JPH11177612A - Radio communication system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To construct a system for acquiring information contents from the side of a terminal by reporting information from the side of a system provider by using a call originating number reporting function. SOLUTION: A terminal 1 originates a call to a telephone number applied to a serer system and after a line is connected, mail is transmitted to a terminal 2. Information such as the telephone number of the terminal 2 as the destination is applied to the mail. A server 3 stores the mail addressed from the terminal 1 to the terminal 2 into a mail box for terminal. 2 inside a storage device owned by the server 3. The server 3 performs the call originating number notice of a telephone number applied to the line accommodated in the server system to the terminal 2 by using the call originating number reporting function. According to the received telephone number, the terminal 2 originates a call to the server 3. After the line between the terminal 2 and the server 3 is connected, the terminal 2 accesses the mail box address to itself inside the storage device of the server 3 and receives the mail first transmitted from the terminal 1.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a mail system of a client / server type, and more particularly to a mail system by a wireless communication system capable of notifying a calling number from a server to a client.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a conventional mail system using a wireless communication system, there is a problem that a terminal cannot confirm whether a mail is addressed to itself without accessing a server. As a method for solving such a problem, a wireless communication system of this type that enables a terminal to know the arrival of an electronic mail without accessing a server is disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. Hei 5-110596 or Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. No. 8-181781.

In the e-mail reception notification system described in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. Hei 5-110596, an e-mail system and a pager system are connected by a communication line, and when an e-mail arrives, a pager held by an e-mail recipient is received. Notify the arrival of the e-mail with a bell and a message, and the e-mail recipient who received the notification uses the receiving terminal device to make a request to retrieve the received e-mail, and It is configured to read the stored e-mail.

In a wireless communication system and a wireless communication portable information terminal described in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. HEI 8-181781, when a service management station receives a voice mail, the voice mail and information data related to the voice mail are stored in a mailbox of a database. , And a notification that there is a reception fact, a reception date and time, and a telephone number of the caller are transmitted to the PHS terminal of the receiver.

[0005]

According to the systems described in the above publications, it is possible to know the arrival of an e-mail without the terminal accessing the server.
In the e-mail reception notifying system described in JP-A-5-110596, the arrival of the e-mail is confirmed by a pager, and the e-mail is received by the receiving terminal device. It must be used and a radio paging system must be constructed, which complicates the configuration.

Further, in the wireless communication system and wireless communication portable information terminal described in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. HEI 8-18181, a server notifies the presence of mail and transmits the mail. In the method of sending notification from the server side when there is mail,
The system provider is charged for the use of the line, which places a heavy burden on the system provider.

An object of the present invention is to provide a communication system capable of solving the above-mentioned problems.

[0008]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION A wireless communication system according to the present invention is a mail system based on a wireless communication system capable of notifying a calling number from a client / server system and a server to a client. When sending an e-mail to the receiving terminal, when the server constituting the e-mail system accepts the e-mail from the transmitting terminal to the receiving terminal, the server sets the telephone number assigned to the line accommodated in the server system. Is notified to the destination terminal, which is the destination, using the calling number notification function. The receiving terminal that receives the server's calling number with the calling number notification function sends a call to the server according to other conditions such as the telephone number and mail type information received in the calling number notification, and sends it to the receiving terminal. The mail is picked up from the mail box of (1).

[0009]

1 is a system configuration diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a signal flow in the present invention. The communication system of the present invention includes a terminal 1 for sending and receiving mail, a terminal 2, a server 3 constituting a mail system, a general public network 5 for communicating between the server 3 and the terminal 1, and the terminal 2, It is composed of a network 4 and the like.

The terminal 1 can create and transmit and receive mail, and can communicate with the server 3 via the general public network 5, the PDC network 4, and the like. The terminal 2 can be wirelessly connected to the PDC network 4 and the like, and can communicate with the server 3.
The server 3 is connected to the PDC network 4 and the like, and has a storage device for storing mail and the like.

Next, the operation of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. When sending an e-mail from the terminal 1 to the terminal 2, the terminal 1 makes a call (a1) to the telephone number assigned to the server system. General public network 5, P
After the lines of the terminal 1 and the server 3 are connected in accordance with the connection procedure of the DC network 4 and the like, the terminal 1 sends the server 3 a mail to the terminal 2 (a2).

[0012] Information such as the telephone number of the terminal 2 as a destination is added to the mail. Also, the destination is server 2
Since the server 3 has a correspondence table between the telephone number and the mail address as long as it can recognize that the mail is addressed to the mail, the mail address of the terminal 2 may be used. The server 3 receives the mail (a2) addressed to the terminal 2 from the terminal 1, and stores the mail addressed to the terminal 2 in the mailbox for the terminal 2 in the storage device held by the server 3. When the transmission of the mail (a2) is completed, the line between the terminal 1 and the server 3 is disconnected.

The server 3 sends a calling number including a telephone number assigned to a line accommodated in the server system to the terminal 2 which is a destination of the mail by using a calling number notification function (b1). )I do. Calling number notification (b
The terminal 2 recognizing 1) receives the information of the calling number, but does not connect the line. From this information, the terminal 2 recognizes that there is a mail addressed to itself.

The terminal 2 receiving the calling number of the server 3 by the calling number notifying function sends a call (c1) to the server 3 according to the received telephone number and other conditions.
After the lines of the terminal 2 and the server 3 are connected in accordance with the connection procedure of the PDC network 4 or the like, the terminal 2 accesses a mailbox addressed to itself in the storage device of the server 3 and firstly the terminal 1
Then, the mail (b2) transmitted from the user and stored in its own mailbox is received. When the reception of the mail is completed, the line between the terminal 2 and the server 3 is disconnected. This completes the mail transmission from the terminal 1 to the terminal 2.

In FIG. 1, the terminal 1 is connected to the general public network 5 as an example, but it may be a terminal that communicates with the PDC network 4 and the like, like the terminal 2. The PDC network 4 may be another communication network having a calling number notification function. Further, in the system of FIG. 1, the number of lines accommodated in the server system is one, but a configuration having a plurality of lines accommodated in the server system can be adopted.

The terminal 2 may be provided with a function of making a number recognized as a calling number from the server 3 into a library or a function of giving a priority to a number recognized as a calling number from the server 3 and making a library. it can. For example, if a number indicating a priority order is set as additional information of a calling number and is made into a library, the urgency of incoming mail can be confirmed based on the calling number from the server. Further, by associating the calling number with the mail type such as voice or text, a function of recognizing the mail type (voice or text) based on the calling number addressed to the terminal 2 from the server 3 can be provided.

After receiving the mail from the terminal 1, the server 3 sends the telephone number assigned to the line accommodated in the server system to the terminal 2 using the calling number notification function.
, The priority of the mail can be given by having a plurality of lines. This can be realized by changing the calling number transmitted from the server 3 according to the priority of the mail.

The terminal 2 has a function of making a library of numbers to be recognized as calling numbers from the server 3 and automatically recognizes that there is a mail even when the server 3 uses a plurality of lines. It becomes possible. Terminal 2
When the calling number is received from the server 3 in the library on the side, it is also possible to judge the priority of the mail from the calling number and set rejection of the response to the mail with a low priority after receiving the calling number.

Also, the terminal 2 has a function of assigning a priority to a number recognized as a calling number from the server 3 and making it into a library, so that the priority of mail can be recognized from the calling number from the server 3. Becomes Thus, even when the server 3 assigns the priority of the mail by the calling number, this can be recognized, and the terminal user can be notified of the priority of the mail.

Further, by associating the calling number with the mail type such as voice or text, the server 3 recognizes the type of the mail based on the calling number addressed to the terminal 2, and in the case of voice, connects to the speaker and outputs the text. In such a case, it is possible to control to connect to the display.

[0021]

According to the present invention, by using the calling number notification function, it is possible to construct a system for notifying information from the system provider side and obtaining information content from the terminal side. By using the calling number notification function, it is possible to notify the terminal that is the destination of the mail that there is a mail, and to receive the mail only when the call is transmitted from the terminal that is the destination. As a result, it is possible to construct an information receiver billing system in which the information acquisition side is billed, and it is possible to construct a mail system that does not charge the system provider.

Also, by associating additional information such as the type of mail with the calling number, the terminal can confirm the priority of the mail in advance.

[0023]

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a system configuration diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram for explaining the operation of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1, 2 terminal 3 server 4 PDC network 5 general public network

Claims (6)

[Claims] 1. A communication system comprising a client / server system, wherein a server notifies a terminal of an incoming mail using a calling number notification. 2. The communication system according to claim 1, wherein a priority of mail addressed to a terminal is given to a calling number transmitted from said server. 3. The communication system according to claim 1, wherein a mail type such as voice or text is associated with the calling number transmitted from the server. 4. The communication system according to claim 1, wherein the terminal that has received the calling number notification from the server transmits the call to the server and acquires the mail from the server. 5. The communication system according to claim 4, wherein said terminal includes means for making a library of numbers recognized as calling numbers from said server. 6. The terminal according to claim 5, wherein the terminal is provided with a unit that assigns a priority to a number recognized as a calling number from the server to make a library.
A communication system as described.