KR100863051B1 - Device for providing a message reading confirmation service and method thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to an apparatus for providing a message read confirmation service and a method using the same.

According to the present invention, the device providing the read confirmation service confirms whether or not it is possible to provide the message read confirmation service to the recipient of the message. In this case, when the read confirmation service is not available to the called party, a service unavailable notification message for notifying the called party is provided to the caller.

Mobile communication network, read confirmation service, registered character rejection service

Description

Device for providing a message reading confirmation service and method

1 is a diagram illustrating a schematic network structure for providing a message read confirmation service according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a block diagram illustrating an internal configuration of an apparatus for providing a message read confirmation service according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3 is a diagram illustrating a read confirmation service unavailable notification message format according to an embodiment of the present invention.

4 is a flowchart of a method for providing a message read confirmation service according to an embodiment of the present invention.

5 is a flowchart illustrating a read confirmation service disable processing process of an apparatus for providing a message read confirmation service according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

The present invention relates to an apparatus for providing a message read confirmation service and a method using the same. More particularly, the present invention relates to a message service of a mobile communication network, and more particularly, to an apparatus and method for providing a read confirmation notification message to a calling terminal when a called terminal reads a message.

Message service through mobile communication network is developed from simple text-oriented short message service (SMS), and the use of multimedia message service (MMS) that can transmit images, sound, video, animation, etc. The trend is increasing.

Recently, there is a registered text service that provides a message service of a mobile communication network divided into a 'normal mail' and a 'registered mail' like a general letter.

Registered text services include "acknowledgement" and "read receipt" services, which automatically send the sender who sent the message to the recipient with a message. In other words, the service provider automatically informs the sender whether the message sent by the sender is normally delivered to the receiver and when the message is read.

When the message is transmitted from the mobile communication terminal, a specific identifier, for example, a '#' symbol is added after the reception number to transmit the message.

In general, when a registered message is transmitted between subscribers of the mobile communication service, reception confirmation and read confirmation services are automatically enabled.

However, the third party mobile communication service subscribers can only check whether the normal reception. This is because the read confirmation service can be interworked with the message standard between the device providing the read confirmation service and the called terminal.

However, the conventional read confirmation service only provides a read confirmation notification when the receiver reads a message, and does not separately notify the sender when the read confirmation service cannot be provided.

Therefore, if the read receipt notification message is not received, the caller cannot know whether the recipient has not read the message because it has not read the message or because the read confirmation service itself cannot be provided. There is inconvenience that can only wait vaguely after sending out.

Therefore, the technical problem to be achieved by the present invention is an apparatus for providing a read confirmation notification service for transmitting a message indicating that the read confirmation service is not available to the calling terminal when the receiving terminal is not available to read confirmation service and a method using the same It is about.

Apparatus for providing a message read confirmation service according to an aspect of the present invention in order to achieve the above problems,
A device for providing a message read confirmation service for providing a message read notification of a message receiver to a message sender in a mobile communication network, the apparatus comprising: subscriber registration information of a message received from the message sender by a subscriber authentication server managing subscriber information of the mobile communication network; A caller authentication unit for checking whether the called party's terminal supports the message specification information transmitted to notify the message reading when the called party reads the message when the called party reads the message; And a read non-acknowledgement processing unit for generating a service unavailable notification message informing that the read confirmation service is unavailable when the terminal of the called party does not support the message specification information and transmitting the message to the message sender.

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Method for providing a message read confirmation service according to an aspect of the present invention,
A method for providing a message read confirmation service for providing a message read notification of a message receiver to a message sender in a mobile communication network, the method comprising: retrieving subscriber subscription information of a message received from the message sender with a subscriber certificate server managing subscriber information of the mobile communication network; Making; Confirming whether the called party's terminal supports message specification information transmitted to notify that the message is read when the called party reads the message based on the called party's subscription information; Generating a service unavailable notification message indicating that a read confirmation service is not available when the called party's terminal does not support the message specification information; And transmitting the generated service unavailable notification message to the message sender.

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DETAILED DESCRIPTION Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings so that those skilled in the art may easily implement the present invention. As those skilled in the art would realize, the described embodiments may be modified in various different ways, all without departing from the spirit or scope of the present invention. In the drawings, parts irrelevant to the description are omitted in order to clearly describe the present invention, and like reference numerals designate like parts throughout the specification.

Throughout the specification, when a part is said to "include" a certain component, it means that it can further include other components, without excluding other components unless specifically stated otherwise. In addition, the terms “… unit”, “… unit”, “module”, “block”, etc. described in the specification mean a unit that processes at least one function or operation, which is hardware or software or a combination of hardware and software. It can be implemented as.

An apparatus for providing a message read confirmation service and a method using the same according to an embodiment of the present invention will now be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 is a diagram illustrating a schematic network structure for providing a message read confirmation service according to an embodiment of the present invention.

According to Figure 1, the structure of the mobile communication network for providing a message read confirmation service is a mobile communication terminal (100a, 100b), mobile telephone base station (200a, 200b), mobile telephone switching center (300a, 300b), home location register (HLR) And a home location register (400), a message service center (500), a read confirmation service server (600), a subscriber authentication server (700), and a subscriber profile DB (800).

Here, the mobile communication terminals 100a and 100b, the mobile telephone base stations 200a and 200b and the mobile telephone switching stations 300a and 300b are respectively called to the calling party 100a, 200a, 300a and the called party 100b, 200b, 300c. Are separated. Brief description of each configuration is as follows.

The mobile communication terminals 100a and 100b are terminals that a user can carry and communicate with, and can transmit and receive messages through a mobile communication network. Here, the message includes a message provided through a short message service (SMS) or a multimedia message service (MMS).

The mobile phone base stations 200a and 200b are network termination devices that are directly coupled to the mobile communication terminals 100a and 100b through a wireless channel by performing baseband signal processing, wired / wireless conversion, and wireless signal transmission / reception. Although not shown in the figure, the mobile telephone base stations 200a and 200b are managed and controlled by a base station controller. The base station controller controls and manages one or more mobile telephone base stations, and performs traffic, signaling, and mobility management related to call processing.

The mobile switching centers 300a and 300b perform call processing, basic and additional service processing, location registration and handoff procedures, and interworking with other networks of subscribers originating and receiving from the mobile telephone base stations 200a and 200b. .

Home Location Register (HLR) 400 provides various information such as subscriber's origination, incoming status, additional services and subscriber location information. And interact with a non-shown visitor location register (VLR) that temporarily stores member information related to mobile communication terminals 100a and 100b mounted in mobile switching centers 300a and 300b. It supports various functions related to service.

The message service center 500 collectively shows a configuration of providing a message service in a mobile communication network, and includes a short message service center (SMSC) or a multimedia message service center (MMSC). .

The read confirmation service server (also called a read confirmation service device) 600 is connected to the message service center 500 and provides a read confirmation notification message to the calling terminal 100a when the called terminal 100b reads the message. In this case, when the read confirmation notification message cannot be provided to the calling terminal 100a, a read confirmation impossible notification message is provided. In this case, the read confirmation notification message cannot be provided includes a case in which the called terminal 100b subscribes to the registered character rejection service or a case in which the message specification is not interworked with the called terminal 100b.

The subscriber authentication server 700 includes a subscriber information DB 800 that stores terminal information and additional service information, including personal information of a mobile communication service subscriber, and manages subscriber information stored in the subscriber information DB 800 to provide a specific service. You can check the availability. In this case, the subscriber information DB 800 stores information on whether to subscribe to the registered character rejection service and whether or not to interwork the message standard with the read confirmation service server 600 of the subscriber terminal.

Now, a detailed configuration of the read confirmation service server 600 will be described with reference to FIG. 2.

2 is a block diagram illustrating an internal configuration of an apparatus for providing a message read confirmation service according to an embodiment of the present invention.

According to Figure 2, the configuration of the read confirmation service server 600 for providing a message read confirmation service is the receiving unit 610, storage unit 620, called party authentication unit 630, read confirmation impossible processing unit 640, read confirmation It includes a processor 650 and a transmitter 660.

The receiving unit 610 is connected to the message service center 500 and performs all functions of an incoming call for processing a read confirmation service that is received from the message service center 500.

Here, the receiving unit 610 receives a message set to read confirmation reception from the message service center 500. In addition, the message service center 500 receives a read confirmation notification sent by the destination terminal (100b).

The storage unit 620 stores case information for which read confirmation service cannot be provided. Here, the case information that cannot be provided with the read confirmation service corresponds to the first case information corresponding to the case where the terminating terminal 100b subscribes to the registered letter rejection service and the read confirmation of the read confirmation service server 600 by the terminating terminal 100b. The second case information corresponding to the case where the service standard is not supported may be included. Here, the registered character rejection service refers to a 'service that does not inform the information of the caller even if the caller requests a service for checking whether the message is received or read.'

In addition, the second case information is the case that the destination terminal 100b is different from the calling terminal 100a and the mobile communication provider, the terminal specification of the destination terminal 100b does not support the message standard set to provide a read confirmation service Can be broken down into

In this case, the message standard is defined in the format of the read confirmation setting value inserted into the read confirmation setting field of the message. Here, the read confirmation setting value is included in the message requested by the calling terminal 100a to be transmitted to the called terminal 100b, and when the called terminal 100b reads the message, it is automatically transmitted to the read checking service server 600.

Examples of such read confirmation setting values are shown in Table 1 below.

Name Type Length Value CDMA Read Confirmation Service 0xE7 One Sequence Number value assigned by read confirmation service server WCDMA Read Confirmation Service 0x44 One Sequence Number value assigned by read confirmation service server

As shown in Table 1, the read confirmation setting value has a format of TLV, and TLV is an abbreviation of 'Type Length Value'. At this time, the format of the read confirmation setting value includes 'name', 'type', 'length' and 'value', which are values for distinguishing network types.

The called party authentication unit 630 requests the called party authentication from the subscriber authentication server 700 of the called terminal 100b for which the read confirmation service is requested and receives the called party response. That is, the subscriber information of the called terminal 100b is inquired whether it corresponds to the case where the read confirmation service cannot be provided, and the inquiry result is received. Then, it is determined whether the read confirmation service of the called terminal 100b is possible according to the inquiry result of the received subscriber information.

The called party authentication unit 630 outputs a result of determining whether the read confirmation service of the called terminal 100b is available to the read confirmation impossible processing unit 640 or the read confirmation processing unit 650.

The read confirmation impossible processing unit 640 notifies the caller terminal 100a of the read confirmation service to be provided to the calling terminal 100a when a result determined by the called party authentication unit 630 that it is impossible to provide read confirmation of the called terminal 100b is transmitted. Generates a service unavailable notification message. In addition, the read confirmation reception setting of the message received through the receiving unit 610, that is, the message transmitted by the calling terminal 100a is released.

Here, the format embodiment of the service unavailable notification message is as shown in FIG. 3. 3 is a diagram illustrating a service unavailable notification message format according to an embodiment of the present invention.

According to FIG. 3, the format configuration of the service unavailable notification message includes a calling number field, a called number field, a reply number field, a transmission time field, and a charging status field.

Here, an arbitrary number '01000000001' is inserted into the calling number field, and a called number of the sender, that is, the calling terminal 100a, is inserted into the called number field. The transmission time field is inserted after the receiver authentication unit 630 confirms that the read confirmation service is not provided, and the charging time field is inserted with no charge.

If the read confirmation processor 650 receives a result of determining that the called terminal 100b can provide read confirmation from the called party authentication unit 630, the read confirmation setting field is set in the read confirmation setting field of the message received through the receiving unit 610. Insert a value. When the read confirmation notification of the called terminal 100b is received through the receiving unit 610, a read confirmation notification message is generated.

The transmitter 660 is connected to the message service center 500 and is responsible for all functions of an outgoing call for processing of a read confirmation service transmitted to the message service center 500.

Here, the transmitter 660 transmits a message of which the read confirmation reception setting is released and the service unavailable notification message to the message service center 500 according to a request of the read confirmation impossible processing unit 640. In addition, the transmitter 660 transmits a message having a read confirmation setting value inserted into a read confirmation setting field and a read confirmation notification message to the message service center 500 according to a request of the read confirmation processing unit 650.

A method of providing a message read confirmation service in a mobile communication network will be described based on the above-described configuration.

4 is a flowchart illustrating a method for providing a message read confirmation service in a mobile communication network according to an embodiment of the present invention.

According to Fig. 4, the originating terminal (100a in Fig. 1) composes (S103) a message in which read receipt reception is set (S101) and transmits it (S105).

If the message service center 500 of FIG. 1 includes a read confirmation reception setting in the received message, the message service center transmits the message to the read confirmation service server 600 of FIGS. 1 and 2 to request a read confirmation service (S107).

Then, the read confirmation service server 600 requests the subscriber authentication to the subscriber authentication server (700 of FIG. 1) and inquires the subscriber information of the called terminal (100b of FIG. 1) (S109).

Then, the receiver receives a caller authentication response from the read confirmation service server 600 (S111) and checks whether the subscriber information of the called terminal 100b corresponds to a case in which read confirmation cannot be provided (S113).

As a result of the check, if the subscriber information of the called terminal 100b corresponds to a case in which the read confirmation service cannot be provided, the message service center 500 requests the transmission of the message for canceling the read confirmation reception setting (S115). The message service center 500 transmits the message in which the read confirmation reception setting is released to the destination terminal 100b as requested (S117).

In addition, the read confirmation service server 600 generates a service unavailable notification message indicating that the read confirmation service is unavailable (S119) and requests the message service center 500 to transmit the generated service unavailable notification message (S121).

The message service center 500 performs the non-billing processing (S123) for the request for the service unavailable notification message and transmits it to the calling terminal 100a (S125).

Meanwhile, if the subscriber information of the called terminal 100b does not correspond to a case in which the read confirmation service is not provided, the read confirmation setting value is inserted into the read confirmation setting field of the message received in step S107. And request the transmission thereof to the message service center 500 (S127).

The message service center 500 transmits the message in which the requested read confirmation setting value is inserted to the called terminal 100b (S129).

The receiving terminal 100b receives the message transmitted in step S129 and automatically sends a read confirmation set value to the message service center 500 when the subscriber confirms reading (S131, S133).

The message service center 500 performs non-billing processing on the read confirmation setting value received from the called terminal 100b and transmits it to the read confirmation service server 600 to request a read confirmation notification service (S137). .

When the read confirmation service server 600 receives the read confirmation set value from the called terminal 100b, it generates a read confirmation notification message and transmits it to the message service center 500 (S139).

The message service center 500 transmits the read confirmation notification message transmitted from the read confirmation service server 600 to the calling terminal 100b (S141).

Next, a detailed embodiment of a read confirmation service processing process of the read confirmation service server 600 will be described. 5 is a flowchart illustrating a read confirmation service disable processing process of an apparatus for providing a message read confirmation service according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 5, when a read confirmation service request including a message for which read receipt reception is set is received (S201), the receiver of the message is authenticated (S203).

Recipient authentication result message The recipient checks whether the subscriber subscribes to the registered character rejection service or whether the receiver supports the message standard for the read confirmation service (S205).

As a result of the check, if the called party subscribes to the registered character rejection service or the non-support of the message specification, the read confirmation reception setting of the message received in step S201 is canceled (S207).

Then, the message released in step S207 is transmitted to the called terminal 100b (S209).

In addition, a message indicating that the read confirmation service is not generated is generated (S211) and transmitted to the calling terminal 100b (S213).

On the other hand, if the check result, the registered character rejection service subscription and the read confirmation service specification is not supported anywhere, the read confirmation setting value is inserted into the read confirmation setting field of the message received in step S201 (S215).

Then, the message inserted in step S215 is transmitted to the called terminal 100b (S217).

When the read confirmation setting value is received from the called terminal (! 00b) (S219), a read confirmation notification message is generated (S221) and transmitted to the calling terminal (100a) (S223).

Embodiments of the present invention are not implemented only through the above-described apparatus and / or method, but may be implemented through a program for realizing a function corresponding to the configuration of the embodiments of the present invention, a recording medium on which the program is recorded, and the like. Such implementations may be readily implemented by those skilled in the art from the description of the above-described embodiments.

Although the embodiments of the present invention have been described in detail above, the scope of the present invention is not limited thereto, and various modifications and improvements of those skilled in the art using the basic concepts of the present invention defined in the following claims are also provided. It belongs to the scope of rights.

As described above, according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, when the caller sets the read receipt request to send a message but the called terminal cannot perform the read confirmation notification function, the sender sends a message not including the read confirmation setting to the called terminal. In addition, by separately notifying the sender that the read confirmation service cannot be provided, the inconvenience of waiting for the sender to vaguely after sending the message can be eliminated.

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An apparatus for providing a message read confirmation service for providing a message read notification of a message receiver to a message sender in a mobile communication network, Inquiry of the subscriber subscription information of the message received from the message sender with the subscriber authentication server managing subscriber information of the mobile communication network, and notifies that the message is read when the called party's terminal set to provide the message read confirmation service reads the message. A called party authenticator for confirming whether the terminal supports the message specification information to be transmitted; And If the called party's terminal does not support the message specification information, the read confirmation impossible processing unit for generating a service unavailable notification message indicating that the read confirmation service is not available to send to the message sender Device for providing a message read confirmation service comprising a. delete delete The method of claim 1, The message standard information, A device for providing a message read confirmation service, which is format information of a read confirmation set value inserted into a read confirmation setting field of a message, and which is transmitted to notify a message read when the called party reads the message. The method of claim 1, The read confirmation impossible processing unit, Apparatus for providing a message read confirmation service for transmitting to the called party a message for canceling the read confirmation received from the received message. The method of claim 5, The read confirmation impossible processing unit, Caller ID field, A called party number field into which the called party number of the received message is inserted; A reply number field into which the service information telephone number of the mobile communication network is inserted; A transmission time field into which a transmission time of a service unavailable notification message is inserted after confirmation of the called party authentication unit; Billing field into which billing information is inserted for unpaid processing Apparatus for providing a message read confirmation service for generating the service unavailable notification message according to a message format comprising a. The method of claim 6, As a result of the confirmation of the called party authentication unit, when the called party can provide the read confirmation service, the read receipt is set to the received message and transmitted to the called party, and when the read confirmation notification is received from the called party, the read receipt notification message of the called party is generated. Read confirmation processor for transmitting to the sender Device for providing a message read confirmation service further comprising. The method of claim 7, wherein The received message is, Any one of a message provided through a short message service (SMS), a message provided through a long message service (LMS), and a message provided through a multimedia message service (MMS). Device for providing a message read confirmation service comprising a. A method of providing a message read confirmation service for providing a message sender notification of a message receiver to a message sender in a mobile communication network, Querying the subscriber subscription information of the message received from the message sender with a subscriber authentication server managing subscriber information of the mobile communication network; Confirming whether the called party's terminal supports message specification information transmitted to notify that the message is read when the called party reads the message based on the called party's subscription information; Generating a service unavailable notification message indicating that a read confirmation service is not available when the called party's terminal does not support the message specification information; And Transmitting the generated service unavailable notification message to the message sender. Message read confirmation service providing method comprising a. delete delete The method of claim 9, The message standard information, Method for providing a read message confirmation service is information on the format of the read confirmation setting value inserted into the read confirmation setting field of the message, and transmitted to inform the message read when the called party reads the message. The method of claim 9, After the transmitting step, If the called party's terminal does not support the message specification information, transmitting a message for canceling the read confirmation reception from the received message to the called party; Method of providing a message read confirmation service further comprising. The method of claim 13, Generating the service unavailable notification message, A calling number field, a called number field into which a called party number of the received message is inserted, a reply number field into which a service information telephone number of the mobile communication network is inserted, and a read point of time when a service unavailable notification message is inserted after a read confirmation service unavailable check is inserted; And generating a service non-notification message according to a message format including a transmission time field and a charging field into which charging information for billing processing is inserted. The method of claim 13, Setting a read confirmation on the received message and transmitting the read confirmation service to the called party when the called party can provide a read confirmation service; Receiving a read acknowledgment notification from the called party receiving the read acknowledgment message; And Generating a read confirmation notification message based on the received read confirmation notification and providing the read confirmation notification message to the caller; Method of providing a message read confirmation service further comprising. The method of claim 15, The message read confirmation service, A method of providing a message read confirmation service applied to any one of a short message service (SMS), a long message service (LMS), and a multimedia message service (MMS).

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