KR100905196B1 - System and method for providing telephone book deposit service interworking user defined telephone book file - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention provides a method and system for providing an address book storage service interoperating with an address book defined by a user, and the method for providing an address book storage service by an address book storage server for storing an address book with standardized fields in a mobile communication network according to the present invention is provided. Receiving a custom address book; Receiving a standardized field name corresponding to each field name constituting the user-defined address book from the user; And converting and storing the user-defined address book into an internal address book storage format based on the selected standardized field name.

Custom Address Book, Internal Address Book, Export, Import, Address Book Archiving Service

Description

Method and system for providing address book storage service interworking with user defined address book {SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING TELEPHONE BOOK DEPOSIT SERVICE INTERWORKING USER DEFINED TELEPHONE BOOK FILE}

The present invention relates to an address book storage service in a mobile communication system, and more particularly, to a method and system for providing an address book storage service interoperating with an external address book defined by a user.

Recently, with the rapid development of electronic engineering, communication engineering, and terminal technology, mobile terminals have various functions. That is, with the rapid development of wireless communication and data processing technology, users can use not only voice calls but also wireless Internet access, video communication, and video message transmission using mobile terminals. In addition, due to the considerable amount of communication that occurs in human relationships through mobile terminals, mobile terminals have become a necessity of modern man.

On the other hand, the phone number storage function is implemented in the mobile terminal, so that users can store a plurality of phone numbers and corresponding person's names (or business names or other user's recognition names) in the mobile terminal, search for them, and communicate with others. I can do it. In addition, the address book of a mobile terminal is widely used by users because it is more convenient to modify, delete, and input than a recording medium such as a notebook and a diary, and is also easy to carry.

However, when the user loses the mobile terminal, a problem occurs that the address book stored in the mobile terminal is also lost. That is, the user may not be in contact with others stored in the address book due to the loss of the mobile terminal. In view of these problems, an address book storage service for storing an address book stored in a mobile terminal of a user in a server of a mobile communication system has been disclosed. That is, the address book stored in the user's mobile terminal is automatically stored in the server (hereinafter, referred to as the address book storage server) of the mobile communication system, so that the user can download the address book stored in the address book storage server to the new mobile terminal even if the user loses the mobile terminal. .

In addition, when a user accesses the address book storage server through the Internet and modifies, deletes, or adds the address book through a web page, the address book storage server reflects the changed information and transmits the changed information to the mobile terminal. However, when a user accesses an address book storage server and adds a plurality of address books, the user may have to enter the address book data into a corresponding item of a web page. In order to solve this problem, a service of uploading an address book in a specific file format is in place, but each entry field (ie, name, mobile phone number, address, etc.) recorded in the file is different from the address book field name stored in the address book storage server. There is a problem that must match. For example, the address book stored in Outlook Express does not match the address book field name of the address book storage server, and the number of field items is also different, so that the address book file of the Outlook Express cannot be uploaded to the address book storage server.

For this reason, in order to upload an external file address book such as Excel or CSV (Comma Separated Value) to the address book storage server, the user must change the field name recorded in the external file to the standardized field format of the address book storage server. This acts as a problem that causes inconvenience to the user. In addition, an external address book (eg, an Outlook address book, etc.) that cannot be changed in the address book field cannot be uploaded to the address book storage server 130 itself.

The present invention has been proposed to solve the above problems, and an object thereof is to provide a method and system for providing an address book storage service for automatically converting and storing an external file defined by a user into a format of an address book storage server of a mobile communication network.

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.

In accordance with a first aspect of the present invention, a method for providing an address book storage service by an address book storage server for storing an address book with standardized fields in a mobile communication network includes: (a) receiving a user-defined address book from a user; step; (b) receiving a standardized field name corresponding to each field name constituting the user-defined address book from the user; And (c) converting and storing the user-defined address book into an internal address book storage format based on the selected standardized field name.

In accordance with a second aspect of the present invention, an address book storage device providing an address book storage service in association with a user defined address book in a mobile communication network includes: a database storing an address book for each user; An import module for receiving mapping information of each field name of the user-defined address book and each field name specified in the database from the user when receiving a request for uploading a user-defined address book from the user; And a converting unit converting the user-defined address book into a standardized address book format of the database based on the mapping information, wherein the import module stores the converted user-defined address book in the database. .

As described above, the present invention can automatically convert an external address book file defined by a user to a file format stored in an address book storage server, thereby eliminating the trouble of having to change a field of an external address book file according to an internal standard.

In addition, the present invention provides a user by converting the address book stored in the address book storage server of the mobile communication network into a file form.

In particular, when the user cancels the address book storage service, by converting the user's entire address book into a file and transmitting the user's e-mail, there is an advantage that the address book of the terminated subscriber can be preserved.

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 view showing the configuration of a system for providing an address book storage service in conjunction with a user defined address book according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 1, a system for providing an address book storage service in conjunction with a user defined address book according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a mobile terminal 110, an address book storage server 130, and a wired terminal 150. Include. Each of these components is connected to each other through the mobile communication network 120 and the Internet 140. Herein, the mobile communication network 120 is a CDMA, WCDMA, or GSM network including a base station (BTS / NodeB), a base station controller (BSC / RNC), a switch, and a device for packet data service (PDSN, SGSN, IWF, etc.). Since the present invention is well known in the art, detailed description thereof will be omitted.

The mobile terminal 110 is a terminal subscribed to an address book storage service, and includes an application capable of uploading and downloading address book data stored in the mobile terminal. The mobile terminal 110 includes a PDA, a cellular phone, a PCS phone, a WCDMA phone, a Wibro phone, and the like.

The address book storage server 130 communicates with the mobile terminal 110 through the mobile communication network 120 and the communication module 131 for communicating with the wired terminal 150 through the Internet 140, a backup management agent for managing the address book ( 133), a Short Message Service (SMS) agent 135 that notifies the SMS message of changes to the announcement or address book.

The backup management agent 133 stores the address book data of the user uploaded from the mobile terminal 110 in the address book DB 137, and downloads and modifies the address book data stored in the address book DB 137 upon request of the mobile terminal 110. , Delete it.

In addition, the backup management agent 133 enables the address book storage service user to manage data stored in the address book DB 137 using the wired / wireless Internet 140. When the data storage service user accesses the address book storage server 130 using a wired terminal 150 (for example, a general purpose computer or a PMP), the address book storage server 130 stores the address book data of the user stored in the address book DB 137. The information is read and provided in a web page such as HTML, and the user performs modification, deletion, addition and the like on the provided address book data. The address book storage server 130 reflects the address book data management items of the user in the address book DB 137.

On the other hand, when the backup management agent 133 receives an address book file upload request such as Excel, CSV (Comma Separated value), Outlook, Outlook Express, etc. from the wired terminal 150, the file is stored as an internal file. The format is converted into the address book DB 137 and stored. In addition, the backup management agent 133 may convert the user's address book stored in the address book DB 137 into a file and transmit the file to the user's wired terminal 150 or the user's e-mail.

When the user address book file uploaded through the wired terminal 150 is stored in the address book DB 137, the SMS agent 135 transmits an SMS message indicating that the address book is stored to the mobile terminal 110 of the user. In addition, when the SMS agent 135 converts the entire address book of the user whose service is canceled by the backup management agent 133 into a file and transmits it to the user's e-mail, the SMS agent 135 sends an SMS message indicating that the address book has been transmitted to the user's e-mail. Transmits to the mobile terminal 110.

The wired terminal 150 includes a general-purpose computer and a Wibro computer. The wired terminal 150 may access the address book storage server 130 and perform operations such as changing, deleting, and adding an address book. Upload to DB 137. In addition, the wired terminal 150 may request to download the address book stored in the address book DB 137 and receive the file as a file.

Hereinafter, a user address book file such as Excel, Outlook Express, Outlook, or CSV file stored in the wired terminal 150 will be referred to as a "user defined address book", and the address book stored in the address book DB 137 will be described as "internal address book".

2 is a view showing the configuration of the backup management agent of the address book storage server according to an embodiment of the present invention, the backup management agent 133 is only a portion that is operated through the Internet 140, except the mobile communication network 120 Illustrated.

As shown in FIG. 2, the backup management agent 133 includes an import module 201, an export module 203, and a conversion unit 205.

The import module 201 receives the upload request of the user-defined address book from the wired terminal 150 and requests the conversion unit 205 to convert the format of the user-defined address book. At this time, the field mapping unit 201a included in the import module 201 requests and receives field mapping information of the user-defined address book corresponding to each field name of the internal address book to the wired terminal 150. In addition, the import module 201 requests and receives the group information to which the user-defined address book belongs, to the wired terminal 150, and stores the user-defined address book converted into the internal address book format in the corresponding user group of the address book DB 137. do.

Meanwhile, the import module 201 compares the user address book and the address book of the user stored in the address book DB 137, and if duplicate address data exists in the user address book, the duplicate address data is removed and the remaining address is removed. Only data can be stored in the address book DB (137).

The export module 203 receives an address book download request including a download item from the wired terminal 150, extracts an internal address book corresponding to the item from the address book DB 137, and requests a file conversion to the conversion unit 205. Then, the converted internal address book file is transmitted to the wired terminal 150. In addition, the export module 203 extracts the entire address book of the user who has canceled the address book storage service from the address book DB 137, requests the file conversion to the conversion unit 205, and attaches the converted file to the user's e-mail. send.

Meanwhile, the export module 203 checks whether the internal address book of the user stored in the address book DB 137 is duplicated, excludes the duplicate address data, and requests a file conversion from the conversion unit 205, thereby converting the converted file. The wired terminal 150 may be transmitted.

When the conversion unit 205 receives the conversion request of the user-defined address book from the import module 201, the conversion unit 205 converts the user-defined address book to the storage format of the address book DB 137 based on the mapping information of the field mapping unit 201a. . That is, the conversion unit 205 refers to the field name input by the user, changes each field name of the user-defined address book into a standardized field name of the address book DB 137, and converts the address book file format into an internal address book format. do.

In addition, when the conversion unit 205 receives a conversion request from the export module 203, the conversion unit 205 converts the internal address book extracted by the export module 203 into an Excel, Comma Separated Value (CSV), Outlook, or Outlook Express file format.

3 is a flowchart illustrating a method of providing an address book storage service in connection with a user defined address book according to an embodiment of the present invention.

4 illustrates a web page for uploading a user-defined address book according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3 and 4, the import module 201 of the address book storage server 130 receives an upload request of a user-defined address book from the wired terminal 150 (S301). At this time, any one of Excel, Comma Separated Value (CSV), Outlook, and Outlook Express files selected by the wired terminal 150 is transmitted to the address book storage server 130. 4A is a web page providing a user-defined address book upload, and FIG. 4A (B) is an Excel file which is a user-defined address book. That is, the user clicks the Excel file browse button 403 in the web page of FIG. 4A, selects the Excel file in FIG. 4A, and then clicks the "Import" button 405. The storage server 130 may request the upload of the user-defined address book.

Then, the field mapping unit 201a of the address book storage server 130 requests and receives the field mapping information of the user-defined address book corresponding to the standardized field name of the internal address book from the wired terminal 150 (S303 and S305). 4C is a web page for requesting the mapping information from the address book storage server 130 to the wired terminal 150. The user inputs the mapping information and clicks the import button 409 to display the mapping information. Send to the address book storage server (130). For example, the mapping information may be mapped to a name: NAME, a work phone: OFFICE, a mobile phone: PHONE1, a home phone: HOME1, a home address: H.Addr, a birthday: a day born to be loved, and the like.

Meanwhile, the field including the "add" button 407 indicates that an additional field item can be created in a specific field (ie, work phone, company fax, mobile phone, home phone, etc.). That is, as users can own multiple phone numbers, mobile phone, work phone, company fax, home phone, etc. require a number of field items, and thus the "add" button 407 is additional data to the user. Provides an interface for entering. For example, when the user clicks the "add" button 407 next to the mobile phone item on the web page of FIG. 4C, the mobile phone 2 item is generated directly below the mobile phone item. In addition, the user may map the "cellphone2" field of the internal address book and the "PHONE2" field of the user-defined address book.

Upon receiving the mapping information, the import module 201 converts the format of the user-defined address book into the storage format of the address book DB 137 through the conversion unit 205 based on the mapping information (S307). At this time, the import module 201 checks whether the data of the user-defined address book is duplicated with the internal address book data of the address book DB 137, removes the duplicate data from the user-defined address book, and then converts the user-defined address book into the address book DB ( 137) to a storage format (ie, an internal address book format). That is, when the upload of the user-defined address book is requested from the wired terminal 150, when the "Import after duplicate cleanup 401" is checked on the web page of FIG. 4A, the import module 201 Address data already stored in the internal address book (that is, duplicate address data) can be excluded from the custom address book and converted into the internal address book format.

When format conversion of the user-defined address book is completed, the import module 201 extracts group information of the corresponding user from the address book DB 137 (S309). The import module 201 of the address book storage server 130 requests and receives the group information input to which the user-defined address book belongs, to the wired terminal 150 (S311 and S313). At this time, the import module 201 includes the extracted user group information and the format-converted user-defined address book in a web page and transmits the same to the wired terminal 150. 4B is a web page of an address book transmitted to the wired terminal 150 and includes a group selection statement 411 to which the address book belongs. The user may select one of the items (eg, friend, family, company, etc.) included in the selection sentence 411 or create a new group to determine the group to which the user-defined address book belongs. On the other hand, when the group is not selected, "group unspecified" information is transmitted to the address book storage server 130.

The import module 201 receiving the group information stores the converted user-defined address book in the corresponding user group of the address book DB 137 (S315). The address book storage server 130 transmits the user-defined address book stored in the address book DB 137 to the mobile terminal 110 of the corresponding user (S317). In this case, as soon as the address book uploaded through the wired terminal 150 is stored in the address book DB 137, the address book storage server 130 transmits the address book to the mobile terminal 110 to display the address book of the mobile terminal 110. You can update it. In addition, the address book storage server 130 may periodically receive an address book update signal from the mobile terminal 110 and transmit the address book stored in the address book DB 130 to the mobile terminal 110.

5 is a flowchart illustrating a method of converting an internal address book into a file and transmitting the file in the address book storage server according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

6 is a diagram illustrating a web page for downloading an internal address book according to an embodiment of the present invention.

5 and 6, the export module 203 of the address book storage server 130 receives a request to download an address book from the wired terminal 150 (S501). That is, the user may select any one of an Excel file, a CSV file, Outlook Express, or Outlook from the web page of FIG. 6A and request the internal address book download to the address book storage server 130. Then, the export module 203 extracts the group information of the corresponding user from the address book DB 137 (S503).

Subsequently, the export module 203 requests and receives a group to be downloaded and a download item from the wired terminal 150 of the user (S505 and S507). As shown in (b) of FIG. 6, the user selects a desired group (e.g., friend, work, family, etc.) from the group selection statement 603, and also selects a specific item (i.e. name, mobile phone number) from the address book data. , Home phone number, etc.) can be downloaded and requested to the address book storage server 130. At this time, the user clicks the export all item button 607 of FIG. 6 (b) to download all of the items listed above (ie, name, mobile phone, home phone, company phone, fax phone ...) In operation 130, the user may download the checked item data from the listed items to the address book storage server 130 by clicking the export selection item button 605.

Then, the export module 203 extracts the address book data corresponding to the download item from the internal address book included in the selected group from the address book DB 137, and selects the file format (Excel, CSV, Outlook address or Outlook Express) to convert the address book data (S509). At this time, the export module 203 may check whether there is duplicate data in the extracted user's address book, and if there is duplicate data, remove the duplicate data from the address book and convert the data into an external file. That is, when the address book download request is received from the wired terminal 150, when "Export 601 after duplication cleanup" of the web page of FIG. 6A is checked, the export module 203 extracts duplicate data of the internal address book. You can remove it to convert your internal address book to an external file format.

When the internal address book is converted into a file format selected by the user, the address book storage server 130 transmits the converted file to the wired terminal 130 (S511). As illustrated in (c) of FIG. 6, the user may receive the download request address book as an Excel, CSV, Outlook, or Outlook Express file and store it in the wired terminal 150.

7 is a flowchart illustrating a method of transmitting an internal address book to an email of a subscriber whose service is canceled by an address book storage server according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 7, the address book storage server 130 receives a service cancellation request from the user's mobile terminal 110 or the wired terminal 150 (S701). Then, the address book storage server 130 transmits a message for inquiring whether to delete the internal address book or the internal address book to the mobile terminal 110 or the wired terminal 150 of the user (S703).

When receiving a message for requesting the address book storage from the mobile terminal 110 or the wired terminal 150 of the user, the export module 203 extracts the entire address book of the user from the address book DB 137 to export the Excel, CSV, Outlook or Convert to Outlook Express format (S705, S707). Subsequently, the export module 203 extracts the e-mail of the corresponding user and attaches the converted internal address book file to the e-mail and transmits it (S709).

The address book storage server 130 deletes the user's entire address book from the address book DB 137 (S711). On the other hand, upon receiving the address book deletion request message from the mobile terminal 110 or the wired terminal 150 of the user in step S705, the address book storage server 130 does not send the internal address book by e-mail, the entire address book of the user Delete from the address book DB (137).

The method of the present invention as described above 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 view showing the configuration of a system for providing an address book storage service in conjunction with a user defined address book according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of a backup management agent of an address book storage server according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

3 is a flowchart illustrating a method of providing an address book storage service in connection with a user defined address book according to an embodiment of the present invention.

4 illustrates a web page for uploading a user-defined address book according to an embodiment of the present invention.

5 is a flowchart illustrating a method of converting an internal address book into a file and transmitting the file in the address book storage server according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

6 is a diagram illustrating a web page for downloading an internal address book according to an embodiment of the present invention.

7 is a flowchart illustrating a method of transmitting an internal address book to an email of a subscriber whose service is canceled by an address book storage server according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

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131: communication module 133: backup management agent

135: SMS Agent 201: Import Module

201a: field mapping unit 203: export module

205: converter

Claims (12)

A method for providing an address book storage service by an address book storage server for storing an address book with standardized fields in a mobile communication network, (a) receiving a custom address book from a user; (b) providing the user with an interface for mapping each of the standardized field names corresponding to each field name of the user-defined address book, and receiving mapping information from the user from the user; And (c) converting and storing the user-defined address book into an internal address book storage format based on the received mapping information and storing the address book. The method of claim 1, In step (c), Receiving a selection of a group for storing the user-defined address book from the user; And And storing the converted address book in a selected group. The method according to claim 1 or 2, In step (c), And storing the address book by checking whether the user-defined address book and the internally stored address book are duplicated. The method of claim 3, wherein The custom address book, Excel, CSV (Comma Separated value), Outlook, Outlook Express file providing method characterized in that at least one of the Outlook. The method of claim 1, Receiving an internal address book download request including a download item from a user; And And converting the address book corresponding to the downloaded item into an external file and transmitting the converted address book to a user terminal. The method of claim 1, Receiving a service termination request from a user; And Converting the entire internal address book of the user into an external file, and attaching and transmitting the same to the user's e-mail. An address book storage device that provides an address book storage service by interworking with a user-defined address book in a mobile communication network, A database storing an address book for each user; Upon receiving a request for uploading a user-defined address book from a user, providing the user with an interface for mapping each field name of the database corresponding to each field name of the user-defined address book, and providing mapping information through the interface. An import module for receiving from a user; And And a converting unit converting the user-defined address book into a standardized address book format of the database based on the mapping information. And the import module stores the converted user-defined address book in the database. The method of claim 7, wherein The import module, And selecting a group to store the user-defined address book from the user and storing the converted address book in the selected group. The method according to claim 7 or 8, The import module, And storing the address book by checking whether the user-defined address book and the internal address book stored in the database are duplicated. The method of claim 9, The custom address book, Address book storage device, characterized in that at least one of Excel, Comma Separated value (CSV), Outlook, Outlook Express file. The method of claim 7, wherein And an export module for converting an address book corresponding to the download item into an external file when receiving an internal address book download request including a download item from a user. The method of claim 11, The export module, When receiving a service cancellation request from the user, the address book storage device, characterized in that for transmitting the entire internal address book of the user as a file attached to the user's email.

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