KR20020006864A - Method of Changing Telephone signals - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A method for servicing a sound source and a moving picture through the tone conversion of a telephone is provided to decrease time waste for waiting a telephone conversation by providing sound source or moving picture information with various types instead of a dial tone of a conventional telephone. CONSTITUTION: A user terminal(100) outputs a telephone tone including a ring back tone signal, a busy tone signal, and a network busy tone signal as one between a sound source and/or a moving picture including an advertisement, a music, or an English dialogue. An ARS(Automatic Response Service) server(400) provides the sound source and/or the moving picture including the advertisement, the music, or the English dialogue. A tone converter(200) stores the sound source and/or the moving picture including the advertisement, the music, or the English dialogue provided from the ARS server(400), senses the telephone tone including the ring back tone signal, the busy tone signal, and the network busy tone signal, and provides one between the sound source and/or the moving picture to the user terminal(100).

Description

How to service sound and video by changing the phone's ringtone {Method of Changing Telephone signals}

The present invention relates to a method for converting a dial tone of a telephone, and in particular, a telephone such as a ring back tone signal, a busy tone signal or a network busy tone signal transmitted from a called party. The present invention relates to a method for converting a beeper into a sound source and / or a video including an advertisement, music, message, or English conversation.

In general, when a user dials a predetermined number, the telephone converts the signal into a digital signal and transmits it to an exchange. When the exchange applies a calling current to the called party, the called party receives a ring back tone signal and a busy tone. When a response is made to a switch by a busy tone signal or a network busy tone signal, and then a hook-off signal is transmitted to the exchange, The currency path is formed. At this time, the exchange transmits a ringback tone signal, a busy tone signal or a network busy signal from the called party to the calling party, so that the calling party can grasp the status of the called party through such a signal.

In addition, even in the case of a conventional mobile phone, if the user presses a telephone number to call, and then presses a call button or a send button, through the above process, when the base station and the wireless call path is formed, a ringback tone signal is transmitted or In the absence of a radio channel, a busy tone signal is transmitted.

In the conventional telephones and mobile phones, the dial tone, that is, the ringback tone signal is uniform and very monotonous and boring, and there is a problem in that it just wastes time for transmitting and receiving signals.

Accordingly, the present invention has been made to solve the above problems, an object of the present invention is to provide a uniform and monotonous ring back tone signal, a busy tone signal and a telephone tone such as a network busy signal such as advertising, music, message or English conversation, etc. It is to provide a method for converting the sound source and / or video to include.

1 is a block diagram showing a telephone ring tone conversion system according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a flowchart illustrating a step of storing desired sound sources such as advertisements, music, messages, and English conversations from an ARS server to a user terminal according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

3 is a flowchart illustrating a method for converting a telephone signal tone according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

4 is a diagram illustrating an Internet server according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

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

100: calling terminal 120: display unit

140: telephone circuit unit 160: dialing unit

200: beep converter 210: Vocoder

212: DTMF Detector 214: Encoder

220: Flash memory 222: DTMF active program

224: control program 226: sound source / video storage unit

230: tone / voice detector 240: counter storage

300: base station 400: ARS server

410: sound source database unit 420: member information database unit

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a telephone tone conversion for converting a telephone tone including a ringback tone signal, a busy tone signal and a network busy tone signal into a sound source and / or a video including advertisement, music, message or English conversation. A system comprising: a user terminal for outputting a telephone signal including a ringback tone signal, a busy tone signal and a network busy signal as one of a sound source and / or a video including the advertisement, music, message or English conversation; A server providing a sound source and / or a video including the advertisement, music, message or English conversation; The user terminal stores a sound source and / or a video including the advertisement, music, message or English conversation provided from the server, and detects a telephone ring tone including the ringback tone signal, a busy tone signal, and a network busy signal. To provide a phone signal tones conversion system comprising a sound signal converter 200 for providing one of the sound source and / or video.

The tone converter further includes a device for analyzing or reconstructing a voice, a nonvolatile memory unit, and a device capable of identifying a voice and tone, wherein the nonvolatile memory unit includes a control program, a DTMF active program, and a sound source. And / or a video storage unit. In addition, the apparatus for analyzing or reconstructing the voice comprises an encoder and a DTMF detector. The tone converter may further include a counter storage unit that increases a counter value when a call path is formed in a user terminal when the sound source and / or the video is an advertisement.

In addition, the present invention includes a first step of dialing a predetermined telephone number from a calling party to a called party; A second step in which the called party responds with a predetermined signal by dialing the calling party; Detecting a predetermined signal transmitted from the called party; And a fourth step of outputting a selected one of a sound source and / or a video including an advertisement, music, message, or English conversation in response to the detected predetermined signal to the calling party's telephone. .

The predetermined signal detected from the called party includes a ring back tone signal, a busy tone signal, and a network busy signal, and the third step is performed from the called party. And determining whether the detected signal is a ringback tone signal.

If the predetermined signal detected from the called party is not a ringback tone signal, the first step further includes storing the predetermined telephone number, and the third step includes re-dialing to the called party. It includes more.

The third step may further include checking a number of dialing times, limiting redialing to a predetermined number of dialing times, and stopping output of the selected sound source and / or video. When the signal of the called party is a ringback tone signal, the method further includes determining whether the called party is hooked off. When the called party is hooked off, the method further includes stopping output of the selected sound source and / or video.

Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 is a block diagram showing a telephone dial tone conversion system according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 1, the telephone tone conversion system according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a user terminal 100, a tone converter 200, a base station 300, and an automatic response service (ARS) server 400. It consists of). The user terminal 100 may be a mobile phone, a general telephone or a public telephone used in a home or office, and a wired or wireless Internet function may be added to the telephone. When the user terminal 100 has an internet function, the ARS server 400 may be an internet server 500 as shown in FIG. 4. In addition, the user terminal 100 and the tone converter 200 may be preferably integrally formed.

The user terminal 100, DTMF (Dual Tone Multi-), the telephone number and other information of the receiving terminal (not shown) or the ARS server 400 to call through the input of the keypad (not shown) A dialing unit 160 which transmits a signal to a base station 300 in the form of a frequency signal or a dialing packet, a telephone circuit unit 140 including handset and control function, and an input through the keypad. It has a display unit 120 for outputting the character information or video information.

The tone converter 200 includes a vocoder 210 for analyzing or reconstructing a voice, a flash memory 220 that is a nonvolatile memory, a voice, and a specific tone, for example. For example, a tone / voice detector 230 capable of identifying a ringback tone, a busy tone, a network busy tone, and the like, and a counter storage unit 240 are provided.

In addition, the vocoder 210 converts the DTMF detector 212 for detecting a DTMF signal between the ARS server 400 and the user terminal 100, and converts an analog voice into a digital signal, It consists of an encoder 214 which converts the signal of the signal into an analog voice. In addition, the flash memory 220 includes a DTMF activation program 222 for activating the DTMF signal detection mode, a control program 224 for controlling all components of the tone converter 200, advertisements, music, messages, or the like. Sound source / video storage unit 226 that stores a sound source and / or video such as English conversation.

In addition, the counter storage unit 240 is a call path between the receiver and the sender when the sound source and / or video including the advertisement, music, message or English conversation stored in the flash memory 220 is an advertisement It has counter information which increases as its value is formed. That is, the counter storage unit 240 increases the counter value after checking whether the advertisement is selected and the normal call is made by the control program 224 in the flash memory 220.

In addition, a coded packet transmitted from a base station is composed of a vector quantization value, a pitch parameter, and a format parameter, and is about 160 packets through normal decoding of the packet. PCM samples can be obtained. In the case of a tone, energy is concentrated in a specific frequency group, and thus a tone can be distinguished from a voice. In addition, speech and tone can be identified by approximating the frequency component of the received packet. In addition, since the ringback tone signal and the busy tone signal used in the telephone are repeated with a specific interruption ratio, the interruption ratio may be checked and applied to detection. Accordingly, the tone / voice detector 230 may detect a voice or a tone through the above method.

In addition, the ARS server 400 is a general well-known automatic voice response system, having a sound source database unit 410 having a sound source, such as advertising, music, messages or English conversation, and the member information of the user as a member It has a member information database unit 420. In addition, when the ARS server 500 becomes the Internet server 500, the Internet server 500 may be a publicly known Internet server, a sound source including advertising, music, messages or English conversation, and the like. And / or a sound source / video database unit 510 having a video and a member information database unit 520 having information of a member having the user as a member. Accordingly, a user of the user terminal 100 registered as a member of the ARS server 400 or the Internet server 500 replaces a ringback tone signal, a busy tone signal, or a network busy signal with an advertisement, music, message or English. When accessing the ARS server 400 or the Internet server 500 to use a sound source and / or a video including a conversation, the user checks the user's information as a member and the user terminal 100 wants the user. It plays a role of transmitting sound source and / or video. Member information stored in the member information database unit 420, 520 is basically the general information of the member, such as the member's telephone number, social security number, address, password, and the member is the ARS server 400 or the Internet server 500 It has information about the history of the sound source and / or video used to access to and the counter value information for listening to the advertisement of the user when the sound source and / or video is an advertisement.

2 is a flowchart illustrating a method of storing a sound source including an advertisement, music, a message, or an English conversation in the user terminal 100 in place of a telephone dial tone. First, a method of storing a sound source and / or a video in the user terminal 100 will be described. As shown in FIG. 2, when a call path is formed with the ARS server 400 and the user terminal 100 by the ARS server 400 or by the user terminal 100 (S1), the ring tone The control program 224 in the flash memory 220 in the converter 200 executes the DTMF activation program 222 to activate the DTMF detector 212 in the DTMF detection mode. Therefore, the ARS server 400 and the user terminal 100 can communicate with each other through the DTMF command code. The ARS server 400 exports a message and a sample sound source to select a sound source, that is, advertisement, music, message, or English conversation, which the user wants to store with a predetermined DTMF command code, and in response, the user The DTMF command code for selecting one of sound sources, that is, advertisements, music, messages, or English conversations, which are desired to be stored through the keypad of the dialing unit 160 in the user terminal 100, is transmitted (S2). In response, the ARS server 400 transmits the DTMF command code indicating the start of recording of the sound source selected by the user to the user terminal 100. Therefore, when the DTMF command code for terminating the recording of the selected sound source is transmitted, The selected sound source is stored in the sound source / video storage unit 226 of the signal sound converter 200 (S3).

At this time, the counter information storage unit 240 stored in the EEPROM in the tone converter 200 having the number of advertisements that the user listens to transmits the counter information request DTMF command of the ARS server 400 simultaneously with the transmission of the selected sound source. The code is transmitted from the user terminal 100 to the ARS server 400 and stored in the member information database unit 420. After that, the counter storage unit 240 is initialized (S5).

The DTMF command code may be implemented in various ways. For example, the DTMF command code may be "1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0, #, *" or the like, or a frequency combination may be used. In other words, when the DTMF command code of the advertisement sound source selection request of the ARS server 400 is "# 1", "* 1" may be used as the response DTMF command code of the user terminal 100. In addition, when the DTMF command code of the music, message, or English conversation selection request of the ARS server 400 is "# 2", "* 2" may be used as the response DTMF command code of the user terminal 100. DTMF command codes indicating the start and end of the storage of the selected sound source of the ARS server 400 may be "# 3" and "# 4", respectively, wherein the user terminal 100 through the DTMF command code "# 4" It can be seen that the storing of the selected sound source is finished. The DTMF command code indicating the counter information request of the ARS server 400 may be "# *", and the response DTMF command code of the user terminal 100 may be "* # XXX". At this time, "XXX" is three-digit counter information, and the notation is decimal. For example, if the counter information is "1", it is "001" and if it is "100", it is "100". The data structure through which the selected sound source is transmitted may be in the form of "Flag1 (DTMF1) + selected sound source + Flag2 (DTMF2)". Therefore, when the user terminal 100 detects Flag1 (DTMF1), the tone generator 200 Start storage of the selected sound source in the sound source / video storage unit 226 in the flash memory 200, and ends the storage of the selected sound source when Flag2 (DTMF) is detected.

The method of storing the sound source including the above-described advertisement, music, message or English conversation in the user terminal 100, if the user terminal 100 is possible in the Internet mode, the sound source / video of the Internet server 500 The database 510 may be changed to a method of storing a sound source and / or a video including an advertisement, music, a message, or an English conversation in the user terminal 100. At this time, the sound source and / or the video data can be downloaded through the Internet browser instead of the above-described storage method using the DTMF command code or frequency combination.

3 is a flowchart illustrating a method for converting a telephone signal tone according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention. First, when a user inputs information such as a phone number of a receiving terminal (not shown), the dialing unit 160 of the user terminal 100 is provided in the tone generator 200 in the form of a DTMF command code or a dialing packet. Transmitting through the vocoder 210 to the switch 300 (Sa1), the control program 224 in the flash memory 220 in the beep converter 200 detects a dialing signal and the predetermined number of the flash memory 220 The telephone number of the receiving terminal is temporarily stored in the location (Sa2). At this time, the control program 224 is to know the transmission state through the tone / voice detector 230 in the tone converter 200, and the sound source / video storage unit 226 through the control program 224 The user terminal 100 outputs an instruction to output the selected sound source and / or video to the user terminal 100 (Sa3). In this case, when a video including the sound source is selected, the video is output to the display unit 120 in the user terminal 100. The exchange 300 which transmits a signal such as a DTMF command code or a dialing packet from the dialing unit 160 in the user terminal 100 checks the call state of the called terminal. At this time, the response signal from the receiving terminal may be a ring back tone signal and a busy signal or a network busy signal.

The tone / voice detector 230 of the tone converter 200 checks the signal from the receiving terminal (Sa4). When the detected signal is a ringback tone signal, the exchange 300 receives the receiving side. A ringing tone signal is sent to the terminal, and a hook-off is checked (Sa5). In this case, when the receiving terminal is not hooked off, the control program unit 224 in the flash memory 220 in the tone converter 200 continuously outputs the selected flash memory in the tone converter 200 so as to continuously output the selected sound source signal. Instructing the sound source / video storage unit 226 in the 220, the tone / voice detector 230 in the tone converter 200 continuously detects the signal from the switch 300 to the ring back tone signal is If no case is detected, the control program unit 224 checks the number of dialing times (Sa7), preferably terminates the call state if it is two or more times, and temporarily stores the called party number if the dialing is less than two times. To re-dial (Sa2). On the other hand, when the hook-off is made in the fifth step (Sa5), a call path between the receiving terminal and the user terminal 100 is formed through the telephone circuit unit 140 in the user terminal 100, and instead of the ring tone of the telephone. When the output sound source and / or the video is an advertisement, the counter value is preferably increased by “1” and stored in the counter storage unit 240 in the tone converter 200 as the call path is formed (Sa6). At this time, the re-dial number check can be changed by the user.

In other words, when the user terminal 100 attempts to make a call, the tone / voice detector 230 in the tone converter 200 is executed, and the signal transmitted from the base station 300 is the tone / voice detector 230. Detects the tone or the voice signal and stores it in the sound source / video storage unit 226 in the flash memory 220 through the control program 224 in the flash memory 220 in the tone generator 200 in case of a tone. The sound source and the moving image to the encoder 214 in the vocoder 210 in the signal converter 200, and the encoder 214 in the vocoder 210 sends the sound and the video in the user terminal 100 instead of the tone. Send it to the display. At this time, the tone / voice detector 230 continuously detects a radio wave transmitted from the base station 300, and outputs a sound source / video through the control program 224 when a signal other than a tone, that is, a voice signal, is detected at any moment. After that, the radio wave transmitted from the base station 300 is no longer detected and is immediately sent to the encoder 214 in the vocoder 210.

On the other hand, the communication between the beep converter 200 and the switch 300 may use a wire such as a cable, or may be performed through a wireless method used for a general mobile phone. In the case of using a wireless method, the beeper converter 200 may include a transceiver configured to transmit and receive a signal between the beeper converter 200 and the exchange 300 in a predetermined manner, for example, a radio frequency (RF) signal method. It may be further included.

In addition, the beeper converter 200 may be integrally assembled with the user terminal 100 or used as a separate type that is connected to the user terminal 100 using a port or a socket. .

In addition, in the embodiment of the present invention, a method for converting all the phone signals, such as ringback tone signal, busy tone signal and network busy tone signal, into a sound source and / or video desired by a user including advertisement, music, message, or English conversation. Although providing a ring back tone signal, a busy tone signal, or a network signal such as a telephone signal can be separately serviced.

As described above, the method for converting a dial tone of a telephone according to the present invention may reduce time waste of waiting for a call state by providing various types of sound sources or video information that are more efficient and more pleasant than the dial tone of a conventional and monotonous conventional telephone. . In addition, the advertiser can maximize the advertising effect through one-to-one advertising, phone users can receive benefits such as rate discounts instead of listening or viewing the advertisement.

It will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that the embodiments of the present invention are merely exemplary and that various changes and modifications may be made without departing from the spirit of the present invention. For example, the telephone signal may be converted into a still image, that is, an image including a character or the like instead of the sound source and / or the moving image.

Claims (12)

A telephone tonal conversion system for converting telephone tones, including ring back tone signals, busy tone signals, and network busy tone signals, into sound sources and / or video including advertisements, music, messages, or English conversations, A user terminal for outputting a telephone tone including the ringback tone signal, the busy tone signal and the network busy tone signal as one of a sound source and / or a video including the advertisement, music, message or English conversation; A server providing a sound source and / or a video including the advertisement, music, message or English conversation; The user terminal stores a sound source and / or a video including the advertisement, music, message or English conversation provided from the server, and detects a telephone ring tone including the ringback tone signal, a busy tone signal, and a network busy signal. Telephone tone conversion system including a tone converter for providing one of the sound source and / or video. The method of claim 1, And the tonic converter further includes a device for analyzing or reconstructing a voice, a nonvolatile memory unit, and a device capable of identifying a voice and a tone. The method of claim 2, And the nonvolatile memory unit further includes a control program, a DTMF active program, and a sound source and / or video storage unit. The method of claim 2, And a device for analyzing or reconstructing the voice comprises an encoder and a DTMF detector. The method of claim 3, wherein The tone signal converter further includes a counter storage unit for increasing a counter value when a call path is formed in a user terminal when the sound source and / or a video is an advertisement. A first step of dialing a predetermined telephone number from the calling party to the called party; A second step in which the called party responds with a predetermined signal by dialing the calling party; Detecting a predetermined signal transmitted from the called party; A fourth step of outputting, at the calling party's telephone, a selected one of a sound source and / or a video including an advertisement, music, message or English conversation in response to the detected predetermined signal; Telephone ring tone conversion method comprising a. The method of claim 6, The predetermined signal detected from the called party includes a ring back tone signal, a busy tone signal, and a network busy signal. The method of claim 7, wherein And the third step further comprises determining whether the signal detected from the called party is a ringback tone signal. The method of claim 8, If the predetermined signal detected from the called party is not a ringback tone signal, the first step further includes storing the predetermined telephone number, and the third step includes re-dialing to the called party. A telephone ring tone conversion method is further included. The method of claim 9, The third step may further include checking a number of dialing times, limiting redialing to a predetermined number of dialing times, and stopping output of the selected sound source and / or video. The method of claim 8, And determining whether the called party is hooked off when the signal of the called party is a ringback tone signal. The method of claim 11, And stopping the output of the selected sound source when the called party is hooked off.