JP2004364129A - Communication system - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a communication system for saving time and effort of entering partner-side information into a telephone directory memory. <P>SOLUTION: When a modem signal is received from a line at the time of call termination (S2 step), telephone number information and name information included in the received modem signal are extracted, and the extracted telephone number information and the name information are stored in the region A of a second storing unit (S3 step). When the number of the call terminations of the stored telephone number information is ten or more, the telephone number information and the name information extracted in the S3 step are stored in a region B (telephone directory) of the second storing unit (S6 step). <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI

Description

[0001]
TECHNICAL FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a communication device such as an answering machine.
[0002]
[Prior art]
Conventionally, a service provided by Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation is a number display service. This service is a service in which, when a call is made from a certain terminal to a certain terminal, the telephone number information of the calling side is transmitted from the exchange to the terminal of the called side. A communication device (for example, answering machine, cordless telephone, facsimile, etc.) corresponding to this service displays the telephone number received from the line at the time of the incoming call on the display unit, and allows the user to determine from whom the call is coming. It is possible to inform.
[0003]
In recent years, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, when making a call from a certain terminal to a certain terminal, sends not only the telephone number of the calling side but also the name of the calling side from the exchange to the called terminal. We provide a name display service that transmits information.
[0004]
Since the communication device corresponding to such a service displays the telephone number received from the line and the name of the caller on the display unit at the time of the call reception, the user of the callee can more clearly identify who the caller is. Can be understood.
[0005]
The outline of the connection operation sequence of the name display service will be described below with reference to FIG.
[0006]
First, after exchanging the polarity of the line, the exchange transmits an information receiving terminal activation signal, which is a signal having a frequency of 16 Hz, to the terminal (step 100).
[0007]
Subsequently, the terminal transmits a response signal (primary response signal) to the exchange by forming a DC loop in response to the reception of the information receiving terminal activation signal (step 110).
[0008]
Next, the exchange transmits a modem signal modulated by an FSK (Frequency Shift Keying) modulation method to the terminal (step 120).
[0009]
The modem signal contains telephone number information and name information of the calling party.
[0010]
Subsequently, upon completion of receiving the modem signal from the exchange, the terminal opens a DC loop to transmit a response signal (reception completion signal) to the exchange (step 130).
[0011]
After that, the connection operation sequence becomes the same as that of a normal incoming call.
[0012]
As described above, the telecommunications carrier provides various services to users. On the other hand, various technologies have also been proposed for communication devices, in which an access counter is counted up each time a call is made, and when a call is made, selection is performed in descending order of the count value of the access counter, that is, in descending order of the number of calls. There has been proposed a technique of registering and displaying in association with a button (see Patent Document 1).
[0013]
[Patent Document 1]
JP-A-7-30633 (page 3 and FIG. 3).
[0014]
[Problems to be solved by the invention]
As described above, a technology for displaying a telephone number in order from the most frequently called number has been proposed.However, it can be said that the telephone number of the other party who is calling frequently, only the telephone number is displayed at the time of calling. However, the user may not be able to easily recognize who the telephone number is. Further, in order to solve such a problem, it is conceivable to register the name of the other party together with the telephone number which has been called in advance by key input of the user, but it is extremely difficult to register the name of the other party one by one. It is troublesome.
[0015]
Also, from the technique described in Patent Document 1, it is conceivable to adopt the following configuration at the time of receiving a call. For example, when displaying a telephone number received from a line at the time of an incoming call, a configuration is conceivable in which the telephone numbers are displayed in descending order of the number of incoming calls.
[0016]
However, even if the display is performed in order from the one with the largest number of incoming calls, the user must manually input the name of the calling side, and the input operation is very troublesome.
[0017]
[Means for Solving the Problems]
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention is intended to solve such a problem, and a communication device according to claim 1 includes a receiving unit that receives telephone number information of a calling side from a line when an incoming call is received, and a communication unit of the calling side. A telephone directory memory capable of storing a plurality of telephone numbers and names in pairs, a number memory capable of storing a plurality of telephone numbers in correspondence with the calling telephone number information and the number of incoming calls, The number of incoming calls is counted in association with the received telephone number information, the received telephone number information and the counted number of incoming calls are stored in the number memory, and the telephone number information obtained by counting a predetermined number or more in the number memory. And control means for controlling to store the telephone number information, which has counted the predetermined number or more times, in the telephone directory memory when it is determined that there is a telephone number.
[0018]
The communication device according to claim 2 is the communication device according to claim 1, wherein the control unit stores the telephone number information that has counted the predetermined number or more in the telephone directory memory. Is determined to be stored in the telephone directory memory, the telephone number information is not stored in the telephone directory memory.
[0019]
The communication device according to claim 3, wherein the receiving means receives the telephone number information and name information of the calling side from the line when there is an incoming call, and the telephone is capable of storing a plurality of telephone numbers and names of the calling side in pairs. A book memory, a number memory capable of storing a plurality of caller's telephone number information or name information and the number of incoming calls in association with each other, and each time there is an incoming call, corresponding to the telephone number information or name information received by the receiving means. The number of incoming calls is counted, the received telephone number information or name information and the counted number of incoming calls are stored in the number memory, and the telephone number information or the name information counting the predetermined number or more is stored in the number memory. When it is determined that there is, name information corresponding to the telephone number information counted the predetermined number or more, or control means for controlling the name information counted the predetermined number or more to be stored in the telephone directory memory, Have It is characterized in.
[0020]
The communication device according to claim 4 is the communication device according to claim 3, wherein the control unit is configured to include name information corresponding to telephone number information that has counted the predetermined number or more, or name that has counted the predetermined number or more. When storing information in the telephone directory memory, if it is determined that the name information is already stored in the telephone directory memory, the name information is not stored in the telephone directory memory.
[0021]
BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION
The apparatus of the present embodiment counts the number of times of receiving caller's telephone number information and name information received from the line at the time of receiving a call, and when the counted value exceeds a predetermined value, the received caller's telephone number information and name information are received. Is automatically stored in the telephone directory memory.
[0022]
By adopting such a configuration, it is not necessary to manually input frequently-acquired telephone number data and name data of the other party into the telephone directory memory one by one, so that it is possible to save time and effort for the user.
[0023]
Hereinafter, an embodiment device (for example, an answering machine) to which the present invention is applied will be described.
[0024]
FIG. 1 is a block diagram of the apparatus according to the present embodiment. A control unit 1 controls each circuit described below.
[0025]
The input unit 2 includes ten keys, a recording start key, a stop key, a function key, and the like.
[0026]
The display unit 3 is composed of, for example, a liquid crystal display device, and can display a telephone number, a name, and the like.
[0027]
The first storage unit 4 includes, for example, a ROM (Read Only Memory), and stores a control program of the control unit 1.
[0028]
The second storage unit 5 is composed of, for example, an SRAM (Static Random Access Memory), and has two areas A and B as shown in FIG. More specifically, in FIG. 2, the area A stores a plurality of pairs of telephone number information received from a line at the time of an incoming call, name information corresponding to the telephone number information, and the number of incoming calls. On the other hand, in the area B, the names and the telephone numbers are stored in pairs in the order of the eyes, and when the telephone numbers and the names stored in the area B are displayed on the display unit 3, they are displayed in the order of the eyes. . That is, the area B is used as a so-called telephone directory memory.
[0029]
When displaying the telephone numbers and names stored in the area B, the names are not displayed in the order of the aileo, but in the order registered in the area B, the order of the number of outgoing calls, the order of the number of incoming calls, etc. It may be displayed.
[0030]
Further, although not shown, the second storage unit 5 can store a business message sent from a line.
[0031]
The hook detector 6 detects a hook state of the handset 11 described later.
[0032]
The diode bridge 7 is a circuit that is connected to the line L and protects a circuit inside the communication device when the polarity of the line L suddenly changes.
[0033]
The polarity inversion detecting circuit 8 detects the polarity inversion of the line L.
[0034]
The network control unit 9 mainly closes and opens the line L.
[0035]
The speech network 10 switches a communication path between the network control unit 9, the handset 11, the microphone 12, and the speaker 13, and controls a signal by an amplifier, an attenuator, and the like disposed inside.
[0036]
The DSP (Digital Signal Processor) 14 receives the modem signal coming from the line at the time of the incoming call described with reference to FIG. 4, and extracts telephone number information and name information included in the modem signal.
[0037]
The handset 11 is used when talking.
[0038]
Next, the operation of the apparatus of this embodiment will be described below with reference to the flowchart of FIG.
[0039]
In step S1, when the control unit 1 determines that the network control unit 9 has received the information receiving terminal activation signal having the frequency of 16 Hz, the control unit 1 controls the network control unit 9 to control the line L.
Is closed (the primary response signal is transmitted), and the process proceeds to step S2.
[0040]
In step S2, if the control unit 1 determines that the DSP 14 has received the modem signal from the line L, the control unit 1 proceeds to step S3, and if not, performs a normal incoming call operation (steps after step S130 in FIG. 4). The process ends.
[0041]
In step S3, the control unit 1 controls the DSP 14 to extract telephone number information and name information from the modem signal, and stores the extracted telephone number information and name information in the area A of the second storage unit 5. , The process proceeds to step S4.
[0042]
If a telephone number that matches the extracted telephone number information is already stored in the area A in step S3, the telephone number and name are not newly stored in the area A but are already stored. The number of incoming calls corresponding to the telephone number is incremented by one. On the other hand, when a telephone number that matches the extracted telephone number information is not stored in the area A, the telephone number and name are newly stored in the area A, and the number of incoming calls is set to one.
[0043]
In step S4, if the control unit 1 determines that the number of calls of the telephone number information stored in step S3 is a predetermined value (for example, 10), the control unit 1 proceeds to step S5. The process proceeds to the call operation (steps after step S130 in FIG. 4) and ends.
[0044]
The predetermined value in step S4 is not particularly limited to ten times, but may be another value. Further, a predetermined value may be set by the user.
[0045]
In step S5, when the control unit 1 determines that the telephone number information and name information extracted in step S2 are already stored in the area B, the control unit 1 performs a normal incoming call operation (steps after step S130 in FIG. 4). , Perform an operation such as ringing of a ringing tone), and terminate the process. Otherwise, the process proceeds to step S6.
[0046]
In step S6, the control unit 1 stores the telephone number information and the name information extracted in step S2 in the area B, and performs a normal incoming call operation (steps after step S130 in FIG. 4; And the like, and the operation is terminated.
[0047]
When the telephone number information and the name information are stored in the area B, for example, the number of incoming calls stored in the area A shown in FIG. The information is stored in the area of the row B in the area B.
[0048]
As described above, in the present embodiment, the telephone number information and the name information of the other party received at the time of the incoming call are automatically stored in the telephone directory memory. The data can be stored in the telephone directory memory even if the user does not input each key operation.
[0049]
Also, since only the other party that is more than a specified number of times is stored in the phonebook memory, the other party with a smaller number of incoming calls (for example, a wrong call) is not stored in the phonebook memory, and the information of the other party that the user really needs. It is only possible to store in phonebook memory.
[0050]
In the present embodiment, the operation when the telephone number information and the name information of the other party are received has been described. However, when only the telephone number information of the other party is received, the telephone number is stored in the area A of the second storage unit 5. The number and the number of incoming calls are stored, and if the number of incoming calls is equal to or more than a predetermined number, only the telephone number may be stored in the area B.
[0051]
On the other hand, when the name information of the other party is not received at the time of receiving the call (when only the telephone number information is received), the received telephone number may not be stored in the telephone directory memory. For example, even if only the telephone number is stored in the telephone directory memory,
This is because the user may not be able to recognize the incoming call even if the user only looks at the telephone number later, and also from the viewpoint of using the limited telephone directory memory capacity as efficiently as possible. Is valid.
[0052]
Also, in the present embodiment, the answering machine was implemented for the answering machine, but if it is a communication device such as a cordless phone, a facsimile, etc. It is possible to implement.
[0053]
【The invention's effect】
According to the present invention, it is possible to save the trouble of inputting the other party information to the telephone directory memory as much as possible.
[Brief description of the drawings]
FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a device according to the present embodiment.
FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating a storage form of a second storage unit 5;
FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing the operation of the apparatus according to the embodiment.
FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a connection operation sequence.
[Explanation of symbols]
1 control unit 5 second storage unit 9 network control unit 14 DSP

Claims (4)

Receiving means for receiving the telephone number information of the calling side from the line when there is an incoming call; a telephone directory memory capable of storing a plurality of telephone numbers and names of the calling side in pairs; and telephone number information of the calling side. A number memory that can store a plurality of incoming calls in association with the number of incoming calls;
Each time there is an incoming call, the number of incoming calls is counted in association with the telephone number information received by the receiving means, and the received telephone number information and the counted number of incoming calls are stored in the number memory, and stored in the number memory. When it is determined that there is telephone number information counted a predetermined number or more, control means for controlling to store the telephone number information counted a predetermined number or more in the telephone directory memory is provided. Communication device. 2. The communication device according to claim 1, wherein the control unit stores the telephone number information counted up to the predetermined number or more in the telephone directory memory, wherein the telephone number information is already stored in the telephone directory memory. And determining that the telephone number information is not stored in the telephone directory memory. Receiving means for receiving telephone number information and name information of the calling side from the line when there is an incoming call; a telephone directory memory capable of storing a plurality of telephone numbers and names of the calling side in pairs; A number memory that can store a plurality of number information or name information and the number of incoming calls in association with each other;
Each time there is an incoming call, the receiving means counts the number of incoming calls in association with the received telephone number information or name information, and stores the received telephone number information or name information and the counted number of incoming calls in the number memory. Then, when it is determined that there is telephone number information or name information that has counted the predetermined number or more in the number memory, the name information corresponding to the telephone number information that has counted the predetermined number or more, or the predetermined number or more. Control means for controlling the counted name information to be stored in the telephone directory memory. 4. The communication device according to claim 3, wherein the control unit stores name information corresponding to the telephone number information that has counted the predetermined number or more or name information that has counted the predetermined number or more in the telephone directory memory. At this time, if it is determined that the name information is already stored in the telephone directory memory, the communication device does not store the name information in the telephone directory memory.

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