KR20090003521A - System and method for providing emotional message service in the mobile network - Google Patents

Abstract

A sensibility message service offer method and a system thereof in a mobile radio communications network are provided to analyze a message and to confirm the user age and sex of the text message received from subscriber. A sensibility message server receives an SMS message from an SMSC(Short Message Service Center)(S301). The sensibility message server receives the SMS message including the identifier of a received terminal and an originating mobile. The sex and age of the originator are confirmed as the sensibility message server by using the identifier of the originating mobile(S303). The sensibility message server extracts a mood state and feeling intensity information of the SMS message(S307). The sensibility message server grasps whether the anniversary word is included in the SMS message(S309). The SMS message received from SMSC is prepared(S313).

Description

Method and system for providing emotional message service in mobile communication network {SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING EMOTIONAL MESSAGE SERVICE IN THE MOBILE NETWORK}

1 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of a system for providing an emotional message service in a mobile communication network according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a flowchart illustrating a method of providing an emotional message service in a mobile communication network according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3 is a flowchart illustrating a method of providing an emotional message service in an emotional message server according to an embodiment of the present invention.

4 is a diagram illustrating an image table of an emotional message server according to an embodiment of the present invention.

5 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of an emotional message server according to an embodiment of the present invention.

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

501: transceiver unit 503: first storage unit

505: second storage unit 507: user confirmation unit

509: message analysis unit 511: image selection unit

513: message writing unit

The present invention relates to message transmission in a mobile communication network, and more particularly, to a method and system for providing an emotional message service for analyzing a message transmitted by a subscriber and generating an emotional message based on the message.

Recently, due to the development of a mobile communication terminal and a mobile communication network, an MMS message service capable of transmitting and receiving a long text message in addition to the existing short message service and attaching multimedia data has been disclosed. This message transmission service is widely used by subscribers. In addition, due to the spread of mobile communication terminals supporting color screens, a text switching service for decorating such a text message is more in progress.

As an example of such a text switching service, when a caller creates and sends a text message "Happy Birthday", the text message is converted into a text message including a birthday cake emoticon (or a background image) and transmitted to the called party. The text conversion service extracts a word included in the text message, and combines the image or emoticon corresponding to the word with the text message to the called party. That is, when a caller composes and sends a message "I love you", the word "love" is extracted from the text message, and a heart image (or emoticon) corresponding to the text message is transmitted to the called party in combination with the text message.

However, even when the caller composes and sends a negative message "I don't love you" in this text conversion service, the word "love" is extracted and a text message with a bright image corresponding thereto is generated and transmitted to the called party. In other words, a character contrary to the intention of the sender is transmitted to the called party. In addition, since the text conversion service extracts only a specific word, it does not provide a text conversion service in which different images (or emoticons) are combined according to the emotional state (joy, sadness, etc.) included in the text message.

The present invention has been proposed to solve the above problems, by checking the user age and gender of the text message received from the subscriber and analyzing the message to determine the positive or negative of the paragraph and to extract the emotion and the intensity of the message contained in the message It is an object of the present invention to provide a method and system for providing an emotional message service which transmits an image corresponding to the checked and analyzed information to a called party in combination with a message.

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 a first aspect of the present invention for achieving the above object, a method for providing an emotional message service in a mobile communication network, the method comprising the steps of: (a) receiving a message from the calling terminal to determine the gender and age of the caller or called party; (b) morphologically analyzing the received message to read emotion state and emotion intensity information; (c) selecting a background image corresponding to the gender, age, emotional state, and emotion intensity information; And (d) generating and transmitting an emotional message by combining the received message with the background image.

According to a second aspect of the present invention for achieving the above object, a system for providing an emotional message service in a mobile communication network includes a message center for receiving a message from an originating terminal; And upon receipt of the message from the message center, confirms the gender and age of the sender or the called party, and analyzes the message to read the emotional state and the emotional intensity information of the message, thereby determining the gender, age, emotional state and emotional intensity. And an emotional message server for selecting a background image corresponding to the information, combining the received message with the received message, and generating an emotional message and transmitting the emotional message to the called terminal.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, an emotional message device for providing an emotional message to a mobile communication terminal in association with a message center receives a message from the message center and transmits an emotional message to a called terminal. Transmitting and receiving unit; A first storage unit configured to store an image identifier mapped corresponding to gender, age, emotional state, and emotion intensity information; A second storage unit storing subscriber information and preferred image information of the subscriber; A user confirmation unit which reads gender, age and image preference information of a caller or a called party from the second storage unit based on the received message; A message analyzer configured to read the emotional state and the emotion intensity information of the message by morphologically analyzing the received message; An image selecting unit selecting an image identifier in the first storage unit based on the information read by the user analyzer and the message analyzer; And a message generator for generating an emotion message based on the image identifier.

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.

1 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of a system for providing an emotional message service in a mobile communication network according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 1, a system for providing an emotional message service in a mobile communication network according to the present invention includes mobile communication terminals 110 and 120, and a short message service center (“SMSC”) 130. , A multimedia messaging service center ("MMSC") 140, an emotional message server 150, and an image database ("image DB") 160, which components include mobile communication networks. Connected via 170. The mobile communication network 170 includes a base station (BTS / NodeB), a base station controller (BSC / RNC), a switch, a device for packet data service (PDSN, SGSN, IWF, etc.), and the like in the technical field to which the present invention pertains. Since it is a well-known technical element, the detailed description is abbreviate | omitted.

The mobile communication terminals 110 and 120 create an SMS message and transmit the SMS message to the SMSC 130 through the mobile communication network 170. In this case, the mobile communication terminals 110 and 120 may request an emotional message service by adding an emotional message service parameter (eg, # 451) to the SMS message called number. In addition, the mobile communication terminal (110, 120) can receive the sentiment message and confirm it. Such mobile communication terminals 110 and 120 include PDAs, cellular phones, PCS phones, GSM phones, W-CDMA phones, DMB phones, Wibro phones, Wifi phones, and the like.

Hereinafter, it is assumed that the calling terminal is 110 in FIG. 1 and the called terminal is 120 in FIG.

When the SMSC 130 receives the SMS message from the originating terminal 110, the SMSC 130 checks whether the emotional message service parameter is included. If the SMS message includes the emotional message service parameter, the SMSC 130 transmits the SMS message received from the originating terminal 110 to the emotional message server 150 to request the emotional message. In this case, the SMS message transmitted to the emotional message server 150 includes identifiers of the calling terminal 110 and the called terminal 120.

If the emotional message server 150 receives an emotional message creation request from the SMSC 130, first check the sender's gender and age. In addition, the emotional message server 150 checks the image pattern (for example, cartoons, photos, etc.) preferred by the sender. Paragraph interpretation of the received message determines whether the paragraph means positive or negative. In other words, it is determined whether the words in the paragraph of the SMS message contain negative words such as no, nail, or not. Subsequently, the emotional message server 150 extracts verbs and adjectives related to the emotion by morphologically analyzing the SMS message. In addition, the emotional message server 150 extracts and analyzes adverbs that modify such emotional verbs and adjectives to determine the intensity (strong, medium, weak) of the emotions shown in the message. Subsequently, the emotional message server 150 extracts whether the received message includes a word related to an anniversary such as a birthday, a wedding, or a graduation.

According to the sender's gender and age, paragraph interpretation (negative or affirmative), emotional state, emotional intensity and anniversary words, the emotional message server 150 selects a corresponding image identifier from the image table. Meanwhile, when the sender approaches the emotional message server 150 and sets his or her preferred image pattern (eg, humor, cartoon, etc.), the emotional message server 150 preferentially sets among the plurality of image identifiers. Select an image identifier.

The emotional message server 150 extracts a background image from the image DB 160 based on the selected image identifier, combines the received SMS message with the received SMS message, and composes the emotional message and transmits it to the MMSC 140. The emotional message may be created by combining emoticons corresponding to the words of the SMS message received from the emotional message server 150. The MMSC 140 receives the emotional message from the emotional message server 150 and transmits the emotional message to the called terminal 120.

2 is a flowchart illustrating a method of providing an emotional message service in a mobile communication network according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 2, the calling terminal 110 composes an SMS message in which an emotional message service parameter (for example, # 451) is added to the called number, and transmits the SMS message to the SMSC 130 (S201). Then, the SMSC 130 checks whether the emotional message service parameter is included in the SMS message, and if the emotional message service parameter is included in the SMS message, transmits the SMS message to the emotional message server 150 (S203). In this case, the SMSC 130 also transmits an identifier (ie, a phone number) of the calling terminal 110 and the called terminal 120 to the emotional message server 150.

The emotional message server 150 receiving the SMS message checks the age and gender of the caller using the identifier (ie, the telephone number) of the calling terminal 110 (S205). In addition, the emotional message server 150 analyzes the received message by paragraph analysis and stemming to determine the positive or negative meaning of the SMS message, and to determine the emotional state and the emotional strength (S207). For example, if the emotional message server 150 receives the message "I love you so much", the paragraph interpretation and stemming of the message result in 'do', 'not', 'no', 'no' meaning negation. Since no backs are found, they are interpreted in a positive sense and the stems of 'I love you' are extracted to extract the stem of 'I love you' and the basic form of 'I love you'. In addition, it extracts the adverb 'too' that modifies 'I love you' from the received message and grasps the intensity of emotion as 'image'. Through this analysis, the emotional message server 150 sets the emotional state of the received message as 'love' and the strength of the emotion as 'strong'. In this case, the emotional message server 150 may set the strength of the emotion to 'medium' if there is no adverb that modifies the emotional state in the SMS message, and when the adverbs such as' very ',' very ', too' are extracted, The strength can be set to 'strong', and once the 'slight', 'cut', 'slight', etc. are extracted, the intensity of the emotion can be set to 'weak'.

Subsequently, the emotional message server 150 extracts a background image identifier corresponding to the sender's gender and age, paragraph interpretation (positive or negative message), emotional state and emotional intensity information of the received message from the image table (S209). . However, if the received message includes words related to the anniversary (eg, birthday, graduation, marriage, etc.), the emotional message server 150 reads the words related to the anniversary by gender and age, paragraph interpretation (positive or negative), emotion Image identifiers corresponding to status, emotion intensity information, and anniversary are selected. On the other hand, the caller may access the emotional message server 150 and set his or her favorite image pattern (eg, cartoon, landscape, photo, etc.). Then, when selecting the image identifier, the emotional message server 150 preferentially selects the image identifier set by the sender.

The emotional message server 150 extracts a background image from the image DB 160 based on the selected image identifier and combines it with the received SMS message to create an emotional message (S211). In this case, an emoticon corresponding to a word of the received SMS message may be used. Subsequently, the emotional message server 150 transmits the generated emotional message to the MMSC 140 (S213). The MMSC 140 transmits the sentiment message received from the sentiment message server 150 to the called terminal 120 (S215).

Hereinafter, a method of providing an emotional message service in a mobile communication network according to the present invention will be described in more detail with reference to FIGS. 3 and 4.

3 is a flowchart illustrating a method of providing an emotional message service in an emotional message server according to an embodiment of the present invention.

4 is a diagram illustrating an image table of an emotional message server according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 3, first, the emotional message server 150 receives an SMS message from the SMSC 130 (S301). In this case, the emotional message server 150 receives the SMS message including the identifier (ie, the telephone number) of the calling terminal 110 and the called terminal 120. The emotional message server 150 checks the gender and age of the sender using the identifier of the calling terminal 110 (S303).

In addition, the emotional message server 150 analyzes the received SMS message by paragraph and morpheme to determine whether the message is positive or negative (S305). For example, if the received SMS message includes "not happy," the emotional message server 150 extracts a base of "no" of the "no" of the received message, so that the basic type of "no" is not. 'To see if the SMS message is a negative.

Subsequently, the emotional message server 150 extracts the emotional state and the emotional strength information of the SMS message (S307). For example, if the emotional message server 150 receives an SMS message of "Very happy that you have won," the basic type of 'happy' and the adverb 'indicative of the intensity of emotion' Very 'extract'. That is, the emotional message server 150 grasps the emotional state of the SMS message as 'joy' through the basic type of 'joy', and the strength of the emotion as 'strong' through the word 'very'. .

In addition, the emotional message server 150 determines whether an SMS word is included in the SMS message (S309). That is, if the SMS message includes words such as graduation, marriage, birthday, anniversary, the emotional message server 150 extracts the word of the anniversary.

The emotional message server 150 displays an image identifier 415 corresponding to the gender and age of the sender, the positive or negative of the SMS message, the emotional state and intensity of the SMS message, the anniversary word, and the background image designated by the sender. Select from (S311). If there is an image pattern set by the caller, the emotional message server 150 preferentially selects an image identifier 415 corresponding to the image pattern set by the caller. The emotional message server 150 reads a background image from the image DB 160 based on the selected image identifier 415 and creates an emotional message by combining it with the SMS message received from the SMSC 130 (S313). The emotional message server 150 requests the sent emotional message to the MMSC 140 (S315).

For example, it is assumed that the emotional message server 150 receives an SMS message from the SMSC 130 that the caller (the late teen and the male) of the calling number 016-111-xxxx is "not happy to meet you." The emotional message server 150 receiving the SMS message first confirms that the sender is a male of late teens using the 016-111-xxxx identifier. In addition, the emotional message server 150 analyzes the paragraphs and morphemes of the SMS message, and extracts the basic type 'no' from the stem of 'no', and identifies the paragraph as negative. The emotional message server 150 extracts the basic type of 'happy' from the stem of the word 'happy', and grasps that the content of the SMS message indicates 'joy'. In addition, since there is no adverb (very, very, very, etc.) indicating the strength of emotion in the received SMS message, the emotional message server 150 sets the strength of emotion to 'medium'.

The emotional message server 150 selects an image identifier 415 from the image table 410 based on the analyzed information (male, late, teenage, happy, middle). In this case, the emotional message server 150 may select one of the plurality of image identifiers 415 except for the image identifier 415 associated with the anniversary (birthday, marriage, graduation). In other words, the emotion message server 150 of the image identifiers 171, 172, 173, 174, and 175 corresponding to the analyzed information in the image table 410 (male, late, teenage, late teens) 411. You can select one. On the other hand, if the caller approaches the emotional message server 150 and sets his or her preferred background image to 'cartoon' 413, the emotional message server 150 corresponds to the image identifier 415 with the cartoon field 413. 173 to choose. The emotional message server 150 generates an emotional message by combining the received SMS message by extracting the background image corresponding to the image identifier 415 173 from the image DB 160.

5 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of an emotional message server according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 5, the emotional message server 150 according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a transceiver 501, a first storage unit 503, a second storage unit 505, and a user identification unit 507. , A message analyzer 509, an image selector 511, and a message creator 513.

The transmitter / receiver 501 receives an SMS message including a caller and a called party identifier (that is, a phone number) from the SMSC 130, and transmits it to the MMSC 140 when the message creator 513 creates an emotional message. . When the subscriber accesses the emotional message server 150 to set his or her preferred image pattern, the transceiver 501 receives this and stores the information set by the subscriber in the second storage unit 505.

The first storage unit 503 stores the image table 410 to which the image identifier 415 is mapped in response to gender, age, paragraph interpretation (positive or negative message), emotional state, and emotional intensity information. The second storage unit 505 stores subscriber information such as a mobile communication telephone number and a social security number for each subscriber and image pattern information directly selected by the subscriber.

The user identification unit 507 reads the gender and age of the sender from the second storage unit 505 using the sender identifier (ie, the phone number) of the SMS message received by the transceiver unit 501. In addition, the user confirmation unit 507 confirms the presence or absence of an image pattern preset by the caller.

The message analyzer 509 analyzes the SMS message received from the transceiver 501 by paragraph analysis and morpheme analysis to determine a positive or negative meaning of the SMS message. The emotion state information and the emotion intensity information of the SMS message are extracted. In addition, the message analyzer 509 checks whether an SMS word includes a anniversary word (birthday, marriage, graduation, etc.).

The image selecting unit 511 determines information (age, gender, positive or negative, caller's image pattern, emotional state, emotional intensity, anniversary word) confirmed and analyzed by the user confirmation unit 507 and the message analyzer 509. Based on the selection, the first storage unit 503 selects the image identifier 415. If there is an image pattern set by the caller, the image selecting unit 511 first selects an image identifier 415 corresponding to the image pattern.

The message creator 513 extracts the background image from the image DB 160 based on the image identifier selected by the image selector 511, and combines it with the SMS message received by the transceiver 501 to generate an emotional message. Write. The message creating unit 513 requests the transmitting / receiving unit 501 to transmit the completed emotional message.

In the above description, the method of checking the gender and age based on the sender and selecting the image identifier 415 based on the image pattern set by the sender has been described, but the present invention is not limited thereto. It is made clear that the image identifier 415 can be selected based on the image pattern set by the called party. In addition, it is made clear that the emotional message server 150 can receive the emotional message service requested MMS message from the MMSC 140 as well as the SMSC 130. That is, the MMSC 140 may receive an MMS message having an emotional message service parameter set from the sender and transmit it to the emotional message server 150.

The method of the present invention as described above 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.

As described above, the present invention may identify the emotional state included in the text message, generate an emotional message corresponding thereto, and transmit the same to the called party, and may change the background image of the emotional message according to the gender and age of the subscriber.

Claims (10)

As a method of providing an emotional message service in a mobile communication network, (a) checking the gender and age of the caller or called party by receiving a message from the calling terminal; (b) morphologically analyzing the received message to read emotion state and emotion intensity information; (c) selecting a background image corresponding to the gender, age, emotional state, and emotion intensity information; And (d) generating and transmitting an emotional message by combining the received message and the background image. The method of claim 1, And reading an anniversary word in the received message. Step (c) is, Emotional message service providing method comprising selecting a background image corresponding to the word of the anniversary. The method of claim 1, Step (c) is, A method of providing an emotional message service, characterized by selecting a background image corresponding to a preset symbol set by a caller or a called party. The method of claim 1, And parsing the received message to determine a positive or negative meaning. Step (c) is, And selecting a background image corresponding to the gender, age, paragraph interpretation, emotional state, and emotional intensity information. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 4, The message received from the calling terminal is Emotional message service providing method characterized in that any one of MMS message or SMS message. A system for providing an emotional message service in a mobile communication network, A message center for receiving a message from an originating terminal; And When receiving a message from the message center, the gender and age of the sender or the called party are checked, the message is morphologically analyzed to read the emotional state and the emotion intensity information of the message, and the gender, age, the emotional state and the emotion intensity information. And an emotional message server for selecting a background image corresponding to the combination, and generating the emotional message by combining it with the received message and transmitting the emotional message to the called terminal. The method of claim 6, The emotional message server, And a background image corresponding to the anniversary word is read by reading the anniversary word from the received message. The method of claim 6, The emotional message server, Emotional message service providing system, characterized in that for selecting the background image according to a preference set by the caller or called party. The method according to any one of claims 6 to 8, The message center, Emotional message service providing system, characterized in that any one of MMSC or SMSC. An emotional message device that provides an emotional message to a mobile communication terminal in conjunction with a message center, A transceiver for receiving a message from the message center and transmitting an emotional message to a called terminal; A first storage unit configured to store an image identifier mapped corresponding to gender, age, emotional state, and emotion intensity information; A second storage unit storing subscriber information and preferred image information of the subscriber; A user confirmation unit which reads gender, age and image preference information of a caller or a called party from the second storage unit based on the received message; A message analyzer configured to read the emotional state and the emotion intensity information of the message by morphologically analyzing the received message; An image selecting unit selecting an image identifier in the first storage unit based on the information read by the user analyzer and the message analyzer; And And a message composition unit for generating an emotion message based on the image identifier.

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