KR20040079698A - Method for adding the image to short message of mobile phone - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A method for inserting a short message into an image of a mobile communication terminal is provided to enable an MMSC(Multimedia Message Service Center) to receive a short message from a transmitter to convert the message, and to transmit the converted message to a receiver, so that a user can insert a desired short message into a high-capacity image of the MMSC. CONSTITUTION: When a transmitter terminal is connected to an MMSC(301), the transmitter terminal downloads an image list index through a WAP gateway(302). A user of the transmitter terminal selects a desired image from the downloaded image list(303). The user transmits short message contents, index information, and position information on the selected image to the MMSC(304). The MMSC performs a function of inserting the selected message into the selected image with various parameter information(305). When the function is completed, the MMSC transmits the image inserted with the short message to a receiver terminal(306).

Description

How to insert a short message into an image of a mobile terminal {Method for adding the image to short message of mobile phone}

The present invention relates to a method for inserting a short message into an image of a mobile communication terminal. More specifically, the MMSC which a terminal sender wants to input before transmitting images stored in an MMSC of a mobile communication system to a terminal receiver is provided. MMSC receives a short message and inserts a short message into an image of a mobile communication terminal which converts the short message to a receiver so that the short message can be displayed at a corresponding location of an image designated by the sender.

Mobile and Internet networks are expanding rapidly and the number of users of these networks is growing rapidly. For example, by means of WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) technology, it is possible to introduce advanced Internet services to digital mobile stations in mobile communication networks such as so-called multimedia terminals.

WAPs include Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM), General Packet Radio Service (GPRS), Personal Digital Cellular (PDC), and Code Division Multiple Access IS-95 (CDMA IS). -95), designed to comprehensively support most digital mobile communications networks such as time division multiple access IS-136 (TDMA IS-136) and third-generation terminal networks such as wideband CDMA and CDMA-2000. It is an open standard.

Since the WAP system is only recently developed and in some cases the WAP system specifications only determine the configuration for different implementations, there are not many known solutions for implementing specific functions of the WAP system.

1 illustrates a network configuration of a typical WAP system, wherein a mobile communication terminal 10, where a so-called WAP terminal using the WAP protocol for external communication, can communicate with a server 20 of an Internet network.

The connection between the mobile communication terminal 10 and the internet network 18 is implemented by a WAP gateway 15, which is connected between the mobile communication terminal 10 and the internet network 18. It serves as a means of sending messages to the.

If necessary, the WAP gateway 15 sends messages sent by the mobile communication terminal 10 to the Internet network 18 such as a TCP / IP protocol (Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol). Convert messages into Internet protocols.

Messages from the Internet network 18 addressed to the mobile communication terminal 10 in the wireless network 12 are, if necessary, WAP protocols (e.g., Wireless Session Protocol (WSP) in the WAP gateway 15). Protocol) is converted into messages according to

The WAP gateway 15 is connected to the server 20 via an Internet network 18 via a multimedia message service center (MMSC) 16.

The prior art provides a multimedia service to a receiver terminal by converting the format into a usable multimedia message form according to the profile of the sender terminal connecting to the MMSC 16.

As described above, there is a problem in that the transmission data of multimedia, which is increasingly large in size, is encountered between the sender terminal and the receiver terminal by transmitting the multimedia message format converted according to the profile of the sender terminal to the receiver terminal.

In addition, in the related art, when a terminal user sends an image and a short message to the other party, there is a problem in that there is a lot of inconvenience in using the terminal by sending the images separately and then sending the short message separately.

Therefore, the present invention has been proposed to solve the above-mentioned problems, and when the MMSC transmits a short message which the terminal sender wants to input to the MMSC before transmitting the images stored in the MMSC of the mobile communication system to the terminal receiver, It is an object of the present invention to provide a method of inserting a short message into an image of a mobile communication terminal which is converted and transmitted to a receiver so that a short message can be displayed at a corresponding position of an image designated by a sender.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a method for inserting a short message into an image of a mobile communication terminal and transmitting the short message to a counterpart, the terminal sender for inserting an image stored in an MMSC which is a multimedia message service center of the mobile communication system. Transmitting a short message (SMS) that the user wants to input to the MMSC, and receiving the short message transmitted by the MMSC and converting the short message into a corresponding position of an image designated by the terminal sender and transmitting the short message to the terminal receiver. It is made, including.

The MMSC has a function of inserting a short message into an image, and the terminal sender downloads an image list index stored in the MMSC to select a desired image, and the step of transmitting to the MMSC includes a message content and an index. Includes information and location information of the image to be transmitted.

The image includes both a default image held by the MMSC server and a user image and graphic image previously transmitted by the terminal user.

1 is a block diagram illustrating a network configuration of a typical WAP system.

Figure 2 is a block diagram according to the internal operation of the MMSC for multimedia message processing to which the present invention is applied.

3 is a flowchart illustrating an operation flow of inserting a short message into an image in association with an MMSC of the present invention.

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

Using the camera mounted on the mobile communication terminal, the image taken by the user of the terminal or the image received from another medium is transmitted to the MMSC for storage, and when necessary, the image is transmitted to the other party through the MMSC.

In the present invention, since the image transmitted by the sender terminal is stored in the MMSC which is a multimedia message service center and then transmitted to the receiver terminal, a short message that the sender terminal wants to input before transmitting the images stored in the MMSC to the receiver terminal ( Short message service (SMS) is transmitted to MMSC, and MMSC receives it and converts it to the receiver terminal so that a short message can be inserted and displayed at the location of the image designated by the sender terminal.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating an internal operation of the MMSC 200 for processing a multimedia message to which the present invention is applied. The email server 210 transmits and receives a multimedia message in association with other media, and searches for a profile of a receiver. The MMSC 200 constituting the multimedia message processor 220 and the web server 230 for processing the multimedia message received by the email server 210 is provided, and the web server 230 of the MMSC 200 is mobile communication. It has a structure including a WAP gateway 250 that cooperates to transmit a multimedia message to the terminal 10.

In addition, the operator maintenance unit 240 performs a message status or resource status and a system statistics function processed by the multimedia message processor 220.

In the present invention, a function of inserting various graphic images and short text messages (SMS) into the MMSC 200 is added.

3 is a flowchart illustrating an operation flow of inserting a short message into an image in conjunction with an MMSC of the present invention. When the operation is started, the sender terminal side accesses the connection 301 to the MMSC 200 through the WAP gateway 250. do.

When the sender terminal is connected 301 to the MMSC 200, the sender terminal uses the available image list index stored in the web server 230 or the e-mail server 210 in the MMSC 200. Download via (302).

The list of available images is the default image held by servers 220 and 230 of MMSC 200 or by a transmitting terminal user attempting to connect to MMSC 200 previously via WMS gateway 250 through MMSC 200. ) Are the images you sent.

The user of the transmitting terminal edits images taken by a camera mounted on his terminal or another multimedia medium such as a digital camera or a camcorder and transmits them to the MMSC 200 through the Internet.

In addition, the user edits various graphic images, such as a picture of a famous East-West painter or a typeface of a East-West famous artist, and transmits them to the MMSC 200 through the Internet.

The transmitting terminal user selects the desired image from the list of images downloaded to his terminal (303).

After selecting the desired image (303), the transmitting terminal user inputs the content of the short message to be inserted into the selected image, the index information, and the location information on which position the short message is to be inserted into the WAP gateway. It is transmitted 304 to the MMSC 200 via 250.

For example, the user of the transmitting terminal inserts a happy birthday message to his or her heterosexual friend by inserting a happy birthday message into a memory-filled image of a happy birthday message to his or her heterosexual friend, ie, a photograph of a photograph taken in a nice place with his heterosexual friend. First, the relevant information is transmitted 304 to the MMSC 200 through the WAP gateway 250.

The index information means index address information in which various image lists are stored in the MMSC 200.

The MMSC 200 having a function of inserting a short message into an image performs a function of inserting a selected short message into a selected image with various parameter information such as parameter information transmitted from the sender terminal, that is, index information and location information (305). )do.

That is, the MMSC 200 inserts the short message received from the sender terminal and the image on the index of the server and inserts the short message at the position desired by the user in the image requested by the sender terminal.

When the MMSC 200 completes the function of inserting the selected short message in the selected image (305), the sender terminal transmits the image in which the short message is inserted through the WAP gateway 250 according to the result. The process is terminated by forwarding 306 to the desired recipient terminal.

As described in detail above, the present invention transmits a short message that the terminal sender wants to input to the MMSC before transmitting the graphic images stored in the MMSC of the mobile communication system to the terminal receiver. By converting the short message to be displayed in the location and sending it to the recipient, the user can insert a short message that he / she wants into the large-capacity image of the MMSC and send it to the other party. It provides a useful effect to transfer.

Claims (5)

In the method of inserting a short message to the image of the mobile communication terminal to the other party, Transmitting a short message (SMS) that the terminal sender wants to input to the MMSC for insertion into an image stored in the MMSC which is a multimedia message service center of the mobile communication system; The MMSC receives the short message transmitted and inserts the short message into the image of the mobile communication terminal, after converting the short message into a corresponding position of the image designated by the terminal sender and transmitting the short message to the terminal receiver. Way. The method according to claim 1, The MMSC has a function of inserting a short message into an image, wherein the short message is inserted into an image of a mobile communication terminal. The method according to claim 1, And the terminal sender downloads an image list index stored in the MMSC and selects a desired image. The method according to claim 1, The transmitting of the short message to the MMSC may include transmitting the message content, index information, and location information of the image. The method according to claim 1, The image is a method of inserting a short message into an image of a mobile communication terminal, characterized in that it includes both the default image that the MMSC server has, and the user image and graphic image previously transmitted by the terminal user.