KR20020056803A - Message transferring method and system using internet - Google Patents

Abstract

According to the present invention, any person who confirms the subscriber's ID in the subscriber and the subscriber promotion attachment can check the information on the subscriber through the subscriber ID checked by accessing the web server operated by the message transmission service provider of the present invention. You can write an email that will be sent to. The service provider of the present invention will send the intended email to the subscriber's email address. Accordingly, the present invention allows the subscriber to easily inform the other person so that the user can easily receive the message from any person, and also the subscriber can directly send the message after confirming the receiving party. The receiving side can also selectively receive information on the identity of the calling party (ID, age, region), so that it can determine whether to receive again.

Description

Message transmission method and system using internet {MESSAGE TRANSFERRING METHOD AND SYSTEM USING INTERNET}

The present invention relates to a message transmission system using the Internet, and more particularly, to a method and a system for enabling a subscriber to send a message after directly checking a receiving party.

Recently, various services such as e-commerce, e-news, cyber stock trading, electronic mail (e-mail), and chat are provided based on the internet using the web, and users are currently working on offline work. Internet services are emerging as an important business as they can be easily serviced through the Internet.

In particular, recently, e-mail service providers have provided users with free use of e-mail, thereby allowing users to communicate freely over the Internet instead of by phone or letter. In this case, instead of providing a free e-mail to the user, the e-mail service providers may employ a method of bringing an advertisement effect by attaching and transmitting data such as an image or a video to the e-mail.

In general, when a user sends an e-mail (hereinafter referred to as 'e-mail') to the other party, the user sends a mail in the form of a text file, inserts an image file into a text document, or adds an attached file. In addition, the other party receiving the e-mail also responds by adding a response to the received e-mail or by creating a new e-mail using an e-mail in the form of text or image.

However, such an e-mail system requires the e-mail sender to know the e-mail recipient's address in advance. In this case, the e-mail sender and the receiver already know the other party. Thus, such email systems are typically used for message delivery between two users you already know, and are rarely used to make someone new.

On the other hand, in recent years, interactive communication services using the Internet have also been widely used. Interactive communication refers to the exchange of conversations between two or more clients over a network, commonly known as chat rooms or chats. The chat service is becoming a universal service used by each age group as well as by the low age group due to the interest of communicating with an unknown person through a computer.

Such a chat system is a general client-server system, which is composed of a plurality of clients connected to a server through a network so that the server controls and relays interactive communication between clients at the request of each client. In order to receive a chat service, it is common to register itself with a chat service provider to use, and the registered user selects a counterpart to chat with among other users connected to the same chat service provider and then chats with the counterpart.

By the way, such a chat service is interesting that you can talk to an unknown person, but because it is difficult to identify the person directly, there was a difficult point to have a reliable conversation. In order to make up for these drawbacks, a video chat service for transmitting an image together using a small digital camera has recently been provided. However, such a video chat service was also insufficient to accurately identify the other party.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a message transmission method and system which enables a subscriber to transmit a message after directly checking a receiving party.

It is another object of the present invention to provide a message transmission method and system that enables a subscriber to easily notify others of the message so that they can easily receive a message from any person.

It is still another object of the present invention to provide a message transmission method and system that allows a subscriber to easily notify another person belonging to a desired target so that the subscriber can easily receive a message from any person belonging to the target.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention is a kind of attachment such as key ring type or other various types of accessories provided offline in advance so that each subscriber registered as a member to the message transmission service provider according to the present invention can be attached to a bag or the like. It is assumed that it is provided. The attachment provided by each subscriber describes the identification of the subscriber, which is set when the subscriber registers. That is, the attachment serves to promote the subscriber's ID. Anyone who checks the subscriber's ID from the subscriber and the attachment attached to the subscriber can check the information on the subscriber through the subscriber ID checked by accessing the web server operated by the message transmission service provider of the present invention. You can write an email to be sent. The service provider of the present invention will send the intended email to the subscriber's email address. In this case, the subscriber's information and e-mail address are input when the subscriber subscribes to the service provider of the present invention as a member, and whether or not the information is disclosed can be appropriately set by the subscriber.

1 is a schematic diagram of an Internet connection state between an operator web server and a remote subscriber and a mail server providing a message transfer service according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Figure 2 is an illustration of a web page screen provided to the subscriber terminal from the operator web server according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3 is a flow diagram of a message transfer operation between an operator web server and a remote subscriber station in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention.

4 is a schematic diagram of an overall system for message transmission of a remote subscriber via a portable wireless terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

5 is a flowchart of a message transmission operation of a remote subscriber via a web server and a portable wireless terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

6 is a view illustrating an output screen according to an operation flow of a portable wireless terminal for explaining a message transmission operation in a portable wireless terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. In the following description, specific details such as specific components are shown, which are provided to help a more general understanding of the present invention, and it is understood that these specific details may be changed or changed within the scope of the present invention. It is self-evident to those of ordinary knowledge in Esau.

1 is a schematic diagram of an internet connection state between an operator web server and a remote subscriber and a mail server providing a message transfer service according to the present invention. As shown in FIG. 1, the terminal 120 of each subscriber, such as a personal computer (PC), is connected to the operator web server 110 via the Internet 100, and the operator web server 110 is also connected to the Internet 100. It is connected to a plurality of e-mail server 130 through. In this case, the Internet 80 is defined as a concept including wired and wireless networks.

The operator web server 110 providing a message transmission service according to the present invention includes an advertisement server 120 for collecting advertisement files transmitted from a plurality of advertisers (not shown), an operation server 111, and an operator control. A data input unit 113 for inputting a command, a browser generation unit 114 for generating a browser to synthesize a plurality of files to be transmitted to the subscriber terminal 120, and information on the corresponding subscriber of the subscriber terminal 120. A subscriber information database 115 to store, an image database 116 for storing various video (and audio) data, an advertisement database 117 and an operator for storing advertisement data provided through the advertisement server 112, and the like. The main server 130 manages the web server 100 as a whole and includes a main controller 130 for processing various data from the subscriber terminal 120 and the mail server 130.

Hereinafter, an operation between the operator web server 110 and the subscriber station 120 will be described with reference to FIGS. 2 and 3. 2 is an exemplary diagram of a web page screen provided from an operator 가입자 server to a subscriber terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 3 is a flowchart of a message transmission operation according to an embodiment of the present invention.

First, Figure 2 (a) shows an example of a screen for receiving the subscriber information provided when the subscriber is registered as a member to the operator web server 110 of the present invention. The procedure for membership registration is similar to the membership registration procedure for web sites that provide other services, so detailed description thereof will be omitted.

Referring to FIG. 2A, there may be input fields such as 'basic information', 'detailed information', 'self-introduction', and 'receive condition' to receive member information. Through the 'basic information' field 211, the user's name, social security number, address, email address, etc. can be input, and the 'detailed information' field 212 can receive information about the job or hobby of the subscriber. . In the 'About Me' column (213), the subscriber may receive a relatively short sentence introducing themselves. At this time, the user can receive a selection of whether to disclose or disclose the information for each input field or each information in each input field to prevent the subscriber's information from being disclosed unprotected.

On the other hand, the message transmission service according to the present invention is based on the assumption that any person can easily send a message, in which the subscriber has a certain condition, such as a certain age or a specific address, among any of these people. You may want to receive messages only from people you have. Accordingly, the 'receive condition' column (214) allows the subscriber to set these receiving conditions as desired. For example, the age can be set between 20 and 25 years old, and the address can be set in Seoul.

The subscriber who enters such member information and subscribes as a member has a unique ID. The ID is a key ring type or various forms that the message transmission service provider of the present invention pays to each member offline or purchased by each subscriber. Appropriate markings, such as accessories. Each attachment may have a structure that can be attached to each subscriber, such as a bag, it is preferable to have a unique form to inform that the subscriber of the message transmission service of the present invention.

The attachment attached to the bag serves to promote the subscriber's ID, and any person who checks the subscriber's ID from the subscriber and the attachment provided by the subscriber accesses a web server operated by the message transmission service provider of the present invention. You can check the information on the subscriber through the confirmed subscriber ID and write an e-mail to be sent to the subscriber. At this time, it is preferable that any of the above persons are subscribed to the message transmission service of the present invention or must first subscribe.

Referring to FIG. 3, the operation in which the arbitrary person (called subscriber A) wants to transmit a message by identifying the subscriber (called subscriber B) having the ID and attachment attached to the attachment will be described in more detail. First, if any subscriber (A) terminal 120 requests access to the operator web server 120 through the Internet 100 in step 301, the operator web server 110 is initially initialized to the subscriber station 120 in step 302. The screen (that is, the homepage) is transmitted. Thereafter, in step 303, the subscriber station 120 performs a login operation by inputting an ID (ID) and a password previously given in a corresponding column of the initial screen. The entered ID and password are transmitted to the operator web server 110, and the operator web server 110 searches for subscriber basic information stored in the internal subscriber information database 115 in step 304 to approve access if the subscriber is an existing registrant. do.

Thereafter, in step 305, there may be a request for information on subscriber B from subscriber (A) terminal 120. In this case, subscriber A requests subscriber B's information by inputting subscriber B's ID into the input window of the screen displayed on the terminal. If there is a request for information on a specific subscriber B from the subscriber terminal 120, the operator web server 110 retrieves the information on the subscriber B from the internal subscriber information database 115, the subscriber terminal 120 in step 306 The subscriber B's public information is transmitted. Disclosure information refers to information that member B has allowed to disclose in his membership information. After confirming this public information, subscriber A can create an email and request to send the email in step 307.

2B illustrates an output screen of the public information of the subscriber B transmitted from the operator web server 110 to the subscriber terminal 120. As shown in (b) of FIG. 2, the searched public information field 215 of the subscriber B may be provided at the top of the screen. Subscriber A can check the output information of the subscriber B is output can write an e-mail in the e-mail composition field 216 provided at the bottom of the public information column (215).

When there is an e-mail transmission request from the subscriber terminal 120, the operator web server 110 compares the member information of the subscriber A requesting the e-mail transmission and the reception condition of the e-mail destination subscriber B. That is, when the condition for the age is set among the reception conditions of the subscriber B, it is checked whether the age of the subscriber A meets the condition. If the condition is satisfied, the e-mail address essential to the member information of the subscriber B is confirmed, and in step 308, the subscriber A's e-mail is transmitted to the mail server 130 corresponding to the e-mail address of the subscriber B. Thereafter, in step 309, the operator web server 110 notifies the subscriber station 120 of the email transmission status. At this time, if the subscriber A does not transmit the email because the subscriber A does not meet the reception condition of the subscriber B, it is notified that the transmission of the email is impossible.

By the above process, the e-mail transmission operation from the subscriber A to the subscriber B can be performed. On the other hand, when transmitting the public information of the subscriber B from the operator web server 110 to the subscriber terminal 120 in step 306, the information on the reception condition of the subscriber B is also transmitted as shown in (b) of FIG. It may be displayed in the public information column 215 of the screen as described above. Accordingly, the subscriber A may check whether the output condition of the subscriber B is output to check whether or not the subscriber A meets the above conditions, and determine whether to receive a reply or a continuous low reception. On the other hand, it is preferable that the information on the specific home address and the e-mail address of the subscriber B is not directly disclosed to the subscriber A in the above process.

In addition, although the mail server 130 has been described as being provided by a separate email service provider different from the message transmission service provider of the present invention, the mail transmission service provider itself of the present invention may be provided with a mail server inside or outside. In addition, the message transmission service provider of the present invention can provide a general email service to a subscriber.

On the other hand, in recent years, the use of portable terminals has increased rapidly, and in particular, portable wireless terminals having various functions such as short message transmission, internet connection, and the like have been developed, such as IMT2000. Accordingly, according to another embodiment of the present invention, a message transmission service provider may implement a message transmission between a mobile wireless terminal of each subscriber.

4 is a schematic diagram of an overall system for message transmission of a remote subscriber via a portable wireless terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention. First, the configuration of the wireless network 400 will be described. Referring to FIG. 4, a Short Message Service Center (SMSC) 405 is connected to a Home Location Register (HLR) 404 and a Mobile Switching Center (MSC) 403 to connect a receiver. It has a function of identifying the location and delivering a short message to mobile subscribers through PLMN (Public Land Mobile Network). The HLR 404 is a medium-class computer that mainly performs subscriber information processing device functions, and is classified into four types: a network access device, a subscriber database, and an operation management device. The SMSC 405 can send and receive numbers and letters bidirectionally between various text delivery systems (PC communication system, Internet server system, mobile communication terminal, etc.) and subscribers using a mobile communication network, and use a short message client (SMC). Is connected to another network, ie, the Internet 100. The SMSC 405 may be provided inside the MSC 403.

The MSC 403 interworks with other MSCs to process outgoing and incoming requests from the mobile communication terminal (MP) 420, performs an inquiry to the subscriber with the HLR 404, and the short message is When transmitted from the SMSC 405, it is sent to a base station controller (BSC) 402 to allow a message to be transmitted through a paging channel at a base transceiver station (BTS) 401. Receiving messages in the opposite direction is performed in the same way. The base station controller (BSC) 402 controls the wireless link and the wired link and performs a handoff function to maintain the continuity of the call while the subscriber is on the move. The base station (BTS) 401 communicates with the mobile communication terminal 420 using a radio section.

In such a wireless network 400, the SMC that may be provided in the SMSC 405 is for connection with the Internet 100. The SMC serves as a gateway to other networks when the SMSC 405 connects to other networks and provides functions such as a user interface. The SMC connected to the Internet 100 converts the short message sent from the mobile communication terminal 420 into an e-mail form and transmits it to the Internet 100. The e-mail received from the Internet 100 is converted into a short message form and is converted into an SMSC 405. To send. In FIG. 4, it can be seen that the operator web server 110, the subscriber terminal 120 such as a PC, and the mail server 130 of the present invention, as shown in FIG. 1, are connected to the Internet 100.

The subscriber of the present invention can access the operator web server 110 of the present invention using his mobile communication terminal 420, and also the ID of the attachment attached to the bag of another subscriber, etc. of his mobile communication terminal 420. You can check the information on the subscriber of the ID by entering in, and can send an email or a short message to the subscriber of the ID. To this end, the function of the mobile communication terminal 420 is provided with an Internet access function and a screen output function according to the present invention, which can be connected to the operator web server 110 of the present invention, and also include SMSC 405 and SMC. Etc., a function of processing a transmission / reception message between the mobile communication terminal 420 and the operator web server 110 through the Internet 100 is added.

5 and 6, the arbitrary person (called subscriber A) identifies the subscriber (called subscriber B) having the ID and attachment indicated on the attachment of the present invention, and thus, the mobile communication terminal 420. An operation when the message is to be transmitted through will be described in more detail. 5 is a flowchart illustrating a message transmission operation of a remote subscriber through a web server and a portable wireless terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 6 illustrates a message transmission operation at a portable wireless terminal side according to an embodiment of the present invention. An example of the output screen according to the operation flow of the portable wireless terminal for.

Referring to FIG. 5, first, when a subscriber (A) mobile communication terminal 420 requests access to the email server of the present invention, that is, the operator web server 120 in step 501, the SMSC 405 of the wireless network, In operation 502, the client A may transmit a connection request of subscriber A to the operator web server 110 through the Internet 100. As shown in step 601 of FIG. 6, the access request may be made by the subscriber selecting a so-called "Internet message" from the function setting menu of the mobile communication terminal.

If the operator web server 110 approves this in step 503, the SMSC 405 notifies the access to the subscriber mobile communication terminal 420 in step 504. This may be informed as shown in the access completion screen shown in step 602 of FIG. 6. When the subscriber is connected, the subscriber may select a so-called 'search' menu as shown in step 602 of FIG. 6 to request information on subscriber B through the mobile communication terminal 420. Subsequently, in step 603 of FIG. As shown, a search ID may be input. In this case, in step 603 of FIG. 6, the search ID is '100100'. The subscriber's ID may be composed of letters or numbers, but for convenience of input of the mobile communication terminal 420, it is preferable that the subscriber is composed of numbers. By entering the subscriber B's ID, the subscriber B's information is requested.

Referring back to FIG. 5, when the subscriber B's information request is generated from the mobile communication terminal 420 in step 505, the SMSC 405 transmits it to the operator web server 110 in step 506. The operator web server 110 retrieves the information on the subscriber B from the internal subscriber information database 115 and then transmits the public information of subscriber B to the SMSC 405 in step 507. The SMSC 405 then transmits the public information of the subscriber B to the mobile communication terminal 420 of the subscriber A in step 508.

This is output as so-called search ID disclosure information to the mobile communication terminal 420, as in step 604 of FIG. In case of transmitting the public information of the subscriber B, the information on the reception condition of the subscriber B may be transmitted together with the screen of the mobile communication terminal 420 of the subscriber A in step 604 of FIG. Accordingly, the subscriber A may check the reception condition of the output subscriber B to check whether the subscriber A meets the above condition. When the reception condition is satisfied, as shown in step 605 of FIG. 6, the subscriber A may create a message in the mobile communication terminal 420 and request transmission.

In step 509 of FIG. 5, when a message transmission request is generated in subscriber A's mobile communication terminal 420, the SMSC 405 notifies the operator web server 110 of the subscriber A's message transmission request in step 510. do. When there is a message transmission request from the mobile communication terminal 420 through the SMSC 405, the operator web server 110 compares the subscriber A's member information requesting the message transmission with the message destination subscriber B's reception condition. In operation 511, the operator web server 110 notifies the SMSC 405 of the condition of satisfaction or dissatisfaction of the condition. The SMSC 405 checks the satisfaction / dissatisfaction state of the above condition and, if the condition is satisfied, transmits the message of the subscriber A's mobile communication terminal 420 to the subscriber B's mobile communication terminal in step 512. In step 513, the SMSC 405 notifies the subscriber mobile communication terminal 420 of the message transmission status. In this case, as shown in step 606 of FIG. 6, the message transmission completion screen may be output on the screen of the subscriber A's mobile communication terminal 420. On the other hand, if the subscriber A does not meet the reception condition of the subscriber B in step 513 and does not transmit the message, it is notified that the e-mail cannot be transmitted.

By the above process, the message transmission operation of the subscriber A's mobile communication terminal and the subscriber B can be performed. On the other hand, the above process has been described with respect to the transmission of the message between the mobile communication terminal among the subscribers of the message transmission service provider of the present invention, Subscriber A to send an email to the email address of the subscriber B using his mobile communication terminal It can also be configured to work.

As described above, specific embodiments of the present invention have been described, but various modifications can be made without departing from the scope of the present invention. Therefore, the scope of the present invention should not be defined by the described embodiments, but by the claims and equivalents of the claims.

As described above, the present invention allows the subscriber to easily notify the other person, so that the subscriber can easily receive the message from any person, and the subscriber can directly send the message after confirming the receiving party. Moreover, in this case, the subscriber can easily notify himself only to other people belonging to the object he wants, so that he can easily receive a message from any person belonging to the object.

Claims (6)

In the subscriber message transmission method of a system for providing an e-mail service on the Internet, Checking whether there is an arbitrary ID input from the subscriber station connected through the Internet; Providing predetermined information among the subscriber's information corresponding to the predetermined ID to the subscriber terminal; And sending a message to an e-mail address of the random ID subscriber when a message transmission request is received from the subscriber station to the random ID subscriber. The method of claim 1, wherein the predetermined part of the information of the random ID subscriber is preset information as publicly available information by the corresponding subscriber selectively among the member information of the random ID subscriber. In the subscriber message transmission method of the system that provides an e-mail service on the Internet and receives the subscriber's member information and information on the e-mail receiving condition when registering the subscriber, Checking whether there is an arbitrary ID input from the subscriber station connected through the Internet; Providing predetermined information among the subscriber's information corresponding to the predetermined ID to the subscriber terminal; Checking a member information of a corresponding subscriber of the subscriber station when the request for transmitting a message from the subscriber station to the random ID subscriber confirms whether a reception condition of the random ID subscriber is satisfied; And transmitting the message to an e-mail address of the random ID subscriber if the reception condition of the random ID subscriber is met. The method of claim 3, wherein the predetermined part of the information of the random ID subscriber is preset information as publicly available information by the corresponding subscriber selectively among the member information of the random ID subscriber. In the system in a message transmission method under an Internet environment connected to a wireless network, Providing a message transmission service over the Internet, and if there is an input of any ID from the wireless subscriber station via the wireless network to provide some preset information of the corresponding subscriber information to the wireless subscriber station via the wireless network Operator web server, And a wireless network for transmitting and receiving a message between the operator web server and the wireless subscriber station, and transmitting the message to the wireless subscriber station of the random ID subscriber when a message transmission request is received from the wireless subscriber station to the random ID subscriber. Message transmission system characterized in that the configuration. The wireless network of claim 5, wherein the wireless network checks the member information of the corresponding subscriber of the wireless subscriber station when the message is transmitted from the wireless subscriber station to the random ID subscriber, and meets the reception condition of the random ID subscriber. Message is transmitted to the wireless subscriber station of the random ID subscriber.