KR20030056555A - Method for providing chatting service using short messages - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A method for furnishing chatting by using a short message is provided to transmit a sentence inputted by a user on a cell phone to a specific person, and to manage received messages according to registered persons, thereby enabling chatting with others. CONSTITUTION: If a short message is received through a transceiver(S110), a controller generates a ring signal and analyzes the short message to extract a caller ID(S112). Whether a pre-received short message is stored in a memory is searched by using the extracted caller ID(S114). If a pre-stored short message is searched, the received short message is stored in association with the pre-stored short message(S116). The short messages are transformed to chatting messages(S118), and displayed on a screen(S120). Whether a short message transmitted to the caller ID exists is searched. If so, the transmitted short message is displayed on a displayer. If the user desires to transmit a short message to the caller, the user inputs a short message through a key input unit and transmits the short message to the caller ID. The transmitted short message is stored in the memory in association with time information.

Description

How to provide chat using a short message {Method for providing chatting service using short messages}

The present invention relates to a method for providing a chat, and more particularly, to a method for providing a chat using a single special message to enable management and transmission of a single message for each person registered in advance.

Currently, as the Internet becomes a part of daily life, the kinds of services provided through the Internet are becoming very diverse. Chatting, one of the services over the Internet, is a service that allows a large number of users to talk to each other while sending and receiving text messages through a computer. It is becoming a universally used service not only for low age groups but also for other age groups.

In order to use such a chat service, it is common to subscribe to a chat service provider that the user wants to use, and the subscriber selects a chat party from among the subscribers connected to the site providing the chat service and then chats with the chat party. Done.

On the other hand, with the recent popularization of mobile phones, various technologies for providing a chat service to mobile phone subscribers have been developed. Application No. 10-1999-0046809 uses a mobile communication terminal (mobile phone) for a chat service in a general computer system. There is provided a chat service providing method using a communication device to provide a.

The method of providing a chat service using the communication device may include connecting a user's communication device to a chat service providing system, registering basic information of a user, inputting a text or voice message, query condition information about a desired partner, and Inputting a search range, performing a query and search based on the input query condition and search range, transmitting the query and search results to the user's mobile terminal, receiving the query and search results Checking a text or voice message, After confirming the message, characterized in that it comprises a step of attempting a call with a desired partner.

Alternatively, the method of providing a chat service using the communication device may include performing an authentication process in a user terminal, displaying the chat service menu on the terminal after authentication, and inputting basic information of the user through the displayed menu. Transmitting basic input information of the user to a chat service providing system; inputting a text message and transmitting the text message to the chat service providing system; inquiry condition information and search range for a desired partner through a menu of a terminal; Inputting the information, performing search and search based on the information input by the user, transmitting the search and search results to the user's mobile communication terminal, receiving the inquiry and search results, and receiving the character of the partner (voice). ) Checking the message, after confirming the message, call with the desired party Characterized in that it comprises the step of attempts.

However, the method of providing a chat service using the communication device requires a installation management of a chat server at the communication network level in order to provide a chat service using a mobile communication terminal, which requires a lot of installation cost and complicated network configuration.

In addition, there are a lot of operations required by the user, which is inconvenient for users to use.

On the other hand, Application No. 10-1999-0057022 is a method for communicating information to the subscriber's mobile terminal whether the chat partner is currently connected to the chat room on the site that provides a chat service through the Internet, and connected to the mobile terminal and the current chat room Disclosed is a method for providing a chat service through a method of individually sending and receiving text messages between computer terminals of a plurality of other subscribers.

In the method of providing an internet chat service in connection with the disclosed mobile terminal, when a subscriber who subscribes to a site providing the chat service sets a chat partner to chat with, the site connects it to the chat room through a mobile communication system. And a chat counterpart connection status notification procedure informing the subscriber's mobile terminal, wherein the chat counterpart connection status notification procedure is a chat that the subscriber wants to chat among chat counterpart information provided by the site. A counterpart selection step of selecting a counterpart; The site allows the subscriber and the chat counterpart to chat if the chat counterpart selected in the counterpart selection step is currently connected to the chat room of the site, and if the chat counterpart is connected to the chat room if not currently connected to the chat room. Waiting for the other party to connect; And the site is configured to include a connection information transmission step of transmitting a message informing the user when the chat counterpart connects to the chat room in the waiting step of the counterpart connection to the mobile terminal of the subscriber through a mobile communication system.

However, the Internet chat service providing method in connection with the mobile terminal according to the related art has a problem that it is expensive because the system is configured at the network level for service provision.

In addition, since the system is configured at the network level, there is a problem that it is not easy to actually provide a service.

Therefore, to solve the above problems, it is possible to chat with other people using a mobile phone by sending a sentence input by a user on a mobile phone to a specific person and managing and referring to a received message for each registered person. An object of the present invention is to provide a chat providing method using a single message.

1 is a configuration diagram of a system for providing a service according to the present invention.

2 is an internal configuration diagram of a mobile communication terminal having a chat providing function using a single message according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3 is a diagram illustrating a screen used in the present invention.

4A and 4B are flowcharts illustrating a chat providing method using a single message according to an embodiment of the present invention.

<Explanation of symbols for the main parts of the drawings>

110: single message server 120: mobile communication switch

130: base station 140a ~ 140n: mobile communication terminal

210: control unit 220: memory

230: key input unit 240: display unit

250: transceiver 260: audio unit

The present invention for achieving the above object, in the chat providing method applied to a mobile communication terminal having a control unit, a display unit, a memory, a transceiver, a key input unit, the control unit receives a single message through the transceiver unit; A first step of generating a ring signal and extracting caller information by analyzing a short message; A second step of searching whether the short message received by the sender information extracted in the first step is stored in the memory; A third step of storing the received single message in association with the previously stored single message, and converting the single message into a chat message and displaying the message on the screen if there is a previously stored single message; A fourth step of searching whether there is a short message sent to the caller's telephone number and displaying the message sent to the display unit if there is a short message sent; And a user inputting a single message through the key input unit, and if the user wants to transmit the input single message, the single message is transmitted to the sender, and the single message transmitted to the memory is stored in association with visual information. Characterized by including five steps.

Now, with reference to the drawings of Figure 1 will be described in detail a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

1 is a block diagram of a system for providing a service according to the present invention, an SMS server (ShortMessage Service Server 110) for sending and receiving a short message (Short Massage), the message received from the SMS server 110, the base station ( And a base station 130 for radio propagating the message to the mobile terminals 140a to 140n or performing the reverse function.

2 is an internal configuration diagram of a mobile communication terminal having a chat providing function using a single message according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to the drawings, the internal configuration of the mobile communication terminal having a chat providing function using a single message according to an embodiment of the present invention is the control unit 210, memory 220, key input unit 230, display unit 240 And a transceiver 250 and an audio unit 260.

First, the controller 210 may control the overall operation of the digital mobile communication terminal and realize it as a one chip microprocessor. The memory 220 stores a predetermined program for controlling the overall operation of the mobile phone, and stores data input and output and various data processed when the overall operation of the digital mobile communication terminal is performed by the controller 210.

In addition, the memory 220 stores the short message received from the short message server, wherein the caller checks the caller's telephone number of the sender who sent the short message and checks the reception time. The full message is stored in association. In addition, the single message transmitted by the user of the mobile communication terminal is stored, and in this case, the single message sent to the same recipient is stored in association.

The key input unit 230 includes a plurality of numeric keys, and generates corresponding key data when the user presses a predetermined key and outputs the corresponding key data to the controller 210. The display unit 240 includes a liquid crystal display for displaying various types of information, and is controlled by the controller 210 and receives and displays key data generated by the key input unit 230 and various information signals of the controller 210. The display unit 240 may be implemented as a liquid crystal display (LCD). The audio unit 260 processes voice signals input and output through the speaker SP and the microphone MIC. In addition, the audio unit 260 detects the ring signal through the transmitter / receiver 250 when a ring signal is generated from the base station-when a short message is received-and transmits a ring tone through a ringer. The transceiver 250 converts a radio signal received through the antenna into a signal of an intermediate frequency, converts the radio signal into a radio signal, and transmits the radio signal.

Now, with reference to Figures 1 and 2 will be described in detail a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

The user possessing the mobile communication terminals 140a to 140n operates the key input unit 230 to select a single message service menu, input a message to be transmitted, input a caller's telephone number to be transmitted, and then press the Send button. Press to request the sending of a short message.

Then, the controller 210 transmits the short message to the counterpart via the transmitter / receiver 250 and the short message server 110 to the input caller's telephone number.

In addition, the control unit 210 stores the short message transmission time, the caller's telephone number, and the short message content in the memory 220.

On the other hand, the control unit 210 of the other mobile communication terminal (140a ~ 140n) receiving the single message is notified of the fact that the single message received through the ringer when the single message is received through the transceiver 250.

In addition, if there is a short message received at the previous time by searching whether the short message received at the same caller's phone number is stored in the memory 220 at the previous time, the display unit 240 displays the lowest short message currently received at the lowest level. At the top and proceed to the top

Display a quick short message.

Of course, the control unit 210 divides the display unit 240 into two windows. That is, the upper part 310 constitutes a receiving single message message window and the lower part constitutes a transmitting single message message window. Each configured window is provided with a scroll bar to scroll up and down.

The receiving single message message window of the upper part sequentially displays the received single message message as described above, and the lower single message message window of the lower part displays the single message message previously sent to the caller's phone number from the lower part of time to the latest. Display in chronological order.

In addition, it is possible to configure a single window and to sequentially configure the transmission message and the reception message in time order. That is, it may be implemented to display the recently received short message at the bottom, the short message previously transmitted at the top, and the short message received at the top.

Meanwhile, the controller 210 determines whether the short message to be transmitted is within the allowable length of the short message and transmits the short message of the input content if it is within the allowable length.

If the short message is not within the allowable length of the short message, the short message is reconfigured to an allowable length, and the corresponding message is cut into a single short message and automatically transmitted.

Next, although a method of providing a one-to-one chat service has been described herein, it may be implemented to enable a many-to-many chat service.

That is, by providing a chat service group designation menu, a message may be implemented to send and receive messages in the same way as those belonging to the same group.

In this way, all messages received by the caller's telephone number included in the group are displayed on the display unit 240.

In this case, the transmitting short message may be implemented to be transmitted to all persons belonging to the same group.

4A and 4B are flowcharts illustrating a chat providing method using a single message according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to the drawings, the chat providing method using a single message according to an embodiment of the present invention, first, when the control unit receives a single message from the single message server through the transceiver unit (step S110), the single message information Analyze to extract the caller's phone number (step S112).

Subsequently, by searching whether there is a received short message stored in the corresponding caller phone number (step S114), if there is a received short message stored in the caller phone number, the received short message is prestored. It stores in the database in association with the short message is present (step S116).

Next, the short message is transformed into a chat message (step S118) and displayed on the screen (step S120). The transformation into a chat message is to arrange the most recently received short message message from the bottom of the display unit to the top, and displays the reception time in each message.

Of course, if there is no received short message stored in the caller's phone number, the received short message is stored in the database and the received short message is displayed on the display unit along with the name and the reception time of the receiver.

At this time, the control unit searches whether there is a short message sent to the received caller's phone number, and if there is a short message sent to the received caller's phone number, the display unit consists of two windows to display the short message sent to the lower window. From the bottom, the most recently sent short message is displayed as it goes to the top.

On the other hand, when the user who has received the short message wants to send the short message, the control unit stores the message in the database when the user inputs the short message through the key input unit and presses the message transmission (step S210). .

Thereafter, the database is searched (step S214), the number information to be transmitted is extracted (step S216), the message is reconfigured to an appropriate length for short message transmission (step S218), and transmitted to the short message server (step S218). S220).

Although the present invention has been described in detail with reference to preferred embodiments, the scope of the present invention is not limited to the specific embodiments, and should be interpreted by the appended claims.

According to the present invention as described above, there is an effect that it is possible to easily provide a chat service between users of the mobile communication terminal without implementing a chat server at the network level.

In addition, according to the present invention, when sending and receiving a message by using a conventional short message, there is a limit on the number of characters that can be sent and received, so users have to send separately what they want to send separately to overcome the difficulties in the message creation and automatic Because it cuts the message appropriately and sends it, the message can be sent to the other party more conveniently.

In addition, according to the present invention, by dividing only the message sent and received in the conventional method to improve the inconvenience of looking at the contents exchanged with a specific person when sending and receiving a message with several people to manage the messages sent and received for each person Because it is more effective to grasp the content sent and received more effectively.

In addition, according to the present invention, when you want to communicate with each other through a continuous message there is an effect that can be delivered to the other party by inputting only the message.

In addition, according to the present invention, it is possible to efficiently view the messages on the large screen by allowing messages to be sent and received on one screen while the LCD of the mobile phone is turned on so that the messages can be viewed on one screen. It can be used as an effect.

Claims (4)

In the chat providing method applied to a mobile communication terminal having a control unit, a display unit, a memory, a transceiver, a key input unit, The control unit may generate a ring signal when a short message arrives through a transceiver and analyze the short message to extract caller information; A second step of searching whether the short message received by the sender information extracted in the first step is stored in the memory; A third step of storing the received single message in association with the previously stored single message, and converting the single message into a chat message and displaying the message on the screen if there is a previously stored single message; A fourth step of searching whether there is a short message sent to the caller's telephone number and displaying the message sent to the display unit if there is a short message sent; And A fifth user inputting a single message through the key input unit, and if the user wants to transmit the input single message, the single message is transmitted to the sender, and the single message transmitted to the memory is stored in association with visual information. Chat providing method using a single message consisting of the steps. The method of claim 1, The method for providing a chat using a single message according to claim 4, wherein in displaying the single message transmitted in the fourth step, the transmitted single message is sequentially displayed below the previously received message. The method of claim 1, Chatting method using a single message message, characterized in that for displaying the single message message sent in the fourth step to display the single message message sent to the transmission single message display window provided with a single message display window . The method according to any one of claims 1 to 3, In the fifth step, in transmitting the short message to the sender, when the length of the short message exceeds the short message transmission length, the short message is divided into appropriate lengths, characterized in that for transmitting sequentially How to chat using short messages.