KR20040000554A - Method for blocking sms message of mobile station - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A method for intercepting short messages of a mobile communication terminal is provided to confirm whether a caller of a short message is registered in a caller interception list, and to intercept the short message of the caller if the caller is registered, thereby selectively receiving short messages. CONSTITUTION: An SMS message center receives a short message(800). The SMS message center confirms caller information of the short message, and confirms whether a caller is registered in a caller interception list(802). If so, the SMS message center deletes the short message, and does not transmit the short message to a receiver(804). If the caller is not registered in the caller interception list, the SMS message center transmits the short message to the receiver(810).

Description

How to block short messages on mobile devices {METHOD FOR BLOCKING SMS MESSAGE OF MOBILE STATION}

The present invention relates to a method for blocking a short message received by a mobile communication terminal, and more particularly, to a method for selectively blocking an unnecessary short message among short messages received by a mobile communication terminal.

Short Message Service (SMS) is a system that enables message communication between mobile communication terminals such as Global System for Mobile communication (GSM), Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA), and Personal Communication System (PCS). Refers to a service that stores a message in and stores it in a processing device in a mobile communication network, and then converts the message into a digital message. Hereinafter, a message transmitted via SMS is referred to as a "short message".

Conventional SMS service subscribers were to receive unconditionally all kinds of short messages sent by service providers. For example, all messages are being received to promote a certain company or to earn money through paid services such as 700 services. As a result, the terminal user becomes very troublesome due to unnecessary short messages, and problems such as deterioration of the wireless environment and increase of battery consumption of the terminal occur.

On the other hand, there is a domestic application number 10-1998-0055887 (name of the invention: a method for controlling short message reception in a mobile wireless terminal) as a conventional technology for blocking unnecessary short messages received by the terminal. However, in 10-1998-0055887, the terminal controls whether to receive a short message. That is, when a short message sent by a specific company or operator is transmitted to a terminal via an SMS server, a short message center, a mobile switching center, and a base station, the terminal reads the sender's number of the transmitted short message and determines whether to receive the message. Therefore, the reception of unnecessary short messages is not only notified to the user through the display means of the terminal, but unnecessary short messages are also transmitted to the terminal. That is, the problem of deterioration of the wireless environment due to unnecessary short messages still exists. In addition, whenever the user replaces the terminal it is necessary to set a new short message to block.

An object of the present invention is to provide a method for blocking unnecessary short messages among short messages received by a mobile communication terminal.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a method for selectively blocking short messages received by a mobile communication terminal.

It is still another object of the present invention to provide a method for blocking a short message of a mobile communication terminal to block a short message at a short message center.

The present invention for providing the above-mentioned object is the process of setting the caller block list through the terminal, and confirms whether the sender of the short message received by the short message center storing the caller block list is a sender registered in the caller block list. In the case of a registered caller, the short message may be blocked.

1 is a network diagram for providing a short message service,

2A and 2B are diagrams illustrating a process of registering a sender of an unnecessary short message received in a block list according to an embodiment of the present invention;

3 is a view illustrating a signal flow between a short message center and a terminal when registering a sender of an unnecessary short message received in a block list according to an embodiment of the present invention;

4A to 4B are diagrams illustrating a process of setting a block list by accessing a short message center according to another embodiment of the present invention;

5 is a diagram illustrating a signal flow between a short message center and a terminal when a short list is established by accessing a short message center according to another embodiment of the present invention;

6 is a diagram illustrating a block list setting process when a terminal has a block list according to another embodiment of the present invention;

7 is a diagram illustrating a signal flow between a short message center and a terminal for setting a block list when a terminal has a block list according to another embodiment of the present invention;

8 is a diagram illustrating a process of blocking an unnecessary short message with reference to a block list in a short message center according to the present invention.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. In the following description of the reference numerals to the components of the drawings, it should be noted that the same reference numerals as much as possible even if displayed on different drawings.

The present invention blocks unnecessary short messages received by the terminal by using a block list in which the sender of the short message to be blocked is registered. In the present invention, the SMS message center determines whether to block the received short message. That is, the SMS message center checks the sender information of the received short message and blocks the received short message without transmitting the received short message to the receiver when it is determined that the sender is the sender registered in the block list.

Hereinafter, a method for setting a block list and a method for blocking a short message using a block list according to embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 is a diagram illustrating a network for providing a short message service.

As shown in FIG. 1, the SMS network includes a base station controller (Base Station Controller / Base Transceiver Station, BSC / BTS) 110, a mobile switching center (Visitor Location Register, MSC / VLR) 120, and an SMS message. Center (SMS MessageCenter, SMS-MC) 130, a Home Location Register (HLR) 140, SMS server 150 and the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) (160). That is, the SMS network is configured by adding the SMS message center 130 and the SMS server 150 to a normal mobile communication network. The mobile communication terminal (hereinafter referred to as a "terminal") 100 is connected to the base station 100 through a wireless space. Of the above components, the components used in a typical communication network will be omitted and only the added SMS message center 130 and SMS server 150 will be described. SMS message center 130 is connected to MSC 120 and HLR 140. When the SMS message 120 receives the short message through the MSC 120, the SMS message center 130 checks the information and location of the subscriber (hereinafter referred to as the "recipient") to receive the short message from the HLR 140 and then sends the MSC 120 to the MSC 120. Send in MAP (Mobile Application Part) message. The MSC 120 transmits a short message to the BSC / BTS 110 where the receiver is located by referring to the MAP message. The SMS server 150 may access the SMS message center 130 to provide a voice mail or the like, or support an SMS by connecting to an external system. That is, the SMS message center 130 forms the core of SMS processing, and the SMS server 150 is in charge of providing additional services related to SMS.

First, a method for setting a block list according to embodiments of the present invention will be described. There are two ways to register senders of unnecessary short messages on the block list. First, when an unnecessary short message is received, the sender of the short message is registered in the block list, and the second is a method of directly editing the block list. First, the first method will be described.

2A and 2B are diagrams illustrating a process of registering a sender of an unnecessary short message received in a block list according to an embodiment of the present invention.

In particular, FIG. 2A is a flowchart of a process of registering a sender of an unnecessary short message received in a block list, and FIG. 2B is contents displayed on a display unit of the terminal 100 in the processes according to FIG. 2A.

When the short message is received, the terminal 100 displays it to the receiver through display means in step 200 of FIG. 2A. The receiver confirming the received short message may select a caller blocking menu when the short message is unnecessary. That is, the caller blocking menu is selected through the input means of the terminal 100 in step 202. In step 204, it is determined whether the short message received is blocked. In step 204, the blocking of the short message is confirmed, and in step 206, the terminal 100 transmits caller information about the short message to the BSC / BTS 110. The BSC / BTS 110 transmits the caller information to the MSC 120, which in turn transmits it to the SMS message center 130. The caller information is divided into an originating address (eg, a caller's telephone number) of a transport layer. The transport layer is a lower layer of the teleservice layer, and basically forms an endpoint between the SMS message center 130 and the terminal 100 when sending and receiving messages, and bearer data is transmitted from the teleservice layer. Receive and compose the message. Transport layer messages include a teleservice identifier, an originating address, a bearer reply option, and bearer data, which are service identifiers such as voicemail or general messages. As described above, the sender address among them is used to distinguish the caller information in the embodiment of the present invention.

A separate description of the transmission process will be omitted. In addition, hereinafter, only the transmission between the terminal 100 and the SMS message center 130 when describing the transmission of the message or the like made in the present invention. However, this is only the description of the BSC / BTS 110 and the MSC 120 is omitted, the transmission of all messages between the terminal 100 and the SMS message center 130 is the BSC / BTS 110 and MSC Through 120. In step 208, the terminal 100 checks whether the sender of the short message is registered in the block list. This may be done via a message received from the SMS message center 130.

FIG. 2B illustrates an example of the content displayed through the display means of the terminal 100 while the process of FIG. 2A is performed.

In step 210, the terminal 100 displays through the display means that the short message has been received. This corresponds to step 200 of FIG. 2A. Step 204 corresponds to step 202 of FIG. 2A and checks the caller block if it is selected. Operation 230 corresponds to operation 208 of FIG. 2A, and when the confirmation signal is received from the short message center 130, it indicates that caller block list setup is completed.

3 is a diagram illustrating a signal flow between a short message center and a terminal when registering a sender of an unnecessary short message received in a block list according to an embodiment of the present invention.

In step 300, a short message is transmitted from the SMS message center 130 to the terminal 100. In step 302, the terminal 100 displays the received short message through the display means. When the blocking of the short message is selected in step 304, the terminal 100 transmits a block list setting request signal to the SMS message center 130 in step 306. In step 308, the SMS message center 130 sets up a caller block list according to the signal received from the terminal 100. In step 310, the SMS message center 130 transmits the set sender block list to the terminal 100. In step 312, the terminal 100 confirms that the sender of the short message is registered in the caller block list through the received caller block list. On the other hand, the registration confirmation may be made by the SMS short message center 130 transmits a signal to confirm the registration to the terminal 100. In step 314, the terminal 100 transmits a caller block list setting end signal to the SMS message center 130.

Next, a second caller block list setting method, that is, a method of directly editing a caller block list will be described.

4A to 4B are flowcharts illustrating a process of setting a block list by accessing a short message center according to another embodiment of the present invention.

In step 400 of FIG. 4A, the terminal 100 accesses the SMS message center 130. In step 402, the terminal 100 selects a block list setting menu. In step 404, the terminal 100 selects to register the caller in the caller block list. In step 406, the terminal 100 displays the caller block list received from the SMS message center 130 through the display means. In step 408, the receiver inputs a sender to be registered in the block list. This is input to the terminal 100 through the input means of the terminal 100. In step 410, the terminal 100 confirms whether or not to register the input caller in the caller block list. If the registration is confirmed, in step 412, the terminal 100 registers the caller in the caller block list. This is, of course, made by signal transmission between the terminal 100 and the SMS message center 130. The terminal 100 transmits signals input through the input means to the SMS message center 130 so that the setting for the caller block list stored in the SMS message center 130 is made. In step 414, the terminal 100 confirms the end of the caller registration process of adding the caller to block the short message to the caller block list.

On the other hand, the process of blocking the caller registered in the existing caller block list is performed as follows.

In step 420, the terminal 100 selects to delete the caller from the caller block list. In step 422, the terminal 100 displays the caller block list received from the SMS message center 130 through the display means. In step 424, the recipient selects a sender to be deleted from the block list. This is input to the terminal 100 through the input means of the terminal 100. In step 426, the terminal 100 confirms whether or not to delete the selected caller from the caller block list. If the deletion is confirmed, the terminal 100 deletes the caller from the caller block list. In step 430, the terminal 100 confirms the end of the caller registration process of adding the caller to block the short message to the caller block list. When the caller registration and / or deletion process for the caller block list ends, the caller block list ends in step 416.

In step 440 of FIG. 4B, the terminal 100 accesses the SMS message center 130 and selects a caller block list setting. Steps 450 through 454 correspond to cases in which the caller is registered in the caller block list, and steps 460 through 464 correspond to a case in which the sender is deleted from the existing caller block list.

FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating a signal flow between a short message center and a terminal when a short list is established by accessing a short message center.

In step 500 of FIG. 5, the terminal 100 transmits a signal for requesting a caller block list setting menu to the SMS message center 130. The SMS message center 130 receiving the signal transmits a caller block list setting menu to the terminal 100. In step 504, the terminal 100 selects a block list setting menu and transmits a block list setting request signal to the SMS message center 130 in step 506. In step 508, the SMS message center 130 transmits the sender block list to the terminal 100. In step 510, the terminal checks the caller block list and selects caller registration or deletion. In step 512, the terminal 100 transmits the block list setting information to the SMS message center 130. In step 514, the SMS message center 130 sets the sender block list according to the received block list setting information. In step 516, the SMS message center confirms the sender block list setting by transmitting the set caller block list to the terminal 100. The caller block list setting confirmation may be performed by sending a confirmation signal from the SMS message center 130 to the terminal 100. In step 518, the terminal 100 transmits a block list setting end signal to the SMS message center 130.

Meanwhile, what has been described with reference to FIGS. 2 to 5 is that only the SMS message center 130 stores the sender block list. Alternatively, the case where the SMS message center 130 and the terminal 100 store the same sender block list may be considered. In this case, the terminal 100 first sets a caller block list stored in the terminal 100 and then transmits the caller block list stored in the SMS message center 130 to update the caller block list stored in the SMS message center 130. You can perform the setup. In this case, the storage capacity for storing the caller block list is required in the terminal 100, but it is possible to reduce the signal transmission between the SMS message center 130 and the terminal 100. Therefore, according to the requirements of the system, the caller block list may be stored only in the SMS message center 130 or the caller block list may be selected from the SMS message center 130 and the terminal 100.

6 is a flowchart of a block list setting process when a terminal stores a block list according to another embodiment of the present invention.

In step 600, the terminal 100 selects a block list setting menu. In step 602, the terminal 100 sets a block list. That is, the sender is registered in the block list or the caller registered in the block list is deleted. In step 604, the terminal 100 transmits the set caller block list to the SMS message center 130. In step 606, the terminal 100 confirms the block list setting according to the signal received from the SMS message center 130.

FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating a signal flow between a short message center and a terminal for setting a block list when a terminal has a block list according to another embodiment of the present invention.

In step 700, the terminal 100 sets a caller block list. In step 702, the terminal 100 transmits the set caller block list to the SMS message center 130. In step 704, the SMS message center 130 stores the received caller block list in a storage means instead of the existing caller block list. In step 706, the SMS message center 130 transmits a signal to the terminal 100 to confirm the caller block list setting. In step 708, the terminal 100 transmits a signal to the SMS message center 130 confirming the end of the caller block list setting.

8 is a flowchart illustrating a process of blocking an unnecessary short message with reference to a block list in a short message center according to the present invention.

The SMS message center 130 performs the short message blocking by using the caller block list set by the terminal 100 through the above-described processes. In step 800, the SMS message center 130 receives a short message. In step 802, the SMS message center 130 checks the sender information of the short message, and then checks whether the sender is a sender registered in the sender block list. If the sender is a sender registered in the sender block list, the SMS message center 130 deletes the short message in step 804 and does not transmit it to the receiver. If the sender is not the sender registered in the sender block list, the SMS message center 130 transmits the short message to the receiver in step 810.

By applying the present invention as described above, the receiver can selectively receive short messages by blocking unnecessary short messages, and affects the mobile communication wireless environment by blocking unnecessary short messages in the SMS message center which is a network component of the wired network. It can be minimized.

Claims (6)

A method for blocking unnecessary short messages received by a mobile communication terminal using a caller block list stored in a short message center, the process of setting caller information to be blocked in the caller block list, A first process of displaying, by the display means, the terminal receiving the short message; A second step of receiving an instruction to register the sender information of the short message on a caller block list through an input means; A third process of transmitting the caller information to the short message center; And a fourth process of confirming that the caller information is registered in the caller block list by receiving the confirmation signal from the short message center. A method for blocking unnecessary short messages received by a mobile communication terminal using a caller block list stored in a short message center, the process of setting caller information to be blocked in the caller block list, A first step in which the terminal accesses the short message center, A second process of receiving a caller block list from the short message center; A third process of displaying the received caller block list through a display means; A fourth process of receiving a signal instructing setting of the caller block list through an input means; A fifth process of transmitting a signal input in the fourth process to a short message center; And a sixth process of transmitting a signal to the short message center to confirm that the terminal finishes setting the caller block list. In a method in which a terminal and a short message center each have the same sender block list and block unnecessary short messages received by a mobile communication terminal using the caller block list, the process of setting caller information to be blocked in the caller block list is performed. , A first process in which the terminal is instructed to set up a block list through an input means; A second process of displaying the caller blocking list stored in the storage means of the terminal through the display means according to the instruction; A third step of setting the caller block list according to a signal input through an input means; A fourth process of transmitting the set caller block list to the short message center; And a fifth process of confirming caller block list setting by the terminal receiving a confirmation signal from the short message center. A method for blocking unnecessary short messages received by a mobile communication terminal using a caller block list stored in a short message center, A first process of transmitting, by the short message center receiving the caller block list request signal from the terminal, the stored caller block list to the terminal; Setting a caller block list according to a signal received from a terminal; A third process of storing the set caller block list; And a fourth process of transmitting the caller block list setting confirmation signal to the terminal. A method for blocking unnecessary short messages received by a mobile communication terminal using a caller block list stored in a short message center, A first step of receiving, by the short message center, a caller block list set from the terminal; A second step of storing the received caller block list; The short message blocking method of claim 1, wherein the short message center transmits a caller block list setting confirmation signal to the terminal. A method for blocking unnecessary short messages received by a mobile communication terminal using a caller block list stored in a short message center, A first step in which the short message center receives the short message; A second step of confirming whether the sender of the short message is a sender registered in a sender block list; A third step of deleting the short message when the caller is a caller registered in a caller block list; And a fourth process of transmitting the short message to a terminal to receive the short message when the caller is not a sender registered in the sender block list in the third process.