KR20090116908A - Method and system for providing multimedia contents using prefix - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A multimedia contents providing method and a system thereof are provided to offer multimedia contents of a corresponding company immediately by adding a prefix to an existing company by using a portable terminal. CONSTITUTION: A multimedia contents providing server receives a caller number and a called number which are originated from a user terminal(S40), searches multimedia contents of a company corresponding to the called number(S110), and then transmits the searched multimedia contents to the user terminal(S130). The multimedia contents are information of a text, image or video form corresponding to the called number. By combining a prefix, that is, intelligent network identification number for distinguishing a multimedia contents service with the phone number of the company, the called number is made.

Description

Method and system for providing multimedia contents using prefix {MULTIMEDIA CONTENTS SERVICE METHOD AND SYSTEM USING PREFIX}

The present invention relates to a method and system for providing multimedia content using a prefix.

In general, in order to know the location or service information of a specific service company, the user can call 114 information phone, call the phone number that he / she knows, ask questions, or search for a specific business on the web to find the desired information.

However, through the 114 information telephone service, only the phone number or location information of the company can be known, and the various information serviced by the company is not known at all, and the user can directly search for a specific business name through the web. There was a hassle of having to search through a wired or wireless Internet and search for a desired company.

In addition, even when a web page of a desired company is searched, if the content provided by the web page of the company is existing content that is not updated, the user may not receive accurate information.

Recently, a service that provides information on a specific company using an intelligent network has been provided. For example, when a user calls a predetermined telephone number, there is a service that transmits information about a specific company to a user terminal, but such a service is performed through a call forwarding service.

In addition, there is a service in which a user calls a specific affiliate store's phone number to receive an advertisement / promotional SMS of the affiliate store, but such a service is inconvenient for the user to access the affiliate's mobile page and check the information of the affiliate store.

In the above-described conventional service method, since only simple information in the form of text or image is provided for information on a specific company, there is a problem in that the user cannot obtain various dynamic information.

The present invention was devised to solve the above problems, and when a user makes a phone call to a specific company's phone number including an intelligent network number using a mobile terminal, multimedia contents corresponding to the phone number of the specific company can be provided. An object of the present invention is to provide a method and system for providing multimedia contents using a prefix.

According to an aspect of the multimedia content providing method using a prefix according to the present invention for achieving the above object, (a) receiving a caller number and an incoming call number from the user terminal in the multimedia content providing server; (b) retrieving multimedia contents of a company corresponding to the called telephone number from the multimedia contents providing server; And (c) transmitting the searched multimedia content to the user terminal in the multimedia content providing server.

In the step (b), the multimedia content is business information in the form of text, image or video corresponding to the called telephone number.

In step (a), the user terminal is a wireless portable internet terminal or a portable telephone terminal or a wired telephone terminal.

The incoming call number is a combination of a prefix of an intelligent network identification number for identifying a multimedia content service and a telephone number of the company.

The telephone number of the company is a general landline telephone number.

In step (a), the multimedia content providing server receives the caller number and the called telephone number of the user terminal through the intelligent network when the call originated from the user terminal includes the intelligent network identification number.

Prior to the step (a), the service controller (SCP) of the intelligent network further comprises the step of transmitting a multimedia content service announcement transmission request signal to the sound source system when receiving the caller number and the incoming call number.

The sound source system further comprises the step of transmitting a multimedia content service announcement to the user terminal.

The sound source system further comprises the step of transmitting the announcement information transmission complete ack signal to the service controller (SCP) of the intelligent network after transmitting the multimedia content service announcement to the user terminal.

The service controller (SCP) of the intelligent network further includes the step of transmitting a call release request signal to the service switchboard (SSP) of the intelligent network after receiving the announcement announcement completion ack signal.

The service switch (SSP) of the intelligent network further comprises the step of releasing the call of the user terminal in accordance with the request of the service controller (SCP).

According to an aspect of the information providing method using a postfix according to the present invention for achieving the above object, (a) receiving an incoming call number and a postfix from a user terminal in an information providing server; (b) retrieving information corresponding to the postfix from the company information corresponding to the called phone number in the information providing server; And (c) transmitting the retrieved information from the information providing server to the user terminal in the form of voice or multimedia content.

According to an aspect of the multimedia content providing system using a prefix according to the present invention for achieving the above object, when receiving a caller number and the incoming call number from the user terminal multimedia for a company corresponding to the called number Search for content and transmit the searched multimedia content to the user terminal.

The multimedia content providing system includes: a communication module for receiving a calling party number and an incoming call number from the user terminal; A multimedia contents DB for storing multimedia contents respectively matched with a plurality of company telephone numbers; A multimedia content retrieval module for retrieving multimedia contents of a company corresponding to the called telephone number from the multimedia contents DB when receiving a caller number and an incoming call number transmitted from the user terminal; A multimedia content transmission module for transmitting multimedia content of a corresponding company retrieved from the multimedia content search module to the user terminal; And a control module that controls each of the components to perform a series of processes related to the multimedia content transmission service.

The multimedia content stored in the multimedia content DB is company information in the form of text, an image, or a video that matches the telephone numbers of the respective companies.

And a subscriber interface module for updating the multimedia content.

The user terminal is a wireless portable internet terminal, a portable telephone terminal or a wired telephone terminal.

The multimedia content providing system receives the caller number and the called telephone number of the user terminal through the service controller (SCP) of the intelligent network when the call originated from the user terminal includes the intelligent network identification number.

The incoming call number is a combination of a prefix that is an intelligent network identification number for identifying a multimedia content service and a telephone number of the company.

The telephone number of the company is a general landline telephone number.

When the service controller of the intelligent network receives the caller number and the called phone number, the sound source system receives the multimedia content service announcement message request signal from the service controller of the intelligent network and transmits the multimedia content service announcement to the user terminal. Include.

The service controller of the intelligent network transmits a call release request signal to the service switchboard (SSP) of the intelligent network when receiving the completion of the ack signal from the sound source system to the user terminal.

The multimedia content providing system interworks with a telephone guide server to search for multimedia contents corresponding to a company name and a business telephone number transmitted from the telephone guide server, and transmit the retrieved multimedia contents to the user terminal.

According to the present invention, the user can immediately receive the multimedia contents related to the corresponding company by transmitting only the prefix to the telephone number of the existing company using his mobile terminal.

In addition, since the existing content is updated in real time whenever the content is changed from each company that subscribes to the multimedia content providing service, the user can be provided with the latest contents related to the company.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. Prior to this, terms or words used in the specification and claims should not be construed as having a conventional or dictionary meaning, and the inventors should properly explain the concept of terms in order to best explain their own invention. Based on the principle that can be defined, it should be interpreted as meaning and concept corresponding to the technical idea of the present invention. Therefore, the embodiments described in the specification and the drawings shown in the drawings are only the most preferred embodiment of the present invention and do not represent all of the technical idea of the present invention, various modifications that can be replaced at the time of the present application It should be understood that there may be equivalents and variations.

1 is a diagram showing the configuration of a multimedia content providing system using a prefix according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 1, the multimedia content providing system of the present invention includes a user terminal 10, a ready-made message service (RMS) server 60, and a multimedia message service (MMS) transmission server 70. .

The user terminal 10 is a portable terminal or a wired telephone terminal capable of wireless mobile Internet, and when the prefix and the incoming telephone number are received through the user interface and the call is transmitted, the user terminal 10 corresponds to the incoming telephone number provided from the RMS server 60. Receive the multimedia content information of the company from the MMS transmission server (70). Here, a mobile communication network, a PSTN network, an intelligent network, and an internet network are configured to interwork between the user terminal 10 and the RMS server 60 through a gateway.

When a wired telephone terminal is used as the user terminal 10, it is preferable that the wired telephone terminal uses an IP based video terminal using voice over internet protocol (VoIP).

The incoming call number is a combination of a prefix, an area code, and a phone number of a corresponding company that is an intelligent network identification number for identifying a multimedia content service. For example, the prefix (16 **), area code (02), and business phone number (111-2222) are combined to form "(16 **)-(02)-(111-2222)", Here, the business phone number is a general landline phone number (PSTN phone number).

The PSTN network switch determines whether the intelligent network number is included in the call originating from the user terminal 10, and if the intelligent network number is included, the caller number and the called telephone number are connected to the RMS server through the Internet network linked with the intelligent network and the intelligent network. Send to 60.

When the RMS server 60 receives the calling party number and the called telephone number from the user terminal 10 while storing the multimedia contents uploaded by a plurality of companies, the RMS server 60 stores the multimedia contents corresponding to the called telephone number company. The multimedia content of the corresponding company retrieved from the DB is transmitted to the MMS transmission server 70.

The MMS transmission server 70 receives the caller's telephone number and the multimedia content from the RMS server 60 and transmits the multimedia content of the corresponding company to the caller's number.

FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of the RMS server of FIG. 1.

As shown in FIG. 2, the RMS server 60 of the present invention includes a communication module 61, a multimedia content retrieval module 62, a control module 63, a multimedia content DB 64, and a multimedia content. Transmission request module 65 and subscriber interface module 66;

The communication module 61 receives a caller number and an incoming call number transmitted when a call is made by a user terminal.

When the multimedia content search module 62 receives the calling party number and the called phone number, the multimedia content search module 62 searches for the multimedia content of the company matching the called phone number received from the multimedia content DB 64 and sends the searched multimedia content to the multimedia content transmission request module. Forward to 65.

The multimedia contents DB 64 stores multimedia contents for each company that applied for a ready-made message service (RMS) service. Here, the multimedia content is an advertisement and promotional video in the form of text, image or video matching the telephone number of the corresponding company, and is updated every time the content is changed.

The multimedia content transmission request module 65 transmits the multimedia content transmitted from the multimedia content search module 62 to the MMS transmission server 70.

The subscriber interface module 66 provides an interface for updating the multimedia contents related to the company in each company that subscribes to the multimedia contents providing service. For example, the subscriber interface module 66 is updated in case of an event or a transfer. .

The control module 63 controls each of the above components to perform a series of processes related to the multimedia content transmission service.

3 is a diagram illustrating a multimedia content providing method using a prefix according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating an example of multimedia content transmitted to a user terminal of FIG. 3.

As shown in FIG. 3, the user terminal 10 transmits a call to an incoming call number including a prefix input through a user interface (S10).

The incoming call number is a combination of a prefix, an area code, and a phone number of a corresponding company, which is an intelligent network identification number for identifying a multimedia content service. For example, the prefix (16 **), area code (02), and business phone number (111-2222) are combined to form "(16 **)-(02)-(111-2222)", Here, the business telephone number is a general landline telephone number (PSTN telephone number).

The PSTN exchanger 20 receives the call sent from the user terminal 10 through the mobile communication network and checks whether the incoming call number includes a prefix of the intelligent network number (S20).

When the prefix is included, the PSTN switch 20 transmits the calling party number and the called phone number to the service controller (SCP) 50 through the service switch (SSP) 40 of the intelligent network (S30).

The service controller (SCP) 50 transmits the received calling party number and the called telephone number to the RMS server 60 through the Internet network (S40) and simultaneously transmits the multimedia content service announcement to the sound source system 30 of the PSTN network. The request signal is transmitted (S50). At this time, the service controller (SCP) 50, if the incoming call number (area code + business phone number) is not the service subscriber's telephone number, the service announcement signal request signal indicating that the service subscriber is not to the sound source system (30) send.

The sound source system 30 transmits a multimedia content service announcement or a notification indicating that the subscriber is not a service subscriber to the user terminal 10 at the request of the service controller (SCP) 50 (S60). Here, the multimedia content service announcement, for example, "After a while, the multimedia content of the company corresponding to the telephone number sent by the customer will be sent to the customer's terminal, so please hang up when the announcement ends." Announcement that may not be a service subscriber, such as, may be, for example, the announcement such as "incoming call number requested by the customer is not a subscriber, please check again".

The user terminal 10 receives a multimedia content service announcement from the sound source system 30 or a announcement notifying that the subscriber is not a service (S70).

The sound source system 30 transmits a guidement transmission completion ack signal for notifying that the multimedia content service announcement is transmitted to the user terminal 10 to the service controller (SCP) 50 of the intelligent network (S80).

The service controller (SCP) 50 of the intelligent network requests to release the call of the user terminal 10 currently connected to the service switchboard (SSP) 40 when receiving the announcement message ack signal from the sound source system 30 (S90). )do.

The service switch (SSP) 40 releases the call of the currently connected user terminal 10 according to the request of the service controller (SCP) 50 (S100).

When the RMS server 60 receives the calling party number and the called telephone number transmitted from the service controller (SCP) 50 of the intelligent network, the RMS server 60 searches for the multimedia contents of the company corresponding to the called telephone number from the multimedia contents DB (S110).

The RMS server 60 transmits the multimedia content of the company retrieved from the multimedia content DB to the MMS transmission server 70 and requests the user terminal 10 to transmit the multimedia content of the company (S120).

The MMS transmission server 70 transmits the multimedia content of the corresponding company received from the RMS server 60 to the user terminal 10 through the Internet network (S130). For example, as shown in FIG. 4, the multimedia content including the location information in the form of text and the location information in the form of the relevant company is transmitted to the user terminal 10.

In the above-described embodiment of the present invention, an example in which a multimedia content service is provided using an intelligent network number (prefix) has been described, but as a modified example, a telephone guide server (for example, 114 server) is connected to an RMS server. The service can be provided in conjunction.

For example, if a user calls a phone information server through his mobile terminal and asks for the phone number of a specific company, the phone information server sends the user to the RMS server if he / she wants to receive multimedia content about the company. It sends the searched business name, business phone number and caller ID.

The RMS server searches the multimedia contents corresponding to the company name and the business telephone number transmitted from the telephone guide server and transmits the retrieved multimedia contents to the user's mobile terminal through the MMS transmission server.

As another variant, postfix may be used to provide information about a particular company.

For example, a user initiates a call by entering an area code (02), a business phone number (9555-xxxx), and a postfix (# 1) one after another through a wired / wireless terminal (02-9555-xxxx- # 1). Then, the input information is transmitted to the RMS server through the information communication network. Here, the postfix is a delimiter for subdividing and providing service information about a specific company, and is composed of a combination of special characters and numbers. For example, "# 1: location", "# 2: menu", "# 3 : Order ".

The RMS server searches for the business information matching the received phone number from the phone numbers of the registered information service subscribers, and then corresponds to information (for example, Postfix # 1) entered by the user in the searched business information. Location information of the company) is transmitted to the user terminal.

In this case, the information transmitted to the user terminal may be provided in the form of ARS voice information or multimedia content. For example, if ARS is provided as voice information, "The location of the business requested by the customer is provided as a voice ...." or, if provided in the form of multimedia content, a multimedia map showing the location of the company. It can be provided as.

As described above, although the present invention has been described by way of limited embodiments and drawings, the present invention is not limited thereto and is intended by those skilled in the art to which the present invention pertains. Of course, various modifications and variations are possible within the scope of equivalents of the claims to be described.

1 is a view showing the configuration of a multimedia content providing system using a prefix according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a diagram showing the configuration of the RMS server of FIG.

3 is a diagram illustrating a multimedia content providing method using a prefix according to an embodiment of the present invention.

4 is a diagram illustrating an example of multimedia content transmitted to a user terminal of FIG. 3.

Claims (23)

As a method for providing multimedia content using a prefix, (a) receiving a calling party number and an incoming call number from a user terminal in a multimedia content providing server; (b) retrieving multimedia contents of a company corresponding to the called telephone number from the multimedia contents providing server; And (c) transmitting the searched multimedia contents to the user terminal in the multimedia contents providing server; Multimedia content providing method using a prefix comprising a. The method according to claim 1, In step (b), The multimedia content, Business information in the form of text, image or video corresponding to the called number Multimedia content providing method using a prefix, characterized in that. The method according to claim 1, In step (a), The user terminal is a wireless portable Internet terminal or a mobile telephone terminal or a landline telephone terminal. Multimedia content providing method using a prefix, characterized in that. The method according to claim 1, The incoming call number is a combination of a prefix that is an intelligent network identification number for identifying a multimedia content service and a telephone number of the company. Multimedia content providing method using a prefix, characterized in that. The method according to claim 4, The telephone number of the company is a general landline telephone number Multimedia content providing method using a prefix, characterized in that. The method according to claim 4, In step (a), The multimedia content providing server receives the caller number and the called phone number of the user terminal through the intelligent network when the call originating from the user terminal includes the intelligent network identification number. Multimedia content providing method using a prefix, characterized in that. The method according to claim 6, Before step (a), When the service controller (SCP) of the intelligent network receives the caller number and the called phone number, transmitting a multimedia content service announcement transmission request signal to a sound source system; Multimedia content providing method using a prefix, characterized in that it further comprises. The method according to claim 7, Transmitting the multimedia content service announcement to the user terminal by the sound source system; Multimedia content providing method using a prefix, characterized in that it further comprises. The method according to claim 8, The sound source system transmits a multimedia content service announcement to the user terminal and transmits the announcement announcement completion ack signal to the service controller (SCP) of the intelligent network Multimedia content providing method using a prefix, characterized in that it further comprises. The method according to claim 9, After the service controller (SCP) of the intelligent network receives the announcement transmission completion ack signal and transmitting a call release request signal to the service switch (SSP) of the intelligent network Multimedia content providing method using a prefix, characterized in that it further comprises. The method according to claim 10, The service switch (SSP) of the intelligent network to release the call of the user terminal according to the request of the service controller (SCP) Multimedia content providing method using a prefix, characterized in that it further comprises. As a method of providing information using a postfix, (a) receiving an incoming call number and a postfix sent from a user terminal in an information providing server; (b) retrieving information corresponding to the postfix from the company information corresponding to the called phone number in the information providing server; And (c) transmitting the retrieved information to the user terminal in the form of voice or multimedia content in the information providing server; Information providing method using a postfix comprising a. A multimedia content providing system using a prefix, And receiving a caller number and an incoming call number from a user terminal, searching for multimedia content related to the company corresponding to the called phone number, and using the prefix to transmit the searched multimedia content to the user terminal. The method according to claim 13, The multimedia content providing system, A communication module for receiving a calling party number and an incoming call number from the user terminal; A multimedia contents DB for storing multimedia contents respectively matched with a plurality of company telephone numbers; A multimedia content retrieval module for retrieving multimedia contents of a company corresponding to the called telephone number from the multimedia contents DB when receiving a caller number and an incoming call number transmitted from the user terminal; A multimedia content transmission module for transmitting multimedia content of a corresponding company retrieved from the multimedia content search module to the user terminal; And Control module that controls each of the components to handle a series of processes related to the multimedia content transmission service Multimedia content providing system using a prefix, characterized in that it comprises a. The method according to claim 14, Multimedia content stored in the multimedia content DB, Business information in the form of text, image or video that matches the phone numbers of Multimedia content providing system using a prefix, characterized in that. The method according to claim 15, Subscriber interface module for updating the multimedia content Multimedia content providing system using a prefix, characterized in that it further comprises. The method according to claim 13, The user terminal is a wireless portable Internet terminal or a mobile telephone terminal or a landline telephone terminal. Multimedia content providing system using a prefix, characterized in that. The method according to claim 17, The multimedia content providing system, When the call originated from the user terminal includes an intelligent network identification number, the caller number and the called telephone number of the user terminal are received through the intelligent network service controller (SCP). Multimedia content providing system using a prefix, characterized in that. The method according to claim 18, The incoming call number is a combination of a prefix that is an intelligent network identification number for identifying a multimedia content service and a telephone number of the company. Multimedia content providing system using a prefix, characterized in that. The method according to claim 19, The telephone number of the company is a general landline telephone number Multimedia content providing system using a prefix, characterized in that. The method according to claim 18, When the service controller of the intelligent network receives the caller number and the called phone number, the sound source system receives the multimedia content service announcement transmission request signal from the service controller of the intelligent network and transmits the multimedia content service announcement to the user terminal. Multimedia content providing system using a prefix, characterized in that it further comprises. The method according to claim 21, The service controller of the intelligent network transmits a call release request signal to a service switch (SSP) of the intelligent network when receiving a completion signal of the multimedia content service announcement from the sound source system to the user terminal. Multimedia content providing system using a prefix, characterized in that. The method according to claim 13, The multimedia content providing system, It is linked with the call guide server to search for multimedia content corresponding to the company name and company phone number transmitted from the call guide server to transmit the retrieved multimedia content to the user terminal Multimedia content providing system using a prefix, characterized in that.

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