CN1241431C - Method for providing individualized ring back tone in mobile communication system - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method for providing individualized ring back tones in mobile communication systems. The present invention comprises steps that a home position register of a user stores a mark into a mobile switching center of the user, wherein the mark determines whether the user is a user of an individualized ring back tone service; a mobile switching center of a calling party receives a call request sent from a calling user, and the call request is forwarded to a mobile switching center of a called party, which pages a called user; when the called user is successfully paged, the mobile switching center of a called party stops the play of a standard ring back tone according to the mark for the user of an individualized ring back tone service and initiates a call towards an intelligent peripheral; after the intelligent peripheral receives the call, a corresponding individualized ring back tone is selected and played for the calling user; after the called user is off hook to respond, the mobile switching center of a called party cuts off a connection with the intelligent peripheral and stops the play of the individualized ring back tone; a speech path between the calling user and the called user is established. The present invention realizes the replacement of ordinary ring back tones so that users can independently customize ring back tones of voice or music according to requirements.

Description

Method for providing personalized ring back tone in mobile communication system

technical field

The invention relates to the field of mobile communication, in particular to a method for providing multiple ring-back tones to a calling user during a telephone call.

Background technique

At present, the number of mobile communication users is increasing rapidly, and operators provide more and more business services for mobile users. However, when the calling user makes a call, the ringback tone heard while waiting for the called party to answer remains unchanged. . In the call service, when the calling user calls the called user, if the called user is in an idle state, a ring-back tone is played to the calling user. The ring-back tone is generally an interval of "beep...beep"; When the called user is busy or cannot be paged or is turned off, the ringback tone heard by the calling user is the corresponding recording notification.

In order to meet the personalized requirements of mobile users, providing rich and colorful ring back tones has become a new service provided by operators, which means that the monotonous ring back tones in the past can be changed into rich and colorful voice and music ring back that can be customized by users. The tone will be sent to the calling user during the communication waiting time. However, the existing ring-back tone technology cannot meet this demand.

Contents of the invention

The technical problem to be solved by the present invention is to provide a method for providing a personalized ring back tone in a mobile communication system, so that the user can customize the ring back tone and play the ring back tone to the calling user.

The method for providing personalized ring back tone in the mobile communication system of the present invention, the mobile communication system comprises the mobile switching center of the calling party, the home location register of the called party, the mobile switching center of the called party, and the base station of the called party A system and an intelligent peripheral, wherein the intelligent peripheral is directly connected to the called party's mobile switching center; the method includes:

When the user turns on or the location is updated, the user's home location register stores the sign of whether the user is a personalized ring back tone service user into the mobile switching center where the user is located;

After receiving the call request from the calling user, the calling party's mobile switching center forwards it to the called party's mobile switching center; the called party's mobile switching center pages the called party through the called party's base station subsystem; if the called party If the user is busy or cannot be paged, the mobile switching center of the called party will play the corresponding recorded notification to the calling user;

If the called user paging and rings successfully, then the called party's mobile switching center returns the address full message to the calling party's mobile switching center, and determines whether to play the standard ring back tone according to the sign of the personalized ring back tone service user;

If the called user is not a personalized ring back tone service user, the called party mobile switching center plays a standard ring back tone to the calling user; if the called user is a personalized ring back tone service user, the called party mobile switching center Stop playing the standard ringback tone, and initiate a call and initial address message to the connected smart peripheral;

After the intelligent peripheral device receives the call, it returns the full address message and response message to the mobile switching center of the called party, and selects the corresponding personalized ringback tone to play to the calling user according to the calling and called user numbers in the initial address message;

After the called user answers, the mobile switching center of the called party sends a release message to the intelligent peripheral, and the intelligent peripheral stops playing the personalized ring back tone; the mobile switching center of the called party establishes a voice path between the calling user and the called user.

The present invention realizes the replacement of the common ring back tone in the mobile communication system, changes the original single ring back tone, enables the user to customize the voice or music ring back tone according to the needs, and makes the calling user wait for the communication You can hear a variety of personalized ring back tones, such as pleasant music or greetings, providing users with a new communication value-added service.

Description of drawings

Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of a mobile communication system applying the method of the present invention;

Fig. 2 is a schematic flow chart of the method of the present invention.

Detailed ways

The technical solutions of the present invention will be described in further detail below in conjunction with the accompanying drawings and embodiments.

In the mobile communication system shown in Figure 1, including the mobile switching center MSC of the calling party, the home location register HLR of the called party, the mobile switching center MSC of the called party, the base station subsystem BSS of the called party and the intelligent peripheral IP, wherein The IP of the intelligent peripheral is directly connected with the mobile switching center MSC of the called party. The calling party MSC is the exchange where the calling user initiates the call, and performs normal calling functions. The called party HLR records the subscription information of whether the called user is a personalized ring back tone service user, and adopts a sign identification to the personalized ring back tone service user; when inserting user data, the called party HLR stores the above information in In the MSC of the called party. The MSC of the called party is the switch where the called user is located, and stores the subscription information of the called user. The intelligent peripheral IP is used as a device for providing personalized ring-back tones and a device for managing ring-tone resources. According to the corresponding information provided by the called party MSC, the user-customized ring-back tones are searched and played.

If the user needs to use the personalized ring back tone service, he first needs to apply for opening this service, and the user can apply for opening through 1860, voice interaction, business hall, WAP, short message, etc. Then the user can set the music of the ring back tone through the website, WAP, short message, dialing the access code, etc., and the user information and the corresponding ring tone resources are stored in the intelligent peripheral IP.

Fig. 2 is a schematic flow chart of the present invention. When the user turns on the phone or updates the location, the user's home location register stores the sign of whether the user is a personalized ring back tone service user into the mobile switching center MSC where the user is currently located by inserting user data. After receiving the call request initiated by the calling user, the calling party MSC sends an initial address message IAM to the called party MSC. The called party MSC initiates paging to the called user through the called party BSS after receiving it. If the called user is busy or cannot be paged, the called party MSC will play a corresponding recorded notification to the calling user. If the called party is in an idle state, the called party MSC sends a call setup signaling SETUP to the called party BSS, and the called party returns a ringing message ALERT to the called party MSC through the called party BSS. The called party MSC returns the address full message ACM to the calling party MSC, and decides whether to play the standard ring back tone (beep...beep) according to the sign of whether the called user is a personalized ring back tone service user, if If the called user is not a subscriber of the personalized ring back tone, the standard ring back tone will be played; if the called user is a subscriber of the personalized ring back tone, the called party MSC will not play the standard ring back tone, The smart peripheral IP connected to it initiates a call and sends an initial address message IAM. In the IAM, the called number is "routing prefix + called user's number MSISDN + calling user's number MSISDN", or set as "routing prefix + called user's number MSISDN", where the routing prefix is the routing information for the called party MSC to route the call to the IP of the smart peripheral. After receiving the IP, the intelligent peripheral device returns the full address message ACM and answer message ANM to the called party MSC, and at the same time selects the corresponding personalized ring-back tone to play to the calling user according to the numbers of the calling and called users. When the called user picks up the phone to answer, the called party BSS sends a connection message CONNECT to the called party MSC, and the called party MSC sends a release message REL to the smart peripheral IP to cut off the call path to the smart peripheral IP . The smart peripheral IP returns a release completion message RELCOMPLETE, and stops playing the personalized ringback tone. The MSC of the called party connects the call between the calling party and the called party, and the two parties talk normally. After the conversation between the two parties ends, the voice channel is released according to the normal call release process.

Finally, it should be noted that the above embodiments are only used to illustrate the technical solutions of the present invention without limitation. Although the present invention has been described in detail with reference to the preferred embodiments, those of ordinary skill in the art should understand that the technical solutions of the present invention can be Modifications or equivalent replacements of the technical solutions without departing from the spirit and scope of the technical solutions of the present invention shall be covered by the scope of the claims of the present invention.

Claims (4)

1, a kind of method that Customized Ring Back Tone is provided in mobile communcations system, described mobile communcations system comprises calling party mobile exchange center, callee's attaching position register, callee mobile switching centre, callee's base station sub-system and ip intelligent peripherals, wherein exists speech channel to link to each other between ip intelligent peripherals and the callee mobile switching centre; It is characterized in that described method comprises:

When user start or position were upgraded, whether attaching position register was the mobile switching centre that personalized ring back tone service user's sign deposits this user place in this user under this user;

Calling party mobile exchange center is transmitted to callee mobile switching centre after receiving the call request that the calling subscriber sends;

Callee mobile switching centre by callee's base station sub-system to called subscriber's paging, if called subscriber busy or paging less than, then callee mobile switching centre plays corresponding recorded announcement to the calling subscriber;

If called subscriber's paging and ring success, then callee mobile switching centre is to the full message in calling party mobile exchange center return address, and according to personalized ring back tone service user's sign, determines whether the playing standard ring-back tone;

If the called subscriber is not the personalized ring back tone service user, then callee mobile switching centre is to calling subscriber's playing standard ring-back tone; If the called subscriber is the personalized ring back tone service user, the then broadcast of callee mobile switching centre stopping criterion ring-back tone, and make a call and initial address message to the ip intelligent peripherals that is attached thereto;

After ip intelligent peripherals is received calling,, and select corresponding individual ring back tone to play to the calling subscriber according to the calling and called Subscriber Number in the initial address message to callee mobile switching centre full message in return address and response message;

Behind the called subscriber answer, callee mobile switching centre sends release message to ip intelligent peripherals, and ip intelligent peripherals stops to play Customized Ring Back Tone;

Callee mobile switching centre sets up the speech channel between the calling and called user.

2, the method that Customized Ring Back Tone is provided in mobile communcations system according to claim 1, it is characterized in that, described callee mobile switching centre is in the message that ip intelligent peripherals makes a call, called number is that route prefix adds that called subscriber's number adds calling subscriber's number, and wherein route prefix routes the call to the routing iinformation of ip intelligent peripherals for callee mobile switching centre.

3, the method that Customized Ring Back Tone is provided in mobile communcations system according to claim 1, it is characterized in that, described callee mobile switching centre is in the message that ip intelligent peripherals makes a call, called number is the number that route prefix adds the called subscriber, and wherein route prefix routes the call to the routing iinformation of ip intelligent peripherals for callee mobile switching centre.

4, the method that Customized Ring Back Tone is provided in mobile communcations system according to claim 2 is characterized in that, described ip intelligent peripherals is play to the calling subscriber according to number of calling user judgement selection corresponding individual ring back tone.

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