JP2003298744A - Communication controller, gateway, information holder, information delivery system, communication control method, program and storing medium - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a desired service for each user without requiring any operation of the user when connected by specifying the user from the origination number of each telephone terminal when connected with the exchange of a communication carrier in telephone mode and connecting with a server on a network according to termination information previously registered in the system by the user oneself. <P>SOLUTION: Upon receiving a telephone number transmitted from a portable TV telephone 1-003, or the like, through a gateway 1-005, a format conversion server 1-006 acquires setting information from a connection management server 1-007 holding the setting information concerning to communication connection between the portable telephone TV 1-003 and a video server 1-009 and the correspondence information of the telephone number of the portable telephone TV 1-003, and receives video data from the video server 1-009 based on the setting information. Subsequently, the video data is transmitted toward the portable TV telephone 1-003 through the gateway 1-005. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a communication control device, a gateway device, an information holding device, an information distribution system, a communication control method, and a program for providing a video / audio service on the Internet in a telephone mode using a telephone. With regard to storage media, in particular, by identifying the user using the calling number and switching the connection according to the connection destination information registered in advance by the user himself, the user inputs the information necessary for the connection every time. It is possible to connect to a desired service without doing so.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a conventional system, when using a video / audio service other than a telephone from a telephone, a telephone terminal having an internet access function such as a browser phone is connected to the internet in a data communication mode or assigned to each service. The desired service was provided to the user by dialing the specified telephone number and connecting in the telephone mode.

[0003]

However, in the case of the conventional system, when the service is provided in the telephone mode, it is necessary to input the telephone number of each service every time the connection is made. In addition, for example, when providing different weather forecasts for each area in which a user lives in a weather forecast service, if the user wants to provide different services according to the needs of the user, the service to be provided is selected. , It was necessary to let the user input a predetermined operation such as voice or push a number.

When providing a service in the data communication mode, it is possible to provide a service according to the needs of the user by following a link to a desired service from a Web browser or the like mounted on the telephone. However, since it is difficult to systematically provide a means for inputting voice from a telephone terminal, it is difficult to provide a service such as translating a voice uttered by a user.

Further, in the conventional system, when providing a service limited to a specific user such as a company,
In order to prevent spoofing, it was necessary to require the user to authenticate and to make an input, but even for the same service, it was a heavy burden on the user to perform an authentication operation each time the service was used.

Therefore, an object of the present invention is to identify the user from the calling number of each telephone terminal notified when connecting to the exchange of the communication carrier in the telephone mode, and register the user in advance in the system. By connecting to the server on the network according to the connection destination information, the desired service is provided to each user without requiring the user to perform an operation at the time of connection.

Further, an object of the present invention is to provide a service requiring user authentication, by utilizing a caller number that is difficult to impersonate to identify a user, thereby making it possible to omit an operation required for authentication. To do.

[0008]

In order to achieve such an object, a communication control device according to a first aspect of the present invention comprises a communication means for receiving identification information of the external device transmitted from an external device, From the information holding device that holds the correspondence between the setting information related to the communication connection between the external device and the communication connection destination and the identification information of the external device as at least information, to the identification information of the external device that is received by the communication unit. Acquiring means for acquiring the setting information based on the setting information acquired from the acquiring means from the acquiring means of the plurality of connected transmitting devices. The data to be transmitted to the external device.

A gateway device according to a second aspect of the present invention relates to a communication connection between a transmitting device that receives identification information of the external device transmitted from an external device and transmits the data to the external device. From the information holding device that holds the correspondence between the setting information and the identification information of the external device as at least information, the communication control device corresponding to the identification information of the external device stores the setting information based on the identification information of the external device. In order to obtain, the identification information of the external device is transferred to the communication control device, the data transmitted from the transmission device is received via the communication control device, and the external device is converted into a predetermined format. And a communication means for transmitting to the.

An information holding device according to a third aspect of the present invention holds information as at least information corresponding to setting information relating to communication connection between an external device and a transmitting device and identification information of the external device. Means for receiving the identification information of the external device transmitted from the external device and transferring the identification information of the external device from the communication control device, and transmitting the predetermined data based on the setting information to the communication control device. In order to send the acquired data from the transmission device to the external device from the communication control device, refer to the information holding means based on the received identification information of the external device, and perform the setting. And communication means for outputting information to the communication control device.

An information distribution system according to a fourth aspect of the present invention is the communication control apparatus according to the first aspect, and the gateway apparatus according to the second aspect.
The information holding device described as the third aspect is provided.

The communication control method according to the fifth aspect of the present invention includes a step of receiving identification information of the external device transmitted from an external device, and communication between the external device and a transmitting device transmitting data. A step of acquiring the setting information based on the identification information of the external device from an information holding device that holds the correspondence between the setting information related to the connection and the identification information of the external device as at least information; Based on the above, the method further comprises the steps of receiving data from the transmitting device and transmitting the data received from the transmitting device.

A program as a sixth aspect of the present invention is characterized by causing a computer to execute the communication control method according to the fifth aspect.

Further, a storage medium according to a seventh aspect of the present invention is characterized by storing the program described as the sixth aspect.

[0015]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a physical configuration of an information distribution system according to an embodiment of the present invention. The system of the present embodiment is a mobile phone or mobile TV phone (1-003) connected to the telephone network (1-001), or a fixed phone or fixed TV.
Telephone (1-004), gateway device (1-005) that converts audio / video signals into data formats that can communicate between the telephone network and the network such as the Internet, and provides video / audio services on the network Live camera (1
-008), video server (1-009), audio server (1-010), etc., format conversion server for converting video / audio data in a format that can be transmitted and received by each server into a format usable by telephone terminals (1-006), and a connection management server that manages the connection of each user and provides the information necessary for the connection to the format conversion server.

The gateway device (1-005) is installed in the exchange of the communication carrier with which each telephone terminal makes a contract, and receives a call from the telephone terminal of each communication carrier. The format conversion server (1-006) is installed on the network, and the owner of the format conversion server contracts with the communication carrier to register the address of each format conversion server in the gateway device.

The gateway device holds a correspondence table of telephone numbers (hereinafter referred to as service telephone numbers) for using services and format conversion server addresses, and when a call from the telephone terminal to the service telephone number is accepted,
The correspondence table is inquired to connect to the corresponding format conversion server. The connection management server (1-007) is installed on the network or directly connected to the format conversion server, and manages the connection between the format conversion server and each server that provides a service.

To show the basic operation and the applied operation of this system in order, FIG. 2 shows the basic configuration of this system.
A detailed configuration will be described with reference to FIG. In Figure 2,
Mobile phone whose user telephone terminal has a contract with the same communication carrier
The operation of this system will be described by taking as an example the case where the connection destination server is a live camera that provides live video and audio data via a network in a videophone.

Upon receiving the call request (2-101) from the portable TV phone terminal A (2-001), the gateway device (2-003) causes the format conversion server corresponding to the service phone number of the call destination of the phone terminal. To (2-004), the caller is notified by transmitting the caller telephone number (hereinafter referred to as the caller number) in a data format that the format conversion server can receive. At this time, if the user inputs a telephone number (hereinafter referred to as an additional telephone number) for designating some request after the service telephone number, it is in a data format that can be received by the format conversion server like the calling number. Send. Also, the gateway device converts the video / audio data (2-106) received from the format conversion server into a video / audio signal (2-108) that can be received by the telephone terminal of the transmission source.

Format conversion server notified of the call
(2-004) passes the calling number information (2-103) to the connection management server (2-005) in a data format that the connection management server can receive, and the live camera (2-006 ~ 2-008) on the network. ) To receive the connection parameters (2-104) used to connect to. The connection parameter (2-104) is information including the address of the connection destination and the parameter used at the time of connection, and according to the connection setting information registered in advance by the owner of the source terminal, the calling number information and access It is decided based on the time of day.

Assuming that the connection destination address included in the connection parameter is the address of the live camera A (2-006), the format conversion server (2-004) that has received the address of the live camera A (2-006). ) Sends a request (2-105) requesting video and audio to live camera A, and converts the received video / audio data (2-106) into a format that can be played by the mobile TV phone terminal. Pass it to the gateway device (2-003).

The gateway device (2-003) converts the received video / audio data (2-107) for the mobile TV phone terminal into a video / audio signal (2-108) that can be transmitted through the telephone network,
The data is transmitted to the mobile TV phone terminal A that is the source. Also, the mobile T
If another mobile TV phone terminal B (2-002) makes a call to the same service phone number when the V phone terminal A does not make a call to the gateway device, as in the case of the mobile TV phone terminal A, The format conversion server uses the connection management server to set connection parameters determined according to the connection setting information registered in advance by the owner of the mobile TV phone terminal B.
Receive from (2-005) and connect to the live camera with the connection destination address included in the connection parameters.

When a plurality of telephone terminals make calls to the same service telephone number at the same time, the gateway device gives priority to the connection of the one requesting the call first, and the other is connecting to the other. We will respond by sending a message informing that it is. Here, if the gateway device can be controlled by transmitting the call control information from the format conversion server to the gateway device or by obtaining the call control information from the format conversion server by the gateway device, a call is requested first. It is also possible to perform a process of maintaining the connection of the person who made the call for a certain period of time, notifying the disconnection according to the call control information, and switching the connection to the person who put the call on hold after disconnecting the communication. The call control information includes information about the control content and timing, and the connection management server (2
-005) is generated.

FIG. 3 shows a process of determining connection parameters according to the connection setting information. The connection setting information is registered in advance in the connection management server by each user, and the connection setting information table (3-30
It is stored in 0). Each connection setting information includes the telephone number (3-301) of each user telephone terminal, the connection profile (3-303), and the telephone number (following additional telephone number) that is added after the destination telephone number when making a call. Telephone number (3-302)) etc.

The connection profile contains the connection parameters (3
-504), date designation, day designation (3-501), time zone designation (3
-502) and other factors that determine the selection of connection parameters, and when charging a connection from a user, the charging information (3-503) for calculating the charge is also included.

When connecting to the live camera, the connection parameters (3-500) include the address of the live camera (3-601), the image quality at the time of image acquisition (3-602), the image size, the compression ratio, the image format, In addition to the parameters specified when acquiring data from the live camera, such as limiting the camera control range (3-603),
Presence or absence of advertisement added to video / audio data acquired from live camera on the format conversion server side and advertisement content (3
-604) etc. are included as needed.

However, in FIG. 3, the connection parameter, the connection profile, and the connection setting information are the connection parameter table (3-600), the connection profile table (3-500),
Although they are stored separately in the connection setting information table (3-300), they need not be stored separately, and may be stored together in one table.

When the user requests the service telephone number to be called from the telephone terminal, the format conversion server passes the calling number information (3-100) received from the gateway device to the connection management server. When the user inputs the additional telephone number, the additional telephone number information (3-200) is also passed. Upon receiving the calling number information (3-100) and the additional number information (3-200), the connection management server selects the corresponding connection profile based on them, and further selects the time information (3-40
Determine the connection parameters to be returned to the format conversion server based on (0). The format conversion server requests data from the live camera based on the connection parameters (3-700) passed from the connection management server, adds advertisements to the received data as necessary, converts the format, and then the gateway. Pass the converted data to the device.

To describe charging in this system, FIG. 4 shows connection history information. When a user requests a connection to a service registered in this system, the connection management server sends the calling number of the user terminal (4-101), the connection parameter used to connect to the service (4-102), And the connection time information (4-103) and the like are registered in the connection history information table (4-100) as connection history information. In addition, when charging the user, the connection fee is calculated based on the connection time information (4-103) and the charging information (4-204) of the connection profile (4-201) corresponding to the used connection parameters. And record it in the connection history information table (4-100).

Since the connection charge for each calling number can be confirmed from the information recorded in the connection history information table, when the connection management server is managed by the service provider side, it does not depend on the communication carrier. In addition, the service provider can charge the user independently. Further, each connection parameter stored in the connection history information table includes the address of the connection destination. Therefore, if the calling number of the user terminal for the same connection destination address and the connection fee for each calling number are calculated, if the owner of the connection management server and the live camera are different, the owner of the live camera will make its own It is also possible to charge the user of the live camera owned by.

FIG. 5 shows the system configuration when registering the connection setting information in the connection management server. To register the connection setting information to the connection management server, access the connection management server from the browser phone (5-200), PDA (5-300), PC (5-400), etc. owned by each user, and For the connection information setting Web page (5-101) prepared on the server, enter setting items using a mobile Web browser (5-201), Web browser (5-301), or a dedicated Setting application (5-40
There is a method to input using 1). There is also a method of dialing a service number for connection setting from a user telephone terminal and performing voice recognition of a voice response according to a voice announcement or registration of a control signal by dial push.

6 to 13 show examples of the configuration of the connection setting information registration Web page when the user actually registers the connection setting information using the Web browser. FIG. 6 is an example of a user registration page (6-100) in which the user creates an account at the first registration. The registration of the connection setting information is performed by authenticating the user before registration so that the information of each user is not referred or changed by other users. On the user registration page, create an account / password for user authentication when registering the connection setting information, and the user's personal information (address (6-106) required to charge the service provider, etc.) , Name (6-104), contact phone number (6-105)
Etc.) is registered.

FIG. 7 is an example of a page for registering information of telephone terminals owned by the user. The user registers the telephone number (7-101) of his / her own terminal as terminal information. Furthermore, the terminal information to be registered includes information such as the communication carrier name (7-102) and the type of terminal (7-103). The communication carrier name (7-102) is used to indicate to the format conversion server a different data format for each communication carrier when a common format conversion server is used for terminals with different communication carriers. Terminal type (7-103)
Is used by the format conversion server to determine whether to enable both video and audio channels or only audio channels.

FIG. 8 is an example of a page for setting the terminal profile of the user terminal. The terminal profile described here is based on the information of each terminal set on the terminal registration page (7-100) of FIG. 7 and the additional telephone number (8-1
It refers to the information added with attributes such as 02). FIG. 9 is an example of a page for registering connection destination information. The user registers the address (9-101) of the live camera to be connected with the telephone terminal owned by the user as connection destination information.

FIG. 10 is an example of a page for registering a connection profile used when connecting to a live camera. The user sets the connection profile (3-303) shown in FIG. 3 for each terminal profile defined by the terminal telephone number (10-101) and the additional telephone number (10-102). The connection profile is set by specifying the connection destination information by selecting the connection destination address (10-103) and the connection parameters registered in advance by the service provider who owns the connection destination live camera.
(10-104), day of the week (10-105), time zone (10-106), etc. In addition, this system issues a connection profile code (10-107) for specifying the connection profile, if necessary.

FIG. 11 is a list of connection profiles for each terminal profile (terminal telephone number (11-101) and additional telephone number (11-102)) registered in the connection profile setting page (10-100) of FIG. Is. The user confirms the connection setting information set for his / her own terminal on this page.

FIG. 12 is an example of a connection profile registration page when the connection destination is a video / audio server. The connection destination is different from that of the live camera because the service provider who is the owner of the server has registered in advance so that the user can set the connection profile without being aware of the address of the server that provides the service. The point is that the video / audio content to be received can be selected by specifying the content code (12-105). In addition, the day of the week designation (12-103) and the time zone designation (12-104) are the same as in the case of the live camera. FIG. 13 shows an example of the connection setting confirmation page when the connection destination is the video / audio server.

14 to 17, the service provider uses a Web browser to register the live camera owned and the connection parameters for each live camera.
An example of page b configuration is shown below. FIG. 14 is an example of the service provider registration page (14-100) in which the service provider creates an account at the first registration. The registration of the service provider is performed for each registration so that the registered information is not referred to or changed by other users as in the case of the user registration (6-100). On the service provider registration page, enter the account (1
4-101) ・ Create password (14-102), address of service provider (14-106), company name (14-104), name of person in charge (1
4-103), and register the contact person's contact phone number (14-105).

FIG. 15 is a page for registering a live camera owned by the service provider. The service provider registers the address (15-101) of the live camera it owns. If there are several types of live cameras to be registered and there is a difference in the functions that can be provided, an item for setting the type of live camera (15-102) is provided.

FIG. 16 is a live camera registration page (15-100)
For each live camera registered in, connect parameters (3
-504) is a page to register. Quality of image to be delivered (16
-102), presence / absence and range of camera control (16-103), presence / absence of advertisement, advertisement pattern (16-104), etc. are set and registered as connection parameters for the live camera at the selected address (16-101).

FIG. 17 is an example of a page displaying a list of registered connection parameters for each live camera. The address of the live camera registered by the service provider (1
7-101), model information, and connection parameters (17-102) set for each live camera are displayed in a list. If you want to charge, you can set the charge (17-003) for each connection parameter.

In FIG. 18, the operation of the present system will be described by exemplifying the case where the user telephone terminal is a portable videophone and a fixed landline telephone, and the connection destination server is a live camera, a video server and a voice server.

Portable TV telephone terminal A (18-001) and portable TV
Telephone terminal B (18-002) is the same gateway device A (18-004)
To receive and play back video and audio signals of the same format. In addition, the fixed videophone A (18-003) is connected to the gateway device B (18-005), and the mobile TV telephone terminal A and the mobile TV are connected.
It receives and reproduces a voice signal in a format different from that of the telephone terminal B.

The format conversion server A (18-006) and the format conversion server B (18-007) consist of a data format that the gateway device A (18-004) can input and output, a live camera A (18-010), Video server A (18-011) and audio server A
Each of (18-012) has a function to perform mutual conversion with the input / output data format. In addition, the format conversion server C (18-008) has a data format that can be input / output by the gateway device B (18-005), a live camera A (18-010), a video server A (18-011), and audio. Each server A (18-012) has a function to perform mutual conversion with the input / output data format.

Mobile TV phone terminal A (18-001) or mobile T
V telephone terminal B (18-002) is connected to format conversion server A (18
-006) makes a call to the service telephone number A assigned to the gateway device A (18-00) that accepted the call.
4) connects to the format conversion server A, and the format conversion server A uses the connection parameters for each terminal output from the connection management server A (18-009) to display the live camera A (18-010) and video server. A (18-011), voice server A
Connect to one of (18-012).

The service telephone number assigned to the format conversion server B (18-007) by the portable TV telephone terminal A (18-001) or the portable TV telephone terminal B (18-002).
When making a call to B, any of live camera A (18-010), video server A (18-011), and voice server A (18-012) is performed in the same process as when making a call to service telephone number A. Connect to crab.

When the fixed TV telephone terminal C (18-003) makes a call to the service telephone number C assigned to the format conversion server C (18-008), the connection management server A (18-009)
Connect to any of live camera A (18-010), video server A (18-011), or audio server A (18-012) using the connection parameters for fixed TV phone terminal C output from To do.

Here, in the case where the telephone terminal is a TV telephone terminal capable of simultaneously using the voice channel and the video channel, it is possible to simultaneously use the video service and the voice service provided by different servers.

As described above, in this system, even when calling to the same service telephone number, the address providing the same type of service differs for each calling number or each calling time based on the connection setting information registered in advance. It is possible to connect to a server or a server that offers a completely different kind of service.

Further, regardless of the telephone number of the source terminal, the communication carrier of the terminal, and the type of terminal, if a common connection profile is registered in advance for a plurality of telephone terminals, it will be registered in the same connection management server. Based on the connection setting information, all telephone terminals that have registered a common connection profile can use the service in exactly the same way.

Further, an object of the present invention is to supply a storage medium having a program code of software for realizing the functions of the above-described embodiments to a system or apparatus, and to supply the computer (or CPU or M of the system or apparatus) of the system or apparatus.
It is needless to say that it is also achieved by the PU) reading and executing the program code stored in the storage medium.

In this case, the program code itself read from the storage medium realizes the functions of the above-described embodiments, and the storage medium storing the program code constitutes the present invention.

As a storage medium for supplying the program code, for example, a flexible disk, hard disk, optical disk, magneto-optical disk, CD-ROM, C
DR, magnetic tape, non-volatile memory card, ROM
Etc. can be used.

Further, not only the functions of the above-described embodiments are realized by executing the program code read by the computer, but also the OS (operating system) running on the computer based on the instructions of the program code. It is needless to say that this also includes the case where () etc. perform part or all of the actual processing and the functions of the above-described embodiments are realized by the processing.

Further, after the program code read from the storage medium is written in the memory provided in the function expansion board inserted into the computer or the function expansion unit connected to the computer, based on the instruction of the program code, Needless to say, this also includes the case where the CPU or the like included in the function expansion board or the function expansion unit performs some or all of the actual processing and the processing realizes the functions of the above-described embodiments.

[0057]

As is apparent from the above description, according to the present invention, the external device can receive the video data and / or the audio data based on the setting information registered in advance from the identification information of the external device. With this configuration, the user of the external device can easily receive the service based on the video data and / or the audio data without performing a complicated operation.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a physical configuration of an information distribution system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram conceptually showing the operation of the uke information distribution system according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a process of determining connection parameters according to connection setting information.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing connection history information.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a system configuration when registering connection setting information in a connection management server.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a configuration example of a connection setting information registration Web page when a user actually registers the connection setting information using a Web browser.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a configuration example of a connection setting information registration Web page when a user actually registers the connection setting information using a Web browser.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing a configuration example of a connection setting information registration Web page when a user actually registers the connection setting information using a Web browser.

FIG. 9 is a diagram showing a configuration example of a connection setting information registration Web page when a user actually registers the connection setting information using a Web browser.

FIG. 10 is a diagram showing a configuration example of a connection setting information registration Web page when a user actually registers the connection setting information using a Web browser.

FIG. 11 is a diagram showing a configuration example of a connection setting information registration Web page when a user actually registers the connection setting information using a Web browser.

FIG. 12 is a diagram showing a configuration example of a connection setting information registration Web page when a user actually registers the connection setting information using a Web browser.

FIG. 13 is a diagram showing a configuration example of a connection setting information registration Web page when a user actually registers the connection setting information using a Web browser.

FIG. 14 is a diagram showing a configuration example of a web page in which a service provider uses a web browser to register a live camera owned and connection parameters for each live camera.

FIG. 15 is a diagram showing a configuration example of a web page in which a service provider uses a web browser to register a live camera owned by the service provider and connection parameters for each live camera.

FIG. 16 is a diagram showing a configuration example of a web page in which a service provider uses a web browser to register a live camera owned by the service provider and connection parameters for each live camera.

FIG. 17 is a diagram showing a configuration example of a web page in which a service provider uses a web browser to register a live camera owned by the service provider and connection parameters for each live camera.

FIG. 18 is a diagram conceptually showing the operation of the information distribution system in the embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

1-001 telephone network 1-002 network 1-003 Mobile TV Phone 1-004 Fixed videophone 1-005 gateway device 1-006 format conversion server 1-007 Connection Management Server 1-008 live camera 1-009 Video Server 1-010 voice server

Claims (21)

[Claims] 1. Correspondence between communication means for receiving identification information of the external device transmitted from an external device, setting information relating to communication connection between the external device and a communication connection destination, and identification information of the external device. At least an information holding device that holds as information, and an acquisition unit that acquires the setting information based on the identification information of the external device received by the communication unit, the communication unit, a plurality of connected A communication control device, wherein data obtained from a transmitting device selected based on the setting information obtained by the obtaining means of the transmitting device is sent to the external device. 2. The data transmitted from the transmitter is
A communication control device comprising at least one of video data and audio data. 3. The communication means receives identification information of a service to be received by the external device, in addition to the identification information of the external device, and the information acquisition means includes identification information of the external device and the service. The communication control device according to claim 1, wherein the setting information is acquired based on identification information. 4. The information storage device further includes a conversion unit that converts each of the identification information into a data format for the information storage device, and the communication unit stores the identification information whose data format is converted by the conversion unit. 4. The communication according to claim 3, wherein the setting information is transferred to a device, and the acquisition unit acquires the setting information output from the information holding device corresponding to each of the identification information transferred by the transfer unit. Control device. 5. The communication control device according to claim 4, wherein the acquisition unit acquires the setting information corresponding to a time when each of the identification information is transferred by the communication unit. 6. The information adding means for adding other information to the video data and / or the audio data based on the setting information, wherein the communication means adds the other information by the information adding means. The communication control device according to claim 2, wherein the video data and / or the audio data is transmitted. 7. Correspondence between the identification information of the external device and the setting information relating to the communication connection between the external device and the transmitting device that receives the identification information of the external device and transmits the data. From the information holding device that holds at least as information, the communication control device corresponding to the identification information of the external device acquires the setting information based on the identification information of the external device, in order to obtain the identification information of the external device. A communication unit that transfers the data to the communication control device, receives the data transmitted from the transmission device via the communication control device, converts the data into a predetermined format, and transmits the data to the external device. Gateway device. 8. The communication device has a table in which at least identification information of the external device and an address of the communication control device are associated with each other, and the communication means refers to the table for identification information of the external device to perform the communication. 8. The gateway device according to claim 7, wherein the address of the control device is identified, and the identification information of the external device is transferred to the communication control device. 9. Accepting means for accepting a call requesting to provide respective services from one or a plurality of external devices, said external device accepting the call by said accepting means, and a corresponding communication connection destination. 8. The gateway device according to claim 7, further comprising communication control means for controlling so as to maintain the communication connection. 10. The communication control means, when the accepting means accepts a call from a plurality of external devices, establishes a communication connection between the external device that first accepts the call and a corresponding communication connection destination. The gateway device according to claim 8, wherein the gateway device is controlled so as to be maintained. 11. The communication control means, after maintaining a communication connection between the external device that first received the call and the communication connection destination for a certain period of time, corresponds to another external device and the other external device. The gateway device according to claim 10, wherein the gateway device is switched to a communication connection with a communication connection destination. 12. The gateway device according to claim 7, wherein the data transmitted to the external device includes at least one of video data and audio data. 13. An information holding unit that holds, as at least information, a correspondence between setting information related to communication connection between an external device and a transmitting device and identification information of the external device, and the external device transmitted from the external device. The identification information of the external device is received from the communication control device that receives and transfers the identification information, the communication control device acquires predetermined data from the transmission device based on the setting information, and the acquired data is acquired. In order to send it from the communication control device to the external device, the communication control device refers to the information holding device based on the received identification information of the external device and outputs the setting information to the communication control device. An information holding device characterized by the above. 14. The information holding device according to claim 13, wherein the information holding means holds history information regarding communication connection between the external device and the communication connection destination. 15. The information holding device according to claim 14, further comprising: a charging unit that charges a communication connection between the external device and the communication connection destination based on the connection history information. 16. The information holding device according to claim 13, further comprising a registration unit for registering the setting information in the information holding unit. 17. The information holding device according to claim 13, wherein the predetermined data includes at least one of video data and audio data. 18. The communication control device according to any one of claims 1 to 6, the gateway device according to any one of claims 7 to 12, and any one of claims 13 to 17. And an information holding device according to item 1. 19. A step of receiving identification information of the external device transmitted from an external device, and correspondence between setting information relating to communication connection between the external device and a transmitting device transmitting data and identification information of the external device. From an information holding device that holds the attachment as at least information, a step of acquiring the setting information based on identification information of the external device, and a step of receiving data from the transmitting device based on the acquired setting information, Transmitting the data received from the transmitter, the communication control method. 20. A program for causing a computer to execute the communication control method according to claim 19. 21. A storage medium storing the program according to claim 20.