JP2000278413A - Method for capturing line priority - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To realize a line priority capturing method, which reduces recall out and reduces the burden of an exchange without disabling line capture even through a line cannot be captured due to line congestion, when a call out is performed. SOLUTION: A line resource managing part 3 registers a line capture request 22 with the last of a priority capture queue about the request 22 from a telephone set 1 making line priority capture contract, when a line cannot be captured due to line congestion, and also a call control part 2 transmits line priority capture announcement 28 to the telephone set 1. The caller 2 with the telephone set 1 listens to the announcement 28 and waits in the same condition. Then, each time a line in communication becomes free, a line resource managing part 3 performs line capture from the front of the priority capture queue in turn, while taking priority over line capture requests from telephone sets that have not signed the line priority capture contract. Consequently, recalls of a subscriber and the load of an exchange can be reduced.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a line preferential acquisition method for an exchange.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art At present, telephone services (reservation and shopping) are increasing, but when a call is made to use the service and line congestion is encountered, the call is connected to a voice device and re-issued by an announcement. You will be prompted to call. The user has to listen to the announcement and disconnect the call once and retry the call, but the recall is cumbersome and inconvenient. Further, even if a user who intends to use the service calls again, the call cannot be connected unless the receiving side line is free, and the caller cannot be charged. Further, the exchange repeatedly performs the call connection process with a low connection rate. Therefore, even for a call user who is not intended to use the service, there is a problem that the call is not connected due to the connection restriction due to the congestion of the exchange.

Further, in the prior art as disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 5-260547, regulation of a priority call and a general call are distinguished by the usage rate of the line, and the line is seized by giving priority to the priority call. The processing is performed, but when all the lines are busy, the call disconnection processing is performed. Therefore, there is a problem similar to the above.

As described above, in the conventional line seizing method, if the line is blocked, the line cannot be seized and an incomplete call is made. As a result, there has been a problem that calls such as general telephone services cannot be connected.

[0005]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned problems, and it is possible to reduce the number of incomplete calls by reducing the number of incomplete calls without making line capture impossible even if the line is blocked. The purpose is to reduce the load on the exchange.

[0006]

In order to achieve the above object, the invention according to claim 1 comprises a plurality of line priority acquisition service subscribing terminals, a plurality of line priority acquisition service non-subscription terminals, and each of these terminals. In the method for capturing a line priority in a switching system including a switch to which a terminal is connected, when the switch cannot capture a line in response to a line capture request associated with a call from the line priority capture service subscribing terminal, the line capture request When the line is released by a line release request due to completion of a call in progress, the terminal is registered in a priority capture queue that temporarily sets a waiting state, and the line priority capture service subscribing terminal is notified that the line priority capture is being performed. In each case, priority is given to a line capture request from a line priority capture service non-subscriber terminal and registered in the priority capture queue. The line acquisition request corresponding to the line acquisition request is captured in a predetermined order, the line priority acquisition notification to the line priority acquisition service subscriber terminal corresponding to the line acquisition request is stopped, and the line in the priority acquisition queue is It is characterized in that the registration corresponding to the acquisition request is controlled to be deleted.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided the line priority acquisition method according to the first aspect, wherein a line acquisition request accompanying a call from the line priority acquisition service subscriber terminal is registered in the priority acquisition queue. When the exchange receives a line capture stop request due to a disconnection request from the line priority capture service subscription terminal, it stops the line priority capture notification and deletes the registration corresponding to the line capture request from the priority capture queue. It is characterized by doing.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, in the line priority selective capturing method according to the first or second aspect, the priority capturing queue is provided corresponding to a ground unit of the plurality of lines. And

[0009]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS In the embodiment of the present invention, when a subscriber who wishes to use the line priority acquisition service, which is an additional service, signs a line priority acquisition contract with a communication carrier, the communication operator connects to the exchange. It is assumed that the corresponding subscriber is registered as the line priority acquisition contract information.

Hereinafter, a line priority acquisition method according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a sequence of a line priority acquisition process according to the embodiment. In FIG. 1, 1 is a telephone, 2 is a call control unit of an exchange for controlling calls such as telephone calls, and 3 is a line resource management unit of the exchange for managing a plurality of lines. The existing processing in FIG. 1 is equivalent to the conventional line capture processing, and the line capture processing according to the present invention is added to this.

When the exchange does not provide the line priority acquisition service, the call control unit 2 sends a line request to the line resource management unit 3 based on a call request 21 from the telephone 1, as shown in FIG. Issue a capture request 22. The line resource management unit 3 receiving the line capture request 22 performs conventional line capture processing and captures a line if there is an idle line, but if the line is congested and cannot be captured, the line control result NG23 is returned to the call control unit 2. Return to. As a result, the call control unit 2 sends the line congestion announcement 24 to the telephone 1 stating that “connection is not possible due to line congestion”. The caller of the telephone 1 listens to the line congestion announcement 24 and makes a call again.

Next, when the exchange provides the line priority capture service and the subscriber of the telephone set 1 has not made a line priority capture contract, as shown in FIG. When the call control unit 2 makes a line acquisition request 22 to the line resource management unit 3, the line priority acquisition contract information is delivered to the line resource management unit 21 with "no contract". When the line resource management unit 3 receives the line acquisition request 22 and cannot acquire the line due to the line congestion by performing the conventional line acquisition processing, the line resource management unit 3 enters the line acquisition processing according to the present invention, and the line priority acquisition contract is “none”. Therefore, the line control result N
G25 is returned. The call controller 2 sends a line congestion announcement 26 to the telephone 1. As a result, the caller from the telephone 1 will make a call again.

On the other hand, when the subscriber of the telephone set 1 has concluded a line priority acquisition contract, in response to a call request 21 from the telephone set 1, the call control unit 2 When making the request 22, the line priority capture contract information is delivered with "contracted". The line resource management unit 3 that has received the line capture request 22 performs conventional line capture processing and enters line priority capture processing when a line cannot be captured. Since the line priority acquisition contract is “present”, the line resource management unit 3 registers this line acquisition request at the end of the priority acquisition queue, and returns a line priority acquisition signal 27 to the call control unit 2. The call control unit 2 that has received the line priority capture signal 27
Sends a line priority capture announcement 28 for notifying that the line priority capture is being performed. The caller from the telephone 1 that has received the line priority capture announcement 28 waits until the line is captured.

Each time a call during communication is completed and the line becomes free, the line resource management unit 3 sequentially acquires the line from the top registration of the priority acquisition queue and, when the line is acquired, gives priority to the corresponding registration. Remove from capture queue. In this way, when the telephone 1 is registered at the head of the priority capture queue and the line can be captured, the line resource management unit 3 notifies the call control unit 2 of the line priority capture completion 29.
Upon receiving the line priority capture completion 29, the call control unit 2 stops the line priority capture announcement 28 sent to the telephone 1, and continues the existing connection processing.

Next, interruption of line priority acquisition will be described. As shown in FIG. 2, when the caller from the corresponding telephone 1 gives up and disconnects while transmitting the line priority capture announcement 28, the call controller 2 receives the disconnection request 30 from the telephone 1. The line priority acquisition announcement 28 is stopped, and the line priority acquisition stop request 31 is sent to the line resource management unit 3.
Send to Upon receiving the line priority capture stop request 31, the line resource management unit 3 releases the registration of the priority capture queue corresponding to the telephone 1, and stops the line priority capture processing.

Next, the operation of the priority acquisition queue in the above-mentioned line resource management unit will be described with reference to FIGS. FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an outline of a line priority acquisition process according to the embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an outline of control of a priority acquisition queue in the line priority acquisition process according to the embodiment.

When the line resource management unit receives a line capture request by a call request from the telephone (step 4 in FIG. 3).
1) Perform existing line capture processing (step 42). When the result of the line capture is NG (step 43), it is determined whether or not the subscriber of the telephone set has a line priority capture contract (step 44). As a result, in the case of the subscriber having the line priority acquisition contract "Yes", the subscriber is registered in the priority acquisition queue (step 45).

As shown in FIG. 4 (a), the priority acquisition queue is provided corresponding to the destinations a to z in which the destination line is accommodated. It is registered at the tail end of the priority acquisition queue of the ground corresponding to the line, for example, the ground a or the ground z.

When a line release request due to the completion of a call during communication is received (step 51 in FIG. 3), existing line release processing is performed to release the corresponding line (step 52).
Next, it is determined whether or not the terminal including the released line is registered in the priority acquisition queue (step 53). As a result, if there is a registration in the priority capture queue, the line is captured in the order in which the line priority capture request was accepted, that is, in the oldest order of registration of the priority capture queue (step 5).
4).

As shown in FIG. 4 (b), when the line in use is released, the priority acquisition queue at the time of line release is released to the ground including the line, for example, ground a or ground z. The presence / absence of the corresponding priority acquisition queue is checked, and if there is a registration, the line acquisition processing of the line corresponding to the oldest registration or is performed. When the line is captured, the corresponding registration or deletion of the priority capturing queue is deleted.

When a line priority capture stop request is received from the caller after registration in the priority capture queue and before the line is captured (step 61 in FIG. 3), the line priority capture stop is performed. The corresponding registration is deleted from the priority acquisition queue for each ground corresponding to the request (step 62).

As shown in FIG. 4C, the deregistration from the priority acquisition queue due to the line priority capture stop request is performed from the priority capture queue of the ground corresponding to the line priority capture stop request, for example, the ground a or the ground z. , Delete or delete the corresponding line capture request.

[0023]

As described above, according to the present invention, even when all the lines are busy, the exchange does not perform the call disconnection processing for the call from the subscriber who has made the line priority acquisition contract, and Since the call is rescued as a normal connection call for the congested ground, the service user does not need to perform a recall operation. Also, since the number of recalls by users will decrease,
The load on the exchange can be reduced. Since the restriction process based on the line usage rate is not performed, the connection rate in the exchange is improved, and a stable call connection process can be performed.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a sequence of a line priority acquisition process according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a sequence of a line priority acquisition process according to the embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an outline of a line priority acquisition process according to the embodiment;

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an outline of a priority acquisition queue control process according to the embodiment;

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Telephone 2 ... Call control part 3 ... Line resource management part

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[Submission date] April 4, 2000 (200.4.4)

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[Correction target item name] Claim 1

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[0006]

In order to achieve the above object, according to the present invention, a plurality of line subscriber terminals are provided.
In the line priority acquisition method in the exchange to which the line subscriber is connected, the line priority acquisition
Service subscription terminals, and
If the call originated from the telephone, the line cannot be seized.
If the call originates, the calling
Confirm whether or not it is a joining terminal by the registration, and
If the terminal is not a priority acquisition service subscriber,
Make a announcement and confirm that the
Is registered in the priority acquisition queue and line priority
Performs acquisition announcements, each time when the line is released by channel release request by completion in communication call, the line corresponding in a predetermined order with respect to the line capture request registered before Symbol priority capture queue Controlling to stop the announcement of the line priority acquisition to the line priority acquisition service subscribing terminal corresponding to the line acquisition request and to delete the registration corresponding to the line acquisition request in the priority acquisition queue. And

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Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A circuit priority acquisition method in a switching system including a plurality of line priority acquisition service subscribing terminals, a plurality of line priority acquisition service non-subscription terminals, and an exchange connected to each of the terminals. When a line cannot be captured in response to a line capture request associated with a call from the line priority capture service subscription terminal, the line capture request is registered in a priority capture queue that temporarily sets the line capture request to a waiting state, and the line priority capture service subscription is performed. Notifies the terminal that line priority acquisition is in progress, and whenever a line is released by a line release request due to the completion of a call in progress, gives priority to a line acquisition request from a terminal not subscribed to the line priority acquisition service. And capturing the line corresponding to the line capture request registered in the priority capture queue in a predetermined order. Further, control is performed so as to stop the line priority acquisition notification to the line priority acquisition service subscribing terminal corresponding to the line acquisition request and delete the registration corresponding to the line acquisition request in the priority acquisition queue. Line priority acquisition method. 2. The switching system according to claim 1, wherein a line capture request associated with a call from the line priority capture service subscription terminal is registered in the priority capture queue. When the suspension request is received, the line priority acquisition notification is stopped,
2. The line priority acquisition method according to claim 1, wherein registration corresponding to the line acquisition request is deleted from the priority acquisition queue. 3. The priority acquisition queue according to claim 1, wherein the priority acquisition queue is provided in correspondence with a ground unit of the plurality of lines.
And the line priority acquisition method according to claim 2.