KR20140073073A - Method and system for phone number inquiry - Google Patents

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KR20140073073A
KR20140073073A KR1020120140780A KR20120140780A KR20140073073A KR 20140073073 A KR20140073073 A KR 20140073073A KR 1020120140780 A KR1020120140780 A KR 1020120140780A KR 20120140780 A KR20120140780 A KR 20120140780A KR 20140073073 A KR20140073073 A KR 20140073073A
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Disclosed are a method and a system for inquiring a phone number. The method for inquiring a phone number includes a step of transmitting a phone number related to an incoming call and an outgoing call according to the control of an application installed in a user terminal when the user terminal receives or transmits the call; a step of receiving additional information related to the phone number from a server; a step of displaying the received additional information with the phone number on an incoming call screen or an outgoing call screen; and a step of transmitting user input information related to the phone number to the server. The additional information can be generated based on the user input information transmitted from a plurality of users to the server.

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METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PHONE NUMBER INQUIRY

Embodiments of the invention relate to a method and system for retrieving a telephone number.

A user terminal, such as a smart phone, can store information such as a phone number associated with a user and a name, photo, email, other phone number, address anniversary group, etc. associated with the phone number, And provides the same functions as a phonebook that allows you to do so. For example, the user can select a specific phone number by using such a function, make a call with the other party using the selected phone number, or send and receive a message such as SMS (Short Message Service) or MMS (Multimedia Message Service) have.

Also, the user terminal provides a function of managing the call list. For example, information such as a phone number, an incoming / outgoing time, a message transmission / reception time, etc. related to a user's incoming / outgoing call or message transmission / reception may be provided to a user through a call list.

1 is a diagram showing an example of a screen of a user terminal in which a call list is displayed in the related art. The screen 100 shows a call list function basically included in the user terminal. At this time, information such as phone number, incoming / outgoing time, message transmission / reception time, and the like related to the incoming / outgoing call and message transmission / reception of the user are shown in the call list of the screen 100. In addition, the call list may display information stored by the user. For example, for a phone number stored in a phone book, information such as a user name associated with the phone number ("Kim Seon Bae" in FIG. 1) may be additionally displayed in the call list.

However, in this prior art call list, only the information stored by the user or the information set by the caller in relation to the incoming call is displayed. In general, only the telephone number is displayed. In this case, the user has a problem that it is difficult to obtain information related to the telephone number only by the telephone number. For example, a telephone number of a specific business is registered in a call list when the user calls a specific business or receives a call from a specific business. However, when the user later confirms the telephone number in the call list, the user must remember information related to the telephone number, depending on the user's memory, unless the user separately stores the related information.

Accordingly, there is a need for a method that can improve convenience for the user by providing information related to the telephone number and manage the call list more conveniently.

Providing a telephone number inquiry method and system that can improve user's convenience by searching the Internet or a specific database for additional information related to a telephone number used in incoming or outgoing calls do.

The present invention provides a telephone number inquiry method and system capable of providing additional information related to a telephone number by using an in-app application included in an independent application or a specific application.

A telephone number inquiry method and system that can manage a call list more conveniently by providing additional related information together with a telephone number through a call list.

Provide a phone number inquiry method and system that can build a social phone number database where users can register information on phone number and destination, and provide additional information related to phone number using established social phone number database do.

The present invention provides a telephone number inquiry method and system capable of integrally managing information registered in a social telephone number database by using a similar language database and providing the information as additional information.

Transmitting a telephone number associated with the incoming or outgoing call to a server according to control of an application installed in the user terminal when an incoming or outgoing call occurs in the user terminal, receiving additional information related to the telephone number from the server Displaying the received additional information together with the telephone number on a call screen or outgoing screen and transmitting user input information associated with the telephone number to the server, And the user input information transmitted from the server to the server is generated based on user input information transmitted from the server to the server.

According to one aspect, the user input information is stored and maintained in a social telephone number database in association with a respective telephone number, and the additional information is stored in the social telephone number database in association with the user input information stored in association with the telephone number And a control unit.

According to another aspect, in a case where a plurality of pieces of user input information stored in the social telephone number database are associated with the telephone number, the additional information is determined based on the number of times of storing the plurality of pieces of user input information .

According to another aspect of the present invention, the user input information determined to be similar to each other by referring to the similarity database in the server is determined to be redundantly stored.

According to another aspect of the present invention, the application may be included in an application for providing at least a search service in an in-app form.

According to another aspect of the present invention, the method may further include, when the telephone number is displayed through a call list provided by the application, displaying the additional information in association with the telephone number.

According to another aspect of the present invention, the step of transmitting the user input information related to the telephone number to the server includes providing a user interface for receiving the user input information and inputting user input information input through the user interface To the server.

According to another aspect of the present invention, the step of transmitting user input information related to the telephone number to the server includes: registering information stored in association with the telephone number in a storage device included in the user terminal, And transmits, as the user input information, at least one piece of information registered on the web in association with the number to the server.

Receiving user input information for a plurality of telephone numbers from a plurality of users and storing the received user input information in association with a corresponding telephone number in a social telephone number database; Extracting, as additional information, user input information stored in association with the received telephone number in the social telephone number database; and extracting, as additional information, the user input information stored in association with the received telephone number from the social telephone number database, Wherein the additional information is displayed together with the telephone number on a call receiving screen or a calling screen of the user terminal according to control of an application installed in the user terminal. Provided the number lookup method .

Transmitting a request including at least the telephone number to a server under the control of an application installed in the user terminal when a display of a telephone number is requested on a screen of the user terminal; And displaying the additional information on the screen together with the telephone number, wherein the additional information is generated based on information registered with the telephone number on the Internet. Method is provided.

A storage management unit for receiving user input information for a plurality of telephone numbers from a plurality of users and for storing the received user input information in association with a corresponding telephone number in a social telephone number database; Extracting additional information extracted as additional information from the user input information stored in association with the received telephone number in the social telephone number database, the telephone number receiving unit receiving the telephone number associated with the incoming or outgoing call from the user terminal, And an additional information providing unit for providing the extracted additional information to the user terminal, wherein the additional information includes at least one of a phone number and a phone number on a call receiving screen or a calling screen of the user terminal according to an application installed in the user terminal, What you see together This phone number lookup system is provided by Jing.

And a file transfer unit for transferring a file for installation of an application to a user terminal, wherein the application further comprises a file transfer unit for transferring a phone number associated with the incoming or outgoing call to the server when an incoming or outgoing call occurs in the user terminal, A module for controlling the terminal, a module for controlling the user terminal to receive additional information related to the telephone number from the server, a module for controlling the user terminal to display the received additional information together with the telephone number on a call- And a module for controlling the user terminal to transmit user input information related to the telephone number to the server, wherein the additional information is based on user input information transmitted from the plurality of users to the server A word is generated The application distribution system is provided.

And a file transfer unit for transferring a file for installing an application to a user terminal, wherein the application transmits a request including at least the phone number to the server when the display of the phone number is requested on the screen of the user terminal A module for controlling the user terminal, a module for controlling the user terminal to receive additional information corresponding to the request from the server, and a module for controlling the user terminal to display the additional information together with the telephone number on the screen And the additional information is generated based on information registered with the telephone number on the Internet.

The convenience of the user can be improved by searching the Internet or a specific database for information on the destination to which the telephone number is registered in the additional information related to the telephone number used in the incoming or outgoing call.

Additional information related to the telephone number can be provided using an in-app application included in a specific application or an independent application.

By providing additional related information along with the telephone number through the call list, the call list can be more conveniently managed.

A social telephone database in which users can register information about telephone numbers and destinations can be constructed and supplementary information associated with telephone numbers can be provided using the established social telephone number database.

By using the analogy database, users can integrally manage the information registered in the social telephone number database and provide them as additional information.

1 is a diagram showing an example of a screen of a user terminal in which a call list is displayed in the related art.
2 is a diagram illustrating an example of screens of a user terminal according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.
3 is a diagram for explaining an example of a process of providing additional information together with a telephone number in an embodiment of the present invention.
4 is a diagram for explaining another example of a process of providing additional information together with a telephone number in an embodiment of the present invention.
5 is a flowchart illustrating an example of a telephone number inquiry method in an embodiment of the present invention.
6 is a flowchart illustrating another example of a telephone number inquiry method in an embodiment of the present invention.
7 is a block diagram for explaining an internal configuration of a telephone number inquiry system according to an embodiment of the present invention.
8 is a flowchart illustrating another example of a telephone number inquiry method in an embodiment of the present invention.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

2 is a diagram illustrating an example of screens of a user terminal according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention. The first screen 210 shows an example of an Internet search result, in which information on vendors corresponding to specific conditions is provided. Thus, the Internet may include information about various objects. For example, in the first dashed line box 211, various kinds of information about businesses such as business type, address, telephone number, and the like can be displayed.

At this time, in the embodiments of the present invention, additional information related to a telephone number can be provided using a database constructed using information searchable via the Internet or information searchable through the Internet. The second screen 220 shows an example of how a call list function is provided using an application installed in a user's terminal. The second dashed line box 221 shows an example in which the additional information "Saji-dong Naru, " for the company" Naru " is displayed in association with the telephone number in the call list using the information contained in the first dashed box 211. [ Here, the user terminal may be a cellular phone basically, or a device capable of wired or wireless data communication.

For example, an application installed in a user terminal may transmit a telephone number or a telephone number recorded in a call list when an incoming or outgoing call occurs to the server, and request additional information on the telephone number. At this time, the server can retrieve additional information related to the telephone number from the Internet or retrieve it from a specific database according to a request received from the user terminal. The extracted additional information can be transmitted from the server to the user terminal. When the user terminal displays the telephone number on the screen, the user terminal can further display additional information in association with the telephone number. For example, when the user operates the user terminal to transmit the telephone number "123-4567 ", the telephone number" 123-4567 "is displayed on the originating display screen of the user terminal and further information received from the server is displayed .

An application may be installed in a user terminal in an independent application form or may be an application operating in an in-app form in a specific application installed in the user terminal.

3 is a diagram for explaining an example of a process of providing additional information together with a telephone number in an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 3 shows a vendor 310, a telephone number database 320, a user terminal 330, and a server 340.

Information about the vendor 310 may be registered on the Internet through various paths. For example, when the vendor 310 registers the homepage of the vendor 310 through the hosting company or the advertisement of the vendor 310 through the advertisement company, information including at least the telephone number of the vendor 310 And can be registered on the Internet.

The telephone number database 320 may store and maintain telephone numbers and additional information associated with telephone numbers in association with one another. For example, the telephone number and the business name (business name) of the registered company for the telephone number may be stored and maintained in the telephone number database 320 in association with each other. The telephone number database 320 may be included in the server 340 or in another system capable of transmitting and receiving data in association with the server 340. [

The user terminal 330 may correspond to the user terminal described with reference to FIG. In addition, the user terminal 330 may be provided with the application illustrated in FIG. The user terminal 330 may request additional information from the server 340 according to the control of the application when receiving or sending an incoming call to the vendor 310. At this time, the user terminal 330 may transmit at least the telephone number used for incoming or outgoing call to the server 340.

In this case, the server 340 generates additional information by retrieving the information registered on the Internet, using the received telephone number together with the request for the additional information, or responds to the telephone number received from the telephone number database 320 Can be retrieved and extracted. In addition, the server 340 may transmit the generated or extracted additional information to the user terminal 330.

At this time, the user terminal 330 can receive the additional information from the server 340 according to the control of the application, and when displaying the telephone number of the business entity 310 on the screen, Can be displayed. For example, when a call is made from a terminal of the vendor 310, the name of the vendor 310 may be displayed along with the telephone number on the screen of the user terminal 330. In addition, the business name of the vendor 310 may be displayed in the call log along with the telephone number.

Fig. 3 shows an example in which a business name is displayed as additional information, and Fig. 2 shows an example in which a part of an address and a business name associated with the object are displayed as additional information. However, the additional information is not limited to the above-described embodiments. Depending on the situation, the additional information may include information such as the name of the person, more specific address information, industry type, service type, and the like.

4 is a diagram for explaining another example of a process of providing additional information together with a telephone number in an embodiment of the present invention. 4 shows a user terminal 410, a server 420, a social telephone number database 430, and a similarity database 440.

The user terminal 410 may correspond to the user terminal 330 of FIG. The user terminal 410 may request additional information from the server 420 according to the control of the application at the time of incoming or outgoing calls. At this time, the user terminal 410 may transmit at least the telephone number used for incoming or outgoing call to the server 420 under the control of the application.

The server 420 may retrieve the supplemental information associated with the received telephone number by retrieving the social telephone number database 430 via the received telephone number and may transmit the extracted supplemental information to the user terminal 410. [

Here, in the social telephone number database 430, information to be uploaded in association with a specific telephone number from users can be stored and maintained in association with the specific telephone number. For example, if user "A " registers information such as" voice phishing number "with respect to telephone number" 02-123-4567, " telephone number "02-123-4567" Information related to "voice phishing number" can be stored and maintained. At this time, when an incoming call occurs from the telephone number "02-123-4567" to the user "B ", the terminal incoming call screen of the user" B " Can be displayed together. At this time, the user "B " can recognize that the telephone number" 02-123-4567 "is" voice phishing number ".

In addition, when a plurality of users register information for one telephone number, information that is commonly recorded by more people may be stored and maintained in the social telephone number database 430 as additional information associated with the telephone number . For example, if one user registered "restaurant" for the telephone number "02-765-4321" while seven users registered "Japanese restaurant", the social telephone number database 430 is called "02-765-4321" and "Japanese-style house"

In addition, since there is a possibility to register information in different ways for each user, the server 420 utilizes the similarity database 440 to verify the same or similar representations for the various representations registered for the same telephone number . For example, the server 420 can utilize the similarity database 440 to confirm that the "Chinese house" and the "Chinese cooking house" are similar expressions. At this time, the server 420 can determine one representative expression and store the determined representative expression in the social telephone number database 430 in association with the corresponding telephone number. For example, suppose that there are three users who registered "restaurant" in association with a specific telephone number, two users who registered "Chinese restaurant" and two users who registered "Chinese restaurant". At this time, the server 420 can judge "Chinese house" and "Chinese food house" In addition, the server 420 can set the "Chinese cooking house" as a representative expression. In this case, there are three users who registered "restaurant", while four users registered "Chinese restaurant". Accordingly, the "Chinese cooking house" may be associated with the telephone number as additional information and stored in the social telephone number database 430. [

In addition, the user can register information on the specific telephone number in the social telephone number database 430 according to the control of the application installed in the user terminal 410. [ For example, after the user completes the call, the user terminal 410 may display a user interface that allows naming of a telephone number used for incoming or outgoing calls, according to the control of the application. The user can input information on the corresponding phone number through the user interface displayed on the screen of the user terminal 410 and the user terminal 410 can transmit the input information to the server 420. [ At this time, the server 420 stores the received information in association with the corresponding telephone number in the social telephone number database 430, so that the information input by the user can be registered. In another example, the user terminal 410 may transmit information registered in association with a corresponding phone number to a storage device (for example, an address book) included in the user terminal 410, to the server 420. For example, if the user stores the telephone number "426-53XX" as "XX chicken" through the address book function provided by the user terminal 410, the "XX chicken" can be transmitted to the server 420, Number "426-53XX" and the information "XX chicken" may be associated with each other and stored in the social telephone number database 430. [ As another example, the user terminal 410 may transmit information registered on the web to the server 420 in association with the corresponding phone number under the control of the application. For example, the application may provide an address book function separate from the address book function provided by the user terminal 410. At this time, the address book function provided by the application may store information in a storage device included in the user terminal 410, but may store information on the web as needed. In this case, the user terminal 410 may transmit information registered in association with the corresponding phone number to the server 420 on the web.

5 is a flowchart illustrating a telephone number inquiry method according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention. The telephone number inquiry method according to the present embodiment can be performed by the user terminal 330 described with reference to FIG.

In step 510, when the display of the telephone number is requested on the screen of the user terminal 330, the user terminal 330 transmits a request including at least the telephone number to the server according to the control of the application installed in the user terminal 330 Lt; / RTI > Here, the application may be included in an in-app form in an application for providing at least a search service, for example. As another example, the application may be a program installed in the user terminal 330 in an independent form. For example, when an incoming or outgoing call or a call list is displayed, the telephone number may be displayed on the screen of the user terminal 330. At this time, the application can control the user terminal 330 to request additional information from the user terminal 330 to the server. The telephone number may be transmitted to the server via the request. The server may correspond to the server 340 described with reference to FIG.

At step 520, the user terminal 330 may receive additional information corresponding to the request from the server. At this time, the additional information may be generated based on the information registered with the telephone number on the Internet. For example, the registered information may be stored in the telephone number database in association with the telephone number. At this time, the additional information may be generated based on the extracted information by searching the telephone number database from the server to the telephone number. The telephone number database may correspond to the telephone number database 320 described with reference to FIG.

At step 530, the user terminal 330 may display additional information along with the telephone number on the screen. For example, when a telephone number is displayed on at least one of an incoming screen, a calling screen, and a call list screen of the user terminal 330, the additional information may be displayed in association with the telephone number. In one example, in addition to the call list provided as a basic function of the user terminal 330, the application may separately provide the call list. At this time, when the telephone number is exposed through the call list provided by the application, the additional information may be received and displayed on the call list together with the telephone number. Such an example has already been described in detail in Fig.

In addition, the application installed in the user terminal 330 may include modules for controlling the user terminal 330 to perform the steps 510 to 540 described in FIG. Such an application may be provided by an application distribution system (not shown). For example, the application distribution system may include a file transfer unit (not shown) for transferring a file for installing the application to the user terminal 330.

6 is a flowchart illustrating another example of a telephone number inquiry method in an embodiment of the present invention. The telephone number inquiry method according to the present embodiment may be performed by the user terminal 410 described with reference to FIG.

In step 610, if an incoming call or an outgoing call occurs in the user terminal 410, the user terminal 410 may transmit the telephone number associated with the incoming or outgoing call to the server according to the control of the application installed in the user terminal 410 . Here, the server may correspond to the server 420 described with reference to FIG. In this embodiment, the application may be included in an application for providing at least a search service in an in-app form, or may be a program installed in the user terminal 330 in an independent form.

At step 620, the user terminal 410 may receive additional information associated with the telephone number from the server. Here, the additional information may be generated based on user input information transmitted from the plurality of users to the server. For example, the user input information may be stored and maintained in the social telephone number database in association with each corresponding telephone number. In this case, the server extracts the user input information stored in association with the telephone number in the social telephone number database as additional information, and transmits the extracted user information to the user terminal 410. If there are a plurality of pieces of user input information stored in the social telephone number database in association with the telephone number, the additional information may be determined based on the number of times the plurality of pieces of user input information are stored redundantly.

In addition, the server can check similar user input information by referring to the similarity database. In this case, the user input information judged to be similar to each other can be judged to be redundantly stored.

The social telephone database and similarity database may correspond to the social telephone number database 430 and the similarity database 440 described in FIG. 4, respectively.

In step 630, the user terminal 410 may display the received additional information along with the telephone number on the incoming or outgoing screen. For example, if an incoming call associated with the telephone number "456-7890" occurs to the user terminal 410, the user terminal 410 sends a telephone number "456-7890" through step 610 and step 620 to telephone number & Additional information about the server can be received from the server. At this time, the user terminal 410 can display the additional information together with the telephone number "456-7890 " on the incoming call screen, thereby helping the user to easily recognize the information on the incoming call.

At step 640, the user terminal 410 may transmit user input information associated with the telephone number to the server. The user input information transmitted to the server can be stored in the social telephone number database in association with the telephone number, and can be used again for another user.

For example, the user terminal 410 may provide a user interface for receiving user input information, and may transmit user input information input through the user interface to the server. For example, if the user of the user terminal 410 enters "loan" as the user input information for the incoming phone number "456-7890", the social telephone number database contains telephone numbers "456-7890" and " Quot; can be stored in association with each other. If a call is made to another user terminal of another user with the telephone number "456-7890 ", " loan" may be displayed along with the telephone number "456-7890 "

As another example, the user terminal 410 may store at least one piece of information registered on the web in association with the telephone number according to the information registered in association with the telephone number in the storage device included in the user terminal 410 and the control of the application , And can be transmitted to the server as user input information.

In addition, the application installed in the user terminal 410 may include modules for controlling the user terminal 410 to perform the steps described in FIG. Such an application may be provided by an application distribution system (not shown). For example, the application distribution system may include a file transfer unit (not shown) for transferring a file for installing the application to the user terminal 410.

6, in addition to the steps described in FIG. 6, when a telephone number is displayed through a call list provided by an application, a step (not shown) for displaying additional information in association with a telephone number, As shown in FIG. This unpublished step may be performed by the user terminal 410 and the application may include a module for controlling the user terminal 410 so that the user terminal 410 performs the step of not shown.

FIG. 7 is a block diagram for explaining an internal configuration of a telephone number inquiry system according to an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 8 illustrates another example of a telephone number inquiry method in an embodiment of the present invention FIG. The telephone number inquiry system 700 according to the present embodiment may correspond to the server 420 described with reference to FIG. 4 or the server described with reference to FIG. 6, and may include a storage management unit 710, A number receiving unit 720, an additional information extracting unit 730, and an additional information providing unit 740. Here, the telephone number inquiry method according to the present embodiment may be performed by a separate configuration included in the telephone number inquiry system 700 or the telephone number inquiry system 700. [

In step 810, the telephone number inquiry system 700 or the storage management unit 710 receives user input information for a plurality of telephone numbers from a plurality of users, associates the received user input information with corresponding telephone numbers, It can be stored in a social telephone number database. The social telephone number database may correspond to the social telephone number database 430 described with reference to FIG. 4. Since the social telephone number database has already been described in detail, the repetitive description will be omitted.

In step 820, the telephone number inquiry system 700 or the telephone number receiving unit 720 may receive a telephone number associated with an incoming or outgoing call from the user terminal when an incoming or outgoing call occurs in the user terminal. Here, the user terminal may correspond to the user terminal 410 described with reference to FIG.

In step 830, the telephone number inquiry system 700 or the additional information extraction unit 730 may extract the user input information stored in association with the telephone number received from the social telephone number database as additional information. For example, the telephone number inquiry system 700 can determine additional information based on the number of times the plurality of pieces of user input information are stored, when the user number information stored in the social telephone number database is associated with the received telephone number have.

In step 840, the telephone number inquiry system 700 or the additional information providing unit 740 may provide the extracted additional information to the user terminal. For example, the additional information may be displayed together with the telephone number on the incoming or outgoing screen of the user terminal according to the control of the application installed in the user terminal.

The telephone number inquiry method according to another embodiment may include a step (not shown) for receiving user input information related to the received telephone number from a user terminal, and a step (not shown) for receiving user input information from the received telephone number (Not shown) of associating and storing in the social telephone number database. The unillustrated steps according to the present embodiment may be performed by the telephone number inquiry system 700 or the storage management unit 710. The social telephone number database may be updated or evolved through these illustrative steps.

According to another embodiment of the present invention, in addition to the steps described with reference to FIG. 8, a step of discriminating similarity of user input information stored in association with the same telephone number in a social telephone number database by referring to a similarity database (Not shown). At this time, the user input information determined to be similar to each other can be judged to be redundantly stored. The unillustrated step according to the present embodiment may be performed by the telephone number inquiry system 700 or the additional information extracting unit 730. Through this illustrative step, more accurate additional information can be provided depending on the similarity of the user input information registered by the users in different ways. In addition, the similarity database may correspond to the similarity database 440 described with reference to FIG.

As described above, according to the embodiments of the present invention, additional information related to a telephone number used in an incoming or outgoing call is searched and provided on the Internet or a specific database for information on a destination to which a telephone number is registered, Can be improved. Further, it is possible to provide additional information related to a telephone number by using an independent application or an application in the form of an in-app included in a specific application, and to provide additional information associated with the telephone number through the call list , It is possible to manage the call list more conveniently. In addition, users can establish a social telephone number database in which users can register information about phone numbers and destinations, provide additional information associated with phone numbers using the established social telephone number database, So that the users can integrally manage the information registered in the social telephone number database and provide them as additional information.

The apparatus described above may be implemented as a hardware component, a software component, and / or a combination of hardware components and software components. For example, the apparatus and components described in the embodiments may be implemented within a computer system, such as, for example, a processor, a controller, an arithmetic logic unit (ALU), a digital signal processor, a microcomputer, a field programmable array (FPA) A programmable logic unit (PLU), a microprocessor, or any other device capable of executing and responding to instructions. The processing device may execute an operating system (OS) and one or more software applications running on the operating system. The processing device may also access, store, manipulate, process, and generate data in response to execution of the software. For ease of understanding, the processing apparatus may be described as being used singly, but those skilled in the art will recognize that the processing apparatus may have a plurality of processing elements and / As shown in FIG. For example, the processing unit may comprise a plurality of processors or one processor and one controller. Other processing configurations are also possible, such as a parallel processor.

The software may include a computer program, code, instructions, or a combination of one or more of the foregoing, and may be configured to configure the processing device to operate as desired or to process it collectively or collectively Device can be commanded. The software and / or data may be in the form of any type of machine, component, physical device, virtual equipment, computer storage media, or device , Or may be permanently or temporarily embodied in a transmitted signal wave. The software may be distributed over a networked computer system and stored or executed in a distributed manner. The software and data may be stored on one or more computer readable recording media.

The method according to an embodiment may be implemented in the form of a program command that can be executed through various computer means and recorded in a computer-readable medium. The computer-readable medium may include program instructions, data files, data structures, and the like, alone or in combination. The program instructions to be recorded on the medium may be those specially designed and configured for the embodiments or may be available to those skilled in the art of computer software. Examples of computer-readable media include magnetic media such as hard disks, floppy disks and magnetic tape; optical media such as CD-ROMs and DVDs; magnetic media such as floppy disks; Magneto-optical media, and hardware devices specifically configured to store and execute program instructions such as ROM, RAM, flash memory, and the like. Examples of program instructions include machine language code such as those produced by a compiler, as well as high-level language code that can be executed by a computer using an interpreter or the like. The hardware devices described above may be configured to operate as one or more software modules to perform the operations of the embodiments, and vice versa.

While the present invention has been particularly shown and described with reference to exemplary embodiments thereof, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the disclosed exemplary embodiments. For example, it is to be understood that the techniques described may be performed in a different order than the described methods, and / or that components of the described systems, structures, devices, circuits, Lt; / RTI > or equivalents, even if it is replaced or replaced.

Therefore, other implementations, other embodiments, and equivalents to the claims are also within the scope of the following claims.

330, 410: User terminal
340, 420: Server
320: telephone number database
430: Social Phone Database
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Transmitting a telephone number associated with the incoming or outgoing call to a server according to control of an application installed in the user terminal when an incoming or outgoing call occurs in the user terminal;
Receiving additional information associated with the telephone number from the server;
Displaying the received additional information together with the telephone number on an incoming call screen or a calling screen; And
Transmitting user input information associated with the telephone number to the server
Lt; / RTI >
Wherein the additional information is generated based on user input information transmitted from a plurality of users to the server. The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the user input information is stored and maintained in a social telephone number database in association with a corresponding telephone number,
Wherein the additional information comprises user input information stored in association with the telephone number in the social telephone number database. 3. The method of claim 2,
Wherein the additional information is determined based on the number of times of storing the plurality of pieces of user input information in a case where there is a plurality of pieces of user input information stored in the social telephone number database in association with the telephone number. The method of claim 3,
Wherein the user input information determined to be similar to each other by referring to the similarity database in the server is determined to be redundantly stored. The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the application is included in an application for providing at least a search service in an in-app form. The method according to claim 1,
If the telephone number is displayed through a call list provided by the application, displaying the additional information in association with the telephone number
The method further comprising: The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the step of transmitting user input information associated with the telephone number to the server comprises:
Providing a user interface for receiving the user input information, and transmitting user input information input through the user interface to the server. The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the step of transmitting user input information associated with the telephone number to the server comprises:
Wherein the user information includes at least one of information registered in association with the telephone number in the storage device included in the user terminal and information registered on the web in association with the telephone number under the control of the application, To the server. Receiving user input information for a plurality of telephone numbers from a plurality of users, storing the received user input information in association with a corresponding telephone number in a social telephone number database;
Receiving a telephone number associated with the incoming or outgoing call from the user terminal when an incoming or outgoing call occurs in the user terminal;
Extracting user input information stored in association with the received telephone number in the social telephone number database as additional information; And
Providing the extracted additional information to the user terminal
Lt; / RTI >
Wherein the additional information is displayed together with the telephone number on a call receiving screen or a calling screen of the user terminal according to control of an application installed in the user terminal. 10. The method of claim 9,
Receiving user input information associated with the received telephone number from the user terminal; And
Storing the user input information in the social telephone number database in association with the received telephone number
The method further comprising: 10. The method of claim 9,
The step of extracting the user input information as additional information includes:
Wherein the additional information is determined based on the number of times of storing the plurality of pieces of user input information in a case where there is a plurality of pieces of user input information stored in the social telephone number database in association with the received telephone number . 12. The method of claim 11,
Comparing the user input information stored in association with the same telephone number in the social telephone number database with the similarity database,
Further comprising:
Characterized in that the user input information determined to be similar to each other is judged to be redundantly stored. In the ninth aspect,
Wherein the application is included in an application for providing at least a search service in an in-app form. 10. The method of claim 9,
Wherein the additional information is displayed in association with the telephone number when the telephone number is displayed on the call list provided by the application at the user terminal. Transmitting a request including at least the telephone number to a server according to control of an application installed in the user terminal when a display of a telephone number is requested on a screen of the user terminal;
Receiving additional information corresponding to the request from the server; And
Displaying the additional information on the screen together with the telephone number
Lt; / RTI >
Wherein the additional information is generated based on information registered with the telephone number on the Internet. 16. The method of claim 15,
Wherein the registered information is stored in a telephone number database in association with the telephone number,
Wherein the additional information is generated based on information extracted by searching the telephone number database from the server by the telephone number. 16. The method of claim 15,
Wherein the additional information is displayed in association with the telephone number when the telephone number is displayed on at least one of an incoming call screen, a calling screen, and a call list screen of the user terminal. 16. The method of claim 15,
Wherein the application is included in an application for providing at least a search service in an in-app form. 19. A computer-readable recording medium recording a program for performing the method of any one of claims 1 to 18. A storage management unit for receiving user input information for a plurality of phone numbers from a plurality of users and storing the received user input information in association with a corresponding phone number in a social telephone number database;
A telephone number receiving unit for receiving a telephone number associated with the incoming or outgoing call from the user terminal when an incoming call or an incoming call occurs in the user terminal;
An additional information extracting unit for extracting, as additional information, user input information stored in association with the received telephone number in the social telephone number database; And
And providing the extracted additional information to the user terminal
Lt; / RTI >
Wherein the additional information is displayed together with the telephone number on a call receiving screen or a calling screen of the user terminal according to control of an application installed in the user terminal. A file transfer unit for transferring a file for installation of an application to a user terminal
Lt; / RTI >
The application comprises:
A module for controlling the user terminal to transmit a telephone number associated with the incoming or outgoing call to a server when an incoming or outgoing call occurs in the user terminal;
A module for controlling the user terminal to receive additional information associated with the telephone number from the server;
A module for controlling the user terminal to display the received additional information together with the telephone number on a call receiving screen or a calling screen;
A module for controlling the user terminal to transmit user input information related to the telephone number to the server,
/ RTI >
Wherein the additional information is generated based on user input information transmitted from a plurality of users to the server. A file transfer unit for transferring a file for installation of an application to a user terminal
Lt; / RTI >
The application comprises:
A module for controlling the user terminal to transmit a request including at least the telephone number to the server when a display of the telephone number is requested on the screen of the user terminal;
A module for controlling the user terminal to receive additional information corresponding to the request from the server; And
And a module for controlling the user terminal to display the additional information together with the telephone number on the screen
/ RTI >
Wherein the additional information is generated based on information registered with the telephone number on the Internet.
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