JP3137699B2 - Telephone receiving system - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a telephone termination system in a private branch exchange system in which a representative group is composed of a plurality of telephones. More particularly, the present invention relates to a system for receiving a call to a representative telephone number when a cordless telephone is included in telephones constituting a representative group mainly in an office.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A cordless telephone for business use has a characteristic that a telephone can be transmitted and received anywhere in the business. In addition, since an individual who has left the office can be called directly by telephone, it is rapidly spreading in recent years.

On the other hand, in an office, it is common to form a representative group consisting of a plurality of telephones for each department. The representative group forms a group with a telephone having a representative telephone number (hereinafter referred to as a parent device) and a plurality of telephones each having a unique telephone number (hereinafter referred to as a child device). In the case of a busy call, an idle slave unit in the group is selected according to a preset rule and an incoming call is received. The effect of reducing the probability of an incomplete call because the incoming call to the representative telephone number is busy. There is.

FIG. 5 is a diagram for explaining the operation of a conventional system.
Base unit 1 of representative telephone number 200 and telephone numbers 201 to 203
A representative group is constituted by the slave units 1a up to this point. Slave device 1a may be a normal telephone or may include a cordless telephone. In the example shown in the figure, the parent device 1 and the child devices 1a with telephone numbers 201 and 203 are in the office 2, and the child device 1a with the telephone number 202 is a cordless telephone in the conference room 3. It is assumed that the master unit 1 and the slave unit 1a with the number 201 in the office 2 are in a call, and the slave unit 1a with the number 202 and the slave unit 1a with the number 203 are empty.

[0005] Reference numeral 4 denotes a management table for managing the status of each telephone in this group. In this state, the representative number 20
Assume that there is an incoming call to 0. The central control device (not shown) determines the receiving terminal with reference to the management table 4. Referring to number 200, a call is in progress. Therefore, the central controller refers to the next number 201. Call 201 is also on a call. Therefore, the central control unit proceeds to the next number 202
See turn. Since 202 is empty, this 202
The second slave unit 1a receives an incoming call.

[0006]

In the above-mentioned conventional system, the cordless telephone is included in the slave unit. If the cordless telephone 1a happens to be placed in the conference room 3, an incoming call is made to the cordless telephone in the conference room. There was an inconvenience that it would ring. Such inconvenience is the same even when receiving a call on a moving cordless telephone.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of such a problem, and in the case where an incoming call is made to a representative telephone number, the incoming call is not received by a cordless telephone moving to a place other than the designated position. The purpose of the present invention is to provide a telephone call receiving system that can be used.

[0008]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the principle of the present invention. In the figure, reference numeral 10 denotes a private branch exchange (PB
X) and 20 are a plurality of representative groups connected to the private branch exchange 10 and composed of a plurality of telephones. In the figure,
This shows n representative groups from # 1 to #n.
The representative group 20 is composed of a telephone having a representative telephone number (parent device) and a plurality of telephones having different telephone numbers (child devices). And representative group 20
It is, at least one of the cordless phone in it (code
21 ) .

[0009] Cordless phone 21 is belong to one of the representative group 20, the cordless phone itself connected connection device to the private branch exchange 10 (not shown), for cordless communication, a representative Even if the user moves from the place where the group 20 is located, it is possible to make and receive telephone calls and talk. Reference numeral 11 denotes a central control unit (CC) connected to the private branch exchange 10, and reference numeral 30 denotes a memory connected to the central control unit 11. The system configured as described above is a system in which a telephone number representing a group is set, and an incoming call to the telephone number is performed according to a predetermined rule.

[0010] 31 provided in the memory 30 is empty busy management table for managing the location information existing cordless phone 21.

[0011]

When the incoming call is at the representative telephone number of the group, the central control unit 11 refers to the contents of the air / float management table 31 to determine whether the incoming call to the representative telephone number is permitted or not. Make a decision. Here, Prefer written to the empty busy management table as cordless phones 21 which is moving to a location other than the designated position is not allowed to the incoming advance as a representative phone number. By doing so, there is no inconvenience such that incoming to the cordless phone 21 or during the conference moved.

[0012]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating a specific configuration example of the representative group 20. In the figure, 22 is the master unit with a representative phone number of the group, 23 a plurality of slave units constituting the representative group (ordinary telephone), 21 is the above-mentioned cordless phone (cordless handset). The cordless phone 21 is configured to perform a cordless communication with the connecting device 24. These telephones 21 and
2 and 23 each have a unique telephone number. In the figure, there is shown a case where cordless phone 21 includes one, may be plural.

FIG. 3 is an operation explanatory diagram of one embodiment of the present invention. 1, 2, and 5 are denoted by the same reference numerals. In office 2, there are 4 numbers 200-203
Telephones are set up as a representative group. Here, a normal telephone only the parent unit 22, and has a remaining handset all cordless phone (cordless handset) 21.
These cordless telephones 21 communicate via a connection device 24 (see FIG. 2) not shown here. 25 is a charging base for the cordless phone 21.
Since the cordless telephone 21 talks cordlessly,
Normally, it is placed on the charging stand 25 and charged for use at that time.

The charging stand 25 is provided with a sensor (not shown) for detecting whether a telephone is placed on the charging stand. In the example shown, a cordless phone 21 number 202 is moving in a conference room 3. Accordingly, the sensor of the charging stand 25 sends a signal to the effect that the telephone is not mounted to the central control device 11, and the central control device 11 writes information indicating that the terminal cannot receive a call in the idle / busy management table 31.

It is now assumed that there is an incoming call at the representative number 200. The central control device 11 refers to the contents of the empty / busy management table 31 and checks the status of the 200th base unit 22. Base unit 22 is currently talking. Therefore, this time the next number 20
Investigate situation 1. Cordless phone 21 of the 201
Is also on a call. Therefore, the situation of the next number 202 is further examined. No. 202 cannot receive a call. Here, the term “incoming incoming call” means that the representative number incoming call is not possible, and individual incoming call is possible.

Since the representative number has been received, the number 202
Is skipped and the next number 203 is examined. As a result, cordless phone 21 number 203 central control unit 11 because it is empty will be coming into the cordless phone 21. In this manner, the cordless phone 21 that leave the designated position can be prevented by the incoming representative number.

FIG. 4 is an operation explanatory diagram of another embodiment of the present invention. The same components as those in FIG. 3 are denoted by the same reference numerals.
In general, a cordless telephone system for business use has multiple call zones so that calls can be made anywhere in the business, and manages which call zone each cordless phone is in by performing location registration. are doing.
This position registration is stored in an area provided in the registration area in the memory 30. It may be provided in the empty / occupied management table 31.

In the figure, numbers 200, 201, 203
Phone location registration zone, cordless phone number 202 (cordless handset) 21 is assumed to be registered in the location registration zone. The location registration zone is the office 2, and the location registration zone is the conference room 3. Central control unit 11, empty the incoming Call for cordless phones 21 that is not registered in the location registration zone busy management table 3
Write to 1.

Here, it is assumed that there is an incoming call to the representative number 200. The central control device 11 has an air / fence management table 31.
, The status of the 200th master unit 22 is checked.
Base unit 22 is currently talking. Then, the situation of the next number 201 is examined. The handset 21 of 201 is also in a call. Therefore, the situation of the next number 202 is further examined.
No. 202 is not available.

Since the representative number has been received, the number 202
Is skipped and the next number 203 is examined. As a result, cordless phone 21 number 203 central control unit 11 because it is empty will be coming into the cordless phone 21. In this manner, the cordless phone 21 that leave the designated position can be prevented by the incoming representative number.

[0021] In the embodiment described above, incoming calls to the representative number 200 shows an example which does not call for a cordless phone 21 number 202. However, the code of the number 202
Incoming call to the less phone is regarded as the telephone addressed Mr. A with 202 phone numbers in the example of FIG. 3, FIG. 4 202
By taking an operation form that calls the phone of
When a representative group is formed with cordless telephones, it is possible to make a call to an appropriate telephone by a telephone addressed to an individual or a telephone addressed to a group.

[0022]

As described above in detail, according to the present invention, when an incoming call is made to a representative telephone number, the incoming call cannot be received by a cordless telephone that is moving to a place other than the designated position. A possible telephone receiving system can be provided.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a principle block diagram of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating a specific configuration example of a representative group.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing the operation of one embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing the operation of another embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating the operation of a conventional system.

[Explanation of symbols]

10 PBX 11 central controller 20 representative group 21 cordless phone 30 memory 31 empty busy management table

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Claims (5)

(57) [Claims] 1. A and multiple plurality of representative <br/> group composed of telephone, and a plurality of cordless phones belonging to the representative group, private branch exchange for accommodating the cordless telephone
Consists of a machine, configure the phone number that represents the group, in a system that performs in accordance with predetermined rules the incoming call to the representative phone number, in relation to the position where there are the cordless telephone, the co
Doresu provided ruthenate over b le to manage incoming whether the representative phone number of the telephone for incoming call to a representative phone number
Refer to the contents of the table above to
A telephone receiving system for controlling incoming calls. Is for the cordless telephone contents of wherein prior Kite over b le is set to a non-received, according to claim 1, characterized in that so as not to select the incoming call to a representative phone number Telephone receiving system. 3. A charging device in which the cordless telephone is installed.
The table is provided with means for detecting whether or not the cordless telephone is mounted, and based on the detection result of the detection means,
In the table, incoming calls to the cordless telephone are disabled.
2. The telephone call receiving system according to claim 1, wherein: 4. A cordless telephone having a plurality of communication zones, and means for registering and managing which communication zone each cordless telephone is in ,
Each table is stored in the table based on the registration information of the management means.
2. The telephone receiving system according to claim 1, wherein whether or not an incoming call is made to the dress telephone is set . 5. A representative glue comprising a plurality of telephones.
And a plurality of cordless phones belonging to the representative group
With a handset and schedule incoming calls to the phone number representing the group.
Information on whether each cordless telephone is at a designated location in a system that follows established rules
Is provided, and based on the information of the management means,
Restrict incoming calls to cordless phones outside of the designated location
A telephone receiving system.