KR101173422B1 - Apparatus for Providing Message Service by Collect Call and Method Thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for providing a toll message service, and to which a receiver effectively identifies a toll message, and authenticates a sender requesting a toll charge message by a reliable operator having service subscriber information. The present invention provides an apparatus and method for providing a toll message service, which can solve the difficulty of caller identification (sender authentication) that is most needed in the toll message service and prevent abuse of the toll message service.
To this end, the present invention provides a toll-free message service, the caller information acquisition to obtain the caller information by interworking with the subscriber information server by using the telephone number of the caller terminal as a key when the toll free message server receives the toll free message; step; Generating, by the toll-free message server, a toll-free message arrival notification message based on the obtained caller information and transmitting it to a receiving terminal; And transmitting, by the toll-free message server, toll-free message to the receiving terminal according to the reception approval from the receiving terminal. In addition, the method of the present invention further includes a message identifying step in which the message server identifies the toll-free message using the toll-free message identification information inserted in the message.

Description

Apparatus for Providing Message Service by Collect Call and Method Thereof}

The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for providing a toll free message service, and more particularly, when a toll message service is additionally provided to a sender toll message service, a receiver can effectively distinguish a toll message. By solving the difficulty of caller identification (sender authentication) that is most needed in the toll message service, the service provider can verify the information of the caller who requested the toll charge message. The present invention relates to a toll-free message service providing apparatus and a method thereof, which can prevent abuse.

In the following embodiments of the present invention, a case in which a toll-free message service is additionally provided to the sender-charged message service will be described as an example. However, the present invention is not limited thereto. This is because the toll-free message service can be provided alone.

In the following embodiment of the present invention, an SMS (Short Message Service) is described as an example, but in the present invention, the message service is a concept including not only SMS but also other message services such as MMS (Multi-media Message Service). Reveal in advance

Recently, with the rapid development of communication technology, a mobile communication terminal capable of communicating with another person while moving from an arbitrary place to another place has been developed and utilized.

The mobile communication terminal can perform voice and data communication regardless of time and place, and further has a function of receiving or providing information necessary for life in text.

For example, mobile service providers use a short message service (SMS) that enables simple message transmission to provide news service, event information, weather information, sports information, stock information, exchange rate information, and traffic information. To the public.

The short message service (SMS) is an interactive service that can send and receive a short text message regardless of a call between mobile communication terminals, and the subscriber of the mobile communication service can transmit a short sentence of about 80 bytes.

The short message service (SMS) includes a header part which is a field having characteristic information of a corresponding message and a data part which is a field having character information actually transmitted.

Here, the data portion includes data such as a receiver's telephone number, a caller's telephone number, text information to be transmitted, and a transmission speed. When a short message is sent from the calling terminal, the short message center checks the message characteristics through the header portion, Detect the receiving side information included in the transmitted short message to the corresponding receiving terminal.

The charging process in the short message center according to the short message transmission process is usually imposed on the calling terminal user.

Therefore, when the short message is used as a chat method between specific mobile communication terminal users, only the calling terminal user (sender) has a charge burden for transmitting the short message unilaterally, and thus the short message transmission / reception is not effectively utilized.

Accordingly, the following toll free message service (recipient fee payable message service) has been proposed.

The first prior art (Korea Publication No. 10-2007-0096149, publication date October 02, 2007, recipient billing service method using a mobile communication short message), the originating terminal user transmits the recipient billing message to a specific number Then, the short message center receives it and transmits it to the receiver billing system. The receiver billing system detects specific information in the transmitted message and sends a short message to the terminal to receive the billing to receive the billing message. It relates to a method of billing processing to obtain.

In the first conventional technology, a service method of charging a user who receives a message by using a short message of a mobile communication terminal, wherein the caller creates a message containing information of a user who is to be charged by the receiver using the mobile communication terminal. A first step of transmitting to a number; A second step of receiving the message and confirming information of a user who is the recipient billing included in the message; A third step of transmitting a short message asking whether the receiver charges a message to the user who is to charge the receiver by using the previously confirmed information; A fourth step in which the user who becomes the recipient charge for the precharge message received message sends the received charge acceptance to the specific number; A fifth step of checking a charge acceptance message and setting a charge target; A sixth step of transmitting the received charging message to a user who becomes the recipient charging; A seventh step of sending a charge reception failure message according to the rejection of the user who is the recipient charge when the user who receives the message asking whether to receive the charge message in the third step rejects the reception; Include, and send a toll-free message to a specific number.

The second prior art (Korea Publication No. 10-2004-0039508, publication date May 12, 2004, a method for paying short message recipients) bears a short message recipient fee that causes the recipient to be charged for sending a text message. It is about a method.

According to the second prior art, a sender sets and sends a toll charge item to a text message, and the base station receives the received text message based on a set value of the toll charge item included in the text message. Transmitting a text message, receiving a text message if the receiver wants to receive the text message, charging a fee to the receiver, and rejecting the text message at the receiver. And notifying the sender of the rejection result, and using a method of inserting a flag bit to indicate that the message is a toll free message service.

The third conventional technology (Korean Patent Publication No. 10-2005-0122598, publication date December 29, 2005, a method of transmitting a toll free short message) uses a method of allocating a specific bit on a transmission packet of a short message. A method for paying a short message transmission cost.

In the third conventional technology, when a sender's mobile communication terminal sets a toll short message for a sender and sets a toll response message, the toll sender flag is set to a specific bit of the outgoing short message packet by the caller. A first step of transmitting the short message for sending to a terminal, and a recipient composes a short message for reply to the short message in which the recipient's mobile communication terminal is set with the toll-free sending flag, and responds to the toll free response by a reply method; Selecting a message and setting a toll response flag in a specific bit of the reply short message packet to transmit the reply short message to a sender's mobile communication terminal; The toll response flag is set to a specific bit A third step of charging the sender for a short message transmission if the toll free response flag is set; otherwise, charging the short message transmission cost to the receiver; And a fourth step of receiving a short message and inserting a flag bit to indicate that the message is a toll free message.

The fourth prior art (Korea Publication No. 10-2009-0007082, publication date January 16, 2009, toll-free SMS service apparatus and method in a mobile communication network), ARS, interactive without additional functions of the mobile terminal By using SMS or Wap Push SMS, it is possible to send a short message toll freely, providing users with the convenience of using a text service, thereby increasing customer satisfaction, so as to monopolize the competitive edge with other companies. A toll-free SMS service apparatus and method in a mobile communication network.

The fourth conventional technique is a toll-free SMS service method in a mobile communication network having a calling terminal, an exchange, an SMSC, a toll-borne server, a receiving notification and transmission requesting means, and a receiving terminal, wherein the calling terminal is used by a caller toll-free. In step 101, after creating an SMS message and inputting a recipient number, transmitting the toll-free SMS to the SMSC through the exchange; Step 102, the SMSC receives the toll-free SMS message from the calling terminal and routes the toll-free server by using the received number; Step 103, wherein the toll-free server receives the toll-free SMS from the SMSC, stores the toll-free SMS, and requests transmission of the arrival notification SMS to the reception notification and transmission requesting means; Step 104, wherein the reception notification and transmission request means transmits an arrival notification SMS to the receiving terminal through the SMSC; When the receiving terminal receives and displays the arrival notification SMS from the reception notification and transmission request means, and outputs a message asking whether to receive the message when connected with the reception notification and transmission request means according to the receiver's selection, and then the receiver receives the received notification SMS. Step 105 for transmitting the message to the reception notification and transmission requesting means if the user chooses to receive the message; Step 106, wherein the reception notification and transmission requesting means requests toll-free SMS transmission to the toll-free server; Step 107, wherein the toll-free server transmits a pre-stored toll-free SMS to the receiving terminal through the SMSC; And a step 108 of the receiving terminal receiving the toll-free SMS from the toll-free server and displaying the toll-free SMS to the receiver, and inserting a prefix to indicate the toll-free message service.

On the other hand, in the case of the toll-free message service, the most important thing when the receiver pays the fee and receives the message is reliable caller information. By the way, in the case of the short message service provided in the existing, the caller may modify the caller's phone number. Therefore, if you want to provide toll-free message service, it can be said that the method of providing caller information reliably is most important. Nevertheless, the first to fourth prior arts do not consider any part of authentication of caller information while providing a toll free message service.

In addition, the fourth conventional technology allows the SMS server to distinguish that the toll-free message is inserted by inserting a prefix to the recipient's telephone number in order to provide a toll-free message service. Accordingly, in the fourth conventional technology, when using the SMS service, there is a need to insert a prefix after moving the cursor in front of the receiver telephone number every time after the receiver telephone number is selected.

Therefore, the prior art as described above has a problem in that it does not consider any part of authentication of caller information while providing a toll free message service, and it is an object of the present invention to solve such a problem.

Therefore, the present invention enables the receiver to effectively distinguish that the toll-free message, and by authenticating the information of the caller who requested the toll-free message by a reliable operator having service subscriber information, the most It is an object of the present invention to provide a toll-free message service providing apparatus and a method thereof, which can solve the difficulty of necessary caller identification (caller authentication) and prevent abuse of the toll-free message service.

That is, the present invention identifies a toll-free message service by using a postfix additionally inserted into a recipient's telephone number (recipient's telephone number), and uses the telephone number of the calling terminal as a key to link the subscriber information server with the caller information. By generating the toll-free message arrival notification message based on the obtained caller information and transmitting to the receiving terminal, to solve the difficulty of caller identification (sender authentication) most needed in the toll message service and to An object of the present invention is to provide an apparatus and a method for providing a toll message service, which can prevent abuse.

The objects of the present invention are not limited to the above-mentioned objects, and other objects and advantages of the present invention which are not mentioned can be understood by the following description, and will be more clearly understood by the embodiments of the present invention. It will also be readily apparent that the objects and advantages of the invention may be realized and attained by means of the instrumentalities and combinations particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

In the method of the present invention for achieving the above object, in the toll-free message service providing method, as the toll-free message server receives the toll-free message, the caller information is linked with the subscriber information server by using the telephone number of the calling terminal as a key. Obtaining caller information obtaining step; Generating, by the toll-free message server, a toll-free message arrival notification message based on the obtained caller information and transmitting it to a receiving terminal; And transmitting, by the toll-free message server, toll-free message to the receiving terminal according to the reception approval from the receiving terminal.

In addition, the method of the present invention further includes a message identifying step in which the message server identifies the toll-free message using the toll-free message identification information inserted in the message.

On the other hand, the apparatus of the present invention for achieving the above object, in the toll-free message service providing apparatus, in response to receiving a toll-free message, by using the telephone number of the calling terminal as a key to obtain the caller information in conjunction with the subscriber information server Subscriber information server interworking unit for; A toll message arrival notification message generator for generating a toll message arrival notification message based on the caller information obtained by the subscriber information server interworking unit and transmitting the toll terminal to the receiving terminal; And a toll-free message transmitting unit for transmitting a toll-free message to the receiving terminal according to the receipt from the receiving terminal.

The apparatus of the present invention may further include a message analyzing unit for identifying the toll-bearing message using the toll-free message identification information inserted into the message and delivering the toll-free message to the subscriber information server interworking unit.

In the present invention as described above, in the toll-free message service, the receiver can effectively distinguish that the toll-free message, and a reliable operator having service subscriber information can authenticate the information of the caller who requested the toll-free message. By doing so, it is possible to solve the difficulty of caller identification (sender authentication) that is most necessary in the toll-free message service and to prevent abuse of the toll-free message service.

That is, the present invention makes it easy and easy to input a toll-free message in the form of a recipient phone number + postfix (1 digit), and also enables the receiver to easily distinguish that the toll-free message. In addition, the present invention has service subscriber information including information of the caller (for example, the caller's terminal telephone number or the caller's name or the caller's company name or the caller's residence) that has requested the toll charge message. By providing to the recipient in conjunction with a reliable service provider, the recipient of the charge checks the information of the trusted sender and gives the decision-making authority to choose to receive or reject the message, and to allow for exploitation of spam. Can be blocked.

1 is a flow chart of an embodiment of a method for providing a toll message service according to the present invention;
2 is a block diagram of an embodiment of an apparatus for providing a toll message service according to the present invention.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS The above and other objects, features and advantages of the present invention will become more apparent from the following detailed description of the present invention when taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, It can be easily carried out. In the following description, well-known functions or constructions are not described in detail since they would obscure the invention in unnecessary detail. Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

And throughout the specification, when a part is referred to as being "connected" to another part, it includes not only "directly connected" but also "electrically connected" with another part in between. Also, when a component is referred to as " comprising "or" comprising ", it does not exclude other components unless specifically stated to the contrary .

1 is a flow chart of an embodiment of a method for providing a toll message service according to the present invention, wherein a toll SMS server 13 is added and a toll SMS server 13 is linked with a subscriber information server 14 to sender. The following shows a procedure for processing a toll-free message that extracts and provides information.

In the present invention, no additional development of the terminal is required, and for the convenience of the user, a postfix (postfix, 1 digit) is added after the recipient's telephone number (recipient's telephone number), and the message is transmitted. 12) receives and distinguishes the toll-free message through a postfix, and in the case of the toll-free message, delivers the message to the toll-free SMS server 13, which is a toll-only SMS server, to provide a toll-free SMS service. .

In addition, in the present invention, the toll-free SMS server 13 extracts the information (caller information) of the calling subscriber in cooperation with the subscriber information server 14 using the telephone number of the calling terminal 11 as a key, and extracts the extracted caller information. By including in the toll message arrival notification message and sending it to the receiving terminal 15, it provides reliable information and restricts the abuse of the toll message.

As shown in FIG. 1, in the method of providing a toll message service according to the present invention, the SMS server 12 is toll freely by using a postfix additionally inserted into a recipient's phone number (recipient's phone number). Identifying the message service (that is, identifying the toll message service by using the toll message identification information additionally inserted into the message), and the calling terminal as the toll message server 13 receives the toll message Obtaining caller information by interworking with the subscriber information server 14 using the telephone number of 11 as a key, the toll-free SMS server 13 generates a toll-free message arrival notification message based on the obtained caller information; Sending to the receiving terminal 15, and at the time of receiving approval from the receiving terminal 15 toll-free SMS server 13, the sending end A message content (toll-free message) received from the (11) includes a step of transmitting to the receiving terminal (15).

Looking in detail with reference to Figure 1 as follows.

First, the calling terminal 11 composes a message in a toll message and transmits a toll message to the SMS server 12 (101). That is, the calling terminal 11 writes the contents of the message in the content window in the message composition window, and identifies the toll-free message on the server side to inform the receiver of the toll-free message. Toll-free message is sent to SMS server 12 after inputting toll-free message identification information in the form of "postfix (toll-free message identification information)", and the toll-free message is transmitted by modifying the caller's telephone number if necessary. do.

Subsequently, when the SMS server 12 receives the message from the calling terminal 11, the SMS server 12 identifies the toll-free message and transmits the corresponding toll-free message to the toll-free SMS server 13 (102). That is, when a message from the calling terminal 11 is delivered to the SMS server 12 which is a message collecting server, the SMS server 12 analyzes the recipient telephone number (recipient telephone number) and ends with a postfix. Identifies the message as a toll free message and forwards it to the toll free SMS server 13; otherwise, it analyzes the recipient's phone number (recipient's phone number) and does not end with a postfix. Determination is performed in the same manner as in the previous caller burden SMS processing procedure.

Thereafter, the toll-free SMS server 13 acquires caller information in association with the subscriber information server 14 (103, 104), and generates a toll-free message arrival notification message based on the obtained caller information and transmits it to the receiving terminal. (105). That is, when the toll-free SMS server 13 requests the subscriber information to the subscriber information server 14 (103), the subscriber information server 14 retrieves the subscriber information by using the telephone number of the calling terminal as a key and receives the subscriber name (or Subscriber information such as business name) and address information is transmitted to the toll-free SMS server 13 (104). Then, the toll-free SMS server 13 arrives at the toll-free message arrival notification message (eg, caller's phone number (or business name or caller's name or address) based on the received subscriber information. If you want to reject the call key, press the end key.) And transmit it to the receiving terminal 15 (105).

Then, the receiving terminal 15 outputs the toll-free message arrival notification message so that the receiver selects reception or rejection of the corresponding message, and when the receiver approves the reception, the receiving terminal 15 receives the toll-free message reception approval result. 13) (106).

Accordingly, the toll-free SMS server 13 transmits the message content (recipient-borne message) from the originating terminal 11 to the receiving terminal 15 (107), and the receiving terminal 15 receives the toll-free message checking result. The transmission is made to the toll-free SMS server 13 (108).

On the other hand, the receiving terminal 15 outputs a toll-free message arrival notification message so that the receiver selects the reception or rejection of the message, and if the recipient selects the reception rejection, the reception terminal rejects the toll-free message reception result. And transmits to (13) (109).

Then, the toll-free SMS server 13 generates a message transmission failure message indicating that the corresponding message could not be transmitted by rejecting the reception terminal 15, and transmits the message to the calling terminal 11 (110).

On the other hand, in the above-described method for providing a toll message service according to the present invention, the method of charging a fee to the receiver when the receiver approves the reception of the message is the same as that of a known technology, which will not be described herein.

2 is a configuration diagram of an embodiment of a toll-free message service providing apparatus (receiver-borne SMS server) according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 2, the SMS server 12 receives a message collector 210 for collecting an SMS message from the originating terminal 11, and receives the SMS message collected through the message collector 210. When a person's phone number (recipient's phone number) is analyzed and ends with a postfix, the message is identified as a toll-free message and forwarded to the toll-free SMS server 13, and if it does not end with a postfix, the caller is responsible. The message analyzing unit 211 for determining the SMS to be processed according to the previous caller burden SMS processing procedure, the SMS G / W interworking unit 212 for interworking with the SMS gateway device, and the terminal interworking unit for interworking with the terminal. (213).

Here, the message analysis unit 211 related to the present invention identifies a toll-free message service by using a postfix inserted in the recipient's phone number (recipient's phone number), thereby subscribing to the subscriber of the toll-free SMS server 13. The information server interworking unit 220 transmits the information to the subscriber information server interworking unit 220 of the toll-free SMS server 13 by identifying the toll-free message service using the toll message identification information additionally inserted into the message. do. Since the other message collector 210, the SMS G / W interworking unit 212, and the terminal interworking unit 213 are well known technologies, they will not be described in detail any further.

On the other hand, as shown in Figure 2, the toll-free SMS server 13 according to the present invention, the subscriber to the telephone number of the calling terminal 11 in response to receiving a toll message from the message analyzer 211 as a key Subscriber information server interworking unit 220 for acquiring caller information by interworking with information server 14 and generating and receiving a toll-free message arrival notification message based on caller information acquired by the subscriber information server interworking unit 220. Toll-free message arrival notification message generator 221 for transmitting to the terminal 15, and the message content (recipient-borne message) received from the originating terminal 11 when receiving the reception from the receiving terminal 15 receiving terminal Toll-free message transmitter 222 for transmission to (15). Other specific embodiments are as described above with reference to FIG. 1 and will not be described herein any further.

On the other hand, the present invention as described above can also be used to provide toll-free message service alone. In this case, since the toll-free message prepared without the identification information at the originating terminal may be directly transmitted to the toll-free SMS server, the message does not need to be analyzed and identified.

On the other hand, the toll-free message service providing method according to the present invention as described above may be implemented in the form of program instructions that can be executed by various computer means may be recorded on a computer readable medium. The computer readable medium may include program instructions, data files, data structures, etc. alone or in combination. The program instructions recorded on the medium may be those specially designed and constructed for the present invention or may be available to those skilled in the art of computer software. Examples of computer-readable recording media include magnetic media such as hard disks, floppy disks, and magnetic tape, optical media such as CD-ROMs, DVDs, and magnetic disks, such as floppy disks. Magneto-optical media, and hardware devices specifically configured to store and execute program instructions, such as ROM, RAM, flash memory, and the like. The medium may be a transmission medium such as an optical or metal line, a wave guide, or the like, including a carrier wave for transmitting a signal designating a program command, a data structure, or the like. Examples of program instructions include not only machine code generated by a compiler, but also high-level language code that can be executed by a computer using an interpreter or the like. The hardware device may be configured to operate as one or more software modules to perform the operations of the present invention, and vice versa.

While the present invention has been particularly shown and described with reference to exemplary embodiments thereof, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the disclosed exemplary embodiments, but, on the contrary, Various permutations, modifications and variations are possible without departing from the spirit of the invention.

Therefore, the scope of the present invention should not be construed as being limited to the embodiments described, but should be determined by the scope of the appended claims, as well as the appended claims.

The present invention can be used for a toll free message service and the like.

220: subscriber information server interworking unit
221: toll message arrival notification message generator
222: toll free message transmission unit

Claims (9)

In the toll-free message service method,
A caller information obtaining step of acquiring caller information by interworking with the subscriber information server using the telephone number of the calling terminal as a key as the toll-free message server receives the toll-free message;
Generating, by the toll-free message server, a toll-free message arrival notification message based on the obtained caller information and transmitting it to a receiving terminal; And
Transmitting, by the toll-free message server, toll-free message to the receiving terminal according to the reception approval from the receiving terminal;
Toll service service providing method comprising a.
The method of claim 1,
Message identification step in which the message server identifies toll-free messages using toll-free message identification information inserted in the message.
Toll service service providing method further comprising.
The method of claim 2,
The toll free message identification information,
Method of providing a toll message service, characterized in that the postfix (postfix).
The method of claim 3, wherein
The message identification step,
And the message server identifies a toll-free message using a postfix inserted after a toll number.
The method according to any one of claims 1 to 4,
The obtaining caller information step,
Requesting subscriber information from the toll-free message server to the subscriber information server; And
A process in which the toll-free message server receives subscriber information such as a subscriber name, a business name, or a subscriber address that the subscriber information server retrieves using the telephone number of the calling terminal as a key;
Toll service service providing method comprising a. In the toll-free message service providing apparatus,
A subscriber information server interworking unit for acquiring caller information by interworking with the subscriber information server using the telephone number of the calling terminal as a key upon receiving the toll free message;
A toll message arrival notification message generator for generating a toll message arrival notification message based on the caller information obtained by the subscriber information server interworking unit and transmitting the toll terminal to the receiving terminal; And
Toll-free message transmitting unit for transmitting a toll-free message to the receiving terminal according to the reception approval from the receiving terminal.
Toll message service providing apparatus comprising a.
The method according to claim 6,
Message analyzing unit for identifying the toll-free message using the toll-free message identification information inserted in the message to deliver to the subscriber information server interworking unit
Toll-free message service providing device further comprising.
The method of claim 7, wherein
The toll free message identification information,
Toll message service providing apparatus, characterized in that the postfix (postfix).
The method of claim 8,
The message analyzer,
A toll-free message service providing apparatus for identifying a toll-free message by using a postfix inserted after a toll number (recipient's phone number).

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