KR20070070972A - Method for notifying new phone number in communication network - Google Patents

Abstract

A number notification service method in accordance with number changes in a communication network is provided to be capable of delivering messages through a new number in the communication network itself even without a user individually notifying acquaintances when a number is changed, while the new number is notified to other parties, thereby improving convenience of both message transmitter and receiver. Existing numbers and new numbers of each terminal are matched together, and the matched numbers are stored(201). A message requested for transmission at a random number is received(202). It is checked that a receiving number of the message is an existing number before the number is changed(203). A new number matched with the existing number is searched(204). The message requested for transmission is transmitted through the searched new number(205,206).

Description

Number notification service method according to number change in communication network {Method for notifying new phone number in communication network}

1 is a diagram illustrating an embodiment of a connection relationship between a base station and a transmitting / receiving side wireless communication terminal in a wireless communication network to which the present invention is applied;

2 is a flowchart illustrating a number notification service method according to a number change in a wireless communication network according to the present invention.

Explanation of symbols on the main parts of the drawings

10: base station 20: transmitting side wireless communication terminal

30: receiving side wireless communication terminal 40: database

The present invention relates to a number notification service method according to a number change in a communication network. More particularly, an existing number and a new number are matched and stored in a communication network, and a message (for example, a short message) requested to be transmitted to an existing number is stored. It automatically transmits to the corresponding new number and informs the sending terminal (eg wireless communication terminal) that the number has been changed, so that the number of communication terminals can be changed to improve the convenience of both sides. The present invention relates to a number notification service method.

In the present invention, the terminal refers to various communication terminals having a message transmitting / receiving function such as a wireless communication terminal, a wired telephone, or a wireless telephone.

In the present invention, a wireless communication terminal is a mobile communication terminal, a personal mobile communication terminal (PCS), a personal digital terminal (PDA), a smart phone, a next generation mobile communication terminal (IMT-2000), such as a wireless terminal while carrying a person A terminal capable of wireless communication.

In the following detailed description, a wireless communication terminal which is commonly used today will be described as an example.

As various messaging services such as short message (SMS) and multimedia message (MMS) become popular, simple contents are often exchanged using messages instead of calls.

However, when the terminal number (telephone number) is changed, it may be unreasonable for the user to inform the myriad of acquaintances of the number change.

Currently, in the case of a call (voice call) method, when a counterpart attempts to make a call to an existing number, a service for informing a voice service of a number change in a communication network and automatically connecting a call to a new number is commercially available. Accordingly, even if the counterpart does not know that the number has changed, it is not inconvenient to communicate with the user (user of the number-changed terminal).

On the other hand, in the case of the message method, if the other party sends a message to the existing number without knowing the change of the number, the message is not delivered to the user correctly, and the other party keeps waiting for a reply without knowing whether the message has been properly delivered. There was discomfort. In addition, in order to prevent such a situation, the user had to troubleshoot the number change of each acquaintance one by one.

That is, in the case of the message system according to the prior art, the notification (notification) and the automatic connection function for the number change are not provided by the communication network itself.

The present invention has been proposed to solve the above problems, when the number of the communication terminal (for example, a wireless communication terminal) is changed to match the existing number and the new number correspondingly stored in the communication network and the message requested to be transmitted to the existing number (eg : A method of providing a number notification service according to a number change in a communication network to automatically transmit a short message) to a new number corresponding to the number and to notify the sender of the number change. The purpose is to provide.

Other objects and advantages of the present invention can be understood by the following description, and will be more clearly understood by the embodiments of the present invention. Also, it will be readily appreciated that the objects and advantages of the present invention may be realized by the means and combinations thereof indicated in the claims.

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of providing a number notification service according to a change of a number in a communication network, the method comprising: a storing step of matching and storing an existing number and a new number of each terminal correspondingly; A receiving step of receiving a message requested to be transmitted to any number; Confirming that the received number of the message is an existing number before changing the number; A search step of searching for a new number matching the existing number; And a transmitting step of transmitting the requested message to the retrieved new number.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a number notification service method according to a change of a number in a communication network, the method comprising: storing and matching an existing number and a new number of each terminal correspondingly; A receiving step of receiving a message requested to be transmitted to any number; Confirming that the received number of the message is an existing number before changing the number; A search step of searching for a new number matching the existing number; And a number change fact notifying step of notifying the sending terminal of the message as a new number is found as a result of the search.

The above objects, features and advantages will become more apparent from the following detailed description taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, whereby those skilled in the art may easily implement the technical idea of the present invention. There will be. In addition, in describing the present invention, when it is determined that the detailed description of the known technology related to the present invention may unnecessarily obscure the gist of the present invention, the detailed description thereof will be omitted. Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

According to the present invention, according to a request from a user (number notification service request), a corresponding number of two numbers before and after a number change is stored in a wireless communication network, for example, in a database connected to a base station for a predetermined period, and then transmitted to an existing number. It sends the requested message to a new number and notifies the other party (message sender) of the number change so that the user can conveniently send and receive a message (for example, a short message) without notifying the changed number.

1 is a diagram illustrating an embodiment of a connection relationship between a base station and a transmitting / receiving side wireless communication terminal in a wireless communication network to which the present invention is applied.

As shown in FIG. 1, the base station 10 is connected to the database 40, and the database 40 correspondingly stores and stores the existing number and the new number of each wireless communication terminal whose number has been changed.

For example, when the existing number of the receiving wireless communication terminal 30 is "012-3456-7890" and the new number is "012-3456-1111", the two numbers are matched and stored accordingly. In response to a search request from the base station 10, a new number corresponding to the existing number is searched for and returned.

At this time, the database 40 stores the existing number and the new number of the corresponding wireless communication terminal for a predetermined period according to the request for the number notification service (which can be provided as an additional service in the wireless communication network) from the user.

Meanwhile, the transmitting side wireless communication terminal 20 transmits a message (eg, a short message) generated according to an external input to the base station 10. At this time, the existing number of the receiving wireless communication terminal 30 is set as the reception number of the message.

Upon receiving the message from the transmitting side wireless communication terminal 20, the base station 10 confirms that the received number of the message is the number before the change of the number, and transmits the received number to the database 40 to be matched accordingly. Request a search of the number. In other words, the existing number before the number change is delivered to request a reply of the new number corresponding thereto.

Thereafter, the base station 10 receives the new number corresponding to the existing number from the database 40 and resets the received number and transmits the received number to the receiving side wireless communication terminal 30. Then, the reset reception number is informed to the transmitting side wireless communication terminal 20. At this time, the broadcast message may be informed to the transmitting side wireless communication terminal 20.

In another embodiment, a new number of the receiving wireless communication terminal 20 is not informed to the transmitting wireless communication terminal 20 according to a service restriction request from the user, and there is no number such as "no number". The predetermined message may be transmitted to the transmitting side wireless communication terminal 20. That is, the received number is set to the existing number before the number change, and the message requested to be transmitted may be transmitted to a new number matching the existing number, but the new number may not be provided to the transmitting side wireless communication terminal 20. .

In another embodiment, a message that is set to a reception number that does not actually exist is set to transmit a predetermined message indicating that there is no number, such as " no number, " You may.

2 is a flowchart illustrating a number notification service method according to a number change in a wireless communication network according to the present invention.

Currently, the database 40 connected to the base station 10 is in a state in which the existing number and the new number of the corresponding wireless communication terminal are matched and stored according to the user's number notification service request (201).

First, the transmitting side wireless communication terminal 20 generates a message according to an external input and transmits the message to the base station 10 through the wireless communication network (202). At this time, the existing number of the receiving side wireless communication terminal 30 is set as the receiving number in the message.

Subsequently, the base station 10 confirms that the received number of the message received from the transmitting radio communication terminal 20 is the number before the number change (203), and transfers the received number to the database 40 accordingly. A search for the number to be requested is made 204.

Thereafter, the base station 10 receives the new number corresponding to the received number requesting the search from the database 40 (205) and transmits the message to the received new number (206).

Then, the received new number is notified to the transmitting side wireless communication terminal 20 (207). For example, it may be notified by using a broadcast message.

For example, when the sender transmits a message (eg, a short message) to the receiver's existing number "012-3456-7890", the base station confirms that the number is an existing number before changing the number. Search the database for "012-3456-1111" that matches the number. Then, the message is sent to the retrieved number so that the receiver can receive it. It also notifies the sender that the recipient's number has changed.

As described above, the method of the present invention may be implemented as a program and stored in a recording medium (CD-ROM, RAM, ROM, floppy disk, hard disk, magneto-optical disk, etc.) in a computer-readable form. Since this process can be easily implemented by those skilled in the art will not be described in more detail.

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

The present invention as described above, when the number is changed, by transmitting a message to a new number itself without notifying the acquaintances, and the new number to notify the other party, it is possible to improve both the convenience of the message transceiver when changing the number. It has an effect.

Claims (2)

In the number notification service method according to the number change in the communication network, A storage step of matching and storing an existing number and a new number of each terminal correspondingly; A receiving step of receiving a message requested to be transmitted to any number; Confirming that the received number of the message is an existing number before changing the number; A search step of searching for a new number matching the existing number; And A transmitting step of transmitting the requested message to the retrieved new number Number notification service method according to the number change in the communication network comprising a. In the number notification service method according to the number change in the communication network, A storage step of matching and storing an existing number and a new number of each terminal correspondingly; A receiving step of receiving a message requested to be transmitted to any number; Confirming that the received number of the message is an existing number before changing the number; A search step of searching for a new number matching the existing number; And A number change fact notifying step of notifying the sending terminal of the message as a new number is found as a result of the searching; Number notification service method according to the number change in the communication network comprising a.

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