JPH07245781A - Utility management system for mobile telephone set - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To grasp the use state of a mobile telephone set in a short time by storing or selectively outputting data received by a data receiver installed to the subscriber mobile telephone set. CONSTITUTION:Each of relay stations 102-104 sends data such as speech zone, point of speech time, speech time, speech opposite party and speech charge to a telephone company 105 and the data are collected in a database 106, and when a mobile telephone set 101 moves, each of relay stations 102-104 sends the data to the telephone company 105. Furthermore, a data transmitter 107 is installed in the telephone company 105 and a data receiver 109 is installed in a subscriber 108. The data transmitter 107 and the data receiver 109 are connected by a communication line and data of the data transmitter 107 are sent to the data receiver 109 via an information recording medium such as a floppy disk. Then the data received by the data receiver 109 are saved or outputted selectively.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a mobile phone (cellular phone) usage management system.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, the usage status of a mobile telephone is sent from a telephone company (first-class telecommunications carrier) or a rental company to a subscriber of the mobile telephone in the form of a usage charge table, which the subscriber uses. I was aware of the usage status of mobile phones from the price list. This was also the case for general companies and organizations that subscribe to a large number of mobile phones.

[0003]

In the case of fixed-line telephones, subscribers such as general companies and organizations can grasp the usage status of each fixed-line telephone by using their own telephone exchanges. Because of the fact that wireless communication is used, the location of use of mobile phones is wide, and the location of use of mobile phones is constantly moving,
There is a problem that the subscriber cannot own the usage status of the mobile telephone with the telephone exchange owned by the subscriber.

This is done by a complicated work such as collecting a usage charge table even when a company or the like uses a large number of telephones for business and needs to grasp the usage situation of all or individual telephones. This means that it is virtually impossible to grasp the usage status of all or individual telephones quickly and accurately. Further, it is more difficult to classify and grasp the usage efficiency of each telephone, public use or private use. Therefore, there has been a problem that an operating rate of the mobile phone and an increase in cost required for the mobile phone become problems, and it is not possible to find an effective countermeasure against the problems.

[0005]

The use management system for a mobile phone according to the present invention is made to solve the above-mentioned problems of the prior art. The usage data of the telephone is sent from the relay station of the mobile telephone to the telephone company to create a database, and a data transmission device for extracting and transmitting the data of this database is installed in the telephone company and the data receiving device is installed. The point is that it is installed on the subscriber side of a mobile phone and stores or selectively outputs the data received by this data receiving device.

[0006]

With the above arrangement, the usage status of the mobile telephone can be accurately grasped in a short time, and the subscribers of a plurality of mobile telephones can also grasp the usage status of each telephone. be able to. In addition, it is possible to finely classify and grasp the usage efficiency of each mobile phone, whether it is for public use or private use, and at the same time, it is possible to accurately grasp the required number of mobile phones, and it is possible to predict costs and reduce costs. It is also possible to take measures.

[0007]

Embodiments of the present invention will now be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an embodiment of a mobile phone usage management system according to the present invention, in which 101 is a mobile phone, 102 to 104 are relay stations, 105 is a telephone company (first-class telecommunications carrier), 108 is a mobile phone 101
Is a subscriber of.

The mobile phone 101 is carried by a person,
It is a telephone that is mounted in a vehicle and uses wireless communication while moving, and in the example shown in FIG. 1, moves in areas A, B, and C shown by dotted lines, for example.

The relay stations 102 to 104 are mobile telephones 1.
01 receives a call signal wirelessly transmitted, or sends a call signal of the other party to the mobile phone 101 wirelessly. The jurisdiction of the relay stations 102 to 104 changes depending on the location of the mobile phone 101. That is, when the mobile phone 101 is in the area A, the relay station 102 has jurisdiction, and when the mobile phone 101 is in the area B, the relay station 103 has jurisdiction.
Relay station 104 when mobile phone 101 is in C area
Has jurisdiction.

In the telephone company 105, each relay station 102-1
Data necessary for management, such as call area, call time, call time, call partner, call charge, etc., are sent from 04 and are aggregated to form the database 106. When the mobile telephone 101 moves, these data are sent to the telephone company 105 from the relay stations 102 to 104 under their jurisdiction.

The telephone company 105 has a data transmission device 107.
Is installed, and the data receiving apparatus 109 is installed in the subscriber 108. The data transmitting device 107 and the data receiving device 109 are connected by a communication line, or the data of the data transmitting device 107 is sent to the data receiving device 109 via an information recording medium such as a floppy disk. Subscriber 10
In FIG. 8, data regarding a mobile phone registered in advance, for example, the mobile phone 101 is provided from the telephone company 105. When the subscriber 108 has a plurality of registered mobile telephones 101, data for each mobile telephone is provided according to the management purpose.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing the details of the mobile phone management system. The mobile phone management system mainly includes a data transmission device 107 installed in the telephone company 105 and a data reception device 109 installed in the building to which the subscriber 108 belongs. In addition, in FIG.
1 is a telephone exchange, 202 is a database management unit,
203 is a communication control device.

The telephone exchange 201 is installed in the telephone company 105, and the telephone exchange 201 receives a call signal transmitted from the mobile telephone 101 and controls the line so that the call can be made to the destination. All usage data of the mobile phone 101 in each jurisdiction is managed here.

The database management unit 202 monitors the call area, call time, call duration, call partner, etc. of each telephone set obtained from the telephone exchange 201, and stores the data as a database 106. Conventionally, various usage data are printed out from this database 106 and provided by mailing to each subscriber together with a bill.

The communication control unit 203 has a database 10
The data of No. 6 is sent to the data transmission device 107.

The data transmission device 107 is the communication control device 2.
04, command input device 205, command control unit 20
6, a data extraction unit 207, an extraction condition table 208, a data format conversion unit 210, a memory 211 that is a storage device necessary for processing data, and a data transmission / reception unit 212 that transmits and receives data. .

The communication control device 204 includes a computer having a database management unit 202 and a data transmission device 107.
Is a device for connecting.

The command input device 205 is composed of a keyboard or mouse for inputting commands, a display and the like. Through the command input device 205, conditions such as the start of data provision, the content of the data to be provided, and the target period are designated.

The command control unit 206 receives the command input from the command input device 205, activates the communication control device 204 and the data extraction unit 207, and starts data acquisition. That is, the contents of the command are analyzed and the command is executed.

The data extraction unit 207 selects, from the fetched data, data that corresponds to the search condition while checking the extraction condition table 208 and writes it in the memory 211.

The extraction condition table 208 is registered for each mobile telephone in which items and formats of data to be provided are registered.

The data format converter 210 includes a memory 211.
The data written in is converted into a format that can be provided and passed to the data transmitting / receiving unit 212.

The data transmission / reception unit 212 checks the state of the partner's data reception device 109 based on the transmission command input from the command input device 205 and transmits the data. Data may be written and sent to an information recording medium such as a floppy disk by using an appropriate data exchange media drive instead of the data transmitting / receiving unit 212.

Next, the data receiving device 109 installed in the building to which the subscriber 108 belongs will be described. The data receiving device 109 is a part that receives data sent from the telephone company 105 and manages the usage status of the mobile phone, and includes a command input device 213, a command control unit 214, a data transmitting / receiving unit 215, and a data storage processing unit 21.
6, memory 217, data analysis unit 218, subscriber database 219, management data storage unit 220, and output unit 2
21 mainly.

The command input device 213 comprises a keyboard or mouse for inputting commands and a display.

The command control unit 214 receives the command input from the command input device 213 and starts processing such as classification and totalization of the received data.

The data transmission / reception section 215 is a section for taking in computer data transmitted from a telephone company (first-class telecommunications carrier), and receives data through a communication line or sets an information recording medium such as a floppy disk. Read the data.

The data storage processing unit 216 checks and converts the data received by the data transmission / reception unit 215 so that the data analysis unit 218 can easily process the data, and stores the data in the memory 217.

In the subscriber database 219, classifications such as call area, call time, call time, call partner (call purpose), call charge, etc. for each user or telephone, and management contents on the subscriber side are described. ing.

The data analysis unit 218 takes in the data converted by the data storage processing unit 216, classifies the data by referring to the subscriber database 219 in which the classification and management contents of the subscriber are described, and the data is analyzed by the subscriber. Categorize and aggregate data with utility value. In other words, from the call area, call time, call time, call partner (call purpose), call charge, etc. for each mobile phone, the usage frequency by phone, call frequency by area, call time by department, call charge by department, public use Or, categorize and aggregate by usage. In addition, by commanding the subscriber database 219 from the command input device 213, the data is compared with past data and referred to, and changes in frequency of use by phone, changes in call frequency by region, changes in call time by department, call charges by department. It is also possible to create comparative data such as the transition of, the transition of public use, or the use and use.

The management data storage unit 220 stores the result analyzed by the data analysis unit 218.

The output unit 221 is composed of an output device such as a printer, and outputs the analysis result to provide data to the subscriber.

Next, the operation of the system according to the present invention will be described with reference to FIG.
This will be described with reference to the flowchart of. Steps 301 to 308 are steps performed by the data transmission device 107 in FIG. Also, steps 309 to 320
These are steps performed by the data receiving apparatus 109 in FIG.

In step 301, the command input device 2
The operation is started by issuing a data output start command from 05.

In step 302, the database 10 linked with the telephone exchange 201 is sent by a data extraction command.
A data connection is made to 6.

At step 303, the subscriber name of the mobile telephone and the period for which data is extracted are designated, and the search range is designated.

In step 304, the extraction condition table 208 of the subscriber registered in advance is referred to. In the extraction condition table 208, details of the subscribers and the extraction conditions are registered for each registered mobile phone.

In step 305, the corresponding data is searched and extracted from the database 106 according to the referred extraction condition and written in the memory 211.

In step 306, data rearrangement and data conversion according to the data specifications to be provided are performed,
It is written in the memory 211 again. For the written data, an output command is issued at the time instructed by the command input device 205, and the data transmission / reception unit 212 sends the data to the subscriber 108.
Be sent online or on a recording medium such as a floppy disk.

In step 309, the data receiving device 109 of the subscriber 108 receives the data.

In step 310, the received data is subjected to a corresponding check with respect to the designated contents such as the registered telephone number, the search period, or the number of data items. If there is no abnormality, the process proceeds to step 312.

If an abnormality is found, the abnormality is displayed on the command input device 205 in step 311, and a data resend request is made. For the resend request, a resend request message may be displayed on the command input device 213 on the telephone subscriber side through the communication line, and the resend command may be issued from the subscriber side to the data transmission device 107 via the command input device 213. it can.

In step 312, the received data is converted into a processable format for classifying and totalizing, and re-editing such as rearranging the data is performed.

In step 313, the result of step 312 is stored in the memory 217.

In step 314, the subscriber database 219 is referenced to analyze the received data.

In step 315, based on the referred subscriber database 219, the usage contents of each mobile telephone are analyzed and classified according to the conditions input from the command input device 213.

In step 316, the command input device 2
The data categorized according to the unit of aggregation such as the mobile telephones designated by 13, the usage area, the department, etc. is aggregated.

In step 317, the tabulated data is written in the memory and temporarily stored.

At step 318, comparison with past stored tabulated data is performed or tabulated with past data.

In step 319, the data is saved.

At step 320, a display process of data according to the output format is performed.

In step 321, the counting result is printed out from the output unit 221.

In the above embodiment, the data retrieval and data transmission commands are input from the command input device 205 of the telephone company 105, but the data retrieval and data transmission commands can be input from the command input device 213 of the subscriber 109. You may do it.

Details of steps 302 and 303 are shown in FIG. First, in step 401, when a data reception device 109 on the user side requests data from the telephone company 105, a command for starting is first keyed in from the command input device 213 to start. At this time, the user's recitation number and recitation name are keyed in at the same time to perform a security check, and at the same time, the range of data that the accessing user can extract is also determined.

In step 402, the command generation program of the data transmission device 107 is activated by the above activation, and the user displays the condition setting screen for setting the search condition on the terminal.

In step 403, a command for starting the data extraction program on the telephone company 105 side according to the setting conditions and a condition command for extracting the necessary data are generated.

In step 404, the generated condition command group is sent to the data transmitting / receiving unit 215, and the telephone company 105
To the data transmission device 107.

In step 405, the command data group is received by the data transmission device 107.

At step 406, the command data group is stored as a data file in a predetermined data storage area of the memory 211.

At step 407, it is monitored whether or not the data file is stored. That is, the file existing in a predetermined area of the memory 211 is regularly checked. This check compares the file name of the previously registered data file and the file name of the data file registered this time with the monitoring program that starts at regular intervals. At this time, if there is a difference between the previously compared file table and the file table checked this time, it means that a new data extraction command has been issued.

At step 408, it is judged whether or not there is a new command file at the checked time.
If not, the process returns to step 407, and if there is, step 409.
Go to

In step 409, if a new file exists, the file is opened and the contents are read. That is, since the condition, period, or extraction item of the extraction target person are described in the content of the detected new data, this is read out and preparation for extraction is started.

In step 410, it is verified whether the read command group is logically correct, does not deviate from the possible range of the extracted data, or the security of the user is verified.

In step 411, if there is no abnormality as a result of the verification, go to step 412.
Go to 3.

In step 412, data that meets the conditions is extracted and transmitted to the data receiving device 109.

At step 413, an error message is issued according to the content of the abnormality.

In step 414, the data transmission device 107 of the telephone company 105 transmits an error message.

In step 415, the data receiving device 109 on the user side receives the error message.

At step 416, the message file received by the data receiving device 109 on the user side is written in the memory 217.

At step 417, it is monitored whether or not the message file is stored. That is, by periodically checking the file existing in the predetermined area of the memory 217, it is checked whether or not there is a new request from the other party. This check has a structure in which the file name of the data file registered last time and the file name of the data file registered this time are compared every time by the monitoring program started at a fixed time interval. At this time, if there is a difference between the file table checked last time and the file table checked this time, it means that a new data extraction command is issued.

At step 418, it is judged whether or not there is a new command file at the checked time.
If not, the procedure returns to step 417, and if there is, step 419.
Go to

At step 419, the content of the message is analyzed. That is, the content of the new data detected is
Since the conditions, period, extraction items, etc. of the extraction target person are described, these are read out and preparation for extraction is started.

At step 420, it is judged whether or not there is an error. If there is an error, then at step 421, it is displayed on the command input device 213 of the data receiving device 109 on the user side. If an abnormality occurs based on this message, the user returns to step 402, registers the extraction conditions again, and issues a command group.

As described above, the structure is such that the security is secured at the same time when the error check is performed.

FIG. 5 is a conceptual diagram of data output of this embodiment. In FIG. 5, reference numeral 501 is an information storage medium such as a floppy disk, 502 is a communication line, and 503 is a personal computer that serves as the data receiving device 109 on the user side. The personal computer 503 receives data from the floppy disk 501 and the communication line 502, and manages and outputs the data. The data acquired from the telephone company 105 is output to the output conversion unit 50 programmed in the personal computer 503 according to the operator's instruction which one of the output formats 505 of various information is selected.
Extract and output from 4. The output format 505 includes, for example, a usage status list, charges by user, charges by call destination, company holiday usage details, cellular phone management indicating usage rate of each telephone, charge by department, long-term use, cost-bearing department, individual Each output such as usage can be extracted and output according to the purpose.

FIG. 6 shows the output unit 22 of the data receiving device 109.
An example output from 1 will be shown. FIG. 6A is a charge summary table for each user, and FIG. 6B is a charge summary table for each department. In this way, the subscriber 108 side can process and use the data of the telephone company 105.

[0077]

As described above, according to the mobile phone usage management system of the present invention, the usage status data of the mobile phone is sent from the relay station of the mobile phone to the telephone company to create a database. , A data transmission device for extracting and transmitting the data in this database is installed in the telephone company, and a data reception device is installed in the subscriber side of the mobile phone to store the data received by the data reception device. By selectively outputting, it becomes possible to accurately grasp the usage status of the mobile telephones in a short time, and even the subscribers of a plurality of mobile telephones can grasp the usage status of each telephone. In addition, the usage efficiency of each mobile phone, the classification of public or private use, etc. can be finely classified and grasped, and the required number of mobile phones can be grasped accurately. In addition it is also possible to take measures of cost forecasting and cost reduction.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an embodiment of a mobile phone usage management system according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing details of a mobile phone usage management system according to the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an operation of a usage management system for a mobile phone according to the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing details of a part of FIG. 3;

FIG. 5 is a conceptual diagram of data output according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is an example of data output of the usage management system for a mobile phone according to the present invention, in which (a) is a user-specific charge summary table and (b) is a department-specific charge summary table.

[Explanation of sign]

101 ... Mobile phone, 102-104 ... Relay station of mobile phone, 105 ... Telephone company, 106 ...
Database 107 data transmitter 108
... Telephone subscriber, 109 ... Data receiving device

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A data transmission device for transmitting usage data of a mobile telephone from a relay station of the mobile telephone to a telephone company to create a database, and extracting and transmitting the data of the database is installed in the telephone company. At the same time, a data receiving device is installed on the subscriber side of the mobile telephone, and the use management system of the mobile telephone for storing or selectively outputting the data received by the data receiving device.