KR100895402B1 - Method and system for providing visual message service, and apparatus therefor - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a video message service system and method and apparatus therefor for transmitting a video message by directly connecting to a called party after recording a video message of a caller in a video call service, and a video call system according to the present invention. In the method for providing a video message service, the method comprises: receiving a video message call from a caller; Receiving and recording a video message to be delivered from the caller to the called party; Establishing a video call path by making a call to the called party; And reproducing the recorded video message to the called party.

Video, video, call, message, recording, video message, outbound

Description

TECHNICAL AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING VISUAL MESSAGE SERVICE, AND APPARATUS THEREFOR}

1 is a diagram illustrating a network configuration of a video message service system according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a flowchart illustrating a method of providing a video message service in a video message service system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3 is a block diagram of a video message recording server according to an embodiment of the present invention.

4 is a flowchart illustrating a method of transmitting a video message in a mobile communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

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120: base station 130: base station controller

140: Exchange 150: Home Location Register

160: video message recording server

The present invention relates to a video call, and more particularly to a video message service.

Currently, the mobile communication service has been developed and provided with a video call service capable of making a call while viewing the appearance of the other party from a simple voice call. Such a video call service is equipped with a camera separately or internally to the mobile communication terminal to take a picture showing the appearance of the caller and the caller in real time and transmit it to both terminals in a call connection state by looking at each other's face to talk Will be.

In such a video call, a user may move anywhere by carrying a mobile communication terminal, so there may be a situation where it is difficult to photograph and transmit his / her current location or appearance at the time of incoming and outgoing calls. Can be avoided, which may cause a reduction in the video call usage rate.

Recently, an alternative video service has been developed, in which an alternative video to replace the user's appearance is separately set and transmitted to the call counterpart, instead of transmitting the image of the user taken during the video call to the call counterpart in real time. However, these alternative video services are not intended to simply provide their own appearance to the call counterpart, but an additional service applying the same has not been developed and provided.

Furthermore, because video call charges are expensive compared to regular voice calls, the video call service is not activated. There is a need to develop various additional services that can activate a video call service.

In addition, recently, low-cost mobile communication terminals have been widely spread and gaining popularity. These low cost mobile communication terminals provide video call service but do not provide wireless Internet function. For example, low cost mobile communication terminals cannot transmit and receive multimedia messages (MMS messages), only voice / video calls. Accordingly, subscribers using such low-cost mobile communication terminals cannot receive MMS message transmission / reception services attached to various additional services using existing wireless Internet functions, for example, videos and pictures, and thus, utilization of mobile communication services may be reduced. There is a problem.

The present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and an object of the present invention is to allow a mobile subscriber to receive a video message service even when using a mobile communication terminal that does not provide a wireless Internet function.

Particularly, the present invention provides a video message service system and method and apparatus therefor for transmitting a video message by recording a caller's video message in a video call service and then directly connecting to the called party (ie, outbound call connection). The purpose is to provide.

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 a first aspect of the present invention, a method for providing a video message service in a video call system includes: receiving a video message originating call from a caller; Receiving and recording a video message to be delivered from the caller to the called party; Establishing a video call path by making a call to the called party; And reproducing the recorded video message to the called party.

In addition, according to a second aspect of the present invention for achieving the above object, a system for providing a video message service, the system includes: an exchange for receiving and routing an outgoing call from an originator; And when the outgoing call routed by the exchange is received, opens a video call path with the caller to record a video message, connects a call to a called party, establishes a video call path, and plays the recorded video message. It characterized by including.

In addition, according to a third aspect of the present invention for achieving the above object, a video message service apparatus for providing a video message service in a mobile communication network, the call receiving unit for receiving a call from the caller to establish a video call path; A video message recording unit for receiving and recording a video message of the caller through the video call path; A call setting unit which attempts to call the called party and establishes a video call path with the called party; And a video message reproducing unit for reproducing the recorded video message to the called party through the video call path established by the call setting unit.

In addition, according to a fourth aspect of the present invention for achieving the above object, a method for sending a video message in a mobile communication terminal supporting a video call, receiving a function code indicating the video message service from the user and the recipient's telephone number step; Transmitting an outgoing call including the function code and the called party's telephone number to a mobile communication network; Establishing a video call path with a video message recording server of the mobile communication network; And transmitting and recording the video of the user to the video message recording server through the opened video call path.

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 network configuration of a video message service system according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, the video message service system according to the present invention includes a base station (NodeB) 120 performing wireless section communication with the mobile communication terminal 110 and a base station controller (RNC) controlling the base station 120. 130, an exchanger (IMX) 140 connected to the base station controller 130 to perform a call exchange, and a home location register (HLR) connected to the exchanger 140 to store and process subscriber information and additional service information. 150, the video message recording server 160 is connected to the switch 140 to record and store the video message of the sender and transmit the stored video message to the called party. Such a video message service system is preferably a WCDMA system supporting a video call, but is not limited thereto.

Here, the mobile communication terminal 110 is a terminal supporting a video call, and the mobile communication terminal 110 can be applied without limitation as long as the terminal supports a video call. In particular, the mobile communication terminal 110 may be a terminal that does not support a multimedia messaging service (MMS) service. In general, a video message may be transmitted and received between mobile subscribers by attaching a video or the like to an MMS message, but the present invention transmits and receives video messages between mobile communication terminals that cannot transmit / receive such MMS messages (that is, not equipped with a WIFI platform). It is preferably used for.

 A caller who attempts to send a video message attempts a video call by inputting a function code indicating a video message service and a called party's telephone number to the mobile communication terminal 110. The mobile communication terminal 110 transmits an outgoing call including the function code, caller's phone number, and caller's phone number to the wireless section. Here, the function code may be a combination of numbers, special symbols, and the like. In this case, the caller inputs a combination of numbers and special symbols directly into the mobile communication terminal 110 and attempts to make a video call by entering the called party's telephone number. Alternatively, the function code may be a separate access key provided in the mobile communication terminal 110. In this case, the caller may attempt to make a video call by pressing the access key on the mobile communication terminal 110 and inputting the called party's telephone number.

The base station 120 performs radio signal transmission and reception, radio channel encoding and decoding, baseband signal processing, diversity (space), radio resource management, and self maintenance. The base station controller 130 performs functions such as matching with the base station 120, inter-cell handover processing, call control, and the like, and one base station controller 130 controls several base stations 120.

The exchange 140 provides an interface function with the base station controller 130, and provides an exchange function (interworking function) between mobile communication subscribers and a fixed network subscriber such as PSTN and ISDN. In particular, when the exchange 140 receives an outgoing call including a function code indicating a video message service, the switch 140 queries the home location register 150 for incoming call location information and includes a routing number to the video message recording server 160. Receive the location information response. The exchange 140 connects to the video message recording server 160 according to its routing number.

The home location register 150 stores and manages subscriber information and additional service information. In particular, when storing and managing function code information indicating a video message service and receiving a request for a destination location information query including a function code indicating a video message service, the routing number to the video message recording server 160 is received. It allocates and transmits to the exchange 140.

On the other hand, when the call is connected from the exchange 140, the video message recording server 160 establishes a video channel with the calling mobile terminal 110, receives and stores the video message to be delivered to the called party from the caller. The video message recording server 160 stores the recorded video message, the telephone number of the caller, and the telephone number of the called party.

The video message recording server 160 releases the video channel with the calling mobile terminal 110 when the video message recording of the caller is completed. In this case, the video message recording server 160 may receive and store a reservation time for transmitting a video message from the caller to the called party. To this end, when the video message recording server 160 completes the recording of the video message, the video message recording server 160 sends out a guide to reserve the transmission of the video message to the sender, and selects and stores the reservation time from the sender accordingly.

After the video message recording is completed as described above, the video message recording server 160 makes an outbound call to the called party's mobile communication terminal 110 to planet the video channel, and the video message recorded by the caller through the formed video channel. Play it. The video message recording server 160 may play a video message by accessing a video call call to the called party's mobile terminal 110 immediately after recording of the video message of the caller, or as described above, Upon arrival, a video call may be connected to the called party's mobile communication terminal 110 to play a video message.

After the video message recording server 160 delivers the video message to the called party, the video message recording server 160 creates a completion message indicating that the video message delivery is completed, and then forms a short messaging service center (SMSC, not shown), or a multimedia messaging service center (MMSC, not shown). Send to sender via The sender checks the completion message transmitted from the video message recording server 160 to recognize that the video message is properly delivered to the called party.

As described above, in the video message service system according to the present invention, when a caller sends a video call call including a function code indicating a video message service, the video message service system receives and records and stores a video message from the caller, and sets a scheduled time set by the caller. Alternatively, as soon as the video message recording of the caller is completed, a video call call is connected to the called party to play the video message recorded by the caller. Therefore, the caller can eliminate the need for a two-way conversation with the receiver by simply providing a video message instead of directly talking to the receiver when there is a situation.

In the present embodiment, a mobile communication network is described as an example, but it is evident that the present invention can be applied to any network capable of video call service (for example, Voice over IP). Hereinafter, a method of providing a video guide service in a video message service system according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIG. 1.

2 is a flowchart illustrating a method of providing a video message service in a video message service system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 2, a caller who attempts to send a video message attempts a call by inputting a function code indicating a video message service and a called party's telephone number to the terminal 110 capable of a video call (S201).

As such, the video call call sent from the calling terminal 110 is transmitted to the calling exchange 140, and the calling exchange 140 is the called location to the calling home location register 150 that receives the caller's location information. The information query is transmitted (S203). Here, the called location information query includes the caller's telephone number, a function code indicating the video message service, and the called party's telephone number.

The originating home location register 150, which has received the called location information query from the calling exchange 140, assigns a routing number based on a function code indicating the video message service included in the called location information query. In step S205, the destination location information response is transmitted to the calling exchange 140.

Upon receiving the called location information response from the calling home location register 150, the calling side exchange 140 calls the video message recording server 160 according to the routing number included in the called location information response (IAM: Initial Address). Message) is transmitted (S207).

Subsequently, the video message recording server 160 transmits an acknowledgment signal (ACM: Address Completion Message, ANM: Answer Message) to the originating exchange 140 in response to the call transmission from the originating exchange 140 (S209). Accordingly, a video call path is established between the calling terminal 110 and the video message recording server 160 (S211).

Next, the video message recording server 160 transmits the announcement related to the video message recording to the calling terminal 110 and receives and records the video message to be delivered to the called party from the calling terminal 110 (S213). The video message recording server 160 stores the video message recorded by the caller and the called party's phone number together. In this case, when the video message recording server 160 completes the video message recording of the caller, the video message recording server 160 may transmit the announcement related to the reservation transmission to the calling terminal 110 to set the video message transmission reservation time. The video message recording server 160 stores the recorded video message, the called party's telephone number, and the transmission reservation time together.

As such, immediately after the video message recording is completed or when the transmission scheduled time set by the caller arrives, the video message recording server 160 makes an out-bound call to the called party and records the video message recorded by the caller. Play it.

First, the video message recording server 160 transmits the called party's location information query to the called party's home location register 150 that receives the called party's location information (S215), and responds to the called party's location information from the called party's home location register 150. It receives (S217).

Then, the video message recording server 160 transmits a call connection message (IAM: Initial Address Message) to the called party exchange 140 according to the called party location information response transmitted from the called party home location register 150 (S219). ). The destination side exchange 140 pages the destination terminal 110 and transmits a call response message (ACM: Address Completion Message) to the video message recording server 160 (S221 and S223).

When the called party terminal 110 responds, the called party exchange 140 transmits a response message (ANM: Answer Messege) to the video message recording server 160 to send the called terminal 110 and the video message recording server 160. In step S225, a video call path is formed. Subsequently, the video message recording server 160 reproduces the video message recorded by the caller through the formed video call path to the called terminal 110 (S227).

According to this method, the caller can talk to the called party indirectly without directly talking to the called party. The caller can simply deliver the message directly to the called party through the video message, and not waste unnecessary talk time.

3 is a block diagram of a video message recording server according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 3, the video message recording server according to the present invention includes a call reception unit 301, a video message recording unit 303, a storage unit 305, a call setup unit 307, and a video message playback unit. 309.

The call receiving unit 301 receives an outgoing call for recording a video message sent from the caller. Specifically, when a caller attempts a call by inputting a function code and a called party number for recording a video message, the exchanger 140 interprets the function code and transmits the caller's call to the video message recording server 160. . The call receiving unit 301 receives a call transmitted from the exchange 140.

The video message recording unit 303 receives and records a video message to be transmitted from the caller to the called party according to the caller's call connection. When the video message recording unit 303 is completed, the video message recording unit 303 may receive a transmission reservation time by sending a related announcement to set the transmission reservation time to the caller.

The storage unit 305 stores the video message and video message recording information (eg, time, caller information, etc.) recorded by the video message recording unit 303, and the telephone number of the called party to which the recorded video message is to be transferred. In addition, the storage unit 305 may store a transmission reservation time for delivering the recorded video message to a called party.

The call setup unit 307 refers to the storage unit 305 to attempt an outbound call to the called party, and establishes a call path with the called party. More specifically, the call setup unit 307 attempts to call the called party using the called party's phone number stored in response to the video message stored in the storage unit 305, and when the called party answers the call, the call setting unit 307 establishes a video call path with the called party. Open. At this time, when the video message transmission reservation time is set in the storage unit 305, the call setting unit 307 establishes a call with the called party when the transmission reservation time arrives.

The video message reproducing unit 309 establishes a video message recorded by the caller stored in the storage unit 305 as a call with the established called party when the call setting unit 307 establishes a call path with the called party. The video message recorded by the caller is delivered to the called party.

Accordingly, the caller can call the called party indirectly without directly talking to the called party. The caller can simply deliver the message directly to the called party through the video message, and not waste unnecessary talk time.

4 is a flowchart illustrating a method of transmitting a video message in a mobile communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 4, a caller who wants to send a video message inputs a function code indicating a video message service and a called party's telephone number to the mobile communication terminal 110 and presses a call button (S401). The mobile communication terminal 110 transmits an outgoing call including the function code, caller's phone number, and caller's phone number to the wireless section. Here, the function code may be a combination of numbers, special symbols, and the like. In this case, the caller inputs a combination of numbers and special symbols directly into the mobile communication terminal 110 and attempts to make a video call by entering the called party's telephone number. Alternatively, the function code may be a separate access key provided in the mobile communication terminal 110. In this case, the caller may attempt to make a video call by pressing the access key on the mobile communication terminal 110 and inputting the called party's telephone number.

As such, when a call is attempted by inputting a function code indicating a video message service and a called party's telephone number, the mobile communication terminal 110 transmits a calling call including the function code, the calling party's telephone number, and the called party's telephone number. And the outgoing call of the mobile communication terminal 110 is transmitted to the video message recording server 160. Accordingly, a video call path is established between the mobile communication terminal 110 and the video message recording server 160 (S403). In this case, the video message recording server 160 may transmit a guide message for transmitting the video message to the mobile communication terminal 110. For example, "If you hear a beep, leave a video message to the called party. When you are finished recording the video message, please press #."

The caller records a video message to be sent to the called party according to the guidance of the video message recording server 160 (S405). Video message recording is performed by looking at a camera provided in the mobile communication terminal 110 as in a general video call. The caller records the video message as if speaking to the called party. When the video message recording is completed, the caller presses a key button indicating that the recording is completed on the mobile communication terminal 110. For example, press the well sperm (#).

After the video message recording is completed as described above, the caller may reserve a time to send the video message (S407). The video message recording server 160 transmits the announcement for the transmission reservation time setting to the mobile communication terminal 110 and receives the transmission reservation time from the caller.

When all these processes are completed, the video call between the sender's mobile communication terminal 110 and the video message recording server 160 is released to complete the call. Next, upon arrival of the scheduled transmission time set by the caller, the video message recording server 160 forms a video call path by calling the called party and plays the video message recorded by the caller. That is, the video message recording server 160 forms a video call path with the called party through a general call connection process with the called party, and plays the video message recorded by the initiator in the formed video call path.

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.

The present invention as described above, it is possible to transmit the video message to the receiver out of the framework of the existing text message, it is possible to increase the utilization rate of the video call currently being actively serviced. In addition, the text message has a limitation of meaning transmission in terms of subscribers, but the video message can deliver a message as if it is a conversation, thereby causing interest to the subscriber and enabling more clear communication.

Claims (9)

A method for providing a video message service in a video call system, (a) the originating exchange, from the originator, receiving a video call originating call comprising a function code; (b) the originating exchange, sending a request for interpretation of the function code to a home location register and receiving a response thereto; (c) the originating exchange opening a video call path by connecting to a video message recording server based on the received response; (d) receiving and recording, by the video message recording server, a video message from the caller through the video call path; (e) establishing, by the video message recording server, a video call path by connecting a call to the called party; And (f) the video message recording server, reproducing the recorded video message to the called party through the video call path of step (e). delete The method of claim 1, Receiving a selection of a reservation time for delivering a video message from the sender; The step (e), the video message service providing method characterized in that the reservation time is arrived. A system for providing a video message service, A switch for making a request for interpretation of the function code to a home location register upon receiving a video call origination call including a function code from a caller and connecting the call to a video message recording apparatus at a later stage based on the response; And Opening a video call path with the caller according to a call connection of the exchange, recording a video message of the caller, establishing a video call path by making a call connection to a called party, and playing the recorded video message through the video call path; And a video message recording apparatus. delete The method of claim 4, wherein The video message recording device, And receiving a video message transmission reservation time from the caller and connecting to the called party when the transmission reservation time arrives. delete delete delete

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