JPH04225655A - Multifunctional telephone set - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To prevent the wasteful holding of a line and the wasteful increase of traffic intensity by letting a caller receive that a callee is in an incoming refusing state by a message so as to disconnect immediately a call. CONSTITUTION:The message to be sent to the caller at the time of refusing to answer an incoming call is stored beforehand in a message preservation memory 103. When the incoming call terminates while incoming refusal is being set in an incoming refusal control part 108 by an incoming refusing switch 107, a signal transmission and reception control part 111 receives the information of the incoming refusal from the incoming refusal control part 108, and takes out the message from the message preservation memory 103. Then, transmits the message to a calling side by including it at the prescribed position of a release completion message.

Description

[Detailed description of the invention]

0001

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a multifunction telephone with a message sending function for sending a message to a calling party when an incoming call is received.

0002

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, this type of multi-function telephone has been used to send messages, such as with an answering machine function, for example.
It would automatically answer incoming calls, and once the call was active, it would send a message.

0003

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] The conventional multi-function telephone described above communicates a message after a response is received, so if the called party rejects the call and does not respond, it is difficult to send a message to the calling party. There is no way to send
Furthermore, even if you only want to send an out-of-office message, you have to respond once and then send the message, so the caller does not know that the call is being rejected and has to wait for a long time for a response or wait multiple times. Since calls are made repeatedly, there is a problem in that unnecessary lines are put on hold and call volume increases.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to provide a multifunctional telephone that solves the above problems by transmitting a predetermined message different from a response to the calling party instead of responding when an incoming call is received. There is a particular thing.

[0005]

[Means for Solving the Problems] The basic structure of the multi-function telephone according to the present invention is that the multi-function telephone transmits a message to the calling party when there is an incoming call, and includes a message storage memory for storing messages, and a message storage memory for storing messages. a memory control unit that outputs a message from the message storage memory when a message sending command is received, and a message that is sent to the memory control unit when an incoming call is received while the incoming call rejection is being set; an incoming call rejection control unit that transmits a sending command, and when receiving an incoming call, notifies the incoming call rejection control unit of the incoming call, and forms a message output by the message storage memory in a predetermined signal format and sends it to the calling party. and a signal transmitting/receiving section.

[0006] One embodiment of the above-mentioned basic configuration is that the signal transmitting/receiving section transmits messages on the D channel of the ISDN line.

Another embodiment has a character data memory for storing character data corresponding to a dial code, and the memory controller stores the received dial code in the character data memory in response to a message input command. The characters transferred and output from the character data memory are sequentially output to the message storage memory and written as a character string message.

[0008]

[Function] The multi-function telephone according to the above-mentioned means can, for example,
If the terminal, like a DN terminal, has a function of sending back an incoming call acceptance message before responding to an incoming call, the message can be inserted at a predetermined position in the incoming call acceptance message.

[0009] When the incoming call acceptance message includes an absentee message at a predetermined position, the calling telephone can take action corresponding to the received absentee message.

0010

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Next, the present invention will be explained with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram showing one embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 1 shows a dial key 101, a message input switch 102, a message storage memory 103, a display section 104, a character data memory 105, and a memory control section 1.
06, call rejection switch 107, call rejection control unit 108
, a key control section 109, a signal transmission/reception control section 111, and a message input section 114.

The message input switch 102 is operated at the start and end of writing a message to be sent to the calling party in the message holding memory 103 before answering an incoming call.

The message storage memory 103 receives and stores character data as a message from the character data memory 105 under the control of the memory control section 106, and also sends the received data to the display section 104. On the other hand, when receiving a transmission command from the memory control section 106, the message being stored is outputted to the signal transmission/reception control section 111.

The display section 104 displays the message storage memory 1
03 or signal transmission/reception control unit 11
1 receives the predetermined information and displays it on the display.

Character data memory 105 stores characters corresponding to the dial code, and under the control of memory control unit 106 outputs the characters corresponding to the dial code received from dial key 101 sequentially to message storage memory 103. .

The memory control unit 106 is a message input unit 1
14, the dial code to be input is input to the character data memory 105, and the output is sequentially written to the message storage memory 103.

Furthermore, when memory control section 106 receives a message sending command from incoming call rejection control section 108, it drives message storage memory 103 to output the stored message.

The incoming call rejection switch 107 does not respond when there is an incoming call, but is operated when the message stored in the message storage memory 103 is sent to the caller.

The incoming call rejection control unit 108 receives an incoming call notification from the signal transmission/reception control unit 111 while inputting an incoming call rejection command from the incoming call rejection switch 107, and drives the memory control unit 106 with a message sending command.

The key control section 109 is the message input section 11
4, the dial code output by the dial key 101 is transferred to the message input section 114.

The signal transmission/reception control section 111 is connected to the ISDN line and controls transmission and reception of control signals on the D channel.

When the signal transmission/reception control unit 111 receives an incoming call, it notifies the incoming call rejection control unit 108, and when it receives a notification that the incoming call rejection is being set, it retrieves the message from the message storage memory 103, inserts it in a predetermined position, and Sends a message acknowledging the incoming call to the calling party.

Further, the signal transmission/reception control unit 111 extracts a message from a predetermined position in the call acceptance message that is returned in response to the call request, and outputs the message to the display unit 104 for display.

When the message input section 114 is activated by the message input switch 102, the key control section 109
the memory control unit 106 after receiving the dial code.
Transfer to.

Next, a procedure for writing a message into message holding memory 103 using dial key 101 will be explained.

First, the message input switch 102
When pressed, the message input section 114 is activated, and subsequent keys to be input are passed from the key control section 109 to the message input section 114.

According to a combination of a plurality of keys input from the dial key 101, the message input section 114 inputs corresponding character data in the memory control section 106, for example.
The code 1, the code 1, and the character "A" are searched and transferred from the character data memory 105 to the message storage memory 103 for message creation, and the data is passed to the display section 104 and displayed on the display.

[0028] When you finish creating the message and confirm it,
When the message input switch is pressed again, the operation of the message input section 114 is stopped.

Next, the setting procedure for rejecting incoming calls will be explained. When the incoming call rejection switch 107 is pressed, the incoming call rejection control unit 10
8 and sets the incoming call rejection state.

Next, the operation when an incoming call is received in the incoming call rejection setting state will be explained. When an incoming call is received from the ISDN line, the signal transmission/reception control unit 111 determines whether or not the incoming call is rejected by the incoming call rejection control unit 108.

[0031] When the incoming call rejection setting is in progress, the signal transmission/reception control unit 111 creates and sends a release completion message in accordance with, for example, the CCITT recommendations.
If there is a message in the message storage memory 103, this message is stored in a user-user information element compliant with CCITT recommendations, added to the release completion message, and sent to the ISDN line for transmission to the originating party. do.

On the originating side, the release completion message received from the ISDN line is analyzed by the signal transmission/reception control unit 111, and if it is user information with a message added, this message is passed to the display unit 104. Display.

Although the present embodiment has been explained by illustrating the control section for each function, normally a central control unit (CPU) performs control by making full use of programs and data.

Although the functional blocks have been illustrated and explained in the above embodiments, the block configuration by distributing or merging functions is free, and the above description does not limit the functional block configuration of the present invention.

[0035]

[Effects of the Invention] As explained above, the present invention has a structure in which, in response to an incoming call, a stored message is sent to the calling party without calling the called party or waiting for a response. As a result, the reason for rejecting a call can be sent to the calling party in text data, which has the effect of eliminating the process of calling a subscriber who is unavailable and unable to answer, and the time spent waiting for a response. There is.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram showing an embodiment of a multifunction telephone according to the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

101 Dial key 102 Message input switch 103
Message storage memory 104 Display section 105 Character data memory 106 Memory control section 107 Incoming call rejection switch 108 Incoming call rejection control section 109 Key control section 111 Signal transmission/reception control section 114 Message input section

Claims (3)

[Claims] Claim 1: A multi-function telephone that transmits a message to a calling party when an incoming call is received, comprising: a message storage memory for storing messages; an input message is written to the message storage memory; and a message sending command is issued. a memory control unit that outputs a message from the message storage memory when received; an incoming call rejection control unit that sends a message sending command to the memory control unit when an incoming call is received while incoming call rejection is being set; and a signal transmitting/receiving section that notifies the incoming call rejection control section of an incoming call when a call is received, and also forms a message output from the message storage memory into a predetermined signal format and transmits it to the calling party. telephone. [Claim 2] The signal transmitting/receiving unit is connected to the D of an ISDN line.
A multifunction telephone according to claim 1, characterized in that the telephone transmits messages on a channel. 3. A character data memory for storing character data corresponding to a dial code, wherein the memory control unit transfers the received dial code to the character data memory in response to a message input command, and transfers the received dial code from the character data memory. 2. The multifunction telephone according to claim 1, wherein the characters to be output are sequentially output to the message storage memory and written as a character string message.