JP2008244856A - Communication server and communication connecting method - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a communication server and a communication connecting method that can flexibly select and connect a communication partner for communication according to user's action. <P>SOLUTION: Positions of a plurality of communication terminals 100 are stored in a position information holding server 402. When a connection request from, for example, one communication terminal 101 is received, a grouping determination unit 203 determines communication terminals 102 and 103 located in a predetermined range among the plurality of stored communication terminals as grouped communication terminals and a PoC server 300 makes connections with the determined grouped communication terminals 102 and 103. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a communication server and a communication connection method for communication connection between a plurality of communication terminals.

In recent years, a PoC (Push To Talk Over Cellular) that allows a plurality of people to communicate with each other like a transceiver has been generally used. In this PoC, a plurality of communication partners connected by communication are registered in a communication terminal to realize a connection process between a plurality of persons. For example, the user can connect to a plurality of communication partners with a simple operation by registering an address book for PoC communication in the communication terminal. For example, Patent Document 1 describes that a call group is registered in PTT, and more specifically, describes that the group is changed according to the position of the communication terminal.
JP 2006-191563 A

  However, in the technique described in Patent Document 1, the registered communication partner is fixed, which is inconvenient. That is, in the technique described in Patent Document 1, a group that can be connected according to the position of the communication terminal is determined, and the group is variably set according to the user's action, The communication partner does not change according to the user's action, and it is inconvenient. For example, when it is desired to communicate with a communication terminal near the user, the technique described in Patent Document 1 cannot be used.

  Therefore, in order to solve the above-described problems, an object of the present invention is to provide a communication server and a communication connection method that can flexibly select a communication partner in accordance with a user's action and establish a communication connection.

  In order to solve the above-described problem, the communication server of the present invention receives a connection request from a plurality of communication terminals, from a position information storage unit that stores the positions of the plurality of communication terminals, within a predetermined range. Extraction means for extracting a communication terminal located as a grouped communication terminal.

  In addition, the communication connection method of the present invention groups communication terminals located in a predetermined range from a position information storage unit that stores the positions of a plurality of communication terminals when receiving a connection request from one communication terminal. An extraction step of extracting as a communication terminal; and a connection step of connecting to the grouped communication terminals extracted in the extraction step.

  According to the present invention, when a connection request from one communication terminal is received, a communication terminal located in a predetermined range among a plurality of communication terminals stored in advance is extracted as a grouped communication terminal and extracted. Can be connected to the grouped communication terminal. As a result, for example, it is possible to easily communicate with people around you, people with the same destination that you are going to go to, etc., and intimate communication can be realized.

  Moreover, it is preferable that the extraction means in the communication server of the present invention extracts communication terminals located within a predetermined range with respect to the position of the one communication terminal as a grouped communication terminal.

  According to the present invention, communication terminals located within a predetermined range with respect to the position of one communication terminal can be extracted as a grouped communication terminal, and can easily be contacted with people around them. And intimate communication can be realized.

  Further, the extraction means in the communication server of the present invention extracts, as grouped communication terminals, communication terminals located in the range indicated by the position information according to the position information indicating the range specified from the one communication terminal. Is preferred.

  According to the present invention, according to position information indicating a range designated from one communication terminal, communication terminals located in the range indicated by the position information can be extracted as grouped communication terminals, and the user can go. You can easily get in touch with people who have the same destination, etc., and you can realize intimate communication.

  According to the present invention, the communication partner can be flexibly selected according to the user's action, and can be connected for communication. Thus, user-friendly communication can be realized.

  The present invention can be readily understood by considering the following detailed description with reference to the accompanying drawings shown for the embodiments. Subsequently, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings. Where possible, the same parts are denoted by the same reference numerals, and redundant description is omitted.

  FIG. 1 is a system configuration diagram of a communication system 1 including a grouping server 200 of the present embodiment, and a functional block diagram of the grouping server 200. The communication system 1 includes a communication terminal 100 (communication terminals 101 to 103), a grouping server 200, a PoC server 300 (connection means), a position information registration server 401, and a position information holding server 402 (position information storage means). It is configured.

  The communication terminal 100 in the communication system 1 is a mobile phone that can perform communication by PoC, for example, and can use the PoC server 300 to perform PoC communication in which a plurality of people can make a call. Further, the communication terminal 100 can store the current position of each communication terminal 100 or the user's destination (other arbitrary position information) in the position information holding server 402 via the position information registration server 401.

  The location information holding server 402 may be location information using a base station constituting a mobile communication network as the current location of the communication terminal 100, or a location obtained using a GPS, an IC tag, or the like. It may be information. Furthermore, when the communication terminal 100 contains a non-contact IC card and enters the predetermined area through the gate using the non-contact IC card, the area information indicating the area may be used.

  In the position information holding server 402, the station name input by the user in the route search function of the communication terminal 100 may be registered as the destination, or the place name set in the car navigation system is set as the destination. Alternatively, the destination may be set by a user operation. Further, when the communication terminal 100 is a built-in non-contact IC card and is an electronic commuter pass using the non-contact IC card, any station in the section indicated by the commuter pass may be set as the destination.

  When the grouping server 200 receives a grouping request that is a connection request from any one of the communication terminals 100, the grouping server 200 is based on the current position or destination of each communication terminal 100 stored in the position information holding server 402. The communication terminals 100 are grouped. Here, grouping means selecting a communication terminal to be connected for communication based on the current position or the destination. The detailed configuration and processing of this grouping server 200 will be described later.

  The PoC server 300 performs communication connection processing on the grouped communication terminals grouped by the grouping server 200 and performs call processing.

  Since the communication system 1 is configured as described above, when a communication connection request is received from one of the communication terminals 100, which communication terminal 100 is assigned based on the current position or destination of the communication terminal 100 that has made the request. The grouping server 200 selects whether to connect, and the PoC server 300 can establish a communication connection with the selected communication terminal 100 and cause the communication terminal 100 to execute a call. The grouping server 200 may have the functions of the position information holding server 402 and the PoC server 300. That is, the grouping server 200 may be provided with storage means for storing position information of communication terminals and connection means for PoC communication with the grouped communication terminals.

  Next, the configuration of the grouping server 200 will be described. As shown in FIG. 1, the grouping server 200 includes a destination information acquisition unit 201, a position information acquisition unit 202, and a group determination unit 203 (extraction means).

  A hardware configuration of the grouping server 200 will be described. FIG. 2 is a hardware configuration diagram of the grouping server 200. As shown in FIG. 2, the grouping server 200 physically includes a CPU 11, a RAM 12 and a ROM 13 that are main storage devices, a communication module 14 that is a data transmission / reception device such as a network card, an auxiliary storage device 15 such as a hard disk, The computer system includes an input device 16 such as a keyboard and mouse as input devices, an output device 17 such as a display, and the like. Each function described in FIG. 2 has a communication module 14, an input device 16, and an output device 17 under the control of the CPU 11 by reading predetermined computer software on hardware such as the CPU 11 and the RAM 12 shown in FIG. 2. This is realized by reading and writing data in the RAM 12 and the auxiliary storage device 15. Hereinafter, each functional block will be described based on the functional blocks shown in FIG.

  The destination information acquisition unit 201 is a part that acquires the destination information of one communication terminal 100 from the position information holding server 402 when receiving a grouping request from one communication terminal 100 (for example, the communication terminal 101). Specifically, the destination information corresponding to the identification information is acquired from the location information holding server 402 using the identification information such as the telephone number and user ID of one communication terminal 100 included in the grouping request. To do.

  Then, the destination information acquisition unit 201 uses the acquired destination information from the position information holding server 402 to select another communication terminal 100 (grouped communication terminal) set for the same purpose as the one communication terminal 100. Extract. Specifically, a search request including the destination information is output to the location information holding server 402, and the location information holding server 402 uses the destination information included in the search request to specify the corresponding communication terminal 100. Extract.

  Here, the location information holding server 402 stores location information and destination information. FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram showing information stored in the position information holding server 402. As shown in FIG. 3, the location information holding server 402 stores the location information and destination information of each member (user 1 to user 4) in one group. Here, the location information is information indicating the current position, and the destination information is information indicating the destination that each member is going to go to. FIG. 3 shows that, for example, the user 1 is currently located in Shibuya and the destination is set in Tokyo. In addition, for the user 4, the location information is set to be out of the service area, and the destination information is not set.

  The position information acquisition unit 202 is a part that acquires the current position information of the one communication terminal 100 from the position information holding server 402 when receiving a grouping request from the one communication terminal 100 (for example, the communication terminal 101). Then, the position information acquisition unit 202 uses the acquired position information to extract another communication terminal 100 located in a predetermined range with respect to the current position of the one communication terminal 100 from the position information holding server 402. . The current position information acquisition process and the other communication terminal 100 extraction process described above are realized by the same process as the destination information acquisition unit 201.

  It is instructed from communication terminal 100 whether to group based on the caller's destination or to group based on the current location of the caller, and based on the instruction, destination information acquisition unit 201 or position information Any of the acquisition units 202 operates.

  The group determination unit 203 performs grouping on the communication terminals 100 that have responded that grouping is possible, among the communication terminals 100 selected by the destination information acquisition unit 201 or the position information acquisition unit 202. To do. That is, group information including identification information for identifying each communication terminal 100 that has responded that grouping is possible is generated. Then, the group determining unit 203 outputs group information indicating the communication terminals 100 grouped in the PoC server 300.

  The communication connection unit 301 (connection unit) in the PoC server 300 receives group information and performs communication connection processing so that PoC communication can be performed with respect to the communication terminal 100 indicated by the group information.

  Next, the operation of the communication system 1 configured as described above will be described. FIG. 4 is a sequence diagram showing a grouping process based on the current position in the communication system 1 including the grouping server 200 in the present embodiment.

  Location registration is performed in the location information registration server 401 from the communication terminal 100 (101 to 103). This location registration timing is performed by a user operation or at a predetermined timing. In the position information registration server 401, the position registration information transmitted from the communication terminal 100 is transmitted to the position information holding server 402, and the position information holding server 402 stores the position information of each communication terminal 100 (S101).

  After registering the position information of each communication terminal 100 in the position information holding server 402, a call request including a grouping request from one communication terminal 100 (the communication terminal 101 in this embodiment) is sent to the grouping server 200. It is transmitted (S102). This grouping request includes instruction information indicating that grouping is performed based on the current position of one communication terminal 100.

  In the grouping server 200, the position information corresponding to the communication terminal 101 is acquired from the position information holding server 300 using the identification information of the communication terminal 101 that has transmitted the group request (S103).

  The grouping server 200 uses the location information of the communication terminal 101 to make a search request to the location information holding server 402 (S104). The position information holding server 402 searches for other communication terminals (communication terminals 102 and 103) located within a predetermined range with respect to the position indicated by the position information of the communication terminal 101 (S105). The location information holding server 402 transmits a grouping request to the communication terminals 102 and 103 acquired by this search, and acquires a response indicating whether or not the request is accepted (S106). In response to the grouping request, each communication terminal 102 and 103 selects whether or not grouping is possible by the user's operation, and transmits a propriety response to the grouping server 200 (S107).

  The grouping server 200 performs grouping processing on the communication terminals 100 for communication connection based on the availability response, and generates group information for identifying the communication terminals 100 to be connected for communication (S108). Then, the generated group information is transmitted from the grouping server 200 to the PoC server 300 (S109), and the PoC server 300 performs connection processing for communication connection to the communication terminal 100 indicated by the group information. (S110). After the connection process, PoC communication is started in each communication terminal 100 (S111). In FIG. 4, for convenience, the PoC server 300 and the communication terminal 102 communicate with each other, but the communication terminals 101, 102, and 103 are connected to each other via the PoC 300.

  As described above, PoC communication can be performed with respect to another communication terminal 100 within a predetermined range with respect to the position of the communication terminal 100 that has made the grouping request. Thereby, for example, it is possible to easily communicate with people around him and to realize closer communication.

  In FIG. 4, the grouping process based on the current position information has been described, but the destination set by the user of each communication terminal 100 instead of the current position information, that is, the destination indicating the destination. A grouping process may be performed based on the information. In addition, the user may designate a destination using the Web or the like, and group communication terminals of users who are heading to the destination. In that case, in S102, an instruction to perform grouping is transmitted to the communication terminals set at the destination designated by the communication terminal 100 via the Web.

  Next, operational effects of the communication system 1 of the present embodiment will be described. According to the communication system 1, the positions of the plurality of communication terminals 100 are stored in the position information holding server 402. For example, when a connection request from one communication terminal 101 is received, the position information holding server 402 stores the position information. Among the plurality of communication terminals, the grouping determination unit 203 determines communication terminals 102 and 103 located in a predetermined range as grouped communication terminals, and the PoC server 300 determines the grouped communication terminals 102 and 103 103 can be connected. As a result, for example, it is possible to easily communicate with people around you, people with the same destination that you are going to go to, etc., and intimate communication can be realized.

  In the present embodiment, the grouping determination unit 203 can extract other communication terminals 102 and 103 within a predetermined range with respect to the position based on the position of the communication terminal 101 by the position information acquisition unit 202. In this case, you can easily contact people around you.

  In addition, the grouping determination unit 203 can easily communicate with a person who is the same as the destination designated by the user of the communication terminal 101 by the destination information acquisition unit 201.

It is a system configuration figure of communication system 1 containing grouping server 200 of this embodiment. 2 is a hardware configuration diagram of a grouping server 200. FIG. It is explanatory drawing which shows the information memorize | stored in the positional information holding server 402. FIG. It is a sequence diagram which shows the grouping process by the grouping server 200 in this embodiment.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Communication system, 100 ... Communication terminal, 101 ... Communication terminal, 200 ... Grouping server, 201 ... Destination information acquisition part, 202 ... Position information acquisition part, 203 ... Group determination part, 300 ... PoC server, 300 ... Position Information holding server 301 ... Communication connection unit 401 ... Position information registration server 402 ... Position information holding server

Claims (4)

When receiving a connection request from one communication terminal, extraction means for extracting communication terminals located in a predetermined range as grouped communication terminals from position information storage means for storing the positions of a plurality of communication terminals;
Connection means for connecting to the grouped communication terminals extracted by the extraction means;
A communication server comprising:   The communication server according to claim 1, wherein the extraction unit extracts communication terminals located within a predetermined range with respect to a position of the one communication terminal as a grouped communication terminal.   The extraction means extracts a communication terminal located in a range indicated by the position information as a grouped communication terminal according to position information indicating a range designated from the one communication terminal. The communication server described in 1. When receiving a connection request from one communication terminal, an extraction step of extracting communication terminals located in a predetermined range as grouped communication terminals from position information storage means for storing the positions of a plurality of communication terminals;
A connection step of connecting to the grouped communication terminals extracted by the extraction step;
A communication connection method comprising:

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