JPH07288585A - Information notice equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To reduce the amount of information to be registered, to simplify the processing and to prevent mis-operation such as transmission of a signal of a different medium by sending a signal corresponding to plural media serially timewise so as to eliminate the need for the recognition of a medium of an opposite party terminal equipment in the case of signal transmission. CONSTITUTION:Telephone terminals 1, 2 are respectively accommodated in exchanges 5, 6. A pager 3 reports a call by a radio signal to a possessor by producing sound or vibration or the like. A pager base station 4 calls a concerned pager 3 by a radio signal based on a call from a telephone network and receives a PB signal sent from a caller terminal equipment and sends corresponding numeric information to the pager 3. An exchange 17 accommodates the pager base station 4. An exchange 8 accommodates a portable telephone set use base station 9 and a service equipment 11. The service equipment 11 stores a message of a caller A when a portable telephone set 10 makes no reply and reports it to the pager 3 or a telephone set B registered in advance that the message is stored.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a device for notifying the occurrence of a specific event such as the accumulation of message messages, and in particular information notification applicable to terminals of a plurality of media (medium or signal format). Regarding the device.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, when a mobile phone does not answer, the call is connected to a message storage device, the caller's message is stored, and the message is stored in a pager or a telephone set registered in advance. A service to notify is proposed. In this service, the telephone number and media attribute (whether it is a telephone or a pager) of the notified terminal are registered in advance at the time of service contract. Then, at the time of message storage, if the notification destination terminal is a telephone, a notification that the message is stored is notified by a voice guidance message. When the notification destination terminal is a pager, the pager (base station) is called and displayed in order to display a predetermined specific number indicating that messages have been accumulated on the pager display. A PB (push button) signal (multifrequency signal) corresponding to the number to be transmitted is transmitted. By such processing, if the owner of the mobile phone also owns the pager, it becomes possible to immediately know the accumulation of messages.

[0003]

In the conventional message storage / notification service as described above, in order to change the notification destination in order to call the notification destination terminal registered in advance and perform the notification in accordance with its attribute. It was necessary to go to the window of the service company and perform the procedure for changing the destination terminal and its attributes. Therefore, there is a problem that it is difficult to change the notification destination temporarily, and if the media attribute of the terminal is mistakenly registered, the content of the notification cannot be recognized in each terminal. However, there was a problem that it was difficult to find an incorrect registration. An object of the present invention is to solve the above-mentioned problems of the prior art and to provide an information notification device that is compatible with a plurality of media terminals.

[0004]

According to the present invention, in an information notifying device, a multi-media signal generating means for generating signals in which signals of different media are connected in series in time corresponding to predetermined information is provided. It is characterized by having done.

[0005]

According to the present invention, since the signals corresponding to a plurality of media are transmitted in time series by the above-mentioned configuration, it is not necessary to recognize the media of the partner terminal at the time of signal transmission, and the amount of information to be registered. Is reduced and processing becomes easier. Also, malfunctions such as sending signals of different media are eliminated.

[0006]

Embodiments to which the present invention is applied will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a communication network such as a telephone or ISDN to which the present invention is applied.
Telephone terminals 1 and 2 are housed in exchanges 5 and 6, respectively. The pager 3 is a device for notifying the owner of the fact that it is called by radio by sound or vibration, and also has a display for displaying the numerical information inputted by the PB signal from the telephone network. Based on the call from the telephone network, the pager base station 4 wirelessly calls the corresponding pager by a known method. It also receives the PB signal sent from the calling terminal and sends the corresponding numerical information to the pager. The exchange 7 accommodates the pager base station 4.

The exchange 8 accommodates a mobile phone base station 9 and a service device 11 to which the present invention is applied. 10
Is a mobile (mobile) phone. The service device 11 stores the message of the caller A when the mobile phone 10 does not respond,
The pager 3 or the telephone set B, which is registered in advance, is a device for notifying that a message has been accumulated, and is provided with a database 12 for accumulating notification destination numbers and messages. Although there are a large number of pager base stations and mobile phone base stations for a plurality of areas in practice, their communication control methods and the like are well known, and a description thereof will be omitted.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the service device 11 shown in FIG. The interface circuit 20 is a circuit for interfacing with a telephone line, and is provided with an automatic call incoming / outgoing function and a dial signal transmitting function. The switching circuit 21 selects one of the outputs of the audio reproduction circuit 22 and the PB signal generation circuit 23 according to a command from the control circuit 26 and sends it to the line via the interface circuit.
The audio reproduction circuit 22 includes, for example, a D / A converter, and based on the digital audio information input from the control circuit 26,
Generates a message voice signal such as guidance or message.
The PB signal generation circuit 23 generates a PB signal according to a command from the control circuit 26.

The voice recording circuit 24 has a built-in A / D converter, for example, and A / D converts a message message or the like from the user and outputs it. The PB signal receiving circuit 25 detects the PB signal received from the telephone line and outputs the corresponding numeral information. The control circuit 26 controls each circuit in the service device,
Further, it also manages (reads and writes) the database 27 configured by a disk device or the like (details will be described later). In the database 27, in addition to the guide message to the user and the digital voice information of the message message from the user, the notification destination telephone number for notifying that the message is stored is registered.

Next, the operation of the first embodiment, which is the message accumulation notification service, will be described. A case where the caller A calls the mobile phone 10 in the communication network as shown in FIG. 1 will be described. The user of the mobile phone 10 is assumed to have registered the pager 3 as a notification destination in advance. FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing a connection process of the exchange 8 of FIG. In step S20, the mobile phone 10 is sent to the mobile phone base station 9 based on the connection request from the caller A.
Instruct to call. In step S21, it is determined whether or not there is a response from the mobile phone 10 within a predetermined time (for example, 10 seconds). If there is a response, a call is made, but the user switches the power switch of the mobile phone 10. If there is no response from the mobile phone 10 even after a predetermined time e.g. when the switch is turned off, step S
Move to 22.

In step S22, the mobile phone 10
It is determined whether the owner of the message service has registered the message service, and if not registered, the call is disconnected. However, if the service is registered, the process proceeds to step S23.
The determination in step S22 can be made by referring to a service registration database (not shown) existing in the mobile telephone system. In step S23, the call is transferred to the service device 11.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing the processing of the service device 11. When the message service call arrives, the control circuit 26 of the service device 11 reads the guidance message data from the database 27, converts it into a voice signal by the voice reproduction circuit 22, and sends it to the line via the switching circuit 21 and the interface circuit 20. . The content of the guidance is
For example, "If you have a message, I will accumulate it, so please talk." In step S2, if there is a message from the caller, it is converted into digital data by the voice recording circuit 24 and registered in the database 27 together with the number information of the mobile phone 10. In step S3, the call is disconnected once.

In step S4, the control circuit 26 reads out the notified telephone number corresponding to the mobile telephone number in which the message is stored from the database 27 and calls the number. In step S5, it is determined whether or not the called terminal responds. If the result is negative, the process proceeds to step S9, but if the result is affirmative, the process proceeds to step S6. In step S6, control device 26 reads out predetermined guidance message data from database 27 and sends it out.
The content of this guide is, for example, "The message has been accumulated.
If you would like to ask, please dial 1xxxx from your mobile phone. Is like that. " Step S
7, the control circuit 26 switches the switching circuit 21 to connect the PB signal generating circuit 23 to the line, and the 1 ×××
The PB signal corresponding to is transmitted.

The pager calling method will now be described. Each pager is provided with a telephone number in the same format as a normal telephone number, and when a caller dials the telephone number, the pager base station 4 is called. When the call arrives at the exchange 7, the announcement "This is the pager calling number, and if you want to display a number on the pager, dial the number with the PB signal." If a PB signal corresponding to a number within a predetermined digit is sent after this announcement, the number is displayed on the pager.

In this embodiment, the length of the announcement sent from the pager system and the length of the guidance message sent in step S6 are made substantially equal. Therefore, if the registration number is the pager number, the announcement from the pager system and the guidance message from the service device 11 are sent at the same time, but there is no problem in operation. Then, when the sending of the message from the pager system is completed, the PB signal by the processing of step S7 is sent, received by the pager system, and displayed on the pager. The user can select a specific number (1x
XX) recognizes that messages have been accumulated.
On the other hand, if the registration number is a general telephone, a voice guidance message is sent immediately after the response, so that the user also recognizes that messages have been accumulated. In this case, the PB signal is transmitted after the message ends, but there is no service problem.

In step S8, the call is once disconnected. In step S9, the process waits until a predetermined time (for example, several ten minutes to several hours) elapses. In step S10, it is determined whether or not the message has been erased. If it has been erased, the process ends, but if it has not been erased yet,
Returning to step S4, the notification process is performed again. Note that the message is erased, for example, when an erasing operation is performed from the mobile phone 10 or when a predetermined time (for example, one day) elapses. Further, the notification is repeated until the message is erased, but the notification may be issued only once or only twice if the message is not erased. Further, the user may change the number of times.

FIG. 5 is a flow chart showing the processing of the service device 11 when changing the telephone number of the notified party registered in the database 12 (27). First, when the mobile phone 10 calls a predetermined special number, the service device 11 receives the call. At this time, the calling terminal number is also configured to be recognized by the service device 11. In step S30, "Please enter the registration phone number
Please dial with the B signal. " In step S31, the PB signal from the mobile phone 10 is received. And step S32
In, the telephone number information of the message accumulation notification destination corresponding to the calling mobile phone 10 is updated. Instead of providing a special number for changing the number, the special number for listening to the message (1xxx above) is dialed, and when the service device 11 responds, an instruction to change the notified party number is given by the PB signal. You may. With the above configuration, the notified party number can be changed at any time. At this time, it is not necessary to input the media attribute information of the terminal.

FIG. 6 is a flow chart showing the processing in the alarm service which is the second embodiment. This service, when you enter the time information from the terminal and register
The terminal registered at that time is called to notify that the specified time has come. When a call arrives at the service device, in step S40, a response message stating “Please enter the time” is transmitted. In step S41, the time information is received by the PB signal input by the user and recorded in correspondence with the terminal number of the user. In step S42, the call is disconnected. In step S43, the designated time is waited for, and in step S44, the notification destination telephone number registered in advance corresponding to the user's terminal number is read and the number is called.

In step S45, it is determined whether or not there is a response. If there is no response, the process proceeds to step S49, but if there is a response, the process proceeds to step S46. In step S46, control device 26 reads out predetermined guidance message data from database 27 and sends it out. The content of this guidance is, for example, "The designated time has come." In step S47, the control circuit 26 switches the switching circuit 21 to connect the PB signal generation circuit 23 to the line and sends out a PB signal corresponding to a predetermined specific number. And step S
The call is disconnected at 48, and the registered time data is deleted at step S49.

By the above processing, the alarm service can be implemented regardless of whether the registered notification destination terminal is a pager or a telephone. Note that the terminal that registers the time can be easily implemented if the number of the calling party can be recognized on the network side such as a mobile phone, etc., and processing such as confirmation of the personal identification number must be added. With this, registration can be made from any terminal. Further, of course, the notification destination number may be changeable as in the first embodiment.

Although the embodiments have been described above, the present invention may be modified as follows. Regarding the media, the example of the PB signal for the voice message and the pager is disclosed, but the present invention can be applied to the image signal for the facsimile, for example. For example, it is also possible to first send a message to be transmitted by voice and then execute a facsimile transmission control procedure, and if the other party responds, send the message by an image signal. In this way, message notification is possible regardless of whether the partner terminal is a telephone or a facsimile. In addition, digitally modulated signals for data communication modems can be considered as media, and the type, length and order of signals to be sent may be determined so that the message can be recognized regardless of which terminal responds. .

The signal generation method is arbitrary. For example, if the message is fixed as in the present embodiment, the digital data connecting the voice message and the PB signal is stored in the database in advance, and this is simply D A / A conversion may be performed before transmission, or a voice synthesizer capable of generating a PB signal may be used. Although the service device 11 has been shown as an example connected to an analog line, it can be connected to a digital line as well. In this case, the voice reproduction circuit 22 and the voice recording circuit 24 have only code conversion, compression, decompression functions, etc. I do.

[0023]

According to the information notifying apparatus of the present invention as described above, signals corresponding to a plurality of media are transmitted in time series, so that it is not necessary to recognize the media of the partner terminal at the time of signal transmission. The amount of information registered and stored in the information notification device is reduced, and the processing is simplified. In addition, a malfunction such as sending a signal of a medium different from the attribute of the terminal is eliminated.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a communication network such as a telephone or ISDN to which the present invention is applied.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a service device 11 of FIG.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing processing of the service device 11.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing a connection process of the exchange 8 of FIG.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing a process of changing a notification destination telephone number.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing processing in an alarm service.

[Explanation of symbols]

1, 2 ... Telephone, 3 ... Pager, 4 ... Pager base station, 5, 6, 7, 8 ... Exchange, 9 ... Mobile phone base station,
10 ... Mobile phone, 11 ... Service device, 12 ... Database

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. An information notifying apparatus comprising a multi-media signal generating means for generating signals in which signals of different media are temporally connected in series corresponding to predetermined information. 2. A plurality of signal generating means for respectively generating at least two or more media signals among a voice signal, a code information signal, and an image signal corresponding to predetermined information, and a plurality of signal generating means. A selection unit that selects and outputs one of the outputs and a plurality of signal generation units sequentially generate signals, and the generated signals are sequentially selected by the selection unit so that signals of a plurality of media are output in time series. An information notification device comprising a control means. 3. The plurality of signal generating means includes a voice message signal generating means and a multi-frequency signal generating means, and the control means outputs the multi-frequency signal after outputting the voice message signal. The information notification device according to claim 2. 4. A notification destination telephone number registration means and a telephone network connection means are further provided, and the control means calls a corresponding terminal by the telephone network connection means based on the telephone number registered in the notification destination registration means, 4. The information notification device according to claim 2, wherein the generated signal is transmitted.