KR20040018721A - System and Method for Selective Collect Call Service in Wireless Communication System - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A selective callee billing service system in a wireless communication network and a method therefor are provided to load a call charge with a caller selected among call signals received to a wireless terminal to a callee. CONSTITUTION: A user management device(300) stores information of a wireless terminal user who wants to use a selective recipient billing service in a database(310), and manages stored information. The user management device(300) receives caller information for designating a caller as a call charge proxy payment caller from the wireless terminal user, stores received caller information in the database(310), and manages stored caller information. After a channel is formed with the call charge proxy payment caller and the channel is released, the call charge with the call charge proxy payment caller is billed to the wireless terminal user.

Description

System and Method for Selective Collect Call Service in Wireless Communication System

The present invention relates to a system for allowing a receiver to bear a call charge using a wireless terminal, and more particularly, in a wireless communication network for allowing a receiver to bear a call charge with a selected caller among call signals received by the wireless terminal. And a billing service system and method.

In general, the exchange in the wireless communication system is designed to bear the call charge on the caller side, and in order to have the receiver pay the call charge, it must use a collect call service. However, in order to use the collect call service, it is inconvenient to apply the service to the operator every time the call is attempted, and the inconvenience of having to confirm whether to accept the collect call service from the receiver.

Toll-free telephone service has been developed. The toll free telephone service establishes a telephone number starting with a specific number (for example, 080), and is a service in which all charges received by the number are to be paid by the receiver. However, the toll free telephone service has a problem that it is difficult to use in general home because the telephone number system is different from the general telephone number. In addition, there is a disadvantage in that the subscriber cannot set the toll-free condition to his or her preferences and pay all the call charges of the unwanted caller.

The present invention has been made to solve the above-described problems, by allowing the user of the wireless terminal to enter the caller information to pay the call charges, and to allow the receiver to pay the call charges only when the caller attempts to make a call. There is a technical problem to provide a selective receiver billing service system and method in a wireless communication network that can be burdened.

Another technical problem of the present invention is to enable the caller to confirm the fact that the caller pays by informing that the caller who is set as the selective recipient charge target attempts to call.

1 is an exemplary diagram of a communication network to which the selective recipient billing service system according to the present invention is applied;

2 is a detailed configuration diagram of the selective receiver billing service system shown in FIG.

3 is a flowchart illustrating a service registration method of a selective recipient billing service method according to the present invention;

4 is a flowchart illustrating a method for connecting a call in a selective receiver billing service method according to the present invention.

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

10: wireless terminal 20: wireless network operators

30: selective recipient billing service system 40: the Internet

50: personal computer 60: public telephone switching network

70: wired terminal 300: user management means

302: means for providing announcements 304: means for generating caller information

306: charging means 308: call history confirmation means

310: Database 312: User Database

314: announcement database 316: billing information database

318 call history database

The present invention for achieving the above technical problem is connected to a wireless terminal, a personal computer and a wired terminal through a wireless communication network, the Internet and a wired communication network, the incoming call selected by the user of the wireless terminal of the call signal to the wireless terminal An optional receiver billing service system in a wireless communication network for charging a call fee for an attempt to the wireless terminal user, wherein the information on the wireless terminal user who wants to use the selective receiver billing service is stored and managed in a database. A user management means for receiving caller information to be designated as a call charge payment sender from a wireless terminal user who wants to use a service, and storing and managing the information in a database. Is a call attempt from the caller daenap be charged to the wireless device user after the formation of a call is released, and utilizing the call charges with the call charges daenap sender the receiver selectively charging service.

In addition, the present invention is connected to a wireless terminal, a personal computer and a wired terminal through a wireless communication network, the Internet and a wired communication network, and the call charge for the incoming call attempt selected by the user of the wireless terminal among the call signals received by the wireless terminal. A selective receiver billing service method in a selective receiver billing service system in a wireless communication network for billing a user of the wireless terminal, wherein the user who wants to use the selective receiver billing service connects to the selective receiver billing service system as a user; Inputting information of the caller who will pay the fee; Confirming that the caller information is correct, and if the caller information is correct, transmitting the caller information to the wireless network operator to store the call charge payer; Extracting the caller information when there is a call attempt to the wireless network operator to confirm whether the caller is a call charge payer and transmitting the call attempt of the caller to the receiver when the call charge payer is a caller; And charging the call charge to the receiver after a call path is established and released between the sender and the receiver.

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

1 is an exemplary diagram of a communication network to which the selective recipient billing service system according to the present invention is applied.

The optional recipient billing service system 30 is connected to the wireless terminal 10 through the wireless network operator 20, is connected to the personal computer 50 through the Internet 40, and connects to the public switched telephone network (PSTN) 60. It is connected to the wired terminal 70 through. Here, the wireless terminal 10 refers to all portable communication equipment such as PCS, cellular phones, PDAs, etc. The personal computer 50 is connected to the Internet 40 by a cable and a web browser is installed to provide a web page on the Internet. Means a device capable of browsing or Internet phone connection service, wired terminal 70 refers to a typical home wired telephone.

The selective receiver billing service system 30 receives the caller information that the user of the wireless terminal 10 wants to pay for the call charge and transmits the stored information to the wireless network operator 20 and stores the received announcement from the receiver. . Subsequently, when the caller who pays the call charge receives the call request fact of the caller who pays the call charge from the wireless network operator 20, the caller pays the caller as the announcement and the recipient is designated as the caller. Inform the caller that the call was requested. In addition, after the call is terminated between the receiver and the caller stores the call history, such as the talk time, the number of calls.

Here, the receiver is a caller information and guidance to pay the call charges using a wireless Internet service using the wireless terminal 10, a wired Internet service using a personal computer 50 and an automatic answering service using the wired terminal 70. You can register a comment. In addition, the caller may attempt a call using any one of the wireless terminal 10, the personal computer 50, and the wired terminal 70.

FIG. 2 is a detailed configuration diagram of the selective receiver billing service system shown in FIG. 1.

As shown, the optional recipient billing service system 30 includes a user management means 300, a guidement providing means 302, caller information generating means 304, a charging means 306, call history confirmation means 308 And a database 310. Here, the database 310 includes a user DB 312, the announcement DB 314, the billing information DB 316 and the call history DB 318, each of which consists of one table or separate Can be configured as a table.

The user managing means 300 stores and manages the wireless terminal number, the personal information, and the like of the user of the wireless terminal 10 who wants to use the selective recipient billing service, in the user DB 312. In addition, the user of the wireless terminal 10 who wants to use the selective recipient billing service receives the caller's information (caller's phone number, name, place of work, the number of payment charges, important notes for the caller, etc.) Transmission to the wireless network provider 20.

The announcement message providing means 302 allows the caller to record the announcement directly to the user to notify the caller that the call charge is to be paid after the user registers the user to pay the call charge, and the announcement result DB 314. Store in In addition, when the caller who pays the call charge attempts to make a call, the caller sends the caller's call payment fact to the caller as a guidement with reference to the announcement DB 314. The announcement may be a preset announcement or may be a announcement recorded by the called party and recorded by the called party. By sending these announcements, the caller can know that the caller pays his call charge.

Caller information generating means 304 creates a caller information including any one or more of the caller's phone number, name, billing history, billing time, important notes with the caller when the caller paying caller attempts to call; The ring signal generation request signal is transmitted to the called party's wireless terminal 10 together with the ring signal generation request signal. Here, the fee payment history can be known with reference to the call history DB (318). After receiving the caller information along with the ring signal, the user can prepare the necessary documents for calling the caller in advance, answer the call attempt, and know how many times (or minutes) the caller is paid the caller. The call history confirmation means 308 is released after the call path payment caller and the receiver after the call is formed, and receives information such as the fact that the end of the call, the call time from the wireless network operator 20, call history DB Store at 318. That is, when the recipient has specified the number of payments or the payment time when the call fee payment caller information is registered, the call history checking means 308 receives the fact that the call is terminated from the wireless network operator 20 and reduces the number of calls or the available time. And store the result in the call history DB (318).

In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the optional recipient billing service system 30 may further comprise a charging means 306. The charging means 306 calculates the talk time, the call charge, etc. after the caller and the recipient designated as the call charge payer start the call, and stores the charge in the billing information DB 316, and periodically charges the wireless network operator 20. Send the details so that the called party can pay. The charging means 306 may share and use the charging server provided by the wireless network provider 20.

The selective receiver billing service system 30 may be operated by the wireless network operator 20 or may be operated by an operator independent of the wireless network operator 20.

3 is a flowchart illustrating a service registration method of the selective recipient billing service method according to the present invention.

A user who wants to use the selective recipient billing service accesses the selective recipient billing service system 30 using any one of the wireless terminal 10, the personal computer 50, or the wired terminal 70 (S101). Accordingly, the user management means 300 of the selective recipient billing service system 30 checks whether the user who wants to use the service is a legitimate user (S102), and if it is found to be a legitimate user, the caller who pays the call charge to the user. Information is input (S103). Here, the caller information may include any one or more of a caller's telephone number, name, office, number of payment charges, call payment time, important notes with the caller.

After the user enters the caller information (S104), if the user wants to add the caller to pay the call charges (S105), if you want to add the caller proceeds to step (S103) to enter the caller information, the caller If you do not want to enter any more to ensure that the caller information is correct (S106). Then, when the user confirms that the caller information to pay for the call charge is correct (S107), the selective recipient billing service system 30 transmits the caller information to the wireless network operator 20 (S108), the call charge payer When a call is attempted from a user registered as, the selective receiver billing service system 30 is notified of the call attempt.

In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, after storing the caller information, the guidance message providing means 302 of the selective recipient billing service system 30 may later notify the caller of the fact that the caller has paid the call when the caller attempted the call. The announcement is selected (S109). Accordingly, when the user selects the announcement (S110) and stores with the caller information (S111). The announcement may include information that the caller is designated as the caller's payer. The announcement may be generated by recording the user's voice directly or may be the announcement selected by the user among previously stored announcements.

By this process, the receiver registers the caller who will pay the call charge.

4 is a flowchart illustrating a method for connecting a call in a selective receiver billing service method according to the present invention. In order to connect to a call, a process of registering at least one sender who pays a call charge must be preceded by the called party. The caller registration process has been described above with reference to FIG. 3.

When the caller attempts to make a call using any one of the wireless terminal 10, the Internet phone connected to the personal computer 50, and the wired terminal 70 (S201), the caller side exchange extracts the receiver's telephone number from the call attempt request. Then, it is requested to confirm the position of the receiver by the receiver side exchange (S202). Accordingly, the receiver side exchange requests the receiver's location information to the home location register of the wireless network operator 20 to receive the location information of the recipient from the home location register, and allocates a Temporary Local Directory Number (TLDN) to the sender side exchange. (S203). Accordingly, a call connection is made between the calling party exchange and the called party exchange, and caller information is transmitted from the calling party exchange to the recipient side exchange (S204). Here, the caller information includes the caller's name, phone number, the number of payment charges, important notes with the caller, and the like.

Thereafter, the receiver side exchange checks whether the caller is registered as the call charge payer (S205), and if it is not the target of paying the call charge, transmits the call request fact to the receiver's wireless terminal (S206). On the other hand, if the caller is subject to call charges, the receiver side exchange transmits the caller information to the selective receiver billing service system 30 (S207).

The sender information generating means 304 of the selective receiver billing service system 30 generates a caller information message using the caller information received from the caller receiver side exchange (S208), and the announcement provision means 302 sends the caller terminal to the caller terminal. The call charge payment fact is transmitted as a guidement (S209), and the caller information and the call request fact are transmitted to the receiver wireless terminal (S210). The caller checks the caller information received with the ring signal, and a call path is formed between the caller and the receiver in response to the call request (S210).

Although not shown, after the receiver establishes a call path between the caller and the receiver in response to the call request, the charging means 308 checks the talk time until the call is completed and then terminates to settle the call charges. Stored in the DB (318). The billing information stored in the billing information DB 318 is periodically transmitted to the wireless network operator 20 so that the receiver can pay the call charge to be paid.

In addition, when the receiver has specified the number of call charge payment when registering the call charge caller information, the call history confirmation means 308 of the selective receiver billing service system 30 after the call path is formed and terminated between the receiver and the caller is the receiver side. Receive information such as call termination fact, talk time, etc. from the exchange to reduce the number of calls, talk time, and store the result in the call history DB 318. In this way, when the call history is stored, the receiver side exchange checks whether the caller is registered as the call charge payer (S205), and before notifying the selective receiver billing service system 30 of the call request, the selective receiver billing. The service system 30 may further perform a step of checking whether the caller is in a call-allowable state.

As such, those skilled in the art will appreciate that the present invention can be implemented in other specific forms without changing the technical spirit or essential features thereof. Therefore, the above-described embodiments are to be understood as illustrative in all respects and not as restrictive. The scope of the present invention is shown by the following claims rather than the detailed description, and all changes or modifications derived from the meaning and scope of the claims and their equivalents should be construed as being included in the scope of the present invention. do.

According to the present invention described above, the user of the wireless terminal registers at least one or more outgoing telephone numbers after the outgoing call attempted by the user, and pays the call charges for the registered calls without paying the call charges for all call attempts. You will be able to pay only the call charges you want. In addition, by informing the caller that the call charge is paid by the receiver, the caller can recognize that the call charge is paid by the receiver.

Claims (14)

Connected to a wireless terminal, a personal computer, and a wired terminal through a wireless communication network, the Internet, and a wired communication network, a call fee for an incoming call attempt selected by the wireless terminal user among call signals received by the wireless terminal is transmitted to the wireless terminal user. An optional receiver billing service system in a wireless communication network for billing, Store and manage information of a wireless terminal user who wants to use the selective recipient billing service in a database, and receive caller information that is intended to be designated as a call charge payer from a wireless terminal user who wants to use the selective recipient billing service. With user management means for storing and managing, In a wireless communication network that charges a call charge with the call charge payer to the wireless terminal user using the selective receiver billing service after a call is made from the call payer caller through the wireless network operator and a call path is formed and released. Optional Toll Billing Service System. According to claim 1, The selective receiver billing service system further comprises a wireless communication network that provides a guidement providing means for transmitting, as an announcement, that the caller has been designated as a calling charge payer by the receiver using the wireless terminal when the call charge payer attempts to make a call. Optional Toll Billing Service System. The method of claim 2, And the announcement is an announcement previously stored in the selective recipient billing service system or a announcement recorded by the receiver. According to claim 1, The call charge payment caller information is a selective receiver billing service system in a wireless communication network including a caller's telephone number, name, the number of call charge payment time, call charge payment time, important notes with the caller. According to claim 1, The selective recipient billing service system, when the caller is identified as a call charge payer in the caller verification means, creates caller information including the caller's telephone number, name, the number and time of paying bills, and important memo notes with the caller. And sender information generating means for transmitting to a receiver using the wireless terminal with a ring signal. According to claim 1, The selective recipient billing service system After the caller and the recipient designated as the call charge payer initiates a call, the call charge is settled according to the talk time and stored in the database, and the billing is periodically transmitted to the wireless network operator. Optional toll billing service system in a wireless communication network further comprising means. Connected to a wireless terminal, a personal computer, and a wired terminal through a wireless communication network, the Internet, and a wired communication network, a call fee for an incoming call attempt selected by the wireless terminal user among call signals received by the wireless terminal is transmitted to the wireless terminal user. A selective receiver billing service method in a selective receiver billing service system in a wireless communication network for billing, Allowing a user who wants to use the selective receiver billing service to input information of a caller who will pay a call charge to the user as the user accesses the selective receiver billing service system; Confirming that the caller information is correct, and if the caller information is correct, transmitting the caller information to the wireless network operator to store the call charge payer; Extracting the caller information when there is a call attempt to the wireless network operator to confirm whether the caller is a call charge payer and transmitting the call attempt of the caller to the receiver when the call charge payer is a caller; And Charging the call charge to the receiver after a call path is established and released between the sender and the receiver; Optional receiver billing service method in a wireless communication network comprising a. The method of claim 7, wherein And after registering the caller information as a call charge payer, allowing the user to select a announcement and storing the selected announcement before a call attempt is made from the caller. Recipient Billing Service Method. The method of claim 8, And the announcement is selected by one of pre-stored announcements in the selective recipient billing service system or recorded by the receiver. The method of claim 7, wherein And the caller information includes at least one of a caller's telephone number, a name, a call charge number and payment time, and an important memo with the caller. The method of claim 7, wherein The caller is a selective receiver billing service method in a wireless communication network using any one of a wireless terminal, an Internet phone connected to a personal computer, a wired terminal. The method of claim 7, wherein The step of transmitting the attempted call from the caller to the receiver is performed by the caller using any one of a wireless terminal, an Internet phone connected to a personal computer, and a wired terminal, so that the caller pays the call charge. Checking whether it is registered as a caller; If the caller is not registered as a call charge payer, the call attempt is transmitted to the receiver's wireless terminal. If the caller is registered as a call charge payer, the caller information is received from the wireless network operator. Generating a message; And Transmitting a call rate payment fact to the caller as a guidement, and transmitting a caller information message and a call request fact to the receiver wireless terminal; Optional receiver billing service method in a wireless communication network comprising a. The method of claim 12, And informing the caller of the fact that the call charge is paid by the announcement pre-stored in the selective billing service system or the announcement recorded by the receiver. The method of claim 7, wherein The caller information includes a call charge payment number, and after the call path is connected and released between the receiver and the caller, receiving the fact that the call is terminated by the wireless network operator and reducing the call charge payment count. Selective billing service method in wireless network.