KR20030079477A - Method for displaying caller phone-number and character in mobile phone - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A method for displaying a caller's phone number and character in a portable terminal is provided to easily recognize a caller through a character and a text by making the caller's character displayed together with the caller's phone number on the display window when a terminating signal is received. CONSTITUTION: Accessing a service server using a personal computer, a user manufactures a new character or edits a manufactured character(S11). After manufacturing his own character, the user downloads and stores it to his portable terminal(S12). In case that the user makes a phone call, the user selects a desired character among a plurality of previously stored characters(S13). If the calling operation is completed, the selected character is transmitted to a receiver's portable terminal together with a calling signal(S14). The transmitted character is received to the receiver's portable terminal together with the calling signal(S15). While a terminating signal is outputted at the receiver's portable terminal, the character is displayed on the display window together with the user's phone number(S16).

Description

How to display caller's phone number and character in mobile device {METHOD FOR DISPLAYING CALLER PHONE-NUMBER AND CHARACTER IN MOBILE PHONE}

The present invention relates to a caller's phone number and character display method in a mobile terminal, and more particularly, when the incoming call signal is received in the receiver's mobile terminal display window, the caller's phone number and character are displayed at the same time. It relates to a telephone number and a character display method.

First, "character" used below includes a character in a general sense, and includes a visual image representing an alter ego in the virtual community, that is, an avatar, and when drawing a character, It is used to include a caricature, a picture drawn by a strange or comically exaggerated characteristic element or part of the body.

In recent years, with the development of communication and network technologies, users of mobile terminals (eg, mobile phones, cellular phones, PCS, PDAs, IMT-2000, etc.) that can make calls anytime and anywhere are increasing rapidly. In the mobile terminal, techniques for servicing text messages have been developed and commercial services have been developed. In the existing text message service, a user wishes to transmit a complicated key using a numeric key and a function key of a keypad provided in the mobile terminal. After entering a text message, the text message entered by the user when the transmission is selected is sent to the recipient.

On the other hand, the portable terminal in advance to the memory of a predetermined number of ringtones at the time of manufacture and outputs a ringtone (bell sound) selected by the user when there is an incoming call to inform the user that there is an incoming call, the ringtone download function in recent years Equipped with a variety of music to choose the desired music to download and use it as your own unique ringtone.

In recent years, a caller identification service (CID; Caller IDentification) has been developed and used to display the caller's information on the receiver's terminal.

However, the conventional caller information confirmation service only displays a part of the caller's information such as the caller's phone number or the caller's name on the terminal of the caller who requested the service. There was a problem in that the caller could not use the caller information confirmation service by randomly selecting a desired character or text because the service could not be provided using the specified specific message.

In particular, in the past, callers preferred anonymity, but in recent years, rather than sending their own special characters to inform themselves, simply displaying a phone number or name can not cause interest to users and reduce competitiveness. There is a problem that causes it.

The present invention has been made to solve the above problems, the object of the present invention is to display the caller's character along with the caller's phone number in the display window when the incoming signal is received in the mobile terminal through the character and the caller The present invention provides a method for displaying a caller's phone number and character in a mobile terminal that can be easily checked.

In addition, another object of the present invention is to enable the caller to directly create and register a number of their own characters in the computer, download them to the mobile terminal and transmit them selectively, and by allowing the caller to modify and edit their characters arbitrarily The present invention provides a method for displaying a caller's phone number and character in a mobile terminal that may cause their interest.

According to an aspect of the present invention for achieving the above object, by connecting to a plurality of unspecified communication network in the user computer connected to the service server to perform data communication between each other, to make your own character or is already A first step of calling a character to perform editing to fit his image and, as a result, registering the character in a predetermined space; A second process of accessing a service server through a communication network from a user computer or a user's portable terminal after downloading the first process and downloading and storing a character registered in a predetermined space with the portable terminal; A third step of selecting a stored character when the user wants to transmit from the portable terminal after the second process is performed, and transmitting the selected character to the portable terminal of the receiver when the transmitting operation is performed; And a fourth process of displaying the caller's character on the display window of the portable terminal while the incoming signal is output from the receiver's portable terminal after the third process is performed. Provide a method.

At this time, according to an additional feature of the present invention, in the fourth process, a step of checking a caller's phone number using a caller tracking function, and at the same time the caller's phone number is displayed when the caller's character is displayed. It is preferred to include a step.

1 is a block diagram schematically showing the configuration of a system for implementing a method for displaying a caller's telephone number and character in a mobile terminal according to the present invention;

2 is a flowchart illustrating a process of displaying a caller's telephone number and character in a mobile terminal according to the present invention.

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10: user computer 15: Internet network

20: service server 30: character model database

35: Authoring Tool 40: Customer Database

50: swap gateway 55: mobile communication network

60: mobile terminal

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

1 is a block diagram schematically showing the configuration of a system for implementing a caller's telephone number and character display method in a mobile terminal according to the present invention, Figure 2 is a display of the caller's telephone number and character in a mobile terminal according to the present invention This is a flow chart showing the process.

Referring to FIG. 1, reference numeral 10 denotes a user computer operated by a user who is to be provided with the service according to the present invention, and 20 denotes various user computers including a plurality of user computers 10 and an internet network 15. Represents a server computer connected via a communication network and providing a service according to the invention.

In addition, reference numeral 30 stores a basic character model and provides a basic character model when a user wants to make a desired character by accessing the service server 20 using the user computer 10. A database, 35 represents an authoring tool for changing the shape of the character according to a control signal input by the user in the user computer 10, and 40 represents a customer database for storing the character created or edited by the user. .

In addition, reference numeral 50 denotes a WAP gateway for communication connection between the mobile terminal 60 carried by the user and the service server 20 by a wireless application protocol (WAP), and 55 denotes a general Represents a mobile communication network.

The operation of the present invention having the above configuration will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. 3.

First, the user accesses the service server 20 through the Internet network 15 using the user computer 10 in order to use the service of the present invention. In this case, the user computer 10 and the service server 20 may be connected through another communication network such as another dedicated line instead of the Internet network 10 in some cases. In addition, when the service server 20 operates a site on the Internet space, the user computer 10 is connected to the site through a web browser when the user computer 10 is connected through the Internet network 15.

By the above process, the user computer 10 accesses the service server 20 and moves to a predetermined space in order to produce a desired character, and a plurality of basics are provided from the character model database 30. By calling the character shapes of will select a specific character shape. At this time, by driving the application provided by the authoring tool 35 is changed to the desired shape to produce a character. The produced character is registered and stored in the customer database 40.

On the other hand, if the user has already stored his character as an existing member, it is possible to call the stored character from the customer database 40 to perform the editing (see step S11).

As described above, after the user makes his own character, the user downloads and saves the character to his mobile terminal 60 (see step S12). At this time, the method of downloading the character may be used. There is a service server 20 and the mobile terminal 60 is connected through the swap gateway 50 and the mobile communication network 55 to be able to download the character.

When the user downloads the character and the user wants to communicate with another person through his mobile terminal 60, the user performs a transmission operation and selects a character to be transmitted from among a plurality of stored characters. See step S13)

When the transmission operation is performed in the above operation, the selected character is transmitted together with the transmission signal from the sender portable terminal 60 to the receiver's portable terminal. (Refer to step S14.) The transmitted character is thus subjected to a general mobile communication processing flow. The reception is made with the outgoing signal on the receiver's mobile terminal (see step S15), and the character is displayed along with the caller's phone number on the display window while the incoming signal is output from the receiver's portable terminal (see step S16).

In order to display the caller's telephone number, a caller tracking function commonly known is used.

The present invention is not limited to the embodiments described above, and various modifications and changes can be made by those skilled in the art, which are included in the spirit and scope of the present invention as defined in the appended claims.

As described above, when the caller's phone number and character display method are applied in the mobile terminal of the present invention, the character and the caller are displayed together with the caller's phone number on the display window when an incoming signal is received on the mobile terminal. This has the effect of making it easy to identify the caller via text.

In addition, the caller can create and register a number of his / her own characters on the computer, download them to the mobile terminal and transmit them selectively, and induce users' interest by allowing the caller to modify and edit their own characters. It has an effect.

In addition, since the sender can modify and edit the character registered by him from time to time, there is an effect that can greatly increase the use of the service.

Claims (2)

Connect to unspecified communication network in user's computer and connect to service server to make data communication with each other, make your own character or call already made character and edit it to fit your image. As a result, a first step of registering the character in a predetermined space; A second process of accessing a service server through a communication network from a user computer or a user's portable terminal after downloading the first process and downloading and storing a character registered in a predetermined space with the portable terminal; A third step of selecting a stored character when the user wants to transmit from the portable terminal after the second process is performed, and transmitting the selected character to the portable terminal of the receiver when the transmitting operation is performed; And A fourth process of displaying the caller's character on the display window of the portable terminal while the incoming signal is output from the receiver's portable terminal after the third process is performed; And character display method. The method of claim 1, In the fourth process, using the caller tracking function to confirm the caller's phone number; And displaying the caller's telephone number and character at the same time when the caller's character is displayed.