KR20160010232A - message transmission method - Google Patents

Abstract

Disclosed is a method for transmitting a bulk messages. The method for transmitting the bulk text messages which can transmit the bulk text messages for free, and use an operator terminal joined with a flat rate payment service for using a certain amount of data freely, includes (a) a step of transmitting data including a text message and a client phone number from an operator server to the operator terminal; (b) a step of allowing the operator terminal to extract the text message and the client phone number from the data; (c) a step of allowing the operator terminal to transmit the text message to the client terminal matched to the client phone number.

Description

Text message transmission method {message transmission method}

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention [0002]

In the enterprise, the message is transmitted to the customer's mobile communication terminal for the purpose of publicity and customer management. For example, a surrogate operator transmits tens of thousands of publicity messages to a customer's mobile communication terminal every day.

Businesses send text messages through text messaging specialist. The message-sending company purchases about 10 won per case from domestic telecommunication companies (KT or SK K telecom), and receives a fee of about 13 won for customers and provides a text messaging service. In the conventional mass message transmission method, when a mass message is transmitted from a company server to a communication company server, a message is directly transmitted from a communication company server to a customer terminal.

However, in recent years, there has been a payment service suitable for mass-mailing in the communication fee system. If you pay a monthly fee (35,000 won), you can send 499 messages a day for free. This plan is free for up to 750M of data per month.

The use of such a fee service enables a message to be transmitted to a customer's terminal at a lower cost than the conventional method. Therefore, it was an opportunity to think about a new business model.

Korean Patent Laid-Open No. 10-2005-0011129 (mass transfer method and system of short message) is related to this technology.

The present invention relates to a method for transmitting a large amount of text messages to a customer terminal with optimum efficiency by using an operator terminal subscribed to a charge service which can transmit a large amount of characters free of charge and can use a certain amount of data free of charge .

In addition, the present invention provides a method for mass transferring a text message, which can reflect the change in the database of the operator server when the customer's terminal does not exist or the telephone number is changed.

According to an aspect of the present invention,

A method for mass-mailing a text message using an operator terminal subscribed to a charge service capable of transmitting a large amount of characters free of charge and using a predetermined amount of data free of charge,

(a) transmitting data including a text message and a customer telephone number from the operator server to the operator terminal;

(b) the operator terminal extracting the text message and the customer telephone number from the data;

and (c) the operator terminal transmits the text message to the customer terminal corresponding to the customer telephone number.

Also,

The step (c)

(c1) transmitting the character message to the communication switching center through the first communication company base station by matching the text message and the customer telephone number, respectively, to the operator terminal;

(c2) the communication company switch transmits the text message through the second communication company's base station to the customer terminal matching the customer's telephone number.

According to another aspect of the present invention,

A method for mass-mailing a text message using an operator terminal subscribed to a charge service capable of transmitting a large amount of characters free of charge and using a predetermined amount of data free of charge,

(d) transmitting data including a text message and a customer telephone number from the operator server to the operator terminal;

(e) the operator terminal extracting the text message and the customer telephone number from the data;

(f) the operator terminal matching the text message with the customer telephone number and transmitting the text message to the communication switching center through the first communication company base station;

(g) when the communication exchange has no client terminal matching the customer's telephone number, transmitting the transmission failure character message including the customer's telephone number to the operator terminal through the first communication company base station;

(h) the operator terminal converts the transmission failure text message into data and transmits data to the operator server;

(i) the operator server deletes the customer telephone number contained in the transmission failure text message from the database of the operator server.

According to another aspect of the present invention,

A method for mass-mailing a text message using an operator terminal subscribed to a charge service capable of transmitting a large amount of characters free of charge and using a predetermined amount of data free of charge,

(j) transmitting data including a text message and a customer telephone number from the operator server to the operator terminal;

(k) the operator terminal extracting the text message and the customer telephone number from the data;

(l) matching the text message with the customer's telephone number and transmitting the text message to the communication switching center through the first communication company base station;

(m) transmitting the telephone number change message to the operator terminal through the first communication company base station when the actual telephone number of the customer terminal matching the customer telephone number is different from the customer telephone number;

(i) the operator server changes the database of the operator server to change the customer telephone number included in the telephone number change message to the actual telephone number.

As described above, according to the present invention, a large amount of text can be transmitted free of charge, and a large amount of text messages can be transmitted to a customer terminal at optimum efficiency using an operator terminal subscribed to a charge service, Provides a way to transmit.

In addition, the present invention provides a text message mass transferring method which can reflect a change in a database of an operator server when a customer's terminal does not exist or a telephone number is changed.

1 is a configuration diagram of a text message transmission system according to a first embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a flowchart of a method for transmitting a text message according to a second embodiment of the present invention; FIG.
3 is a plan view of a text message transmission screen according to a second embodiment of the present invention;
4 is a flowchart of a method for transmitting a text message according to a third embodiment of the present invention.
5 is a flowchart of a method for transmitting a text message according to a fourth embodiment of the present invention.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Reference will now be made in detail to the preferred embodiments of the present invention, examples of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein like reference numerals refer to the like elements throughout. , Thereby not limiting the spirit and scope of the present invention.

In describing the following embodiments, terms to be background knowledge are defined as follows.

A) The operator terminal - operator terminal is a mobile communication terminal used by an operator who provides a method for mass transferring a text message of the present invention. The operator terminal is subscribed to a charging plan suitable for transmitting a large amount of text messages. At present, KT Co., Ltd., subscribes to the service fee of 35,000 won per month, it can transmit 499 text messages per day to other mobile terminals free of charge, and can use 750M of data free of charge per month .

B) Text transmission - 'Text transmission' means that a transmitting application installed on the operator terminal controls the operator terminal to transmit a text message to the user terminal. Also, "text transmission" includes transmitting a text message from the communication exchange to the operator terminal.

C) Data transmission - 'Data transmission' means that the operator terminal exchanges data with the operator server using 3G, LTE or Wifi. The transfer application installed in the operator terminal can convert the data into a text message form. Also, the transmitting application may convert the text message into data form and transmit it to the operator server.

D) Customer Terminal - 'Customer Terminal' is a mobile communication terminal that finally receives a text message. For example, in the surrogate operation service, the mobile communication terminal used by the customer using the surrogate operation becomes the customer terminal.

E) User terminal - The 'user terminal' is a terminal used by the user who intends to use the text message bulk transfer service of the present invention. The user terminal is generally a desktop computer, but in some cases it may be a mobile communication terminal such as a smart phone. For example, a person who uses a user terminal is a person who conducts a proxy operation in a proxy driving service.

The following examples will be described based on the definitions of the terms above.

1 is a block diagram of a text message transmission system according to a first embodiment of the present invention.

The text message bulk transfer method of the present invention utilizes an operator terminal subscribed to a charge service that can transmit a large amount of characters free of charge and use a certain amount of data free of charge.

The SMS message bulk transmission system 100 of the present embodiment includes an operator server 10, an operator terminal 20, a first communication company base station 30, a communication company switch 40, a second communication company base station 50, And a customer terminal (60).

The operator server 10 is connected to the operator terminal 20 in a wireless or wired manner and may be connected via 3G, LTE, Wifi, Bluetooth or the like in case of wireless. An execution program (hereinafter referred to as "transfer application") is stored in the operator terminal 20. [ The transfer application can exchange data with the operator server 10. In addition, the transmitting app can transmit a text message included in the data transmitted from the operator server 10 to the external customer terminal 60. In addition, the transmitting application can convert the text message transmitted from the communication switching center 40 into data and transmit data to the operator server 10.

The first communication company base station 30 is connected to the operator terminal 20 wirelessly (3G or LTE) and transmits the text message transmitted from the operator terminal 20 to the communication exchange 40.

The communication company exchange 40 extracts the telephone number of the customer terminal 60 from the text message transmitted from the operator terminal 20 to determine whether the telephone number is in the data list or not, To send a text message. When the customer telephone number transmitted from the operator terminal 20 is not included in the data list or is changed, the communication company switchboard 40 transmits it to the operator terminal 20 in the form of a text message. In this case, the transmitting app of the operator terminal 20 converts the text message into data and transmits the data to the operator server 10. The operator server 10 changes the invalid customer telephone number to the actual telephone number in the database or deletes the non-existing customer telephone number.

Meanwhile, the user terminal 70 may be coupled to the operator server 10. The user terminal 70 may be a desktop computer.

When a user who wishes to use the text message bulk mail service of the present invention creates a text message to be transmitted using his / her user terminal 70 and transmits the text message to the operator server 10, To the operator terminal (20). Thereafter, the transmitting application executing in the operator terminal 20 converts the data into a form capable of transmitting a text message, and allows the operator terminal 20 to transmit a character to the customer terminal 60.

The operator server 10 calculates the usage fee by matching the number of sent text messages with the user using the service.

Hereinafter, an embodiment of a concrete method for transmitting a text message will be described.

2 is a flowchart of a method for transmitting a text message according to a second embodiment of the present invention. Referring to the text message transmission system 100 of FIG. 1, a method for transmitting a text message in this embodiment will be described.

S11 is a step of transmitting data including a text message and a customer telephone number to the operator terminal 20 by the operator server 10.

The operator server 10 transmits the text message and the customer telephone number to the operator terminal 20 by data transmission. Currently, 499 characters per day are available free of charge from KT, a service provided by KT, and 750M of data is available free of charge per month. The operator terminal 20 of this embodiment is subscribed to this kind of payment service. In the present invention, a character is transmitted to the customer terminal 60 using the free text service of the maximum limit in the character-based payment service.

In the case of surrogate operations, it is necessary to transfer characters to as many customers as possible. The existing large-text transmission method was purchased from the service provider KT Co., Ltd. at a price of 10 won per one person, and provided to the users (the substitute driver) at 13 won per case.

However, in the case of a rate service that can transmit 499 free text messages per day at a base rate of 35,000 won per month, it costs 2.3 won per day (about 15,000 characters per month can be sent at a base rate of 35,000 won). Therefore, it has a considerable competitive advantage in terms of price compared to existing mass-mail service providers.

A transfer application is executed in the operator terminal 20. The customer terminal 20 is connected to the operator server 10 wirelessly or by wire. The operator server 10 can transmit a text message to be transmitted to the customer terminal 60 through the operator terminal 20 and a phone number list of customers by data transmission. The data transmission communication means may be Wifi or 3G. Data transfer is free within 750M per month. Therefore, this embodiment optimally utilizes data transmission. When data transmission is utilized, it is deducted from the 750M data availability range because it is not a text message transmission.

Meanwhile, the transfer application may be able to transmit a virtual phone number different from the actual phone number of the operator terminal 20 to the customer terminal 60. For example, even if there is an actual telephone number of the operator terminal 20, the proxy telephone number of '1588-1588' may be transmitted to the customer terminal 60.

In step S12, the operator terminal 20 extracts the text message and the customer telephone number from the data.

The transfer application executed in the operator terminal 20 converts the text message transmitted in the form of data from the operator server 10 and the telephone number (customer telephone number) of the customer terminal so as to be suitable for text transmission. In addition, a text message is prepared in a form that can be transmitted.

In the same manner as the operator terminal 20 of FIG. 3, a plurality of customer telephone numbers may be listed in one text message. In this case, a text message is transmitted to each of the plurality of customer telephone numbers.

In step S13, the operator terminal 20 transmits the text message to the customer terminal 60 that matches the customer telephone number.

The transfer application of the operator terminal 20 extracts the customer telephone number and the text message to be transmitted from the data received from the operator server 10, and transmits the text message to the customer terminal 60 corresponding to the customer telephone number.

This step will be described in detail. First, the operator terminal 20 matches the text message with the customer telephone number and transmits the text message to the communication exchange 40 through the first communication company base station 30. Thereafter, the communication exchange 40 transmits the text message through the second communication company base station 50 to the customer terminal 60 matching the customer telephone number.

The communication company switchboard 40 has a data list capable of matching a customer telephone number. When there is a customer telephone number transmitted from the operator terminal 20 in the data list, a text message can be transmitted to the customer terminal 60.

The method may further include the step of causing the caller number set by the operator terminal 20 to be displayed on the customer terminal 60 in step S13. For example, assuming that the telephone number of the operator terminal 20 is 010-1234-5678, the telephone number 010-1234-5678 is not displayed on the customer terminal 60, but the customer terminal 60 Display the number you set (for example, 1577-1577, 1588-1588, etc.). This process operates programmatically in the transfer app of the operator terminal 20. When the operator inputs a desired telephone number (for example, 1577-1577, 1588-1588, etc.) desired by the operator, it is transmitted to the customer terminal 60 using the set telephone number instead of the unique telephone number of the operator terminal 20. This allows the customer to place orders or make inquiries at the set phone number.

In the above process, a person who operates the operator server 10 and the operator terminal 20 incurs a text transmission cost of about 2.3 won. In consideration of the profit, it is possible to provide a service cost that is competitiveness (provided to the substitute driver at about 13 won in the existing case) compared to the existing competitors even if the user is provided to the user (the substitute driver) at 8 won per case.

4 is a flowchart of a method for transmitting a text message according to the third embodiment of the present invention. Referring to the text message transmission system 100 of FIG. 1, a method for transmitting a text message in this embodiment will be described.

In step S21, the operator terminal 10 transmits data including a text message and a customer telephone number to the operator terminal 20. In step S22, the operator terminal 20 transmits the text message, In step S23, the operator terminal 20 transmits the text message to the communication switching center 40 through the first communication company base station 30 by matching the text message with the customer telephone number. Steps S21 to S23 have been fully described in the text message transfer method of the second embodiment. In the present embodiment, a process performed when there is no telephone number of the customer terminal 60 corresponding to the customer telephone number at the communication exchange 40 will be described in more detail.

In step S24, when there is no customer terminal matching the customer telephone number, the communication company exchange 40 transmits a transmission failure text message including the customer telephone number to the operator terminal 20 via the first communication company base station 30 . It is a free service that the service provider exchange 40 transmits a transmission failure text message to the operator terminal 20. [

In step S25, the operator terminal 20 converts the transmission failure text message into data and transmits the data to the operator server 10.

When the transmission failure text message is received by the operator terminal 20, the transmission application running on the operator terminal 20 analyzes it, converts it into data, and transmits data to the operator server 10.

In step S26, the operator server 10 deletes the customer telephone number included in the transmission failure text message from the database of the operator server 10.

The operator server 10 deletes the customer telephone number corresponding to the transmission failure among the telephone numbers in the list. Therefore, a text message is not transmitted to the failed customer telephone number at a later time. Therefore, the user (the substitute driver) is satisfied because he / she does not need to spend unnecessary expenses in the future.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart of a method for transmitting a text message according to a fourth embodiment of the present invention. Referring to the text message transmission system 100 of FIG. 1, a method for transmitting a text message in this embodiment will be described.

S31 is a step of transmitting data including a text message and a customer telephone number to the operator terminal 20 at the operator server 10 and S32 is a step S32 for transmitting the text message and the customer telephone number In step S33, the operator terminal 20 transmits the text message to the communication exchange 40 through the first communication company base station 30 by matching the text message with the customer telephone number. The steps from step S31 to step S33 have been described in detail in the first embodiment.

In the following process, when the actual telephone number corresponding to the customer telephone number is different, the communication company exchange 40 transmits the text to the operator terminal 20, and based on this, the operator server 10 transmits the actual telephone number Describe the process of changing to a telephone number.

In step S34, when the actual telephone number of the customer terminal 60 matching the customer telephone number is different from the customer telephone number, the communication company switchboard 40 transmits the telephone number This is the step of transferring the change message. The change message includes the old phone number (the customer phone number that sent the message) and the new phone number (the actual phone number changed). It is a free service that the service provider exchange 40 transmits a change message to the customer terminal 60.

When a text message is transmitted from the old telephone number (for example, the telephone number starting from 011) to the new telephone number (the telephone number starting from 010) to the customer terminal 60 using the old telephone number, (40) transmits the changed actual phone number information to the operator terminal (20).

In step S35, the operator server 10 updates the database of the operator server 10 to change the customer telephone number (old telephone number) included in the telephone number change message to the actual telephone number (new telephone number) Change it.

Through this process, the database of the operator server 10 is always equipped with the latest telephone numbers.

   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. Modifications and additions by those skilled in the art to an equivalent range based on the embodiments will also fall within the scope of the present invention.

The text message bulk transmission system 100 includes an operator server 10,
The operator terminal 20, the first communication company base station 30,
The communication company switching center 40, the second carrier base station 50,
The customer terminal 60,

Claims (5)

A method for mass-mailing a text message using an operator terminal subscribed to a charge service capable of transmitting a large amount of characters free of charge and using a predetermined amount of data free of charge,
(a) transmitting data including a text message and a customer telephone number from the operator server to the operator terminal;
(b) the operator terminal extracting the text message and the customer telephone number from the data;
(c) transmitting the text message to a user terminal having the same user telephone number as the user terminal.
The method according to claim 1,
The step (c)
(c1) transmitting the character message to the communication switching center through the first communication company base station by matching the text message and the customer telephone number, respectively, to the operator terminal;
(c2) the communication company switch transmits the text message through the second communication company base station to the customer terminal matching the customer telephone number.
The method according to claim 1,
The step (c)
And displaying the caller number set by the operator terminal on the customer terminal.
A method for mass-mailing a text message using an operator terminal subscribed to a charge service capable of transmitting a large amount of characters free of charge and using a predetermined amount of data free of charge,
(d) transmitting data including a text message and a customer telephone number from the operator server to the operator terminal;
(e) the operator terminal extracting the text message and the customer telephone number from the data;
(f) the operator terminal matching the text message with the customer telephone number and transmitting the text message to the communication switching center through the first communication company base station;
(g) when the communication exchange has no client terminal matching the customer's telephone number, transmitting the transmission failure character message including the customer's telephone number to the operator terminal through the first communication company base station;
(h) the operator terminal converts the transmission failure text message into data and transmits the data to the operator server;
(i) the operator server deletes the customer telephone number contained in the transmission failure text message from the database of the operator server.
A method for mass-mailing a text message using an operator terminal subscribed to a charge service capable of transmitting a large amount of characters free of charge and using a predetermined amount of data free of charge,
(j) transmitting data including a text message and a customer telephone number from the operator server to the operator terminal;
(k) the operator terminal extracting the text message and the customer telephone number from the data;
(l) matching the text message with the customer's telephone number and transmitting the text message to the communication switching center through the first communication company base station;
(m) transmitting the telephone number change message to the operator terminal through the first communication company base station when the actual telephone number of the customer terminal matching the customer telephone number is different from the customer telephone number;
(i) the operator server changing the database of the operator server to change the customer telephone number included in the telephone number change message to the actual telephone number.

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