KR20070041157A - Method for displaying letteering data in sending short message service and mobile communication switching system - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention stores the lettering data corresponding to the telephone number of the calling terminal, and upon receiving an SMS transmission request including the telephone number of the receiving terminal from the calling terminal, sending the SMS including the lettering data of the calling terminal to the receiving terminal. The present invention relates to a method and a system for displaying SMS lettering data to be transmitted. In the method for displaying SMS lettering data in a mobile communication exchange system according to the present invention, the method comprises: maintaining a terminal phone number and lettering data corresponding to the terminal phone number in a lettering database; an SMS transmission request including a phone number of a receiving terminal from a calling terminal; Receiving a; identifying the lettering data corresponding to the telephone number of the calling terminal from the lettering database, and transmitting the SMS containing the identified lettering data to the receiving terminal.

SMS, lettering data, communication terminal, mobile communication exchange system

Description

Letter data display method and mobile communication exchange system in transmission of SMS {METHOD FOR DISPLAYING LETTEERING DATA IN SENDING SHORT MESSAGE SERVICE AND MOBILE COMMUNICATION SWITCHING SYSTEM}

1 is a diagram illustrating a connection of a lettering service providing system during a voice call between terminals according to one embodiment of the prior art.

2 is a diagram illustrating a connection of a mobile communication switching system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3 is a flowchart illustrating a method of displaying SMS lettering data in a mobile communication switching system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

4 is a diagram illustrating a structure of a lettering database according to one embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating a screen displaying lettering data together with an SMS in a receiving terminal according to one embodiment of the present invention.

6 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a mobile communication switching system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

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600: mobile communication exchange system 610: SMS transmission request unit

620: lettering data identification unit 630: lettering database

640: SMS transmission unit 650: group identification unit

660: user interface unit 670: database management unit

680: terminal

681: SMS receiving module 682: display module

The present invention stores the lettering data corresponding to the telephone number of the calling terminal, and upon receiving an SMS transmission request including the telephone number of the receiving terminal from the calling terminal, sending the SMS including the lettering data of the calling terminal to the receiving terminal. The present invention relates to a method and a system for displaying SMS lettering data to be transmitted.

Today's remarkable development of mobile communication has rapidly promoted the popularization of communication terminals (portable devices), and now most of the general people always carry communication terminals such as mobile phones and PDAs. Therefore, the user can easily communicate with the other party using the communication terminal, so that communication is more frequent than before.

1 is a diagram illustrating a connection relationship between a lettering service providing system during a voice call between terminals according to one embodiment of the prior art.

The user of the caller mobile communication terminal 100 may register the lettering data after accessing the mobile communication exchange system 200 using the PC 400 to display the lettering data on the receiver mobile communication terminal 300. have. The lettering data may express the sender such as the sender's nickname, name, phrase. In this way, the mobile communication exchange system 200 receives the voice call request of the caller mobile communication terminal 100, the voice call of the caller mobile communication terminal 100 including the caller's lettering data to the receiver mobile communication terminal 300. Can be informed. Therefore, the receiver mobile communication terminal 300 is displayed with the lettering data as well as the phone number of the sender mobile communication terminal 100, so that the receiver of the receiver mobile communication terminal 300 can easily identify the caller.

The prior art provides a lettering service only during a voice call, as shown in FIG. However, nowadays, not only voice calls but also text message (SMS) transmissions play a significant role. In this situation, mobile communication subscribers do not receive more diverse and individualized services because they cannot use the lettering service that can express their personality when sending SMS. If you provide this lettering service when sending SMS, you can reach consumers with more competitive products.

Therefore, there is a need for a method for easily identifying callers by displaying lettering data on a communication terminal when transmitting SMS as in a voice call.

The present invention has been made to solve the problems of the prior art as described above, by transmitting the letter data with the phone number of the sender of the SMS at the time of SMS transmission, the receiver of the receiver terminal receiving the SMS It is an object of the present invention to provide a method and system for easily identifying a caller.

In addition, the present invention is to set different lettering data for each group containing one or more recipient phone number, and to transmit different lettering data to the receiver terminal according to the group to which the recipient phone number belongs when sending SMS, the user's convenience It is an object of the present invention to provide a method and a system capable of increasing the number.

In addition, an object of the present invention is to provide a method and system for expressing itself with its own name or unique lettering data to a receiving terminal during SMS transmission, and the receiving terminal can easily recognize the sender with the lettering data. .

In order to achieve the above object and solve the above-mentioned problems of the prior art, the SMS lettering data display method in a mobile communication exchange system according to an embodiment of the present invention is a terminal phone number and the lettering data corresponding to the terminal phone number Maintaining in a lettering database, receiving an SMS transmission request including a telephone number of a receiving terminal from a calling terminal, identifying lettering data corresponding to the telephone number of the calling terminal from the lettering database, and the identification And transmitting the SMS including the written lettering data to the receiving terminal.

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

In the present invention, the "sending terminal" is a terminal requesting an SMS transmission to a receiving terminal, and the "receiving terminal" means a terminal receiving the SMS according to the SMS request of the calling terminal.

2 is a diagram illustrating a connection of a mobile communication switching system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

In order to display the lettering data during SMS transmission according to the present invention, the sender of the sender mobile communication terminal (A) can enter the lettering data after connecting to the mobile communication exchange system (B) using a PC (D). . The lettering data may be to express the sender such as the nickname, name, phrase of the sender, it may be displayed by a combination of letters, numbers or symbols. The caller may enter lettering data corresponding to his terminal A or may input lettering data corresponding to a group including one or more recipient telephone numbers. Accordingly, the mobile communication switching system B may store the lettering data corresponding to the telephone number of the caller mobile communication terminal A or the lettering data corresponding to the group including one or more recipient telephone numbers in the lettering database.

After completing the application for displaying the lettering data in this way, the sender mobile communication terminal (A) may request SMS transmission to the receiver mobile communication terminal (C). The mobile communication switching system (B) may receive the SMS transmission request from the caller mobile communication terminal (A), and identify the lettering data corresponding to the phone number of the caller mobile communication terminal (A) from the lettering database. The mobile communication switching system (B) may transmit the SMS including the identified lettering data to the receiver mobile communication terminal (C).

Therefore, the receiver mobile communication terminal 300 is displayed with the caller's mobile communication terminal 100 as well as the phone number of the caller's lettering data, so that the receiver of the receiver mobile communication terminal 300 can easily identify the caller.

3 is a flowchart illustrating a method of displaying caller lettering data during SMS transmission according to an embodiment of the present invention.

In step 301, the mobile communication switching system B may maintain a terminal telephone number and lettering data corresponding to the terminal telephone number in a lettering database.

A description with reference to FIG. 4 is as follows. 4 is a diagram illustrating a structure of a lettering database according to one embodiment of the present invention.

The lettering database 410 may maintain a terminal phone number and lettering data corresponding to the terminal phone number. The terminal telephone number may be a telephone number of a user who wants to display his / her lettering data to a counterpart to receive an SMS sent by the terminal. The lettering data may be one of a nickname, a name, a phrase, and may be represented by a combination of letters, numbers, and symbols.

To this end, the user can access the mobile communication switching system (B) and apply for SMS lettering data service, and the mobile communication switching system (B) receives a predetermined service subscription procedure such as receiving predetermined user information from the user. After performing, the SMS lettering data service can be used. Accordingly, the mobile communication switching system B may store the user's terminal phone number 010-9568-1234 and the user's lettering data (happy) in the lettering database 410.

Thereafter, the user may request the lettering data management from the mobile communication exchange system B to change / delete / add the lettering data, and the mobile communication exchange system B may provide a lettering data management interface after the user authentication. Can be. The user may input his / her lettering data through the lettering data management interface, and the mobile communication exchange system B may store the input lettering data in the lettering database 410. In addition, the lettering database 410 may store other lettering data in addition to the lettering data of "It is Jang Dong Gun" in response to "011-9599-4567", and may select and set one of the plurality of stored lettering data. have.

In addition, according to an embodiment of the present invention, the mobile communication switching system (B) may register the lettering data in response to a group including one or more recipient phone numbers to receive the SMS. Accordingly, the user may set a group including one or more recipient phone numbers and input lettering data corresponding to the set group.

Lettering database 420 may store a group containing one or more recipient phone numbers in association with a terminal phone number and lettering data corresponding to the group. As shown, the lettering database 420 corresponds to a group of " friends " including " 011-9364-3690 ", " 011-9706-3690 " in association with " 011-9877-2580 " You can keep the lettering data of "the last ^^".

Referring again to FIG. 3, in step 302, the calling terminal (sender mobile communication terminal A) receives the telephone number of the receiving terminal (receiving mobile communication terminal C) to the mobile communication switching system B. You can request SMS transmission to your phone number. The calling terminal A may be the calling mobile terminal A of FIG. 2. The sender of the calling terminal A can input the contents of the SMS to be sent to the receiving terminal C using the calling terminal A, input the phone number of the receiving terminal C into the recipient phone number, and then send the SMS. have.

In step 303, the mobile communication switching system B receives the SMS transmission request from the calling terminal A, and identifies lettering data corresponding to the telephone number of the calling terminal A from the lettering database 410. Can be. Further, according to an embodiment of the present invention, the mobile communication switching system (B) is a group to which the telephone number of the receiving terminal (C) belongs among the recipient telephone numbers associated with the telephone number of the calling terminal (A) from the lettering database 420. May be identified, and the lettering data corresponding to the group may be identified.

In step 304, the mobile communication switching system B may send an SMS including the identified lettering data to the receiving terminal C. In step 305, the receiving terminal C may receive an SMS including the lettering data from the mobile communication switching system B.

As described above, according to the present invention, when the SMS is transmitted, the letter data of the sender is also transmitted together with the caller's phone number that transmitted the SMS, so that the receiver of the receiver terminal receiving the SMS can easily identify the sender.

A description with reference to FIG. 5 is as follows. FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating a screen displaying caller lettering data together with an SMS in a receiving terminal according to one embodiment of the present invention.

As shown, the receiving terminal C may display the received SMS on the display unit. If the telephone number of the calling terminal A is stored in the receiving terminal C, the receiving terminal C reads the contents of the message (how should I be doing?) And the telephone number of the calling terminal A. -9597-4567), the stored sender's name (Jang Dong Gun) and the caller's lettering data (Jang Dong Gun) can be displayed. However, even when the telephone number of the calling terminal A is not stored in the receiving terminal C, the receiving terminal C displays the caller's lettering data together with the telephone number of the calling terminal A. Callers can be easily identified.

6 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a mobile communication switching system during SMS transmission according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The mobile communication exchange system 600 includes an SMS transmission request unit 610, a lettering data identification unit 620, a lettering database 630, an SMS transmission unit 640, a group identification unit 650, and a user interface unit 660. It may include a database manager 670.

The lettering database 630 may maintain a terminal phone number and lettering data corresponding to the terminal phone number (401 of FIG. 4).

The SMS transmission request unit 610 may receive an SMS transmission request including the telephone number of the receiving terminal from the calling terminal.

The lettering data identification unit 620 may identify the lettering data corresponding to the telephone number of the calling terminal A from the lettering database 630.

The SMS transmitter 640 may transmit the SMS including the identified lettering data to the receiving terminal C. FIG.

The receiving terminal 680 may include an SMS receiving module 681 and a display module 682.

The SMS receiving module 681 may receive an SMS including lettering data from the calling terminal A through the mobile communication switching system 600.

The display module 682 may display the phone number and the lettering data of the calling terminal A together with the SMS. That is, the display module 682 may display the contents of the SMS, the telephone number of the calling terminal A, and the lettering data, as shown in FIG. 5. If the telephone number of the calling terminal A is stored in the receiving terminal 680, the display module 682 may also output the name of the calling party stored in correspondence with the telephone number of the calling terminal A. FIG.

According to one embodiment of the invention, the lettering database 630 may maintain a group comprising one or more recipient phone numbers and lettering data corresponding to the group (420 of FIG. 4).

The group identification unit 650 may identify a group to which the telephone number of the receiving terminal C belongs among the recipient telephone numbers associated with the telephone number of the calling terminal A from the lettering database 630.

The lettering data identification unit 650 may identify lettering data corresponding to the group.

The SMS transmitter 640 may transmit the SMS including the identified lettering data to the receiving terminal C. FIG.

The mobile communication exchange system 600 may allow a user to change / delete / add the lettering data of the user stored in the lettering database 630. To this end, the user interface unit 660 may receive a lettering data management request from the user of the calling terminal A, and provide the lettering data management interface after the user authentication.

The database manager 670 may receive lettering data from the user and store the input lettering data in the lettering database 630 in association with the telephone number of the calling terminal A. FIG.

In the SMS transmission method according to the present invention, the sender's lettering data display method may be implemented in a program command form that may be executed by various computer means and may be recorded in a computer readable medium. The computer readable medium may include program instructions, data files, data structures, etc. alone or in combination. Program instructions recorded on the media may be those specially designed and constructed for the purposes of the present invention, or they may be of the kind well-known and available to those having skill in the computer software arts. Examples of computer-readable recording media include magnetic media such as hard disks, floppy disks, and magnetic tape, optical media such as CD-ROMs, DVDs, and magnetic disks, such as floppy disks. Magneto-optical media, and hardware devices specifically configured to store and execute program instructions, such as ROM, RAM, flash memory, and the like. The medium may be a transmission medium such as an optical or metal wire, a waveguide, or the like including a carrier wave for transmitting a signal specifying a program command, a data structure, or the like. Examples of program instructions include not only machine code generated by a compiler, but also high-level language code that can be executed by a computer using an interpreter or the like. The hardware device described above may be configured to operate as one or more software modules to perform the operations of the present invention, and vice versa.

As described above, although the present invention has been described with reference to limited embodiments and drawings, the present invention is not limited to the above embodiments, and those skilled in the art to which the present invention pertains various modifications and variations from such descriptions. This is possible.

Therefore, the scope of the present invention should not be limited to the described embodiments, but should be determined not only by the claims below but also by the equivalents of the claims.

According to the present invention, when the SMS is transmitted, the letter data of the sender is also transmitted together with the caller's phone number that transmitted the SMS, so that the receiver of the receiver terminal receiving the SMS can easily identify the sender.

In addition, according to the present invention, to set the caller's lettering data for each group containing one or more recipient's phone number, and transmits the caller's lettering data to the receiver terminal according to the group to which the receiver phone number belongs when sending SMS By doing so, the user's convenience can be increased.

In addition, according to the present invention, when sending an SMS can express itself to the receiving terminal with its own name or unique lettering data, the receiving terminal can easily recognize the sender by the lettering data of the sender.

Claims (9)

In the method of displaying SMS lettering data in the mobile communication exchange system, Maintaining a terminal telephone number and lettering data corresponding to the terminal telephone number in a lettering database; Receiving an SMS transmission request including the telephone number of the receiving terminal from the calling terminal; Identifying lettering data corresponding to the telephone number of the calling terminal from the lettering database; And Transmitting an SMS including the identified lettering data to the receiving terminal; SMS lettering data display method comprising a. The method of claim 1, Maintaining in the lettering database a group comprising one or more recipient telephone numbers in association with the terminal telephone number and lettering data corresponding to the group; Receiving an SMS transmission request including a telephone number of a receiving terminal from the calling terminal; Identifying, from the lettering database, a group to which the telephone number of the receiving terminal belongs among recipient telephone numbers associated with the telephone number of the calling terminal; And Identifying the lettering data corresponding to the group, and transmitting an SMS including the identified lettering data to the receiving terminal. SMS lettering data display method further comprising a. The method of claim 1, The step of maintaining the terminal telephone number and the lettering data corresponding to the terminal telephone number in the lettering database, Receiving a lettering data management request from a user of the calling terminal, and after the user authentication, providing the lettering data management interface; And Receiving lettering data from the user and storing the input lettering data in the lettering database in association with the telephone number of the calling terminal; SMS lettering data display method further comprising a. The method of claim 1, The lettering data may be one of a nickname, a name, a phrase, and the SMS lettering data displaying method, characterized in that it is represented by a combination of letters, numbers, symbols. A computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program for executing the method of any one of claims 1 to 4. In the mobile communication exchange system, A lettering database for holding a terminal telephone number and lettering data corresponding to the terminal telephone number; An SMS transmission request unit for receiving an SMS transmission request including a phone number of a receiving terminal from a calling terminal; A lettering data identification unit for identifying lettering data corresponding to the telephone number of the calling terminal from the lettering database; And SMS transmission unit for transmitting the SMS including the identified lettering data to the receiving terminal Mobile communication exchange system comprising a. The method of claim 6, The lettering database maintains a group comprising one or more recipient phone numbers and lettering data corresponding to the group, The SMS transmission request unit receives an SMS transmission request including the telephone number of the receiving terminal from the calling terminal, The lettering data identification unit identifies, from the lettering database, a group to which the telephone number of the receiving terminal belongs, among the recipient telephone numbers associated with the telephone number of the calling terminal, and identifies the lettering data corresponding to the group, And the SMS transmitting unit transmits an SMS including the identified lettering data to the receiving terminal. The method of claim 6, A user interface unit for receiving a lettering data management request from a user of the calling terminal and providing the lettering data management interface after the user authentication; And A database manager which receives lettering data from the user and stores the input lettering data in the lettering database in association with the telephone number of the calling terminal; A mobile communication exchange system further comprising. In a communication terminal, An SMS receiving module for receiving an SMS including lettering data transmitted from a calling terminal from a mobile communication switching system; And And a display module for displaying the phone number and the lettering data of the calling terminal together with the received SMS. The mobile communication switching system maintains lettering data corresponding to the telephone number of the calling terminal and, upon receiving an SMS transmission request including the telephone number of the receiving terminal from the calling terminal, corresponds to the telephone number of the calling terminal. Identifying lettering data, and transmitting an SMS including the identified lettering data to the receiving terminal.

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