KR100556703B1 - Talk time zone service method - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a call time zone service method for granting a predetermined call time to a receiving terminal in the form of a caller burden in a caller terminal. The step of purchasing, providing the billing information of the amount corresponding to the talk time zone from the call time zone issuing server to the wireless communication network, and the call time zone purchased by the calling terminal in the wireless communication network to the receiving terminal And using the call service until the call time in the talk time zone is exhausted by the receiving terminal.

Therefore, when using MMS, the fee for reading the multimedia message transmitted by the sender is not charged to the receiver, but the service is paid by the sender, thereby reducing the charge of the receiver.

Description

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1 is a schematic block diagram of a talk time zone service system according to the present invention;

2 is a block diagram illustrating an internal block of a transmitting and receiving terminal shown in FIG. 1;

3A is a flowchart illustrating a process of granting a call duration right to a receiving terminal in a calling terminal;

3b is a flowchart illustrating a process of using a talk time zone in a receiving terminal;

4 is a diagram illustrating an example of a usage form of a talk time zone.

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110: calling terminal 120: receiving terminal

140: call time issue server 150: wireless communication network

152: base station transmitter 154: base station controller

156: billing server 158: MMS server

160: wireless switching center 402: mobile stamp

The present invention relates to a method for providing a talk time zone between mobile communication terminals, and more particularly, to a method for providing a talk time zone for providing a constant talk time to a receiver terminal in a caller burden form.

With the rapid development of computer, electronic and communication technologies, various wireless communication services using wireless networks have been provided. The most basic wireless communication service is a wireless voice call service that provides voice calls wirelessly between mobile terminal users regardless of time and place. In recent years, wireless Internet services, which provide a data communication service using the Internet through a wireless communication network, have emerged while a user of a mobile communication terminal moves without restriction of a place. Accordingly, the subscribers of the wireless communication service can freely move and talk with the other party anytime and anywhere by using the wireless communication service, and also provide various information such as news, weather, sports, Securities, exchange rates, traffic information, etc. can be provided in the form of text, voice, image.

Recently, as a mobile communication terminal equipped with a camera has become widespread, a multimedia messaging service (MMS: Multimedia Messaging Service, hereinafter referred to as 'MMS') has been proposed to exchange multimedia messages such as pictures and videos taken with a camera with a counterpart. . When the sender sends a multimedia message to the receiver, the MMS notifies the receiver's mobile communication terminal that the multimedia message has been received as a short message, and the receiver can access the wireless communication network and open the multimedia service transmitted from the sender. However, in order to confirm the multimedia message transmitted by the sender, the receiver should access the wireless communication network and bear the cost according to the amount of the confirmed multimedia message. That is, the MMS is to be charged separately for the charge of the recipient to read the multimedia message in addition to the MMS fee charged by the sender. Therefore, although the sender has transmitted the multimedia message, there is a contradiction that the receiver who reads the multimedia message pays the corresponding cost, and the cost is large when the size of the multimedia message is large.

Therefore, the present invention has been invented to improve the contradiction that the receiver should bear the charge for each capacity to check the multimedia message when the sender uses the MMS, the object of the present invention is to give the recipient the right to talk time in the form of caller burden It is to provide a time zone service method that allows the receiver to use MMS casually.

According to an embodiment of the present invention for achieving the above object, a step of purchasing a talk time ticket to give a talk time by accessing the talk time ticket issuing server in the calling terminal; Providing charging information of an amount corresponding to the talk time zone from the talk time ticket issuing server to the wireless communication network; Transmitting, at the wireless communication network, a talk time ticket purchased at the calling terminal to the called terminal; And using the call service until the call time granted to the call time zone at the receiving terminal is exhausted.

In the present invention, the talk time zone is provided in the form of a stamp giving a certain talk time, characterized in that the stamp is stamped on the stamp to indicate that the talk time ticket expires when the schedule talk time elapses.

In addition, in the present invention, the talk time zone service may be used in a multimedia messaging service (MMS), a voice call service, a short message service, and a wireless data communication service.

Other objects and features of the present invention in addition to the above objects will become apparent from the description of the embodiments with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. 1 to 4.

1 is a block diagram illustrating a system for talking time zone service between a mobile communication terminal of a sender and a receiver according to the present invention. As shown in FIG. 1, the time zone service system of the present invention is connected to the calling terminal 110, the receiving terminal 120, the Internet 130, the time zone issuing server 140 and the wireless communication network 150 It includes.

The originating and receiving terminals 110 and 120 basically perform voice calls with each other through the wireless communication network 150, and operate a WAP browser to communicate data with a WAP gateway (not shown) via the wireless communication network 150. It includes a mobile communication terminal to perform. The calling terminal 110 connects to the call time ticket issuing server 140 using a wireless Internet service, purchases a talk time ticket, and provides the purchased talk time ticket to the receiving terminal 120. In the present invention, the talk time ticket means a kind of prepaid gift certificate that the calling terminal 110 purchases and uses the call time for receiving the MMS in a prepaid or postpaid form of the caller. In the present invention, the talk time zone is described as using an MMS, but it should be understood that the present invention is not limited thereto, and may be used in a wireless call service, a short message service, and a data communication service. The receiving terminal 120 may use various services such as a short message service and an MMS service, including a wireless call service, by using a talk time zone provided from the calling terminal 110. The receiving terminal 120 may include a personal computer 170 connected to the Internet 130.

The talk time ticket issuing server 140 is connected to the wireless communication network 150 through the Internet 130, releases a talk time ticket according to a purchase request from the calling terminal 110, and receives the released talk time ticket. Perform the function provided by 120. The talk time ticket released by the talk time ticket issuing server 140 has, for example, a form of a mobile stamp 402 as illustrated in FIG. 4, and a call corresponding to a fee for each mobile stamp 402. Time is set.

The wireless communication network 150 basically provides a wireless call service, a data communication service, and an MMS to the calling and receiving mobile communication terminals 110 and 120, and includes a base transceiver station (BTS) 152 and a base station controller (BSC). A base station controller 154, a charging server 156, an MMS server 158, and a mobile switching center (MSC) 160.

The base station transmitter 152 checks the positions of a plurality of mobile communication terminals including the calling and receiving terminals 110 and 120 to transmit and receive voice signals between the calling and receiving mobile communication terminals 110 and 120. The base station transmitter 152 receives a call request from the originating terminal 110 to the receiving terminal 120 through a traffic channel of the signal channel, and transmits the received call request to the originating base station controller 154.

The base station controller 154 controls the base station transmitter 152 and performs various call processing functions such as support for incoming and outgoing call processing and message processing of the base station transmitter 152. The base station controller 154 forwards the call request received via the base station transmitter 152 to the wireless switching center 160.

The wireless switching center 160 forms a call path between a plurality of mobile communication terminals, including the incoming and outgoing mobile communication terminals 110 and 120, and controls overall call processing and call processing accordingly. The wireless switching center 160 provides the multimedia message of the calling terminal 110 transmitted from the wireless base station 152 through the base station controller 154 to the MMS server 158 to be stored, and the MMS server of the receiving terminal 120. In response to the connection request to 158, the receiving terminal 120 is connected to the MMS server 158 to download the multimedia message stored in the MMS server 158.

The billing server 156 basically receives the billing information of the originating and receiving terminals 110 and 120 that have been calling using the wireless communication network 150 from the radio switching center 160, and has a calling and receiving terminal having a terminal identification number ( 110 and 120 to charge a call charge to the owner. According to the present invention, the billing server 156 charges the amount corresponding to the talk time ticket that the calling terminal 110 purchased from the talk time ticket issuing server 140, and the receiving terminal 120 uses the talk time ticket. Therefore, the time or cost required for receiving various services is subtracted from the talk time or the corresponding amount set in the talk time zone. Information about the talk time or amount deducted by the billing server 156 is provided to the MMS server 158.

The MMS server 158 provides the receiving terminal 120 in the form of a mobile stamp 402, the calling right purchased by the calling terminal 110 to the calling right service server 140. In addition, the MMS server 158 stores the multimedia message transmitted from the originating terminal 110 to the receiving terminal 120, and provides the stored multimedia message to the receiving terminal 120 at the request of the receiving terminal 120. When the receiving terminal 120 is notified from the billing server 158 that the talk time granted to the talk time period has expired, the MMS server 158 stamps the mobile stamp to notify that the talk time has expired. 120).

FIG. 2 shows the internal configuration of the originating and receiving terminals 110 and 120 shown in FIG. Practically, the originating and receiving terminals 110 and 120 are merely functionally distinguished in the present invention and have substantially the same configuration. Therefore, the description related to FIG. 2 will be described only for the receiving terminal 120 for convenience.

The receiving terminal 120 includes a program memory 202, a receiving stamp box 204, a camera 205, a speaker 206, a microphone 208, an input / output interface 210, a coder (Coder-Decoder) ( 212, microprocessor 214, RF transmitter 216, RF receiver 218, duplexer 220, antenna 222, and WAP browser 228.

The program memory 202 stores a conventional wireless communication program and protocol software for processing messages transmitted and received with the network. The inbox 204 is a mobile postage stamp 402 of the talk time zone transmitted from the originating terminal 120. ), And may be implemented as a flash memory. The mobile stamp 402 stored in the receiving postage box 204 works in conjunction with the protocol software to automatically connect to the MMS server 158 when a particular button on the receiving terminal 120 is clicked. A coder-decoder (CODEC) 212 is a digital signal processing processor that codes and decodes a voice signal, performs an equalization function to remove multipath noise, and performs an audio related data processing function. The camera 205 connected to the codec 212 through the input / output interface 210 may take a picture as multimedia data to be transmitted to the receiving terminal 120, and the speaker 206 may output a voice output from the codec 212. The signal is output as an audible sound, and the microphone 208 converts the voice input into an electrical signal.

The antenna 222 transmits and receives a radio signal, and the duplexer 220 separates a signal transmitted and received from the mobile communication network 130 through the antenna 222. The RF transmitter 216 modulates a transmission signal provided from the microprocessor 214 into an RF signal and transmits the RF signal through the duplexer 220 and the antenna 222, and the RF receiver 218 transmits the antenna 222 and the duplexer 220. RF signal received through the) to demodulate and output to the microprocessor (214).

The key input unit 224 includes a numeric key, a character key, and various function keys for inputting an incoming telephone number for calling with the other party, and the LCD display unit 226 displays information such as a short message. The WAP browser 228 executes the WAP protocol to connect the calling terminal 110 to the talk time ticket issuing server 140 through the Internet 130 to purchase the talk time ticket from the talk time ticket issuing server 140. .

The microprocessor 214 basically performs processing and control functions for voice and data communication of the receiving terminal 120.

The method performed in the talk time zone service system of the present invention having the above-described configuration will be described as follows with reference to FIGS. 3A to 3B.

3A is a flowchart illustrating a process in which the calling terminal 110 purchases a talk time ticket giving a calling time to the calling terminal 120 at the expense of the caller.

First, the calling terminal 110 connects to the time zone issuing server 140 through the wireless communication network 150 and the Internet (step S302).

The talk time zone issuing server 140 provides the calling terminal 110 with a menu of the mobile stamp 402 divided by the talk time of the talk time zone, thereby selecting the desired talk time zone (step S304).

When the mobile postage stamp 402 of the talk time zone is selected in the calling terminal 110, the call time zone issuing server 140 causes the calling terminal 110 to transmit the mobile postage stamp of the talk time zone to the telephone of the receiving terminal 120. A number is entered (step S306).

Then, when the telephone number of the receiving terminal 120 is input from the calling terminal 110, and the payment is made in the calling terminal 110 (step S308), the call time zone issuing server 140 charges the call time zone. By providing the information to the billing server 156, the amount corresponding to the talk time volume is charged to the calling terminal 110 (step S310). In addition, the talk time ticket issuing server 140 provides the talk time ticket requested by the calling terminal 110 to the receiving terminal 120 in the form of a mobile stamp 402 (step S312). In this case, a message indicating that the talk time ticket has been received is displayed on the receiving terminal 120 in the form of a short message, and the mobile stamp 402 of the talk time ticket is stored in the receiving stamp box 204 of the receiving terminal 120.

3B is a flowchart illustrating a process of using the talk time granted to the talk time ticket in the receiving terminal 120 granted the talk time right.

When the multimedia message is transmitted from the calling terminal 110 to the receiving terminal 120 (step S320), the multimedia message is stored in the MMS server 158 (step S322).

At this time, the receiving terminal 120 is notified as a short message that the multimedia message has arrived from the SMS server not shown (S324).

If the receiving terminal 120 wants to check the multimedia message, it is connected to the MMS server 158 by opening the receiving mailbox 204 and clicking the mobile stamp 402 stored in the receiving mailbox 204 (step S326).

The receiving terminal 120 connected to the MMS server 158 can download the multimedia message transmitted to it (step S328), and the MMS server 158 receives the amount of packets of the multimedia message provided to the receiving terminal 120. To the charging server 156 (step S330).

The charging server 156 reduces the cost corresponding to the amount of packets provided from the MMS server 158 from the talk time given to the talk time zone (step S332).

While the multimedia message is downloaded to the receiving terminal 120, it is determined whether or not the talk time given to the call right held by the receiving terminal 120 is exhausted (step S334).

If the amount corresponding to the talk time granted to the call right has been exhausted, the process terminates by providing a message indicating that there is no talk time remaining as in step S338.

However, if the talk time granted to the call right remains, the process proceeds to step S336 to determine whether the download of the multimedia message is completed.

In step S336, if the download of the multimedia message is completed, the process proceeds to step S338 to provide a message informing the remaining time of the call and ends, and if the download of the multimedia message has not been completed yet, the process (step S328) to repeat the above process.

Therefore, according to the present invention described above, the fee for reading the multimedia message sent by the sender when using the MMS is not charged to the receiver separately, there is an advantage that can reduce the charge of the receiver by being serviced by the sender. In addition, the present invention has an advantage that can be used as a call right to receive a call service or a short message service instead of the MMS for a receiving terminal that is not MMS.                     

Those skilled in the art will appreciate that various changes and modifications can be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention. Therefore, the technical scope of the present invention should not be limited to the contents described in the detailed description of the specification but should be defined by the claims.

Claims (5)

In a call time zone service system comprising a wireless communication network providing a call service to a calling terminal and a receiving terminal and a call time zone issuing server connected to the wireless communication network, the call time zone service method between the calling terminal and the receiving terminal, Purchasing, at the originating terminal, a talk time ticket for giving a talk time by accessing the talk time ticket issuing server; Providing charging information of an amount corresponding to the talk time zone from the talk time ticket issuing server to the wireless communication network; Transmitting, at the wireless communication network, a talk time ticket purchased at the calling terminal to the called terminal; And Using, by the receiving terminal, a call service until the call time granted to the talk time zone is exhausted; The call time zone is a time zone service method characterized in that it is provided in the form of a stamp giving a predetermined talk time. delete The method of claim 1, And a postmark is stamped on the stamp to indicate that the time zone is extinguished after the predetermined time. The method of claim 1, The talk time zone service is a time zone service method, characterized in that used in the Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS). The method of claim 1, The time zone service method is used for voice call service, short message service, wireless data communication service.

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