KR200313671Y1 - Generating system for ring back tone being mixed by voice providing user's information and background music - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a system for generating a ringback tone in which a voice and background music for providing user information of a mobile communication terminal are synthesized.

Description

Generating system for ring back tone being mixed by voice providing user's information and background music}

The present invention relates to a ringback tone generation system in which voice and background music for providing user information of a mobile communication terminal are synthesized.

In general, when a caller's mobile terminal calls a receiver's mobile terminal, a ring back tone provided by the mobile telephone switching network is provided while the caller waits for a call response from the receiver's mobile terminal. It is sent to the mobile communication terminal and waits for the call response of the receiver.

Recently, in order to satisfy users' various tastes and interests in conjunction with the popular dissemination of mobile communication terminals, a service that transmits ringback tones as background music, such as pop songs or pop songs, which the user prefers. There is a 'coloring' service provided by Telecom Co., Ltd.) has been developed and is receiving a lot of response from users of mobile communication terminals.

However, only by listening to the normal ringback tone or the ringback tone from which background music is played, the caller cannot confirm whether the caller is the correct person. Frequent offenses are common.

In addition, a service such as a ringback tone in which background music is transmitted provides only simple background music, so that the user's interest is often halved.

In addition, the mobile communication service providers are developing additional services for providing various contents due to the increasing spread of mobile communication terminals, but are still having difficulty in developing services that meet various users' preferences.

An object of the present invention for solving the above problems is, in addition to the ringback tone of the background music currently provided by the mobile communication service provider, the recipient's information such as the telephone number of the receiver's mobile terminal and the receiver's name, alias, or business name, etc. The goal is to prevent the wrong call from being made by allowing the caller to be called with the music so that the caller can be accurately informed who the caller is calling.

In addition, by allowing the user of the mobile communication terminal to directly specify the information of the receiver sent in the ringback tone, to provide a method of the mobile communication additional service for enhancing the call convenience that can express or promote their personality.

1 is a block diagram of a ringback tone generating system according to an embodiment of the present invention;

2 is a block diagram of a converting server according to an embodiment of the present invention;

3 is a flowchart of a ringback tone generating method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Explanation of symbols on the main parts of the drawings

10; PC 15; ARS device

20; Web server 30; WAP server

40; Converting server 50; Ringback tone management and playout server

60; Ringback tone database

100; Wired / wireless internet network 200; Mobile telephone switching network

210; Incoming MSC 220; Outgoing MSC

230; HLR 300; Mobile communication terminal

The present invention for achieving the above object, the user inputs the user information to be sent in the ringback tone, and the user information input and background music selection procedure for selecting the background music to be synthesized with the user information; A ringback tone generation procedure of synthesizing the input user information and the background music to generate ringback tone data; A ringback tone transmission procedure in which the generated ringback tone data is transmitted to a mobile communication terminal of a caller through a mobile communication network; Characterized in that configured to include.

EMBODIMENT OF THE INVENTION Hereinafter, the structure of the preferable embodiment of this invention is demonstrated in detail based on an accompanying drawing.

1 is a block diagram of a ringback tone generating system according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in the figure,

A ring back tone generating system of a conventional mobile telephone terminal, comprising: a PC (10) or a PDA (11) connected to a wired / wireless Internet network (100) using a TCP / IP Internet protocol; And inputting character information and selecting background music from the PC 10 or the PDA device 11 through the wired / wireless Internet network 100 and from the PC 10 or the PDA device 11. A web server (20) and a WAP server (30) for providing a web page for receiving user information and background music through the web page; And interworking with the web server 20 and the WAP server 30 and driving a built-in text-to-speech engine (TTS Engine) to convert the user information in the text form into voice data, and convert the converted voice data and the background. A converting server 40 for mixing ring music to generate ringback tone data; And a ringback tone management and transmission server 50 for receiving and managing ringback tone data converted by the converting server 40 and transmitting ringback tone data when a call of a mobile communication terminal is called. And a ringback tone database (60) for interlocking with the ring back tone management and transmission server (50) and storing ring back tone data. And a mobile telephone switching network (200) for transmitting the ringback tone transmitted from the ringback tone management and transmission server (50) to the mobile communication terminal (300). It is configured to include.

The mobile telephone switching network 200 is a conventional mobile telephone switching network, and transmits signals of the caller and the receiver's mobile communication terminal to a mobile communication network and a general telephone network, another mobile switching center (MSC) in the same or different mobile communication network. The MSC 210 and the originating MSC 220, which interlock with a fixed network that constitutes an access point for user traffic between the centers and provide a circuit switching service to a mobile subscriber, and fix the mobile terminal in the network. It includes a home location register (HLR) 230, which is a database register in a network that manages subscriber information or subscriber location information for providing services.

On the other hand, the ARS apparatus 15 (Automatic Response System) is a normal ARS apparatus and is directly connected to the converting server 40. The user connects to the ARS 15 interworking with the public switched network (PSTN) by using a normal telephone (not shown), transmits user information such as his name and nickname, and the recording device interworked with the ARS 15 ( The user information transmitted by the user is recorded in the (not shown). The user information recorded by the ARS 15 is transferred to the converting server 40.

2 is a block diagram of a converting server 40 according to the present invention.

When the user of the mobile communication terminal inputs user information such as mobile terminal number or user name or nickname as text through the web server 20 WAP server 30 and selects background music, the web server 20 or WAP The converting server 40 receives the text input from the server 30. The converting server 40 converts the received text into voice data through text-to-speech conversion, and mixes the background music selected by the user with the voice data to generate final ringback tone data.

The converting server 40 is a text reader for reading the text input by the user from the web server 20 or the WAP 30 as shown in the block diagram of FIG. 2 for conversion to voice data and synthesis of background music. 42, a text reader), a background music reader 43 for reading the background music selected by the user from the web server 20 or the WAP 30, and reading data recorded by the user from the ARS device 15 with voice. A voice-to-speech 44, a text-to-speech engine 41 for converting the data read by the text reader 42 and the voice reader 44 into voice data, and the text-to-speech engine 41 A mixer (Mixer 45) for mixing the converted voice data and the background music read by the background music reader (43), and the data mixed by the mixer (45) as ring back tone data to convert final ring back tone data. As ringback tone writer 46 to produce It becomes bait.

The text-to-speech engine 41, also called TTS engine (Text-to-Speech Engine), is a software program for converting characters into words. When the user inputs an arbitrary sentence, the grammatical structure of the sentence is grasped. It is a speech synthesis solution that analyzes and outputs almost like a real human voice. Since the respective components of the TTS engine 41 and the converting server 40 for driving the TTS engine 41 are techniques commonly implemented by those skilled in the art, detailed description thereof will be omitted.

3 is a flowchart of a ringback tone generating method according to an embodiment of the present invention, and each step of the present invention will be described in detail with modification.

1) Procedure for inputting user information and selecting background music

The user information input and background music selection step may include a method in which a user connects to the web server 20 or the WAP server 30 and a method through the ARS device 15.

First, a method of selecting user information input and background music by accessing the web server 20 or the WAP server 30 will be described.

The user accesses the web server 20 or the WAP server 30 linked to the wired / wireless internet network 100 via the PC 10 (step S 301). The connection to the WAP server 30 is preferably connected to a normal PDA device 11. Then, a user who accesses the web server 20 or the WAP server 30 himself / herself on a predetermined web page transmitted from the web server 30 or the WAP server 30 to the user's PC 10 or the PDA device 11. User information is input in a text form (step S302). The user information may include a user's name, nickname, trade name, telephone number, publicity or introduction of the user, and the user information is converted into voice data of a ringback tone to be heard by a caller calling the mobile communication terminal. The description thereof will be described later.

Subsequently, the user selects background music to be synthesized with the user information input to a predetermined web page provided by the web server or the WAP servers 20 and 30 (step S303), and the user himself / herself receives the ringback tone service of the present invention. Enter the mobile communication terminal telephone number (step S304).

Next, a method of selecting user information input and background music using the ARS device 15 will be described.

The user connects to the ARS device 15 interworking with the public switched network PSTN (not shown) by using a telephone (not shown) (step S305). The user who calls the ARS device 15 transmits the user information (name, nickname, trade name, telephone number, his / her promotion or introduction, etc.) as described above to the ARS device 15 (step S306). The ARS device 15 records user information in a separate recording device (not shown) interlocked with this (step S 307). Then, the telephone number of the user's own mobile communication terminal to receive the ringback tone service of the present invention is input (step S308), and one of the plurality of background music provided by the ARS device 15 is selected (step S309). . The telephone number to be serviced and the selected background music are stored in the recording apparatus (step S 310).

2) Ring back tone generation procedure

The user information inputted by the web server 20 or the WAP server 30 in the form of text is transmitted to the converting server 40 that performs a solution of text-to-speech (S 311). Then, the converting server 40 performs the text-to-speech conversion engine 41 on the received user information to generate voice data capable of outputting user information in a text form (step S 312). . Subsequently, the converting server 40 synthesizes the voice data and the background music selected by the user to generate ringback tone data to be heard by the called party (step S 313).

Meanwhile, a method of converting user information and background music input through the ARS device 15 through the converting server 40 will be described.

The converting server 40 reads the recorded user information, the background music selected by the user, and the data of the telephone number to be serviced from the recording device linked with the ARS device 15 (step S 314). Subsequently, the converting server 40 synthesizes the recorded user information and the background music to generate ringback tone data to be heard by the called party (step S315).

3) Ringback tone sending procedure

The ringback tone data generated by the converting server 40 is interlocked with the mobile communication switching network 200 of the mobile communication operator through a predetermined transmission network (preferably 10 Mbps / T1 level dedicated network) interworking with the converting server 40. Transferring to the ringback tone management and transmission server 50 (step S 316), the ringback tone management and transmission server 50 received the ringback tone data is stored in the ringback tone database 60 linked with the server 50 (Step S317).

Thereafter, when the caller calls the receiver's mobile terminal from the mobile terminal 300, the ringback tone data stored in the database 60 is received by the destination MSC 210 and the originating MSC 220 and the HLR 230. Through the traffic of the mobile communication switching network 200, the ringback tone is synthesized by combining the receiver's user information and background music while waiting for the caller's call response to the caller's mobile terminal 300 (step S). 318). The transmission of the ringback tone is stopped when the call is answered by the receiver.

The effect of the present invention having the configuration as described above, the caller can hear the user information of the receiver that is sent to the ringback tone, so that the caller to accurately recognize who is calling, the wrong call There is an effect that can be prevented in advance.

In addition, since the user of the mobile communication terminal can directly specify the information of the receiver transmitted in the ringback tone, users of the various mobile communication terminals to express their personality or to enhance the convenience of the call to promote their business It is a useful design that works.

Claims (3)

In a ring back tone generating system of a conventional mobile telephone terminal, A PC 10 or PDA device 11 connected to the wired / wireless internet network 100 using the TCP / IP internet protocol; And inputting character information and selecting background music from the PC 10 or the PDA device 11 through the wired / wireless Internet network 100 and from the PC 10 or the PDA device 11. A web server (20) and a WAP server (30) for providing a web page for receiving user information and background music through the web page; And interworking with the web server 20 and the WAP server 30 and driving a built-in text-to-speech engine (TTS Engine) to convert the user information in the text form into voice data, and convert the converted voice data and the background. A converting server 40 for mixing ring music to generate ringback tone data; And a ringback tone management and transmission server 50 for receiving and managing ringback tone data converted by the converting server 40 and transmitting ringback tone data when a call of a mobile communication terminal is called. And a ringback tone database (60) for interlocking with the ring back tone management and transmission server (50) and storing ring back tone data. And a mobile telephone switching network (200) for transmitting the ringback tone transmitted from the ringback tone management and transmission server (50) to the mobile communication terminal (300). System for generating a ringback tone synthesized voice and background music providing the user information, characterized in that configured to include. The method of claim 1, It interlocks with the public switched network (PSTN), records user information transmitted by a user connected using a normal telephone, and selected background music information to an interlocking recording device, and transmits the recorded information to the converting server 40. An ARS device 15; The generation system of the ring back tone synthesized voice and background music providing the user information, characterized in that further comprises. The method according to claim 1 or 2, The converting server 40, Text reader 42 for reading text in the form of characters input by the user from the web server 20 or the WAP 30, and background music for reading the background music selected by the user from the web server 20 or the WAP 30. A voice reader 44 for reading recorded data recorded by a user from the reader 43, the ARS device 15 with voice, and data read by the text reader 42 and the voice reader 44 as voice data. A mixer 45 for mixing the text-to-speech conversion engine 41 to be converted, the background music read by the background music reader 43 and the voice data converted by the text-to-speech conversion engine 41, and the mixer. A ringback tone synthesized with voice and background music, comprising: a ringback tone writer 46 for formatting the mixed data by 45 as ringback tone data to generate final ringback tone data Generation system.