KR20160054112A - Apparatus and method for providing message oriented service - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for providing an MO message.
The present invention relates to a system and method for managing a plurality of selection items, each having a MO number for use of a message oriented service (MO), one or more use registration time slots for the MO number, A data storage unit for storing the MO number use registration information database including the MO number registration information database; An MO message receiver for receiving an MO message having the MO number as a destination; And a control unit configured to determine a specific use registration time zone corresponding to a reception time of the MO message in the MO number use registration information database and to identify the specific use registration time zone corresponding to the specific use item set corresponding to the specific use registration time zone And a message validity determining unit that determines that the MO message is valid and determines that the MO message is invalid if the format of the selected item does not match the format of the specific set of items. to provide.

Description

[0001] APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING MESSAGE ORIENTED SERVICE [0002]

The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for providing an MO service.

The MO (Message Oriented) service is a service registration method in which a service user registers any one of MO numbers stored in the MO service provider to use one of the MO numbers, The content of the short message is delivered to the service user's system, that is, the PC of the service user or the server via the MO service providing server which is the server of the MO service provider through the mobile communication network Service.

By using the MO service, various types of real-time events can be provided to mobile communication terminal users.

For example, when a service user is a broadcasting station, a MO number is provided to viewers through a broadcasting program screen being broadcast in real time, and a problem of multiple selection of broadcast programs being broadcast in real time is provided, When a viewer selects one of the selection items of the multiple choice multiple choice problem and creates a short message using one of the selection items using the mobile communication terminal and transmits the short message to the MO number, And a real-time event in which the contents of the message are transmitted to the broadcasting station server via the MO service providing server.

In order to provide various types of MO services to a plurality of service users, a service provider providing the MO service must have a large number of MO numbers.

However, since a plurality of service providers share limited MO numbers with a number resource, and a specific service provider must pay a small amount to a mobile communication company operating a mobile communication network in order to hold a MO number in large quantities, It is practically impossible to have a large number of numbers.

Therefore, there is a need to provide various types of MO services efficiently with limited MO numbers possessed by service providers.

In view of the foregoing, it is an object of the present invention to provide an MO service providing apparatus and method that efficiently provide various types of MO services with limited MO numbers.

In order to achieve the above object, in one aspect, the present invention provides a system and method for providing a one-to-one correspondence with an MO number for using a message oriented service (MO), one or more use registration time zones for the MO number, A data storage for storing an MO number use registration database containing one or more selection sets having different formats for each use registration time slot; An MO message receiver for receiving an MO message having the MO number as a destination; And a control unit configured to determine a specific use registration time zone corresponding to a reception time of the MO message in the MO number use registration information database and to identify the specific use registration time zone corresponding to the specific use item set corresponding to the specific use registration time zone And a message validity determining unit that determines that the MO message is valid and determines that the MO message is invalid if the format of the selected item does not match the format of the specific set of items. to provide.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of providing an MO service in an apparatus for providing an MO (Message Oriented) service, the method comprising: receiving a MO message having an MO number as a destination; The MO number use registration information database including at least one selection item set having one format corresponding to the MO number, at least one use registration time slot for the MO number, and one or more use registration time slots, An MO number use time zone grasp step of grasping a specific use registration time zone corresponding to the reception time of the MO message; Comparing a format of the selection item included in the MO message with a format of a specific selection item set corresponding to the specific use registration time slot; And determining that the MO message is valid if the format of the selection item matches the format of the particular selection set and if the format of the selection item does not conform to the format of the particular selection set, And a message validity determination step of determining the validity of the message.

As described above, according to the present invention, in a MO service providing apparatus, a selection item set having a different format for each use registration time zone registered by a plurality of MO service users is specified for any one MO number, If the format of the selected item included in the MO message does not match the format of the selected item set in the specific use registration time zone corresponding to the MO message reception time, the received MO message is determined to be invalid Since the MO service users who have registered different use registration time zones can receive only the MO message corresponding to the use registration time slot registered in their use registration time slot, Preventing MO service users from crossing There is an effect that it is possible.

1 is a block diagram schematically showing a configuration of an MO service providing system according to an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 2 and FIG. 3 are block diagrams schematically showing a configuration of an MO service providing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention,
4 is a diagram exemplarily showing an MO number use registration information database stored in an MO service providing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention,
FIG. 5 is an exemplary view illustrating a screen in which a guide message for transmission of an invalid MO message is displayed on a mobile communication terminal;
6 is a flowchart illustrating a process of providing an MO service in an MO service providing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Hereinafter, some embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to exemplary drawings. In describing the components of the present invention, the terms first, second, A, B, (a), (b), and the like can be used. These terms are intended to distinguish the constituent elements from other constituent elements, and the terms do not limit the nature, order or order of the constituent elements. When a component is described as being "connected", "coupled", or "connected" to another component, the component may be directly connected to or connected to the other component, It should be understood that an element may be "connected," "coupled," or "connected."

1 is a block diagram schematically illustrating a configuration of an MO (Message Oriented) service providing system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

An MO service providing system 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a user terminal 110, an Internet communication network 120, a plurality of mobile communication terminals 130, a mobile communication network 140, and an MO service providing apparatus 150 .

The user terminal 110 is a terminal of an MO service user who uses an MO service, requests the MO service providing apparatus 150 to be described later to provide an MO service, allocates an MO number for use of the MO service, Available time zones are provided. Here, the user terminal 110 may be a desktop computer of a MO service user, a notebook computer, a tablet PC, or the like.

The user terminal 110 designates the number of selection items of the multiple choice multiple choice questions submitted by the MO service user and a predetermined use registration time zone in which the MO service user wants to use the MO service for a predetermined time within the available time range of the MO number And the MO service providing apparatus 150 is given a selection item set corresponding one-to-one in a predetermined use registration time zone, thereby completing the use registration of the MO number. Here, the selection item set assigned to the user terminal 110 includes a plurality of selection items corresponding to the number of selection items designated by the user terminal 110.

The user terminal 110 then transmits one or more MO messages and one or more MO messages from the MO service providing apparatus 150 during a predetermined use registration time period registered in the MO service providing apparatus 150, The participant terminal 130 may receive the telephone number of one or more participant terminals 130. Here, the at least one MO message includes a selection item having a format that matches the selection item set format to which the MO service providing apparatus 150 corresponds one-to-one at a predetermined use registration time slot. In addition, the MO service participant can confirm the multiple choice multiple choice questions made by the MO service user in a sense of visual and auditory sense.

The user terminal 110 receiving one or more MO messages from the MO service providing apparatus 150 may display on the screen a selection item included in one or more MO messages, One or more of which may be drawn.

An example of this is as follows.

First, when the MO service user who wants to use the MO service in the first service has the MO number "# 1234" assigned from the MO service providing device 150 via the user terminal 110 and the use registration time zone registered by the user terminal 110 And the number of selection items is 10:00 to 11:00 on Oct. 25, 2014 and five, and the selection item set format in which the MO service providing apparatus 150 has one-to-one correspondence with the use registration time slot is "number + number" I suppose.

On the other hand, the MO service user is allowed to select the multiple choice questions and choices (for example, No. 1: Money, No. 2: Stethoscope: No. 3: Room No. 4: Microphone ) And MO number to the guests who attended the birthday party.

Thereafter, the user terminal 110 transmits one or more MO messages transmitted from at least one participant terminal 130, which is a mobile communication terminal of the MO service participants, and the phone numbers of one or more participant terminals 130, (Optional items 1 to 4) included in one or more MO messages and outputs the selected items to the external video output device 150. [ As shown in FIG.

In addition, the user terminal 110 may draw one or more telephone numbers out of the telephone numbers of one or more participant terminals 130 after the cargo is finished.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the MO number may include MO number identification information to distinguish it from a general telephone number, and the MO number identification information may be variously implemented according to the MO number allocation policy of the mobile communication service provider or the MO service provider have.

For example, it can be implemented as '# 1234' including a special character '#' at the beginning of a telephone number.

Hereinafter, the MO number identification information is limited to '#' for convenience of explanation.

The Internet communication network 120 is a means for mediating communication between the user terminal 110 and the MO service providing apparatus 150, and includes a wired Internet network and a wireless Internet network.

The at least one participant terminal 130 transmits an MO message to the MO service providing apparatus 150 via the mobile communication network 140 with the MO number assigned by the MO service user as a destination.

The mobile communication network 140 is a means for mediating communication between the at least one participant terminal 130 and the MO service providing apparatus 150. The communication network 140 may be a WCDMA (Wideband Code Division Multiple Access), HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access) Term Evolution), and LTE-A (LTE Advanced).

The MO service providing apparatus 150 is a server for providing an MO service. The MO service providing apparatus 150 allocates any one of MO numbers stored in the MO terminal 150 to the user terminal 110 at the request of the user terminal 110, Receives at least one MO message to which the MO number assigned to the terminal 110 is a destination through the mobile communication network 140 and transmits the MO message to the user terminal 110.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the MO service providing apparatus 150 has a one-to-one correspondence with at least one use registration time slot and at least one use registration time slot for MO number, MO number for MO service use, Use the MO number containing one or more selection sets. Save the properties database.

When the MO service providing apparatus 150 receives an MO message transmitted from one or more participant terminals 130, that is, an MO message to which the MO number is destined, If the format of the selection item included in the MO message matches the format of the specific selection item set corresponding to the specific use registration time zone, it is determined that the MO message is valid, and if the format of the selection item is specified If it does not match the format of the selection set, it determines that the MO message is invalid.

In other words, as shown in FIG. 6, the MO service providing apparatus 150 stores a use registration time zone in which a plurality of MO service users use and register in different time zones for one MO number, The types of the selection items for the question are different according to the use registration time zone, thereby preventing the MO service user who registered one use registration time zone from being transferred with the MO message corresponding to another use registration time zone.

For example, a selection item having a format corresponding to "number + number ", which is a format of a selection item set corresponding to 10:00 to 11:00 on October 25, 2014, in the use registration time zone of the MO number" # 1234 & 1 "is received at 10:30 on October 25, 2014, the MO service providing apparatus 150 transmits the MO message including the number 1 corresponding to the reception time of the MO message at 10:30 It is understood that the specific use registration time zone is from 10:00 to 11:00 on October 25, 2014.

Thereafter, the MO service providing apparatus 150 compares the format (number + number) of the specific selection item set corresponding to the specific use registration time zone and the format (number + number) of the selection items included in the MO message.

The MO service providing apparatus 150 confirms that the format of the specific selection set matches the format of the selection item included in the MO message and determines that the MO message including the selection item "1 " is valid.

The MO service providing apparatus 150 judging that the MO message including the selected item "1 " is valid can notify the MO service user who has registered the use of the MO number" # 1234 " on October 25, 2014 from 10:00 to 11:00 MO message including option "1" can be transmitted.

In addition, when deriving the result of the multiple choice multiple choice corresponding to 10:00 to 11:00 on October 25, 2014, the MO service providing apparatus 150 transmits an MO message determined to be valid, that is, The MO message including "1" may be included to derive the result, and the derived result may be transmitted to the MO service user. This will be described in more detail in the description of the configuration of the MO service providing apparatus 150.

On the other hand, when the MO message including the selection item "1 " is received at 12:30 on October 25, 2014 instead of 10:00 to 11:00 on October 25, 2014, the MO service providing apparatus 150 transmits the MO In the number usage registration database, it is determined that the specific use registration time zone corresponding to 12:30, which is the reception time of the MO message, is from 12:00 to 13:00 on October 25, 2014.

Thereafter, the MO service providing apparatus 150 transmits the format of the specific selection item corresponding to 12:00 to 13:00 on October 25, 2014 (uppercase alphabets) and the format of the selection item included in the MO message ).

The MO service providing apparatus 150 confirms that the format of the specific selection item set does not match the format of the selection item included in the MO message and determines that the MO message including the selection item "1 " is invalid.

The MO service providing apparatus 150 judging that the MO message including the selection item "1 " is invalid invalidates the use of the MO number to the MO service user who registers the usage of the MO number from 12:00 to 13:00 on October 25, Quot; MO " 5, the MO service providing apparatus 150 may transmit an MO message error transmission message to the participant terminal that has transmitted the MO message determined to be invalid among one or more participant terminals 130, as shown in FIG.

In addition, when deriving the result of the multiple choice multiple choice query corresponding to the specific use registration time slot, the MO service providing apparatus 150 can exclude the MO message determined to be invalid, that is, the MO message including the selection item "1 & have.

Hereinafter, the configuration of the MO service providing apparatus 150 according to the embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail.

2 is a block diagram schematically showing the configuration of an MO service providing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The MO service providing apparatus 150 according to the embodiment of the present invention includes an MO number managing unit 210, a data storing unit 220, a MO message receiving unit 230, a message validity determining unit 240, and an MO message transmitting unit 250 ). Here, the MO service providing apparatus 150 may further include an MO message processing unit 310 as occasion demands.

When the user terminal 110, which is the terminal of the MO service user wishing to use the MO number at a predetermined time, requests the use registration of the MO number, the MO number management unit 210 transmits the use time zone of the MO number to the user terminal 110, .

Then, when the user terminal 110 designates a predetermined use registration time zone within the usable time zone and the number of selection items of the multiple choice multiple choice question submitted by the MO service user, a predetermined use registration time zone is stored in the MO number use registration information database And a selection item set having any one of the various types of selection item sets and stores them in the MO number use registration information database in association with a predetermined use registration time slot. Here, the MO number management unit 210 generates a selection item set including a selection item corresponding to the number of selection items designated by the user terminal 110. [ For example, when any one of the formats is an upper case alphabet and the number of selected items specified by the user terminal 110 is 5, the MO number management unit 210 stores the selection items including "A, B, C, D, E" Create a set.

The data storage unit 220 stores a program for performing a function of the MO service providing apparatus 220 and stores data necessary for operation of the MO service providing apparatus 220.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the data storage unit 220 may correspond to one or more use registration time slots and one or more use registration time slots for the MO number, the MO number, and one or more use registration time slots for use of the MO service, Use MO number containing one or more set of choices with the format Save the properties database. Here, the MO number use registration information database may store connection information of user terminals that have registered at least one use registration time zone in a one-to-one correspondence with one or more use registration time zones.

The data storage unit 220 may be configured as a hard disk in the MO service providing apparatus 150 or may be a storage server separate from the MO service providing apparatus 150.

The MO message receiving unit 230 receives the MO message having the MO number as a destination. The MO message receiving unit 230 may include a network interface card or the like.

When the MO message reception unit 230 receives the MO message, the message validity determination unit 240 determines a specific use registration time zone corresponding to the reception time of the MO message in the MO number use registration information database, If the format of the item matches the format of the specific selection item set corresponding to the specific use registration time zone, it is determined that the MO message received by the MO message receiving unit 230 is valid, and if the format of the selected item included in the MO message is a specific selection If it does not match the format of the item set, it determines that the MO message is invalid.

For example, a selection item having a format corresponding to "number + number ", which is a format of a selection item set corresponding to 10:00 to 11:00 on October 25, 2014, in the use registration time zone of the MO number" # 1234 & The message validity determining unit 240 determines that the MO message including the " 1 "is received at 10:30 on October 25, 2014, It is understood that the specific use registration time zone corresponding to 30 is 10:00 to 11:00 on October 25, 2014.

Thereafter, the message validity determining unit 240 compares the format (number + number) of the specific selection item set corresponding to the specific use registration time zone with the format (number + number) of the selection items included in the MO message.

As a result of comparing the format of the specific selection item set and the format of the selection item included in the MO message, if the format of the specific selection item set matches the format of the selection item included in the MO message, It judges that the MO message including the item "1" is valid.

On the other hand, when the MO message including the selection item "1 " is received at 12:30 on October 25, 2014 instead of 10:00 to 11:00 on October 25, 2014, Use MO numbers such as 4 Identify that the specific use registration time zone, which corresponds to the reception time of the MO message at 12:30 in the registration information database, is October 12, 2014 from 12:00 to 13:00.

Then, the message validity determination unit 240 determines whether the format of the selected item set (upper case letter) corresponding to 12:00 to 13:00 on Oct. 25, 2014 and the type of the selected item (number + ).

As a result of comparing the format of the specific selection set with the format of the selection item included in the MO message, if the format of the specific selection set does not match the format of the selection item included in the MO message, the message validity determination unit 240 The MO message including the selection item "1 " is determined to be invalid. Here, the message validity determination unit 240 may transmit a guidance message for sending an MO message to the participant terminal that transmitted the MO message determined to be invalid among one or more participant terminals 130, as shown in FIG.

The MO message transmission unit 250 transmits the MO message determined to be valid by the message validity determination unit 240 to the user terminal 110 that registered the specific use registration time slot, To the user terminal (110). The MO message transmission unit 250 may be configured by a network interface card, which is separate from the MO message receiving unit 230.

When the MO message providing apparatus 150 according to the embodiment of the present invention derives the result of the multiple choice multiple choice query corresponding to the specific use registration time slot, the MO message providing apparatus 150 transmits, A plurality of MO messages determined to be valid by the MO analyzing unit 240 are checked for each of a plurality of MO messages to determine which of the selected items corresponds to a plurality of MO items, And an MO message processing unit 310 for deriving a result.

The MO message management unit 210, the message validity determination unit 240, and the MO message processing unit 310 may be implemented in software and may be implemented substantially in the MO message providing apparatus 150 The message validity determining unit 240 and the MO message processing unit 310 can be performed by a central processing unit (CPU)

As described above, for each MO number of the MO service providing apparatus 150, a selection item set having different formats is specified for each use registration time zone registered by a plurality of MO service users, and any one MO number is set as a destination When receiving the MO message, if the format of the selected item included in the MO message does not match the format of the selected item set in the specific use registration time zone corresponding to the MO message reception time, the received MO message is determined to be invalid, The MO service users who have registered different use registration time slots can receive only the MO message corresponding to the use registration time slot registered by them, and thus the MO service user Can be prevented.

Hereinafter, a process of providing the MO service in the MO service providing apparatus 150 according to the embodiment of the present invention will be described.

6 is a flowchart illustrating a process of providing an MO service in an MO service providing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

First, the MO service providing apparatus 150 receives an MO message with the MO number as a destination through the mobile communication network 140 (S610).

Upon receiving the MO message, the MO service providing apparatus 150 identifies a specific use registration time period corresponding to the reception time of the MO message in the previously stored MO number use registration information database, and acquires the specific selection item corresponding to the specific use registration time slot The format of the set is compared with the format of the selection item included in the MO message (S620, S630).

As a result of comparing the format of the specific selection set and the format of the selection items included in the MO message, if the format of the specific selection set matches the format of the selection item included in the MO message, It is determined that the MO message received in step S610 is valid (S640, S650).

On the other hand, if the format of the specific selection item does not match the format of the selection item included in the MO message, the MO service providing apparatus 150 determines that the MO message received in step S610 is invalid (S660). 5, the MO service providing apparatus 150 may transmit an MO message error transmission message to the participant terminal that has transmitted the MO message determined to be invalid among one or more participant terminals 130, as shown in FIG.

After step S650, the MO message providing apparatus 150 may transmit the MO message determined to be valid in step S650 to the user terminal 110 that has registered the specific use registration time zone.

In addition, the MO message providing apparatus 150 repeatedly performs the above-mentioned process during the specific use registration time period, and then, when the selection items contained in the plurality of MO messages determined to be valid correspond to any one of the specific selection item sets And a selection result of a multiple choice multiple choice corresponding to a specific set of selection items, and may transmit the selected selection result to the user terminal 110.

While the present invention has been described in connection with what is presently considered to be the most practical and preferred embodiments, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the disclosed embodiments. That is, within the scope of the present invention, all of the components may be selectively coupled to one or more of them. The foregoing description is merely illustrative of the technical idea of the present invention, and various changes and modifications may be made by those skilled in the art without departing from the essential characteristics of the present invention. The scope of protection of the present invention should be construed according to the following claims, and all technical ideas within the scope of equivalents should be construed as falling within the scope of the present invention.

Claims (7)

One or more selection items corresponding to the MO number for use of the MO (Message Oriented) service, one or more use registration time slots for the MO number, and one or more use registration time slots, A data storage for storing the MO number use registration information database;
An MO message receiving unit for receiving an MO (Message Oriented) message having the MO number as a destination; And
The method comprising the steps of: determining a specific use registration time zone corresponding to a reception time of the MO message in the MO number use registration information database; determining whether the format of the selection item included in the MO message is a format of a specific selection item set And determines that the MO message is valid and determines that the MO message is invalid if the format of the selected item does not match the format of the specific set of items.
The MO service providing apparatus comprising: The method according to claim 1,
When the message validity determining unit determines that the MO message is valid, the MO message transmitting unit transmits the MO message to the terminal of the MO service user who has registered the use of the MO number at the specific use registration time slot,
Further comprising the step of: The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the message validity determination unit determines, for each of the plurality of MO messages, which one of the plurality of MO messages corresponds to which one of the plurality of MOs, An MO message processing unit for deriving a selection result of the corresponding multi-
Wherein the MO service providing apparatus further comprises: The method according to claim 1,
When the user terminal that is the terminal of the MO service user who wants to use the MO number at a predetermined time zone requests the use time of the MO number to the user terminal, And when a predetermined use registration time zone is specified within the usable time zone, a selection item set having any one of the predetermined use registration time zone and various types of selection item sets is associated with any one of the use registration time zones, The MO number management unit
Wherein the MO service providing apparatus further comprises: A method for providing an MO service in an MO service providing apparatus,
Receiving a MO (Message Oriented) message having an MO number as a destination;
The MO number use registration information database including at least one selection item set having one format corresponding to the MO number, at least one use registration time slot for the MO number, and one or more use registration time slots, An MO number use time zone grasp step of grasping a specific use registration time zone corresponding to the reception time of the MO message;
Comparing a format of the selection item included in the MO message with a format of a specific selection item set corresponding to the specific user use time zone; And
Determining that the MO message is valid if the format of the selection item matches the format of the particular selection set and the MO message is invalid if the format of the selection item does not conform to the format of the particular selection set The message validity determination step to be determined
/ RTI > 6. The method of claim 5,
If it is determined that the MO message is valid in the message validity determination step, an MO message transmission step of transmitting the MO message to a terminal of the MO service user registered with the use of the MO number in the specific use registration time slot
Further comprising the steps of: 6. The method of claim 5,
The method comprising: performing the message receiving step and / or the message validity judging step a plurality of times; and determining which of the plurality of MO messages determined to be valid in the validity determining step corresponds to which of the specific set of the selected items, Extracting a result of selecting a multiple-choice multiple-choice question corresponding to the specific set of items by checking each of a plurality of MO messages,
Further comprising the steps of:

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