KR20030020650A - Dial method using internet address and system therefor - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A method for connecting telephone using an Internet address and a system thereof are provided to easily dial a telephone number by using the Internet address easily memorable. CONSTITUTION: A web server(6) is connected to the Internet(4), having a peculiar Internet address. A telephone terminal(1) is connectable to the Internet(4). A switching center(2) connects the telephone terminal(1) to the other subscriber system and the Internet(4). The switching center(4) receives an Internet address of the web server(6) to be dialed from the telephone terminal(1) for automatically dialing a telephone number corresponding to the Internet address. A gateway(3) connects the switching center(2) to the Internet(4). A DNS(Domain Name Server)(5) stores telephone numbers registered correspondingly to the Internet addresses of the web servers connected to the Internet. The DNS(5) provides the retrieved telephone number to the switching center(2) in response to an inquiry of the switching center(2).

Description

Telephone connection method and system using internet address {DIAL METHOD USING INTERNET ADDRESS AND SYSTEM THEREFOR}

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a telephone connection method of a telephone terminal, and more particularly, to a method for connecting a telephone using a text-type internet address and a system therefor.

As the use of the Internet becomes active, most companies and organizations operate Internet web pages with domain names in the form of texts that are easy to remember as a means of connecting with users, providing various convenience information and handling user inquiries or requests. Doing. However, a user who wants to receive the desired answer immediately wants to call the customer center or web page manager directly rather than accessing the web page. However, since the customer center's phone number, which is composed of unrelated numbers, is not easy to remember, most users access the Internet web page to find the representative phone number, and then temporarily memorize the found representative phone number and call back again. I had to bear the inconvenience of dialing.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention, which was devised to solve the problems of the prior art operating as described above, provides a method and a system for connecting a telephone to a corresponding group by inputting an Internet address in a text form in a telephone terminal. It is.

In order to achieve the above object, an embodiment of the present invention provides a telephone connection method using an Internet address in an exchange station that connects a telephone terminal to another subscriber system and the Internet.

Receiving an internet address of a web server to be connected from the telephone terminal;

Inquiring a telephone number corresponding to the received internet address to a domain name system (DNS) server that stores registered telephone numbers corresponding to Internet text addresses of web servers connected to the Internet;

Receiving the corresponding telephone number from the domain name system server and automatically connecting the telephone number.

Another embodiment of the present invention,

At least one web server connected to the Internet and having a unique internet address,

A telephone terminal with internet access,

An exchange station which connects the telephone terminal to another subscriber system and the Internet, receives from the telephone terminal an Internet address of a web server to be telephoned, and automatically dials the telephone number corresponding thereto;

A gateway for connecting the switching center to the Internet;

And a domain name system (DNS) server for storing registered telephone numbers corresponding to Internet addresses of web servers connected to the Internet, and providing the corresponding telephone number found in response to the inquiry of the switching center to the switching center.

1 is a block diagram of a system for telephone connection using an Internet text address in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a schematic block diagram of a wireless telephone terminal to which the present invention can be applied.

Figure 3 is a flow diagram for making a telephone call using an Internet text address in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying drawings will be described in detail the operating principle of the preferred embodiment of the present invention. In the following description of the present invention, detailed descriptions of well-known functions or configurations will be omitted if it is determined that the detailed description of the present invention may unnecessarily obscure the subject matter of the present invention. Terms to be described later are terms defined in consideration of functions in the present invention, and the definitions should be made based on the contents throughout the present specification.

1 is a block diagram of a system for making a telephone call using an Internet address according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to Fig. 1, telephone terminal 1 is connected to switching center 2 via a wired or wireless communication channel, which switches telephone terminal 1 to another subscriber system. In particular, the switching center 2 is connected to the Internet 4 via the gateway 3. The internet 4 represents the switching center 2, at least one web server 6 which operates an internet site and has a unique internet address in the form of a letter, and the physical location of the web server 6 on the internet. Network Name System (DNS) servers 5 which map Internet Protocol (IP) addresses to corresponding Internet addresses, i.e., Domain Names, are networked with each other.

In FIG. 1, the telephone terminal 1 may be a mobile phone or a personal data assistant (PDA) that allows a user to perform a telephone communication with another user through a wireless or wired telephone network. The telephone terminal 1 may perform a function as a small computer having a display screen for outputting various status information and data and receiving and processing commands from a user through a keypad composed of a plurality of keys. In particular, a phone terminal capable of accessing the Internet operates as a mobile Internet terminal combining communication and computing. The phone terminal 1 as an internet terminal inputs an address of an Internet website, that is, a domain name, through a keypad. Receives the connection to the relevant web server, downloads the website and outputs it to the display screen.

2 is a schematic block diagram of a wireless telephone terminal to which the present invention can be applied.

Referring to Fig. 2, the controller 10 controls the operation of the radiotelephone terminal 1 as a whole, and transmits an outgoing request message including an Internet address in a text form to the switching center 2 according to the present invention. To this end, the controller 10 includes a digital signal processor (DSP), a microprocessor, and other circuits, and controls the wireless processor 20 and the voice processor 30 so that the mobile communication terminal user can communicate with other terminal users. Allows you to make a call.

The storage unit 60 includes a read only memory (ROM), a random access memory (RAM) and a voice memory for storing a plurality of program codes and data. The radio processor 20 includes a modulator, a transmit amplifier, a receive amplifier, and a demodulator, and exchanges radio signals with a radio network including a base station (not shown) and an exchange station 2. The voice processor 30 converts the voice data received from the wireless processor 20 into an audible sound through a speaker and outputs the voice signal received from the microphone under the control of the controller 10. Output to the processing unit 20.

The display unit 50 may be formed of a liquid crystal display (LCD) or the like and displays a website composed of various display data and texts or images generated in the telephone terminal 1 under the control of the control unit 10. The key input unit 40 includes a plurality of numeric / character input keys, function keys, keys for calling, etc., which allow a user to select a function, input data, and select a number.

In particular, according to the present invention, the user inputs an Internet address in the form of a letter through the key input unit 40. For the telephone connection to the Internet address, the key input unit 40 may have a predetermined key or a shortcut key composed of several keys. The shortcut key causes the telephone terminal 1 to enter the input mode of the Internet address and to request a telephone call to the input Internet address. In this case, the Internet address may be a domain name of a web server or a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) including a domain name. An example of a domain name is "www.samsung.com" and an example of a URL on the web that uses Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is "http://www.samsung.com/contact-us" to be.

When the telephone terminal 1 constituted as described above requests a call to an Internet address according to the present invention, the switching center 2 is registered in correspondence with the Internet address to the DNS server 5 via the Internet 4. Contact your web server's Internet web page administrator phone number or representative phone number. When a telephone number is received from the DNS server 5, the switching center 2 automatically dials the telephone number.

The DNS server 5 is a kind of distributed database system that stores unique information of a web server corresponding to a domain name. For the present invention, the DNS server 5 includes a database for storing the webpage manager telephone number or the representative telephone number of the web server corresponding to the domain name, and in response to the request of the switching center 2, the corresponding telephone number is exchanged. Provided by (2). In another embodiment of the present invention, a separate database system for storing the registered web page manager phone number or representative phone number corresponding to the Internet address of the web server may replace the DNS server 5.

3 is a flowchart illustrating a telephone connection using an Internet address according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention. It should be noted here that the operation shown in FIG. 3 is performed at the switching center 2 in response to a user's request via the telephone terminal 1.

First, the user requests text transmission by pressing a shortcut key arranged on the key input unit 40 of the telephone terminal 1 or selecting a menu. Accordingly, the control unit 10 enters the input mode that can receive the Internet address in the form of a character to distinguish from the transmission by the numeric input. In the Internet address input mode, the user operates the keys of the key input unit 40 to input the Internet address of the web server to which the telephone connection is to be made, that is, the domain name of the web server or the URL of the Internet site, and then the call (SEND or TALK) key. Press. Then, the control unit 10 generates an outgoing request message including the input Internet address and transmits it to the switching center 2 through the wireless processing unit 20.

When an outgoing request message is received from the telephone terminal 1 in step S110, in step S120, the switching center 2 confirms whether the outgoing request message requires text transmission. This can be confirmed by determining whether the origination request message includes an internet address. If it is not required to send a text message in step S130, the switching center 3 translates the telephone number included in the call request message to perform the call. If the call request is sent out to step S140.

The switching center 2 extracts the Internet address from the origination request message in step S140, and the web page manager telephone number corresponding to the Internet address to the DNS server 5 through the Internet 4 in step S150, or Ask for a representative phone number. The DNS server 5 searches the preconfigured database to find out the corresponding telephone number and then responds to the switching center 2. In step S160, the switching center 2 automatically receives a corresponding telephone number from the DNS server 5 and translates the received telephone number to automatically dial.

As described above, when the telephone exchange is automatically connected by the switching center 2 and the call channel is established with the web page manager, the user can make a voice call with the web page manager using the telephone terminal 1.

Meanwhile, in the detailed description of the present invention, specific embodiments have been described, but various modifications are possible without departing from the scope of the present invention. For example, the above description is given as an example of a wireless telephone terminal, but it is obvious that the present invention can be applied to all kinds of telephone terminals capable of text input and access to the Internet. Therefore, the scope of the present invention should not be limited to the described embodiments, but should be defined not only by the scope of the following claims, but also by those equivalent to the scope of the claims.

In the present invention operating as described in detail above, the effects obtained by the representative ones of the disclosed inventions will be briefly described as follows.

The present invention can automatically connect to the corresponding web page manager by entering an Internet address instead of a phone number. Therefore, instead of memorizing a phone number that is an unrelated number combination, there is an effect that a user can easily make a call using an Internet address that has meaning and can be easily remembered.

Claims (6)

In a telephone connection method using an Internet address in an exchange station that connects a telephone terminal to another subscriber system and the Internet, Receiving an internet address of a web server to be connected from the telephone terminal; Inquiring a telephone number corresponding to the received internet address to a domain name system (DNS) server that stores registered telephone numbers corresponding to internet addresses of web servers connected to the Internet; Receiving the corresponding telephone number from the domain name system server and automatically dialing it. The method of claim 1, wherein the Internet address is a URL (Uniform Resource Locator) including the domain name of the web server or the domain name in a text form. 3. The method of claim 2, wherein the Internet address is included in an outgoing request message and received from the telephone terminal to the switching center. At least one web server connected to the Internet and having a unique internet address, A telephone terminal with internet access, An exchange station which connects the telephone terminal to another subscriber system and the Internet, receives from the telephone terminal an Internet address of a web server to be telephoned, and automatically dials the telephone number corresponding thereto; A gateway for connecting the switching center to the Internet; And a domain name system (DNS) server for storing registered telephone numbers corresponding to the Internet addresses of web servers connected to the Internet, and providing the corresponding telephone number found in response to the inquiry of the switching center to the switching center. System characterized. The method of claim 4, wherein the Internet address is a URL (Uniform Resource Locator) including the domain name of the web server or the domain name in a text form. 6. The method of claim 5, wherein the Internet address is included in a call request message and received from the telephone terminal to the switching center.