JP2002057750A - Portable telephone set provided with automatic incoming history transmission function, and automatic incoming history transmission method - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a portable telephone set that has a function of automatically transmitting incoming history information to report the presence of a received call. SOLUTION: A control section is provided with a mail function control section, an incoming history management section, and an automatic transmission function control section. The mail function control section controls generation, reception and transmission of mails. The incoming history management section manages a caller number, an incoming time and other prescribed information as incoming history information at the arrival of a call and stores the information to a memory. The automatic transmission function control section executes an automatic incoming history transmission function setting processing and an automatic incoming history transmission control processing. The automatic incoming history transmission function setting processing sets an automatic incoming history transmission condition. The automatic incoming history transmission control processing discriminates whether or not the incoming history information satisfies the automatic incoming history transmission condition and controls the mail function control section to conduct mail generation processing and mail transmission processing so as to meet the automatic incoming history transmission condition when the incoming history information satisfies the automatic incoming history transmission condition.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a portable telephone having a function of automatically transmitting a call history of a call received by the portable telephone, and a method of automatically transmitting a call history.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Recently, the number of users carrying a plurality of mobile phones has increased. When a plurality of mobile phones are possessed, a personal mobile phone may be left at home during work or the like, and vice versa. In such a case, a service for notifying the mobile phone of the caller terminal when a call is received by a mobile phone not carried is already available on the market. A method of confirming the incoming call history of a telephone number received from a destination using a telephone having a function of receiving the telephone number of a calling terminal as described above is disclosed in, for example, JP-A-2000-32124. Has been described.

In this method, the telephone number of the caller terminal of the incoming call is stored and managed together with the date and time of the incoming call.
Then, the telephone can be remotely controlled via a telephone line.
When a signal for confirming the stored telephone number of the calling terminal is received, the stored telephone number is transmitted by voice via a telephone line.

[0004]

The above-mentioned conventional incoming call history checking method is carried out by telephone call. As is well known, communication that requires a call setup and call release phase, such as a telephone call, is called connection-oriented communication, and all network resources involved in the call (to check the call history). The communication is performed after the user making the call and the line or channel used by the user for the confirmation are in a callable state. Therefore, if there is no call from the remote side to the portable telephone to confirm the incoming call history, the call cannot be confirmed.

[0005] As a result, when it is desired to check the incoming call history according to a certain schedule, such as checking the incoming call history once every two hours, for example, the incoming call is received from a remote user in accordance with the schedule. The trouble is that a call must be made to check the history.

Further, as soon as there is an incoming call, if the user wants to know the telephone number of the caller or wants to check the call history of a caller number other than a certain caller number, the call time or the caller number can be changed. If conditions are met, it is more troublesome to check the incoming call history by calling from a remote user.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to solve the above-mentioned problem by utilizing a connectionless communication function of mail which has recently become popular, and to record incoming call history information to a portable telephone which is not carried. It is to provide a mobile phone having a function of automatically sending.

[0008]

In order to achieve the above object, a portable telephone with an automatic incoming call history sending function according to the present invention comprises a transmitting / receiving device for executing a signal transmitting / receiving process, and a speaker for converting a received signal into voice. And an operation unit having a plurality of operation keys for inputting a user's instruction, information necessary for a call,
A mobile phone having a storage unit for storing incoming call history information and information necessary for setting function functions, and a control unit for controlling the transmission / reception processing and managing the incoming call history information. A mail function control unit that controls creation, reception, and transmission, and a call history that manages a caller ID, a call reception time, and other predetermined information when a call is received as call history information, and stores the information in a memory. An incoming call history management unit that executes processing, an incoming call history automatic sending function setting process that sets an incoming call history automatic sending condition,
It is determined whether or not the incoming call history information satisfies the incoming call history automatic sending condition, and if so, the mail creating process and the mail sending process are performed so as to conform to the incoming call history automatic sending condition. And an automatic sending function control unit for executing an incoming call history automatic sending control process for controlling the mail function control unit.

The mail function control unit automatically writes a destination mail address in the mail and automatically fills in the incoming history information in the body of the mail under the control of the automatic sending function control unit, and automatically sends the mail. Execute the mail sending process.

[0010] The storage unit preferably has an incoming call history automatic sending table in which an incoming call history automatic sending mode and automatic sending conditions corresponding to each incoming call history automatic sending mode are described. In this case, in the incoming call history automatic sending function setting process, the mode input process of inputting the incoming call history automatic sending mode specified by the user from the operation unit and the input incoming call history automatic sending mode are registered in the storage unit. It is determined which of the incoming call history automatic sending modes corresponds to, and the identification information of the specified incoming call history automatic sending mode and the incoming call history automatic sending condition of the incoming call history automatic sending mode are stored in the storage unit, Is programmed to include a process of inputting the destination mail address of the incoming call history information designated from the operation unit and storing the destination mail address in the storage unit.

[0011] In one embodiment of the present invention, the incoming call history automatic sending mode includes an OFF mode in which the automatic incoming call history sending function is disabled, and an incoming call history information sent immediately upon receiving an incoming call. And the time interval specification mode that automatically sends the incoming history information received at specified time intervals. It includes a number specification mode in which the specified number of received call history information is sent automatically.

[0012] In another embodiment of the present invention, the automatic reception history transmission mode sets an automatic transmission condition that, when a call is received from a designated time to a designated time, the reception history information in that time zone is transmitted. And a caller number designation mode that automatically sends the caller number as incoming call history information when the caller number is a designated caller number. In.

An automatic incoming call history sending method according to the present invention is an automatic incoming call history sending method for a mobile phone, which automatically sends an incoming call history of a call received by the mobile phone to an e-mail address specified in advance. It has an automatic history sending function setting process, an incoming history processing, and an incoming history automatic sending control process. In the incoming call history automatic sending function setting process, set and register the incoming call history automatic sending mode and the automatic sending conditions corresponding to each incoming call history automatic sending mode, and input the incoming call automatic sending mode specified by the user To determine which of the registered incoming history automatic sending modes the input incoming history automatic sending mode corresponds to, the identification information of the designated incoming history automatic sending mode and the The process includes a step of storing an incoming call history automatic sending condition of the incoming call history automatic sending mode, inputting a destination mail address of the incoming call history information specified by the user from the operation unit, and saving the destination mail address.

In the incoming call history processing, when an incoming call is received,
There is a processing step of managing the caller number, the arrival time, and other predetermined information of the incoming call as incoming history information, and storing the information in a memory.

The incoming call history automatic sending control processing step determines whether or not the incoming call history information satisfies an automatic sending condition corresponding to the incoming call history automatic sending mode stored in the incoming call history automatic sending function setting process, and If the condition is satisfied, control the mail creation process, control the mail sending process when the mail creation process is completed, and if the incoming history information does not satisfy the automatic sending condition, the incoming history automatic sending control It includes a process of ending the process.

The mail creation processing includes a processing step of automatically filling in a destination mail address at a predetermined position of the mail, and a processing step of automatically filling the incoming history in the text of the mail.

[0017]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a mobile phone according to the present invention. The mobile phone according to the present embodiment includes a transmitting / receiving antenna 1, a signal input unit 2-1, a signal processing unit 2-2, a signal output unit 2-3, a control unit 3, a memory 4, a display unit 5, an operation unit 6, and a speaker 7. It has.

A signal arriving at the transmitting / receiving antenna 1 is subjected to reception processing at a signal input section 2-1 and is subjected to processing such as demodulation at a signal processing section 2-2. Is communicated to the user. Also, character data such as voice or mail to be transmitted undergoes predetermined signal processing in the signal processing unit 2-2, and the obtained transmission signal is transmitted from the transmission / reception antenna 1 through the signal output unit 2-3. Since the configuration and operation of the mobile phone are well known, detailed description is omitted.

The control section 3 is a control circuit for controlling each section. The memory (storage unit) 4 is a memory device that stores data such as incoming call history information, a memory dial, and a mail address. The memory 4 sets each function item necessary for setting the function function (for example, ringtone setting,
In addition to the user settings such as the incoming call volume setting, in this embodiment, a setting screen for setting an incoming call history automatic sending function) and data such as an incoming call history automatic sending setting are also stored. The operation unit 6 includes a plurality of keys, and the control unit 3 reads the above-described data and the like from the memory 4 in response to the operation of the operation unit 6,
It is displayed on the display unit 5. The display unit 5 includes a display panel using a liquid crystal or the like, and displays an incoming call history automatic transmission setting screen and the like under the control of the control unit 3.

The control unit 3 includes an incoming call history management unit 3-1, an automatic sending function control unit 3-2, and a mail function control unit 3-3. The incoming call history management unit 3-1 manages information such as a caller ID and an incoming time when an incoming call is received, and stores the information in the memory 4. The automatic sending function control section 3-2 controls the operation of the incoming call history automatic sending function of the present invention. The mail function control unit 3-3 controls creation, reception, transmission, and the like of mail.

Next, the telephone with automatic incoming call history transmission function of this embodiment will be described in detail with reference to FIGS. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7. FIG. FIG. 2 is an operation sequence diagram showing the operation of the incoming call history automatic sending function. First, in the telephone having the automatic incoming call history sending function, the automatic incoming call history sending function setting processing 20 sets the incoming call history automatic sending mode and the destination mail address shown in FIG. When there is an incoming call from the calling side telephone to the telephone having the automatic reception history transmission function via the network, the reception history management section 3-1 performs the reception history processing 21 and stores the reception history information such as the caller ID and the reception time in the memory. 4 is stored. Next, in the incoming call history automatic sending function control processing 22, it is determined whether the incoming call history information satisfies the automatic sending condition (see FIG. 4 described later) of the mode set by the incoming call history automatic sending function setting processing 20. If it satisfies, the incoming history information is entered in the body of the mail, and the mail is sent to the telephone or PC that can receive mail specified by the destination mail address set by the incoming history automatic sending function setting process 20. Is sent automatically.

FIG. 3 shows an embodiment of the format of the incoming call history information. The incoming call history information according to the present embodiment has fields of an incoming number (incoming ID number), a caller number, a caller name, and an incoming time. Of these, the caller name and the caller number may not be notified. In this case, "Not notify" is displayed in the caller name and caller ID fields.
Is written.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an embodiment of an incoming call history automatic sending condition table in which conditions for automatically sending an incoming call history for each mode are summarized. In this embodiment,
Four modes are set as the incoming history automatic sending mode, and automatic sending conditions are designated corresponding to each mode. In this embodiment, the four modes are an OFF mode,
An immediate specification mode, a time interval specification mode, and a number specification mode.

In the OFF mode, the automatic incoming call history sending function is invalidated. When the immediate designation mode is set, the incoming call history is sent immediately when there is an incoming call.
When the time interval designation mode is set, when there is an incoming call every designated time interval (1 to 24 hours), the incoming call history within the designated time is sent. When the number-of-items designation mode is set, the designated number of incoming histories is sent when there is an incoming call of the designated number (1 to 99).

FIG. 5 is a flowchart of the incoming call history automatic sending function setting process. First, a mode input process 40 is performed,
One of the incoming call history automatic transmission modes (hereinafter, referred to as a mode) shown in FIG. 4 is input from the operation unit 6 (see FIG. 1). In the judgment 41, it is determined which mode is the input mode, and each processing is performed according to the mode. If the mode is OFF, the OFF mode is stored in the memory 4 (process 42), and the process ends. If the mode is immediate designation, the immediate designation mode is stored in the memory (process 43). When the mode is the time interval designation, the time interval (1 to 24H) is input in the time interval input processing 44, and the time interval designation mode and the time interval are stored in the memory 4 (processing 45, 46). When the mode is the number of cases specification, the number of cases (1 to 99) in the case number input process 47
Is input, and the number-of-items designation mode and the number of items are stored in the memory 4 (processes 48 and 49). Next, if the mode is other than OFF, a destination mail address input process 50 is performed, and the destination mail address is stored in the memory 4. (Process 5
1) Then, the incoming call history automatic sending function setting process ends.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart of the incoming call history automatic sending function control processing. First, it is determined whether or not the condition of the incoming call history automatic transmission condition table (FIG. 4) corresponding to the mode stored in the memory 4 (see steps 42 to 49 in FIG. 5) is satisfied (determination 60). (Here, the condition of FIG. 4 is satisfied when the mode input process of FIG. 4 is completed and the automatic sending condition of FIG. 4 is satisfied. If is set,
If there is one incoming call, the condition is satisfied. ) If condition is satisfied, create mail 6
1 is performed, and a mail transmission process 62 is performed to transmit the mail. FIG. 7 is a flowchart of the mail creation process. First,
A process of setting the destination mail address stored in the memory 4 as a mail destination is performed (process 70), and the incoming call history information (FIG. 3) stored in the memory 4 is described in the text of the mail (process 71). .

FIG. 4 shows an embodiment of the automatic reception history sending condition. In addition to the mode shown in FIG. 4, the schedule specification mode and the caller number specification mode have useful applications. In the schedule designation mode, when there is an incoming call between the designated time and the designated time, the incoming call history in that time zone is sent. In the caller number specification mode, when the caller number is a caller number specified in advance, the caller number is sent as the incoming call history.

[0028]

As described above, according to the present invention, when a user has a plurality of mobile phones and does not carry all the mobile phones, or forgets at home, etc. By registering the e-mail address of a mobile phone that is present, there is an effect that it is possible to know that there is an incoming call to a phone that is not being carried.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a mobile phone according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an operation sequence diagram showing an operation of an incoming call history automatic sending function.

FIG. 3 is an example of a format of incoming call history information.

FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating an embodiment of an incoming history automatic sending condition table.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart of an incoming call history automatic sending function setting process.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart of an incoming call history automatic sending function control process.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart of a mail creation process.

[Explanation of symbols]

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Claims (7)

[Claims] 1. A transmitting / receiving device for executing a signal transmitting / receiving process, a speaker for converting a received signal into a voice, an operating unit having a plurality of operation keys for inputting a user's instruction, information necessary for a call, incoming call In a mobile phone having a storage unit that stores history information and information necessary for setting function functions, and a control unit that controls the transmission / reception processing and manages the reception history information, the control unit is capable of creating and receiving mail. And a mail function control unit that controls transmission and transmission, and manages a caller ID, a call reception time, and other predetermined information when a call is received as call history information, and executes a call history process for storing the information in a memory. Incoming call history management unit, incoming call history automatic sending function setting processing for setting incoming call history automatic sending conditions, and whether the incoming call history information satisfies the incoming call history automatic sending conditions. , And, if satisfied, controls the mail function control unit to perform mail creation processing and mail transmission processing so as to conform to the automatic reception history transmission conditions. And an automatic sending function control unit that executes the following: a mobile phone with an incoming call history automatic sending function. 2. The mail function control unit performs a mail creation process for automatically filling in a destination mail address in a mail and automatically filling in incoming history information in a body of the mail under the control of the automatic sending function control unit. The mobile phone according to claim 1, wherein the mobile phone executes a mail sending process of automatically sending the mail. 3. The storage unit has an incoming call history automatic sending table in which an incoming call history automatic sending mode and automatic sending conditions corresponding to each incoming call history automatic sending mode are described.
The incoming call history automatic sending function setting process includes a mode input process of inputting an incoming call history automatic sending mode designated by a user from the operation unit, and an incoming call history automatic sending in which the input incoming call history automatic sending mode is registered in the storage unit. Determining which of the modes corresponds to, and storing the identification information of the specified incoming call history automatic sending mode and the incoming call history automatic sending condition of the incoming call history automatic sending mode in the storage unit; 3. The mobile phone according to claim 2, further comprising a process of inputting a destination mail address of the incoming call history information designated from the unit and storing the destination mail address in the storage unit. 4. An incoming call history automatic sending mode is an OF which has an automatic sending condition of disabling an incoming call history automatic sending function.
F mode, an immediate specification mode in which automatic transmission of incoming call history information when an incoming call is received, and an automatic transmission condition of automatic transmission in which incoming call history information is received at specified time intervals. 4. The mobile phone according to claim 3, further comprising a time interval specification mode and a number specification mode in which the specified number of received call history information is sent when a specified number of calls are received. 5. An incoming call history automatic sending mode includes: a schedule specifying mode in which, when an incoming call is received from a designated time to a designated time, sending the incoming history information in the time zone is an automatic sending condition; 4. The method according to claim 3, further comprising a caller number designation mode in which, when the caller number is a caller number specified in advance, an automatic sending condition is to send the caller number as incoming call history information. The described mobile phone. 6. A method for automatically sending an incoming call history of a mobile phone, wherein the incoming call history of a call received by the mobile phone is automatically sent by e-mail to a predetermined e-mail address. , An incoming call history processing step, and an incoming call history automatic sending control processing step. The incoming call history automatic sending function setting processing step includes an incoming call history automatic sending mode and an automatic sending condition corresponding to each incoming call history automatic sending mode. The mode input process of setting and registering and inputting the incoming call history automatic sending mode specified by the user, and the input incoming call history automatic sending mode corresponds to any of the registered incoming call history automatic sending modes. Process to save the identification information of the specified incoming call history automatic sending mode and the incoming call history automatic sending condition of the incoming call history automatic sending mode. And inputting the destination mail address of the incoming history information specified by the user from the operation unit and storing the destination email address. The incoming history processing step includes the steps of: Has a processing step of managing the caller number and the arrival time of the call, and other predetermined information as incoming call history information, and storing these information in a memory. It is determined whether or not the automatic sending conditions corresponding to the incoming history automatic sending mode saved in the incoming history automatic sending function setting process are satisfied or not. When the creation process is completed, the mail transmission process is controlled, and the incoming call history information is
An automatic incoming call history sending method for a mobile phone, including a process of terminating an incoming call history automatic sending control process when an automatic sending condition is not satisfied. 7. The mail creation process according to claim 6, wherein the mail creation process includes a process of automatically filling in a mail address at a predetermined position in a mail format, and a process of automatically describing an incoming history in the body of the mail. the method of.