JP3056161B2 - Mobile phone message recording time reporting method - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a method of reporting a message recording time of a portable telephone, and more particularly to a method of reporting a message recording time of a portable telephone which reports the message recording time of the portable telephone to a message transmitting side.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, when making a call from a mobile phone to a mobile phone, when the other party is absent and the mobile phone has a message recording function,
A message indicating the absence is sent from the other party's telephone to the transmitting-side mobile telephone (some of these messages indicate the recording time). After listening to the recording start tone after the absence message ends, the calling party records the message if there is a message.

[0003]

As described above, there is a conventional message recording time reporting method in which the recording time is reported in advance before the recording is started. However, when a caller is recording, how long is the remaining recording time later? Send a message while worrying about. At this time, the recording may end earlier than the time that the caller was aware of, and in that case, the message ends halfway. Therefore, in such cases, some people call again and record the rest of the message, and the recipient listening to the message is often uncomfortable.

[0004] The present invention has been made in view of the above points,
By setting a timer slightly shorter than the message recording time and notifying the message sender in advance of the end of the recording before the end, the message recording time of the mobile phone can be sent accurately without sending the halfway message to the receiving side The purpose is to provide a reporting method.

[0005]

In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, the present invention transmits an absence message and a recording start sound sequentially when an incoming call is absent, and then receives a message message from the transmitting telephone. A message recording time reporting method for a mobile phone that records on a recording unit, wherein the receiving mobile phone has a recording time transmitting means for transmitting the recording time of the recording unit to the transmitting telephone when the absence message is transmitted; The side telephone sets a detecting means for detecting the reception of the recording time when the absence message is received, a first timer section, and sets a time shorter than the recording time detected by the detecting means in the first timer section to start the operation. The configuration includes a setting unit and a notifying unit for notifying the user when the first timer unit times out.

According to the present invention, the portable telephone on the receiving side transmits the recording time of the recording section when the absence message is transmitted, and the transmitting telephone sets the first timer section to a time shorter than the recording time detected when the absence message is received. However, when the first timer section times out, the fact is notified.
The sender can be notified of the end of the recording time before the end of the recording time of the recording unit of the mobile phone on the receiving side.

[0007]

[0008]

Further, the present invention is the above notification means, because there was a means of sound from the speaker recording end announcement message <br/>, the sender to reliably obtain recording end announcement information by sound in voice mail message transmission be able to.

[0010]

Next, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of a message recording time reporting system for a mobile phone according to the present invention. In this embodiment, the mobile phones on the transmitting side and the receiving side have the same configuration, but FIG. 1 shows only the parts related to the transmitting operation and the receiving operation.

In FIG. 1, a portable telephone 10 on the transmitting side is shown.
Is a control unit 11 for controlling the telephone, a radio unit 12 for transmitting / receiving information, a microphone 13 for a sender to input a message, and a speaker 14 for notifying a message from a receiving side or a timeout of a recording time. And a timer unit 15 for counting the recording time notified from the receiving side.

The control unit 11 converts a voice signal input from the microphone 13 into data at the time of transmission and supplies the data to the radio unit 12, and converts the data received by the radio unit 12 into a voice signal at the time of reception and supplies it to the speaker 14. I do. The control unit 11
Detects timer value information from the receiving side, and
Report to

On the other hand, the portable telephone 20 on the receiving side has a control unit 21 for controlling the telephone, a radio unit 22 for receiving / transmitting information, a recording unit 23 for recording a message from the transmitting side, and a recording time. And a timer unit 24 that counts The control unit 21 sends absence message information to the wireless unit 22 when the recipient is absent. Also, the recording unit 23
The received message from the control unit 21 is recorded. The timer unit 24 sets the recording time by the control unit 21. When the timer time-out occurs, the timer unit 24 notifies the control unit 21 of the time-out and disconnects the communication with the transmission side.

Next, the operation of the embodiment shown in FIG.
This will be described with reference to the sequence diagram of FIG. Now, assuming that a call has been made from the transmitting mobile phone 10 to the receiving mobile phone 20 (step 31), the radio unit 22 of the receiving mobile phone 20 receives the incoming signal and the control unit 2
Pass to 1. Then, the control unit 21 detects the incoming call signal and sends a response signal (ACK) to the incoming call to the wireless unit 2.
2 (step 32).

At this time, if the receiving side mobile phone 20 is not present, the control unit 21 generates a message indicating that the receiving side is not present and transmits it to the transmitting side mobile phone 10 through the wireless unit 22 (step 33). The recording time (timer value) and the message recording start sound data are sequentially generated and transmitted to the transmitting mobile phone 10 through the wireless unit 22 (steps 34 and 35). Further, after transmitting the message recording start sound data, the control unit 21 starts recording by the recording unit 23, and at the same time, causes the timer unit 24 to set a recording time and start a timer operation as indicated by 41 in FIG. .

In the transmitting mobile phone 10, when receiving the response signal (ACK) from the receiving mobile phone 20, the radio unit 12 notifies the control unit 11 of the reception signal, whereby the control unit 11 detects the incoming call response. To communicate with the receiving side. Thereafter, when the absence message in step 33 of FIG. 2 is input via the wireless unit 12, the control unit 11 converts the message data into an audio signal, supplies the audio signal to the speaker 14, and causes the speaker 14 to generate sound.

After receiving the absence message, the control unit 11 inputs the timer value in step 34 of FIG. 2 via the radio unit 12, and the control unit 11 sets the timer value slightly shorter than the timer value (for example, 10 minutes of the recording end time). (Timer value up to two seconds before) is set in the timer unit 15 and the timer operation is started as indicated by 42 in FIG. Subsequently, when the data of the recording start sound transmitted from the receiving-side mobile phone 20 in step 35 of FIG. 2 is input via the wireless unit 12, the control unit 11 converts the data into an audio signal and supplies it to the speaker 14. Then, the recording start sound is generated.

When the sender listens to the absence message through the speaker 14, the sender inputs a message using the microphone 13 immediately after listening to the recording start sound. After the voice signal of the message is converted into voice data by the control unit 11, transmission is started by the wireless unit 12 (step 36). When the control unit 11 detects a timeout from the timer unit 15 during the transmission of the message message, the control unit 11 notifies the sender of a message indicating that the recording time is only a little longer through the speaker 14 (step 37).

Thus, the sender can complete the message before the recording time ends, and when the transmission of the message is completed, the sender performs an operation to that effect. Then, the control unit 1
1 generates a call termination signal and transmits it through the radio unit 12 (step 38).

When the receiving mobile phone 20 receives the voice data of the message transmitted from the transmitting mobile phone 10 in step 36, the receiving mobile phone 20 converts the voice data into a voice signal by the control unit 21 and supplies the voice signal to the recording unit 23 to transmit the voice message. Record a message. During this recording, when the radio section 22 receives the above-mentioned end signal transmitted in step 38, the control section 21 makes a recording section 23 based on the end signal inputted from the radio section 22.
, The operation of the timer section 24 is stopped, and the communication with the transmission side is terminated. Note that the operation of the timer unit 24 does not have to be stopped. In this case, the timer unit 24 operates as shown in step 39 in FIG.
Timeout after the recording operation ends.

As described above, according to this embodiment, the receiving-side mobile phone 20 transmits the recording time of its own recording unit 23 after transmitting the absence message, and the transmitting-side mobile phone 10 transmits the received recording time. The recording time end announcement message is pronounced at a time set slightly shorter than the recording time, so the sender listens to the recording time end announcement message while sending the message message, so that the remaining message message is shortened within the end time. And the message can be completed.

If the message ends earlier than the time-out of the timer section 15, a call termination signal is transmitted from the transmitting side mobile phone 10, so that the communication with the receiving side mobile phone 20 ends and the timeout occurs. Speaker 14
It is not pronounced from.

The present invention is not limited to the above embodiment. For example, the receiving side sets a timer value shorter than the recording time (end notice timer) at the same time as the recording time timer value (recording timer), An end notice message may be transmitted to the transmitting side when the end notice timer times out (in this case, the timer value is not set on the transmitting side).

The notification of the end of the recording time is not a message, but may be a notification by other notification means such as lighting or blinking control of a lamp or a display on a display device. Can be set to a time other than 10 seconds before the end of the recording.

[0025]

As described above, according to the present invention,
When attempting to send a message longer than the recording time set on the receiving mobile phone from the sending mobile phone when recording a message, the recording time is notified in advance before the message recording end time, and the sender is notified. Has been able to keep the remaining message messages concisely before the message recording end time, so that the message message that is always completed without being half-finished can be recorded on the recording unit of the receiving telephone, and the message message reception It can also prevent people from feeling uncomfortable.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a system configuration diagram according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a sequence diagram for explaining the operation of FIG. 1;

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Sending mobile phone 11, 21 Control part 12, 22 Radio part 13 Microphone 14 Speaker 15, 24 Timer part 20 Receiving mobile phone 23 Recording part

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Claims (3)

(57) [Claims] 1. A message recording time report method for a mobile phone, which transmits a message of absence and a recording start sound in sequence when an incoming call is absent and then receives a message from a transmitting side telephone and records it in a recording unit. The receiving-side mobile phone has recording time transmitting means for transmitting the recording time of the recording unit to the transmitting telephone when transmitting the absence message. Detecting means for detecting the reception of the recording time, a first timer unit, setting means for setting a time shorter than the recording time detected by the detecting means in the first timer unit and starting operation, 1. A message recording time reporting method for a mobile phone, comprising: a notifying means for notifying the timer unit of a time-out when the time-out occurs. 2. The receiving-side mobile phone includes: a second timer unit; and a timer control unit that sets the recording time of the recording unit in the second timer unit and starts operation when transmitting the recording start sound. 2. The method according to claim 1, further comprising a disconnecting unit that disconnects communication with the transmitting telephone when the second timer unit times out. 3. The method according to claim 1, wherein said notifying means is means for sounding a recording end notice message from a speaker.