WO2013143206A1

WO2013143206A1 - Terminal and method for acquiring called number user's state

Info

Publication number: WO2013143206A1
Application number: PCT/CN2012/075431
Authority: WO
Inventors: 丛文; 田奎元
Original assignee: 中兴通讯股份有限公司
Priority date: 2012-03-31
Filing date: 2012-05-14
Publication date: 2013-10-03
Also published as: CN103369490A

Abstract

Disclosed are a terminal and method for acquiring a called number user's state. The terminal comprises a control device, a transmitting device and a receiving device, wherein the control device is configured to inform the transmitting device to send a number state inquiry request carrying the mobile number to be inquired to a network end, so as to inquire the current state of the user corresponding to the mobile number after starting up or while receiving a user request; the transmitting device is configured to transmit the number state inquiry request carrying the mobile number to be inquired to the network end; the receiving device is configured to receive the inquiry response returned by the network end and the inquiry response carries the current state of the user corresponding to the mobile number. The method and the devices can timely acquire the real time service state of the user corresponding to the mobile number stored in the terminal or input by the user or in the communication log, thus it is possible to avoid that the caller user tries to call the called user continuously when the called user' state is unknown, and the utilization ratio of the network is improved and the user cost is saved.

Description

Terminal and method for acquiring user status of called number

Technical field

The present invention relates to the field of mobile communications, and in particular, to a terminal and a method for obtaining a user state of a called number.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION The wireless communication world is a communication environment constructed by various networks such as a wireless local area network (WLAN), a mobile communication system, a satellite communication system, and a digital broadcast/fixed access (Fixed Access) system. However, the network architecture of various networks, Transmission methods, transmission speeds, transmission quality, quality of service (QoS) policies, resource management modes, etc. are all very different. At present, from the perspective of technology and market, the more humanized communication services can be highly praised and trusted by users, the service providers of corresponding businesses can get better market returns. Therefore, in order to provide wireless communication services that are always available, all-encompassing, and more economical, it is necessary to continuously increase and improve the communication services that each network can provide. As mobile phones become larger and larger, more and more contacts are stored. Nowadays, many mobile phone users use more than one number. Sometimes, a certain number does not boot. In this case, If someone keeps dialing the number and it will not be able to connect, it will cause waste of network resources. In addition, when the mobile user is roaming, especially when it is in the international roaming state, it may be because other users do not know the status of the user. The thing that can be explained by sending a text message has chosen to make a call, resulting in additional charges for the called user who is roaming.

Therefore, a simple method for obtaining the status of the called terminal number is needed to prevent the calling user from continuously dialing causing excessive consumption of network resources and additional expenses when the called user cannot know the status of the called user. SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The technical problem to be solved by the present invention is to provide a method and a terminal for obtaining the status of a called terminal number, and to solve the problem that the calling user continuously dials excessive network resource consumption and additional expenses when the called user cannot know the status of the called user. . In order to solve the above technical problem, the present invention provides a method for obtaining the status of a called terminal number, which includes: after the terminal is powered on or when receiving a user request, the terminal sends a number status of the mobile number carrying the to be queried to the network side. Querying the request to query the current status of the user corresponding to the mobile number; the terminal receiving the query response returned by the network side, where the query response carries the current status of the user corresponding to the mobile number. Preferably, the mobile number comprises one or more of the following: all or part of the user-set mobile number stored by the terminal, the mobile number input by the user, and the mobile number in the communication record. Preferably, the current number of the mobile number corresponding to the user includes one or more of the following: powered on, powered off, temporarily unavailable, out of service area, restricted service, domestic roaming, and international roaming. Preferably, the terminal periodically sends a number status query request carrying the mobile number to be queried to the network side after the power is turned on or when the user requests. Preferably, after receiving the current status of the mobile number corresponding to the user, the terminal displays, in the terminal, the mobile number according to the current status of the mobile number corresponding to the user; the group includes the following one One or more types: powered on, powered off, temporarily unavailable, out of service area, restricted service, domestic roaming, and international roaming; or, after receiving the mobile number corresponding to the current state of the user, the terminal Different fonts or colors are used in the terminal to distinguish the current status of the user corresponding to each mobile number. In order to solve the above technical problem, the present invention further provides a terminal, comprising: a control device, configured to: after the terminal is powered on or when receiving a user request, notify the sending device to send the mobile that carries the query to the network side The number status inquiry request of the number is used to query the current status of the mobile number corresponding to the user; the sending device is configured to: send a number status inquiry request carrying the mobile number to be queried to the network side; and the receiving device is configured to: Receiving a query response returned by the network side, where the query response carries the current status of the mobile number corresponding to the user. Preferably, the mobile number comprises one or more of the following: all or part of the user-set mobile number stored by the terminal, the mobile number input by the user, and the mobile number in the communication record. Preferably, the current number of the mobile number corresponding to the user includes one or more of the following: powered on, powered off, temporarily unavailable, out of service area, restricted service, domestic roaming, and international roaming. Preferably, the control device is further configured to: after the terminal is powered on or when the user requests, notify the sending device to periodically send a number status query request carrying the mobile number to be queried to the network side;

The sending device is further configured to: periodically send a number status query request carrying the mobile number to be queried to the network side after receiving the notification from the control device. Preferably, the terminal further includes display means, configured to: after the receiving device receives the current status of the mobile number corresponding to the user, in the terminal, according to the current status of the user corresponding to the mobile number The mobile number is displayed in groups; the packet includes one or more of the following: powered on, powered off, temporarily unavailable, out of service area, restricted service, domestic roaming, and international roaming; or, in the receiving device After receiving the current status of the mobile number corresponding to the user, different fonts or colors are used in the terminal to distinguish and display the current status of the user corresponding to each mobile number. Compared with the prior art, the terminal provided by the embodiment of the present invention and the method for acquiring the state of the called number user may acquire all or part of the mobile number set by the user and/or the mobile number input by the user in time. And the mobile number in the communication record corresponds to the real-time service status of the user, which avoids the caller continuously trying to dial when the status of the called user is unknown, which improves the utilization of network resources and saves user fees, and has high practical value. . BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIG. 1 is a flowchart of a method for acquiring a state of a called terminal number applied to a terminal in an embodiment; FIG. 2 is a structural diagram of a terminal in an embodiment;

FIG. 3 is a flowchart of a method for obtaining a state of a called terminal number in an embodiment. Preferred embodiment of the invention

In order to make the objects, the technical solutions and the advantages of the present invention more clearly, the embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings. It should be noted that, in the case of no conflict, the features in the embodiments and the embodiments of the present application may be arbitrarily combined with each other.

Example:

As shown in FIG. 1 , this embodiment provides a method for a terminal to obtain a state of a called number user, including the following steps:

S101: The terminal sends a number status query request carrying the mobile number to be queried to the network side after the power is turned on or when the user requests, to query the current status of the mobile number corresponding to the user;

The terminal has opened the service of the number status query on the network side. The mobile number includes one or more of the following: all or part of the user-set mobile number stored by the terminal, the mobile number input by the user, and the mobile number in the communication record. The current number of the mobile number corresponding to the user includes one or more of the following: powered on, powered off, temporarily unavailable, out of service area, restricted service, domestic roaming, and international roaming.

The number status query request may be various modes supported by the current mobile terminal, for example, but not limited to the following manners:

For example, the method of supplementing the service query is used to automatically send the supplementary service query signaling to the network to query the current state of the mobile number to be queried by the user; for example, querying through the background short message, That is, sending a text message to the network that is the mobile number to be queried;

For example, querying by means of data service, that is, occupying data traffic of the terminal, accessing the network through the network connection to query the current state of the mobile number that the user wants to query;

For example, a new way of adding network-specific signaling is queried. In addition, as a preferred manner, after the terminal is powered on or received by the user, the terminal may periodically send a number status query request carrying the mobile number to be queried to the network side. E.g, The timer is set in the terminal, or one of the options of the phone book is a timer, and the number status query request is sent to the network side in a period set by the timer. In addition, when the terminal queries the network side, the database of the current state of the mobile number may be located in the HLR (Home Location Register), VLR (Visit Location Register) or any location.

S102: The terminal receives a query response returned by the network side, where the query response carries the current status of the user corresponding to the mobile number. In a preferred mode, after receiving the current status of the mobile number corresponding to the user, the terminal groups the mobile number according to the current status of the user corresponding to the mobile number in the terminal. Displaying, the grouping includes one or more of the following: powered on, powered off, temporarily unavailable, out of service area, restricted service, domestic roaming, and international roaming; or, the terminal is receiving the mobile number After the current state, different fonts or colors are used in the terminal to distinguish the current state of each mobile number; if the terminal receives the current number returned by the network side corresponding to the current state of the user update, the display is updated. The status of the mobile phone in the phone book.

As shown in FIG. 2, the embodiment provides a terminal, including: a control device, configured to notify a sending device to send, to a network side, a mobile number carrying a mobile number to be queried after the terminal is powered on or received by a user. a number status query request to query the current status of the mobile number corresponding to the user; wherein the mobile number includes one or more of the following: all or part of the user-set mobile number stored by the terminal, and the user input Mobile number and mobile number in the communication log. The current number of the mobile number corresponding to the user includes one or more of the following: powered on, powered off, temporarily unavailable, out of service area, restricted service, domestic roaming, and international roaming. a sending device, configured to send, to the network side, a number status query request that carries the mobile number to be queried;

The control device is further configured to: after the terminal is powered on or received a request from the user, notify the sending device to periodically send a number status query request carrying the mobile number to be queried to the network side; The sending device is configured to periodically send a number status query request carrying the mobile number to be queried to the network side after receiving the notification of the control device. The receiving device is configured to receive a query response returned by the network side, where the query response carries the current status of the mobile number corresponding to the user. The terminal further includes display means, configured to: after the receiving device receives the current status of the mobile number corresponding to the user, in the terminal, according to the current status of the mobile number corresponding to the user, the mobile number Performing group display; the grouping includes one or more of the following: powered on, powered off, temporarily unavailable, out of service area, restricted service, domestic roaming, and international roaming; or, the receiving device receives the After the mobile number corresponds to the current state of the user, different fonts or colors are used in the terminal to distinguish and display the current status of the user corresponding to each mobile number. In an application example, taking a mobile terminal as an example, of course, other terminals, such as an Ipad, a PC, etc., are not excluded, and the mobile terminal user has applied for a service of number status inquiry at the mobile operator, as shown in FIG. The method for obtaining, by the mobile terminal, the current state of the mobile number of the called terminal includes the following steps:

S201: The mobile terminal is normally powered on, and confirms that the number status query service is enabled;

S202: Obtain a contact number that needs to be queried from the phone book;

S203: The mobile terminal sends a query instruction to the network side.

S204: The network side returns the current status of all the queried numbers to the mobile terminal.

In addition, after the above steps, the network side will continue to monitor the status of the mobile number requested by the mobile terminal, and return the update status to the user applying for the service of the number status inquiry. The method further includes the following steps:

S206: The network side detects that a mobile number status changes; S207: The network side updates status information of the number in the database;

S208: Send the mobile number update to all terminals that have opened the number status query service. Current state of

S209: After receiving the update status of a certain number sent by the network side, the mobile terminal updates the display in the own phone book. As can be seen from the above-mentioned embodiments, the terminal provided in the foregoing embodiment and the method for obtaining the state of the called number user can obtain all or part of the mobile number set by the user in time and / or the mobile number entered by the user and/or the mobile number in the communication record corresponds to the real-time service status of the user, which prevents the calling user from continuously trying to dial when the status of the called user is unknown, which improves network resource utilization and saves user fees. , has a high practical value.

One of ordinary skill in the art will appreciate that all or a portion of the above steps may be accomplished by a program instructing the associated hardware, such as a read-only memory, a magnetic disk, or an optical disk. Alternatively, all or part of the steps of the above embodiments may also be implemented using one or more integrated circuits. Correspondingly, each module/unit in the above embodiment may be implemented in the form of hardware or in the form of a software function module. The invention is not limited to any specific form of combination of hardware and software.

The above description is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention and is not intended to limit the scope of protection of the present invention. In view of the present invention, various other modifications, equivalents, improvements, etc., should be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. It is included in the scope of protection of the present invention.

Industrial Applicability The terminal provided by the embodiment of the present invention and the method for acquiring the state of the called number user can acquire all or part of the mobile number set by the user and/or the mobile number and/or communication input by the user in time. The mobile number in the record corresponds to the real-time service status of the user, which avoids the caller continuously trying to dial when the status of the called user is unknown, which improves the utilization of network resources and saves user fees, and has high practical value.

Claims

Claim

A method for obtaining a status of a called number user by the terminal, comprising: sending, by the terminal, a number status query request carrying a mobile number to be queried to the network side after starting the power or receiving the user request, to query the The mobile number corresponds to the current state of the user; the terminal receives the query response returned by the network side, where the query response carries the current status of the mobile number corresponding to the user.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the mobile number comprises one or more of the following: all or part of a user-set mobile number stored by the terminal, a mobile number input by a user, and a communication record. Mobile number.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the current number of the mobile number corresponding to the user includes one or more of the following: powered on, powered off, temporarily unavailable, out of service area, restricted service, domestic roaming And international roaming.

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein the terminal periodically sends a number status query request carrying the mobile number to be queried to the network side after the power is turned on or when the user requests.

5. The method according to claim 3, wherein, after receiving the current state of the mobile number corresponding to the user, the terminal in the terminal according to the mobile number corresponding to the current state of the user to the mobile number Performing group display; the grouping includes one or more of the following: powered on, powered off, temporarily unavailable, out of service area, restricted service, domestic roaming, and international roaming; or, the terminal is receiving the mobile After the number corresponds to the current state of the user, different fonts or colors are used in the terminal to distinguish and display the current state of the user corresponding to each mobile number.

A terminal, comprising: a control device, configured to: after the terminal is powered on or received a request from a user, notify the sending device to send a number status query request carrying the mobile number to be queried to the network side, to query The mobile number corresponds to a current state of the user; a sending device, configured to: send, to the network side, a number status query request carrying a mobile number to be queried;

And a receiving device, configured to: receive a query response returned by the network side, where the query response carries the current state of the user corresponding to the mobile number.

7. The terminal according to claim 6, wherein the mobile number comprises one or more of the following: all or part of a user-set mobile number stored by the terminal, a mobile number input by a user, and a communication record. Mobile number.

The terminal according to claim 7, wherein the current number of the mobile number corresponding to the user includes one or more of the following: powered on, powered off, temporarily unavailable, out of service area, restricted service, domestic roaming And international roaming.

The terminal according to claim 6, wherein the control device is further configured to: after the terminal is powered on or when the user requests, notify the sending device to periodically send the mobile number carrying the query to the network side. The number status query request is further configured to: after receiving the notification from the control device, periodically send a number status query request carrying the mobile number to be queried to the network side.

The terminal according to claim 6, wherein the terminal further comprises display means, configured to: after the receiving device receives the current state of the mobile number corresponding to the user, The mobile number is grouped and displayed according to the current state of the user; the packet includes one or more of the following: powered on, powered off, temporarily unavailable, out of service area, restricted service, domestic roaming, and Or international roaming; or, after the receiving device receives the current status of the mobile number corresponding to the user, using different fonts or colors in the terminal to distinguish and display the current status of the user corresponding to each mobile number