KR20010081305A - Cellular phone corporate charge service method - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A corporation billing service method in a mobile communication telephone is provided to offer a service method that a company bears the call charges for the usage of cellular phones only in case that the personnel of the company makes a telephone call to a specific staff or a specific destination phone. CONSTITUTION: A caller accesses a cellular exchange with a general directory number(S50). The cellular exchange forwards the call to a relevant CTI exchange by the connected general directory number prefix(S60). The CTI exchange transfers the caller's terminal number to an authentication server to request authentication(S70). The authentication server confirms whether the terminal is registered in the general directory number, and transfers a result to the CTI exchange(S80). The CTI exchange inquires of the caller about a destination number(S90). The caller inputs the destination number(S100). The CTI exchange transfers the destination number to the authentication server(S110). The authentication server transfers an authentication result to the CTI exchange(S120). In case that the destination number is approved by the authentication server, the CTI exchange requests the cellular exchange to connect the call(S130). A billing server charges the telephone charge according to a call charge rate(S140).

Description

Cell phone corporate charge service method for mobile communication phone

The present invention relates to a service method in which a corporation pays a call charge to an employee and a person who uses a mobile communication terminal that is not purchased in the name of a corporation by a specific telephone number recognized by the corporation.

This service is similar to the 3rd party billing system and the called party's service, which are classified as a kind of intelligent network service in the telephony business, but the existing service can select the caller or control the called number. no. Therefore, the 080 service is generally used as a service in which the company pays the cost of the customer calling when the customer calls the company. Although the present invention is a mixed form of the recipient billing service and the third party billing service, the difference between the existing service and the existing service is that the subscriber who manages the cost registers a terminal that can be actively connected, and the subscriber can manage the range in which the terminal can call. The difference is that you can.

This service is intended to be used for a new type of mobile call service that allows the company to pay only for the call when employees of the corporation currently use their handsets for public business. If used, it will be able to resolve the conflicts between the company and employees that may arise from the cost burden of the public use of personally owned terminals.

Conventionally, the company pays for the cell phone used by employees, and the employee pays all the charges for the cell phone used publicly or privately, and the company does not lose or even pay publicly. Employees often lost money.

The conventional method as described above has a problem in that there is a lot of room for mutual dissatisfaction between the employee and the company regarding how much the company has to pay for the telephone charges used by the employees of their company in charge of the cellular phone. .

The present invention has been presented to solve the problems of the conventional method as described above, and an object of the present invention is the cost of the whole call in the company only when the corporate phone to a specific employee or a specific incoming call for the charge using the cell phone It is to provide a service method that pays the cost.

As a technical concept for achieving the above object, in providing a third party billing method of an intelligent network service system, a process of assigning a new representative access number and a right to use the assigned representative access number are provided. Registering the terminal number of the person having the party, registering an incoming telephone number that the registered terminals can use in the form of third party billing, and using the intelligent network switch or the CTI exchange and authentication system to the registered terminal number; The present invention is characterized in that it consists of an authentication process for establishing a call path only in the case of an incoming call to a phone number corresponding to the registered called number, and a process of charging a third party when the call is completed. .

1 is a diagram illustrating a network configuration according to the present invention.

2 is a system configuration diagram according to the present invention.

3 is a service providing flowchart according to the present invention, FIG. 3A shows a process of registering with the service, and FIG. 3B shows a process of using the service.

4 is a conceptual diagram illustrating a call connection procedure according to the present invention.

<Explanation of symbols for the main parts of the drawings>

1: PC 2: Internet Network

3: Web Server 4: Billing Server

5: CTI switch 6: Cellular or PCS, IMT 2000 network

7: third party vendor exchange 8: subscriber terminal

10: mobile communication operator switch 20: intelligent network switch / CTI switch

30: external interface 40: authentication server

41: subscriber register 42: called party number authentication unit

43: subscriber authentication 44: billing content record

45: Corporate subscriber number database

46: caller ID database by subscriber

47: called party number database

48: call history database by subscriber

Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying drawings with respect to the configuration and operation of the present invention will be described in detail.

1 is a block diagram of a network including a system according to the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 1, in order to provide a service according to the present invention, a PC 1, an Internet network 2 to which the PC is connected, and a web server of a service provider connected to the Internet network 2 ( 3), a billing server 4 connected to the web server, a CTI switch 5 connected to the web server, a cellular or PCS network 6 to which the CTI switch 5 is connected, and And a third party vendor exchange 7 connected to the cellular or PCS network 6 and a subscriber station 8 connected to the cellular or PCS network 6.

Referring to the operation of the system consisting of the above configuration as follows.

First, describing the service registration process, a person who wants to subscribe to a service can subscribe to the service through the PC (1) through the Internet or in writing. When the subscription is completed, the service provider represents one subscriber to one subscriber. Register your number.

The subscriber who is assigned the representative access number registers the terminal number of the operator who can access the representative access number through the Internet network (2).

The service subscriber can register the incoming telephone number in the web server 3 of the service provider in writing or through the Internet network 2 if he / she wants to be borne by the company only for a specific telephone number.

When all of the above registration is completed, the subscriber can be provided with the service.

Referring to the operation of receiving the actual service after the registration is completed as follows.

First, an employee of a company subscribing to a service or a person who wants to receive the service, that is, a caller, connects to the cellular switchboard 6 through the subscriber terminal 8 as a representative access number.

The cellular switch 6 switches the call to the corresponding CTI switch 5 by the representative number station number connected via the subscriber station 8.

The CTI exchange 5, which has received the call, transfers the caller's terminal number to the web server 3 of the operator, i.e., the authentication server, to request authentication.

The authentication server checks whether the terminal is registered in the representative number, and transmits the result back to the CTI exchange 5 to confirm the approval.

If approved by the authentication server, the CTI switch 5 inquires the caller of the called telephone number.

When the caller inputs the incoming telephone number through the subscriber terminal 8, the CTI switch 5 forwards the received incoming number to the authentication server and requests for authentication again whether the telephone is accessible. Will pass the authentication result to the CTI exchange 5.

When the authentication server authenticates, the CTI switch 5 requests the cellular switch 6 to connect a call and the call is connected.

When the call is connected and the call is made, the billing server 4 charges the telephone fee according to the telephone rates of the different subscribers.

2 is a block diagram of a system according to the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 2, the system according to the present invention includes a mobile communication operator switch 10, an intelligent network switch 20 connected to the mobile operator switch, for example, cellular, PCS, IMT 2000, and the like. The authentication server 40 is connected to the intelligent network switch, and the external interface 30 is connected to the authentication server.

In addition, the inside of the system of the authentication server 40 is composed of a subscriber registration unit 41, a destination number authentication unit 42, subscriber authentication unit 43, and the billing content recording unit 44, the external interface 30 A subscriber number database 45 connected to the subscriber registration unit of the processing function unit, a called party number database 46 connected to the called party number authentication function unit 42, and the subscriber; And an essential data structure comprising a subscriber calling number database 46 connected to the authentication function unit 43 and a subscriber calling history database 48 connected to the billing content recording function.

Referring to the operation of the system of the present invention having the above configuration is as follows.

The intelligent network switch 20 is used as a medium for connecting the service authentication system to a call connected through a mobile communication network, and can be used as a so-called intelligent network switch or a CTI switch.

The mobile operator exchange 10 has a function of connecting a call to the intelligent network switch 20 according to the representative access number of the subscriber. In addition, the intelligent network switch 20 performs a function of connecting a call to a destination called for. This function is a function of a general exchange.

The intelligent network switch 20 requests the authentication server to check whether the subscriber connected to the switch with the telephone number connected to the authentication server 40 is a subscriber registered to the access number. The intelligent network switch requests the called party number to the subscriber when the accessor is the terminal number designated as the calling terminal of the subscriber, and requests whether the called party number is the called party number registered by the subscriber. If confirmed, the mobile operator exchange is requested to exchange the corresponding destination number.

The authentication system is a key system for implementing the present invention as a minimum corporate subscriber number database 45, subscriber calling number database 46, subscriber calling number database 47, and subscriber call history database 48. You must have four data files.

The corporate subscriber number database should include a representative access number designated by the subscriber, billing information for billing the subscriber, and billing date information.

The number of the mobile communication terminal designated by the subscriber should be registered in the subscriber number database, and the data structure should be composed of the subscriber representative access number, the mobile communication terminal number, the registration date, and the deletion date.

In the subscriber number database for each subscriber, the billing data of the call made through the representative representative access number should be kept. The information that must be included must include the calling party terminal number, the called party's telephone number, the subscriber's representative number, the call time, the call time, and the source of the call. Information on whether or not should be included.

In addition, the function to be retained by the authentication system is essentially required subscriber registration function, called number authentication function, subscriber authentication function, billing history recording function and the like.

The subscriber registration function of the authentication system is a function of updating the corporate subscriber number database, the subscriber calling party database, and the subscriber calling party database, which may be operated in conjunction with the external interface system. It may be inherent.

The called number authentication function of the authentication system refers to whether the called number of the subscriber from the intelligent network exchange is a registered called number. If the called number is a telephone number registered in the called party database of each subscriber, the result is determined by the intelligent network exchange. Function to pass on.

The subscriber authentication function of the authentication system is a function of checking whether the terminal number connected to the subscriber representative access number from the intelligent network switch is a number registered in the subscriber number database and transmitting the result to the intelligent network switch.

The billing history recording function of the authentication system is a function of receiving the originating and receiving information of the connected call using the subscriber representative access number from the intelligent network exchanger and recording the recorded call history in the subscriber's call history database.

Figure 3 is a flow chart for providing a service according to the present invention, Figure 3a shows a service registration process, Figure 3b shows a service use process.

As shown in Figure 3a, the registration process for receiving the service is provided to register the service subscription on the Internet or in writing (S10), and when the subscription is completed, one representative number is registered to one subscriber ( S20), and the subscriber who has been assigned the representative access number registers the terminal number of the operator who can access the representative access number through the Internet (S30), and the service subscriber bears only the specific telephone number in the company. It consists of a process (S40) of registering the incoming telephone number in order to.

As shown in FIG. 3B, in order to use the service after registration, the caller connects to the cellular exchange with the representative number (S50), and the cellular exchange transfers the call to the corresponding CTI exchange by the connected representative number. Process (S60), and the CTI exchange requesting the authentication by transmitting the terminal number of the caller to the authentication server (S70), and the authentication server checks whether the terminal registered in the representative number and the result is CTI exchange (S80), the CTI exchange inquires the called party number to the caller (S90), the caller enters the incoming telephone number (S100), and the CTI exchange is called Transmitting a number to an authentication server and requesting authentication whether the telephone is accessible (S110), and transmitting the authentication result to the CTI exchange (S120); When the authentication by the authentication server is CTI exchange request to the cellular switchboard and the call connection and the call connection process (S130) that, consists of a process (S140) that the billing server, billing the telephone charge depending on the call rate for the subscriber.

In the process of registering the operator terminal registers the call range of the terminal in the registration information.

In the process of registering the incoming telephone number, the incoming telephone number may be registered only the prefix or the entire telephone number may be registered.

When registering the entire phone number, a speed dial number may be registered for the number.

4 is a conceptual diagram illustrating a call connection procedure according to the present invention.

As shown in Fig. 4, the call connection procedure is performed between the subscriber station 8, the cellular switch 6, the CTI switch 5, the authentication server 3 and the billing server 4.

First, the caller connects to the cellular switch 6 via the subscriber station 8 as a representative number.

The cellular switch 6 switches the call to the corresponding CTI switch 5 by the representative number station number connected via the subscriber station 8.

The CTI exchange 5, which has received the call, transfers the caller's terminal number to the web server 3 of the operator, i.e., the authentication server, to request authentication.

The authentication server checks whether the terminal is registered in the representative number, and transmits the result back to the CTI exchange 5 to confirm the approval.

If approved by the authentication server, the CTI switch 5 inquires the caller of the called telephone number.

When the caller inputs the incoming telephone number through the subscriber terminal 8, the CTI switch 5 forwards the received incoming number to the authentication server and requests for authentication again whether the telephone is accessible. Will pass the authentication result to the CTI exchange 5.

When the authentication server authenticates, the CTI switch 5 requests the cellular switch 6 to connect a call and the call is connected.

When the call is connected and the call is made, the billing server 4 charges the telephone fee according to the telephone rates of the different subscribers.

With the configuration and action described above, the company can pay for the call only if the company calls a specific employee or a specific incoming call.

Although the present invention has been described with reference to exemplary embodiments, these descriptions should not be interpreted in a limiting sense. It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that the present invention may be variously modified, combined, or implemented in various ways with reference to the detailed description of the invention. Accordingly, the following claims should be viewed as including all possible ways of using all or part of the authentication system core technology defined in FIG.

As can be seen from the above description, the present invention is a new type of three-party billing system type. The characteristic of this type is that the third party billing party of the service can define and use the target person who wants to use the third party billing service. The selection method of the target person is to determine the calling terminal and the called phone number by themselves, and devise a user interface through the Internet for easy processing. In addition, since it is difficult to register all the incoming call numbers, the speed dial number is used to reduce the inconvenience caused by the registration of the called number by prefix and touch of the number. In the case of using such a service, it is possible to smoothly handle the cost processing problem caused by the public use of personal terminals in the current mobile communication market. Currently, there are many mobile communication service subscribers in Korea, and they usually subscribe to the service at their own expense and pay their own phone bills. However, workers in the workplace are using their own phones for the company's work, whether they are intentional or arbitrary, but it is difficult to extract the costs accurately. It may also be difficult for a company to unilaterally cover all of the costs associated with using a mobile phone, and may not be treated as tax evidence. Therefore, in the case of introducing this type of third party billing system, a new type of telephone service that can solve various problems above may be effective.

Claims (4)

In providing a third party billing method of an intelligent network service system, The person paying the billing cost is assigned a new representative access number, Registering a terminal number of a person having a right to use the assigned representative access number; Registering a called phone number that the registered terminals can use in the form of third party billing; An authentication process for establishing a call path only when an incoming call is made to the registered call number corresponding to the registered call number to the registered terminal number by using an intelligent network switch or a CTI switch and an authentication system; Corporate billing service method of a mobile communication telephone, characterized in that consisting of a process that is charged to a third party when the call is completed. The method of claim 1, wherein only the subscriber representative access number and the called number are registered without registering the terminal registration number. The method of claim 1, wherein the incoming telephone number is registered without using a subscriber representative access number and a terminal number and a call limit for each terminal number. The method of claim 1, wherein the incoming telephone number may register only the prefix or the entire telephone number, and separately register a speed dial number with respect to the corresponding telephone number.