KR20020032449A - Personal information offer method using telecommunication - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A method for providing the customized information using a wire/wireless communication is provided to devise the immediateness and convenience of information transfer by automatically collecting the information from the Internet and transmitting the information selected by a user from the collected information to the user through the wire/wireless communication. CONSTITUTION: The method comprises steps of storing the user information, a wire/wireless telephone number and the selection information inputted from a user in a member information database(S303), judging that the user is a registered member by comparing the number of wire/wireless terminal connecting to a voice information providing server with the member information of member database(S302), the voice information providing server transmitting the processed information by searching the member database, configuring and voice processing a customized information menu of user(S305), extracting the selected information from the information database after confirming the received customized information menu(S307), and transmitting the voice converted from the text information to the wire/wireless terminal through the wire/wireless communication network(S310).

Description

Personal information offer method using telecommunications

The present invention relates to a method of providing information using wired or wireless communication, and in particular, automatically collects various information on the Internet, and transmits the information selected by the user among the collected information to the corresponding user through wired and wireless communication, for immediate and convenient information transfer. The present invention relates to a method of providing personalized information using wired and wireless communication.

In general, a method of acquiring information through wired or wireless communication includes a method using the Internet, a method using a wired terminal (telephone), and a method using a wireless terminal (mobile phone, PDA, etc.).

The method using the Internet is the most common information acquisition method at present, and it is advantageous to obtain various and abundant information for free if only the Internet-enabled computer is provided, while complex operations such as searching and logging in are required to access the information. In order to accompany and obtain useful information, there was a problem that the user had to possess some degree of searching ability. Accordingly, in order to solve the inconvenience of acquiring information using the Internet, a customized information service has been introduced that collects only the information required by the user and provides it in the form of a web page or an e-mail. Since the work is required, the information is not immediately delivered, and the user needs to execute a web browser or an email client to check the information.

On the other hand, in order to solve the above problems of the customized information service, the applicant of the Korean Patent Application No. 2001-0055271 "Method of providing information using a server and client" automatically collects and classifies various information on the Internet through the server and client Edit, save as high quality information, and periodically transmit the information selected by the user to the client program of the user terminal that has been authenticated and output in various ways according to the output option or data type selected by the user. Disclosed a technique. Applicant's existing filing technology enables information providers to collect quality information easily and easily from the Internet through information processing related programs on automated servers, and users can quickly and conveniently obtain high-quality information by simply operating a client program. There is an effect that can be obtained. However, the applicant's prior application technology should be provided with a user terminal, that is, a computer system, capable of connecting to the Internet and installing a client program. In addition, since the computer system is fixed at a certain place, mobile users have a problem in that they cannot receive a service.

In the method using the wired terminal, information can be obtained by using a normal telephone without an expensive computer system, but services are distributed according to information provided in general (700 services, etc.), and individual access telephone numbers are provided for each service. It's hard to get all the information you need in one connection. In addition, in terms of the interface, after accessing the service by phone number, a complicated menu selection process is required according to the voice guidance, so it takes a lot of time to acquire information (that is, a call charge), and is available to all users rather than personalized customized information. The same information is provided.

The method using the wireless terminal may acquire information by the same process as the method using the wired terminal, and the information obtained through the wireless internet access or transmitted from a wireless communication service company depending on whether the wireless terminal has a wireless internet access function. It is provided with information in the form of character data. Here, the same information acquisition method as that of the wired terminal and the information acquisition method through the wireless Internet connection (the same method as the existing method using the Internet) will be omitted because the above-described method, and in the case of the information providing method in the form of text data, is walking because it is text information. It is difficult to use while on the road or on the go, and provides general news information or stock alarm notification using a short message service (SMS) of a wireless terminal, and thus, there is a lack of personalized information for the user.

In addition, in the information acquisition method using the wired terminal and the wireless terminal, there is a problem in that the information provider's manual work is required on the provided information, thereby reducing the immediateness of information transmission.

An object of the present invention for solving the above problems is to automatically collect various information on the Internet, and to transmit the information selected by the user of the collected information to the user through wired and wireless communication to facilitate the immediate and convenient information delivery The present invention provides a method of providing personalized information using wired and wireless communication.

1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a personalized information providing system according to the present invention.

2 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an information providing server according to the present invention;

3 is a flowchart illustrating a process of providing personalized voice information according to the present invention.

4 is a flowchart illustrating a process of transmitting personalized text / voice information according to the present invention.

<Description of Symbols for Major Parts of Drawings>

100: wired and wireless communication network 110: mobile communication base station

120: G / W exchanger 130: telephone station

140: switch 150: wireless terminal

151: wired terminal 152: user computer

200: voice information providing server 210: wired and wireless communication processing unit

220: user number recognition unit 230: information selection and processing unit

240: text information extraction unit 250: text-to-speech unit

300: text / voice information transmission server 310: transmission communication processing unit

320: transmission extraction management unit 330: condition information extraction unit

340: text-to-speech unit 400: information providing server

401: server communication processing unit 402: information delivery processing unit

403: Member Certification Department 404: Information Database

405: Member Information Database 406: Information Collection

407: information source database 408: execution information database

409: management unit 410: external interlocking unit

A feature of the present invention for achieving the above object is an information providing server for automatically collecting, extracting, processing and storing information on the Internet, and voice information for providing the stored information as voice through a wired or wireless communication network connected to the information providing server. A method of providing personalized information using a providing server, comprising: a first step of receiving user information, a wired / wireless terminal telephone number, and selection information from a user and storing the received user information in a member information database of the information providing server; A second step of checking whether a registered user is compared with a telephone number of a wired / wireless terminal connected to the voice information providing server and the member information database; A third step of, if the registered user is a registered user, searching the member information database in the voice information providing server, configuring and voice processing a customized information menu of the corresponding user, and transmitting the same to the wired / wireless terminal; A fourth step of checking the selection signal of the wired / wireless terminal regarding the transmitted customized information menu and extracting the selected information from the information database of the information providing server; And converting the extracted text information into voice and transmitting the extracted text information to a corresponding wired / wireless terminal through a wired / wireless communication network.

Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a personalized information providing system according to the present invention, Figure 2 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an information providing server according to the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 1, the system for providing personalized information according to the present invention includes an information providing server 400 which automatically extracts various types of information on the Internet and provides personalized information to a user computer 152 connected to the Internet. It comprises a voice information providing server 200 and a text / voice information transmission server 300 for providing the information of the information providing server 400 to the wired and wireless terminals 150, 151 of the user through the wired and wireless communication network 100.

The information providing server 400 is shown in FIG. 2, the specific configuration of which is detailed in Korean Patent Application No. 2001-0055271, "Method of providing information using a server and a client," which is the applicant's previous application. Since described in detail, only the function of the components will be briefly described here.

The administrator of the information providing server 400 first classifies the information provided by a predetermined criterion, selects useful Internet sites according to the classified information, and automatically extracts only necessary information to be provided to the user in the selected site. Determine how you collect information and how often you run it. The information collection related program of the information providing server 400 is automatically operated according to the predetermined cycle and the information collection method to collect, extract, process, and store information from the Internet site.

To this end, the information providing server 400 includes an information source database 407 for storing information classification codes, site information and engine information; An execution information database 408 for storing a collection execution cycle of information, an execution object, and an execution result; Registers and manages execution cycles and execution targets of the information source database 407 and the execution information database 408, and notifies the administrator by e-mail or an alarm sound when the execution result of collecting information of the execution information database 408 is a failure. A management processing unit 409; In accordance with the execution cycle and the execution target information automatically connected to the site registered in the information source database 407 through the external linkage unit 410, collects, extracts and processes the information and stores it in the information database 404, An information collecting unit (406) for storing the execution result in the execution information database (408); A server communication processing unit 401 for transmitting and receiving data to and from a client program installed in the user computer 152; Receives the member information and the user's selection information when the user registers through the server communication processor 401 and stores it in the member information database 405, and authenticates the member through the member information database 405 when the client program is accessed. A member authentication unit 403 for receiving a change in member information and updating the member information database 405; The information transfer processor 402 extracts and transmits the selection information of the corresponding user from the information database 404 according to the information request of the client program connected through the server communication processor 401. It consists of

In order to transmit the information of the information providing server 400 to the wired / wireless communication network 100 that is an object of the present invention, that is, a wired or wireless terminal 150 or 151 such as a mobile phone, the member information database 405 includes a user wired / wireless terminal ( 150, 151 stores the phone number information, and through the stored information, the member authentication unit 403 recognizes the user connected to the wired and wireless communication network (100).

In the wired / wireless communication network 100, a user may use a wireless terminal 150 and a wired terminal 151. Preferably, a service is provided through an agreement between an information service company, a mobile communication company, and a telephone station, and the wireless terminal 150 is provided. In the case of a user connected by using a shortcut key (for example, *, #, or a special character or a function button or a number such as 1004 on the terminal), the mobile communication base station 110 and the G / W exchanger 120 of the communication service provider. (IGS: Inter-Gateway Switching System) is connected to the wired / wireless communication processing unit 210 of the voice information providing server 200. In the case of using the wired terminal 151, when a service connection number (for example, 1588-xxx) is connected, the switch 140 of the telephone station 130 is passed through a public switched telephone network (PSTN). It is connected to the wired / wireless communication processing unit 210 of the voice information providing server 200. The wired / wireless communication processor 210 receives the telephone number of the connected terminal in real time from a mobile communication company or a telephone station, and the voice information providing server 200 performs user recognition processing.

The voice information providing server 200 transmits the telephone numbers of the user wired and wireless terminals 150 and 151 transmitted through the wired and wireless communication network 100 to the user number recognition unit 220, and the user wired and wireless terminals 150 and 151. A wired / wireless communication processor 210 which performs data exchange of the voice information providing server 200 through the wired / wireless communication network 100; Compare the phone numbers of the user wired and wireless terminals 150 and 151 transmitted through the wired and wireless communication processing unit 210 with the member information database 405 of the information providing server 400 to authenticate the user's membership, and the user authenticated as a member. A user number recognition unit 220 for transmitting the information of the information to the information selection and processing unit 230; The member information database 405 is searched according to the transmitted user information to configure and voice process a customized information menu of the corresponding user, and then the wired / wireless communication processor 210 to the wired / wireless terminals 150 and 151 of the user. An information selection and processing unit 230 for transmitting the user's information request for the customized menu to the text information extraction unit 240; A text information extracting unit 240 extracting the corresponding information from the information database 404 of the information providing server 400 and transmitting the extracted information to the text-to-speech unit 250 according to the user's request for information; And text-to-speech conversion of the extracted data transmitted from the text information extracting unit 240 to generate a voice file, and transmits the extracted data to the wired / wireless terminals 150 and 151 of the user through the wired / wireless communication processing unit 210. It is composed of a portion (250).

The text / voice information transmission server 300 is different from the voice information providing server 200 in which the user directly connects to obtain personalized information. The wired / wireless terminals 150 and 151 of the user are provided with corresponding personalized information by text or voice.

To this end, the text / voice information transmission server 300 transmits the customized information set by the user through the wired and wireless communication network 100 to the wired and wireless terminals 150, 151 of the user in a text or voice transmission 310 ); Compares and checks the member information database 405 and the information database 404 of the information providing server 400 with the customized information corresponding to the time or condition set by the user, and if there is the customized information according to the set time or condition. A transmission extraction management unit 320 which transmits corresponding user information to the condition information extraction unit 330 and requests information extraction; According to the information extraction request of the transmission extraction management unit 320, the customized information that matches the time or condition set by the user is extracted from the information database 404 of the information providing server 400 and transmitted to the text-to-speech unit 340. Condition information extracting unit 330; And a voice conversion process of the extracted data transmitted from the condition information extractor 330 to generate a voice file, and transmits the text or voice to the wired / wireless terminals 150 and 151 of the user through the transmission communication processor 310. It consists of a text-to-speech unit 340. In this case, the text is transmitted when the user uses the wireless terminal 150 having the SMS function, and transmits the connection number of the text / voice information transmission server 300 together with brief information when the text is transmitted. Information may also be used to provide information by voice after the user accesses the connection number.

The information selecting and processing unit 230 of the voice information providing server 200 and the transmission communication processing unit 310 of the text / voice information transmitting server 300 may include an automatic response system (ARS) or an interactive voice response (IVR). The text-to-speech unit 250 of the voice information providing server 200 and the text-to-speech unit 340 of the text / voice information transmission server 300 use a text-to-speech technique. . In addition, the information selection and processing unit 230 may further include an ASR (Automatic Speech Recognition) function to process the user's menu selection by voice, the transmission communication processing unit 310 is an SMS function for text message transmission And a voice mail service (VMS) function may be further provided to connect and use voice information stored as personalized information.

3 is a flowchart illustrating a process of providing personalized voice information according to the present invention, and FIG. 4 is a flowchart illustrating a process of transmitting personalized text / voice information according to the present invention, and is already registered and provided by the information providing server 400. It is a process of providing information in a state where selection of information to receive is completed.

In order to use the personalized information providing service according to the present invention, a user must first register a member and select information to be provided, which is an information providing server 400 through the Internet using the user computer 152. Both the method of accessing and inputting the method and the method of accessing the voice information providing server 200 through the wired / wireless communication network 100 and inputting by a menu method through the ARS can be used. Of course, if you want to register via the Internet and receive information through the wired and wireless communication network 100, the user enters the phone number of the wired and wireless terminals (150, 151) to be used for providing information, the information to the wired and wireless communication network (100) You must request the offer.

When the user registers, the user information (e.g., name, date of birth, region, gender, etc.), connection information (i.e. phone number of the wired / wireless terminal), selection information (e.g., stock, weather, occupation, event of interest, schedule) , Learning item and level, cultural information) and reservation information (time or condition information to be provided) will be input.

The reservation information is input when the information is to be provided in a certain time unit (for example, 30 minutes for weather, 1 hour for news, etc.) or in real time (for example, stock market price) depending on the nature of the information. Done.

Referring to FIG. 3, a process in which a user directly accesses the voice information providing server 200 through wired / wireless terminals 150 and 151 and receives information is as follows.

After completing the above process, the user who has completed the subscription to the information providing server 400 accesses the voice information providing server 200 through the wired / wireless communication network by inputting a shortcut button or a phone number to the wired / wireless terminals 150 and 151 (S300). ). When the connection is made, the user number recognition unit 220 of the voice information providing server 200 receives the telephone numbers of the user terminals 150 and 151 from a mobile communication company or a telephone station (S301). The phone numbers of the user terminals 150 and 151 transmitted are compared with the member information database 405 of the information providing server 400 to confirm whether the user is a registered member (S302), and if not, the member registration process (S303). Precedes it. In the case of a registered member as a result of the checking, the information selecting and processing unit 230 searches the member information database 405 with the phone numbers of the user terminals 150 and 151 to recognize the user (S304), and the user's personalized information. Organize and voice menus (e.g., Hello xxx, select the menu either numerically or by voice: number 1 today's fortune and bio, number 2 current weather, number 3 events and events, number 4 economics, 5 news information, 6 learning information, 7 culture / life / entertainment, 8 event / region information), and then transmitted to the user terminals 150 and 151 (S305). When a specific DTMF signal of a user terminal or a voice of a user is transmitted with respect to the transmitted user menu (S306), the information selection and processing unit 230 checks this and requests the text information extraction unit 240 to extract the corresponding information, and The information extraction unit 240 extracts the selected information from the information database 404 of the information providing server 400 (S307), and performs a voice conversion character modification operation (S308) to convert the extracted data into voice. The voice conversion character correction operation (S308) is a process of increasing the recognition rate of the voice converted from the character through investigation of the extracted data, connection of words and correction and correction of special characters. After the optimal text is converted through the above process, the extracted text data is generated as a voice file using the TTS function of the text-to-speech converter 250 (S309). The generated voice file is transmitted to the corresponding user terminals 150 and 151 through the wired / wireless communication processor 210 (S310). Here, the standardized information is stored in the information database 404 as a voice through pre-recording by a person to improve the recognition of the voice information, and the variable information is converted into a voice using the TTS function. Also available. When the user's personalized information is stored as a voice, the information is directly transmitted to the user terminals 150 and 151 without modifying the text information (S308) and the text-to-speech process (S309). Thereafter, when the user wants to be provided with other customized information (S311), the user menu is transmitted again (S305), and then steps S306 to S311 are performed.

Since the user number recognition step (S301, S302) does not use the registered wired or wireless terminals (150, 151) (particularly, in the case of a wired terminal), if not a registered member registration process (S303) You can also add a step to confirm your membership by requiring you to enter your password.

Hereinafter, a description will be given of a process in which a user is provided with information when reservation information input at the time of membership registration, that is, time or condition information for receiving information, occurs through FIG. 4.

The transmission extraction management unit 320 of the text / voice information transmission server 300 may check the member information database 405 and the information database 404 of the information providing server 400 to determine whether there is personalized information corresponding to a time or condition set by the user. Compare and check (S400), and if there is customized information that satisfies the set time or condition (S401) and transmits the corresponding user information to the condition information extraction unit 330 (S402). The condition information extraction unit 330 generates an extraction condition based on the corresponding user information (S403), and extracts necessary information from the information database 404 of the information providing server 400 based on this (S404). The extracted data is converted into a voice file using the TTS function of the text-to-speech unit 340 after the same modification operation (S405) as in the text information correction process of FIG. 3. When the voice conversion is completed, check the set terminal of the user (S407), and in the case of the wired terminal 151, connects a phone to the wired terminal 151 of the user (S408) in the transmission communication processing unit 310 (S408). The file is transmitted (S411). In addition, when the set terminal of the user is the wireless terminal 150, the transmission and communication processing unit 310 to the user's wireless terminal 150 to the brief information on the extracted information and the text / voice information transmission server 300 The connection number is transmitted via SMS (S409), and when the user who confirms the connection is connected to the text / voice information transmission server 300 (S410), the generated voice file is transmitted or, in some cases, the VMS is transmitted to the generated voice file. Provided using (S411). In addition, even if the set user terminal is a wireless terminal 150, it is possible to provide a generated voice file by immediately making a call connection. When using the VMS, the user stores the voice information and connects as necessary to continue listening to the information. can do.

Through this process, the user can receive the information selected at the time of membership registration to the registered wired / wireless terminal periodically by text or voice. For example, if today's fortune, biorhythm, weather, schedule, event, learning information, etc. is selected, the latest information may be automatically received and used based on the time or date at a predetermined time through the above process.

In addition, by specifying a condition of the information, it is possible to receive the information by text or voice when the condition occurs. For example, if you register for notification of the range of price changes for stocks of interest, notification before the start of a personal schedule registered through the Internet, or notification of events of interest, the condition information retrieved from the wired / wireless terminal registered at the time of occurrence of the relevant condition will be text or voice. Information can be obtained and used immediately.

As described above, according to the present invention, the information providing server automatically collects, extracts, processes, and stores various information on the Internet so that the user can always have the latest information, and the user can store the information only by inputting a simple access number using a wired or wireless terminal. The necessary customized information can be easily obtained by voice. In particular, when using a wireless terminal, it is possible to always be provided with the necessary personalized information on the go.

In addition, when the user accesses the voice information providing server through a wired or wireless terminal, the user is automatically recognized through the telephone number of the connected terminal, and the user is immediately provided with a personalized menu and information on the previously selected information. You do not have to input the conditions for the input and individual information separately, and do not listen to unnecessary information such as menu descriptions. Therefore, the user can also reduce the information acquisition time and cost.

When the time or condition specified by the user is reached, the corresponding information is transmitted to the user's wired / wireless terminal so that information acquisition time is important, for example, stock price information of interest, current local weather information, and regular personal biometric and living information. There is an effect that can be utilized when the user needs.

Claims (8)

In the personal information providing method using an information providing server for automatically collecting, extracting, processing and storing information on the Internet, and a voice information providing server connected to the information providing server and providing the stored information by voice through a wired / wireless communication network. A first step of receiving user information, a wired / wireless terminal telephone number, and selection information from a user and storing the information in a member information database of the information providing server; A second step of checking whether a registered user is compared with a telephone number of a wired / wireless terminal connected to the voice information providing server and the member information database; A third step of, if the registered user is a registered user, searching the member information database in the voice information providing server, configuring and voice processing a customized information menu of the corresponding user, and transmitting the same to the wired / wireless terminal; A fourth step of checking the selection signal of the wired / wireless terminal regarding the transmitted customized information menu and extracting the selected information from the information database of the information providing server; And And converting the extracted text information into voice and transmitting the extracted text information to a corresponding wired / wireless terminal through a wired / wireless communication network. The method of claim 1, further comprising: receiving a user password and confirming the registered user if the user is not a registered user in addition to the second step. . The method of claim 1, further comprising transmitting to the wired / wireless terminal through the wired / wireless communication network when the extracted information is voice information in addition to the fourth step. [4] The wired / wireless radio system according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the fifth step further comprises a step of correcting the extracted text information before the voice conversion in order to increase the recognition rate of the converted voice. How to provide personalized information using communication. Providing personalized information using an information providing server that automatically collects, extracts, processes, and stores information on the Internet, and a text / voice information transmission server connected to the information providing server and providing the stored information in text and voice through a wired / wireless communication network. In the method, A first step of receiving user information, a wired / wireless terminal telephone number, selection information, and reservation information from a user and storing the information in a member information database of the information providing server; A second step of comparing and checking the member information database of the information providing server and the information database whether the text / voice information transmission server has personalized information meeting the set time or condition of the reservation information; A third step of extracting necessary information from the information database through corresponding user information when there is personalized information satisfying the set time or condition as a result of the comparison confirmation; And And converting the extracted text information into a voice and transmitting the extracted text information to a set terminal of a corresponding user. The method of claim 5, wherein the fourth step further comprises a step of correcting the extracted text information prior to the voice conversion in order to increase the recognition rate of the converted voice. . The method of claim 5, wherein the fourth step comprises: when the terminal set by the user is a wireless terminal, transmitting the short information and the connection number of the extracted information to the wireless terminal of the user through a short message service (SMS); And And providing the extracted information, which is voice-converted, to the wireless terminal connected through the connection number of the SMS. 8. The method of claim 7, wherein the voice-converted extracted information is stored in a voice mail service (VMS).