JP2003198566A - Short-distance radio communication terminal device - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To simplify user operation for a connection to a communicating party when starting real time two-way communications or starting interrupted real time two-way communications again. <P>SOLUTION: In a mobile radio terminal 10, a communication history managing part 15 manages communication history information composed of communicating party information specifying the communicating party and the communication contents information of one latest communication with the communicating party for every communicating party and when starting a communication, for example, it is compared whether or not the communicating party information acquired from a counter terminal is matched with the communicating party information in the communication history information. When the acquired communicating party information is matched with the communicating party information in the communication history information, a short-distance radio communication control part 16 performs control to start the real time two-way communication with the counter terminal from the state of loading the communication contents information corresponding to the matched communicating party information in the communication history information. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to Bluetooth (R).
The present invention relates to a short-distance wireless communication terminal device having a short-distance wireless communication function, and more particularly, to improvement of communication connection control when real-time bidirectional communication is performed with another terminal using the short-distance wireless communication function.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, a short-range wireless communication terminal device having a short-range wireless communication function such as Bluetooth (R) has been put into practical use.

In this type of terminal device, by utilizing the short-distance wireless communication function, a plurality of terminal devices having the same function can perform real-time bidirectional communication (for example, chat) without going through a server. .

By the way, in this type of conventional terminal device,
When performing real-time bidirectional communication between terminal devices,
Generally, only the contents of the message just before the message exchanged in the message exchange session are stored.

Therefore, in the conventional terminal device, when starting communication with the partner terminal device, even if the partner terminal device has previously communicated with the partner terminal device, the partner terminal device was exchanged at the time of previous communication with this terminal device. Communication could not be resumed using the message.

Further, in the conventional terminal device, when the communication interruption occurs during the message exchange by the real-time two-way communication, although the message immediately before is stored, the message and the information of the communication partner who sent the message are stored. Since it was not managed to associate and with each other, when the communication with the communication partner is restarted after the communication is interrupted, it is necessary for the user to perform a reconnection operation by himself.

[0007]

As described above, in the above-mentioned conventional short-distance wireless communication terminal device, only the immediately preceding message is stored in the real-time two-way communication with another terminal device. When starting, even if the communication partner is a terminal device that has previously communicated with the communication partner, the communication cannot be started from the message exchanged with the communication partner, or the communication is interrupted. There is a problem that the user needs to perform the reconnection operation by himself, and the connection operation of the real-time two-way communication by the user is complicated.

The present invention eliminates the above-mentioned problems and can avoid the complication of user operation when starting real-time two-way communication or restarting the communication after interruption of real-time two-way communication. The purpose is to provide a device.

[0009]

In order to achieve the above object, the invention according to claim 1 is a short-distance wireless communication terminal device for performing real-time two-way communication using a short-distance wireless communication function. Communication history information consisting of communication partner information for identifying a communication partner and communication content information of the latest one communication with the communication partner is managed in association with the time information of the latest one communication for each communication partner. A communication history information management means; and a control means for identifying a communication partner from the communication history information managed by the communication history information management means and controlling connection of real-time two-way communication with the communication partner. Characterize.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the above-mentioned first aspect of the present invention, it is determined whether or not the communication partner information acquired from the partner terminal which is about to start communication and the communication partner information in the communication history information match. When the acquired communication partner information and the communication partner information in the communication history information match, the control unit corresponds to the matched communication partner information in the communication history information. It is characterized in that real-time bidirectional communication with the partner terminal is started from a state in which the communication content information is loaded.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, in the above-mentioned first or second aspect of the present invention, a communication interruption detecting means for detecting interruption of communication is provided, and the control means communicates by the communication interruption detecting means. When the interruption is detected, the communication partner of the immediately preceding communication is specified from the communication partner information in the communication history information, and the real-time bidirectional communication is reconnected to the communication partner.

The invention according to claim 4 is characterized in that, in the invention according to claim 1, there is provided erasing means for erasing the communication history information based on a user's erasing instruction operation.

According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, in the first aspect of the invention, the communication partner information after a predetermined time has elapsed from the time is based on the time information corresponding to each communication partner information in the communication history information. It is characterized by comprising an automatic erasing means for automatically erasing the corresponding communication history information.

[0014]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION Embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a communication image using a mobile radio terminal according to the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 1, the mobile radio terminals 10a, 10b, and 10c according to the present invention each include a short-distance wireless communication function unit 110, and the short-distance wireless communication between these short-distance wireless communication function units 110. Short-range wireless communication can be performed by control.

In particular, in the example of FIG. 1, the mobile radio terminal 10a
Is the master station, and the mobile wireless terminal 10a and the mobile wireless terminal 10b [communication partner 1 (slave station) seen from the master station] and 10c [communication partner 2 (slave station)] are close to each other. The figure shows an image when real-time two-way communication is performed by a distance wireless communication function.

As the real-time two-way communication in this case, it is assumed that the mobile radio terminals 10a, 10b and 10c exchange messages without a server.

The mobile radio terminals 10a, 10b, 10
Each of the short-range wireless communication function units 110 of c is realized by, for example, Bluetooth (R).

[0020] Bluetooth (R) is operated under a communication standard such as a radio frequency of 2.4 GHz band and maximum radio power of 100 mW, and has a short communication distance (standard 10
m) and the transmission output is small, there is a high risk that the short-distance wireless communication will be disconnected when the user exchanges messages while holding in his hand, and as a matter of course, the communication of the disconnected communication is performed. Opportunities to perform restart operations will also increase.

The present invention has been made in view of such an operating environment, and the mobile radio terminal 10 (10a, 10b, 10)
In c), a communication history information management function for managing communication history information including communication partner information for identifying a communication partner in real-time two-way communication and communication content information such as a message from the communication partner, and this communication. When the real-time two-way communication is started by adding the short-distance wireless communication control function that controls the connection with the communication partner of the real-time two-way communication using the communication history information managed by the history information management function, or When resuming the interrupted real-time two-way communication, the connection to the communication partner at this time is automated based on the past communication history information of the communication partner, thereby attempting to reduce the operation load on the user for the connection. It is a thing.

A specific embodiment of the mobile radio terminal 10 according to the present invention will be described below.

FIG. 2 shows a mobile radio terminal 10 according to the present invention.
3 is a block diagram showing the configuration of FIG.

The mobile radio terminal 10 includes a radio telephone communication unit 11, a radio telephone communication control unit 12, and a message processing unit 1.
3, communication history storage unit 14, communication history management unit 15, short-range wireless communication control unit 16, short-range wireless communication detection unit 17, short-range wireless communication unit 18, control unit 20, input / operation unit 21, display unit 22. It is configured to include.

The radiotelephone communication unit 11 is realized by a digital radiotelephone such as CDMA, and performs radiotelephone communication with another on-coming mobile radio terminal having the same kind of digital radiotelephone function via a radiotelephone base station. .

The radiotelephone communication control section 12 controls the radiotelephone communication section 11 to realize radiotelephone communication.

The message processing unit 13 performs processing such as creation, display, and history saving of messages transmitted and received in a message exchange session.

The communication history storage unit 14 stores, for each communication partner, communication history information including communication partner information for specifying a communication partner in a message exchange session and contents (communication content information) of a message or the like from the communication partner. It is something to store.

The communication history management unit 15 includes the communication history storage unit 1
4, the communication history information for each communication partner is managed by storing and updating the communication partner information and the communication content information that form the communication history information.

The short-distance wireless communication control unit 16 controls short-distance wireless communication via the short-distance wireless communication unit 18.

The short-distance wireless communication detection unit 17 monitors the short-distance wireless communication unit 18 to establish a blue communication with the oncoming mobile wireless terminal.
This is a part for checking the connection state (communication interruption, etc.) of the tooth (R).

The short-range wireless communication unit 18 is a Bluetooth
(R) communication module (corresponding to the short-range wireless communication function unit 110 in FIG. 1), which is a device (in the present invention,) mounted with another Bluetooth (R) communication module.
It enables communication in accordance with the specifications of an oncoming mobile wireless terminal) and Bluetooth (R).

The control unit 20 controls the entire mobile radio terminal 10.

The input / operation unit 21 operates various keys such as ten keys to obtain various information (messages, various operation instructions, etc.).
Is to be entered.

The display unit 22 displays various information such as messages sent and received in the message exchange session.

In this mobile radio terminal 10, the communication history management unit 15 is executing real-time two-way communication (message exchange session) with another mobile radio terminal 10 by short-distance radio communication, and at the same time, the communication partner of the communication partner at this time. Information is acquired and stored in the communication partner information area of the communication history storage unit 14, and a message (communication content information) from this communication partner is stored in the communication content information area of the communication history storage unit 14 corresponding to the communication partner information. Store.

After that, when there is a new communication from the communication partner having the communication partner information already stored, the communication content information corresponding to the communication partner information is updated with the message newly received by the communication.

By storing / updating such communication partner information and communication content information each time one communication is performed with each communication partner, the communication history storage unit 14
Corresponding communication history information consisting of communication partner information that identifies the communication partner of the communication and communication content information of the latest communication with the communication partner, to the time information when the latest communication is made for each communication partner. I manage it.

Further, the communication history management section 15 manages the above-mentioned communication history information for each communication partner together with the information (time information) regarding the time when one communication is performed.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of communication history information stored in the communication history storage unit 14 by the communication history management unit 15 and sequentially updated.

In FIG. 3, the communication history information is made by associating the communication partner information for identifying the communication partner with the communication content information corresponding to the content of the message or the like received from the communication partner, The communication history information is generated only for communication destinations with which communication has been performed in the past, and the communication content information is updated each time there is a new communication from the communication partner.

Here, as the communication partner information, the communication partner's telephone number (TEL), handle name (HN),
Icon, Bluetooth (R) device address (BD-
There is information such as ADDR).

Further, the communication content information includes information such as messages and attached files received in communication with the communication partner specified by the communication partner information.

Next, the operation of the mobile radio terminal 10 according to the present invention when communication is started using the communication history information stored in the communication history storage unit 14 will be described.

In this description, for example, FIG.
2, the mobile radio terminals 10a, 10b, 10c each have the same configuration as the mobile radio terminal 10 shown in FIG. 2, and the mobile radio terminals 10a, 10b, 1
It is premised that the mobile wireless terminal 10a performs communication start operation when the mobile wireless terminal 10a performs real-time two-way communication (chat) by short-range wireless communication using the mobile wireless terminal 10a as a master station and the mobile wireless terminals 10b and 10c as slave stations.

FIG. 4 shows a control sequence at the start of real-time two-way communication between the mobile radio terminals 10a, 10b and 10c under the above-mentioned premise.

According to this sequence, the mobile radio terminal 1
When the mobile wireless terminal 10b (communication partner 1) starts communication with the mobile wireless terminal 10b, the mobile wireless terminal 10b sends BT [Bluetooth
Abbreviation of (R)] When a connection request is transmitted and the mobile wireless terminal 10b receives this BT connection request, it transmits a BT connection response to the mobile wireless terminal 10b.

After that, both the mobile radio terminals 10a and 10b establish a BT connection session and perform connection control for enabling short-distance radio communication.

In this connection control, the mobile radio terminal 10a, which is the master station for chat, selects the communication partner information (mobile radio terminal) from the information sent from the mobile radio terminal 10b at the time of the BT connection response performed before that. Information for identifying 10b) is acquired (step S401).

Next, the mobile radio terminal 10a passes the acquired communication partner information to the communication history management section 15. The communication history management unit 15 searches the communication history information stored in the communication history storage unit 14 using the acquired communication partner information as a key (step S402).

In this search, the acquired communication partner information and the communication partner information in the communication history information stored in the communication history storage unit 14 are sequentially compared to determine whether there is a matching communication partner information. It is checked (step S403).

Here, if there is no matching communication partner information (step S403 NO), the communication history management unit 15
Notifies the short-range wireless communication control unit 16 of the determination result,
Based on the notification, the short-distance wireless communication control unit 16 establishes a message exchange session with the mobile wireless terminal 10b, which is the communication partner of this time, as usual, and starts communication (message exchange).

On the other hand, when communication partner information that matches the communication partner information acquired from the partner who intends to start communication exists in the communication history information (step S403YE).
S), the communication history management unit 15 passes the matched communication partner information to the short-range wireless communication control unit 16.

The short-distance wireless communication control unit 16 loads the communication content information corresponding to the communication partner information received from the communication history management unit 15 from the communication history storage unit 14 and displays it on the display unit 22 (step S404). , Establishes a message exchange session with the mobile wireless terminal 10b, which is the communication partner of this time, and starts communication (message exchange) from the loaded content information, that is, old content received in the past from the communication partner of this time. .

Furthermore, when the mobile radio terminal 10c is also added to the chat members, a message exchange session is established and communication (message exchange) is started through a procedure similar to the procedure described above for the mobile radio terminal 10b. .

In this case, if the information (communication partner information) for specifying the mobile radio terminal 10c is stored in the communication history storage section 14 of the mobile radio terminal 10a, the mobile radio terminal 10c is stored.
If message exchange is started from old contents received in the past from c and information (communication partner information) for specifying the mobile radio terminal 10c is not stored in the communication history storage unit 14 of the mobile radio terminal 10a, this mobile radio terminal A normal message exchange is started with 10c.

Next, the operation of the mobile radio terminal 10 according to the present invention when the communication is resumed using the communication history stored in the communication history storage unit 14 after the communication is interrupted will be described.

In this explanation, for example, FIG.
2, the mobile radio terminals 10a, 10b, 10c each have the same configuration as the mobile radio terminal 10 shown in FIG. 2, and the mobile radio terminals 10a, 10b, 1
After the communication is interrupted while the mobile communication terminal 0c performs real-time two-way communication (chat) by short-distance wireless communication using the mobile wireless terminal 10a as a master station and the mobile wireless terminals 10b and 10c as slave stations, the mobile wireless terminal 10a is connected to the mobile wireless terminal 10a. It is premised on the operation of restarting communication.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a communication restart control sequence after interruption of real-time bidirectional communication between the mobile radio terminals 10a, 10b and 10c under the above-mentioned premise.

According to this sequence, the mobile radio terminal 1
0a is a mobile wireless terminal 10 that is a member of chat.
In the state where the message exchange session using the short-range wireless communication is established between the terminal 10b and 10c,
Messages are exchanged between b and 10c through the respective short-range wireless communication units 18.

In this state, the mobile radio terminals 10a, 10
In b and 10c, each short-range wireless communication detection unit 17
Is monitoring whether the short-range wireless communication has been disconnected.

During this period, for example, when the short-range wireless communication detection unit 17 of the mobile wireless terminal 10a detects that the short-range wireless communication is disconnected (step S501), the detection result is the mobile wireless terminal 10a. Communication history management unit 1
5 and the short-range wireless communication control unit 16 are notified.

Upon receipt of the above notification, the communication history management unit 15 first searches the communication history information stored in the communication history storage unit 14 for the communication partner information using the communication time as a key (step S502). Communication partner information regarding the communication partner having the latest communication time, that is, the communication partner immediately before the current communication interruption is acquired (step S503), and the communication partner information is passed to the short-range wireless communication control unit 16.

When the short-distance wireless communication control unit 16 receives communication interruption information from the communication history management unit 15 after receiving the communication interruption notification from the short-distance wireless communication detection unit 17, the short-distance wireless communication control unit 16 receives the communication opponent information. Based on the information, a BT connection request and a BT connection response are exchanged with the immediately preceding communication partner, for example, the mobile wireless terminal 10c via the short-range wireless communication unit 18, and a BT connection session is established.

When this BT connection session is established,
The communication history management unit 15 further communicates with the communication partner information regarding the communication partner of the immediately preceding communication obtained as a target of the communication partner information in the communication history information stored in the communication history storage unit 14 as a key. Search history information (step S50
4) The communication content information corresponding to the communication partner information (corresponding to the immediately preceding communication partner) is acquired (step S505), and the communication content information is passed to the short-range wireless communication control unit 16.

The short-distance wireless communication control unit 16 stores the communication content information received from the communication history management unit 15 in the communication history storage unit 1.
After loading from No. 4 and displaying on the display unit 22, a message exchange session is established with the mobile radio terminal 10c to which the BT connection session has already been established, and the loaded communication content information, that is, the current communication interruption. Communication (message exchange) is started from the past contents received from the mobile radio terminal 10c immediately before.

After that, the mobile radio terminal 10a is stored in the communication history storage unit 14 in order to add another mobile radio terminal 10b other than the mobile radio terminal 10c that was communicating immediately before the interruption of communication to the members of the chat. The communication partner information of the mobile radio terminal 10b and the communication content information are searched from the communication history information being displayed, and a message exchange session is established with the mobile radio terminal 10b based on the searched communication partner information. Mobile radio terminal 10
Communication (message exchange) is started from the past communication content received from b before communication is interrupted.

The procedure for resuming communication between the mobile radio terminal 10a and the mobile radio terminal 10b is as follows.
The flow similar to the above-described procedure performed for 0c can be applied, but "next old communication partner information" is acquired in the process corresponding to step S503 in FIG. 5, and further in the process corresponding to step S505. It is necessary to change the procedure to load the communication content information corresponding to this "next old communication partner information".

As described above, the present invention has the function of managing the communication history information including the communication partner information and the communication content information of the communication partner of the real-time two-way communication utilizing the short-distance wireless communication function. Therefore, the connection control using the communication history information for the communication partner of the real-time two-way communication can be performed.

Specifically, for example, as shown in FIG.
Compares whether the communication partner information acquired from the partner terminal trying to start communication matches the communication partner information in the communication history information, and the acquired communication partner information matches the communication partner information in the communication history information. In this case, the real-time bidirectional communication with the partner terminal can be started from the state in which the communication content information corresponding to the matched communication partner information in the communication history information is loaded.

In this case, if the communication partner has communicated in the past, the user operation at the time of starting communication with the communication partner is only the first access operation, and the contents communicated with the communication partner in the past. Communication can be restarted from.

When it is detected that the communication is interrupted, the communication partner of the immediately preceding communication is specified from the communication partner information in the communication history information, and the real-time two-way communication is reconnected to the communication partner. In this case, after the communication is interrupted, the user operation for reconnecting to the communication partner who was communicating immediately before the interruption becomes almost unnecessary. In addition, the present invention is
Without being limited to the embodiments described above and shown in the drawings, the invention can be appropriately modified and implemented without changing the gist of the invention.

For example, in the above-mentioned embodiment, only the function of storing / updating the communication history information has been described as the function provided to the mobile wireless terminal 10.
In addition, for example, a means for the user to perform an instruction operation to delete the communication history information in the input / operation unit 21 and to delete the corresponding communication history information in the communication history storage unit 14 based on the deletion instruction operation by the user. You may add.

As for the modified example of the communication history information erasing function, as described above, the communication history information for each communication partner is information relating to the time when one communication is performed (time information).
The communication history information corresponding to the communication partner information after a lapse of a predetermined time from the time is automatically deleted based on the time information corresponding to each communication partner information in the communication history information. An automatic erasing means may be provided.

In the above embodiment, chat is taken as an example of real-time two-way communication, but the present invention can be applied to communication other than chat.

[0076]

As described above, according to the present invention,
Communication history information managing means for managing, for each communication partner, communication history information consisting of communication partner information for identifying the communication partner and communication content information of the communication partner, and communication history managed by the communication history information managing means. When the real-time two-way communication is started or the interrupted real-time two-way communication is restarted, since the communication means is provided with the control means for specifying the communication partner and controlling the connection of the real-time two-way communication with the communication partner. In this case, the connection to the communication partner at this time can be automated based on the past communication history information of the communication partner, and the burden on the user operation for the connection can be significantly reduced.

In particular, in the present invention, a comparison means for comparing whether or not the communication partner information acquired from the partner terminal which is about to start communication and the communication partner information in the communication history information are provided, and the acquired communication is obtained. When the partner information and the communication partner information in the communication history information match, the real-time two-way communication with the partner terminal is started from the state in which the communication content information corresponding to the matched communication partner information in the communication history information is loaded. By doing so, if the communication partner has communicated in the past, the user's operation when starting communication with the communication partner is only the first access operation, and the communication is performed based on the content previously communicated with the communication partner. I can resume.

Further, in the present invention, the communication interruption detecting means for detecting the interruption of the communication is provided, and when the communication interruption detecting means detects the communication interruption, the communication immediately before the communication partner information in the communication history information is detected. When the communication partner is identified and the real-time two-way communication with the communication partner is reconnected, the user operation for reconnecting to the communication partner who was communicating immediately before the interruption is almost zero after the communication interruption. It becomes unnecessary.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a conceptual diagram showing a communication image by a mobile wireless terminal according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a mobile radio terminal according to the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing one form of communication history information managed by a mobile wireless terminal according to the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a control sequence at the start of real-time two-way communication between mobile radio terminals according to the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a communication restart control sequence after interruption of real-time bidirectional communication between mobile radio terminals according to the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

Mobile radio terminals 10, 10a, 10b, 10c 11 Wireless telephone communication section 12 Wireless telephone communication controller 13 Message processing part 14 Communication history storage 15 Communication history management section 16 Short-distance wireless communication controller 17 Short-range wireless communication detector 18 Near field communication unit 20 Control unit 21 Input / Operation section 22 Display 110 Short-distance wireless communication function unit

   ─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continued front page    (72) Inventor Toshiya Tamura             2-9 Suehiro-cho, Ome City, Tokyo Stock Market             Company Toshiba Ome Factory (72) Inventor Tosaku Tanada             2-9 Suehiro-cho, Ome City, Tokyo Stock Market             Company Toshiba Ome Factory (72) Inventor Kentaro Nagahama             2-9 Suehiro-cho, Ome City, Tokyo Stock Market             Company Toshiba Ome Factory F-term (reference) 5K033 AA02 AA05 CB11 DA01 DA19                       EC04                 5K034 AA17 DD01 EE03 FF13 MM03                 5K067 AA34 BB04 DD17 DD51 EE04                       EE25 EE35 FF02 FF05 FF07                       FF23 HH23 KK15

Claims (5)

[Claims] 1. A short-distance wireless communication terminal device for performing real-time two-way communication using a short-distance wireless communication function, in which communication partner information for specifying a communication partner of the communication and communication of the latest communication with the communication partner. Communication history information managing means for managing communication history information composed of content information in association with time information of the latest one communication for each communication partner, and the communication history managed by the communication history information managing means A short-range wireless communication terminal device, comprising: control means for identifying a communication partner from information and controlling connection of the real-time two-way communication with the communication partner. 2. Comparing means for comparing whether or not the communication partner information acquired from the partner terminal which is about to start communication and the communication partner information in the communication history information are matched, the control means comprising: When the acquired communication partner information matches the communication partner information in the communication history information, both real-time communication with the partner terminal from the state in which the communication content information corresponding to the matched communication partner information in the communication history information is loaded. The communication for starting is started.
The short-range wireless communication terminal device described. 3. A communication interruption detecting means for detecting interruption of communication, wherein the control means, when the communication interruption is detected by the communication interruption detecting means, determines from communication partner information in the communication history information. 3. The short-range wireless communication terminal device according to claim 1, wherein a communication partner of the immediately preceding communication is specified and real-time two-way communication is reconnected to the communication partner. 4. The short-range wireless communication terminal device according to claim 1, further comprising an erasing unit that erases the communication history information based on a user's erasing instruction operation. 5. An automatic erasing means for automatically erasing communication history information corresponding to communication partner information after a predetermined time has elapsed from the time based on the time information corresponding to each communication partner information in the communication history information. The short-range wireless communication terminal device according to claim 1, comprising: