MULTIMEDIA PROVIDING SERVICE

• US 20130060846A1
• Filed: 11/05/2012
• Published: 03/07/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 07/26/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Rakuten Group, Inc.
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: OZAWA, Kazunori, KOYAMA, Kazuhiro
• Granted Patent: US 9,118,747 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1069 Session establishment or de-establishment
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/612 for unicast
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/765 intermediate
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/02 Calling substations, e.g. by ringing selective calling H04Q
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42017 Customized ring-back tones
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/4878 Advertisement messages
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 7/0036 where the data service is an information service

Abstract

At one of the timings: during a period between the moment when one of terminals which performs transmission calls out a communication partner and the moment of response and at the timing after the communication between the terminals is complete; a server reads out content data from a database and transmits the read out content data to the terminal. At this timing, the terminal reproduces the content data transmitted from the server.

Claims

1. A method of providing a multimedia service in a multimedia communication system that is made up from a plurality of terminals and a server, said server being connected to said plurality of terminals, said server processing call process signals of said plurality of terminals, and having a database in which are stored character strings that can be displayed on said terminals;

said method comprising steps wherein;

said server reads said character string from said database in accordance with either;

(a) a read signal transmitted from the origination-side terminal that is the terminal that performs call origination among said plurality of terminals;

or

(b) a read signal transmitted from the termination-side terminal that is the terminal that is the communication partner of said origination-side terminal among said plurality of terminals;

said server inserts said character string that was read into image data that are transmitted and received between said origination-side terminal and said termination-side terminal;

said server transmits to said terminals image data into which said character string is inserted; and

said terminals reproduce image data into which said character string was inserted and that were transmitted from said server.

2. The method of providing a multimedia service according to claim 1, further comprising steps wherein:

said server inserts said character string that was read into image data that are transmitted to said origination-side terminal from said termination-side terminal;

said server transmits image data into which said character string was inserted to said origination-side terminal; and

said origination-side terminal reproduces image data into which said character string was inserted and that were transmitted from said server.

3. The method of providing a multimedia service according to claim 1, further comprising steps wherein:

said server inserts said character string that was read into image data that are transmitted from said origination-side terminal to said termination-side terminal;

said server transmits image data into which said character string was inserted to said termination-side terminal; and

said termination-side terminal reproduces image data into which said character string was inserted and that were transmitted from said server.

4. The method of providing multimedia service according to claim 1, further comprising steps wherein:

said origination-side terminal transmits a DTMF signal as a read signal to said server; and

said server reads said character string from said database in accordance with a DTMF signal transmitted from said origination-side terminal.

5. The method of providing multimedia service according to claim 1, further comprising steps wherein:

said termination-side terminal transmits a DTMF signal as a read signal to said server; and

said server reads said character string from said database in accordance with a DTMF signal transmitted from said termination-side terminal.

6. The method of providing multimedia service according to claim 2, further comprising steps wherein:

said server records in a preferential treatment information database the frequency of transmission to said origination-side terminal of image data into which said character string has been inserted; and

said server reads from said preferential treatment information database preferential treatment information that accords with said frequency.

7. The method of providing multimedia service according to claim 3, further comprising steps wherein:

said server records in a preferential treatment information database the frequency of transmission to said termination-side terminal of image data into which said character string has been inserted; and

said server reads from said preferential treatment information database preferential treatment information that accords with said frequency.