JP2009278458A - Ringback tone management apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a ringback tone management apparatus in which a calling party can recognize a positional relationship with a called party when originating a call from a calling-side terminal to a called-side terminal. <P>SOLUTION: When originating a call from a calling-side terminal 10a to a called-side terminal 10b, a ringback tone management apparatus 50 acquires a ringback tone pattern preset while being associated with a calling party ID and a called party ID and in a case where a distance is included in the ringback tone pattern, the distance between the calling-side terminal 10a and the called-side terminal 10b is calculated. Sound source data to be distributed to the calling-side terminal 10a are then determined on the basis of the distance, and the determined sound source data are distributed to the calling-side terminal 10a. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a ringing tone management apparatus that manages a ringing tone output from a calling side terminal when a call is made from the calling side terminal to the called side terminal.

Conventionally, in communication using the circuit switching method, when a call is transmitted from a calling side terminal to a called side terminal, in order to inform the calling side terminal that a call request is being transmitted to the called side terminal, the exchange sends it to the calling side terminal. On the other hand, a fixed ring tone was distributed.
With respect to this ringing tone, for example, there are technologies described in Patent Literature 1 to Patent Literature 3 as a technology that enables the recipient to distribute arbitrary sound source data to the caller terminal. Patent Document 1 describes a technique in which a callee sets sound source data to be a ringing tone in advance and distributes the sound source data to a caller terminal. Patent Document 2 describes a technique for transmitting a ring tone according to a state where a called party is placed (hereinafter referred to as “presence information”) to a caller terminal. Patent Document 3 describes a technique for transmitting a message for notifying a place where a receiving terminal exists to a transmitting terminal.
JP 2003-274016 A JP 2005-277450 A JP 2005-278078 A

As described above, various ideas have been made regarding the ringing tone output from the calling terminal, but this is useful when the caller is notified of the location of the called terminal but does not know the location. There is no problem. Also, when waiting for a call or when there is an emergency, the caller may want to know how close the caller is to the presence information of the callee.
However, in the past, the caller was able to confirm the presence information of the callee and the location where the callee was located before the call, but could not check the positional relationship with the callee.
The present invention has been made in order to solve the above-described problems, and provides a ringing tone management apparatus that enables a caller to know a positional relationship with a callee when making a call from the caller terminal to the callee terminal. The purpose is to provide.

In order to solve the above-mentioned problem, the invention according to claim 1 is a call for distributing sound source data to be output as a ringing tone from the calling terminal to the calling terminal when calling from the calling terminal to the receiving terminal. A sound management device, a distance calculating means for calculating a distance between the transmitting terminal and the receiving terminal, and sound source data to be output from the transmitting terminal based on the distance calculated by the distance calculating means And a sound source determination means for determining a ring tone management device.
According to the present invention, the ringing tone management apparatus determines sound source data to be output from the calling side terminal based on the distance between the calling side terminal and the called side terminal, and distributes the determined sound source data to the calling side terminal. Therefore, the caller can know the positional relationship with the callee when making a call from the caller terminal to the callee terminal.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the ringing tone management apparatus according to the first aspect, the sound source determining means sends sound source data for notifying the distance calculated by the distance calculating means from the transmitting side terminal. It is determined as sound source data to be output.
According to the present invention, the sound source determining means can specifically know how far away the caller is from himself / herself when making a call from the caller terminal to the callee terminal.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, in the ringing tone management apparatus according to the first aspect, a short-distance determination threshold value that is a criterion for determining whether or not the distance between the transmitting terminal and the receiving terminal is short is stored. And a sound source determination unit that includes a distance calculated by the distance calculation unit that is less than or equal to a threshold for the short distance determination stored in the threshold determination unit for short distance determination. The sound source data for notifying that the receiving terminal exists at a short distance is determined as sound source data to be output from the transmitting terminal.
According to the present invention, the ringing tone management apparatus provides sound source data for notifying that the receiving side terminal exists at a short distance when the distance between the transmitting side terminal and the receiving side terminal is equal to or less than the short distance determination threshold. Is determined as the sound source data to be output from the caller terminal, the caller can know only when the callee is at a short distance.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in the ringing tone management apparatus according to any one of the first to third aspects, the sound source to be output from the calling terminal when the calling terminal transmits to the receiving terminal Further comprising a ringing tone pattern storage means for storing a ringing tone pattern representing a combination of data, wherein the ringing tone pattern includes at least sound source data to be determined based on a distance between the receiving terminal and the calling terminal; Furthermore, it is possible to include at least one of sound source data related to the position of the receiving terminal and sound source data related to presence information indicating a state where a receiver who uses the receiving terminal is placed. And the sound source determining means determines sound source data to be distributed to the caller terminal based on the ringing sound pattern stored in the ringing sound pattern storage means. The features.
According to the present invention, when a caller makes a call from a caller terminal to a callee terminal, in addition to the positional relationship with the callee, the caller can know the presence information and location of the callee.

According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, in the ringing tone management device according to the fourth aspect, at least one of the information stored in at least one of the short distance determination threshold storage unit and the ringing tone pattern storage unit. The apparatus further comprises setting changing means for changing a part based on setting input from the receiving terminal.
According to the present invention, the callee can freely change the setting of the ringing tone pattern output from the caller terminal.

  According to the present invention, the ringing tone management apparatus determines sound source data to be output from the calling side terminal based on the distance between the calling side terminal and the called side terminal, and distributes the determined sound source data to the calling side terminal. Therefore, the caller can know the positional relationship with the callee when making a call from the caller terminal to the callee terminal.

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. In addition, the same code | symbol is attached | subjected to the same part and the overlapping description is abbreviate | omitted.
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FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an overall configuration of a mobile communication network according to an embodiment of the present invention. 1 includes a plurality of mobile communication terminals 10a, b,..., N, a plurality of base station apparatuses 20a,..., N, a plurality of exchanges 30a,. Person information management device 40, ringing tone management device 50, and ringing tone setting change device 60. The mobile communication terminals 10a, b, ..., n can communicate with each other via the base station apparatuses 20a, ..., n, the exchanges 30a, ..., n.

Each base station apparatus 20x (x = a, b,..., N) is connected to an exchange 30x for data relay. In addition, a ringing tone management device 50 that manages various ringing sounds is connected to each exchange 30x. Further, each exchange 30x is also connected to a subscriber information management device 40.
The subscriber information management device 40 manages information of the exchange 30x and the base station device 20x in which each mobile communication terminal 10x used by a subscriber who subscribes to a mobile communication service is located. In addition, the subscriber information management device 40 transmits presence information (for example, driving, meeting, moving, communicable, etc.) that can be set by the user of the mobile communication terminal 10x for each mobile communication terminal 10x. It also has a function of managing the status of the contractor by receiving it from 10x and storing it in the database.

The ringing tone management device 50 includes a database that stores setting information related to the ringing tone for each contractor. In order to allow the contractor to freely customize the setting information stored in the database, the ringing tone management device 50 is connected to a ringing tone setting change device 60 that accepts a setting change request from the mobile communication terminal 10x. .
Hereinafter, the mobile communication terminal 10x on the calling side is referred to as “calling terminal 10a”, and the mobile communication terminal 10x on the receiving side is referred to as “calling terminal 10b”.

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Next, the functional configuration of the ringing tone management apparatus 50 will be described. FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a functional configuration of the ringing tone management apparatus 50. As shown in FIG. As shown in the figure, the ringing tone management apparatus 50 includes a sound source database 509, a subscriber information database 508, a base station location information database 507, a ringing tone pattern information database 506, a communication control unit 501, a setting change processing unit 502, a user. An inter-distance calculation unit 503, a user state determination unit 504, a sound source search processing unit 505, a sound source determination unit 510, and the like.
The sound source database 509, the subscriber information database 508, the base station location information database 507, and the ringing tone pattern information database 506 are databases provided in a storage device included in the ringing tone management device 50.

  FIG. 3 shows an example of the data structure of the sound source database 509. As shown in the figure, the sound source database 509 includes a “sound source ID” for identifying sound source data, a “directory / file name” indicating the location where the sound source data is stored, and the “content” of the sound source data. Are stored in association with each other. As the types of sound source data, there are sound source data related to presence information, sound source data related to the distance between the sending terminal 10a and the receiving terminal 10b, sound source data related to the position of the receiving terminal 10b, and the like. As sound source data related to the distance, sound source data for notifying the distance (for example, “the connected terminal is within a radius of 1 km”) and notifying that the caller side terminal 10a exists at a short distance. Sound source data (for example, “the connected terminal is near”) and the like exist.

  FIG. 4 shows an example of the data configuration of the subscriber information database 508. As shown in the figure, the subscriber information database 508 includes a “contractor ID” for identifying a contractor who has subscribed to the mobile communication service, and a caller using the caller terminal 10a. A “caller ID” for identification, “presence information” indicating a state where the contractor is placed, and a contract from the caller terminal 10a when the contractor is placed in the state indicated by “presence information” When there is an incoming call to the receiving terminal 10b used by the person, “sound source ID” for specifying the sound source data to be output as the ringing sound from the calling terminal 10a is stored in association with each other.

  As described above, the subscriber information database 508 describes the contractor (that is, the called party, in the following description, the contractor becomes the called party for each caller. The sound source data can be set according to the presence information. With this configuration, it is possible to determine sound source data to be output from the caller terminal 10a in accordance with the presence information of the callee, and to inform the caller using the caller terminal 10a of the callee status.

Further, the subscriber information database 508 is provided with a “short distance judgment threshold” for each caller ID (corresponding to “short distance judgment threshold storage means”). It has a configuration in which a “threshold value” can be set.
The “short-distance determination threshold value” is used as a criterion for determining whether or not the distance between the transmission-side terminal 10a and the reception-side terminal 10b is short. When the distance between the caller terminal 10a and the callee terminal 10b is equal to or less than the short distance determination threshold, sound source data for notifying that the callee terminal 10b is in a short distance is delivered to the caller terminal 10a. The By outputting the sound source data from the caller terminal 10a, it is possible to easily notify the caller that the callee is nearby by voice.

  FIG. 5 shows an example of sound source data determined using the short distance determination threshold. When the location where the base station device 20a used by the originating terminal 10a is present is L (A) and the location where the base station device 20b used by the terminating terminal 10b is present is L (B), the originating terminal 10a and the incoming call are received. The distance D with the side terminal 10b is represented by D = | L (A) −L (B) |. Assuming that the short distance determination threshold value X is set to 5 km, the guidance “connection destination destination” is used as sound source data only when the value of the distance D is within 5 km at the time of transmission from the calling terminal 10 a to the receiving terminal 10 b. The terminal is near "is determined, and the guidance is distributed to the originating terminal 10a and output from the originating terminal 10a (see FIG. 5A). On the other hand, when the value of the distance D exceeds 5 km, normal guidance is determined as sound source data, and the normal guidance is distributed to the transmission side terminal 10a and output from the transmission side terminal 10a (see FIG. 5B). . Thus, the caller can know only when the callee is at a short distance.

  FIG. 6 shows an example of sound source data related to the distance determined without using the short distance determination threshold. For example, since the recipient has not entered the short distance judgment threshold, the subscriber ID in the subscriber information database 508 (that is, “recipient ID”, hereinafter also referred to as “recipient ID” as appropriate) and sender When no value is set in the “short-range determination threshold” corresponding to the ID, the guidance “notice that the connected terminal has a radius Dkm is notified as the sound source data of the distance D between the transmitting terminal 10a and the receiving terminal 10b. "I am within" is determined, and the guidance is delivered to the originating terminal 10a and output from the originating terminal 10a. Thereby, the caller can know in detail how far away the callee is from himself / herself.

In addition, as an item related to sound source data determination related to distance, a method of determining sound source data using the “short distance judgment threshold” shown in FIG. 5 and a “short distance judgment threshold” shown in FIG. 6 are used. In the subscriber information database 508, an item may be provided in the subscriber information database 508 so that the receiver can set and input the item.
FIG. 7 shows an example of the data configuration of the base station location information database 507. As shown in the figure, the base station location information database 507 manages location information for each base station device 20n. This location information is used to determine the location where the receiving terminal 10b exists and to calculate the distance between the transmitting terminal 10a and the receiving terminal 10b.

  In FIG. 8, an example of a data structure of the ringing tone pattern information database 506 is shown. As shown in the figure, the ringing sound pattern information database 506 has a configuration capable of setting a ringing sound pattern to be distributed to the calling terminal 10a for each combination of the contractor ID and the calling party ID. Yes. The ringing tone pattern includes one of sound source data related to presence information, sound source data related to the distance between the caller terminal 10a and the callee terminal 10b, and sound source data related to the position of the callee terminal 10b. Multiple combinations are included. The ringing sound pattern can be set by a contractor's setting input, and when the caller makes a call from the calling side terminal 10a to the receiving side terminal 10b used by the contractor, the contracting party, that is, the called party. Whether the sound source data corresponding to the presence information is distributed to the caller terminal 10a, the sound source data related to the distance between the caller and the callee, or a combination of a plurality of sound source data (for example, the caller) It is possible to specify whether or not to deliver the distance between the callee and the recipient and the presence information of the recipient.

In addition, you may enable it to set the output order of the some sound source data output from the transmission side terminal 10a using the said ringing tone pattern information database 506. FIG.
Returning to FIG. 2, the setting change processing unit 502, the inter-user distance calculation unit 503, the user state determination unit 504, the sound source search processing unit 505, and the sound source determination unit 510 are included in a CPU (Central Processing Unit) included in the ring tone management device 50. ) Is a function realized by executing a program stored in the storage device.

The setting change processing unit 502 receives the setting change request transmitted from the receiving terminal 10b by the recipient's setting input via the ringing tone setting changing device 60, and changes the subscriber information database according to the contents of the setting change request. 508, the setting of information stored in the ringing tone pattern information database 506 or the sound source database 509 is changed.
Among the information stored in the subscriber information database 508, information whose settings can be changed includes a caller ID, presence information, a sound source ID, and a short distance determination threshold. Among information stored in the ringing tone pattern information database 506, information that can be set includes a caller ID and a ringing tone pattern. Among the information stored in the sound source database 509, information whose settings can be changed includes a sound source ID and a directory / file name.

The inter-user distance calculation unit 503 uses the position of each of the base station apparatuses 20a and 20b where the originating terminal 10a and the terminating terminal 10b are located as the positional information of each of the originating terminal 10a and the terminating terminal 10b. Obtained from the information database 507, the distance between the transmitting terminal 10a and the receiving terminal 10b is calculated based on the position information.
In addition, the acquisition method of each position information of the transmission side terminal 10a and the reception side terminal 10b is not limited to the above. For example, a GPS (Global Positioning System) receiver is mounted on the transmission side terminal 10a and the reception side terminal 10b. The position information may be acquired by doing so.

The user status determination unit 504 obtains the presence information of the called party from the subscriber information management device 40 when the calling side terminal 10a makes a call to the called side terminal 10b, thereby determining the state of the called party. judge.
The sound source search processing unit 505 searches the sound source database 509 for sound source data to be output as a ringing tone from the originating terminal 10a.
The sound source determination unit 510 determines sound source data to be output as a ringing tone from the calling terminal 10a when a call is made from the calling terminal 10a to the receiving terminal 10b.
In the present embodiment, the sound source determination unit 510 stores the ringing tone pattern stored in the ringing tone pattern information database 506 in association with the caller ID of the caller terminal 10a and the callee ID of the callee terminal 10b. The sound source data to be output from the transmission side terminal 10a is determined.

  Further, the sound source determination unit 510 includes a case where a distance is included in the ringing tone pattern and a value is set in the “short distance determination threshold” of the subscriber information database 508, and the user When the distance calculated by the inter-distance calculation unit 503 is equal to or less than the “short distance determination threshold value”, the sound source data for notifying that the transmission side terminal 10a exists at a short distance (in this embodiment, 3 is determined as sound source data related to the distance to be output from the transmission-side terminal 10a. On the other hand, when the distance calculated by the inter-user distance calculation unit 503 exceeds the “short distance determination threshold” in the subscriber information database 508 and only the distance is specified as the ringing tone pattern, normal guidance is provided. (That is, the normal ringing tone) is determined as the sound source data to be output from the originating terminal 10a.

Further, the sound source determination unit 510 is a case where a distance is included in the ringing tone pattern, and when a value is not set in the “short distance determination threshold” of the subscriber information database 508, the inter-user distance calculation unit The sound source data for notifying the distance calculated by 503 (in this embodiment, the sound source data such as the sound source IDs “0x20000” and “0x20001” shown in FIG. 3) is used as the sound source data to be output from the transmitting terminal 10a. decide.
The communication control unit 501 includes a communication interface and controls communication with an external device. For example, when the communication control unit 501 receives a notification that there is a call from the caller terminal 10a to the callee terminal 10b, the communication control unit 501 outputs sound source data to be output as a ringing tone from the caller terminal 10a to the caller terminal 10a. Distribute (corresponding to “ringing sound distribution means”).

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Next, the operation of each device configured as described above will be described with reference to the sequence diagram shown in FIG.
First, the caller inputs the telephone number of the receiving terminal 10b to the calling terminal 10a and inputs a connection request. Thereby, the transmission side terminal 10a transmits a transmission request (step S1000).
The exchange 30a on the caller side sends the information on the exchange 30b in which the called terminal 10b is located and the presence information of the called party managed by the subscriber information management device 40 to the subscriber information management device 40. Request from the subscriber information management device 40 (step S1010).

  The exchange 30a on the caller side makes an acquisition request for the location information to the exchange 30b in which the destination terminal 10b is located (step S1020). In addition to confirming whether the receiving terminal 10b is in a call, whether it is out of communication range because the power is not turned on or the radio wave does not reach, the receiving terminal 10b is currently in a wireless area. The purpose is to grasp the base station information in real time.

  The exchange 30b on the called party side transmits the area information acquisition request received from the exchange 30a on the caller side to the terminal 10b on the receiving side, and the area information (base station ID, on-call, out-of-range, within-range, etc.) In addition to the communication availability state, information indicating which base station device 20b is used is acquired (step S1030). The exchange 30b on the called party side returns the location information acquired in step S1030 as a response to step S1020 to the exchange 30a on the calling party side (step S1040).

If the caller side exchange 30a cannot make a call with the callee terminal 10b for some reason based on the location information notified in step S1040, the caller side exchange 30a returns information indicating that the call cannot be made to the caller terminal 10a (step S1040). S1050: NO). Immediately thereafter, the exchange 30a on the caller side distributes the sound source data corresponding to the reason for the inability to make a call to the caller terminal 10a (step S2000).
On the other hand, when it is determined in step S1050 that a call with the receiving terminal 10b is possible (step S1050: YES), the caller-side exchange 30a sends the ringing tone management apparatus 50 the receiving terminal acquired in step S1040. The in-zone information 10b and the in-zone information and presence information of the originating terminal 10a acquired in step S1010 are notified (step S1060).

  The sound source determination unit 510 of the ringing tone management apparatus 50 determines the sound source data to be output from the calling-side terminal 10a, and in step S1060, both the calling party and the called party are in the service area notified from the calling-side exchange 30a. In order to determine whether the information needs to be used or the presence information of the called party needs to be used, it is determined with which ringing tone pattern the sound source data needs to be distributed. Specifically, the sound source determination unit 510 searches for a ringing tone pattern stored in the ringing tone pattern information database 506 in association with the caller ID of the caller terminal 10a and the callee ID of the callee terminal 10b. And get.

  When the acquired ringing tone pattern includes a distance, the inter-user distance calculation unit 503 determines the location information of the originating terminal 10a and the terminating terminal 10b notified from the exchange 30a on the originator side in step S1060. The latitude and longitude (that is, position information) corresponding to the base station ID included in is extracted from the base station position information database 507, and the distance between the two points is calculated based on these two position information. Here, when a value is set in the “short distance determination threshold” corresponding to the sender ID and the callee ID in the subscriber information database 508, the sound source determination unit 510 uses the short distance determination threshold. Thus, it is determined that it is necessary to determine sound source data to be output from the transmission-side terminal 10a. The sound source determination unit 510 outputs sound source data for outputting the guidance “the connected terminal is near” only when the distance calculated by the inter-user distance calculation unit 503 is equal to or less than the short distance determination threshold. Is stored in the memory as a sound source ID related to the distance. On the other hand, when a value is not set for the “short distance determination threshold” in the subscriber information database 508, the sound source determination unit 510 provides guidance for notifying the distance calculated by the inter-user distance calculation unit 503. According to the calculated distance D, the sound source ID “0x20000”, “0x20001”,... Corresponding to the sound source data “the connected terminal is within the radius Dm” is determined. Are stored in the memory as the sound source ID related to the distance.

On the other hand, when the ringing tone pattern includes the presence information of the called party, the sound source determination unit 510 subscribes the sound source ID corresponding to the presence information, the calling party ID, and the called party ID of the called party notified in step S1060. Obtained from the person information database 508 and stored in the memory as a sound source ID related to the presence information (step S1070).
Here, if the caller ID is registered in the subscriber information database 508 in step S1070, the corresponding sound source ID can be acquired, but if the caller ID or the callee ID is not registered in the subscriber information database 508, a call is made. The sound source determination unit 510 of the sound management device 50 requests the caller-side switch 30a to distribute the normal ringing tone provided in the switch (step S1080: NO). Then, the caller-side exchange 30a notifies the caller terminal 10a that the preparation for outgoing call is completed (step S2100), and immediately after that, delivers a normal ringing tone to the caller terminal 10a ( Step S2110).

On the other hand, when the caller ID is registered in the subscriber information database 508 (step S1080: YES), the ringing tone management apparatus 50 notifies the caller side exchange 30a that the ringing tone distribution preparation is completed. (Step S1090).
Thereby, the caller-side exchange 30a notifies the calling-side terminal 10a that the preparation for outgoing call is completed (step S1100), and immediately thereafter, the sound source search processing unit 505 of the ringing tone management apparatus 50 The sound source data corresponding to one or a plurality of sound source IDs stored in the memory in S1070 is acquired from the sound source database 509 by searching. Then, the communication control unit 501 distributes the acquired sound source data to the caller side terminal 10a via the caller side exchange 30a (step S1110).

While the sound source data is being distributed from the ring tone management device 50 to the caller terminal 10a in step S1110, the caller side exchange 30a makes a call request to the callee side exchange 30b (step S1120).
The exchange 30b on the called party side that has received the call request makes a similar call request to the called terminal 10b. Then, a ringing tone sounds at the receiving terminal 10b, and an off-hook waiting state is entered (step S1130).
When the called party performs an off-hook operation on the called terminal 10b being called in step S1130, an off-hook signal is sent from the called terminal 10b to the called party exchange 30b (step S1140).

Then, the caller-side exchange 30b notifies the caller-side exchange 30a that the connection is complete (step S1150), and a call can be made between the caller-side terminal 10a and the callee-side terminal 10b. (Step S1160).
Further, in order to release the line resources of the exchange 30a on the called party and the ringing sound management apparatus 50 used for the sound source data distribution, a notification of connection completion is sent from the exchange 30a on the called party side to the ringing sound management apparatus 50. (Step S1170). This completes the operation of each device constituting the mobile communication network.

  As described above, the ringing tone management apparatus 50 should output from the calling terminal 10a based on the distance between the calling terminal 10a and the receiving terminal 10b when calling from the calling terminal 10a to the receiving terminal 10b. Since the sound source data is determined and the determined sound source data is distributed to the transmission side terminal 10a, the sound source data related to the distance can be output from the transmission side terminal 10a as a ringing tone. Thereby, the caller can know the positional relationship with the callee at a stage before the communication between the caller terminal 10a and the callee terminal 10b is established. In this way, the caller can check the positional relationship with the called party by using the ringing tone used in the general call mode based on the circuit switching method. Depending on how you do it, you can also check the presence information and location of the called party.

  In the above-described embodiment, the ring tone management device 50 and the ring tone setting change device 60 are described as separate devices. However, the ring tone management device 50 has the function of the ring tone setting change device 60. The setting change request from the receiving terminal 10b may be transmitted directly to the ringing tone management apparatus 50. The sound source data is not limited to the notification message but may be music. In the above-described embodiment, the sound source data to be output from the calling terminal 10a is determined using the ringing tone pattern information database 506. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and is always based on distance, for example. Only the sound source data determined in this way may be determined as the sound source data to be output from the transmission-side terminal 10a.

It is a figure which shows the whole structure of the mobile communication network which concerns on embodiment of this invention. It is a block diagram which shows the function structure of the ringing tone management apparatus which concerns on the same embodiment. It is a figure which shows an example of the data structure of the sound source database which concerns on the embodiment. It is a figure showing an example of data composition of a subscriber information database concerning the embodiment. It is a figure which shows an example of the sound source data determined using the short distance judgment threshold value according to the embodiment. It is a figure which shows an example of the sound source data relevant to the distance determined without using the short distance judgment threshold value according to the embodiment. It is a figure which shows an example of a data structure of the base station location information database which concerns on the embodiment. It is a figure which shows an example of a data structure of the ringing tone pattern information database which concerns on the embodiment. It is a sequence diagram which shows operation | movement of each apparatus which comprises the mobile communication network which concerns on the embodiment.

Explanation of symbols

10x Mobile communication terminal 10a Originating side terminal 10b Terminating side terminal 20x Base station device 30x Switch 40 Subscriber information management device 50 Ringing tone management device 501 Communication control unit 502 Setting change processing unit 503 Inter-user distance calculation unit 504 User state determination unit 505 Sound source search processing unit 510 Sound source determination unit 506 Ringing tone pattern information database 507 Base station location information database 508 Subscriber information database 509 Sound source database 60 Ringing tone setting changing device

Claims (5)

A ringing tone management apparatus for delivering sound source data to be output as a ringing tone from the calling side terminal when calling from a calling side terminal to a receiving side terminal,
Distance calculating means for calculating the distance between the calling terminal and the called terminal;
A ring tone management apparatus comprising: sound source determination means for determining sound source data to be output from the caller terminal based on the distance calculated by the distance calculation means.   2. The ring tone according to claim 1, wherein the sound source determination unit determines sound source data for notifying the distance calculated by the distance calculation unit as sound source data to be output from the transmission side terminal. Management device. A short-distance determination threshold storage means for storing a short-distance determination threshold value that is a determination criterion as to whether or not the distance between the calling terminal and the receiving terminal is short;
The sound source determining means is
A sound source for notifying that the receiving terminal is in a short distance when the distance calculated by the distance calculation means is equal to or less than the short distance determination threshold stored in the short distance determination threshold storage means The ring tone management apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the data is determined as sound source data to be output from the caller terminal. Further comprising a ringing tone pattern storage means for storing a ringing tone pattern representing a combination of sound source data to be output from the calling side terminal when calling from the calling side terminal to the called side terminal;
The ringing tone pattern includes at least sound source data to be determined based on a distance between the receiving terminal and the calling terminal, and further includes sound source data related to the position of the receiving terminal, and the receiving terminal. Including at least one of sound source data related to presence information indicating a state where a called party to be used is placed,
4. The sound source determination unit according to claim 1, wherein the sound source determination unit determines sound source data to be distributed to the calling terminal based on a ringing tone pattern stored in the ringing tone pattern storage unit. The ring tone management apparatus according to item 1.   Setting change means for changing at least a part of information stored in at least one of the threshold value storage means for short distance determination and the ringing sound pattern storage means based on a setting input from the terminal on the receiving side; The ring tone management apparatus according to claim 4, further comprising:

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