KR101223076B1 - System and Server for Price Limit Providing Service of SMS Transmission Fee and Information Subscription Fee and Method thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a service system, a server, and a method for providing a text message transmission fee and an information service fee limit, and when the text message to which the information service fee is charged is determined, the information fee is determined by determining whether the transmission fee and the information service fee are selectively set. By sending or discarding the message, there is an effect of preventing excessive information service fee caused by the transmission of information service charge text message.

Handset, text message limit, information fee limit, limit offer, SMS limit

Description

System and Server for Price Limit Providing Service of SMS Transmission Fee and Information Subscription Fee and Method

The present invention relates to a service system, a server, and a method for providing a limit on a text message transmission fee and an information fee, and more particularly, to a text message to which an information fee is charged. The present invention relates to a system for providing a text message transmission fee and an information service fee, a server, and a method for transmitting a text message according to whether or not the limit amount is exhausted.

So-called phone to web that transmits text messages from web messages operated by broadcasting stations to text messages that could be transmitted from a mobile terminal to a mobile terminal while text messages have become a universal mobile communication service. In addition, it is possible to transmit in the form of a Web to Phone (Web to Phone) to send a text message from the Web server to the mobile terminal.

In general, a text message of a phone-to-web type transmitted from a mobile terminal to a web server is charged not only for the transmission of the text message but also for the information usage fee when the text message is transmitted. For example, when a user of a mobile terminal sends a text message such as a simple story by radio broadcast, a text message transmission fee and an information fee are charged. Therefore, repeatedly performing the transmission of the text message to which the information fee is charged causes a problem that an excessive information fee is charged without the user's knowledge.

In addition, since a web-to-phone type text message transmitted from a web server to a mobile terminal is mostly for small payments, an information service fee is charged when the mobile terminal permits payment. Thus, if the user repeatedly checks and checks a text message on a mobile terminal, an excessive information service fee is charged between the users and the user.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In order to solve these problems, it is an object of the present invention to provide a system for providing a text message transmission fee and an information fee limit service server, a server, and a method for selectively setting a limit amount of a text message fee and an information fee.

In order to achieve these objects, the text message transmission fee and information service fee limit service system according to the present invention includes a mobile terminal capable of transmitting a message, and if the message is an information fee charge message, a transmission fee limit amount or information fee preset in the mobile terminal. A limit management server that transmits the information fee charge message and the web server that receives the information fee charge message transmitted from the limit management server when it is determined that the limit money is exhausted. Characterized in that.

In addition, the limit management server of the text message transmission fee and information usage fee according to the present invention is a number management unit for setting a limit flag to the information of the mobile terminal to transmit the information fee imposed message charged transmission fee and information usage fee, the limit flag is set Information extraction unit for extracting and providing information of the mobile terminal, the transmission fee or information usage fee of the information usage fee charging message and the transmission fee or information usage fee used before the transmission of the information usage fee charging message from the mobile terminal, respectively, sums up the usage amount. A limit setting unit for calculating, a limit determination unit for determining whether the transmission fee limit amount or information usage fee limit amount preset in the portable terminal by the use amount calculated by the limit setting unit and the limit determination unit is set to the portable terminal Receive each limit amount Group include the information management unit to provide parts limit settings, and the limit setting section or the two said respective limit value of the transmission from the information management depleted state, characterized in that for transmitting the information service fee charge message to the web server.

The limit setting unit may discard the information charge fee message if the at least one limit amount set in the portable terminal is exhausted.

In addition, the limit setting unit determines whether the charge limit of the exhausted limit amount is a predetermined state, and if the charge is a predetermined state, characterized in that for charging the exhausted limit amount is characterized in that for transmitting the information fee charge message.

The limit setting unit may further include an information storage unit storing an identification number of the mobile terminal in which the limit flag is set, whether the at least one limit amount is exhausted, a limit amount for charging the transmission fee and the information fee, the transmission fee and the information. Characterized in that it further comprises a limit storage unit for storing whether the limit charge of the fee.

In addition, the method for providing a text message transmission fee and the information service fee limit according to the present invention comprises the steps of receiving an information service charge charge message in which a transmission fee and an information service fee are charged from a mobile terminal, the transmission fee limit amount or information service fee set in the mobile terminal; And determining whether the limit amount is exhausted, and if the limit amount preset in the portable terminal is not exhausted, transmitting the information fee charge message to the web server.

The method may further include discarding the information charge fee message transmitted from the portable terminal when the at least one limit amount is exhausted.

The method may further include determining whether or not the exhausted amount of the limit amount is already set after determining and storing whether the limit amount is exhausted.

Further, when the at least one limit amount is exhausted and whether or not the amount of the exhausted limit amount has been set is a predetermined state, charging the exhausted limit amount and transmitting the information fee charge message to the web server. It is characterized by including.

As described above, the present invention has an effect of solving the problem of excessive information fee caused by indiscriminately transmitting the text message to which the information fee is charged by selectively setting the limits of the text message fee and the information fee.

In addition, the present invention has an effect that can solve the problem of excessive information fee due to indiscriminate micropayment by setting the limit amount of information fee.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. However, in describing the embodiments, descriptions of technical contents that are well known in the technical field to which the present invention belongs and are not directly related to the present invention are omitted. This is to more clearly communicate without obscure the core of the present invention by omitting unnecessary description.

In the present invention, the portable terminal is a portable terminal capable of transmitting a text message charged with an information service fee, and can be used in place of a mobile communication terminal, a mobile phone, a personal digital assistant (PDA), a smart phone. have. In addition, in the present invention, the mobile terminal is a terminal that is independent of communication methods such as a terminal based on CDMA, a terminal based on WCDMA, a terminal based on GSM, and a terminal based on All-IP. It is preferable.

1 is a block diagram showing a system for providing a limit of a text message transmission fee and an information fee according to an embodiment of the present invention. 2 is a block diagram showing the main configuration of the limit management server shown in FIG.

1 and 2, the text message transmission fee and information service fee limit service system 100 includes a mobile terminal 101, a web server 102, a communication network 150, a call control server 151, and a limit management. Server 200 is included.

The mobile terminal 101 creates a text message and transmits it to the web server 102. In this case, the text message is transmitted to a web server 102 operated by a broadcasting station, etc., and is preferably a text message (hereinafter, referred to as an information fee). The mobile terminal 101 sets the transmission fee of the text message and whether the information fee is charged, and sets a limit amount at the time of charging, and transmits it to the limit management server 200 through the call control server 151.

The web server 102 receives the text message created by the mobile terminal 101. The web server 102 is preferably a server operated by a broadcasting station or the like. In addition, the web server 102 may be a payment server for transmitting a text message for small payments to the mobile terminal 101, and may be a mobile terminal capable of transmitting / receiving text messages and the mobile terminal 101. have.

The communication network 150 connects a communication path between the mobile terminal 101 and the web server 102. For an embodiment of the present invention, the communication network 150 includes a call control server 151 and a limit management server 200. At this time, the communication network 150 preferably means an All-IP network configured around IP. All-IP network means a network that has a structure in which different networks are integrated based on the Internet protocol. All-IP network is capable of transmitting / receiving large amounts of data and providing seamless data services.

The call control server 151 is connected to the mobile terminal 101 to connect a communication path with other terminals. To this end, the call control server 151 is configured to include a data processor (not shown), a location register (not shown) and a call controller (not shown), but detailed description thereof will be omitted.

The limit management server 200 is a state in which the limit amount of the transmission fee or information fee set in the mobile terminal 101 is exhausted when the information fee charge message is transmitted from the mobile terminal 101, and whether the charge of the transmission fee or the information fee is pre-set. In this state, the charge for the transmission fee or the information fee is charged by the limit amount, and the information fee charge message is transmitted to the web server 102. To this end, the limit management server 200 includes a number management unit 210, limit setting unit 220, information management unit 230, limit determination unit 240 and information extraction unit 250, limit setting unit ( 220 includes an information storage unit 221 and a limit storage unit 222.

The number management unit 210 determines whether the text message to be created in the mobile terminal 101 and transmitted to the web server 102 through the call control server 151 is an information fee charge message. The number management unit 210 sets the limit flag (Limit Flag) to the identification number (CID, Caller ID) of the mobile terminal 101 that sent the information service fee imposed message when the text message is an information service fee imposed message. The information of 101 is provided to the limit setting unit 220. At this time, the number management unit 210 is preferably provided to the limit setting unit 220, the unique information including the identification number and the like of the mobile terminal (101).

The limit setting unit 220 calculates a transmission fee or information usage fee used by the mobile terminal 101 before transmitting the information usage fee charging message based on the identification number of the mobile terminal 101 provided by the number management unit 210. Then, the limit setting unit 220 calculates the amount of use by summing the transmission fee or information fee of the information fee imposed message to be transmitted to the calculated transmission fee or information fee, respectively, and then calculates the used fee and information of the mobile terminal 101. Provided to the limit determination unit 240.

More specifically, the limit setting unit 220 stores the identification number of the mobile terminal 101 in the information storage unit 221, and the transmission fee used before the information fee charge message to be transmitted to the limit storage unit 222 or Accumulate and store information fees. At this time, the limit storage unit 222 is preferably stored mapped to the identification number of the mobile terminal 101 stored in the information storage unit 221. In addition, the limit setting unit 220 maps the exhaustion of the transmission fee or the information fee limit amount provided by the information management unit 230 with the information of the mobile terminal 101 stored in the information storage unit 221 to store the limit storage unit 222. Store in The limit setting unit 220 stores in the limit storage unit 222 whether the limit amount and the limit amount for charging the transmission fee and the information fee exhausted by the mobile terminal 101 are charged.

In addition, when the limit setting unit 220 receives the limit amount of exhaustion through the information management unit 230, the limit setting unit 220 determines whether the limit amount is already charged in the limit storage unit 222 of the mobile terminal 101. If the limit is charged in the limit storage unit 222, the limit amount of the used transmission fee or information usage fee is charged by the limit amount set in the limit storage unit 222 to charge the information service fee on the web server 102 To send). On the contrary, the limit setting unit 220 discards the information charge fee message if the limit amount is not already set.

The information management unit 230 receives whether or not the limit amount for the transmission fee set in the mobile terminal 101 determined by the limit determination unit 240 is provided to the limit setting unit 220.

The limit judging unit 240 is a transmission fee provided by the limit setting unit 220 when the information of the mobile terminal 101 provided by the information extraction unit 250 and the information of the mobile terminal 101 provided by the limit setting unit 220 are the same. Alternatively, the amount of use of the information fee is compared with the limit amount for charging stored in the limit storage unit 222. The limit determination unit 240 determines whether the limit amount of the transmission fee or information usage fee preset in the mobile terminal 101 is exhausted, and provides the determination result to the information management unit 230.

The information extracting unit 250 extracts the information of the mobile terminal 101 requesting the transmission of the information service charge message to the web server 102 and provides the information to the limit determining unit 240.

3 is a flowchart illustrating a process of providing a service limit of an information service fee according to an embodiment of the present invention. 3 illustrates an example in which the mobile terminal is the calling mobile terminal.

1 to 3, in step S301, the number management unit 210 of the limit management server 200 receives a text message to be transmitted to the web server 102 from the call control server 151 connected to the mobile terminal 101. . Subsequently, in step S302, the number management unit 210 sets a limit flag on the identification number of the mobile terminal 101, if the text message received in step S301 is an information fee charge message requiring an information fee in addition to the transmission fee, The number is provided to the limit setting unit 220.

Subsequently, in step S303, the limit setting unit 220 stores the information including the identification number in which the limit flag is set in the information storage unit 221, and then provides the information of the mobile terminal 101 to the information extraction unit 250. do. In operation S304, the information extracting unit 250 extracts an identification number from the information of the mobile terminal 101 and provides it to the limit determining unit 240.

In operation S305, the limit setting unit 220 calculates the transmission fee exhausted before the mobile terminal 101 transmits the information service fee charging message based on the identification number of the mobile terminal 101 stored in the information storage unit 221. In addition, the calculated amount is added to the transmission fee of the information usage fee imposed message and provided to the limit determination unit 240. As a result, the limit determination unit 240 compares the total amount of the transmission fee and the limit amount of the transmission fee stored in the limit storage unit 222 to determine whether the preset transmission fee is exhausted.

As a result of the determination in step S305, if the combined amount of the transmission fee is used to exhaust the limit amount stored in the limit storage unit 222, the limit judging unit 240 uses the information setting unit 230 to determine the result of the determination in step S305. In step S306, the process proceeds to step S306, and the limit determination unit 240 proceeds to step S309 unless the limit amount is exhausted.

In step S306, the limit setting unit 220 stores in the limit storage unit 222 that the portable terminal 101 provided by the information management unit 230 has exhausted the limit amount, and then proceeds to step S307. In this case, the limit setting unit 220 may calculate the amount of the fee charged by the transmission fee of the mobile terminal 101 and also store the amount in the limit storage unit 222. In this case, the limit setting unit 220 preferably maps whether the limit amount is exhausted and the billed amount to the information of the mobile terminal 101 stored in the information storage unit 221 and stores the limit amount in the limit storage unit 222.

Subsequently, in step S307, the limit setting unit 220 searches the limit storage unit 222 to determine whether the limit amount charging for the transmission terminal limit amount of the mobile terminal 101 has been set. As a result of the determination in step S307, if it is not previously set whether the limit amount is charged, the limit setting unit 220 proceeds to step S313 and discards the information fee charge message. For this reason, when the limit amount is exhausted, it is possible to prevent the generation of additional transmission charges by discarding the information fee charge message.

As a result of the determination in step S307, if the charge amount has been previously set, the limit setting unit 220 proceeds to step S308 and charges the transmission fee with the preset limit amount in the limit storage unit 222 and proceeds to step S309.

Subsequently, in step S309, the limit judging unit 240 determines whether the portable terminal 101 is exhausted from the predetermined information service fee. This is performed in a similar manner to determining whether the limit amount of the transmission fee is exhausted in step S305.

As a result of the determination in step S309, if the mobile terminal 101 has exhausted the preset amount of information fee, the limit setting unit 220 proceeds to step S310, and in step S310, the limit setting unit 220 is the limit storage unit 222. ), It is determined whether the limit amount for filling the limit amount of the information service fee is set in advance. As a result of the determination in step S310, if the limit amount is not pre-set, the limit setting unit 220 proceeds to step S313 and discards the information fee charge message, and if the limit amount is pre-set, the limit setting unit 220 ) Proceeds to step S311 and charges the information fee with the preset amount of limit in the limit storage unit 222 and proceeds to step S312.

In addition, the limit setting unit 220 may charge the limit amount of the transmission fee and information usage fee as much as the preset limit amount when the limit amount is exhausted as described above, when the limit amount of the transmission fee and information usage fee is exhausted. have. In addition, the limit setting unit 220 may charge the preset limit amount after initializing the amount of use in the limit amount for the transmission fee and the information fee stored in the limit storage unit 222 regardless of whether the limit amount is exhausted. . In addition, the limit setting unit 220 may charge the limit amount of the preset transmission fee and information usage fee every time the limit amount set by the limit setting unit 220 is recharged regardless of whether the limit amount is exhausted.

In addition, the user may set the limits of the transmission fee and the information usage fee, respectively, and separately charge the transmission fee or the information payment fee by the set limit amount when the limit amount of the transmission fee is exhausted or the limit amount of the information fee is exhausted. Can be. In addition, a user sets a limit amount by mixing a transmission fee and an information fee, and calculates a transmission fee and an information fee, respectively, to determine the limit amount of exhaustion. , Can be charged up to the set limit amount.

On the contrary, if the determination result in step S309, the portable terminal 101 has not exhausted the preset amount of information fee, the limit setting unit 220 proceeds to step S312.

Subsequently, in step S312, the limit setting unit 220 transmits the information service charge charge message transmitted from the mobile terminal 101 to the web server 102.

Therefore, the user can check whether the information fee set for the limit is exhausted, and there is an effect of preventing an excessive charge of the information fee due to the indiscriminate transmission of the information fee.

Figure 4 is a flow chart illustrating a limit providing service process of the information service fee according to another embodiment of the present invention. 4 illustrates a case where the portable terminal is the called mobile terminal as an example.

1, 2 and 4, in step S401, the limit management server 200 receives a text message to be transmitted to the mobile terminal 101 from the web server 102. Subsequently, in step S402, the number management unit 210 if the text message received in step S401 is an information fee charge message to pay the information fee in order to make a small payment in the mobile terminal 101, the information fee charge message received After the limit flag is set in the identification number of the mobile terminal 101 to be provided, it is provided to the limit setting unit 220.

Subsequently, in step S403, the limit setting unit 220 stores the information including the identification number of the mobile terminal 101 with the limit flag set in the information storage unit 221, and then extracts the information of the mobile terminal 101. Provided to section 250. Thereafter, in step S404, the information extraction unit 250 extracts an identification number from the information of the mobile terminal 101 and provides it to the limit setting unit 220.

In operation S405, the limit setting unit 220 searches for the identification number of the mobile terminal 101 provided by the information extraction unit 250 in the information storage unit 221, and carries it on the basis of the identification number found in the information storage unit 221. The terminal 101 calculates the information fee paid before receiving the information fee charge message. The limit setting unit 220 adds the information fee to be charged due to the information fee charge message from the mobile terminal 101 to the limit determining unit 240 to the calculated amount. As a result, the limit judging unit 240 determines whether the information fee is exhausted by comparing the sum of the information fee and the limit amount of the information fee stored in the limit storage unit 222.

As a result of the determination in step S405, if the mobile terminal 101 has exhausted the preset amount of information fee, the limit setting unit 220 proceeds to step S406, and if the limit amount of the preset information fee has not been exhausted, the limit setting part 220, the process proceeds to step S408.

Subsequently, in step S406, the limit setting unit 220 searches the limit storage unit 222 to determine whether the limit amount charge for filling the limit amount of the information usage fee has been previously set. As a result of the determination in step S406, if it is not already set whether the limit amount is charged, the limit setting unit 220 proceeds to step S409 and discards the information fee charge message transmitted from the web server 102.

On the contrary, if it is determined in step S406 that the charge amount has been previously set, the limit setting unit 220 proceeds to step S407 and charges the information fee with the preset limit amount in the limit storage unit 222 and proceeds to step S408. do.

Subsequently, in step S408, the limit setting unit 220 transmits the information fee charge message transmitted from the web server 102 to the mobile terminal 101. Therefore, if the text message transmitted from the web server 102 is an information fee charge message for micropayment when the mobile device 101 is the called party's mobile device, only when the information fee limit amount remains in the mobile device 101. By sending a text message to the mobile terminal 101, it is possible to prevent an excessive amount of charges due to indiscriminate small payments in advance.

While the invention has been shown and described with reference to certain exemplary embodiments thereof, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes and modifications may be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined by the appended claims.

According to the present invention, when a text message to which the information service fee is charged, the system generates a message when the information service fee is charged by setting or sending a limit or limiting the text message transmission fee and the information service fee according to the limit amount. It can solve the costly problem of minimizing the load.

1 is a block diagram showing a system for providing a limit of text message transmission fee and information service fee according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a block diagram showing the main configuration of the limit management server shown in FIG.

3 is a flowchart illustrating a process of providing a service limit of an information service fee according to an embodiment of the present invention.

4 is a flowchart illustrating a process of providing a service limit of an information service fee according to another embodiment of the present invention.

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100: limit providing service system 101: mobile terminal

102: web server 150: communication network

151: call control server 200: limit management server

Claims (9)

delete A number management unit for setting a limit flag on the information of the mobile terminal to which the transmission fee and the information fee charged message are to be transmitted; An information extraction unit for extracting and providing information of the mobile terminal having the limit flag set; A limit setting unit that calculates a usage amount by adding a transmission fee or an information fee of the information fee charge message to a transmission fee or an information fee used before the information fee charging message is transmitted by the mobile terminal; A limit judging unit which determines whether the transmission fee limit or information usage fee limit set in the portable terminal is exhausted by the use amount calculated by the limit setting unit; And An information management unit which receives whether the limit amount of money set in the portable terminal is exhausted from the limit determining unit and provides the limit amount to the limit setting unit; Including, The limit setting unit transmits the information fee charge message to the web server if the respective limit amounts transmitted from the information manager are exhausted, and determines whether the limit amount of the exhaust limit amount is already set to be charged. If the status is a predetermined state, the limit management server of the text message transmission fee and information usage fee, characterized in that for charging the exhausted limit amount of money and sending the information fee charge message to the web server. 3. The method of claim 2, The limit setting unit If the at least one limit amount set in the portable terminal is exhausted state, the limit message server of the text message transmission fee and information usage fee, characterized in that for discarding the information fee charge message. delete 3. The method of claim 2, The limit setting unit An information storage unit for storing an identification number of the mobile terminal in which the limit flag is set; A limit storage unit for storing whether the at least one limit amount is exhausted, the limit amount for charging the transmission fee and the information fee, and whether the limit amount for the transmission fee and the information fee is charged; Limit management server of the text message transmission fee and information usage fee further comprising a. Receiving, by the mobile terminal, an information fee charge message to which a transmission fee and an information fee are charged; Determining whether the limit amount of the transmission fee limit or the information usage fee is exhausted by the portable terminal and storing the limit amount; Transmitting the information fee charge message to a web server if each limit amount preset in the portable terminal is not exhausted; Including, the transmitting step And when the at least one limit amount is exhausted and whether or not the amount of the limit amount has been set is already set, charging the exhausted limit amount and transmitting the information fee charge message to the web server. Method of providing limit of text message transmission fee and information usage fee. The method of claim 6, Discarding the information fee charge message transmitted from the mobile terminal when the at least one limit amount is exhausted; Character service transmission fee and information service limit providing service method characterized in that it further comprises a. The method of claim 7, wherein After determining whether the limit is exhausted and storing Determining whether the depleted limit amount has been charged; Character service transmission fee and information service limit providing service method characterized in that it further comprises a. delete

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