KR100884648B1 - System and method for sending message and reply email in mobile communication network - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a system and method for transmitting messages and reply emails in a mobile communication network.

To this end, the present invention is a system for transmitting a message sent from an originating terminal in a mobile communication network to a receiving terminal capable of checking email, comprising: an email address providing server storing a virtual email address corresponding to a telephone number of the calling terminal; And a message service for receiving a virtual email address corresponding to a telephone number of a calling terminal from an email address providing server and setting the message as a sender address of the message when the request is made to send a message having an email address from the calling terminal. The domain address of the virtual email address is a domain address representing a message service center.

According to the present invention, there is an effect of enabling the transmission and reception of messages between wired and wireless mobile communication systems by converting a message into an e-mail format capable of replying in a mobile communication network.

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Description

System and Method for Transmitting Message and E-mail Reply in Mobile Communication Network}

1 is a diagram schematically illustrating a configuration of a system for converting and transmitting a multimedia message into an e-mail format according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a diagram illustrating a virtual email address set for each phone number of a mobile communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3 is a flowchart illustrating a process of converting and transmitting a multimedia message into an e-mail format according to an embodiment of the present invention.

4 is a flowchart illustrating a process of converting and sending a reply email to a converted email according to an embodiment of the present invention in a multimedia message format.

The present invention relates to a system and method for transmitting messages and reply emails in a mobile communication network. More particularly, the present invention relates to a system and method for converting a message into an e-mail format and transmitting the message in a mobile communication network.

With the rapid development of electronic and communication technologies, various mobile communication services using a mobile communication network have been provided.

Recently, wireless Internet services that provide a communication service similar to a service provided by the Internet through a mobile communication network have emerged while a user of a mobile communication terminal moves without restriction of a place. Therefore, the subscribers of the mobile communication service can freely move and talk with the other party anytime and anywhere using the wireless communication service, and also have information necessary for life through the wireless Internet service, such as news, weather, sports, securities, and exchange rates. , Traffic information, etc. may be provided in various forms such as text, voice, image, video, and the like, and various types of information may be provided as a short message service (SMS) or a long message service (LMS). ) Or through a Multimedia Message Service (MMS).

In the early mobile communication system, the above message service was provided limitedly between terminals using the mobile communication service. However, due to the development of technology, it is currently provided between the terminal of the mobile communication system and the terminal of the wired communication system.

For example, a short message, a long message or a multimedia message may be transmitted from a terminal receiving a mobile communication service to a terminal receiving a wired communication service, and, conversely, from a terminal receiving a wired communication service to a terminal receiving a mobile communication service. E-mail can be sent.

Hereinafter, a process of transmitting a multimedia message from a terminal receiving a generally used mobile communication service to a terminal receiving a wired communication service will be described. Here, the terminal receiving the wired communication service is preferably a terminal capable of transmitting and receiving e-mail.

When a terminal receiving a mobile communication service sends a multimedia message in which a recipient address is entered as an e-mail address (for example, "OOOO@realmail.com"), the message server converts the multimedia message into an e-mail format and the corresponding message. Send the converted multimedia message to the recipient address. At this time, the message server inputs the sender address of the converted multimedia message as a virtual email address (eg, “admin@imsimail.com”) having a preset domain address and transmits it.

However, when the recipient sends a reply email to the mail converted and transmitted in this manner, the reply email sent by the receiver does not arrive at the sender because the sender address does not actually exist.

In addition, there is a problem that unnecessary wired and wireless communication resources are consumed due to a reply email that does not arrive at the sender.

In order to solve this problem, it is an object of the present invention to provide a system and method for converting a multimedia message into a replyable email format.

In order to achieve the above technical problem, the present invention provides a system for transmitting a message sent from a calling terminal in a mobile communication network to a receiving terminal capable of checking email, and corresponding to a telephone number of the calling terminal, the email storing a virtual email address. Address provision server; And receiving the virtual email address corresponding to the telephone number of the calling terminal from the email address providing server when the request for transmitting the message having the recipient address is in the form of an email from the calling terminal is set as the calling address of the message. And a message service center for transmitting to the terminal, wherein the domain address of the virtual email address is a domain address representing the message service center.

In addition, the present invention provides a method for transmitting a message sent from an originating terminal to a receiving terminal capable of confirming e-mail in a mobile communication network, the method comprising: a) determining whether a recipient address of a message received from the originating terminal is in an e-mail format; And b) if the recipient address is determined to be in an e-mail format, setting the virtual e-mail address of the telephone number of the calling terminal as the sender address of the message and transmitting the message to the receiving terminal. The domain address of the address indicates a domain address where the reply email of the receiving terminal to the message sent by the calling terminal can be received.

In addition, the present invention is a system for transmitting a reply email of a receiving terminal to the calling terminal for a message sent from the calling terminal in a mobile communication network, the email address for storing a virtual email address corresponding to the telephone number of the calling terminal Providing server; And when there is a request for sending a reply email whose recipient address is the virtual email address, receiving the telephone number of the calling terminal corresponding to the recipient address of the reply email to the email address providing server, and receiving the telephone number of the calling terminal. Message service center for transmitting the reply email to the calling terminal, wherein the domain address of the virtual email address is a domain address representing the message service center.

The present invention also provides a method for transmitting a reply email of a receiving terminal to a calling terminal for a message sent from a calling terminal in a mobile communication network, the method comprising: a) receiving the reply email transmission request from the receiving terminal to the calling terminal; Making; b) retrieving a virtual email address that matches the recipient address of the reply email; And c) if a virtual email address matching the recipient address of the reply email is found, sending the reply email to a calling terminal having a phone number corresponding to the searched virtual email address, wherein the domain of the recipient address The address represents a domain address where a reply email of the receiving terminal to the message sent from the calling terminal can be received.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings so that those skilled in the art may easily implement the present invention. As those skilled in the art would realize, the described embodiments may be modified in various different ways, all without departing from the spirit or scope of the present invention. In the drawings, parts irrelevant to the description are omitted in order to clearly describe the present invention, and like reference numerals designate like parts throughout the specification.

In addition, when a part is said to "include" a certain component, it means that it may further include other components, except to exclude other components unless otherwise stated.

In an embodiment of the present invention to be described below, a multimedia message is sent to a receiving terminal that can check an email from a calling terminal provided with a mobile communication service, and a reply email to the multimedia message received from the receiving terminal receiving the multimedia message is sent. It is assumed that transmission to the calling terminal will be described.

Here, in the embodiment of the present invention, it is assumed that the multimedia message is transmitted through a multimedia message service (MMS). However, the present invention is not limited thereto, and a short message service (SMS) or a long sentence is not necessarily limited thereto. Applicable to a system that transmits the message service (LMS: Long Message Service).

In addition, for convenience of explanation, it is assumed that the telephone number of the calling terminal is "01087654321" and the e-mail address of the receiver is "cooleye@realmail.com".

1 is a diagram schematically illustrating a configuration of a system for converting and transmitting a multimedia message into an e-mail format according to an embodiment of the present invention.

1, a system according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a base station 120, a mobile switching center (MSC) 130, a multimedia message service center (MMSC). Center, hereinafter referred to as 'MMSC' 140, an email address providing server 150, a sending mail server 160, and a receiving mail server 170.

The calling terminal 110 is a terminal which is wirelessly connected to the base station 120 and can use voice communication and data communication with another mobile communication terminal. The calling terminal 110 according to an embodiment of the present invention generates a multimedia message and generates an e-mail. A terminal for sending to a recipient with an address.

The base station 120 performs wireless communication with the calling terminal 110 according to a preset protocol, and the base station 120 according to the embodiment of the present invention indicates that there is a multimedia message transmission from the calling terminal 110. To pass).

The MSC 130 performs basic service processing for a mobile communication service, incoming and outgoing call processing of a subscriber, location registration procedure and handoff procedure, and interworking with other networks.

Here, the MSC 130 according to an embodiment of the present invention transmits the multimedia message transmission request of the calling terminal 110 received through the base station 120 to the MMSC 140 providing the multimedia message service.

When the MMSC 140 receives a request for transmitting a multimedia message from the calling terminal 110 through the MSC 130, the MMSC 140 checks whether the recipient's address format is an email format, and converts the multimedia message into an email format when the recipient's address format is an email format. To the receiving mail server 170. In this case, the MMSC 140 receives the virtual email address set in advance by the user of the calling terminal 110 to the email address providing server 150 and converts the multimedia message into an email format (hereinafter referred to as 'converted email'). Set as the sender address.

Here, the MMSC 140 according to an embodiment of the present invention is whether the terminal user subscribes to the caller address setting service, which is a service for setting the sender address of the converted email to a sender address registered in advance by the user of the calling terminal 180. By having a subscriber database 145 that can manage information on, it is possible to provide a caller address setting service only for users subscribed to the caller address setting service.

For example, in the case of a terminal user who subscribes to the sender address setting service, the MMSC 140 sets the sender address registered by the terminal user registered in the subscriber database 145 as the sender address of the conversion email, and subscribes to the sender address setting service. For the terminal user who does not have a terminal, the sender-only sender address set as a default (Defalut) in which an e-mail reply is impossible is set as the sender address of the converted e-mail.

In addition, the MMSC 140 may temporarily store the multimedia message received from the originating terminal 110 using the message database 147.

The email address providing server 150 stores a virtual email address, which is an email address previously set by the user of the calling terminal 110, and if there is a request for a virtual email address of the calling terminal 110 from the MMSC 140, the calling terminal ( The virtual email address of 110 is retrieved and provided to the MMSC 140. Here, the virtual e-mail address stored in the e-mail address providing server 150 may be deleted, added or changed as needed by the user of the originating terminal 110. In this case, the user of the calling terminal 110 may delete, add or change the virtual email address by using the caller PC 190 that is accessible to the email address providing server 150.

In addition, the virtual e-mail address stored in the e-mail address providing server 150 according to an embodiment of the present invention is preferably in the form of an e-mail including a domain address set in advance, the domain address is responsible for the e-mail related services of the MMSC 140 It is preferable that the domain address of the mail server. Here, in the embodiment of the present invention, it is assumed that the domain address in the form of "~@tempmail.com", and the e-mail including the domain address in the form of "~@tempmail.com" in the originating mail server 160 to be described below. It will be described on the assumption that it is responsible for the transmission and reception of.

Here, although the e-mail address providing server 150 according to an embodiment of the present invention has been described as storing the e-mail address input by the user of the calling terminal 110 through the caller PC 190 as a virtual e-mail address, It is not necessarily limited thereto, and the e-mail address providing server 150 according to the embodiment of the present invention may generate and store the e-mail address in a preset manner. Here, the method of generating the email address by the email address providing server 150 according to an embodiment of the present invention may be generated by a preset algorithm using the telephone number of the calling terminal 110. In this case, the e-mail address generated by the e-mail address providing server 150 according to an embodiment of the present invention preferably includes the domain address of the originating mail server.

Hereinafter, the e-mail address stored in the e-mail address providing server 150 will be described with reference to FIG. 2.

The originating mail server 160 transmits a reply email for the converted email received from the receiving mail server 170 to the MMSC 140. At this time, since the sender mail server 160 is a server used for the reply process of the converted email, it is preferable to directly transmit the received reply email to the MMSC 140.

The receiving mail server 170 is a server providing an email service to the receiving terminal 180. The receiving mail server 170 according to an embodiment of the present invention is a server for converting email received from the sending mail server 160. The receiver checks the recipient's mail address and stores the mail in the recipient's mail mailbox. If there is an email confirmation request from the receiver terminal 180, the mail stored in the mail mailbox is transmitted to the receiver terminal 180.

The receiving terminal 180 is a terminal that can access a mail server and check mail stored in a mail mailbox assigned to the receiving terminal 180. Here, the receiving terminal 180 according to an embodiment of the present invention is preferably a terminal that receives the multimedia message received from the calling terminal 110 in the form of an email service by accessing the receiving mail server 170.

2 is a diagram illustrating a virtual email address set for each phone number of a mobile communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 2, the e-mail address providing server 150 corresponds to a phone number of a terminal used by a plurality of mobile communication service subscribers in advance of a virtual email address stored by a plurality of mobile communication service subscribers subscribed to a caller address setting service. Save it. Here, the virtual e-mail address stored in the e-mail address providing server 150 according to the embodiment of the present invention preferably includes a domain address in charge of the originating mail server.

Hereinafter, referring to FIG. 3, a process of converting a multimedia message sent from a calling terminal into an e-mail format and transmitting the same to an receiving terminal will be described in detail with reference to FIG. 3.

First, the caller terminal 110 composes a multimedia message having an e-mail address and sends it to the MMSC 140 (S310). In this case, it is preferable that the multimedia message also includes the telephone number of the calling terminal 110.

Subsequently, the MMSC 140 determines whether the recipient address of the received multimedia message is in an email format (S320).

If the recipient address of the multimedia message received in step SS30 is determined to be an e-mail format, the MMSC 140 requests a virtual e-mail address, which is an e-mail address set in the originating terminal 110, to the e-mail address providing server 150 (S323). .

Subsequently, the e-mail address providing server 150 searches for a virtual e-mail address set in the calling terminal 110 requested by the MMSC 140 (S330), and provides the same to the MMSC 140 (S333).

Subsequently, the MMSC 140 sets the virtual email address of the calling terminal 110 provided from the email address providing server 150 as a calling address (S340), and sets the multimedia message received from the calling terminal 110 into an email format. Convert (S350).

Subsequently, the MMSC 140 transmits the converted email, which is a multimedia message converted into an email format, to the receiving mail server 170 (S360).

Subsequently, the receiving mail server 180 stores the converted email received from the sending mail server 160 (S380), and if there is an email confirmation request from the receiving terminal 190 (S393), converts to the receiving terminal 190. The e-mail is sent (S395).

Subsequently, the user of the receiving terminal 190 receiving the converted email from the receiving mail server 170 checks the contents of the received converted email (S397).

Hereinafter, referring to FIG. 4, a process of converting a reply email to a converted email sent by a receiving terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention into a multimedia message format and transmitting the same to a calling terminal will be described in detail.

First, the receiving terminal 180 creates a reply email for the converted email received from the calling terminal 110 and transmits it to the receiving mail server 170 (S410).

Subsequently, the receiving mail server 170 checks the domain of the reply email received from the receiving terminal 180 (S420), and sends the reply email to the sending mail server 160, which is the mail server responsible for handling the transmission of the reply email. To transmit (S423)

Subsequently, the sending mail server 160 transmits the reply email received from the receiving mail server 170 to the MMSC 140 (S430).

Subsequently, the MMSC 140 checks the domain address of the recipient address included in the reply email received from the sending mail server 160 (S440), and stores the domain address of the recipient address in the email address providing server 150. If it matches with the domain address of the email address, the phone number of the calling terminal 110 corresponding to the recipient address included in the reply email is requested to the email address providing server 150 (S443). At this time, the MMSC 140 preferably checks whether the domain address of the recipient address included in the conversion email is "~@tempmail.com".

Subsequently, the email address providing server 150 searches for the telephone number of the calling terminal 110 requested by the MMSC 140 (S450), and provides it to the MMSC 140 (S453).

Subsequently, the MMSC 140 sets the calling number of the calling terminal 110 received from the email address providing server 150 as a recipient address (S463), and sets the reply email received from the receiving terminal 110 in a multimedia message format. Convert (S465), and transmits to the calling terminal (110) (S470).

Subsequently, the user of the originating terminal 110 receiving the reply email converted into the multimedia message format from the MMSC 140 checks the contents of the reply email converted into the multimedia message format (S480).

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

As described above, according to the present invention, there is an effect of enabling the transmission and reception of messages between wired and wireless mobile communication systems by converting a message into an e-mail format capable of replying in a mobile communication network.

In addition, it is possible to reduce the waste of wired and wireless communication resources by enabling the reply email transmission to the message.

Claims (18)

In the system for transmitting a message sent from the originating terminal in the mobile communication network to the receiving terminal capable of checking e-mail, An email address providing server that stores a virtual email address corresponding to the telephone number of the calling terminal; And If there is a request for transmission of a message having an email address of a recipient address from the calling terminal, the virtual email address corresponding to the telephone number of the calling terminal is received from the email address providing server and set as the sender address of the message. Message service center to send to The domain address of the virtual email address is a domain address representing the message service center. The method of claim 1, The email address providing server Message transmission system for storing the e-mail address previously input from the user of the calling terminal as the virtual e-mail address. The method of claim 2, The email address providing server When there is an e-mail address request for the calling terminal from the message service center, an e-mail address corresponding to the telephone number of the calling terminal is generated in a preset manner, and the generated e-mail address is used as the virtual e-mail address of the calling terminal. Message transmission system to set up and save. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 3, The message service center And a message transmission system converting the message into an e-mail format and sending the message to the receiving mail server. The method of claim 4, wherein The message is A message transmission system in the form of a message in any one of a short message service (SMS), a long message service (LMS), or a multimedia message service (MMS). A method for transmitting a message sent from a calling terminal to a receiving terminal capable of checking e-mail in a mobile communication network, a) determining whether a recipient address of a message received from the originating terminal is in an e-mail format; And b) if the recipient address is determined to be in an e-mail format, setting the virtual e-mail address for the telephone number of the calling terminal as the sender address of the message, and transmitting the message to the receiving terminal, And the domain address of the virtual email address is a domain address where a reply email of the receiving terminal to a message sent by the calling terminal can be received. The method of claim 6, Prior to step a) Receiving and storing a virtual email address to be used by the user of the calling terminal from the user of the calling terminal; Message transmission method further comprising. The method of claim 6, Step b) is And generating a virtual email address in a preset manner with respect to the telephone number of the calling terminal, and setting the generated virtual email address as a sender address of the message and transmitting the same to the receiving terminal. The method according to any one of claims 6 to 8, Step b) is And converting the message into an e-mail format and transmitting the message to the receiving terminal. A system for transmitting a reply email of a receiving terminal to a message sent from a calling terminal in a mobile communication network to the calling terminal, An email address providing server that stores a virtual email address corresponding to the telephone number of the calling terminal; And If there is a request for sending a reply email in which the recipient address is the virtual email address, the receiving terminal receives the telephone number of the calling terminal corresponding to the recipient address of the reply email to the email address providing server and receives the telephone number of the calling terminal. A message service center configured to set a recipient address to send the reply email to the calling terminal; And a domain address of the virtual email address is a domain address representing the message service center. The method of claim 10, The email address providing server Reply email transmission system for setting and storing the email address previously input from the user of the calling terminal as the virtual email address. The method of claim 10, The email address providing server When there is an e-mail address request for the calling terminal from the message service center, an e-mail address corresponding to the telephone number of the calling terminal is generated in a preset manner, and the generated e-mail address is set as the virtual e-mail address and stored. To reply email sending system. The method according to any one of claims 10 to 12, The message is Reply-to-email delivery system in the form of a short message, a long message or a multimedia message. The method of claim 13, The message service center A reply email transmission system for converting the reply email into a message form and sending the reply email to the calling terminal. A method for transmitting a reply email of a receiving terminal to a message sent from a calling terminal in a mobile communication network to the calling terminal, a) receiving the reply email transmission request from the receiving terminal to the calling terminal; b) retrieving a virtual email address that matches the recipient address of the reply email; And c) if a virtual email address matching the recipient address of the reply email is found, sending the reply email to a calling terminal having a phone number corresponding to the searched virtual email address; And a domain address of the recipient address is a domain address where a reply email of the receiving terminal to a message sent from the calling terminal can be received. The method of claim 15, The virtual email address is Reply email transmission method which is an email address registered in advance by a user of the calling terminal. The method of claim 16, The virtual email address is And when the message transmission request is received from the calling terminal, generating an email address for the telephone number of the calling terminal in a preset manner, and setting the generated email address as the virtual email address. The method according to any one of claims 15 to 17, Step c) is Sending the reply email to the calling terminal by converting the reply email into a message format.

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