JP3335610B2 - Mail address notification method for mobile phone with internet connection function and information providing service 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 method of making it unnecessary to input a mail address of a mobile telephone having an Internet connection function even when it is necessary to notify the information service center of the call destination.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art With the remarkable development of the Internet in recent years, it has become possible to obtain desired information via the Internet. Even if you do not know which site contains the information you want, you can still find it with a search engine. For example, it is possible to teach an e-mail address and have the user send desired information by e-mail.

Further, in recent years, as represented by an i-mode mobile phone provided by NTT DoCoMo, for example,
Mobile phones with an Internet connection function, which are provided with a service for connecting to a network such as the Internet, are also rapidly spreading. Mobile phone with Internet connection function (hereinafter, also simply referred to as "mobile phone")
Can be connected to a telephone call or the Internet via a mobile phone carrier center. Also, mobile phone operators
In addition to the Internet connection function, a mail function is provided by giving a mail address to each mobile phone. Therefore, the user can have the desired information sent from the information provider to the mobile phone by e-mail.

[0004]

However, in order to send an e-mail, the e-mail address of the mobile phone must be notified to the information providing destination in advance. The e-mail address given to the mobile phone is "＠" as the initial value.
The telephone number itself is set as the identification information before the character string. However, since the number of digits is long, the input operation for notifying the information providing destination is troublesome. Although it is possible to change the identification information into a short character string or the like, the operation of pressing the numeric key several times to convert it into characters is still troublesome.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve the above problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide a mobile phone having an Internet connection function without having to input and specify a mail address from the mobile phone. It is an object of the present invention to provide a mail address notification method and an information providing service system of a mobile phone having an Internet connection function capable of notifying the mail address.

[0006]

In order to achieve the above object, a method for notifying a mail address of a mobile phone having an Internet connection function according to the present invention comprises connecting a mobile phone having an Internet connection function to a call destination. When a call setting request is received from a mobile phone with an Internet connection function at a mobile phone carrier center that holds and manages a telephone number and a mail address assigned to the mobile phone with an Internet connection function, Automatically sends the e-mail address of the mobile phone with the Internet connection function.

[0007] An information providing service system according to the present invention connects a mobile phone with an Internet connection function to a call destination and holds and manages a telephone number and a mail address assigned to each mobile phone with an Internet connection function. A mobile phone carrier center, and an information service center for transmitting information to the mobile phone with the Internet connection function by e-mail in response to an information provision request from the mobile phone with the Internet connection function, wherein the information service center includes: The mail address of the mobile phone with the Internet connection function that has issued the information provision request is obtained from the mobile phone carrier center.

[0008] Further, the portable telephone carrier center automatically transmits the mail address of the portable telephone with the Internet connection function which has issued the information provision request to the information service center corresponding to the call destination.

[0009]

Preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is an overall configuration diagram showing an embodiment of an information providing service system according to the present invention. The information providing service system according to the present embodiment includes a mobile phone 1 used when a user requests provision of information, and a mobile phone that provides information in response to a request from the user via a mobile phone network 2. It is composed of a business center 10 and an information service center 20. The mobile phone 1 is a mobile phone with an Internet connection function, and has a function of connecting to the Internet and a mail function using an assigned mail address.

The mobile phone carrier center 10 stores the mobile phone 1
The line is connected to the call destination in response to a call setting request from. In addition, various services using the mobile phone 1 are provided to the user. Mobile phone carrier center 10 in the present embodiment
Stores the customer information in the customer information database 11 in association with the telephone number of each mobile phone 1 and the assigned mail address. Further, it has a mail address transmission processing unit 12 for automatically transmitting the mail address of the mobile phone 1 connected to the line to the call destination.

The information service center 20 corresponds to a so-called call center that returns requested information in response to an information provision request from the mobile phone 1. The information service center 20 according to the present embodiment includes a mail address receiving unit 21, a keyword extraction processing unit 23 equipped with a voice recognition processing unit 22, a search processing unit 24, and an information transmission processing unit 25.
have. The e-mail address receiving unit 21 receives the e-mail address of the mobile phone 1 connected to the line, which is sent from the mobile phone carrier center 10. Voice recognition processing unit 2
2 automatically recognizes the voice sent from the mobile phone 1,
The keyword extraction processing unit 23 extracts a keyword used for a search performed by the search processing unit 24 from the recognized speech. The search processing unit 24 has a processing function generally called a search engine, and performs WWW based on a search keyword.
The URL is obtained by searching the server 3. That is, the information service center 20 in the present embodiment
A service for notifying a URL in response to a request from the mobile phone 1 is provided. The information transmission processing unit 25 uses the acquired UR
L is transmitted to the mobile phone 1 by e-mail.

A feature of the present embodiment is that when a call setting request from the mobile phone 1 is accepted, the mail address of the mobile phone 1 is automatically transmitted to the call destination to the mobile phone carrier center 10. That is what we did. Thus, the user can notify the mail address of the mobile phone 1 to the information service center 20, which is the call destination, without having to input the mail address of the mobile phone 1.

Next, the operation of the present embodiment will be described with reference to the flowcharts shown in FIGS.

For example, a user calls the information service center 20 from the mobile phone 1 to inquire about information on a hospital near home. At this time, upon receiving the call setting request from the mobile phone 1, the mobile phone carrier center 10 connects the mobile phone 1 to the information service center 20 to be called (step 101). At this time, the e-mail address transmission processing unit 12 sends the customer information database 1 based on the telephone number of the mobile phone 1 of the information providing request source.
1 to retrieve the mail address assigned to the mobile phone 1 (step 102) and transmit it to the call destination (step 103). If possible, the mail address may be specified in the packet to be transmitted when connecting to the line.

In the information service center 20, the mobile phone 1
When the telephone connection is established (step 201), the mail address receiving unit 21 receives the mail address of the mobile phone 1 sent from the mobile phone carrier center 10 (step 202). On the other hand, the keyword extraction processing unit 23
A search keyword is extracted from the voice sent from the mobile phone 1 (step 203). For example, a guidance is played to allow the user to input a keyword by voice. The search processing unit 24 searches the WWW server 3 using a search engine based on the extracted search keywords (step 204). Then, when the URL that specifies the storage location of the information about the hospital near the home desired by the user is obtained, the URL is transmitted to the mobile phone 1 by e-mail (step 205). Since the e-mail address of the mobile phone 1 has been obtained in step 202, the e-mail address may be specified and transmitted. In this way,
The user of the mobile phone 1 can obtain information on a hospital near his / her home by selecting one of the transmitted URLs.

According to the present embodiment, since the operation is performed as described above, the information service center 20 can be notified of the e-mail address of the mobile phone 1 without requiring the user to input and specify. , The input load of the user can be deleted.

[0018]

According to the present invention, when a call setting request from a mobile phone with an Internet connection function is received, the mail address of the mobile phone with an Internet connection function is automatically transmitted to the call destination to the mobile phone carrier center. This allows the user to be notified of the e-mail address of the mobile phone with the Internet connection function without requiring the user to input and specify. Thereby, the input load of the user at the time of the information provision request can be deleted.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an overall configuration diagram showing an embodiment of an information providing service system according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing an operation in the mobile phone carrier center of the present embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing an operation in the information service center of the present embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 mobile phone (mobile phone with Internet connection function), 2 mobile phone network, 3 WWW server, 10 mobile phone carrier center, 11 customer information database, 12
E-mail address transmission processing unit, 20 information service center, 21 e-mail address reception unit, 22 voice recognition processing unit, 23 keyword extraction processing unit, 24 search processing unit, 2
5 Information transmission processing unit.

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Claims (3)

(57) [Claims] 1. A mobile phone carrier center for connecting a mobile phone with an Internet connection function to a call destination and holding and managing a telephone number and a mail address assigned to the mobile phone with an Internet connection function. A mail address notification method for a mobile phone with an Internet connection function, which automatically transmits a mail address of the mobile phone with an Internet connection function to a call destination when a call setting request from the mobile phone with a connection function is received. 2. A mobile phone carrier center for connecting a mobile phone with an Internet connection function to a call destination and holding and managing a telephone number and a mail address assigned to each mobile phone with an Internet connection function. An information service center that transmits information to the mobile phone with the Internet connection function by e-mail in response to an information provision request from the mobile phone with the Internet connection function, wherein the information service center has issued an information provision request. An information providing service system, wherein a mail address of a mobile phone having an Internet connection function is obtained from the mobile phone carrier center. 3. The mobile phone service center automatically sends a mail address of a mobile phone with an Internet connection function that has issued an information provision request to the information service center corresponding to a call destination. 2. The information providing service system according to 2.