JP2007082089A - Communication device and method - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a communication device by which a response can be made after having specified a sender without disconnecting the communication connected with a communication device at a sending party side even if an incoming call corresponding to a rejection setting for an incoming call has arrived. <P>SOLUTION: The communication device includes a sender information receiving means for receiving sender information for specifying a communication device of the sender, an incoming call condition setting means for setting the communication device of the sender and an incoming call condition that responds the incoming call, a judging means for judging whether to permit response to the incoming call from the communication device of the sender with reference to the sender information and the incoming call condition, and a sender information demanding means for demanding, to the communication device of the sender, the sender information deficient to satisfy the incoming call condition when the sender information doesn' t satisfy the incoming call condition. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a communication device and a communication method for transmitting and receiving caller information for identifying and identifying a communication device on the transmission side.

  2. Description of the Related Art Communication terminal devices having an incoming call rejection function for rejecting incoming calls such as mischievous telephones have been known. As a method for rejecting the incoming call, a plurality of telephone numbers are registered in the memory in advance and the incoming call is rejected when it does not match the telephone number sent at the time of the incoming call. There is a method of rejecting an incoming call when it matches the incoming phone number.

  However, the above-described incoming call rejection method is based on the assumption that the telephone number to which the incoming call rejection setting is to be applied is known, and cannot accept or reject an incoming call for an unknown telephone number.

Therefore, as described in Patent Document 1, an incoming call rejection method has been proposed in which an incoming telephone number is not notified to a receiving communication apparatus when the incoming telephone number is not notified.
JP-A-2-54656

  However, in the incoming call rejection method described in Patent Document 1, when an incoming call with no number notification is made, the communication is once disconnected, the setting of the communication device or communication network on the transmission side is changed to the number notification, and the outgoing call is made again. There was a need to do. In addition, since this incoming call rejection method uses only the presence / absence of a telephone number notification as a condition for incoming call response, if there is an incoming call from an unknown telephone number, whether or not the user responds based only on the notified telephone number. I had to judge.

  The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and even if there is an incoming call corresponding to the incoming call rejection setting, the caller is identified without disconnecting the communication connected to the communication device on the outgoing side. It is an object of the present invention to provide a communication device that can respond after receiving the request.

  The communication apparatus according to the present invention includes a caller information receiving unit that receives caller information that identifies a communication device on the caller side, an incoming condition setting unit that sets an incoming call condition for answering an incoming call with the communication device on the caller side, Incoming response permission means for permitting an incoming call response with the communication device on the calling side with reference to the caller information and the incoming call condition, and insufficient for satisfying the incoming call condition when the caller information does not satisfy the incoming call condition Caller information requesting means for requesting the caller information to the communication device on the caller side.

  With this configuration, if the received caller information does not meet the preset call reception conditions, such as when the telephone number is not notified, the caller information required to satisfy the call reception condition is requested to the caller communication device. When the requested caller information is returned, the incoming call condition is satisfied and the incoming call response is permitted, so that the response can be made without disconnecting the communication with the communication device on the caller side.

  The communication device of the present invention further includes caller information display means for displaying the caller information.

  With this configuration, the user of the communication device on the receiving side can check the notified caller information.

  The communication apparatus of the present invention comprises request receiving means for receiving a request from the caller information requesting means, and request replying means for returning caller information corresponding to the received request contents.

  With this configuration, when the caller information that has been sent does not satisfy the incoming call conditions set by the communication device on the receiving side, such as when the telephone number is not notified, the caller information requested by the communication device on the receiving side is You can reply.

  The communication device of the present invention further includes request content display means for displaying caller information corresponding to the received request content.

  With this configuration, the user of the communication device on the transmission side can confirm the content of the caller information requested as information necessary for answering the incoming call from the communication device on the reception side by checking the display means.

  In addition, the communication apparatus of the present invention includes a reply permission / non-selection selecting unit that selects permission / rejection of the sender information according to the received request content.

  With this configuration, it is possible to select whether or not to return the corresponding sender information according to the content requested by the communication device on the receiving side.

  The caller information received or transmitted by the communication device of the present invention is information including the telephone number of the communication device on the caller side.

  With this configuration, whether or not a telephone number is notified can be set as an incoming call condition.

  In addition, the communication device of the present invention includes a caller information recording unit that records the caller information, and the incoming call response permission unit includes the caller information recorded in the caller information recording unit and the communication device on the caller side. It is determined whether or not the incoming call response with the caller communication device is permitted with reference to the caller information received from the caller and the incoming call condition.

  With this configuration, since the recorded sender information is also referred to, it is not necessary to request the sender information once requested and recorded from the sender communication device.

  The communication method of the present invention includes a caller information receiving step for receiving caller information for identifying a communication device on the caller side, an incoming condition setting step for setting an incoming call condition for answering an incoming call with the communication device on the caller side, A determination step of determining whether or not to accept an incoming call response with a communication device on a caller side with reference to the caller information and the incoming call condition; and when the caller information does not satisfy the incoming call condition, the incoming call A caller information requesting step for requesting caller information that is insufficient to satisfy the condition to the communication device on the caller side.

  According to the present invention, even when there is an incoming call corresponding to the incoming call rejection setting, it is possible to respond after specifying the caller without disconnecting the communication connected to the communication device on the caller side. .

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.
(Embodiment 1)
FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration of the mobile phone 10. In this figure, the mobile phone 10 includes an antenna 101, a radio unit 102, a baseband unit 103, a control unit 104, a display unit 105, and a microphone / speaker unit 106. The wireless unit 102 communicates with the network of the mobile phone network via the antenna 101 to realize voice communication and communication with each server.

  The radio unit 102 down-converts the radio signal captured by the antenna 101 from the radio frequency to the baseband frequency and inputs the radio signal to the baseband unit 103. The baseband signal generated by the baseband unit 103 is also converted to the radio frequency. The data is converted and transmitted from the antenna 101.

  The baseband unit 103 performs processing such as demodulation on the baseband signal from the wireless unit 102 and inputs the baseband signal to the control unit 104, and modulates transmission data from the control unit 104 to perform baseband signal processing. Is input to the wireless unit 102.

  The control unit 104 includes a CPU, a RAM, a ROM, and the like (not shown), and includes a caller information receiving unit 1041, a determination unit 1042, an incoming call condition setting unit 1043, a caller information requesting unit 1044, and a caller information recording unit 1045. The timer unit 1046 is realized. The RAM of the control unit 104 is equipped with volatile and non-volatile ones, the volatile ones are used as work memory, and the non-volatile ones are sender information records for recording sender information. Used as part 1045.

  As shown in FIG. 2, the incoming call condition setting unit 1043 includes caller information (telephone number, e-mail address, personal identification number, name, etc.) used to specify / identify a mobile phone terminal (calling side terminal) that has made a call. ), At least caller information to be requested to the caller terminal to answer the incoming call is set.

  2, when an incoming call is received from the terminal A, for example, the telephone number of the terminal A and the name of the user of the terminal A are requested. Here, the setting is such that the e-mail address and password of terminal A are not requested.

  The sender information is not limited to the example shown here, and may be any information that can be used to identify the terminal on the calling side. The ciphers shared within the group may be used, and combinations are also free.

  Returning to FIG. 1, the caller information receiving unit 1041 receives the caller information sent (notified) from the terminal on the caller side when receiving an incoming call. The determination unit 1042 refers to the above-described incoming call condition and the received caller information, confirms whether all the caller information requested by the incoming call condition is available, and determines whether or not to accept the incoming call response. Determine.

  The received caller information is recorded in the caller information recording unit 1045.

  When determining whether or not to accept an incoming call response, the caller information recorded in the caller information recording unit 1045 is referred to as well as the caller information received at the time of incoming call. Also good.

  When the determination unit 1042 permits the incoming call response, that is, when the caller information requested by the incoming call condition is complete, the baseband unit 103 and the microphone / speaker unit 106 are turned on, Enable to talk to the terminal.

  When the determination unit 1042 does not permit the incoming call response, that is, when the caller information requested by the incoming call condition is not complete, the caller information request unit 1044 is based on an instruction for requesting the caller information that is insufficient. Send to band unit 103. Upon receiving the instruction, the request is notified to the terminal on the transmission side via the wireless unit 102 and the antenna 101.

  If there is no reply even if the caller information that is lacking in the caller terminal is requested, communication is cut off and call rejection is executed. In addition, when the timer unit 106 requests the missing caller information and no reply is received even after a predetermined time has elapsed, the communication unit may be disconnected and the incoming call may be rejected.

  The display unit 105 displays the caller information sent (notified) from the terminal on the caller side when receiving a call.

  With this configuration, for example, even if the caller information received from the terminal on the calling side does not satisfy the preset incoming conditions, such as when the telephone number is not notified, it is necessary to satisfy the incoming conditions. Requesting caller information from the caller's communication device, and when the requested caller information is returned, the incoming call condition is satisfied and the incoming call response is allowed, so the communication with the caller's communication device is disconnected. You can respond without.

  The determination unit 1042 has been described with respect to a case in which it is confirmed whether all caller information requested by the incoming call condition is complete and the incoming call response is permitted. However, the present invention is not limited to this. If at least one of the information can be confirmed, the incoming call response may be permitted. For example, the configuration may be such that at least a telephone number is requested as caller information requested in the incoming condition.

  Next, the operation of the mobile phone 10 having the above configuration will be described with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG.

  Here, the receiving terminal (mobile phone 10) is a setting for requesting a telephone number as the caller information requested in the receiving condition, and the calling terminal is a setting not to notify any caller information when making a call. The operation of the mobile phone 10 will be described.

  First, the telephone number is called from the calling terminal to the receiving terminal without notification (S101). The receiving terminal that has confirmed that the telephone number has not been notified requests the calling terminal to notify the telephone number by the caller information request unit 1044 (S102).

  In response to the request, the calling terminal notifies the receiving terminal of the telephone number (S103). In this way, if the receiving terminal refuses incoming calls without notification, even if the calling terminal is set to notify phone numbers, the receiving terminal When a number is requested, the telephone number is notified in accordance with the request, so that the call connection state can be established without disconnecting the connection and without making a call again.

  Further, when the receiving terminal does not request a telephone number, it is not necessary to notify the telephone number, so that it is not necessary to send the telephone number to the communication network unnecessarily. In this description, it is assumed that the above procedure is executed before the call connection state is entered, but this procedure may be performed after the call connection is completed.

  Next, another operation of the mobile phone 10 having the above configuration will be described with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG.

  Here, in the terminal on the receiving side (mobile phone 10), as the caller information, a call number (information 1) and a caller name (information 3) are set to the call reception condition T200 that requires two calls. The operation of the mobile phone 10 will be described on the assumption that the terminal on the side is set to notify the telephone number (information 1) when making a call.

  First, the terminal on the transmission side notifies the notification information T201 set as the caller information to be notified at the time of transmission by the terminal on the transmission side and makes a call (S201). The receiving side terminal that has received the notification information T201 and has confirmed that the sender name is not notified is sent to the requesting terminal by the sender information requesting unit 1044 (in this case, the sender name). ) Is notified (S202).

  In response to the request, the calling terminal notifies the receiving terminal of notification information T203 (here, the name of the caller) (S203). On the receiving side, when all the information requested as a terminal on the receiving side can be obtained, it is possible to perform an incoming call or a response.

  If there is no response even if a notification requesting insufficient caller information is made, a timer from the time of requesting information (at the time of S202) is provided, and it is handled in the same manner as an incoming call rejection after a certain period of time.

  In addition, when it is notified that insufficient caller information cannot be returned, it is handled in the same way as incoming call rejection.

  Further, another operation of the mobile phone 10 having the above configuration will be described with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG.

  Here, the receiving terminal (mobile phone 10) is set to the receiving condition T300 for requesting two of the telephone number (information 1) and the name of the sender (information 3) as the caller information. The operation of the mobile phone 10 will be described on the assumption that the terminal on the side is set to notify the telephone number (information 1) when making a call.

  First, the terminal on the transmission side notifies the notification information T302 at the time of making a call to the reception side by the information notification S301. In the terminal on the receiving side, the telephone number (information 1) and the name of the caller (information 3) are specified in the receiving condition T300, but the telephone number (information 1) of the receiving side holding information T301 already held on the receiving side. ) And the telephone number (information 1) included in T302 match, the incoming call is permitted without receiving the sender name (information 3). In this way, a configuration may be adopted in which a part of the incoming call condition is exempted with reference to caller information already held in the terminal on the receiving side.

  Although the present embodiment has been described with respect to a mobile phone, it can be applied to general communication devices such as a telephone.

  Further, by replacing the terminal (mobile phone 10) on the receiving side with an authentication server, it can be applied to authentication on the Web or the like.

  Further, it can be applied to message communication using an instant messenger or the like, participation in a conference, and the like.

(Embodiment 2)
FIG. 6 is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration of the mobile phone 20. In this figure, the cellular phone 20 includes an antenna 201, a radio unit 202, a baseband unit 203, a control unit 204, a display unit 205, and a microphone / speaker unit 206. The wireless unit 202 communicates with the network of the cellular phone network via the antenna 201 to realize voice communication and communication with each server.

  The radio unit 202 down-converts the radio signal captured by the antenna 201 from the radio frequency to the baseband frequency and inputs the radio signal to the baseband unit 203. The baseband signal generated by the baseband unit 203 is also converted to the radio frequency. The data is converted and transmitted from the antenna 201.

  The baseband unit 203 performs processing such as demodulation on the baseband signal from the radio unit 202 and inputs the baseband signal to the control unit 204, and modulates transmission data from the control unit 204 to perform baseband signal processing. Is input to the wireless unit 202.

  The control unit 204 includes a CPU, RAM, ROM, and the like (not shown), and implements a request reception unit 2041, a reply availability selection unit 2042, a request reply unit 2043, and a sender information recording unit 2044. The RAM of the control unit 204 is mounted with volatile and non-volatile ones, the volatile ones are used as work memory, and the non-volatile ones are sender information records for recording sender information. Used as part 2044.

  The request receiving unit 2041 receives a request sent from the receiving terminal (hereinafter referred to as request A), that is, a request for caller information necessary for receiving an incoming call response with the receiving terminal.

  The display unit 205 displays the content of the request A received by the request reception unit 2041. The reply availability selection unit 2042 selects / determines whether or not to return the sender information corresponding to the request A to the receiving terminal. This selection / determination may be performed by the user looking at the content of the request A displayed on the display unit 205, or by sorting caller information that may be sent in advance and caller information that is not sent back. Alternatively, it may be configured to automatically determine whether or not to reply. For example, the telephone number may be replied but the sender name may not be replied.

  When the reply availability selection unit 2042 selects / determines that the corresponding sender information is returned to the receiving terminal, the request reply unit 2043 refers to the sender information recording unit 2044 to correspond to the sender information. Is sent to the baseband unit 203. In response to the instruction, a response to the request is returned to the receiving terminal via the wireless unit 202 and the antenna 201.

  The request reply unit 2043 may be configured not only to acquire the corresponding caller information with reference to the caller information recording unit 2044 but also to acquire the corresponding caller information by an input by the user or the like.

  Next, the operation of the mobile phone 20 configured as described above will be described with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG.

  Here, in the terminal on the receiving side, as the caller information, the receiving condition T400 that requires two of the telephone number (information 1) and the name of the caller (information 3) is set. In the telephone 20), the operation of the mobile phone 20 will be described on the assumption that the telephone number (information 1) is notified when a call is made.

  First, the sender sets notification information T401 by notification information selection S401 (S401), and the terminal on the transmission side notifies information 1 specified by the notification information T401 by information notification S402 (S402). In the terminal on the receiving side, in the information request S403, request information T402 indicating request information that has not been received in the incoming condition T400 is transmitted (S403).

  The terminal on the transmission side requests the caller to determine whether or not to notify the information requested by the terminal on the reception side in the information notification availability selection request S404 (S404). The caller selects whether or not to notify the information, and if the call is permitted, the caller terminal transmits information 3 (here, the name of the caller) indicated by the notification information T403 by request notification (response) S406 (S406).

  Note that no information request is made when all of the incoming side request information is transmitted in the information notification S402. Further, the information transmitted in the incoming side request information T400 and the information notification T403 can be arbitrarily selected. Information that can be notified can be set in advance for the information notification availability selection request S404 so that it is not selected every time.

  Further, whether or not the terminal on the transmission side is compatible with the notification response to the information request may be notified from the terminal on the transmission side before the request for the caller information. If there is no caller ID notification response, a timer from the caller ID request time is provided, and after a certain time elapses, the same handling as the incoming call rejection is performed to ensure connection with a device that does not support the function of the present invention. be able to.

  In the above embodiment, the description has been given by dividing the terminal on the incoming side and the terminal on the outgoing side. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and one terminal may have functions on both sides. For example, both the incoming and outgoing terminals may have both functions, and a server that mediates communication between the two terminals may be installed on the communication network.

Hereinafter, the operation of the server will be described with reference to FIG.
First, the terminal on the transmission side transmits an information notification instruction T501 to a server on the line network (S501). The server on the network notifies the information 1 specified by the notification information T502 (S502).

  The terminal on the receiving side transmits request information T503 indicating caller information that has not been received among the reception conditions T500 to the server on the line network (S503). The server on the line network requests the calling terminal to determine whether or not to notify the information requested by the receiving terminal (information 3) (S504).

  The calling terminal selects whether or not to notify information and notifies the server of the result (S505). When the notice of permission is received, the server on the line network transmits information 3 indicated by the notice information T504. (S506) No information request is made if all of the sender information requested by the incoming call conditions has been transmitted at the time of information notification S502.

  The information transmitted in the incoming condition T500 and the notification information T504 can be arbitrarily selected. Information that can be notified can be set in advance for the information notification availability selection request S505 so that it is not selected every time. In addition, the caller may make a final selection, or information that can be notified to the caller is set in advance so that the caller may not select it each time.

  Although the present embodiment has been described with respect to a mobile phone, it can be applied to general communication devices such as a telephone.

  Further, by replacing the terminal on the receiving side with an authentication server, it can be applied to authentication on the Web or the like.

  Further, it can be applied to message communication using an instant messenger or the like, participation in a conference, and the like.

  According to the present invention, it is possible to determine when an unknown caller receives or responds, and to reject a caller who does not respond to a notification. This setting has the effect of eliminating the need to re-transmit the call, and is useful for communication devices such as telephones.

1 is a schematic configuration diagram of a mobile phone according to a first embodiment of the present invention. Figure showing incoming conditions The figure which shows the flowchart of operation | movement of the mobile telephone of Embodiment 1 of this invention. The figure which shows the flowchart of operation | movement of the mobile telephone of Embodiment 1 of this invention. The figure which shows the flowchart of operation | movement of the mobile telephone of Embodiment 1 of this invention. Schematic configuration diagram of a mobile phone according to a second embodiment of the present invention The figure which shows the flowchart of operation | movement of the mobile telephone of Embodiment 2 of this invention. The figure which shows the flowchart of operation | movement of the mobile telephone of Embodiment 2 of this invention.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 101 Antenna 102 Radio | wireless part 103 Baseband part 104 Control part 105 Display part 106 Microphone / speaker part 1041 Caller information receiving part 1042 Judgment part 1043 Incoming call condition setting part 1044 Caller information request | requirement part 1045 Caller information recording part 1046 Timer part 2041 Request receiving unit 2042 Reply availability selection unit 2043 Request reply unit

Claims (8)

A caller information receiving means for receiving caller information for identifying a communication device on the caller side;
Incoming condition setting means for setting an incoming condition for answering an incoming call with a communication device on the calling side;
A determination unit that refers to the caller information and the incoming call condition, and determines whether to accept an incoming call response with a communication device on the caller side;
When the caller information does not satisfy the incoming call conditions, caller information requesting means for requesting the caller information that is insufficient to satisfy the incoming call conditions to the communication device on the caller side;
A communication device comprising:   The communication apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising caller information display means for displaying the caller information. Request receiving means for receiving a request from the caller information requesting means;
A request reply means for returning caller information corresponding to the received request content;
A communication device according to claim 1 or 2.   The communication apparatus according to claim 3, further comprising request content display means for displaying caller information corresponding to the received request content.   5. The communication apparatus according to claim 3 or 4, further comprising reply permission / non-selection selecting means for selecting permission / rejection of reply to the caller information corresponding to the received request content.   The communication device according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the caller information is information including a telephone number of a communication device on a transmission side. Comprising caller information recording means for recording the caller information;
The determination means refers to the caller information recorded in the caller information recording means, the caller information received from the caller communication device, and the call reception response with the caller communication device by referring to the call reception condition. The communication apparatus according to claim 6, wherein it is determined whether or not to permit. A caller information receiving step for receiving caller information for identifying a communication device on the caller side;
An incoming condition setting step for setting an incoming condition for answering an incoming call with a communication device on the calling side;
A determination step for determining whether or not to permit an incoming call response with a communication device on the caller side with reference to the caller information and the incoming call condition;
When the caller information does not satisfy the incoming call condition, a caller information request step for requesting caller information that is insufficient to satisfy the incoming call condition to the communication device on the caller side;
A communication method comprising:

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