KR101248172B1 - Service system for service capability information of mobile communication terminal and method of controlling the same - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to an available service information providing system and a control method of the mobile communication terminal, the available service information providing method of the present invention comprises the steps of: storing the available service information for each user in advance; Receiving receiver information selected by the caller from a predetermined caller terminal; And searching for the available service information corresponding to the receiver and providing the available service information to the caller terminal. Accordingly, when the receiver is selected when the user transmits the data, the service information immediately available to the user can be provided, thereby ensuring the continuity of the transmission operation, facilitating the use of the service, and fully utilizing the service support capability of the receiver terminal. Can be.

Description

SERVICE SYSTEM FOR SERVICE CAPABILITY INFORMATION OF MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME}

1 is a configuration diagram of an available service information providing system according to the present invention;

2 is a data structure diagram of user data according to an embodiment of the present invention;

3 is a flowchart of a method for providing available service information according to the present invention;

4 is a display state diagram of an available service information providing screen according to an embodiment of the present invention.

DESCRIPTION OF THE REFERENCE SYMBOLS

1: IMS 3: Available service information management server

5: user data DB

10, 20, 30: User A, B, C 50: Available service information

The present invention relates to an available service information providing system of a mobile communication terminal and a control method thereof.

The core network (mobile network) that provides mobile communication service is changing from the core network based on the existing circuit to the packet based core network, and further evolving into the core network based on IP. A communication system that provides IP multimedia services to subscribers through an IP-based core network is called an IP Multimedia Core Network Subsystem (hereinafter referred to as "IMS"). Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) / 3GPP2 can support various additional functions such as multimedia service, PTT service and instant messenger service through IMS.

Accordingly, the mobile communication terminal also supports various functions by supporting various multimedia functions and additional functions. However, since the functions supported by the mobile communication terminal depend on the performance of the terminal itself, the services that can be supported may be different because hardware configurations or software versions are different depending on the manufacturer or model.

Therefore, in order to confirm the service support capability (capability) of the receiver terminal, the sender side has a problem of transmitting data after confirming the service support capability of the receiver terminal using a separate menu.

In addition, there has been disclosed a technique for guiding whether the receiver can check the sender's data when the data is sent. However, such a conventional technique allows the sender to check the corresponding data at the time when the sender sends the data. There is a hassle to resend the data if it is not appropriate.

In addition, the conventional technology simply guides whether or not it is possible to check outgoing data, and there is a problem in that it does not sufficiently utilize other service support capabilities of the receiver terminal.

The present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned problems, when the user selects the receiver when transmitting the data by providing the service information that can be used by the user through the IMS, to ensure the continuity of the transmission operation to facilitate the use of the service Another object of the present invention is to provide an available service information providing system of a mobile communication terminal and a control method thereof so as to fully utilize the service support capability of a receiver terminal.

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a system for providing available service information of a mobile communication terminal and a method of controlling the same, including: storing available service information for each user in advance; Receiving receiver information selected by the caller from a predetermined caller terminal; And searching for the available service information corresponding to the receiver and providing the available service information to the caller terminal.

The storing of the available service information for each user in advance may include: storing available service information registered by each user; It is possible to include receiving and setting whether or not to disclose the available service information from the user.

The receiving of the receiver information selected by the caller from a predetermined caller terminal may include: transmitting phonebook information stored by the caller to the caller terminal according to the caller's request; It is possible to include the step of receiving a receiver selection signal through the phone book information from the caller.

The available service information may include at least one of a message service function, a multimedia service function, and a device service function that the terminal of each user may support.

On the other hand, the above object according to another field of the present invention, the user data DB for storing the available service information for each user; And an available service information management server that receives the receiver information selected by the caller from a predetermined caller terminal, searches for the available service information corresponding to the receiver in the user data DB, and provides a search result to the caller terminal. It can also be achieved by the available service information providing system of the mobile communication terminal.

The user data DB stores phonebook information for each user, and the available service information management server transmits the phonebook information stored by the caller to the caller terminal according to the caller's request, and the caller sends the phonebook information. It is possible to receive the selected receiver selection signal via.

The available service information may include at least one of a message service function, a multimedia service function, and a device service function that the terminal of each user may support.

Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying drawings will be described in detail the available service information providing system and a control method of a mobile communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention. However, in describing the present invention, when it is determined that a detailed description of a related known function or configuration may unnecessarily obscure the subject matter of the present invention, a detailed description thereof will be omitted.

1 is a block diagram of an available service information providing system according to the present invention. As shown in FIG. 1, the present system includes a terminal user 10, 20, 30 for transmitting and receiving data through an IP Multimedia Core Network Subsystem (hereinafter referred to as "IMS") 1, User data DB 5 in which user data such as available service information of each user 10, 20, 30 is stored, and available service information registered by each user 10, 20, 30 are stored in user data DB 5. It includes an available service information management server (3) that stores and manages and provides available service information of the corresponding receiver to the sender's terminal when the recipient is selected.

IMS (1) is a standard technology that integrates voice and data into one structure and delivers it to a device fixed to an IP network. The IMS 1 provides various types of packet data services based on an Internet Protocol (IP) transport protocol, and multimedia-type contents such as voice, audio, video, and message data based on a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP). contents) can be transmitted and received.

Terminals for user data input by the users 10, 20, and 30 are terminals capable of IP / SIP communication through IMS (1), and user input functions such as mobile phones, PDAs, notebook computers, PMPs, and IMS (1). Various devices capable of supporting the IP / SIP communication function can be applied.

The available service information management server 3 stores and manages user input data such as available service information and phonebook information registered by the user 10, 20, and 30 through the IMS 1 in the user data DB 5. In addition, the available service information management server 3 provides the data requested by the users 10, 20, and 30 to the terminal of the corresponding user, and stored in the user data DB 5 when a predetermined user selects a recipient for data transmission. Based on the information, available service information of the receiver is provided to the caller terminal.

Here, the user data DB 5 stores data input by the users 10, 20, and 30, such as available service information and phonebook information of each user 10, 20, and 30, and thus, available service information management server ( 3) may read the data requested by the users 10, 20, and 30 from the user data DB 5 and provide the data to the corresponding users 10, 20, and 30.

As the available service information management server 3, it is possible to apply an XDMS (XML-based Document Management System) server capable of managing data based on XML (extensible markup language), which is a web page description language.

Meanwhile, available service information stored in the user data DB 5 may be configured as shown in FIG. 2. 2 illustrates a configuration of available service information according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The available service information 50 stored in the user data DB 5 includes the available service information 50 stored by the user A 10, the user B 20, and the user C 30. Are managed by). As shown in FIG. 2, the available service information of the users 10, 20, and 30 includes a message service, a multimedia service function, and a device service function that the terminal of each user 10, 20, 30 may support. .

Available service information about the message service is information of a message reception method available to each user, and includes e-mail, multimedia message (MMS), instant message (IM), short message (SMS), and voice mail (VSC). Information about a message receiving service method available to the user.

 Available service information related to the multimedia service is information of a multimedia service method available to each user, and includes information of a multimedia service method available to the user, such as an image, a video clip, and an audio clip. do. Here, the multimedia service available service information may be provided together with the format of the available video file and the audio file format to provide the multimedia service available information divided into avi, mp3, mp4, wmv, wma, and the like.

In addition, it is also possible to provide device service information as available service information to provide functions that can be used in the corresponding device, such as VoIP, IMS, and PTT.

The available service information 50 may be directly input by each user 10, 20, 30, and the terminal owned by the user when the available service information management server 3 is provided with specification information for each terminal model. The available service information 50 can be registered by simply inputting the type and model name of the.

According to this configuration, the available service information management server 3 searches for the available service information 50 of the corresponding recipient according to the inputted recipient information when the predetermined user 10, 20, 30 selects the contact information of the recipient. It can provide to the caller's terminal.

On the other hand, the available service information management server 3 may store and manage phonebook information of each user 10, 20, 30 in the user data DB 5. In this case, the available service information management server 3 provides a phone book function according to a request of the user 10, 20, 30, and, when selecting a predetermined recipient from the phone book, retrieves the available service information 50 of the corresponding recipient and sends the caller. It can be provided to the terminal.

3 is a flowchart of a method for providing available service information according to the present invention, which illustrates a case in which an available service information providing function is provided in connection with a phone book function.

User B 20 may select the IMS (1) connection menu on the terminal to register the available service information on the available service information management server (3) (S10), and receive a confirmation signal thereof (S12). Here, the user B 20 may request registration of the available service information to the available service information management server 3 by using the SUBSCRIBE signal, and the available service information management server 3 may be the user B 20. After processing the request, you can inform the processing result by returning a NOTIFY signal. In addition, the user B 20 sets the available service information management server 3 whether or not to disclose the registered available service information to other users, so that when a predetermined user selects the user B 20 as a caller, the available service is available. It is possible for the user B 20 to directly select whether or not to provide the information.

On the other hand, user A (10) can select the IMS (1) connection menu on the terminal to request the available service information management server (3) phonebook view (S14), so that the available service information management server (3) is the user data Phonebook information of user A 10 stored in DB 5 may be provided to the terminal of user A 10 (S16).

When the user A 10 selects the user B 20 on the phone book, the available service information management server 3 receives the selection signal of the user A 10 (S18), and provides the available service information of the user B 20. Search and display on the terminal side of the user A (10) (S20).

According to this configuration, the user A 10 can check the message type, the multimedia type, and the like that can be transmitted to the user B 20 only by selecting the user B 20 on the phone book.

4 is a display state diagram of an available service information providing screen according to an embodiment of the present invention, illustrating a case in which available service information of a receiver is provided in connection with a phonebook function.

When the user selects the phone book function using the IMS 1 on the terminal, names and contact information of the user A, the user B, the user C, etc. stored by the user are displayed on the phone book screen 100. When the user B is selected on the phone book screen 100, the available service information list screen 102 for checking the message service, the multimedia service, and the device available service that can be transmitted to the user B is displayed.

Accordingly, when the user selects the item "1. Message service", the message service list screen 104 which can be sent to the user B is displayed. As a method of receiving a message service that can be sent to the user B, the user B side such as e-mail, multimedia message (MMS), instant message (IM), short message (SMS), voice mail (VSC), etc. All available message types are displayed.

Accordingly, when the user selects a predetermined item, a message input window 106 for sending a message in a corresponding form is displayed. For example, when the item " 3. SMS " is selected on the message service list screen 104, the SMS input screen in which the receiver is set to the user B is displayed immediately. Accordingly, the user may check the available service information of the receiver through the phone book and immediately perform a task of transmitting a message or data.

As described above, the present invention manages service information that can be used by each user through a database in a server, so that when a predetermined caller selects a receiver, service information that can be used by the receiver is immediately provided through the IMS. In addition, although the above description exemplifies a case in which available service information is provided for the caller selected on the phone book in association with the phone book, the available service information management server is available to the receiver even when the caller directly inputs the recipient's phone number. It is also possible to provide service information directly to the caller's terminal through IMS.

While the present invention has been particularly shown and described with reference to exemplary embodiments thereof, it is clearly understood that the same is by way of illustration and example only and is not to be construed as limiting the scope of the present invention. I will understand. Therefore, the scope of the present invention should not be limited to the described embodiments, but should be determined by the scope of the appended claims, as well as the appended claims.

As described above, the available service information providing system and control method of the mobile communication terminal of the present invention manages the service information available to each user in a database in the server can be used by the receiver when a predetermined caller selected the recipient Service information is provided through IMS immediately.

Accordingly, by providing the service information that can be used by the receiver while ensuring the continuity of the transmission task when transmitting the user's data, it is easy to use the service and fully utilize the service support capability of the receiver terminal.

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Storing available service information for each user in advance; Receiving receiver information selected by the caller from a predetermined caller terminal; And searching for the available service information corresponding to the receiver and providing the available service information to the caller terminal. The method of claim 1, Pre-store the available service information for each user, Storing available service information registered by each user; And receiving and setting whether or not to disclose the available service information from the user and storing the available service information. The method of claim 1, Receiving the receiver information selected by the caller from a predetermined caller terminal, At the request of the caller, transmitting phonebook information stored by the caller to the caller terminal; And receiving the receiver selection signal through the phone book information from the caller. The method of claim 1, The available service information, Method for providing available service information of a mobile communication terminal comprising at least one of a message service function, a multimedia service function, a device service function that can be supported by the terminal of each user. A user data DB storing available service information for each user; And an available service information management server that receives the receiver information selected by the caller from a predetermined caller terminal, searches for the available service information corresponding to the receiver in the user data DB, and provides a search result to the caller terminal. Available service information providing system of a mobile communication terminal. 6. The method of claim 5, The user data DB stores the phonebook information for each user, The available service information management server, the mobile communication terminal, characterized in that for transmitting the phonebook information stored by the caller in response to the caller's request to the caller terminal and the receiver selected signal selected by the caller through the phonebook information. Service information provision system. 6. The method of claim 5, The available service information, The available service information providing system of the mobile communication terminal, characterized in that it comprises at least one of a message service function, a multimedia service function, a device service function that can be supported by the terminal of each user.

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