CN102625262A - Incoming call reminder method, device and system - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention provides an incoming-call reminding method, an incoming-call reminding device and an incoming-call reminding system. The incoming-call reminding method includes receiving incoming-call reminding request messages which include calling terminal identifications and called terminal identifications from the calling mobile switching center; determining e-mail addresses corresponding to the called terminal identifications; sending incoming-call reminding messages including the calling terminal identifications and the e-mail addresses to e-mail systems so that the e-mail systems can send the incoming-call reminding messages according to the e-mail addresses. With the incoming-call reminding method, device and system, users can be informed of missed calls in time rather than be informed of the missed calls when the mobile phones are powered on or the network signals are reachable, and accordingly, requirements for the users to get reminding messages of the missed calls in time can be met.

Description

Incoming call reminder method, device and system

technical field

The present invention relates to communication technology, in particular to a call reminder method, device and system.

Background technique

With the continuous development of communication technology, its derivative application services are also enriched, and the incoming call reminder service is one of them.

The existing incoming call reminder service mainly uses short messages to notify the called terminal that there was a missed call. Specifically, the processing process of the incoming call reminder service is as follows: the calling terminal calls the called terminal through the network side equipment, and if the network side equipment finds that the called terminal is in the shutdown state or the network signal is unreachable, the network side equipment It can send a short message to the called terminal through its short message center, and the short message can include the relevant information of the calling terminal and the call time, etc., so that the called terminal can know that there was a missed call.

However, the user can read the short message of the missed call reminder only when the called terminal is in the power-on state and the network signal is available. Therefore, the existing call reminder service cannot meet the needs of the user to know the missed call reminder in time. .

Contents of the invention

The invention provides an incoming call reminding method, device and system, so as to meet the user's requirement of timely notifying the missed call reminding.

The present invention provides an incoming call reminder method, comprising:

receiving an incoming call reminder request message sent by the calling mobile switching center, wherein the incoming call reminder request message includes a calling terminal identifier and a called terminal identifier;

Determining the email address corresponding to the called terminal identifier;

Sending an incoming call reminder message to an email system, the incoming call reminder message including the calling terminal identifier and the email address, so that the email system sends the incoming call reminder message according to the email address.

The present invention provides an incoming call reminder device, comprising:

A receiving module, configured to receive an incoming call reminder request message sent by the calling mobile switching center, where the incoming call reminder request message includes the calling terminal identifier and the called terminal identifier;

A determining module, configured to determine the email address corresponding to the called terminal identifier;

A sending module, configured to send an incoming call reminder message to an email system, where the incoming call reminder message includes the calling terminal identifier and the email address, so that the email system sends the email address according to the email address. Call reminder message.

The present invention provides an incoming call reminder processing system, comprising: the above-mentioned incoming call reminder device and an email system.

In the present invention, when the called terminal is turned off or the network signal is unreachable, the call reminder device can send a call reminder message to the e-mail box of the user of the called terminal through the e-mail system, so that the user can know in time If there is a missed call, it is not necessary to wait until the phone is turned on or when the network signal is available to know that there was a missed call, which meets the user's demand for timely notification of missed calls.

Description of drawings

FIG. 1 is a flow chart of Embodiment 1 of the call reminder method of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a signaling flow chart of Embodiment 2 of the call reminder method of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a structural schematic diagram of Embodiment 1 of the call reminder device of the present invention;

FIG. 4 is a schematic structural diagram of Embodiment 2 of the call reminder device of the present invention;

FIG. 5 is a schematic structural diagram of Embodiment 1 of the incoming call reminder processing system of the present invention;

FIG. 6 is a schematic structural diagram of Embodiment 2 of the incoming call reminder processing system of the present invention.

Detailed ways

Fig. 1 is the flowchart of Embodiment 1 of the call reminder method of the present invention, as shown in Fig. 1, the method of this embodiment may include:

Step 101: Receive an incoming call reminder request message sent by a calling mobile switching center, where the incoming call reminder request message includes a calling terminal identifier and a called terminal identifier.

The incoming call reminding device can receive an incoming call reminding request message sent by a calling mobile switching center (Mobile Switching Center, hereinafter referred to as: MSC).

Specifically, when the calling terminal initiates a call, the calling terminal may send a call request to the calling MSC that provides services for the calling terminal, and the call request may include the calling terminal identifier and the called terminal identifier, and the MSC The home location of the called terminal can be determined according to the called terminal identifier, that is, the home location register (Home Location Register, hereinafter referred to as: HLR) corresponding to the called terminal can be determined. Then, the calling MSC can send a location request command to the HLR requesting to acquire the location information of the called terminal. For the HLR, the current location information of the home terminal is stored therein. If the terminal is not turned on or the network signal is unreachable, the HLR does not have the current location information of the terminal. Therefore, when the HLR learns that the current location information of the called terminal cannot be found, the HLR can feed back the identification information of the incoming call reminder device to the MSC. The identification information can be the address information of the incoming call reminder device, etc. It should be noted that the HLR The premise of feeding back the identification information of the incoming call reminding device is that the user of the called terminal has subscribed to the incoming call reminding service.

Therefore, after the MSC receives the identification information of the incoming call reminder device, it can send an incoming call reminder request message to the incoming call reminder device according to the identification information, and the incoming call reminder request message can include the calling terminal identifier and the called terminal identifier, The terminal identifier in this embodiment may be a mobile subscriber international ISDN number (Mobile Subscriber International ISDN/PSTN number, hereinafter referred to as: MSISDN) or any other identification information that can uniquely identify the terminal.

Step 102. Determine the email address corresponding to the called terminal identifier.

The incoming call reminding device may pre-store the corresponding relationship between the terminal identification of the user who has opened the incoming call reminding service and the email address, wherein the email address can be set by the user according to the requirement. After the incoming call reminding device receives the incoming call reminding request message, it can determine the email address corresponding to the called terminal identifier carried therein.

Step 103: Send an incoming call reminder message to the email system, the incoming call reminder message includes the calling terminal identifier and the email address, so that the email system sends the incoming call reminder according to the email address information.

In this embodiment, the incoming call reminder device may have an interface for communicating with the email system, so as to send an incoming call reminder message to the email system. The incoming call reminder message includes the calling terminal identifier and the called user's email address. Optionally, the incoming call reminder message may also include other information that needs to be notified to the called user, such as information such as call time and number of calls. Once the email system receives the incoming call reminder message, it can extract the email address from the incoming call reminder message, and send the incoming call reminder message to the email address corresponding to the email address, so that the user can log in to the mailbox. missed calls, and the identity of the calling party can also be obtained according to the calling terminal ID in the incoming call reminder message.

In this embodiment, when the called terminal is turned off or in a state where the network signal is unreachable, the incoming call reminder device can send an incoming call reminder message to the e-mail box of the user of the called terminal through the e-mail system, so that the user can timely Knowing that there have been missed calls without having to wait until the phone is turned on or when the network signal is available can be known that there have been missed calls, which meets the user's demand for timely notification of missed calls.

When the user subscribes to the call reminder service, the user can set the email address he wants to use by himself. As for the service provider, it can associate the user's terminal identifier with the email address set as the user data of the incoming call reminder service, and store the user data in the user data center. The user data center can regularly or irregularly update the user data in the incoming call reminding device. In a specific implementation, the incoming call reminder device can receive and store user data sent by the user data center, and the user data can include the terminal identification of the user who subscribes to the incoming call reminder service and the email address corresponding to the terminal identification; correspondingly, the incoming call reminder The device can determine the email address corresponding to the called terminal identifier according to the user data stored therein.

FIG. 2 is a signaling flow chart of Embodiment 2 of the call reminder method of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 2, the method of this embodiment may include:

Step 201, the calling terminal sends a call request to the calling MSC.

The call request includes the identification of the calling terminal and the identification of the called terminal.

Step 202, the calling MSC sends a location request command to the called HLR.

Step 203, the HLR sends the identification of the incoming call reminder device to the calling MSC.

After the HLR determines that the called terminal cannot be connected and the user of the called terminal subscribes to the call reminder service, it can return the identifier of the call reminder device, such as the address information of the call reminder device, to the calling MSC.

Step 204, the calling MSC sends an incoming call reminding request message to the incoming call reminding device.

The incoming call alert request message includes the identification of the calling terminal and the identification of the called terminal.

Step 205, the incoming call reminding device returns a response message to the calling MSC.

In step 206, the incoming call reminding device sends a successful sending message of the incoming call reminding request message to the calling MSC.

After the calling MSC receives the sending success message, it can play the prompt tone of the incoming call reminder message sending successfully to the calling terminal, and the call will not be charged;

Step 207, after the calling terminal hangs up, the calling MSC may send a voice channel removal indication message to the incoming call reminding device.

Step 208, the incoming call reminder device releases the voice channel resources, and removes the voice channel with the calling MSC.

In step 209, the incoming call alerting device returns a voice channel release response message to the calling MSC.

Step 210, the incoming call reminding device sends an incoming call reminding message to the electronic mailbox system.

The incoming call reminder message includes the identification of the calling terminal and the email address corresponding to the identification of the called terminal. The specific implementation process of this step has been described in detail in Embodiment 1 shown in FIG. 1 , and will not be repeated here.

Step 211, the email system sends a response message to the incoming call reminder device.

Step 212, the email system forwards the incoming call reminder message to the email box of the user of the called terminal.

In this embodiment, the calling MSC can request the current location of the called terminal from the HLR to which the called terminal belongs. When subscribing to the incoming call reminder service, the HLR can feed back the identification of the incoming call reminding device to the calling MSC, so that the calling MSC can send an incoming call reminding request message to the incoming call reminding device, and the incoming call reminding device can confirm the ID corresponding to the called terminal identifier. e-mail address, and send an incoming call reminder message to the e-mail box of the user of the called terminal through the e-mail system, so that the user can be notified of the missed call in time, without having to wait until the phone is turned on or when the network signal is available. There have been missed calls, which meets the needs of users to be notified of missed call reminders in a timely manner.

FIG. 3 is a schematic structural diagram of Embodiment 1 of the call reminder device of the present invention. As shown in FIG. The incoming call reminder request message sent by the calling mobile switching center, the incoming call reminder request message includes the calling terminal identifier and the called terminal identifier; the determination module 12 is used to determine the email address corresponding to the called terminal identifier; The sending module 13 is configured to send an incoming call reminder message to an email system, where the incoming call reminder message includes the calling terminal identifier and the email address, so that the email system sends the email address according to the email address. Incoming call reminder message.

The device in this embodiment can be used to execute the method in the method embodiment shown in FIG. 1 , and its implementation principle and technical effect are similar, and will not be repeated here.

Figure 4 is a schematic structural diagram of Embodiment 2 of the call reminder device of the present invention. As shown in Figure 4, the device of this embodiment further includes: a storage module 14 for receiving and storing user data on the basis of the structure shown in Figure 3 The user data sent by the center, the user data includes the terminal identification of the user who subscribes to the call reminder service and the email address corresponding to the terminal identification; correspondingly, the determination module 12 is specifically used to determine the corresponding The e-mail address corresponding to the called terminal identifier. Further, the sending module 13 is also used to send a successful sending message of the incoming call reminder request message to the calling mobile switching center; the receiving module 11 is also used to receive the call removal indication message sent by the calling mobile switching center , and disconnect the call path with the calling mobile switching center.

The device of this embodiment can be used to execute the method of the method embodiment shown in FIG. 2 , and its implementation principle and technical effect are similar, and details are not repeated here.

FIG. 5 is a schematic structural diagram of Embodiment 1 of the call reminder processing system of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 5 , the system of this embodiment may include: a call reminder device 1 and an email system 2 .

Fig. 6 is a schematic structural diagram of Embodiment 2 of the incoming call reminder processing system of the present invention. As shown in Fig. 6, the system of this embodiment further includes: a mobile switching center 3 for receiving main For the call request sent by the calling terminal, when it is determined that the called terminal corresponding to the called terminal identifier included in the call request cannot be connected, send the call reminder request message to the call reminder device.

In the above two system embodiments, the incoming call reminder device 1 can be realized by adopting the structure shown in FIG. 3 or FIG. 4 above, and the above two systems can implement the technical solution of the method embodiment shown in FIG. 1 or FIG. It is similar to the technical effect and will not be repeated here.

Those of ordinary skill in the art can understand that all or part of the steps for realizing the above-mentioned method embodiments can be completed by hardware related to program instructions, and the aforementioned program can be stored in a computer-readable storage medium. When the program is executed, the It includes the steps of the above method embodiments; and the aforementioned storage medium includes: ROM, RAM, magnetic disk or optical disk and other various media that can store program codes.

Finally, it should be noted that: the above embodiments are only used to illustrate the technical solutions of the present invention, rather than to limit them; although the present invention has been described in detail with reference to the foregoing embodiments, those of ordinary skill in the art should understand that: it can still be Modifications are made to the technical solutions described in the foregoing embodiments, or equivalent replacements are made to some of the technical features; and these modifications or replacements do not make the essence of the corresponding technical solutions depart from the scope of the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present invention.

Claims (8)

1. A call reminder method, characterized in that, comprising: receiving an incoming call reminder request message sent by the calling mobile switching center, wherein the incoming call reminder request message includes a calling terminal identifier and a called terminal identifier; Determining the email address corresponding to the called terminal identifier; Sending an incoming call reminder message to an email system, the incoming call reminder message including the calling terminal identifier and the email address, so that the email system sends the incoming call reminder message according to the email address. 2. The method according to claim 1, further comprising: Receive and store the user data sent by the user data center, the user data includes the terminal identification of the user who subscribes to the call reminder service and the email address corresponding to the terminal identification; The determining the e-mail address corresponding to the called terminal identifier includes: According to the user data, an email address corresponding to the called terminal identifier is determined. 3. The method according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that, after receiving the call reminder request message sent by the calling mobile switching center, further comprising: Sending a successful sending message of the incoming call reminder request message to the calling mobile switching center; receiving the call disconnection indication message sent by the calling MSC, and disconnecting the voice channel with the calling MSC. 4. An incoming call reminder device, characterized in that it comprises: A receiving module, configured to receive an incoming call reminder request message sent by the calling mobile switching center, where the incoming call reminder request message includes the calling terminal identifier and the called terminal identifier; A determining module, configured to determine the email address corresponding to the called terminal identifier; A sending module, configured to send an incoming call reminder message to an email system, where the incoming call reminder message includes the calling terminal identifier and the email address, so that the email system sends the email address according to the email address. Call reminder message. 5. The device according to claim 4, further comprising: The storage module is used to receive and store the user data sent by the user data center, the user data includes the terminal identification of the user who subscribes to the call reminder service and the email address corresponding to the terminal identification; The determining module is specifically configured to determine the email address corresponding to the called terminal identifier according to the user data. 6. The device according to claim 4 or 5, wherein the sending module is further configured to send a successful sending message of the incoming call reminder request message to the calling mobile switching center; The receiving module is further configured to receive a call removal instruction message sent by the calling mobile switching center, and remove the call with the calling mobile switching center. 7. An incoming call reminder processing system, characterized by comprising: the incoming call reminder device according to any one of claims 4-6 and an email system. 8. The system according to claim 7, further comprising: The mobile switching center is configured to receive the call request sent by the calling terminal, and send the call reminder request to the call reminder device when it is determined that the called terminal corresponding to the called terminal identifier contained in the call request cannot be connected information.

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