KR20030005126A - System and method for installing the ringing sound on a mobile phone - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A system and a method for setting a bell sound of a mobile phone are provided to record and store the bell sound of the mobile phone through a communication network, receive the stored bell sound in a desired mobile phone number, and set the received bell sound as a bell sound of the mobile phone. CONSTITUTION: A receiving device(110) receives a bell sound from a user through a communication network, and receives a bell sound transmission request including a mobile phone number. A storing device(120) stores the received bell sound. A transmitting device(130) transmits the stored bell sound to the received mobile phone number.

Description

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INSTALLING THE RINGING SOUND ON A MOBILE PHONE}

The present invention relates to a method and system for setting a mobile phone ring tone, and more particularly, a user records and stores a mobile phone ring tone through a communication network and receives the stored ring tone as a desired mobile phone number to ring. It relates to a method and an apparatus for enabling the setting.

The brilliant development of mobile communication today has rapidly accelerated the popularization of mobile phones, transforming our lives so that most people now carry their phones with them at all times. Mobile phones have the effect of allowing users to more easily access the network while efficiently allocating the system resources of traditional communication systems.

In addition, the mobile phone service of the present invention not only provides a communication service for a voice call, but also provides various additional services according to a user's preference. As one of these additional services, a so-called "ring tone download" service that can select a ringing tone of a mobile phone to suit a user's preference is widely used. That is, when a mobile phone user accesses a pay site providing a ringing tone and pays a predetermined fee, the selected ringing tone is transmitted to his mobile phone and stored in the memory of the mobile phone. It can be used as. As an example of the bell sound currently provided, all kinds of sounds such as songs of popular singers, birds, and human voices are possible, and in terms of sound quality, the ringtones of 4 chords to 16 chords and 40 chords are now available.

However, in the conventional service related to the ring tone setting, there is a disadvantage in that the user cannot record the ring tone directly, but must select from among the ring tone provided by the ring tone manufacturer. That is, although the user has a new desire to use his or her own voice recorded or edited or music played by the user as a ringtone of the mobile phone, there is no service supporting this.

In order to solve the above problems, an object of the present invention is to enable a user to directly record and select a mobile phone ringing sound. The user can freely record the sound to be recorded through a communication network of a mobile telephone network or a wired telephone network regardless of time and place.

Another object of the present invention is to allow a user to receive a stored ring tone to his mobile phone or to be freely transmitted to another mobile phone.

1 is a view showing the overall structure of a mobile phone ring tone setting system according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

Fig. 2 shows a more detailed structure of the receiving means.

Figure 3 shows another embodiment of the structure of the ring tone setting system according to the present invention.

4 is a flowchart illustrating a process of setting a mobile phone ringing sound, according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

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100: mobile phone ring tone setting system

110: receiving means

120: storage means

130: transmission means

140: charging means

In order to achieve the above object and to solve the problems of the prior art, the present invention provides a method and system that allows the user to directly record the ring tone, the recorded ring tone to be transmitted to the ring tone of the mobile phone.

According to an aspect of the present invention, in a method for setting a mobile phone ring tone, receiving a ring tone through a communication network, storing the received ring tone, and requesting a ring tone including a mobile number And a step of transmitting the stored ring tone to the received mobile phone number.

According to another aspect of the invention, the receiving means for receiving a ring tone through a communication network, receiving a ring tone transmission request including a mobile phone number, storage means for storing the received ring tone, and the reception A mobile phone ring tone setting system is provided that includes transmitting means for transmitting the stored ring tone to a mobile phone number.

Hereinafter, a bell sound setting system and a method according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Figure 1 shows the overall structure of a mobile phone ring tone setting system 100 according to the present invention. As shown in FIG. 1, the ring tone setting system 100 is composed of a receiving means 110, a storage means 120, and a transmitting means 130.

The receiving means 110 of the ring tone setting system 100 receives a ring tone from a user through a communication network. The user can connect to the receiving means 110 by using a terminal of a wired telephone or a mobile telephone, and can freely record a desired ringing sound, that is, his or her voice or the voice of a family member or friend. Alternatively, it may be possible to transmit audio, radio or other natural sounds through the telephone network. In one embodiment, the user may be able to transmit a plurality of ring tones at once or several times.

As another embodiment for receiving a ring tone from a user, the ring tone may be received from the user through an internet network. That is, the receiving means 110 operates a web site for ringtone recording, and the user accesses the web site to transmit a music file (for example, an MP3 file) to the receiving means 110 or is connected to a PC. The microphone may transmit the desired sound to the receiving means 110.

In one embodiment, the receiving means 110 may appropriately process the ring tone transmitted by the user to match the ring tone of the mobile telephone. For example, the user may cut only a predetermined time (for example, 10 seconds) among the ringing sounds transmitted by the user, and process the ringing sound in a form suitable for the ringing sound. Alternatively, the receiving means 110 may listen to the processed ring tone to the user, receive a storage confirmation command from the user, and finally determine whether to save. In this case, the user may listen to the ring tone transmitted by the user again during the confirmation process, cancel the save, and record a new ring tone if the user does not like it.

2 shows a more detailed structure of the receiving means 110.

As shown in FIG. 2, the receiving means includes an interactive voice response device (IVR) 111, a web voice response device (Web IVR) 112, a voice processing device 113, and a temporary storage device 114. It includes.

The two-way voice answering device 111 is a device located between the telephone network and the computer. When the user makes a phone call, the device detects the DTMF signal and transmits a guide broadcast for recording the ringing sound to the user. Receive. The received analog signal is converted into a sound source in the form of a digital signal by the bidirectional voice response device 111 and transmitted to the voice processing device 113.

The web voice response device 112 is a kind of web server that receives a ringing sound from a user through the Internet network and transmits it to the voice processing device 113.

The voice processing device 113 applies a basic signal processing process to the ring tone of the digital sound source received from the voice answering devices 111 and 112, thereby removing noise or amplifying a signal in a voice frequency band, thereby making the ring tone suitable for the mobile phone. Convert to form The bell sound generated through this process is stored in the temporary storage device 114 together with the PCM data of the received bell sound.

The temporary storage device 114 temporarily stores the processed ring tone and PCM data until a user has a final storage confirmation command. The stored PCM data is repeatedly heard by the user through the voice response devices 111 and 112, and the processed bell sound is transmitted to the storage means 120 when the user confirms.

The storage means 120 continues to store the ring sound received through the receiving means 110.

As another embodiment, the receiving means 110 may further receive information about the user when the ring tone is received, and the storage means 120 may store a plurality of ring sounds for each user by utilizing the user information. have. The user information may include a user identification number (ID) and a password.

As described above, the user can record a desired sound through the telephone network or the Internet network and store the ringing sound. Next, an operation of transmitting the stored ring sound to the user's mobile phone will be described.

Receiving means 110 receives a request for transmission of a ring tone through a communication network, and also receives a mobile telephone number of a mobile telephone to which the ring tone is to be set when the transmission request is made. The mobile phone number may be a mobile phone number of the user who recorded the ringing sound, or another mobile phone number of another third party may be designated. Therefore, the user can transmit the ringing sound stored by the user to the mobile phone of the third party, thereby making it possible to present the ringing sound.

When the receiving means 110 receives the ring tone transmission request, the transmitting means 130 transmits the ring tone stored in the storing means 120 to the mobile telephone number received through the receiving means 110. do.

In one embodiment, the storage means 120 may store a plurality of ring sounds for each user, and after transmitting the stored plurality of ring sounds to the user and receiving a selection command from the user, the transmitting means 130 transmits the selected ring sounds. Will be able to transmit.

3 is a further embodiment of the present invention, the overall structure of the ring tone setting system 200 further includes a charging means 140 in addition to the receiving means 110, storage means 120, transmitting means 130. It is shown.

According to the embodiment of FIG. 3, the ring tone setting system 200 may charge the user in each operation during recording, storing, and transmitting the ring tone.

That is, in recording the ring tone desired by the user, whenever the receiving means 110 receives the ring tone through the communication network, the charging means 140 may charge a predetermined fee corresponding to the number of ring sounds. will be. The charging method may be charged through the ARS No. 700 system or a wired telephone network or a mobile telephone network service company, depending on the type of communication network connected to the user. Alternatively, you may be able to charge by using micropayments or mobile mileage services that are widely used today.

As in the case of recording, the charging means 140 charges a predetermined fee corresponding to the storage period for the ringing sound stored by the storage means 120, or rings the ringing sound that the transmitting means 130 transmits. A predetermined fee may be charged corresponding to the number of sounds.

4 is a flowchart illustrating a process of setting a mobile phone ringing sound according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention. Hereinafter, referring to FIG. 4, processes performed in each step will be described in detail.

First, in step S110, a bell sound is received from a user through a communication network. The user can record a sound to be set as a ringing sound through a mobile telephone network or a wired telephone network regardless of time and place. As another example, a ring tone may be received from a user in the form of a music file via an Internet website. This step may further include a process of properly processing the received ringtone, or confirming whether or not to store after receiving the storage confirmation command from the user after hearing the processed ringtone.

Next, in step S120 to store the received ring tone.

In another embodiment, in operation S110, information about the user may be additionally received, and in operation S120, one or more ring sounds may be stored for each user. The user information may include a user identification number (ID) and a password.

In step S130, a request for transmitting a ring tone is received. When the transmission request is received, the phone number of the mobile phone to which the ring tone is to be received is also received.

In step S140, the ring tone is transmitted to the mobile phone number. As one embodiment, when a plurality of ring tones are stored, a ring tone selection command may be received from a user and the ring tone selected by the command may be transmitted.

As another embodiment of the mobile phone ring tone setting method, each of the steps of FIG. 4 may further include a charging step.

That is, each time a ring tone is received in step S110, a predetermined fee corresponding to the number of ring tones received is charged, or a predetermined fee corresponding to a storage period when the ring tone is stored in step S120 is charged. You can do it. In addition, a predetermined fee corresponding to the number of ring tones may be charged when receiving a ring tone transmission request in step S130 or in the process of transmitting a ring tone in step 140.

In this way, the charging process can be selectively added for each step.

While specific embodiments of the present invention have been described so far, various modifications are possible without departing from the scope of the present invention. For example, those skilled in the art to which the present invention pertains are not limited to transmitting a ring tone received from a user to a mobile phone number, but by transmitting the received ring tone to a server providing a coloring service. It will be readily appreciated that the same applies to systems and methods for setting call waiting tones.

Therefore, the scope of the present invention should not be limited to the described embodiments, but should be defined not only by the claims below, but also by the equivalents of the claims.

As described above, according to the present invention it is possible to store the sound recorded by the user as a ring tone of the mobile phone.

In addition, the user can freely set the selected ringtone among the stored ringtones as the mobile phone ringtone.

According to the present invention, the user can present the sound recorded by himself as a mobile phone ringing sound of another third party.

Claims (6)

A method for setting a mobile phone ringing sound, (a) receiving a ring tone through a communication network; (b) storing the received ring tone; (c) receiving a ring tone transmission request including a mobile telephone number; And (d) transmitting the stored ring tone to the received mobile phone number; Mobile phone ring sound setting method comprising a. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one of steps (a), (b), (c), and (d) adds a predetermined fee. The method of claim 1, wherein step (a) further receives user information, and step (b) stores at least one ring tone for each user using the user information. The method of claim 1, wherein the communication network is an Internet network, and step (b) includes receiving a music file and storing it as a ring tone. Receiving means for receiving a ring tone from a user via a communication network and for receiving a ring tone transmission request including a mobile telephone number; Storage means for storing the received ring tone; And Transmitting means for transmitting the stored ring tone to the received mobile telephone number Mobile phone ring tone setting system comprising a. The method of claim 5, wherein the receiving means A voice response device for transmitting a guide broadcast to a user and converting the received ring tone into a digital sound source; A voice processing device for signal processing the converted digital sound source to generate a processed bell sound; And Temporary storage device for temporarily storing the processed bell sound Mobile phone ring tone setting system comprising a.