JP2006295460A - Speech object selection server apparatus, terminal, speech object selection system, and speech object selection method - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a speech object selection server apparatus or the like that discriminates a proper speech object and connects a line only to the speech object on the basis of preset information by using positional information. <P>SOLUTION: In the case that a group including at least one speech object terminal is selected and a speech is carried out between terminals in the group, each of terminals 11-1 to 11-3 acquires the positional information being information associated with a present position of its own terminal and transmits the acquired positional information together with a communication request. A member management server 100 selects a group in response to the attribute of a user of the terminal and its present position in response to the communication request from the terminal. When a physically handicapped person or the like uses a facility and requests an assistance, the person calls different speech opposite parties (persons in charge) depending on a location (facility). A method of a prior art forms groups by each location and a user uses any of the groups by notifying them. However, the user does not need to notify the particular group in the system. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a call target selection server device, a terminal device, a call target selection system, and a call target selection method, and more particularly to a call target selection server device, a terminal device, and a call target selection for realizing a PTT (Push-To-Talk) function. The present invention relates to a system and a call target selection method.

For example, Patent Documents 1 and 2 disclose techniques for realizing group calls. In Patent Document 1, when a group call request is received, a conference type group call is realized by selecting a mobile device with a called party number included in the request. Moreover, in patent document 2, the group telephone call is implement | achieved by comprising a cross net.
By the way, when making a call with a plurality of opponents, a system is also known in which a line is connected to a member set in advance when a call request is issued, and voice is transmitted. PTT is known as this type of mobile phone system.

  PTT is a technology for realizing a call style like a transceiver of “push” and “speak”. In PTT, instead of dialing the other party's telephone number like a mobile phone, the other party can be connected by selecting a party who can talk and pressing a button. In addition to one-to-one exchanges, simultaneous connection with a plurality of opponents within a predetermined group is possible. That is, in PTT, a member to be a call target can be switched by selecting a group set in advance by the user according to the purpose of the call.

PTT is one of so-called VoIPs that make calls over a data communication network using the Internet protocol, and has been developed for mobile terminals such as mobile phones and PDAs. Particularly, “Push-to-Talk over Cellular (PoC) Phase One” has been established as a standard specification for mobile phones. This is being standardized by OMA (Open Mobile Alliance), an industry group.
JP-A-10-98532 Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 9-261741

However, PTT can only transmit audio to members of a preset group and to all members of the group. For this reason, when there are a plurality of partner groups for the same purpose, it is necessary to register them in different groups.
In addition, even in the case of the same purpose, the other party of the call may differ depending on the location and the like, and it is necessary for the user to operate and select the group to call.
The present invention has been made to solve the above-described problems of the prior art, and the purpose of the present invention is to automatically determine an appropriate call target based on information set in advance using location information, and automatically Therefore, it is intended to provide a call target selection server device, a terminal device, a call target selection system, and a call target selection method that can connect a line only to the call target and improve user convenience.

  A call target selection server device according to claim 1 of the present invention is a server device for selecting a group including at least one call target terminal device and making a call between the terminal devices in the group. And selecting means for selecting a group according to the user attribute of the terminal device and the current location of the terminal device in response to a communication request from the terminal device. If comprised in this way, even if it is the same objective, a different telephone call party can be automatically selected by a place etc.

  According to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided a call target selection server device according to the first aspect, wherein the terminal position information acquisition means (for example, in FIG. Corresponding position information management server 120). If comprised in this way, the present location of a terminal device can be pinpointed based on the in-zone base station area of a terminal device, for example, and the other party can be selected automatically according to the position.

  According to a third aspect of the present invention, there is provided the call target selection server device according to the first or second aspect, wherein the selection means is a terminal device existing within a certain distance from a current position of the terminal device that has transmitted the communication request. It is selected as a call target terminal device. According to this configuration, for example, the current position of the terminal device can be specified based on the in-service base station area of the terminal device, and a call partner existing within a certain distance can be automatically selected.

  According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a call target selection server device according to the first or second aspect, wherein the selection means calls a terminal device that is located closest to the current position of the terminal device that has transmitted the communication request. It selects as an object terminal device, It is characterized by the above-mentioned. According to this configuration, for example, the current position of the terminal device can be specified based on the in-service base station area of the terminal device, and the call partner existing at the closest position can be automatically selected.

  A terminal device according to claim 5 of the present invention is a terminal device used for selecting a group including at least one call target terminal device and performing a call between the terminal devices in the group, It includes position information acquisition means for acquiring position information that is information relating to position, and sending means for transmitting the position information acquired by the position information acquisition means together with a communication request. If comprised in this way, a telephone call other party can be selected automatically based on the present latitude longitude of a terminal device, for example.

A call target selection system according to claim 6 of the present invention is a call target selection system used for selecting a group including at least one call target terminal device and performing a call between terminal devices in the group,
Position information acquisition means (for example, corresponding to the position acquisition unit 16 in FIG. 2) that acquires position information that is information related to the current position of the terminal itself, and the position information acquired by the position information acquisition means are transmitted together with a communication request. A terminal device including sending means (for example, corresponding to the communication unit 15 in FIG. 2),
In response to a communication request from the terminal device, a call target selection server device including a selection unit that selects a group according to the attribute of the user of the terminal device and the current position of the terminal device;
It is characterized by having. If comprised in this way, even if it is the same objective, a different telephone call party can be automatically selected by a place etc.

  A call target selection method according to claim 7 of the present invention is a call target selection method for selecting a group including at least one call target terminal device and performing a call between terminal devices in the group, A position information acquisition step (for example, corresponding to step S203 in FIG. 8) for acquiring position information, which is information relating to the current position of the apparatus, and a response to the position information acquired in the position information acquisition step and a communication request from the terminal device And a selection step (for example, corresponding to step S204 in FIG. 8) of selecting a group in accordance with the attribute of the user of the terminal device. If comprised in this way, even if it is the same objective, a different telephone call party can be automatically selected by a place etc.

  As described above, according to the present invention, in a mobile phone system having a PTT function, by managing conditions within the same group, different parties can be automatically selected within the group depending on the location, etc. There is an effect that can be notified.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. In the drawings referred to in the following description, the same parts as those in the other drawings are denoted by the same reference numerals.
(Call target selection system)
FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a call target selection system according to the present invention. In the figure, the call target selection system includes a plurality of terminal apparatuses 11-1 to 11-3, a member management server 100, and a location information management server 120, which are connected via a network 130. ing. In this example, the member management server 100 and the location information management server 120 are realized by separate server devices, but they may be realized by the same server device.

(Terminal device)
A configuration example of the terminal device 11-i (i = 1, 2, 3) in FIG. 1 is shown in FIG. As shown in FIG. 5A, the terminal device 11-i includes a control unit 12 that controls the entire device, a PTT switch 13 that is operated when sending a communication request, and various keys. The input / output unit 14 including a switch and a display screen for selecting a group, the communication unit 15 for performing communication with the outside, and the position of the own terminal device by a well-known GPS (Global Positioning System) A position acquisition unit 16 for acquiring information is included. Note that ANT is an antenna.

As shown in the figure, the terminal device 11-i is provided with a PTT switch 13. By pressing the PTT switch 13, a call request for the selected group is transmitted to the network side. At the same time, the position information of the own device can be notified. That is, the position information acquired by the position acquisition unit 16 is transmitted by the communication unit 15.
In the server on the network side, the position acquisition unit 16 does not need to be provided when the position of the terminal device is specified based on the located area. Therefore, the configuration of the terminal device in that case is as shown in FIG.

(Member management server)
Returning to FIG. 1, the member management server 100 includes a control device 101 that controls the entire server, a line control device 102 that controls communication lines, a member management database 103 that manages correspondence information between members and groups, It comprises a user information database 104 that manages profile information of users who use terminal devices, and includes a location information management server 120 and terminal devices 11-1 to 11-3 that manage location information of terminal devices, and a network 130. Connected through.

(User information database)
In the user information database 104, the groups A to F... And conditions for the groups are registered in advance. This condition is, for example, “position”, “distance”, “shortest”, “profile”, etc., as shown in FIG. “Position” is set when a terminal device is selected based on the current position. “Distance” is set when selecting a terminal device within a certain distance from the terminal device that sent the communication request. “Shortest” is set when the terminal device having the shortest distance from the terminal device that has transmitted the communication request is selected. “Profile” is set when a terminal device is selected based on profile information, that is, user attributes.
In the user information database 104, setting values and members corresponding to each condition are registered in advance. Examples of information registered in the user information database 104 are shown in FIGS.

  Referring to FIG. 4, for group A, members of a base station area (hereinafter simply referred to as “area”) 1 are users 2 and 3, members of area 2 are users 4 and 5, and members of area 3. Are user 6, user 7 and user 8. For group D, members of area 2 are user 1 and user 4, and members of area 4 are user 4, user 7, and user 8.

The description regarding FIGS. 5 to 7 will be described later.
(Location information management server)
The location information management server 120 includes a control device 121 that controls the entire server, a line control device 122 that controls communication lines, and a location information database 123 that manages terminal location information. Yes. The position information database 123 stores, for example, position information transmitted from the terminal apparatus 11-i and position information of the terminal apparatus 11-i specified based on the in-zone base station area of the terminal apparatus.

(System operation)
FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing a processing flow in the present system. In the figure, the member management server that has received the call request (step S201) from the terminal device used by the user checks whether or not a member selection condition exists in the group requested to call (step S201). S202).
As a result of this confirmation, if the selection condition is set to call a member associated with the position information as shown in FIG. 3, the position information of the user is acquired from the position information management server (step S203). ), Member information based on the user information and position information is acquired from the member management database (step S204). For example, when the user who has transmitted the requested call exists in area 1, the members are user 2 and user 3 (see FIG. 4).
The control device transfers the call request to the terminal existing in the acquired member information (step S205), and when the terminal that receives the call request responds, the line is connected (step S206), and the call becomes possible (step S207). ).

(Select members within a certain distance range)
If the member whose selection condition is associated with the distance is to be called, the member information is acquired from the member management database, and the position information of each member is acquired from the position information management server. An example of information acquired in this way is shown in FIG. Referring to the figure, in group B, the members located within a radial distance of 50 meters are user 1, user 4, user 5, and user 6. In the group E, the members located within the radial distance of 2 kilometers are the user 6, the user 7, the user 8, the user 9, and so on.
From the acquired position information of each member, a terminal device existing within a distance set by the user who sent the call request is selected, and the call request is transferred to the terminal device. Then, when the terminal device that has received the call request responds, the line is connected and a call can be made.

(Select the member with the shortest distance)
If the member whose selection condition is the shortest distance is to be called, each member information is acquired from the member management database, and the position information of each member is acquired from the position information management server. An example of information acquired in this way is shown in FIG. Referring to the figure, the members of group C are user 1, user 2, user 5 and user 6.
From the acquired position information of each member, a terminal device existing at a position closest to the user who has issued the call request is selected, and the call request is transferred to the terminal device. Then, when the terminal device that has received the call request responds, the line is connected and a call can be made.

(Select members based on user attributes)
Further, in step S202 in FIG. 8, in the case of setting conditions in which members are changed by profile information, that is, user attribute information, member information is acquired from the member management database, and user profile information is acquired from the user information database. To do. An example of the information acquired in this way is shown in FIG. Referring to the figure, the profiles of Group F include “visually impaired”, “deaf”, and “healthy”. The members of “visually impaired” are user 2 and user 3, the members of “deaf person” are user 4 and user 5, and the members of “healthy person” are user 6, user 7, and user 8.
In this example, from the position information of each member acquired in this way, a terminal device that is present at the position closest to the user who sent the call request is selected, and the call request is transferred to the terminal device. Then, when the terminal device that has received the call request responds, the line is connected and a call can be made.

(Application example)
A specific application example of this system will be described with reference to FIG. If a person with a physical disability wants to request assistance when using the facility, a staff member will be called. In that case, the communication partner (that is, the staff member) differs depending on the place (that is, the facility).
Referring to FIG. 1A which is a conventional method, the facility 1 needs to call the member A or B, and the facility 2 needs to call the member C or D. That is, it is necessary to create a group for each place called a facility, that is, “assistance for facility 1” and “assistance for facility 2” in advance, and the user of the terminal device needs to use the group in consideration.

On the other hand, referring to FIG. 4B, in this system, if members A to D are registered in advance in a group called “auxiliary”, different members can be automatically called for each place called facility. it can. If the group with the purpose name “auxiliary” is designated, the member A or B can be automatically called in the facility 1 and the member C or D can be automatically called in the facility 2 according to the position information. In this case, the user of the terminal device does not have to use it with awareness of the group.
In short, according to the conventional method, it is necessary to create a group for each place, and the user needs to use the group consciously. However, according to the present system, it is not necessary to be conscious of such a group and it is convenient.

(Call target selection method)
In the call target selection system described above, the following call target selection method is realized. That is, a call target selection method for selecting a group including at least one call target terminal device and performing a call between the terminal devices in the group, the position information being information regarding the current position of the terminal device A position information acquisition step to be acquired, and a selection step of selecting a group according to the position information acquired in the position information acquisition step and the attribute of the user of the terminal device in response to a communication request from the terminal device. And If comprised in this way, even if it is the same objective, a different telephone call party can be automatically selected by a place etc.

  The present invention can be used for a mobile phone system having a PTT function.

It is a block diagram which shows the structure of the telephone call target selection system by this invention. It is a block diagram which shows the structural example of the terminal device in FIG. It is a figure which shows the relationship of the selection conditions of a group and a member in the telephone call target selection system of FIG. It is a figure which shows the relationship of a positional information and a member in the telephone call target selection system of FIG. It is a figure which shows the relationship between distance information and a member in the telephone call target selection system of FIG. It is a figure which shows the shortest distance information and the relationship of a member in the telephone call target selection system of FIG. It is a figure which shows the relationship between a user's profile information and a member in the telephone call target selection system of FIG. It is a flowchart which shows the operation | movement at the time of the telephone call request in the telephone call object selection system by this invention. It is a figure which shows the specific example of application of this system.

Explanation of symbols

11-1 to 11-3 Terminal device 12 Control unit 13 PTT switch 14 Input / output unit 15 Communication unit 16 Position acquisition unit 100 Member management server 101 Control device 102 Line control device 103 Member management database 104 User information database 120 Location information management server 121 Control Device 122 Line Control Device 123 Location Information Database 130 Network

Claims (7)

  A server device for selecting a group including at least one call target terminal device and performing a call between the terminal devices within the group, wherein the user of the terminal device responds to a communication request from the terminal device. A call target selection server device comprising selection means for selecting a group according to an attribute and a current position of the terminal device.   2. The call target selection server device according to claim 1, further comprising terminal location information acquisition means for acquiring location information that is information relating to a current location of the terminal device that has transmitted the communication request.   The call target according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the selection means selects a terminal device existing within a certain distance from a current position of the terminal device that has transmitted the communication request as a call target terminal device. Select server device.   3. The call target selection according to claim 1, wherein the selection unit selects, as a call target terminal device, a terminal device that is present at a position closest to a current position of the terminal device that has transmitted the communication request. Server device.   A terminal device used to select a group including at least one call target terminal device and perform a call between the terminal devices in the group, and a position at which position information that is information on the current position of the own terminal is acquired A terminal device comprising: an information acquisition unit; and a transmission unit that transmits the positional information acquired by the positional information acquisition unit together with a communication request. A call target selection system used for selecting a group including at least one call target terminal device and performing a call between terminal devices in the group,
A terminal device including position information acquisition means for acquiring position information, which is information relating to the current position of the terminal itself, and sending means for transmitting the position information acquired by the position information acquisition means together with a communication request;
In response to a communication request from the terminal device, a call target selection server device including a selection unit that selects a group according to the attribute of the user of the terminal device and the current position of the terminal device;
A call object selection system comprising:   A call target selection method for selecting a group including at least one call target terminal device and performing a call between the terminal devices in the group, and acquiring position information that is information on a current position of the terminal device A position information acquisition step; and a selection step of selecting a group according to the position information acquired in the position information acquisition step and the attribute of the user of the terminal device in response to a communication request from the terminal device. Call target selection method.

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