JP3425915B2 - Phone number acquisition device and acquisition 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 telephone number acquisition device and method, and more particularly to a telephone number acquisition device capable of easily acquiring a telephone number necessary for making a desired international call, and a device using the same. The present invention relates to a portable communication terminal and a method for obtaining a telephone number thereof.

[0002]

[Prior Art] When making an international call, combine the international phone number used in the country of the caller with the country code of the country of the callee (destination) and the phone number of the callee (domestic phone number). I'm dialing. The international phone number of the country you are calling from varies from country to country, so you need to look up the number. Also, the country code of the callee also differs depending on the country, so it is necessary to check the number. It is necessary to check the address book etc. for the telephone number (domestic number) of the destination. If the telephone number of the call destination is registered in the memory of the mobile telephone device or the like, it can be referred to. Conventionally, as described above, several steps have been taken in order to obtain a desired telephone number when making an international call.

[0003]

As described above, in the past,
When making an international call, the international phone number used in the country of the caller, the country code of the country of the callee, and the phone number of the callee must be checked separately, which is troublesome and troublesome. Especially when traveling between multiple countries, you must be sure that you know where you are, that is, the country you are calling from, and look up the corresponding international telephone number.

In order to deal with this, as a method of acquiring the country code of the calling party, a technique using a mobile phone device that receives an area identification code different from each country transmitted from each wireless base station of the wireless communication system is proposed. (JP-A-8
-18856). However, with this technology, only a wireless terminal can be used as a telephone terminal, and cannot be used when a wired terminal is used.

An object of the present invention is to provide an international telephone number to be used in the country of origin of a call, regardless of whether the terminal for making an international call is a wired or wireless terminal in the countries to which it has moved.
It is to provide a telephone number acquisition device and an acquisition method capable of easily acquiring the country code of the country of the call destination (destination) and the domestic telephone number of the call destination.

[0006]

A telephone number acquisition device of the present invention is a GPS device for receiving GPS information from GPS satellites to obtain current position information, a map database for obtaining a country name from the current position information, and a country name. Information corresponding to the country code
Registered country code table and countries that have been moved so far
Destination list in which each country code is registered and country code and corresponding
Information on correspondence with a certain number of international telephone numbers used in the country
The registered international telephone number table for each country and the target
Called phone number list that registered domestic phone numbers with,
Display means for visually displaying information to the user
A call is made by referring to the map database with input means for inputting information from the above and current position information from the GPS device.
Obtain the country name of the current country of origin, refer to the country code table with the obtained country name, obtain the country code of the calling party, refer to the international telephone number table by country with the obtained country code It is possible to obtain a predetermined number of international telephone numbers used in the country of the caller and select the input means for the display means.
And the contents of each of the destination list and the telephone number list of the destination are displayed in
As a candidate for each telephone number, it is displayed on the display means so that it can be selected by the input means , and the desired international call is made.
A system that allows the user to be presented with a series of phone numbers required for
And means .

In the above structure, the control means
However, based on the current position information from the GPS device,
Refer to the map database and the country code table in order
When the caller's country code is acquired, the newly acquired caller
The destination country code is the country code of the current caller.
Registered with the service and was previously registered
Use the country code as a candidate for the country code of the call destination and call the international phone number
To obtain the number, refer to the international telephone number table for each country.
Obtained from the country code table as the country code used for verification
Instead of directly using the country code of the calling party,
The country code of the calling party registered in the list may be used.

The portable communication terminal of the present invention comprises a telephone number acquisition device having the above structure, an international telephone number used in the country of the call source selected by the telephone number acquisition device, a country code of the destination, and a destination of the call. Communication means for automatically receiving a domestic telephone number and making an international telephone call with a corresponding call destination.

According to the telephone number acquisition method of the present invention, a current position information is acquired by a GPS device, and a call is made by referring to a map database preset with the acquired current position information.
Obtain the country name of the current country of origin, and refer to the country code table preset with the acquired country name to handle it.
That to get the call source of the country code, corresponding with reference to the country international telephone number table that has been set in advance by the acquired country code
A certain number of international telephone numbers used in the country of the call source are acquired and displayed visually to the user to display the desired international number.
Allows you to enter phone number selection information and
The destination list that registered the country code for each country
The contents of the message can be visually displayed to the user and the user can
Allows you to enter selection information for the country code of the destination
Call destination phone number that registered the domestic phone number for each destination
The contents of the issue list can be displayed to the user and displayed by the user.
Enables you to enter selection information for the desired domestic telephone number
The set of phone numbers needed to make the desired international call
There is a step of presenting to the user .

In the above process, the GPS device
Based on the current location information by
And the country code table above to check the country code of the calling party.
When you get the new country code of the calling party,
If you additionally register as the country code of the talk source in the destination list,
In both cases, the country code registered before that is the country of the call destination.
To obtain a caller's international telephone number as a number candidate
The country code used to refer to the international telephone number table for each country
Then, the country code of the calling party obtained from the country code table
Instead of directly using
You can have a process that uses the country code of the calling party .

Further, in the country of origin of the call, which is a series of telephone numbers required to make the desired international call presented above.
International phone number used, country code of the callee, and callee
It is possible to have a step of automatically making a call by a communication means based on the domestic telephone number of , and enabling international telephone communication with a corresponding call destination.

[0012]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS 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 telephone number acquisition device of the present invention. In FIG. 1, the telephone number acquisition device of this example includes a control unit 1 having a CPU and controlling the entire device by software control, and an antenna 2a.
GPS device 2 which receives GPS information from a GPS satellite via GPS to obtain current position information, a map database 3 stored in a memory for obtaining country information (country name) from the current position information, and various telephone numbers and the like. A display unit 4 for visually displaying information to the user, an input unit 5 for inputting various instruction information from the user such as selection of display contents of information, and a memory for obtaining a country code of a calling party from country information. From the country code table 6 stored in, the destination list 7 stored in the memory for accumulating the information (country name and country code) of the moved country and obtaining the country code of the called party, and the country code of the calling party It is provided with a country-specific international telephone number table 8 stored in a memory for obtaining an international telephone number and a destination telephone number list 9 stored in a memory for obtaining a destination telephone number (national number).

In FIG. 1, the map database 3 is set to G
Although it is provided separately from the PS device 2, it may be built in the GPS device 2. Under the control of the control unit 1, the antenna 2a
The GPS information received from is analyzed by the GPS device 2 and the map database 3, and the current position information and the country information of the current position are acquired. By referring to the country code table 6 from the acquired country information, the calling country code can be obtained.
The international telephone number can be acquired from the country code by referring to the country-specific international telephone number table 8. The call destinations are listed on the display unit 4 with reference to the call destination telephone number list 9, and the call destination telephone numbers can be acquired by selecting the call destination telephone numbers by operating the input unit 5.

The country code of the calling party is additionally registered in the destination list 7 as a candidate for a subsequent calling party each time the country is moved. Therefore, if the country of the called party is in a country that has been moved so far, the country code of the called party can be obtained by retroactively referring (searching) the destination list 7. It is also possible to obtain the calling country code from the destination list 7. When the country code of the calling party is added to the destination list 7, the corresponding country name can be added at the same time. In this way, it is convenient to search for the country code of the call destination. Alternatively, only the country name of the calling party can be added to the destination list 7. In this case, if the country name of the callee can be retrieved, the country code table 6 is referred to obtain the callee country code. The desired telephone number is obtained as described above.

Map database 3, country code table 6,
The country-specific international telephone number table 8 is configured by storing necessary country information in advance in corresponding memory areas. As a method of storing information in the memory, there are a method of mounting a ROM in which information is written in advance and a method of writing information from the outside through a known appropriate input / output means. The callee telephone number list 9 is input section 5
There is also a method in which the user manually writes it in the corresponding memory via the, but there is also a method in which the data in the electronic telephone directory of the portable information terminal, the portable telephone device or the like is copied from the outside via the above-mentioned input / output means.

Next, the operation of the telephone number acquisition device of this example will be described in detail with reference to FIGS. 2 to 5 which show examples of the configuration of various tables and lists.

The current position information is acquired by the GPS device 2, and the country information (country name) is obtained from the current position information by referring to the map database 3. Country code to country code table 6
You can get the current country code by referring to. Considering the example of moving from Japan to the United States, the current country can be identified as the United States from the current location information. Therefore, the current country code “1” is acquired by referring to the country code table 6 (see FIG. 2). Current country code is destination list 7
When the user is registered in, and has moved across countries, the country code of the destination is added to the destination list 7. Now that the country has moved from Japan to the United States, the country code "1" of the United States has been added to the destination list 7 (see FIG. 3). As described above, the country name “US” can be added together with the country code “1”.

When making an international call to Japan after moving to the United States, the international telephone number is selected by referring to the country-specific international telephone number table 8 from the country code. Current country code "1"
Refer to "International telephone number table by country" from "AA
A list of telephone numbers "A" and "BBB" is displayed on the display unit 4 (see FIG. 4). The user selects the international telephone number to be used from the input section 5 and the calling international telephone number is determined.

The country code of the called party can be obtained by referring to the destination list 7. Generally, international calls are most often made from the destination country to the source country.
First, consider the country code of the source country as the country code of the destination.
When the destination list 7 is referred to via the display unit 4, the end of the list is the destination, and the last one is the source (see FIG. 3). Before that, it becomes a list of move sources. Therefore, "81", which is the country code of the source (in this case, Japan), is set as the country code of the destination. The country code for the user is "8
If it is not “1”, the country code of the destination can be selected from the countries that have been moved by selecting the destination country from the destination list. When the country code of the callee is other than the above, the country name of the callee is designated from the input unit 5 and the country code table 6 is referred to, whereby the information of the country code of the callee can be obtained. Alternatively, country code table 6 without specifying the country name
The contents of can be sequentially displayed on the display unit 4, and the user can select the contents by operating the input unit 5.

The destination telephone number (domestic telephone number) is selected from the destination telephone number list 9 via the display unit 4. By selecting the telephone number designated by the input unit 5 from the telephone number list 9 of the called party, the called party telephone number can be obtained (see FIG. 5). If the callee telephone number is not in the callee telephone number list 9, the callee telephone number is obtained by directly specifying it from the input unit 5.

As described above, the user can obtain the international telephone number, the callee country code, and the callee domestic telephone number through the display unit 4 and obtain them as a desired series of telephone numbers. The user can select a desired communication terminal regardless of whether it is wireless / wired or analog / digital (for example, a mobile phone, a PHS terminal, a PDA with a communication function, a personal computer with a communication function, a normal (fixed) analog phone / By dialing this telephone number on a digital telephone or the like, an international call can be made and a call can be made with the other party.

The telephone number acquisition device shown in FIG.
It has a function to display a telephone number, but does not have a function to communicate by itself. However, the telephone number acquisition device of the present invention can be incorporated into any terminal as long as it has a communication function and is portable (hereinafter referred to as a portable communication terminal). For example, any of a mobile phone, a PDA, a personal computer having a communication function for a wireless line, a PDA, a personal computer having a communication function for a wired line, or the like is possible.

Then, as another embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 6 shows a telephone number acquisition device incorporated in such a portable communication terminal.

In FIG. 6, among the constituent elements of such a portable communication terminal, the portion related to the communication function is shown as the communication unit 1.
It is extracted and shown as 0 (other parts are omitted). The communication unit 10 has the same configuration and function as the telephone number acquisition device shown in FIG. 1, and has a control unit 1, a GPS device 2, a map database 3, a display unit 4, an input unit 5, a country code table 6, and a destination. A telephone number acquisition device including a list 7, a country-specific international telephone number table 8 and a destination telephone number list 9 is connected.

The control unit 1, the display unit 4, the input unit 5, and the callee telephone number list 9 are shared with those of the communication terminal.

In the portable communication terminal in which the telephone number acquisition device is incorporated, the processing for obtaining the telephone number (international telephone number, destination country code, destination domestic telephone number) necessary for making an international call is performed. The process is the same as the process in the telephone number acquisition device shown in FIG. The control unit 1 sends the obtained telephone number to the communication unit 10, automatically dials (transmits), and enables communication by the international telephone with the other party via the corresponding line.

Here, for the purpose of confirmation, various modifications of the embodiment of the present invention will be described again.

In the present invention, an international call may be made by a mobile phone, a PHS, a PDA having a communication function, a personal computer having a communication function, or an ordinary analog / digital phone.

In the present invention, it is GP to obtain the current country information.
The method by S, the method of obtaining from the destination list, or the method of directly inputting may be used.

In the present invention, the acquisition of the international telephone number by country may be performed by referring to the international telephone number table for each country, by fixing one number for each country, or by directly inputting it.

In the present invention, the acquisition of the domestic telephone number to be called is
The method of referring to the callee telephone number list or the method of directly inputting it may be used.

[0033]

According to the present invention, a GPS device for obtaining the current position information / country information of the current location, a country code table for obtaining the country code from the country information, and an international telephone number from the country code. It has an international telephone number table for each country, a destination list for obtaining the country code of the destination, a destination telephone number list for obtaining the domestic number of the destination, etc. In addition, it is possible to easily obtain the international telephone number used in the source country for making an international call, the country code of the destination country, and the domestic telephone number of the destination as a series of numbers. The user can make an international call by dialing the telephone number from any communication terminal regardless of whether it is for wireless communication. Also,
A portable communication terminal incorporating a telephone number acquisition device can automatically dial.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block configuration diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a configuration example of a country code table.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a configuration example of a destination list.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a configuration example of a country-specific international telephone number table.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example of the configuration of a callee telephone number list.

FIG. 6 is a block diagram showing another embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 control unit 2 GPS device 3 map database 4 Display 5 Input section 6 country code table 7 Destination list 8 International telephone number table by country 9 Call destination phone number list 10 Communication unit

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Claims (6)

(57) [Claims] 1. A GPS device for receiving GPS information from GPS satellites to obtain current position information, a map database for obtaining a country name from the current position information, and a pair of country name and country code.
The country code table in which
The destination list in which the country code for each country is registered, and the country code and a certain number of international telephone numbers used in that country are paired.
Country-specific international phone number table with registered information and call destination
Call destination telephone number list that registered domestic telephone numbers for each target of, and display means for visually displaying information to the user ,
Input means for inputting information from a user, and the GPS
The current location information from the device is used to refer to the map database to acquire the country name of the current country of origin of the call , and the acquired country name is used to refer to the country code table to acquire the country code of the caller. With reference to the country-specific international telephone number table with the selected country code, a predetermined number of international telephone numbers used in the country of the caller are acquired, and the input means is used to select the display means.
In addition to displaying the options, the contents of each of the destination list and the destination telephone number list can be displayed as well as the country code of the destination.
And domestic telephone numbers as candidates for each of the domestic telephone numbers, and the display means is displayed so that they can be selected by the input means .
It is possible to present the user with a series of telephone numbers necessary for
Telephone number acquisition apparatus characterized by comprising a the control means. 2. The control means is provided by the GPS device.
Based on the current position information, the map database and the
Sequentially refer to the country code table to obtain the country code of the calling party.
Call, the newly acquired country code of the calling party is
It will be added as a country code to the destination list.
The country code that was previously registered in
In order to obtain a candidate and obtain the international phone number of the calling party,
As the country code used to refer to the country-specific international telephone number table
The country code of the calling party obtained from the country code table above.
Instead of using it directly, it is not registered in the destination list.
The telephone number acquisition device according to claim 1 , wherein the country code of the calling party is used . 3. The telephone number acquisition device according to claim 1 or 2, and an international telephone number used in the country of the call source selected by the telephone number acquisition device, a country code of the destination, and a domestic telephone of the destination. A portable communication terminal, comprising: a communication means that receives a number and automatically makes a call to enable international telephone communication with a corresponding call destination. 4. The current position information is acquired by the GPS device, the country name of the current country of origin of the call is acquired by referring to a map database preset with the acquired current position information, and the acquired country name is acquired in advance. with reference to country code table set to get the corresponding call source country code, a predetermined used in the call source country corresponding with reference to preset country international telephone number table by the acquired country code Obtain an international telephone number for a few minutes and display it to the user
Input the desired international telephone number selection information by the user
Each country that has made it possible to move in advance
The contents of the destination list in which the country code is registered are visible to the user
Display and select the country code of the desired destination by the user
It is possible to enter the domestic telephone number for each call destination target beforehand.
The user can view the contents of the telephone number list of the called party that registered the telephone number.
The domestic phone number of the desired call destination by the user
A method for obtaining a telephone number, which enables input of selection information of a number and presents a series of telephone numbers necessary for making a desired international call to a user . 5. Based on the current position information by the GPS device
Based on the map database and the country code table,
Newly acquired when the country code of the calling party is acquired by sequentially referring
The country code of the calling party is set as the country code of the current calling party.
Add to the destination list and register before that
The country code that was set as the country code candidate for the call destination is
In order to obtain an international telephone number, the international telephone number
The country code table is used as the country code for reference
Instead of directly using the country code of the calling party obtained from
Use the country code of the calling party registered in the destination list.
The method for acquiring a telephone number according to claim 4, wherein 6. The country of origin, which is the set of telephone numbers required to make the desired international call provided .
International phone number, country code of the callee, and country of the callee
The telephone number acquisition method according to claim 4 or 5, wherein the communication means automatically makes a call based on the telephone number to enable international telephone communication with a corresponding call destination.