KR101384828B1 - Method and device for providing service of sharing phone number - Google Patents

Abstract

A method and apparatus for providing a phonebook sharing service are disclosed. According to an aspect of the present invention, a method of providing a phone number sharing service by a shared service server coupled through a client terminal and a communication network comprises: receiving a name from a client terminal as a search word; And providing information about the searchee searched corresponding to the search word and the name of the member who registered the searchee to the client terminal as a search result from the plurality of members in advance. In this case, searchees having the same telephone number are classified as the same person even if they have different names. According to the present invention, by sharing the phone numbers according to each phone book of a plurality of members, it is also possible to search the phone numbers of acquaintances who do not know the phone number through the phone book of another person.

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Description

Method and device for providing service of sharing phone number}

The present invention relates to an information sharing service, and more particularly, to a service providing method and apparatus for sharing telephone book information stored in a mobile communication terminal.

Nowadays, a mobile phone terminal such as a mobile phone is widely used as a communication means, and a method of making a call using a phone book embedded in the terminal has become common. That is, users store and manage phone numbers of mobile phones or landline phones of acquaintances using a phone book function provided by a mobile communication terminal, and make a phone call using them.

According to the phone book function of recently released mobile communication terminals, it is possible to store the phone numbers of almost 1000 people. As a result, users are storing phonebooks of contacts rather than memorizing them and using them to make calls. However, if the mobile communication terminal is lost, all stored phone numbers are lost, which causes inconvenience.

Of course, recently, softwares for storing phone numbers stored in the phone book on one's own computer have been released. However, when a new phone number is stored, all the phone book information of the phone book must be transferred back to the personal computer. Inconvenience occurs.

In addition, a large number of users frequently change the phone number of the terminal. As a result, when you call an acquaintance you haven't been in for a long time, your phone number may change and you may not be able to reach you. In this case, it is inconvenient to find a phone number by searching for acquaintances who know the person's phone number. Of course, a large number of sites, such as "find friends" provides a service for finding acquaintances, many people with the same name, it is difficult to simply find acquaintances by name.

Accordingly, the present invention has been made to solve the above problems, and to provide a method and apparatus for providing a phone book sharing service that can easily manage the phone number information of the phone book.

In addition, the present invention is to provide a method and apparatus for providing a shared service that can easily search the phone numbers of acquaintances to find.

Other objects of the present invention will become more apparent through the following preferred embodiments.

According to an aspect of the present invention, a method of providing a telephone number sharing service by a shared service server coupled through a client network and a communication network, the method comprising: receiving a name from the client terminal as a search word; And providing information about the searched person searched corresponding to the search word and the name of the member who registered the searched person to the client terminal as a search result among the phonebook information registered in advance from a plurality of members. When there are a plurality of searchers, there is provided a method for providing a telephone number sharing service, and a recording medium recording a program for executing the method, wherein a searchee having the same telephone number is classified as the same person even if the names are different.

The searching of the searchee corresponding to the search word may include: searching and extracting phone number information having a name identical or similar to the search word; And retrieving and extracting telephone number information including the same telephone number as the telephone number included in the extracted telephone number information.

In addition, when the searchee has previously registered phonebook information, the method may further include providing name information according to the phonebook information registered by the searchee to the client terminal.

The method may further include connecting a call between the client terminals to the phone number of the searchee.

The connecting of the call may include making a call to a terminal corresponding to the phone number of the searchee; If the telephone connection is successful, outputting a voice message for the telephone connection; And when a response is received from the terminal of the searchee, connecting a call between the terminal of the searchee and the client terminal.

The method may further include transmitting a message for inquiring whether to provide the telephone number to the client terminal to the terminal of the searchee according to the phone number of the searchee.

In addition, information about a group name stored corresponding to each searchee may be further included as the search result.

A method for providing a telephone number sharing service in a shared service server connected to a client terminal, the method comprising: maintaining telephone book information for a plurality of members; Comparing the plurality of telephone numbers registered by the client terminal with the telephone numbers included in the phone book information of the plurality of members; And providing, to the client terminal, member information of a member who has registered phonebook information having a phone number matching a predetermined number or more among a plurality of telephone numbers registered by the client terminal to the client terminal. A recording medium is provided which records a program for executing the program.

According to another aspect of the invention, the apparatus for receiving and sharing the phone book information from a plurality of members, comprising: a storage unit for storing the phone book information; A data communication unit for communicating with a client terminal coupled through a communication network; And information about the searched person searched corresponding to the search word received from the client terminal and the name of the member who registered the searched person from among the phone book information stored in the storage unit as a search result and the client terminal through the data communication unit. Including a control unit for providing, wherein the control unit is provided with a phone number sharing service providing apparatus characterized in that if the plurality of searchees, even if the names are different, the searchees having the same phone number is classified as the same person. .

Here, the call connection unit for connecting the call between the client terminal through the telephone network to the phone number of the searchee may be further included.

According to the present invention, by managing the phone book in a specific server on the Internet, there is an effect that can reduce the risk of loss of the phone book information.

In addition, according to the present invention by sharing the phone numbers of the phone book has the effect that you can search the phone numbers of acquaintances who do not know the phone number through the phone book of another person.

While the invention is susceptible to various modifications and alternative forms, specific embodiments thereof are shown by way of example in the drawings and will herein be described in detail. It should be understood, however, that the invention is not intended to be limited to the particular embodiments, but includes all modifications, equivalents, and alternatives falling within the spirit and scope of the invention.

Terms including ordinals, such as first, second, etc., may be used to describe various elements, but the elements are not limited to these terms. The terms are used only for the purpose of distinguishing one component from another. For example, without departing from the scope of the present invention, the first component may be referred to as a second component, and similarly, the second component may also be referred to as a first component. And / or < / RTI > includes any combination of a plurality of related listed items or any of a plurality of related listed items.

When a component is referred to as being "connected" or "connected" to another component, it may be directly connected to or connected to that other component, but it may be understood that other components may be present in between. Should be. On the other hand, when an element is referred to as being "directly connected" or "directly connected" to another element, it should be understood that there are no other elements in between.

The terminology used in this application is used only to describe a specific embodiment and is not intended to limit the invention. Singular expressions include plural expressions unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. In this application, the terms "comprise" or "having" are intended to indicate that there is a feature, number, step, operation, component, part, or combination thereof described in the specification, and one or more other features. It is to be understood that the present invention does not exclude the possibility of the presence or the addition of numbers, steps, operations, components, components, or a combination thereof.

Unless defined otherwise, all terms used herein, including technical or scientific terms, have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art to which this invention belongs. Terms such as those defined in commonly used dictionaries are to be interpreted as having a meaning consistent with the contextual meaning of the related art and are to be interpreted as either ideal or overly formal in the sense of the present application Do not.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Reference will now be made in detail to embodiments of the present invention, examples of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein like reference numerals refer to the like elements throughout the specification and claims. The description will be omitted.

1 is a block diagram schematically illustrating an entire system for providing a phonebook sharing service according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a phonebook information stored in a sharing service server according to an embodiment of the present invention. This table is an example.

Referring to FIG. 1, the entire system according to the present embodiment includes a client terminal 10 such as a mobile phone 10-1, a PDA 10-2, personal digital assistants (PDA), a personal computer 10-n, and sharing. And a service server 30.

The client terminal 10 is a communication terminal capable of accessing the shared service server 30 through a communication network 50 such as a mobile communication network or an internet network. As shown in the drawing, the client terminal 10 may be a personal computer as well as a mobile communication terminal such as a mobile phone. Can be. For convenience of explanation, the client terminal 10 will be described on the assumption that it is a mobile communication terminal such as a mobile phone.

The client terminal 10 may register the phone book information in the shared service server 30. That is, the client terminal 10 is a shared service server 30 connected to the phone owner name according to the phone book stored in the storage means, such as provided memory, the phone number of the mobile phone or landline phone, group name, etc. through a communication network You can register at Hereinafter, for convenience of description, information corresponding to one telephone number, such as a telephone number, a telephone owner's name owning the telephone number, and a group name, will be referred to as "phone number information". The set of number information will be referred to as "phone book information".

Referring to FIG. 2, the phone number information of the phone book registered in the shared service server 30 may include information about a name, a phone number, a group name, and the like.

Therefore, a member who has registered phonebook information in the shared service server 30 can download his / her phonebook information at any time, so that even if the mobile phone is lost, the registered phonebook information can be used as it is.

In particular, the shared service server 30 according to the present invention does not merely perform a function of receiving and managing phonebook information from the client terminal 10, but searches and uses the phonebook information of other members to subscribed members. Provide a phone number sharing service. That is, the shared service server 30 provides a service that allows a member to find a desired phone number such as "find acquaintance" using the registered phone book information.

The shared service server 30 extracts all the phone number information including the name when a member searches for the name of the person who wants to search, and has the phone number information as the phone book information and the registered user ( Hereinafter, the name of "registrant" is provided together as a search result.

3 is a table illustrating a name search result when providing a phone number sharing service according to an embodiment of the present invention. Referring to FIG. 3, when searching the phone book information by the name "Hong Gil-Dong", all phone number information including the name Hong-Gil-Dong is searched and the names of registered registrants are included by including the phone number information in the phone book information. Provided as a result. Of course, since a phone number for the same person can be registered in a plurality of phone books, as shown in the drawing, the registrants who register it per person searched for a person corresponding to a search word (hereinafter, referred to as a "searchee") have a plurality of days. Can be.

Since many people may have the same name even if they are not the same person, the search requester may not know who he is looking for among many people who have the same name as "Hong Gil Dong". Therefore, according to the present embodiment, the shared service server 30 provides the search results up to the names of the registrants who have registered the phonebook information corresponding to the search result, so that the search requester can search through the names of the registrants who have registered the phonebook information. It can be used to determine which of the searchers is the person they are looking for. Of course, whether or not the same person can be predicted using the phone number of the searchees. That is, even if the name is the same, if the phone number is wrong, it is not regarded as the same person.In contrast, even if the registered names are different, such as "Hong Gil-dong", "Gil-dong", and "Hong-gil ~ dong", if the phone numbers are the same, they will be classified as the same person. (See FIG. 3).

In other words, even if the registrant registers under the same name for the same person can be expected. For example, suppose that there is a person with a phone number 010-1111-2222 in the name "Hong Gil-dong", a person stored as "Hong Gil-dong-010-1111-2222" and registered, and a person named b "Gil-dong" Assume a case where the registration is stored as "010-1111-2222". In this case, the shared service server 30 may first search for a name that is as close as possible to the name “Hong Gil-dong” and search for the phone number information having the same searched phone number as the searched person.

That is, the shared service server 30 first performs a first search with a search term (ie, a name) input by a search requester, and then performs a second search by searching phone number information having the same phone number as the searched person. To perform.

For example, for the convenience of understanding, A has friends Lee Young-chul, Park Young-mi, and Han Mi-hyun, and each of the other friends except A has recorded each other's phone numbers in the phonebook and the phonebook information is shared service server (30). Let's assume that A is trying to find the phone number of a friend named Han Mi-hyun. When searching by the name "mihyeon", the shared service server 30 performs a search with the term "mihyeon" in all the registered phone book information. As a result of the search, all people with the same name are searched, and among them, "Registrants: Lee Young-cheol, Park Young-mi ..." will be extracted as a search result of "Mihyeon" that A wants to find. Thus, member A can look at the registrant's name and select the friend "Mihyeon" who is looking for among a plurality of search results.

In addition, as shown in the figure, the search result may also provide information on the group name set by the registrant. For example, in the above example, if Cheol-cheol and Yeong-mi are high school alumni, the group name will be marked as "high school alumni" (of course, the registrant must set the group name). It will help you better figure out whether you are looking for a friend.

In addition, although not shown in the drawing, the shared service server 30, when the search requester clicks on any one of the searched users, if the user has registered the phonebook information, the list according to the registered phonebook information (for example, For example, information on name, group name, etc.) is provided to the search requester. Therefore, the search requester can determine whether the person he or she is looking for is correct by looking at the names of people included in the list.

In the above, the phone book information includes only a name, a phone number, and a group name. For example, other information (for example, a job, a company name, an address, etc.) of users registered in the phone book information is further included. If included, it can also be provided as a search result, allowing search requesters to find the person they are looking for more easily.

The shared service server 30 may provide the searched user's telephone number immediately to the search requester. However, since a security problem may occur, it is more preferable to provide the telephone number to the search requester after inquiring the searched searchee.

4 is an exemplary diagram illustrating a user interface screen for receiving a service using a phone number search result according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 4, when a search requester selects one searchee and selects a connection service according to a phone number sharing service of “acquiring a phone number” displayed in the menu window 400, the shared service server 30 After confirming to the requester what the search requester is to the searched person (for example, a high school alumni), "Mr. OOO, a high school alumni, has requested a phone number. Do you want to accept it?" Send an SMS message containing the message. Of course, according to another embodiment, the search requester may write the message directly. In this case, the search requester may write a message directly, so that the searchee may be able to find out who he or she is and thus may be more effective in finding an acquaintance.

Of course, even when the shared service server 30 directly composes a message, the message is written by receiving additional information such as a job, age, school, and place of residence so that the searchee can identify the identity of the search requester. Can also be used.

Here, the additional information may be input from the search requester when providing the service, but since the search requester may be one of the registrants who registered the phonebook information, the shared service server 30 receives and stores the additional information in advance when registering the member. You may be doing it.

Alternatively, as shown in FIG. 4, when the connection service of "call" is selected in the menu window 400, the shared service server 30 may directly connect a telephone call between the search requester and the searchee. Of course, even in this case, in order to enhance security, the shared service server 30 may perform a telephone connection after inquiring the searched person about the telephone call connection. As a method of inquiry, call the investigator and ask, "Mr. OOO, a high school alumni, has requested a phone call. Please press 1 for acceptance and 2 for rejection?" Message as a voice, and the call connection can be determined according to the response of the searchee. Of course, even in this case, it is natural that additional information of the search requester can be provided to the searchee so that the searchee can help identify the identity of the search requester.

In addition to the above examples, all inquiry methods, such as using a text message before making a call, may be applied in the same manner.

In the above, as a method of sharing a phone number, a service method of searching for a phone number of an acquaintance to search for using a person's name as a search word has been described. In addition, according to another embodiment of the present invention, if any member registers his or her phone book information in the shared service server 30, the shared service server 30 is a plurality of phone numbers included in the phone book information Among the predetermined number (eg, 10, etc.) of the predetermined number of predetermined phone book information (or information of the member who registered the phone book information) including the same phone number can be extracted and provided to the registered member. . That is, when a plurality of members register the phone book information, the same phone number among each member may be set in their own phone book. For example, if member A registers phone numbers a, b, and c as phone book information, and member B registers phone numbers c, d, and e as his phonebook information, Members A and B are registered by including the same phone number for the same person as c in the phone book information.

In this way, the user of the client terminal 10, the member information (for example, the name, ID, phone of the member of the member who registered a predetermined number or more of the same phone number among the plurality of telephone numbers included in the phone book information registered by the user first) Phonebook information, etc.) can be obtained.

Hereinafter, the configuration and service providing process of the shared service server 30 will be described.

5 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a shared service server according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 5, the shared service server 30 according to the present embodiment includes a storage unit 510 for storing registered phone number information, a data communication unit 530 for communication via a communication network, a mobile phone network or a wired line. A call connection unit 550 for connecting a call through a telephone network and a control unit 570 for controlling the above-described components, the control unit 570 may include a search unit 572 and a service connection unit 574. .

The control unit 570 retrieves the phone book information corresponding to the search word input in response to the "find acquaintance" service request from the connected client terminal 10, and connects a call according to a user's request among the searched searchers. The storage unit 510, the data communication unit 530, and the call connection unit 550 are controlled to provide the phone number of the searchee. In addition, as described above, the control unit 570 and the data storage unit 510 and data so as to extract and provide the member information of the member including the predetermined number of the same phone number as the phone book information to the member registered the phone book information. The communication unit 530 is provided.

In particular, the search unit 572 of the controller 570 searches all names corresponding to the search word input from the search requester from the phone book information as described above, and provides a list of registrants accordingly. Since the retrieval method has been described above, redundant descriptions will be omitted.

When the service connection unit 574 receives a connection service according to a phone number sharing service such as making a phone call and obtaining a phone number from the search requester, the service connection unit 574 calls the searchee and the searchee through the telephone network to the phone number of the searchee. Connect or provide the searchee's phone number to the search requester. Of course, as described above, before providing the telephone connection or the telephone number, the searchee may first inquire about providing the corresponding service.

6 is a flowchart illustrating a process of providing a telephone number information sharing service according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 6, when the shared service server 30 receives a request for sharing a phone number from the client terminal 10 (s610), the shared service server 30 responds by providing a user interface screen for inputting a search word to the client terminal 10. (s620).

When the client terminal 10 inputs a search word (s630), the shared service server 30 searches for searchers corresponding to the search word from the registered phone book information, and accordingly names, phone numbers, group names, and the like. Extract phone number information (s640).

In addition, the shared service server 30 compares the extracted phone number information with each other to determine whether there is a searchee having the same phone number, and the searchee having the same phone number is recognized as the same person and the name of the searched searchees. The names of registrants who register the searchee in the phone book are output as result information (s650), and are provided to the client terminal 10 (s660).

Subsequently, when receiving a connection service request such as making a call or obtaining a phone number for a specific searchee from the client terminal 10 (s670), the shared service server 30 provides the corresponding service (s680).

7 is a flowchart illustrating a process of providing a dialing service for a specific searchee according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 8 is a service for acquiring a phone number for a specific searchee according to an embodiment of the present invention. 9 is a flowchart illustrating a providing process, and FIG. 9 is an exemplary diagram illustrating an inquiry message according to a phone number obtaining service according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 7, the search requester selects one searcher among a plurality of searched searchers and requests a dialing service to the shared service server 30 through the client terminal 10 (S710). .

The shared service server 30 extracts the phone number information of the searchee to recognize the phone number (s720), and attempts to call the searchee terminal according to the recognized phone number (s730).

When receiving a response from the searchee (s740), the shared service server 30 provides an inquiry message for a telephone connection to the searcher terminal as an audio signal such as an automatic answer (s750).

The searchee who listened to the message decides whether or not to accept the telephone connection (s760), and if not, the rejection signal (for example, pressing a specific button (number 2 key, etc.)) is shared service server (30). In step (s770), and accepts the phone call transmits the accept signal (s780).

The shared service server 30 notifies the dialing failure according to the signal received from the searcher terminal (s775) or connects a call between the client terminal 10 and the searcher terminal (s790).

Obtaining a phone number Referring to FIG. 8 according to a service, a search requester selects one searcher among a plurality of searched searchers and selects a phone number from the client terminal 10 to the shared service server 30. Request a service to acquire (s810).

The shared service server 30 extracts the phone number information of the searchee to recognize the phone number (s720), and composes a inquiry message to be sent to the searcher terminal according to the recognized phone number as shown in FIG. (s850). In this case, as shown in the drawing, detailed information (see FIG. 9) for verifying an identity of a search requester (that is, a user of the client terminal 10) that can be used to create an inquiry message may be requested and received (s830) ( s840).

Thereafter, the shared service server 30 transmits the created inquiry message to the searcher terminal (s860).

Upon receiving the message, the searchee decides whether to provide his or her phone number to the search requester (s870), and if not accepts the rejection signal (e.g., presses a specific button (number 2 key, etc.)). When transmitting to the shared service server 30 (s880), and accepts the phone call transmits an acceptance signal (for example, pressing a specific button (number 1 key, etc.)) (s890).

The shared service server 30 notifies the failure of acquiring the phone number according to the signal received from the searchee terminal (s885), or provides the client terminal 10 with the phone number of the searcher terminal (s895). .

The method of the present invention as described above can be implemented by a program and stored in a computer-readable recording medium (such as a CD-ROM, a RAM, a ROM, a floppy disk, a hard disk, or a magneto-optical disk).

The present invention is not limited to the above embodiments, and many variations are possible by those skilled in the art within the spirit of the present invention.

1 is a schematic diagram showing an overall system for providing a phone book sharing service according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a table illustrating phone book information stored in a shared service server according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3 is a table illustrating a name search result when providing a telephone number sharing service according to an embodiment of the present invention.

4 is an exemplary diagram illustrating a user interface screen for receiving a service using a phone number search result according to an embodiment of the present invention.

5 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of a shared service server according to an embodiment of the present invention.

6 is a flowchart illustrating a process of providing a telephone number information sharing service according to an embodiment of the present invention.

7 is a flowchart illustrating a process of providing a dialing service for a specific searchee according to an embodiment of the present invention.

8 is a flowchart illustrating a process of providing a phone number obtaining service for a specific searchee according to an embodiment of the present invention.

9 is an exemplary diagram illustrating an inquiry message according to a phone number obtaining service according to an embodiment of the present invention.

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A method of providing a telephone number sharing service by a shared service server coupled through a client terminal and a communication network, Receiving a name from the client terminal as a search word; And And providing information about a searchee searched corresponding to the search word and a name of a member who registered the searchee among the phonebook information registered in advance by a plurality of members to the client terminal as a search result. And a plurality of searchees, even if the names are different, searchers having the same phone number are classified as the same person. The method according to claim 1, Searching for a searcher corresponding to the search word, Searching for and extracting phone number information having the same or similar name as the search word; And And retrieving and extracting the telephone number information including the same telephone number as the telephone number included in the extracted telephone number information. The method according to claim 1, If the searchee has previously registered phonebook information, providing the name information according to the phonebook information registered by the searchee to the client terminal. The method according to claim 1, And connecting the call between the client terminals to the phone number of the searchee. The method of claim 4, wherein the step of connecting the call, Making a call to a terminal corresponding to the phone number of the searchee; If the telephone connection is successful, outputting a voice message for the telephone connection; And And when a response is received from the terminal of the searchee, connecting a call between the terminal of the searchee and the client terminal. The method according to claim 1, And transmitting a message for inquiring whether to provide a telephone number to the client terminal to the terminal of the searcher according to the telephone number of the searchee. The method according to claim 1, Method for providing a phone number sharing service, characterized in that the information on the group name stored corresponding to each searcher is further included in the search results. In the method of providing a telephone number sharing service in a shared service server connected to the client terminal, Maintaining phonebook information for a plurality of members; Comparing the plurality of telephone numbers registered by the client terminal with the telephone numbers included in the phone book information of the plurality of members; And And providing, to the client terminal, member information of a member who has registered phonebook information having a telephone number that matches at least a preset number among a plurality of telephone numbers registered by the client terminal. A recording medium on which a combination of instructions for performing the method of any one of claims 1 to 8 is tangibly embodied and in which a program readable by a digital information processing apparatus is recorded. In the device to register the phone book information from a plurality of members to share it, A storage unit for storing the phone book information; A data communication unit for communicating with a client terminal coupled through a communication network; And Among the phone book information stored in the storage unit, information about a searched person corresponding to a search word received from the client terminal and a name of a member who registered the searched person is output as a search result to the client terminal through the data communication unit. Including a control unit for providing, And the control unit classifies the searchees having the same phone number as the same person even if the searchees have a plurality of searchers. 11. The method of claim 10, And a call connection unit for connecting a call between the client terminals to the phone number of the searchee through a telephone network.

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