KR20030078324A - The method for receive condition information confirmation service - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A method of giving a service for confirming received state information is provided to automatically inform a user of an originating terminal whether a system of a receiving mobile communication terminal is connected as well as a receiving state thereof, thereby reducing time for re-transmitting a call. CONSTITUTION: A controller sets a function of confirming received state information(410), and displays a short message on a display(420). The controller receives the received state information of a receiving mobile communication terminal(430). If state information 1 is received, the controller displays a state message 1(440). If state information 2 is received, a state message 2 is displayed(450). If state information 3 is received, a state message 3 is displayed(460). The controller displays a list message for confirming a message state on the display(452). If the message is added to a received state confirmation list, the controller adds a telephone number of the terminal to the list(454).

Description

Receipt status information service method {THE METHOD FOR RECEIVE CONDITION INFORMATION CONFIRMATION SERVICE}

The present invention relates to all terminals capable of transmitting a voice call or a message, and more particularly, to a receiving state information checking service method for notifying a caller of a receiving state of a called-party mobile communication terminal.

Currently, the number of mobile terminal users is increasing rapidly. The increase in the number of users has led to the rapid development of the mobile communication field, and thus the users' desire for the quality of the mobile communication service is increasing. In order to satisfy the needs of the users, service providers provide various additional services.

The reception state of the conventional called party's mobile communication terminal can be known only when the user of the calling party's terminal makes a telephone call to the telephone number of the called party's mobile communication terminal. At this time, if the called mobile terminal is busy according to the state of being connected to the base station, the message "is busy" is provided, and if the called mobile terminal is turned off, the power is turned off. . "Message is provided, and if the called mobile communication terminal does not answer the phone, the message" I am not answering the phone "is provided. If the called mobile communication terminal is in the shaded area," Shading. " You are in a region. " In addition to providing the fragmentary message as described above, a voice mail service is simultaneously provided to notify the user of the calling terminal.

However, the conventional method of checking the reception status information of the called party's mobile communication terminal has a problem in that it informs the calling party of the reception status information of the called party's mobile communication terminal. In addition, there is a problem in that the user of the calling terminal must redial to the called mobile terminal in order to confirm this because it is not known when the called mobile terminal is connected to the system again.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a reception status information checking service method for confirming whether a system of a called mobile communication terminal to which a call and a message is to be sent to a user of a calling terminal is connected and receiving status information.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a method for collecting and storing information of a plurality of destination mobile terminals in a base station and providing reception status information of a destination mobile terminal requested by a calling terminal. Requesting, by the terminal, the reception status information of the called-party mobile communication terminal to the base station; and receiving, by the source terminal, the reception status information of the called-party mobile communication terminal from the base station. We propose a service method for receiving status information confirmation.

1 is a schematic overall configuration diagram of a mobile communication system according to the present invention;

2 is a block diagram illustrating an internal configuration of a mobile communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention;

3 is a screen flowchart illustrating a process of setting a reception status information checking function of a mobile communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention;

4 is a control flowchart for checking a reception state information of a mobile communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention;

5 is a signal flow diagram between a calling terminal, a base station and a called mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention;

6 is a diagram illustrating a reception state information message of a called-party mobile communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. It should be noted that in the following description, only parts necessary for understanding the operation according to the present invention will be described, and descriptions of other parts will be omitted so as not to distract from the gist of the present invention.

1 is a schematic overall configuration diagram of a mobile communication system according to the present invention. Hereinafter, with reference to Figure 1 will be described in detail the configuration of the mobile communication system for the reception status information service and the operation of each configuration.

The calling terminal 130 generates a call for a voice call, and the called mobile terminal 110 receives a call generated by the calling terminal 130. The calling terminal 130 is a mobile communication terminal connected to the mobile communication network 160 or a telephone terminal connected to the public telephone network 140. The calling party terminal 130 is connected to the called party mobile communication terminal 110 through the mobile communication network 160 or the public telephone network 140. The called-side mobile communication terminal 110 is connected with the base station 120 through an air interface when a call is established. The called-party mobile communication terminal 110 may perform a voice call, and may provide data services such as text or video.

The base station 120 is connected to the base station controller 125 by wire, and when the call is established, the base station 120 is connected to the mobile communication terminal through a wireless section. When the call setup of the terminal is requested from the base station controller 125, the base station 120 transmits a paging signal to the corresponding terminal. In addition, the base station 120, upon receiving a call request signal from the mobile communication terminal, transfers it to the base station controller 125. In particular, in the present invention, the base station 120 performs functions such as wireless connection, synchronization maintenance, call channel allocation and release of the called-party mobile communication terminal 110. The base station 120 transmits a call signal to the called-side mobile communication terminal 110 according to the call connection signal, and the called-side mobile communication terminal (100) to the call signal received through the called-side mobile communication terminal 110. As 110 responds, a call is made with the calling terminal 130.

The base station controller 125 is connected with at least one base station 120. The base station controller 125 controls an overall call processing process such as a voice call and a packet call for each mobile communication terminal. In addition, the base station controller 125 performs a signaling operation with the mobile communication switch 150, and controls a handover of the mobile communication terminal between the base stations 120.

The mobile communication exchange 150 includes a visitor location register (VLR), and may be connected to a home location register (HLR) and another exchange. In the present invention, the mobile communication switch 150 is directly connected. The mobile communication switch 150 performs a call connection exchange function for handling incoming and outgoing requests to the mobile communication terminal and performs an interworking function through a network with another mobile communication switch. In addition, the visitor location register and the home location register to perform information query for the subscriber.

The visitor location register stores, maintains, deletes, and updates information of all mobile subscribers in the area of mobile communication exchange 150 for a predetermined period of time. The mobile communication subscriber information stored in the visitor location register stores location information of a subscriber station, power on / off, call forwarding number, service type of the subscriber station, and the like. The visitor location register reads the mobile subscriber information from the home location register and stores the information. The visitor location register also provides information of the mobile subscriber to the mobile switch 150.

The home location register is a database that stores and manages data of mobile subscribers. The home location register performs registration and deletion of subscribers and inquiry of subscriber information. The visitor location register provides the information to the home location register when the visitor location register requests the information. In addition, by checking the information of the called-party mobile communication terminal and confirming that it is a normal subscriber, it sends a response message to the request.

Public switched telephone network (PSTN) is a communication network that provides voice data and exchange services by connecting users' phones through an exchange. Basically, it supports voice information exchange service for general home telephone use. In addition, various data communication services use the public telephone network 140.

The mobile communication network 160 is a communication network to which the above-described mobile exchanges are connected. In the present invention, the destination mobile communication network and the source mobile communication network are assumed to be the same mobile communication network.

In FIG. 1, in addition to the mobile communication switch 150, the public telephone network 140, and the mobile communication network 160, a packet network or an internet network may be connected. However, the present invention will be omitted.

2 is an internal block diagram of a mobile communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention. In particular, it is an internal block diagram of the mobile communication terminal of the calling terminal 130.

First, the control unit 200 controls the overall operation of the mobile communication terminal. In particular, the control unit 200 according to an embodiment of the present invention detects a key signal corresponding to the telephone number of the called-party mobile communication terminal 110 input through the key input unit 210. Also, it detects a key signal corresponding to the reception status information menu of the called-party mobile communication terminal 110 provided to the display unit 220. The controller 200 temporarily stores the telephone number of the called-party mobile communication terminal 110 for which the reception state information is desired. When the user of the calling terminal 130 wants the status information of the called mobile terminal 110, the wireless processor 250 receives the status information of the called mobile terminal 110 already stored in the base station 120. Request to the base station 120 through.

The wireless processing unit 250 is controlled by the control unit 200, and receives the high frequency radio signal received through the antenna ANT to convert the high frequency radio signal down through baseband demodulation. In addition, the voice data input from the voice processor 240 is converted into a set transmission frequency band and then transmitted to the base station through the antenna ANT.

The key input unit 210 has a key matrix structure. The key input unit 210 includes a plurality of numeric keys and function keys for performing various functions, and outputs an electrical signal of key data to the controller 200 by a user's key input. In addition, the user of the calling-side mobile communication terminal 130 according to an embodiment of the present invention to check the status information of the called-side mobile communication terminal 110 to know the status information of the called-side mobile communication terminal 110. The corresponding key signal is input to the control unit 200 by the one-touch key or the menu key of the key input unit 210 to check the state information of the called-party mobile communication terminal 110.

The display unit 220 displays the current state of the calling mobile terminal 130 or changes in the progress of the program. The display unit 220 may be configured as a liquid crystal display (LCD).

The memory unit 230 temporarily stores a program processed by the controller 200 or provides a program stored in the controller 200. The memory unit 230 is composed of a ROM for storing an operating program, an electrically programmable EEPROM, a RAM, and the like.

The voice processor 247 modulates the electric signal input by the microphone MIC, converts the electric signal into voice data, and outputs the voice signal to the wireless processor 250. In addition, the speech processor 240 demodulates the encoded speech data received from the wireless processor 250 into an electrical signal and outputs the demodulated signal to the speaker SPK. The speaker SPK converts the encoded speech data into an audible sound and outputs the audible sound.

The internal configuration of the calling mobile terminal 130 as described above may have the same configuration in the called mobile terminal 110 shown in FIG.

3 is a screen flowchart illustrating a process of setting a reception state information checking function of a mobile communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

In step 310, the control unit 200 sets the reception state checking function of the called-party mobile communication terminal 110 by the key input unit 210. In step 320, the control unit 200 determines the 320 according to the user's selection of the calling terminal 130. Select items on the display unit 220 of the step. Operation 330 corresponds to input of the telephone number of the called-party mobile communication terminal 110 among the matters of operation 320. The user of the calling terminal 130 may receive the receiving status information checking service of the called mobile terminal 110 by a menu key or one-touch key corresponding to checking the receiving status information of the called mobile terminal 110. do.

In step 330, the " input confirmation phone number " menu serves to register the reception status information in the reception status check list for the called party's mobile communication terminal 110. This is similar to showing the other party's information in the Internet messenger. The calling party terminal 130 registers the called party mobile communication terminal 110 that desires reception status information and informs whether the called party mobile communication terminal 110 is connected to the mobile communication system in real time. That is, when the called-party mobile communication terminal 110 is connected to the mobile communication system, it informs that it can be contacted immediately. The above connection means that a phone call and a message can be transmitted.

In step 330, the "confirm the other party's reception status information" menu corresponds to the "confirm the other party's reception status information" after the calling terminal 130 inputs the telephone number of the called party's mobile communication terminal 110 that wants the reception status. When the key signal is selected by the key input unit 210, the caller 110 displays the status information of the called-party mobile communication terminal 110.

An internal operation flow of the calling mobile terminal 130 will be described in more detail with reference to FIG. 4. 4 is a control flowchart for a function of confirming reception status information of a mobile communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

In step 410, the control unit 200 performs setting of a reception state information checking function for checking information of the called-party mobile communication terminal 110. In step 410, the calling party terminal 130 checks the status information of the called party mobile communication terminal 130 of the key input unit 210 after inputting the telephone number of the called party mobile communication terminal 110 for which the reception status information is desired. This function is performed by inputting a one-touch key corresponding to a function or selecting a menu of “Checking Other Receiving Status Information” on the 320 screen. Subsequently, in step 420, as shown in step 340, a short message "Checking the other party's reception status information" is displayed on the display unit 220. In addition, in step 420, the control unit 200 requests the base station 120 for the reception status information of the called-party mobile communication terminal 110. In step 430, the control unit 200 receives the reception state information of the called-party mobile communication terminal 110 from the base station 120. The corresponding message is displayed on the display unit 220 according to the reception state information.

A reception state of the called party's mobile communication terminal 110 will be described in more detail with reference to FIG. 6. 6 is a screen illustrating a reception state information message of a called-party mobile communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

6 shows a status 1 message 610, a status 2 message 620, a status 3 message 630, and a status check list addition message 622. The status 1 message 610 is displayed on the display unit 220 as "Call is available. 01X-XXX-XXXX is currently available for a call and is finally connected at 200X.XX.XX.XXHOUR XX." . The state 1 message provides a user of the calling terminal (! 30) that the called party's mobile communication terminal 110 is located in a callable area and is connected to a mobile communication system.

Status 2 message (620) is "No Call. Currently 01X-XXX-XXXX is powered off or disconnected. 200X. XX. XX XX: XX: XX last connected. Last connected location is XXX. . "Is displayed on the display unit 220. The state 2 message indicates that the user of the incoming mobile communication terminal 110 is incapable of talking to the user of the calling mobile terminal 130, and finally provides the disconnected time and the location information of the registered base station. do.

The status 3 message (630) reads, "You are in or are out of a busy area. Please try again later, or use Short Message Service (SMS) or Voice Message Service (VMS)." As shown in the display unit 120 of the calling terminal (! 30). In the status 3 message, "it is in a call or is moving to that area." Is determined by the called party's mobile terminal 110 or the base station 120 to send the call back to the calling mobile terminal 130 after a while. Try or try another service. The above determination is determined by the frequency of power control in the forward or reverse channel. For example, if the power control is performed more than 10 times in one minute, it is determined as the shaded area.

The status check list addition message 622 is a message displayed on the display unit 220 in the following process when the screen 620 is displayed on the display unit 220. The phone number of the called-party mobile communication terminal 110 is added to the status check list. The phone number of the called party's mobile communication terminal 110 confirms the state information of the called party's mobile communication terminal 130 in the list whenever the user of the calling party's mobile communication terminal 110 desires.

In step 430, one of three states according to an embodiment of the present invention is received. When the state 1 information is received, the state 1 message 610 is displayed on the display unit 220 in step 440.

When the state 2 information is received in step 430, the state 2 message 620 is displayed on the display unit 220 in step 450. Thereafter, in step 452, a message status check list message 622 is displayed on the display unit 220 asking the user of the calling terminal 130 whether to add it to the reception check list. Thereafter, if it is added to the reception status check list according to the determination of step 452, the flow proceeds to step 454 to add the telephone number of the called-party mobile communication terminal 110 to the reception status check list.

When the state 3 information is received in step 430, the state 3 message 630 is displayed on the display unit 220.

Although the user of the calling terminal 130 wants the reception status information of the called mobile terminal 110, the user of the called mobile terminal 110 may refuse to provide the reception status information checking service. It can be operated as long as it does not invade privacy.

The overall information flow of FIG. 1 will be described in more detail with reference to FIG. 5. 5 is a signal flow diagram between the calling terminal 130, the base station 120 and the called mobile terminal 110 according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 5, the base station 120 receives the reception state information of the called-side mobile communication terminal 110. The received state information is stored in the home location register in the base station 120. The information stored in the home location register is not only one called-side mobile communication terminal 130 but also stores state information of a plurality of called-side mobile communication terminals 130 together.

Thereafter, the calling terminal 130 checks reception state information of the called-party mobile communication terminal 110 in step 520. Thereafter, in step 522, the calling terminal 130 requests the base station 120 for the reception state information of the called mobile terminal 110. In step 524, the base station 120 transmits the reception state information of the called-party mobile communication terminal 110 to the caller terminal 130 using the information requested in step 522. Thereafter, in step 530, the calling terminal 130 displays the reception state information of the called mobile communication terminal 110 received from the base station 120 on the display unit 220 as a preset message.

As an embodiment of the present invention, the caller terminal 130 is assumed to be a mobile communication terminal. However, in this embodiment, the caller terminal 130 may be a telephone terminal.

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

As described above, the present invention automatically notifies the user of the calling terminal that the caller wants to send a message and whether the system is connected to the receiving terminal. There is an advantage to reduce.

Claims (5)

Claims [1] A method for providing reception status information of a receiving mobile communication terminal requested by a calling terminal by collecting and storing information of a plurality of counterpart mobile terminals at a base station. Requesting, by the calling terminal, the base station for receiving status information of the receiving mobile terminal; And wherein the calling terminal receives the receiving status information of the called mobile terminal from the base station. The method of claim 1, The process of requesting, by the calling terminal to the base station for reception status information of the called mobile terminal, may include a signal corresponding to a telephone number of the called mobile terminal input by a user of the calling terminal through a key input unit; Receiving status information confirmation service method characterized in that the control unit of the originating terminal detects the reception status information confirmation signal requesting the reception status information of the called-party mobile communication terminal and requesting the base station through a wireless unit . The method of claim 2, And the telephone number of the called mobile terminal is a telephone number of the called mobile terminal previously stored in the control unit of the calling terminal. The method of claim 1, In the process of receiving, by the base station, the reception state information of the called mobile terminal from the base station, the reception state information provided through the wireless unit of the calling terminal is displayed on the display unit of the calling terminal. Receiving status information checking service method characterized in that it comprises a. Claims [1] A method of collecting and storing information of a plurality of called mobile terminals in a base station and providing status information of a called mobile terminal requested by a calling terminal. And the base station receives the request of the reception status information of the called mobile terminal from the calling terminal and provides the corresponding receiving status information to the calling terminal.