KR101476169B1 - Method afor providing message service - Google Patents

Abstract

A method of providing a message service performed by a message conversion server is provided. A message service providing method includes the steps of: (a) receiving a message including recipient identification information, a recipient telephone number matched with the recipient identification information, sender identification information matched to the recipient identification information, and instant message receipt information matched with the sender identification information Creating and maintaining an information database; (b) receiving, from a message sending server, a communication message to be transmitted from a calling terminal identified by the calling party identification information to a called terminal identified by the called telephone number; (c) determining whether to convert the communication message into an instant message based on the recipient information database; And (d) when the communication message is converted into the instant message in the step (c), transmitting the instant message to a recipient terminal identified by the recipient identification information via an instant message server, And transmitting the communication message to the recipient terminal identified by the recipient telephone number via the message sending server or another message sending server when it is determined not to convert the message into the instant message.

Description

{METHOD AFOR PROVIDING MESSAGE SERVICE}

The present invention relates to a method of providing a message service, and more particularly, to a method of providing a message service by converting a communication message including at least one of an SMS message, an MMS message, and an LMS message into an instant message for a caller designated by a user.

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, an instant message service using a push method has been used in place of a message service (hereinafter abbreviated as "SMS") provided by a mobile communication company such as SMS, MMS, and LMS.

Instant messaging has advantages over users such as SMS, because it can save communication cost and provide more variety of services.

However, in many cases, instant messages are used as private communication means for personal contact, and financial institutions, electronic commerce companies, and the like send information or information such as financial information, transaction information, coupons, A message such as an SMS is often used.

Therefore, in order to better utilize the instant message, the customer should be able to select whether the message such as the SMS sent by the carrier should be received by a message such as SMS or the corresponding instant message.

In sending an instant message according to the customer's choice, the customer's personal information (for example, the customer's telephone number) necessary to maintain and manage the customer's choices and the customer's personal information required to send an instant message to the customers (For example, the terminal ID of the customer) may be different from each other, so that security of the personal information can be improved if the former personal information and the latter personal information can be separately managed by separate servers.

Accordingly, there is a need for a technique for separately configuring a server that maintains and manages customers' choices and a server that sends instant messages to customers, and prevents personal information from being shared between them.

In this connection, a technique in which a predetermined message is transmitted as a push message or transmitted through a mobile communication service is already known (see, for example, Patent Document 1).

However, in the above technology, whether or not a predetermined message is transmitted as a push message or a mobile communication service is automatically determined depending on whether or not a push message receiving application is installed in the receiver terminal, and the receiver selects the reception method no. In addition, there is no separate server for maintaining and managing customers' instant messaging options and a server for sending instant messages to customers. Therefore, the prior art disclosed in Patent Document 1 can not meet the above-mentioned demand.

Patent No. 10-1229951

The present invention relates to a system and method for transmitting a message such as an SMS to a recipient by a sender in a message such as an SMS message or an instant message corresponding to a sender according to a recipient's choice, The object of the present invention is to improve the security by separately configuring a server for sending a message and preventing personal information of a receiver from being shared between the two servers.

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a message service providing method performed by a message conversion server,

(a) creating and storing a recipient information database including recipient identification information, a recipient telephone number matched to the recipient identification information, sender identification information matched to the recipient identification information, and instant message receipt information matched to the sender identification information, and Maintaining;

(b) receiving, from a message sending server, a communication message to be transmitted from a calling terminal identified by the calling party identification information to a called terminal identified by the called telephone number;

(c) determining whether to convert the communication message into an instant message based on the recipient information database;

(d) when the communication message is converted into the instant message in the step (c), the instant message is transmitted to the receiver terminal identified by the receiver identification information via the instant message server, Message to the recipient terminal identified by the recipient telephone number via the message sending server or another message sending server when determining to not convert the message into the message; And
(e) receiving via the instant message server a read acknowledgment for the instant message from the recipient terminal identified by the recipient identification information
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Wherein the number of recipient terminals identified by the recipient identification information is two or more,
(f) transmitting, upon receipt of a read acknowledgment notification for the instant message from any one of the two or more recipient terminals, transmitting the read acknowledgment notification to the caller terminal identified by the caller identification information

A message service providing method is provided.

Preferably, the step (d) may further include, when the instant message server fails to receive the transmission confirmation notice for the instant message or the read confirmation notification for the instant message within a predetermined time, To the receiver terminal identified by the recipient telephone number via the server or the other message sending server.

Advantageously, the method of providing a message service comprises the steps of: (g) dynamically updating the recipient information database via communication with a recipient terminal identified by the recipient telephone number or a recipient terminal identified by the recipient identification information .

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According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of providing a message service performed by an instant message server,

(a) creating and maintaining a recipient information database comprising recipient identification information, one or more recipient terminal information matched to the recipient identification information;

(b) receiving, from the message conversion server, an instant message that the message conversion server has generated by converting the communication message and the recipient identification information;

(c) sending the instant message to one or more recipient terminals identified by the one or more recipient terminal information based on the recipient information database; And
(d) transmitting a read acknowledgment notification for the instant message to the message conversion server upon receipt of a read acknowledgment notification for the instant message from the one or more recipient terminals
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Wherein the number of the one or more receiver terminals is two or more,
(e) receiving a read confirmation notice for the instant message from any one of the two or more recipient terminals, and sending a read confirmation notification for the instant message to another recipient terminal of the two or more recipient terminals A message service providing method is provided.

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The method of providing a message service may further include: (f) dynamically updating the recipient information database through communication with the at least one recipient terminal.

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According to the method of providing a message service and the computer program for executing the same according to the present invention, it is possible for a receiver to determine whether a message such as an SMS transmitted by a sender is received by a message such as an SMS or the like, Can be selected.

In addition, in the above-described transmission of the instant message selectively, a server for maintaining and managing customers' choices and a server for sending an instant message to customers are separately configured, and the two servers are provided with different personalities Information, and personal information is not shared between the two servers. Therefore, security for personal information is improved.

1 is a block diagram illustrating a system environment in which a method of providing a message service according to the present invention is performed;
2 illustrates an exemplary data structure of a recipient information database created and maintained by a message conversion server according to the present invention;
Figure 3 is an exemplary illustration of data being dynamically updated in the recipient information database of Figure 2;
4 illustrates an example data structure of a recipient information database created and maintained by an instant messaging server according to the present invention;
Figure 5 is an exemplary illustration of dynamically updating data stored in the recipient information database of Figure 4;
6 is a flowchart illustrating a method of providing a message service performed by a message conversion server according to an embodiment of the present invention.
7 to 9 are flowcharts illustrating a part of a method of providing a message service performed by the message conversion server according to the present invention.
10 is a flowchart illustrating a method of providing a message service performed by the instant message server according to an embodiment of the present invention.
11 is a flowchart illustrating a method of providing a message service performed by an instant message server according to an embodiment of the present invention.
12 is a flowchart showing respective functions of a computer program executed in a processor provided in an individual terminal according to the present invention.

Hereinafter, a method of providing a message service according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 is a block diagram illustrating a system environment in which a message service providing method according to the present invention is performed.

1, a system environment in which a message service providing method according to the present invention is performed includes a message sending server 100, a message converting server 200, an instant message server 300, and one or more recipient terminals 400-1 to 400- 400-n. Hereinafter, the " recipient terminal " is also referred to as a " personal terminal ".

The message sending server 100 transmits the communication message and the calling party identification information for identifying the calling terminal (not shown) to the message conversion server 200.

The message sending server 100 or the caller terminal may be used by a company that manages customers, for example, a financial institution, a distribution company, or a service provider. In addition, the communication message may include financial transaction information, commerce information, product information, service information, discount information, or the like, and may be one of an SMS message, an LMS message, and an MMS message.

The message conversion server 200 generates and maintains a recipient information database 210, receives a communication message and sender identification information from the message sending server 100, converts the message from the communication message based on the recipient information database 210, And transmits the instant message and the receiver identification information to the instant message server 300.

The instant message server 300 generates and maintains a recipient information database 310, receives instant message and recipient identification information from the message translation server 200, and sends an instant message based on the recipient information database 310 To the receiver terminals 400-1 to 400-n described above.

Preferably, the entity that manages the instant message server 300 is different from the entity that operates the message conversion server 200, and recipient information is not shared between the two servers. Specifically, the recipient information database 210 managed by the message conversion server 200 stores the recipient's telephone number but does not store the recipient's terminal information but stores the recipient's information database 310 managed by the instant message server 300, Stores the recipient's terminal information but does not store the recipient's phone number.

As described above, since the recipient information is not shared between the two servers, even if information leakage occurs in either the recipient information database 210 or the recipient information database 310, either the recipient terminal information or the recipient's telephone number is leaked The other is not leaked. That is, according to the present invention, since the instant message server 300 is configured separately from the message conversion server 200, it is possible to allow the two different types of personal information to be managed separately, The security can be improved.

One or more receiver terminals 400-1 to 400-n are personal terminals (for example, mobile phones, tablets, personal computers, etc.) each having processors 410-1 to 410- And the instant message server 300 and receives an instant message from the message conversion server 200 via the instant message server 300. [

FIG. 2 is an exemplary diagram illustrating a data structure of a recipient information database 210 generated and maintained by the message conversion server 200 according to the present invention.

2, the recipient information database 210 includes recipient identification information ("user X", "user Y" in the example shown), a recipient telephone number (010-1234 in the example shown) Quot; A ", " B shopping mall ") registered in the receiver identification information and the instant message receipt information (" "O "," X "in the illustrated example).

Anything that is not a telephone number, such as an account ID on the network, an e-mail address, etc., that can specify an individual or a group, can be used as the receiver identification information and the caller identification information.

FIG. 3 is an exemplary diagram illustrating that data stored in the recipient information database 210 of FIG. 2 is updated dynamically.

Referring to FIG. 3, the data stored in the recipient information database 210 is updated dynamically through communication with the recipient terminal. For example, the recipient terminal may access the web page of the recipient information database 210 via the wired or wireless Internet, or may be connected to the recipient information database 210 through mobile communication to change or add data stored in the recipient information database 210 , And can be dynamically updated.

In the illustrated example, the receiver's telephone number is updated from "010-1234-4578" to " 010-7890-1234 ", and the instant message reception information of the B shopping mall for user X is updated from & do. In addition, " C insurance " is added to the user X as new caller identification information, and the instant message reception information is newly set to " 0 ".

FIG. 4 is an exemplary diagram illustrating a data structure of a recipient information database 310 generated and maintained by the instant message server 300 according to the present invention.

4, the recipient information database 310 includes one or more recipient terminal information (in the illustrated example, "recipient ") in which recipient identification information Terminal X1 ", "receiver terminal X2 "," receiver terminal Y1 ", and "receiver terminal Y2"). The recipient terminal information is information that can specify the recipient terminal, preferably a code generated by the recipient terminal.

FIG. 5 is an exemplary diagram illustrating that data stored in the recipient information database 310 of FIG. 4 is updated dynamically.

Referring to FIG. 5, data stored in the recipient information database 310 is dynamically updated through communication with the recipient terminal. For example, the recipient terminal may access the web page of the recipient information database 310 via the wired or wireless Internet, or may be connected to the recipient information database 310 through mobile communication to change or add data stored in the recipient information database 310 , And can be dynamically updated. In the illustrated example, "recipient terminal X2" is updated to "recipient terminal X3 " and recipient terminal X3 is added as new recipient terminal information.

Hereinafter, a method of providing a message service according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the system environment described above.

6 is a flowchart illustrating a method of providing a message service performed by the message conversion server 200 according to an embodiment of the present invention.

6, the message conversion server 200 includes the receiver identification information, the receiver's phone number matched to the receiver identification information, the sender identification information matched to the receiver identification information, and the instant message reception information matched to the caller identification information And generates and maintains a recipient information database 210 (S110).

The message conversion server 200 receives a communication message to be transmitted from the message sending server 100 to the recipient terminal identified by the recipient's phone number from the sender terminal identified by the sender identification information (S120). Here, the "recipient terminal identified by the recipient telephone number" may be, for example, a cellular phone.

Next, the message conversion server 200 determines whether to convert the communication message into an instant message based on the recipient information database 210 (S130).

In the example of the recipient information database 210 shown in FIG. 2, the instant message from the bank A among the senders matched to the recipient user X is received ("received") and the instant message from the B shopping mall is received ("Receive X"). Accordingly, when the recipient of the communication message is the user X and the sender is the A bank, the message conversion server 200 determines to convert it into an instant message. If the recipient of the communication message is user X and the sender is B shopping mall, Message is not to be converted.

When the message conversion server 200 determines to convert the communication message into the instant message in step S130, the instant message server 200 transmits the instant message to the recipient terminal identified by the recipient identification information via the instant message server. In step S130, Message, the communication message is transmitted to the recipient terminal identified by the recipient phone number via the message sending server 100 or another message sending server (not shown) (S140).

Here, the "recipient terminal identified by recipient identification information" may be a personal terminal identified by information other than a telephone number, such as a tablet or a personal computer, or may be the same as the recipient terminal identified by the recipient telephone number It is possible. The number of the recipient terminals identified by the recipient identification information may be two or more, and one of the recipient terminals identified by the two or more recipient identification information may be the recipient terminal identified by the recipient telephone number.

7 to 9 are flowcharts illustrating a part of a method of providing a message service performed by the message conversion server according to the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 7, in step S140, if the instant message server 300 fails to receive a transmission confirmation notice for the instant message or a read confirmation notification for the instant message within a predetermined time, the communication message is transmitted to the message transmission server 100 or another message sending server (not shown) to the recipient terminal identified by the recipient's telephone number.

Referring to FIG. 8, the message conversion server 200 transmits the recipient information (for example, wired / wireless Internet or mobile communication) with the recipient terminal identified by the recipient's phone number or the recipient terminal identified by the recipient identification information The database 210 can be updated dynamically (S150). One example of the dynamic update of the recipient information database 210 has been described above with reference to FIG. 3, so repetition thereof is omitted.

Referring to FIG. 9, the message conversion server 200 can receive a read confirmation notification for an instant message from the recipient terminal identified by the recipient identification information via the instant message server 300 (S160) The notification can be transmitted to the caller terminal identified by the caller identification information (S170).

10 is a flowchart showing an embodiment of a method of providing a message service performed by the instant message server 300 according to the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 10, the instant message server 300 generates and maintains a recipient information database 310 including recipient identification information and one or more recipient terminal information matched to the recipient identification information (S210).

Then, the instant message server 300 receives the instant message and the recipient identification information, which are generated by converting the communication message by the message conversion server 200, from the message conversion server 200 (S220).

Next, the instant message server 300 transmits an instant message to one or more recipient terminals identified by one or more recipient terminal information based on the recipient information database 310 (S230).

In the example of the recipient information database 310 shown in Fig. 4, the recipient terminal information matched to the user X includes the recipient terminal X1, the recipient terminal X2, ... The instant message server 300 transmits the instant message to X1, X2, ... To the plurality of receiver terminals respectively identified by the receiver terminals.

Next, when the instant message server 300 receives the read acknowledgment for the instant message from the one or more recipient terminals, the instant message server 300 may transmit the read acknowledgment for the instant message to the message conversion server 200 (S240).

Next, upon receipt of a read acknowledgment for an instant message from any one of the two or more recipient terminals, a read acknowledgment for the instant message may be transmitted to another recipient terminal of the two or more recipient terminals (S250).

11 is a flowchart illustrating a method of providing a message service performed by the instant message server 300 according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 11, the instant message server 300 may dynamically update the recipient information database 310 through communication with one or more recipient terminals (S260). One example of the dynamic update of the recipient information database 310 has been described above with reference to FIG. 5, so repetition thereof is omitted.

12 is a flowchart showing respective functions of the computer program according to the present invention executed by the processors 410-1 to 410-n provided in the personal terminals 400-1 to 400-n that are recipient terminals.

12, the computer program includes a first function for transmitting user identification information matched with terminal identification information and terminal identification information of the personal terminals 400-1 to 400-n to the instant message server 300; A second function of transmitting the recipient telephone number matched with the user identification information and the user identification information to the message conversion server 200; A third function of transmitting the instant message reception / non-receipt information matched with the sender identification information and the sender identification information to the message conversion server 200; And an instant message server 300 that converts the communication message from the sender terminal identified by the sender identification information into the instant message that the message conversion server 200 has converted based on the instant message reception information matched with the sender identification information And a fourth function for receiving via the second network.

When the computer program receives the read confirmation notification for the instant message from the other personal terminal corresponding to the user identification information via the instant message server 300, the computer program deletes the instant message received from the fourth function or reads the instant message And a fifth function of displaying confirmation.

Hereinafter, preferred embodiments according to various aspects of the present invention will be described.

(Annex 1)

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a message service providing method performed by a message conversion server,

(a) creating and storing a recipient information database including recipient identification information, a recipient telephone number matched to the recipient identification information, sender identification information matched to the recipient identification information, and instant message receipt information matched to the sender identification information, and Maintaining;

(b) receiving, from a message sending server, a communication message to be transmitted from a calling terminal identified by the calling party identification information to a called terminal identified by the called telephone number;

(c) determining whether to convert the communication message into an instant message based on the recipient information database; And

(d) when the communication message is converted into the instant message in the step (c), the instant message is transmitted to the receiver terminal identified by the receiver identification information via the instant message server, Message to the recipient terminal identified by the recipient telephone number via the message sending server or another message sending server when determining to not convert the message into the message;

A message service providing method is provided.

(Annex 2)

In the message service providing method described in Appendix 1,

The recipient terminal identified by the recipient telephone number and the recipient terminal identified by the recipient identification information may be the same.

(Annex 3)

In the message service providing method described in Appendix 1,

The communication message may be one of an SMS message, an LMS message, and an MMS message.

(Note 4)

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of providing a message service performed by an instant message server,

(a) creating and maintaining a recipient information database comprising recipient identification information, one or more recipient terminal information matched to the recipient identification information;

(b) receiving from the message conversion server an instant message that the message conversion server has generated by converting the communication message and the recipient identification information,

(c) sending the instant message to one or more recipient terminals identified by the one or more recipient terminal information based on the recipient information database;

A message service providing method is provided.

(Note 5)

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a computer program executed by a processor provided in an individual terminal,

(a) transmitting, to the instant message server, user identification information matched with the terminal identification information of the personal terminal and the terminal identification information;

(b) transmitting the recipient telephone number matched with the user identification information and the user identification information to the message conversion server;

(c) transmitting, to the message conversion server, sender identification information and instant message receipt / non-receipt information matched with the sender identification information; And

(d) receiving, from the sender terminal, an instant message, which is the message converted by the message conversion server based on the instant message receipt information matched with the sender identification information, identified by the sender identification information, Function to receive via

A computer program is provided.

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In the computer program according to note 5,

The communication message may be one of an SMS message, an LMS message, and an MMS message.

Although the present invention has been described in detail, it should be understood that the present invention is not limited thereto. Those skilled in the art will appreciate that various modifications may be made without departing from the essential characteristics of the present invention. Will be possible.

Therefore, the embodiments disclosed in the present specification are intended to illustrate rather than limit the present invention, and the scope and spirit of the present invention are not limited by these embodiments. The scope of the present invention should be construed according to the following claims, and all the techniques within the scope of equivalents should be construed as being included in the scope of the present invention.

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210: recipient information database 300: instant message server
310: Recipient information database
400-1 to 400-n: receiver terminal (personal terminal)
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Claims (12)

A method of providing a message service performed by a message conversion server,
(a) creating and storing a recipient information database including recipient identification information, a recipient telephone number matched to the recipient identification information, sender identification information matched to the recipient identification information, and instant message receipt information matched to the sender identification information, and Maintaining;
(b) receiving, from a message sending server, a communication message to be transmitted from a calling terminal identified by the calling party identification information to a called terminal identified by the called telephone number;
(c) determining whether to convert the communication message into an instant message based on the recipient information database;
(d) when the communication message is converted into the instant message in the step (c), the instant message is transmitted to the receiver terminal identified by the receiver identification information via the instant message server, Message to the recipient terminal identified by the recipient telephone number via the message sending server or another message sending server when determining to not convert the message into the message; And
(e) receiving via the instant message server a read acknowledgment for the instant message from the recipient terminal identified by the recipient identification information
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Wherein the number of recipient terminals identified by the recipient identification information is two or more,
(f) transmitting, upon receipt of a read acknowledgment notification for the instant message from any one of the two or more recipient terminals, transmitting the read acknowledgment notification to the caller terminal identified by the caller identification information
Further comprising the steps of: The method according to claim 1,
The method of claim 1, wherein, in the step (d), if the instant message server fails to receive the instant message cancellation notice or the instant message confirmation notice message within a predetermined time, To a recipient terminal identified by the recipient telephone number via a message sending server. The method according to claim 1,
(g) dynamically updating the recipient information database via communication with a recipient terminal identified by the recipient telephone number or a recipient terminal identified by the recipient identification information;
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(a) creating and maintaining a recipient information database comprising recipient identification information, one or more recipient terminal information matched to the recipient identification information;
(b) receiving, from the message conversion server, an instant message that the message conversion server has generated by converting the communication message and the recipient identification information;
(c) sending the instant message to one or more recipient terminals identified by the one or more recipient terminal information based on the recipient information database; And
(d) transmitting a read acknowledgment notification for the instant message to the message conversion server upon receipt of a read acknowledgment notification for the instant message from the one or more recipient terminals
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(e) receiving a read acknowledgment notification for the instant message from any one of the two or more recipient terminals, and transmitting a read acknowledgment notification for the instant message to another recipient terminal of the at least two recipient terminals
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(f) dynamically updating the recipient information database via communication with the one or more recipient terminals;
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