JP2006310984A - Telephone directory management system and telephone directory management method - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a telephone directory management system capable of controlling call transmission of a caller terminal in response to an update state of telephone directory data. <P>SOLUTION: The telephone directory management system 10 includes: a data selection section 201 for selecting telephone directory data corresponding to a request from a mobile phone 50 among telephone directory data stored in a data storage section 250 in response to the request; a data transmission section 202 for transmitting the selected telephone directory data together with selection time information to the mobile phone 50; a calling state reception section 301 for receiving the selection time information transmitted from the mobile phone 50; an update discrimination section 302 for discriminating previous and next times with respect to times particularized respectively by the received selection time information and the update time information stored in the data storage section 250; and a transmission control section 303 for permitting call transmission by the mobile phone 50 to mobile phones 51 to 53 in response to a result of the discrimination. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a telephone directory management system and a telephone directory management method for transmitting telephone directory data to a caller terminal.

Based on the phone book data stored in the communication terminal, communication is performed with the communication terminal included in the phone book data. Further, there is a technique of storing this telephone directory data in a server and transmitting it to a communication terminal upon request (see, for example, Patent Document 1 below).
JP 2003-134217 A

  In Patent Document 1, customized telephone book data (address book data in Patent Document 1) is generated from master data (phone book data in Patent Document 1) in a server and transmitted to a terminal. As described in paragraph No. 0004 of Patent Document 1, telephone book data (address book data in Patent Document 1) stored in the terminal can be automatically updated by using this technique. .

  However, this “automatic update” is intended only for the purpose of automating the selection of data and the like, and the phone book data stored in each terminal (address book data in Patent Document 1 above). ) Cannot be automatically discriminated whether or not it is the latest information.

  Therefore, for example, even if a call is made based on telephone book data (address book data in Patent Document 1) recognized as the latest by the user of the terminal, the telephone book data may become old in some cases. In some cases, outgoing calls cannot be made normally.

  Therefore, the present invention provides a telephone directory management system and a telephone directory management method for transmitting telephone directory data to a transmission source terminal, and controls transmission of the transmission source terminal according to the update status of the telephone directory data to be transmitted. It is an object of the present invention to provide a telephone directory management system and a telephone directory management method that enable this.

  The telephone book management system of the present invention includes a data storage means for storing telephone book data including terminal specifying information for specifying each of a plurality of destination terminals together with update time information related to the telephone book data, and a request from a source terminal Depending on the data, the data selection means for selecting the telephone book data corresponding to the sender terminal from the telephone book data stored in the data storage means, and the selected time is specified for the selected telephone book data Data transmission means for transmitting to the source terminal together with the selected time information to be selected, and the selection time of the phone book data to be transmitted when the source terminal transmits to the destination terminal specified by the transmitted phone book data Before and after the time specified by each of the reception time receiving means for receiving information, and the received selection time information and the update time information stored in the data storage means. Comprising updating determining means for disconnection, the outgoing call control means for permitting the sending of the destination terminal according to the result of the determination, the.

  According to the present invention, the telephone book data and the selected time information are transmitted to the caller terminal, and the selected time information and the update time information stored in advance are transmitted together with the telephone book data when the caller terminal makes a call. Therefore, it is possible to determine whether or not the phone book data transmitted to the caller terminal has been updated thereafter. Since the outgoing call is permitted according to the result of the determination, for example, after sending the phone book data to the caller terminal, the telephone number or status information of the destination terminal (call available / not available, presence / absence) When the book data is updated, it is possible to control to limit outgoing calls.

  In the telephone directory management system of the present invention, it is preferable that the telephone directory management system further includes data updating means for updating the telephone directory data and update time information stored in the data storage means. Since the update time information specifying the time when the data was updated is updated together with the phone book data, the phone book data and the update time information can be updated in association with each other.

  In the telephone directory management system of the present invention, it is also preferable that the update time information specifies the time when the configuration of a plurality of terminal identification information included in the telephone directory data is updated. Since the update time information specifies the time when the configuration of the phone book data is updated, processing according to the configuration change is possible.

  In the telephone directory management system of the present invention, the call control means sends a call when the determination result of the update determination means is after the time specified by the selected time information is later than the time specified by the update time information. It is also preferable to allow. Since the outgoing call based on the telephone book data acquired after the time when the configuration of the telephone book data is changed is permitted, the outgoing call by the telephone book data not having the latest configuration can be excluded.

  In the telephone directory management system according to the present invention, the update time information individually specifies the time when the status information of each user who uses a plurality of destination terminals specified by the telephone directory data is updated. Is also preferable. Since the update time information specifies the time when each piece of information included in the phone book data is updated, processing according to the change of each piece of information is possible.

  Further, in the telephone directory management system of the present invention, the transmission control means specifies the time specified by the selected time information for the part of the plurality of terminal specifying information as the determination result of the update determining means. It is also preferable to allow outgoing calls only to the destination terminals specified by the partial terminal specifying information. When individual information included in the phone book data is changed, the information changed after the time when the phone book data was acquired is excluded, so that the outgoing information by the latest information included in the phone book data is excluded. be able to.

  A telephone directory management method of the present invention is a telephone directory management method for transmitting telephone directory data including terminal identification information for identifying a plurality of destination terminals to a source terminal, wherein the data selection means In response to a request from the source terminal, a data selection step for selecting the phone book data corresponding to the source terminal from the phone book data stored in the data storage unit, and the data transmission unit selects the selected data A data transmission step for transmitting the telephone book data to the transmission source terminal together with the selected time information for specifying the selected time, and a destination terminal for which the receiving means at the time of transmission is specified by the telephone book data transmitted in the data transmission step The outgoing call receiving step for receiving the selected time information of the transmitted telephone directory data, which is transmitted by the caller terminal when making a call, and the update judging means receive the received An update determination step for determining before and after the time specified by each of the selected time information and the update time information stored in the data storage means, and the transmission control means transmits the call to the destination terminal according to the result of the determination A transmission control step for permitting the transmission.

  According to the present invention, the telephone book data and the selected time information are transmitted to the caller terminal, and the selected time information and the update time information stored in advance are transmitted together with the telephone book data when the caller terminal makes a call. Therefore, it is possible to determine whether or not the phone book data transmitted to the caller terminal has been updated thereafter. Since the outgoing call is permitted according to the result of the determination, for example, after sending the phone book data to the caller terminal, the telephone number or status information of the destination terminal (call available / not available, presence / absence) When the book data is updated, it is possible to control to limit outgoing calls.

  According to the present invention, it can be determined whether or not the telephone directory data transmitted to the caller terminal has been updated thereafter. Therefore, it is possible to control the transmission of the caller terminal according to the update status of the phone book data.

  The teachings of the present invention can be readily understood by considering the following detailed description with reference to the accompanying drawings shown for illustration only. Subsequently, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings. Where possible, the same parts are denoted by the same reference numerals, and redundant description is omitted.

  A telephone directory management system according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a configuration of the telephone directory management system 10. In the present embodiment, an example of controlling mobile phones 50, 51, 52, and 53 connectable to the network 40 will be described. The network 40 is a core network in a mobile phone network. Further, in the present embodiment, a case where the mobile phone 50 transmits to the mobile phones 51, 52, and 53 simultaneously will be described as an example. Accordingly, the mobile phone 50 functions as a caller terminal, and the mobile phones 51, 52, and 53 function as callee terminals.

  The telephone directory management system 10 includes an information provision / management server 20 and an authentication server 30 which are computers (or computer systems configured by a plurality of computers) connected so as to be able to communicate information with the network 40. I have.

  The information provision / management server 20 includes a data selection unit 201 (data selection unit), a data transmission unit 202 (data transmission unit), a data update unit 203 (data update unit), and a data storage unit 250 (data storage unit). And. Subsequently, each component will be described.

  The data selection unit 201 is a part that selects phone book data corresponding to the mobile phone 50 from the phone book data stored in the data storage unit 250 in response to a request from the mobile phone 50 that is a transmission source terminal. is there. More specifically, when the mobile phone 50 transmits a phone book data acquisition request to the network 40, the network 40 sends the acquisition request together with a telephone number that is information for identifying the mobile phone 50 to the information provision / management server 20. Send to. The data selection unit 201 receives the acquired acquisition request and telephone number.

  The data selection unit 201 selects corresponding phone book data from the phone book data stored in the data storage unit 250 based on the received acquisition request and the telephone number, and outputs the selected phone book data to the data transmission unit 202.

  An example of information stored in the data storage unit 250 is shown in FIG. (A) to (C) of FIG. 2 respectively show the phone book data of the same group, and exemplify cases where the update states are different (details will be described later). As shown in FIG. 2, the data storage unit 250 associates “group name”, “group ID”, and “group update time information (update time information)” with “user name (status information) of users belonging to the group. ) "" Phone number (terminal identification information) "" status (status information) "" individual update time information (update time information) ".

  “Group name” indicates the name of the group, and in the case of FIG. The “group ID” is an ID for specifying the group, and is “JG” in the case of FIG. The “group update time information” is information for specifying the update time when the configuration of the group is changed, and is “2005011033055” in the case of FIG. “200501313055” indicates 13:30:55 on January 10, 2005. As described above, the concept of time in the present embodiment indicates a certain moment in the flow of time.

  “User name” indicates the name of the user belonging to the group. In the present embodiment, “user 50” is the name of the user of the mobile phone 50, “user 51” is the name of the user of the mobile phone 51, and “user 52” is the name of the user of the mobile phone 52. “User 53” is the name of the user of the mobile phone 53. “Telephone number” indicates the telephone number of the mobile phone used by the corresponding user. The “telephone number” may be information that can identify and identify each mobile phone in the network 40, and may be information such as a machine number. “Status” is status information indicating the status of the corresponding user. The “individual update time information” is information indicating the time when the corresponding “phone number” and “status” are updated. Like the “group update time information”, the “individual update time information” specifies the time using information starting from the year. For example, “20050210113055” indicates 11:30:55 on February 10, 2005. ing.

  When the received telephone number is “090050XXXX” of the mobile phone 50, the data selection unit 201 selects the telephone book data including the telephone number from the telephone book data stored in the data storage unit 250. In the present embodiment, only the phone book data in one group is illustrated for the sake of simplification, but a lot of phone book data may be stored in the data storage unit 250. One user may belong to a plurality of groups. In this case, the data selection unit 201 selects a plurality of corresponding phone book data. In the case of the information illustrated in FIG. 2, the data selection unit 201 selects “group ID”, “user name”, “phone number”, and “status” of the corresponding phone book data and outputs them to the data transmission unit 202.

  The data transmission unit 202 is a part that transmits the telephone directory data selected by the data selection unit 201 to the mobile phone 50 that is a transmission source terminal together with selection time information that specifies the selected time. For example, if the selected time is 12:30:55 on February 10, 2005, the selected time information is “20050210123055”.

  The data update unit 203 is a part that updates the phone book data, group update time information, and individual update time information stored in the data storage unit 250. The data update unit 203 may perform the update based on the instruction information transmitted from the outside of the information provision / management server 20, and updates the data based on the instruction information directly input to the information provision / management server 20. You may go.

  FIG. 2B shows an example in which the “status” of each user is updated from the phone book data shown in FIG. When (A) and (B) of FIG. 2 are compared, the “status” of each user indicates that the user 50 changes from “present” to “business trip”, and the user 51 changes from “present” to “resting”. The user 52 is updated from “present” to “in meeting”. “Individual update time information” indicates the time when the “status” of each user was updated.

  FIG. 2C shows an example in which the configuration of the user included in the phone book data is updated from the phone book data shown in FIG. 2A and 2C are compared, the user 53 is deleted, and only the users 50, 51, and 52 are included in the group. “Group update time information” indicates the time when the user included in the group is changed in this way. Note that even when the “phone number” of each user is changed, it is assumed that the configuration has been changed.

  Returning to FIG. 1, the authentication server 30 will be described. The authentication server 30 includes a call reception unit 301 (transmission reception unit), an update determination unit 302 (update determination unit), and a transmission control unit 303 (transmission control unit). Subsequently, each component will be described.

  The receiving unit 301 at the time of outgoing call transmits the selected time information of the phone book data to be sent when the mobile phone 50 makes a call to the mobile phones 51, 52, 53 specified by the phone book data sent from the information providing / management server 20. This is the part that receives More specifically, when the mobile phone 50 selects the phone book data and performs a call operation, the “group ID” and the selected time information of the phone book data are transmitted to the network 40 and transmitted from the network 40 to the authentication server 30. Is done.

  For example, if the time when the information provision / management server 20 selects the phone book data is 12:30:55 on February 10, 2005, the selected time information is “20050210123055”, so the received information is the selected time. The information is “20050210123055” and the “group ID” is “JG”. The outgoing call reception unit 301 outputs the received “group ID” and selection time information to the update determination unit 302.

  The update determination unit 302 displays the time before and after the time specified by the selection time information received by the outgoing call reception unit 301 and the “group update time information” or “individual update time information” stored in the data storage unit 250. It is the part to judge. More specifically, the update determination unit 302 selects the phone book data stored in the data storage unit 250 based on the “group ID” output from the call reception unit 301.

  Next, the update determination unit 302 compares the “group update time information” in the selected phone book data with the selected time information. When the selected time information is “20050210123055”, if “B” in FIG. 2, the “group update time information” is “2005011033055”, the time specified by the selected time information is “group update time”. It is later than the time specified by “information”. In this case, the update determination unit 302 outputs information to that effect to the transmission control unit 303. Even if the selected time information is “20050210123055”, if “C” in FIG. 2, the “group update time information” is “2005503133055”, the time specified by the selected time information is “group update”. It is before the time specified by “time information”. In this case, the update determination unit 302 outputs information to that effect to the transmission control unit 303.

  The update determination unit 302 compares each “individual update time information” with the selected time information when the time specified by the selected time information is later than the time specified by the “group update time information”. In the case where the selected time information is “20050210123055”, in FIG. 2B, since the “individual update time information” of the user 52 is “20050210133055”, only the user 52 is specified by the selected time information. It is updated after the time. In this case, the update determination unit 302 outputs information to that effect to the transmission control unit 303.

  The transmission control unit 303 is a part that permits transmission to the mobile phones 51, 52, and 53 according to the determination result of the update determination unit 302. More specifically, when the information output from the update determination unit 302 is before the time specified by the “group update time information”, the corresponding phone book data An instruction not permitting outgoing calls to mobile phones used by all users included in is transmitted to the network 40. In the case of (C) of FIG. 2, the transmission control unit 303 transmits an instruction not to permit transmission to the mobile phones 51, 52, 53 to the network 40.

  Further, the information output from the update determination unit 302 is specified by “individual update time information” after the time specified by the selection time information is later than the time specified by “group update time information”. If all the times are before the time specified by the selected time information, an instruction to permit outgoing calls to mobile phones used by all users included in the corresponding phone book data is transmitted to the network 40.

  Further, the information output from the update determination unit 302 is a part of the “individual update time information” after the time specified by the selection time information is later than the time specified by the “group update time information”. If the specified time is earlier than the time specified by the selected time information, an instruction for permitting outgoing calls to mobile phones used by some of the users is transmitted to the network 40. In the case of (B) in FIG. 2, the transmission control unit 303 transmits an instruction to the network 40 to permit transmission to the mobile phones 51 and 53 and not to permit transmission to the mobile phone 52. In this case, transmission to all mobile phones may be prohibited.

  Next, a phone book management method using the phone book management system 10 will be described with reference to FIGS. FIGS. 1 and 2 are diagrams that have already been referred to, and FIG. 3 is a sequence diagram for explaining a telephone book management method using the telephone book management system 10.

  When a phone book data acquisition request is input to the mobile phone 50 that is a caller terminal, the acquisition request is transmitted to the information provision / management server 20 via the network 40 (step S01).

  The data selection unit 201 of the information provision / management server 20 receives the phone book data acquisition request transmitted from the mobile phone 50. The data selection unit 201 selects phone book data corresponding to the mobile phone 50 from the phone book data stored in the data storage means 250 in response to a request from the mobile phone 50 which is a transmission source terminal (step S02, data selection step).

  The phone book data selected by the data selection unit 201 is output to the data transmission unit 202. The data transmission unit 202 transmits the telephone directory data selected by the data selection unit 201 to the mobile phone 50 which is the transmission source terminal together with the selection time information for specifying the selected time (step S03, data transmission step).

  The cellular phone 50 selects the transmitted phone book data and performs a call operation to the cellular phones 51, 52, 53 included in the phone book data (step S04). In response to this operation, a call request is transmitted from the mobile phone 50 to the network 40 (step S05).

  When the network 40 receives the call request, the network 40 transmits an authentication request to the authentication server 30 (step S06). This authentication request includes the “group ID” of the phone book data transmitted from the mobile phone 50 and the selection time information. The transmitted authentication request is received by the receiving unit 301 at the time of outgoing call of the authentication server 30 (step S07, receiving step at the time of outgoing call). The outgoing call reception unit 301 outputs the received “group ID” and selection time information to the update determination unit 302.

  Before and after the time that the update determination unit 302 specifies between the selection time information received by the outgoing call reception unit 301 and the “group update time information” or “individual update time information” stored in the data storage unit 250. Judgment (step S08, update judgment step). The update determination unit 302 outputs information indicating the determination result to the transmission control unit 303.

  The transmission control unit 303 permits the transmission to the mobile phones 51, 52, and 53 according to the determination result of the update determination unit 302 (step S09, transmission control step). When permitting outgoing calls, the outgoing call control unit 303 gives an outgoing call permission instruction including whether to allow outgoing calls to all mobile phones included in the phone book data, or to allow outgoing calls to only one of the mobile phones. It transmits to the network 40 (step S10). When receiving the call permission instruction, the network 40 performs a predetermined call process (step S11).

  When the transmission control unit 303 does not permit the transmission, the transmission control unit 303 transmits a transmission non-permission instruction indicating the fact to the network 40 (step S12). When receiving the call rejection instruction, the network 40 transmits an error notification to the mobile phone 50 (step S13).

  In the present embodiment, the telephone directory management system 10 is configured by the information provision / management server 20 and the authentication server 30, but may be configured as an integrated server including functional parts included in both servers.

  According to this embodiment, the telephone book data and the selected time information are transmitted to the mobile phone 50, and the selected time information and the update time information stored in advance are transmitted together with the telephone book data when the mobile phone 50 makes a call. Since each of (group update time information, individual update time information) before and after the specified time is confirmed, it can be determined whether or not the phone book data transmitted to the mobile phone 50 has been updated thereafter. Since the outgoing call is permitted according to the result of the determination, for example, after transmitting the phone book data to the mobile phone 50, the phone number and status information of the mobile phones 51, 52, 53 (possible / impossible calls, being present / When the phone book data such as (absence) is updated, it is possible to control to limit outgoing calls.

It is a figure which shows the structure of the telephone directory management system which is embodiment of this invention. It is the figure which showed the example of the information stored in the data storage part of FIG. It is a figure for demonstrating the telephone directory management method using the telephone directory management system which is embodiment of this invention.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 ... Phonebook management system, 20 ... Information provision / management server, 30 ... Authentication server, 40 ... Network, 50, 51, 52, 53 ... Mobile phone, 201 ... Data selection part, 202 ... Data transmission part, 203 ... Data Update unit, 250... Data storage unit, 301... Outgoing call reception unit, 302... Update determination unit, 303.

Claims (7)

Data storage means for storing phone book data including terminal specifying information for specifying each of a plurality of destination terminals, together with update time information relating to the phone book data;
In response to a request from the source terminal, data selection means for selecting telephone book data corresponding to the source terminal from the telephone book data stored in the data storage means;
Data transmitting means for transmitting the selected telephone directory data to the source terminal together with selected time information for specifying the selected time;
The call origination receiving means for receiving the selected time information of the phone book data, which is transmitted when the caller terminal calls the destination terminal specified by the transmitted phone book data;
Update determination means for determining before and after the time specified by each of the received selection time information and update time information stored in the data storage means;
A transmission control means for permitting transmission to the destination terminal according to a result of the determination;
A phone book management system. 2. The telephone directory management system according to claim 1, further comprising data updating means for updating telephone directory data and update time information stored in the data storage means. 3. The telephone directory management system according to claim 1, wherein the update time information specifies a time at which a configuration of a plurality of pieces of terminal identification information included in the telephone directory data is updated. The transmission control unit permits transmission when the determination result of the update determination unit is after the time specified by the selected time information is later than the time specified by the update time information. Phonebook management system described in 1. 3. The update time information according to claim 1, wherein the update time information individually specifies the time at which the status information of each user using a plurality of destination terminals specified by the telephone directory data is updated. Phone book management system. The transmission control means includes
When the determination result of the update determination means is a time specified by the selection time information after a time specified by the update time information for a part of the plurality of terminal specification information,
6. The telephone directory management system according to claim 5, wherein outgoing calls are permitted only to a destination terminal identified by the partial terminal identification information. A telephone directory management method for transmitting telephone directory data including terminal identification information for identifying a plurality of destination terminals to a source terminal,
A data selection step in which the data selection means selects phone book data corresponding to the caller terminal from the phone book data stored in the data storage means in response to a request from the caller terminal;
A data transmission step in which the data transmission means transmits the selected telephone directory data to the transmission source terminal together with selection time information for specifying the selected time;
When the outgoing call receiving means makes a call to the destination terminal specified by the telephone directory data transmitted in the data transmission step, the selection time information of the transmitted telephone directory data transmitted by the source terminal is received. Receiving on-call reception step;
An update determination step in which the update determination unit determines before and after the time specified by the received selection time information and the update time information stored in the data storage unit;
A telephone directory management method comprising: a transmission control step in which a transmission control means permits a transmission to the destination terminal according to a result of the determination.

Images