KR20020020410A - Method for changing bell sound for mobile phone - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A method for changing a bell sound of a portable mobile phone is provided to connect to a site server supplying an Internet bell sound service by using the mobile phone, to select a demanded bell sound title and input a telephone number of the mobile phone, and to make the server insert selected bell sound information into user data with bell sound function information, to transmit the information to the mobile phone, so that the mobile phone can download the bell sound information to change. CONSTITUTION: A portable mobile phone(106) connects to a site server(102) supplying an Internet bell sound service by using an Internet access function, and selects a demanded bell sound title, then inputs a telephone number of the mobile phone. The site server(102) inserts selected bell sound information into user data of an SMS message with bell sound function information presenting that the SMS message is a bell sound function, and transmits the inserted information to the mobile phone(106). If the mobile phone(106) receives the SMS message, the mobile phone(106) confirms whether the message presents the bell sound function. If so, the mobile phone(106) converts the user data into bell sound data to store the bell sound data. The mobile phone(106) displays a user bell sound menu, and duplicates the bell sound data in an area designated by a user.

Description

How to change the ringtone for your mobile phone {METHOD FOR CHANGING BELL SOUND FOR MOBILE PHONE}

The present invention relates to a mobile phone of the present invention, and more particularly to a method of changing a bell sound.

The portable mobile phone, like a conventional landline or cordless phone, notifies the user of an incoming call by outputting a ring tone when there is an incoming call. Such portable mobile phones typically include voice data of several kinds of ringtones so that a user can select a desired ringtone among them. However, the limited number of ring tones embedded in portable mobile phones could not satisfy all tastes of various users.

Accordingly, a method of downloading and changing a ringtone desired by a user is used. One method is to use a service commonly called "700 service", and another method is to download a ringtone using a personal computer (PC) link.

However, the method of using the 700 service requires additional service fees, short message services, that is, data transmission fees using SMS (Short Message Service), etc., in addition to the call charges. And you need to find a way to find the desired ringtone by voice one by one because the call time will be long, uncomfortable, and will also increase the rate. In addition, to download the ringtone using PC link, not only the PC link cable should be purchased separately, but also connected to the PC and used together.

As a technique for improving the above, there is a patent application No. 98-8843 filed on March 16, 1998 by the applicant of the present application entitled "ringtone download service method for a mobile mobile phone terminal". No. 98-8843 is a technology in which a user downloads and changes a desired ringtone file through a text message service by accessing a service providing server having various ringtone files as a database through computer communication through a PC or an internet connection. Is starting. Accordingly, the ringtone of the portable mobile phone can be easily and inexpensively changed to a ringtone suitable for a user's taste.

However, the above technique requires the use of a PC to access the service providing server. In addition, when the size of the ringtone data cannot be transmitted in one text message, it is difficult to download.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a method for downloading and changing the ringtone of a portable mobile phone through the Internet without using a PC.

1 is a system configuration diagram for the present invention,

2 is a block diagram of the portable mobile phone of FIG.

3 is a block diagram of an SMS message according to an embodiment of the present invention;

4 is a process flow diagram of a portable mobile phone 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 and the accompanying drawings, detailed descriptions of well-known functions and configurations are omitted.

1 is a diagram illustrating a system configuration for the present invention, in which a portable mobile phone system 104 and a portable mobile phone 106 connected to the Internet 100 to which a ringer providing server 102 is connected communicate with each other. . The server 102 is a server of a site that provides an Internet ringtone service that has various ringtone information as a database, and the portable mobile phone 106 uses a terminal having a conventional wireless Internet access function. .

FIG. 2 shows a block diagram of the portable mobile phone 106 having the wireless Internet access function shown in FIG. In FIG. 2, a micro-processor unit (MPU) 200 is basically a block for processing and controlling a phone call, a data communication, or an Internet connection in a typical portable mobile phone. Process the ringtone download service as shown. Therefore, in the following description, description of the processing and control of the conventional MPU 200 is omitted. The ROM (Read Only Memory) 202 stores microcode and various reference data of a program for processing and controlling the MPU 200. Random Access Memory (204) is provided to the working memory of the MPU 200. The flash RAM 206 provides an area for storing various updatable storage data, which is used in the present invention to store the ringtone data as described below. The key pad 208 includes a plurality of numeric keys and function keys to provide key input by the user to the MPU 200. The display unit 210 includes a liquid crystal display (LCD) to display image information according to the control of the MPU 200 through the LCD. A coder-decoder (212) connected to the MPU 200 and a microphone 214 and a speaker 216 connected to the codec 212 are voice input / output blocks used for telephone calls and voice recording. In addition, the RF module 220 transmits / receives a radio signal with the portable mobile phone base station through the antenna 218, and modulates a signal to be transmitted from the MPU 200 through the baseband processor 222. The RF signal is transmitted through the antenna 218, and the RF signal received through the antenna 218 is demodulated and provided to the MPU 200 through the baseband processor 222. The baseband processor 222 processes baseband signals transmitted and received between the RF module 220 and the MPU 200.

When the user of the portable mobile phone 106 as shown in FIG. 2 wants to download a ringtone, first, by using the Internet access function of the mobile mobile phone 106, the server 102 of the site providing the ring service is provided. Select the desired ringtone title and enter the phone number of portable mobile phone 106. The server 102 then inserts the selected ringtone information into the user data of the SMS message and transmits it to the portable mobile phone 106.

At this time, the SMS message transmitted from the server 102 includes 'special function information', 'ringtone function information' indicating that the SMS message is a ring function, and ring tone information so as to determine a special function as shown in FIG. Consists of 'user data'. The size of the ringtone data may be transmitted in one SMS message according to the ringtone, but there may be a case where the size of user data of one SMS message is not enough. In this case, the ringtone data is divided into blocks that can be transmitted in one SMS message and transmitted using multiple SMS messages. For this purpose, the first few bytes of user data are used as partition information. In FIG. 3, curr_blk and total_blk are split information among user data, curr_blk is information indicating how many blocks of ringtone information is present in an SMS message, and total_blk is information indicating how many blocks in total.

4 is a flowchart illustrating a process of the portable mobile phone 106 according to an embodiment of the present invention, in which the ringtone information is downloaded and changed in accordance with the SMS message as described above (300) to (334). will be. In FIG. 4, rcvd_blk is information on a block just received, curr_blk is information on a block currently received, and msg_id is information indicating whether a part of the same ringtone is present. nth_blk is information about the number of blocks among the total number of blocks, and cannot have a value greater than total_blk. total_blk is information about how many blocks to receive. sms_data_size is a valid data size among user data received through the Internet, and img_buf_idx is a pointer to a buffer that temporarily stores SMS data.

When the MPU 200 of the portable mobile phone 106 as shown in FIG. 2 receives an SMS message, the MPU 200 checks whether the ringer function information is used. In the case of the ringer function information, the rcvd_blk.msg_id, that is, the msg_id of the rcvd_blk in step 300 Check for zero. If 0, it is determined as the first block of one piece of ringtone information in step 302, and curr_blk is stored in rcvd_blk and img_buf_idx is set to 0. In step 304, the SMS information is copied to the UI information, and img_buf_idx is set to sms_data_size. Perform an input wait routine.

If rcvd_blk.msg_id is not 0 in step 300, it is checked in step 310 that rcvd_blk.msg_id, that is, msg_id of rcvd_blk, is equal to curr_blk.msg_id, that is, msg_id of curr_blk. If different, it is determined that other ringtones are received while receiving certain ringtone information, and in step 312, a valid ringtone is determined. In contrast, if rcvd_blk.msg_id is equal to curr_blk.msg_id, it is checked in step 314 that rcvd_blk.nth_blk, that is, nth_blk of rcvd_blk is 1 greater than curr_blk.nth_blk, that is, nth_blk of curr_blk. If 1 is not greater, the process is duplicated or missing in step 316, and if 1 is greater, the process is valid data in step 318. In step 320, the SMS information is copied after the current UI information, img_buf_idx is increased by sms_data_size, and curr_blk is stored in rcvd_blk.

Next, in step 322, it is checked whether curr_blk.nth_blk, that is, nth_blk of curr_blk is equal to curr_blk.total_blk, that is, total_blk of curr_blk. If it is not the same, since not all the last data has been received yet, it is received as intermediate data in step 330, and in step 332, the display unit 210 displays "nth of total", and in step 334. Performs a keystroke wait routine. Otherwise, in step 324, it is received as the last data, in step 326, rcvd_blk.msg_id is set to 'NONE', and img_buf_idx is set to 0, and then step 328 is performed.

In step 328, a user-specific ringtone menu is displayed on the screen of the display unit 210, and the received user data, that is, ringtone data, is copied to a storage location of a ringtone number designated by the user in the menu.

Therefore, the user can download and change the ringtone through the Internet without using a PC. In addition, when the size of the ringtone data is not enough for the size of the user data of one SMS message, it is possible to download using several SMS messages using the split information.

As described above, the present invention can download and change the ringtone through the Internet using the Internet access function of the portable mobile phone without using a PC, and if the size of the ringtone data is not enough for the user data size of one SMS message only. There is an advantage that can be downloaded using multiple SMS messages using the partitioning information.

Claims (2)

What is claimed is: 1. A method of changing a ring tone of a portable mobile phone having a wireless Internet access function. Accessing a site providing an Internet ringtone service by using an Internet access function of the mobile phone, selecting a desired ringtone title, and inputting a phone number of the mobile phone; Transmitting the selected ringtone information to the portable mobile phone by inserting the selected ringtone information in the user data of the SMS message together with ringtone function information indicating that the corresponding SMS message is a ringtone function; When the portable mobile phone receives an SMS message, checking whether the ringtone function is information, and in case of the ringtone function information, converting and storing user data into ringtone data; And displaying a user-specific ringtone menu and copying the ringtone data to a location designated by the user. What is claimed is: 1. A method of changing a ring tone of a portable mobile phone having a wireless Internet access function. Accessing a site providing an Internet ringtone service by using an Internet access function of the mobile phone, selecting a desired ringtone title, and inputting a phone number of the mobile phone; Checking whether the site can transmit the size of the selected ringtone data in one SMS message; If the single SMS message can be transmitted, inserting ringtone information into user data of the SMS message together with ringtone function information indicating that the SMS message is a ringtone function and transmitting the ringtone information to the portable mobile phone; If the single SMS message cannot be transmitted, splitting the ringtone information and inserting the ringtone information into user data of the plurality of SMS messages together with the split information and ringtone function information indicating that the SMS message is a ringtone function and transmitting the ringtone information to the portable mobile phone. and, When the portable mobile phone receives an SMS message, checking whether the ringtone function is information, and in the case of the ringtone function information, converting and storing user data into ringtone data according to the split information; Changing the ringtone of the portable mobile phone by displaying a ringtone menu unique to the user on the screen of the display unit and copying the ringtone data to a storage location of a ringtone number designated by the user in the menu; Way.