KR100889131B1 - A LOCATION VERIFICATION SERVER AND A LOCATION VERIFICATION METHOD THEREBY FOR CHECKING A PHYSICAL ADDRESS OF VoIP TERMINAL - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a positioning server for confirming the physical location of a VoIP terminal and a positioning method using the same, and during emergency call in a VoIP terminal capable of making calls with the same phone number and / or IP without being limited to the physical location. It aims to provide location verification or location based services.

The positioning server for confirming the physical location of the VoIP terminal according to the present invention is a server for confirming the physical location of the VoIP terminal for making a telephone call by the VoIP call server via a data communication network, the communication unit, the storage unit and It includes a processing unit.

VoIP, Location, Handset, Emergency Call, ISP

Description

A LOCATION VERIFICATION SERVER AND A LOCATION VERIFICATION METHOD THEREBY FOR CHECKING A PHYSICAL ADDRESS OF VoIP TERMINAL}

1 is a block diagram of a system for providing a general VoIP call.

2 is a block diagram of a system capable of positioning during a VoIP call according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3 is a block diagram of a subscriber information DB according to an embodiment of the present invention.

4 is a flowchart illustrating a method for locating a VoIP terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

<Explanation of symbols for main parts of the drawings>

10: PSTN network 12: PSTN terminal

14,16 emergency terminal / call center 20: mobile communication network

22: mobile communication terminal 30: data communication network

32: data communication terminal 50, 51: AP / gateway

52, 54, 56, 58: wired and wireless VoIP terminal 60: VoIP call server

100: positioning server 110: subscriber information DB

120: terminal recognition equipment 130: location-based service server

140: external network 150: operator common DB

152: IP DB 154: Operator Classification DB

156: subscriber number 158: subscriber address

The present invention relates to a positioning server for identifying a physical location of a VoIP terminal and a location determining method using the same, and more particularly, in a VoIP terminal capable of making a call with the same phone number and / or IP without being limited to a physical location. The present invention relates to a system for providing a location confirmation or location based service during an emergency call and a method of operating the same.

Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) is a method of transmitting voice signals using the Internet network. Unlike conventional circuit-switched telephones, voice over data protocols can be used to transmit voice and data to a single network. Various intelligent network services connected with the Internet are possible.

Hereinafter, a system for providing a general VoIP call will be described with reference to FIG. 1.

1 is a block diagram of a system for providing a general VoIP call.

As shown in the figure, a VoIP call is provided with a data communication network 30, also called an Internet network, connected to a public switched telephone network (PSTN) network 10 and a mobile communication network 20.

The PSTN network 10 is connected to a PSTN terminal 12 such as a general landline telephone, the mobile communication network 20 is connected to a mobile communication terminal 22 such as a mobile phone, and the data communication network 30 is connected to a data communication terminal. The wireless VoIP terminals 52 and 58 are connected via the wired VoIP terminals 54 and 56 or the access points / gateways 50 and 51.

The VoIP call server 60 stores personal information such as an address and a contact of a user who uses VoIP and a unique identification number of the data communication terminal 32 or the VoIP terminals 52, 54, 56, 58, and the like. Provide service.

The VoIP service system having such a configuration has a problem that it is difficult to identify the physical location of the caller in an emergency situation such as a fire or emergency patient occurrence.

That is, the physical location of the PSTN terminal 12 using the PSTN network 10 is identified through a physical transmission path or a subscriber address, and the mobile communication terminal 22 using the mobile communication network 20 uses triangulation of a base station. Although the physical location can be identified, the terminal using the data communication network 30 can be used by the same user regardless of the physical location if the terminal only secures a path through which the terminal can access the data communication network 30. Difficult to check

In order to solve such a problem, a method of allowing a user of a terminal using the data communication network 30 to input a location in advance or to input a location every call, and to transmit the location to the data communication network 30 has been proposed.

However, this method is inconvenient because the user has to modify the physical location directly when the user uses a different terminal or the same terminal in different locations.

In addition, when the user forgets the input, since the previously input physical location information is transmitted, there is a problem that cannot help much in an actual emergency situation.

The present invention has been made to solve the above-described problems in the related art, and an object of the present invention is to provide an apparatus and a method for identifying a physical location of a terminal being used by a user without directly inputting a physical location.

In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, a positioning server for identifying a physical location of a VoIP terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention is configured to determine a physical location of a VoIP terminal performing a telephone call by a VoIP call server through a data communication network. A server for checking, receiving a telephone number including the IP or IP of the VoIP terminal from any one of the VoIP terminal or the VoIP call server, and receives the physical location information based on the IP of the VoIP terminal received according to the command of the controller A communication unit for transmitting a request signal to an ISP operator and receiving a result; A storage unit for storing physical location information of the VoIP terminal received by the communication unit; And a processing unit generating an operation control command of the communication unit and the storage unit.

Here, the above-mentioned communication unit transmits a signal requesting the MAC, PVC and ID-PORT number of the VoIP terminal to the terminal recognition equipment and receives the result, and the above-mentioned storage unit transmits the received MAC, PVC and ID-PORT number. It is desirable to store.

The storage unit may further generate a command for uploading physical location information, MAC, PVC, and ID-PORT numbers of the VoIP terminal stored in the storage unit to the data communication network through the communication unit.

In addition, the positioning server according to the present embodiment, the IP DB for storing the IP of the VoIP terminal; A subscriber contact DB of the VoIP terminal; The subscriber information DB further includes a subscriber information DB including a subscriber physical address DB of the VoIP terminal and a provider information DB providing a call service of the VoIP terminal, wherein the subscriber information DB uploads the information to a data communication network.

In order to achieve the above object, a method for confirming the physical location of a VoIP terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention, a method for confirming the physical location of the VoIP terminal using the above-described positioning server, from a VoIP call server A first step of receiving an IP or a telephone number including the IP; A second step of transmitting the information received in the first step to an ISP and requesting transmission of physical address information; A third step of receiving physical address information from the ISP operator; And a fourth step of transferring the physical address information received in the third step to the common carrier database and a fifth step of uploading the physical address information received from the common carrier database to the data communication network.

The above-described second step may include: a second step of transmitting the information received in the first step to a terminal recognition device and requesting transmission of MAC, PVC, and ID-PORT number information of the VoIP terminal; Step 2-3 of transmitting MAC, PVC and ID-PORT number information of the VoIP terminal requested in step 2-1 to the ISP and requesting transmission of physical address information of the subscriber of the VoIP terminal; Steps 2-4 for receiving the physical address information of the VoIP terminal subscriber from the ISP provider and steps 2-5 for transmitting the physical address information of the VoIP terminal subscriber received in the steps 2-4 to the operator common DB are added. It is preferable to include as.

In the following, embodiments of the present invention are described with reference to the accompanying drawings.

In the following description of the present invention, if it is determined that detailed descriptions of related known functions or configurations may unnecessarily obscure the subject matter of the present invention, the detailed description will be omitted. In addition, the terms to be described later are terms set in consideration of functions in the present invention, and these terms may vary according to the intention or custom of the producer producing the product, and the definition of the terms should be made based on the contents throughout the present specification.

Hereinafter, a configuration of a system to which an embodiment of the present invention is applied will be described with reference to FIGS. 2 and 3.

2 is a block diagram of a system capable of identifying a location during a VoIP call according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 3 is a block diagram of a subscriber information DB according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 2, the present embodiment further includes a location server 100, a terminal recognition device 120, and a carrier common DB 150 in a system for a general VoIP call service.

The positioning server 100 includes a communication unit, a storage unit and a processing unit.

The communication unit may be referred to as a VoIP terminal (hereinafter referred to as a 'VoIP terminal') and / or a VoIP call server 60 from the VoIP terminal (unless otherwise described below), and / or the VoIP call server 60. Receiving a number, a signal for requesting the ISP provider 160 for the physical location information based on the IP of the received VoIP terminal according to the command of the control unit and the MAC, PVC, and ID-PORT number of the VoIP terminal, the terminal recognition equipment ( 120 and sends the request signal and receives the result.

The storage unit stores physical location information, MAC, PVC, and ID-PORT numbers of the VoIP terminal received from the communication unit.

The controller generates an operation control command of the communication unit and the storage unit.

The terminal recognition device 120 determines the MAC, PVC, and ID-PORT numbers of the VoIP terminal through the IP and transmits them to the positioning server 100.

The operator common DB 150 stores the IP DB 152, the operator classification DB 154, the subscriber telephone number 156, and the subscriber address 158, as shown in FIG.

Hereinafter, a method for confirming location according to the present embodiment will be described with reference to FIG. 4.

4 is a flowchart illustrating a method for locating a VoIP terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 4, in the positioning method for confirming the physical location of the VoIP terminal using the location server according to the present embodiment, the first step is to connect the VoIP terminal at the VoIP call server 60. On the basis of the phone number, it is examined whether the call requires location verification (S100). This determination is made by checking whether the call center number of a police station, police box, etc. is generally used. However, the present invention is not particularly limited thereto, and even if the user additionally inputs a number to receive a service from the location-based service server 130, the present invention may determine that the call requires location verification. Here, in the case of a call that does not require location checking, a general call routine is performed.

In a second step, an IP and a phone number of the VoIP terminal are received from the VoIP call server 60 (S110).

In step S3, the IP received in the above-described second step is transferred to the ISP operator 160, and the transmission of the physical address information is requested (S120). As is well known, the ISP operator 160 can identify the physical location where the VoIP terminal is located through the IP because information on which physical location the IP allocated to provide the service is allocated is stored.

In step 4, physical address information is received from the ISP operator 160 and stored in the storage unit of the positioning server 100 (S125).

In step 5, the physical address information stored in the storage unit is transferred to the operator common DB 150 (S150).

In a sixth step, a data communication network (communicator common DB 150 can download the physical location of the VoIP terminal from the emergency agency call center 14 and / or the location based service server 130 such as a fire station or a police station). Upload to 30) (S160).

As a result, the physical location where the VoIP terminal is located can be confirmed in the emergency agency call center 14 and / or the location-based service server 130.

Here, the above-described third step may also perform the following additional steps.

Step 3-1, in order to check the MAC, PVC and ID-PORT number information of the VoIP terminal in the location server 100, and transmits the IP to the terminal recognition equipment 120 (S130).

In step 3-2, the terminal recognition device 120 transmits the MAC, PVC and ID-PORT number information of the VoIP terminal to the positioning server 100 based on the IP (S140). This information can be used to verify the address and phone number of the terminal subscriber, and can be used as an aid if physical location of the VoIP terminal is not possible.

Information received in step 3-3 and step 3-2 described above is transmitted to the operator common DB 150 (S150).

In the following, an application example of positioning by the positioning server according to the present invention will be described.

Prior to the description of this application example, the VoIP terminal is not limited to the types of terminals such as not only a mobile / mobile communication terminal but also a soft phone, an IP phone, and a terminal with a built-in media termination adapter (MTA). Assume that an identification number has been assigned by a provider.

In the first step, when the user is in an emergency situation, a call is requested by pressing an emergency agency call center 14, 16 using a VoIP terminal.

In the second step, the VoIP call server 60 confirms that the call request number of the VoIP terminal is an emergency agency call center 14, 16 number.

In a third step, the VoIP call server 60 determines that the physical location needs to be determined, and transmits the IP and the identification number of the VoIP terminal to the location server 100. At the same time, the VoIP call server 60 connects the calls of the VoIP terminal and the emergency agency call centers 14 and 16 to make emergency calls.

In the fourth step, the positioning server 100 checks which ISP provider IP is the IP of the VoIP terminal and transmits the IP of the VoIP terminal to the ISP having the IP. Here, the location server is a database of IP addresses of all VoIP providers, that is, ISPs.

In a fifth step, the ISP operator 160 searches for the physical location where the VoIP terminal is located based on the IP and transmits the physical location to the positioning server 100. That is, a subscriber connected through a wired or wireless data network must go through a wired subscriber station or an AP / gateway device. Wired subscriber stations and AP / gateway devices will store physical locations for management and maintenance. Therefore, the ISP operator 160 may transmit the physical location stored for the management and maintenance of the AP and the gateway device that transmits the corresponding IP to the positioning server 100.

In a sixth step, the positioning server 100 receiving the physical location of the VoIP terminal is stored in the operator common DB 150 so that it can be downloaded from the emergency agency call centers 14 and 16 through the data communication network 30. Let's do it. The operator common DB 150 uploads it to the data communication network so that it can be downloaded from the emergency agency call centers 14 and 16 or the location based service server 130.

Through the above steps, it is possible to determine the physical location of the terminal where the user can move freely and make VoIP calls.

The embodiments of the present invention have been described above with reference to the accompanying drawings. However, it is to be noted that the present invention is not particularly limited only to the above-described embodiments, and that various modifications and changes can be made by those skilled in the art within the spirit and spirit of the appended claims as necessary.

As described above, according to the present invention, it is possible to provide a device and method capable of locating a VoIP terminal which is not fixed to a specific physical location, so that the location can be confirmed at the time of an emergency situation.

Claims (6)

A server for identifying the physical location of a VoIP terminal making a phone call by a VoIP call server over a data communication network, The ISP operator receives a telephone number including the IP or IP of the VoIP terminal from either the VoIP terminal or the VoIP call server, and requests physical location information based on the IP of the received VoIP terminal according to a command of the controller. A communication unit for transmitting to and receiving the result; A storage unit for storing physical location information of the VoIP terminal received by the communication unit; And A processor for generating an operation control command of the communication unit and the storage unit Location server, characterized in that it comprises a. The method of claim 1, The communication unit transmits a signal requesting the MAC, PVC and ID-PORT number of the VoIP terminal to the terminal recognition equipment and receives the result, The storage unit location server, characterized in that for storing the received MAC, PVC and ID-PORT number. The method of claim 2, wherein the storage unit, And generating a command for uploading physical location information, MAC, PVC, and ID-PORT numbers of the VoIP terminal stored in the storage unit to the data communication network through the communication unit. The method of claim 1, The positioning server, IP DB for storing the IP of the VoIP terminal; A subscriber contact DB of the VoIP terminal; A subscriber physical address DB of the VoIP terminal; And Operator information DB providing call service of the VoIP terminal Further comprising a subscriber information DB, including; The subscriber information DB uploads the information to a data communication network. A method for identifying the physical location of a VoIP terminal using the location server of any one of claims 1 to 4, A first step of receiving an IP of the VoIP terminal or a telephone number including the IP from the VoIP call server; A second step of transmitting the information received in the first step to an ISP and requesting transmission of physical address information; A third step of receiving physical address information from the ISP operator; A fourth step of transferring the physical address information received in the third step to a common business provider DB; And And a fifth step of uploading the physical address information received from the operator common DB to the data communication network. The method of claim 5, The second step, Transmitting the information received in the first step to a terminal recognition device and requesting transmission of MAC, PVC, and ID-PORT number information of the VoIP terminal; Step 2-3 of transmitting MAC, PVC and ID-PORT number information of the VoIP terminal requested in step 2-1 to the ISP and requesting transmission of physical address information of the subscriber of the VoIP terminal; Step 2-4 of receiving the physical address information of the VoIP terminal subscriber from the ISP operator; And Steps 2-5 for transmitting the physical address information of the VoIP terminal subscriber received in step 2-4 to the operator common DB Physical location confirmation method of the VoIP terminal, characterized in that it further comprises.

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