a mobile communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

5 is a flowchart illustrating a method for automatically accessing a wireless Internet in a mobile communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

<Explanation of symbols for the main parts of the drawings>

110: mobile communication terminal 120: wireless access network

130: exchanger 140: SMSC

160: packet node 170: Internet network

180: application server 190: authentication server

Claims (10)

A method for providing a wireless Internet automatic access service in a mobile communication network, (a) creating a message including an internet address of an application server to which a mobile communication terminal is to be automatically connected; (b) adding a parameter to the created message indicating that the message is a message indicating automatic wireless Internet access; (c) transmitting a message including the internet address and parameters to the mobile communication terminal; And (d) receiving an access request for the internet address from the mobile communication terminal which automatically drives the wireless browser according to the parameter. delete The method of claim 1, The Internet address is a wireless Internet automatic access service providing method, characterized in that any one of the URL, IP address. The method of claim 1, The message may be a short message (SMS) or a multimedia message (MMS). The method of claim 1, Before step (a) above, And authenticating whether the mobile communication terminal supports a wireless internet function. A system for providing wireless Internet automatic access service in a mobile communication network, A message center for transmitting a message to the mobile communication terminal; And And an application server which transmits identification information of the mobile communication terminal to be automatically connected to its Internet address to the message center and requests transmission of the wireless Internet automatic access message. The message center creates a message including the Internet address according to a request of the application server, and adds a parameter indicating that the message is a message for instructing automatic wireless internet access to the mobile communication terminal. The application server is a wireless Internet automatic access service providing system, characterized in that for receiving a connection request from the mobile communication terminal that automatically driven the wireless browser in accordance with the parameter. The method of claim 6, And an authentication server for confirming whether a mobile communication terminal user subscribes to a specific service in association with the application server. As a mobile communication terminal that automatically connects to the wireless Internet, A message receiving unit which receives a message from a mobile communication network and determines whether a parameter indicating automatic wireless internet connection is included; An address extractor configured to receive a message from the message receiver, extract an internet address, and output a wireless browser driving signal when the parameter is included; And And a wireless internet processing unit for driving a wireless browser in response to a wireless browser driving signal from the address extracting unit and automatically accessing an internet address extracted from the address extracting unit. The method of claim 8, The mobile communication terminal further comprises a message processing unit for receiving a message from the message receiving unit, storing the message in the message inbox and processing a vibration or alarm for notifying the reception of the message, if no parameter is included. The method according to claim 8 or 9, The Internet address is Mobile communication terminal, characterized in that any one of the URL, IP address.

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