KR20020071802A - A method for providing a ring back tone - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A method for forwarding a waiting tone is provided to use a bell sound dedicated server, to output a bell sound instead of an originating tone or an incoming tone upon speech under control of a computer, selectively by a user. CONSTITUTION: A mobile terminal(10,20) or a computer terminal(30) connects to a sound source server(50) through a mobile communication network or an Internet network. The sound source server(50) transmits a list of sound source to the terminal(10,20,30). The terminal(10,20,30) selects a phone number and a sound source to be downloaded. The selected sound source is transmitted to the terminal to be downloaded. When the downloaded terminal is called from the third mobile terminal, the downloaded terminal outputs the downloaded sound source as a bell sound, or the third mobile terminal outputs the selected sound source as a waiting tone until the receiving of the downloaded terminal. Or, the downloaded terminal outputs the downloaded sound source as a bell sound and the third mobile terminal outputs the selected sound source as a waiting tone until the receiving of the downloaded terminal.

Description

How to send a tone {A METHOD FOR PROVIDING A RING BACK TONE}

The present invention relates to a method of sending a standby sound, and more particularly, a method of sending a standby sound, in which a ringer music including music or voice is played instead of a machine tone to a caller while the callee receives a call. It is about.

In general, when a caller makes a telephone call to a receiver through a wired or wireless network by a wired or wireless communication means (telephone or mobile terminal), until now, the 'tutu' is used until the receiver receives a call from the wired / wireless network itself to the calling party's or recipient's switching network. To the caller.

However, if you listen to the machine sound or listen to the sound while listening to the machine sound, you can apply the economic law that 'time is money' to apply the advertising effect or music effect to the business entity that needs it. It can be doubled to increase sales, and furthermore, it can give tangible or intangible benefits to users by receiving information from consumers, or telephone users, or listening to music instead.

To this end, some prior art has been disclosed, such as Patent Registration No. 10-0314322 (name: wired and wireless communication terminal and advertising method using the same).

According to the above-mentioned conventional technology, the local switching network or base station because of the "problem of not reproducing or displaying information such as music, voice or image transmitted from the local switching network or base station to the called party's wired / wireless communication terminal" which the prior art had. Information such as music, voice, or image transmitted from a subscriber line or a wireless channel from the device, or information such as predetermined music, voice, or image, which is pre-stored in a memory built into a wired / wireless communication terminal, is made through a speaker. The present invention is directed to providing a wired / wireless communication terminal which reproduces a call signal (ring tone) or an advertisement method using the same.

Furthermore, referring to claim 14 of the prior art (see FIG. 1), "A call tone (ring tone) to the calling party or a call signal (ring tone) to the called party on a computer installed in a local area network or a base station, such as advertising music, voice or video, etc. A step (100) for storing information in advance; a step (200) for determining whether a dial signal has been inputted from the originating wired / wireless communication terminal to the local switching network or the exchange of the base station; and in accordance with the dial signal, Step 300 for selecting whether the call is a call or a call in a foreign exchange network, and information such as advertisement music, voice, or video stored in advance in the computer as a ring tone or call signal in the local switching network or the base station; A step 400 for transmitting to the called party's wired / wireless communication terminal and the calling or destination wired and wireless communication terminal; A step (500) of reproducing information such as advertisement music, voice, or image as a call tone or a call signal through a speaker or a display device on the display; And a method 600 for repeatedly executing or terminating the step 500 according to the response signal. In particular, the advertisement method using the wired / wireless communication terminal is disclosed. A step 400 for transmitting information, such as advertisement music, voice, or video, to the calling party or called party wired or wireless communication terminal as a ring tone or calling signal from the local switching network or base station; and the calling party or called party wired or wireless communication terminal. The advertisement as a ring tone or call signal through a speaker or display on the Step 500 for reproducing information such as music for music, sound, or image 'is new content, and the rest can be regarded as publicly known technical content that can be used by anyone.

However, the implementation of such a method outputs music such as advertisements without the user's choice, so the terminal manufacturers do not configure this method in the control circuit, and thus it is impossible to implement the method. In particular, when the incoming signal of the receiving terminal is received, the ring tone or vibration signal is output from that time, but before the output of music such as advertisements to the receiver terminal, there is a problem that the terminal control circuit is impossible. The reason is that the terminal user is not considered for the purpose of the advertising method in order not to select the receiver or the sender.

In addition, according to the above prior art, the present invention discloses an invention in which a caller user can listen to music such as an advertisement instead of a machine sound until a call arrives, but has a disadvantage in that the music can not be directly downloaded and selected as a ringtone.

Therefore, unlike the prior art, only a user who wants to use a user's preference before a telephone call is proposed in advance, and instead of a dial tone or a ringing tone when a call is controlled by a computer connected to an exchange or mobile switching center, There is a necessity, and furthermore, there is a need for a technology that allows a caller to listen instead of a standby sound and simultaneously store music in a memory to select a ringtone later.

According to another prior art, there is a patent registration No. 10-0292089 (name: a method and apparatus for generating an alternative sound of a ringback tone selected by a called party in a called exchange system of a wired or wireless communication network).

Patent No. 10-0292089 discloses a method for providing a caller with a sound source (music or voice) selected by the called party, unlike Patent Registration No. 10-0314322. In other words, when the called party selects and designates a sound source in advance at the called party's exchange, the caller starts listening to the sound source selected by the called party until the caller receives the call.

However, even in the prior art, since the sender and the receiver are in overlapping positions, there is no need to distinguish them. Therefore, the caller and the receiver have a limitation that they are used only when the sound source is stored in the receiver switching system. There is a disadvantage that can not be provided to the sound source.

Therefore, the present invention is a ring-only server that outputs instead of a dial tone or a ringing tone when a call is controlled by a computer connected to a mobile switching center, regardless of a call exchanger or a call exchange switch, for a user who wants to use it to his or her taste before a call. An object of the present invention is to provide a method for sending a standby sound by user selection.

1 is a flowchart illustrating an advertisement method according to the prior art.

2 to 5 is a block diagram showing a standby sound sending system according to the present invention.

6 is a block diagram showing a modification of the present invention.

** Brief description of the main parts of the drawing **

10, 20: mobile terminal 30: computer terminal

40: mobile switching center 50: sound source server

51 bus 52 processor

53: memory 54: network interface

55: fixed disk 60: short message server

70: SMP server

To this end, the present invention provides a method for accessing a sound source server from a telephone terminal or a computer terminal through a mobile communication network or an internet network, transmitting the sound source list to the terminal by a sound source server, a telephone number of a terminal to which the terminal is to be downloaded, and Selecting a sound source, transmitting the selected sound source to the terminal to be downloaded, and when the telephone terminal is called from the third telephone terminal to the downloaded terminal, the downloaded terminal outputs the downloaded sound source as a ringtone or the third telephone terminal is connected. The selected sound source outputs the standby sound until the downloaded terminal receives it, or the downloaded terminal outputs the downloaded sound source as the ring tone and the selected sound source outputs the sound until the third terminal is received by the downloaded terminal. Provided is a method for sending a standby sound including a step.

According to a variant of the present invention, a method of accessing a sound source server from a telephone terminal through a mobile communication network, transmitting a sound source list to a terminal by a sound source server, selecting a phone number of a terminal to be downloaded and a sound source to be downloaded And the sound source server confirming whether the SMP server subscribes to the standby sound service, and if the sound source server is a subscriber, transmitting the corresponding standby sound source to the SMP server and transmitting a ringtone sound source corresponding to the standby sound source to the terminal to be downloaded. And, when a call is made to the terminal downloaded from the third telephone terminal, the downloaded terminal outputs the downloaded sound source as a ringtone or receives a standby sound from the SMP server until the terminal downloaded by the third telephone terminal receives the output, or Alternatively, the downloaded terminal outputs the downloaded sound source as a ringtone and sends The aspirate delivery method comprising the step of outputting receive-waiting tone is transmitted from the SMP server is provided until the terminal device is downloaded to receive.

Hereinafter, the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

2 is a block diagram illustrating a process of receiving a ringtone download service directly from a mobile terminal through a ringtone sound source server, and FIG. 3 is a block diagram illustrating a process of downloading a ringtone from one mobile terminal to another mobile terminal. 4 is a block diagram illustrating a process of downloading a ringtone from a computer terminal to a mobile terminal.

The user of the mobile terminal 10 connects to the ringtone sound source server 50 to receive the ringtone download via the communication network. Of course, a wired telephone may be used instead of the mobile terminal 10. Then, the mobile switching center 40 determines whether the ring tone connection signal or the third party call signal is allowed and allows the ring tone sound source server 50 to access the ring tone connection signal.

The ringtone sound source server 50 has a ringtone sound source and a standby sound source data, and since the two data are different only in a format in which they are stored, they are used in the same sense in some cases.

When the user of the mobile terminal 10 connects to the ringtone sound source server 50, the mobile terminal 10 checks the ID of the mobile terminal and the received information, stores the information in the memory (not shown), and moves the list of sound sources to the mobile switching center 40. Send via After selecting and downloading the sound source, the selected sound source is notified in advance that the ringback tone is used as a substitute sound source. At this time, if the user of the mobile terminal 10 instructs the download ringtone sound source server 50 transmits the sound source to the mobile terminal (10).

If the user of the mobile terminal 10 designates the downloaded sound source as a ringtone, the sound source is output as a ringtone. And when the call comes from a third party mobile switching center 40 checks the recipient's phone number is sent to the ringtone sound source server 50 to check whether there is a fact that the ringtone has been downloaded, if there is a downloaded ringtone sound source server (50 The sound source can be transferred to the third party by ringback tone replacement so that the third party can listen until the called party answers the phone and vice versa.

Even if the sound source is an advertisement sound, it is not a random advertisement, so it can be legally free because it conveys the fact that the advertisement sound is transmitted to the called party or the caller as a ringback tone replacement sound when it is downloaded. Therefore, in the future, such advertisement sound may be widely used for various advertising purposes.

In addition, when the mobile terminal 10 is downloaded, only the music sound source can be downloaded, and other advertisement sounds except the downloaded sound source may be selected as ringback tone replacement sounds.

Up to now, it has been described that the user of the mobile terminal 10 directly downloads the ringtone sound source and the user can directly or a third party listen to the downloaded ringtone sound source or ringtone replacement sound.

From now on, as illustrated in FIG. 3, it will be described to download the ringtone sound source from the first mobile terminal 10 to the second mobile terminal 20. Other processes similar to those of FIG. 2 are omitted.

The first mobile terminal 10 accesses the ringtone sound source server 50 to download the selected ringtone sound source to the second mobile terminal 20. At this time, the mobile terminal 10 or 20 selectively transmits a message indicating that it is used as a ringback tone substitute sound before downloading to the mobile terminal 10 or 20. When the second mobile terminal 20 receives the download, the selected ringtone sound source is downloaded.

Then, the second mobile terminal 20 can listen to the ringback tone replacement sound at the time of waiting after the telephone call to the first mobile terminal 10, and vice versa.

Next, a method of accessing the ringtone sound source server 50 through the computer terminal 30 and downloading the same to the mobile terminal 10 or 20 will be described with reference to FIG. 4, and the same contents as those of FIGS. 2 and 3 will be omitted. .

When the computer terminal 30 is connected to the ringtone sound source server 50, the ringtone sound source list is transmitted to the terminal 30. At this time, you can select only ringtones, alternative ringtones and ringback tones, or only substitute sounds.

When the user selects a sound source from the list and designates a phone number of the mobile terminal 10 or 20 to instruct download, the mobile switching center 40 calls the mobile terminal 10 or 20 through its own switching network (not shown). Wait for the received signal. The sound source selected at the time of receiving the received signal is downloaded to the corresponding mobile terminal (10, 20).

Then, when the call comes to the mobile terminal 10, 20, the other party listens to the ringback tone replacement until reception, and vice versa.

Until now, the wireless communication network has been described based on WAP or WEB, but it can be used through an automatic answering service, and can also be set through a wired communication network.

5 is a block diagram showing the internal structure of the ringtone sound source server 50, which will be described below for processing the ringback tone replacement sound.

The ringtone sound source server 50 is composed of a processor 52, a memory 53, a fixed disk 55, and a network interface 54, which are connected to each other on the bus 51 and are connected to each other by the processor 52. Receive control according to the program command on).

The sound source server 50 may include an input device such as a keyboard or a mouse and an output means such as a speaker or a display device, and may have two or more processors. In addition, the sound source server 50 may have a secondary storage device such as a profi disk or a CD-ROM.

Once the ring tone download request signal is received from the mobile terminal 10, 20 or the computer terminal 30, the signal is controlled by the program code resident on the memory 53 by the processor 52.

Upon receiving the download request signal, the sound source list stored in the fixed disk 55 is transmitted to the corresponding terminal among the terminals 10 to 30 to wait for reception of information such as the download request sound source and the terminal telephone number to be downloaded.

Upon receiving the information, the processor 52 reads the corresponding field, transmits the sound source to the corresponding terminals 10, 20, and stores information such as a downloaded telephone number of the terminals 10, 20 on the fixed disk 55. The fixed disk 55 may be built as a separate database server.

Then, when either terminal of the mobile terminal 10 or 20 makes a call to the other terminal, the processor 52 receives fields such as telephone numbers of the two terminals 10 and 20, searches for the fixed disk 55 and downloads it. It is determined whether there is a received fact and whether the ringback tone substitute sound is selected, and the substitute sound is transmitted to the corresponding terminal so that the user of the terminal 10 or 20 can listen.

The program is coded on the memory 53 for such an algorithm.

That is, a code for comparing the information field of the calling party and the receiving party with the information field of the fixed disk, and a code that reads the selected sound source and outputs it as a substitute sound to the calling mobile terminal when it matches according to the comparison code, or when there is a mismatch The code for transmitting the code and the code for blocking the release request information of the terminal from the terminal information of the fixed disk are present on the memory 53.

In addition, the downloaded information field and the standby sound transmission information field may include a code for transmitting to the mediation server for billing.

Next, a modification of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. 6.

The ringtone sound source server 50 has atmospheric sound source data and ringtone data.

In addition to the mobile switching center 40, the mobile communication network includes an SMP server 60 and a short message server 70 connected thereto. Symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) server 60 is a large server capable of multiprocessing with multiple processors. The rest of the configuration system, such as a home location register (HLR) or a base station, is omitted for convenience of description.

The SMP server 60 has a terminal subscriber information DB and can transmit a standby sound source, and the short message server 70 can transmit a short message SMS. The user of the mobile terminal 10 may access the sound source server 50 to listen to the standby sound source in advance, and the sound sources may be stored and provided in advance according to the WEB, WAP or ARS environment.

When the user of the mobile terminal 10 connects to the sound source server 50 and selects a corresponding sound source and transmits information such as a terminal number to the sound source server 50, the sound source server 50 provides a standby sound service through the SMP server 60. Check and confirm the subscription and model information on the terminal.

If the information received from the SMP server 60 is not a standby sound service subscriber, the sound source server 50 notifies the mobile terminal 10, and if the subscriber is a subscriber, the sound source server 50 inquires the sound source and retrieves the corresponding standby sound source from the SMP server. To 60.

Then, the ringtone sound source corresponding to the standby sound source is searched for, and the short message server 70 requests the callback URL SMS transmission to transmit the short message server 70 to the mobile terminal 10.

When the response of the mobile terminal 10 is received and transmits the ringtone sound source to the mobile terminal (10). The user then stores the downloaded ringtone data on the terminal 10.

If the mobile terminal 10 that has downloaded the ringtone is the receiving side, when the call is received from a third party, the receiving side mobile terminal 10 outputs the downloaded ringtone sound source to inform the user that the call has been received, and vice versa. Until receiving the SMP server 60 transmits the standby sound to the receiving telephone.

By doing so, at the same time as the ringtone is downloaded, the third party can listen to a sound source such as music or voice as a standby sound instead of the machine sound until receiving the call when the call is made to the mobile terminal 10. Of course the opposite is also true.

So far, the method and system for transmitting the standby sound ringtone according to the present invention have been described. However, it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various modifications may be made without departing from the spirit of the claims set forth below.

According to the present invention, by providing an effect that can provide a standby sound service using the ringtone sound source server to provide benefits to the system operator through the expansion of the service, and to the user to receive the effect of receiving the ringtone as well as download the ringtone sound to provide.

In addition, according to the present invention, there is an effect that can provide a variety of services to the user through the interworking with the SMP server.

Claims (2)

A method of sending a standby sound, the method comprising: accessing a sound source server from a telephone terminal or a computer terminal through a mobile communication network or an internet network, transmitting the sound source list to the terminal by the sound source server, and calling the terminal of the terminal to be downloaded. Selecting the number and the sound source to be downloaded, transmitting the selected sound source to the terminal to be downloaded, and calling the terminal to the terminal downloaded from the third telephone terminal, the downloaded terminal outputs the downloaded sound source as a ringtone or a third one. The selected sound source outputs the standby sound until the terminal downloaded by the phone terminal receives the sound, or the downloaded terminal outputs the downloaded sound source as the ring tone and the selected sound source is received until the terminal downloaded by the third telephone terminal receives it. Characterized in that it comprises the step of outputting the atmospheric sound How to send the sound. A method of sending a standby sound, the method comprising: accessing a sound source server from a telephone terminal through a mobile communication network, transmitting the sound source list to the terminal by the sound source server, a telephone number of a terminal to be downloaded, and a sound source to be downloaded; And selecting, by the sound source server, checking whether the SMP server is subscribed to the standby sound service, and when the subscriber is a subscriber, transmits the corresponding standby sound source to the SMP server and transmits the ringtone sound source corresponding to the standby sound source to the terminal to be downloaded. Transmitting the call to the terminal downloaded from the third telephone terminal, and the downloaded terminal outputs the downloaded sound source as a ringtone or receives a standby sound from the SMP server until the terminal downloaded by the third telephone terminal is received. The output or the downloaded terminal rings the downloaded sound source Lee way output, and sending aspirate comprising the step of outputting the telephone terminal of the third download device receiving the aspirate from the SMP server until it receives.