KR20100124602A - Representitive number service method suitable for each user and apparatus thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A representative number service method suitable for each user and an apparatus thereof are provided to reduce user inconvenience by offering user oriented representative number service. CONSTITUTION: A mobile terminal transfers a call setup message to an MSC(Mobile Switching Center)(S100). The MSC transmits an initial detection point message through an SSP(Service Switch Point) to an SCP(Service Control Point) (S110). The SCP senses the character based multiple subscriber number service based representative number service(S120). The SCP gets the capability information corresponding to the terminal type from the terminal DB(S150). A service provider offers multiple subscriber number service through the multiple subscriber number service method to the mobile terminal(S200).

Description

Appropriate representative number service method and device for each user {REPRESENTITIVE NUMBER SERVICE METHOD SUITABLE FOR EACH USER AND APPARATUS THEREOF}

The present invention relates to a representative number service, and more particularly, to a representative number service method and apparatus suitable for each user.

Representative number service is a service system that accommodates nationally distributed telephone numbers in one representative number (number with 1588 or 1544).

In the representative number service, the announcement of the user is mainly provided by voice, but recently, it is possible to provide not only voice but also video.

By the way, in the conventional representative number service, the announcement was decided by audio or video uniformly. That is, since the voice representative number providing the voice guide number service and the video representative number providing the video guide number service are allocated differently, the user must access the voice representative number to use the voice guide number service. In order to use the representative number service of the video guide, the user must be connected to the video representative number. Therefore, when a user of a high-performance mobile terminal, for example, a mobile terminal capable of making a video call connects to the voice representative number without knowing the video representative number, the representative number service is provided only by voice guidance even if the mobile terminal can make a video call. The user may experience a lot of inconvenience. As a result, a user who wants to use the representative number service has a problem of knowing both the voice representative number and the video representative number or the available representative number according to the capability of his mobile terminal.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention provides a representative number service method and apparatus for providing a representative number service suitable for each user by using one representative number.

Representative number service method according to one feature of the present invention for achieving the technical problem,

Receiving, by the intelligent network server, a call setup from the mobile terminal through a representative number, wherein the call setup includes a terminal type of the mobile terminal; Obtaining performance information supported according to a terminal type of the mobile terminal included in the call setup through the representative number; Determining a representative number service method according to the obtained performance information; Requesting a service provider providing a representative number service to provide a representative number service according to the determined representative number service method; And providing, by the intelligent network server, the representative number service provided from the service provider to the mobile terminal.

Representative number service method according to another feature of the present invention,

Receiving, by the intelligent network server, a call setup through the representative number from the mobile terminal; Obtaining information of a representative number service method designated by a user of the mobile terminal; Requesting a service provider providing a representative number service to provide a representative number service according to the obtained representative number service method; And providing, by the intelligent network server, the representative number service provided from the service provider to the mobile terminal.

Representative number service apparatus according to another feature of the present invention,

A service provider for storing and managing announcement broadcasting content for providing a representative number service; A wireless network switch that performs an incoming / outgoing call process for the mobile terminal and transmits the call to the intelligent network server when the call from the mobile terminal is a telephone number corresponding to the representative number; And in response to a request for a representative number service from the mobile terminal through the wireless network switch, cooperating with the service provider according to a representative number service method determined according to performance information supported by the mobile terminal, An intelligent network server for providing a representative number service to the mobile terminal through.

Representative number service apparatus according to another feature of the present invention,

A service provider for storing and managing announcement broadcasting content for providing a representative number service; A wireless network switch that performs an incoming / outgoing call process for the mobile terminal and transmits the call to the intelligent network server when the call from the mobile terminal is a telephone number corresponding to the representative number; And in response to a request for a representative number service from the mobile terminal through the wireless network switch, in cooperation with the service provider according to the representative number service method specified by the user of the mobile terminal, through the wireless network switch. Including an intelligent network server to provide a representative number service.

According to the present invention, it is possible to reduce user inconvenience by providing a representative number service suitable for each user by using the same representative number.

In addition, it is possible to provide an optimal representative number service to the user by providing a suitable representative number service according to the user terminal.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings so that those skilled in the art may easily implement the present invention. The present invention may, however, be embodied in many different forms and should not be construed as limited to the embodiments set forth herein. In the drawings, parts irrelevant to the description are omitted in order to clearly describe the present invention, and like reference numerals designate like parts throughout the specification.

Throughout the specification, when a part is said to "include" a certain component, it means that it can further include other components, without excluding other components unless specifically stated otherwise. In addition, the terms “… unit”, “… unit”, “module”, etc. described in the specification mean a unit that processes at least one function or operation, which may be implemented by hardware or software or a combination of hardware and software. .

In the present specification, a mobile terminal (MT) is a mobile station (MS), a terminal, a terminal, a subscriber station (SS), a portable subscriber station (PSS), a user device (User). It may also refer to an Equipment (UE), an Access Terminal (AT), or the like, and may include all or some functions of a mobile terminal, a subscriber station, a portable subscriber station, a user device, and the like.

In the present specification, a base station (BS) is an access point (AP), a radio access station (Radio Access Station, RAS), a Node B (Node B), a base transceiver station (Base Transceiver Station, BTS), MMR ( Mobile Multihop Relay) -BS and the like, and may include all or part of functions such as an access point, a radio access station, a Node B, a base transceiver station, and an MMR-BS.

Now, a representative number service method suitable for each user according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail.

1 is a diagram illustrating a system to which a representative number service method suitable for each user according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention is applied.

As shown in FIG. 1, a system to which a representative number service method suitable for each user according to an embodiment of the present invention is applied includes a base station apparatus 100 and a mobile switching center (hereinafter referred to as “MSC”) 200. ), Short Message Service Center (hereinafter referred to as "SMSC") 300, Home Location Register (hereinafter referred to as "HLR") 400, Wired Network Switch (Service Switching Point, below) "SSP") 500, intelligent network server (Service Control Point (hereinafter referred to as "SCP") 600, intelligent network IP (Intellegent Peripheral) 700, service provider 800, terminal database (DB) ( 610 and a user database (DB).

The base station apparatus 100 performs a radio access function for the mobile terminal 900. The base station apparatus 100 includes, for example, a base station (not shown) and a base station controller (not shown). Since the base station apparatus 100 is well known, a detailed description thereof will be omitted.

The MSC 200 serves as an interface between the mobile communication system networks and performs a central control function to provide the mobile terminal 900 with outgoing / incoming call processing, subscriber authentication, billing, and handoff functions.

The SMSC 300 is a device that provides a service for transmitting a message such as a multimedia message or a short message between mobile terminals.

The HLR 400 stores and manages subscriber information, additional service information for each subscriber, and location information of the mobile terminal 900 in order to perform functions such as registration recognition, registration deletion, and location checking of the mobile terminal 900.

The SSP 500 performs an exchange function, a call control function, a call control agent, a service exchange function, and a service function for intelligent network call connection.

SCP 600 is connected to SSP 500 to perform intelligent network service control and database management functions in the processing of supplementary services or subscriber requests.

Intelligent network IP 700 has special resources such as customized announcement, speech recognition, speech synthesis, voice recording, dual frequency multi-frequency (DTMF) collection, protocol change, and fax document processing. It is responsible for providing the flexible interaction between them.

The service provider 800 stores and manages the announcement content necessary to provide the representative number service. The service provider 800 stores and manages the announcement content in the form of voice, video, text, etc. in order to provide a representative number service suitable for each user. This service provider 800 is connected to SCP 600 via internet network 1100.

Meanwhile, the SSP 500, the SCP 600, and the intelligent network server 700 are connected to the MSC 200 through the No. 7 signal network 1000.

The terminal DB 610 stores and manages performances that can be supported for each type of mobile terminal. Performances that can be supported for each type of mobile terminal are voice, video, text, and wireless Internet. In addition, the text is divided into short messages (hereinafter referred to as "SMS") and unstructured supplementary service data (hereinafter referred to as "USSD"). In FIG. 2, an example in which capabilities that can be supported for each type of mobile terminal are stored in the terminal DB 610 is illustrated. Referring to FIG. 2, a representative number service can be provided only for voice type A for a type A mobile terminal, and a voice, video, SMS, USSD, and wireless Internet can be used for a type E mobile terminal. A representative number service can be provided. The terminal DB 610 is created and managed by a service company that provides a mobile communication service. Each time a new mobile terminal is distributed, the terminal DB 610 updates and manages the performance of the mobile terminal.

The user DB 620 stores and manages the representative number service method designated by the user. That is, the user DB 620 stores a representative number service method designated for each user. This representative number service method is the same as the above-mentioned performance. That is, the representative number service methods include voice, video, text (SMS or USSD), wireless Internet, and the like. 3 shows an example in which a representative number service method designated for each user is stored in the user DB 620. Referring to FIG. 3, the user A provides a representative number service using voice, the user C provides a representative number service using SMS, and the user E provides a representative number service using wireless Internet. do. The representative number service method for each user recorded in the user DB 620 includes a representative number service method designated by the user using his mobile terminal or a computer connected to a general wired Internet. Can be written on.

Hereinafter, the representative number service method according to the first embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIG. 4.

First, in order to use the representative number service according to the first embodiment of the present invention, the user inputs a telephone number corresponding to the representative number, for example, 1588-xxxx, using the mobile terminal 900 and sends a call key (send). Press, the call setup message is transmitted to the MSC 200 (S100). At this time, the mobile terminal 900 inserts data on the terminal type of the mobile terminal 900 in the call setup message and transmits the data to the MSC (200).

The MSC 200 detects that the intelligent network service is requested by the user, and transmits an initial detection point (IDP) message to the SCP 600 through the SSP 500 (S110). At this time, the MSC 200 includes the data for the terminal type of the mobile terminal 900 in the IDP message and transmits the data to the SCP 600.

Next, SCP 600 detects that the intelligent network service requested through the IDP message is a text-based representative number service (S120).

In addition, after extracting the terminal type data included in the IDP message (S130), the SCP 600 transmits the terminal type to the terminal DB 610 and requests performance information that the mobile terminal 900 can support (S140). In operation S150, the mobile terminal 900 corresponding to the terminal type is supported from the terminal DB 610.

The SCP 600 determines whether there is one capability that can be supported by the mobile terminal 900 from the performance information obtained in step S140 (S160).

If the supportable performance is two or more instead of one, such as terminal types B, C, D, and E, for example, as shown in FIG. 2, the SCP 600 is connected to the mobile terminal 900 through the exchange 200. In order to display the inquiry screen to select a method for the representative number service (S170). 5 is an example of the above-mentioned inquiry screen when the mobile terminal 900 is Type B.

The mobile terminal 900 transmits the input selected by the user to the SCP 600 through the MSC 200 (S180).

Next, the SCP 600 determines the voice by the representative number service method because the performance capable of being supported by the mobile terminal 900 in step S150 is one voice or from the mobile terminal 900 in step S180. When one of the two or more methods is selected and transmitted by the user, the method selected by the user is determined as the representative number service method, and the representative number service is provided through the Internet network 1100 to provide the representative number service to the mobile terminal 900. The service provider 800 to be connected is requested to provide the representative number service using the method determined above (S190).

Therefore, the service provider 800 provides the representative number service to the mobile terminal 900 through the SCP 600 and the MSC 200 by using the method determined above (S200).

In the above example, when the terminal type of the mobile terminal 900 corresponds to Type C, and the user selects an image through the inquiry screen displayed as shown in FIG. 5 in step S170, the service provider 800 ) Provides a representative number service to the mobile terminal 900 by using the video announcement. If the user selects the USSD, the service provider 800 provides the representative number service to the mobile terminal 900 using the USSD.

Hereinafter, in the first embodiment of the present invention, a case in which the terminal type of the mobile terminal 900 is Type C, and the user selects the character USSD in step S180 will be described with reference to FIG. 6.

Since step S180 is the same as described with reference to FIG. 4, the following description will be provided.

SCP 600 is a method determined according to the terminal type of the mobile terminal 900, here a service provider connected through the Internet network 1100 to provide a representative number service to the mobile terminal 900 using the USSD ( In operation S190, a message for requesting a service menu to be provided as a representative number service based on the USSD is transmitted to the service provider 800. At this time, the message requesting the service menu to be provided as the representative number service based on the USSD may be transmitted through a HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) request message.

Next, the service provider 800 transmits a response message including the menu for the USSD-based representative number service requested by the user to the SCP 600 (S200).

Subsequently, the SCP 600 transmits a menu for the USSD-based representative number service provided from the service provider 800 to the MSC 200 using the USSD format (S210). That is, the SCP 600 transmits a menu to the MSC 200 through a USSD request (hereinafter referred to as 'USSR') message.

Next, the MSC 200 transmits the USSR message transmitted from the SCP 600 to the mobile terminal 900 again so that the USSD-based service menu provided by the service provider 800 is displayed on the screen of the mobile terminal 900. (S220).

Thereafter, when the user selects one menu from among the service menus displayed on the mobile terminal 900, a response corresponding to the selected menu is transmitted to the MSC 200 as a response of the USSD format, that is, a USSR response message ( S230).

Therefore, the MSC 200 transmits the response of the menu transmitted from the mobile terminal 900 to the SCP 600 again as a USSR response message (S240).

Thereafter, if the response selected by the user is a normal response, the SCP 600 transmits the response of the menu to the service provider 800 through an HTTP request message (S250), and the service provider 800 sends a USSD according to the response of the menu. Based on the representative number service is to continue (S260).

As described above, in the first embodiment of the present invention, since the mobile terminal can provide the representative number service according to the performance that can be supported, the user can use the representative number service suitable for the performance of the mobile terminal even if the user does not know the representative number for each method. Will be.

On the other hand, the above has been described for providing the representative number service according to the terminal type of the mobile terminal, the second embodiment of the present invention will be described for providing the representative number service according to the method specified by the user.

Hereinafter, a representative number service method suitable for each user according to a second embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIG. 7.

First, in order to use the representative number service according to the second embodiment of the present invention, a user inputs a phone number corresponding to the representative number, for example, 1588-xxxx using the mobile terminal 900, and sends a call key (send). Press), the call setup message is transmitted to the MSC 200 (S300).

The MSC 200 detects that the intelligent network service is requested by the user, and transmits an initial detection point (IDP) message to the SCP 600 through the SSP 500 (S310).

SCP 600 detects that the intelligent network service requested through the IDP message is the representative number service (S320).

Next, SCP 600 requests the representative number service method specified by the user of the mobile terminal 900 to the user DB (620) (S330), the representative designated by the user of the mobile terminal 900 from the user DB (620) Obtain a number service method (S340). Here, SCP (600) can know the user through the phone number of the mobile terminal 900 requesting the representative number service, as it can be known, for example through the HLR (400), so here The detailed description is omitted. In addition, the user of the mobile terminal 900 may designate a representative number service method that the user DB 620 wants to receive the representative number service through the computer connected to the wired Internet or his mobile terminal 900.

Next, the SCP 600 uses the representative number service method designated by the user from the user DB 620, for example, as shown in FIG. 3, the mobile terminal 900 uses the representative number service using the USSD method. In order to provide a request to the service provider 800 connected through the Internet network 1100 to provide a representative number service using the method (S350).

Accordingly, the service provider 800 provides the representative number service to the mobile terminal 900 through the SCP 600 and the MSC 200 by using the representative number service method designated by the user of the mobile terminal 900 (S360). ).

In the above example, if the representative number service method designated by the user of the mobile terminal 900 is a video, the service provider 800 provides the representative number service to the mobile terminal 900 using the video announcement. If the representative number service method designated by the user is the USSD method, the service provider 800 provides the representative number service to the mobile terminal 900 using the USSD.

As described above, in the second embodiment of the present invention, since the representative number service is provided according to the representative number service method specified by the user of the mobile terminal, the user does not know the representative number for each method, but the representative suitable for the performance of his mobile terminal. The number service will be available.

Although the embodiments of the present invention have been described in detail above, the scope of the present invention is not limited thereto, and various modifications and improvements of those skilled in the art using the basic concepts of the present invention defined in the following claims are also provided. It belongs to the scope of rights.

1 is a diagram illustrating a system to which a representative number service method suitable for each user according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention is applied.

FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating an example of a terminal DB shown in FIG. 1.

3 is a diagram illustrating an example of a user DB illustrated in FIG. 1.

4 is a flowchart of a representative number service method according to a first embodiment of the present invention.

5 is a diagram illustrating an example of a query screen when the mobile terminal is Type B in the representative number service method according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a diagram for one example of a case where a terminal type of a mobile terminal is type C and a user selects a text USSD in the representative number service method according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

7 is a flowchart of a representative number service method according to a second embodiment of the present invention.

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In the method for providing a representative number service suitable for each user, Receiving, by the intelligent network server, a call setup from the mobile terminal through a representative number, wherein the call setup includes a terminal type of the mobile terminal; Obtaining performance information supported according to a terminal type of the mobile terminal included in the call setup through the representative number; Determining a representative number service method according to the obtained performance information; Requesting a service provider providing a representative number service to provide a representative number service according to the determined representative number service method; And Providing, by the intelligent network server, the representative number service provided from the service provider to the mobile terminal; Representative number service method comprising a. The method of claim 1, Acquiring the performance information; Requesting performance information supported according to the terminal type of the mobile terminal to a terminal database, wherein the terminal database stores performance information supported for each terminal type; And Receiving performance information supported according to a terminal type of the mobile terminal from the terminal database; Representative number service method comprising a. The method of claim 1, Determining the representative number service method, Displaying a query screen for selecting one of the two or more capabilities to the mobile terminal when there is more than one capability included in the capability information; Receiving an input selected from a user of the mobile terminal; And Determining a representative number service method based on performance corresponding to the received input; Representative number service method comprising a. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 3, The performance information comprises at least one of voice, video, unstructured supplementary service data (Unstructured Supplementary Service Data), a short message (Short Message Service) and wireless Internet. The method of claim 4, wherein If the performance information is USSD, providing the representative number service, Requesting, by the intelligent network server, a menu to be provided as a USSD-based service to the service provider; The intelligent network server receiving the menu from the service provider; Transmitting, by the intelligent network server, the menu to the mobile terminal through a wireless network switch; The intelligent network server receiving a response to the menu from the mobile terminal; And Providing, by the intelligent network server, a response to the menu to the service provider to provide a USSD-based service according to the response to the mobile terminal; Representative number service method comprising a. In the method for providing a representative number service suitable for each user, Receiving, by the intelligent network server, a call setup through the representative number from the mobile terminal; Obtaining information of a representative number service method designated by a user of the mobile terminal; Requesting a service provider providing a representative number service to provide a representative number service according to the obtained representative number service method; And Providing, by the intelligent network server, the representative number service provided from the service provider to the mobile terminal; Representative number service method comprising a. The method of claim 6, Acquiring information of the representative number service method; Requesting information of the representative number service method designated by the user by transmitting information of the user of the mobile terminal to a user database, wherein the user database stores information of the representative number service method designated by the user for each user; ; And Receiving information of a representative number service method designated by a user of the mobile terminal from the user database; Representative number service method comprising a. The method according to claim 6 or 7, The representative number service method information includes voice based representative number service method, video based representative number service method, unstructured supplementary service data based representative number service method, and short message service based. A representative number service method, characterized in that it is one of the representative number service method and the wireless Internet based representative number service method. In the apparatus for providing a representative number service suitable for each user, A service provider for storing and managing announcement broadcasting content for providing a representative number service; A wireless network switch that performs an incoming / outgoing call process for the mobile terminal and transmits the call to the intelligent network server when the call from the mobile terminal is a telephone number corresponding to the representative number; And When there is a request for the representative number service from the mobile terminal through the wireless network switch, the mobile terminal cooperates with the service provider according to the representative number service method determined according to the supportable performance information. Intelligent network server providing a representative number service to the mobile terminal Representative number service device comprising a. 10. The method of claim 9, Further comprising a terminal database for storing the performance information supported for each terminal type, The intelligent network server determines the representative number service method by obtaining performance information supported by the mobile terminal through the terminal database. Representative number service device, characterized in that. 10. The method of claim 9, And the intelligent network server determines a representative number service method based on one capability selected from a user through the mobile terminal when two or more capabilities are included in the capability information. The method according to any one of claims 9 to 11, The performance information includes at least one of voice, video, unstructured supplementary service data (Unstructured Supplementary Service Data), a short message (Short Message Service) and wireless Internet. In the apparatus for providing a representative number service suitable for each user, A service provider for storing and managing announcement broadcasting content for providing a representative number service; A wireless network switch that performs an incoming / outgoing call process for the mobile terminal and transmits the call to the intelligent network server when the call from the mobile terminal is a telephone number corresponding to the representative number; And When there is a request for the representative number service from the mobile terminal through the wireless network switch, in cooperation with the service provider according to the representative number service method designated by the user of the mobile terminal, the mobile terminal through the wireless network switch to the mobile terminal. Intelligent network server providing representative number service Representative number service device comprising a. The method of claim 13, Further comprising a user database for storing the information of the representative number service method specified by the user for each user, The intelligent network server obtains information of the representative number service method designated by the user of the mobile terminal through the user database. Representative number service device, characterized in that. The method according to claim 13 or 14, The representative number service method information includes voice based representative number service method, video based representative number service method, unstructured supplementary service data based representative number service method, and short message service based. And a representative number service method based on a representative number service method based on a wireless Internet.

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