KR20010067822A - Method for downloading ring data to mobile terminal - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A method for downloading bell sound with respect to a portable cellular phone is provided to enable users to select and change the bell sound according to his or her preference by downloading a preferable bell sound from a computer communication, an Internet or a voice answering service. CONSTITUTION: If a user makes an access through a communication service to a service provider server having various kinds of bell sounds as a database, the service provider transmits a list file of the bell sounds to the user. The user requests for download of the bell sound preferred among the bell sounds in the list file. A signal is transmitted so that the file requested is downloaded to the memory and a flash RAM of the terminal equipment. In addition, the user can change and remove the bell sound downloaded from the flash RAM.

Description

Ringtone download service method for portable mobile phone terminal {Method for downloading ring data to mobile terminal}

The present invention relates to a portable mobile phone terminal, and more particularly, to a method for providing an additional service to a portable mobile phone terminal.

Currently, the portable mobile phone handset market is increasing explosively. This is especially the case in Korea because of the PCS (Personal Communication Service). Portable mobile phones, such as mobile phones, cellular phones, and smart phones with a personal digital assistant (PDA), generate bell sound when there is an incoming call, similar to a conventional landline or cordless phone. By notifying the user that there is an incoming call.

Portable mobile phones typically have some kind of ringtone data built in, and the user can select the desired ringtone. However, only a limited number of ringtones embedded in a portable mobile phone terminal are difficult to satisfy various tastes of users. Furthermore, there is a problem that it is impossible for the user to arbitrarily change the ring tone embedded in the portable mobile phone terminal.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a method for easily changing a ringtone of a portable mobile phone terminal according to a user's taste.

1 is a network diagram for the present invention,

2 is a block diagram of the portable mobile phone terminal of FIG. 1;

3 is a processing flowchart of a service providing server according to an embodiment of the present invention;

4 is a process flowchart of a portable mobile phone terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

In order to achieve the above object, according to the present invention, in a method of providing an additional service for a portable mobile phone terminal, when a user of the terminal is connected to a service providing server having various ringtone files as a database through a communication service Transmitting, by the service providing server, a list of the ringtone files to a user of the terminal; receiving a request for downloading a desired ringtone file from among ringtone files in the ringtone file list from the user; It is achieved by a ringtone download service method for a portable mobile phone, characterized in that it comprises the step of transmitting a signal to add the requested file to the memory of the terminal.

In addition, the object of the present invention is to provide an additional service for a mobile mobile terminal, the service providing server having a variety of ringtone files as a database when the user of the terminal is connected through a communication service the service providing server Transmitting a list of ringtone files to a user of the terminal, receiving a desired ringtone file from among ringtone files in the ringtone file list from the user;

It is also achieved by the ringtone download service method for a mobile mobile terminal, characterized in that it comprises the step of transmitting the download request ringtone file to the terminal, and a transfer completion message after completing the transmission to the terminal; do.

On the other hand, the object of the present invention is to download a desired ringtone file from a service providing server having a database in which various ringtone files are stored, and to change the ringtone of a portable mobile phone terminal, comprising the steps of: accessing the service providing server; And displaying a list of ringtone files downloaded from the service providing server, selecting a desired ringtone file from the displayed list, and storing the selected ringtone file in a memory so that the ringtone file is changed to an incoming ringtone. It is also achieved by a ringtone changing method of a portable mobile phone characterized in that.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. While many specific components, such as specific process flows, are shown in the following description and accompanying drawings to aid the overall understanding of the invention, these specific components have been illustrated for the purpose of illustrating the invention and are meant to limit the invention thereto. It is not. Meanwhile, detailed descriptions of well-known functions and configurations that may unnecessarily obscure the subject matter of the present invention will be omitted.

1 is a network diagram for the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, clients 104, subscriber telephones 106, and server 102 are connected to a communication network 100, and a portable mobile phone terminal 110 is connected to a communication network 100. A network configuration is shown in communication with the mobile telephone base station 108. The server 102 is a service providing server having a database in which various ringtone files are stored according to the present invention. Clients 104 connect to service providing server 102 via a computer communication service or an Internet service. The Internet is known as a computer network based on a client-server model. Conceptually, the Internet has a large network of servers accessible by clients 104. Clients 104 are typically users of personal computers (PCs). The clients 104 may access the service providing server 102 through any private Internet access provider or on-line service provider included in the communication network 100. The subscriber telephones 106 may be provided with a voice response service from the service providing server 102 through a public switched telephone network (PSTN) included in the communication network 100. This voice response service is also commonly referred to as a '700 service'.

2 is a block diagram of the portable mobile phone terminal 110 shown in FIG. 1, which is an example of a block configuration of a conventional cellular phone to which the present invention is applied.

Referring to FIG. 2, the MPU 200 is a block for processing and controlling a phone call or data communication in a typical mobile phone, and processes a ringtone download service according to the present invention as described below. . Therefore, in the following description, description of the processing and control of the MPU 200 for ordinary telephone call or data communication is omitted. The ROM (Read Only Memory) 202 stores microcode and various reference data of a program for processing and controlling the MPU 200. Random Access Memory (204) is provided to the working memory of the MPU 200. The flash RAM 206 provides an area for storing various updatable storage data, which is used to store a ringtone file in the present invention as described below. The key pad 208 includes a plurality of numeric keys and function keys to provide key input by the user to the MPU 200. The display unit 210 includes a liquid crystal display (LCD) to display image information according to the control of the MPU 200 through the LCD. A coder-decoder (212) connected to the MPU 200 and a microphone 214 and a speaker 216 connected to the codec 212 are voice input / output blocks used for telephone calls and voice recording. The duplexer 220 also separates signals transmitted and received from the mobile base station 108 through the antenna 218. The RF transmitter 222 modulates a signal to be transmitted from the MPU 200 through the interface 226 to transmit an RF signal through the duplexer 220 and the antenna 218, and the RF receiver 224 is an antenna ( 218 and the RF signal received through the duplexer 220 are demodulated and output to the MPU 200 through the interface 226.

For the ringtone download service according to the present invention, the voice data of various ringtones is made into a file and stored in a database provided in the service providing server 102. The ringtone file includes various ringtone files suitable for each model of the terminal. When the user of the mobile phone as shown in FIG. 2 wants to download a ringtone, the user first accesses the service providing server 102 through a communication service using a PC or a phone connected to the communication network 100.

In the following description, the user accesses the service providing server 102 through his personal computer corresponding to one of the clients 104 as an example. When the user accesses the service providing server 102 as described above, the service providing server 102 performs an operation according to the processing flowchart of FIG. 3.

3 is a process flow diagram of the service providing server 102 of FIG. 1 in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention. Referring to FIG. 3, first, the service providing server 102 performs step 302 in response to the user accessing in step 300. In step 302, the service providing server 102 transmits a list of ringtone files stored in the database to the user through the communication network 100, and waits for the user to select a ringtone file in step 304. On the other hand, the transferred ringtone file is displayed on the PC monitor screen as in the case of normal PC communication. In this state, the user requests the download of the desired ringtone file among the ringtone files in the ringtone file list. At this time, the user may select a ringtone file to listen to the actual sound and then request the download only when he / she likes it. If you don't like it, you can listen to another ringtone file. When the user selects any ringtone file, the service providing server 102 transmits the selected ringtone file to the user through the communication network 100 in step 306 in response to step 304, and then (308). Follow the steps. In step 308, if the user does not request to download the ringtone file, the service providing server 102 returns to step 304, and listens to the sound of the ringtone file received by the user. If requested, the flow proceeds to step 310. Here, step 308 and step 306 may be omitted and step 308 may be immediately performed.

In step 310, the service providing server 102 receives a phone number of the terminal to download the ringtone file from the user through the communication network 100, and calls the terminal to download in step 312. The call is then made via communication network 100 and portable mobile station telephone base station 108. If the terminal to be downloaded responds to the call, the service providing server 102 transmits the requested ringtone file to the terminal to be downloaded in steps 316 to 318 in step 314, and transmits the ringtone file. When finished, the terminal transmits a completion message to the terminal to be displayed on the terminal screen. On the contrary, if the terminal does not answer the call, the service providing server 102 transmits an error message to the user in step 322 and terminates. Here, the ringtone file transmission may be performed using a conventional text service. The difference from the conventional text service is that the data of the ringtone file is transmitted instead of the text data.

Therefore, the user may select and check various ringtones in the service providing server 102 one by one, and then select a favorite ringtone file and download it to his terminal.

4 is a flowchart illustrating a process of a portable mobile phone terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention in steps 400 and 420, and shows a flowchart processed by the MPU 200 of the cellular phone as shown in FIG. The MPU 200 waits for a key input or an incoming call at steps 400 to 402, and performs step 412 if there is a key input, and performs a step 404 if an incoming call is received.

If there is an incoming call, in step 404, it is checked whether the ringtone download is received according to the call from the service providing server 102 as described above. If the ring tone is not received, the MPU 200 terminates after the normal incoming service in step 406. On the contrary, in the case where the ringtone is received, the ringtone file is received in step 408 and stored in the flash RAM 206. That is, the mobile phone of FIG. 2 corresponding to the portable mobile phone terminal 110 of FIG. 1 receives a ringtone file in response to a ringtone download incoming according to a call from the service providing server 102 and stores the ringtone file in the flash RAM 206. The ringtone you want is downloaded.

Therefore, the user may select and check various ringtones in the service providing server 102 one by one, and then select a favorite ringtone file and download it to his mobile phone. At this time, the number of ringtone files will be within the allowable memory amount of the flash RAM 206. Furthermore, the ringtone file previously stored in the flash RAM 206 may be deleted if desired by the user in the same manner as the conventional method of deleting information stored in the mobile phone.

In this state, if there is a key input from the user through the keypad 208, the MPU 200 performs step 412 in response to the corresponding key input in steps 400 and 402. In step 412, the MPU 200 checks whether the key input is a key input for requesting a ringtone change. The key for requesting the ringtone change may be separately provided by the manufacturer on the keypad 208 or implemented by a combination of existing keys or menu selection. If it is not a key for requesting a ringtone change, the process terminates after processing the corresponding key input as in the normal case in step 420. On the contrary, if it is a ring tone change request, the MPU 200 displays a list of ringtone files stored in the flash RAM 206 through the display unit 220 in steps 414 to 416. Wait for file selection. At this time, if the user selects one of the displayed ringtone files, the MPU 200 changes the ringtone file selected in step 418 to the ringtone ringtone and ends. As a result, the incoming ringtone is output when the incoming call is received.

As such, the user may download a ringtone from the service providing server 102 through computer communication or the Internet to change his / her mobile phone ringtone.

On the other hand, various modifications to the above-described embodiment can be carried out without departing from the scope of the present invention. In particular, the above-described embodiment shows an example in which the present invention is applied to a mobile phone, but the same applies to other types of portable mobile terminal such as a smart phone. In addition, although the ringtone download service is provided through computer communication or the Internet, the ringtone download service is similarly available through a voice response service using a telephone. In this case, however, instead of transmitting a ringtone file, the user may transmit a voice signal so that the user can check it. In addition, the ringtone download service may be provided using only one of these services or another type of communication service. Therefore, the scope of the invention should not be defined by the described embodiments, but should be defined by the equivalent of claims and claims.

As described above, according to the present invention, a user can download a ringtone through computer communication, the Internet, or a voice response service, and use the ringtone as the ringtone of his portable mobile terminal. That is, the user can select or change the ringtone according to his or her taste.

Claims (3)

A method for providing an additional service for a mobile mobile terminal, Transmitting, by the service providing server, a list of the ringtone files to the user of the terminal when the user of the terminal is connected to a service providing server having various ringtone files as a database; Receiving a request for downloading a desired ringtone file from among ringtone files in the ringtone file list by the user; And transmitting a signal to add the downloaded request file to the memory of the terminal. A method for providing an additional service for a mobile mobile terminal, Transmitting, by the service providing server, a list of the ringtone files to the user of the terminal when the user of the terminal is connected to a service providing server having various ringtone files as a database; Receiving a desired ringtone file from among ringtone files in the ringtone file list from the user; Transmitting the downloaded ringtone file to the terminal; And a step of transmitting a transmission completion message after completing the transmission to the terminal. Claims [1] A method for changing a ringtone of a portable mobile terminal by downloading a desired ringtone file from a service providing server having a database storing various ringtone files. Accessing the service providing server; Displaying a list of ringtone files downloaded from the service providing server; Selecting a desired ringtone file from the displayed list; And storing the selected ringtone file in a memory so that the selected ringtone file is changed into an incoming ringtone.