KR20040028066A - Internet Networking Method for Reserving and Sending Massive Message - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A method is provided to achieve improved effectiveness of subscriber data management and improved quality of service. CONSTITUTION: A method comprises a first step(21,22) of permitting a message reserving and transmitting server to transmit/receive data to/from a content provider so as to reserve or cancel the message to be transmitted; a second step(23 to 26) of performing an error checking test on the data received in the first step; and a third step(27 to 29) of converting the message included in the data received in the first step into a voice message by using a text to speech(TTS) server, storing the converted message, storing the remaining data into a database, and transmitting a response message to a content provider.

Description

{Internet Networking Method for Reserving and Sending Massive Message}

The present invention relates to a message reservation and transmission method for mass message broadcast transmission and a computer readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program for realizing the method.

With the development of the Internet, more companies are providing various Internet contents, and subscribers are also increasing. In order to efficiently manage such subscribers, methods for providing information to subscribers through voice, fax, text message, etc. as well as existing e-mail messages have been sought. Currently, many companies provide a UMS (Unified Messaging System) type of service, and a lot of costs and investments are being made in subscriber management using the service.

In general, each Internet content provider can send e-mails to subscribers on its own server, but in order to provide text or voice messages, subscriber information must be entered or additional equipment must be built into the server that provides these services. . After the subscriber data is input to the server providing such a service, the changed data must be corrected each time in order to modify the subscriber data for the reason of new registration, change, or termination of the subscriber.

However, it takes a lot of time to repeatedly input data repeatedly whenever there is a change in subscribers of the Internet provider, and efficient subscriber management is necessary for reasons such as incorrect input.

On the other hand, when a large number of messages are transmitted, call congestion may occur due to the limited capacity of the exchange in each region. Therefore, when a large number of messages are reserved at the time of reservation, a reservation of a predetermined number or more is prohibited. Therefore, in order to transmit a large amount of messages, the message is induced to be divided into several times with sufficient time intervals. However, for reservation data, it may happen that the reservation is canceled before the transmission time in the future. If the limit is set for message reservation with a system-wide threshold, a lot of restrictions are placed on the message reservation and the message transfer server cannot be used efficiently. Problem occurs.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been proposed to solve the above problems, and the object of the present invention is to provide a method of reserving and transmitting a message for mass message broadcast, and a computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program for realizing the method. have.

In the present invention, in order to solve the above-mentioned problems, by interworking the server where the subscriber data of each content provider and the message transmission server over a dedicated line or the Internet, subscriber data is stored for reasons such as new registration, change, and termination of subscriber data. When registered or changed, not only the database of the content provider but also the database of the message transmission server are simultaneously changed in real time, so that there is no need to input each time the data is changed.

In addition, the server of each Internet content provider requests a request message from the server of each Internet content provider through an established network, receives a result, and transmits a message each time. There is no need to access.

In addition, since a large amount of messages may cause an overload in the destination exchange, a reservation message may cause a case where a predetermined number of messages cannot be transmitted. However, rather than limiting the number of messages sent by the message transmission server at the time of reservation, the message transmission server sets the limit value for each region / station number and transmits only the limit number at the time of transmission, and retries the rest after a certain time. Even if canceled before the point in time, the service is available, and if the number of messages is limited at the time of transmission, a larger amount of messages can be transmitted than the limit at the time of reservation.

1 is a configuration diagram of an embodiment of the Internet interworking system for mass message broadcast transmission to which the present invention is applied.

2 is a flowchart illustrating an exemplary operation of a message reservation method for mass message broadcast transmission according to the present invention.

3 is a flowchart illustrating an operation of a message transmission method for mass message broadcast transmission according to the present invention.

* Explanation of symbols on the main parts of the drawing

101: content provider (CP)

102: message transmission server 103: switch matching device

104: Short Message Service (SMS) server

105: TTS (Text To Speech) Server

106: billing server 107: Web server

108: public telephone network (PSTN) 109: mobile communication network (CDMA)

110: database

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a message reservation method for mass message broadcast transmission, comprising: a first step of transmitting / receiving data from a content provider to reserve or cancel a message for transmission by a message reservation and transmission server; ; A second step of performing an integrity check for confirming an error of data received in the first step; And converting the transmission message included in the data received in the first step into a voice message using a text to speech (TTS) server, storing the remaining data in a database, and transmitting a response message to a content provider. Includes three steps.

In addition, the present invention provides a message transmission method for mass message broadcast transmission, comprising: a first step of retrieving data for delivering a scheduled message due to a transmission time; A second step of retrieving the maximum number of messages for each region / station and transmitting only the number of messages which do not exceed the limit in order to prevent call congestion (overflow); A third step of performing retransmission after a predetermined time in case of call congestion (overflow) in the second step; And a fourth step of storing the transmission data of the second to third steps in a database and storing the operation data so that the result can be retrieved from a web server.

The present invention also provides a message reservation system having a processor, comprising: a first function of sending / receiving data from a content provider to reserve or cancel a message to be transmitted; A second function of performing an integrity check for confirming an error of data received in the first function; And converting the transmission message included in the data received in the first function into a voice message using a text to speech (TTS) server, storing the remaining data in a database, and transmitting a response message to a content provider. A computer readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program for realizing the function is provided.

The present invention also provides a message transmission system having a processor, comprising: a first function of retrieving data for delivering a scheduled message due to a transmission time; A second function of retrieving the maximum number of messages for each region / station and transmitting only the messages which do not exceed the limit in order to prevent call congestion (overflow); A third function of performing retransmission after a predetermined time in case of call congestion (overflow) in the second function; And a computer-readable recording medium storing a program for realizing a fourth function of storing the transmission results of the second to third functions in a database and storing the operation data so that the results can be retrieved from a web server. to provide.

The biggest problem when sending a large number of messages is when a call congestion occurs when the destination exchange lacks capacity. In order to prevent call congestion, most message transfer servers limit the number of reserved messages per subscriber or the total number of messages that can be reserved when a message is reserved. However, if a content provider reserves the same number of messages as the limit and the scheduled transmission time is one month later, the message transmission server cannot be used by another content provider for one month. However, if a scheduled message is canceled one day before the scheduled date, no one will use the message transmission server. In order to solve such a problem, the message restriction should be limited at the time of transmission, not at the time of reservation. Since the reservation message can be canceled at any time before the transmission time, the message transmission server can be efficiently used if the message is restricted at the transmission time.

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

1 is a block diagram of an embodiment of an Internet interworking system for mass message broadcast transmission to which the present invention is applied.

As shown in FIG. 1, the Internet interworking system for mass message broadcast transmission to which the present invention is applied includes a message transmission server 102 connected to each content provider 101 through a dedicated line or an internet network, and the message transmission. Short message service for transmitting a text message connected to the switch matching device 103 and a mobile communication network (CDMA) 109 connected to the server 102 to deliver a voice message to the public telephone network (PSTN) 108 ( SMS) 104, a billing server 106 for collecting billing data according to the transmission result, a web server 107 connected to the message transmission server 102 to search and view the reservation status, delivery results and various statistical data. And a database 110 that is connected to the message transfer server 102 and stores the reservation message.

2 and 3 are detailed flowcharts corresponding to the respective systems of FIG. 1 of the present invention.

2 is a flowchart illustrating an operation of a message reservation method for mass message broadcast transmission according to the present invention.

First, subscriber information is received from the content provider 101 and stored in the message transmission server 102. Whenever a change occurs due to new registration, change, or cancellation of a subscriber, subscriber data is received online and reflected in the message transmission server. When the message is reserved, the content provider 101 server transmits a transmission time, a delivery message, and the like to the message transmission server 102 (21 and 22).

Then, the message transmission server 102 checks the IP (Internet Protocol) address and ID / password to check whether the received message is a registered content provider 101 (23, 25), and the contents of the transmitted message are spam. (SPAM) test for sexuality (24). In addition, after performing the context error check (26) of the transmitted data, the result is transmitted to the content provider 101 server.

That is, if it is not a valid ID (23), is spam (24), is not a valid subscriber (ID / password) (25), or is not a valid sentence (26), the message reservation reject message is sent to the content provider ( 101) (27).

Also, if it is a valid ID (23), not a spam mail (24), a valid subscriber (ID / password) (25), and a valid sentence (26), the message reservation approval message is sent to the content provider 101. (28). The TTS server 105 converts and stores the transmitted message into a voice message and stores the reserved message data (including a list of called numbers, called numbers, transmission periods, and the like) in the database 11. (29).

3 is a flowchart illustrating an operation of a message transmission method for mass message broadcast transmission according to the present invention.

First, in order to transmit the stored message at the scheduled time, the message transmission server 102 analyzes the message retrieved from the database (31) and checks whether the reserved number is the rejection number (32).

If it is a rejection number (32), the transmission is canceled (37) and the transmission result is recorded (38).

If it is not a rejection number (32), it is checked whether the message to be transmitted is overflowed by comparing the maximum number of messages per region / station number of each message and the number of transmission messages (33). If the message to be transmitted is overflowed, reprocessing is performed after a predetermined time (for example, 10 minutes) (34). At this time, if it overflows again (35), the transmission is canceled (37) and the transmission result is recorded (38).

In addition, even when the message to be transmitted exceeds the maximum number of messages (33), only the maximum value is transmitted and the remaining messages can be retransmitted after a predetermined time (34).

If the message to be transmitted is not overflow (33, 35), the message is transmitted (36) and the transmission result is recorded (38).

At the time of message transmission, in the case of a short message (SMS), the message is delivered to the short message service (SMS) server 104 and transmitted to the mobile communication network 109, and in the case of a voice message, through the switch matching device 103. Forward to public telephone network 108.

The message transmission result can be searched and viewed through the web server 107, and can search and output various statistics.

As described above, the method of the present invention may be implemented as a program and stored in a recording medium (CD-ROM, RAM, floppy disk, hard disk, magneto-optical disk, etc.) in a computer-readable form.

The present invention described above is capable of various substitutions, modifications, and changes without departing from the spirit of the present invention for those skilled in the art to which the present invention pertains. It is not limited by the drawings.

As described above, the present invention can effectively manage subscriber data when a large amount of messages are transmitted to subscribers of a content provider. In other words, when new registration, change, or cancellation of a large amount of subscriber data occurs, it is transmitted to a message transmission server online, thereby eliminating additional repetitive input work. As a result, effective subscriber data management is possible.

In addition, in order to prevent call congestion, the regional maximum value is applied at the time of transmission to maximize the use of system resources. As a result, by providing high quality service, it is possible to realize customer satisfaction and improve service image.

Claims (8)

In the message scheduling method for mass message broadcasting, A first step of sending / receiving data from a content provider to reserve or cancel a message for transmission by a message reservation and transmission server; A second step of performing an integrity check for confirming an error of data received in the first step; And A third message for converting and storing the transmission message included in the data received in the first step into a voice message using a text to speech (TTS) server, storing the remaining data in a database, and transmitting a response message to a content provider; step Message reservation method for mass message broadcast transmission comprising a. The method of claim 1, The second step, In order to confirm the error of the data received in the first step, A fourth step of confirming whether it is a valid IP; A fifth step of confirming whether the subscriber is a valid subscriber; A sixth step of checking whether the mail is spam; And Step 7 of checking whether the message to be transmitted consists of valid sentences Message reservation method for mass message broadcast transmission comprising a. The method according to claim 1 or 2, The remaining data stored in the database in the third step, A message reservation method for mass message broadcast transmission, comprising: a calling number list, a called number list, and a transmission period. The method of claim 3, wherein And the content provider and the message reservation and delivery server share mutual subscriber information. In the message transmission method for mass message broadcast transmission, A first step of retrieving data for delivery of a scheduled message at a time of transmission; A second step of retrieving the maximum number of messages for each region / country and transmitting only the messages which do not exceed the limit in order to prevent call congestion (overflow); A third step of performing retransmission after a predetermined time in case of call congestion (overflow) in the second step; And A fourth step of storing the transmission results of the second to third steps in a database and storing the operation data so that the results can be retrieved from a web server Message transmission method for mass message broadcast transmission comprising a. The method of claim 5, wherein A fifth step of checking whether the forwarding number to be forwarded is a rejection number after performing the first step; Message transmission method for mass message broadcast transmission further comprising. In a message reservation system having a processor, A first function of sending / receiving data from a content provider to reserve or cancel a message to send; A second function of performing an integrity check for confirming an error of data received in the first function; And A third function of converting and storing a transmission message included in the data received by the first function into a voice message using a text tospeech server, storing the remaining data in a database, and transmitting a response message to a content provider; A computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program for realizing this. In a message transmission system having a processor, A first function of retrieving data to deliver a scheduled message at a time of transmission; A second function of retrieving the maximum number of messages for each region / station and transmitting only the messages which do not exceed the limit in order to prevent call congestion (overflow); A third function of performing retransmission after a predetermined time in case of call congestion (overflow) in the second function; And A fourth function of storing operation data for storing the transmission results of the second to third functions in a database and retrieving the results from a web server; A computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program for realizing this.