Multimedia providing service

• US 9,118,747 B2
• Filed: 11/05/2012
• Issued: 08/25/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 07/26/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Rakuten Group, Inc.
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Ozawa, Kazunori, Koyama, Kazuhiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Minh-Chau
• Application Number:
  US13/668,453
• Publication Number:
  US 20130060846A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,023 Days
• Field of Search: 709/203, 709/217, 709/219, 455414-415
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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;

said server reading said character string from said database in accordance with at least one of;

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

(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 inserting said character string that was read into image data transmitted and received between said origination-side terminal and said termination-side terminal so that said character string is displayed superposed on an image based on said image data when said terminals reproduce said image data;

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

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

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

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

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

said server recording, in a preferential treatment information database, the number of times or time interval of transmission to said origination-side terminal of image data into which said character string has been inserted; and

said server reading, from said preferential treatment information database, preferential treatment information that accords with said number of times or time interval.

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

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

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

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

3. The method of providing multimedia service according to claim 2, further comprising:

said server recording, in said 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 reading, from said preferential treatment information database, preferential treatment information that accords with said frequency.

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

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

said server reading 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:

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

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