MULTIMEDIA PROVIDING SERVICE

• US 20130067040A1
• Filed: 11/05/2012
• Published: 03/14/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 07/26/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Rakuten, Inc. (Rakuten Group, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: OZAWA, Kazunori, KOYAMA, Kazuhiro
• Application Number:
  US13/668,432
• Publication Number:
  US 20130067040A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/219
• 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 made up from a plurality of terminals and a server, said server being connected to said plurality of terminals, processing call process signals of said plurality of terminals, and having a database that stored content data;

said method comprising steps wherein;

said server reads said content data from said database in accordance with either;

(a) a read signal that corresponds to a key that is entered, when said read signal is transmitted to said server by an origination-side terminal that is a terminal that performs call origination among said plurality of terminals;

or

(b) a read signal that corresponds to a key that is entered, when said read signal is transmitted to said server by a termination-side terminal that is a terminal that is the communication partner of said origination-side terminal among said plurality of terminals;

said server transmits to at least one terminal from among said origination-side terminal and said termination-side terminal said content data that were read; and

said terminals reproduce content data that were transmitted from said server.

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

said server records in a preferential treatment information database the frequency of transmission of said content data to the origination-side terminal that is said terminal that performs call origination; and

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

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

said server records in a preferential treatment information database the frequency of transmission of said content data to a termination-side terminal that is the terminal that is the communication partner of said terminal that performs call origination; and

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