Multimedia providing service
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.
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.