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Mobile Phone Patent Abstract
Disclosed is a method of providing a mobile phone broadcasting service
using a cell broadcasting system (CBS) including (1) processing
information in forms of voice, multimedia, text and image by an
information providing system and transmitting the processed information
to a mobile phone broadcasting system through an Internet network,
(2) simultaneously transmitting the text and image information out
of the information received from the mobile phone broadcasting system,
a linked phone number connectable to an automatic response system
(ARS) or a linked URI, connectable to a wireless Internet broadcasting
server to a plurality of mobile phone terminals through a wireless
network, and (3) when the linked phone number is selected in order
to receive voice information out of the information individually
received from the mobile phone terminals, the ARS providing the
voice information to a mobile phone terminal for the selected phone
number, or when the linked URI, is selected in order to receive
multimedia information out of the information individually received
from the mobile phone terminals, the wireless Internet broadcasting
server providing the multimedia information to a mobile phone terminal
for the selected URI.
Mobile Phone Patent Claims
What is claimed is:
1. A system of providing a mobile phone broadcasting service utilizing
a cell broadcasting system (CBS) comprising: an information providing
system (10) for processing information in forms of voice, multimedia,
text and image, an Internet network (20) for controlling the information
providing system (10), a mobile phone broadcasting system (30) for
receiving the processed information from the information providing
system (10) via the Internet network (20), a major router (31) for
searching a fast and effective path to receive said processed information,
a mobile phone broadcasting platform (40) consisting of a mobile
phone broadcasting server (32) for categorizing and separating the
information received from the information providing system (10)
via the major router (31) into the voice, multimedia, text and image
information, an automatic response system (ARS) (33) for storing
the voice information and a wireless Internet broadcasting server
(34) for storing the multimedia information, said cell broadcasting
system (CBS) (35) for storing and transmitting the categorized and
separated text and image information, an inter-gateway system (IGS)
(36) connected to the ARS for voice communication, an inter-working
function server (IWF) (37) connected to the wireless Internet broadcasting
server (34) for data communication, a mobile switch center (MSC)
(39) connected to the IGS (36) for data communication, a dedicated
packet network (38) connected to the wireless Internet broadcasting
server (34) for data communication, a wireless network (50) for
receiving information from the CBS (35) and said mobile phone broadcasting
platform (40), and a plurality of mobile phone terminals (60) for
selectively and simultaneously receiving said text and image information
or voice and multimedia information.
2. A system of providing a mobile phone broadcasting service according
to claim 1, wherein said information providing system (10) further
comprises: a dedicated content server (11) for processing a variety
of updated information in forms of voice, multimedia, text and image,
a web server (12) for constructing a web-based service environment
over the Internet network, and a minor router (13) for searching
a fast and effective path to transmit said processed information.
3. A system of providing a mobile phone broadcasting service according
to claim 1, wherein said voice, multimedia, text or image information
stored in the mobile phone broadcasting system (30) are selectively
and automatically provided upon request by the mobile phone terminals
(60).
4. A method of providing a mobile phone broadcasting service utilizing
a cell broadcasting system (CBS) comprising: processing information
in forms of voice, multimedia, text and image by an information
providing system, transmitting said processed information to a mobile
phone broadcasting system through an Internet network, categorizing
and separating the information received from the information providing
system into the voice, multimedia, text and image information, storing
the categorized and separated voice information in an automatic
response system (ARS), storing the categorized and separated multimedia
information in a wireless Internet broadcasting server, storing
the categorized and separated text and image information in the
CBS, simultaneously transmitting the text and image information
stored in the CBS to a plurality of mobile phone terminals in real
time through a wireless network, transmitting the text and image
information along with a phone number being able to connect to the
ARS, and/or a URL being able to connect to the wireless Internet
broadcasting server for serving the voice information or multimedia
information according to a request by individual mobile phone terminal,
and transmitting the voice information or multimedia information
to the individual mobile phone terminal when the individual mobile
phone terminal requests by connecting the phone number or the URL.
Mobile Phone Patent Description
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a system and method of providing
a mobile phone broadcasting service utilizing a cell broadcasting
system (CBS), and more particularly, to a system and method of providing
a mobile phone broadcasting service using a CBS that can separately
construct an information providing service and a mobile phone broadcasting
service and can simultaneously transmit the same information to
a plurality of mobile phone terminals using a CBS in real time.
2. Description of the Prior Art
In order to simulcast in real time, a point to point servicing
method based on a short message service, that is, a polling method
has been conventionally used. The servicing method has advantages
in that information reaches the receiving end almost perfectly and
one to one marketing is made with convenience and ease.
However, the conventional servicing method has several problems
in simultaneously transmitting broadcasting information to multiple
subscribers more than 0.5 million in real time. Also, the conventional
servicing method, which is an individual transmission method, is
costly for individuals to use information.
Therefore, as the number of mobile phone terminal subscribers has
drastically increased, it is on the one hand critically important
to use mass marketing tools for a large number of subscribers, and
there is, on the other hand, great demand for servicing methods
for simultaneously providing multiple users with an information
providing service in real time.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
To solve the above-described problems, it is an object of the present
invention to provide a system and method of providing a mobile phone
broadcasting service using a CBS that can separately construct an
information providing service and a mobile phone broadcasting service
and can simultaneously transmit the same information to a plurality
of mobile phone terminals using a CBS in real time.
To accomplish the above objective of the present invention, a method
of providing a mobile phone broadcasting service utilizing a cell
broadcasting system (CBS) is comprising the steps of: processing
information in forms of voice, multimedia, text and image by an
information providing system; transmitting the processed information
to a mobile phone broadcasting system through an Internet network;
simultaneously transmitting the text and image information among
the information received from the mobile phone broadcasting system
to an individual phone number connected to an automatic response
system (ARS); and when a phone number is selected to receive a voice
information, the ARS provides and transmits the voice information
to the selected phone number, or when the URL is selected to receive
multimedia information at the individual phone number of the mobile
phone terminals, the wireless Internet broadcasting server provides
and transmits the multimedia information to a mobile phone terminal
via the selected URL.
Accordingly, the voice or multimedia information are selectively
and automatically received from the mobile tone broadcasting system
upon the request by the individual phone number of the mobile phone
terminals in real time by using the CBS.
According to another aspect of the present invention, there is
provided a system of providing a mobile phone broadcasting service
using a cell broadcasting system (CBS) including an information
providing system for processing information in the forms of voice,
multimedia, text and image data, a mobile phone broadcasting system
for receiving the processed information from the information providing
system via an Internet network, and a plurality of mobile phone
terminals for simultaneously receiving the voice information, the
multimedia information, and the text and image information from
the mobile phone broadcasting system through a wireless network
via a base station in real time and using the same.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
FIG. 1 is an overall schematic diagram of a mobile phone broadcasting
service system according to the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a partial block diagram of an information providing system
shown in FIG. 1.
FIG. 3 is a detailed block diagram of a mobile phone broadcasting
system shown in FIG. 1.
FIG. 4 is a flow diagram of a method of providing a mobile phone
broadcasting service according to the present invention.
FIG. 5 is a flow diagram of a detailed embodiment of the second
step shown in FIG. 4.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT
Referring to FIG. 1, a mobile phone broadcasting service system
according to the present invention includes an information providing
system 10, a mobile phone broadcasting system 30, a plurality of
mobile phone terminals 60, and a wireless network 50 having an Internet
network 20 connecting these systems to one another and a separate
base station.
Referring to FIG. 2, the information providing system 10 includes
a dedicated content server 11, a web server 12 and a router 13.
The dedicated content server 11 processes a variety of updated
information into the forms of voice, multimedia, text and image
data. In other words, the dedicated content server 11 processes
various types of information in order to provide useful information
in real time to the mobile phone terminals 60 used by mobile phone
broadcasting information providing service subscribers.
The web server 12 constructs a web-based service environment in
which the processed information is to be provided to the mobile
phone broadcasting system 30 over the Internet network 20. The router
13 specifies the most efficient path for transmission of the processed
information.
Referring to FIG. 3, the mobile phone broadcasting system 30 includes
a router 31, a mobile phone broadcasting server 32, an automatic
response system (ARS) 33, a wireless Internet broadcasting server
34, a cell broadcasting system (CBS) 35, an Inter-gateway system
(IGS) 36, an Inter-working function server (IWF) 37, a dedicated
packet network 38 and a mobile switching center (MSC) 39. Here,
the mobile phone broadcasting server 32, the ARS 33 and the wireless
Internet broadcasting server 34 are collectively referred to as
a mobile phone broadcasting platform 40.
The router 31 specifies the most efficient path for receiving the
information processed and transmitted from the information providing
system 10.
The mobile phone broadcasting server 32 categorizes and separates
the information received from the information providing system 10
via the router 31 as voice information, multimedia information,
text information or image information.
The ARS 33 stores the voice information separated by the mobile
phone broadcasting server 32 and automatically provides the voice
information upon request by the mobile phone terminals 60.
The wireless Internet broadcasting server 34 stores the multimedia
information separated by the mobile phone broadcasting server 32
and automatically provides the multimedia information upon request
by the mobile phone terminals 60.
The CBS 35 receives and manages the text information and the image
information separated by the mobile phone broadcasting server 32,
transmits the information to the wireless network 50 upon request,
and transmits the information to the mobile phone terminals 60 via
the scoreless network 50 that has passed through the base station
simultaneously in real time.
When voice information is separately requested by the mobile phone
terminals 60, connection to the MSC 39 is made via the wireless
network 50 and the ARS 33 is connected through the IGS 36, that
is, a gateway for voice communication.
When voice information is separately requested by the mobile phone
terminals 60, a connection to the MSC 39 is made via the wireless
network 50 and the ARS 33 is connected through the IGS 36, that
is, a gateway for voice communication.
When wireless Internet information is separately requested by the
mobile phone terminals 60, a connection to the MSC 39 is made via
the wireless network 50 and the wireless Internet broadcasting server
34 is connected through the IWF 37, that is, a gateway for data
communication. Hero, in the case where the mobile phone terminals
60 support packet transmission of CDMA2000-IX network or the like,
a direct connection to the wireless Internet broadcasting server
34 is made through the wireless network 50 and the dedicated packet
network 38, without a separate gateway.
FIG. 4 is a flow diagram of a method of providing a mobile phone
broadcasting service according to the present invention.
The mobile phone broadcasting service according to the present
invention will now be described in detail with reference to FIG.
4. First, the information in the forms of voice, multimedia, text
and image that has been processed by the information providing system
10 is transmitted to the mobile phone broadcasting system 30 through
the Internet network 20 (First step: S 100).
Next the mobile phone broadcasting system 30 simultaneously transmits
the text and image information among the received information, a
linked phone number connected to the ARS 33 or a linked URL connected
to the wireless Internet broadcasting server 34 to the plurality
of mobile phone terminals 60 through the wireless network 50 (Second
step: S200).
The mobile phone terminals 60 select, using the received information,
the phone number linked to the ARS 33 if the voice information is
desired, and the URL linked to the wireless Internet broadcasting
server 34 if the multimedia information is desired. Then, the ARS
33 or the wireless Internet broadcasting server 34 is connected
according to the selection of the linked phone number or URL to
be provided with the voice or multimedia information (Third step:
S300).
FIG. 5 is a flow diagram of a detailed embodiment of the second
step shown in FIG. 4.
Referring to FIG. 5, the mobile phone broadcasting server 32 separates
the information received from the information providing system 10
via the Internet network 20 into voice information, multimedia information,
text information and image information (step S210).
Here, the separated voice information is transmitted to the ARS
33 and stored in a separate storage means (steps S220 and S230).
The separated multimedia information is transmitted to the wireless
Internet broadcasting server 34 and stored in a separate storage
means (steps S240 and S250). Also, the separated text information
and the separated image information are transmitted to the CBS 35
and stored in a separate storage means (steps S260 and S270).
Then, the text information and the image information stored in
the storage means of the CBS 35, the phone number linked to the
ARS 33 or the URL linked to the wireless Internet broadcasting server
34, are simultaneously transmitted in real time to the plurality
of mobile phone terminals 60 through the wireless network 50 via
the base station.
In an embodiment of the method of providing a mobile phone broadcasting
service using the CBS, the text or image information may be transmitted
to a predetermined subscriber of the mobile phone terminal according
to the operator's selection, and charges for communication or use
of information may be separately billed whenever the voice or multimedia
information is used.
According to the present invention, useful information can be simultaneously
transmitted to a plurality of mobile phone terminals in real time
and an information service may be provided by means of a base station.
Also, mass marketing tools can be advantageously utilized. |