KR20060077414A - Apparatus and method for providing picture message using short message service of mobile communication system - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to providing a picture message using a short message service. In particular, the present invention relates to a mobile communication system providing a short message service, so that a short message and a picture message can be serviced using an HTTP (hypertext transfer protocol) protocol. The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for providing a picture message using a short message service of a mobile communication system.

In the message of the present invention, a short message and an information providing ID in URL information are transmitted together to the mobile communication terminal, and the mobile communication terminal accesses the ID of the URL to receive picture information, and again, a short message is provided in the display unit provided in the mobile communication terminal. By displaying the message and picture information together, the user can see the short message consisting of text and the picture image together. Therefore, it is possible to provide not only text but also visual information in the form of an image message to a mobile communication terminal user who can only receive a conventional short message, so that it can be used when providing product advertisement or map information, and operates a browser like a long message service. You can show image information without having to.

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Description

An apparatus and method for providing a picture message using a short message service of a mobile communication system {An apparatus and method for Image message service using Short Message service of mobile communication system}             

1 is a schematic configuration diagram of a mobile communication system for providing a short message service to a mobile communication terminal;

2 is a block diagram of a mobile communication terminal for receiving a picture message using a short message service of the present invention;

3 is a flowchart illustrating an operation of receiving a picture message using a mobile communication terminal of the present invention.

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10, 12: mobile communication terminal 20: base station

22 controller 24 switchboard

26: Short Message Center 30: Message Decision Unit

31: display unit 32: data request unit

The present invention relates to providing a picture message using a short message service. In particular, a mobile communication system that provides a short message service may provide a short message and a picture message using a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) protocol. The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for providing a picture message using a short message service of a mobile communication system.

In general, a mobile communication terminal is a device capable of transmitting or receiving a voice mainly using a mobile telephone exchange facility to a person having a transmission / reception facility installed in a mobile by a wireless communication method. Unlike a wired telephone, a mobile communication terminal is a system capable of communicating good quality wirelessly without using a cable, and uses a radio wave as a communication medium to completely guarantee mobility. For this reason, the number of simultaneous users in a region is not fixed but variable, and it is difficult to accurately predict the propagation path of the radio wave due to the reflection by the feature.

Korea's mobile communication service is testing the possibility of forming a new market by providing various services such as broadcasting, multimedia video, e-mail and multimedia messages. After the voice-oriented second generation mobile communication service, about 80% of subscribers are using CDMA2000-1X terminal, which is a synchronous third generation mobile communication service, and asynchronous (W-CDMA) third generation service has begun.

The third generation mobile communication technology can provide a wireless multimedia service capable of high-speed data and video services. It is expected to develop rapidly thanks to the combination of multimedia technology, voice recognition technology, mobile phone positioning technology and Bluetooth technology. Mobile terminals are using advanced features such as color displays, large memory, digital cameras, wireless Internet platforms, multiplexing, MP3 and VOD functions. The development of mobile communication service technology and the demands of consumers are accelerating the multimediaization of mobile communication terminals. Mobile communication services are diverse, but next-generation mobile communication services are in addition to education, crime prevention, transportation, entertainment, and mobile commerce in addition to health checks, medical data provision services, nursing information services, and current services. It is also expected that services will be provided to handle the administration.

On the other hand, Short Message Service (SMS) is a two-way data radio calling service, a service for transmitting data at a rate of up to 150 bytes between the terminal and the terminal. You can send and receive messages consisting of letters and numbers between the terminal or the network. Service types include short message transmission, emergency message display, date, time recording, and message recognition. Short messages in a mobile terminal are similar in radio calling and implementation technology and can be preserved even when the mobile terminal is inoperable or in a call-free area.

It will be described in detail to provide a short message and a long message using a conventional mobile communication terminal.

In addition, a long message service (LMS) is a service provided by an operator and receives a short message and accesses the URL through a browser to view a message using a wireless markup language WAP.

Long Message Service Server (Long Message Service Server) is connected to the short message center, provides a long message to the mobile terminal, access the URL through a browser to view the text and content WAP, a wireless markup language will be.

Therefore, in order to use a basic message or a long message service, a short message service requires a browser to be provided in the mobile communication terminal. Therefore, a user of an old low-spec type mobile communication terminal can use a short message service but a long message service. Is not available.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned problems, and uses a configuration for providing a short message service of a mobile communication system and a short message of a mobile communication system capable of providing short message and picture data using a GET method of HTTP protocol. An object of the present invention is to provide an apparatus and method for providing a picture message using a message service.

The mobile communication terminal of the present invention determines whether there is image URL information in the short message received by the message determining unit, and if it is determined that the image information is included in the message determining unit in the data requesting unit, the image is obtained by the get method of the HTTP protocol. The user requests the image to the short message center using the URL information and receives the image to the mobile communication terminal. The display unit integrates the short message and the image received later from the short message center to the mobile terminal as one message. An object of the present invention is to provide a picture message providing apparatus using a short message service of a mobile communication system.

In the message of the present invention, a short message and an information providing ID in URL information are transmitted together to the mobile communication terminal, and the mobile communication terminal accesses the ID of the URL to receive picture information, and again, a short message is provided in the display unit provided in the mobile communication terminal. An object of the present invention is to provide an apparatus and method for providing a picture message using a short message service of a mobile communication system, by displaying a message and picture information together so that a user can view a short message composed of text and a picture image together.

An apparatus for providing picture messages using a short message service of a mobile communication system of the present invention for achieving the above object includes a message determining unit determining whether there is image information in a received short message, and the image determining unit includes the image information. If it is determined that the data request unit for requesting the image to the short message center using the image information by the get method of the HTTP protocol (GET Method) and the mobile communication terminal, and the short message received and received by the mobile communication terminal and And a display unit that integrates the image received from the short message center into a single message and displays the screen together when the user selects it.

The message determining unit may further include identifying URL information and ID information where an image is located by using a separator such as <> in the short message.

The present invention also provides a first step of receiving a short message through a paging channel of a mobile communication terminal, a second step of determining whether the image position information is present in the short message, and a message if there is image position information in the short message. Step 3 of requesting and receiving from the requesting unit to the short message center using the image location information, and upon receiving a user's message confirmation request, synthesize the short message and the image in a text form on a display unit of the mobile communication terminal. It is characterized by including four steps to show.

The short message of the present invention is a size that does not exceed the short message transmission limit capacity, and when the size of the short message exceeds the transmission limit capacity, it is possible to divide and transmit, and the image also exceeds the short message transmission limit capacity It is characterized in that the size does not, wherein the image information is characterized in that it includes the URL information and the ID information of the image is located in the short message.

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

1 is a schematic configuration diagram of a mobile communication system for providing a short message service to a mobile communication terminal, and FIG. 2 is a configuration diagram of a mobile communication terminal for receiving a picture message using the short message service of the present invention. 3 is a flowchart illustrating an operation of receiving a picture message using a mobile communication terminal of the present invention.

 The present invention is a mobile communication system that provides a short message service that can serve not only text but also picture messages using the get method of the HTTP protocol.

Three common methods are defined in the HTTP protocol: GET, HEAD, and POST. The GET method is a method from which any information indicated by the URL can be obtained. In the present invention, a low-capacity image is provided to a user using a conventional short message service system using a get method.

1 illustrates a schematic configuration diagram of a mobile communication system for providing a short message service to a mobile communication terminal.

1 illustrates a base station transceiver subsystem 20 for establishing a communication channel under the control of a mobile communication terminal 10 and 12, a base station controller 22, and a mobile switching center ( A controller 22 located between the base station 20 and the base station 20 to manage the base station and to set and release a call of the mobile communication terminal, the base station 20, the controller 22, and a short message center ( And an exchange 24 and a short message center 26, which coincide with 26), construct a call path, and perform their own operation and maintenance.

When the user prepares and transmits a short message to be transmitted to the other party using the mobile communication terminal 10, the mobile communication of the receiver via the base station 20, the controller 22, the exchanger 24, and the short message center 26 is performed. The short message is sent to the terminal 12.

2 is a block diagram of a mobile communication terminal for receiving a picture message using the short message service of the present invention.

In order to provide a picture message using a short message service of the mobile communication system of the present invention, a message determining unit 30 that determines whether there is image information in a received short message, and a short message center when there is image information in the short message. (26) the data request unit 32 requesting the image with the address information and the ID information with the image, and when the image data is received from the short message center 26, the text and the image are integrated into the LCD of the mobile communication terminal. It is composed of a display unit 31 to show a screen.

The present invention is to deliver visual information through the service of a short message and simple image transmission even without a browser, and uses a conventional SMS service configuration and receives information using a get method of the HTTP protocol.

The SMS service typically uses a voice network with a message push method of about 80-100 bytes, and the transmission method is transmitted by paging. SMS service is a service that can not transmit information other than text and URL.

Providing a short message and a picture message of the present invention comprises first, a method of providing uniform resource locator (URL) address information of an image in a general short message, and an ID of a next short message having a general short message and an image URL. There is a way.

An example of image message data is as follows.

If you include an image URL directly in a short message, this is "LG Electronics. See Directions <IS = http: //lge.com/lg_map.jpg"> ". Do not exceed

In addition, if the content of the text message that you want to send exceeds the sending limit, the message is sent in two parts, and we would like to invite you to introduce this new product release from LG Electronics. Location: Send <ISID: 330> "first, and send short message" <ISID = 330 IS = http: //lge.com/lg_map.jpg ">" twice including image information as secondary message. In this case, the primary message and the secondary message do not exceed the transmission limit of 80 bytes.

After determining and receiving the first and second messages, the message determining unit 30 of the mobile terminal determines the contents within the delimiter, such as "<" and ">", as special contents and analyzes the IS and ISID. Image ID and image information URL are identified by separating them as tokens.

After determining the image ID and the image information URL in the message determining unit 30 of the mobile communication terminal, the data requesting unit 32 requests an image using the above-mentioned information. The URL is obtained through a get method of the Http protocol. The image is received from the short message center 26 with the corresponding low-capacity image data. The process of receiving image information follows the HTTP standard protocol.

The display unit 31 of the mobile communication terminal receiving the image information synthesizes the received first and second short message and the image data and displays the message on the LCD screen to the user.

Therefore, the present invention can provide a text message and image data to a user even without a dedicated browser by using a mobile communication system that provides a short message service.

3 is a flowchart illustrating an operation of receiving a picture message using a mobile communication terminal of the present invention.

First, data within the transmission limit capacity in the form of a text message is received by the mobile communication terminal from the short message center 26 (S50).

If the short message exceeds the transmission limit, the short message is divided into several times to transmit the short message.

The message determining unit 30 of the mobile communication terminal grasps the URL information and ID information of the image information in the received text message, and if there is the corresponding information, the HTTP get method in the data request unit 32 of the mobile communication terminal. Using the GET method, the image is received from the short message center 26 as a URL and ID information of the image information (S51 to S53).

The display unit 31 of the mobile communication terminal first synthesizes the received text message and the image information received from the data request unit 32 into a single message and displays it on the LCD screen of the mobile communication terminal when the user requests.

The present invention relates to providing a picture message using a short message service of a mobile communication system that can provide a picture message by using a short message service, thereby helping a user understand the content of the message.

The present invention first provides a message in the form of a message and the image is stored in the short message together, and after receiving the image in the short message center 26 by the information and the HTTP get method (GET Method) the image is stored in the mobile communication terminal It integrates text messages and images to provide users with picture messages on the LCD screen.

As described above, the present invention has an effect of providing a user with an HTTP get method using an HTTP get method as well as a message composed of text using a short message service system.

Therefore, it is possible to provide not only text but also visual information in the form of an image message to a user of a mobile communication terminal capable of receiving only a conventional short message, so that it can be used when providing advertisement or map information of a product and using a browser like a long message service. The advantage is that information can be displayed without being driven.

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A message determination unit that determines whether there is image information in the received short message; A data request unit for requesting an image from a short message center using the image information using a get method of an HTTP protocol and receiving the image information from a mobile communication terminal when the message determination unit determines that the image information exists; The short message service of the mobile communication system, comprising a display unit which combines the images received from the short message received from the mobile communication terminal and the image received from the short message center into a single message and displays them together on a screen when the user selects them. Picture message providing apparatus using a. The method of claim 1, The message determining unit may further include identifying URL information and ID information at which an image is located by using a delimiter such as <> in the short message, and using the short message service of the mobile communication system. Step 1 of receiving a short message on a paging channel of the mobile communication terminal; A step 2 of determining, by the message determining unit, whether there is image position information in the short message; Requesting and receiving the image location information from the message requesting unit using the image location information when the short message includes image location information; When receiving a user's message confirmation request, providing a picture message using the short message service of the mobile communication system comprising the step of combining the short message and the image in the form of a character on the display unit to show the screen of the mobile communication terminal Way. The method of claim 3, wherein The short message is a size that does not exceed the short message transmission limit capacity, and if the size of the short message exceeds the transmission limit capacity, the picture message providing method using a short message service of a mobile communication system, characterized in that divided transmission. The method of claim 3, wherein The image is a picture message providing method using a short message service of a mobile communication system, characterized in that the size of the short message transmission limit does not exceed. The method of claim 3, wherein And the image information includes URL information where the image is located in the short message and ID information of the image.

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