The present invention relates to a voice message transmission of a mobile communication terminal. More specifically, the present invention relates to a reply voice message transmission system and a method thereof, while a receiver hears a voice message transmitted from a sender, the receiver presses a specific key to transmit a voice message to confirm whether or not the receiver hears the message.
Currently, the wireless paging service comprises a numeric paging, which transmits numeric messages, and an alphanumeric paging, which transmits simple letter messages. However, since it is limited to transmit information by numbers or letters, users prefer to use a voice message being capable of expressing unique emotion of human, and the voice mailbox service using the wireless paging network is a kind of a form to satisfy such need. Herein, the voice mailbox service is defined that a sender makes a phone call to leave a voice message in the voice mailbox, the arrival of the voice message is informed to the terminal of the receiver, and the receiver hears the messages by making a phone call to the voice mailbox.
Hereinafter, the most general method of transmitting the voice message of the conventional art will be explained.
First of all, the access to the mobile communication supplementary service proceeds with by a general mobile communication call process, and when the terminal is in the state incapable of receiving, a voice paging service is operated. That is, when a call connection is requested between terminals for transmitting a voice message, the mobile switch requests the location to HLR by using a Location Request message, and the HLR confirms the location from VLR (Visitor Location Resistor) of the visiting place in which the terminal currently locates, and then transmits to the mobile communication switch.
The mobile switch sets a communication path to the visiting place switch, and then performing the paging to the mobile communication terminal. If the terminal sends a paging responding message, a two-way real time phone call is carried out as the user wishes.
However, if the terminal is in the area incapable of receiving or the power is off, the visiting place mobile communication switch connects the communication path to the voice paging center, so that a sender can leave a voice message in the voice paging center. Thereafter, the voice paging center waits and re-transmits the message by re-transmission algorithm, and if the terminal power is off and a registered message is received from the terminal via the HLR, the voice message transmission starts.
However, such voice message transmission has the structure that the voice information of the sender is stored in the voice paging center and the receiver unilaterally hears the stored voice information. Thus, there is no way for the receiver to transmit the reply voice message to the sender's terminal in response to the sender's voice message without the sender's number. Thus, it causes a lot of inconvenience in using the system. Furthermore, under the rapidly changing environment, the conventional voice message system is the system against the current trend which requires the real time network, and such system has a problem of lowering the applicability of the network.
Technical Problem
Accordingly, the present invention is conceived to resolve the aforesaid general problems of the conventional art. The object of the present invention is to provide a reply voice message transmission system and a method thereof, which can transmit the reply as a voice message by pressing a specific button of the terminal while a receiver hears the voice message transmitted to the receiver.
In addition, in terms of the sender, another object of the present invention is to provide a reply voice message transmission system and a method thereof, wherein the sender can recognize whether or not the voice message is correctly transmitted by the receiver's reply voice message received by the sending terminal, whereas the receiver can press a specific button to record and transmit the voice message while hearing the sender's specific voice message (e.g., questions or urgent messages), thereby easily transmitting the reply voice message to the sender.
According to the present invention, while hearing the voice message provided from the sending terminal, if the reply thereto is required, the receiver presses a pre-determined key to record the reply voice message and then completes hearing the sender's voice message, the reply voice message is transmitted to the sender's terminal. Thus, it can satisfy the need of both of the receiver and the sender to confirm the voice message, and the sender does not have to have wrong expectation regarding the untransmitted message. Also, the convenience in using the voice message increases.
Technical Solution
The reply voice message according to the first viewpoint of the present invention in order to achieve the above object comprises: A) a sending terminal (MS1) registering a voice message and receiving a notice of arrival of a message regarding the registered voice information; B) a base station controller (BSC) carrying out a call connection of the mobile communication network in response to a request for registering the voice message of the sending terminal MS1 received from a plurality of base stations (BTS); C) a switching station (MSC/VLR) carrying out a channel management and control connected from the base station controller (BSC) and carrying out a signal processing function according to the call connection; D) a voice message managing server (VPS), in the case that the voice message is registered and the notice of the registration of the voice message of the sending terminal MS1 is received, and in the case that the registered voice message is confirmed by a receiving terminal (MS2), generating reply information according to the confirmation of the voice message; and E) a voice mailbox server (ARS/VMS) cooperating with the switching station (MSC/VLR) to store and transmit the voice message based on the receiver's information, and storing the receiver's reply information generated by the voice message managing server (VPS) while confirming the voice message or after completing the confirmation.
Meanwhile, the method for the reply voice message according to the second viewpoint of the present invention in order to achieve the above object comprises the steps of: a) registering a voice message from a receiving terminal; b) determining whether or not the registered voice message is confirmed from the receiving terminal, and in the case that the voice message is not confirmed from the receiving terminal, making the registered voice message as database by time zone to store it; c) in the case that the voice message is confirmed from the receiving terminal in step b), recording the reply voice message from the receiver while or after hearing the voice message of the sender; and d) transmitting the reply voice message recorded by the receiver to the sending terminal.
Advantageous Effects
As explained above, the reply voice message transmission system and the method thereof according to the present invention discloses that when a receiver hears a voice message transmitted by a sending terminal and needs to respond to the message, the receiver presses a predetermined key in real time to record a reply voice message and then completes hearing the sender's voice message. Thereafter, by transmitting the reply voice message to the sender's terminal, the present invention can satisfy the mutual need for the sender and the receiver to confirm the voice message, and the sender does not have to have a wrong expectation for the undelivered message. In addition, the present invention can provide the effect of increasing the convenience in using the voice message.
Therefore, the present invention can excite the mobile communication subscribers curiosity, which were fed up with the conventional supplementary service limited to the transmission/reply service of a short text message or the transmission/hearing service of a voice message, and can provide the services to the subscribers at lower cost by using the existing network. Eventually, the present invention can have the effect of creating new services.
Hereinafter, the preferable embodiment of the present invention will be explained in detail by referring to the attached drawings as follows:
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Hereinafter, the operation of the present invention will be explained in detail by referring to the attached drawings.
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Thereafter, the switching (MSC/VLR) 101 fetches terminal information of the sending terminal (MS1) 115 via the visitor location (VLR) 101, and performing the switching for the call connection based on the number information of the receiving terminal (MS2) 117 according to the call connection request (S302). When a pre-determined time passes after the switching process, the switching station (MSC/VLR) 101 guides the procedure for registering the voice message, and connects to the voice mailbox server (VMS) 103. Thus, the voice message is stored in the voice mailbox server (VMS) 103 according to the predetermined registration procedure (S303). In view of the receiver, the receiver records the voice message by a predetermined key operation of the receiving terminal (MS1) 115, and stores the recorded voice message in the voice mailbox server (VMS) 103.
At this time, the voice message managing server (VPS) 109 receives a request for managing a voice message from the switching center (MSC/VLR) 101. Thereafter, the voice message managing server (VPS) 109 drives the voice message managing module 201 to generate and store the registration time information according to the registration of the current voice message (S304). Then, the short message center (SMC) 105 sends a short message for noticing the arrival of the voice message is arrived to the receiving terminal (MS2) 117 (S305). Otherwise, in addition to the process of sending the short message, it is possible to directly connect to the receiving terminal by outdialling of the voice message managing server (VPS) 109. The receiving terminal (MS2) 117 confirms the short message, and then asks the receiver whether or not to hear the voice message transmitted from the sender (S306).
As a result of the step of asking (S306), if the receiver executes a simple key operation to hear the voice message, a call connection between the receiving terminal (MS2) 117 and the switching center (MSC/VLR) 101 is performed, so that the receiver can hear the voice message. This process will be explained as follows:
First of all, the receiving terminal (MS2) 117 tries a call connection by inputting voice message connecting number information (*88) to perform the connection to the voice mailbox server (VMS) 103 via the switching center (MSC/VLR) 101. If the call is connected to the switching center (MSC/VLR) 101, the switching center (MSC/VLR) 101 sends it to the voice message managing server (VPS) 109, and the voice message managing server (VPS) 109 drives the voice message confirming module 203 to guide the voice message confirming process to the receiving terminal (MS2) 117.
In the step of confirming the sender's voice message, the receiving terminal (MS2) 117 inputs a predetermined password information (xxxx), which is previously set, to performing an authentication process required from the voice message managing server (VPS) 109. After the authentication process is completed, the voice message server (VPS) 109 provides result information according to the authentication result to the switching center (MSC/VLR) 101. Thereafter, the switching center (MSC/VLR) 101 instructs the voice message mailbox server (MS) 103 to provide the voice message information, which is previously stored. Accordingly, the voice message hearing process is performed according to the step (S036).
While or after hearing the sender's voice message, the processes (S307-S314) of transmitting the reply voice message of the receiver are as follows:
As a result of the step of asking (S306), if the receiver sets to hear the sender's voice message, the receiving terminal (MS2) 117 asks the receiver whether or not to record the reply message while hearing the voice message (S307).
As a result of the step of asking of (S307), if the receiver determines recording the reply voice message while hearing the voice message, while playing back (hearing) the voice message of the voice mailbox server (VMS) 103, the voice message managing server (VPS) 109 drives the reply voice message transmitting module 205 to perform the control according to the reply voice message recording process, thereby performing the recording of the receiver's reply voice message (S308). At this time, the receiver clicks a specific button of the terminal to perform the recording operation. The receiver's recorded reply voice message is stored in a predetermined area of the voice mailbox server (VMS) 103.
Thereafter, when the playing back of the voice message of the voice mailbox server (VMS) 103 is completed, the receiver's reply voice message, which is recorded and stored, is transmitted to the sender via the call connection process of the switching station (MSC/VLR) 101 (S309).
As a result of the step of asking of (S307), if the receiver does not want to record the reply voice message while hearing the voice message, the receiving terminal (MS2) 117 asks the receiver whether or not to record the reply voice message after hearing the voice message (s310). As a result of the step of asking (S310), the voice mailbox server (VMS) 103 completes playing back of the receiver's voice message (hearing) (S311), the voice message managing server (VPS) 109 drives the reply voice message transmitting module 205 to perform the control according to the reply voice message recording process, thereby performing the sender's reply voice message recording (S312). At this time, as mentioned above, the receiver clicks a specific button of the terminal to perform the recording operation. The receiver's recorded reply voice message is stored in a predetermined area of the voice mailbox server (VMS) 103.
Thereafter, as aforesaid step (S309), when the playing back of the voice message of the voice mailbox server (VMS) 103 is completed, the receiver's reply voice message, which is recorded and stored, is transmitted to the sender via the call connection process of the switching station (MSC/VLR) 101.
Meanwhile, as a result of the step of asking (S310), if the receiver does not want to record the reply voice message after hearing the voice message, the playing back (hearing) of the sender's voice message stored in the voice mailbox server (VMS) 103 is completed (S314), and then all of the operations are completed.
In the above embodiment, the receiving terminal (MS2) 117 asks to first set whether or not to record the reply voice message while or after the receiver hears the voice message. However, in another embodiment, the above process can be performed by clicking a specific button while or after hearing the voice message without the above asking process.
Meanwhile, as a result of the step of asking (S306), if the receiver does not want to hear the sender's voice message, that is, the receiver terminal (MS2) does not want to confirm registered voice message information from the sending terminal (MS1) 115, the voice message information is stored in a predetermined area of the voice mailbox server (VMS) 103 as a database (S315).
The receiver can delete the voice messages information as database. If it is not deleted, it can be stored in a memory of the terminal for a predetermined term and then automatically deleted. In addition, since the network already recognizes the voice message information as database (which is not transmitted to the receiver or not confirmed by the receiver), a person skilled in the art can embody the notice of the message to the sender periodically or in real time.
Accordingly, in view of the sender, by confirming the receiver's reply voice message received via the sending terminal, the sender can recognize whether or not the voice message is correctly transmitted to the receiving terminal. Also, in view of the receiver, while hearing the sender's specific voice message (e.g., the message including the sender's question or the message requiring an urgent reply), by pressing a specific button to record and transmit a voice message, the receiver can transmit the reply voice message to the sender.
Meanwhile, the preset invention describes that the reply voice message is transmitted between the mobile communication terminals. However, it is absolutely possible to register a voice message on WAP and WEB and to register a reply voice message for the registered voice message. For example, the reply voice message can be transmitted via cable & wireless terminal such as computer and PDA.
Also, the embodiments according to the present invention describe only the reply voice message for the voice message. However, texts, moving images, images, avatars can be added to the reply voice message.
The present invention relates to a voice message transmission of a mobile communication terminal. More specifically, the present invention relates to a reply voice message transmitting system and the method thereof, in which while a receiver hears the voice message transmitted from the sender, the receiver can transmit a reply as a voice message by pressing a specific key of a terminal.
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10-2004-0070784 | Sep 2004 | KR | national |
Filing Document | Filing Date | Country | Kind | 371c Date |
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PCT/KR05/01673 | 6/3/2005 | WO | 10/1/2007 |