KR101497991B1 - METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING MULTIMEDIA CONTENTS USING PREFIX - Google Patents

Abstract

A method and system for providing multimedia content using a prefix, the method comprising: (a) receiving a caller number and a called telephone number from a user terminal at a multimedia content providing server; (b) searching the multimedia content providing server for a multimedia content related to a vendor corresponding to the incoming telephone number; And (c) transmitting the retrieved multimedia contents to the user terminal in the multimedia contents providing server.

Prefix, telephone number, intelligent network, multimedia

Description

TECHNICAL FIELD [0001] The present invention relates to a multimedia content providing method and system using a prefix,

The present invention relates to a method and system for providing multimedia contents using a prefix.

In general, in order to know the location and service information of a specific service provider, a user can inquire a question number 114 by calling a telephone number to inquire about a specific service provider, or searching for a specific name on the web to know desired information.

However, through the 114 telephone service, it is possible to know only the telephone number or the location information of the corresponding company, and it is impossible to know at all the various information provided from the company. Even when searching for a specific name through the web, It was troublesome to access a desired company through a wired / wireless Internet.

Also, even if a web page of a desired company is searched, the user can not receive accurate information when the content provided in the web page of the corresponding company is not updated.

Recently, a service for providing information on a specific company using an intelligent network has been provided. For example, when a user makes a call to a predetermined telephone number, there is a service for transmitting information on a specific company to the user terminal, but such service is provided through a call forwarding service.

In addition, there is a service in which a user calls a phone number of a specific merchant to receive an advertisement / advertisement SMS of a merchant, but such a service has the inconvenience that the user has to access the mobile page of the merchant and confirm the information of the merchant.

All of the above-mentioned conventional service methods are provided with only simple information in the form of a text or an image of information about a specific vendor, so that there is a problem that various information dynamic can not be obtained from a user's point of view.

Disclosure of Invention Technical Problem [8] Accordingly, the present invention has been made keeping in mind the above problems occurring in the prior art, and an object of the present invention is to provide a method and apparatus for receiving multimedia contents corresponding to a telephone number of a specific company when a user calls a telephone number of a specific company including an intelligent network number And to provide a method and system for providing multimedia contents using a prefix.

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of providing multimedia contents using a prefix according to the present invention, comprising the steps of: (a) receiving a caller number and a called telephone number from a user terminal in a multimedia contents providing server; (b) searching the multimedia content providing server for a multimedia content related to a vendor corresponding to the incoming telephone number; And (c) transmitting the retrieved multimedia contents to the user terminal in the multimedia contents providing server.

In the step (b), the multimedia content is text, image or moving picture business information corresponding to the incoming telephone number.

In the step (a), the user terminal is a wireless portable Internet terminal, a mobile phone terminal, or a wired phone terminal.

The called phone number is a combination of a prefix, which is an intelligent network identification number for identifying a multimedia contents service, and a phone number of the business.

The telephone number of the above company is a general telephone number.

In the step (a), when the intelligent network identification number is included in the call originated from the user terminal, the multimedia contents providing server receives the caller number and the called phone number of the user terminal through the intelligent network.

The method may further include transmitting a multimedia contents service announcement transmission request signal to the sound source system when the service controller (SCP) of the intelligent network receives the caller number and the called telephone number before the step (a).

And the sound source system transmits the multimedia content service announcement to the user terminal.

And transmitting the announcement transmission completion ack signal to the service controller (SCP) of the intelligent network after the sound source system transmits the multimedia contents service announcement message to the user terminal.

And transmitting a call release request signal to the service switching center (SSP) of the intelligent network after the service controller (SCP) of the intelligent network receives the announcement transmission completion ack signal.

And the service switching center (SSP) of the intelligent network releases the call of the user terminal according to the request of the service controller (SCP).

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of providing information using a postfix, the method comprising: (a) receiving an incoming phone number and a postfix transmitted from a user terminal at an information providing server; (b) retrieving, from the information providing server, information corresponding to the postfix in the business information corresponding to the called telephone number; And (c) transmitting the retrieved information from the information providing server to the user terminal in the form of voice or multimedia contents.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a system for providing multimedia contents using a prefix according to the present invention. The multimedia contents providing system includes a transmitter for receiving a caller number and an incoming phone number transmitted from a user terminal, And transmits the retrieved multimedia contents to the user terminal.

Wherein the multimedia contents providing system comprises: a communication module for receiving a caller number and an incoming phone number transmitted from the user terminal; A multimedia contents DB for storing multimedia contents matched with a plurality of business telephone numbers; A multimedia contents retrieval module for retrieving, from the multimedia contents DB, multimedia contents related to the company corresponding to the called telephone number when receiving the caller number and the called telephone number transmitted from the user terminal; A multimedia contents transmission module for transmitting the multimedia contents of the corresponding company retrieved from the multimedia contents retrieval module to the user terminal; And a control module controlling the respective components to take charge of a series of processes related to the multimedia contents transmission service.

The multimedia contents stored in the multimedia contents DB are business information in the form of a text, an image, or a moving picture matched with the telephone numbers of the respective businesses.

And a subscriber interface module for updating the multimedia contents.

The user terminal is a wireless portable Internet terminal, a portable telephone terminal or a wired telephone terminal.

The multimedia contents providing system receives the caller number and the called phone number of the user terminal through a service controller (SCP) of the intelligent network when the intelligent network identification number is included in the call transmitted from the user terminal.

The called telephone number is a combination of a telephone number of the business and a prefix which is an intelligent network identification number for identifying a multimedia contents service.

The telephone number of the above company is a general telephone number.

When the service controller of the intelligent network receives the caller number and the called telephone number, receives a multimedia contents service announcement transmission request signal from the service controller of the intelligent network and transmits the multimedia contents service announcement message to the user terminal .

The service controller of the intelligent network transmits a call release request signal to the service switching center (SSP) of the intelligent network upon receiving a multimedia contents service announcement transmission ack signal from the sound source system to the user terminal.

The multimedia contents providing system searches the multimedia contents corresponding to the business name and the business phone number transmitted from the telephone guide server in cooperation with the telephone guide server, and transmits the multimedia contents of the corresponding company to the user terminal.

According to the present invention, a user can instantly receive multimedia contents related to a company by adding a prefix only to a telephone number of an existing company using his / her portable terminal.

In addition, since the existing content is updated in real time every time the contents provided from the respective companies subscribed to the multimedia contents providing service are changed, the user can receive the latest contents related to the corresponding company.

Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. Prior to this, terms and words used in the present specification and claims should not be construed as limited to ordinary or dictionary terms, and the inventor should appropriately interpret the concepts of the terms appropriately It should be interpreted in accordance with the meaning and concept consistent with the technical idea of the present invention based on the principle that it can be defined. Therefore, the embodiments described in this specification and the configurations shown in the drawings are merely the most preferred embodiments of the present invention and do not represent all the technical ideas of the present invention. Therefore, It is to be understood that equivalents and modifications are possible.

1 is a block diagram of a system for providing multimedia contents using a prefix according to an embodiment of the present invention.

1, the multimedia contents providing system of the present invention includes a user terminal 10, a ready-made message service (RMS) server 60 and a multimedia message service (MMS) transmission server 70 .

When the user terminal 10 receives a prefix and an incoming telephone number through a user interface as a portable terminal or a wire telephone terminal capable of wireless portable Internet, And receives the multimedia content information of the manufacturer from the MMS transmission server 70. A mobile communication network, a PSTN network, an intelligent network, and an Internet network are interworked with each other through a gateway between the user terminal 10 and the RMS server 60.

When the user terminal 10 is a wired phone terminal, the wired phone terminal preferably uses an IP-based video terminal using voice over internet protocol (VoIP).

The called telephone number is a combination of a prefix, an area code, and a phone number of a corresponding company, which is an intelligent network identification number for identifying a multimedia contents service. For example, the prefix (16 **), the area code (02), and the business telephone number (111-2222) are combined to be "(16 **) - (02) - (111-2222) Here, the business phone number is a regular landline number (PSTN phone number).

The switch of the PSTN network determines whether or not the intelligent network number is included in the call originated from the user terminal 10. If the intelligent network number is included, the caller number and the called phone number are transmitted to the RMS server (60).

When the RMS server 60 receives the caller's number and the incoming phone number transmitted from the user terminal 10 while storing multimedia contents uploaded by a plurality of companies, the RMS server 60 transmits the multimedia content corresponding to the incoming phone number company to the inside And transmits the retrieved multimedia content of the corresponding company to the MMS transmission server 70.

The MMS transmission server 70 receives the caller's telephone number and the multimedia content from the RMS server 60 and transmits the multimedia content of the corresponding company to the caller number.

2 is a diagram showing a configuration of the RMS server of FIG.

2, the RMS server 60 of the present invention includes a communication module 61, a multimedia contents retrieval module 62, a control module 63, a multimedia contents DB 64, A transmission request module 65 and a subscriber interface module 66.

The communication module 61 receives the caller number and the called telephone number transmitted when making a call by the user terminal.

The multimedia contents retrieval module 62 retrieves the multimedia contents of the business matching the incoming telephone number received from the multimedia contents DB 64 when receiving the caller number and the incoming telephone number and transmits the retrieved multimedia contents to the multimedia contents transmission request module (65).

The multimedia contents DB 64 stores multimedia contents for each company that has applied for a ready-made message service (RMS) service. Here, the multimedia content is an advertisement and a promotional video in the form of a text, an image, or a video matched with a telephone number of a corresponding company, and is updated every time the content is changed.

The multimedia contents transmission request module 65 transmits the multimedia contents delivered from the multimedia contents search module 62 to the MMS transmission server 70.

The subscriber interface module 66 provides an interface for allowing the respective companies subscribed to the multimedia contents providing service to update the multimedia contents related to the company, for example, in case of an event, transfer, etc. .

The control module 63 controls each of the above components to perform a series of processes related to the multimedia content transmission service.

FIG. 3 illustrates a method of providing multimedia contents using a prefix according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 4 illustrates an example of multimedia contents transmitted to a user terminal of FIG.

As shown in FIG. 3, the user terminal 10 transmits a call to an incoming telephone number including a prefix input through a user interface (S10).

The called phone number is a combination of a prefix, an area code, and a telephone number of a corresponding company, which is an intelligent network identification number for identifying a multimedia contents service. For example, the prefix (16 **), the area code (02), and the business telephone number (111-2222) are combined to be "(16 **) - (02) - (111-2222) Here, the business phone number is a regular landline number (PSTN phone number).

The PSTN exchange 20 receives the call originated from the user terminal 10 through the mobile communication network and confirms whether or not the prefix of the intelligent network number is included in the incoming telephone number (S20).

When the prefix is included, the PSTN exchange 20 transmits the calling number and the called telephone number to the service controller (SCP) 50 through the service switching unit (SSP) 40 of the intelligent network (S30).

The service controller (SCP) 50 transmits the received caller number and the called telephone number to the RMS server 60 through the Internet (S40), and transmits the multimedia contents service announcement message to the sound source system 30 of the PSTN network A request signal is transmitted (S50). At this time, the service controller (SCP) 50 sends an announcement transmission request signal to the sound source system 30 informing that the incoming phone number (area code + business phone number) is not the service subscriber's phone number send.

The sound source system 30 transmits an announcement notice informing the user terminal 10 that it is not a multimedia content service announcement message or a service subscriber in response to a request from the service controller (SCP) 50 (S60). Here, for example, the multimedia contents service announcement message "For example, after a while, the multimedia contents of the business corresponding to the telephone number sent by the customer will be transmitted to the customer's terminal. , And the announcement message indicating that the subscriber is not a service subscriber may be, for example, an announcement such as "the called telephone number requested by the customer is not a subscriber of the service, so please check again ".

The user terminal 10 receives the announcement notification informing that it is not a multimedia contents service announcement message or a service subscriber transmitted from the sound source system 30 (S70).

The sound source system 30 transmits an announcement transmission completion ack signal for informing that the multimedia contents service announcement is transmitted to the user terminal 10 to the service controller (SCP) 50 of the intelligent network (S80).

When receiving the announcement ack signal from the sound source system 30, the service controller (SCP) 50 of the intelligent network requests to cancel the call of the user terminal 10 currently connected to the service switching center (SSP) 40 )do.

The service switching system (SSP) 40 releases the call of the currently connected user terminal 10 at the request of the service controller (SCP) 50 (S100).

When the RMS server 60 receives the caller number and the call forwarding number transmitted from the service controller (SCP) 50 of the intelligent network, the RMS server 60 searches the multimedia content DB corresponding to the incoming phone number from the multimedia content DB (S110).

The RMS server 60 transmits the multimedia contents of the corresponding company retrieved from the multimedia contents DB to the MMS transmission server 70 and requests the user terminal 10 to transmit the multimedia contents of the corresponding company (S120).

The MMS transmission server 70 transmits the multimedia contents of the corresponding company received from the RMS server 60 to the user terminal 10 through the Internet network (S130). For example, as shown in FIG. 4, the multimedia contents including the map of the image form and the location information of the text form related to the company are transmitted to the user terminal 10.

In an embodiment of the present invention, a multimedia content service is provided using an intelligent network number (prefix). As a variation thereof, a telephone guide server (for example, a server 114) The service can be provided in cooperation with each other.

For example, when the user calls the telephone guide server through his or her mobile phone terminal and inquires about the telephone number of a specific company, the telephone guide server transmits the multimedia contents to the RMS server It sends the searched business name, business phone number and caller ID.

In the RMS server, the multimedia contents corresponding to the business name and the business phone number transmitted from the telephone guide server are searched and the multimedia contents of the searched company are transmitted to the user's mobile phone terminal through the MMS transmission server.

As another modification, information on a specific company can be provided using a postfix.

For example, when a user inputs a local number 02, a business telephone number 9555-xxxx, and a postfix # 1 in succession (02-9555-xxxx- # 1) through a wired / , The input information is transmitted to the RMS server through the information communication network. Here, the postfix is a delimiter for providing service information related to a specific company in detail and is made up of a combination of special characters and numbers. For example, "# 1: location", "# 2: menu" Quot; order ".

The RMS server retrieves business information matching the telephone number received from the telephone number of the pre-registered information providing service subscribers, and then searches the business information retrieved from the retrieved business information for information corresponding to the postfix # 1 input by the user (for example, The location information of the corresponding company) to the user terminal.

At this time, the information transmitted to the user terminal may be provided in the form of ARS audio information or multimedia contents. For example, in the case of being provided as ARS voice information, the location of the business requested by the customer may be provided as a voice such as a motion picture, or in the case of being provided in the form of multimedia contents, a multimedia map As shown in FIG.

While the present invention has been particularly shown and described with reference to exemplary embodiments thereof, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the disclosed exemplary embodiments. It will be understood that various modifications and changes may be made without departing from the scope of the appended claims.

1 is a block diagram of a system for providing multimedia contents using a prefix according to an embodiment of the present invention;

2 is a diagram showing a configuration of an RMS server in Fig. 1;

3 illustrates a method of providing multimedia content using a prefix according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 illustrates an example of multimedia contents transmitted to the user terminal of FIG. 3. FIG.

Claims (23)

A method for providing multimedia contents using a prefix, (a) receiving a caller number and an incoming phone number from a user terminal at a multimedia content providing server; (b) searching the multimedia content providing server for a multimedia content related to a vendor corresponding to the incoming telephone number; And (c) transmitting the retrieved multimedia contents from the multimedia contents providing server to the user terminal , ≪ / RTI & The called phone number is a combination of a prefix, which is an intelligent network identification number for identifying a multimedia contents service, Wherein the prefix is a prefix. The method according to claim 1, In the step (b) Wherein the multimedia content comprises: The business information corresponding to the incoming telephone number Wherein the prefix is a prefix. The method according to claim 1, In the step (a) The user terminal may be a wireless portable Internet terminal or a portable telephone terminal or a wired telephone terminal Wherein the prefix is a prefix. delete The method according to claim 1, The telephone number of the above company is a general telephone number Wherein the prefix is a prefix. The method according to claim 1, In the step (a) Wherein the multimedia contents providing server receives the caller number and the incoming phone number of the user terminal through the intelligent network when the intelligent network identification number is included in the call transmitted from the user terminal Wherein the prefix is a prefix. The method of claim 6, Prior to step (a) And transmitting a multimedia content service announcement transmission request signal to the sound source system when the service controller (SCP) of the intelligent network receives the caller number and the called phone number The method of claim 1, further comprising: The method of claim 7, Wherein the sound source system transmits the multimedia content service announcement message to the user terminal The method of claim 1, further comprising: The method of claim 8, And transmitting the announcement transmission completion ack signal to the service controller (SCP) of the intelligent network after the sound source system transmits the multimedia contents service announcement message to the user terminal The method of claim 1, further comprising: The method of claim 9, After the service controller (SCP) of the intelligent network receives the announcement transmission completion ack signal, transmits a call release request signal to the service switching center (SSP) of the intelligent network The method of claim 1, further comprising: The method of claim 10, And a step of the service switching center (SSP) of the intelligent network releasing the call of the user terminal according to the request of the service controller (SCP) The method of claim 1, further comprising: A method for providing information using a postfix, (a) receiving an incoming telephone number and a postfix transmitted from a user terminal at an information providing server; (b) retrieving, from the information providing server, information corresponding to the postfix in the business information corresponding to the called telephone number; And (c) transmitting the retrieved information from the information providing server to the user terminal in the form of voice or multimedia contents Wherein the post-fix information includes at least one of the following information. A system for providing multimedia contents using a prefix, A user terminal for receiving a prefix and an incoming telephone number through a user interface and sending a call; An RMS (Ready-made Message Service) server for receiving the caller's number and the called telephone number originated from the user terminal and searching for multimedia contents related to the company corresponding to the incoming telephone number; And And an MMS (Multimeda Message Service) transmission server for receiving the caller number and the multimedia content from the RMS server and transmitting the multimedia content to the user terminal, The called phone number is a combination of a prefix, which is an intelligent network identification number for identifying a multimedia contents service, The multimedia content providing system comprising: In a Ready-Made Message Service (RMS) server, A communication module for receiving a calling party number and an incoming phone number transmitted from a user terminal; A multimedia contents DB for storing multimedia contents matched with a plurality of business telephone numbers; A multimedia contents retrieval module for retrieving, from the multimedia contents DB, multimedia contents related to the company corresponding to the called telephone number when receiving the caller number and the called telephone number transmitted from the user terminal; A multimedia contents transmission module for transmitting the multimedia contents of the corresponding company retrieved from the multimedia contents retrieval module to the user terminal; And A control module that controls each of the components and takes charge of a series of processes related to the multimedia content transmission service, ≪ / RTI > Wherein the incoming phone number is a combination of a prefix, which is an intelligent network identification number, for identifying the multimedia contents service, and a phone number of the business entity. 15. The method of claim 14, Wherein the multimedia contents stored in the multimedia contents DB include: The text or image or video-type business information matching the telephone number of each company Lt; / RTI > 16. The method of claim 15, A subscriber interface module for updating the multimedia contents The RMS server further comprising: 15. The method of claim 14, The user terminal may be a wireless portable Internet terminal or a portable telephone terminal or a wired telephone terminal Lt; / RTI > 18. The method of claim 17, When the call originated from the user terminal includes the intelligent network identification number, receives the caller number and the called telephone number of the user terminal through the service controller (SCP) of the intelligent network Lt; / RTI > delete 15. The method of claim 14, The telephone number of the above company is a general telephone number Lt; / RTI > 19. The method of claim 18, When the service controller of the intelligent network receives the caller number and the called telephone number, receives the multimedia contents service announcement transmission request signal from the service controller of the intelligent network and transmits the multimedia contents service announcement message to the user terminal The RMS server further comprising: 23. The method of claim 21, The service controller of the intelligent network transmits a call release request signal to the service switching center (SSP) of the intelligent network upon receiving the multimedia contents service announcement transmission completion signal from the sound source system to the user terminal Lt; / RTI > 15. The method of claim 14, The multimedia contents corresponding to the business name and the business telephone number transmitted from the telephone guide server in cooperation with the telephone guide server are searched and the multimedia contents of the searched company are transmitted to the user terminal Lt; / RTI >

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