KR20030085171A - An one click internet phone connecting system and the method thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A one-click Internet telephone call connecting system and a method therefor are provided to realize Internet telephone connection only by selecting the corresponding telephone number without writing a telephone number on an input window of an Internet phone program or pressing dial buttons of an Internet phone. CONSTITUTION: A telephone number search unit(11) searches for a telephone number in codes of documents output on a screen. In the case that the linked telephone number is selected among the documents output on the screen, a dial unit(13) transmits a dial signal having the selected telephone number to a preliminarily designated Internet phone gateway server. A code converter unit(12) links the retrieved telephone number with the dial unit and converts the code of the document to call the dial unit and execute dial if the telephone number is clicked. A telephone call control unit(14) controls telephone call data after starting a telephone connection signal and an Internet telephone call.

Description

One click internet phone connecting system and the method

According to the present invention, an Internet telephone connection can be performed by a user selecting a phone number described on a document output on a screen through a web browser, a document editor, or a document display window of an e-mail program on a screen of a display device such as a liquid crystal screen or a monitor. The present invention relates to a one-click Internet telephony connection system and a method thereof, and more particularly, to recognize a telephone number displayed on a document displayed on a screen through a web browser, a text editor, and an e-mail program to perform dialing. One-click Internet to convert the code of the document so that the user can make a telephone call over the Internet with the remote party when the user selects the phone number on the converted document by using a mouse or a stylus pen. A telephone connection system and method are provided.

In the prior art, the telephony service using the Internet is based on the digitization of the public public telecommunication network (PSTN) and the rapid development of the Internet. The VoIP service, and the web to web and web to phone are developed based on the technology. Internet phone service such as (web to phone) and phone to phone.

The above-mentioned Internet telephony service method has been introduced to the world at a high speed since it was first introduced by Israel's Vocaltech in February 1995, and is connected to the Internet and the PSTN network by an Internet phone gateway server. The service method becomes possible. In addition, in order to use the above-described Internet telephony service, a user can use the Internet phone and a PC equipped with a speaker microphone sound card to connect to the Internet to perform a telephone call through the Internet of the other party's PC, a telephone, and the Internet. Will be.

The basic principle of the Internet phone (Internet phone) service is to convert analog data such as voice or sound into digital data and to transmit and receive through the Internet and the PSTN network. Instead of going directly through a regular telephone line, a global network called the Internet is the basis for making low-cost calls.

In order to perform the Internet phone service, the user had to use the mouse or keypad and press the dial button on the phone number input window that is displayed after the user runs the web browser and finds the Internet address of the Internet phone service provider. It was inconvenient for beginners or older generations not used to. In addition, in the service provided on the Internet, the user provides a phone number in performing a product purchase participation service, such as consulting a product and ordering a product through a company requesting a real-time voice auction through the Internet, or a real-time telephone connection through an internet shopping mall. Due to the hassle of taking a note, remembering to enter the phone number by running the Internet phone connection software, or entering the phone number by using the dial key of the Internet phone, the enterprise participates in the real-time auction and real-time. The order rate is lowered, and the user also has the problem of difficulty in real time participation and ordering due to the hassle of dialing.

Accordingly, the present invention is to solve the problems of the prior art described above, search for a phone number included in the code of the document output on the document display window of the web browser, document editor, e-mail program output to the display device of the user terminal Converts the code in the document so that dialing can be performed, and if a user selects by means of a mouse, a stylus pen, or the like, sends a dial signal over the Internet to the selected telephone number. It is an object of the present invention to provide a one-click Internet telephony system and method for performing the connection.

1 is a view showing an embodiment applied to the Internet telephone connection system of the present invention.

2 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the Internet telephony connection system of the present invention, and a block diagram showing the configuration in which the Internet telephony connection system is connected to a computer as a user terminal.

FIG. 3 shows a part of source code as an embodiment of the telephone search means of FIG.

4 shows a part of the source code as an example of the code conversion means of FIG.

Figure 5 shows that the web document before the conversion by the above-described code conversion means is output on the web browser.

6 shows a part of the code including the telephone number on the web document converted by the above-described code converting means.

FIG. 7 shows that the web document having the code shown in FIG. 6 is output.

8 is a flowchart showing the overall process of the one-click Internet telephony connection method according to the present invention.

FIG. 9 is a subroutine diagram illustrating a detailed process of performing a dial during the process of FIG. 8.

* Description of Major Symbols in Drawings *

100: computer 200: Internet phone gateway server (IG)

300: telephone 500: internet network

600: PSTN network 700: Internet phone

10: Internet telephone connection system

11: phone number search means

12: code conversion means

13 dial means

14: call control means

Internet telephone connection system according to the present invention for achieving the above object,

Telephone number retrieving means for retrieving a telephone number from a code of a document to be displayed on a document display window of a web browser, a text editor, an e-mail program; Dialing means for transmitting a dial signal having the telephone number to a predetermined Internet phone gateway server when a linked telephone number is selected among the outputted documents; A code conversion means for linking the telephone number retrieved by the telephone number search means with the dial means and converting the code of the document so as to perform dialing by calling a dial means when the telephone number is clicked; And call control means for controlling telephone call data after the telephone connection signal by the dial means and the Internet telephone call is started.

The above-mentioned one-click internet telephony connection system further comprises a handset means for receiving and outputting an audio signal so that a user can make a telephone call controlled by the call control means.

Internet telephony method according to the present invention for achieving the above object,

A first step of searching for a telephone number in a code of a document after receiving a document to be displayed in a document display window of a web browser, a text editor, an e-mail program; And converting and outputting a code of a document to transmit a dial signal when the searched telephone number is clicked.

In another aspect, the present invention further comprises a third step of, when the selection signal for the telephone number is input, the dial means performs a telephone connection to the telephone number.

The third step of performing a telephone connection via the Internet by the above-mentioned dial means comprises: a fourth step of inputting a selection signal for selecting a telephone number to which the dial means is connected; A fifth step of calling a dial means corresponding to the selection signal of the fourth step; A sixth step in which the called means transmits a call connection request signal for the telephone number to a predetermined Internet phone gateway server; A seventh step of connecting the Internet phone gateway server and a telephone corresponding to the telephone number; And an eighth step of performing a call by controlling a telephone call through the Internet.

The above-described Internet telephony connection method is also,

The fifth step comprises: determining whether there is the dial means; And a tenth step of calling the pre-installed dial means if the dial means is present, and downloading and calling the dial means from a predetermined server if the dial means is not present.

One example of such a document in the systems and methods of the present invention described above is a web, swap, or email document.

An example of the telephone number described in the system and method of the present invention described above may be a telephone number using a PSTN network or an Internet telephone number (IPN) for an Internet telephone service.

Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in more detail with reference to the accompanying drawings showing a preferred embodiment of the present invention in which the above-described document is limited to a web document (html document).

1 is a view showing an embodiment to which the Internet telephony system 10 (see FIG. 2) of the present invention is applied, and FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the Internet telephony system 10 of the present invention, and It is a block diagram showing a configuration in which the Internet telephone connection system 10 is connected to the computer 100 as a user terminal.

As shown, the Internet telephony system 10 is mounted and driven in a user terminal, and the Internet telephony system 10 is installed through the Internet network 500, or a plurality of other user terminals equipped with Internet phones. 400 and an internet phone gateway server (IG) 200, the Internet phone gateway server 200 is connected to a plurality of general telephones 300 through the PSTN network (600).

This is a configuration widely used in the prior art, the user is driving the Internet telephone connection system 10 running on his terminal, the web-to-web via the Internet network 500, or web-to-phone, or Internet-phone by phone-to-phone You can make a call.

As shown in FIG. 2, the Internet telephone connection system 10 according to the present invention comprises a telephone number search means 11, a code conversion means 12, a dial means 13, and a call control means 14. In addition, it indicates that the handset 15 may be further included.

The above-mentioned telephone number search means 11 is used when a web browser 110 running on a computer equipped with an Internet telephone connection system 10 receives a web document to display a web document on a monitor. It operates between the web browser 110 and the code conversion means 12 to recognize and retrieve the phone number and to output the code for the retrieved phone number to the code conversion means 12.

The code converting means 12 links the telephone number on the web document searched by the telephone number searching means 11 and the dial means 13 to call and drive the dial means 13 when the linked telephone number is clicked. After converting the code of the web document so as to output to the web browser to operate between the phone number search means 11 and the web browser 110.

The dial means 13 is selected such that the telephone number to which the dial means 13 outputted to the web browser 110 is linked by a user to perform a telephone call by other input means such as a keyboard, a mouse, a stylus pen, or the like. In the case of a web-to-phone, the web browser 110 transmits a dial signal having the telephone number to the Internet through a call control means 14 to a predetermined Internet phone gateway server 400 and a web-to-web to an Internet phone of a corresponding computer. ) And the call control means 14.

The call control means 14 performs connection control with the Internet phone gateway server 400 and the counterpart phone 300 or another Internet phone (web phone) according to the driving of the dial means 13, and the connection is established. After it is performed, the audio signal data input from the handset means 15 through the audio input and output means 120 is converted so that it can be transmitted from the Internet network 500 and communication means 130 such as a LAN card on the computer 100. ) And controls the digitalized audio signal of the other party inputted from the communication means 130 through the internet network 500 to the handset means 15 through the audio input / output means 120.

As the audio input / output means 120, a sound card is one exemplary embodiment.

The handset 15 may be a headset or an internet phone 700 connected to a computer, and the Internet telephone connection system 10 transmits an analog audio signal including a user's voice signal through the audio input / output means 120. Input to the communication control means 14, and receives an audio signal including the voice of the other party input through the audio input and output means 120 from the external telephone 300 or the Internet phone (web phone) and outputs as an analog audio signal do.

The telephone number search means 11 is a type of parsing engine that searches a phone number by interpreting a character code on a web document, and part of the code for implementing the telephone number search means 11 including the parsing engine is shown in FIG. Is shown.

As shown in Fig. 3, the telephone number search means 11 searches for a telephone number on a web document, and whether the retrieved telephone number uses an extension, whether it is a domestic telephone number or an overseas telephone number. After retrieving the data, the predetermined data name is designated and stored in the pre-allocated memory area, and when the code conversion means 12 requests the stored data name, the data name and the stored data value are passed to the code conversion means 12. do.

The dial means 13 is an ActiveX controller included in a widely used software development program, an object of java, an independent program, a java script, a separate dynamic link library program, or Various modifications can be made, such as a plugin.

In the case of an ActiveX controller, an example of the corresponding dial means is a "web call ActiveX controller".

The code converting means 12 is interlocked with the telephone number searching means 11, and part of the code as an example for implementing the code converting means 12 is shown in FIG. The code converting means 12 of FIG. 4 has a web so that when the telephone number searched by the telephone number searching means 11 is clicked, the dial means 13 is called and driven to transmit a telephone request signal for the telephone number. Convert the code in the document.

An embodiment of the output state of the web document before the conversion by the code conversion means 12 and the part of the code of the web document after the conversion and the telephone number on the web browser displayed on the screen by the converted code 7 is shown.

As shown in FIG. 5, the web document before the conversion by the above-described code conversion means 12 is output on the web browser. 6 shows a part of the code including the telephone number on the web document converted by the above-described code converting means 12 when the telephone number is 511-8655. That is, when the phone number that is converted (hyperlinked) so as to be interlocked with the dial means 13 is clicked, the web call ActiveX controller is called as an embodiment of the dial means 13 by "webcall" on the code. It is driven to transmit the dial signal to 211.116.19.81 as an example of the IP address of the predetermined Internet gateway server 400.

FIG. 7 shows that the web document having the code shown in FIG. 6 is outputted. In FIG. 5, a phone number displayed as text without a hyperlink is retrieved, and the dial means 13 is linked to the phone number. The figure shows that the linked telephone number is output underlined as an example of the hyperlink display on the screen of the web browser.

The above-described Internet telephony connection system 10 is not limited to the scope of the preferred embodiment of the present invention, which is limited to a web document, and is linked with a document output program such as a web browser 110 or an e-mail program running on the computer 100. When the document is received through the Internet network 500 and output to the display device, the telephone number search unit 11 retrieves the telephone number on the document, and then calls the code conversion unit 12 to turn over the retrieved telephone number. The code conversion means 12 converts the code of the document so as to link the dial means 13 to the telephone number retrieved from the phone number search means 11, and outputs the code to the document display window of the display device. The user can select the corresponding telephone number from the document displayed on the document display window, and when the user selects the telephone number, the code given to the telephone number given by the code converting means 12 calls the dial means 13. After generating a dial signal for the corresponding telephone number, and transmits it to the call control means 14. The call control means 14 transmits a dial signal through the Internet through a communication means of a computer, which is the telephone number of the PATN network. It is transmitted to the remote Internet phone gateway server 200, and in the case of a phone number for the Internet phone (web phone) transmits a telephone dial signal to the target Internet phone (web phone).

In the case of the phone number of the PSTN network, the Internet phone gateway server 200 is connected to the general telephone 300 corresponding to the phone number connected to the PSTN network 600 to correspond to the Internet telephone connection system 100 and the phone number. Mediates a telephone call with the general telephone 300 of the apparatus, and the audio input / output means for the call control means 14 in the Internet telephony connection system 10 to perform an audio telephone call between the handset 15 and the other telephone. Outputting to the sound card as an example of 120 allows the user to make an internet phone call.

The telephone number retrieval means 11, the code conversion means 12, the dial means 13, and the call control means 14 may be composed of independent software driven on the computer 100. In this case, when the above-described software is installed, a tool window such as a web browser or an e-mail program or a text editor displays a document output through the corresponding software and changes the code after the software as the Internet telephone connection system 10 retrieves the telephone number. The icon of the one-click Internet telephony system for changing to output can be configured to be added.

The handset 15 may be composed of a headset, a microphone and an earphone, or a microphone and a speaker.

As another embodiment of the present invention, the handset means 15 is composed of a dial button, a hook switch, a handset unit, a control unit, and a connector connected to a sound card of a computer. Internet phone 700 is connected to the computer to work with).

The above-described connector configured in the Internet phone 700 is an Internet telephony system running on the Internet phone 700 and the computer 100, which is a sound card for data communication for telephony control between the software of the 10. An audio input terminal connected to a Line In or Mic terminal for inputting an audio signal input from a handset of an Internet phone 700 to a sound card, and a MIDI port connected to a MIDI port of a computer. In order to output the audio signal output from the 100 to the handset of the Internet phone 700, an audio output terminal connected to a line out or speaker terminal is further configured.

The computer 100 is connected to the Internet phone 100 by an operating system, a control signal such as the operation of the hook switch of the Internet phone 700, the Internet phone connection system 10, and a LAN card for connecting to the Internet. Or communication means such as a modem and a web browser.

The software as the Internet telephony connection system 10 is selected by a user by clicking, double-clicking, or touching the telephone number to which the dial means 13 is linked on the document output on the display window of the display device, or by the Internet. When the user inputs the other party's telephone number by operating the dial button of the phone 700, the general telephone 300 of the other party is operated by transmitting the dial signal to the predetermined Internet phone gateway server 200 by driving the dial means 13. Or to make a phone call with the Internet phone 700.

Therefore, when the user uses the Internet phone 700 that is configured separately from the outside of the computer, the hook switch is operated when the user receives the handset of the Internet phone 700, the on-off signal of the hook switch is the Internet phone 700 Is transferred from the control unit to the Internet telephone software as the Internet telephony connection system 10 via the MIDI port of the sound card as the audio input / output means 120 installed in the computer 100 to drive the Internet telephone software. The software for Internet telephony then receives a dial signal input from the Internet phone 700 and transmits it to a predetermined Internet phone gateway server 200 so that the user can make a phone call over the Internet.

As described above, the user can perform an internet phone call using the internet phone 700 as if the user is making a phone call using a phone connected to a general PSTN network.

The above-described Internet phone 700 is shown as a separate phone connected to the Internet by the reference numeral 700, the Internet phone 700 described in the present invention is connected to the headset, microphone and earphones or speakers to make an Internet phone call on the Internet It includes all the means of Internet telephony you can do.

8 and 9 are flowcharts showing the overall process of the one-click Internet telephone connection method defined in the web document as one preferred embodiment of the present invention. Hereinafter, the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. 8 and 9. The process of the one-click Internet telephone connection method according to the present invention will be described in detail.

It is assumed that the Internet telephone connection system 10 or software as the Internet telephone connection system 10 is preinstalled on the computer described above.

As shown in the present invention, the one-click Internet telephone connection method of the present invention retrieves a telephone number from the input web document when the web browser 110 in which the Internet telephone connection software is installed receives a web document from a predetermined website serviced on the Internet. (S10). The telephone number retrieved in the above process is classified into whether the extension is used, whether it is a domestic telephone number or an overseas telephone number, and is stored to have a predetermined data name in a previously allocated memory area.

After the telephone number is searched, if the telephone number is selected, the code of the position including the telephone number on the web document is converted and outputted so as to transmit the dial signal to the corresponding telephone number (S20). In this process, the telephone number is hyperlinked with the dial means.

When a telephone number selection signal is input for the user to make a call using the output telephone number, the hyperlinked dial means is called, and the telephone number search means searches for the telephone number classified by the predetermined data name. Using the data, the dialing means dials through the Internet and is connected to the counterpart phone having the corresponding telephone number (S30). When the Internet telephone connection system 10 and the counterpart phone are connected through the Internet network, the Internet phone gateway server, and the PSTN network, the user and the counterpart are respectively controlled by the call control means 14 to perform a telephone call through the Internet. When the phone call is terminated and disconnects (S40).

In the detailed processing of S30 to which the telephone is connected, when the user selects a telephone number to make a telephone call using the corresponding telephone having the telephone number, the web browser selects the dial means 13 according to the user selection signal. Call it (S31). Next, it is determined whether a dial means exists (S32), and if the called dial means does not exist, the dial means 13 is downloaded and installed from a predetermined server (S33). The called means 13 generates a telephone connection signal having a linked telephone number and then transmits the dial signal to the Internet phone gateway server 200 (S34). The Internet phone gateway server 200 receiving the telephone connection signal further performs a process of connecting the corresponding telephone and the Internet telephone connection system 10 through the PSTN network (S35).

In the one-click Internet telephony connection system and method thereof of the present invention, when a user inputs a telephone number using an internet phone, the internet telephony connection system recognizes a hook signal of the internet phone and pre-designates the internet phone gateway server 200. ) May be configured to authorize use of an internet phone call by entering an ID and password.

In addition, in order to reduce the procedure for inputting the user's ID password, the user is authorized by internally transmitting the ID and password previously stored by the user to the Internet phone gateway server to perform authentication internally. Can be configured to perform authentication without the hassle of operations required for the authentication process.

Although the above description is limited to the web-to-phone, the present invention can be applied to a web-to-web based internet telephone, and the following describes the process of the web-to-web without the accompanying drawings.

When the present invention is applied to the web-to-web, the process of transcoding is the same as the process of the web-to-web described above, and the process of the third step is changed, and the changed process is as follows.

When the selection signal for the telephone number is input in the second step, the dial means can perform a web-to-web based internet telephone call by performing a telephone connection to a counterpart Internet phone having the internet telephone number.

In step 3-1, a detailed process is further performed. The process includes: step 4-1 in which a selection signal for selecting an Internet telephone number to which the dial means is connected is input; Step 4-2 in which the dial means corresponding to the selection signal is called; Step 4-3, wherein the dialing means transmits a dial signal to an Internet phone corresponding to the telephone number; A fourth step of connecting the call request internet phone and the call request target internet phone corresponding to the internet phone number; And a fourth step of controlling a telephone call through the internet to perform a call.

According to the present invention described above, when a user wants to talk with the person of the telephone number described on the web document, the user writes down the memo or memorizes it, and then fills it in the input window of the Internet phone program or presses the dial button of the Internet phone. By simply selecting the phone number, the internet phone can be connected by one click.

Therefore, the present invention in the process of real-time voice auction, Internet counseling, product order in the Internet shopping mall via telephone, the user does not need to note or remember the phone number automatically selected by simply selecting the output phone number By making a phone call with a service provider, the service company can increase profits and provide users with the convenience of using the Internet service.

Claims (9)

In the Internet telephony service system, Telephone number searching means for searching for a telephone number in a code of a document output on a screen; Dialing means for transmitting a dial signal having the telephone number to a predetermined Internet phone gateway server when a linked telephone number is selected among documents output on the screen; A code conversion means for linking the telephone number retrieved by the telephone number search means with the dial means and converting the code of the document so as to perform dialing by calling a dial means when the telephone number is clicked; And, And a call control means for controlling telephone call data after the telephone call signal by the dial means and the internet telephone call is started. In the Internet telephone service method A first step of searching for a telephone number in a code of a document after receiving a document to be output; And, And a second step of converting and outputting a code of a document to transmit a dial signal when the searched telephone number is clicked. The method of claim 2, wherein the document, One-click Internet phone connection method characterized in that the document is output to the document display window of any one of a web browser, a text editor, an email program. The method of claim 2, And a third step of, when the selection signal for the telephone number is input, the dial means for performing a telephone connection with a counterpart phone having the telephone number. The method of claim 4, wherein the third step, A fourth step of inputting a selection signal for selecting a telephone number to which the dial means is connected; A fifth step of calling a dial means corresponding to the selection signal of the fourth step; A sixth step in which the called means transmits a call connection request signal for the telephone number to a predetermined Internet phone gateway server; A seventh step of connecting the Internet phone gateway server and a telephone corresponding to the telephone number; And, The eighth step of controlling a telephone call over the Internet to perform a call; one-click Internet phone connection method characterized in that consisting of. The method of claim 5, wherein the fifth step, If the dial means is not provided, the one-click Internet telephone connection method characterized in that for downloading the dial means from a predetermined server. The method of claim 2, wherein the telephone number is, One-click internet phone connection method characterized in that the Internet phone number for the web-to-web Internet phone. The method according to claim 2 or 7, wherein If the selection signal for the telephone number is input, step 3-1 in which the dialing means performs a telephone connection to a counterpart Internet phone having the Internet telephone number; How to connect. The method of claim 8, wherein the step 3-1, Step 4-1 of inputting a selection signal for selecting an Internet telephone number to which the dial means is connected; Step 4-2 in which the dial means corresponding to the selection signal is called; Step 4-3, wherein the dialing means transmits a dial signal to an Internet phone corresponding to the telephone number; A fourth step of connecting the call request internet phone and the call request target internet phone corresponding to the internet phone number; And, Step 4-5 of performing a call by controlling a telephone call over the Internet; One-click Internet phone connection method characterized in that consisting of.