KR20080097251A - How to provide information and advertisement when ring signal of telephone - Google Patents

Abstract

A method for providing an advertisement or information during the ring signal of a phone is provided to check a phone call receiving user is an advertisement service instead of a ring signal service subscriber or not, if so sends an advertisement or information to the subscriber. If a call signal is generated, it is determined that the call receiving user is an advertisement service subscriber. If so, an advertisement is prepared, and it is checked when to send the prepared advertisement to the subscriber. After the above process, a caller receives information list, and selects the selected information to transmit. If it is a time for generating a ring signal, the server transmits ring signal. If the call receiver responses to the phone call, communication between caller, and call receiver starts.

Description

How to provide information and advertisement when ring signal of phone {omitted}

1 is a schematic diagram of an information providing system according to the present invention;

2 is an internal block diagram of a provider server.

3 is a flowchart for realizing the present invention.

Figure 4 shows an example of the DB structure of the informational DB.

* Explanation of symbols on the main parts of the drawings

100: caller side phone 200: communication network

300: operator server 310: transceiver

320: processor 330: operating program storage unit

340: Member information DB 350: Information provided DB

360: call management unit 370: advertising DB

400: receiver's phone 500: internet

600: receiver side computer

The present invention relates to a method for providing an information advertisement in a ring signal of a telephone. In particular, the ring signaling information of a telephone is provided so as to provide a specific information selected by a caller through the calling party's telephone together with an advertisement. And an advertisement providing method.

When dialing is performed to attempt to talk to the other party through a mobile phone and a general phone, a service that provides music or a message specified by the receiver is provided to the caller when a ring signal is generated.

Typically, it can take a minute or more for the called party to answer the call after the ring signal is generated. During this ring signal time, the caller hears a simple ring signal or repeats the music or comment specified by the called party. Only the sender is provided.

That is, since the caller side cannot select and receive the desired information during the ring signal generation, a service is required for the caller to select certain information.

Accordingly, the applicant has proposed a new concept information providing method in the application number 10-2006-0055072 filed June 19, 2006.

This means that when the caller calls the recipient, the caller sends a ring signal to the receiver's phone, as well as the caller: 1. weather, 2. breaking news, 3. sports news, 4. stock information, 5. today's fortune , 6. Proverbs of the day, 7. Humorous lists, such as voice information, text information, or graphic information.

Then, when the caller selects a specific list from the above-mentioned list, specific information of the selected list is provided to the caller in various forms, that is, voice or text, graphics, video, and the like.

Of course, when the receiver responds during the provision of such information, it is a new method that allows the caller to immediately receive a call so that the caller can be provided with a variety of information during the ring signal generation time and to solve the waiting boredom.

However, in this method, in order for the receiver to provide information to the caller, the receiver must subscribe to a service provider providing the above service for a fee, and in this case, the service subscriber has a considerable cost burden.

Accordingly, in order to solve this problem, the present invention provides a service for confirming whether a receiver is subscribed to a service for providing information at a ring signal and then providing advertisements and information to the caller according to the confirmed result.

In addition, the receiver is intended to be able to edit the order of the various information to be provided to the sender via the web, and furthermore, to provide the information to the sender directly through the information providing service.

The ring signal information and advertisement providing method of the present invention,

A method for providing information to a caller upon ring signal of a telephone, the method comprising:

When the receiver is called by the sender, the first step of determining whether to provide the advertisement and outputs the advertisement accordingly, and confirms the time to generate a ring signal to the receiver,

After performing the first process, if the list of specific information is selected by the sender by providing a list for selecting specific information to the sender, the second process of reading the corresponding information stored in the database of the operator server and providing the sender to the caller through a communication network;

When the ring signal is generated during the first process, a ring signal is generated to the receiver, and when a call response is generated from the receiver, a third process of initiating a call between the caller and the receiver is performed.

The present invention configured as described above will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 is a schematic diagram of an information providing and advertisement system for implementing the present invention. When a caller dials a recipient's telephone number through the calling party's telephone 100, the operator server 300 according to the dialing information is used. The call is connected through the receiver side telephone 400 and the communication network 200.

In this case, the caller-side telephone 100 and the receiver-side telephone 400 may be a wired telephone or a mobile communication telephone, and thus the communication network 200 may also be a wired telephone communication network or a mobile telephone communication network.

When the operator server 300 receives a phone number for calling the receiver side telephone 400 from the caller side telephone 100, the transceiver 310 of the operator server 300 transmits the caller side telephone number through the communication network 200. And receives the receiver's phone number and provides it to the processor 320.

The processor 320 performs an operation of the operator server 300 by an operation program stored in the operation program storage unit 330, and the processor 320 transmits the advertisement content previously stored in the advertisement DB 370 to the communication network 200. It is provided to the caller side phone 100 through the processor, and at the same time the processor 320 determines whether it is time to generate a ring signal to the receiver.

The ring signal can be generated in three cases: first, when the advertisement part is sent out to the sender and then the ring signal is sent to the receiver, secondly, the ring signal is generated to the receiver immediately from the beginning of the advertisement. In the third case, the advertisement may be sent to the sender for a predetermined time (for example, 15 seconds) and then the receiver decides to generate a ring signal.

Information on when to generate such a ring signal is stored in advance in the member information DB 310, the processor 320 determines the time to generate a ring signal to the receiver based on the information.

Therefore, when it is time to generate a ring signal, the processor 320 generates a ring signal at the receiver side, and at the same time, provides a voice inventory for selecting specific information at the caller side.

Thereafter, the processor 320 performs a process of providing specific information corresponding to the list selected by the caller.

In this case, the processor 320 reads the service list of the information providing DB 350 and transmits the read list to the caller-side telephone 100 through the transceiver 310 and the call management unit to the receiver-side terminal 400. Drive 360 to generate a ring signal through the transceiver 310.

The caller side phone 100 outputs a service list message transmitted from the operator server 300 instead of the ring signal. For example, "Please select the information to be serviced while the other party receives the call. Breaking news, 3 sports news, 4 stock information, 5 today's fortune, 6 today's aphorism, 7 times humor. "

This may soon have a form similar to an audio response system (ARS) service.

When the caller hears such a service list through the caller-side telephone 100 and then selects a service list number corresponding to the information to be provided through the dial pad, the selected service list number is transmitted through the communication network 200. Provided to the operator server 300, accordingly processor 320 reads the specific information corresponding to the selected service list number from the information providing DB 350 to provide to the caller-side phone 100 through the communication network 200 do.

The information provided may be voice information, text displayed on the caller side phone 100, graphic information, video information, and the like.

The caller will listen to or watch this information while the receiver is answering the call, eliminating the waiting boredom and gaining valuable information.

While the caller is receiving this information through the caller side telephone 100, when the receiver receives a call by listening to a ring signal, the processor 320 stops transmitting the information provided to the caller side, and the call operation unit ( 360) allows the calling party and the called party to initiate a normal call.

On the other hand, when the caller inputs a specific code (for example, a '#' button, etc.) to continuously receive information while receiving information provided at the ring signal, the processor 320 receives a ring signal generated to the receiver. After stopping, continue providing information.

In other words, even if the caller wants to listen to the information provided to the end, the receiver may not hear the information until the end when the receiver responds to the call.

Thereafter, the caller may download the information currently being provided to his / her caller side phone 100, and the caller may receive a specific code, for example, “0” or “*” during or after receiving the information. When inputting the information, the processor 320 reads the currently selected service information content from the information providing DB 350 and downloads the corresponding caller-side telephone 100 through the communication network 200.

However, if the information is not required to be downloaded, it may be determined once again whether it is time to generate a ring signal, and then a ring signal is generated to the receiver, and the call may be initiated when the receiver answers the call. .

In this case, the determination of the ring signal generation time is when there is no request for downloading of information from the caller.

On the other hand, the subscriber of the information providing service allows the user to edit the order of the service list provided to the caller on the web through the Internet 500, the default state can use the service list in the order prescribed by the operator, Therefore, the user's preferred service list may be edited with priority.

Therefore, when the information provision service subscriber is connected to the operator server 300 through the Internet 500, the processor 320 of the operator server 300 is edited the service list on the web by the program of the operation program storage unit 330 The service will be started.

The state of editing the service list on the web may take various forms, and the editing of the service list on the computer screen may be accomplished by rearranging the order according to the subscriber's preferences by dragging a predetermined service list on the screen. will be.

In addition, the web service allows subscribers to upload their own content to the information providing DB 350 of the operator server 300, for example, to be personal content such as subscribers' latest news, events, meetings. Could be.

Of course, the content uploaded and stored by the subscriber should be added to the service list.

The information providing DB 350 of the edited state of such a service list may be configured as shown in FIG. 4, wherein a subscriber item, a service list item edited for each subscriber, and a path in which detailed information corresponding to each service list is stored And an information path item having file information, and a subscriber input content item including a storage location of the subscriber input content and file information.

For example, Subscriber A can: 8. Arrange the content information entered by itself in the highest order, and sequentially: 1. Weather information, 2. Breaking news, 3. Sports news, 4. Stock information, 5. Today's fortune, 6. Aphorism of the day, 7. Edited in the order of humor.

Thus, the information path is, for example, "c: \ data \ user-a \ weather.wav" for service list 1, and "c: \ data \ user-a \ news.wav" for service list 2. Contains path and file information, such as ..

In addition, the subscriber input content may also be configured as a separate item with a path of "c: \ data \ user-a \ ucc.wav" for the service list 8.

Even when the service is billed, if the subscriber uses the service at a normal rate, the subscriber can provide the information immediately without providing an advertisement to the sender. The service may be provided to provide the following information provided.

Meanwhile, the receiver accesses the operator server 300 through the receiver side computer 600 and then changes or excludes the advertisement provided to the caller who calls him or her. In the member information DB 340 of 300, the processor 320 provides an advertisement to the sender by selecting an advertisement that the recipient or sender prefers and updating the selection information to exclude advertisements that the receiver or caller does not signal. When this information is referenced, the preferred advertisement is read from the advertisement DB 370 and provided.

As described above, in the ring signal information and the advertisement providing method of the telephone according to the present invention, the caller may provide an advertisement to the caller when the caller calls the receiver, and various information may be provided at the ring signal in return. We have proposed a profit model, and furthermore, the information provided directly by the caller is provided to the caller through an information service, and the currently provided information is also downloaded to the caller's phone at the caller's choice. In addition to having useful information, there is an effect to create a profit model on the operator side.

Claims (7)

A method for providing information to a caller upon ring signal of a telephone, the method comprising: When the receiver is called by the sender, the first step of determining whether to provide the advertisement and outputs the advertisement accordingly, and confirms the time to generate a ring signal to the receiver, After performing the first process, if the list of specific information is selected by the sender by providing a list for selecting specific information to the sender, the second process of reading the corresponding information stored in the database of the operator server and providing the sender to the caller through a communication network; When the ring signal is generated during the first process, a ring signal is generated to the receiver, and when a call response is generated from the receiver, the ring signal of the telephone is performed as a third process of initiating a call between the caller and the receiver. And how the advertisement is provided. The method of claim 1, wherein the time point for generating the ring signal of the first step is to generate a ring signal to the receiver after transmitting the entire advertising portion to the sender, or to generate a ring signal to the receiver immediately from the beginning of the advertisement transmission, or And transmitting the advertisement for a predetermined time and then determining to generate a ring signal to the receiver. The method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising the step of downloading the information to the caller when a download request by the information provided from the caller is requested. The method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising the step of allowing a receiver to access an operator server through the Internet to edit the order of a list of specific information provided to the counterpart. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the receiver uploads his or her own information to the service provider server and provides the information to the other party. 2. The information and advertisement of a ring signal of a telephone according to claim 1, comprising the step of stopping the ring signal generated to the receiver and continuously providing information when the caller inputs a specific code at the ring signal. How to Provide. The method of claim 1, wherein the receiver is editable to select or exclude an advertisement provided to the other party by accessing the operator server through the Internet.

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