KR100925244B1 - Method and apparatus for providing service internet telephone - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A method for providing an Internet phone service and an apparatus thereof are provided to enable one terminal to offer the Internet phone service in which the caller ID presentation service is possible to a local phone number. CONSTITUTION: A storage unit(140) stores a plurality of phone numbers which are assigned to a representative phone and at least one personal phone. A calling service control unit(152) receives an originating call from one phone, and processes the originating call. A call connection is requested. A calling service providing unit sets up one of plural phone numbers as a caller ID presentation information according to the setting of a user. A called service control unit(154) extracts a called phone number from a received call.

Description

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING SERVICE INTERNET TELEPHONE}

The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for providing an Internet telephone service.

Voice over IP (VoIP) allows you to use voice or voice services without a distinction of calling rights by transmitting voice or voice and added data in packet units through the IP network, not the circuit network. Say phone service. In addition to making calls from any point where you can access the Internet, you can answer calls to your forwarding number. In addition, due to the nature of the Internet network regardless of the region, there is no distinction of calling areas such as landline telephones. In addition, the internet phone also provides a call indication service that can check the phone number of the other party when the incoming call, such as landline phones and mobile phones.

Currently, households with family members of two or more generations have telephones in each room. That is, a household generally uses a representative phone that performs a main body function and a personal / wireless personal phone. Such a personal telephone may be a telephone that performs only a handy function.

However, in order to use an Internet telephone by using a different telephone number in each room, an Internet telephone capable of making a voice call through the Internet network must be installed. In addition, since the outgoing display service is provided to the telephone number of the Internet telephone used by the family member, when the outgoing display should be displayed on the telephone number of the representative telephone, it is not possible to use an internet telephone having a low phone rate.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in an effort to provide an apparatus and method for providing an internet telephone service capable of providing an internet telephone service capable of a call display service using a local telephone number.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, an apparatus for providing an Internet telephone service for transmitting and receiving voice data with an indoor terminal including a representative telephone and at least one personal telephone through an internet network or a public switched telephone network (PSTN) network is provided. An apparatus for providing an Internet phone service according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a storage unit, an outgoing service provider, and an incoming service provider. The storage unit stores a plurality of telephone numbers respectively assigned to the representative telephone and the at least one personal telephone. An outgoing service provider receives an outgoing call from any one of the representative phone and the at least one personal phone, processes the received outgoing call, requests a call connection, and sets a user when the call connection is requested. Accordingly, one of the plurality of telephone numbers is set as outgoing call indication information. The incoming service provider receives the incoming call to the user, extracts the incoming phone number from the received incoming call, and the telephone number corresponding to the incoming phone number extracted from the representative phone and the at least one personal phone is displayed. Generate ring signal to assigned phone.

According to another embodiment of the present invention, a service providing method of an Internet telephone service providing apparatus for transmitting and receiving voice data with an indoor terminal including a representative telephone and at least one personal telephone through an internet network or a public switched telephone network (PSTN) network This is provided. According to an embodiment of the present invention, a method for providing a service includes receiving an outgoing call from any one of the representative phone and the at least one personal phone, and according to a user's setting, the representative phone and the at least one personal phone. Receiving outgoing information corresponding to a phone number to be set as outgoing call indication information among a plurality of phone numbers respectively assigned to the terminal; and displaying the outgoing call indication information according to the outgoing information to establish a call connection to the outgoing call. Requesting.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, since one terminal can provide an Internet telephone service capable of calling party display service to a local telephone number of a PSTN telephone, it is possible to activate an Internet telephone.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings so that those skilled in the art may easily implement the present invention. As those skilled in the art would realize, the described embodiments may be modified in various different ways, all without departing from the spirit or scope of the present invention. In the drawings, parts irrelevant to the description are omitted in order to clearly describe the present invention. Like parts are designated by like reference numerals throughout the specification.

Throughout the specification, when a part is said to "include" a certain component, it means that it can further include other components, except to exclude other components unless specifically stated otherwise.

An apparatus and method for providing an internet telephony service according to an embodiment of the present invention will now be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 is a diagram schematically illustrating an apparatus for providing an internet telephony service according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 1, the apparatus 100 for providing an Internet telephone service 100 is a terminal for enabling IP-based voice calls, and includes a public switched telephone network (hereinafter referred to as a “PSTN network”) 300 or the Internet. The voice signal transmitted through the network 200 is transmitted to the indoor terminal 400, and the voice signal transmitted through the indoor terminal 400 is transmitted through the PSTN network 300 or the Internet network 200.

The indoor terminal 400 is a terminal capable of voice communication, such as a digital cordless phone and a Bluetooth phone, and includes a plurality of personal phones 410a, 410b, and 410c and a representative phone 420.

These personal telephones 410a, 410b, 410c may be Internet wireless telephones, and the representative telephone 420 may be a public switched telephone network (PSTN) telephone. At this time, the personal telephones 410a, 410b, and 410c are respectively assigned telephone numbers for internet telephones so as to identify them as Internet telephones, and the representative telephones 420 are assigned local telephone numbers. In FIG. 1, three personal phones 410a, 410b, and 410c are illustrated, but the number of personal phones 410a, 410b, and 410c may be smaller or larger.

Internet phone service providing apparatus 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention stores the local telephone number assigned to the representative telephone 420 and the telephone number for the Internet telephone assigned to the personal telephones (410a, 410b, 410c), respectively. do. Therefore, when the Internet phone service providing apparatus 100 receives an incoming call sent from the caller through the PSTN network 300 or the Internet network 200, the Internet phone service providing apparatus 100 extracts the incoming phone number from the received incoming call. At this time, the Internet telephone service providing apparatus 100 generates a ring signal to a telephone to which a telephone number corresponding to the called telephone number extracted from the representative telephone 420 and the personal telephones 410a, 410b, and 410c is assigned to establish a call connection. request.

In addition, the Internet phone service providing apparatus 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention, when receiving the call signal from the representative phone 420 and the personal telephones (410a, 410b, 410c), according to the user set the representative phone 420 and A call number is requested by setting caller ID information on one of a plurality of telephone numbers assigned to the personal telephones 410a, 410b, and 410c, respectively.

2 is a block diagram of an apparatus for providing Internet telephone service according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As illustrated in FIG. 2, the apparatus 100 for providing an Internet phone service includes an external interface unit 110, a terminal interface unit 120, a wireless processing unit 130, a storage unit 140, and a controller 150. .

The external interface unit 110 supports an interface between the PSTN network 300 and the controller 150 and the internet network 200 and the controller 150.

The terminal interface unit 120 supports an interface between the controller 150 and the representative phone 420.

The wireless processor 130 supports an interface between the controller 150 and the personal telephones 410a, 410b, and 410c by using a radio frequency.

The storage unit 140 stores the local telephone number assigned to the representative telephone 420 and the telephone number for the Internet telephone allocated to the personal telephones 410a, 410b, and 410c, respectively. At this time, the telephone numbers for Internet telephones assigned to the personal telephones 410a, 410b, and 410c may be identified by different telephone numbers for internet telephones.

The control unit 150 includes an outgoing service control unit 152 and an incoming service control unit 154.

When the outgoing call is received from the representative phone 420 and the personal phones 410a, 410b, and 410c, the outgoing service control unit 152 extracts the incoming phone number from the received outgoing call and requests a call connection to the extracted incoming phone number. At this time, the outgoing service control unit 152 requests a call connection through the PSTN network 300 when the telephone number of the telephone generating the outgoing call is a local telephone number, and the telephone number of the telephone generating the outgoing call is for Internet telephony. In case of a phone number, a call connection is requested through the Internet network 200. In addition, the outgoing service control unit 152 requests a call connection by setting one of the phone numbers of the representative phone 420 and the phone numbers of the personal phones 410a, 410b, and 410c as outgoing call indication information according to a user setting. Specifically, the outgoing service control unit 152 may set the telephone number of the telephone that generated the outgoing call among the representative phone 420 and the personal phones 410a, 410b, and 410c as outgoing call indication information. It is also possible to set the telephone number of an unattended phone as outgoing call indication information. For example, when the outgoing call is received from one of the personal phones 410a, 410b, and 410c, the outgoing service control unit 152 may set the local telephone number of the representative phone as the outgoing call indication information according to the user setting.

On the other hand, after the call channel between the caller (that is, the user) and the called party is established, the calling service control unit 152 converts the received voice data into an analog voice signal when the called phone number is a local phone number and converts the PSTN network 300 into an analog voice signal. In the case where the called phone number is a phone number for Internet telephony, the received voice data is converted into an IP packet signal and transmitted to the Internet network 200.

When the incoming service control unit 154 receives an incoming call to the user through the PSTN network 300 or the Internet network 200, the incoming service control unit 154 extracts the incoming phone number from the received incoming call. The incoming service control unit 154 detects a telephone to which a telephone number corresponding to the incoming telephone number extracted among the representative telephone 420 and the personal telephones 410a, 410b, and 410c of the indoor terminal 400 is assigned, and the detected telephone It generates a ring signal to request a call connection. At this time, when the extracted incoming call number is a local phone number, the incoming service control unit 154 generates a ring signal to the representative phone 420 and the personal phones 410a, 410b, and 410c of the indoor terminal 400 to establish a call connection. If the extracted incoming call number corresponds to one of the personal phones 410a, 410b, and 410c, a ring signal may be generated only by the corresponding personal phone to request a call connection.

In addition, when the incoming service control unit 154 generates a ring signal to the representative phone 420 and the personal phones 410a, 410b, and 410c, one of the representative phone 420 and the personal phones 410a, 410b, and 410c is generated. When a response is received from the telephone, it stops the ring signal generated by the remaining telephones.

3 is a flowchart illustrating an outgoing call processing method of an apparatus for providing an Internet telephone service according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 3, when a user transmits an outgoing call by pressing an incoming phone number using the representative phone 420 and the personal phones 410a, 410b, and 410c of the indoor terminal 400, the outgoing service control unit 152 may transmit the outgoing call. Receive an outgoing call transmitted from the user (S310).

In addition, the outgoing service control unit 152 receives outgoing information to be set as outgoing call display information (S320). The calling information includes the telephone number of the local telephone number assigned to the representative telephone 420 of the indoor terminal 400 and one of the telephone numbers for the Internet telephone in the personal telephones 410a, 410b, and 410c, respectively. At this time, the originating service control unit 152 may request the calling information to the telephone requesting the outgoing call, and may receive the calling information in response thereto, and request the calling information to the telephone which requested the calling call of the calling service controlling unit 152. It is also possible to receive outgoing information with a request for an outgoing call from a user.

Subsequently, the outgoing service control unit 152 sets a phone number corresponding to the received outgoing information as outgoing call indication information (S330), determines whether the outgoing call is a VoIP call or a PSTN call, and then determines the Internet network 200 or the PSTN network 300. Request call connection through the (S340).

In this way, when the calling service control unit 152 requests a call connection to the called telephone number, and in response to the caller accepts the call connection (S350), the calling service control unit 152 sets the call channel (S360). .

After the call channel is established, the incoming service control unit 154 receives voice data of the called party through the Internet network 200 or the PSTN network 300, and processes the received caller's voice data to generate an outgoing call. To send. In addition, the outgoing service control unit 152 receives the user's voice data through the telephone generating the outgoing call, processes the received user's voice data, and delivers it to the called party through the Internet network 200 or the PSTN network 300. (S370). This makes a call between the caller (ie the user) and the called party.

4 is a flowchart illustrating a method of processing an incoming call of an apparatus for providing Internet telephone service according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 4, when an incoming call to a user is received through the Internet network 200 or the PSTN network 300 (S410), the incoming service control unit 154 extracts the incoming phone number from the received incoming call ( S420).

The incoming service control unit 154 detects a phone to which a phone number corresponding to the incoming call number extracted from the representative phone 420 and the personal phones 410a, 410b, and 410c of the indoor terminal 400 is allocated (S430). A ring signal is generated by the detected telephone to request a call connection (S440). At this time, the incoming service control unit 154 generates a ring signal to the representative telephone 420 and the personal telephones 410a, 410b, and 410c when the incoming telephone number is the local telephone number, and the incoming telephone number is the telephone number for the Internet telephone. In this case, the ring signal is generated only to a telephone to which a corresponding telephone number for the Internet telephone is assigned among the personal telephones 410a, 410b, and 410c.

Next, when one of the representative telephone 420 and the personal telephones 410a, 410b, and 410c in which the ring signal is generated receives a call connection in response (S450), the incoming service control unit 154 establishes a call channel. (S460). At this time, when the incoming service control unit 154 receives a response from one of the representative telephones 420 and the personal telephones 410a, 410b, and 410c in which the ring signal is generated, the incoming service control unit 154 stops the ring signals of the other telephones.

In this way, after the call channel is set, the incoming service control unit 154 receives the caller's voice data through the Internet network 200 or the PSTN network 300, and processes the received caller's voice data to make an incoming call. Forward to the phone corresponding to the number. In addition, the outgoing service control unit 152 receives the voice data of the user through a phone corresponding to the called telephone number, processes the received voice data of the user and sends it to the called party through the Internet network 200 or the PSTN network 300. Transfer (S470). This allows a call between the called party (ie, user) and the caller.

Although the embodiments of the present invention have been described in detail above, the scope of the present invention is not limited thereto, and various modifications and improvements of those skilled in the art using the basic concepts of the present invention defined in the following claims are also provided. It belongs to the scope of rights.

1 is a view schematically showing an apparatus for providing an Internet telephone service according to an embodiment of the present invention;

2 is a block diagram of an apparatus for providing Internet telephone service according to an embodiment of the present invention;

3 is a flowchart illustrating an outgoing call processing method of an apparatus for providing an Internet telephone service according to an embodiment of the present invention;

4 is a flowchart illustrating a method of processing an incoming call of an apparatus for providing Internet telephone service according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Claims (14)

An internet telephone service providing apparatus for transmitting and receiving voice data with an indoor terminal including a representative telephone and at least one personal telephone through an internet network or a public switched telephone network (PSTN) network. A storage unit which stores a plurality of telephone numbers respectively assigned to the representative telephone and the at least one personal telephone; Receiving an outgoing call from any one of the representative phone and the at least one personal phone, processing the received outgoing call to request a call connection, and when requesting the call connection, the plurality of An outgoing service provider that sets one of the phone numbers as outgoing call indication information; and Receives an incoming call to the user, extracts an incoming telephone number from the received incoming call, and assigns a telephone number corresponding to the incoming telephone number extracted from the representative telephone and the at least one personal telephone. Incoming service provider for generating ring signal Internet telephone service providing device comprising a. The method of claim 1, And a telephone number assigned to each of the at least one personal telephone is a telephone number for an internet telephone. The method of claim 2, And the called service providing unit generates the ring signal to the representative telephone and the at least one personal telephone when the extracted incoming telephone number is a telephone number assigned to the representative telephone. The method of claim 3, And the receiving service provider stops the ring signal of the other phone when receiving a response from any one of the representative phone and the at least one personal phone where the ring signal is generated. The method of claim 2, And the called service providing unit generates the ring signal only to the corresponding personal telephone when the extracted incoming telephone number corresponds to one of the at least one personal telephone. The method of claim 1, And the originating service providing unit sets the outgoing call indication information on the outgoing call from the representative telephone and the at least one personal telephone as the telephone number of the representative telephone. The method of claim 1, And the outgoing service provider sets the outgoing charge indication information for outgoing calls from the representative telephone and the at least one personal telephone to the telephone number of the telephone that originated the outgoing call. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 7, The representative telephone is a PSTN telephone, and the personal telephone is an internet telephone. In the service providing method of the Internet telephone service providing apparatus for transmitting and receiving voice data with the indoor terminal including a representative telephone and at least one personal telephone over an Internet network or a public switched telephone network (PSTN) network, Receiving an outgoing call from any one of the representative telephone and the at least one personal telephone; Receiving outgoing information corresponding to a telephone number to be set as outgoing call indication information among a plurality of telephone numbers respectively assigned to the representative telephone and the at least one personal telephone according to a user's setting, and Requesting a call connection to the outgoing call by displaying the outgoing call indication information according to the outgoing information; Internet telephone service method comprising a. The method of claim 9, And a telephone number assigned to each of the at least one personal telephone is a telephone number for an internet telephone. The method of claim 10, Receiving an incoming call from the internet network or the PSTN network; Extracting an incoming telephone number from the received incoming call; and Generating a ring signal to a telephone to which the same telephone number as the called telephone number extracted among the plurality of telephone numbers is assigned; Internet telephone service providing method comprising more. The method of claim 11, The generating step, And generating the ring signal to the representative telephone and the at least one personal telephone when the extracted incoming telephone number is a telephone number assigned to the representative telephone. The method of claim 11, The generating step, If the extracted incoming telephone number corresponds to one of the at least one personal telephone, generating the ring signal only to the corresponding personal telephone. The method of claim 11, If a response is received from any one of the representative telephone and the at least one personal telephone in which the ring signal is generated, stopping the ring signal of the other telephone. Internet telephone service providing method comprising more.

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