Method of processing SMS fee in a mobile phone

Method of processing SMS fee in a mobile phone}

1 is a view showing the structure of a mobile communication system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a flowchart illustrating a billing process when chatting a short message according to an embodiment of the present invention;

Explanation of the symbols for the main parts of the drawing

100 : transmitting side terminal 200 : receiving side terminal

300 : Base station 400 : Short message center

<backgroundart><p>The present invention relates to a short message billing processing method of a mobile communication terminal. In particular, by adding a billing setting function to the mobile communication terminal, the message characteristics are changed according to the charging selection by the transmitting terminal user and the message characteristics are transmitted in the short message center. Information is detected, and if the detection result is a billing split SMS, if the receiving terminal user responds, the billing target for messages sent/received between the sending and receiving terminals is set according to the billing information, so that the receiving terminal user can also respond to the message. It relates to a short message billing processing method of a mobile communication terminal capable of sharing a charge for a mobile communication terminal.</p><p>In general, in mobile communication terminals, among various functions for user convenience, a Short Message Service (SMS) that allows a user to write or edit a predetermined sentence and transmit it to a desired counterpart through a mobile communication system resource. ) function is provided.</p><p>A text message transmitted according to the SMS function is generally referred to as an SMS message, and includes a header part, which is a field having characteristic information of the corresponding message, and a data part, which is a field having text information to be actually transmitted.</p><p>The data part contains data such as the receiver's phone number, the sender's phone number, text information to be transmitted, and the transmission speed. It detects the receiving-side information included in the unit and transmits a short message to the corresponding receiving-side terminal.</p><p>The billing process in the short message center according to the short message transmission process is usually imposed on the sending terminal user.</p><p>Therefore, when short messages are frequently exchanged between users of specific mobile communication terminals in a chatting manner, only the sending terminal user has a unilateral burden of billing for short message transmission, so there is a problem in that short message transmission/reception cannot be efficiently utilized. .</p></backgroundart><abstractproblem><p>Accordingly, the present invention has been proposed to solve the problems of the prior art, and when different message characteristics are transmitted according to the user's charging selection through the charging setting function in the SMS of a mobile communication terminal, the message characteristic information in the short message center , and if the detection result is a billing split SMS, it receives a response signal from the receiving terminal user, divides the billing target into the sending/receiving terminal, and then transmits a short message to the receiving terminal to transmit/receive between mobile communication terminal users The purpose of this is to allow the sender/receiver to share the charge for the short message.</p><p>In a method for processing short message billing of a mobile communication terminal according to the present invention for achieving the above object, the user of the sending terminal can set the charging for transmission to be divided or fully borne by the user of the receiving terminal. a short message sending process of sending a short message in which characteristic information of a message including charging information according to selection is set in a header part to a short message center; a determination process of the short message center detecting the billing information included in the header part of the received short message to determine a billing target; As a result of the determination, if billing is set to be borne by the recipient, the short message center transmits the short message to the receiving terminal or the reception rejection message to the sending terminal in response to the reception or reception rejection of the receiving terminal user. It includes the process of sending a message that transmits In the short message sending process, the mode switching step of switching the sending terminal to the short message mode according to the user's selection, the user wants to transmit to the receiving terminal including charging information in the sending terminal The method includes: a message input step of inputting information about the short message; and a format forming step of forming a short message format including a message type and message data according to the input short message information. In the message transmission process, the short message center requests a response as to whether to receive the short message from the receiving terminal if the charge is set to the receiver's expense as a result of the determination; In response to a response that the short message is received, the short message center sets a billing target and method and transmits the short message to the receiving terminal; and transmitting, by the short message center, a message indicating that the user of the receiving terminal rejects the reception to the sending terminal. In the above, the short message is transmitted/received in a state in which a chat mode is set between the transmitting terminal and the receiving terminal.</p></abstractproblem>

<p>Hereinafter, the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings.</p><p>As shown in FIG. 1, the mobile communication system according to the present invention accommodates a transmitter/receiver terminal 100,200 capable of transmitting/receiving SMS, and a transmitter/receiver terminal 100,200, and receives a radio frequency signal with the terminal. The base station 300 that performs transmission/reception and the base station 300 are connected to the integrated management and control of services related to wireless communication, and when an SMS message transmitted from the transmitting terminal 100 is received, message information is detected and designated and a short message center for transmitting to the receiving terminal 200 according to the detected message information.</p><p>The transmitting/receiving terminals 100 and 200 are not shown, but have a control unit for controlling the overall operation of the mobile communication terminal, a plurality of number and function keys, and generate key data corresponding to a key selected by the user. A key input unit that transmits to the control unit, a radio frequency transmission/reception unit that transmits/receives radio frequency signals with the base station 300 through an antenna according to the operation control of the control unit, and a key input unit according to the operation control of the control unit It is configured to include a display unit for displaying key data input through the terminal and an information signal generated in a terminal operation operation process, and a memory unit for storing an algorithm for terminal operation operation through the control unit and an information signal generated in the terminal operation operation process. .</p><p>In addition, the control unit divides the billing system for the SMS message to be transmitted when the SMS is transmitted with the receiving terminal user 200 or receives billing information from the user to allow the receiving terminal 200 user to entrust the user to select the user's billing information. Accordingly, by setting the message characteristics of the SMS header part, the short message billing setting function to be transmitted through the radio frequency transmitter/receiver is set.</p><p>When the SMS message is received via the base station 300, the short message center 400 detects message information and transmits the SMS message to the designated receiving terminal 200 according to the detected message information. In this case, a response message is transmitted to the receiving terminal 200 as to whether or not the short message is received by the recipient, and the short message is transmitted or the sending terminal ( 100), the receiving terminal 200 transmits a message informing the user of the short message billing refusal.</p><p>The short message billing processing method of the mobile communication terminal according to the present invention using such a system includes an SMS message sending step of sending an SMS message with message characteristics set according to a user's selection in the sending terminal 100 capable of setting short message billing; ; a message determination step of determining message characteristics by detecting header information in the short message center 400 that has received the transmitted SMS message; and an SMS message transmission step of setting a billing target for the SMS message according to the determination result and transmitting the SMS message to the receiving terminal 200 .</p><p>The sending of the short message may include: a mode switching step of switching to an SMS message mode according to a user's SMS message selection of the sending terminal 100; a message input step of receiving information of an SMS message to be transmitted from a user to a predetermined receiving-side terminal 200 including billing information in the SMS message mode; and a format forming step of forming an SMS message format including a message type and message data according to the inputted SMS message information.</p><p>In addition, the SMS message transmission step includes: a recipient response request step of requesting a reception response to the recipient billing SMS message to the receiving terminal 200 if the message characteristic is a billing split message as a result of the determination; a billing division setting step of transmitting an SMS message after setting a billing target to the transmitting/receiving terminal when the user of the receiving terminal 200 responds to the receiver's response request; and a reception rejection notification step of notifying the receiving terminal 200 user of the SMS message reception rejection to the sending terminal 100 when the receiving terminal 200 user rejects the receiver response request.</p><p>The method according to the present invention made in this way will be described with reference to the accompanying FIG. 2 through a preferred embodiment.</p><p>When a user of the transmitting terminal 100 needs to transmit a large amount of SMS messages to a specific receiving terminal 200 phone number, if the receiving terminal 200 user wants to share the fee for the SMS message to be transmitted, the transmitting terminal (100) After writing the SMS message (S1), the user sets the billing information to be shared with the user of the transmitting terminal 200 (S2).</p><p>As described above, when the user of the transmitting terminal 100 sets billing information for the SMS message to be transmitted, the control unit inputs a predetermined bit signal indicating that the message is a message in which billing division with the receiver is set in the header of the SMS message, and transmits the radio frequency /Transmits through the receiver (S3).</p><p>The SMS message transmitted from the sending terminal 100 is received by the short message center 400 via the base station 300 (S4), and the short message center 400 detects message information for processing the received SMS message. and analyzes the message characteristics through the detected header data (S5).</p><p>The short message center 400 determines whether the received SMS message is a recipient-paid message through the message characteristic analysis result through the header unit (S6), and if it is not a recipient-paid message as a result of the determination, it is detected according to the general message processing routine. The received SMS message is transmitted to the designated receiving terminal 200 using the message information (S7).</p><p>If the determination result is a recipient-paid message, a response request signal is transmitted to the receiving-side terminal 200 as to whether the recipient-paid message is received (S8), and the receiving-side terminal 200 sends the message to the recipient-paid message from the short message center 400 When a message asking whether to receive the message is received, it is displayed through the display unit to receive an input from the user and transmits the message to the short message center 400 (S9).</p><p>The short message center 400 determines whether the user of the receiving terminal 200 approves the received SMS message through the response signal received from the receiving terminal 200 (S10).</p><p>As a result of determining whether the user is approved or not, if the receiving terminal 200 approves, the sending/receiving terminal 100,200 sets the billing target so that the fee processing for the SMS message to be transmitted is divided and transmitted, and then the SMS message is transmitted. and (S12), when the receiving terminal 200 rejects, a signal notifying the receiver's reception rejection is transmitted to the transmitting terminal 100 (S11).</p><p>If the receiving terminal 200 refuses to receive the SMS message according to the result of processing the SMS message, a message is displayed on the sending terminal 100 informing that the SMS message transmission fails due to the recipient's rejection (S13), and the receiving terminal ( 200), when the reception of the SMS message is approved, the SMS message information transmitted from the transmitting terminal 100 is displayed on the display unit (S14).</p><p>Through this process, the user of the transmitting terminal 100 can share and bear the charge for the SMS message to be transmitted to the user of the receiving terminal 200 with the user of the receiving terminal 200 .</p><p>In another embodiment, when the user of the transmitting terminal 100 sets the charging setting by entrusting the charging information to the receiving terminal 200 user, the short message center 400 receives the charging information according to the set charging information. Requests approval for the discretionary charge for SMS messages to the user.</p><p>When the approval signal for the approval request of the short message center 400 is transmitted from the receiving terminal 200, the short message center 400 sets the billing target for the corresponding SMS message to the receiving terminal 200, Send an SMS message.</p><p>Accordingly, the user of the receiving terminal 200 bears the fee for the SMS message transmitted from the user of the specific transmitting terminal 100 approved by the user.</p><p>In another embodiment, in a text chatting mode in which text chatting using SMS messages between specific mobile communication terminal users is performed, the user of the transmitting terminal 100 pays a fee for SMS messages transmitted/received in the text chatting mode to the receiving terminal. (200) It is possible to set billing information such as sharing with the user or entrusting the receiving terminal 200 to the user.</p><p>The short message center 400 receives an approval signal from the user of the receiving terminal 200 designated for the text chatting mode according to the billing information set by the sending terminal 100 user, and applies it to calculate the charge according to the billing information A text chatting mode is set between the transmitting terminal 100 and the receiving terminal 200 .</p>

<p>As described above, according to the present invention, the sending terminal user sets charging information for an SMS message to be transmitted to a specific receiving terminal and transmits the SMS message according to the charging information through the short message center. It provides the effect that only the user of the side terminal can share the cost with the receiving terminal without paying a fee for the SMS message.</p>