KR20020074598A - ARS(Automatic Response System) apparatus for calling using a car number and a method thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: An ARS(Automatic Response System) apparatus for paging a communication terminal using a car number and a method thereof are provided to receive a car number from a caller, to obtain a called subscriber's wired/wireless communication subscriber number matched with the received car number from a database, and to transmit the caller's text or voice message to the called subscriber. CONSTITUTION: A paging system using a car number is composed of a calling communication terminal(100), a called communication terminal(200), a wired/wireless communication network(300), a wired/wireless communication service company(400), and an ARS apparatus(500). The user of the calling communication terminal(100) pages the called communication terminal(200) using a car number. The wired/wireless communication network(300) interconnects the calling communication terminal(100) and the called communication terminal(200). The wired/wireless communication service company(400) provides communication service to the users of the calling communication terminal(100) and the called communication terminal(200) through the wired/wireless communication network(300). The ARS apparatus(500) is connected with the wire/wireless communication service company(400). If a wired/wireless communication subscriber accesses the ARS apparatus(500) and inputs a desired car number, the ARS apparatus(500) calls a communication terminal corresponding to the inputted car number and transmits a text or voice message.

Description

ARS apparatus for calling using a car number and its method {ARS (Automatic Response System) apparatus for calling using a car number and a method approximately}

The present invention relates to a calling device and a method using an automatic response system (ARS) device that can be called using a car number, and more particularly, to an ARS capable of calling a predetermined wired / wireless communication terminal using a car number. An apparatus and a method thereof are provided.

Thanks to the development of automobile and communication technology, many automobiles and mobile communication terminals are widely distributed in Korea. When the driver's drowsiness, inability to operate the brakes of the car, foreign objects in the back of the car, oil leaks, oil leaks, strange noises, excessive smoke generation, etc. In a dangerous situation, the driver of a vehicle in such a dangerous situation does not know such a dangerous situation while driving. In such cases, the surrounding car should inform the driver of the car. As a method, various methods are used, such as sounding a horn, using a hand signal, and blinking a car headlight. However, the above method does not effectively communicate such a dangerous situation to a driving person. And since the driver must communicate while driving, it tends to have a profound effect on safe driving.

In recent years, the number is gradually increasing because automobiles become a necessity of life. Compared to the increasing number of cars, there is a shortage of parking spaces. In particular, there is a lack of parking space in the city center, many drivers are suffering from parking problems. A driver who parks for a while writes down his mobile subscriber's number on the inside of the car, which is visible from the outside, and calls another party to move the vehicle by using the mobile subscriber's number written down when another vehicle moves. request. In this case, since the mobile communication subscriber number is disclosed to the outside, the privacy infringement problem of the individual has been raised. In particular, in the case of a female driver, it is difficult to write down their wired / wireless communication subscriber number in a car.

And as the number of cars increases, the number of cars lost and stolen increases. Lost and stolen cars have been left unattended for long periods of time, making it difficult to find their owners, as well as hurting the aesthetics of the streets and providing crime spaces for youth. In order to find the owner of such a car, a lot of time and manpower is consumed, such as having to go to a car registration office, a dong office or a ward office to look up the number of a lost or stolen car.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention was to invent an ARS apparatus and method that can be called using a vehicle number according to the present invention to overcome the above problems.

It is still another object of the present invention to receive a car number from a caller, retrieve the called party's wired / wireless communication subscriber number matching the received car number from the car number and the wired / wireless communication subscriber number database, and select the predetermined text and voice selected by the caller. The present invention provides an ARS apparatus using a car number capable of transmitting a message to a called party, and a method thereof.

In order to achieve the above object, an ARS apparatus capable of calling using a vehicle number according to the present invention receives a vehicle number and message designation data input from a caller terminal, and a transceiver for transmitting the designated message data to the called terminal. Reads the called party information about the vehicle number inputted through the transceiver from a database, and then connects the called party by the called / wireless communication subscriber number through the transceiver to transmit the message designation data to the called party. A ARS database which is output to a caller terminal under the control of the processor and the processor, the ARS database having predetermined text and voice information for the caller to select and transmit the car number and related data, and stores the callee information for the car number. Car number and Characterized in that consists of a wireless communication subscriber number database.

In the ARS method that can be called using the vehicle number according to the first embodiment of the present invention for achieving the above object, when the wired and wireless communication subscribers register the car number and wired and wireless communication subscriber information, the processor of the ARS device is the data A first process of storing the base number, a second process of receiving a vehicle number and message designation data from a caller through a transceiver through a transmission / reception unit using a wired / wireless communication network, and a wired / wireless communication subscriber information of the inputted vehicle number in a database And a third process of reading from the caller and sending a predetermined message to the called party through the wired or wireless communication network.

1 is a schematic diagram for implementing an ARS apparatus and method thereof which can be called using a vehicle number according to the present invention.

2 is a block diagram showing the internal structure of a caller and a called wired / wireless communication terminal used to implement an ARS device which can be called using a vehicle number according to the present invention.

3 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of an ARS apparatus that can be called using a vehicle number according to the present invention.

4 is a block diagram showing another embodiment of an ARS apparatus that can be called using a vehicle number according to the present invention.

5 is a flowchart showing a method of an ARS apparatus that can be called using a vehicle number according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

6 is a flowchart showing a method of an ARS apparatus that can be called using a vehicle number according to a second embodiment of the present invention.

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100: call free wireless communication terminal 200: called free wireless communication terminal

300: wired and wireless communication network 400: wired and wireless communication service company

500: ARS device

Hereinafter, a preferred embodiment according to the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. 1 to 6.

In the ARS device and method that can be called using the car number according to the present invention, the user of the mobile communication terminal is a caller who wants to call the mobile communication terminal of the other party using the other party's car number for convenience, and the caller calls It is divided into the called party, the counterpart. In addition, the wired / wireless communication subscriber refers to a person who uses a wired / wireless communication service of a wired / wireless communication service company using a wired / wireless communication terminal. The wired / wireless communication subscriber number refers to a wired / wireless communication terminal user number (eg, 02-123-1234 or 011-123-1234) uniquely given from a wired / wireless communication company. The vehicle number refers to the number of the license plate (for example, Seoul 12-ga 1234). The message designation data refers to a predetermined text and voice message which the caller designates and transmits to the called party through the communication network.

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram schematically showing an ARS apparatus which can be called using a vehicle number according to the present invention, and an overall configuration for implementing the method. As shown in the drawing, a description will be made of an ARS device that can be called using a vehicle number.

Calling device using a car number is a caller wired and wireless communication terminal 100 to call a predetermined mobile communication terminal using the car number, and caller wired and wireless communication for the caller to communicate with the callee using the callee's car number A terminal 200, a wired / wireless communication network 300 for interconnecting the caller wired / wireless communication terminal 100 and the called wired / wireless communication terminal 200, and the caller and the callee through the wired / wireless communication network 300. The wired / wireless communication service company 400 that provides a communication service and the wired / wireless communication service company 400 are connected, and wired / wireless communication subscribers are connected by using a predetermined station number (for example, service 700 of Korea Telecom). By inputting the car number to be called through a predetermined procedure and method, the called party's wired / wireless communication terminal corresponding to the entered car number It is characterized in that it comprises an ARS device 500 having a function of transmitting a predetermined text or voice message by calling the device.

2 is a block diagram showing the internal structure of the caller wired / wireless communication terminal 100 and the called wired / wireless communication terminal 200 for implementing the ARS device and the method which can be called using the vehicle number according to the present invention. The caller and the called party wired / wireless communication terminals 100 and 200 have the same configuration, and only the configuration of the caller wired / wireless communication terminal 100 will be described below.

First, a key input unit 110 for inputting a key to transmit and receive a predetermined signal and data, a processor 120 for processing signals and data input through the key input unit 110, and a communication terminal. An operating program memory 130 having a predetermined program for operating the processor, and various signals and data processed by the processor 120 are transmitted to an external communication network, and for receiving a predetermined signal and data from the external communication network. The transceiver 140 is provided.

3 is a block diagram illustrating an embodiment of an ARS device that can be called using a car number.

As shown in the drawing, the ARS device which can be called using a vehicle number includes a transceiver 510 for receiving various signals and data from a user and transmitting various signals and data processed therein, and the transceiver Processor 520 for processing signals and data received from 510, and a predetermined input for downloading and inputting a car number for various programs and callers necessary for operating an ARS device that can be called using a car number. An operating program memory 530 having a menu program and an ARS database 540 that stores predetermined voice information or text information messages to transmit a predetermined response message to the caller when the caller connects to the ARS device. And the car number and wired / wireless communication subscribers of the wired / wireless communication subscribers that are output under the control of the processor 520. A vehicle number and wire / wireless subscriber number database 550 for storing a number is provided.

4 is a block diagram showing another embodiment of an ARS device that can be called using a vehicle number according to the present invention.

In the other embodiment, unlike the embodiment of FIG. 3, the processor 520 is connected to the processor 520. When the user directly inputs the car number as a voice, the processor 520 may read the input voice. The apparatus further includes a voice recognition device 570 for converting the signal and the data into data. Therefore, when the user enters the car number and the wired / wireless communication terminal subscriber number, there is an advantage that can be entered in an easier and shorter time. Configurations other than the voice recognition device 570 are the same as those in the embodiment of FIG. 3, and description thereof will be omitted.

Referring to Figures 1 to 3, it will be described the operation of one embodiment of the ARS device using a vehicle number according to the present invention.

First, the caller connects to the ARS device 500 via the caller wired / wireless communication terminal 100 via the wired / wireless communication network 300 and the wired / wireless communication service company 400. The caller inputs the called party's vehicle number by using the key input unit 100 according to the voice and text information message provided from the ARS database 540 of the ARS device 500. The key input signal of the user selected and input as described above is transmitted to the processor 520 through the transceiver 510 of the ARS device. The processor 520, which has received the called party's vehicle number, which the caller wants to call, searches for the wired / wireless communication subscriber number matching the vehicle number input from the caller in the vehicle number and the wired / wireless communication subscriber number database 550. The callee's wired / wireless communication subscriber number retrieved as described above is temporarily stored in the memory 560 under the control of the processor 520. At this time, the caller receives a plurality of selectable voice or text messages from the ARS device, selects one message, and transmits the selected message to the ARS device. The processor 520 transmits a predetermined text or voice message selected by the caller to the wired / wireless communication subscriber number of the called party temporarily stored in the memory 560. Thus, the caller can send a predetermined text or voice message to the called party using the called party's motor number. Here, the caller may download and use a predetermined input menu program from the operating program memory 530 of the ARS device in order to more easily input the vehicle number on his terminal.

The operation of another embodiment of the ARS device which can be called using the vehicle number according to the present invention will be described with reference to the attached FIG.

In the present embodiment, when the caller inputs the callee's car number, the caller's car number is directly inputted on the caller's own wired / wireless communication terminal, and the voice recognition device 570 provided in the ARS device is the processor 520. Is converted into a predetermined signal and data that can be read. The processor 520 retrieves the wired / wireless communication subscriber number of the called party corresponding to the signal or data according to the converted car number from the car number and the wire / wireless communication subscriber number database 550 and temporarily stores it in the memory 560. Leave it. Thereafter, the caller receives the selectable plurality of selectable text and voice messages from the ARS device. The predetermined text and voice messages selected by the caller are transmitted to the called / wireless communication subscriber number temporarily stored in the memory 560 under the control of the processor 520. Thus, the caller can transmit a predetermined text or voice message desired by the caller to the called / wireless communication subscriber number using the called party's vehicle number.

Referring to FIG. 5 attached to the first embodiment of the method of the ARS device which can be called using the vehicle number according to the present invention, it will be described below.

First, the wired / wireless communication subscribers register their vehicle number and the wired / wireless communication subscriber number with a company providing a service using the ARS device according to the present invention through a predetermined method and procedure (step 10). The ARS device makes a database of the registered car number and the wired / wireless communication subscriber numbers of the registered subscribers in the car number and the wire / wireless communication subscriber number database 550 (step 11). The caller who wants to call the wired / wireless communication terminal of the called party using the car number makes a wired or wireless connection to the ARS device using his / her wired / wireless communication terminal (step 12). The caller connected as described above inputs the car number of the called party according to a predetermined procedure and method according to voice or text guidance output from the ARS database 540 under the control of the processor 520 of the ARS device. Transmit to the ARS device (step 13). The processor 520 of the ARS device, which has received the called party's car number through the transceiver 510, receives the wired / wireless communication subscriber number matching the received callee's car number from the car number and the wired / wireless communication subscriber number database 550. Search (step 14). The wired / wireless communication subscriber number retrieved as described above is temporarily stored in the memory 560 (step 15). The processor 520 confirming the search outputs the plurality of selectable voice and text messages from the ARS database 540 and transmits them to the caller's terminal (step 16). The caller who receives the above message selects predetermined voice or text information to be transmitted to the called party by using his or her wired / wireless communication terminal (step 17). Upon receiving the text or voice information selected by the caller, the ARS device transmits the information selected by Hotchura to the wired / wireless communication terminal of the called party temporarily stored in the memory 560 (step 18). Accordingly, the caller wishing to call the called party using the car number transmits a desired text or voice message to the called party (step 19).

Referring to FIG. 5 attached to the second embodiment of the method of the ARS device which can be called using the vehicle number according to the present invention, it will be described below.

First, the wired / wireless communication subscribers register their car number and the wired / wireless communication subscriber number with a company providing a service using the ARS device according to the present invention through a predetermined method and procedure (step 20). The ARS apparatus makes a database of the registered car number and the wired / wireless communication subscriber numbers of the registered wired / wireless communication subscribers and stores them in the car number and the wired / wireless communication subscriber number database 550 (step 21). The caller who wants to call the wired / wireless communication terminal of the called party using the vehicle number connects to the ARS device by wire or wirelessly using his / her wired / wireless communication terminal (step 22). The caller connected as described above directly inputs the car number of the called party by voice according to a predetermined procedure and method according to voice or text guidance output from the ARS database 540 under the control of the processor 520 of the ARS device. Transmit to ARS device according to the present invention (step 23). The voice recognition device 570 of the ARS device, which has received the called party's vehicle number through the transceiver 510, converts the called party number into predetermined signals and data that the processor 520 can recognize (step 24). The processor 520 retrieves the wired / wireless communication subscriber number database 550 matching the converted car number of the called party from the vehicle number and the wired / wireless communication subscriber number database 550 (step 25). The wired / wireless communication subscriber number retrieved as described above is temporarily stored in the memory 560 (step 26). The processor 520 confirming the search outputs the plurality of selectable voice and text messages from the ARS database 540 and transmits them to the caller's terminal (step 27). The caller who receives the above message selects the predetermined voice or text information to be transmitted to the called party by using his or her wired / wireless communication terminal and transmits it to the ARS device (step 28). The ARS device, which has received the text or voice information selected by the caller, transmits to the called / wireless communication terminal of the called party temporarily stored in the memory 560 (step 29). Accordingly, the caller who wants to call the called party using the car number transmits a desired text or voice message to the called party (step 30).

As described above, the ARS device and the method which can be called by using the vehicle number according to the present invention are provided with an ARS device that can call a predetermined wired or wireless communication terminal by using the vehicle number, the risk of driving When the other car is found, the car number can be used to communicate with the driver in the form of a text message or a voice message to convey a dangerous situation to the driver, thereby preventing a traffic accident. When a car, an illegally parked car, a stolen car, or a lost car are found in the parking lot or on the road, if the car is found, the mobile number of the car driver or the owner of the car or the owner's mobile phone is used using the car number of the car. By providing an ARS device that can be called by a method such as text message transmission, voice message transmission, it is possible not only to implement a smoother parking, but also to easily find stolen and lost cars.

In addition, information regarding legally parked cars, illegally operated cars, and accidental vehicles by parking enforcement officers and police officers may be sent to motorists or owners by texts, voices, photos, etc. to provide legal measures, and the like. It is effective to prevent unnecessary disputes between agents in advance.

Claims (10)

An ARS (Automatic Response System) apparatus for providing a user with various information by installing an audiotex system using an exchange line of a communication service company, wherein the ARS apparatus includes: A transmitter / receiver configured to receive the vehicle number and message specification data input from the caller terminal and to transmit the designated message data to the callee terminal; A processor for reading the called party information about the vehicle number inputted through the transmitting and receiving unit from a database, and then connecting the called party by the wired / wireless communication subscriber number of the called party through the transmitting and receiving unit to transmit message specific data to the called party; ; An ARS database which is output to a caller terminal under control of a processor and has predetermined text and voice information for the caller to select and transmit a car number and related data; ARS device that can be called by using the vehicle number, characterized in that the vehicle number and the wired and wireless communication subscriber number database for storing the called party information for the vehicle number. 2. The method of claim 1, further comprising: storing predetermined menu information so that a caller can download and input and select a vehicle number, and store predetermined operation information for operating the vehicle number and mobile subscriber number management device. An ARS device capable of calling using an automobile number, characterized by further comprising a program memory. 2. The ARS of claim 1, further comprising a speech recognition device that analyzes when the caller inputs the car number by voice and converts the car number into data recognizable by the processor. Device. The ARS apparatus of claim 1, wherein the wired / wireless communication subscriber number stored in the vehicle number and the wired / wireless communication subscriber number database is transmitted from a wire / wireless communication service company through the transceiver. A first step of, when the wired / wireless communication subscribers register the car number and the wired / wireless communication subscriber information, a processor of the ARS device to make a database of the subscriber; A second process of receiving, by the processor of the ARS device, the mobile number and the message designation data from the caller through a transceiver, using a wired or wireless communication network; And a third process of reading the wired / wireless communication subscriber information on the inputted vehicle number from a database and transmitting a predetermined message designated by the caller to the called party through the wired / wireless communication network. ARS method that can. The telephone number and the message designation data input from the caller to the processor of the ARS device using a wired / wireless communication network are at least one of a voice, a text message, and an e-mail message. ARS way to do it. 7. The method of claim 6, wherein the e-mail message that the caller sends to the called party via a communication network includes at least one of photo information, voice information, and text information. ARS method that can. 6. The ARS method according to claim 5, wherein an input menu for inputting a car number and message designation data is downloaded by a caller from a memory of the ARS device through a communication network. 6. The ARS method according to claim 5, wherein an input menu stored in a terminal thereof is used by the caller to input the car number and the message designation data. A first step of, when the wired / wireless communication subscribers register the car number and the wired / wireless communication subscriber information, a processor of the ARS device to make a database of the subscriber; A second process of analyzing, by the voice input device, the input voice data when the vehicle number and the message designation data are input as the voice data from the caller using the wired / wireless communication network; And a third process of reading wired / wireless communication subscriber information on the analyzed car number and message designation data from a database and transmitting a message designated by a caller to the called party through a wired / wireless communication network. ARS method that can be called.