Method for operating a telecommunication system and telecommunication arrangement

• US 20030186687A1
• Filed: 05/20/2003
• Published: 10/02/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 01/31/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Peter Michael Horst
• Original Assignee: Donald Muller-Judex, Joachim Esser, Jorg-Ulrich Wolfel, Peter Michael Horst, Rolf-Peter Kater
• Inventors: Esser, Joachim, Kater, Rolf-Peter, Muller-Judex, Donald, Horst, Peter Michael, Wolfel, Jorg-Ulrich
• Granted Patent: US 7,313,387 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/414.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2207/18 wireless networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/493 Interactive information services, e.g. directory enquiries ; Arrangements therefor, e.g. interactive voice response [IVR] systems or voice portals
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/06 Registration at serving network Location Register, VLR or user mobility server

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for operating a telecommunication system, including in particular a mobile radio network (PLMN), to provide a service and to obtain information.

Claims

1. Method for operating a telecommunications system, including in particular a mobile radio network (PLMN), to provide a service and to obtain information, with the steps:

storage of a plurality of terminal call numbers of the telecommunications system in a first call-number database (CNDB1),

generation of a primary message that comprises at least one information component, a response request standardized in accordance with an evaluation algorithm and a call number of a server terminal, and storage in a primary-message store (PMS) of a server (S),

production of a plurality of secondary messages, the content of which is dependent on (a) at least one information element in a response message produced in reaction to the primary message and/or (b) a terminal call number of the telecommunications system and/or (c) the geographical position of a terminal reacting to the primary message, and which are deposited in a secondary-message store (SMS),

sequential or parallel sending of the stored primary message to the call numbers stored in the first call-number database, by means of a server terminal (SS),

reception of response messages by the server terminal (SS) with recording of the sender'"'"'s call number and/or the geographic position of the sender'"'"'s terminal (MS),

evaluation of each received message according to the evaluation algorithm,

storage of the sender'"'"'s call number in a storage region of a second call-number database (CNDB2),

storage of the evaluation result and/or of the geographic position in association with the sender'"'"'s call number, in an evaluation-result database (ERDB),

addressing a storage region of the secondary-message store (SMS) in dependence on the evaluation result and readout of the stored secondary message as well as the associated storage region in the second call-number database (CNDB2) to the server terminal (SS) and

sending the secondary message that has been read out to the relevant user terminal (MS).

2. Method according to claim 1,

characterized in that as the first call-number database (CNDB1) at least one home location register (HLR) and/or at least one visitor location register (VLR) of a cellular mobile radio network or a database at the server that is connected thereto is used.

3. Method according to claim 1,

characterized in that the first call-number database (CNDB1) comprises call numbers that are arbitrarily predetermined, in particular are produced by means of a random-number generator.

4. Method according to one of the preceding claims,

characterized in that an approximate geographic position of the sender'"'"'s terminal (MS) is found from the terminal'"'"'s place in the visitor location register (VLR) of a special mobile switching centre (MSC) or from the status of its connection to a special base station (BTS/BSC) of a cellular mobile radio network (PLMN).

5. Method according to one of the preceding claims,

characterized in that the information component of the primary message comprises information about rules of a game and/or at least one question, and the response request comprises a request for speech or text input.

6. Method according to one of the preceding claims,

characterized in that the primary message and/or the secondary messages are formulated as in particular synthetic speech or text messages in SMS or WML format for output by way of the receiver cap or the display, respectively, of a mobile telephone (MS).

7. Method according to one of the preceding claims,

characterized in that the secondary messages comprise response requests, and the steps involved in reception and evaluation of response messages as well as in storing the evaluation result are repeated after the secondary messages have been sent, in particular on multiple occasions separated by the sending of follow-up messages.

8. Method according to claim 7,

characterized in that at least some of the sequentially transmitted secondary messages contain information regarding the progress of the game and/or questions, and at least some of the various response messages contain information regarding the moves to be made in the game and/or answers.

9. Method according to one of the preceding claims,

characterized in that by way of the evaluation-result database (ERDB) a filter device associated with the secondary-message store (SMS) is controlled in such a way as to filter out secondary messages in dependence on information received with the response messages.

10. Method according to one of the preceding claims,

characterized in that secondary messages are produced from the contents of the memory in the evaluation-result database (ERDB).

11. Method according to claim 10,

characterized in that depending on the result obtained by evaluating a plurality of response messages, at least one unfamiliar terminal call number and/or an evaluation result concerning an unfamiliar user of the telecommunication system is integrated into secondary messages.

12. Method according to one of the preceding claims,

characterized in that depending on the result obtained by evaluating a plurality of response messages, identical secondary messages are sent to a plurality of different terminal call numbers from the second call-number database.

13. Arrangement for implementing the method according to one of the preceding claims, which comprises:

a server (S) with a control unit (SC) and at least one server terminal (SS),

a first and a second call-number database (CNDB1, CNDB2),

a primary-message and a secondary-message store (PMS, SMS),

an evaluation unit (EU) to evaluate response messages that are received and

an evaluation-result database (ERDB) connected to the evaluation unit.

14. Arrangement according to claim 13,

characterized in that for the automatic sequential or parallel transmission of primary and/or secondary messages the first and/or second call-number database (CNDB1, CNDB2) is connected to a control input of the server terminal (SS) or server terminals.

15. Arrangement according to claim 13 or 14,

characterized in that for the automatic evaluation of the response messages the evaluation unit (EU) is connected to a data output of the or each server terminal (SS).

16. Arrangement according to one of the claims 13 to 15,

characterized by a primary-message synthesis unit (PMG) and/or a secondary-message synthesis unit (SMG) for the computer-assisted generation of primary and/or secondary messages, in particular constructed as a speech-synthesis unit or a text-synthesis unit operating according to the SMS or WML standard.

17. Arrangement according to one of the claims 13 to 16,

characterized in that the telecommunications system is designed as a mobile radio system (PLMN) or comprises an IP network linked to a mobile radio network by way of a gateway mobile switching centre (GMSC).

18. Arrangement according to claim 17,

characterized in that the first call-number database comprises at least one home location register (HLR) and/or at least one visitor location register (VLR) of the mobile radio network or is connected thereto.

19. Arrangement according to one of the claims 13 to 17, characterized in that to one input of the first call-number database (CNDB1) a random-variable generator is connected.

20. Arrangement according to one of the claims 16 to 19,

characterized in that one input of the primary-message synthesis unit (PMG) or the secondary-message synthesis unit (SMG) is connected to a game-rule database (GDB).

21. Arrangement according to one of the claims 13 to 20,

characterized in that the evaluation-result database (ERDB) is connected to a control input of a filter device associated with the secondary-message store (SMS).

22. Arrangement according to one of the claims 16 to 21,

characterized in that the secondary-message synthesis unit (SMG) is connected on its input side to the output of the evaluation unit (EU) or of the evaluation-result database (ERDB).

23. Arrangement according to one of the claims 16 to 22,

characterized in that the secondary-message synthesis unit (SMG) is connected on its input side to the second call-number database (CNDB2).

24. Arrangement according to one of the claims 13 to 23,

characterized in that the controller (SC) and the server terminal (SS) or server terminals are designed for sending in parallel a plurality of primary messages and/or secondary messages, in particular by the cell broadcast method.