KR20030026089A - Telephone number searching method - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a phone number retrieval method, and more particularly, to retrieve a phone number to be known by using an SMS service provided in a mobile communication system, and to make a call with a receiver by calling the retrieved phone number. The present invention for this purpose is to create an SMS message for searching for the recipient's phone number to be known in the mobile terminal and to send to the SMS service center, and after receiving and confirming the recipient's phone number in the SMS service center to determine whether to accept the call And confirming, and when the receiver approves the reception and receives the SMS message that has received the received phone number from the SMS service center, the caller performs a process of calling the caller from the mobile terminal.

Description

How to find your phone number {TELEPHONE NUMBER SEARCHING METHOD}

The present invention relates to a portable mobile terminal, and more particularly, to a telephone number retrieval method.

In general, a mobile terminal is provided with a service for verifying a received telephone number.

However, in the related art, only the phone number received by the mobile terminal can be confirmed, so if the phone number of the person who wants to talk is not known, there is a problem of contacting another person after confirming the phone number of the person to be known.

Accordingly, the present invention provides a method for retrieving a telephone number invented to retrieve a telephone number to be known by using an SMS service provided in a mobile communication system and to make a call with a recipient by calling the retrieved telephone number. For the purpose of providing it.

1 is an operational flowchart for searching for a recipient number number for an embodiment of the present invention.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention creates an SMS message for retrieving the recipient's telephone number and sends it to the SMS service center, and retrieves and confirms the recipient's telephone number in the SMS service center, and then accepts the call to the recipient. And it is characterized in that the process of making a call by sending to the corresponding receiving phone number when receiving the SMS message written in the receiving phone number from the SMS service center by the receiver approves the reception.

Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

1 is an operation flowchart for an embodiment of the present invention, as shown therein, a step (S11) in which a caller retrieves a phone number stored in his mobile terminal, and a caller's phone number if there is no phone number to be known. The process of creating an SMS message for retrieval and sending it to an SMS service center (S12), the process of checking a database at the SMS service center to determine a phone number that the caller wants to know (S13), and the telephone number at the SMS service center. If it is confirmed that the call is sent to the corresponding phone number to check whether the call is approved by the recipient (S14, S15), and when the call is approved by the receiver, the SMS service center sends an SMS message including the recipient's phone number to the caller's mobile terminal. In the process of sending to (S16), and after the sender checks the SMS message sent from the SMS service center to the recipient phone number In step S17, if the recipient rejects the call, the server provided at the SMS service center transmits an SMS message indicating that there is no phone number to the caller's mobile terminal (S18). It is composed.

Referring to the operation and effect of the embodiment of the present invention configured as described above are as follows.

In the embodiment of the present invention will be described on the assumption that the sender and the receiver has a mobile terminal.

When the caller makes a call to any person, the caller searches for a phone number to be known by using the received phone number search menu provided to his terminal (S11).

After checking the telephone number, the telephone number of the person who wants to call is dialed by pressing the calling key.

Thereafter, the call is made when the receiver is connected to the mobile terminal.

If the desired phone number is not found even by searching for the received phone number search menu provided to the terminal, the caller creates an SMS message for searching the desired phone number and transmits it to the SMS service center (S12). ).

The server provided in the SMS service center reads the SMS message transmitted from the caller and searches whether there is a phone number that the caller wants to know (S13).

Then, when the caller wants to know the phone number is confirmed, the server provided in the SMS service center composes an SMS message including the caller's call request, reception approval, etc. and transmits it to the mobile terminal of the corresponding phone number retrieved above. Check whether the call with the caller (S14, S15).

Subsequently, when the receiver approves the call, the server provided at the SMS service center transmits an SMS message including the phone number of the receiver to the caller (S16).

Accordingly, the caller makes a call when the caller is connected to the receiver by calling the telephone number provided by the SMS service center (S17).

If the receiver does not approve the call, the server provided in the SMS service center notifies the sender's mobile terminal by an SMS message that there is no telephone number of the receiver (S18).

As described in detail above, the present invention has the effect of providing satisfaction to the user because the phone number can be checked even when the phone number of the person who wants to call is not known.

Claims (1)

A first step of creating an SMS message for retrieving the recipient's phone number that the mobile terminal wants to know and transmitting it to the SMS service center; and a second step of retrieving the recipient's phone number after retrieving and confirming the recipient's phone number at the SMS service center And a third process in which the caller sends a call from the mobile terminal to the corresponding received telephone number when the SMS message, which is received by the receiver and authorizes the reception telephone number from the SMS service center, is received. Search method.