KR20080083742A - System for setting up phonebook photo and control method thereof, and mobile commnication apparatus used in the system - Google Patents

Abstract

A phonebook photo setup system, a control method thereof, and a mobile terminal therein are provided to considerably overcome temporal and spatial restrictions by easily obtaining a desired person's photo from his homepage in the case of settling a phonebook photo for him. A phonebook photo setup system comprises a mobile terminal(10), a phonebook photo supporting server(20), and a homepage management server(30). If the user of the mobile terminal makes a phonebook photo setup request for a specific person who is related to a specific phone number, the mobile terminal transmits the specific person's phone number to the phonebook photo supporting server together with a photo transmission request. Based on the specific person's phone number transmitted from the mobile terminal, the phonebook photo supporting server extracts the address of the specific person's homepage management server from a previously stored database, and requests the homepage management server to provide the specific person's photos. The homepage management server comprises the specific person's homepage. Based on the phonebook photo supporting server's request, the homepage management server transmits the specific person's photos, previously registered in his homepage, to the phonebook photo supporting server.

Description

Phonebook photo setting system and its control method, and mobile communication terminal used in the system TECHNICAL FIELD

1 is a schematic structural diagram of a phone book photo setting system according to an embodiment of the present invention;

2 is a functional block diagram of the mobile communication terminal of FIG. 1,

3 is a functional block diagram of the phone book photo support server of FIG.

4A and 4B are control flowcharts of a phone book photo setting system according to an embodiment of the present invention;

5A through 5E are diagrams illustrating an example of a screen displayed on a display unit of the mobile communication terminal of FIGS. 4A and 4B.

FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating an example of data stored in the phonebook photo support server of FIGS. 4A and 4B.

* Explanation of symbols for the main parts of the drawings

10: mobile communication terminal 11: mobile communication module

12: terminal control unit 13: key input unit

14 memory 15 display

20: phone book photo support server 21: communication interface

22: server control unit 23: database

30: homepage management server 40: base station

50: control station 60: packet controller

70: packet data serving node

The present invention relates to a phone book photo setting system and a control method thereof, and a mobile communication terminal used in the system. More particularly, the present invention relates to a phone book photo setting system. The present invention relates to a phone book picture setting system for downloading and setting a phone book picture of the subject, a control method thereof, and a mobile communication terminal used in the system.

Recently, various functions have been added to mobile communication terminals such as mobile phones and PDAs to increase user convenience.

One of them is the phonebook function. The phone book corresponds to a kind of phone book provided in a mobile phone that receives and stores a phone number and additional information (eg, name, address, email address, etc.) about the person of the phone number and shows the information to the user when necessary.

When a call is received from the other party while the phone book is set / stored in the mobile terminal by the user, the mobile terminal searches the phone book to determine whether there is information on the calling party's telephone number, and if so, the mobile terminal displays the display. In addition to the caller's phone number, the name of the person corresponding to the phone number is displayed in the book so that the mobile terminal user can easily know who the caller is even before answering the call.

In addition, in recent years, by attaching not only the text information of the subject but also the subject's photo to the phone book, when the call is received, the subject's photo corresponding to the caller's telephone number is displayed on the display. It makes it easy to recognize cognition.

As such, the picture used in the phone book is generally used by using a picture taken by the subject using a camera module included in the mobile communication terminal, or by using a picture transmitted from the subject by photo mail.

However, there is a problem that it is not easy to register or update a phone book picture of a desired person immediately when necessary as a method of obtaining a picture as described above.

That is, photographing the subject is possible only when the subject is close, and the method of using the transmitted photo has to wait for the photo to be transmitted from the subject, so there is a problem in that it is not possible to register or update an appropriate photo immediately.

The present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned problems, the object is to download a picture registered on the homepage of the target person who wants to set the phonebook picture phonebook picture setting system and control method for setting the phonebook picture To provide.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a mobile communication terminal that downloads a picture registered on the homepage of a target person who wants to set a phone book picture and sets it as a phone book picture.

In order to achieve the above object, the phone book photo setting system according to the present invention includes a phone book and a phone book photo setting system including a mobile communication terminal having a phone book function that manages by connecting additional information of the person related to the phone number. If a user requests a phone book photo setting request from a user related to a specific phone number, the phone number of the target person is transmitted to the phone book photo support server, and a picture of the person is requested, and from the phone book photo support server according to the request. A mobile communication terminal for setting a picture to be transmitted as a phone book picture of the subject; In response to a photo request of the mobile communication terminal, a pre-stored database is searched based on the received telephone number of the subject to extract the homepage management server address of the subject, and the homepage management server requests a photo of the subject. A phone book photo support server for transmitting a picture of the subject transmitted from the homepage management server to the mobile terminal according to the request; The homepage management server may include a homepage management server configured to include a homepage of the target person and transmit a photo of the target person previously registered to the homepage of the target person to the phonebook photo support server according to a request from the phonebook photo support server.

In addition, the phone book photo setting system control method according to the present invention in order to achieve the above object is a phone book photo including a mobile communication terminal having a phone book function for connecting and managing the phone number and the additional information of the subject related to the phone number In the setting system, when the mobile communication terminal detects that the user's phonebook picture setting request from the user related to a specific phone number is transmitted to the phonebook photo support server, requesting the person's picture Wow; In response to a photo request of the mobile communication terminal, the phone book photo support server searches a previously stored database based on the received phone number of the target person, extracts the homepage management server address of the target person, and transmits the homepage management server to the homepage management server. Requesting a photograph of the subject; Transmitting, by the homepage management server having the homepage of the subject, a picture of the subject previously registered on the subject's homepage to the phonebook photo support server according to a request from the phonebook photo support server; Transmitting, by the phone book photo support server, the photograph of the subject received from the homepage management server to the mobile terminal; And setting, by the mobile communication terminal receiving the subject's photo from the homepage management server, the received subject's photo as the subject's phone book photo.

In addition, the mobile communication terminal according to the present invention to achieve the above object is a mobile communication terminal having a phone book function for connecting and managing the phone number and the additional information of the subject related to the phone number, the key input unit; A display unit; A mobile communication module for performing wireless communication; Memory; In response to a user's manipulation of the key input unit detecting a phonebook picture setting request, the phone number of the requested person is transmitted to an external server to request a picture of the person, and at least one received from the external server according to the request. And a control unit which displays a picture on the display unit and sets the selected picture as a phonebook picture of the subject when a selection of any one of the pictures displayed on the display unit is detected.

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

As illustrated in FIG. 1, the phonebook photo setting system according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a mobile communication terminal 10, a base station transceiver base system (BTS) 40, a base station controller (BSC) ( 50), a packet controller (PCF: Packet Control Function), a packet data serving node (PDSN: Packet Data Serving Node) (PDSN) 70, phone book photo support server 20, home page management server 30 is configured to include.

The mobile communication terminal 10 is a device that can perform data communication using a mobile communication network such as a mobile phone, personal digital assistants (PDAs), and transmits and receives data wirelessly with the base station 40.

As illustrated in FIG. 2, the mobile communication terminal 10 includes a mobile communication module 11, a key input unit 13, a display unit 15, a memory 14, and a terminal control unit 12.

Here, the mobile communication module 11 is an interface for transmitting and receiving wireless data with the base station 40, and the memory 14 stores a picture set as a phone book picture.

The display unit 15 is for displaying an image, and is preferably provided with an LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) with low power consumption.

The key input unit 13 includes a keypad (not shown) that a user can input to transmit a signal of the keypad selected by the user to the controller. That is, when the user checks the display unit 15 and selects a menu or requests a setting by using a keypad operation, the key input unit 13 generates and transmits a corresponding key signal, thereby requesting a menu item selected from the user or requested. The terminal controller 12 informs the contents.

When the terminal control unit 12 of the mobile communication terminal 10 detects a phone book photo setting request of a specific subject by a user's keypad operation, the terminal control unit 12 transmits the telephone number of the subject to the phone book photo support server 20. Ask for a photo of the person. Here, the user of the mobile communication terminal 10 may immediately request a phonebook picture setting through a keypad manipulation, or may repeatedly make a phonebook picture setting request at a predetermined time period.

And the phone number of the subject to be transmitted to the phone book photo support server 20 may be a mobile communication phone number, home phone number, company phone number, etc. It is preferable that the mobile phone number suitable for specifying the target.

In addition, the terminal controller 12 sets / stores the picture transmitted from the phone book photo support server 20 as the phone book picture of the subject according to the request. Here, the picture transmitted from the phone book photo support server 20 is not a picture generated by the phone book photo support server 20 itself, but a picture transmitted from the homepage management server 30 at the request of the phone book photo support server 20. to be. This will be described in detail later.

On the other hand, the base station 40 is connected to the mobile communication terminal 10 in a wireless section to control the mobile communication terminal 10 and to connect the communication channel, and the control station 50 is connected in a wired section to give information Receive.

Here, the control station 50 manages a plurality of base stations 40 and is connected to the packet data serving node 70 through the packet controller 60 and transmits packets between the base station 40 and the packet data serving node 70. Route.

The packet data serving node 70 is an essential equipment for packet data service. The packet data serving node 70 establishes and maintains a PPP (Point-to-Point Protocol) session with the mobile communication terminal 10, and performs packet routing to an external network (Internet, etc.). Perform. Accordingly, communication between the mobile communication terminal 10, the phone book photo support server 20, and the homepage management server 30 is possible.

The mobile switching center (MSC) 80 controls voice calls and various additional services and sets up a call path, and an interworking function (IWF) 90 converts a mobile communication packet network into an internet network, and the like. It is also responsible for interworking with other networks. The mobile communication terminal 10 may be connected to the servers of other networks such as the Internet through the mobile switch 80 and the network interworking device 90, but in this embodiment, the mobile terminal 10 is the packet data serving node. Connecting to the phone book photo support server 20 through 70 will be described as an example.

On the other hand, the phone book photo support server 20 is connected to the packet data serving node 70 to communicate with the homepage management server 30 on the Internet network, unlike the present embodiment phone book photo support server 20 is the Internet network It may be included and connected with the homepage management server 30 within.

The phone book photo support server 20 is a server managed by a mobile service provider, and includes a user's telephone number and a homepage URL (Uniform Resource Locator) based on the contents created by users when they join the mobile communication network. To manage and store information. Phonebook photo support server 20 may utilize a proprietary database 23 system or a structured file system to manage this information.

When there is a photo request from the mobile communication terminal 10, the phone book photo support server 20 searches the pre-stored database 23 based on the telephone number of the subject received according to the request, and manages the homepage of the subject. The server 30 extracts the address, requests the homepage management server 30 of the subject's photo, and transmits the subject's photo transmitted from the homepage management server 30 to the mobile communication terminal 10 according to the request. .

To this end, the phone book photo support server 20 pairs and stores a communication interface 21 for communication with an external network and a specific phone number and additional information of a person related to the phone number, as shown in FIG. 3. It may be configured to include a database 23 and a server control unit 22 for performing various functions of the phone book photo support server 20.

On the other hand, the homepage management server 30 includes at least one homepage, and publishes the homepage on the World Wide Web (WWW) to allow a user using a web browser to view a kind of web server (US). Shown).

Here, the homepage is a page created by an individual or a company and published on the World Wide Web, and can be viewed using a web browser as described above. The term homepage means only one page corresponding to a specific URL. Rather, it refers to the entire set of related pages created by a particular person or company and published on the web. That is, one homepage may have a plurality of menus, and the menus may be connected to other pages providing predetermined information by respective link tags.

In this embodiment, the homepage is an example of a personal homepage, and the homepage is not limited to a specific format, but may be implemented in various forms such as a blog and a mini homepage.

In this way, the homepage management server 30 managing the homepage extracts a photograph of a subject previously registered on the homepage of the requested subject in response to a photo transmission request from the phonebook photo support server 20. To send). Here, the registration on the homepage includes a case where it is displayed in one area of the homepage and is in a state capable of being confirmed through the web.

That is, a personal homepage may include a profile picture of the homepage owner on a page (for example, a profile page) that introduces the homepage owner, and may include pictures of the homepage owner on other photo-related pages. The homepage management server 30 extracts these pictures and sends them to the phonebook photo support server 20 as described above.

In addition, the homepage management server 30 transmits identification information for distinguishing each photo when there are a plurality of pictures to be transmitted to the phonebook photo support server 20. The identification information may include a picture title stored together with the picture registration, a page name (profile page, a photo collection page, etc.) in which the picture is registered, or item names classified according to predetermined criteria.

This process performed in the homepage management server 30 in response to a request from the phonebook photo support server 20 will be described in detail later.

Hereinafter, the control flow of the phone book photo setting system according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIGS. 4A to 6.

First, a user may select a menu for requesting a phone book setting while viewing the screen of the display unit 15 as shown in FIG. 5A. At this time, the mobile communication terminal control unit 12 determines whether there is a phonebook setting request from the user according to the signal of the key input unit 13 (step S3).

When there is a phonebook setting request from the user, the terminal control unit 12 displays the object selection screen for selecting a setting object on the display unit 15 as shown in FIG. 5B (step S4). Subsequently, when the user selects the target person for the phone book setting, the terminal controller 12 displays the phone book setting screen of the target person selected by the user on the display unit 15 as shown in FIG. 5C (step S5).

As shown in FIG. 5C, when the user selects 'phonebook picture setting (home page)', which is displayed on the bottom right of the screen (step S6), the terminal controller 12 determines the target mobile communication phone number [here, '010-111'. -1111 '] to the phone book photo support server 20 to request a photo of the corresponding subject (step S7).

As described above, the phone book photo support server 20 stores / manages the mobile communication telephone numbers of the users subscribed to the mobile communication network and the corresponding homepage URLs in the form shown in FIG. 6 (step S1). Based on the mobile communication telephone number transmitted from (10), the homepage URL of the subject (here 'http://kim.blog.aaa') can be extracted (step S8).

Based on the homepage URL of the target person extracted from the database 23, the phone book photo support server 20 determines a server for requesting the target person's photo (step S9). For example, if a plurality of personal homepages are managed together in the homepage management server 30 of the homepage provider, the address of the homepage management server 30 may be extracted from the homepage URL of the subject in the following manner.

That is, the last subdomain and the sub path removed from the target homepage URL may be used as the address of the homepage management server 30. For example, the address of the homepage management server 30 is 'blog.aaa', 'minihome.bbb', 'homepage.ccc', 'userblog.ddd',... Becomes Of course, the method of extracting the address of the homepage management server 30 from the target homepage URL may be implemented by various algorithms.

In addition, if the target homepage can perform the function of the homepage management server 30, which will be described later, the homepage URL of the target person may be the address of the homepage management server 30, in which case the homepage owner uses a server script language. To implement the required functionality.

Meanwhile, the phone book photo support server 20 determining the address of the homepage management server 30 requests the homepage management server 30 to request a photo of the target person requested from the mobile communication terminal 10 (step S10). At this time, the information for specifying the subject is transmitted together. The information may include the subject's mobile communication telephone number, social security number, homepage URL, and the like. Here, the transmission of the homepage URL will be described as an example.

The homepage management server 30 that receives the request for the transfer of the picture together with the homepage URL of the subject from the phonebook photo support server 20 first determines whether the homepage is managed by the corresponding homepage (step S11).

As a result of the determination, in the case of the homepage managed by the homepage, the homepage management server 30 searches the homepage of the target person to determine whether there is a pre-registered target photograph (step S12).

If it is determined that the subject photo is registered and the photo is set to be in a public state (step S12), the homepage management server 30 transmits the subject photo to the phone book photo support server 20 (step S13). ). In this case, when there are a plurality of pictures of the subject transmitted to the phone book photo support server 20, the phone book photo support server 20 transmits identification information for distinguishing each of the photos together. Here, the identification information of the photo may include information on whether the corresponding photo is a photo on a profile page or a collection of various photos. Other information may be included according to the classification.

The phone book photo support server 20 sorts the photos using the identification information of the photos when there are a plurality of photos received from the homepage management server 30 (step S14). The sorting method can be implemented in various ways, but it is preferable to put the profile picture at the top priority because the picture registered on the homepage's profile page can best express the subject.

The homepage management server 30 transmits the photos arranged as described above to the mobile communication terminal 10 in the order (step S15).

Accordingly, the mobile communication terminal control unit 12 displays the pictures on the display unit 15 in the received order as shown in FIG. 5D (step S16).

The user of the mobile communication terminal 10 selects a picture suitable for setting as a phone book picture among the pictures displayed on the display unit 15 (step S17), even if there are a plurality of pictures received, the picture is appropriate in the phone book picture management server. Ordered and displayed on the display unit 15 in that order, it is easy to select a suitable one for a phone book photo.

The terminal controller 12 sets the phone book picture as the picture selected by the user and displays it on the display unit 15 as shown in FIG. 5E to complete the phone book picture setting (step S18). After completion, the terminal controller 12 preferably deletes the picture except the picture set as the phone book picture in consideration of the memory 14 capacity.

This makes it easy to set an appropriate phone book picture for the subject.

In the above-described embodiment, the phone book photo support server 20 is managed by the mobile communication service provider and the homepage is managed by the homepage management service provider, but the subject managing each component of the present invention is limited to a specific service provider. In particular, the homepage management server 30 may be directly operated by an individual due to the development of a communication network. In addition, servers that provide the same function may exist in various ways on the network.

In the above embodiment, although the communication method between the phone book photo support server 20 and the homepage management server 30 is not specifically mentioned, it is preferable to use Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol (TCP / IP). For example, when the phone book photo support server 20 requests a photo transfer to the homepage management server 30, a necessary picture can be received from a web server using HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol), and the database 23. You can also get the necessary photos by connecting directly to and sending a query.

On the other hand, the present invention is not limited to the above specific embodiments, but can be modified and modified in various ways without departing from the gist of the present invention. It will be apparent that such variations and modifications are included in the present invention as long as they belong to the appended claims.

As described above, according to the present invention, when setting the phone book picture of the mobile communication terminal, the picture of the target person to be set can be easily obtained from the homepage at any time, thereby overcoming the temporal and spatial limitations.

In addition, by setting a phone book picture in conjunction with a widely used homepage, there is no need to secure a separate photo storage space on the network for phone book photos.

In addition, since the pictures downloaded to the mobile communication terminal are shown in the sorted state, the user can quickly and easily select and set the phone book photos.

Claims (7)

A phone book photo setting system comprising a mobile communication terminal having a phone book function for connecting and managing a phone number and additional information of a subject related to the phone number, If a user requests a phone book photo setting request from a user related to a specific phone number, the phone number of the target person is transmitted to the phone book photo support server to request a photo of the person, and the phone book photo support server is transmitted according to the request. A mobile communication terminal for setting a picture to be a phone book picture of the subject; In response to a photo request of the mobile communication terminal, a pre-stored database is searched based on the received telephone number of the subject to extract the homepage management server address of the subject, and the homepage management server requests a photo of the subject. A phone book photo support server for transmitting a picture of the subject transmitted from the homepage management server to the mobile terminal according to the request; And a homepage management server having a homepage of the subject and transmitting a photo of the subject previously registered to the homepage of the subject to the phonebook photo support server according to a request from the phonebook photo support server. Photo setting system. The method of claim 1, The homepage management server transmits identification information for distinguishing each photo when there are a plurality of pictures of the subject transmitted to the phonebook photo support server, The phone book photo support server sorts the plurality of pictures of the received subject according to the identification information, and transmits the pictures to the mobile communication terminal in the sorted order. The mobile communication terminal displays a plurality of pictures of the subject received from the phonebook photo support server in the received order, and sets a photo selected by the user among the displayed plurality of pictures as the phonebook photo of the subject. Phonebook photo setting system. The method of claim 2, The phone book photo support server, when the plurality of photos received from the homepage management server, the phone book photo setting system, characterized in that the priority of the subject's profile picture based on the identification information of the picture. The method of claim 3, The homepage management server determines whether the target person's picture is a public picture or a private picture based on information on whether the homepage picture is previously set and stored according to the selection of the target person. Phonebook picture setting system, characterized in that for transmitting to the phonebook picture support server. A phone book photo setting system comprising a mobile communication terminal having a phone book function for connecting and managing a phone number and additional information of a subject related to the phone number, (a) if the mobile communication terminal detects a request for setting a phone book picture of a person related to a specific phone number from the user, requesting the picture of the person by transmitting the phone number of the person to the phone book picture support server; (b) In response to a photo request of the mobile communication terminal, the phone book photo support server searches a pre-stored database based on the received telephone number of the target person, extracts the homepage management server address of the target person, and manages the homepage. Requesting a photograph of the subject from a server; (c) the homepage management server having the homepage of the subject in response to a request from the phonebook photo support server, transmitting the photograph of the subject previously registered to the homepage of the subject to the phonebook photo support server; (d) transmitting the received picture to the mobile communication terminal by the phone book photo support server having received the subject's picture from the homepage management server; and (e) setting, by the mobile communication terminal receiving the picture from the homepage management server, the received picture as a phonebook picture of the subject. The method of claim 5, The step (c) includes the step of transmitting together the identification information for distinguishing each of the photographs when there are a plurality of pictures of the subject transmitted from the homepage management server to the phone book photo support server, The step (d) includes the phonebook photo support server sorts the plurality of pictures of the received subject according to the identification information, and transmits the pictures to the mobile communication terminal in the sorted order, In the step (e), the mobile communication terminal displays a plurality of pictures of the subject received from the phone book photo support server in the received order, and displays a photo selected by the user among the displayed plurality of pictures of the subject's phone book. Phonebook photo setting system control method comprising the step of setting to. A mobile communication terminal having a phone book function for linking and managing a phone number and additional information of a subject related to the phone number, A key input unit; A display unit; A mobile communication module for performing wireless communication; Memory; In response to a user's manipulation of the key input unit detecting a phonebook picture setting request, the phone number of the requested person is transmitted to an external server to request a picture of the person, and at least one received from the external server according to the request. And displaying a picture on the display unit, and when the selection of any one of the pictures displayed on the display unit is detected, storing the selected picture in the memory and setting the picture as a phone book picture of the subject. Mobile terminal.

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