KR20100004325A - Terminal and method for sending and receiving message free of charge - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A terminal and a method for sending and receiving a message are provided to transceive a message in an e-mail type between a sending terminal and a receiving terminal through a mail server. CONSTITUTION: An originating interface unit(12) receives a message. A text/mail converter converts the message into an e-mail type. A mail transmitter(18) transmits the converted message to a mail server. A mail/text converter converts the e-mail type message into a message type. A receiving interface unit(28) displays the converted message.

Description

Message sending and receiving terminal and its method {TERMINAL AND METHOD FOR SENDING AND RECEIVING MESSAGE FREE OF CHARGE}

The present invention relates to a message transmitting and receiving terminal and a method thereof.

In general, a message service provided by a terminal such as a mobile phone using a mobile communication network is composed of a message sending and a message receiving procedure so that messages can be exchanged between the calling terminal and the called terminal.

Here, the message includes a short message capable of transmitting a text of 80 bytes or less, a concept including a multimedia message to which various emoticons, music, pictures, video files, etc. can be attached as well as text. to be.

The call processing procedure of a general message transfer service is as follows.

When the originating terminal composes a message and delivers it to the calling mobile switching center (MSC) together with the telephone number of the called terminal, the calling mobile switching center checks the message and sends the message and the message transmission request signal to a text message service center (SMSC). ).

The text message service center notifies the calling mobile telephone exchange that the message transmission request has been confirmed. The text message service center requests subscriber information and location information of the called terminal to a home location register (HLR).

The home location register identifies the subscriber information and the location information of the called terminal and notifies the text message service center.

The text message service center requests the sending of the message to the called mobile telephone exchange corresponding to the location information of the called terminal. The terminating mobile telephone exchange transfers the message to the terminating terminal.

When the called terminal receives the message normally, it transmits an acknowledgment to the called mobile telephone exchange. The terminating mobile telephone exchange transfers the confirmation response received from the terminating terminal to a text message service center.

The text message service center recognizes that the message is normally transmitted between the calling terminal and the called terminal through the acknowledgment, and charges the message transmission to the calling terminal (or called terminal).

After all, the general message transmission service is a fact that the user who uses a lot of message transmission is expensive because the calling terminal must pay a predetermined fee for the message transmission to the destination terminal by the above call processing procedure.

However, in general, if the Internet is used as a flat rate to pay a monthly contract regardless of the amount of data transmission, it can be said that e-mail transmission between the calling terminal and the called terminal is free.

Therefore, there is a need to send and receive a message between a paying originating terminal and a called terminal in an unpaid email format.

The present invention provides a message transmitting and receiving terminal and a method for transmitting and receiving a message between an originating terminal and a receiving terminal in an e-mail format through a mail server so as not to incur a separate cost when sending a message.

In another aspect, the present invention is to provide a message transmitting and receiving terminal and a method for managing a message received by the called terminal in the e-mail format along with the received e-mail in a general path.

The message transmitting and receiving terminal according to the present invention is a message transmitting and receiving terminal, an outgoing interface unit for receiving a message including contents to be delivered and a number of a called / outgoing terminal, a text / mail converting unit for converting the message into an e-mail format, and the text. A mail transmission unit for forwarding the message converted into an e-mail format by the / mail conversion unit to the mail server so that the mail server delivers the message converted into the e-mail format to the mail database, and receives the e-mail format message from the mail database. A mail receiver, a mail / character converter for converting an email format message received by the mail receiver into a message format, and a message converted from the mail / text converter into a message format and displayed to a user. It includes a terminating interface And the configuration.

Here, the mail receiving unit of the present invention receives not only the email format message but also the email received through a general path at a predetermined time interval from the mail database, and the destination interface unit is configured to the message format in the mail / text converter. In addition to the converted message, the email received in the usual way is displayed together.

On the other hand, the present invention provides a first identification unit for assigning an identifier to a message converted into an email format by the text / mail conversion unit; And a second identifying unit for identifying an identifier of a message in an e-mail format received by the mail receiving unit.

Meanwhile, the destination interface unit of the present invention adds a predetermined icon to the message so that the user can distinguish that the message is a message when the message and the e-mail are integrated to the user.

On the other hand, the present invention further comprises a notification means for informing the message and the e-mail with different vibrations or ring tones.

Meanwhile, the message of the present invention is either a short message or a multimedia message.

On the other hand, the message transmission and reception method according to the present invention is a message transmission and reception method, comprising the steps of: (a) receiving a message including the content to be delivered from the calling terminal and the number of the called / called terminal; (b) the calling terminal converting the message into an e-mail format; (c) sending the message converted to the email format to the mail database by sending the message converted to the email format to the mail server by the calling terminal; (d) receiving a message in an email format from the mail database by a called terminal; (e) converting a message in an email format received by the called terminal back into a message format; And (f) expressing, by the called terminal, a message converted into a message format to the user.

The present invention further includes the step of assigning an identifier to the message converted into the email format in the step (b).

Meanwhile, in the step (d), the present invention includes the steps of receiving an e-mail received by a general path as well as an e-mail message in the mail database; And in step (f), expressing the message, which is converted into a message format to the user, together with the received e-mail in a general path.

Meanwhile, in the step (f), the present invention adds a preset icon to distinguish the user from the message when the message is displayed to the user.

Meanwhile, in the step (f), the present invention informs the message and the email by different vibrations or ring tones.

The calling terminal of the present invention converts a message inputted and sent by the user into an email format and transmits the message to a mail server. The receiving terminal receives the message in the form of email from the mail database connected to the mail server, converts it into a message and expresses it to the user. Therefore, the message is transmitted between the calling terminal and the called terminal in an e-mail format, thereby providing an effect of freely sending and receiving a message between the calling terminal and the called terminal.

In addition, the destination terminal of the present invention provides an effect that allows the destination terminal user to manage the message and e-mail by expressing the message from the mail database and the e-mail received in a general path together.

In addition, the receiving terminal of the present invention can manage messages and emails unifiedly, and when a message is displayed to the user, by adding a preset icon to the message, the user can efficiently distinguish the freely received message from the received email by a general path. Provide the effect of doing so.

In addition, the present invention provides an effect that allows the called terminal to notify the user with different vibrations or ringtones according to the message or email so that the user can efficiently distinguish between the email and the message even by hearing.

Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying drawings will be described specific details for the practice of the invention.

1 is a block diagram of a message transmission and reception system 1000 according to the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 1, the message transmission / reception system 1000 according to the present invention includes a calling terminal 100a, a called terminal 100b, a mail server 200, a mail database 300, and the like.

In the present invention, the calling terminal 100a will be described mainly for components for sending a message, and the called terminal 100b will be described mainly for components for receiving a message. However, both the calling terminal 100a and the called terminal 100b may be embodied as capable of sending and receiving messages. In this case, it will be apparent that the calling terminal 100a and the called terminal 100b are formed of the same components.

On the other hand, the user of the calling terminal 100a and the called terminal 100b subscribes to a specific web site providing a web mail service, for example, a web site of www.nemo.com using his mobile phone number as an ID.

If the mobile phone number of the user of the calling terminal 100a and the called terminal 100b is "0111234567" and "01012345678," respectively, the web site ID is 0111234567 and 01012345678, respectively, to the calling terminal 100a and the called terminal 100b. to provide.

The web site provides the e-mail addresses of the calling terminal 100a and the called terminal 100b to 0111234567@nemo.com and 01012345678@nemo.com, respectively, to the calling terminal 100a and the called terminal 100b.

Meanwhile, the calling terminal 100a and the called terminal 100b are preferably equipped with a wireless internet module for accessing the mail server 200 by wireless communication.

The wireless internet module may use a wireless network based on a mobile communication network, a wireless LAN, a WiBRO, or a high speed downlink packet access (HSDPA).

In the present embodiment, a case where the calling terminal 100a and the called terminal 100b are wireless communication terminals will be described, but it will be obvious to those skilled in the art.

2 is a block diagram of the calling terminal 100a and the called terminal 100b according to the present invention.

As shown in Fig. 2, the originating terminal 100a and the terminating terminal 100b of the present invention are basically an outgoing interface unit 12, a text / mail converting unit 14, a mail transmitting unit 18, and a mail receiving unit. (22), a mail / character conversion unit 26, an incoming interface unit 28, and the like.

The outgoing interface unit 12 provides an environment in which a user writes a message, and is composed of a message transmission program provided by a terminal manufacturer or a separate message transmission program (eg, Nate-On).

Accordingly, the calling interface unit 12 receives a message including contents to be delivered from the user of the calling terminal 100a to the called terminal 100b and the numbers of the calling terminal 100a and the called terminal 100b.

Here, the outgoing interface unit 12 may be linked to a web site that provides a web mail service, for example, www.nemo.com.

That is, after the user's normal message input is completed, the calling interface unit 12 transmits the telephone number of the called terminal 100b included in the message input from the user to the web site.

Accordingly, the web site determines whether the called terminal 100b is subscribed to the web mail service provided by www.nemo.com, and if it is subscribed, sends a message that the message can be sent free of charge. Send to 100a.

However, the web site notifies the calling terminal 100a that the free transfer is not possible if the called terminal 100b is not subscribed to the web mail service provided by www.nemo.com (the called terminal 100b). Off line).

In addition, the web site queries the calling terminal 100a whether to send the message to the called terminal 100b through another message transmission method, for example, a text message transmission server based on a conventional mobile communication or wired communication network, that is, an SMS server. do.

The web site causes the calling terminal 100a to send the message in another message transmission method or stop sending the message, depending on whether the calling terminal 100a user transmits or not.

Both the originating terminal 100a and the terminating terminal 100b mutually convert messages between e-mails and e-mails, i.e., each of the calling terminal 100a and the e-mailing terminal 100b includes a text / mail converting section 14, a mail / text converting section 26, and the like. You can send it for free.

Meanwhile, the text / mail converting unit 14 converts the message from the originating interface unit 12 into an e-mail format.

Here, when the message is converted into an e-mail format, the format conversion of the content of the message is achieved by a separate text / mail conversion program, and the mobile phone number is a web mail address of a web site providing a web mail service after the mobile phone number, for example, This is accomplished by adding "@ nemo.com".

For example, the text / mail conversion unit 14 automatically converts the telephone number of the called terminal 100b of “01012345678” into “01012345678@nemo.com”, and converts the calling terminal 100a of “0111234567”. Automatically convert your phone number to "0111234567@nemo.com".

In this case, when the email is converted by the text / mail conversion program, the message does not have a subject but the email requires a subject. Thus, a part of the message may be described as the subject of the email tomorrow or the subject may be left blank.

Here, the message converted into the e-mail format by the text / mail converting unit 14 needs to inform that the message is converted into the e-mail format.

To this end, the originating terminal 100a of the present invention further includes a first identifying unit 16 which assigns an identifier to the message converted into the email format. In this case, the identifier is separately added to the header of the message converted into the e-mail format, so that the second identification unit 24 and the destination interface unit 28 described later can distinguish the message.

Meanwhile, the mail transmitter 18 transmits the message converted into the email format by the text / mail converter 14 to the mail server 200.

The mail server 200 delivers an email to the mail database 300 using the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP).

If the originating terminal 100a and the receiving terminal 100b side mail servers are different from each other in the mail server 200, a relay server is intervened, so that the mail server-relay server-receiving terminal 100b side mail server 100a side is connected. You can send and receive email with each other.

When the relay server is involved, the mail database 300 is connected to the mail server of the destination terminal 100b.

 Meanwhile, the mail database 300 stores a message converted into an e-mail format delivered by the mail transmitter 18. In this case, the mail database 300 receives and coexists a message converted into an e-mail format and an e-mail of a general path (for example, when another originating terminal sends an e-mail to "01012345678@nemo.com").

Meanwhile, the mail receiver 22 downloads an email of the called terminal 100b stored in the mail database 300 using a post office protocol (POP) or an internet messaging access protocol (IMAP).

Here, the e-mail downloaded by the mail receiver 22 coexists with an e-mail message and an e-mail of a general path. Accordingly, the called terminal 100b further includes a second identification unit 24 that identifies the message in the email format through an identifier added to the message in the email format in the email.

Meanwhile, the mail / text converter 26 converts the message in the email format identified by the second identifier 24 back into the message format.

In other words, when converting the message of the e-mail format back to the original message, the format conversion of the content of the message is achieved by a separate mail / text conversion program, and the e-mail address is provided on a web that provides a web mail service behind a mobile number. This is accomplished by deleting "nemo.com" of the site.

In addition, since the e-mail has a subject but the message does not have a subject, a method of merging the subject of the e-mail with the content of the message or deleting the subject of the e-mail may be used.

For example, the mail / character converter 26 automatically converts an address of an e-mail address of the recipient terminal 100b of “01012345678@nemo.com” into a mobile phone number of a message type of “01012345678”, and “0111234567 @ nemo.com "to automatically convert the address of the calling terminal 100a into a mobile phone number of the message format" 0111234567 ".

The incoming interface unit 28 expresses the message converted by the mail / text conversion unit 26 into the message format to the user.

In this case, the terminating interface unit 28 is configured in the form of a message box in order for the terminating interface unit 28 to express a message to the terminating terminal 100b user.

That is, the incoming interface unit 28 determines the number of the originating terminal 100a (or the name of the user of the previously stored originating terminal 100a corresponding to the number) and the reception of the message in the pop-up menu (or the like). pop-up menu). The user of the called terminal 100b may check the number of the calling terminal 100a and whether or not the message is received through the pop-up menu, and check the contents of the message in the message storage box.

 Here, the pop-up menu includes a part or all of the contents of the message according to the setting on the receiving terminal 100b of the user, so that the contents of the message can be immediately checked without going through the message storage box.

Meanwhile, as another embodiment, the incoming interface unit 28 integrates the message storage box with a separate email storage box (for example, an email storage where mail received in a general path is stored at an address of “01012345678@nemo.com”). It can be configured as an integrated message store. The integrated message box may express the message and the e-mail to the recipient terminal 100b user.

At this time, the integrated message box should be configured so that the user of the called terminal 100b can distinguish between the message and the email.

To this end, the integrated message storage box may add a preset icon to distinguish the user from the message when the message is displayed to the user. On the other hand, the incoming interface unit 28 may add a predetermined icon so that the user can distinguish that the e-mail received by the general path as the e-mail.

Meanwhile, a notification means (not shown) for notifying the receiving terminal 100b of the message or the e-mail that is received to the user may be further provided.

The notification means may notify each other with different vibrations or ringtones for each message or e-mail according to the setting of the called terminal 100b.

Hereinafter, a message transmission and reception method according to the present invention will be described.

Example 1

3 is a flowchart of a message transmission and reception method according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 3, the calling terminal 100a first subscribes to a specific web site that provides a web mail service as a member and selects an ID and an e-mail address corresponding to its mobile phone number from "0111234567" and "0111234567 @ nemo." com "is given (S100).

In addition, the receiving terminal 100b registers as a member of a specific web site providing a web mail service and receives an ID and an e-mail address corresponding to his / her mobile number as "01012345678" and "01012345678@nemo.com" (S100). .

Subsequently, the calling interface unit 12 of the calling terminal 100a creates a message including contents to be delivered from the user to the called terminal 100b and a phone number of the calling terminal 100a and the called terminal 100b according to a normal message writing method. It is received (S102).

The outgoing interface unit 12 of the outgoing terminal 100a may generate an advertisement effect by inserting a separate advertisement phrase or image into a message written by the user of the outgoing terminal 100a. For example, advertisement text may be further added to the end of the message written by the user of the calling terminal 100a.

Meanwhile, the user of the called terminal 100b is ready to display an email and a message through the incoming interface unit 28.

Subsequently, the text / mail conversion unit 14 of the calling terminal 100a converts the message into an e-mail format (S104).

Herein, the text / mail conversion unit 14 of the calling terminal 100a has an e-mail address (for example, 0111234567) used to convert a message into an e-mail corresponding to the mobile phone numbers of the calling terminal 100a and the called terminal 100b. @ nemo.com, 01012345678@nemo.com) is set in advance so that the mobile phone numbers of the calling terminal 100a and the called terminal 100b can be converted into the email address.

Subsequently, the first identifying unit 16 of the calling terminal 100a assigns an identifier to the message converted into the email format (S106).

Subsequently, the mail transmitter 18 of the calling terminal 100a transmits the message to which the identifier is assigned, to the mail server 200. Accordingly, the mail server 200 transmits the message to which the identifier is assigned to the mail database 300 for receiving and storing the email of the destination terminal 100b (S108).

Subsequently, the mail receiving unit 22 of the receiving terminal 100b receives a message in an e-mail format from the mail database 300 at set time intervals. Here, the mail receiving unit 22 of the called terminal 100b receives not only the message of the e-mail format but also an e-mail received through a general path (S110).

Subsequently, the second identification unit 24 of the destination terminal 100b identifies the e-mail message received by the mail reception unit 22 using the identifier (S112).

Subsequently, the mail / text conversion unit 26 of the destination terminal 100b converts the message in the e-mail format identified by the second identification unit 24 back into the message format (S114).

Subsequently, the terminating interface unit 28 of the terminating terminal 100b is configured in a message box format and expresses the message converted into the message format by the mail / text converter 26 to the user of the terminating terminal 100b (S116). .

Subsequently, the notification means of the called terminal 100b causes the called terminal 100b to notify the user with a vibration or a ringtone (S118).

Example 2

4 is a flowchart of a message transmission and reception method according to Embodiment 2 of the present invention.

Steps S200 to S214 are the same as steps S100 to S114 in FIG. 3, and thus a detailed description thereof will be omitted.

As shown in FIG. 4, the destination interface 28 of the destination terminal 100b is composed of an integrated message storage box in which a message storage box and an email storage box are integrated, and not only the message but also an email received through a general path. The terminal 100b expresses the integration to the user (S216).

Here, the terminating interface unit 28 of the terminating terminal 100b configured in the integrated message storage box may add corresponding preset icons so that the user of the terminating terminal 100b can distinguish a message from an e-mail.

Subsequently, the notification means of the called terminal 100b causes the called terminal 100b to notify the user that a message or an email is received by different vibrations or ringtones for each message or email (S218).

5 is a screen capture of an incoming interface configured in the form of an integrated message box of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 5, the first line indicates that a new message is received, and the user of the called terminal 100b has a mobile phone number of 01023859573 by giving the icon "SMS" to the letter icon on the left. It is possible to recognize that the message "Where? I'm going now" has been received from the calling terminal 100a.

The second line shows the e-mail received by the general path, and the letter-shaped icon is displayed on the left side so that the destination terminal 100b user can receive the general path from the originating terminal 100a having the e-mail address of dennis@nemo.com. Allows the user to recognize that a mail has been received.

The third line shows a message received from the calling terminal 100a called Park Sung-yong, and displays a letter icon read on the left side so that the called terminal 100b user can recognize that there is a message already read. .

In addition, the fourth line indicates that a new message is received, and the user of the called terminal 100b is given a message called "SMS" to the called terminal 100b by assigning the icon "SMS" to the letter icon on the left. If the number of the pre-stored to display the name directly, rather than the mobile phone number) it can be recognized that the message of "contact wind" received from the calling terminal (100a).

 As mentioned above, although the present invention has been described by means of a limited configuration and drawings, the technical idea of the present invention is not limited thereto, and it should be understood by those skilled in the art to which the present invention pertains. Various modifications and variations may be made without departing from the scope of the appended claims.

1 is a block diagram of a message free transmission system of the present invention.

2 is a block diagram of a calling terminal and a called terminal of the present invention.

3 is a flowchart of a message transmission and reception method according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention;

4 is a flowchart of a message transmission and reception method according to Embodiment 2 of the present invention;

5 is a screen capture of the incoming interface configured in the unified message box format of the present invention.

Claims (11)

A message transmitting and receiving terminal, An outgoing interface unit for receiving a message including contents to be delivered and a number of a called / outgoing terminal, a text / mail converting unit for converting the message into an e-mail format, and a message converted from the text / mail converting unit to an e-mail format A mail transmitter for delivering the message converted into an email format to a mail database by delivering to a server; A mail receiver for receiving a message in an email format from the mail database, a mail / text converter for converting an email format message received by the mail receiver back into a message format, and a message format in the mail / text converter Message receiving terminal, characterized in that it comprises a receiving interface for receiving the received message and expressing it to the user. The method of claim 1, The mail receiving unit receives not only the email format message but also an email received through a general path at a predetermined time interval from the mail database, The incoming / outgoing interface unit not only converts the message converted into the message format from the mail / text converter, but also expresses the e-mail received through a general path to the user together. The method of claim 1, A first identifying unit for assigning an identifier to a message converted into an e-mail format by the text / mail converting unit; And a second identifier for identifying an identifier of an e-mail message received by the mail receiver. The method of claim 2, The incoming interface unit And a predetermined icon is added to the message to distinguish the user from the message when the message and the e-mail are displayed to the user. The method of claim 2, Message transmitting and receiving terminal, characterized in that it further comprises a notification means for informing the message and the e-mail with different vibrations or ring tones. The method of claim 1, The message is Message transmitting and receiving terminal, characterized in that any one of a short message (Short Message) or a multimedia message (Multimedia Message). As a method for sending and receiving messages, (a) receiving, by the calling terminal, a message including contents to be delivered from the user and a number of the called / calling terminal; (b) the calling terminal converting the message into an e-mail format; (c) sending the message converted to the email format to the mail database by sending the message converted to the email format to the mail server by the calling terminal; (d) receiving a message in an email format from the mail database by a called terminal; (e) converting a message in an email format received by the called terminal back into a message format; And and (f) expressing, by the called terminal, a message converted into a message format to a user. The method of claim 7, wherein In step (b), And assigning an identifier to the message converted into the e-mail format. The method of claim 7, wherein In the step (d), receiving an e-mail received by a general path as well as an e-mail message in the mail database; And In the step (f), the message transmission and reception method further comprising the step of integrating and expressing the message converted into a message format to the user along with the received e-mail. The method of claim 7, wherein In the step (f), And a predetermined icon is added to distinguish the user from the message when the message is displayed to the user. The method of claim 9, In the step (f), The message and the e-mail message transmission and reception method, characterized in that notifying each other with different vibrations or ringtones.

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