CN100456681C - Method for transmitting multimedia information for service provider - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for transmitting multimedia information by a service provider, which mainly comprises the following steps that a service providing server registers in a common service server; a plurality of clients register in the common service server; the service providing server transmits at least one multimedia information and transmits the related information of the plurality of clients to the common service server; the common service server judges whether a plurality of clients transmitted by the service providing server are registered in the common service server; and the common service server informs a multimedia information server to transmit the at least one multimedia information to the plurality of clients through the communication network. The invention transmits the multimedia information to a plurality of clients at one time, so that the service design difficulty of the service providing server manufacturer is reduced, and the service providing manufacturer has more flexibility in the service design.

Description

A method applied to service provider to transmit multimedia information

technical field

The present invention relates to a method for transmitting multimedia information applied to a service provider, especially a method for a service provider server to provide a multimedia message to a plurality of client terminals, so as to increase the design flexibility of the service provider server.

Background technique

As the name suggests, multimedia short messages are short messages that can transmit multimedia content, including a variety of color pictures, animated cartoons and sounds (including general ringtones, polyphonic ringtones, a sound, and even a voice recorded by yourself with your mobile phone, depending on the mobile phone. Depending on the degree of support), if the network transmission speed permits, even video and audio clips can be transmitted, while the traditional SMS service can only transmit less text and basic graphics; so MMS stands for Multimedia Message Service (Multimedia Message Service). Continuing the concept of pure text SMS (Short Message Service), MMS is not a new high-tech, but because it is developed according to 3G common standards, MMS can send short messages integrating video, sound, and text on mobile phones.

The application of MMS is very extensive. It not only narrows the distance between people, but also makes our life more colorful. Below we will introduce some examples of applications in life; you can use it with your friends The group photo taken by the digital camera can be sent to your good friends through the MMS multimedia short message service, and you can also send a photo to your own MMS mobile phone, which can be used as a desktop and placed on the mobile phone screen to keep the happy time with your friends.

In the morning, when you are on the way to work by car, don’t give up this precious opening time. Subscribe to an MMS sentence of the day to enhance your language skills. The sentence of the day sent through MMS can not only display sentences and phonetic symbols in multiple languages , and can play the pronunciation and listen to it repeatedly. You can put these teaching materials in the MMS inbox of your mobile phone and review them at any time when you are free.

For investors who want to keep abreast of financial information, the multimedia short message service will be a great tool. You can subscribe to colorful stock line charts and trends, and send them to your MMS mobile phone at the specified time and conditions, instead of just Simple stock price and index, let you become a big winner in smart financial management.

If you like to collect cute cartoon animations, then the multimedia short message service will not let you down, because the powerful function of MMS can transmit and play color animations, so you can go to the website that provides MMS color animations to download your favorite cartoon characters through MMS Go to your MMS mobile phone and use it as a mobile phone screen protection screen to accompany you at any time.

However, regardless of the transmission of traditional SMS and current MMS, only one mobile phone can send a message to another mobile phone. At this time, mobile phone users must key in their mobile phone numbers one by one to transmit multimedia information for marketing purposes. However, the way of transmitting multimedia information one by one is too slow and complicated, and does not meet the requirements of the information explosion era and the purpose of rapid product marketing.

Therefore, how to propose a novel method for the service provider to transmit multimedia information in view of the above problems, and improve the traditional shortcoming that the multimedia information of a mobile phone can only be sent to one mobile phone at a time, has been eagerly desired by users for a long time and the present invention People consider things, and based on years of experience in the research, development, and sales of communication-related products, the inventor has an idea for improvement, and finally develops an improved method for sending multimedia information to service providers, which can Solve the above-mentioned problems.

Contents of the invention

The main purpose of the present invention is to provide a method for transmitting multimedia information applied to service providers, which uses a common service server and a service provider server to provide a multimedia message through the service provider server and a multimedia information service server The multimedia information can be transmitted to multiple client terminals at one time, so that the difficulty of the service design of the manufacturer of the service provider server is reduced, and the service design of the provider is more flexible.

The secondary purpose of the present invention is to provide a method for transmitting multimedia information applied to service providers, through the establishment of a common service server, to provide a better security control, the service provider and the client must first Register with the common service server so that the common service server can control the source and destination and the number of all information transfers.

Yet another object of the present invention is to provide a method for transmitting multimedia information applied to service providers. Through the construction of a common service server and a service server, the common service server provides a standard interface based on HTTP and EJB for providing Service server calls, and the use of XML as a parameter transfer standard, and break through the limitations of different platforms of the service server, so no matter what operating system or programming language the service server uses to develop the platform of the service server, all The common service server and the service providing server can easily transmit information.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a method for transmitting multimedia information applied to a service provider. Through the establishment of a common service server, the user terminal can select the type of the service provider server on the common service server, or It is to select the type of multimedia information provided by the service provider server, and through the time setting of the user terminal, the multimedia information can be received at the time defined by the user terminal, so as to provide the user terminal with flexibility in receiving multimedia information and avoid receiving unnecessary multimedia information, the so-called junk multimedia information.

The present invention discloses the construction of a common service server, a service providing server and a multimedia service server, so that manufacturers providing multimedia services can register through the establishment of the service providing server and the common service server, and the client must be in The common service server is registered to ensure its security control, so that the common service server can control which service provider server the multimedia information is delivered to, and which client mobile phone the multimedia information is delivered to through the multimedia service server , and through the service providing server, the mobile phones of multiple user terminals can be selected for delivery in the common service server, so as to achieve the purpose of delivering to multiple user terminal mobile phones at one time.

Furthermore, the present invention allows service providers to call by providing standard interfaces of HTTP and EJB (Enterprise Java Bean), and at the same time uses XML (eXtended Markup Language) as a standard for parameter transfer, truly breaking through the limitations of different platforms, regardless of service provider Whichever operating system or programming language the manufacturer uses to develop programs, they can call multimedia information through these two interfaces and the XML standard, and will not be limited to the type of service server platform.

Description of drawings

Fig. 1: is the flowchart of the transmission multimedia information of a preferred embodiment of the present invention:

Fig. 2: is the schematic block diagram of the client registration of a preferred embodiment of the present invention;

And FIG. 3 : a schematic block diagram of multimedia information transmission according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

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10 clients

15 cell phone

20 multimedia information server

30 common service servers

40 Serving Servers

Detailed ways

The present invention is to solve the shortcoming that the existing multimedia information can only be sent to one mobile phone at a time, so the main purpose of the present invention is to provide a service server that can be delivered to multiple user mobile phones at one time, which not only reduces the number of service providers (Service Provider) in terms of service design difficulty, also makes service providers more flexible in service design.

Fig. 1 is the flow chart of transmitting multimedia information of a preferred embodiment of the present invention; As shown in the figure, the present invention is a kind of method that is applied to service provider to transmit multimedia information, and its main steps include:

Step S1, a service providing server registers with a common service server;

Step S2, multiple clients register with the common service server;

Step S3, the service providing server transmits at least one piece of multimedia information and transmits the related information of the plurality of clients to the common service server;

Step S4, the common service server judges that the multiple clients transmitted by the service providing server are registered with the common service server;

And step S5, the common service server notifies a multimedia information server to transmit the at least one multimedia information to the plurality of client terminals through the communication network.

In step S1, the service providing server and the common service server may be the same server, and the common service server provides at least one user password, at least one user name or both of the service providing server; wherein the common service server uses HTTP and JAVA The format of commercial business components (Enterprise Java Bean; EJB), and the common service server uses the format of Extensible Markup Language (XML) as the interface for information transmission with the service provider server, so that no matter the The language format of any platform can transmit data and communicate. The service providing server transmits to the common service server through communication networks such as public telecommunication network, wired communication network, wireless communication network, satellite communication network, optical fiber network, computer network or cable television network.

In step S2, the common service server provides the client with at least one user password, at least one user name or both: the client can be connected to the common service server through an information network to perform registration operations, and its information The network can be an Internet network or the client can be connected to the common service server through a communication network to perform registration operations; the communication network can be a public telecommunications network, a wired communication network, a wireless communication network, a A satellite communication network, an optical fiber network, and a cable TV network; and the user terminal can be connected to the common service server through an information network to select the service server and provide multimedia information, wherein the information network can be an Internet network, the client can be connected to the common service server through a communication network to select the service server and provide multimedia information, the communication network can be a public telecommunication network, a wired communication network, a wireless communication network, A satellite communication network, an optical fiber network, and a cable television network.

In step S3, the service provider server transmits the plurality of client-related information, the plurality of client-related information includes the user name, user password, phone number or any other relevant information that can identify the client.

Wherein step S5, the communication network can be connected with the client through communication networks such as a public telecommunication network, a wired communication network, a wireless communication network, a satellite communication network, an optical fiber network, a computer network or a cable television network. The multimedia information is transmitted.

Please refer to Figure 1, after the client receives the multimedia information, it further includes a step:

Step S6, the client returns a reception message to the common service server.

Furthermore, the user terminal can delete the registration data in the common service server to reject the multimedia information provided by the service providing server, and the user terminal can select the content provided in the service providing server in the common service server, To prevent the UE from receiving unwanted multimedia information, wherein the UE can select a service providing server from the common service server, so as to prevent the UE from receiving unwanted multimedia information provided by the service providing server. Wherein the user terminal can set the time when the multimedia information is delivered to the user terminal at the common service server.

Referring to Fig. 2, it is a schematic block diagram of a client registration of a preferred embodiment of the present invention; The client and a service providing server must register with a common service server in advance, and at this time, it is possible to directly control which server provides a multimedia message and which client receives it. By referring to FIG. 1 , providing After receiving the multimedia information, the client will return a received message to the common service server. On the one hand, the common service server can charge the user terminal, and on the other hand, can charge the service providing server. The common service server is an intermediary role.

Therefore, when a mobile phone client terminal 10 must first register with a common service server 30, and its registration mode has two kinds, one is to utilize the mode of mobile phone, by connecting a multimedia information server 20, register with this common service server 30 again , and can utilize an Internet mode, the user terminal can directly register with the common service server 30 directly via the mode of the Internet, without registering through the multimedia information server 20, and the service server 40 also needs to register with the common service server 30. The service server 30 registers, and the service-providing server 40 directly registers with the common service server 30 in an Internet manner.

Please refer to Fig. 3, which is a schematic block diagram of multimedia information delivery in a preferred embodiment of the present invention; The at least one piece of multimedia information provided by the service providing server 40 is transmitted to the common service server 30 through an Internet network, and the transmission not only includes the multimedia information, but also includes a relevant information for identifying the user terminal, such as: mobile phone number, Client name, full name, ID card number, etc., the common service server 30 can judge the number of mobile phones 15 that the multimedia information wants to transmit to the client through the transmitted client data, and the common service server 30 passes the multimedia information server 20 to multiple cell phones 15 .

Therefore, the present invention discloses a common service server, so that the service providing server and the client are registered in the common server to control the security mechanism, so which server provides a multimedia message and how many clients receive the multimedia information Multimedia information, on the one hand, controls, and on the other hand, implements a charging mechanism. After receiving the multimedia information, the client will return a message to the common service server, so the common service server is an intermediary role, and provides The manufacturer of the service server and the user terminal charge fees. Through the method of the present invention, the multimedia information of the service server can be sent so that multiple people can receive it, so as to solve the dilemma that only one person can receive it at a time, and increase the cost of the service server. Design flexibility is an unprecedented method that has made outstanding contributions to the marketing of multimedia information.

The above is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention, and is not intended to limit the scope of the present invention. All changes and equal changes made according to the shape, structure, characteristics and spirit described in the scope of the patent application of the present invention Modifications should be included in the patent application scope of the present invention.

Claims (37)

1. A method for transmitting multimedia information applied to a service provider, the main steps of which include: A service provider server is registered with a common service server; Multiple client terminals are registered with the common service server; The service providing server transmits at least one multimedia message and transmits the plurality of client-related information to the common service server; The common service server determines that the plurality of clients transmitted by the service providing server are registered with the common service server; and the common service server notifies a multimedia information server to transmit the at least one multimedia information to the plurality of users through a communication network end. 2. The method for transmitting multimedia information applied to a service provider as claimed in claim 1, wherein the service provider server and the common service server are integrated into the same server. 3. The method for transmitting multimedia information applied to a service provider as claimed in claim 1, wherein the common service server provides at least one user password of the service provider server. 4. The method for transmitting multimedia information applied to a service provider as claimed in claim 1, wherein the common service server provides at least one user password and at least one user name for the service provider server. 5. The method for transmitting multimedia information applied to a service provider as claimed in claim 1, wherein the common service server provides the client with at least one user password. 6. The method for transmitting multimedia information applied to a service provider as claimed in claim 1, wherein the common service server provides at least one user password and at least one user name for the client. 7. The method for transmitting multimedia information applied to a service provider as claimed in claim 1, wherein the multimedia information includes one of pictures, animations, sounds, texts and any combination thereof. 8. The method for transmitting multimedia information applied to a service provider as claimed in claim 1, wherein the common service server is structured using HTTP format. 9. The method for transmitting multimedia information applied to a service provider as claimed in claim 1, wherein the common service server is structured using a JAVA business component format. 10. The method for transmitting multimedia information applied to a service provider as claimed in claim 1, wherein the common service server uses XML format as an interface for transmitting information with the service provider server. 11. The method for transmitting multimedia information applied to a service provider as claimed in claim 1, wherein the service provider server transmits the plurality of client-related information, and the plurality of client-related information includes user names of the clients. 12. The method for transmitting multimedia information applied to a service provider as claimed in claim 1, wherein the service provider server transmits the plurality of client-related information, and the plurality of client-related information includes the user name and user name of the client. password. 13. The method for transmitting multimedia information applied to a service provider as claimed in claim 1, wherein the service provider server transmits the plurality of client-related information, and the plurality of client-related information includes telephone numbers of the clients. 14. The method for transmitting multimedia information applied to a service provider as claimed in claim 1, wherein the service provider server transmits to the common service server through a wired communication network or a wireless communication network. 15. The method for transmitting multimedia information applied to a service provider as claimed in claim 1, wherein after the client receives the multimedia information, it further comprises a step: the client returns a received message to the common service server. 16. The method for transmitting multimedia information applied to a service provider as claimed in claim 1, wherein the client deletes the registration data from the common service server to reject the multimedia information provided by the service provider server. 17. The method for transmitting multimedia information applied to a service provider as claimed in claim 1, wherein the client selects the content provided in the service provider server at the common service server, so as to prevent the client from receiving unwanted multimedia information. 18. The method for transmitting multimedia information applied to a service provider as claimed in claim 1, wherein the client selects a service provider server from the common service server, so as to prevent the client from receiving unwanted information provided by the service provider server. multimedia information. 19. The method for transmitting multimedia information applied to a service provider as claimed in claim 1, wherein the client terminal is connected to the common service server through an information network to register. 20. The method for transmitting multimedia information applied to a service provider as claimed in claim 19, wherein the information network is an Internet. 21. The method for transmitting multimedia information applied to a service provider as claimed in claim 1, wherein the client is connected to the common service server through a communication network to register. 22. The method for transmitting multimedia information applied to a service provider as claimed in claim 21, wherein the communication network is a public telecommunication network. 23. The method for transmitting multimedia information applied to a service provider as claimed in claim 21, wherein the communication network is a wired communication network. 24. The method for transmitting multimedia information applied to a service provider as claimed in claim 21, wherein the communication network is a wireless communication network. 25. The method for transmitting multimedia information applied to a service provider as claimed in claim 21, wherein the communication network is a satellite communication network. 26. The method for transmitting multimedia information applied to a service provider as claimed in claim 21, wherein the communication network is a fiber optic network. 27. The method for transmitting multimedia information applied to a service provider as claimed in claim 21, wherein the communication network is a cable TV network. 28. The method for transmitting multimedia information applied to a service provider as claimed in claim 1, wherein the client is connected to the common service server through an information network to select the service provider and provide multimedia information. 29. The method for transmitting multimedia information applied to a service provider as claimed in claim 28, wherein the information network is an Internet. 30. The method for transmitting multimedia information applied to a service provider as claimed in claim 1, wherein the client is connected to the common service server through a communication network to select the service provider and provide multimedia information. 31. The method for transmitting multimedia information applied to a service provider as claimed in claim 30, wherein the communication network is a public telecommunication network. 32. The method for transmitting multimedia information applied to a service provider as claimed in claim 30, wherein the communication network is a wired communication network. 33. The method for transmitting multimedia information applied to a service provider as claimed in claim 30, wherein the communication network is a wireless communication network. 34. The method for transmitting multimedia information applied to a service provider as claimed in claim 30, wherein the communication network is a satellite communication network. 35. The method for transmitting multimedia information applied to a service provider as claimed in claim 30, wherein the communication network is a fiber optic network. 36. The method for transmitting multimedia information applied to a service provider as claimed in claim 30, wherein the communication network is a cable television network. 37. The method for transmitting multimedia information applied to a service provider as claimed in claim 1, wherein the user terminal sets a time when the multimedia information is delivered to the user terminal at the common service server.

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