KR100730479B1 - Personal information initialization method and system using short message - Google Patents

Abstract

A personal information initialization method using a short message and a system thereof are provided to safely and effectively initialize important information of a person stored in a lost terminal, and to keep and manage the important information in a terminal multimedia storage server, thereby solving information keeping problems in accordance with personal information initialization. A terminal multimedia storage server(230) transmits an initialization start control request signal of a terminal(200) to an SMS(Short Message Service) server(220). The SMS server generates a terminal initialization start control short message based on the request signal, and sends the message to the terminal. The terminal drives a multimedia transmission VM(Virtual Machine) according to the short message, and transmits a terminal initialization start request signal to the storage server. The storage server receives the request signal to send an equivalent ACK signal to the terminal, and the terminal initializes personal information.

Description

Method and system for initializing personal information using short message {METHOD AND SYSTEM OF INITIALIZING A PERSONAL INFORMATION USING SHORT MESSAGE SERVICE}

1 is a schematic configuration diagram of a personal information initialization system using a short message according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a signal flowchart of a personal information initialization system using a short message according to another embodiment of the present invention.

3 is a block diagram of a personal information initialization method using a short message according to another embodiment of the present invention.

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100: terminal 110: wired and wireless communication network

111: exchange 112: SMS server

120: terminal multimedia storage server 130: customer care center

The present invention relates to a method and system for initializing personal information on a terminal, and more particularly, to initialize personal information including a multimedia message, a text message, an address book, and the like stored in a terminal when a terminal is lost using a short message. To a method and system.

Recently, with the development of the Internet and digital devices, Life-Caching, which records one's daily life on mini homepages (such as Cyworld), has emerged as a new trend. This means the emergence of the so-called "generation C" (content generation), and the trend of increasing the production of content such as photos, music, videos, etc. directly on digital devices, storing them on the Internet, and sharing them with others. to be.

In addition, additional services, including financial services such as electronic money, credit cards, and transportation cards, can be provided by using a personal mobile terminal, and important personal information such as personal passwords, IDs, and account numbers are stored on the terminals. many. However, when the terminal is lost, the user may be exposed to a risk of unexpected disadvantage without knowing the information unless the terminal is deleted or initialized.

Therefore, technologies for protecting such personal information are needed and developed.

Korean Patent Laid-Open No. 2001-0044083, filed on August 18, 2000, discloses a method for protecting personal information on the basis of loss or theft of a personal terminal in which the user's personal information is stored. It consists of the process of controlling the personal information control settings of the mobile phone service provider and remote personal mobile terminal information.

 In addition, Korean Patent Laid-Open No. 2001-0104104, filed May 12, 2000, discloses a method of backing up personal information of a wireless communication terminal, and backs up all data in the terminal when desired by the user. When signing up, the terminal exchanger, upgrades, lost and damaged, modified to receive the data backed up or to be viewed on the web already stored.

However, in the former, since personal information is deleted by unilateral control of a mobile phone service company, there is no safety process because there is no authentication process of personal information with a terminal. The latter only discloses a technology for backing up terminal information. There is a problem in that it is defenseless against illegal use of personal information of a lost terminal.

Accordingly, the present invention is derived to solve the problems of the prior art, and provides a method and system that can safely and effectively initialize personal information by using a short message when the terminal is stored, important personal information is lost. The purpose is to.

The method for initializing the personal information of a lost terminal using a short message according to the present invention comprises the steps of: transmitting, from a terminal multimedia storage server, an initialization start control request signal of the terminal to an SMS server; Generating, by the SMS server, a terminal initialization start control short message based on the request signal and transmitting the generated short message to the terminal; Driving a multimedia transmission VM according to the terminal initialization start control short message received by the terminal, and transmitting a terminal initialization start request signal to the terminal multimedia storage server; And receiving the terminal initialization start request signal from the terminal multimedia storage server, transmitting a corresponding confirmation signal to the terminal, and initializing personal information in the terminal receiving the confirmation signal.

The system for initializing personal information of a lost terminal using a short message according to the present invention transmits a terminal initialization start control request signal to the terminal through an SMS server, and receives a terminal initialization start request signal from the terminal. A terminal multimedia storage server transmitting a corresponding confirmation signal to the terminal; And an SMS server configured to receive the terminal initialization start control request signal from the terminal multimedia storage server, generate a terminal initialization start control short message based on the terminal initialization start control request signal, and transmit the short message to the terminal. According to the terminal initialization start control short message from the server, the multimedia transmission VM of the terminal is driven so that the terminal initialization start request signal is transmitted to the terminal multimedia storage server, and the terminal multimedia storage server corresponds to the terminal initialization start request signal. When the signal is transmitted to the terminal, the personal information is initialized in the terminal.

The method may further include a customer care center that selectively receives a loss report from the lost terminal user and transmits an initialization request signal to the terminal multimedia storage server.

Details and improvements of the invention are disclosed in the dependent claims.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 is a schematic configuration diagram of a personal information initialization system using a short message according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, the system includes a terminal 100, a wired / wireless communication network 110, an exchange 111, an SMS server 112, a terminal multimedia storage server 120, and a hill management center 130.

The terminal 100 includes a portable mobile communication terminal including a cellular phone, a PCS, a PDA, and a smart phone, and is equipped with a swap browser that can access a home page or another value-added service server through a gateway, and use a wireless Internet. Equipped with an interface that can be, and equipped with a camera module to take a picture or video, etc. can be stored as multimedia content.

In addition, the terminal 100 includes a mobile phone, a PDA, a smart phone, an MP3 phone, and the like, which can be wirelessly connected to the terminal multimedia storage server 120 through a wireless communication network such as a mobile communication network. It includes a PC system or a dedicated terminal that can be connected to the terminal multimedia storage server 120 through the Internet connected to the online. The terminal 100 accesses the terminal multimedia storage server 120 through a WEP or WAP connection, and may leave personal records and the like in the form of a personal memo on previously stored multimedia contents.

The terminal 100 is equipped with a multimedia transmission VM (Virtual Machine) or is provided to download. In addition, according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the multimedia transmission VM is automatically driven by receiving a terminal initialization start control short message from the SMS server 112, thereby connecting the wired / wireless communication network 110 to the terminal multimedia storage server 120. When the terminal initiates the initialization request and receives the corresponding response signal, it initializes the personal information stored in the terminal 100.

The SMS server 112 receives the terminal initialization start control request signal from the terminal multimedia storage server 120, generates a terminal initialization start control short message based on the terminal, and transmits the terminal initialization start control short message to the terminal through the wired / wireless communication network 210. 200).

The terminal multimedia storage server 120 receives a terminal initialization start request by driving the multimedia transmission VM of the terminal 100 and in response to the personal information of the terminal 100 is initialized. In addition, the terminal multimedia storage server 120 may optionally perform an authentication process by comparing the initialization request signal received from the customer care center 130 with the terminal initialization start request signal received from the terminal.

The customer management center 130 is a system that a user can access through a means such as the Internet, a telephone, etc., and receives a user's terminal loss report and transmits an initialization request signal to the terminal multimedia storage server 120.

2 is a signal flowchart of a personal information initialization system using a short message according to another embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 2, when a user accessing the customer care center 240 reports a lost terminal, the customer care center 240 transmits an initialization request signal to the terminal multimedia storage server 230. Upon receiving this, the terminal multimedia storage server 230 transmits a terminal initialization start control request signal to the SMS server 220, and the SMS server 220 transmits a terminal initialization start control short message based on the initialization start control request signal. It generates and transmits it to the terminal 200 through the wired or wireless communication network 210.

The terminal 220 recognizes the short message to automatically drive a multimedia transmission VM (Virtual Machine), and transmits a terminal initialization start request signal to the terminal multimedia storage server 230. Upon receiving this, the terminal multimedia storage server 230 transmits a confirmation signal according to the terminal initialization start request signal to the terminal. In this process, an authentication process is compared with the initialization request signal previously received from the customer care center 240. Can be done.

After receiving the confirmation signal, the terminal 200 initializes stored personal information, for example, multimedia content, a text or voice message, a personal memo, an address book, and the like, and transmits a terminal initialization completion message to the terminal multimedia storage server 230. To send).

3 is a block diagram of a personal information initialization method using a short message according to another embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 3, first, the terminal multimedia storage server transmits a terminal initialization start control request signal to an SMS server (S300). Subsequently, the SMS server generates a terminal initialization start control short message according to the control request signal and transmits it to the terminal (S302). Then, the terminal recognizes the short message and the VM or the terminal program is automatically driven (S304), and the terminal initialization start request signal is transmitted from the terminal to the terminal multimedia storage server (S306). When the confirmation signal is transmitted from the terminal multimedia storage server, the terminal performs a process of completing the initialization of personal information stored in the terminal (S308).

Although described above based on the preferred embodiment of the present invention, those skilled in the art will understand that it can be carried out in other specific forms without changing the technical spirit or essential features of the technical field to which the present invention belongs. Therefore, the embodiments described above are to be understood as illustrative in all respects and not as restrictive. The scope of the present invention is defined by the appended claims rather than the foregoing description, and all changes or modifications derived from the meaning and scope of the claims and their equivalent concepts should be construed as being included in the scope of the present invention. do.

By using the method and system for initializing the personal information of the lost terminal using the short message according to the present invention, important information of the individual stored in the lost terminal can be safely and effectively initialized, and the important information is stored in the terminal multimedia. Can be stored and managed on the server can solve the problem of information storage due to personal information initialization.

Claims (10)

A method of initializing personal information of a lost terminal using a short message, (a) transmitting, by a terminal multimedia storage server, an initialization start control request signal of the terminal to an SMS server; (b) generating, by the SMS server, a terminal initialization start control short message based on the request signal and transmitting the generated short message to the terminal; (c) driving the multimedia transmission VM according to the terminal initialization start control short message received by the terminal, and transmitting a terminal initialization start request signal to the terminal multimedia storage server; And (d) receiving the terminal initialization start request signal from the terminal multimedia storage server, transmitting a corresponding confirmation signal to the terminal, and initializing personal information in the terminal receiving the confirmation signal. . The method of claim 1, wherein after step (d): and (e) receiving an initialization completion report message from the terminal in the terminal multimedia storage server. The method according to claim 1 or 2, wherein before step (a), (a0) receiving the initialization request signal according to the terminal loss from the customer management center in the terminal multimedia storage server further comprises the personal information initialization method. The method of claim 3, wherein before step (d), and (d0) comparing the terminal initialization start request signal from the terminal and the initialization request signal from the customer care center to authenticate the personal information in the terminal multimedia storage server. The method according to claim 1 or 2, The personal information personal information initialization method comprising multimedia content, received voice or text message, personal memo, personal schedule, address book and the like. A system for initializing personal information of a lost terminal using a short message, A terminal multimedia storage server transmitting a terminal initialization start control request signal to the terminal through an SMS server, receiving a terminal initialization start request signal from the terminal, and transmitting a corresponding confirmation signal to the terminal; And An SMS server configured to receive the terminal initialization start control request signal from the terminal multimedia storage server, generate a terminal initialization start control short message based on the terminal initialization start control request signal, and transmit the short message to the terminal; According to the terminal initialization start control short message from the SMS server, the multimedia transmission VM of the terminal is driven to transmit a terminal initialization start request signal to the terminal multimedia storage server, and the terminal multimedia storage server corresponds to the terminal initialization start request signal. Personal information initialization system characterized in that the personal information is initialized in the terminal when the confirmation signal to the terminal. The method of claim 6, And a customer management center that receives the loss report from the lost terminal user and transmits an initialization request signal to the terminal multimedia storage server. The method of claim 7, wherein And the terminal multimedia storage server compares the terminal initialization start request signal from the terminal with the initialization request signal from the customer care center and transmits a confirmation signal to the terminal. The method according to claim 6 or 7, And the terminal multimedia storage server receives a terminal initialization completion report message from the terminal. The method according to claim 6 or 7, The personal information personal information initialization system, characterized in that it comprises multimedia content, received voice or text message, personal memo, personal schedule, address book and the like.

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