KR20120057921A - Server and method for transferring mms contents during call from soip device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A content transmission method while talking over a telephone in an SoIP(Service over Internet Protocol) terminal and server thereof are provided to conveniently offer desired information to a subscriber of an internet telephone in real time while talking over the telephone by using a TCP/IP(Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) network route. CONSTITUTION: A communication unit(120) transmits processing results for a content transmission request. A control unit(130) searches content corresponding to the content transmission request of an SOIP terminal from a storage unit. The control unit transmits the searched content. The control unit transmits the transmission results to the SoIP terminal. A content management unit(140) provides content manufacturing environment. The content management unit manages the manufactured content.

Description

Method and server for transmitting contents during call in SOHIP terminal {SERVER AND METHOD FOR TRANSFERRING MMS CONTENTS DURING CALL FROM SOIP DEVICE}

The present invention relates to a service that enables an Internet phone subscriber to conveniently provide multimedia contents to a counterpart during a call in real time. The present invention relates to a technology for simply transmitting content to a counterpart terminal without interrupting a call when a person wants to transmit personal information or a promotional material such as a map or a business card to the counterpart during a call with the counterpart.

With the spread of internet phones, there is an increasing demand to use them for advertising or promotion. In particular, due to the characteristics of Internet telephony, which uses the Internet network instead of the existing communication network, attempts to converge various services available through the Internet into the Internet telephony are gradually increasing.

Such additional services using Internet telephony include video call, home ATM service, information service such as weather, stocks, and news, short message / multimedia message service, and home monitoring service. Among them, additional services related to sales and advertising are increasing, and such advertising / business additional services include local information service and real-time traffic information service. In particular, the local information service is a service that provides information of various service providers in the vicinity based on the residence information of the Internet phone user. However, such local information providing service has to be requested by the customer, not the service provider, and thus does not show a great service competitiveness compared to receiving local information through other convenient media such as the Internet and TV. Therefore, in many cases, the value-added service provided by the company or the shop owner who provides the service to the customer is more effective.

In addition, when an order call or an inquiry call is received from a customer, the customer often wants to provide the customer with information such as a store location, a list of provided services, a business card of a person in charge, and the like without interrupting the call. Conventionally, in such a case, the call connection must be interrupted to provide information such as a text message or explained verbally. Therefore, in many cases, the customer was anxious about whether the information was correctly received, and it was difficult to provide sufficient information.

Meanwhile, similarly to the present invention, a method of transmitting a pre-registered SMS message to a called party by using a shortcut key has been disclosed. However, this conventional technology has a problem in that the customer charges the cost of sending an SMS message when the customer makes a phone call, and the customer bears an unexpected cost. In addition, since the AS server of the switching network must be used to provide a service, there is a problem that excessive load is placed on the AS server.

Accordingly, there is a need for a technology that solves the above problems and can easily provide a desired content to a counterpart terminal to a user using the SoIP terminal while preventing the counterpart from burdening unwanted costs. have.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to overcome the above-mentioned conventional problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide a method in which an Internet telephone subscriber can conveniently provide information desired by a customer in real time during a call.

In addition, another object of the present invention is to provide a service that can provide in real time the information requested by the customer without the cost of information usage fee, data call charges and the like.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a method for providing a service without requiring an additional load on an AS server of a switching network for a service for providing content during a call.

In the method for transmitting content to the counterpart terminal during a call in the SoIP terminal according to the first aspect of the present invention for achieving the above object of the present invention, when detecting the input of the preset short code in the state that the call channel is set, Retrieving content corresponding to the short code, requesting and confirming authorization of the SoIP terminal, and requesting transmission of the content to the counterpart terminal, wherein the input short code is the call. It is sent through a TCP / IP socket set up separately from the channel.

The method for transmitting content to a counterpart terminal during a call in the SoIP terminal according to the second aspect of the present invention includes: requesting a socket connection from the SoIP terminal to a content transmission server and connecting a socket while a call channel is established; Sending a content transfer request for the counterpart terminal to the content transfer service providing server through the connected socket; receiving a processing result message corresponding to the content transfer request; and terminating the socket connection.

In addition, the content delivery server for transmitting the content to the other party terminal during the call according to the third aspect of the present invention, to store the selected content for each user and to provide the requested content in response to the content transfer request from the SoIP terminal of the user A storage unit, a communication unit communicating with the SoIP terminal through a TCP / IP socket, receiving a content transmission request from the SoIP terminal and transmitting a processing result for the request, the content corresponding to the content transmission request from the SoIP terminal The controller includes a control unit for instructing the storage unit to instruct transmission and transmitting the transmission result to the SoIP terminal, a content management environment for the user, and a content management unit for managing the produced content for each user. .

According to the above-described problem solving means of the present invention, by using the TCP / IP network path and a separate communication channel, by sending and receiving a request and the transmission result of the content transmission service, the content providing service without a separate call charges due to service provision You can do

In addition, according to the above-described problem solving means of the present invention, by using a separate service providing server without using the AS server of the switching network, it is possible to prevent the load weighting to the AS server and to freely expand and improve the function.

1 is a general overview of a service for transmitting multimedia content during a call using a SoIP terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.
2 is a detailed configuration diagram of a content delivery server according to an embodiment of the present invention.
3 is a flowchart illustrating a method of transmitting multimedia content during a call using a SoIP terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

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 referred to as being "connected" to another part, it includes not only "directly connected" but also "electrically connected" with another part in between . In addition, when a part is said to "include" a certain component, which means that it may further include other components, except to exclude other components unless otherwise stated.

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

1 is a general overview of a service for transmitting multimedia content during a call using a SoIP terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 1, when a call is made with a counterpart terminal 300 using the SoIP terminal 200, a call channel is set using a SIP protocol network.

For reference, SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) is a protocol that specifies the procedures for intelligent terminals to communicate on the Internet to identify each other, find its location, and create or delete a multimedia communication session between them. SIP has a request / response structure that controls the creation, modification and termination of multimedia service sessions. In addition, SoIP (Service over IP) is an extended concept of Voice over IP (VoIP), and is a telephone that provides services such as voice calls by transmitting data such as voice or video in packet units through an IP network. It is a service. Since the SoIP terminal provides services such as voice calls over the Internet network without using the existing circuit switching network, the service can be used wherever the Internet is connected.

In order to provide various additional services in addition to voice calls in SoIP terminals, services are provided by connecting an AS (Application Server) server to an Internet telephone exchange network. However, as the services provided are gradually increasing, and the number of service users is rapidly increasing, there is a growing concern that processing requests exceeding the processing capacity that can be processed by the existing AS server are generated. Therefore, the present invention may be provided with a separate content delivery server 100 for providing a content delivery service in place of the existing AS server.

The user of the SoIP terminal 200 may apply for a service subscription in advance and prepare content to be provided to the customer in advance (S110). Content production will be described later with reference to FIG. 2. Thereafter, in a state in which a call continues between the SoIP terminal 200 and the counterpart terminal 300 (S120), the content of the user of the SoIP terminal 200 displaying information such as a business card, a location of a store, a menu provided to the counterpart, etc. In order to provide the user, the user of the SoIP terminal 200 may send a content transmission request on the SoIP terminal 200 (S130). For example, a content transmission request may be made by entering one of the numbers “1”, “2”, and “3” within a predetermined time after the “*” button is input. Thereafter, the content providing server 100 transmits the corresponding content in the MMS format to the counterpart terminal 300 in a call (S140). A content providing method will be described in detail later with reference to FIG. 3.

The SoIP terminal 200 is an Internet telephone and can make a voice call using the VoIP function. In addition, a process may reside in a memory for providing an additional service, and may correspond to a service request of a user in real time. In detail, the SoIP terminal 200 may start a process on an internal memory, and the process may reside in a memory, recognize a service request input from a user, and perform an operation corresponding to the recognized input. .

For example, the process may recognize when the user inputs the “*” button, and may determine whether there is a request for the content delivery service by checking whether another button is input within a predetermined time after the “*” button is input. . In addition, when the process recognizes the input of the "*" button, the subsequent input button is any one of "1", "2", "3", the content delivery server to be described later to deliver the content corresponding to the button 100 may be requested.

After the SoIP terminal 200 makes a content transmission request, the SoIP terminal 200 may receive a processing result of the request and display the result on the screen of the terminal.

The content delivery server 100 is connected to an Internet telephone exchange network to provide a content delivery service to a user of the SoIP terminal 200. The content delivery server 100 may be connected to an IP network separately from the Internet telephone exchange network to communicate with the SoIP terminal 200.

Next, a detailed configuration of the content delivery server 100 will be described in detail.

2 is a detailed configuration diagram of a content delivery server according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 2, the content delivery server 100 includes a storage unit 110, a communication unit 120, a control unit 130, and a content management unit 140. In addition, the content delivery server 100 may further include a service authenticator 150 and a charging unit 160.

The storage unit 110 stores content selected for each user and provides the requested content in response to a content transmission request from the SoIP terminal of the user. In detail, when the content transmission request is received from the SoIP terminal 200 of the user, the storage unit 110 searches for the requested content among the contents stored for the user and provides it to the communication unit 120. For example, when the content providing request is “*” + “1”, the content corresponding to “1” of the user may be found and provided to the communication unit 120.

The content contains information to be provided to the customer or the counterpart by the user such as a map, a map, a business card, an advertisement, etc., and is produced by the user through a content production tool provided by the content management unit 140 which will be described later, or in advance through a professional production company. Can be made and stored.

The storage unit 110 may be configured inside the content delivery server 100 or may be configured as a separate database server.

The communication unit 120 communicates with the SoIP terminal 200 through a TCP / IP socket, and receives a content transmission request from the SoIP terminal 200 and transmits a processing result for the request. In addition, the communication unit 120 provides a communication interface that can be connected to the Internet and communicate, and can communicate using both TCP and UDP.

The content transmission request may include information and user information of the SoIP terminal 200. For example, the content transmission request may include an identifier of the SoIP terminal, a number of services, a type of service, a telephone number of the service requester, a MAC of the SoIP terminal. Information such as an address, a service called party's telephone number, and the like. The service type is a shortcut key input after the “*” button in the SoIP terminal 200. In the present embodiment, three values “1”, “2”, and “3” may be designated as shortcut keys.

In addition, the communication unit 120 transmits the processing result for the content transmission request to the SoIP terminal 200. The processing result data may include an identifier, a service number, a result code, and a result message of the SoIP terminal. In this case, the identifier and the number of services of the SoIP terminal may have the same value as the identifier and the number of services of the SoIP terminal included in the content transmission request data. The result code may be written in, for example, a 2-bit binary code, and may include an error code value indicating whether the transmission result is a success or failure and a cause of the failure.

The controller 130 searches for the content corresponding to the content transmission request from the SoIP terminal 200 in the storage 110 and instructs the transmission to the other terminal 300, and sends the transmission result to the SoIP terminal 200. Can be instructed. The transmission of the content may be configured to be transmitted in the form of an MMS message to a counterpart terminal through a multimedia messaging service center (MMSC) (not shown).

In addition, the controller 130 may instruct user authentication to check whether the corresponding user is a service target, and instruct a billing request for the service provided from the SoIP terminal 200.

The content manager 140 provides a content production environment for the user and manages the produced content for each user. In detail, the content manager 140 may provide a content production tool so as to prepare content of a desired form in advance. The content production tool may be configured in the content delivery server 100 and may be provided in the form of a web page through a separate web server (not shown). In addition, you can request a professional manufacturer to produce the desired form.

The content manager 140 may be configured in the content delivery server 100 or may be configured as a separate content management server (not shown).

When the service authenticator 150 receives the content transmission request from the user, the service authenticator 150 authenticates whether the user has the authority to use the service. In more detail, the service authenticator 150 may authenticate whether the user has applied for the content delivery service and whether the corresponding SoIP terminal 200 has the authority to access and communicate with the content delivery server 100. User authentication may be implemented to be performed at every service request, or may be implemented to be integrated authentication once upon initial connection.

In addition, when the user is subscribed to the service, the service authenticator 150 may acquire information about the cost and perform information synchronization to process the customer information in the content delivery server 100.

The service authenticator 150 may be configured in the content delivery server 100 or may be configured to perform user authentication through a separate integrated authentication server (not shown).

The charging unit 160 charges the user for the fee according to the MMS transmission when the content is normally transmitted to the counterpart terminal 300 in the MMS format. In detail, the charging unit 160 may collect information to be charged to the user by counting the number of times provided when the MMS message is provided in the MMS message. The charging unit 160 may be configured in the content delivery server 100 or may be configured to be processed by a separate charging server (not shown).

Next, a method of transmitting MMS content during a call to the counterpart terminal will be described.

3 is a flowchart illustrating a method of transmitting multimedia content during a call using a SoIP terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 3, a user who wants to use a service needs to register for the service in advance. In addition, the user may prepare multimedia content to be provided to the customer in advance and register it in the content delivery server 100 (S302).

During the call with the counterpart terminal 300 through the SoIP terminal 200 (S304), when the user wants to transmit content containing specific information to the counterpart, or when the counterpart requests the user for the specific information. Press a predetermined hotkey for using the service. For example, in the present embodiment, "*" + "1", "2", and "3" may be shortcut keys of the content delivery service.

When the SoIP terminal 200 recognizes that the user inputs the corresponding key by the running process, the corresponding process makes a service request to the content delivery server 100. For example, if the process recognizes that the "*" key has been entered, the process checks whether any of the keys "1", "2", and "3" have been entered within a preset time, If a key input is recognized, the service may be requested to the content delivery server 100.

For the service request, the SoIP terminal 200 may request a TCP / IP socket separate from the call channel being used for the call (S306). After receiving the socket request from the SoIP terminal 200, the content delivery server 100 connects the socket with the SoIP terminal 200 (S306), and receives the content transmission request data (S308).

The content transmission request data may include a shortcut number, a service requester's telephone number, a MAC address of the SoIP terminal, a service called party's telephone number, and the like.

Thereafter, the content delivery server 100 performs user authentication to check whether the user has the right to use the service (S310), and if the service authentication fails, a message indicating that the user does not have the right to use the corresponding service is sent to the SoIP terminal 200. The display may be transmitted to display (S312). If the service authentication is successful, the content requested from the user is retrieved from the storage unit 110, the content is requested to be transmitted to the other party on the call through the MMSC (S314), and the processing result for the request is received from the MMSC. Can be (S316). The processing result data may include information such as a result code and a result message.

Thereafter, the content delivery server 100 may instruct the communication unit 120 to transmit the processing result to the SoIP terminal 200 (S318). After the processing result is normally transmitted, the connected TCP / IP socket may be released (S320).

The above process may be performed while the user and the counterpart are continuing the call using the SoIP terminal 200 and the counterpart terminal 300. After the call is terminated, the same is performed using the counterpart phone number stored in the call history. The process may be implemented to be performed.

In addition, the above process may be equally applied to the case where the user calls the counterpart terminal as well as the case where the customer calls the user.

One embodiment of the present invention may also be embodied in the form of a recording medium including instructions executable by a computer, such as program modules, being executed by a computer. Computer readable media can be any available media that can be accessed by a computer and includes both volatile and nonvolatile media, removable and non-removable media. In addition, computer readable media may include both computer storage media and communication media. Computer storage media includes both volatile and nonvolatile, removable and non-removable media implemented in any method or technology for storage of information such as computer readable instructions, data structures, program modules or other data. Communication media typically includes computer readable instructions, data structures, program modules, or other data in a modulated data signal such as a carrier wave, or other transmission mechanism, and includes any information delivery media.

The foregoing description of the present invention is intended for illustration, and it will be understood by those skilled in the art that the present invention may be easily modified in other specific forms without changing the technical spirit or essential features of the present invention. will be. It is therefore to be understood that the above-described embodiments are illustrative in all aspects and not restrictive. For example, each component described as a single entity may be distributed and implemented, and components described as being distributed may also be implemented in a combined form.

The scope of the present invention is shown by the following claims rather than the above description, and all changes or modifications derived from the meaning and scope of the claims and their equivalents should be construed as being included in the scope of the present invention. do.

Claims (12)

In the method for transmitting content from the SoIP terminal to the other terminal during the call,
Searching for content corresponding to the short code, when detecting a preset short code input while a call channel is set;
Requesting and confirming authorization of the SoIP terminal; and
Requesting transmission of the content to the counterpart terminal;
Including;
And the input short code is transmitted through a separate TCP / IP connection rather than the call channel.
The method of claim 1,
And acquiring service subscription information corresponding to the SoIP terminal before the call.
The method of claim 1,
The content is transmitted to the other terminal in the MMS format, the method for transmitting the content to the other terminal during the call.
The method of claim 1,
The short code consists of a service start character and a content classification number, and recognizes that the service is requested when the input of the service start character is recognized and the input of the content classification number is recognized within a predetermined time. A method of transmitting content to the other terminal.
The method of claim 1,
The content may be any one of a map, a map, a business card, and an advertisement, and the content is produced and stored before setting a call channel.
In the method for transmitting content from the SoIP terminal to the other terminal during the call,
Requesting a socket connection from the SoIP terminal to a content transmission server in a state where a call channel is established, and connecting the socket;
Sending a content transmission request for the counterpart terminal to the content transmission service providing server through the connected socket;
Receiving a processing result message corresponding to the content transmission request; and
Terminating the socket connection
A method for transmitting content to a counterpart terminal during a call.
The method according to claim 6,
The content transmission request,
And at least one of a shortcut key number, a service requester telephone number, a MAC address of the SoIP terminal, and a service called party telephone number.
The method according to claim 6,
The processing result message includes at least one of a result code and a result message, wherein the result code indicates a processing result for the content transmission request.
In the content delivery server for transmitting the content to the other terminal during the call,
A storage unit for storing the selected content for each user and providing the requested content in response to a content transmission request from the SoIP terminal of the user;
A communication unit which communicates with the SoIP terminal through a TCP / IP socket, receives a content transmission request from the SoIP terminal, and transmits a processing result for the request;
A control unit for instructing transmission by searching the content corresponding to the content transmission request from the SoIP terminal and instructing the transmission, and transmitting the transmission result to the SoIP terminal;
Content management unit to provide a content production environment for the user, and to manage the produced content for each user
Content delivery server comprising a.
The method of claim 9,
And a service authenticator configured to authenticate whether the user has a right to use the service when the content transmission request of the user is received.
The method of claim 9,
If the content is normally transmitted to the counterpart terminal in the MMS format, Contents delivery server further comprising a charging unit for charging the user a fee according to MMS transmission.
The method of claim 9,
And the content manager provides a web page for content production to the user.

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