JP6225959B2 - Information processing apparatus with communication function, processing method thereof, and program - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus with a communication function, a processing method thereof, and a program. An information processing apparatus with one communication function of the present invention has at least one of a wired and wireless communication function, and handles at least one of image information, audio information, and character information, for example, a personal computer (PC). , A server, and an information processing terminal device (PDA: Personal Digital Assistant) information processing device. The processing method of an information processing apparatus with a communication function according to the present invention relates to a technique for registering information of an external information processing apparatus using a communication function and making the registered information applicable to a desired application.

  Currently, an operating system (OS) having a GUI (Graphical User Interface) system such as Windows (registered trademark) manufactured by Microsoft Corporation is often installed in the PC. A pointing device such as a mouse is applied to the PC as a GUI, and the user operates the mouse to copy and paste information as one of convenient functions. The Paste function is being executed.

  When users create documents on a PC, they often perform copy and paste functions. Specifically, the user moves the mouse pointer on the GUI to a desired position to copy with the mouse, selects the range to be copied, and copies the selected range information to the PC memory as copy information. Hold. Following this hold, the user moves the mouse pointer on the GUI to the desired position to paste, selects the desired position to paste the copy information, and the copy information held by the paste operation at the selected position. Is pasted in a desired position.

  At this time, the mouse selects a desired range from the position to be copied, that is, is dragged by the user while clicking the left button in Windows (registered trademark), for example. Next, when the right button of the mouse is clicked on the selected range, a context menu (Context menu: Cm) is displayed in the display screen. Furthermore, copy or paste of the displayed context menu is selected with a left mouse click. In Windows (registered trademark), copying or pasting of the selected range is executed.

  Patent Document 1 is a data processing device, a data processing method, and a program. Patent Document 1 proposes that data copied in the past can be displayed and selected in a context menu in order to make copy and paste operations more efficient.

JP 2006-338458 A

  According to the proposal described in Patent Document 1, since the data copied in the past can be displayed and selected in the context menu, the user can confirm the past copy contents and the like and displayed in the context menu. By selecting the paste, the paste operation can be performed very easily.

  However, in Patent Document 1, for example, even if unique communication information such as a telephone number or an e-mail address is to be copied and pasted, there is a possibility that copy and paste cannot be executed effectively. The above-mentioned unique communication information, which is a telephone number, is an identifier on the network and information that clearly indicates the transmission source (self) and the communication partner, so that the telephone number is the latest available information. It is also required. For this reason, even if the technology of Patent Document 1 is applied so that a telephone number copied in the past can be displayed and selected in the context menu, as a result, a past telephone number that is not currently used is mistakenly displayed. This is because it may be selected.

  SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In view of such problems, the present invention provides an information processing apparatus with a communication function and a processing method thereof capable of improving convenience in user communication as compared with a conventional apparatus without taking a complicated operation procedure. And to provide a program.

  According to one aspect of the present invention, an information processing with communication function includes an input unit that receives an operation of an operator, an output unit that performs display, and a communication interface unit that is connected to a network, and performs information processing by an application on a GUI-compatible operating system. A device including a context menu item corresponding to the connection request destination address according to a predetermined operation of an operator received at the input unit after a connection request including a connection request destination address is made in the communication interface unit The menu is displayed on the output unit, and the GUI-compatible operating system is caused to execute a predetermined function in accordance with an operator's selection operation on the context menu item received by the input unit while the output unit displays the context menu. Context menu Communication functions with the information processing apparatus is provided which is characterized by having a management function section.

  According to another aspect of the present invention, the information with communication function includes an input unit that receives an operation of an operator, an output unit that performs display, and a communication interface unit that is connected to a network, and executes an application on a GUI-compatible operating system. A processing method in a processing device, wherein a context menu corresponding to the connection request destination address according to a predetermined operation of an operator received at the input unit after a connection request including a connection request destination address is made in the communication interface unit A context menu including items is displayed on the output unit, and the GUI-compatible operating system has a predetermined function according to an operator's selection operation on the context menu item received at the input unit while the output unit displays the context menu. To make it run and That the processing method is provided.

  According to another aspect of the present invention, an input unit that receives an operation of an operator, an output unit that performs display, and a communication interface unit that is connected to a network are executed by a computer that processes information using an application on a GUI-compatible operating system. The program is connected to the connection request destination address according to a predetermined operation of the operator received at the input unit after a connection request including a connection request destination address is made in the communication interface unit to the computer. A step of displaying a context menu including a corresponding context menu item on the output unit; and a predetermined function according to an operator's selection operation on the context menu item received at the input unit while the output unit is displaying the context menu For the GUI A program characterized by executing the steps to be executed by the operating system is provided.

  According to the present invention, it is possible to improve convenience in user communication as compared with a conventional apparatus without taking a complicated operation procedure. Further, according to one aspect of the present invention, the telephone function block and menu function block programs stored in the first storage means are loaded into the second storage means by the arithmetic processing means, and the OS is started. Even if a different calling application is not selected and activated, the menu function block is associated based on the determination of the telephone call information by the telephone function block when a call is received, and the menu function block allows the user to operate the display means. It is possible to display a list corresponding to each item and execute the contents selected from the operation items, and greatly improve the convenience of user communication as compared with the conventional device even without performing complicated operation procedures. .

It is a block diagram which shows the fundamental structure of the information terminal device to which the information processing apparatus with a communication function which concerns on this invention is applied. It is a figure which shows schematic structure of the telephone system to which the information terminal device of FIG. 1 is applied. It is a figure which shows the initial state of the context menu displayed on the information terminal device of FIG. It is a figure which shows the context menu which added the telephone number registered as an item to the context menu of FIG. It is a figure which shows the context menu which added the transmission destination as an item to the context menu of FIG. It is a figure which shows the context menu which added the transmission origin as an item to the context menu of FIG. It is a figure which shows the context menu which added the transfer destination as an item to the context menu of FIG. It is a figure which shows the state transition in the display of a context menu in the information terminal device of FIG. 4 is a sequential chart showing a procedure for additionally displaying a telephone number registered as an item in the context menu of FIG. 3. 5 is a sequential chart showing a procedure for additionally displaying a destination as an item in the context menu of FIG. 4. 6 is a sequential chart showing a procedure for additionally displaying a sender as an item in the context menu of FIG. 5. 7 is a sequential chart showing a procedure for additionally displaying a transfer destination as an item in the context menu of FIG. 6. It is a figure which shows the structure of the other Example in the telephone system to which the information processing apparatus with a communication function which concerns on this invention is applied. It is a block diagram which shows the schematic structure of the main apparatus in the telephone system of FIG. It is a block diagram which shows the principal part structure in the memory in the information terminal device of FIG. It is a block diagram which shows the schematic structure of the telephone in the telephone system of FIG. 3 is a sequential chart showing a confirmation procedure by processing for presence information together with a procedure for additionally displaying a telephone number registered as an item in the context menu in the telephone system of FIG. 2. 3 is a sequential chart showing a confirmation procedure by processing for presence information together with a procedure for additionally displaying a destination as an item on the context menu in the telephone system of FIG. 2. 3 is a sequential chart showing a procedure for confirming a process for presence information accompanying an end of call, along with a procedure for additionally displaying a destination as an item on the context menu in the telephone system of FIG. 2. 3 is a sequential chart showing a confirmation procedure by processing for presence information that accompanies restarting of the telephone in the telephone system of FIG. 2. 3 is a sequential chart showing a confirmation procedure by processing for presence information together with a procedure for additionally displaying a sender as an item in the context menu in the telephone system of FIG. 2. 3 is a sequential chart showing a confirmation procedure by processing for presence information associated with the end of the call, together with a procedure for additionally displaying a sender as an item in the context menu in the telephone system of FIG. 2. 3 is a sequential chart showing a confirmation procedure by processing for presence information that accompanies restarting of the telephone in the telephone system of FIG. 2. 3 is a sequential chart showing a confirmation procedure by processing for presence information together with a procedure for additionally displaying a transfer destination as an item on the context menu in the telephone system of FIG. 2. FIG. 3 is a sequential chart showing a confirmation procedure by processing for presence information accompanying an end of call, together with a procedure for additionally displaying a transfer destination as an item on the context menu in the telephone system of FIG. 2. It is a sequential chart which shows the confirmation procedure by the process with respect to presence information accompanying the restart of two telephones in the telephone system of FIG.

  Next, an embodiment of an information processing apparatus with communication function according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. Referring to FIG. 1, the information terminal device 10 in the embodiment of the information processing apparatus with communication function according to the present invention includes a softphone communication function unit 62 stored in the storage 42 by the CPU 40 and a context menu (Cm) management function. By loading the program of the unit 64 into the memory 44 and starting up the OS, the telephone call information by the softphone communication function unit 62 at the time of the incoming call can be obtained without selecting each of the calling applications of different layers and starting them up. Based on this determination, the Cm management function unit 64 is associated, and the Cm management function unit 64 displays a list according to the user's operation on the display of the input / output device 48, and executes the content selected from the operation items. In addition, the convenience of user communication can be greatly improved as compared with the conventional apparatus even if a complicated operation procedure is not performed.

  The illustration and description of parts not directly related to the present invention are omitted. In the following description, the signal is indicated by the reference number of the connecting line in which it appears.

  The information terminal device 10 is an application of the information processing device with a communication function according to the present invention. As shown in FIG. 2, the information terminal device 10 is a part of the components that make up the telephone system 12. The information terminal device 10 is connected to the network 14. Examples of the network 14 include a public switched telephone network (PSTN), an IP (Internet Protocol) network, and a private network. Therefore, not only the information terminal device 10 but also the main device 16, telephones 18 and 20, and the base station 22 are connected to the network 14. In the present embodiment, the network 14 is an IP network that can communicate based on IP using Ethernet (registered trademark) of IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers) 802.3.

  In this embodiment, when the information terminal device 10 registers its own telephone number, makes a call with the destination telephone number, transfers it with the destination telephone number, and succeeds in the incoming communication with the source telephone number, it makes a call for each communication type. An example of a telephone system 12 that implements a context menu that allows appropriate selection of the latest available telephone number by adding a context menu item for the number in the context menu so that it can be selected will be described.

  The telephone system 12 includes an information terminal device 10, a main device 16, telephones 16 and 20, and a base station 22.

  The information terminal apparatus 10 has a communication function, and includes an application for information processing, a softphone application software for realizing an electronic mail function and a telephone function. Specific examples include a PC or a PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) in which a Windows (registered trademark) OS (Operating System) is installed.

  In the information terminal device 10, the IP address “10.1.1.1”, the telephone number “1” of the telephone number identifier and the IP address “10.1.1.2” of the main device 16 are set in advance as the network address identifier on the network 12. ing. Further, the information terminal device 10 is communicatively connected to the network 14 via a signal line 24 or via a radio wave 28 via an antenna 26.

  The main device 16 is, for example, an exchange or a gatekeeper that switches communication of the information terminal device 10. The main device 16 may be a server. In the present embodiment, the main device 16 is a PBX (Private Branch eXchange), and a soft switch having an IP interface, an IP-PBX, or the like is applied. The main device 16 is connected to the network 14 via the signal line 30 and communicates with each of the information terminal device 10 and the telephones 18 and 20, and when receiving a registration request for a telephone number, the main apparatus 16 compares the telephone number with the IP address. As described later, it has a function of executing processing related to, for example, outgoing call, incoming call, response to incoming call, and transfer based on a telephone number as a series of telephone connection processes. The main device 16 is preset with an IP address “10.1.1.2” as a network address identifier on the network 14. The main device 16 is described as realizing connection processing corresponding to SIP (Session Initiation Protocol).

  The telephones 18 and 20 are devices having a telephone function and an IP interface, and are connected to the network 14 and accommodated in the main device 16. The telephones 18 and 20 also communicate with the communication partner by telephone number registration, outgoing call, incoming call, response to incoming call, transfer, and call operation and processing. The telephones 18 and 20 are connected to the network 14 via signal lines 32 and 34, respectively.

  The telephone device 18 is preset with the IP address “10.1.1.3” as the network address identifier on the network 12, the telephone number “3” of the telephone number identifier, and the IP address “10.1.1.2” of the main device 16. Yes. Also, the telephone device 20 is preset with the IP address “10.1.1.4” as the network address identifier on the network 12, the telephone number “4” of the telephone number identifier, and the IP address “10.1.1.2” of the main device 16. Has been.

  The base station 22 has a so-called relay function for transmitting / receiving radio waves 28 via the antenna 36 to / from the information terminal device 10 and communicating with the network 12 connected via the signal line 38.

  Next, a schematic configuration of the information terminal device 10 will be described with reference to FIG. As shown in FIG. 1, the information terminal device 10 includes a central processing unit (CPU) 40, a storage 42, a memory 44, a communication interface unit 46, and an input / output device 48. The information terminal apparatus 10 includes a system bus 50, and a central processing unit (CPU) 40, a storage 42, and a memory via signal lines 52, 54, 56, 58, and 60 extending from the system bus 50, respectively. 44, connected to the communication interface unit 46 and the input / output device 48.

  The CPU 40 mainly has a function of controlling input / output based on the function of the input / output device 48, and also controls operations of the storage 42, the memory 44, and the communication interface unit 46, which are other components.

  The storage 42 has a function of storing data. The storage 42 inputs / outputs stored data based on control of the CPU 40. The storage 42 includes PC RAM (Random Access Memory), ROM (Read Only Memory), flash memory (flash memory), magnetic tape, CD-ROM (Compact Disc Read Only Memory), HDD (Hard disk drive), and SSD ( It is desirable to apply Solid State Drive. The storage 42 stores a program such as the OS and application software of the information terminal device 10, program setting information, and program status information. The OS in this embodiment corresponds to a GUI (Graphic User Interface) system.

  The memory 44 has a function of temporarily holding data. The memory 44 is the same as the RAM of a general PC, and is a part where the program is loaded when the CPU 40 executes the program. The memory 44 automatically loads the program data stored in the storage 42 in advance as a program when the OS starts up, and is activated into an execution state in which the application can operate when the OS startup is completed. To start. The information terminal device 10 executes an application program in accordance with operation information from the input / output device 48.

  In the present embodiment, the memory 44 includes a softphone communication function unit 62 and a context menu (Cm: Context menu) management function unit 64 as applications, as shown in FIG. The information terminal device 10 loads the softphone communication function unit 62 and the Cm management function unit 64, which are applications as the OS starts up, and puts these functions into an execution state.

  The softphone communication function unit 62 has a registration and call function required for executing communication on the IP network 14 as a softphone that allows the installed device to realize a telephone function in software. To further describe the components for realizing these functions, the softphone communication function unit 62 includes a registration function unit 66 and a call function unit 68.

  The registration function unit 66 has a function of registering a transmission source number and a transmission destination number handled in the SIP procedure. The registration function unit 66 has a protocol stack corresponding to SIP, and has a function of transmitting a telephone number registration request (REGISTER) to the main device 16 based on the SIP. In the registration function unit 66 and the call function unit 68, the telephone number “1” and the IP address “10.1.1.2” of the main device 16 are set in advance as telephone number identifiers. As described above, the IP address “10.1.1.1” on the network 12 is set in advance in the OS.

  Specifically, after starting, the registration function unit 66 acquires the IP address “10.1.1.1” of the information terminal device 10 set in the OS, information indicating that it is a registration request (REGISTER), registration Generate a registration request including the IP address “10.1.1.2” of the main device 16 of the request transmission destination, the IP address “10.1.1.1” of the information terminal device 10 of the registration request transmission source, and the telephone number “1” to be registered, Send it out.

  When the registration function unit 66 obtains “200 OK” indicating the completion of registration from the main device 16 as a result of the registration request, the registration function unit 66 determines that the registration request is successful, and is set in the setting function unit 70 by itself. The telephone number “1” notifies that the registration request is successful. This notification is, for example, information including “REGISTER, 1”. If the registration function unit 66 generates and sends a registration request and does not obtain registration completion (200 OK) within a predetermined time, the registration function unit 66 determines that the registration request has failed. Is generated and sent.

  The call function unit 68 is a function for executing processing in voice calls and data communication, and provides operation information regarding outgoing calls, incoming calls, responses to incoming calls, transfers and calls to the telephone users and executes the requested processing. It is a function to do. Specifically, the call function unit 68 uses the telephone directory function, the telephone call function, and the presence check function of the person registered in the telephone book function, so that operation information such as a so-called presence function is input / output device in the information terminal device 10. It is displayed on 48 displays and provides an operating environment for users.

  Note that the call function unit 68 invalidates the provision of the operation system after activation, and validates the operation system information provision when the registration function unit 66 succeeds in the registration request. The call function unit 68 monitors whether or not the registration function unit 66 has received registration completion from the main apparatus 16 as a result of the registration request in order to reliably execute the invalidation / validation of the presence function. Determines whether the registration request is successful.

  As described above, the call function unit 68 includes a protocol stack corresponding to SIP and RTP (Real-time Transport Protocol), and by a user operation, an outgoing call request (INVITE) to the main device 16 based on the SIP, It has a function of sending a response (200 OK) to an incoming call and a transfer request (REFER).

  Specifically, the call function unit 68 validates operation-related information provision. For example, when a user inputs a telephone number “3” and operates a call operation on the operation system, information (INVITE ), A transmission request including the IP address “10.1.1.2” of the call request transmission destination main apparatus 16, the telephone number “3” of the transmission request destination and the telephone number “1” of the transmission request source is generated and transmitted.

  When the call function unit 68 receives a response (200 OK) to the incoming call from the call request destination supplied from the main device 16 as a result of the call request, the call function unit 68 determines that the call request is successful and Then, a voice call is established based on RTP, and the setting function unit 70 is notified of the successful call request with the call request destination telephone number “3”. This notification is information including, for example, “INVITE, 3”.

  The call function unit 68 determines that the call request has failed if a response (200 OK) to the call from the call request destination is not obtained within a predetermined time after generating and sending the call request, and sends the call request. Discontinue.

  Further, the call function unit 68 validates operation-related information provision, and for example, when a user operates a response to an incoming call when receiving a call from the telephone 20, information indicating that it is a response to an incoming call ( 200 OK), a response to the incoming call including the IP address “10.1.1.2” of the main device 16 that is the transmission destination of the response is generated and transmitted.

  When the call function unit 68 sends a response to the incoming call (200 OK), the call function unit 68 determines that the response to the incoming call, “200 OK”, has succeeded, establishes a voice call with the call originator based on RTP, and sets the function. The unit 70 is notified of the successful response to the incoming call with the telephone number “4” of the call originator. This notification is information including, for example, “INVITE 200 OK, 4”.

  The call function unit 68 validates the operation-related information provision. For example, when a call is made with the telephone 18, when the user inputs the telephone number “4” on the operation system and operates the transfer, the call function unit 68 confirms that the transfer request is made. A transfer request including the information (REFER) indicating, the IP address “10.1.1.2” of the main device 16 of the transfer request destination, the transfer request destination telephone number “4”, and the transfer request source telephone number “1”; Send it out.

  Further, when receiving a response (200 OK) to the incoming call from the transfer request destination supplied from the main device 16 as a result of the transfer request, the call function unit 68 determines that the transfer request is successful, ends the call, The setting function unit 70 is notified of the success of the transfer request with the telephone number “4” of the transfer request destination. This notification is information including, for example, “REFER, 4”.

  If the call function unit 68 generates and sends a transfer request and does not receive a response (200 OK) to the incoming call from the transfer request destination within a predetermined time, it determines that the transfer request has failed, cancels the transfer request, and Continue.

  In addition, as an example of a pointing device, the Cm management function unit 64 displays a list of available operation items at the designated position on the screen by operating the right click button of the mouse, and selects a desired operation item from the displayed operation items. It has a function of executing item contents in response to selection. In realizing the Cm management function, the Cm management function unit 64 includes a setting function unit 70, a generation function unit 72, and an information holding function unit 74.

  The setting function unit 70 has a function of setting information related to generation of a context menu and adding information. The generation function unit 72 is a function for generating a context menu based on the stored information, and the information holding function unit 74 stores context menu information related to the generation of the context menu, and the stored information and the information in the memory 44 Is a function to associate

  Here, the context menu information is information regarding context menu items. Specifically, context menu information includes “Undo”, “Cut”, “Copy”, “Paste”, “Delete”, “Select all”, “Read from right to left”, “Unicode control” The contents of “character display”, “unicode control character insertion”, “open input method editor (IME)”, and “reconversion” are stored in the information storage function unit 74 in advance.

  Further, the information holding function unit 74 has a function of setting addition of context menu information and data association from the setting function unit 70. For example, in the case of Windows (registered trademark), the information holding function unit 74 corresponds to a registry that holds program setting information and program status information. The context menu information includes a CLSID (class ID) set in the registry, It corresponds to each of the component and the command, and may be a combination thereof. The “Copy” context menu information corresponds to the characters “Copy” and the CLSID, component, or command that performs the copy function.

  Although the present embodiment describes the context menu function implementation by software, the present invention is not limited to this. For example, the CPU 40 may be constructed by hardware so as to realize the menu function described above. .

  The communication interface unit 46 has a function of communicating with an external device connected to the network 14 via the signal line 24 or the antenna 26 with respect to the device 10. The communication interface unit 46 has an IP interface, such as a PC NIC (Network Interface Card) or a wireless card, and communicates by connecting to the network 14 based on the control of the CPU 40.

  The input / output device 48 is an input / output unit having characteristic information processing of the information terminal device 10 and an input / output function of information to be handled. The input / output device 48 includes a keyboard, a touch panel, a pointing device, a speaker, a microphone, and a display, which are general input / output functions, and is connected to the CPU 40 via a system bus 50 from the inside or the outside. The pointing device includes a mouse, a cross key, and a numeric keypad. Input / output of these is controlled by the CPU 40. In this embodiment, the user operates the telephone function using these input / output functions.

  As described above, since the information terminal device 10 includes these components, the telephone number registration, transmission, incoming call, response to incoming call, transfer, and call operation are performed through the IP interface as a telephone function corresponding to SIP. And realization of processing.

  Next, a procedure for generating a context menu which is one of application software in the information terminal device 10 will be described. When the user turns on the information terminal device 10 and starts it up, the CPU 40 takes the lead, loads the OS from the storage 42 to the memory 44, executes it, and starts up the OS.

  After the OS of the information terminal device 10 is activated, the user can operate by using the keyboard or mouse to execute and use the application software as appropriate. The OS corresponds to the GUI system, and a predetermined context menu can be displayed by clicking the right button of the mouse or operating the keyboard.

  The generation function unit 72 is a function that generates a context menu from the context menu information held by the information holding function unit 74 when the user clicks the right button of the mouse. Specifically, as shown in FIG. 3, the generation function unit 72 performs “Undo” 76, “Cut” 78, “Copy” 80, “Paste” 82, “Delete” held by the information holding function unit 74. "84", "Select all" 86, "Read from right to left" 88, "Unicode control character display" 90, "Unicode control character insertion" 92, "Open IME" 94 and "Re-conversion" 96 context With reference to the menu information, a context menu 98 shown in FIG. 3 is generated as a context menu item including the information. The generated context menu 98 is displayed on the display by the OS.

  Further, when the user operates to stop the operation on the context menu 98, the generation function unit 72 requests the OS to hide the context menu 98, and the OS hides the context menu 98.

  Therefore, in the process of generating the context menu, the generation function unit 72 extracts a character for each content of the context menu information held by the information holding function unit 74, and displays a context menu item including the extracted character. Is generated.

  Furthermore, when the generation function unit 72 selects a context menu item, the generation function unit 72 generates a context menu so that the corresponding CLSID, component, or command performs a function.

  It should be noted that the context menu 98 shown in FIG. 3 is generated by the generation function unit 70 before the information holding function unit 74 receives the setting of adding context menu information and data association from the setting function unit 70. It is generated from the context menu information held. Therefore, the context menu 98 in FIG. 3 shows an initial one in the information terminal device 10. When the right button of the mouse is clicked to display the context menu 98 shown in FIG. 3, the context menu 98 is displayed starting from the position indicated by the mouse pointer 100.

  The setting function unit 70 sets context menu information related to the generation of the context menu held by the information holding function unit 74.

  Specifically, when receiving a notification (REGISTER, 1) that the registration request is successfully made with the telephone number “1” from the registration function unit 66, the setting function unit 70 identifies the communication type as number registration, Context information including the character “phone number” indicating the telephone number is generated, and the context menu information “phone number” is added to the context menu information held by the information holding function unit 74. Further, the information holding function unit 74 holds the data of the telephone number “1” in the memory 44, and sets the context menu information “phone number” and the insertion of the data “1” in the memory 44 in association with each other.

  At this time, the information holding function unit 74 reads “Undo” 76, “Cut” 78, “Copy” 80, “Paste” 82, “Delete” 84, “Select all” 86, “Read from right to left” "88", "Unicode control character display" 90, "Unicode control character insertion" 92, "Open IME" 94, "Re-conversion" 96 "and the context menu information of the contents of the context menu items indicated by" phone number "102 The generation function unit 72 refers to the context menu information held by the information holding function unit 74, and generates the context menu 98 shown in Fig. 4. The generated context menu 98 indicates the position of the mouse pointer 100 by the OS. Displayed on the display as a starting point.

  The context menu 98 of FIG. 4 is obtained by adding a context menu item “phone number” 102 to the context menu 98 of FIG. When the context menu item “telephone number” 102 generated from the context menu information “telephone number” is selected, the generation function unit 72 represents the data “1” in the memory 44 as the telephone number “1”, and the position of the mouse pointer 100 Insert into.

  Further, for example, when receiving a notification (INVITE, 3) of a successful call request with the telephone number “3” from the call function unit 68, the setting function unit 70 identifies the type of communication as telephone call, and The setting function unit 70 that generates the context information including the characters “destination” indicating the telephone number adds the context menu information “destination” 104 to the context menu information held by the information holding function unit 74. Further, the information holding function unit 74 holds the data of the telephone number “3” in the memory 44, and sets the context menu information “destination” 104 and the insertion of the data “3” in the memory 44 in association with each other.

  At this time, the information holding function unit 74 reads “Undo” 76, “Cut” 78, “Copy” 80, “Paste” 82, “Delete” 84, “Select all” 86, “Read from right to left” Context menu information related to "88", "Unicode control character display" 90, "Unicode control character insertion" 92, "Open IME" 94, "Re-conversion" 96, "Phone number" 102 and "Destination" 104 The generation function unit 72 holds the context menu 98 shown in FIG. 5 with reference to the context menu information held by the information holding function unit 74. The generated context menu 98 is displayed on the display starting from the position of the mouse pointer 100 by the OS.

  The context menu 98 in FIG. 5 is obtained by adding a context menu item “destination” to the context menu 98 in FIG. In the context menu 98 of FIG. 5, when the context menu item “destination” 104 generated from the context menu information “destination” is selected, the data “3” in the memory 44 is represented as a telephone number “3”, and the mouse Insert at the position of the pointer 100.

  Further, for example, when receiving a notification (INVITE 200 OK, 4) that the telephone number “4” has successfully responded to the incoming call from the call function unit 68, the setting function unit 70 identifies the type of communication as an incoming call, Context information including the characters “sender” indicating the telephone number of the sender is generated, and the context menu information “sender” is added to the context menu information held by the information holding function unit 74. Further, the information holding function unit 74 holds the data of the telephone number “4” in the memory 44, and sets the context menu information “source” and the insertion of the data “4” in the memory 44 in association with each other.

  At this time, the information holding function unit 74 reads “Undo” 76, “Cut” 78, “Copy” 80, “Paste” 82, “Delete” 84, “Select all” 86, “Read from right to left” “88”, “Unicode control character display” 90, “Unicode control character insertion” 92, “Open IME” 94, “Re-conversion” 96, “Phone number” 102, “Destination” 104 ”and“ Source ”106 6, and the generation function unit 72 refers to the context menu information held by the information holding function unit 74 to generate the context menu 98 shown in FIG. It is displayed on the display at the position of the mouse pointer 100 by the OS.

  The context menu 98 of FIG. 6 is obtained by adding a context menu item “source” 106 to the context menu 98 of FIG. When the context menu item “sender” 106 generated from the context menu information “sender” is selected, the data “4” in the memory 44 is represented as a telephone number “4” and inserted at the position of the mouse pointer 100.

  Further, for example, when receiving a notification (REFER, 4) of a successful transfer request with the telephone number “4” from the call function unit 68, the setting function unit 70 identifies the type of communication as telephone transfer, and sets the transfer destination. Context information including the character “transfer destination” indicating the telephone number is generated, and the context menu information “transfer destination” is added to the context menu information held by the information holding function unit 74. Further, the information holding function unit 70 holds the data of the telephone number “4” in the memory 44, and sets the context menu information “transfer destination” and the insertion of the data “4” in the memory 44 in association with each other.

  At this time, the information holding function unit 74 reads “Undo” 76, “Cut” 78, “Copy” 80, “Paste” 82, “Delete” 84, “Select all” 86, “Read from right to left” “88”, “Unicode control character display” 90, “Unicode control character insertion” 92, “Open IME” 94, “Re-conversion” 96, “Phone number” 102, “Destination” 104 and “Forward” 106 The related function menu unit 70 holds related context menu information, and generates the context menu 98 shown in FIG. 7 with reference to the context menu information held by the information holding function unit 74. The generated context menu 98 is displayed on the display starting from the position of the mouse pointer 100 by the OS.

  The context menu 98 of FIG. 7 is obtained by adding a context menu item “transfer destination” 108 to the context menu 98 of FIG. When the context menu item “transfer destination” 108 generated from the context menu information “transfer destination” is selected, the data “4” in the memory 44 is represented as a telephone number “4” and inserted at the position of the mouse pointer 100.

  As described above, the setting function unit 70 identifies the type of communication that has been successful in the softphone communication function unit 44, and adds context menu information related to each type to the information holding function unit 74. The context and menu 98 generated by the unit 72 can include context menu items related to each type of communication successful in the information terminal device 10.

  In addition, in the context menu 98 in which the generation function unit 72 succeeds, when the user selects a context menu item related to each type of communication that has succeeded in the information terminal device 10, the data used for communication for each type of communication Can be inserted.

  Next, these operations are described by state transition. As shown in FIG. 8, the information terminal device 10 has a power-on 110, a standby state 112, a standby state 114, and an operation state 116 regarding operations.

  The information terminal device 10 is activated when the power is turned on 110. The information terminal device 10 executes loading 118 of the program of the storage 42 to the memory 44 in accordance with the activation. The information terminal device 10 transitions to the standby state 112.

  The standby state 112 is a state where the registration function unit 66, the call function unit 68, the setting function unit 70, the generation function unit 72, and the information holding function unit 74 are activated in the information terminal device 10 after the OS is started. Is the state before the registration request is successful. In the standby state 110, the registration function unit 66, the call function unit 68, the setting function unit 70, the generation function unit 72, and the information holding function unit 74 are activated, but before the registration function unit 66 succeeds in the registration request, that is, Since the registration function unit 66 determines that the registration request is not successful, the registration function unit 66 does not notify the setting function unit 70 that the registration request is successful, and the setting function unit 66 notifies the information holding function unit 74. Do not add context menu information. Therefore, the context menu 98 generated by the generation function unit 72 in the standby state 112 is the context menu 98 shown in FIG.

  In the standby state 112, since the registration function unit 66 is before the registration request is successful, the call function unit 68 is invalidated for the information provided from the operation system.

  The standby state 114 is a state in which the registration function unit 66, the call function unit 68, the setting function unit 70, the generation function unit 72, and the information holding function unit 74 are activated in the information terminal device 10 after the OS is started. Is a state in which the registration request is successful. That is, when the registration function unit 66 successfully makes a registration request to the main device 16 in the standby state 112, the registration function unit 66 transitions from the standby state 112 to the standby state 114 in accordance with this condition. Transition arrow 120 indicates registration success and displays the addition of a context menu item. If the registration function unit 66 fails the registration request, the registration function unit 66 remains in the standby state 112 as indicated by the arrow 122.

  In the standby state 114, the registration function unit 66, the call function unit 68, the setting function unit 70, the generation function unit 72, and the information holding function unit 74 are activated. Since the registration function unit 66 succeeds in the registration request, the registration function unit 66 notifies the setting function unit 70 that the registration request is successful, and the setting function unit 70 notifies the information holding function unit 74 of the context menu. Add information.

  Furthermore, in the standby state 114, when the call function unit 68 succeeds in either a call request, a response to the incoming call, or a transfer request, the call function unit 68 sends a call request, a response to the incoming call, and a transfer request to the setting function unit 70. The setting function unit 70 adds the successful context menu information to the information holding function unit 74 and displays it. This state is an arrow line 124.

  Here, in the standby state 114, since the registration function unit 66 succeeds in the registration request, the call function unit 68 validates the provision of the operation system.

  When the user clicks the right button of the mouse, the information terminal device 10 transitions from the standby state 114 to the operation state 116 as indicated by the arrow 126. When the mouse click operation is received in the operation state 116, the generation function unit 72 generates a context menu 98 from the context menu information held by the information holding function unit 74. On the information terminal device 10, a context menu 98 is displayed on the display by the OS by executing these functions.

  In the operation state 116, as indicated by the arrow 128, the user selects and operates the context menu item of the context menu 98 displayed. At this time, the information terminal device 10 performs the corresponding function, and transitions to the standby state 114 as indicated by the arrow 130.

  On the other hand, when the user stops the operation on the context menu 98 displayed in the operation state 116, the information terminal device 10 hides the context menu 98 and transitions to the standby state 114 as indicated by the arrow 130. .

  As described above, the information terminal device 10 causes the state transition after the OS is activated, adds a new context menu item to the context menu 98, and displays the context menu 98.

  Next, an operation procedure for registering the information terminal device 10 in the telephone system 12 will be described with reference to FIG.

(Registration operation)
First, when the telephone number is registered in the main device 16 by the information terminal device 10, when the user turns on the power to the information terminal device 10 and starts the operation, the CPU 40 takes the lead and programs the OS from the storage 42 to the memory 44. , Run the loaded program and start the OS. Furthermore, the information terminal device 10 loads the program related to the registration function unit 66, the call function unit 68, the setting function unit 70, the generation function unit 72, and the information holding function unit 74 from the storage 42 to the memory 44 by the action of the OS. Start the program and activate each function. The information terminal device 10 thus completes startup in software. This state is the standby state 110. The information terminal device 10 is in a state in which communication connection is possible with the IP network 14 which is a predetermined connection destination by the operation of the user.

  After the activation, the registration function unit 66 acquires the IP address “10.1.1.1” of the information terminal device 10 set in the OS, information “REGISTER” indicating that it is a registration request, and the main destination of the registration request transmission destination. A registration request is generated that includes the IP address “10.1.1.2” of the device 16, the IP address “10.1.1.1” of the information terminal device 10 that is the source of the registration request, and the telephone number “1” to be registered.

  The registration function unit 66 sends the registration request (REGIST_REQ) 132 generated at time T10 to the main device 16. When receiving the registration request, the main device 16 performs registration processing based on the supplied information. The main device 16 returns a registration completion (200 OK) 134 to the information terminal device 10 at time T12 upon completion of the registration process. The information terminal device 10 sends a registration completion (200 OK) 134 to the registration function unit 66.

  When the registration of the main device 16 is completed, the information terminal device 10 is registered. Thereafter, the main device 16 can perform telephone connection processing based on the telephone numbers of the information terminal device 10 and the telephones 18 and 20.

  When the registration function unit 66 obtains the registration completion (200 OK) 134 as a result of the registration request, the registration function unit 66 determines that the registration request is successful. Based on the determination result, the registration function unit 66 notifies the setting function unit 70 of the success (SUCCESS) 136 of the registration request for the telephone number “1” set in itself at time T14.

  When the setting function unit 70 receives notification from the registration function unit 66 that the registration request is successful with the telephone number “1”, the setting function unit 70 sets the “phone number” in the context menu information held by the information holding function unit 74. The related context menu information is added, and the data of the telephone number “1” is held in the memory 44 (APPENDIX 138). The information holding function unit 74 further associates the context menu information “phone number” with the data “1” in the memory 44. Accordingly, when the user selects the context menu item “phone number” 102, the data “1” in the memory 44 is set to be inserted. This state is the standby state 114 in the information terminal device 10.

  At this time, the information holding function unit 74 has already performed “Undo”, “Cut”, “Copy”, “Paste”, “Delete”, “Select all”, “Read from right to left”, “Unicode” It holds context menu information related to “control character display”, “unicode control character insertion”, “open IME”, “re-conversion”, and “phone number”.

  The information terminal device 10 uses a mouse which is one of the input / output devices 48. A user is executing text editing application software on the information terminal device 10. At this time, an arrow is displayed on the text editing screen as a pointer pointed by the mouse. The user clicks the right mouse button. The information terminal device 10 is supplied with a right-click operation signal as a display operation of the context menu 98 via the input / output device 48 to the generation function unit 72 at time T18 (OPE_RIGHT 140).

  The generation function unit 72 requests the information holding function unit 74 to generate the context menu 98 shown in FIG. 4 at time T20 (GEN_REQ 142). The information holding function unit 74 refers to the context menu information held at time T22 and sends the context menu information to the generation function unit 72 (SEND_INF 144).

  The generation function unit 72 generates a context menu 98 based on the supplied context menu information. The generation function unit 72 supplies the context menu 98 generated at time T24 to a display that is one of the input / output devices 48 (DISP 146). With this supply, the context menu 98 is displayed on the display at the position of the mouse pointer 100 by the OS. The information terminal device 10 is in the operation state 116.

  When the user selects the context menu item “phone number” 102 in the context menu 98 of FIG. 4 displayed on the display, the data “1” in the memory 44 is inserted as the telephone number “1” at the position of the pointer 100 of the mouse. Is done. This state is in the standby state 114.

  In this way, the user can realize the context menu 98 for appropriately selecting the latest available telephone number in the information terminal device 10.

(Outgoing action)
Next, an operation procedure in which the user makes a call to the telephone 18 using the context menu 98 on the information terminal device 10 will be described with reference to FIG.

  The user inputs the telephone number “3” using the operation system provided by the call function unit 68 in the information terminal device 10 and performs a call operation (TRANSMISSION 148). By this operation, the information terminal device 10 is information (INVITE) indicating that it is a transmission request, the IP address “10.1.1.2” of the main device 16 that is the transmission request transmission destination, the telephone number “3” of the transmission request destination, and the transmission request A transmission request including the original telephone number “1” is generated, and the transmission request (INVITE_REQ) 150 generated at time T26 is transmitted to the main device 16. The information terminal device 10 is in the standby state 114.

  When main apparatus 16 obtains call request 150, main apparatus 16 executes connection processing and transfers the call request to call 18 as call request 152 at time T28. With this transfer, the telephone 18 receives an incoming call.

  When the telephone 18 responds to the incoming call, the telephone 18 sends a response result (RESULT 154) to the main device 16 at time T30. The main device 16 outputs a response to the incoming call (RESULT 156) at time T32 in order to transfer it to the information terminal device 10 that is the transmission request source. The call function unit 68 in the information terminal device 10 determines that the call request is successful when the response to the incoming call from the callee is 200 OK as a result of the call request.

  At this time, the information terminal device 10 establishes a voice call based on RTP with a call origination destination, that is, the telephone set 18. The call function unit 68 notifies the setting function unit 70 that the call request has been successfully made at the call request destination telephone number “3” at time T34 (SUCCESS 158). When the setting function unit 70 receives a success notification for the call request with the telephone number “3”, the setting function unit 70 adds the context menu information related to “destination” to the context menu information held by the information holding function unit 74 and holds the information. The function unit 74 stores the data of the telephone number “3” in the memory 44 (APPENDIX 160).

  The information holding function unit 74 further holds the data of the telephone number “3” in the memory 44, and associates the context menu information “destination” with the data “3” in the memory 44. With this association, when the user selects the context menu item “destination”, the data “3” in the memory 44 is set to be inserted. At this time, the information terminal device 10 is in the standby state 114.

  With these operations, the information holding function unit 74 performs “Undo”, “Cut”, “Copy”, “Paste”, “Delete”, “Select all”, “Read from right to left”, “Unicode” Context menu information related to “control character display”, “unicode control character insertion”, “open IME”, “re-conversion”, “phone number”, and “destination” is held.

  A user is executing text editing application software on the information terminal device 10. At this time, an arrow is displayed on the text editing screen as a pointer pointed by the mouse. The user clicks the right mouse button. The information terminal device 10 is supplied with a right-click operation signal as a display operation of the context menu 98 via the input / output device 48 to the generation function unit 72 at time T38 (OPE_RIGHT 162).

  The generation function unit 72 requests the information holding function unit 74 to generate the context menu 98 shown in FIG. 5 at time T40 (GEN_REQ 164). The information holding function unit 74 refers to the context menu information held at time T42, and sends the context menu information to the generation function unit 72 (SEND_INF 166).

  The generation function unit 72 generates a context menu 98 based on the supplied context menu information. The generation function unit 72 supplies the context menu 98 generated at time T44 to a display that is one of the input / output devices 48 (DISP 168). With this supply, the context menu 98 is displayed on the display at the position of the mouse pointer 100 by the OS. The information terminal device 10 is in the operation state 116.

  When the user selects the context menu item “destination” 104 of the context menu shown in FIG. 5 displayed on the display, the data “3” in the memory 44 is inserted at the position of the mouse pointer 100 as the telephone number “3”. To do. At this time, the information terminal device 10 is in the standby state 114.

  In this way, the user can realize a context menu in the information terminal device 10 for appropriately selecting the latest available telephone number of the destination.

(Incoming call operation)
Next, when the telephone 20 is disposed outside the information terminal device 10, a response operation to an incoming call from the telephone 20 to the information terminal device 10 will be described with reference to FIG. The telephone 20 transmits a call request (INVITE_REQ) 170 to the call requesting main apparatus 16 at time T46. The call request 170 includes information (INVITE) indicating that the telephone 20 is a call request, the IP address “10.1.1.2” of the main device 16 that is the call request destination, the call request destination telephone number “1”, and the call request. Contains the original telephone number “4”.

  When the main apparatus 16 obtains the outgoing call request 170, the main apparatus 16 executes connection processing. Then, main apparatus 16 transfers the call request to information terminal apparatus 10 as call request (INVITE_REQ) 172 at time T48. By this transfer, the information terminal device 10 receives a call request from the telephone 20. At this time, the information terminal device 10 displays on the display that an incoming call is received from the caller telephone number “4” by the operation system provided by the call function unit 68.

  When a user operates a response to an incoming call in the operation system provided by the call function unit 68 in the information terminal device 10 when an incoming call is received from the telephone 20, the information terminal device 10 displays information (200 OK) indicating a response to the incoming call, A response to the incoming call including the IP address “10.1.1.2” of the main apparatus 16 to which the response is sent is generated. The information terminal device 10 transmits “200 OK” as an incoming response (RES 174) generated from the call function unit 68 to the main device 16 at time T50. The main device 16 supplies an incoming call response (RES 176) to the telephone 20 as a call originator at time T52. Here, the information terminal device 10 is in the standby state 114.

  When the call function unit 68 sends a response “200 OK” to the incoming call, the call function unit 68 determines that the response to the incoming call (200 OK) has succeeded, and establishes a voice call with the call originator based on RTP. In addition, the call function unit 68 notifies the setting function unit 70 that the response to the incoming call has been successfully made at the call request source telephone number “4” at time T54 (SUCCESS 178).

  When the setting function unit 70 receives the notification in response to the incoming call with the telephone number “4” from the call function unit 68, the context menu information held by the information holding function unit 74 at time T56 is associated with the context related to “source”. Add menu information (APPENDIX 180). The information holding function unit 74 further holds the data of the telephone number “4” in the memory 44, and associates the context menu information “source” with the data “4” in the memory 44. Thus, when the user selects the context menu item “source” 106, the data “4” in the memory 44 is set to be inserted. The information terminal device 10 is in the standby state 114.

  At this time, the information holding function unit 74 performs “Undo”, “Cut”, “Copy”, “Paste”, “Delete”, “Select all”, “Read from right to left”, “Unicode control characters” Context menu information related to “display”, “unicode control character insertion”, “open IME”, “re-conversion”, “phone number”, “destination” and “source” is held.

  A user is executing text editing application software on the information terminal device 10. At this time, an arrow is displayed on the text editing screen as a pointer pointed by the mouse. The user clicks the right mouse button. The information terminal device 10 is supplied with a right-click operation signal as a display operation of the context menu 98 via the input / output device 48 to the generation function unit 72 at time T58 (OPE_RIGHT 182).

  The generation function unit 72 requests the information holding function unit 74 to generate the context menu 98 shown in FIG. 6 at time T60 (GEN_REQ 184). The information holding function unit 74 refers to the context menu information held at time T62 and sends the context menu information to the generation function unit 72 (SEND_INF 186).

  The generation function unit 72 generates a context menu 98 based on the supplied context menu information. The generation function unit 72 supplies the context menu 98 generated at time T64 to a display that is one of the input / output devices 48 (DISP 188). With this supply, the context menu 98 is displayed on the display at the position of the mouse pointer 100 by the OS. The information terminal device 10 is in the operation state 116.

  When the user selects the context menu item “source” 106 of the context menu 98 shown in FIG. 6 displayed on the display, the data “4” in the memory 44 is set as the telephone number “4” and the mouse pointer 100 is positioned. insert. The information terminal device 10 is in the standby state 114.

  In this way, the user can implement a context menu in the information terminal device 10 for appropriately selecting the latest available caller telephone number.

(Transfer operation)
Next, when the telephones 18 and 20 are disposed outside the information terminal device 10, the user transfers the call from the information terminal device 10 to the telephone 20 while the information terminal device 10 and the telephone 18 are talking. This will be described with reference to FIG.

  During a call provided by the call function unit 68 on the information terminal device 10, the user inputs the telephone number “4” by the operation system, and further inputs the transfer information by the transfer operation. At this time, the transfer information is supplied to the call function unit 68 at time T66 (REF_INF 190). The call function unit 68 includes information (REFER) indicating that it is a transfer request, the IP address “10.1.1.2” of the main device 16 that is the destination of the transfer request, the telephone number “4” of the transfer request destination, and the transfer request source A transfer request including the telephone number “1” is generated, and the transfer request 192 generated at time T68 is transmitted (REF_REQ 192). The information terminal device 10 is in the standby state 114.

  When the main device 16 receives the transfer request, it executes a connection process. Although not shown, the main device 16 normally places a call on hold with respect to the telephone set 18 when receiving the transfer request 192. The main device 16 further transfers the transfer request to the telephone set 20 at time T70 (REF_REQ 194). The telephone 20 receives a transfer request 194 and receives an incoming call.

  When the telephone 20 responds to an incoming call via the main device 16 to the information terminal device 10, the telephone 20 responds to the main device 16 with a response “200 OK” to the incoming call for the telephone 20 at time T72. Output (RES 196). When the main device 16 receives the response “200 OK” to the incoming call, it instructs the telephone 18 to switch the connection destination of the call. Further, the main device 16 transfers the incoming call response (RES 198) in the transfer to the information requesting information terminal device 10 at time T74.

  When the call function unit 68 obtains a response (200 OK) to the incoming call from the transfer destination as a result of the transfer request, the call function unit 68 determines that the transfer request is successful and ends the call. Then, the call function unit 68 notifies the setting function unit 70 that the transfer request is successful at the time T76 at the transfer request destination telephone number “4” (SUCCESS 200).

  On the other hand, the main device 16 switches the connection destination of the telephone 18 from the information terminal device 10 to the telephone 20 based on the incoming call response of the telephone 20 as described above, and immediately terminates the hold, and between the telephone 18 and the telephone 20 To establish a voice call.

  When the setting function unit 70 receives notification from the call function unit 68 that the transfer request has been successfully made with the telephone number “4”, the context menu information held by the information holding function unit 74 at time T78 relates to “transfer destination”. Add context menu information (APPENDIX 202).

  The information holding function unit 74 further holds the data of the telephone number “4” in the memory 44, and associates the context menu information “transfer destination” with the data “4” in the memory 44. Thus, when the user selects the context menu item “transfer destination” 108, the data “4” in the memory 44 is set to be inserted. The information terminal device 10 is in the standby state 114.

  At this time, the information holding function unit 74 performs “Undo”, “Cut”, “Copy”, “Paste”, “Delete”, “Select all”, “Read from right to left”, “Unicode control characters” Context menu information related to "Display", "Unicode control character insertion", "Open IME", "Reconversion", "Phone number", "Destination", "Source", and "Forwarding destination" are retained. Yes.

  A user is executing text editing application software on the information terminal device 10. At this time, an arrow is displayed on the text editing screen as a pointer pointed by the mouse. The user clicks the right mouse button. The information terminal device 10 is supplied with a right-click operation signal as a display operation of the context menu 98 via the input / output device 48 to the generation function unit 72 at time T80 (OPE_RIGHT 204).

  The generation function unit 72 requests the information holding function unit 74 to generate the context menu 98 shown in FIG. 7 at time T82 (GEN_REQ 206). The information holding function unit 74 refers to the context menu information held at time T84, and sends the context menu information to the generation function unit 72 (SEND_INF 208).

  The generation function unit 72 generates a context menu 98 based on the supplied context menu information. The generation function unit 72 supplies the context menu 98 generated at time T86 to a display that is one of the input / output devices 48 (DISP 210). With this supply, the context menu 98 is displayed on the display at the position of the mouse pointer 100 by the OS. The information terminal device 10 is in the operation state 116.

  When the user selects the context menu item “destination” 108 of the context menu 98 shown in FIG. 7 displayed on the display, the data “4” in the memory 44 is set as the telephone number “4” and the mouse pointer 100 is positioned. insert. The information terminal device 10 is in the standby state 114.

  In this way, the user can realize a context menu in the information terminal device 10 for appropriately selecting the latest available transfer destination telephone number.

  Next, another embodiment of the information terminal device to which the information terminal device with communication function according to the present invention is applied will be briefly described. The information terminal device 10 of the present embodiment is a thin client terminal device. The information terminal device 10 includes a CPU 40, a memory 44, a communication interface unit 46 connected to the server, and a GUI that is input / output by the user in order to execute the minimum necessary processing. The information terminal device 10 does not have the storage 42 including the OS described in the previous embodiment.

  A thin client server 212 is further connected to the telephone system 12 of FIG. 13 as a new component. The thin client server 212 has an OS and an application executable program. Programs that can be executed by the application include programs of the softphone function unit 62 and the context menu management function unit 64. When the thin client server 212 receives a request from the information terminal device 10 through communication via the signal line 214, the thin client server 212 downloads the desired program to the requesting information terminal device 10 in response to the reception request. In this case, the information terminal device 10 includes a download type thin client function unit that requests a program from the memory 44 and the communication interface unit 46, although not shown in FIG.

  On the other hand, the thin client server 212 includes a download type thin client server function unit corresponding to the request of the information terminal device 10 although not shown in FIG.

  Specifically, the download type thin client function unit is a client function corresponding to, for example, PEX (Preboot Execution Environment), and the download type thin client server function unit is a server function corresponding to PEX. Therefore, a request or program download exchanged between the thin client server 212 and the information terminal device 10 is realized by an exchange between the download type thin client function unit and the download type thin client server function unit.

  Note that IP addresses used for communication are set in advance in the download type thin client function unit and the download type thin client server function unit. In this embodiment, the download type thin client function unit sets the IP address “10.1.1.1” on the network 12, and the download type thin client server function unit sets the IP address “10.1.1.5” on the network 12. ing.

  The download type thin client function unit and the download type thin client server function unit are included as application programs.

  The information terminal device 10 is downloaded to the memory 44, and an application operates under the control of the CPU 40. In this operation, an item is additionally displayed on the context menu 98 in accordance with an operation from the GUI, and is executed in accordance with selection of the displayed item. The operations and operations after downloading are the same as those described in the previous embodiment.

  As described above, even if the information terminal device 10 and the thin client server 212 are used, a processing function peculiar to the telephone is added to the context menu as an item, and the function is executed only by selecting the added item. Can do.

  Again, it returns to the description about the other Example in the information terminal device to which the information terminal device with a communication function which concerns on this invention is applied. The information terminal device 10 of the present embodiment is the same information terminal device as the previous embodiment. Therefore, the telephone system 12 of the present embodiment is basically the same as the configuration of FIG.

  However, as shown in FIG. 14, the main device 16 in the telephone system 12 usually includes a presence server function unit 222 as a new component as well as an exchange function unit 220 that switches to a communication destination in response to an outgoing call. It is different from the previous embodiment in that it includes. The presence server function unit 220 exchanges the presence information of the information terminal device 10 and the telephones 18 and 20 connected to the telephone system 12 corresponding to the presence service via the network 14, for example, a registration function, a search function, and a request. Has a notification function. Presence information is information indicating what state the communicating party is currently in.

  The information terminal device 10 of this embodiment includes a presence client function unit 224 in addition to the components of the previous embodiment. That is, as shown in FIG. 15, the memory 44 in the information terminal device 10 includes a softphone communication function unit 62, a Cm management function unit 64, and a presence client function unit 224, roughly by loading a program. The newly added presence client function unit 224 has a function of exchanging presence information with the presence server function unit 222 of the main device 16 to communicate with the presence service.

  Further, each of the telephones 18 and 20 in the telephone system 12 includes not only the call function unit 68 but also a presence client function unit that exchanges presence information with at least the presence server function unit 222 of the main device 16 as shown in FIG. 226 and 228.

  In the previous embodiment, it is described that the call function unit 68 can provide operation-related information such as the presence function. Therefore, the presence client function units 226 and 228 of the information terminal device 10 are connected to the call function unit 68. May be included.

  Each of the telephones 18 and 20 includes, for example, a cross key as a substitute for the pointing device, and a predetermined key among these keys is assigned to the right button of the mouse, and the registration function unit 66 of the softphone communication function unit 62 A Cm management function unit 64 may also be provided. By providing these functions, each of the telephones 18 and 20 can receive presence information from the presence server function unit 222 and display the presence information in the same manner as the information terminal device 10.

  Here, the presence service is a service for notifying the state of things, that is, presence. Examples of usage of the presence service in the telephone system 12 include, for example, user identification information, user presence / leaving information, information on current user activities, and identification information on terminal devices used by the user By notifying presence information such as location information, online / offline information, and information related to a call as the state of the communication partner, it is possible to know the situation of the partner in advance when making a call.

  When the information terminal device 10 connected to the network 14 exchanges presence information via the network 14, the information terminal device 10 displays the presence information such as “presently present” and “out of office” as reported. In this way, based on presence information, the user can respond directly by calling the other party according to the other party's situation, sending a message during the meeting, and calling the person's mobile phone while out become. By knowing this presence information, the user can work efficiently, such as eliminating unnecessary redialing of the telephone and saving time to write a message memo.

  Furthermore, the general operation of the presence service based on SIP in the telephone system 12 will be described. Each functional unit is described based on the above-described configuration. The presence server function unit 222 of the main device 16 registers and holds the presence information supplied from the terminal device, that is, the information terminal device 10 of the present embodiment, and the presence client function units 224, 226, and 228 of the telephones 18 and 20, respectively. In the presence client function units 224, 226, and 228, the presence information corresponding to the request is extracted and the presence information is notified to the requested presence client function unit.

  The presence client function units 224, 226, and 228 are functions that send presence information to the presence server function unit 222 and receive presence information from the presence server function unit 222.

  The corresponding presence client function unit described above in the present embodiment is only the information terminal device 10. Since the telephones 18 and 20 do not have the Cm management function unit 64, the telephones 18 and 20 need only have a transmission function only in the upstream direction that sends presence information to the presence server function unit 222.

  First, the presence server function unit 222 registers presence information from the presence client function units 224, 226, and 228 by exchanging communications with the presence client function units 224, 226, and 228 (REGISTER). Next, when presence information is requested by the presence client function unit 224 (SUBSCRIBE), the presence server function unit 222 notifies the corresponding presence information to the requested presence client function unit 224 (NOTIFY).

  Also, when presence client function units 224, 226, and 228 are notified of changes in presence information, presence server function unit 222 registers presence information to be changed (REGISTER) and publishes the registered presence information (PUBLISH). . The presence server function unit 222 further notifies the changed presence information to each terminal device that can receive and display (NOTIFY).

  The presence information notified by the presence server function unit 222 is extracted from the presence information held by the presence server function unit 222. Specifically, the presence client function unit 226 sends the telephone number identifier telephone number “3” and status information “online” as presence information of the telephone set 18 to the presence server function unit 222. The presence server function unit 222 registers presence information including these contents. When presence information of the telephone number “3” is requested from the presence client function unit 224 (SUBSCRIBE), the presence information held is stored in the telephone number “3”. The presence information “phone number“ 3 ”, status information“ online ”” is extracted as a search result and notified to the requesting presence client function unit 224 (NOTIFY).

  In the case of the telephone system 12, the registration of the presence information from the presence client function units 224, 226, and 228 to the presence server function unit 222 (REGISTER) A registration request for requesting registration of a callee number, a call origination, an incoming call, a response to an incoming call, a transfer, and a success / failure of an operation relating to a call can be cited as a trigger.

  When the presence client function unit 224 periodically changes presence information (REGISTER, PUBLISH), the presence client function unit 224 sets a change cycle in advance, for example, between 1 second and 3600 seconds, and automatically presence information based on the set change cycle. Is requested (SUBSCRIBE). When the presence client function unit 224 periodically requests presence information from the presence server function unit 222 (SUBSCRIBE), for example, the above-described change cycle is set in advance, and the presence information is automatically requested at the set change cycle. (SUBSCRIBE).

  Further, the presence server function unit 222 is set as a predetermined period, for example, a period of 1 to 3600 seconds, and is changed when presence information from the presentation client function units 224, 226, and 228 is not changed (REGISTER, PUBLISH). Delete presence information that is not used.

  In addition to the above-described operation, the presence client function unit 224 of the present embodiment determines whether the content of the context menu information can be used using the presence information for the content of the context menu information set by the setting function unit 70. It also has a function to confirm. That is, in the previous embodiment, the setting function unit 70 identifies the type of communication that was successful in the softphone communication function unit 62, and adds context menu information related to each identified communication type to the information holding function unit 74. As a result, the context menu 98 generated by the generation function unit 72 can include context menu items related to each type of successful communication in the information terminal device 10.

  In the present embodiment, it is also possible to confirm whether or not the content of the context menu item related to each type of successful communication at the information terminal device 10 is the latest.

  As described in the previous embodiment, the setting function unit 70 sets context menu information related to the generation of the context menu held by the information holding function unit 74. The presence client function unit 222 requests the presence server function unit 220 for presence information related to the content of the context menu information set by the setting function unit 70 (SUBSCRIBE).

  Specifically, the basic operation of the context menu process in the registration, transmission, reception and transfer of the information terminal device 10 will be described. In registration, the setting function unit 70, when receiving a notification of successful registration request with the telephone number “1” from the registration function unit 66 (REGISTER, 1), identifies the type of communication as number registration, Context information including a character “phone number” indicating a number is generated, and the context menu information “phone number” is added to the context menu information held by the information holding function unit 74. The information holding function unit 74 holds the data of the telephone number “1” in the memory 44, and sets the context menu information “phone number” and the insertion of the data “1” in the memory 44 in association with each other.

  At this time, the presence client function unit 224 receives the presence information about the telephone number “1” held in the memory 44 by the information holding function unit 74 that holds the contents of the context menu information set by the setting function unit 70. Request (SUBSCRIBE). The presence client function unit 224 determines whether or not the telephone number “1” of the requested presence information can be used based on the presence information notification (NOTIFY) supplied from the presence server function unit 222, and whether it is the latest one. Confirm whether or not.

  Here, when the presence client function unit 224 confirms that the telephone number “1” of the requested presence information can be used, the context menu information “phone number” held by the information holding function unit 74 added by the setting function unit 70 "And the data holding of the telephone number" 1 "held in the associated memory 44 is continued.

  When the presence client function unit 224 confirms that the requested presence information telephone number “1” cannot be used, the context menu information “phone number” held by the information holding function unit 74 added by the setting function unit 70 "And the data of the telephone number" 1 "held in the associated memory 44 are deleted. In this way, information that cannot be used is not continued.

  When making a call, for example, when the setting function unit 70 receives a notification of a successful call request with the telephone number “3” from the call function unit 68 (INVITE, 3), the setting function unit 70 determines that the received communication type is a telephone call. Is generated, context information including the character “destination” indicating the destination telephone number is generated, and the generated context menu information “destination” 104 is added to the context menu information held by the information holding function unit 74 To do. The information holding function unit 74 holds the data of the telephone number “3” in the memory 44, and sets the context menu information “destination” 104 and the insertion of the data “3” in the memory 44 in association with each other.

  At this time, the presence client function unit 224 uses the information holding function unit 74 that holds the contents of the context menu information set by the setting function unit 70 to store the presence information about the destination “3” held in the memory 44. Request (SUBSCRIBE). The presence client function unit 224 determines whether or not the requested presence information destination “3” is available based on the presence information notification (NOTIFY) supplied from the presence server function unit 222 and whether it is the latest one. Confirm whether or not.

  Here, if the presence client function unit 224 confirms that the telephone number “3” of the requested presence information can be used, the context menu information “destination” held by the information holding function unit 74 added by the setting function unit 70 ”And the data of the telephone number“ 3 ”held in the associated memory 44 are continued.

  When the presence client function unit 224 confirms that the telephone number “3” of the requested presence information cannot be used, the context menu information “destination” held by the information holding function unit 74 added by the setting function unit 70 The data of the telephone number “3” held in the associated memory 44 is deleted. Do not continue information that is not available.

  Upon receiving an incoming call, the setting function unit 70 receives, for example, a notification that the telephone number “4” has been successfully responded to the incoming call from the call function unit 68 (INVITE 200 OK, 4). The context information including the character “source” indicating the telephone number of the source is identified, and the context menu information “source” is added to the context menu information held by the information holding function unit 74. The information holding function unit 74 holds the data of the telephone number “4” in the memory 44, and sets the context menu information “source” and the insertion of the data “4” in the memory 44 in association with each other.

  The presence client function unit 224 requests presence information about the transmission source “4” held in the memory 44 by the information holding function unit 74 holding the contents of the context menu information set by the setting function unit 70 ( SUBSCRIBE). At this time, the presence client function unit 224 determines whether or not the requested presence information source “4” can be used based on the presence information notification (NOTIFY) supplied from the presence server function unit 222 and the latest information. To check if it is.

  When the presence client function unit 224 confirms that the telephone number “4” of the requested presence information can be used, the context menu information “source” and association held by the information holding function unit 74 added by the setting function unit 70 The data holding of the telephone number “4” held in the stored memory 44 is continued.

  When the presence client function unit 224 confirms that the telephone number “4” of the requested presence information cannot be used, the context menu information “source” held by the information holding function unit 74 added by the setting function unit 70 "And the data of the telephone number" 4 "stored in the associated memory 44 are deleted. Therefore, unnecessary data retention is not continued.

  In the transfer, the setting function unit 70, for example, receives a notification of successful transfer request with the telephone number “4” from the call function unit 68 (REFER, 4), identifies the received communication type as a call transfer, Context information including the characters “transfer destination” indicating the telephone number of the transfer destination is generated, and the context menu information “transfer destination” is added to the context menu information held by the information holding function unit 74. Further, the information holding function unit 70 holds the data of the telephone number “4” in the memory 44, and sets the context menu information “transfer destination” and the insertion of the data “4” in the memory 44 in association with each other.

  At this time, the presence client function unit 224 receives the presence information about the transfer destination “4” held in the memory 44 by the information holding function unit 74 that holds the contents of the context menu information set by the setting function unit 70. Request (SUBSCRIBE). Presence client function unit 224 determines whether the requested destination information transfer destination “4” is available based on the presence information notification (NOTIFY) supplied from presence server function unit 222, and whether it is the latest one. Confirm whether or not.

  When the presence client function unit 224 confirms that the telephone number “4” of the requested presence information can be used, the context menu information “transfer destination” and association associated with the information holding function unit 74 added by the setting function unit 70 The data holding of the telephone number “4” held in the stored memory 44 is continued.

  Further, when the presence client function unit 224 confirms that the telephone number “4” of the requested presence information cannot be used, the context menu information “transfer destination” held by the information holding function unit 74 added by the setting function unit 70 Then, the data of the telephone number “4” held in the associated memory 44 is deleted.

  To summarize the above description, the setting function unit 70 identifies the type of communication that was successful in the softphone communication function unit 44, and adds context menu information related to each type of communication to the information holding function unit 74. As a result, the context menu 98 generated by the generation function unit 72 can include context menu items related to each type of successful communication in the information terminal device 10, and whether the contents of the context menu items can be used. It can be confirmed whether or not it is the latest.

  Next, focusing on the confirmation operation after registration of the information terminal device 10 in the telephone system 12 of the present embodiment, the operation procedure will be described with reference to FIG.

(Registration operation)
The operation is the same as in the previous embodiment. First, the OS is started on the information terminal device 10. That is, the information terminal device 10 stores programs related to the registration function unit 66, the call function unit 68, the setting function unit 70, the generation function unit 72, the information holding function unit 74, and the presence client function unit from the storage 42 under the action of the OS. And start this program. In the information terminal device 10, the function of each functional unit is activated by starting this program.

  The information terminal device 10 thus completes startup in software. This state is the standby state 110. The information terminal device 10 is in a state in which communication connection is possible with the IP network 14 which is a predetermined connection destination by the operation of the user.

  After starting, the registration function unit 68 acquires the IP address “10.1.1.1” of the information terminal device 10 set in the OS, information “REGISTER” indicating that it is a registration request, and the destination in the registration request A registration request including the IP address “10.1.1.2” of the main device 16 shown, the IP address “10.1.1.1” of the information terminal device 10 indicating the transmission source in the registration request, and the telephone number “1” to be registered is generated.

  The registration function unit 68 sends the registration request 132 generated at time T10 to the main device 16 (REGIST_REQ 132). When receiving the registration request, the main device 16 performs registration processing based on the supplied information. The main device 16 returns a registration completion 134 to the information terminal device 10 as a response at the time T12 upon completion of the registration process (200 OK 134). The information terminal device 10 sends a registration completion 134 (200 OK) to the registration function unit 66.

  When the registration of the main device 16 is completed, the information terminal device 10 is registered. Thereafter, the main device 16 can perform telephone connection processing based on the telephone numbers of the information terminal device 10 and the telephones 18 and 20.

  When the registration function unit 66 obtains the registration completion 134 as a result of the registration request (200 OK 134), it determines that the registration request is successful. Based on the determination result, the registration function unit 66 notifies the setting function unit 70 of the success 136 of the registration request with the telephone number “1” set in itself at time T14 (SUCCESS 136). Then, the registration function unit 66 gives the presence client function unit 224 the success of the registration request with the telephone number “1” set to itself at time T14A (SUCCESS 230).

  When the setting function unit 70 receives notification from the registration function unit 66 that the registration request is successful with the telephone number “1”, the setting function unit 70 sets the “phone number” in the context menu information held by the information holding function unit 74. The related context menu information is added, and the data of the telephone number “1” is held in the memory 44 (APPENDIX 138). The information holding function unit 74 further associates the context menu information “phone number” with the data “1” in the memory 44. Accordingly, when the user selects the context menu item “phone number” 102, the data “1” in the memory 44 is set to be inserted. This state is the standby state 114 in the information terminal device 10.

  At this time, the information holding function unit 74 performs “Undo”, “Cut”, “Copy”, “Paste”, “Delete”, “Select all”, “Read from right to left”, “Unicode control characters” It holds context menu information related to "Display", "Unicode control character insertion", "Open IME", "Re-conversion", and "Telephone number".

  When the softphone communication function unit 62 succeeds in the registration request (SUCCESS 230), the presence client function 224 causes the presence information “phone number“ 1 ”including the phone number requested by the softphone communication function unit 62 to be registered at time T88. The status information “online” is registered in the presence server function unit 222 (REGISTER 232). The presence server function 222 registers and holds the presence information “phone number“ 1 ”, status information“ online ”” from the presence client function unit 224.

  The presence client function 224 requests presence information “phone number“ 1 ”” from the presence server function unit 222 at time T90 (SUBSCRIBE 234). The presence client function 224 after time T90 requests presence information periodically (SUBSCRIBE).

  In order to periodically request presence information, the presence client function unit 224 holds presence information “phone number“ 1 ”” to be requested, that is, a telephone number for which a registration request is successful.

  When the presence server function unit 222 requests presence information “phone number“ 1 ”” from the presence client function unit 224 (SUBSCRIBE), the presence information held by the presence server function unit 224 is referenced and searched by the phone number “1” at time 92. Then, the corresponding presence information “telephone number“ 1 ”, status information“ online ”” is taken out and notified to the presence client function unit 222 that requested the presence information (NOTIFY 236). After time T92, the presence server function unit 222 periodically requests presence information (SUBSCRIBE), and extracts and notifies the presence information for each request.

  Based on the notification (NOTIFY 236) of the presence information “telephone number“ 1 ”, status information“ online ”” supplied from the presence server function unit 222, the presence client function unit 224 sends the requested presence information telephone number “1”. Check if "" is available and up-to-date.

  In this case, the presence client function unit 224 confirms that the telephone number “1” of the requested presence information can be used “online”, so the presence client function unit 224 holds the information added by the setting function unit 70. The context menu information “telephone number” held by the function unit 74 and the data of the telephone number “1” are continuously held in the associated memory 44.

  At this time, the information holding function unit 74 performs “Undo”, “Cut”, “Copy”, “Paste”, “Delete”, “Select all”, “Read from right to left”, “Unicode control characters” It holds context menu information related to "Display", "Unicode control character insertion", "Open IME", "Re-conversion", and "Telephone number".

  Here, when the user is executing text editing application software on the information terminal device 10, an arrow is displayed on the text editing screen as a pointer to the mouse, and the user presses the right button of the mouse. click. The information terminal device 10 is supplied with a right-click operation signal as a display operation of the context menu 98 via the input / output device 48 to the generation function unit 72, and the information terminal device receives the time T18 as in the previous embodiment. Process by ~ T24 procedure.

  For example, when the information terminal device 10 is restarted by the user or the softphone communication function unit 62 or the registration function unit 66 is reloaded due to the operation of the OS, the registration function unit 66 is the same as in the previous embodiment. Next, a registration request is generated and sent to the main device 16 (REGIST_REQ 132). The main device 16 generates an error message based on the validity of this request and the determination of processing timeout in the main device 16. The main device 16 outputs the error message 238 generated at time T12A to the registration function unit 66 (E_MESSAGE 238). As a result, the registration function unit 66 determines that the registration request has failed because it cannot obtain registration completion (200 OK) within a predetermined time after generating and sending the registration request. The registration function unit 66 determines that the registration request has failed at time 14B, and notifies the presence client function unit 224 of the failure 240 (FAILURE 240). The presence client function unit 224 registers the presence information “phone number“ 1 ”, status information“ offline ”” including the phone number that the softphone communication function unit 62 attempted to register at the time T88A in the presence server function unit 222. (REGISTER 242). The presence server function unit 222 registers and holds the presence information “phone number“ 1 ”, status information“ offline ”” from the presence client function unit 224.

  Further, since the presence client function unit 224 can periodically request presence information as in the case of the success described above, the presence client function unit 224 sends the presence information “phone number“ 1 ”” to the presence server function unit. Request to 222 (SUBSCRIBE 234).

  When presence information “phone number“ 1 ”” is requested from presence client function unit 224 (SUBSCRIBE), presence server function unit 222 refers to and searches the presence information held by telephone number “1”, and the corresponding presence information. The information “phone number“ 1 ”, status information“ offline ”” is taken out and notified to the presence client function unit 224 that requested the presence information (NOTIFY 236).

  Based on the notification (NOTIFY 236) of the presence information “phone number“ 1 ”, status information“ offline ”” supplied from the presence server function unit 222, the presence client function unit 224 sends the requested presence information phone number “1”. Check if "" is available and up-to-date.

  In this case, since the presence client function unit 224 confirms that the telephone number “1” of the requested presence information is “offline” and cannot be used, the presence client function unit 224 is added by the setting function unit 70. The context menu information “telephone number” held by the information holding function unit 74 and the data of the telephone number “1” in the associated memory 44 are deleted and the holding is not continued.

  At this time, the information holding function unit 74 performs “Undo”, “Cut”, “Copy”, “Paste”, “Delete”, “Select all”, “Read from right to left”, “Unicode control characters” Contains context menu information related to "Display", "Unicode control character insertion", "Open IME" and "Re-conversion".

  In this way, the user can realize the context menu 98 for appropriately selecting the telephone number that has been confirmed to be available at the latest in the information terminal device 10.

(Outgoing action)
Next, an operation procedure in which the user makes a call to the telephone 18 using the context menu 98 on the information terminal device 10 and confirms it will be described with reference to FIG.

  The information terminal device 10 will be described as a state in which the context menu 98 shown in FIG. 4 is generated. By the user's mouse operation, the context menu 98 shown in FIG. 4 is displayed on the display of the information terminal device 10 at the position of the mouse pointer 100 by the OS. That is, after the information terminal device 10 successfully makes a registration request with the telephone number “1”.

  First, each of the information terminal device 10 and the telephone 18 is registered in the main device 16. Each presence client function unit 224 of the information terminal device 10 and the telephone 18 registers presence information in the presence server function unit 222 of the main device 16.

  Presence information to be registered is “phone number“ 1 ”, status information“ online ”” in the information terminal device 10, and “phone number“ 3 ”, status information“ online ”” in the telephone set 18. Accordingly, the presence server function unit 222 of the main device 16 has presence information “phone number“ 1 ”, status information“ online ”” from the presence client function unit 224 and presence information “phone number“ 3 ”from the presence client function unit 226. ", Status information" online "" is registered and held.

  As in the previous embodiment, the user inputs the telephone number “3” using the operation system provided by the call function unit 68 in the information terminal device 10 and performs a call operation (TRANSMISSION 148). By this operation, the information terminal device 10 causes the information (INVITE) indicating that it is a transmission request, the IP address “10.1.1.2” of the main device 16 indicating the transmission destination in the transmission request, and the telephone number “3” of the request destination in the transmission request. "And a call request including the request source telephone number" 1 "is generated, and the call request 150 generated at time T26 is sent to the main device 16 (INVITE_REQ 150). The information terminal device 10 is in the standby state 114.

  When main apparatus 16 obtains call request 150, main apparatus 16 executes connection processing and transfers the call request to call 18 as call request 152 at time T28. With this transfer, the telephone 18 receives an incoming call.

  When the telephone set 18 responds to the incoming call, the telephone set 18 sends a response result to the main device 16 at time T30 (RESULT 154). The main device 16 outputs a response 156 to the incoming call at time T32 so as to transfer it to the information terminal device 10 that is the transmission request source (RESULT 156). The call function unit 68 in the information terminal device 10 determines that the call request is successful when the response 156 to the incoming call from the callee is 200 OK as a result of the call request.

  At this time, the information terminal device 10 establishes a voice call based on RTP (Real-Time Protocol) with the call origination destination, that is, the telephone set 18. The call function unit 68 notifies the setting function unit 70 that the call request has been successfully made at the call request destination telephone number “3” at time T34 (SUCCESS 158).

  In the present embodiment, the call function unit 68 further provides the presence client function unit 224 with a successful call request at the call request destination telephone number “3” at time T34A (SUCCESS 244).

  When the setting function unit 70 receives a success notification for the call request with the telephone number “3”, the setting function unit 70 adds the context menu information related to “destination” to the context menu information held by the information holding function unit 74 and holds the information. The function unit 74 stores the data of the telephone number “3” in the memory 44 (APPENDIX 160). As in the previous embodiment, the information holding function unit 74 holds the data of the telephone number “3” in the memory 44, and associates the context menu information “destination” with the data “3” in the memory 44. With this association, when the user selects the context menu item “destination”, the data “3” in the memory 44 is set to be inserted. At this time, the information terminal device 10 is in the standby state 114.

  With these operations, the information holding function unit 74 performs “Undo”, “Cut”, “Copy”, “Paste”, “Delete”, “Select all”, “Read from right to left”, “Unicode” Context menu information related to “control character display”, “unicode control character insertion”, “open IME”, “re-conversion”, “phone number”, and “destination” is held.

  When the softphone communication function unit 62 succeeds in the outgoing call request, the presence client function unit 224 causes the presence information “phone number“ 1 ”including the phone number requested by the softphone communication function unit 62 to be registered at time T94. The status information “busy” is registered in the presence server function unit 222 (REGISTER 246). The presence server function unit 222 registers and holds the presence information “phone number“ 3 ”, status information“ busy ”” from the presence client function unit 224.

  In addition, the presence client function unit 226 of the telephone 18 responds to the incoming call by the telephone 18 having the telephone number “3” as the call request destination by the information terminal device 10, so that the presence information “phone number” “3” and status information “busy” are registered in the presence server function unit 222 (REGISTER 248). Accordingly, the presence server function unit 222 of the main device 16 has presence information “phone number“ 1 ”, status information“ busy ”” and “phone number“ 3 ”, status information“ call ”from the presence client function units 224 and 226. "" Is registered and held.

  The presence client function unit 224 requests presence information “phone number“ 1 ”” and “phone number“ 3 ”” from the presence server function unit 222 at time T98 indicating one timing of the periodic operation ( SUBSCRIBE 250). Even after registering the presence information of both terminal devices during a call, the presence client function unit 224 periodically requests presence information (SUBSCRIBE).

  In order to periodically request presence information, the presence client function unit 222 sends the presence information to be requested, that is, the “telephone number“ 1 ”” that is the self-number that succeeded in the registration request and the transmission that succeeded in the transmission request. Holds the telephone number “3”, which is the destination number.

  Presence server function unit 222, for example, when presence information “phone number“ 1 ”” and “phone number“ 3 ”” is requested from presence client function unit 224 (SUBSCRIBE 250), presence information held at time T100 The phone number “1” and the phone number “3” are referenced and searched, and the corresponding presence information “phone number“ 1 ”, status information“ busy ”” and “phone number“ 3 ”, status information“ call ” "" Is taken out and notified to the presence client function that requested the presence information (NOTIFY 252).

  The presence client function unit 224 notifies the presence information “phone number“ 1 ”, status information“ busy ”” and “phone number“ 3 ”, status information“ busy ”” supplied from the presence server function unit 222 ( Based on NOTIFY 252), it is confirmed whether the telephone number “1” and the telephone number “3” of the requested presence information are available and the latest.

  In this case, the presence client function unit 224 has confirmed that the requested presence information telephone number “1” is “busy” and the telephone number “3” is “busy”. To the phone number “1” and the phone number “3” in the memory 44 respectively associated with the context menu information “phone number” and “destination” held by the information holding function unit 74 added by the setting function unit 70 Continue to hold data.

  At this time, the information holding function unit 74 performs “Undo”, “Cut”, “Copy”, “Paste”, “Delete”, “Select all”, “Read from right to left”, “Unicode control characters” Context menu information related to “display”, “Unicode control character insertion”, “open IME”, “re-conversion”, “phone number”, and “destination” is held.

  Here, when the user is executing text editing application software on the information terminal device 10, an arrow is displayed on the text editing screen as a pointer to the mouse, and the user presses the right button of the mouse. click. The information terminal device 10 is supplied with a right click operation signal to the generation function unit 72 as a display operation of the context menu 98 via the input / output device 48. As in the previous embodiment, the information terminal device 10 processes the procedure from time T38 to T44.

  For example, when the information terminal device 10 and the telephone 18 are in a call and the user operates the information terminal device 10 or the telephone 18 to terminate the call, it is based on RTP between the information terminal device 10 and the telephone 18. The voice call ends. In the present embodiment, as shown in FIG. 19, the information terminal device 10 is operated to end the conversation. Thereby, the call function unit 68 of the information terminal device 10 requests the main device 16 to terminate the call 254 at time T102 (BYE_REQ 254). The main device 16 further requests the telephone set 18 to end the call at time T104 (BYE_REQ 256).

  The telephone 18 outputs a connection disconnection result 258 to the main apparatus 16 by a call termination process as a response to the request at time T106 (RESULT 258). The main device 16 outputs a result 260 indicating the disconnection at time T108 to the call function unit 68 (RESULT 260). The call function unit 68 executes the subsequent procedure as processed at the time T34 described above at the time 110, and notifies the presence client function unit 224 of the success of the call termination process at the time T110A (SUCCESS 262).

  The presence client function unit 224 of the information terminal device 10 receives the notification of the end of the voice call from the softphone communication function unit 62 (SUCCESS 262), and at time T112, the presence information “phone number“ 1 ”, status information“ online ”” To change the status of presence information (CHANGE 264). The presence client function unit 226 of the telephone 18 also changes the status of the presence information with the presence information “phone number“ 3 ”, status information“ online ”” at time T114 (CHANGE 266).

  Here, the status information “online” / “offline” is generally information indicating a communication status between the presence client and the presence server, and does not indicate a call status.

  Accordingly, the presence server function unit 222 of the main device 16 includes the presence information “phone number“ 1 ”, status information“ online ”” and “phone number“ 3 ”, status information“ online ”from the presence client function units 224 and 226. Is registered and held.

  Since the presence client function unit 224 of the information terminal device 10 can periodically request presence information, the presence information “phone number“ 1 ”” and “phone number“ is similar to the processing at time T98 at time T116. 3 "" is requested to the presence server function unit 222 (SUBSCRIBE 268).

  When the presence server function unit 224 requests presence information “phone number“ 1 ”” and “phone number“ 3 ”” from the presence client function unit 224 (SUBSCRIBE 268), the presence information held by the presence server function unit 222 is stored in the phone number “1”. The telephone number “3” is referred to and searched, and the corresponding presence information “phone number“ 1 ”, status information“ online ”” and “phone number“ 3 ”, status information“ online ”” are extracted, and time T118 is obtained. The presence client function unit 224 is notified of the presence information at (NOTIFY 270).

  The presence client function unit 224 notifies the presence information “phone number“ 1 ”, status information“ online ”” and “phone number“ 3 ”, status information“ online ”” supplied from the presence server function unit 222 (NOTIFY 270 ) To check whether the telephone number “1” and telephone number “3” of the requested presence information are available and the latest.

  In this case, the presence client function unit 224 confirms that the requested presence information telephone number “1” is “online” and the telephone number “3” is “online”. The phone number “1” and the phone number “3” in the memory 44 respectively associated with the context menu information “phone number” and “destination” held by the information holding function unit 74 added by the setting function unit 70 Continue holding data.

  At this time, the information holding function unit 74 performs “Undo”, “Cut”, “Copy”, “Paste”, “Delete”, “Select all”, “Read from right to left”, “Unicode control characters” Context menu information related to “display”, “Unicode control character insertion”, “open IME”, “re-conversion”, “phone number”, and “destination” is held.

  Further, for example, when the user operates restart on the telephone 18, the telephone 18 requests registration from the main device 16 at time T120 as shown in FIG. 20 (REGIST_REQ 272). . The main device 16 outputs an error message 274 generated in response to the mismatch of the setting conditions with respect to the registration request or a timeout at time T122 (E_MESSAGE 274). This includes a situation where the registration request fails even if the telephone 18 itself times out.

  When the telephone set 18 fails in the registration request, the presence client function unit 226 of the telephone set 18 provides the presence information “phone number“ 3 ”, status information“ offline ”” including the telephone number that the telephone 18 attempted to register at time T124. Register in the presence server function unit 222 (REGISTER 276). The presence server function unit 222 registers and holds the presence information “phone number“ 3 ”, status information“ offline ”” from the presence client function unit 226.

  In this case, since the presence server function unit 222 of the main device 16 has already registered the presence information of the information terminal device 10, the presence information “phone number“ 1 ”, status information“ from the presence client function unit 224 ” “Online” ”and presence information“ phone number “3”, status information “offline” ”from the presence client function unit 226 are registered and held.

  Since the presence client function unit 224 of the information terminal device 10 can request presence information periodically as described above, the presence client function unit 224 periodically performs the registration as shown by the broken line 278 after the time T124 is registered. For example, the processing is shifted to time T98, and presence information “phone number“ 1 ”” and “phone number“ 3 ”” are requested to the presence server function unit 222 (SUBSCRIBE 250).

  When presence information “telephone number“ 1 ”” and “telephone number“ 3 ”” is requested from presence client function unit 224, presence server function unit 222 stores the presence information held therein as telephone number “1” and telephone number “ 3) Refer to and search each item, retrieve the corresponding presence information “phone number“ 1 ”, status information“ online ”” and “phone number“ 3 ”, status information“ offline ””, and request presence information Notify the client function unit 224 (NOTIFY 252).

  The presence client function unit 224 stores the presence information “phone number“ 1 ”, status information“ online ”” and “phone number“ 3 ”, status information“ offline ”” supplied from the presence server function unit 222 at time T126. Based on the notification (NOTIFY 252), it is confirmed whether the telephone number “1” and the telephone number “3” of the requested presence information are available and the latest (CONFIRM 280).

  In this case, since the presence client function unit 224 confirmed that the telephone number “1” of the requested presence information can be used “online”, the setting function unit 70 is added to the information holding function unit 74 at time T128. Then, the data of the telephone number “1” in the memory 44 associated with the context menu information “phone number” held at time T128A is held and continued (HOLD 282). Also, when the presence client function unit 224 confirms that the presence information is not available “offline” for the telephone number “3” of the requested presence information, the setting function unit 70 adds it to the information holding function unit 74 at time T128. Then, the context menu information “destination” held at time T128B and the associated telephone number “3” in the memory 44 are deleted (DELETE 284). The information holding function unit 74 does not continue holding presence information that cannot be used.

  At this time, the information holding function unit 74 performs “Undo”, “Cut”, “Copy”, “Paste”, “Delete”, “Select all”, “Read from right to left”, “Unicode control characters” It holds context menu information related to "Display", "Unicode control character insertion", "Open IME", "Reconversion" and "Telephone number".

  Further, a case where the user performs a stop operation on the telephone 18 will be briefly described. Although not shown, when the telephone 18 stops, the presence client function unit 226 of the telephone 18 also stops with the telephone 18 stopping. The presence server function unit 222 of the main device 16 registers and holds the presence information “phone number“ 1 ”, status information“ online ”” from the presence client function unit 224. However, in the presence server function 222, the presence information from the presence client function unit 226 of the telephone 18 is not changed over a predetermined period in accordance with the stop of the presence client function unit 226 of the telephone 18. Since the presence server function 222 times out by this, the presence server function 222 determines that the information is not to be held, and deletes the presence information including the telephone number “3” of the presence information of the telephone 18.

  Here, when the presence client function unit 224 of the information terminal device 10 requests presence information of “phone number“ 3 ”” by a periodic request for presence information (SUBSCRIBE), the presence server function unit 222 holds the presence information. Presence information is referred to and searched with the telephone number “3”, and the presence information including that it is empty or cannot be retrieved is notified to the requested presence client function unit 224 because there is no corresponding presence information (NOTIFY). In this case, the presence client function unit 224 confirms that the presence information on the telephone number “3” of the requested presence information cannot be used because it cannot be obtained.

  In this way, the user can realize a context menu in the information terminal device 10 for appropriately selecting a destination telephone number that has been confirmed to be available at the latest.

(Incoming call operation)
Next, in the telephone system 12, when the telephone 20 is disposed outside the information terminal device 10, a response operation to the incoming call from the telephone 20 to the information terminal device 10 is performed, and the operation procedure to confirm is described with reference to FIG. To do.

  The information terminal device 10 will be described as a state in which the context menu 98 shown in FIG. 5 is generated. By the user's mouse operation, the context menu 98 shown in FIG. 5 is displayed on the display of the information terminal device 10 at the position of the mouse pointer 100 by the OS. That is, this display status indicates a status after the information terminal device 10 has successfully made a registration request with the telephone number “1” and has successfully made a call request with the telephone number “3”.

  First, each of the information terminal device 10 and the telephone 20 is registered in the main device 16. The presence client function units 224 and 228 of the information terminal device 10 and the telephone 20 register the presence information in the presence server function unit 222 of the main device 16, respectively.

  The information terminal device 10 registers presence information “phone number“ 1 ”, status information“ online ””, and the telephone 20 registers presence information “phone number“ 4 ”, status information“ online ””. Accordingly, the presence server function unit 222 of the main device 16 has presence information “phone number“ 1 ”, status information“ online ”” and “phone number“ 4 ”, status information“ online ”from the presence client function units 224 and 228. Is registered and held.

  Similarly to the previous embodiment, the telephone 20 transmits a call request to the main device 16 that is the call request destination at time T46 (INVITE_REQ 170). The call request 170 includes information (INVITE) indicating that the telephone 20 is a call request, the IP address “10.1.1.2” of the main device 16 indicating the transmission destination in the call request, and the telephone number “showing the request destination in the call request” 1 ”and a telephone number“ 4 ”indicating the request source in the outgoing request.

  When the main apparatus 16 obtains the outgoing call request 170, the main apparatus 16 executes connection processing. Then, the main device 16 transfers the call request as a call request to the information terminal device 10 at time T48 (INVITE_REQ 172). By this transfer, the information terminal device 10 receives a call request from the telephone 20. At this time, the information terminal device 10 displays on the display that an incoming call is received from the caller telephone number “4” by the operation system provided by the call function unit 68.

  When a user operates a response to an incoming call with the operation system provided by the call function unit 68 of the information terminal device 10 when an incoming call is received from the telephone 20, the information terminal device 10 displays information (200 OK) indicating a response to the incoming call. That is, a response to the incoming call including the IP address “10.1.1.2” of the main device 16 indicating the transmission destination of the response is generated. The information terminal device 10 transmits “200 OK” as the incoming response 174 generated from the call function unit 68 to the main device 16 at time T50 (RES 174). The main device 16 supplies the incoming call response 176 to the telephone set 20 indicating the request source in the outgoing call request at time T52 (RES 176). The information terminal device 10 is in the standby state 114.

  When the call function unit 68 sends a response “200 OK” to the incoming call, the call function unit 68 determines that the response to the incoming call has been successful, and establishes a voice call with the request source in the outgoing call request based on RTP. Further, the call function unit 68 notifies the setting function unit 70 that the response to the incoming call has been successfully made at the time T54 with the telephone number “4” indicating the request source in the outgoing call request (SUCCESS 178).

  In the present embodiment, the call function unit 68 further provides the presence client function unit 224 with a successful response to the incoming call with the request source telephone number “4” in the call origination request (SUCCESS 276).

  When the setting function unit 70 receives the notification in response to the incoming call with the telephone number “4” from the call function unit 68, the context menu information held by the information holding function unit 74 at time T56 is associated with the context related to “source”. Add menu information (APPENDIX 180). The information holding function unit 74 further holds the data of the telephone number “4” in the memory 44, and associates the context menu information “source” with the data “4” in the memory 44. Thus, when the user selects the context menu item “source” 106, the data “4” in the memory 44 is set to be inserted. The information terminal device 10 is in the standby state 114.

  At this time, the information holding function unit 74 performs “Undo”, “Cut”, “Copy”, “Paste”, “Delete”, “Select all”, “Read from right to left”, “Unicode control characters” Context menu information related to “display”, “unicode control character insertion”, “open IME”, “re-conversion”, “phone number”, “destination” and “source” is held.

  Here, the softphone communication function unit 62 sends a successful response to the incoming call to the presence client function unit 224 at time T54A (SUCCESS 286). In response to this success, the presence client function unit 224 sends the presence information “phone number“ 1 ”and status information“ busy ”” including the phone number registered by the softphone communication function unit 62 at time T130 to the presence server. Register in the functional unit 222 (REGISTER 288). The presence server function unit 222 registers and holds the presence information “phone number“ 1 ”, state information“ busy ”” from the presence client function unit 224.

  In addition, the telephone set 20 with the telephone number “4” of the call originator that has made a call to the information terminal apparatus 10 receives the response 176 to the incoming call (RES 176). Functional unit 228 registers presence information “phone number“ 4 ”, status information“ busy ”” at time T132 (REGISTER 290).

  Accordingly, the presence server function unit 222 of the main device 16 includes the presence information “phone number“ 1 ”, status information“ busy ”” and “phone number“ 4 ”, status information“ call ”from the presence client function units 224 and 228. "" Is registered and held.

  The presence client function unit 224 requests presence information “phone number“ 1 ”” and “phone number“ 4 ”” from the presence server function unit 222 at time T134 as one timing of the periodic operation (SUBSCRIBE 292). After time T134, the presence client function unit 224 periodically requests presence information (SUBSCRIBE).

  In order to request presence information periodically, presence client function units 224 and 228 respond to presence information to be requested, that is, “telephone number“ 1 ””, which is a self-number that has succeeded in the registration request, and an incoming call. Each of the telephone numbers “4”, which is a successful caller number, is held.

  When presence information “phone number“ 1 ”” and “phone number“ 4 ”” are requested from presence client function unit 224 (SUBSCRIBE 292), presence server function unit 222 calls presence information held at time T134. Reference and search by the number “1” and the phone number “4” respectively, and the corresponding presence information “phone number“ 1 ”, status information“ busy ”” and presence information “phone number“ 4 ”, status information “In-call” is taken out and notified to the presence client function unit 224 that requested the presence information at time T136 (NOTIFY 294).

  The presence client function unit 224 notifies the presence information “phone number“ 1 ”, status information“ busy ”” and “phone number“ 4 ”, status information“ busy ”” supplied from the presence server function unit 222. Based on (NOTIFY 294), it is confirmed whether the telephone number “1” and the telephone number “4” of the requested presence information are available and the latest.

  In this case, the presence client function unit 224 has confirmed that the requested presence information telephone number “1” is “busy” and the telephone number “4” is “busy” or can be used. From the context menu information “phone number”, “destination” and “source” stored in the information holding function unit 74 added by the setting function unit 70, the telephone number “1” in the memory 44 and Continue holding data for phone number “4”.

  At this time, the information holding function unit 74 performs “Undo”, “Cut”, “Copy”, “Paste”, “Delete”, “Select all”, “Read from right to left”, “Unicode control characters” Context menu information related to “display”, “unicode control character insertion”, “open IME”, “re-conversion”, “phone number”, “destination” and “source” is held.

  Here, when the user is executing text editing application software on the information terminal device 10, an arrow is displayed on the text editing screen as a pointer to the mouse, and the user presses the right button of the mouse. click. The information terminal device 10 is supplied with a right-click operation signal as a display operation of the context menu 98 to the generation function unit 72 via the input / output device 48, and, similar to the previous embodiment, the information terminal device 10 The procedure from T58 to T64 is processed.

  Also, for example, when the user performs an end-of-call operation on the information terminal device 10 or the telephone 20, the voice call based on RTP between the information terminal apparatus 10 and the telephone 20 is terminated. In the present embodiment, FIG. 22 shows a case where the telephone 20 has finished talking. The telephone 20 requests the main device 16 to end the voice call at time T138 (BYE_REQ 296). The main device 16 requests the call function unit 68 to end the voice call at time T140 (BYE_REQ 298). The call function unit 68 outputs the result 300 of the connection disconnection to the main device 16 by the call termination process as a response to the request at time T142 (RES 300). Main device 16 outputs connection disconnection result 302 to telephone 20 at time T144 (RES 302). The call function unit 68 executes the subsequent procedure as processed at the time T54 described above at the time 146. Further, the call function unit 68 notifies the presence client function unit 224 of the success of the call termination process at time T146A (SUCCESS 304).

  The presence client function unit 224 of the information terminal device 10 receives the notification of the end of the voice call from the softphone communication function unit 62 (SUCCESS 304), and at time T148, the presence information “phone number“ 1 ”, status information“ online ”” To change the status of the presence information (CHANGE 306). The presence client function unit 228 of the telephone 20 also changes the status of the presence information with the presence information “phone number“ 4 ”, status information“ online ”” at time T150 (CHANGE 308). Therefore, the presence server function unit 222 of the main device 16 includes the presence information “phone number“ 1 ”, status information“ online ”” from the presence client function unit 224 and “phone number“ 4 ”from the presence client function unit 228, Status information “Online” is registered and held.

  After the end of call processing, the presence client function unit 224 of the information terminal device 10 can periodically request presence information. Therefore, the presence client function unit 224 receives the presence information “phone number“ 1 ”” and the presence information at time T152. Requests the telephone number “4” from the presence server function unit 222 (SUBSCRIBE 310).

  When the presence server function unit 224 requests presence information “phone number“ 1 ”” and “phone number“ 4 ”” from the presence client function unit 224 (SUBSCRIBE 310), the presence server function unit 222 stores the presence information held in the phone number “1”. And the telephone number “4”, and the corresponding presence information “phone number“ 1 ”, status information“ online ”” and “phone number“ 4 ”, status information“ online ”” are extracted and time T154 The presence client function unit 224 that requested the presence information is notified at (NOTIFY 312).

  The presence client function unit 224 notifies the presence information “phone number“ 1 ”, status information“ online ”” and “phone number“ 4 ”, status information“ online ”” supplied from the presence server function unit 222 (NOTIFY 312 ), Whether the requested presence information telephone number “1”, telephone number “3”, and telephone number “4” are available and the latest is confirmed.

  In this case, the presence function unit 224 confirms that the requested presence information telephone number “1” is “online” and the telephone number “4” can be used “online”. Of the phone number “1” and the phone number “4” in the memory 44 respectively associated with the context menu information “phone number”, “destination” and “source” held by the information holding function unit 74 Continue holding.

  At this time, the information holding function unit 74 performs “Undo”, “Cut”, “Copy”, “Paste”, “Delete”, “Select all”, “Read from right to left”, “Unicode control characters” Context menu information related to “display”, “unicode control character insertion”, “open IME”, “re-conversion”, “phone number”, “destination” and “source” is held.

  For example, when the user operates the telephone 20 to restart, the telephone 20 restarts. As shown in FIG. 23, the telephone set 20 requests registration from the main device 16 at time T156 (REGIST_REQ 314). The main device 16 outputs an error message 274 generated in response to the mismatch of the setting conditions with respect to the registration request or the timeout at time T158 (E_MESSAGE 316). Even if the telephone 20 itself times out, the registration request is determined to have failed.

  When the telephone set 20 fails in the registration request, the presence client function unit 228 of the telephone set 20 provides the presence information “phone number“ 4 ”, status information“ offline ”” including the telephone number that the telephone 20 attempted to register at time T160. Register in the presence server function unit 222 (REGISTER 318). The presence server function unit 222 registers and holds the presence information “phone number“ 4 ”, status information“ offline ”” from the presence client function unit 228.

  In this case, the presence server function unit 222 of the main device 16 sends the presence information “phone number“ 1 ”, status information“ online ”” from the presence client function unit 224 and presence information from the presence client function unit 228 in response to the above-described incoming call response. The information “phone number“ 4 ”, status information“ online ”” is registered and held.

  Since the presence client function unit 224 of the information terminal device 10 can request presence information periodically as described above, the presence client function unit 224 periodically performs the registration after time T160 as indicated by a broken line 320. For example, the processing is shifted to time T98, and presence information “phone number“ 1 ”” and “phone number“ 4 ”” are requested to the presence server function unit 222 (SUBSCRIBE 250).

  When presence information “telephone number“ 1 ”” and “telephone number“ 4 ”” are requested from presence client function unit 224, presence server function unit 222 sends the presence information held therein to telephone number “1” and telephone number “ Presence that requested presence information by referring / searching each of 4 ”and retrieving corresponding presence information“ phone number “1”, status information “online” ”and“ phone number “4”, status information “online” ” Notify the client function unit 224 (NOTIFY 252).

  Presence client function unit 222 stores presence information “phone number“ 1 ”, status information“ online ”” and “phone number“ 4 ”, status information“ online ”” supplied from presence server function unit 222 at time T162. Based on the notification (NOTIFY 252), it is confirmed whether the telephone number “1” and the telephone number “4” of the requested presence information are available and the latest (CONFIRM 322).

  In this case, since the presence client function unit 224 confirms that the telephone number “4” of the requested presence information can be used “online”, the setting function unit 70 requests the information holding function unit 74 at time T164. Presence information is added. The information holding function unit 74 holds the data of the telephone number “1” and the telephone number “4” in the memory 44 respectively associated with the context menu information “phone number” and “source” held at time T164A. Continue (HOLD 324). Also, when the presence client function unit 224 confirms that the presence information cannot be used “offline” for the requested presence information telephone number “4”, the setting function unit 70 uses the information holding function unit 74 at time T164. Only available presence information is added. The information holding function unit 74 deletes the unusable context menu information “source” held at time T164B and the telephone number “4” in the associated memory 44 and does not continue holding (DELETE 326).

  At this time, the information holding function unit 74 performs “Undo”, “Cut”, “Copy”, “Paste”, “Delete”, “Select all”, “Read from right to left”, “Unicode control characters” It holds context menu information related to "Display", "Unicode control character insertion", "Open IME", "Re-conversion", "Telephone number" and "Destination".

  In this way, the user can realize a context menu for appropriately selecting the telephone number of the caller that has been confirmed to be available at the latest in the information terminal device 10.

(Transfer operation)
Next, when the telephones 18 and 20 are arranged outside the information terminal device 10, the user transfers the call from the information terminal device 10 to the telephone 20 while the information terminal device 10 and the telephone 18 are talking, and confirms. The operation procedure will be described with reference to FIG.

  The information terminal device 10 is described as a state in which the context menu 98 shown in FIG. 6 is generated. By the user's mouse operation, the context menu 98 shown in FIG. 6 is displayed on the display of the information terminal device 10 at the position of the mouse pointer 100 by the OS. That is, the information terminal device 10 has successfully made a registration request with the telephone number “1”, has successfully made a call request with the telephone number “3”, and has successfully responded to an incoming call with the telephone number “4”. Further, the information terminal device 10 and the telephone 18 are in a call.

  First, each of the information terminal device 10, the telephone set 18, and the telephone set 20 registers each telephone number in the main apparatus 16 by a registration request. Further, the presence client function units 224, 226, and 228 of the information terminal device 10, the telephone set 18, and the telephone set 20 register presence information in the presence server function unit 220 of the main device 16, respectively.

  Specifically, the information terminal device 10 registers the presence information “phone number“ 1 ”, status information“ busy ”” in the presence server function unit 222, and the telephone 18 stores the presence information “phone number“ 3 ”, status information. “In-call” is registered in the presence server function unit 222, and the telephone 20 registers presence information “phone number“ 4 ”, status information“ online ”” in the presence server function unit 222. Accordingly, the presence server function unit 222 of the main device 16 includes the presence information “phone number“ 1 ”, status information“ busy ””, “phone number“ 3 ”, status information from the presence client function units 224, 226, and 228. Each of “busy” and “phone number“ 4 ”, status information“ online ”” is registered and held.

  As in the previous embodiment, during a call provided by the call function unit 68 on the information terminal device 10, the user inputs the telephone number “4” by the operation system, and further inputs the transfer information by the transfer operation. At this time, the transfer information is supplied to the call function unit 68 at time T66 (REF_INF 190). The call function unit 68 includes information (REFER) indicating that it is a transfer request, the IP address “10.1.1.2” of the main device 16 that is the destination of the transfer request, the telephone number “4” of the transfer request destination, and the transfer request source A transfer request including the telephone number “1” is generated, and the transfer request 192 generated at time T68 is transmitted (REF_REQ 192). The information terminal device 10 is in the standby state 114.

  When the main device 16 receives the transfer request, it executes a connection process. The main device 16 transfers the transfer request to the telephone 20 at time T70 (REF_REQ 194). As a result, the telephone 20 receives the transfer request.

  When the telephone 20 responds to the incoming call via the main device 16 to the information terminal device 10, the telephone 20 outputs a response “200 OK” to the main device 16 as a response signal at time T72 (RES 196). When the main device 16 receives the response signal, it controls the telephone 18 as will be described later. Furthermore, the main device 16 transfers the incoming call response 198 in the transfer to the information requesting information terminal device 10 at time T74 (RES 198).

  When the call function unit 68 obtains a response (200 OK) to the incoming call from the transfer destination as a result of the transfer request, the call function unit 68 determines that the transfer request is successful and ends the call. Then, the call function unit 68 notifies the setting function unit 70 that the transfer request is successful at the time T76 at the transfer request destination telephone number “4” (SUCCESS 200).

  In the present embodiment, the call function unit 68 further gives a success request 328 to the presence client function unit 224 at the time T76A for the transfer request destination telephone number “4” (SUCCESS 328).

  When the setting function unit 70 receives the notification that the transfer request is successful at the telephone number “4”, the setting function unit 70 adds the context menu information related to “transfer destination” to the context menu information held by the information holding function unit 74 at time T78. (APPENDIX 202).

  The information holding function unit 74 further holds the data of the telephone number “4” in the memory 44, and associates the context menu information “transfer destination” with the data “4” in the memory 44. Thus, when the user selects the context menu item “transfer destination” 108, the data “4” in the memory 44 is set to be inserted. The information terminal device 10 is in the standby state 114.

  At this time, the information holding function unit 74 performs “Undo”, “Cut”, “Copy”, “Paste”, “Delete”, “Select all”, “Read from right to left”, “Unicode control characters” Context menu information related to "Display", "Unicode control character insertion", "Open IME", "Reconversion", "Phone number", "Destination", "Source", and "Forwarding destination" are retained. Yes.

  The presence client function 224 knows that the softphone communication function unit 62 has succeeded in the transfer request. As a result, the presence client function 224 sends the presence information “phone number“ 1 ”and status information“ online ”” including the telephone number requested by the softphone communication function unit 62 to the presence server function unit 222 at time T166A. Register (REGISTER 332a).

  By the way, registration of presence information is described by returning the time. In response to the transfer request from the information terminal device 10, the main device 16 establishes a voice call between the telephone set 18 and the telephone set 20 based on the incoming call response of the telephone set 20 (TAKING 330). The main device 16 switches the telephone 18 to the hold state, for example, at time T70, before the establishment of the call, although not shown. Therefore, when the main device 16 receives a successful incoming response “200 OK” at time T72 (RES 196), the main device 16 switches the connection destination of the telephone set 18. At time T166B before registration of presence information of the information terminal device 10, the telephone 18 sends the presence information “phone number“ 3 ”and status information“ busy ”” to the presence server function unit 222 when the connection destination is switched. Register (REGISTER 332b). Also, based on the fact that the telephone set 20 responds to the incoming call at time T72, the presence client function unit 228 of the telephone set 20 sets the presence information “phone number“ 4 ”, status information“ busy ”” at time T166C. Is registered in the presence server function unit 222 (REGISTER 332c).

  Accordingly, the presence server function unit 222 of the main device 16 includes presence information “phone number“ 1 ”, status information“ online ”” and presence information “phone number“ 3 ”, status from the presence client function units 224, 226, and 228. Information “busy” and presence information “phone number“ 4 ”, status information“ busy ”” are registered and held.

  Presence client function unit 222 provides presence information “phone number“ 1 ””, “phone number“ 3 ””, “phone number“ 4 ”” and “phone number“ 4 ”” at time T168 as a presence server function. Request to part 222 (SUBSCRIBE 334). After time T166, the presence client function unit 224 periodically requests presence information (SUBSCRIBE).

  In order to periodically request presence information, the presence client function unit 224 sends the presence information to be requested, that is, “telephone number“ 1 ”” that is the registration number that has succeeded in the registration request, Holds the phone number “3” as the destination number, the phone number “4” as the source number that successfully responded to an incoming call, and the “phone number“ 4 ”” as the transfer destination number that succeeded in the transfer request. To do.

  When presence server function unit 222 requests presence information “phone number“ 1 ””, “phone number“ 3 ””, “phone number“ 4 ””, and “phone number“ 4 ”” from presence client function 224. At time T170, the presence information to be held is referred to and searched by the telephone number “1”, the telephone number “3”, the telephone number “4”, and the telephone number “4”, respectively, and the corresponding presence information “phone number“ 1 ”, status information“ online ”, presence information“ phone number “3”, status information “busy” ”and presence information“ phone number “4”, status information “busy” ”request presence information The presence client function unit 224 is notified (NOTIFY 336).

  The presence client function unit 224 includes presence information “phone number“ 1 ”, status information“ online ””, “phone number“ 3 ”, status information“ busy ”” and presence information “ Based on the notification (NOTIFY 336) of the telephone number “4” and the status information “busy”, the telephone number “1”, the telephone number “3”, the telephone number “4”, and the telephone number “4” of the requested presence information Check if "" is available and up-to-date.

  In this case, the presence client function unit 224 uses the requested presence information when the telephone number “1” is “online”, the telephone number “3” is “busy”, and the telephone number “4” is “busy”. Context menu information “phone number”, “destination”, “source” and “forwarding destination” held by the information holding function unit 74 added by the setting function unit 70 because it has been confirmed that it can or can be used. The data of the telephone number “1”, the telephone number “3”, the telephone number “4”, and the telephone number “4” in the memory 44 respectively associated with “” are kept.

  At this time, the information holding function unit 74 performs “Undo”, “Cut”, “Copy”, “Paste”, “Delete”, “Select all”, “Read from right to left”, “Unicode control characters” Context menu information related to "Display", "Unicode control character insertion", "Open IME", "Reconversion", "Phone number", "Destination", "Source", and "Forwarding destination" are retained. Yes.

  Here, when the user is executing text editing application software on the information terminal device 10, an arrow is displayed on the text editing screen as a pointer to the mouse, and the user presses the right button of the mouse. click. The information terminal device 10 is supplied with a right-click operation signal as a display operation of the context menu 98 to the generation function unit 72 via the input / output device 48, and, similar to the previous embodiment, the information terminal device 10 Process the procedure from T80 to T86.

  Further, for example, when the user performs a call termination operation on the telephone set 18 or the telephone set 20, the voice call based on RTP between the telephone set 18 and the telephone set 20 is terminated. In the present embodiment, FIG. 25 shows a case where the telephone 20 has finished talking. The telephone 20 requests the main device 16 to end the voice call at time T172 (BYE_REQ 339). The main device 16 requests the telephone 18 to end the voice call at time T174 (BYE_REQ 340). The telephone 18 outputs a disconnection to the main apparatus 16 by a call termination process as a response to the request at time T176 (RES 342). The main device 16 outputs the connection disconnection result 344 to the telephone 20 at time T178 (RES 344).

  The presence client function unit 226 of the telephone 18 changes the presence information with the presence information “telephone number“ 3 ”, status information“ online ”” in the presence server function unit 222 when the voice call ends at time T180. The presence client function unit 228 of the telephone 20 changes the presence information with the presence information “phone number“ 4 ”, status information“ online ”” in the presence server function unit 222 at time T182.

  Note that, for convenience, the presence client function units 226 and 228 are described to change the status at the times T180 and T182, but they may be received after receiving the responses at the times T176 and T178.

  Accordingly, the presence server function unit 222 of the main device 16 includes the presence information “phone number“ 1 ”, status information“ online ””, “phone number“ 3 ”, status information“ from the presence client function units 224, 226, and 228 ”. "Online" "and" Telephone number "4", status information "Online" "are registered and held.

  By the way, since the presence client function unit 224 of the information terminal device 10 can periodically request presence information (SUBSCRIBE), the presence client function unit 224, for example, at time T184, the presence information “phone number“ 1 ””, Requests “phone number“ 3 ””, “phone number“ 4 ””, and “phone number“ 4 ”” from the presence server function unit 222 (SUBSCRIBE 350).

  Presence server function unit 222 is requested by presence client function unit 224 for presence information “phone number“ 1 ””, “phone number“ 3 ””, “phone number“ 4 ””, and “phone number“ 4 ””. And (SUBSCRIBE 350), the presence information to be held is referred to and searched by the telephone number “1”, the telephone number “3”, and the telephone number “4”, respectively, and the corresponding presence information “phone number“ 1 ”, status information“ "Online" "," Telephone number "3", status information "Online" "and" Telephone number "4", status information "Online" "are retrieved and notified to the presence client function unit 224 that requested presence information at time T186 (NOTIFY 352).

  The presence client function unit 224 includes presence information “phone number“ 1 ”, status information“ online ””, “phone number“ 3 ”, status information“ online ””, and “phone number“ supplied from the presence server function unit 222. Based on the notification of “4” and status information “online” (NOTIFY 352), the requested presence information phone number “1”, phone number “3”, phone number “4” and phone number “4” can be used. Check whether it is the latest version or not.

  In this case, the presence client function unit 224 determines that the requested presence information telephone number “1” is “online”, the telephone number “3” is “online”, and the telephone number “4” is “online”. As a result of the confirmation, the memory 44 associated with each of the context menu information “phone number”, “destination”, “source”, and “forwarding destination” held by the information holding function unit 74 added by the setting function unit 70. The telephone number “1”, telephone number “3”, telephone number “4” and telephone number “4” are continuously retained.

  At this time, the information holding function unit 74 performs “Undo”, “Cut”, “Copy”, “Paste”, “Delete”, “Select all”, “Read from right to left”, “Unicode control characters” Context menu information related to "Display", "Unicode control character insertion", "Open IME", "Reconversion", "Phone number", "Destination", "Source", and "Forwarding destination" are retained. Yes.

  Further, for example, when the user operates the telephone 18 and the telephone 20 to restart, the telephone 18 and the telephone 20 are connected to the main device 16 at time T188 and T190, respectively, as shown in FIG. Request registration (REGISTER 354 and 356). The main device 16 outputs the error message 358 generated in response to the mismatch of the setting conditions for the registration request at time T192 or the timeout (E_MESSAGE 358) to the telephone 18 and similarly generates the error message 360 generated at time T194. Output to 20 (E_MESSAGE 360). The registration request fails even if the telephones 18 and 20 themselves time out.

  When the telephone set 18 and the telephone set 20 fail in the registration request, the presence client function unit 226 of the telephone set 18 includes presence information “phone number“ 3 ”, status information“ offline ”including the telephone number that the telephone 18 attempted to register at time T196. "" Is registered in the presence server function unit 222 (REGISTER 362), and the presence server function unit 222 registers and holds the presence information "phone number" 3 ", status information" offline "" from the presence client function unit 222. . Similarly, presence client function unit 228 of telephone 20 registers presence information “phone number“ 4 ”, status information“ offline ”” in presence server function unit 222 at time T198 (REGISTER 364), and presence server function unit 222 registers and holds the presence information “phone number“ 4 ”, status information“ offline ”” from the presence client function unit 228.

  In this case, the presence server function unit 222 of the main device 16 includes the presence information “telephone number“ 1 ”, status information“ online ”” from the presence client function unit 224 held in the previous stage of transfer. “3”, status information “offline” and “phone number“ 4 ”, status information“ offline ”” are registered and held.

  Since the presence client function unit 224 of the information terminal device 10 can periodically request presence information, the presence client function unit 224 includes presence information “phone number“ 1 ””, “phone number“ 3 ””, “phone” Request the number “4” and “phone number“ 4 ”” from the presence server function unit 222 at time T200 (SUBSCRIBE 366).

  Presence server function unit 222 is requested by presence client function unit 224 for presence information “phone number“ 1 ””, “phone number“ 3 ””, “phone number“ 4 ””, and “phone number“ 4 ””. And (SUBSCRIBE 366), the presence information to be held is referred to and searched by the telephone number “1”, the telephone number “3”, and the telephone number “4”, respectively, and the corresponding presence information “phone number“ 1 ”, status information“ "Online" "," Telephone number "3", status information "Offline" "and" Telephone number "4", status information "Offline" "are retrieved and notified to the presence client function unit 224 that requested presence information at time T202. (NOTIFY 368).

  Presence client function unit 224 includes presence information “phone number“ 1 ”, status information“ online ””, “phone number“ 3 ”, status information“ offline ”” supplied from presence server function unit 222 at time T204. Is the phone number “1”, phone number “3” and phone number “4” of the requested presence information available based on the notification (NOTIFY 368) of “phone number“ 4 ”and status information“ offline ””? And whether it is up-to-date (CONFIRM 370).

  In this case, the presence client function unit 224 confirms that the telephone number “1” of the requested presence information can be used “online”, so the setting function unit 70 is added to the information holding function unit 74 at time T206. Then, the data of the telephone number “1” in the memory 44 associated with the context menu information “phone number” held at time T206A is continuously held (HOLD 372). If the presence client function unit 224 confirms that the presence information is not available “offline” for the telephone numbers “3” and “4” of the requested presence information, the setting function unit 70 receives the information at time T206. The phone number “3” in the memory 44 associated with each of the context menu information “destination”, “source” and “forwarding destination” added to the holding function unit 74 and held at time T206B, the phone number Delete “4” and phone number “4” (DELETE 374). The information holding function unit 74 does not continue information that cannot be used.

  At this time, the information holding function unit 74 performs “Undo”, “Cut”, “Copy”, “Paste”, “Delete”, “Select all”, “Read from right to left”, “Unicode control characters” It holds context menu information related to "Display", "Unicode control character insertion", "Open IME", "Reconversion" and "Telephone number".

  In this way, the user can realize a context menu in the information terminal device 10 for appropriately selecting a transfer destination telephone number that has been confirmed to be available at the latest.

  In the telephone system 10, the main device 16 includes a presence server function unit 222, and each of the information terminal device 10 and the telephones 18 and 20 includes presence client function units 224, 226, and 228, and the presence server for the set Cm telephone number The function unit 222 is periodically inquired to determine status information such as whether a phone number is registered in the presence information of the presence server function unit 222 or whether the presence information of the registered phone number is online, If registered and online, retain the added Cm information and memory phone number. If not registered and offline, release the added Cm information and memory phone number. To select the appropriate context menu for registration, outgoing, incoming and forwarded calls. Can be realized.

  The information processing apparatus with a communication function according to the present invention is not limited to a PC, a server, and a PDA, but is applied to a mobile phone, an audio player, a printing machine, a digital camera, and the like having a communication function, and a context menu. Needless to say, the processing function peculiar to the telephone can be added as an item and the function can be executed simply by selecting the added item.

  The information processing apparatus with a communication function according to the present invention is not limited to the embodiment connected to the telephone system via the network, but can be connected to a Web system, an electronic mail system, a monitoring system, a conference system, and the like. Is possible. In this case, the processing function specific to the Web system, e-mail system, monitoring system, conference system, etc. can be added to the context menu as an item, and the effect of executing the function simply by selecting the added item can be exhibited. It becomes like this.

10 Information terminal equipment
12 Telephone system
14 network
16 Main unit
18, 20 telephone
40 CPU
42 Storage
44 memory
46 Communication interface
48 I / O devices
62 Softphone communication function
64 Context menu management function
66 Registration Function Department
68 Call function
70 Setting function section
72 Generation function
74 Information retention function
222 Presence server function
224, 226, 228 Presence client function

Claims (18)

An information processing apparatus with a communication function that has an input unit that receives an operation of an operator, an output unit that performs display, and a communication interface unit that connects to a network, and executes software on a GUI-compatible operating system,
A context menu item indicating the destination address included in the IP phone connection request in response to a predetermined operation of the operator received at the input unit after an IP phone connection request including the destination address is made in the communication interface unit A context menu that includes the context menu item displayed on the output unit, and the GUI corresponding operating system has a predetermined function according to an operator's selection operation on the context menu item received by the input unit while the output unit is displaying the context menu. An information processing apparatus with a communication function, further comprising a context menu management function unit to be executed.   2. The communication function according to claim 1, further comprising a transmission function unit that causes the output unit to display an operation system for operating the input of the destination address and the IP telephone connection request. Attached information processing device.   3. The information processing apparatus with a communication function according to claim 2, wherein the destination address is a destination telephone number.   4. The information processing apparatus with communication function according to claim 3, wherein the destination telephone number is a number input by an operator in the operation system displayed on the output unit. The apparatus according to claim 4.
The call function unit holds a caller telephone number,
The communication interface unit is connected to the network that performs call connection processing based on the caller telephone number and the callee telephone number in response to an operation of an operator in the operation system displayed on the output unit. An information processing apparatus with communication function, wherein the IP telephone connection request is made to the IP telephone connection processing apparatus. 6. The information processing apparatus with a communication function according to claim 5, wherein the predetermined operation is a screen display related to software being executed on the GUI-compatible operating system received by the input unit while the output unit is displaying the screen. An information processing apparatus with a communication function, which is an operation on a screen display relating to software being executed. 7. The information processing apparatus with communication function according to claim 6, wherein the context menu further includes another context menu item different from the context menu item. 8. The information processing apparatus with a communication function according to claim 7, wherein the context menu includes a plurality of the other context menu items. 9. The information processing apparatus with a communication function according to claim 8, wherein the other context menu item indicates a function related to the software being executed. The information processing apparatus with a communication function according to claim 9, wherein the other context menu item exhibits a function related to the software being executed. 11. The information processing apparatus with a communication function according to claim 10, wherein the context menu item includes at least an outgoing character. 12. The information processing apparatus with communication function according to claim 11, wherein the operation system displayed on the output unit and a screen display related to the software being executed are different displays. apparatus. 13. The information processing apparatus with a communication function according to claim 2 , wherein the context menu management function unit and the transmission function unit are software, and the GUI-compatible operating system includes the information processing apparatus with a communication function. An information processing apparatus with a communication function, wherein the information processing apparatus with a communication function is activated by loading and executing the context menu management function unit and the transmission function unit based on an activation operation by the operator. The information processing apparatus with a communication function according to any one of claims 2 to 13,
The network is an internet network;
The information processing apparatus with communication function holds an IP address as a network address identifier on the Internet network,
The calling function unit holds an IP phone connection processing device address of an IP phone connection processing device that is a destination of the IP phone connection request,
The information processing apparatus with a communication function, wherein the communication interface unit makes the IP telephone connection request using the IP address and the IP telephone connection processing apparatus address. 15. The information processing apparatus with a communication function according to claim 14, excluding a case dependent on claim 2, 3 or 4 , wherein the IP telephone connection processing apparatus performs the call connection processing corresponding to SIP (Session Initiation Protocol). An information processing apparatus with communication function, wherein the IP telephone connection request is a SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) transmission request. Wherein the communication function equipped information processing apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 15, the communication function-equipped information processing apparatus, PC, server, PDA, mobile phone, audio player, it is a printer or a digital camera An information processing apparatus with a communication function. A processing method in an information processing apparatus with a communication function that includes an input unit that receives an operation of an operator, an output unit that performs display, and a communication interface unit that is connected to a network, and executes software on a GUI-compatible operating system,
A context menu item indicating the destination address included in the IP phone connection request in response to a predetermined operation of the operator received at the input unit after an IP phone connection request including the destination address is made in the communication interface unit Including a context menu on the output unit,
A processing method comprising causing the GUI-compatible operating system to execute a predetermined function in response to an operator's selection operation on the context menu item received at the input unit while the output unit is displaying the context menu. A program that has an input unit that receives an operation of an operator, an output unit that performs display, and a communication interface unit that connects to a network, and that is executed by a computer that executes software on a GUI-compatible operating system. In addition,
A context menu item indicating the destination address included in the IP phone connection request in response to a predetermined operation of the operator received at the input unit after an IP phone connection request including the destination address is made in the communication interface unit Displaying a context menu including the output unit on the output unit;
A step of causing the GUI-compatible operating system to execute a predetermined function in response to an operator's selection operation for the context menu item received at the input unit while the output unit is displaying the context menu. program.

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