KR20020080016A - Multimedia card transmission service and method there of - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A system for servicing a multimedia card transmission and a method thereof are provided to transmit a message prepared by a user directly with selected images, animations, and melodies being supplied from a service provider easily. CONSTITUTION: A card database(10) includes various kinds of multimedia data. A database server(11) is linked with the card database(10) and supplies various kinds of data. A web server(20) is linked with the database server(11) and supplies a card searching tool(21), a card transmitting tool(22), and a transmitting/receiving box searching tool(23) through a WAP(Wireless Application Protocol) browser of user terminals(110,112). A service managing server(30) is linked with the database server(11) and makes a user receive a selected multimedia card. A user database(24) is linked with the web server(20) and the service managing server(30) and stores specific information of the user. A card reservation transmitting system(40) makes the user transmit a card at a designated date.

Description

Multimedia card transmission service system and method thereof

The present invention relates to a card mail sending system and method using a mobile phone capable of wireless Internet. More specifically, the present invention relates to a multimedia card transmission service system and a method for transmitting and receiving a multimedia card including animation on the wireless Internet.

With the development of computer communication technology, the Internet is becoming more and more popular. Since the Internet can access and distribute necessary information in real time by accessing websites scattered around the world, it is fundamentally changing not only business transaction practices but also the lives of ordinary people.

Since the Internet is conventionally made through a terminal such as a computer using a wired mediation means such as a dedicated line or a telephone line, there is a problem that a lot of places are restricted. In other words, in order to use the Internet, the necessary work must be performed at the place where the computer is installed.

Wireless Internet has been developed to overcome this positional limitation. Instead of using a conventional telephone line or a dedicated line, the wireless Internet allows the Internet to be used by using wireless communication, and there is an advantage in that the Internet can be used anywhere. Therefore, the wireless Internet is expected to explode in the future due to the convenience of mobile.

As such, with the development of wireless Internet, various services for mobile communication, in particular, services that express individual unique personalities are increasing. For example, along with services that provide a variety of information, such as weather and securities, services that provide greetings and background music of voice mailboxes that can represent a user's personality, services that provide their own ringtones, and the like.

On the other hand, even in the personal communication service that is the most basic of mobile communication services, attempts have been made to the multimedia card service to transmit various images, animations, and sounds together with messages, instead of monotonous message delivery.

However, SMS (Short Message Service), which is one of the conventional text and video services, provides only a function of delivering a limited length text message between mobile communication terminals in a digital wireless communication system, and provides SIS (Simple Image). Simple Image Service) has a small number of image frames that can be represented, and there is no function to disassemble / assemble the image. In addition, it is impossible to implement in an interactive manner with the user, such as flash on the wired Internet.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a multimedia card transmission service system and method for easily selecting various images, animations, and melodies provided by a service provider and transmitting a user-written message together with the selected image. will be.

In addition, another object of the present invention is to provide a multimedia card transmission service system and a method for sending an e-mail capable of implementing an interactive method.

1 is a block diagram of a multimedia card transmission service system according to an embodiment of the present invention;

2 is an operation flowchart of a multimedia card transmission service method according to an embodiment of the present invention;

3 is a diagram showing an example of a multimedia card service menu according to an embodiment of the present invention;

4 is a diagram showing the contents of a multimedia card according to an embodiment of the present invention.

5 is a view showing an embodiment of a multimedia card according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Explanation of symbols on the main parts of the drawings

10: card database 11: database server

20: Web Server 21: Card Search Tool

22: card sending tool 22: box search tool

30: service management server 40: card reservation transmission system

50: SMS sending server

The multimedia image transmission service system according to the characteristics of the present invention for achieving the above object, the database server having a variety of multimedia databases, and the WP browser connected to the database server and sending and receiving box search tool and card sending tool of the terminal A web server provided through the service server, a service management server linked to the database server and configured to download a multimedia card selected by the user, and an outgoing server for providing an information sending service to a card recipient. It is possible to send and receive the included card.

The present invention further includes a card reservation transmission system for sending a card at a designated date and time by the user.

The mobile communication terminal is a mobile phone, a PDA phone, a smart phone, an IMT-2000 phone, and the like, and transmits terminal information to a swap server through a swap gateway, and receives the requested information through a swap server.

The swap gateway is a mobile communication company gateway and acts as a wireless Internet gateway between the WAP server and the terminal.

The swap server receives the terminal information transmitted from the terminal through the swap gateway, and transmits the multimedia message changed in the standard corresponding to the terminal information from the server to the mobile communication terminal.

The method of the present invention using the transmission system as described above, accessing a web server with a mobile phone having a wireless Internet function, a caller's multimedia card sending service application step, the web server is a personal DB when the sender uses the sending service. Providing a search box for sending and receiving a search tool and a card sending tool, a caller selecting a desired card using the card search tool, inputting a message to be attached to the card, a recipient's phone number or date and time of delivery, and the like. Inputting the necessary information, storing the information input by the sender in the sender's DB, moving the information input from the sender DB to the receiver DB, and transmitting the card arrival message and the URL of the inbox to the information transmission service to the receiver terminal. Step, the receiver accessing the receiver DB of the web server by the URL, the web site if the receiver is connected Includes the step of sending the card to the recipient's terminal through the steps, and the recipient when applying service management server that provides the ability to download the card to the terminal.

In addition, the method of the present invention can further add a reservation mail function, for this purpose, if the sender reserved the card sending date, the step of checking whether the card sending date is reached after storing the information entered by the sender in the sender DB It is further included.

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

1 is a block diagram of a multimedia card transfer service system according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating an operation of a multimedia card transfer service method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 1, a multimedia card transmission service system according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a card database 10 including various multimedia data and a database server that provides various data in association with a card database. 11), a web server 20 which is linked to a database server and provides a card searching tool 21, a card sending tool 22, and a box searching tool 23 through a wireless web browser through a swap browser of the user terminals 110 and 112. ), A service management server 30 linked to the database server and allowing a user to download a multimedia card selected by the user, a user database 24 linked to a web server and a service management server, and storing user specific information, and the user. Card reservation transmission system 40 for sending a card on the date specified by the user, and an information sending service to the card recipient By having an origin server (50) for calling, so that the user can send and receive messages that contain the multimedia.

In addition, for the stability of the server may include a backup (back-up) server that is running when the server is abnormal.

The card database 10 stores a plurality of cards by directory or index, which is managed by the database server 11. One multimedia card is sent to the web server 20 through the database server 11 including various characters, images, sounds, colors, characters, photos, animations, and the like.

The user database 10 is connected to the web server 20 and the service management server 30, and the sender DB 25 and the receiver DB 26 is provided therein so that specific card information selected by the sender is stored.

The card search tool 21 of the web server provides a function of allowing a user to select a card through the terminal 110. This is for displaying a menu when the user selects a card mail. When a member selects a category of card mail, he / she receives corresponding data.

According to the present invention, the card search tool 21 has a function of searching for a card by a subject such as Christmas, birthday, Valentine's Day, etc .; A function of searching by a target such as a card for a friend, a card for a lover, a card for a nanny, a card for a teacher, etc .; Searching for each main character of the card; Searching by genre of music included in the card; Searching by keyword for distinguishing the prepared cards; Or other search function.

The card sending tool 22 is an input module for inputting phrases necessary for sending a card mail by a user connected through the mobile phone terminal 110, a state selection module for selecting a recipient to receive the card mail, and sending. It may include a date selection module for selecting a date.

The input module is a character input module for inputting a message specific to the selected card mail. If a character is entered, the card mail is completed by being synthesized with the image data of the card mail. Character input of the input module is input using the character input function of the mobile phone.

The state selection module is for designating the communication terminal 112 of the recipient after the input of the card mail selected by the sender is completed.

Accordingly, the user can send to the web server 20 a story to be attached to the selected card through the card search tool 21, information on the recipient, the date and time when the card is delivered, and other necessary matters.

The card reservation transmission system 40 inputs the sender's card and other information into the personal receiver DB 26 of the user database 10 when the delivery date specified by the sender is received, and the card has arrived at the terminal 112 of the receiver. The URL of the message and the inbox is transmitted using the information sending service.

Information transmission service transmission is made through the origin server (50).

The service management server 30 provides the multimedia card stored in the receiver DB 26 of the user to the user connected to the mobile terminal 112 by a WAP or the like.

Each server of the service system is connected to the wireless Internet network 100. Accordingly, the user can access a web site provided by the server of the service system by accessing the Internet network through the mobile phone terminal 110.

In an embodiment of the present invention, the server of the service system is operated by an information provider that provides various image information, and communication is performed by wireless network operators such as SK Telecom, LG Telecom, New Century Telecom, Hansol PCS, Korea Telecom Freetel, and other domestic and foreign countries. It will be operated by telecommunication operators.

Signal transmission and reception between the wireless network operator and the mobile phone terminal (110, 112) is a technique known in the present invention, a detailed description thereof will be omitted.

3 illustrates an example in which a card is selected by a service menu provided by the card search tool 21.

According to the above drawings, the web server 20 outputs a main screen. The main screen displays the functions provided by the web server, which is the website operation server. When a member selects a menu for sending a card mail, the web server provides a card search tool 21 to display a menu screen showing card classification items on the screen, and the user selects an item for a specific purpose desired by the user. Will go out.

In the drawing, items such as "1. By subject" and "2. By object" are displayed on the menu screen. When the member selects the item "1. By subject", the data on the selected item is transmitted from the terminal 110 to the web server 20. The web server refers to this and displays a submenu of items "1. By topic". In the figure, various items such as "1.Christmas", "2.birthday" and "3.Valentine's Day" are displayed.

When you select the items displayed on the screen like this, the card you want is finally output. The card is a state in which images, sounds, animations, and the like suitable for each item are stored according to each item.

One card may store various multimedia data, that is, data related to images, audio, animations, colors, and the like.

An example of the multimedia included in the card is shown in FIG. 4.

Here, the multimedia card of the present invention can implement an interactive method using a flash technique, which means that the multimedia data can be selectively implemented by the user selecting an action stored in the card. .

For example, when a multimedia card is executed, a selection situation is given on the screen of the terminal, and when a user selects one of them, an action for the selection is implemented. The multimedia card contains all the actions for each selection.

The operation of the multimedia card transmission service system according to the embodiment of the present invention having the above structure will be described.

When the caller accesses the web site on the wireless Internet network 100 operated by the information provider using the mobile phone terminal 110, the caller can select the type of card to be sent as described above.

After the card is selected, an input window for a message to be input is displayed, and the user inputs contents to be sent with the card through the terminal 110.

Next, the sender enters the receiver's mobile number and send date in the receiver input window and the send date input window, and finishes the matter of sending the multimedia card by pressing the confirmation message.

In this case, if you want to send the card immediately without making a reservation, you can send the card by pressing the confirmation of delivery immediately without inputting the sending date in the sending date input window.

As such, the data input to the receiver input window becomes data for the communication terminal 112 through which the receiver can receive the card mail.

When the caller's card sending signal comes through the web server 20, the web server 20 stores the card and other information selected by the caller in the caller DB 25 of the entire user DB 24 and the card reservation transmission system. Pass the result to 40.

The card reservation transmission system 40 inputs the sender's card, attached story and other information to the recipient's personal receiver DB 26 when the delivery date specified by the sender is received. 112, a message indicating that the card has arrived and the URL of the receiver DB are transmitted.

When the receiver confirms the information sending service that the card has arrived, the URL is linked to the URL of the receiver's personal reception DB by the included URL. When the receiver is connected to the personal receiver DB, the service management server 30 can download the card to the terminal 112, check the story attached to the card and other necessary information, and send a reply to the receiver. It is provided to the terminal 112.

When the receiver checks the stories and other information included in the card and selects the download to the terminal 112, the service management server 30 transmits the card to the user's terminal.

The card transmitted to the receiver's terminal 112 is automatically executed to deliver the contents of the card to the receiver.

In this case, when the image included in the card mail is a cell animation image, the service management server 30 may compress and transmit the image in order to improve the transmission speed. For example, the cell animation image may have a data format as follows. Can be sent.

main Compressed version 1 byte Classification of Compression Method by Version Header Gun frames Number One Cell animation total frame rate frame Subheader flag One * Position X One Position Y One area One Height One Delay time One image data

In Table 1, * indicates whether a transmitted image is a new image or an image corresponding to a predetermined portion of one frame.

The card transmitted to the receiver's terminal 112 is automatically executed to deliver the contents of the card to the receiver.

That is, the transmitted multimedia card is stored in the storage unit of the receiver's mobile telephone terminal and then displayed in the window of the terminal by the signal processing unit and the output unit. When the image to be displayed is a cell animation image, the signal processing unit After displaying an image of one frame corresponding to the cell animation image stored in the image, only image data corresponding to the changed cell is continuously read and displayed. Thus, an image of moving only a certain part such as a flying angel is displayed.

When the cell animation image is compressed and transmitted from the service management server, the signal processor displays the image on the image output unit after restoring the compressed image.

On the other hand, the receiver can check the contents of the card corresponding to the selection if the selection is included in the multimedia card to be executed.

That is, the multimedia card provides a screen displaying the user's selection status during execution (for example, if the card is sent to a lover, the following message is displayed).

I love you-I don't love you once-please dial that number

When the user presses the number, a message corresponding to the number is provided on the screen.

5 well illustrates an embodiment where a sent card is implemented on a terminal.

This operation will be described in more detail with reference to FIG. 2 as follows.

A user accesses the wireless Internet network 100 to send a multimedia card, and then accesses a web site operated by an information provider that provides an image service, that is, a web server 20 (S110).

When connected to the web server, the caller requests a menu for sending a multimedia card.

When the caller applies for the multimedia card service, a service menu for applying for the image service as shown in FIG. 3 attached to the screen of the user's mobile phone terminal 110 is displayed. Each item of the service menu may be represented by text, and may be represented by various images that can be displayed on the image output unit of the mobile phone so that the user can find his or her own differentiated multimedia card. .

In an embodiment of the present invention, the web server 20 provides a simple image, which is a still image, and a cell animation image, which is a video. The cell animation image is an image in which only a predetermined part of a cell is displayed as a video. However, the present invention is not limited thereto.

The images are simplified pictures, cartoon characters, marks familiar to the general public, and the like. In addition, various images may be provided to appeal to the twenty to thirties, the main customer base of mobile phones.

When the user selects a desired multimedia card while sequentially clicking the service menu as shown in FIG. 3, the web server 20 displays the selected image so that the user can check it. (S140)

The user finally selects the card and then inputs a message to be sent with the image to complete the multimedia card.

Then enter the recipient mobile phone number to which the multimedia card will be sent. If there is a shipping date, the card is sent after finally entering the shipping date. (S160 ~ S170)

The web server 20 of the system inputs the selected card and the message and the number of the mobile telephone terminal 112 to be sent to the caller DB 25 of the user database 10 as soon as the sender's sending signal is authorized. S180)

After that, the card reservation transmission system 40 continuously checks the date of shipment, and when the date is sent, the card, attached story, and other information stored in the sender DB 25 is transferred to the recipient's personal receiver DB 26, and the receiver is A message indicating that the card has arrived at the mobile phone terminal 112 and the URL of the receiver DB are transmitted using the information sending service. (S190 to S210).

The receiver confirms the information sending service that the receiver has arrived through the terminal 112, and accesses the URL of the personal receiver DB of the receiver with one touch through the swap server of the service system by the URL included in the information sending service. (S220)

When the receiver is connected to the personal receiver DB, the service management server 30 can download the card to the terminal 112 through the web server, check the story attached to the card and other necessary information, and send a reply. Etc. are provided to the terminal of the receiver.

If the receiver checks the stories and other information included in the card and selects the download to the terminal 112, the service management server 30 transmits the corresponding card mail to the user's terminal and terminates the service as the transmission is completed. (S240 ~ S250)

As described above, according to the exemplary embodiment of the present invention, the mobile phone user can easily select a still image or a cell animation image to make and send a multimedia card with a message.

Therefore, it is possible to satisfy various needs of users by escaping from monotonous message delivery.

In addition, the mobile phone user can easily download an image created by the user to the mobile phone.

Although the above-described embodiment has been described with respect to a case where an image is transmitted to a mobile phone terminal, the present invention is not limited thereto and may be applied to all mobile terminals such as a beep and a PDA.

In addition, the present invention may be variously modified and implemented without departing from the scope of the following claims.

Claims (9)

In the mail sending system using the wireless Internet, A database server including a database of a multimedia card including at least one of various images, sounds, animations, and color data; A web server linked to the database server and including a specific database for a user, the web server providing a transmission / receiving box search tool and a card sending tool through a swap browser of the terminal; A service management server linked to the database server and configured to download a multimedia card selected by a user; Outgoing server for sending information sending service to card recipient Multimedia card transmission service system comprising a. The multimedia card transmission service system according to claim 1, further comprising a card reservation transmission system associated with the web server and configured to send a card sending message at a designated date and time by a user through an origination server. 3. The multimedia card transmission service system of claim 1 or 2, wherein the user database includes a sender DB and a receiver DB. The method of claim 1 or 2, wherein the card search tool comprises: a function of searching for a card by a subject such as Christmas, birthday, Valentine's Day, etc .; A function of searching by a target such as a card for a friend, a card for a lover, a card for a nanny, a card for a teacher, etc .; Searching for each main character of the card; Searching by genre of music included in the card; Searching by keyword for distinguishing the prepared cards; Or other searching function. According to claim 1 or claim 2, wherein the card sending tool is an input module for the user inputs the phrases required when sending the card mail, a status selection module for selecting a recipient to receive the card mail, select a delivery date Multimedia card transmission service system comprising a date selection module for. The multimedia card transmission service system of claim 1, wherein the multimedia card is implemented in an interactive manner by a flash technique. Accessing a web server with a mobile phone having a wireless internet function; A caller's multimedia card sending service application step; When the sender uses the sending service, the web server searching for a personal DB and providing a sending and receiving box searching tool and a card sending tool; A caller selecting a desired card using a card search tool; Inputting a message to be attached to the card; Inputting the recipient's telephone number, date and time of delivery and other necessary information; Storing the information input by the caller in the caller's DB; Moving the information input from the sender DB to the receiver DB and transmitting the card arrival message and the URL of the inbox to the receiver terminal to the information transmitting service; The receiver accessing the receiver DB of the web server by the URL; Providing a function of downloading a card to the terminal when the receiver is connected; Transmitting the card to the receiver's terminal through the service management server when applying for the receiver Multimedia card transmission service method comprising a. 8. The method of claim 7, further comprising the step of checking whether the card sending date is reached after storing the information input by the caller in the calling party DB when the caller reserves the card sending date. 8. The multimedia card transmission service of claim 7, wherein the providing of the function of downloading the card to the terminal further provides a function of checking a story attached to the card and other necessary information, and a function of sending a reply. Way.