KR20010103836A - A system and method to service CID(Caller IDentification number) dependent voice announcement on telephone and mobile phone network - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method and a system for hearing a separate voice guidance for each telephone number, that is, a calling party number of an outgoing telephone that cannot receive a call from a general telephone or a mobile telephone or rejects an incoming call. Record voice announcements by calling party number on a telephone or separate voicemail device with voicemail function by using a general phone or a mobile phone, or store a text message-type voice using a short message service of a mobile phone, When a call is received, the incoming call is in a state incapable of receiving a call, or when the call is rejected, a pre-stored voice prompt for each caller's telephone number or a stored text message is converted into a voice.

Description

A system and method to service caller IDentification number (CID) dependent voice announcement on telephone and mobile phone network}

The present invention relates to a method and a system for hearing a separate voice guidance for each telephone number, that is, a calling party number of an outgoing telephone that cannot receive a call from a general telephone or a mobile telephone or rejects an incoming call.

In the conventional telephone network and mobile telephone network, when the incoming call is received by the caller, the incoming phone cannot answer the call or when the called party rejects the call, the general telephone or the voice mail device having the voice mail function cannot receive the call and the voice to leave. Hear the voice prompt to record the message, no matter who the caller is. The conventional guided voice service method only provides the fact that it cannot answer a call and leaves a voice message in the voicemail box, so it cannot provide customized information for each caller, and can provide a more intimate conversation for each caller. There is no problem that the service satisfaction falls.

In order to solve the problems described above, the present invention provides a separate guide voice for each phone number, that is, the calling party number of the calling telephone, which is placed in the voicemail device located in the telephone or voicemail device located in the communication network. The purpose of the caller is to identify the caller by the telephone number of the calling telephone, that is, the calling party number, when the call is not received or when the call is rejected. And for the convenience of the guide voice in the mobile phone to prepare a guide voice in the form of a text message.

1 is an overall system configuration according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention

2 is a block diagram of an answering machine according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

Figure 3 is an operation for recording, confirming and deleting the voicemail control function according to an embodiment of the present invention

4 is an operation diagram for listening to the guide voice of the voice mailbox control function according to an embodiment of the present invention

5 is a block diagram of a voicemail device according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention

6 is an operation diagram for the recording, confirmation and deletion of the voicemail device according to an embodiment of the present invention

7 is an operation diagram for listening to the guide voice of the voicemail device according to an embodiment of the present invention

1 shows an overall configuration diagram according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention. A conventional mobile phone capable of directly recording, confirming, deleting, or guiding voices to be sent to the voicemail device 104 by voice caller device 104 by a caller's number in a mobile phone such as a mobile phone. 101); An answering machine 102 for recording voice announcements to be called by the caller's defense, and receiving a voice mail function to find a guide voice prepared for each caller by the caller number when the caller cannot answer or reject the call and tell the caller who made the call; A general telephone 104 having no voicemail function; And a voicemail function to record a guide voice to be heard by the caller's defense, and to provide a voicemail function to the caller who finds the guide voice prepared for each caller by the caller number when the call cannot be answered or rejects the call. Characterized in that the voicemail device 104 is configured.

Looking at the embodiment of recording the voice to be guided by the answering machine 102 by the application of the present invention and confirming it as follows.

1. Press the '*' button, press the '0' button and the '0' button and the caller ID, and press the '#' button to record the voice announcement to the caller's phone with the entered number. Press to exit.

2 Press the '*' button, press the '1' button, the '0' button and the calling party number, and press the '#' button to check the guide voice that the caller will hear.

3. Press the '*' button, press the '2' button, the '0' button, and the caller ID to delete the caller ID related voice.

4. Press the '*' button and press the '0' and '1' and '#' buttons to block the caller ID verification function or the caller's voice that is heard collectively in the case of a caller number that does not have the prepared guide voice. After recording, press the '#' button to finish recording.

5. Press the '*' button and press the '1' and '1' buttons to check the common voice guidance.

6. Press the '*' button and press the '2' and '1' buttons to delete the common voice guidance.

Recording the voice to be guided by the mobile phone 101 and the general telephone 103 without the voicemail function by the application of the present invention. An embodiment of checking and deleting is as follows.

1. Press the phone number of the voicemail device 104 to connect the phone to the voicemail device.

2. Enter the mailbox number (omitted when outgoing phone information is delivered) and password according to the guide voice of the voicemail device.

3. Select the service according to the guide voice of the voicemail device, enter the caller ID, and record the voice guide to be heard by the calling phone with the caller ID.

4. Select the service according to the voice announcement of the voicemail device and enter the caller ID to check the recorded voice prompt.

5. Select the service according to the guide voice of the voicemail device and enter the caller ID to delete the recorded guide voice.

Looking at the embodiment of recording, confirming and deleting the guide voice in the form of a text message in the mobile phone 101 capable of text input and output by the application of the present invention.

1. If you send a text message written in the order of caller ID, password, service code, and instructions to the voicemail device, the voicemail device saves the announcement if recorded according to the service code, and deletes the announcement if deleted.

2. To confirm the voice announcement, connect the phone to the voicemail device, select a service according to the voicemail device voice prompt, and enter the caller ID to check the recorded voice prompt.

Looking at the present invention in detail. 2 shows a configuration of an answering machine 102 with a built-in voicemail function.

The answering machine 102 includes a conventional telephone function 201 that accepts and displays a telephone call function and a calling party number; Voice mailbox control function 202 for guiding voice recording, confirmation and deletion and voice guidance by calling party number; A conventional voice compression restoration function (203) used for digital voice recording; Guide voice storage 204 for storing the guide voice for each caller; And a voice message storage 205 for storing voice messages left by the caller. The guide voice storage 204 stores digital voices that are convenient for inputting and outputting voices by calling party number, and stores voices by calling party number by the command of the voicemail control function 202 and reads stored voices by calling party number. It has a function to enable. The guide voice store 204 is composed of a record, and the record is composed of an area containing the calling party number and an area containing the guide voice. The voicemail control function 202 allows the caller to record a guide voice for each caller number under the control of the called party's telephone user, and if the called party cannot answer the call, the caller's telephone number, that is, the caller's number, to the caller. Allows you to hear the guidance voice corresponding to.

3 shows an operation diagram for recording, confirming and deleting the voicemail control function 202 according to the preferred embodiment of the present invention. When the user presses the '*' button, the voicemail control function is activated to check the next pressed button (301). '0' means recording, so check the next pressed button (302). If '0' records the guide voice for each caller number, accept the caller number you enter (303). Then, voice is recorded from the time when the '#' button is pressed until the next '#' button is pressed (304). A blank record of the guide voice storage 204 is found and the calling party number and the recorded voice are recorded (305). At this time, since the first record contains a common guide voice that is heard when the caller ID or caller ID verification function is not prepared, the guide voice is not stored. When the common voice is recorded by pressing the '1' button (302), the voice is recorded from the time when the '#' button is pressed until the next '#' button is pressed (306). It is stored in the first record (307).

If you press the '*' button and then the '1' button to confirm the recording, the next button is checked (308). If it is '0', the user inputs the calling party number (309) and the record corresponding to the calling party number is recorded. Hear the guide voice (310). Next, if the button is '1', it plays the common guide voice recorded in the first record (311).

When the voice is stored and read in order to reduce the amount of data during guide voice recording, the voice is compressed and restored by the voice compression restoration function 203.

If you press the '*' button followed by the '2' button to delete the recording, check the next button (312) and if it is '0', accept the calling party number you enter (313) and record it in the record corresponding to that calling party number. The guide voice is deleted (314). If the next button is '1', the common guide voice recorded in the first record is deleted (315).

4 shows an operation diagram for guiding voice of the voicemail control function 202 according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention. When the called party cannot answer the call or when the incoming call is rejected, the calling party number is read from the calling function 201 (401), and the voice guidance store corresponding to the calling party number is stored in the guide voice storage 204 (402). If it is present, the guide voice is restored to the caller after the voice is restored using the voice compression restoration function 203 (404). If there is no record, it is heard after restoring the common guide voice in the same manner (405). The voice message left by the caller is recorded and stored in the voice message storage (406).

5 is a block diagram of a voicemail device 104 according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention. A conventional short message service function 501 capable of sending and receiving a short message with a mobile telephone having a text input / output function; It accepts call information, caller information such as calling party's unique number (e.g. mobile phone number) and caller's number, and the status of the called phone, for example, when the power is off, in a dead zone, or not answering a call. A conventional voicemail device telephony function 502; A voice mailbox control function 503 which is in charge of the entire control function required for guide voice recording and voice guidance by calling party number for each mailbox; Conventional speech compression restoration function 504 used in digital voice recording; A voice synthesis function 505 for converting text into voice; A guide voice store 506 for storing guide voice for each mailbox by calling party number; It is characterized by consisting of a voice message store 507 for storing voice messages left by the sender for each mailbox and a common guide voice store 508 that is commonly heard by all callers. The guide voice store 506 stores digital voices that are convenient for inputting and outputting voices by calling party number for each mailbox, and stores voice by calling party number for each mailbox by a command of the voicemail control function 503. It has a function to read out the stored voice by calling party number. The guide voice store 504 is assigned an appropriate amount for each mailbox. The assigned voice record store is composed of records, and the record contains an area containing a medium type such as voice or text, an area containing a caller number, and a guide voice. It consists of an area.

The voice synthesis function 505 converts text information into a voice signal and uses a conventional voice synthesis function. The common announcement voice store 508 provides the appropriate announcement voice to provide regardless of the calling party's caller's number, depending on the state of the incoming telephone, e.g. mobile phone is powered off or in a dead zone. Tones are stored, which are stored by the voicemail manager, not by the mailbox user. The voicemail control function 503 allows the user to record a guide voice for each mailbox by calling party number and control by the mailbox user's call connection and control, and appropriate common guidance according to the user's phone state when the user cannot answer or rejects the call. Hear a voice or tone, and then have the caller hear the voice of the caller's calling phone number, ie the caller's voice.

6 shows an operation diagram for recording, confirming and deleting the voicemail device 104 according to the preferred embodiment of the present invention. Check the type of call the mailbox user attempted to control his or her mailbox (601). If the call is a telephone call, then the recording and confirmation takes place by the following procedure; If the phone number is not known by the caller information provided from the exchange during the telephone call connection, a voice prompt for the mailbox number is heard and the mailbox number input by the user is accepted (602). A voice prompt for a mailbox password is spoken and the password entered by the user is accepted (603). A voice guiding the service code is heard and the service code input by the user is accepted (604). Investigating the accepted service code (605), if the recording is for a voice announcement requesting the caller number and accepts the caller number entered by the user (606). The user hears a voice prompt for recording and records the code until the user inputs a code, for example, a '#' button, to terminate recording (607). After the compressed voice is compressed using the voice compression function 504, a media type called voice, a calling party number, and a compressed voice are stored in a blank record among records allocated to the corresponding mailbox of the guide voice storage 506. If the service code selected by the user confirms the recording, the user hears a voice prompt to enter the calling party number and accepts the calling party number entered by the user (609). In the guide voice storage 506, the media type is examined by finding a record corresponding to the inputted caller number among the records assigned to the mailbox (610). If the media type is voice, the compressed voice is restored after the voice compression restore function 504, and if the medium type is text, the voice is converted to voice using the voice synthesis function 505 and then played. If the service code selected by the user deletes the recording, a voice prompting to input the calling party number is heard and the calling party number entered by the user is accepted (612) and the related record is deleted (613).

If the user's call is a short message, the caller ID, password and service code in the front of the message is checked and if there is an error, the user is notified by text message (614). Investigate the service code (615), and if it is a recording, it finds a blank record among the records assigned to the user's mailbox number (the caller information is automatically transmitted when receiving the short message). It contains the media type, caller ID and information message (616). If the service code is recorded and deleted, the caller ID related record is deleted from the records assigned to the user's mailbox number (the caller information is automatically transmitted when the short message is received) in the announcement voice store 506 (617). ). The confirmation of the announcement by short message is the same as the confirmation process after recording the announcement by telephone call.

FIG. 7 is an operation diagram illustrating a guide voice of the voicemail apparatus 104 according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention. As in the conventional scheme, when a normal call connection with a called party cannot be made in a telephone network or a mobile telephone network constituted by an exchange, the call is connected to the voice mailbox device 104. At this time, the telephone function 502 receives the call and receives information on the calling telephone and the status information of the called telephone from the exchange, and the voice mailbox control function 503, which is in charge of the overall control of the voice mailbox device, operates to guide the call as follows. Play a voice; If the caller ID is checked (701), if there is a caller ID related record, the guide voice store checks whether there is a record (702) and checks whether there is a record (703). If there is a record, the state of the called telephone is checked by the state information of the called telephone (704). When the power is turned off, the relevant common guide voice is spoken (705). If the call is not available, the relevant common guide voice is heard (706), and then the media type of the retrieved record is examined (707). If the call is rejected or missed, the media type of the record retrieved immediately without the common guide voice is examined (707). If the media type is voice, the voice message is immediately heard. If the voice message is synthesized and voiced, the voice message left by the caller is recorded in the voice message storage (708).

If there is no caller ID or no related record in the voice recorder, it checks the state of the incoming phone (709). If the power is turned off, the related common voice is heard (710). 712, if the incoming call is rejected or absent, the related common voice guide sounds (711). After listening to the common guide voice, the voice message stored by the caller is recorded in the voice message storage (713).

With the rapid spread of mobile phones, it is now an era of one person and one phone, and in this one person one phone era, the telephone number of the outgoing phone is becoming a personal number that can identify each individual. Therefore, the caller can be identified by the phone number of the outgoing phone, and the caller records a special guide voice for each caller who wants to send more information to the caller by notifying them when they cannot answer the call. Intimate voice can be a high quality service.

In addition, the above description of the present invention has been presented for purposes of illustration and description only. The invention is not limited to the form shown, and many variations and modifications are possible in light of the principles of the invention described above. The described embodiments are selected to best describe the principles and substantive provisions of the present invention in order that those skilled in the art may use the invention in various embodiments and as appropriate to the specific application desired. It is intended that the scope of the invention only be limited by the appended claims below.

Claims (3)

The telephone and mobile network can't answer or reject calls normally. Record, check, and delete the caller's telephone number, that is, a voice prompt for each caller's number. An answering machine 102 and a voicemail device 104 having a function of giving a caller a pre-prepared guide voice only for the caller. The voicemail device 104 stores (616) and deletes (617) a guide voice in the form of a text message using a mobile phone having a text input / output function, and if it is not stored as an invalid text message, sends the fact to the mobile phone. (614), check the voice announcement stored in the form of a text message with the voice call function of the mobile phone (609, 610, 611), converts the text message stored in advance to the caller who cannot answer or reject the call A feature characterized by being spoken (708). In claim 2, to the caller who can not answer the call or when the incoming call is rejected, the common voice prompting to inform the status according to the state of the called phone (705, 706), and the announcement voice prepared only for the caller Function characterized by (707,708).