KR20040067317A - System and Method for Providing History of Short Message - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A system and method for providing a short message history are provided to receive and store a short message that is or is not transferred to a mobile terminal and provide it to a subscriber upon request. CONSTITUTION: When an originator terminal creates and sends a short message(S101), an origination MSC(Mobile Switching Center) transmits it to an SMSC(Short Message Service Center)(S102). The SMSC extracts receiver information and requests an HLR(Home Location Register) to transmit a position of a corresponding receiver(S103). The HLR transmits receiver location information to the SMSC(S104). The SMSC receives the position information, confirms that the receiver is a short message history service subscriber, and transmits a short message to a destination MSC(S105). The destination MSC transmits the short message to the receiver and a corresponding response signal to the SMSC(S106). The SMSC transmits the transmission-completed short message to a short message history providing system(S107). The short message history providing system transmits a response signal to the SMSC in response to receipt of the short message(S108).

Description

System and Method for Providing History of Short Message

The present invention relates to a short message service, and more particularly, a short history history providing system for storing a short message that is not transmitted for more than a specified time in a mobile communication system and providing a stored short message at the request of a user of the mobile communication terminal. And to a method.

A message service using a mobile communication terminal in a mobile communication network is generally referred to as a short message service (SMS). SMS is a service for transmitting data of relatively short length in a mobile communication network. A message created and transmitted by a sender's mobile terminal is sent through a base station to a caller's side exchange through a base station controller. It checks the message received by the exchange and determines that it is a short message and transmits it to the short service center. The short service center refers to the called party's telephone number included in the message, queries the home location register (HLR) to determine where the message should be delivered, obtains routing information, and delivers the message. The message is sent to the called party's terminal.

The short message delivered in this way is the time designated by the short message service center when the short message cannot be transmitted to the terminal due to the long-term business trip of the subscriber or the loss of the mobile terminal. If the mobile terminal is turned on within a specified time, the received short message is transmitted to the mobile terminal. However, if the mobile communication terminal is not turned on until the designated time for storing the short message is exceeded, the short message service center deletes the short message that has been stored, and thus there is a problem in that the short message cannot be transmitted to the called party. .

In addition, if the user deletes the short message received by the user terminal after successfully transmitting the short message to the mobile terminal, the short message is permanently deleted, and thus cannot be reconfirmed later. There is a problem that can not be recovered.

The present invention has been made in order to solve the above-described problems, it is possible to provide a short message that is stored at the request of the subscriber to store and store the short message that has not been transmitted to the mobile communication terminal and the completed short message received from the short message service center. There is a technical problem in providing a short history providing system and method.

In addition, the present invention converts the short message into any one of an email format and an auto-reply message format when the subscriber requests to receive the stored short message so that the subscriber can easily check the short text even when the subscriber does not carry the mobile communication terminal. There are other technical challenges.

1 is a schematic configuration diagram of a mobile communication system to which the present invention is applied;

FIG. 2 is a detailed configuration diagram of the short story history providing system shown in FIG. 1;

3 is a flowchart illustrating a short history providing method according to an embodiment of the present invention;

4 is a flowchart for explaining a short history providing method according to another embodiment of the present invention;

5 is a flowchart for explaining a short history providing method according to another embodiment of the present invention;

6 is a flowchart illustrating a short message checking method in a short text history providing system according to the present invention.

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

10: mobile communication terminal 20: mobile communication system

30: Internet 40: Personal Computer

50: public switched telephone network (PSTN) 60: landline telephone

202: base station 204: base station controller (BSC)

206: switchboard (MSC) 208: short message service center (SMC)

210: home location register (HLR) 212: billing center

214: Gateway 300: Short history providing system

302: subscriber management means 304: short message management means

306: email generating means 308: automatic response message generating means

310: subscriber authentication means 312: billing information generation means

320: database 322: subscriber database

324: Short database 326: Billing information database

The present invention for achieving the above-described technical problem is a short history service providing system for storing and providing a short message received by the mobile communication terminal user, the mobile communication terminal user requesting to use the short history service Subscriber management means for storing and managing information in a database; Short message management means for classifying the short message received from the short message service center of the mobile communication system by subscriber and storing the short message in a database and providing the short message received to the subscriber in a short form when requested by the subscriber.

In addition, the present invention is a method for providing a short message that is received by the mobile communication terminal user in a short history providing system connected to the mobile communication system, the user is connected to the short history history providing system as a user to check the short, Confirming whether the user is a legitimate user by inputting an ID and a password to the user; If the user is a legitimate user, transmitting a short message to the user; Selecting a short confirmation method when the user wants to confirm the received short message; And if the user wants to confirm the short text form, transmitting the short text to the mobile communication terminal of the user through a mobile communication system.

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

1 is a schematic configuration diagram of a mobile communication system to which the present invention is applied.

The mobile communication terminal 10 may be connected to the mobile communication system 20 to transmit and receive a short message. The mobile communication system 20 includes a base station 202, a base station controller (BSC, 204), an exchange (MSC, 206), a short message service center (SMC, 208), a home location register (HLR, 210), and a charging center 212. And a gateway 214. Among the short messages transmitted from the mobile communication terminal 10, the short messages are stored in the short service center 208, which is not transmitted to the incoming mobile communication terminal, and are transmitted to the short history providing system 300 when the specified time is exceeded.

The short history providing system 300 stores the short text and transmits the short text in any one of a short text format, an e-mail format, and an auto-reply message format according to the short text confirmation request of the called mobile communication terminal user.

The base station controller 204 of the mobile communication system 20 allows the mobile communication terminal 10 to access the mobile communication system 20 through the base station 202 and manages the base station 202. In addition, the exchange 206 is connected to the base station controller 204 to perform call setup and release functions of the mobile communication terminal 10, perform various functions related to call processing and additional services, and interwork with other networks. Make it possible.

The short message service center 208 refers to the called party's telephone number included in the message received from the mobile communication terminal 10 through the exchange 206 and inquires to the HLR 210 where the message should be delivered. Acquires the location information of the subscriber and transmits the corresponding message.

In addition, the short message service center 208 transmits the short message that has been transmitted to the called party's mobile communication terminal and the short message that has not been completed to the short history service providing system 300 after a designated time.

The home location register 210 is a database that stores information, location information, additional service information, etc. of subscribers of the mobile communication terminal 10, and interacts with the exchange 206 and the visitor location register (not shown) to process a call. And perform functions related to additional services and control services. In addition, the home location register 210 receives information indicating that the user using the short history service from the Customer Oriented Information System (COIS) to support the short history service of the present invention to the subscriber in the home location register 210 Changes the fields related to the short history service managed internally. When receiving the called party information request from the short message service center 208, the short history service related field is queried and a response signal is transmitted, including a parameter indicating whether to use the short history.

The billing center 212 receives billing information according to the service usage history of the subscriber from the short history providing system 300 so that the short history service usage fee may be charged together with the usage history of the mobile communication terminal.

The gateway 214 performs network interworking and call exchange with a public wired network such as the Internet 30 and a public switched telephone network 50. In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the sender is connected to the short history providing system 30 using the personal computer 40 to receive the short message received by the user in a short form or an e-mail form, or check the mobile communication terminal 10 Alternatively, the user can check the short message received by the user through the wired telephone 60 in the form of an auto-reply message.

FIG. 2 is a detailed configuration diagram of the short history providing system shown in FIG. 1.

As shown, the short history providing system 300 according to the present invention is a subscriber management means 302, a short message management means 304, an email generating means 306, an auto-reply message generating means 308, subscriber authentication means 310, the charging information generating means 312 and the database 320. Here, the database 320 includes a subscriber DB 322, a short DB 324 and the billing information DB 326, these databases may be composed of one table or each of the separate tables. .

The subscriber management means 302 stores and manages mobile terminal user information (ID, password, e-mail address, etc.) requested to use the short history service through COIS in the subscriber DB 322, and manages the short message management means 304 The short message received from the short message service center 208 is classified into subscribers and stored in the short message DB 324, and the short message is transmitted to the subscriber's mobile terminal when the subscriber requests. The short message transmitted from the short service center 208 to the short history providing system 300 is not transmitted to the mobile communication terminal due to the short transmission of the short message and the mobile communication terminal which are normally transmitted to the mobile communication terminal user using the short history service. Among short sentences, short sentences that exceed the specified time are included.

The email generating means 306 converts the received short message into an e-mail format when the short history service user requests to convert the short message received by the user at the time of registering or after registering the service into an e-mail. . On the other hand, the auto-reply message generating means 306 is a subscriber who is connected to the short history providing system 300 by using the mobile communication terminal 10 or the wired telephone 60 through the mobile communication network or public switched telephone network (50) If you want to listen to the short message received in the form of an auto-reply message, the short message received by the subscriber is converted into an auto-reply message and sent out as a voice. Although not shown, the short history providing system 300 of the present invention further includes a web document generating means, so that a service user can access a short history providing system 300 via a personal computer 40 in a web document format. It is also possible to provide.

Subscriber authentication means 310 is a legitimate user who wants to use the service by connecting to the short history providing system 300 by using any one of the mobile communication terminal 10, personal computer 40 and landline telephone 60 Validate cognitive validity. In addition, the billing information generating unit 312 generates billing information according to the service usage history of the short history service subscriber, and stores the billing information in the billing information DB 326 and billing information whenever there is a request from the billing center 212 or at regular intervals. Is transmitted to the charging center 212.

3 is a flowchart illustrating a method of providing a short message history according to an embodiment of the present invention. After the short message is normally transmitted from the short message service center 208 to the called party's mobile terminal, the short message history is provided. Shows the process of transferring to the system. Here, it is assumed that the called subscriber using the mobile communication terminal is a short history service subscriber.

When the caller creates a short message and transmits it (S101), the exchange 206 transmits this message to the short message service center 208 (S102). The short message service center 208 extracts the called party information from the received message and requests to transmit the called party's location to the home location register 210 including the called party (S103).

The home location register 210 transmits the called party location information including the short history service usage parameter of the called party terminal to the short message service center 208 according to the called party location transmission request of the short message service center 208 (S104). The short message service center 208 confirms that the called party is the subscriber of the location information and the short history service, and transmits the short message to the called party's exchange (S105). Thereafter, the called party exchange transmits the short message to the terminal of the called party and transmits an alternative response signal thereto to the short message service center (S106), and the short message service center 208 receiving the short message is provided to the short history history system 300 (S107), the short history providing system 300 transmits a response signal for receiving the short message to the short message service center 208 (S108).

4 is a flowchart illustrating a method of providing a short history according to another embodiment of the present invention, and the short message which is not normally transmitted due to the power off of the called party's mobile communication terminal is normal as the receiver mobile communication terminal is turned on. It shows the case of transmitting to the short history providing system after transmitting.

When the caller creates a short message and transmits it (S201), the exchange 206 transmits this message to the short message service center 208 (S202). The short message service center 208 extracts the called party information from the received message and requests that the called party information is transmitted to the home location register 210 including the called party (S203). Accordingly, when the receiver information is confirmed by the home location register 210, when the receiver mobile communication terminal is turned off, the receiver location information including the status of the terminal and a parameter related to the use of the short history service of the terminal is obtained. And transmits to step 208 (S204).

Subsequently, when the called party's mobile terminal is turned on (S205), the home location register 210 notifies the short message service center 208 that the called party information and the terminal have been turned on (S206), and the short message service center ( In step 208, the response is transmitted (S207), and the sender information, the called party information, and the message to be received are transmitted to the exchange of the illuminator (S208).

Accordingly, when a response signal for receiving a message is transmitted from the called party exchange (S209), the short message service center 208 transmits the short message and the called party information to the short history providing system 300 (S210), and the short history providing system ( 300 transmits a response signal for receiving the short message to the short service center 208 (S211).

FIG. 5 is a flowchart illustrating a method of providing a short history according to another embodiment of the present invention. When a short message cannot be transmitted to a called party's mobile communication terminal, the short message service center stores the short text for a specified time. Indicates that the short message is sent to the short history history system after a specified time elapses.

When the caller creates a short message and transmits it (S301), the exchange 206 transmits this message to the short message service center 208 (S302). The short message service center 208 extracts the called party information from the received message and requests that the called party be transmitted to the home location register 210 including the called party (S303).

The home location register 210 transmits the called party location information including the short history service usage parameter of the called party terminal to the short message service center 208 according to the called party location transmission request of the short message service center 208 (S304). The short message service center 208 confirms that the called party is the subscriber of the location information and the short history service, and transmits the short message to the called party's exchange (S305). Subsequently, if the message exchange fails while the called party exchange attempts to transmit the short message to the called party's terminal, the called party exchange transmits a response signal including the reason for the message transmission failure to the short service center (S306).

When receiving the response signal, the short message service center 208 fails to transmit the short message for a specified time (for example, 24 hours) (S307), without deleting the short message, together with the called party information, the short history providing system ( 300 to be transmitted so that the short message can be stored (S308). The short history providing system 300 receiving the short message from the short service center 208 transmits a response signal for receiving the message to the short service center 208 (S309).

FIG. 6 is a flowchart illustrating a method for confirming a short message in a short history providing system according to the present invention, wherein a short history service user accesses a short history providing system using any one of a mobile communication terminal, a personal computer, and a landline telephone. According to the present invention, a method of providing a short message received to the corresponding subscriber.

If the user wants to check the short message by accessing the short history providing system 300 through any one of the wireless Internet, the wired Internet, and the public telephone switching network (S401), the subscriber management means (S304) of the short history providing system 300 is The user is requested to input user identification information such as an ID and a password (S402) to confirm whether the user is a legitimate user (S403).

If the user information check result is not a legitimate user, the user is requested to reconnect after checking the personal information (S404), and if the legitimate user, the short text management means 304 briefly provides the received short list to the user (S405). ). For example, to provide a message (text, voice, etc.) that X short messages have been received. After that, if the user wants to check the received short text, the user may select a short text checking method (S407), and if the user wants to receive the short text as it is, the short text is transmitted to the short text service center 208 to the user's terminal. To be received.

On the other hand, if the user is set to receive a short message in the email format (or requested in the short confirmation process), the short message received by the email generating means 306 is converted into an email (S409), and the subscriber DB ( 322) the email address (or the email address directly received from the user) previously stored in the transmission is transmitted to the corresponding address (S410). In addition, when the user wants to check the short message in the auto-reply message format, the auto-reply message generating means 308 converts the received short message into the auto-reply message (S411) and transmits the converted message (S412). The auto-reply message can be sent immediately after conversion, but can be stored in a database and sent when the user wants to listen.

After providing the short message stored in any one of the short text, the e-mail and the auto-reply message format, the billing information generating means 312 generates the billing information for the short history service and stores it in the billing information DB 326. (S413). The billing information is transmitted periodically or when requested by the mobile communication system 20 so that the billing information can be billed together with the user's mobile terminal usage fee.

The short history providing system 300 described in the present invention may be operated by a mobile communication network operator or by an operator independent of the mobile communication network operator.

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.

As described above, according to the present invention, when the mobile communication terminal user cannot receive the short message, the short message received by the called party can be stored and provided to the called party to receive the short message received by the user. . In addition, the user can double-check the short message by storing the short message normally transmitted to the called party's mobile terminal. In addition, since the stored short text can be confirmed not only in the short text format but also in the e-mail format, an automatic response message format, and the like, the short text received by the user can be easily checked even when the mobile communication terminal is lost.

Claims (19)

A short history service providing system connected to a mobile communication system for storing and providing a short message received by a mobile communication terminal user. Subscriber management means for storing and managing mobile communication terminal user information requesting to use the short history service in a database; And Short management means for classifying the short messages received from the short message service center of the mobile communication system by subscribers and storing them in a database and providing the short texts received to the subscribers in short form when requested by the subscribers; Short history providing system having a. According to claim 1, The short history providing system further comprises an email generating means for converting the short text stored in the database into an email format according to a subscriber's request. According to claim 1, The short history providing system further comprises an auto-reply message generating means for converting the short message stored in the database into an auto-response message according to a subscriber's request. According to claim 1, The short history providing system further comprises a web document generating means for converting the short text stored in the database into a web document according to a subscriber's request. According to claim 1, The short message transmitted to the short history providing system includes a short message normally transmitted to a mobile communication terminal user using a short history service, and a short message exceeding a storage time of the mobile communication system after a transmission failure. According to claim 1, The short history providing system further comprises a subscriber authentication means for verifying whether a subscriber who wants to use the short history service is a legitimate user. According to claim 1, The short history providing system generates billing information according to the service usage history of the short history service subscriber, stores the billing information in the database, and charges information generating means for transmitting the billing information whenever a request of the mobile communication system is made or at regular intervals. Short history providing system further comprising. In a short history providing system connected to a mobile communication system, a method for storing short messages received by a mobile terminal user, Extracting the called party information from the short message service center receiving the short message transmitted by the caller and requesting the called party to transmit the location of the called party to the home location register including the called party; Transmitting, by the home location register, called party location information including a short history service usage parameter of the called party terminal to a short message service center; The short service center confirming that the called party is location subscriber and the short history service subscriber, and transmitting the short message to the called party's exchange; And Transmitting the short message to the short history providing system as the called party exchange transmits the short message to the called party's terminal and transmits an alternative response signal to the short service center; Short history providing method comprising a. The method of claim 8, In the step of transmitting the called party location information including the short history service usage parameter of the called party terminal to the short message service center, when the called party's mobile communication terminal is powered off, Storing the short message for a designated time at the short service center; Upon receiving the fact that the receiver mobile communication terminal has been switched on by the home location register before the specified time is exceeded, confirming that the called party is the subscriber of the location information and the short history service, and receiving a short message to the called party's exchange. Transmitting; And Transmitting the short message to the short history providing system as the called party exchange transmits the short message to the called party's terminal and transmits an alternative response signal to the short service center; How to provide short history to do more. The method of claim 8, After confirming that the called party is the subscriber of the location information and the short history service, and transmitting the short message to the exchange of the called party, if the short message is not transmitted within a specified time after receiving the fact that the short message is received from the called party exchange, And transmitting the short text to the short history providing system. In a short history providing system connected to a mobile communication system, a method for providing a short message received by a mobile terminal user, Confirming whether the user is a legitimate user by allowing the user to input an ID and a password as the user attempts to access the short history providing system; Transmitting a short message to the user when the user is a legitimate user; selecting a short confirmation method when the user wants to confirm the received short message; And If the user wants to check the short form as it is, transmitting the short text to the user's mobile communication terminal through a mobile communication system; Short history providing method comprising a. The method of claim 11, wherein When the user wants to confirm the received short message, selecting the short verification method may include converting the received short message into an e-mail and transmitting the e-mail address to the e-mail address specified by the user when the user wants to confirm the e-mail format. Short history providing method comprising more. The method of claim 11, wherein If the user wants to check the received short message, the step of selecting a short confirmation method may include converting the received short message into an auto-response message and sending the converted message when the user wants to confirm the short text in an automatic response message format. The method of providing a short history further comprising the step of doing. The method of claim 13, And converting the short message into an auto-reply message format and transmitting the short text into an auto-response message and immediately transmitting the short text or transmitting the short text when a user's listening request is input. The method of claim 11, wherein If the user wants to confirm the received short text, selecting the short text checking method may include converting the received short text into a web document and displaying the converted message when the user wants to confirm the short text in a web document format. Short history providing method comprising more. The method of claim 11, wherein The user is a short history providing method for accessing via any one of the wireless Internet, wired Internet and public switched telephone network. The method of claim 11, wherein In the step of confirming that the user is a legitimate user, if the user is not a legitimate user further comprising the step of requesting the user to reconnect after checking the personal information. The method of claim 11, wherein And after the transmitting of the short text in a format desired by the user, generating charging information according to a short history service usage history. The method of claim 11, wherein The short message transmitted from the mobile communication system to the short history providing system includes a short message normally transmitted to a mobile communication terminal user using a short history service and a short message exceeding a storage time of the mobile communication system after a transmission failure. How to Provide.