Method for transmitting a haptic function in a mobile communication system

• US 8,494,497 B2
• Filed: 05/07/2010
• Issued: 07/23/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 05/08/2009
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Yoon, Sang Hyeon, Lee, Seung Yeob, Kim, Hyun Jun, Seo, Jong Won
• Primary Examiner(s): SHEDRICK, CHARLES TERRELL
• Application Number:
  US12/775,542
• Publication Number:
  US 20100285784A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,173 Days
• Field of Search: 455/414.1, 455/567, 455/415, 455/556.1
• US Class Current: 455/414.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72448 with means for adapting the functionality of the device according to specific conditions
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 19/04 the ringing-current being generated at the substations
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 19/047 Vibrating means for incoming calls
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/20 Services signaling; Auxiliary data signalling, i.e. transmitting data via a non-traffic channel
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/10 Connection setup
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/20 Transfer of user or subscriber data

Abstract

Disclosed is a method and system for transmitting a haptic function within a communication system. The method includes: inserting, by a first mobile terminal, haptic information corresponding to a selected vibration into a call setup request message and transmitting the call setup request message to a network server when a haptic service is executed; analyzing, by the network server, the haptic information, generating a vibration code corresponding to the haptic information, inserting the vibration code into the call setup request message, and transmitting the call setup request message to at least one second mobile terminal; and executing, by the second mobile terminal, a corresponding haptic function according to the vibration code included in the call setup request message when receiving the call setup request message.

Claims

1. A method for transmitting a haptic function at a network server in a mobile communication system, the method comprising:

determining, when a call setup request message is received from a first mobile terminal, whether the first mobile terminal has registered for a haptic service based on information on the first mobile terminal;

checking, when the first mobile terminal has registered for the haptic service, whether the call setup request message includes haptic information corresponding to a selected vibration by the first mobile terminal;

determining whether conversion of the haptic information is possible according to a result of the check;

generating a vibration code by converting the haptic information to the vibration code when conversion of the haptic information is possible;

inserting the vibration code into the call setup request message; and

transmitting the call setup request message to at least one second mobile terminal such that

the at least one second mobile terminal executes a corresponding haptic function according to the vibration code included in the call setup request message.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the haptic information includes information on vibration.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the first mobile terminal:

generates the haptic information corresponding to the vibration;

senses a call origination request signal when the haptic information is generated; and

inserts the haptic information into a specified field of the call setup request message when the call origination request signal is sensed.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising transmitting an “

inoperable”

message for the haptic function to the first mobile terminal when conversion of the haptic information is impossible.

5. A network server for providing a haptic function comprising:

a database for storing a vibration code corresponding to a haptic function for a mobile terminal; and

a controller for determining, when a call setup request message is received from a first mobile terminal, whether the first mobile terminal has registered for a haptic service based on information on the first mobile terminal;

checking, when the first mobile terminal has registered for the haptic service, whether the call setup request message includes haptic information corresponding to a selected vibration by the first mobile terminal;

determining whether conversion of the haptic information is possible according to a result of the check;

generating a vibration code by converting the haptic information to the vibration code when conversion of the haptic information is possible;

inserting the vibration code into the call setup request message; and

transmitting the call setup request message to at least one second mobile terminal such that the at least one second mobile terminal executes a corresponding haptic function according to the vibration code included in the call setup request message.

6. The system network server of claim 5, wherein the haptic information includes information on a vibration that is set in the first mobile terminal for the sake of executing a haptic function in the second mobile terminal.

7. The network server of claim 5, wherein the haptic information

is generated corresponding to the vibration and inserted into a specific field of the call setup request message when a call origination request signal is sensed, by the first mobile terminal.

8. The network server of claim 5, wherein the network server transmits an “

inoperable”

message to the first mobile terminal when conversion of the haptic information is impossible.

9. The network server system of claim 5, wherein the call setup request message includes a vibration code inserted by the first mobile terminal, and the call setup request message is transmitted to the network server when a haptic service is executed in the first mobile terminal.

10. The network server of claim 5, wherein the call setup request message includes a vibration code that is generated corresponding to the vibration by the first mobile terminal in order to set up the haptic function.