KR20100081596A - Apparatus and method of billing per supplimentary service in mobile communication terminal - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: An apparatus and a method of billing per a supplementary service in a mobile communication terminal are provided to store fee information for additional services at a registry and reduce network traffic by processing the payment for additional services based on subscriber information when connecting to a network. CONSTITUTION: A registry(110) stores subscriber information, and an SMS(Short Message Service) processing unit(120) receives an SMS for changing subscriber information from a subscriber information server. A subscriber information processing unit(130) stores the subscriber information at the registry during booting, and the subscriber information processing unit parses the SMS and reflects the parsed SMS to the registry when receiving the SMS for changing the subscriber information. During the network connection, a connection manager(140) confirms the subscriber information of the registry to create a network socket.

Description

Billing processing device and method for additional services in mobile communication terminal {APPARATUS AND METHOD OF BILLING PER SUPPLIMENTARY SERVICE IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL}

The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for processing billing for each additional service in a mobile communication terminal.

As is well known, smart phones, which combine the functions of a mobile phone and a PDA, have been in the spotlight. These smartphones are equipped with a larger memory and a higher performance CPU than conventional mobile phones, and are equipped with an operating system (OS) to support various application execution, voice / data communication, and PC interworking. Currently, the operating system of the smartphone is "Windows Mobile OS" developed by Microsoft Corporation of the United States.

In this case, the general mobile terminal can process the billing for each additional service according to the promised agreement between the application and the infrastructure called a service option when connecting the network socket, but in the case of a smartphone, the network socket control part There was a problem that the service option could not be processed due to the separation of the control part from the data call connection.

Therefore, according to the billing processing method according to the network connection of the conventional smart phone, in order to process the billing for each additional service at the time of network socket connection, the billing information must be checked in real time every time, so that not only network traffic occurs, There was a problem that charging occurs even when unconscious network traffic occurs.

In addition, according to the billing processing method according to the network connection of the conventional smartphone, when providing the operator-specific additional service using the Wi-Fi (WiFi), for example, only the user who is subscribed to the Full Browser plan (WiFi) If you want to allow unlimited use, you have to process the service subscription information through CDMA and WCDMA before connecting to Wi-Fi. In this case, the side effect of delay of application running time and terminal network control There was a big problem that there is a high possibility of the effect).

The present invention is to solve the above problems, and read the additional service plan information subscribed by the user at the time of booting the terminal, stored in the OS registry, by reference to the subscriber information at the time of network connection for each additional service Charge it.

Billing processing device for each additional service in the mobile communication terminal of the present invention to solve the above object, the registry for storing subscriber information;

SMS processing unit for receiving the subscriber information change SMS from the subscriber information server;

A subscriber information processing unit receiving subscriber information from the subscriber information server at initial booting and storing the subscriber information in the registry, and parsing and receiving the subscriber information change SMS from the SMS processing unit and reflecting it in the registry; And

And a connection manager for creating a network socket by checking subscriber information of the registry before creating a network socket at the time of network connection.

On the other hand, the billing processing method for each additional service in the mobile communication terminal of the present invention to solve the above object, the step of checking the subscription of the additional service by reading the information of the registry when the network request;

Determining whether to create a PPP channel if the subscriber is subscribed to an additional service plan; And

And connecting the network socket if the PPP channel is generated at the step of determining whether to generate the PPP channel.

On the other hand, billing processing method according to the additional service in the mobile communication terminal of the present invention to solve the above object, the step of receiving the subscription information of the additional service for each additional service from the subscriber information server at the initial booting; And

And storing the subscription information for each additional service of the user in a specific region of the registry.

On the other hand, billing processing method according to the additional service in the mobile communication terminal of the present invention to solve the above object, receiving a subscriber information change SMS from the subscriber information server;

Verifying the additional service name and the change information by parsing the received SMS;

Determining whether the change information is "subscription" or "delete"; And

If the change information is "subscription", storing the corresponding additional service plan information in the registry.

According to the present invention, by reading the additional service plan information subscribed to by the user at the time of booting the terminal and storing it in the registry, and processing the charging for each additional service by referring to the subscriber information at the time of network connection, the charging for the additional service for each network socket connection There is an excellent effect of reducing the network traffic by not having to check the information, and controlling the billing to not occur even when users unconsciously generate network traffic.

In addition, according to the present invention, if you want to provide an operator-specific additional service using the Wi-Fi (WiFi), it is not necessary to read the service subscription information through CDMA, WCDMA before the Wi-Fi (WiFi) connection, There is an excellent effect that eliminates side effect occurrence factors due to delay and terminal network control in advance.

Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying drawings will be described in detail the configuration of the billing processing device for each additional service in the mobile communication terminal according to the present invention. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a network to which the present invention is applied, and FIG. 2 is a functional block diagram showing a configuration of a billing processing device for each additional service implemented in a smartphone according to the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 2, the charging service apparatus for each value added service includes a registry 110, an SMS processing unit 120, a subscriber information processing unit 130, and a connection manager 140. On the other hand, such an additional service-specific billing processing device may be implemented mounted on the smart phone (Smart Phone) (100).

The registry 110 is a registry of an operating system (OS), and serves to store subscriber information for billing processing for each secondary service.

In this case, the subscriber information stored in the registry 110 is information for identifying which additional service plan the subscriber subscribes to. For example, when a subscriber subscribes to a full browser plan and an LBS plan, the full browser and LBS variables are stored as a string type in the "HKEY_LOCAL / Charge / Info" area of the registry 110.

In addition, as the SMS processing unit 120 changes the service subscription in the same manner as in FIG. 1 while the subscriber is on the smartphone 100, the subscriber information server 1 converts the changed subscriber information into the SMS method. When transmitting, it receives and transmits the received information to the subscriber information processor 130. At this time, if the subscriber wants to change the subscription of the supplementary service plan, the subscriber may change through Internet connection of a personal computer (PC) or wireless access using a terminal.

Meanwhile, the SMS 10 received by the SMS processing unit 120 is an SMS specialized for changing the subscriber information, and as shown in FIG. 7, a TID field 11 and an additional service name and a message indicating that the subscriber information is changed. As a text field 12 including subscription information, SMS string type data that does not include additional binary data is stored. As illustrated in FIG. 6, the subscriber information change SMS 10 includes string data such as "Full Browser subscribed" or "Full Browser deleted".

At this time, the upper 4 bytes of the subscription text of the text field 12 includes specific information for changing the supplementary service, that is, "subscription" or "delete" information of the supplementary service plan is stored. Accordingly, the subscriber information processor 130 determines the change of the additional service by checking the text field 12 of the SMS 10.

On the other hand, the subscriber information processing unit 130 is a software module for accessing the subscriber information server 1 and setting subscriber information (additional service subscription information for each additional service) in the registry 110 region of a specific OS. Is implemented.

In this case, as shown in FIG. 2, when the smart phone 100 is initially booted, the subscriber information processor 130 receives subscriber information from the subscriber information server 1 and stores the subscriber information in the registry 110. The subscriber information processor 130 stores the additional service plan in the registry 110 by generating a variable of the corresponding service plan and using a string type in the “HKEY_LOCAL / Charge / Info” area of the registry 110. Type).

Thereafter, the subscriber information processor 130 parses the received subscriber information change SMS from the SMS processor 120 as the subscriber changes the subscriber information, and then parses it to identify the text in the text field 12 of the SMS 10. Check the "subscription" or "deletion" information for the additional service plan.

In this case, if the information in the text field 12 is "subscription", the subscriber information processor 130 sets a variable of the corresponding additional service in the "HKEY_LOCAL / Charge / Info" area of the registry 110 in a string type. Save as) On the other hand, if the information in the text field 12 is "delete", the subscriber information processor 130 deletes the variable of the corresponding additional service stored in the "HKEY_LOCAL / Char / Info" area of the registry (110).

On the other hand, the connection manager 140 checks the subscriber information of the registry 110 before creating a network socket when an application requests a network, and then creates a network socket. The network connection can be connected normally only when a network socket is created, thereby enabling network control for each application.

At this time, the access manager 140 checks the subscriber information stored in the registry 110, but takes a method of connecting the network by creating a network socket only when the subscription of a specific additional service plan is confirmed.

In addition, the access manager 140 is provided with a service billing determination module 141 that checks the subscriber information in the registry 110 to determine the additional service billing.

Next, the charging processing method for each additional service in the smart phone according to the exemplary embodiment of the present invention using the device having the above configuration will be described with reference to FIG. 3.

First, the access manager 140 reads the information of the registry 110 when requesting a network socket and confirms whether to subscribe to an additional service plan (S101). The checking operation of the 101 st step S101 is performed by the service billing determining module 141.

At this time, the subscriber information processing unit 130 may check whether to subscribe to the PDA plan before checking whether to subscribe to the additional service plan, if the subscriber is subscribed to the PDA plan to create a PPP channel to connect the network socket do.

As a result of confirming the information in the registry 110 in step 101 (S101), if the subscriber is subscribed to an additional service plan, such as a full browser plan, an LBS plan (YES), the access manager 140 generates a PPP. It is determined whether there is (S102). The point-to-point protocol (PPP) is a protocol for data communication, similar to sleep, but has an advantage of allowing multiple connections.

At this time, if the PPP channel is generated in step 102 (YES), the access manager 140 immediately connects the network socket (S103). On the other hand, if the PPP channel is not created (NO), the access manager 140 proceeds to the network socket connection step (S103) after the PPP connection (S104).

Meanwhile, as a result of checking the information of the registry 110 in step 101, when the subscriber is not subscribed to the additional service plan (NO), the access manager 140 may be separately charged to the subscriber. Inform (S105). This is a billing pop-up (Pop-up) processing, the smartphone 100 will pop up the phrase "can be charged separately. Do you want to connect?"

Thereafter, the access manager 140 determines whether the subscriber selects the network connection after reading the popup (S106), and if the network connection is selected by the user (YES), determines whether to generate the PPP channel (S102). Proceed. On the other hand, if the network connection is not selected by the user (NO), the connection manager 140 cancels the network socket (S107).

Therefore, according to the present invention described above it is possible to overcome the disadvantage that the charging occurs even when the unconscious network traffic of the smart phone users.

Meanwhile, in the following, a method of setting additional service plan information in a method for processing additional services in a smart phone according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. 4.

The additional service charge processing method of FIG. 3 is performed after the additional service plan information setting method of FIG. 4 executed at initial booting.

When the initialization is completed during the initial booting of the smart phone 100, the subscriber information processor 130 receives all of the additional service plan information subscribed by the user from the subscriber information server 1 of FIG. 1 (S201).

Thereafter, the subscriber information processor 130 generates a variable corresponding to the subscriber's additional service plan information as a string type.

In operation S202, the registry 110 stores the information in the "HKEY_LOCAL / Charge / Info" area of the registry 110. Therefore, the access manager 140 checks the subscriber information stored in the "HKEY_LOCAL / Charge / Info" area of the registry 110 when the network connection request is made and proceeds with the billing process.

On the other hand, in the following description with reference to Figs. 5 and 6 with respect to the method of changing the additional service plan information in the charging method for each additional service in the smart phone according to an embodiment of the present invention.

First, when the user of the smart phone 100 wants to re-subscribe or delete a specific additional service subscribed to by the user, the plan information of the additional service is changed by accessing the Internet through a PC or another method as shown in FIG. 1.

Then, the subscriber information server 1 transmits the subscriber information changed by the user to the smart phone 100 through the subscriber information change SMS.

Through this process, the subscriber information processor 130 receives the subscriber information change SMS from the subscriber information server 1 (S301).

Thereafter, the subscriber information processing unit 130 parses the subscriber information change SMS and checks the top 4 bytes of the subscription status text of the text field 12 to confirm the change information (S302).

Subsequently, the subscriber information processor 130 determines whether the additional service change information is "subscription" or "delete" (S303). If the subscriber information processing unit 130 is "subscription," the subscriber information processing unit 130 is included in the text field 12 of the SMS 10. After confirming the name of the additional service, the corresponding additional service plan information is stored in the “HKEY_LOCAL / Charge / Info” area of the registry 110 (S304). On the other hand, if the change information is determined to be "deleted" in step 303 (S303), the subscriber information processing unit 130 checks the name of the additional service included in the text field 12 of the SMS (10) The corresponding additional service is deleted from the "HKEY_LOCAL / Charge / Info" area of the registry 110 (S305).

Although the present invention has been described in detail with reference to a number of embodiments, the scope of the present invention is not limited to these embodiments and should not be interpreted, and the present invention may be variously modified without departing from the technical spirit described in the claims. Can be implemented.

1 is a network configuration to which the present invention is applied,

2 is a functional block diagram showing the configuration of a charging service for each value added service in a mobile communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention;

3 is an operation flowchart showing a charging processing method for each additional service in a mobile communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention;

4 is an operation flowchart illustrating a method of setting additional service plan information in a method for processing additional services in a mobile communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention;

5 is an operation flowchart showing a method of changing additional service plan information in a method for processing additional services in a mobile communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention;

6 is an exemplary view showing an SMS for changing subscriber information applied to the present invention;

7 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of an SMS for changing subscriber information applied to the present invention.

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

100: smartphone

110: registry

120: SMS processing unit

130: subscriber information processing unit

140: connection manager

141: service charge determination module

Claims (18)

A registry for storing subscriber information; SMS processing unit for receiving the subscriber information change SMS from the subscriber information server; A subscriber information processing unit receiving subscriber information from the subscriber information server at initial booting and storing the subscriber information in the registry, and parsing and receiving the subscriber information change SMS from the SMS processing unit and reflecting it in the registry; And And a connection manager for creating a network socket by checking subscriber information of the registry before generating a network socket when a network is connected. The method of claim 1, The subscriber information is an additional service billing processing device in a mobile communication terminal which is information on whether a subscriber subscribes to an additional service plan. 3. The method of claim 2, The access manager checks the subscriber information stored in the registry, but only when the subscription to a particular value-added service plan is connected to the network by creating a network socket by the additional service charge processing apparatus in the mobile communication terminal. The method of claim 1, The subscriber information processing unit, the additional service charge processing device in the mobile communication terminal for generating and storing the additional service plan variable in a string type (String Type) when storing the subscriber information in the registry. The method of claim 4, wherein The additional service charge processing device of the registry is an additional service charge processing device in the mobile communication terminal which is an "HKEY_LOCAL / Charge / Info" area. The method of claim 1, The subscriber information change SMS includes: a TID field for indicating that the subscriber information change SMS; And And a text field including an additional service name and subscription information. The method of claim 6, The additional service charge processing device in the mobile communication terminal that stores the additional service "subscription" or "delete" information in the upper 4 bytes of the subscription text of the text field. The method of claim 6, The subscriber information change SMS is an additional service billing processing device in a mobile communication terminal that stores the data of the SMS string type. The method of claim 1, The mobile communication terminal is a charging service device for each additional service in a mobile communication terminal that is a smartphone. Checking whether to subscribe to an additional service plan by reading information in the registry when a network request is made; Determining whether to create a PPP channel if the user is subscribed to an additional service plan; And And a step of connecting a network socket if the PPP channel is generated at the step of determining whether to generate a PPP channel. The method of claim 10, If it is not generated in the step of determining whether the PPP channel is generated, the step of proceeding to the network socket connection step after the PPP connection; further comprising the charging processing method for each additional service in the mobile communication terminal. The method of claim 10, Notifying that additional charges may be separately processed if the additional service plan is not subscribed in the additional service plan confirmation step; And And if the network connection is selected by a user, proceeding to determining whether to generate a PPP channel. The method of claim 12, In the network connection determination step, if the network connection is not selected, the step of canceling the network socket; further comprising the additional service billing processing method in the mobile communication terminal. Receiving the subscription information of the additional service plan for the user from the subscriber information server at the initial booting; And And storing the subscription information of the additional service for each additional service in a specific region of the registry. 15. The method of claim 14, The billing processing method according to the value-added services in the mobile communication terminal for storing the subscription information for each value-added service plan in the "HKEY_LOCAL / Charge / Info" area of the registry. Receiving an SMS for changing subscriber information from the subscriber information server; Verifying the additional service name and the change information by parsing the received SMS; Determining whether the change information is "subscription" or "delete"; And If the change information is "subscription", storing the corresponding additional service plan information in the registry; billing processing method for each additional service in the mobile communication terminal. The method of claim 16, In the step of determining the change information, if the change information is "deleted", deleting the additional service plan information in the registry; further comprising the additional service billing processing method in the mobile communication terminal. The method of claim 16, The billing processing method according to the value-added services in the mobile communication terminal for storing the subscription information for each value-added service plan in the "HKEY_LOCAL / Charge / Info" area of the registry.

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