JP2009260741A - Communication mediation device, communication terminal, communication system, communication method, and program - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make it possible to make a user recognize a party who has telephoned before a speech communication start, even in a communication terminal in which the personal information of the opposite party is not memorized. <P>SOLUTION: The communication mediation device 100 includes a telephone book memory which memorizes each telephone number of a plurality of communication terminals and a user information showing the user of communication terminal corresponding to the relevant telephone number by making correspondence between them, a first telephone connection processing portion which receives a calling information showing a calling from a calling side terminal 10 to a called side terminal 300 from the calling side terminal 10 including the telephone number of the calling side terminal 10, a notification portion which reads the user information corresponding to the telephone number contained in the calling information from the telephone book memory and transmits to the called side terminal, and a second telephone connection processing portion which carries out calling to the called side terminal 300, when an authentication information showing the permission of call termination from the called side terminal 300 is received. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a communication mediating apparatus, a communication terminal, a communication system, a communication method, and a program for connecting a calling terminal and a called terminal as a telephone.

Recent communication terminals, as represented by mobile communication terminals, can store personal information of the other party, such as a telephone number (see, for example, Patent Documents 1 and 2).
JP 2002-84360 A JP 2004-235810 A

  However, when the communication terminal reaches another person's hand, personal information stored in the communication terminal may be leaked. For this reason, it is desirable that the communication terminal cannot store personal information of the call partner. However, if the communication terminal does not store the personal information of the other party, the communication terminal recognizes the other party who has called the user of the communication terminal before starting the call when a call is received. I can't let you.

  The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and an object of the present invention is to provide a communication terminal that does not store personal information of a call partner to the user who has called the user before starting the call. It is to provide a communication mediating apparatus, a communication terminal, a communication system, a communication method, and a program that can be recognized by a computer.

According to the present invention, telephone book storage means for storing a telephone number of each of a plurality of communication terminals and user information indicating a user of the communication terminal corresponding to the telephone number in association with each other;
Including the telephone number of the calling side terminal that is the calling side communication terminal, and receiving call information from the calling side terminal to the called side terminal that is the called side communication terminal from the calling side terminal First telephone connection processing means;
Notification means for reading the user information corresponding to the telephone number of the calling terminal included in the received call information from the telephone directory storage means and transmitting it to the called terminal;
A second telephone connection processing means for making a call to the called terminal when receiving the authentication information indicating that the incoming call is permitted from the called terminal that is the transmission destination of the user information;
With
After receiving the authentication information, the first telephone connection processing means establishes a connection as a telephone with the calling terminal, and the second telephone connection processing means as a telephone with the called terminal. By establishing a connection, a communication mediating apparatus for connecting the calling terminal and the called terminal as a telephone is provided.

According to the present invention, a communication terminal comprising:
Receiving means for receiving user information indicating a user of another communication terminal that has made a call to the communication terminal from the communication mediating apparatus;
Recognition processing means for performing processing for causing the user to recognize the user information received by the receiving means;
An input means for receiving an input of authentication result information indicating whether or not to accept an incoming call from a user;
Transmitting means for transmitting the input authentication result information to the communication mediating apparatus;
A communication terminal is provided.

According to the present invention, a communication mediating device;
A called terminal connected as a telephone to the calling terminal via the communication mediating device;
With
The communication mediating device is:
Telephone book storage means for storing a telephone number of each of a plurality of communication terminals and user information indicating a user of the communication terminal indicated by the telephone number in association with each other;
First telephone connection processing means for receiving call information from the calling side terminal including a telephone number of the calling side terminal and indicating a call from the calling side terminal to the called side terminal;
When the first telephone connection processing means receives the call information, the user information corresponding to the telephone number included in the call information is read from the telephone directory storage means, and the read user information Notification means for transmitting to the called terminal;
With
The called terminal is
Receiving means for receiving the user information from a communication mediating device;
Recognition processing means for performing processing for causing the user to recognize the user information received by the receiving means;
An input means for receiving an input of authentication result information indicating whether or not to accept an incoming call from a user;
Transmitting means for transmitting the input authentication result information to the communication mediating apparatus;
With
The communication mediating device is:
Receiving the authentication result information from the called terminal, and when the received authentication result information indicates that the incoming call is permitted, second telephone connection processing means for calling the called terminal;
Further comprising
The first telephone connection processing means establishes a connection as a telephone with the calling terminal, and the second telephone connection processing means establishes a connection as a telephone with the called terminal; A communication system is provided that connects a calling terminal and the called terminal as a telephone.

According to the present invention, there is provided a communication system comprising a telephone directory server and an incoming call side terminal which is an incoming call side communication terminal,
The telephone directory server
A telephone directory storage means for storing a telephone number of each of a plurality of communication terminals and user information indicating a user of the communication terminal corresponding to the telephone number in association with each other;
User information transmitting means for reading the user information corresponding to the received telephone number from the telephone directory storage means and transmitting it to the called terminal when receiving a telephone number from the called terminal;
Have
The called terminal includes a telephone number of a calling terminal that is a calling terminal, and receives telephone call information indicating a call from the calling terminal to the called terminal. When,
Telephone number transmitting means for transmitting the telephone number included in the call information to the telephone directory server;
Recognition processing means for receiving the user information from the telephone directory server and performing processing for causing the user of the called terminal to recognize the received user information;
A communication system is provided.

According to the present invention, a communication terminal comprising:
A telephone connection processing means for receiving call information indicating a call from the calling terminal to the communication terminal, including a telephone number of the calling terminal;
Telephone number transmitting means for transmitting the telephone number included in the call information to the telephone directory server;
Recognizing processing means for receiving user information indicating a user of the calling terminal from the telephone directory server, and performing processing for causing the user of the communication terminal to recognize the received user information;
A communication terminal is provided.

  It should be noted that any combination of the above-described constituent elements and a conversion of the expression of the present invention between a method, an apparatus, a system, a recording medium, a computer program, etc. are also effective as an aspect of the present invention.

  ADVANTAGE OF THE INVENTION According to this invention, even in the communication terminal which does not memorize | store the personal information of the other party, a user can be made to recognize the other party who made the telephone call before a telephone call start.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. In all the drawings, the same reference numerals are given to the same components, and the description will be omitted as appropriate.
(First embodiment)

  FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of a communication system 50 according to the first embodiment. The communication system 50 includes a communication mediating apparatus 100 and a called terminal 300. The called terminal 300 is a terminal that can communicate by telephone, for example, a portable communication terminal. The calling terminal 10 transmits calling information to the communication mediating apparatus 100 when making a call to the called terminal 300. The calling information includes the telephone number of the calling terminal 10. The communication mediating apparatus 100 has telephone directory data that associates telephone numbers with user information. The communication mediating apparatus 100 reads the user information corresponding to the telephone number included in the outgoing call information from the telephone directory data and transmits it to the called terminal 300. The called terminal 300 causes the user of the called terminal 300 to recognize the received user information. Therefore, even if the telephone directory data is not stored in the called terminal 300, the user of the called terminal 300 can recognize from whom the call has been received before the call starts.

  Thereafter, the user of the called terminal 300 inputs authentication result information indicating whether or not the incoming call from the calling terminal 10 is permitted to the called terminal 300. The called terminal 300 transmits the input authentication result information to the communication mediating apparatus 100. The communication mediating apparatus 100 connects the calling terminal 10 and the called terminal 300 as a telephone when the received authentication result information indicates that the incoming call is permitted. As described above, the user of the called terminal 300 can establish a connection as a telephone between the calling terminal 10 and the called terminal 300 only by inputting the authentication result information.

  For this reason, even if the called-side terminal 300 is used, the number of operations required by the user before the incoming call does not increase compared to a normal communication terminal. Therefore, the user of the called side terminal 300 can operate the called side terminal 300 with the same feeling as a normal communication terminal.

  FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating an example of a functional configuration of the communication mediating apparatus 100. The communication mediating apparatus 100 includes a first telephone connection processing unit 110, a notification unit 120, a packet communication unit 130, an authentication result processing unit 140, a second telephone connection processing unit 150, a telephone directory storage unit 160, and a called side information storage. Unit 170 and history storage unit 180. The first telephone connection processing unit 110 performs processing for connecting a telephone between the communication mediating apparatus 100 and the calling terminal 10. The notification unit 120 performs a process of notifying the called terminal 300 that a call has been made from the calling terminal 10. The packet communication unit 130 performs packet communication between the called terminal 300 and the communication mediating apparatus 100. Packet communication includes transmission and reception of mail and short mail. The authentication result processing unit 140 performs a process of recognizing whether or not the authentication result information transmitted from the called terminal 300 indicates that the incoming call is permitted. The second telephone connection processing unit 150 performs processing for connecting the communication mediating apparatus 100 and the called terminal 300 with a telephone. The first telephone connection processing unit 110 and the second telephone connection processing unit 150 mutually input / output voice information indicating the content of the call. Thereby, the calling side terminal 10 and the called side terminal 300 are connected as a telephone.

  Details of processing performed by the first telephone connection processing unit 110, the notification unit 120, the packet communication unit 130, the authentication result processing unit 140, and the second telephone connection processing unit 150 will be described later with reference to flowcharts. Details of data stored in the telephone directory storage unit 160, the called side information storage unit 170, and the history storage unit 180 will be described later using a table.

  FIG. 3 is a table showing an example of the configuration of data stored in the telephone directory storage unit 160. The phone book storage unit 160 stores phone book data. Specifically, the telephone directory storage unit 160 stores a telephone number and user information related to the user of the communication terminal in association with each other for each of the plurality of communication terminals to be the calling terminal 10. The communication terminal to be the calling terminal 10 may be a mobile communication terminal or a fixed telephone. The user information includes, for example, user attribute information (for example, information indicating work place) and a user name. Part of the user information further includes warning information. The warning information is information indicating that it is better not to receive a call from this user.

  FIG. 4 is a table showing an example of the configuration of data stored in the called side information storage unit 170. The called side information storage unit 170 stores, for each called side terminal 300, the user name of the called side terminal 300, the first telephone number, the second telephone number, and the mail of the called side terminal 300. Addresses are stored in association with each other. The first telephone number is a number used when making a call directly to the called terminal 300. The second telephone number is a telephone number of the communication mediating apparatus 100, and is a number used when making a call to the called terminal 300 via the communication mediating apparatus 100. When a call is made using the second telephone number, the call information is transmitted to the communication mediating apparatus 100.

  FIG. 5 is a table showing an example of the configuration of data stored in the history storage unit 180. The history storage unit 180 stores information indicating the communication history of the called terminal 300 for each piece of information (for example, user name) that mutually identifies the called terminal 300. The information indicating the communication history includes, for example, the user name of the calling terminal 10 that is the call destination, the incoming time (including the date), authentication result information indicating whether the incoming call is permitted, and the end of the call Includes time.

  FIG. 6 is a block diagram showing an example of a functional configuration of the called terminal 300. As shown in FIG. The called terminal 300 includes a packet communication unit 310, a recognition processing unit 320, an input unit 330, a display unit 340, a telephone connection processing unit 350, a microphone 360, and a speaker 370. In this figure, the configuration of parts not related to the essence of the present embodiment is omitted.

  The packet communication unit 310 performs packet communication with the packet communication unit 130 of the communication mediating apparatus 100. The recognition processing unit 320 displays information indicating the user of the calling terminal 10 on the display unit 340. The display unit 340 is, for example, an organic EL (Electro Luminescence) display or a liquid crystal display.

  The input unit 330 acquires information that the user inputs to the called terminal 300. The information to be acquired includes authentication result information. Further, when the authentication result information is input from the input unit 330, the recognition processing unit 320 transmits the authentication result information to the communication mediating apparatus 100. When the authentication result information indicates that the incoming call is permitted, the recognition processing unit 320 outputs information indicating the incoming call permission to the telephone connection processing unit 350.

  The telephone connection processing unit 350 performs processing for connecting the called terminal 300 and the communication mediating apparatus 100 by telephone. The telephone connection processing unit 350 establishes communication as a telephone with the communication mediating apparatus 100 without input from the user of the called terminal 300. Here, the telephone connection processing unit 350 may establish communication as a telephone on the condition that the information indicating the incoming call permission is received from the recognition processing unit 320. The telephone connection processing unit 350 transmits the audio data input from the microphone 360 to the communication mediating apparatus 100 and outputs the audio data received from the communication mediating apparatus 100 from the speaker 370 as audio.

  Details of processing performed by the recognition processing unit 320 and the telephone connection processing unit 350 will be described later with reference to flowcharts.

  FIG. 7 is a flowchart for explaining details of processing performed by each functional unit of the communication mediating apparatus 100 and the called terminal 300. First, the calling terminal 10 makes a call using the second telephone number. Thereby, the call information is transmitted to the first telephone connection processing unit 110 of the communication mediating apparatus 100 (S10). The outgoing call information transmitted by this outgoing call includes the telephone number of the calling terminal 10 and the second telephone number of the called terminal 300.

  When the first telephone connection processing unit 110 receives the calling information from the calling terminal 10, the first telephone connection processing unit 110 sets the telephone number of the calling terminal 10 and the second telephone number of the called terminal 300 included in the calling information. Output to the notification unit 120. The notification unit 120 reads out user information corresponding to the input telephone number of the calling terminal 10 from the telephone directory storage unit 160. Further, the notification unit 120 reads the mail address corresponding to the input second telephone number from the called side information storage unit 170 (S20). Then, the notification unit 120 transmits the read user information to the called terminal 300 via the packet communication unit 130 using the read mail address (S40). User information is transmitted by mail or short mail.

  The recognition processing unit 320 of the called terminal 300 receives the user information transmitted by the notification unit 120 of the communication mediating apparatus 100 via the packet communication unit 310. The recognition processing unit 320 displays the received user information on the display unit 340 (S50). By recognizing the user information displayed on the display unit 340, the user can recognize which person has received the call.

  In the processing shown in S50, when the received user information includes the warning information shown in FIG. 3, the recognition processing unit 320 also displays on the display unit 340 information indicating that this incoming call should not be permitted. Display.

  The user of the called side terminal 300 inputs authentication result information indicating whether or not to accept an incoming call from the calling side terminal 10 to the input unit 330 (S60). The input unit 330 outputs the input authentication result information to the recognition processing unit 320. The recognition processing unit 320 transmits the input authentication result information to the communication mediating apparatus 100 via the packet communication unit 310 (S70). The authentication result information is transmitted by e-mail or short mail, for example. When the authentication result information indicates that the incoming call is permitted, the recognition processing unit 320 outputs information indicating the incoming call permission to the telephone connection processing unit 350.

  The authentication result processing unit 140 of the communication mediating apparatus 100 receives the authentication result information transmitted from the called terminal 300 via the packet communication unit 310. At this time, the authentication result processing unit 140 also receives the mail address of the called terminal 300. The authentication result processing unit 140, when the received authentication result information indicates that the incoming call from the calling terminal 10 is permitted (S80: Yes), the second telephone connection processing unit 150 and the first telephone A message to that effect is output to the connection processing unit 110. At this time, the authentication result processing unit 140 reads the first telephone number corresponding to the mail address of the called side terminal 300 from the called side information storage unit 170 and outputs it to the second telephone connection processing unit 150. The authentication processing unit 140 acquires the second telephone number from the first telephone connection processing unit 110, and reads the first telephone number corresponding to the second telephone number from the called side information storage unit 170. May be output to the second telephone connection processing unit 150.

  Then, the second telephone connection processing unit 150 transmits the call information to the called terminal 300 using the first telephone number (S90). The call information transmitted here includes the telephone number of the communication mediating apparatus 100. When the telephone connection processing unit 350 of the called terminal 300 receives the call information from the second telephone connection processing unit 150, the telephone connection processing unit 350 performs incoming processing without input from the user of the called terminal 300, and the second Communication as a telephone is established with the telephone connection processing unit 150 (S100). At this time, the telephone connection processing unit 350 may establish communication as a telephone on the condition that information indicating permission of incoming calls is received from the recognition processing unit 320.

  The first telephone connection processing unit 110 performs incoming call processing and establishes communication as a telephone with the calling terminal 10 (S110). The first telephone connection processing unit 110 and the second telephone connection processing unit 150 mutually input / output voice information indicating the content of the call. As a result, the calling side terminal 10 and the called side terminal 300 are connected as a telephone (S120). When the call ends, the second telephone connection processing unit 150 causes the history storage unit 180 to store information indicating the call history.

  When the received authentication result information indicates that the incoming call from the calling terminal 10 is rejected (S80: No), the authentication result processing unit 140 notifies the first telephone connection processing unit 110 to that effect. Is output. The first telephone connection processing unit 110 generates information indicating call rejection and transmits it to the calling terminal 10 (S130). The calling terminal 10 displays information indicating call rejection (S140).

  FIG. 8A is a diagram showing a first display example of the display unit 340 in S50 of FIG. In this figure, the display unit 340 rejects the incoming call button 342 for inputting the name of the person who made the call, that is, the name of the user of the calling terminal 10, and information indicating that the incoming call is permitted. The refusal button 344 for inputting the information is displayed. The user of the called terminal 300 can easily input the authentication result information by selecting either the incoming button 342 or the reject button 344. In addition, the user of the called terminal 300 can visually recognize the name of the user of the calling terminal 10.

  FIG. 8B is a diagram showing a second display example of the display unit 340 in S50 of FIG. In this figure, the display unit 340 displays the name of the user of the calling terminal 10, an incoming call button 342, a rejection button 344, and information 346 indicating that this call should not be permitted. Therefore, the user of the called terminal 300 can visually recognize when it is better not to receive a call.

  As described above, according to the present embodiment, the communication mediating apparatus 100 connects the called terminal 300 and the calling terminal 10 as a telephone. Then, before establishing this connection, user information indicating the user of the calling terminal 10 is transmitted to the called terminal 300. Therefore, even if the telephone directory data is not stored in the called terminal 300, the user of the called terminal 300 can recognize from whom the call has come.

  Further, the communication mediating apparatus 100 transmits the user information to the called terminal 300 by packet communication. In addition, the called terminal 300 transmits authentication result information indicating whether or not the incoming call from the calling terminal 10 is permitted to the communication mediating apparatus 100 by packet communication. For this reason, the same hardware configuration as that of a general mobile communication terminal can be adopted as the hardware configuration of the called terminal 300.

  Further, since the calling side terminal 10 makes a call to the called side terminal 300 using the second telephone number, it is possible to prevent the calling side terminal 10 from being directly applied to the called side terminal 300.

  Further, the communication mediating apparatus 100 establishes a connection as a telephone with the calling terminal 10 when the received authentication result information indicates that the incoming call is permitted. Prior to this establishment, the communication mediating apparatus 100 continues to transmit data indicating that the call is being made to the calling terminal 10. For this reason, the user of the calling side terminal 10 does not need to recognize that the call is being made to the called side terminal 300 via the communication mediating apparatus 100.

The called terminal 300 transmits the authentication result information to the communication mediating apparatus 100 and then, when called from the communication mediating apparatus 100, makes a call with the communication mediating apparatus 100 without any input from the user. Establish a connection for. For this reason, even if the called-side terminal 300 is used, the number of operations required by the user before the incoming call does not increase compared to a normal communication terminal. Therefore, the user of the called side terminal 300 can operate the called side terminal 300 with the same feeling as a normal communication terminal.
(Second Embodiment)

  FIG. 9 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of a communication system 50 according to the second embodiment. In the present embodiment, the communication system 50 includes a telephone directory server 200 and a called terminal 300. When calling the called terminal 300, the calling terminal 10 makes a call using the first telephone number in the first embodiment. Therefore, the call information is directly transmitted to the called terminal 300. The called terminal 300 transmits the telephone number included in the outgoing call information to the telephone directory server 200. The telephone directory server 200 has the telephone directory storage unit 160 in the first embodiment. The telephone directory server 200 reads user information corresponding to the received telephone number from the telephone directory storage unit 160 and transmits it to the called terminal 300. The called terminal 300 performs a process for making the user recognize the received user information. For this reason, even if the called terminal 300 does not store the phone book data, the user of the called terminal 300 can recognize the other party who made the call. Hereinafter, the communication system 50 of the present embodiment will be described in detail.

  FIG. 10 is a block diagram showing a functional configuration of the telephone directory server 200. The phone book server 200 includes a phone book storage unit 160, a packet communication unit 210, and a user information transmission unit 220. Since the data structure of the telephone directory storage unit 160 is the same as that of the first embodiment, description thereof is omitted. The packet communication unit 210 performs packet communication between the called terminal 300 and the communication mediating apparatus 100. Packet communication includes transmission and reception of mail and short mail. The user information transmission unit 220 reads the user information corresponding to the telephone number of the calling side terminal 10 received from the called side terminal 300 from the telephone directory storage unit 160, and reads the read user information. Process to send to.

  FIG. 11 is a block diagram showing a functional configuration of the called terminal 300 according to the present embodiment. The called-side terminal 300 shown in the figure shows that the authentication result information input from the input unit 330 is output to the telephone connection processing unit 350 and details of the processing performed by the recognition processing unit 320 and the telephone connection processing unit 350. Except for this, the configuration is the same as that of the called terminal 300 described with reference to FIG. 6 in the first embodiment. Further, in this figure, the configuration of parts not related to the essence of the present embodiment is omitted. Details of processing performed by the recognition processing unit 320 and the telephone connection processing unit 350 in the present embodiment will be described later with reference to flowcharts.

  FIG. 12 is a flowchart for explaining details of processing performed by each function unit of the telephone directory server 200 and the called terminal 300. First, the calling terminal 10 makes a call using the first telephone number. Thereby, the calling information is transmitted to the telephone connection processing unit 350 of the called terminal 300 (S200). The outgoing call information transmitted by this outgoing call includes the telephone number of the calling terminal 10 and the first telephone number of the called terminal 300. When the telephone connection processing unit 350 receives the calling information from the calling side terminal 10, it transmits the telephone number of the calling side terminal 10 included in the calling information to the telephone directory server 200 via the packet communication unit 310. (S210). The telephone number of the calling terminal 10 is transmitted by e-mail or short mail, for example.

  The user information transmission unit 220 of the telephone directory server 200 receives the telephone number of the calling terminal 10 via the packet communication unit 210, and reads the user information corresponding to the received telephone number from the telephone directory storage unit 160. (S220). The user information transmission unit 220 transmits the read user information to the called terminal 300 via the packet communication unit 210 (S230). The user information is transmitted by e-mail or short mail, for example.

  The recognition processing unit 320 of the called terminal 300 receives the user information transmitted by the user information transmission unit 220 of the telephone directory server 200 via the packet communication unit 310. And the recognition process part 320 displays the received user information on the display part 340 (S240). This display process is substantially the same as the process described in S50 of FIG. 7 in the first embodiment, and an example of the display screen is the same as the example shown in both figures of FIG. 8, for example. For this reason, the user can recognize the other party who has called. Further, when the received user information includes the warning information shown in FIG. 3, the recognition processing unit 320 also displays on the display unit 340 information indicating that this incoming call should not be permitted.

  The user of the called terminal 300 recognizes the user information displayed on the display unit 340, and inputs authentication result information indicating whether or not the incoming call from the calling terminal 10 is permitted to the input unit 330. (S250). The input unit 330 outputs the input authentication result information to the telephone connection processing unit 350.

  When the input authentication result information indicates that the incoming authentication is permitted (S260: Yes), the telephone connection processing unit 350 performs incoming processing and establishes a connection as a telephone with the calling terminal 10 (S270). Thereafter, the telephone connection processing unit 350 performs a call process together with the calling terminal 10 (S280).

  In addition, when the input authentication result information indicates that the incoming call from the calling terminal 10 is rejected (S260: No), the telephone connection processing unit 350 generates information indicating call rejection and makes a call. It transmits to the side terminal 10 (S290). The calling terminal 10 displays information indicating call rejection (S300).

  As described above, according to the present embodiment, when the calling side terminal 10 directly calls the called side terminal 300, the user of the called side terminal 300 can recognize who has received the call. The called terminal 300 does not request an operation from the user of the called terminal 300 until the user information of the calling terminal 10 is displayed. Then, when the user inputs authentication result information, incoming processing is performed. Therefore, the user of the called side terminal 300 can operate the called side terminal 300 with the same feeling as a normal communication terminal.

  Note that each component of the communication mediating apparatus 100 shown in FIG. 2, each component of the called terminal 300 shown in FIGS. 6 and 11, and each component of the telephone directory server 200 shown in FIG. Blocks of functional units are shown instead of hardware units. Each of these components includes a CPU, a memory, a program that realizes the components shown in the figure loaded in the memory, a storage unit such as a hard disk that stores the program, and a network connection interface. And any combination of software. It will be understood by those skilled in the art that there are various modifications to the implementation method and apparatus.

  As mentioned above, although embodiment of this invention was described with reference to drawings, these are the illustrations of this invention, Various structures other than the above are also employable. For example, the called side terminal 300 may make the user of the called side terminal 300 recognize the user information of the calling side terminal 10 by voice output.

  Further, the communication system shown in the first embodiment and the communication system shown in the second embodiment may be combined. In this case, even if the calling terminal 10 makes a call using either the first telephone number or the second telephone number described with reference to FIG. It is possible to recognize the other party who has called the 300 users.

It is a block diagram which shows the structure of the communication system concerning 1st Embodiment. It is a block diagram which shows an example of a function structure of a communication mediation apparatus. It is a table which shows an example of a structure of the data which a telephone directory memory | storage part memorize | stores. It is a table which shows an example of a structure of the data which a callee information storage part memorize | stores. It is a table which shows an example of the composition of the data which a history storage part memorizes. It is a block diagram which shows an example of a function structure of a callee side terminal. It is a flowchart explaining the detail of the process which each function part of a communication mediating apparatus and a callee terminal performs. (A) is a figure which shows the 1st display example of the display part in S50 of FIG. 7, (B) is a figure which shows the 2nd display example. It is a block diagram which shows the structure of the communication system concerning 2nd Embodiment. It is a block diagram which shows the function structure of a telephone directory server. It is a block diagram which shows the function structure of the callee side terminal concerning this embodiment. It is a flowchart explaining the detail of the process which each function part of a telephone directory server and a callee side terminal performs.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Calling side terminal 50 Communication system 100 Communication mediation apparatus 110 First telephone connection processing unit 120 Notification unit 130 Packet communication unit 140 Authentication result processing unit 150 Second telephone connection processing unit 160 Telephone book storage unit 170 Called side information Storage unit 180 History storage unit 200 Telephone book server 210 Packet communication unit 220 User information transmission unit 300 Called terminal 310 Packet communication unit 320 Recognition processing unit 330 Input unit 340 Display unit 342 Incoming button 344 Reject button 350 Telephone connection processing unit 360 Microphone 370 Speaker

Claims (22)

A telephone directory storage means for storing a telephone number of each of a plurality of communication terminals and user information indicating a user of the communication terminal corresponding to the telephone number in association with each other;
Including the telephone number of the calling side terminal that is the calling side communication terminal, and receiving call information from the calling side terminal to the called side terminal that is the called side communication terminal from the calling side terminal First telephone connection processing means;
Notification means for reading the user information corresponding to the telephone number of the calling terminal included in the received call information from the telephone directory storage means and transmitting it to the called terminal;
A second telephone connection processing means for making a call to the called terminal when receiving the authentication information indicating that the incoming call is permitted from the called terminal that is the transmission destination of the user information;
With
After receiving the authentication information, the first telephone connection processing means establishes a connection as a telephone with the calling terminal, and the second telephone connection processing means as a telephone with the called terminal. A communication mediating apparatus for connecting the calling terminal and the called terminal as a telephone by establishing a connection. The communication mediation apparatus according to claim 1,
The communication mediation apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the user information and the authentication information are communicated by packet communication. In the communication mediating apparatus according to claim 1 or 2,
A callee side information storage means for storing the telephone number of the callee terminal in association with the second telephone number that is the telephone number of the communication mediating apparatus;
The calling terminal includes the second telephone number in the calling information as the telephone number of the called terminal,
When the call information includes the second telephone number, the call information is transmitted to the first telephone connection processing means;
The second telephone connection processing means reads the telephone number corresponding to the second telephone number included in the call information from the called side information storage means, and uses the read telephone number to read the telephone number. A communication mediating apparatus that establishes a telephone connection with a called terminal. In the communication mediating apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 3,
The first telephone connection processing means is a communication mediating apparatus for establishing a connection as a telephone with the calling terminal when receiving the authentication information. In the communication mediating apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 4,
The communication intermediary device, wherein the telephone directory storage means stores the specific user information including warning information that prompts the user to reject an incoming call from a communication terminal corresponding to the user information. A communication terminal,
Receiving means for receiving user information indicating a user of another communication terminal that has made a call to the communication terminal from the communication mediating apparatus;
Recognition processing means for performing processing for causing the user to recognize the user information received by the receiving means;
An input means for receiving an input of authentication result information indicating whether or not to accept an incoming call from a user;
Transmitting means for transmitting the input authentication result information to the communication mediating apparatus;
A communication terminal comprising: The communication terminal according to claim 6,
The receiving means receives the user information by packet communication,
The transmission means is a communication terminal that transmits the authentication result information by packet communication. In the communication terminal according to claim 6 or 7,
A display means,
The recognition processing means is a communication terminal for displaying the user information on the display means. In the communication terminal as described in any one of Claims 6-8,
Telephone connection processing means for establishing a connection as a telephone with the communication mediating apparatus without input from a user when a call is made from the communication mediating apparatus after the transmission means transmits the authentication result information A communication terminal further comprising: A communication mediating device;
A called terminal connected as a telephone to the calling terminal via the communication mediating device;
With
The communication mediating device is:
Telephone book storage means for storing a telephone number of each of a plurality of communication terminals and user information indicating a user of the communication terminal indicated by the telephone number in association with each other;
First telephone connection processing means for receiving call information from the calling side terminal including a telephone number of the calling side terminal and indicating a call from the calling side terminal to the called side terminal;
When the first telephone connection processing means receives the call information, the user information corresponding to the telephone number included in the call information is read from the telephone directory storage means, and the read user information Notification means for transmitting to the called terminal;
With
The called terminal is
Receiving means for receiving the user information from a communication mediating device;
Recognition processing means for performing processing for causing the user to recognize the user information received by the receiving means;
An input means for receiving an input of authentication result information indicating whether or not to accept an incoming call from a user;
Transmitting means for transmitting the input authentication result information to the communication mediating apparatus;
With
The communication mediating device is:
Receiving the authentication result information from the called terminal, and when the received authentication result information indicates that the incoming call is permitted, second telephone connection processing means for calling the called terminal;
Further comprising
The first telephone connection processing means establishes a connection as a telephone with the calling terminal, and the second telephone connection processing means establishes a connection as a telephone with the called terminal; A communication system for connecting a calling side terminal and the called side terminal as a telephone. A communication system comprising a telephone directory server and a called terminal that is a called communication terminal,
The telephone directory server
A telephone directory storage means for storing a telephone number of each of a plurality of communication terminals and user information indicating a user of the communication terminal corresponding to the telephone number in association with each other;
User information transmitting means for reading the user information corresponding to the received telephone number from the telephone directory storage means and transmitting it to the called terminal when receiving a telephone number from the called terminal;
Have
The called terminal includes a telephone number of a calling terminal that is a calling terminal, and receives telephone call information indicating a call from the calling terminal to the called terminal. When,
Telephone number transmitting means for transmitting the telephone number included in the call information to the telephone directory server;
Recognition processing means for receiving the user information from the telephone directory server and performing processing for causing the user of the called terminal to recognize the received user information;
A communication system comprising: The communication system according to claim 10 or 11,
The telephone directory storage means includes warning information for urging to reject an incoming call from a communication terminal corresponding to the user information in the specific user information,
The communication system for performing a process of causing the user to recognize the warning information when the warning information is included in the received user information. A communication terminal,
A telephone connection processing means for receiving call information indicating a call from the calling terminal to the communication terminal, including a telephone number of the calling terminal;
Telephone number transmitting means for transmitting the telephone number included in the call information to the telephone directory server;
Recognizing processing means for receiving user information indicating a user of the calling terminal from the telephone directory server, and performing processing for causing the user of the communication terminal to recognize the received user information;
A communication terminal comprising: The communication terminal according to claim 13, wherein
After the recognition processing means makes the user recognize the user information, it further comprises an input means for inputting authentication result information indicating whether or not to allow incoming calls.
The telephone connection processing means is a communication terminal for establishing communication as a telephone with the calling terminal when the authentication result information indicates that the incoming call is permitted. Calling information indicating a call from the calling terminal to the called terminal that is the called communication terminal, including the telephone number of the calling terminal that is the calling communication terminal. Receiving from the calling terminal;
The communication mediating apparatus includes the telephone number of each of a plurality of communication terminals and user information indicating the user of the communication terminal corresponding to the telephone number in association with each other, and is included in the call information. Reading the user information corresponding to the telephone number and transmitting it to the called terminal;
When the communication mediating apparatus receives authentication information indicating that an incoming call is permitted from the called terminal that has transmitted the user information, and makes a call to the called terminal;
The communication mediating apparatus establishes a connection as a telephone with the calling terminal and establishes a connection as a telephone with the called terminal, thereby calling the calling terminal and the called terminal with a telephone. As a step to connect as
A communication method comprising: A communication terminal capable of communication by telephone receives from the communication mediating device user information indicating a user of another communication terminal that has made a call to the communication terminal;
The communication terminal performing a process of making the user recognize the received user information;
The communication terminal receiving an input of authentication result information indicating whether or not to accept an incoming call from a user;
The communication terminal transmitting the input authentication result information to the communication mediating apparatus;
A communication method comprising: A communication method for connecting a telephone from a calling side terminal which is a calling side communication terminal to a called side terminal which is a receiving side communication terminal via a communication mediating apparatus,
The communication mediating apparatus includes a telephone number of the calling terminal, and receives call information indicating a call from the calling terminal to the called terminal from the calling terminal;
The communication mediating apparatus includes a telephone directory storage unit that stores a telephone number of each of a plurality of communication terminals and user information indicating a user of the communication terminal indicated by the telephone number in association with each other, and is included in the call information. Reading the user information corresponding to the telephone number of the calling terminal and sending it to the called terminal;
The called terminal receiving the user information from the communication mediating device;
A step in which the called terminal performs a process of making the user recognize the received user information;
The incoming call terminal receiving an input of authentication result information indicating whether or not to accept an incoming call from a user;
The called terminal transmitting the inputted authentication result information to the communication mediating device; and
When the communication mediating device receives the authentication result information from the called terminal, and when the received authentication result information indicates that the incoming call is permitted, calling the called terminal;
The communication mediating apparatus establishes a connection as a telephone with the calling terminal and establishes a connection as a telephone with the called terminal, thereby calling the calling terminal and the called terminal with a telephone. As a step to connect as
A communication method comprising: Calling information including a telephone number of a calling side terminal which is a calling side communication terminal and indicating a call from the calling side terminal to a called side terminal which is a called side communication terminal The step of receiving,
The calling terminal transmits the telephone number of the calling terminal included in the call information to a telephone directory server;
The telephone directory server receiving the telephone number from the called terminal;
From the telephone directory storage means for storing the telephone number of each of the plurality of communication terminals and the user information indicating the user of the communication terminal corresponding to the telephone number in association with each other, the telephone directory server receives the received telephone number. Reading the corresponding user information;
The telephone directory server transmitting the read user information to the called terminal;
The called terminal receiving the user information and performing a process of causing the user of the called terminal to recognize the received user information;
A communication method comprising: A communication terminal including a telephone number of a calling terminal that is a calling communication terminal, and receiving call information indicating a call from the calling terminal to the communication terminal;
The communication terminal transmitting the telephone number of the calling terminal included in the call information to the telephone directory server;
A step in which the communication terminal receives user information indicating a user of the calling terminal from the telephone directory server and causes the user of the called terminal to recognize the received user information; ,
A communication method comprising: A program for causing a computer to function as a communication mediating apparatus that mediates a telephone connection from a calling side terminal that is a calling side communication terminal to a called side communication terminal that is a called side communication terminal,
A process of receiving call information from the calling terminal including the telephone number of the calling terminal and indicating a call from the calling terminal to the called terminal;
The use corresponding to the telephone number included in the call information from the telephone directory storage means for storing the telephone number of each of the plurality of communication terminals and the user information indicating the user of the communication terminal indicated by the telephone number in association with each other Processing for reading out the party information and transmitting it to the called terminal;
A process of making a call to the called terminal when receiving authentication information indicating that the incoming call is permitted from the called terminal;
Establishing a connection as a telephone with the calling terminal, and establishing a connection as a telephone with the called terminal, thereby connecting the calling terminal and the called terminal as a telephone;
A program that causes a computer to execute. A program executable by a communication terminal,
A process of receiving user information indicating a user of another communication terminal that has made a call to the communication terminal from the communication mediating apparatus;
Processing for causing the user to recognize the user information received by the receiving means;
A process of receiving an input of authentication result information indicating whether or not an incoming call is permitted from a user;
A process of transmitting the input authentication result information to the communication mediating apparatus;
A program that causes a communication terminal to execute. A program executable by a communication terminal,
A process of receiving call information indicating a call from the calling terminal to the communication terminal, including a telephone number of a calling terminal that is a calling communication terminal;
A process of transmitting the telephone number included in the call information to the telephone directory server;
A program for causing a communication terminal to execute a process of receiving user information indicating a user of the calling terminal from the telephone directory server and causing the user of the communication terminal to recognize the received user information.

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