JP2009200873A - Portable terminal, communication system, communication method and communication program - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a means for clearly notifying a caller of a reason that an incoming call does not be responded by a simple method. <P>SOLUTION: A cellular phone 100 includes a communication part 125 and a disconnection reason notification control function 124. The communication part 125 included a speech communication function 122 and a mail function 123. The disconnection reason notification control function 124 receives a disconnection reason notification instruction for transmitting image data indicating a reason that an incoming call is not responded to a calling side cellular phone 200, and uses the mail function 123 to transmits the image data to the calling side cellular phone 200 when receiving the incoming call. In addition, when the disconnection reason notification control function 124 does not obtain a mail address of the calling side cellular phone 200, it transmits a substitute character string instead of the image data. The calling side cellular phone 200 receives e-mail including the image data or the substitute character string from the receiving side cellular phone 100. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to an apparatus, a method, and a program for notifying a reason why a response cannot be made when an incoming call cannot be answered.

  In everyday life, when a mobile phone is held, a situation occurs in which an incoming call cannot be answered. In such a case, the telephone is disconnected or the answering machine function is used, but the caller cannot be informed why the telephone cannot be answered. On the other hand, in mobile phones, it is desired to communicate quickly and always.

  For example, Patent Document 1 discloses a technique for transmitting a reason for not responding to a caller as a message without uttering when the caller cannot immediately respond to an incoming call. In Patent Document 2, a user of a mobile terminal device having a telephone call function is photographed by a camera unit at the time of an incoming call so that the caller can be easily notified of the situation where the user cannot answer an incoming call. A technique for transmitting a message selected based on a received image to a sender terminal is disclosed.

  In Patent Document 3, even if the user of the telephone device cannot immediately answer the phone, the situation can be transmitted by selecting and creating a plurality of messages stored in the device with a special key or other means. Is disclosed. Patent Document 4 discloses a technique for adding an advertisement desired by a distributor to image data.

However, with the techniques disclosed in these patent documents, it cannot be said that the user is informed of the reason why the caller cannot be answered to the caller in a simple manner.
JP 2004-080384 A JP 2005-303832 A JP 2006-238492 A JP 2006-109092 A

  An object of the present invention is to provide an apparatus, a method, and a program for notifying a caller in an easy-to-understand manner why a telephone cannot be answered by a simple method.

  One aspect of the mobile terminal according to the present invention is a communication unit including a call function and a mail function, and accepts a disconnect reason notification instruction for transmitting image data indicating a reason for not answering an incoming call to a caller mobile terminal when receiving an incoming call. A disconnection reason notifying unit that transmits the image data to the calling-side mobile terminal using a mail function.

  An aspect of the communication system according to the present invention is a communication system in which a first mobile terminal and a second mobile terminal communicate with each other, wherein the first mobile terminal includes a communication function and a mail function. And when receiving an incoming call from the second mobile terminal, accepting a disconnect reason notification instruction to send image data indicating the reason for not answering the incoming call to the second mobile terminal, and using the mail function, the image data is sent to the second mobile terminal. A disconnection reason notifying unit to be transmitted to the second portable terminal, wherein the second portable terminal receives an email including image data from the first portable terminal.

  Another aspect of the communication method of the present invention is a communication method for a mobile terminal having a call function and a mail function, and transmits image data indicating a reason for not answering an incoming call to the caller mobile terminal when a call is received. An instruction is received, and the image data is transmitted to the calling-side mobile terminal using the mail function.

  Furthermore, another aspect of the communication method of the present invention is a communication method in which a first mobile terminal and a second mobile terminal communicate, and the first mobile terminal receives an incoming call from the second mobile terminal. Accepting an instruction to send image data indicating the reason for not answering the incoming call to the second portable terminal, and sending the image data to the second portable terminal using the mail function. Receive data.

  One aspect of the communication program according to the present invention is a communication program for a portable terminal having a call function and a mail function, and an instruction to transmit image data indicating a reason for not answering an incoming call to a calling-side portable terminal when a call is received And a procedure for transmitting the image data to the calling-side mobile terminal using the mail function.

  ADVANTAGE OF THE INVENTION According to this invention, it becomes possible to provide the apparatus, method, and program which notify a caller in an easy-to-understand manner the reason why he / she cannot answer a call by a simple method.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. For clarity of explanation, the following description and drawings are omitted and simplified as appropriate. In the drawings, components having the same configuration or function and corresponding parts are denoted by the same reference numerals, and description thereof is omitted.

  In the following description, a mobile phone will be described as an example of a mobile terminal. However, the present invention is not limited to a mobile phone, and can be applied to a mobile terminal having at least a call function and a mail function.

(Embodiment 1)
In the first embodiment, the mobile terminal performs a specific key operation at the time of an incoming call, thereby displaying several types of image data representing a situation in which it is not possible to respond to the current call on the screen, A disconnection reason notification control function including means for determining a mail address from a telephone number and automatically transmitting image data to a sender by e-mail simultaneously with disconnection of an incoming call is provided. In addition, the disconnection reason notification control function, when the mail address of the caller cannot be held, the substitute character string held in a pair with the image data by a short message service (hereinafter referred to as SMS). Means for sending to the caller. A specific example of the first embodiment will be described below.

  FIG. 1 shows a configuration example of a communication system according to the first embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 1 shows internal configurations of a mobile phone (first mobile terminal, incoming side mobile phone) 100 and a mobile phone (second mobile terminal, outgoing side mobile phone) 200.

The mobile phone 100 is roughly divided into a hardware unit (hereinafter referred to as HW unit) 110, an application unit 120, and a storage unit 130.
The HW unit 110 includes an operation unit 111 and a display unit 112. The operation unit 111 detects a user operation such as a key press. The display unit 112 displays on the screen.

  The application unit 120 includes a control unit 121, a call function 122, a mail function 123, and a disconnect reason notification control function (disconnect reason notification unit) 124. The control unit 121 receives a signal from the operation unit 111, transmits / receives a signal to / from other functions (call function 122, mail function 123, disconnect reason notification control function 124), and transmits a signal to the display unit 112. To do. The call function 122 makes a call with another user using a voice phone or a TV (TV) phone. The call function 122 can make a call with the call function 210 of the mobile phone 200. The mail function 123 transmits and receives electronic mail and SMS. The mail function 123 transmits and receives mail with the mail function 220 of the mobile phone 200. The call function 122 and the mail function 123 are collectively referred to as a communication unit 125.

  When it is impossible to answer the call, the disconnection reason notification control function 124 uses the information stored in the storage unit 130 to quickly transmit image data representing the current situation to the caller. Specifically, the disconnection reason notification control function 124 accepts a disconnection reason notification instruction by a specific key operation by the user. The disconnect reason notification instruction is to transmit image data indicating the reason for not answering an incoming call to the calling-side mobile terminal, and is an instruction requested by the user by a specific key operation. Upon receipt of the disconnection reason notification instruction, the disconnection reason notification control function 124 displays a plurality of image data 141 stored in the image data storage unit 140 on the display unit 112, and sends the image data selected by the user to the mail function. To send to the caller. At this time, the telephone number 151 stored in the telephone directory data storage unit 150 is searched to acquire the mail address 152 on the calling side. If the mail address 152 cannot be acquired, the substitute character string 142 associated with the image data 141 is transmitted using SMS. In the present embodiment, the control unit 121 detects a key operation for requesting a disconnection reason notification instruction and activates the disconnection reason notification control function 124 to accept the disconnection reason notification instruction.

The storage unit 130 is roughly divided into an image data storage unit 140 and a telephone directory data storage unit 150.
The image data storage unit 140 is a storage area that holds several types of image data 141 (the number of image data is not particularly limited) to be transmitted to the caller when the telephone cannot be answered. If the sender's email address is not known, a character string is transmitted using SMS, so one alternative character string 142 is held in pairs for one image data 141. Yes.

  The phone book data storage unit 150 is a storage area that holds a telephone number 151 and a mail address 152 for knowing caller information. Normally, there is one mail address 152 for one telephone number 151, but there may be no mail address 152 corresponding to the telephone number 151.

  The mobile phone 200 includes a call function 210, a mail function 220, a control unit 230, and a display unit 240. The call function 210 makes a call with another user. The mail function 220 transmits and receives mail. The control unit 230 determines which data is output to the screen of the display unit 240 and outputs the data to the display unit 240. The display unit 240 displays an image sent from the control unit 230.

  Next, the operation of this embodiment will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. FIG. 2 shows an operation example of the communication system of the present embodiment. First, the operation up to the situation where the disconnection reason notification control function 124 is executed will be described.

  When the mobile phone 100 receives an incoming call from the mobile phone 200 (step S <b> 1), the control unit 121 detects that the incoming call is received via the call function 122. When the user who is the callee cannot stay on the phone because he / she is staying at a train or hospital, the disconnect reason notification control function 124 is executed to quickly explain the reason why the call cannot be answered to the caller. I want to communicate. In this case, the control unit 121 detects that the user has performed a specific key operation (disconnection reason notification instruction) via the operation unit 111 (YES in step S2), and the caller's telephone number is not notified. If it is not a number (NO in step S5), the disconnection reason notification control application is activated (step S6). If the caller is a non-notification number (YES in step S5), it is dangerous to easily communicate the status of the callee. The control unit 121 detects a specific key operation (YES in step S2), but disconnects the telephone and waits for the next incoming call. When there is an incoming call (step S1), if the user wants to disconnect the telephone without activating the disconnection reason notification control application, the end call key is pressed. Therefore, the control unit 121 detects that the end key has been pressed via the operation unit 111 (step S3: YES), and disconnects the telephone. When an incoming call is received (step S1), when the user wants to answer the call, a specific key and a key other than the end call key (call start key) are pressed. Accordingly, the control unit 121 detects that the call start key is pressed via the operation unit 111 (NO in step S2, NO in step S3), and starts a call via the call function 122 (step S4). .

Next, the disconnect reason notification control function 124 when NO is determined in step S5 will be described.
After the disconnection reason notification control application is activated (step S6), the disconnect reason notification control function 124 displays several types of image data 141 in the image data storage unit 140 of the storage unit 130 on the display unit 112 (step S7). FIG. 3 shows an example of a mobile phone in which the disconnection reason notification control function 124 displays a plurality of image data on the display unit 112. The user selects one of the image data displayed on the display unit 112 and presses the enter key.

  The control unit 121 detects that the enter key has been pressed via the operation unit 111 (step S8), and notifies the disconnection reason notification control function 124 of the image data selected by the user. The disconnect reason notification control function 124 searches the mail address 152 from the information stored in the telephone directory data storage unit 150 of the storage unit 130 based on the telephone number 151 of the calling side (calling side mobile phone) (step S9). ). If the sender's mail address 152 is stored in the terminal (YES in step S10), the disconnect reason notification control function 124 creates a mail including the selected image data, and uses the mail function 123, The image data 141 selected by the user is transmitted to the mail address on the transmission side (step S11). If the sender's e-mail address 152 is not stored in the terminal (NO in step S10), the disconnect reason notification control function 124 uses the substitute character string 142 stored in a pair with the image data 141. The message is transmitted to the telephone number 151 on the calling side using SMS (step S12).

  The outgoing side mobile phone 200 that made a call to the mobile phone 100 receives the mail to the mail function 220 after the call is disconnected. FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating an example of mail created by the disconnection reason notification control function 124. FIG. 4 shows a part of the mobile phone 200 including the display unit 112. As shown in FIG. 4, the user who is the owner of the mobile phone 100 can know the reason why he / she cannot answer the phone.

  The disconnect reason notification control function 124 may automatically set the subject of the mail to be sent as “incoming disconnect reason”. Further, it is possible to create a mail in which the name of the sender and a predetermined fixed sentence are inserted. Further, it is possible to attach a message associated with the image data.

  As described above, according to the present embodiment, a specific key operation is performed when an incoming call is received, and a call is made to the mobile phone on the caller side by a simple operation of selecting from several types of image data displayed on the screen. It is possible to promptly notify the reason why it is not possible to attend. Since it is only necessary to visually select image data, this function can be easily used by a wide range of ages from children to the elderly.

(Other embodiments)
By preparing image data with advertisements in advance, it is possible to notify the reason why the telephone cannot be answered when the incoming call is disconnected, and to accompany promotional activities.

  For example, advertisement information is stored in the image data storage unit 140. When creating a mail including image data, the disconnect reason notification control function 124 creates mail by adding advertisement information to the image data. The advertisement information may be information that can be inserted into an email such as an image or a character string. Further, the advertisement information may be one or plural. When a plurality of advertisement information is stored, the disconnection reason notification control function 124 may change the advertisement information according to the image data.

  In the first embodiment, the operation of selecting the image data when there is an incoming call has been described. However, the disconnection reason notification instruction is made by selecting the image data in advance and performing a specific key operation by the user when there is an incoming call. May be accepted, and the image data already selected may be transmitted. For example, image data is selected before a situation where it is expected that the user cannot receive an incoming call such as before getting on the train, and the disconnection reason notification control function 124 holds the selected image data. When the user receives an incoming call while riding, the user performs a specific key operation. As a result, the control unit 121 receives a disconnect reason notification instruction. In this case, since the operations of steps S7 and S8 in FIG. 2 have already been performed, these operations are unnecessary, and other operations are the same as those in the first embodiment. Although it becomes necessary to operate in advance, the user's operation becomes easier when the incoming call cannot be answered, so that the reason why the incoming call cannot be received can be returned easily. In addition, when an image is selected in advance, a period for using the selected image data may be designated. As a result, it is possible to prevent a malfunction that erroneously transmits previously selected image data.

  The disconnection reason notification control function 124 can be realized by a program. The program is loaded into the memory in the mobile phone and causes the central processing unit (CPU) of the mobile phone to execute at least the following procedure under the control of the control unit 121. (1) A procedure for receiving an instruction to transmit image data indicating a reason for not answering an incoming call to the originating mobile terminal, (2) a procedure for transmitting the image data to the originating mobile terminal using the mail function when an incoming call is received . The program can be recorded on a computer-readable recording medium. The disconnection reason notification control application activated in step S6 in FIG. 2 can be realized by a program. Further, it may be a combination of a program and hardware or firmware.

  In each of the above embodiments, the specific key operation for which the user requests a disconnect reason notification instruction is a preset key operation. The key operation is preferably a simple operation. For example, an operation can be set in which a predetermined key is kept pressed for several seconds.

  As described above, according to each of the above-described embodiments, when an incoming call is received when the mobile phone cannot be reached, the callee simply selects a specific key operation and visually selects image data. Using e-mail and SMS, the situation can be quickly transmitted to the caller.

  For example, if you receive a phone call when you are on a train, it is difficult to answer the call. Therefore, the callee can select a train from several types of image data that shows the status displayed on the screen after a specific key operation. By selecting this image data, it is possible to transmit the train image data to the transmission side almost simultaneously with the disconnection. As described above, the reason why the incoming call cannot be answered can be transmitted to the caller only by selecting the image data after performing a specific key operation when receiving a mobile phone.

  In addition, this invention is not limited to embodiment shown above. Within the scope of the present invention, it is possible to change, add, or convert each element of the above-described embodiment to a content that can be easily considered by those skilled in the art.

It is a block diagram which shows the structural example of the communication system of Embodiment 1 which concerns on this invention. 3 is a flowchart illustrating an operation example of the communication system according to the first exemplary embodiment. It is a figure which shows an example of the mobile telephone which the cutting reason notification control function displayed several image data on the display part. It is a figure which shows an example of the mail produced by the cutting reason notification control function.

Explanation of symbols

100, 200 Mobile phone 100
110 Hardware unit 111 Operation unit 112, 240 Display unit 120 Application unit 121, 230 Control unit 122, 210 Call function 123, 220 Mail function 124 Disconnect reason notification control function 125 Communication unit 130 Storage unit 140 Image data storage unit 140
141 Image data 142 Substitute character string 150 Telephone book data storage unit 151 Telephone number 152 Mail address

Claims (11)

A communication unit including a call function and a mail function;
A disconnect reason notifying unit for receiving a disconnect reason notification instruction for transmitting image data indicating a reason for not answering an incoming call to the caller mobile terminal at the time of an incoming call, and transmitting the image data to the caller mobile terminal using the mail function; Mobile terminal equipped. An image data storage unit for storing the plurality of image data;
The portable terminal according to claim 1, wherein the disconnect reason notification unit transmits one piece of image data selected from the plurality of pieces of image data using the mail function. An operation unit that accepts user key operations;
A display unit for displaying information including the plurality of image data,
When the disconnection reason notification unit receives the disconnection reason notification instruction, the disconnection reason notification unit displays the plurality of image data on a display unit, causes the user to select one image data via the operation unit, and selects the selected image data. The mobile terminal according to claim 2, wherein the mobile terminal is transmitted.   4. The disconnection reason notification unit according to claim 1, wherein when there is an incoming call, the user accepts the disconnect reason notification instruction by performing a specific key operation. 5. Mobile device. A telephone directory data storage unit for storing a telephone number and an email address in association with each other;
The image data storage unit stores a substitute character string corresponding to each of the plurality of image data;
The disconnect reason notification unit retrieves the e-mail address of the calling-side mobile terminal from the telephone directory data storage unit, acquires the e-mail address, transmits the image data, and cannot acquire the e-mail address, The mobile terminal according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the substitute character string corresponding to the image data is transmitted using a short message service.   The mobile terminal according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the disconnect reason notification unit does not transmit anything when an incoming phone number is notified. The image data storage unit stores advertisement information to be added to the plurality of image data,
The portable terminal according to claim 1, wherein the disconnect reason notification unit transmits the image data with the advertisement information added thereto. A communication system in which a first mobile terminal and a second mobile terminal communicate with each other,
The first portable terminal is
A communication unit including a call function and a mail function;
When there is an incoming call from the second mobile terminal, it accepts a disconnect reason notification instruction for sending image data indicating the reason for not answering the incoming call to the second mobile terminal, and uses the mail function to send the image data to the second mobile terminal. A disconnect reason notification unit to be transmitted to the terminal,
The second mobile terminal is a communication system that receives an e-mail including image data from the first mobile terminal. A communication method of a mobile terminal having a call function and an email function,
When an incoming call is received, an instruction to send image data to the calling mobile terminal indicating the reason for not answering the incoming call is accepted.
A communication method for transmitting the image data to a calling-side mobile terminal using the mail function. A communication method in which a first mobile terminal and a second mobile terminal communicate with each other,
The first portable terminal is
When receiving an incoming call from the second mobile terminal, accepting an instruction to transmit image data indicating the reason for not answering the incoming call to the second mobile terminal;
Send the image data to the second mobile terminal using the mail function,
The second mobile terminal is a communication method for receiving the image data. A communication program for a mobile terminal having a call function and a mail function,
A procedure for receiving an instruction to send image data indicating the reason for not answering the incoming call to the calling mobile terminal when a call is received;
A communication program for causing a computer to execute a procedure of transmitting the image data to a calling-side mobile terminal using the mail function.

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