KR20080011514A - Apparatus and method for providing of real time information using presence service in portable terminal - Google Patents

Abstract

A device for supplying real-time information by using a presence service in a portable terminal and a method are provided to offer real-time information such as weather information or stock information as well as state information of the terminal by using the presence service, thereby increasing utility of the presence service. A decoding method of a double tag for real-time information is confirmed through an XML(Extensible Markup Language) scheme document included in a notify message received through a presence service(301-305). It is confirmed whether a real-time information tag is included in the inside of a basic tag for connection state information in the notify message(307,309). If so, information is displayed through a user interface using the real-time information tag(311).

Description

Apparatus and method for providing real-time information using a presence service in a portable terminal {APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING OF REAL TIME INFORMATION USING PRESENCE SERVICE IN PORTABLE TERMINAL}

1 is a schematic diagram of a system for presence service in accordance with the present invention;

2 is a block diagram of a portable terminal according to the present invention;

3 is a diagram illustrating a procedure for receiving real-time information in a portable terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention; and

4 is a diagram illustrating a screen providing connection status information and real-time information using a presence service in a portable terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for providing real time information in a portable terminal, and more particularly, to an apparatus and method for providing the real time information using a presence service.

Recently, researches for the integration of communication technologies have been actively conducted, and there is an IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) as one of the communication technology integration. The IMS is a technology for providing a multimedia such as voice, audio, video, and a large amount of data through the Internet Protocol (IP). Services based on the IMS include presence, PTT on Celluar, Voice over IP (VoIP), and file sharing service.

1 shows a schematic diagram for a presence service according to the prior art. Here, the presence service is the most representative service of the IMS-based service, and is a service that continuously informs a connection state of a specific terminal.

Referring to FIG. 1, the presence server 110 receives connection state information of each terminal from the terminal A 120, the terminal B 130, and the terminal C 140. That is, each terminal transmits it to the presence server 110 whenever its connection state changes.

At this time, the terminal K 150 requests the presence server 110 of the connection state information of the terminal A (120) to know the connection state of the terminal A (120). Therefore, the presence server 110 registers the terminal K 150 as a connection state information receiver of the terminal A 120, and continuously transmits the connection state information of the terminal A 120.

As described above, access status information of a specific terminal may be continuously provided through the presence service. Here, a service method for providing information other than the connection state information of the specific terminal through the presence service is considered. For example, weather information or stock information changes in real time, but once changed, the same content is maintained to some extent, which is similar to the nature of connection state information of a terminal. Therefore, it is possible to increase the utilization of the presence service by providing the weather information, stock information, and the like through the presence service.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide an apparatus and method for receiving real-time information using a presence service in a portable terminal.

According to a first aspect of the present invention for achieving the above object, a method for providing real-time information in a portable terminal, the XML (eXtensible Markup Language) Scheme document included in the Notify message received through the presence service Checking the decoding method of the dual tag for real-time information through the step of checking whether the real-time information tag is included in the basic tag for the connection status information in the notification message, and the real-time information tag is included In this case, the method may include displaying information through an interface using the real-time information tag.

According to a second aspect of the present invention for achieving the above object, a portable terminal device comprises a communication unit for receiving a notification message through a presence service, and configures an interface according to a tag configuration of the notification message to provide information. It characterized in that it comprises a control unit for controlling.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. In describing the present invention, when it is determined that a detailed description of a related known function or configuration may unnecessarily obscure the subject matter of the present invention, the detailed description thereof will be omitted.

The present invention describes an apparatus and method for receiving real time information using a presence service in a portable terminal.

2 shows a block configuration of a portable terminal according to the present invention. In the following description, the portable terminal includes a cellular phone having a voice recognition function, a personal communication system (PCS), a personal data assistant (PDA), and an international mobile telecommunication-2000 (IMT2000). It is meant to include all terminals and will be described with the general configuration of the above examples.

As shown in FIG. 2, the portable terminal includes a control unit 201, a display unit 203, an input unit 205, a codec (coder-decoder) 207, a communication unit 209, and a memory 211. It is configured to include.

The controller 201 controls the overall operation of the portable terminal. For example, it performs processing and control for voice call and data communication. In particular, the present invention controls a function for providing real time information. That is, the interface is configured according to the tag configuration of the received Notify message to control to display real-time information on the display unit 203. In other words, when the additional tag for the real time information is included in the basic tag for the connection state information, the interface is configured to display the real time information by using the additional tag.

The display unit 203 displays status information, numbers, letters, and images generated during the operation of the portable terminal. In particular, real-time information is displayed in accordance with the present invention. The input unit 205 includes a keypad of the portable terminal, and provides key input data corresponding to a key pressed by the user to the controller 201.

The codec 207 converts the PCM data provided from the controller 201 into an analog voice signal and outputs it through a speaker, and converts the analog voice signal input through a microphone into PCM data and outputs the same to the controller 201. do. The communication unit 209 processes a radio frequency (RF) signal transmitted and received through an antenna.

The memory 211 stores microcode of a program for controlling the overall operation of the portable terminal, various reference data, temporary data generated during program execution, and various updatable storage data.

3 illustrates a procedure for receiving real-time information from a portable terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 3, in step 301, the control unit 201 requests the presence server to receive information provided by the server in real time (eg, weather information, stock information, etc.). That is, a subscription message including a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) of the real-time information server is transmitted to the presence server.

In operation 303, the controller 201 determines whether a notification message is received from the presence server. In this case, the notification message is an XML (eXtensible Markup Language) format message, and includes an XML Scheme document defining a message format, a text of information to be provided to the user, and the like.

If the notification message is received, the controller 201 proceeds to step 305 and checks the XML Scheme document in the notification message. That is, in order to understand the format of the notification message and provide the information to the user, the message decryption method defined by the information provider is identified through the XML Scheme document. For example, the message decryption method includes a double tag decryption method for providing real time information.

In operation 307, the controller 201 checks the text included in the basic tag for the connection state information. Here, the basic tag is a tag for representing text for connection status information. It is used as Table 1 below.

 Information type  Example of using tags   Connection status information     <Voice call> available </ voice call> <video call> available </ video call> <email> available </ email>  Real time information (e.g. weather information)     <Voice call> <region> Seoul </ region> </ voice> <video call> <temperature> 25 degrees </ temperature> </ video call> <email> <humidity> 60% </ humidity> </ email >

In Table 1, the <voice call>, <video call>, and <email> represent basic tags for connection status information, and <region>, <temperature>, and <humidity> are real-time information (eg, weather information). Represents additional tags for. That is, when a notification message configured with a tag is received as shown in the tag usage example shown in Table 1, the texts included in basic tags such as <voice call>, <video call>, and <email> are checked.

In operation 309, the controller 201 determines whether a tag is included in the checked text. That is, when the tag is configured as in the example of using the tag of the real-time information shown in Table 1, it is checked whether additional tags such as <area>, <temperature>, and <humidity> are included in the checked text.

If the tag does not include the text, the controller proceeds to step 311 and displays the text included in the tag using the name of the basic tag. For example, as shown in (a) of FIG. 4, an interface using a name of a base tag is configured to display texts included in each base tag.

On the other hand, if a tag is included in the text, the control unit 201 proceeds to step 313 to display the text using the name of the additional tag included in the text. For example, as shown in (b) of FIG. 4, the interface in which the name of the basic tag is displayed in FIG. 4 (a) to the name of the additional tag is configured to be included in each additional tag. Display the texts.

Thereafter, the control unit 201 ends this procedure.

The above-described embodiment has described a procedure for providing real time information (eg, weather information) using a presence service in a portable terminal. At this time, when providing the real-time information, the connection state of the other party can not be known. In addition, the counterpart may be a data server rather than a terminal. Therefore, when providing the real-time information, it is possible to block a communication attempt (for example, call origination, e-mail transmission) function to the other party to prevent a malfunction due to an incorrect call connection attempt.

Meanwhile, in the detailed description of the present invention, specific embodiments have been described, but various modifications are possible without departing from the scope of the present invention. Therefore, the scope of the present invention should not be limited to the described embodiments, but should be determined not only by the scope of the following claims, but also by the equivalents of the claims.

As described above, utilization of the presence service can be increased by providing real-time information such as weather information and stock information as well as status information of the terminal using the presence service.

Claims (6)

In the method for providing real-time information in a portable terminal, Confirming how to decode the double tag for real-time information through the eXtensible Markup Language (XML) Scheme document included in the Notify message received through the presence service; Checking whether a real-time information tag is included in a basic tag for access status information in the notification message; And when the real time information tag is included, displaying the information through an interface using the real time information tag. The method of claim 1, And if the real time information tag is not included, displaying the information through an interface using the basic tag. The method of claim 1, And blocking a communication connection to the other party that has transmitted the real time information. In a portable terminal device, A communication unit for receiving a Notify message through a presence service, And a controller configured to provide an information by configuring an interface according to a tag configuration of the notification message. The method of claim 4, wherein The control unit, If a real-time information tag is included in the basic tag for the connection status information in the notification message, configure an interface using the tag for the real-time information, If the real-time information tag is not included, characterized in that the interface is configured using the default tag. The method according to claim 5, The control unit, And displaying the information by configuring an interface using the real-time information tag, and cut off the communication connection to the other party that has transmitted the information.

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