KR20110104448A - Method and system of telephone call using web on mobile - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method and system for making a phone call using the web on a mobile device. Specifically, when a mobile user presses a function button of a mobile device while accessing a web page of an enterprise or an individual using a mobile browser, a call is immediately made. The present invention relates to a method and a system for making a phone call by selecting a number or selecting one of several numbers.
According to the present invention there is an advantage that the convenience of the mobile user can be increased by finding the necessary phone number without restriction on the time and place to use the mobile phone.

Description

Mobile browser phone call method and system using web on mobile

The present invention relates to a method and system for making a phone call using the web on a mobile device. Specifically, when a mobile user presses a function button of a mobile device while accessing a web page of an enterprise or an individual using a mobile browser, a call is immediately made. The present invention relates to a method and a system for making a phone call by selecting a number or selecting one of several numbers.

Recently, due to the rapid development and dissemination of wireless communication such as wireless Internet, the number of users of smart phones using wireless communication is increasing rapidly. Accordingly, useful applications used in smart phones are being developed one after another. . Various programs and systems need to be developed in order to use mobile terminals more conveniently and to utilize the use of wireless Internet more effectively.

Calling a specific target by a mobile phone includes a method of viewing and entering a phone number or selecting a target registered in an address book to make a call.

However, through the mobile browser, you can access the chicken delivery shop homepage, find the phone number on the homepage difficult, write it in a pen with a memo or memorize it, enter the phone number on your mobile, and then press the call button. You can choose to access the homepage or view the phone number using a computer and make a phone call, but it does not take advantage of the mobility and useful functions of the mobile, and it is inconvenient to use the mobile.

In order to solve the above problems, the present invention provides a method and system for making a phone call immediately by accessing a specific webpage from a mobile, or immediately making a phone call using a search result searched for by a desired search word. For the purpose of

In order to achieve the above object, a telephone call system using a web in a mobile device according to the present invention includes a telephone number providing server for providing telephone number information and a mobile phone connected to the telephone number providing server through the Internet. As a calling system, the mobile transmits a search word to the phone number providing server, receives a result code that is a result of searching for a search word from the phone number information providing server, and generates a result list by extracting a company name from the result code. If a list is selected by the user from the output result list, and the phone number corresponding to the selected list is dialed, the telephone number providing server, the information about the company using the search word Search the business database where they are stored, and Generate and transmit the result code including information about the body to the mobile, the result code is a code written on the basis of HTML and XML, including the company name and phone number information of each company, the phone associated with the phone number The telephone number information is inserted into a number meta tag.

On the other hand, in order to achieve the above object, a telephone call method using the web in the mobile according to the present invention includes a phone number providing server for providing phone number information and a mobile access to the phone number providing server through the Internet. A method for calling by a telephone call system, comprising: (a) a mobile accessing a telephone number providing server through the Internet; (b) transmitting, by the mobile, a search word received from a user to the telephone number providing server; (c) the telephone number providing server searching a company database in which information about the company is stored based on the search word, and generating a result code including information about the company associated with the search word; (d) generating, by the mobile, a result list extracting the company name from the result code and outputting the result list to the screen; And (e) if one list is selected by the user in the output result list, the mobile calling the phone number corresponding to the selected list, wherein the result code is based on HTML and XML. The code is written in, including the company name and phone number information of the company for each company, characterized in that the phone number information of the company is inserted in the phone number meta tag associated with the phone number.

On the other hand, the present invention provides a computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program for realizing the above method.

According to the present invention there is an advantage that the convenience of the mobile user can be increased by finding the necessary phone number without restriction on the time and place to use the mobile phone.

1 is a block diagram showing a telephone call system according to an embodiment of the present invention.
2 is a block diagram showing a telephone call system according to another embodiment of the present invention.
3 is a flow chart illustrating a call method according to an embodiment of the present invention.
Figure 4 is a flow chart illustrating a call method according to another embodiment of the present invention.
5 illustrates an interface in a mobile in an embodiment according to the present invention.

As the inventive concept allows for various changes and numerous modifications, particular embodiments will be illustrated in the drawings and described in detail in the text. However, this is not intended to limit the present invention to the specific disclosed form, it should be understood to include all modifications, equivalents, and substitutes included in the spirit and scope of the present invention.

Terms such as first and second may be used to describe various components, but the components should not be limited by the terms. The terms are used only for the purpose of distinguishing one component from another. For example, without departing from the scope of the present invention, the first component may be referred to as a second component, and similarly, the second component may also be referred to as a first component.

The terminology used herein is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments only and is not intended to be limiting of the invention. Singular expressions include plural expressions unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. In this application, the terms "comprise" or "having" are intended to indicate that there is a feature, number, step, action, component, part, or combination thereof described in the specification, and that one or more other features It should be understood that it does not exclude in advance the possibility of the presence or addition of numbers, steps, actions, components, parts or combinations thereof.

Unless defined otherwise, all terms used herein, including technical or scientific terms, have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art.

Terms such as those defined in commonly used dictionaries are to be interpreted as having a meaning consistent with the meaning in the context of the relevant art and are to be interpreted as ideal or overly formal in meaning unless explicitly defined in the present application Do not.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. Like reference numerals in the drawings denote like elements.

1 is a block diagram showing a telephone call system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The present invention comprises a mobile 1, a web server 2, a wired / wireless telephone 3 of an individual / store.

The mobile 1 refers to a mobile phone, a smart phone, etc. which can be carried by a person and can make a phone call, and is a personal communication system (PCS) and / or a GSM (Global System for Mobile communications) terminal and / or a person. Personal Digital Cellular (PDC) and / or Personal Handyphone System (PHS) terminals and / or Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) and / or Smartphones and / or wireless data communication terminals and And / or any mobile Internet phone and / or a telephone call and equipment capable of accessing the Internet may be used.

The mobile 1 performs a telephone call with the wire / wireless telephone 3 of the individual / store through a wireless telephone network and performs data communication with the web server 2 through the wired / wireless internet network.

The web server 2 means a server that provides an internet homepage of a person or a retailer or provides a search service. The web server 2 may be a server operated by an individual or an institution to provide its own homepage, or may be a search server that enables a search on the Internet operated by a portal company or a search company. The web server 2 is connected to the mobile 1 through a wired / wireless internet network to perform data communication with the mobile 1, and includes a web including a phone number meta tag associated with a phone number. Provide a page.

Web pages are based on HTML and XML, and the phone number meta tag of the web page inserts the phone number of the company directly associated with the web page. For example, when a web page is a homepage of an individual or an organization, the web server 2 of the individual or organization inserts and provides phone number information of the individual or organization into the phone number meta tag of the webpage. On the other hand, if the web page is a search result by a search server and the search result is a link to a homepage of a company, the search server searches a web page in which the phone number information of the homepage company is inserted in the phone number meta tag. It can be provided as.

The wired / wireless telephone 3 of the individual / sales office refers to the wired / wireless telephone of the other party who receives a call when making a telephone call from the mobile 1 to the wired / wireless telephone 3.

The mobile 1 includes a browser 4 and a telephone number extraction program 5. The browser 4 is a program that is basically provided in mobile, and refers to Safari, Chrome, Opera, and Internet Explorer.

The phone number extraction program 5 is a program for extracting phone number information from a web page provided by the web server 2 and means a program installed as a plug-in program in the browser 4 or separately installed in the mobile 1. .

The browser 4 of the mobile 1 directly connects to the web server 2 using the domain name entered in the address bar, and outputs the web page provided by the web server 2 to the screen. The phone number extraction program 5 extracts phone number information from the phone number meta tag included in the web page output from the browser 4 to generate a phone number list, and displays the generated phone number list on the screen of the mobile 1. Output to. If one list is selected by the user from the list of telephone numbers output, the telephone number extraction program 5 performs a telephone call to the telephone number corresponding to the selected list.

Meanwhile, the browser 4 of the mobile 1 accesses a search server, inputs a search word, and outputs a search result provided by the search server on the screen. The telephone number extraction program 5 extracts telephone number information from the telephone number meta tag included in the search result, generates a telephone number list, and outputs the generated telephone number list on the screen of the mobile 1. If one list is selected by the user from the list of telephone numbers output, the telephone number extraction program 5 performs a telephone call to the telephone number corresponding to the selected list.

The telephone number extraction program 5 can be executed when a specific function button is selected by the user. For example, after accessing the chicken store homepage and pressing a specific function button, for example, a call button, a phone number such as a non-hyeon point, a reverse three point, and the like is selected and one of them is called to make a call.

1 is an embodiment of extracting a telephone number from a web page provided by a web server or a result code provided from a search server on the Internet.

2 is a block diagram showing a telephone call system according to another embodiment of the present invention.

The telephone call system according to another embodiment of the present invention is an embodiment for extracting a telephone number from a search result page provided by a telephone number providing server.

Referring to FIG. 2, the telephone call system according to the present invention includes a mobile 100 and a phone number providing server 200.

The mobile 100 includes an input / output unit 130, a controller 140, a browser 120, and a phone number extraction unit 110.

The input / output unit 130 is a component that is responsible for input and output in the mobile 100, and comprises a keypad for inputting various characters or information and a display for outputting various kinds of information on the screen. The input / output unit 130 may be configured as a touch screen which simultaneously performs input and output of information as in a recent smartphone.

The controller 140 controls the overall functions of the mobile 100, such as overall functions performed in the mobile 100 such as phone calls (send and receive), text message (SMS) transmission and reception, wired and wireless data communication, and additional functions. The controlling component.

Since the input / output unit 130 and the controller 140 are general components of the mobile 100, detailed descriptions thereof will be omitted.

Browser 110 is an application that not only allows you to view the information of a web server on the Internet, but also helps to search hypertext documents, such as opening a web page, providing a list of visited Internet addresses (URLs), remembering frequently visited URLs, It has functions such as management, saving and printing of web pages.

The phone number extractor 120 is a functional element installed in the mobile 100, and may be installed as a plug-in in the browser 110 or additionally installed as a separate program in the mobile 100.

The phone number extracting unit 120 includes a connection unit 121, a search interlocking unit 122, a list generating unit 123, and a telephone calling unit 124, and additionally, an additional information providing unit 125 and a storage unit. At least one of the (125) may be further included.

The connection unit 121 includes address information of the phone number providing server 200. When the phone number extracting unit 120 is executed, the mobile number 100 uses the address information of the phone number providing server 200. Direct access to the providing server 200.

The mobile 100 may access the phone number providing server 200 through the browser 110, and the phone number extracting unit 120 of the mobile 100 may directly access the phone number providing server 200. When the mobile 100 accesses the phone number providing server 200 through the browser 110, the phone number extracting unit 120 interworks with the browser 110 to provide web information provided by the phone number providing server 200. Interpret and print When the phone number extractor 120 directly accesses the phone number providing server 200, the phone number extractor 120 may serve as a browser 120.

The search linking unit 122 receives a search word from the user and transmits the search word to the phone number providing server 200, and receives a result code that is a search result according to the search word from the phone number providing server 200. The result code includes the company name and the phone number information searched by the phone number providing server 200 according to the search word. The result code is based on HTML and XML, and phone number information is inserted within the phone number meta tag in the result code.

On the other hand, as will be described later, the additional information of the company may be further included in the result code according to the setting method.

The list generation unit 123 extracts the company name and the phone number information from the received result code, generates a result list including the extracted company name and the phone number information, and links the mobile unit 100 with the input / output unit 130. Print to the screen.

The list of results is displayed on the screen, sorted by company name in the form of a list. Since the phone number information is embedded in the phone number meta tag, when the company name of the result list is displayed on the screen, the phone number information corresponding to the company name is not output together.

Since the result code is a code written based on HTML / XML, the list generation unit 123 outputs the result code as a result list as it is in accordance with the HTML format, or after processing the result list according to the screen size of the mobile 100 You can also output

Meanwhile, since the result list may be output in various ways, the phone number information and / or additional information to be described later may be set to be displayed on the screen together with the company name. The output form of the result list is not limited to one method, and may be output in various formats according to various setting methods.

When one list is selected from the result list by the user, the telephone call unit 124 performs the call using the telephone number information inserted in the telephone number meta tag corresponding to the selected list.

The additional information providing unit 125 serves to provide additional information included in the result list. The additional information includes at least one of address information of the company and advertisement information about products or services handled by the company, and the additional information is provided together with the company name in text or video.

The storage unit 126 stores the company name and the phone number information included in the result list, and the information about the phone number and the company name sent by the phone call unit 124.

The phone number providing server 200 includes a search unit 210, a result provider 220, and a company database 230.

The company database 230 is a database that stores a company name and phone number information for the company name for each company. The company database 230 may further store at least one of a company address, a product or service handled by a company, a homepage address of a company, and information about a company's advertisement for each company.

The search unit 210 generates a search result including information about a company associated with a search word input by a user by searching the company database 230 using the search word. The search result includes company name and phone number information of a company associated with a search word for each company, and may further include additional information for each company. The additional information may further include at least one of a company address, a product or service handled by the company, a homepage address of the company, and information about the advertisement of the company.

The result providing unit 220 generates a result code by converting the search result into an HTML / XML-based code so that the browser 110 of the mobile 100 can recognize it, and transmits the generated result code to the mobile 100. do.

The result code includes company name and phone number information for each company, and may further include additional information of the company in addition to the above information. As described above, the additional information of the company may further include at least one of a company address, a product or service handled by the company, a homepage address of the company, and information about the advertisement of the company. In the result code, the phone number information is inserted in the phone number meta tag.

On the other hand, the result providing unit 220 may further include a meta tag combining unit 221.

The meta tag combiner 221 serves to insert the phone number information of the company in the form of a meta tag in the result code. If the phone number information is inserted in the result code in the form of a meta tag, the phone number information is not displayed on the web page when the browser outputs the result code.

By including the meta tag combining unit 221 for inserting the searched phone number information of the searched company into the result code in the existing search server, the present invention can be easily implemented in the existing search server.

Hereinafter will be described a telephone call method. Since the telephone call method according to the present invention is essentially the same as the telephone call system according to the present invention, detailed description and redundant description will be omitted.

3 is a flow chart illustrating a call method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The domain information server 8 is a server (name server) having information about a domain provided to be accessed by the browser 4, and refers to a server that additionally registers and provides telephone information according to a domain.

As shown in FIG. 1, phone number information can be extracted directly from a web page provided by the web server 7, but as shown in FIG. 3, the mobile 1 accesses the web server 7 and presses a specific function button such as a call button. The phone number extraction program 5 is executed to obtain phone number information of the company operating the web server 7 from the domain information server 8 to perform phone call. At this time, the mobile 1 provides information on the web page provided by the web server 7 to the domain information server 8 and receives phone number information of the company associated with the web page from the domain information server 8.

4 is a flow chart illustrating a call method according to another embodiment of the present invention.

The phone number extraction unit 120 is a kind of mobile-only program installed in the mobile 100 to perform the telephone call method according to the present invention. When the phone number extractor 120 is installed in the mobile 100, the phone number extractor 120 may be executed in the mobile 100 by the user's selection. The phone number extraction unit 120 finds a phone number of a company that the user wants to call based on a search word and performs a call.

If the phone number extraction unit 120 is selected to be executed by the user, first, the phone number extraction unit 120 is executed (S10).

When the phone number extraction unit 120 is executed, the mobile 100 first accesses the phone number providing server 200 (S20).

After being connected to the telephone number access server 200, the user inputs a search word through the input / output unit 130 of the mobile 100 (S30). The input search word is transmitted to the telephone number providing server 200.

The phone number providing server 200 searches the company database 230 based on the received search word and generates a search result according to the search word (S50). The search result may include the name of the searched company and the phone number of the searched company, and may further include additional information of the searched company. Here, the company database 230 is a database that stores company name and phone number information of the company name for each company, and the company database 230 may further include additional information for each company. The additional information includes at least one of a business address, a product or service handled by the business, a homepage address of the business, and information about the business's advertisement.

The phone number providing server 200 converts the search result into an HTML / XML based code to generate a result code (S60), and transmits the generated result code to the mobile 100 (S70). Phone number information is inserted in the phone number meta tag in the result code.

The mobile 100 receives the result code, extracts company name and phone number information from the received result code, and generates a result list including the extracted company name and phone number information (S80).

The mobile 100 causes the generated result tree to be output on the screen of the mobile 100 (S90).

When one list is selected from the result list by the user (S100), the mobile 100 performs the call using the phone number information inserted in the phone number meta tag of the selected list (S110).

5 is a diagram illustrating an interface in a mobile in an embodiment according to the present invention.

In FIG. 5, (a) illustrates input of a search word, (b) illustrates outputting a result code on a screen, (c) illustrates outputting a result list on a screen, and (d) An interface diagram illustrating performing outgoing calls.

As shown in FIG. 5A, a user inputs a search word related to a company to be searched in an address bar of the browser 110, a search word window of a search page provided by a search server, or a search word field of the phone number extractor 120.

When a search word is input and a search button is selected, the mobile 100 transmits the search word to the phone number providing server 200, and the phone number providing server 200 transmits a result code to the mobile 100.

5 (b) illustrates outputting the received result code on the screen. Since the result code is written based on HTML and XML, the mobile device 110 or the phone number extraction unit 120 may immediately output the result code.

When a specific button on the mobile 100, for example, the "Call the current web page" button is selected by the user as shown in FIG. 5 (b), the mobile 100 extracts the business name and the phone number information from the result code and the result list. Generates and outputs the generated result list to the screen of the mobile 100 as shown in FIG. As described above, the telephone number information may not be displayed on the screen because the telephone number information is inserted in the telephone number meta tag. On the other hand, in the embodiment of the present invention, step (b) of FIG. 5 may be omitted and proceed directly to step (c) of FIG. 5 (a).

When the user selects a list of companies that he / she wants to call from the result list, the mobile 100 performs a phone call to the phone number inserted in the phone number meta tag of the selected list.

The method of the present invention can also be embodied as computer readable code on a computer readable recording medium. The computer-readable recording medium includes all kinds of recording devices in which data that can be read by a computer system is stored. Examples of the computer-readable recording medium include a ROM, a RAM, a CD-ROM, a magnetic tape, a floppy disk, an optical data storage device, and the like, and may be implemented in the form of a carrier wave (for example, transmission via the Internet) . The computer readable recording medium can also be distributed over network coupled computer systems so that the computer readable code is stored and executed in a distributed fashion.

While the present invention has been particularly shown and described with reference to exemplary embodiments thereof, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the disclosed embodiments, but, on the contrary, is intended to cover various modifications and equivalent arrangements included within the spirit and scope of the invention. Accordingly, the scope of protection of the present invention should be construed in accordance with the following claims, and all technical ideas within the scope of equivalents and equivalents thereof should be construed as being covered by the scope of the present invention.

100, mobile 200, phone number server
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Claims (8)

A call originating system comprising a web server for providing a web page including a phone number meta tag associated with a phone number and a mobile having a browser for accessing the web server.
The mobile is
A browser accessing the web server; And
Extract phone number information from the phone number meta tag included in the web page to generate a phone number list, output the generated phone number list on the screen, and correspond to the list selected by the user among the output phone number lists. Includes a phone number extraction program that performs a call to a phone number,
The phone number meta tag is characterized in that the phone number information of the company associated with the web page is inserted, the telephone call system using the mobile web. Claims [1] A telephone call system comprising a telephone number providing server for providing telephone number information and a mobile accessing the telephone number providing server through the Internet.
The mobile transmits a search word to the phone number providing server, receives a result code that is a result of searching for a search word from the phone number information providing server, generates a result list of extracting a company name from the result code, and outputs the result list to the screen. When one list is selected by the user in the output result list, a telephone call is made to the phone number corresponding to the selected list.
The phone number providing server searches a company database in which information about a company is stored using the search word, generates the result code including information about a company associated with the search word, and transmits the result code to the mobile.
The result code is a code written based on HTML and XML, and includes a company name and phone number information of a company for each company, wherein the phone number information is inserted in a phone number meta tag associated with a phone number. Calling System Using Web The method of claim 2,
The business database stores information about the business name, phone number information, business address, the goods or services handled by the business, the homepage address of the business, and the advertisement of the business.
The result code may further include at least one of a business address, a product or service handled by the company, a homepage address of the company, and information about the company's advertisement. . A method for calling by a telephone origination system comprising a web server providing a web page including a phone number meta tag associated with a phone number, and a mobile having a browser for accessing the web server.
(a) a mobile browser accessing the web server and outputting the web page;
(b) executing a phone number extraction program when a specific function button is selected in the mobile;
(c) the telephone number extraction program extracting a telephone number meta tag associated with the telephone number from the web page to generate a telephone number list;
(d) the telephone number extraction program outputting the generated telephone number list; And
(e) if one list is selected by the user from the list of outputted telephone numbers, the telephone number extracting program includes a step of making a telephone call to the telephone numbers of the selected list,
The phone number meta tag is characterized in that the phone number information of the company associated with the web page is inserted, the call method using the mobile web. The method of claim 4, wherein step (a)
(a1) accessing a search server that provides a search service on the Internet;
(a2) inputting a search word in a search word window; And
(a3) receiving a search result according to a search word from the search server,
And the search result is a web page including the telephone number meta tag. A telephone calling method by a telephone calling system comprising a telephone number providing server for providing telephone number information and a mobile accessing the telephone number providing server through the Internet,
(a) a mobile accessing a telephone number providing server through the Internet;
(b) transmitting, by the mobile, a search word received from a user to the telephone number providing server;
(c) the telephone number providing server searching a company database in which information about the company is stored based on the search word, and generating a result code including information about the company associated with the search word;
(d) generating, by the mobile, a result list extracting the company name from the result code and outputting the result list to the screen; And
(e) if a list is selected by the user in the output result list, the mobile device sends a phone call to a phone number corresponding to the selected list;
The result code is a code written based on HTML and XML, and includes a company name and phone number information of a company, and the phone number information of the company is inserted in a phone number meta tag associated with the phone number. How to make a phone call using the web from. The method of claim 6, wherein the result code further comprises at least one of a business address, a product or service handled by the business, a homepage address of the business, and information about the business's advertisement.
In the step (d), the web address on the mobile is characterized in that it outputs at least one of a company address, a company address, a product or service handled by the company, a homepage address of the company, and information about the advertisement of the company. One call method. A computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program for performing a telephone call method according to any one of claims 4 to 6.

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