JP2002335329A - Communication service management method and device for mobile communication system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a communication service management method that can control connection (call transmission reception) of a mobile unit by a mobile unit user according to the intention of a mobile unit contractor. SOLUTION: In the communication service management method that provides a communication service to a mobile unit on the basis of contract contents of the communication service applied to the mobile unit, the utilizing condition with respect to the contract contents of the communication service applied to the mobile unit is registered in advance and when the communication service is applied to the mobile unit, the communication service is limited on the basis of the utilizing condition registered to the mobile unit in the mobile communication system adopting the communication service management method.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a communication service management method and apparatus in a mobile communication system, and more particularly to a communication service management method for controlling connection control of a mobile device by remote control.

[0002] The present invention also relates to a communication service management apparatus capable of remotely controlling connection of a mobile device according to such a communication service management method.

[0003]

2. Description of the Related Art At present, for example, PDC (Personal Digit
al Cellular) and PDC-P (Personal Digital Ce)
2. Description of the Related Art Various information communication services (voice communication, data communication, and the like) using a mobile communication system of a (llular-Packet) system are provided to a user who owns a mobile device. A user can receive a desired information communication service by making a predetermined contract with a communication carrier that provides the information communication service.

[0004]

As described above, in order for a user to receive an information communication service, a contract with a communication carrier is required. Generally, in a contract between a telecommunications carrier and a user, the user who uses a mobile device (hereinafter, referred to as a mobile device user) and the holder of the mobile device (hereinafter, referred to as a mobile device contractor) are the same. Can be considered. However, in a relationship such as parent and child at home and company and employee at company, "child" and "employee" are mobile device users, and "parent" and "company" are mobile device subscribers. In fact, there are quite a few cases where the mobile user and the mobile subscriber are different. When the mobile device user and the mobile device contractor are different, the mobile device may be used contrary to the intention of the mobile device contractor. For example, if the mobile device contractor is a company and the mobile device user is an employee of the company,
Even if the company wants to limit the mobile device user's use of the mobile device only to business days (eg, Monday to Friday), at present, it cannot be forcibly limited. It has been left to self-restraint.

[0005] When the mobile device user and the mobile device contractor are different as described above, the mobile device may be used contrary to the intention of the mobile device contractor.

Accordingly, a first object of the present invention is to provide a communication service management method capable of controlling connection (outgoing / incoming / outgoing) of a mobile device of a mobile device user according to the intention of a mobile device subscriber. .

A second object of the present invention is to provide a communication service management device capable of controlling connection of a mobile device of a mobile device user according to such a communication service management method.

[0008]

In order to solve the above-mentioned first problem, the present invention provides a mobile station based on a contract of a communication service made to the mobile station. In a communication service management method for providing a communication service to a mobile device, a use condition for a contract content of the communication service for the mobile device is registered in advance, and when the communication service is provided to the mobile device, the use condition registered for the mobile device is The communication service is configured to be restricted based on the communication service.

In such a communication service management method, use conditions for contract contents of the communication service (such as the location and date of use of the mobile device) are registered in advance, and the communication service of the mobile device is registered based on the registered use conditions. (For example, communication services such as outgoing / incoming calls) are restricted. As a result, it is possible to realize the connection control of the mobile device according to the contents registered in the use condition.

According to the present invention, in the communication service management method according to the present invention, from the viewpoint that connection of a mobile device can be controlled by use date and time, location of use, and communication type of the mobile device, The usage conditions used include the date and time of use of the mobile device, the location where the mobile device is used, the communication type of the mobile device,
Is configured to include at least one usage condition.

In such a communication service management method, the use date and time, use place, and communication type of the mobile device are registered in advance as use conditions. Therefore, it is possible to control the connection of the mobile device based on the use date and time (day of the week, time, etc.), the place of use (area), and the communication type (voice communication, data communication, etc.).

In view of the fact that the connection destination of the mobile device can be controlled by the connection partner of the mobile device, the present invention provides the communication service management method according to the third aspect.
The pre-registered use conditions are configured to include the use conditions of the connection destination of the mobile device.

In such a communication service management method, the “connection destination” of the mobile device is registered in advance as a use condition. Therefore, it is possible to control the connection of the mobile device by the connection destination (for example, the telephone number or the URL of the other party).

In view of the fact that transmission from a mobile station can be prohibited according to the needs of the side for setting the usage conditions, the present invention provides a communication service management method according to the present invention. When there is a call from, it is determined whether or not the pre-registered use conditions are satisfied,
When it is determined that the use condition is satisfied, the communication service for the mobile device is restricted based on the use condition.

In such a communication service management method, when an outgoing request is issued from a mobile station, the outgoing request is placed on the basis of information such as the dial number of the originating mobile station and the dial number of the other party. It is determined whether or not the use condition is satisfied. In this determination, if at least one of the above usage conditions “use date and time”, “location of use”, “communication type”, and “connection destination” is satisfied, the communication service is restricted for the mobile device of the call request source. Is done. Therefore, it is possible to restrict outgoing calls from the mobile device based on the use conditions registered on the side where the use conditions are set, so that it is possible to restrict outgoing calls from the mobile device according to the needs of the side on which the use conditions are set. .

According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, in the communication service management method, when it is determined in the determination that the use condition is not satisfied,
It is configured to provide a communication service to the mobile device.

According to such a communication service management method, it is possible to permit a call from a mobile device according to the needs of the side setting the use condition.

In view of the fact that incoming calls to a mobile device can be prohibited according to the needs of the side setting the usage conditions, the present invention provides the communication service management method according to the present invention. When there is an incoming call to the device, it is determined whether or not the use conditions registered in advance are satisfied, and when it is determined that the use conditions are satisfied, the movement is performed based on the use conditions. It is configured to limit the communication service for the device.

In such a communication service management method, when there is an incoming call request to a mobile station, it is determined whether or not the use condition is satisfied based on information such as the dial number of the destination mobile station. Done. In this determination, if at least one of the “use date and time”, “use place”, and “communication type” of the above use conditions is satisfied, the communication service to the destination mobile device is restricted. Therefore, the incoming call to the mobile device can be restricted by the use condition registered on the side where the use condition is set, so that the incoming call to the mobile device can be restricted according to the needs of the side on which the use condition is set. .

According to a seventh aspect of the present invention, in the communication service management method, when it is determined that the use condition is not satisfied in the determination,
It is configured to provide a communication service to the mobile device.

In such a communication service management method, it is possible to permit an incoming call to the mobile device according to the needs of the party setting the use condition.

In view of the fact that the use condition can be easily registered, the present invention provides a communication service management method according to the present invention, wherein the use condition for the contents of a contract for a communication service for a predetermined mobile station is provided. Is registered from a communication terminal via a predetermined telecommunication line.

In such a communication service management method, it is possible to register the use conditions from a predetermined communication terminal via the Internet. For this reason, the setting side of the use condition does not need to prepare special hardware for registering the use condition, so that the use condition can be easily registered.

In order to solve the second problem, the present invention provides a communication service to a mobile device based on the contents of a contract for the communication service made to the mobile device, as described in claim 9. In the communication service management device, a use condition management unit that manages use conditions for contract contents of the communication service for the mobile device, and when the communication service is performed for the mobile device, the use condition management unit for the mobile device Communication service restricting means for restricting a communication service based on the managed use condition.

[0025]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

A mobile communication system to which a communication service management method according to an embodiment of the present invention is applied is configured, for example, as shown in FIG.

Referring to FIG. 1, the mobile communication system includes:
For example, PDC (Personal Digital Cellular-Packet)
A mobile station A10 (mobile phone) performs wireless communication with a base station 20 and another terminal (mobile phone, etc.) via a network device (for example, exchange) 30.
Voice communication and non-call communication can be performed.
The communication service management device 40 is, for example, a service control point (hereinafter, referred to as an SCP: Serve) serving as a node that controls and controls services provided in the mobile communication system.
vice Control Point). The communication service management device 40 is a server for managing communication services for mobile devices. In the present invention, hereinafter, the communication service management device 40 will be referred to as a communication service management server, and the description will proceed. Further, the communication service management server 40 has a function of receiving a request from an external terminal (such as a personal computer) 60 through an electric communication line such as the Internet 50.

Next, an outline of the operation principle of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG.

In FIG. 1, a mobile station A10 of a certain user
, A transmission request signal from the mobile device A10 is transmitted to the base station 20 in the visited zone. The base station 20 adds location information relating to the location of the mobile station to the received transmission request signal and transmits the signal to the exchange 30. Upon receiving the transmission request signal and the location information from base station 20, switching center 30 transmits a signal for inquiring communication service management server 40 as to whether transmission from mobile station A10 is permitted or not. . Communication service management server 40
The mobile station information (for example, the subscriber number of the mobile station A10, information relating to the location of the caller, the date and time information at the time of the call, etc.) included in the inquiry signal and the database of the own server 40 are previously stored for each mobile station. The use condition (hereinafter referred to as the communication service use condition) for the registered contents of the communication service is collated, and the transmission from the mobile device A10 is permitted only when it is determined that there is no communication service use condition for the mobile device A10. To the exchange 30. Only when a signal indicating the transmission permission is received from the communication service management server 40, the exchange 30 continues the transmission processing from the mobile station A10 and performs the call connection processing with the other party. However, in the above determination, when it is determined that the transmission is not permitted, a signal indicating the non-permission is transmitted from the communication service management server 40 to the exchange 30 and the mobile station A
The calling process from 10 is rejected.

The communication service use conditions registered in the database of the communication service management server 40 are determined by a person who wants to set the use conditions using an external terminal and using the Internet 5
By connecting to the communication service use condition registration database of the communication service management server 40 via the communication service management server 40, the use condition can be freely registered, updated, deleted, and the like. As described above, according to the communication service management method of the present invention, even if there is a call request from the mobile device A10, the call is transmitted from the mobile device A10 only when there is no communication service use condition registered in the communication service management server 40 in advance. Allow Therefore, permission / prohibition of the transmission from the mobile device A10 can be controlled according to the setting of the communication service use condition.

The communication service management server 4 as described above
0 is configured, for example, as shown in FIG.

In FIG. 2, the communication service management server 40 includes a call reception processing unit 41, a database management unit 4
2, communication service use condition data storage unit (= communication service use condition registration database) 43, communication processing unit 44,
It comprises an authentication unit 45.

In the communication service management server 40, the call reception processing unit 41 receives an outgoing / incoming / outgoing request signal from the exchange, transfers information included in the request signal to the database managing unit 42, and also transmits the information to the database managing unit 42. And a process of generating a call control signal based on the signal output from the switch and transmitting the signal to the exchange 30. Database management unit 42
Is a process (registration, update,
(Deletion etc.) via the communication processing unit 44, operate the database, return the processing result to the client via the communication processing unit 44, and send / receive calls from / to the mobile device. At this time, it also has a processing function of determining whether or not the mobile device is a restriction target. The communication processing unit 44 has a function of processing a request to the communication service management server 40 and outputting a processing result from the database management unit 42 to the outside. The authentication unit 45 cooperates with the communication processing unit 44 to authenticate the requesting terminal.
The communication service use condition data storage unit 43 stores data (communication service use condition registration data).

Next, a process for registering the communication service use condition in the communication service use condition registration database 43 of the communication service management server 40 will be described.

First, the communication service use condition registration database 43 stored in the communication service management server 40
Request processing for accessing is performed.

This request processing is performed, for example, according to the procedure shown in FIG.

In FIG. 3, the communication processing unit 44 of the communication service management server 40 transmits the “communication” transmitted by a person who wants to register a communication service use condition (hereinafter referred to as a communication service use condition registrant) using an external terminal. Receiving a "connection request to the service use condition registration database" (S
1) In order to authenticate the registrant of the communication service use condition, a user ID and a password are requested from the registrant of the communication service use condition.

Upon receiving the user ID and the password from the registrant of the communication service use condition, the communication processing unit 44
The information is sent to the authentication unit 45. The authentication unit 45 performs authentication based on the received user ID and password (S
2) When the authentication confirms that the access is from the principal (YES in S2), a signal indicating that the authentication is OK is returned to the communication processing unit 44, and the signal indicating the authentication OK is transmitted from the communication processing unit 44 to the communication service. It is sent to the external terminal 60 of the use condition registrant. External terminal 60 of registrant of communication service use condition
After the completion of the authentication, a communication service use condition setting screen shown in FIG. 4 is displayed on the display screen.

On the other hand, if the authentication confirms that the access is not from the user (NO in S2), the communication service management server 40 sends an access denial message from the communication processing unit 44 via the Internet 50 to use the communication service. It is sent to the external terminal 60 of the condition registrant.

After the success of the request, the registrant of the communication service use condition registers the “new registration” (), “update” (),
The icon of the item to be executed among the icons of “delete” () is determined by, for example, double-clicking the icon. In this example, the case where the communication service use condition is “newly registered” () will be described as an example, and the description will be given hereinafter.

When the registrant of the communication service use condition determines "new registration" (FIG. 3), the screen shifts to a new registration screen (= new registration table) shown in FIG.

In FIG. 5, this new registration table is
It consists of a row (record) and a column (item: field), and for each contract phone number (), the usage conditions of mobile device such as "use date and time (hereinafter abbreviated as date and time)" () and "use place (hereinafter,
(Abbreviated as location) "()," Connection (phone number) "
(), Data composed of items (columns) of “connection destination (URL)” () are arranged and stored. The use condition of the mobile device is a condition for restricting the communication service (eg, outgoing service or the like) for the mobile device A10 according to the use condition. For example, the condition “date and time” () in FIG. 5 is used to restrict the date and time when the mobile device is used, and the condition “location” () is used to restrict the location where the mobile device is used. In addition, "connection destination" () ~
The condition () is used to restrict the telephone number, URL, and the like of the destination to which connection can be made. The above condition (-) is satisfied by the right cell (A'-D) of each field.
'), The other left cell (A to D) is provided with a check box for enabling the inhibition of the communication service under the conditions set in the right cell.

Next, a procedure for newly registering each of the use conditions (-) for each contract telephone number () will be described.

First, the registrant of the communication service use condition inputs the contracted telephone number of the mobile unit in the first line (x) of the contracted telephone number field () of the mobile unit for which the use of the communication service is to be restricted, and then Date and time field of line (A
'), Location field (B'), connection destination field (C
(1) to (D ') are sequentially input with the conditions to be restricted.

For example, contract telephone number 090-1234
Assuming the use condition of the communication service for the mobile device having 5678 as follows: [Use condition of communication service (case A)] Contract telephone number: 090-1234-5678 Date: Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays Place: None Connection destination (telephone No.): None Connection destination (URL): None Further, assuming the use condition of the communication service for the mobile station having the contract telephone number 090-1234-8888 as follows, [Use condition of communication service (Case B)] Contract phone number: 090-1234-8888 Date and time: Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays Location: Other than Minato-ku, Tokyo Connection destination (telephone number): Other than 03-5563-9898 Connection destination (URL): http://www.xxx.co.jp In addition, assuming the use condition of the communication service for the mobile device having the contract telephone number 090-1234-7777 as follows: [Use condition of the communication service] Case C)] Contract phone number: 090-1234-7777 Date and time: None Location: None Connection destination (telephone number): None Connection destination (URL): None The first line (x) of the registration screen shown in FIG. The use condition of the communication service of A, the second line (y) is case B, and the third line (z) is the right cell (A 'to D') of the field to which the use condition of the communication service of case C is applicable. Respectively. When the registrant of the communication service use condition finishes inputting the use condition for the above cases A to C, the registrant checks the check boxes (A to D) for validating the prohibition of the communication service under the inputted conditions. Then, a series of communication service use condition registration is completed.

As described above, when the communication service use condition registrant completes the input of the communication service use conditions of Cases A to C and the check of the check box,
Predetermined communication is performed between the external terminal and the database management unit 42 of the communication service management server 40, and the communication service use conditions of the above cases A to C are registered in the communication service use condition data storage unit 43.

The communication service use condition data storage unit 4
The usage conditions of the communication services of Cases A to C registered in Case 3 are displayed on the display screen of the external terminal, and the registrant of the communication service usage conditions can check the usage conditions registered by himself / herself ( See FIG. 6).

On the display screen (example of registration screen) of the external terminal shown in FIG. 6, cells (A 'to D) on the right
') Shows the registered use conditions of the communication service of the above-mentioned cases A to C, and the cells (A to D) on the left side are:
A display indicating that the prohibition of the communication service is valid under a certain condition described in the cell on the right is displayed ("prohibition" display).

In FIG. 6, in the case of registration of case A, the connection to all the connection destinations is prohibited at all places only on Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays for the mobile station with the contract telephone number: 090-1234-5678. You. In this case, weekdays from Monday to Friday are not particularly limited in usage. For example, a communication manager of a certain company (for example, a person who manages a communication use state of a mobile device user) or the like is the case A
By performing the registration as described above, it is possible to prohibit employees serving as mobile device users from communicating on weekends and holidays other than business days (Monday to Friday).

On the other hand, in the case of registration of case B, the following restrictions are imposed on the mobile station having the contract telephone number: 090-1234-8888. Mobile devices cannot be used on weekends and holidays Mobile devices can be used on weekends (Monday to Friday) other than weekends and holidays, but use from outside Minato-ku, Tokyo is prohibited. Furthermore, the connection destination (telephone: 03-5563) specified even when using from the above weekday and Minato-ku, Tokyo
-9898, URL: Connection to anything other than http://www.xxx.co.jp/) is prohibited.

For example, when a communication manager of a certain company or the like makes a registration as in the above case B, the employee who will be the user of the mobile station will be visited from Monday to Friday, A specific contact from the city (in this case, telephone: 03
-5563-9898, URL URL: http: //www.xx
Only x.co.jp/) can be allowed to connect.

The case C will be used in the following description of FIG.

As described above, according to the present invention, the use of the mobile device is restricted according to the use condition registered by the communication service use condition registrant. Therefore, it is possible to prohibit the use of the mobile device in a place not intended by the registrant of the communication service use condition. For example, if the registrant of the communication service use condition is a parent in a general home, use of mobile devices can be restricted, such as allowing outgoing / incoming calls from children only near the house.

Next, a process of restricting the use of the communication service for the mobile station by the communication service management server 40 based on the registered contents of the communication service use condition will be described with reference to FIG.
This will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. In describing this process, a case C of FIG. 6 will be described as an example.

In FIG. 7, when the call reception processing unit 41 of the communication service management server 40 receives, for example, a call request signal transmitted from the mobile station A10 via the switching center 30, it is included in the call request signal. Information (information indicating the date and time of the call, the dial number of the caller, and the position information and the dial number of the connection destination) are sent to the database management unit 42. The database management unit 42 operates the communication service use condition registration database 43 based on the information to search for the source dial number (telephone number of the mobile device A10).
A record matching the dial number of the caller is extracted. Thereafter, a determination process is sequentially performed on the usage conditions of each usage condition field (fields in FIG. 6) belonging to the record. Specifically, the determination process is performed as follows.

The database management unit 42 first registers the information indicating the transmission date and time included in the above information and the “date and time” field (A ′ in FIG. 6) stored in the communication service use condition data storage unit 43. With the terms of use
It is determined whether or not the transmission date is restricted (S11). Here, since the use condition of the “date and time” field is “none”, it is determined that the transmission date and time are not restricted (not restricted in S11). Subsequently, the database management unit 42 stores the information indicating the location of the transmission source included in the information and the “place” field (FIG. 6) stored in the communication service use condition data storage unit 43.
(B ') is compared with the use conditions registered in the above (B'), and it is determined whether or not the transmission place is restricted (S12).
Here, the usage condition of the “place” field is “none”
Therefore, it is determined that the transmission place is not a restriction target (S12 is not a restriction target).

Next, the database management unit 42 stores information (eg, the telephone number of the other party) included in the above information and the “connection destination (telephone number) stored in the communication service usage condition data storage unit 43. No.) field (C ′ in FIG. 6) is checked against the usage conditions registered in the field, and it is determined whether or not the telephone number of the connection destination is restricted (S1).
3). Here, since the use condition of the "connection destination (telephone number)" field is "none", it is determined that the connection destination telephone number is not restricted (not restricted in S13). Further, the database management unit 42 stores information (for example, URL) indicating the connection destination included in the above information and a “connection destination (URL)” field (FIG. 6) stored in the communication service use condition data storage unit 43. The use condition registered in D ') is collated, and it is determined whether or not the URL of the connection destination is subject to restriction (S14). Here, the use condition of the “connection destination (URL)” field is “none”.
Therefore, it is determined that the URL of the connection destination is not a restriction target (it is not a restriction target in S14).

As described above, when it is determined that the connection destination URL is not a restriction target, the database management unit 4
2 transmits, to the exchange, a notification indicating that connection is permitted in response to the call request of the mobile device A10 via the call reception processing unit 41 (connection process). Then, the connection process between the mobile station A10 and the partner terminal is performed via the exchange 30 so that communication can be performed.

On the other hand, the "date and time,""location,""connection destination (telephone)" and "connection destination (UR
L) "(at least one of S11 to S14), the connection request for transmission from the mobile device A10 is rejected. Therefore, in such a case, the call from mobile unit A10 is not accepted, and communication with the other party cannot be performed.

As described above, the communication service management server 40, upon receiving a call request from the mobile device A10,
It is sequentially determined for each field (date, time, location, etc.) whether or not the communication service is restricted by the usage condition of the communication service registered by the communication service usage condition registrant. Then, only when it is determined that the use of the communication service is not restricted for all the fields, the transmission from the mobile device A10 is permitted. However, if at least one of the above fields is a field to be restricted, transmission from the mobile station A10 is prohibited. In other words, the communication service use condition registrant can set a condition (date and time, place, etc.) for restricting the use of the mobile device, and thereby can restrict the use of the mobile device in a fine-grained manner according to his / her intention. become. For example, as shown in FIG. 8, when the owner of the mobile device (company) and the user (employee of the company) are different, the usage manager of the company, which is the owner of the mobile device, issues a call to the employee. The permission of the incoming call is restricted from 9:00 to 18:00 from Monday to Friday, and as shown in FIG. 9, each mobile unit a11 to c13 is limited only to the business trip destination (area 1 to area 3).
Can be used, and the use restrictions of the mobile device can be finely adjusted according to the intention of the company. If the relationship between the owner and the servant of the mobile device is a parent and a child, the time zone, day of the week, and place where the child can use are set as usage conditions so that the child can be managed under the control of the parent. The use of mobile devices has led to diversification of services for users. Furthermore, in the present invention, since the Web browser is used for operations such as registration, update, and deletion of communication service use conditions, the user can easily perform the above operations.

In the above-described processing of FIG. 7, the above fields (date and time, location, etc.) are triggered by a transmission request from the mobile device.
Are described sequentially as an example, but the processing shown in FIG. 7 is also applicable to an incoming call to a mobile device.

In the above example, the database function of the communication service use condition data storage unit 43 of the communication service management server 40 is a use condition management unit, and the processing determination function of the database management unit 42 is a transmission restriction target detection unit and a call restriction target detection unit. Corresponding to Further, the processing functions of the call reception processing unit 41 of the communication service management server 40 correspond to a communication service restriction unit, a communication service permission unit, and a communication service non-permission unit.

[0063]

As described above, claims 1 to 7 have been described.
According to the present invention described above, by registering the use condition in the communication service use condition registration database, it is possible to restrict the use of the corresponding mobile device by the registered use condition, and the use condition is registered. It is possible to provide a communication service management method capable of restricting use of a mobile device according to the intention of the user.

According to the invention of claim 8,
The registration of the use conditions can be easily performed from an external terminal that can be connected to the Internet.

Further, according to the present invention as set forth in claims 9 to 16, it is possible to provide a communication service management apparatus which performs processing according to the above communication service management method.

[0066]

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a configuration of a mobile communication system to which a communication service management method according to an embodiment of the present invention is applied.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram of a communication service management server.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating an example of a request process to a communication service management server.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of a communication service use condition setting screen.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example of a new registration screen for communication service use conditions.

6 is a diagram showing a display example of a communication service use condition registration screen after the use condition registration shown in FIG. 5;

FIG. 7 is a flowchart illustrating an example of processing for restricting use of a mobile device based on registered contents of communication service use conditions.

FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating an example of restricting use of a mobile device by use date and time.

FIG. 9 is a diagram illustrating an example of restricting use of a mobile device according to a place of use.

[Explanation of symbols]

Reference Signs List 10 mobile station A 11 to 13 mobile station a to mobile station 20 base station 30 switching station 40 communication service management device (communication service management server) 41 call reception processing unit 42 database management unit 43 communication service use condition data storage unit 44 communication Processing unit 45 Authentication unit 50 Internet 60 External terminal (personal computer)

 ──────────────────────────────────────────────────続 き Continued on the front page (72) Inventor Daichi Funato 2-1-1 Nagatacho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo Inside NTT DoCoMo, Inc. (72) Inventor Motoharu Miyake 2-chome, Nagatacho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo No. 11 NTT DoCoMo Co., Ltd. (72) Inventor Shinji Kobayashi 2-11-1, Nagatacho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo F-term (reference) 5K024 AA62 AA64 AA65 CC11 DD01 GG01 GG03 GG10 HH01 HH02 HH03 5K067 AA21 BB03 BB04 DD17 EE02 EE10 EE16 FF23 GG01 HH07 HH22 HH23 JJ53 JJ54

Claims (16)

[Claims] A communication service management method for providing a communication service to a mobile device based on the contents of a communication service contract made to the mobile device, wherein a use condition for the communication service contract content for the mobile device is registered in advance, A communication service management method in a mobile communication system for restricting a communication service based on a use condition registered for the mobile device when the communication service is provided to the mobile device. 2. The communication service management method according to claim 1, wherein the pre-registered use condition is at least one of use date and time of the mobile device, use location of the mobile device, and communication type of the mobile device. A communication service management method in a mobile communication system including: 3. The communication service management method according to claim 1, wherein the pre-registered usage condition is a mobile communication system to which a mobile device is connected. 4. The communication service management method according to claim 1, wherein when a call is transmitted from a mobile station, it is determined whether or not the pre-registered use condition is satisfied. A communication service management method in a mobile communication system for restricting a communication service for the mobile device based on the use condition when it is determined that the communication service is satisfied. 5. The communication service management method according to claim 4, wherein when the use condition is determined not to be satisfied in the determination, a communication service for the mobile device is provided. 6. The communication service management method according to claim 1, wherein when there is an incoming call to said mobile device, it is determined whether said pre-registered use condition is satisfied. A communication service management method in a mobile communication system, wherein, when it is determined that a condition is satisfied, a communication service for the mobile device is restricted based on the use condition. 7. The communication service management method according to claim 6, wherein, when it is determined in said determination that said use condition is not satisfied, a communication service for said mobile device is provided. 8. The communication service management method according to claim 1, wherein the registration of the use condition for the contract contents of the communication service for the predetermined mobile station is performed from the communication terminal via the predetermined telecommunication line. A communication service management method in a mobile communication system. 9. A communication service management apparatus for providing a communication service to a mobile device based on a contract content of a communication service made to the mobile device, wherein a usage condition for managing usage conditions for the communication service contract content for the mobile device. A communication unit comprising: a management unit; and a communication service limiting unit configured to limit the communication service to the mobile device based on the use condition managed by the use condition management unit when the communication service is provided to the mobile device. Service management device. 10. The communication service management device according to claim 9, wherein the pre-registered use condition is at least one of use date and time of the mobile device, use location of the mobile device, and communication type of the mobile device. Communication service management device including: 11. The communication service management device according to claim 9, wherein the pre-registered use condition includes a use condition of a connection destination of the mobile device. 12. The communication service management apparatus according to claim 9, wherein, when a call is transmitted from the mobile station, a call restriction target detection means for judging whether or not the use condition registered in advance is satisfied. And a communication service non-permission means for restricting a communication service for the mobile device based on the use condition when it is determined that the use condition is satisfied. 13. The communication service management apparatus according to claim 12, further comprising a communication service permitting means for providing a communication service to said mobile device when said use condition is not satisfied. apparatus. 14. A communication service management apparatus according to claim 9, wherein when there is an incoming call to said mobile station, whether or not said pre-registered use condition is satisfied is determined. A communication service management device, comprising: a detection unit; and a communication service non-permission unit that restricts a communication service for the mobile device based on the use condition when it is determined that the use condition is satisfied. 15. The mobile communication system according to claim 14, further comprising communication service permitting means for providing a communication service to said mobile station when said determination is made that said use condition is not satisfied. Communication service management device in. 16. The communication service management apparatus according to claim 9, wherein said use condition management means is provided for a communication service for a predetermined mobile station registered from a communication terminal via a predetermined telecommunication line. A communication service management device that manages usage conditions for the contents of a contract.