JP2012085103A - Terminal state notification system and terminal state notification method - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a terminal state notification system and a terminal state notification method capable of notifying of the reason for a communication-impossible state of a called party's cellular phone and the time taken before a communication-possible state is set.SOLUTION: A terminal state notification system comprises: notification means 20 that is connected with a plurality of terminals via a communication network and notifies a terminal 40, which has originated a call to another terminal 30 in a communication-impossible state, of the reason for the communication-impossible state and the time taken before a communication-possible state is set, on the basis of terminal state information for the terminal 30.

Description

  The present invention relates to a terminal state notification system and a terminal state notification method related to a mobile terminal device.

  Mobile phone users can turn off the mobile phone or stop the mobile phone in a place where communication with the mobile phone is not desirable, such as near a priority seat on a train or in a hospital. To set the mode. However, when the mobile phone receives an incoming call when the power is turned off or when the self mode is set, the caller cannot know how long the other party cannot answer the call. In addition, when driving a car or the like, a user of the mobile phone may set the mobile phone to the drive mode in order to inform the caller that the telephone cannot be answered. Since the mobile phone set in the drive mode does not perform the incoming call operation and only sends the voice guidance to the caller that the driver is driving, the caller is not set to the drive mode. I can't know the information.

  In view of this, a system has been proposed in which when a drive mode is set, a caller is notified of the current location information of the user of the mobile phone together with voice guidance (see, for example, Patent Document 1).

JP2007-288429

  The position information notification system for a mobile phone described in Patent Document 1 notifies the caller of the location information of the called party when the user of the mobile phone that is the called party cannot respond to the incoming call. However, the caller who is informed of the location information cannot know when the incoming callee will be able to respond to incoming calls. Also, it is impossible to know why the called party is at that location. As a result, the situation of the called party may not be understood and repeated calls may be made.

  Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide a terminal state notification system and a terminal state notification method capable of notifying the reason why the mobile phone of the receiving party is in a communication disabled state and the time until the communication enabled state.

  The terminal status notification system according to the present invention is connected to a plurality of terminals via a communication network, and is in a communicable state with the reason that communication is not possible with respect to other terminals that have transmitted to the terminal in a communicable state. It is characterized in that a notification means for notifying the time until is provided.

  The terminal status notification method according to the present invention provides another terminal according to terminal status information received in advance from a terminal to another terminal that has transmitted to the terminal via a communication network. Is notified of the reason why communication is impossible and the time until communication is possible.

  According to the present invention, when the mobile phone is in a communication disabled state due to power-off, self-mode setting, etc., it is possible to notify the caller of the reason for the communication disabled state and the time until the communication is enabled. . In addition, according to the setting of the communication disabled time and the repeated notification setting, it is possible to notify the reason for the communication disabled state and the time until the communication enabled state, so there is no need to forget to set or omission of setting cancellation. Useless transmission can be suppressed.

It is a block diagram which shows the structural example of the 1st Embodiment of this invention. It is explanatory drawing which shows an example of the subscriber data in 1st Embodiment. It is a flowchart which shows the operation | movement in the case of setting to self mode. It is explanatory drawing which shows the external appearance of the user terminal at the time of self mode. It is a flowchart which shows the operation | movement of the notification of voice guidance. It is explanatory drawing which shows an example of the communication impossibility reason database in 1st Embodiment. It is a block diagram which shows the principal part of this invention.

Embodiment 1. FIG.
A first embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

  FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration example of the first embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 1, the terminal status notification system 200 according to the present invention includes a subscriber data management unit 210 and a voice guidance unit 220. The user terminal 300 and the user terminal 400 are, for example, mobile phone terminals, and are connected to the terminal state notification system 200 via the communication network 100. In addition, although two user terminals 300 and user terminals 400 are illustrated, there may be any number of user terminals. Further, in the following description, a case where the user terminal 300 is a mobile phone terminal used by a callee and the user terminal 400 is a mobile phone terminal used by a caller will be described as an example.

  The terminal status notification system 200 provides a terminal status notification function for notifying the caller of the reason for the communication disabled state of the user terminal and the time until the communication enabled state according to the terminal status information. The terminal status information includes a communication disabled time, a repeated notification setting, and a communication disabled reason. The communication disabled time can be set to a start time at which the user terminal cannot communicate and an end time at which the communication disabled state ends. The repeat notification setting is set when the terminal state notification function is repeatedly executed. For example, “1” is set when functioning only once, and “month”, “Tue”, “weekday”, etc. are set when specifying the day of the week.

  The user terminal 300 has a terminal status information input function. Also, the user terminal 300 transmits terminal state information to the terminal state notification system 200 via the communication network 100.

  The subscriber data management unit 210 includes a registration search unit 211, a callable time calculation unit 212, a guidance text generation / transmission unit 213, a subscriber data storage unit 214, and an announcement information storage unit 215.

  The registration search means 211 registers the terminal status information transmitted from the user terminal in the subscriber data in the subscriber data storage means 214. The subscriber data includes the mobile phone number of the user terminal and terminal status information. FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram illustrating an example of subscriber data according to the first embodiment. The subscriber data may include a plurality of terminal status information for one mobile phone number.

  The registration search means 211 searches whether or not the mobile phone number of the user terminal that received the call is registered in the subscriber data of the subscriber data storage means 214, and corresponds to the mobile phone number if registered. Terminal state information is acquired and transmitted to the communicable time calculation means 212.

  When there is an incoming call from the user terminal 400 to the user terminal 300, the communicable time calculation means 212 confirms whether the incoming call is within the communication unavailable time based on the terminal status information, and is within the communication unavailable time. In such a case, the communication disabled time and the incoming call time are compared to calculate the time until the communication is enabled, and the calculated time is output to the guidance text generating / transmitting means 213 together with the terminal status information.

  The guidance text generation / transmission means 213 generates guidance text data including guidance to be notified to the user terminal 400 based on the time until the communication is possible and the terminal status information, and transmits the guidance text data to the voice guidance unit 220. .

  The subscriber data storage unit 214 stores subscriber data.

  The voice guidance unit 220 includes voice data conversion / transmission means 221.

  The voice data conversion / transmission means 221 converts the guidance text data received from the subscriber management unit 210 into voice data, and transmits the voice data to the user terminal 400 via the network 100.

  Next, the operation of this embodiment will be described. Here, a case where the user terminal 300 is set to the self mode is taken as an example.

  With reference to FIG. 3, the operation when the user of user terminal 300 sets user terminal 300 to the self mode will be described. FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing an operation when the self mode is set.

  When the user of the user terminal 300 sets the self mode, terminal state information is input to the user terminal 300. When the input of the terminal state information is started (step S301), the user terminal 300 first checks whether or not a clock is set (step S302).

  When the clock of the user terminal 300 is set (Yes in step S302), the user of the user terminal 300 inputs the communication unavailable time (start time and end time) (step S303). Next, repeated notification setting is input (step S304). Finally, the reason for communication failure is input (step S305).

  The user of the user terminal 300 confirms whether or not the setting contents input in S303 to S305 are correct. If the setting contents are correct (Yes in step S306), the input of the terminal state information is terminated.

  When the input of the terminal state information is completed, the terminal state information is transmitted from the user terminal 300 to the terminal state notification system 200 (step S307).

  The terminal state information transmitted from the user terminal 300 is registered in the subscriber data storage unit 214 by the terminal state notification system 200 registration search unit 211. Thereafter, the user terminal 300 shifts to the self mode. FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing an appearance of the user terminal 300 in the self mode. As shown in FIG. 4, in the self mode, the self mode mark 301 provided on the outer surface of the user terminal 300 blinks. In general, the user cancels the self mode at the end time of the communication disabled time. Note that a timer may be set when setting the self mode, and the user terminal 300 may automatically cancel the self mode when the timer expires.

  Next, a voice guidance notification operation will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing the operation of voice guidance notification.

  If there is an incoming call from the user terminal 400 to the user terminal 300 within the self-mode setting time of the user terminal 300 (corresponding to a communication disabled time) (Yes in step S401), the registration search means 211 Based on the telephone number, it is searched whether or not the subscriber data of the user terminal 300 is registered in the subscriber data stored in the subscriber data storage means 214 (step S402).

  When the subscriber data of the user terminal 300 is registered (Yes in step S402), the registration search unit 211 reads the subscriber data of the terminal 10 from the subscriber data storage unit 214 and acquires the terminal state information. . Based on the terminal state information, it is confirmed whether or not the terminal state notification function is valid (step S403). The registration search unit 211 may determine whether or not the terminal state notification function is valid based on the communication disabled time and the repeated notification setting of the terminal state information.

  If the terminal state notification function is valid (Yes in step S403), the registration search unit 211 transmits the terminal state information to the communicable time calculation unit 212. The communicable time calculation means 212 acquires the end time of the communication disabled time from the terminal status information, compares the incoming time with the end time of the communication disabled time, and calculates the time until the communication enabled state is reached (step S404). ). The communicable time calculation unit 212 transmits the calculated time to the guidance text generation / transmission unit 213 together with the terminal state information.

  The guidance text generation / transmission means 213 acquires the reason for the communication failure from the terminal state information (step S405). The guidance text generation / transmission means 213 determines the guidance to be notified from the time until communication is possible and the reason for the communication failure, and generates guidance text.

  With reference to FIG. 6, generation of guidance text will be described. FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram illustrating an example of a communication impossibility reason database according to the first embodiment. Although FIG. 6 illustrates five reasons why communication is impossible, any number of reasons why communication is impossible may be present.

  The communication impossibility reason database is stored in the announcement information storage unit 215. The announcement number in the communication impossibility reason database corresponds to the number set as the communication impossibility reason in the terminal state information. For example, if the number set as the reason for the inability to communicate is “4” and the time until the communication becomes possible is 134 minutes, the guidance text data is “I am on an airplane, so call "You will be able to talk after 134 minutes." Here, the time until the communicable state is notified is “134 minutes later”, but the notification format of the time until the communicable state is reached may be any format. For example, “after 2 hours and 14 minutes” may be used.

  The guidance text generation / transmission means 213 transmits the generated guidance text data to the voice guidance unit 220 (step S406).

  The voice data conversion / transmission means 221 converts the received guidance text data into voice data and transmits it to the user terminal 400 (step S407).

  After step S407, the registration search unit 211 updates the contents of the repeated notification setting of the subscriber data read in step S404, and overwrites and updates the corresponding data in the subscriber data storage unit 214 (step S408). For example, if the repeat notification setting is “1”, it is updated to “0”.

  As described above, according to the present embodiment, even when a call is made to a user terminal that is in a communication-disabled state, the caller is notified of the reason for the communication-disabled state and the communication-enabled state. The time until will be notified. Therefore, the caller can grasp the state in which the user terminal can communicate. In addition, since the terminal state notification function can be enabled according to the communication disabled time and the repeated notification setting of the terminal state information, there is no possibility of forgetting to set or omission of cancellation of the setting.

  In this embodiment, the caller is notified of the time until communication is possible, but the end time of the communication disabled time may be notified. In order to realize such a form, for example, the communicable time calculating unit 212 may transmit the end time of the communication disabled time together with the terminal state information to the guidance text generating / transmitting unit 213. Then, the guidance text generation / transmission means 213 determines the guidance to be notified from the end time of the communication disabled time and the reason for the communication disabled, and generates the guidance text.

  If the end time of the communication disabled time is notified in this way, the calculation process of the time until the communication enabled time calculating unit 212 enters the communication enabled state can be omitted, and the process can be simplified.

  Further, in the present embodiment, when the user sets the self mode, the processing in steps S301 to S306 shown in FIG. 3 is executed. However, before the user sets the self mode, The terminal state information may be stored in the storage unit so that the processes of steps S301 to S306 are executed, and the process of step S307 may be executed when the user sets the self mode. In the present embodiment, it is assumed that the user terminal 300 is set to the self mode during the communication disabled time, but the power of the user terminal 300 may be turned off. When the terminal state information is transmitted from the user terminal 300 to the terminal state notification system 200 when the power of the user terminal 300 is turned off, for example, when the user performs a power-off operation, FIG. Steps S301 to S307 shown in FIG. 6 are executed, and then the power is turned off.

  FIG. 7 is a block diagram showing a main part of the terminal status notification system according to the present invention. As illustrated in FIG. 7, a terminal 30 (in the embodiment, a user is connected to a plurality of terminals (in the embodiment, realized by the user terminal 300 and the user terminal 400)) and is in a communication disabled state via a communication network. The reason why communication is impossible with respect to another terminal 40 (implemented in the user terminal 400 in the embodiment) that is transmitted to the terminal 300. The notification means 20 (in the embodiment, realized by the subscription data management unit 210 and the voice guidance unit 220) is provided.

  In the above embodiment, the following terminal status notification system is also disclosed.

  The notification means 20 is a storage means 24 (in the embodiment, realized by the subscriber data storage means 214) that stores terminal status information corresponding to the telephone number, and an incoming call from the storage means 24 based on the incoming call number. Registration search means 21 (implemented by the registration search means 211 in the embodiment) for acquiring terminal state information corresponding to the user terminal, and communication is impossible based on the terminal state information acquired by the registration search means 21. A terminal state notification system for notifying another terminal 40 of a certain reason and a time until communication is possible.

  The registration search unit 21 is a terminal state notification system that updates the terminal state information corresponding to the terminal stored in the storage unit 24 with the terminal state information received from the terminal 30.

  The terminal status information includes a communication disabled setting time and a repeated setting, and the registration search means 21 determines whether the terminal status notification setting of the terminal 30 is valid based on the communication disabled setting time and the repeated setting. The notification unit 20 is a terminal state notification system that notifies the other terminal 40 of the reason why communication is not possible and the time until communication is possible when the terminal state notification setting is valid.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10,100 Communication network 20 Notification means 21, 211 Registration search means 24 Storage means 30 Terminal 40 Terminal 200 Terminal status notification system 212 Communicable time calculation means 213 Guide text generation / transmission means 214 Subscriber data storage means 215 Announcement information storage means 220 Voice guidance unit 221 Voice data conversion / transmission means 300, 400 User terminal 301 Self mode mark

Claims (5)

Connected to multiple devices via a communication network,
A terminal status notification system comprising a notification means for notifying another terminal that has transmitted to a terminal in a communication disabled state, the reason for the communication not being possible and the time until the communication is enabled. . Notification means
Storage means for storing terminal state information in correspondence with the telephone number;
Registration search means for obtaining terminal state information corresponding to the callee terminal from the storage means based on the incoming call number;
The terminal status notification system according to claim 1, wherein the terminal status notification system notifies the other terminal of the reason why communication is not possible and the time until communication is possible based on the terminal status information acquired by the registration search means. The terminal status notification system according to claim 2, wherein the registration search means updates the terminal status information corresponding to the terminal stored in the storage means with the terminal status information received from the terminal. The terminal status information includes a communication disable setting time and a repeat setting,
The registration search means determines whether the terminal status notification setting of the terminal is valid based on the communication disabled setting time and the repeated setting,
The notification means notifies other terminals of the reason why communication is impossible and the time until communication is possible when the terminal status notification setting is valid. The terminal status notification system described. The reason why communication with the other terminal cannot be performed in accordance with the terminal state information received from the terminal in advance with respect to another terminal that has transmitted to the terminal via the communication network with respect to the terminal in the communication disabled state. A terminal status notification method characterized by notifying the time until communication is possible.

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