KR20020073879A - A call monitering method of telephone outputting call monitering signal in accordance with caller - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A call monitoring method of telephone outputting call monitoring signal in accordance with caller is provided to easily confirm the caller by receiving call monitoring contents mapped with each caller from an ECMS(Enhanced Call Monitoring System) server and outputting an other call monitoring signal according to the caller when performing a telephone conversation. CONSTITUTION: A user sets a call monitoring signal outputted through a real telephone from caller ID including call monitoring contents transmitted from an ECMS server(S201). In case that a calling signal is inputted to a telephone(S202), a calling signal confirming unit recognizes the caller ID corresponding to the calling signal inputted from a calling information recognizing unit(S203). A control unit retrieves whether a telephone number corresponding to the recognized caller ID is stored in a database(S204). If the telephone number corresponding to the recognized caller ID is stored in the database, the control unit outputs contents(call monitoring signal) set by the user among the call monitoring contents included in the caller ID(S206).

Description

A call monitoring method for a telephone that outputs a call monitoring signal set according to a caller {A CALL MONITERING METHOD OF TELEPHONE OUTPUTTING CALL MONITERING SIGNAL IN ACCORDANCE WITH CALLER}

The present invention relates to a telephone, and in particular, sets various kinds of call monitering signals according to callers, and outputs corresponding call monitoring when a call comes from the caller, thereby facilitating the caller by the call monitoring signal during a telephone call. It relates to a call monitoring method of the phone can be confirmed.

Since telephones were invented by Alexander Graham Bell, telephones have become an indispensable equipment in everyday life. In recent years, mobile phones have been introduced in accordance with the development of wireless communication technology, which has become a personal communication phone owned by all individuals. Moreover, with the development of wireless internet technology, mobile phones are not only used for general telephone calls but also serve as internet terminals connected to wireless internet.

Currently, a call monitering service for informing a caller's telephone number in a telephone call has been started. By checking the caller by the call monitoring service, not only the caller can reject the call from an unwanted person, but also when the prank call or the threatening call comes, the caller can take action. However, in this case, since most call monitoring displays the caller's phone number on the screen of the phone (particularly, the mobile phone), the caller can be identified only through the screen of the mobile phone. In addition, there is a problem in that the telephone number displayed on the screen of the mobile phone can not accurately determine who the caller.

The present invention is to solve the above problems, by receiving the content for each call caller mapped to the caller from the ECMS server and can easily identify the caller by outputting different call monitoring signal according to the caller during the call An object of the present invention is to provide a call monitoring method for a telephone.

In order to achieve the above object, the call monitoring method according to the present invention comprises the steps of inputting the caller information to the ECMS server via the Internet, selecting and mapping the specific call monitoring content to the input caller information, and storing; Accessing the ECMS server by using a telephone to download mapped call monitoring contents, checking caller information from an outgoing signal input during a telephone call, retrieving call monitoring content corresponding to the caller information; And outputting a signal of the call monitoring content when the call monitoring content corresponding to the caller information exists.

1 is a simplified block diagram showing the structure of a telephone call system according to the present invention;

2 is a block diagram showing the structure of an ECMS server according to the present invention;

3 is a block diagram showing the structure of a telephone according to the present invention;

4 is a flowchart illustrating a method of downloading caller information mapped to call monitoring contents to a phone in a call monitoring method of a phone according to the present invention.

5 is a flowchart showing a call monitoring method of a telephone according to the present invention.

Explanation of symbols on the main parts of the drawings

1: Internet 3,7: User Phone

5,9: User PC 10: ECMS Server

22: outgoing signal input unit 24: outgoing signal confirmation unit

26: call information recognition unit 28: control unit

30: database unit 32: output unit

In the telephone call system of the present invention, call monitoring is provided in various forms, rather than simply displaying a telephone number. As the call monitoring form, the present invention may include a specific melody, voice, character, or video corresponding to each caller. The call monitoring signal is stored in the user's phone or mobile phone together with the caller information, and when a call comes, a call monitoring signal mapped to the caller is output. In addition, since the call monitoring signal includes information including a caller's name, telephone number or address, various kinds of information on the caller can be confirmed by the call monitoring signal.

To this end, in the present invention, the user accesses the server for call monitoring, inputs the caller's information, maps and stores the desired call monitoring signal to the input caller's phone number, and downloads the call monitoring service again. Will be used.

Hereinafter, a call monitoring method of a telephone according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 is a block diagram schematically showing a telephone call system according to the present invention. As shown in the figure, the PCs 3 and 7 of a plurality of users are connected to an Enhanced Call Monitering System (ECMS) server 10 via the Internet 1, and the user's telephone (especially a cellular phone) 5, 9) It is also connected to the ECMS server 10 via the Internet (wireless Internet). The ECMS server 10 stores various types of call monitoring content. The user selects one of the stored call monitoring contents and matches it with the telephone number of the person whom he / she frequently calls to store it in the ECMS server 10 again. In addition, the user accesses the ECMS server 10 through the telephones 5 and 9 to download the stored information to the telephone and use it as a call monitoring signal during a telephone call.

2 is a block diagram showing the structure of the ECMS server 10 of the telephone call system according to the present invention. As shown in the figure, the ECMS server 10 includes an authentication server 13 for authenticating whether a user connected through the Internet is an authorized user, and an input unit 15 through which user information and caller information are input through the Internet. And a controller 17 for recognizing the input user information and controlling each device, and setting and mapping call monitoring content desired by the user to caller information input by the user according to a command of the controller 17. And a database unit 20 in which user information and call monitoring content are stored.

The database unit 20 includes a phone number DB storing a caller's phone number input by the user, a character DB storing a call monitoring character consisting of a still picture or a moving picture, and a melody and voice storing a call monitoring melody or voice. It is composed of DB. Although not shown in the figure, since the phone number and the call monitoring contents are classified and stored by mapping with the caller's phone number, the mapped information is downloaded when the user accesses the ECMS server and downloads the information through the telephone. Also, in general, people have a plurality of phone numbers such as home phone number, work phone number, and mobile phone number instead of one phone number. Therefore, by mapping these plurality of phone numbers to one call monitoring content, Save it.

3 is a block diagram showing the structure of a user's telephone. In the present invention, a general telephone is also possible, but in general, a mobile phone having a wireless Internet function is more preferable.

As shown in the figure, the telephone is an outgoing signal input unit 22 to which an outgoing signal is input from the other party's phone during a phone call, and an outgoing signal confirming unit 24 to recognize that the incoming call is received by checking the incoming outgoing signal. And a calling information recognizing unit 26 for recognizing the calling party by recognizing calling information such as a telephone number from the incoming calling signal, and contents corresponding to the call monitoring signal set by the user based on the recognized calling information. And a control unit 28 for outputting a call signal to the caller's phone when the recognized caller is set to the call rejection function by the user, and the call monitoring signal retrieved by the control unit 28 to the speaker or the screen of the mobile phone. The output unit 32 to output through, and the phone number DB is stored, the telephone number of the caller frequently incoming, and the information of the caller corresponding to the telephone number is stored And a database unit 30 including a stored caller information DB, a character DB in which call monitoring characters are stored, and a melody and voice DB in which call monitoring melodies and voices are stored.

A method of call monitoring using the telephone call system having the above structure will be described with reference to FIGS. 4 and 5 as follows.

First, FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating a method in which a user downloads caller information including call monitoring content to a phone. As shown in the figure, when a user logs in by entering a user ID and password into the ECMS server, a web page is downloaded from the ECMS server to the user's PC (S101). When a user inputs caller information on the downloaded web page, the caller information is transmitted to the ECMS server 10 and stored (S102). In this case, the caller information typically transmitted to the ECMS server 10 may include various types of information such as a phone number, a name, an address, and the like as information of a person who the user frequently calls. The user can select the desired call monitoring content on the web page transmitted from the ECMS server. That is, call-monitoring content consisting of a specific melody, still picture, moving picture, character and voice may be selected and mapped to caller information (S103). At this time, the caller's plurality of phone numbers are mapped to one call monitoring content.

On the other hand, after the user accesses the ECMS server through the phone (S104), and downloads the caller information stored in the ECMS server to his phone (S105). The downloaded caller information includes call monitoring content selected by the user. In this case, the call monitoring content may include not only one content but also a plurality of contents, and may include different types of contents, for example, a moving picture and a melody.

As described above, the ECMS server transmits the caller information through the PC, maps the desired call monitoring content to the caller information, and downloads the mapped information to the phone. This allows the user's phone to always be updated with new call monitoring content.

5 is a flowchart illustrating a call monitoring process during an actual telephone call. As shown in the figure, a user sets a call monitoring signal to be output through an actual telephone in caller information (including call monitoring content) transmitted from an ECMS server (S201). Subsequently, when a call is received from the other party, that is, when an outgoing signal is input to the phone, the outgoing signal checking unit 24 of the phone confirms that the call has come and corresponds to the outgoing signal input from the outgoing information recognition unit 26. Recognize outgoing information (ie, phone number) (S202, S203). The controller 28 of the telephone searches whether the telephone number corresponding to the recognized telephone number is stored in the database unit 30, and if the telephone number is not stored, a general bell or melody through the speaker of the telephone. (S204, S205), and if stored, the content (call monitoring signal) set by the user from among the call monitoring content included in the calling information is output (S206).

The output call monitoring signal has various forms. If the call monitoring signal is a moving picture, a still picture, or a character, the call monitoring signal is displayed on the screen of the phone (mobile phone), and in the case of a specific melody or voice, the call monitoring signal is output through the speaker of the phone.

In addition, although not shown in the figure, the call monitoring signal may include other information such as a caller's telephone number or name. Therefore, the user can easily identify the caller by the information. Moreover, since the caller can output a plurality of call numbers as a single call monitoring signal, the caller can recognize the caller accurately regardless of which phone (often used).

The call monitoring signal may also perform a call rejection function. To this end, the user sets one specific call monitoring signal for the entire call rejection target. Therefore, if the call monitoring signal is outputted from an unwanted person and the call monitoring signal is output, the user recognizes that the caller does not want the call and does not answer the call. In addition, a telephone call rejection function can be set in the telephone of the present invention. If the call melody is set to the call monitoring signal for the entire call rejection signal, the call monitoring signal is output when the call is received from the call rejection object so that the caller can be mistaken for the current call. do.

As described above, in the present invention, the user accesses the ECMS server through the Internet through a PC, inputs his or her information and caller information, selects a desired call monitoring signal, and downloads the call through the wireless Internet to use a call monitoring service. It becomes possible. However, the call monitoring signal may be downloaded through the wired Internet. In addition, by directly accessing the ECMS server to the mobile phone having a wireless Internet function to download the content for call monitoring, you can also set the call monitoring content for the desired caller from the mobile phone.

As described above, in the present invention, by calling and storing caller information (telephone number) and a call monitoring signal desired by the user in the user's phone, when a call comes from the other party, a call monitoring signal is output because a corresponding call monitoring signal is output. In this case, it is possible to easily identify the caller by the output call monitoring signal.

In addition, since the detailed information (name, phone number, address, etc.) of the caller is stored in the call monitoring signal, the detailed information of the caller can be easily grasped by the call monitoring signal displayed when the call is received.

Claims (8)

Receiving and storing the mapped call monitoring content from a call monitoring providing means to which caller information and call monitoring content are mapped to a telephone; Confirming caller information from an outgoing signal input during a phone call; Retrieving call monitoring content corresponding to the caller information; And And outputting a signal of the call monitoring content when there is call monitoring content corresponding to the caller information. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of receiving the call monitoring content in a telephone is: Inputting caller information via the Internet; Selecting and mapping specific call monitoring content to input caller information and storing the selected call monitoring content; And And accessing the call monitoring providing means by a telephone and downloading the mapped call monitoring contents. 3. A method according to claim 2, wherein the telephone is connected to call monitoring providing means via the Internet. The method of claim 1, wherein the caller information includes a caller's telephone number, name, address, and the like. 5. The method of claim 4, wherein the caller's telephone number comprises a plurality of telephone numbers and the plurality of telephone numbers are mapped to one call monitoring content. The method of claim 1, wherein the call monitoring content comprises melody, still picture, moving picture, content, and voice. The method of claim 1, wherein the call monitoring content includes the same melody as a busy signal and outputs the melody to a counterpart's telephone through a telephone when a call comes from a caller who has a telephone receiver set up. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the call monitoring content includes various types of information of the caller to display the call monitoring content.