JPH01125055A - Electronic exchange - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To automatically inform service charge by constituting the title exchange in such a manner that a voice synthesis device outputs the service charge while speaking or of the final call automatically when a caller requests for the informing by operating the dial. CONSTITUTION:While speaking or at the ending of the speaking, if a caller requests for the informing of the charge by hooking off and dialing a special number, a CPU 5 detects it, and transmits information such as the telephone number, etc., to a service charge storage device 8. Accordingly, the device 8 informs the voice synthesis device 9 of the service charge of the corresponding telephone number. The device 9 synthesized the voice into a sentence, and directs to inform a telephone set 1' of the service charge. Therefore, the CPU 5 commands to inform said service charge synthesized in a voice to the telephone set 1' with which the special number is dialed via a speech switch 3. Thus, even with a telephone set without an indication, a user can know the service charge so to say real time, while speaking or after the end of the speaking by dialing the special number.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION (Field of Industrial Application) The present invention relates to an electronic exchange that enables automatic notification of call charges.

(Prior Art) FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a conventional call charge notification function in an electronic exchange.

1 is a telephone with a display (when there is no confusion, simply it!
! ! It is connected to a telephone switch 3 via an extension line circuit 2, and a central office line circuit 4 is also connected to the telephone switch 3. 5 is a CPU (central control bag, call switch control bag W that controls the call switch 3)
6 is controlled. 7 is a call charge total storage device; CP
Connected to U5.

With such a configuration, when the extension line circuit 2 is captured from the display telephone 1 and the call is made via the call switch 3 and the central office line circuit 4, and there is a response from the other party's telephone (not shown), the CPU 5 The CPU 5 detects and monitors the telephone 1 that made the call in order to calculate the charge for one call.
Based on the dialing data of the other party (called destination), the call charge is displayed on the display of the telephone 1 that made the call, is accumulated in the call charge total storage device, and is calculated at regular intervals (usually once).
It is used for notifications of call charges.

Note that NTT has traditionally provided a 100 number call service that notifies users of call charges after the end of a call. This notification of charges is performed manually, requires waiting time, and has the disadvantage that call charges may be relatively high in some cases.

(Problems to be Solved by the Invention) As described above, in the conventional electronic exchange, there is a drawback that the telephone with a display is limited to knowing the call charge during or after the call ends.

The present invention aims to solve the above-mentioned problem of notifying call charges in the conventional electronic exchange. It provides electronic switching equipment.

(Means for Solving the Problems) In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a call charge storage device for storing the call charge during a call or the call charge for the last call for each telephone in an electronic exchange; A voice synthesizer for synthesizing the output thereof is provided, and the caller is configured to automatically notify the call charge for the ongoing call or the final call using the output of the voice synthesizer in response to a notification request by a dial operation from the caller.

(Function) According to the electronic exchange of the present invention having the above-mentioned configuration, even if the telephone does not have a display, the call charge can be known in real time during a call or after the end of the call by a simple dial operation. If you compare this with NTT's 100 dial service calls, you will find calls with low call charges and no waiting time.

(Example) Hereinafter, the present invention will be explained by examples using the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention. Reference numerals that are not explained refer to the same or equivalent functions as in FIG. 8 is a telephone charge storage device, and 9 is a voice synthesizer.

With such a configuration of the electronic exchange, a call from the telephone 1' passes through the extension line circuit 2 and is captured by the office line circuit 4 via the call switch 3. When there is a response from the other party's telephone (not shown), the CPU 5 detects this and monitors the telephone 1' that made the call in order to calculate the call charge. The CPU 5 stores the call charge for each calling telephone in the call charge storage device 8 based on the own number and the dial data of the other party (called destination), and also causes the call charge total storage device w7 to accumulate the call charge,
Contribute to collection of all call charges.

The caller hooks you during or after the call ends.

When the caller requests notification of the call charge by dialing a special number, the CPU 5 detects this and sends information such as the telephone number to the call charge storage device 8, thereby processing the call. The fee storage device 8 notifies the voice synthesis device 9 of the call fee for the corresponding telephone number. The speech synthesizer Wt9 synthesizes the text as one sentence and sends it to the telephone 1.
' to notify you of the call charges. Thereby,
The CPU 5 notifies the telephone 1' of the special number dialing operation via the call switch 3 of the above-mentioned call charge using a synthesized voice.

As described above, the present invention makes it possible to know the call charge in so-called real time during or after a call by simply dialing a special number even with a telephone without a display.

It goes without saying that the present invention can also be applied to a telephone with a display to receive audio notification of call charges.

(Effects of the Invention) As is clear from the above explanation, the present invention can (1) also be applied to a general telephone that does not have a conventional display.

A simple dial operation allows you to know the call charges without time constraints, and automatic voice notifications help save labor. (2) NTT's 100 number call service, which notifies you of the call charge after the end of the call, has the drawback of requiring a waiting time for the notification, and in some cases the call charge may be relatively high; however, according to the present invention, That problem will be solved.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a conventional electronic exchange. 1...Telephone with display, 1'...Telephone (without display), 2...Extension line circuit, 3.
・・Telephone switch, 4・Station line circuit, 5・
...CPU (central control unit), 6...Call switch control device, 7...Telephone charge total storage device, 8...
Call charge storage device. 9...Speech synthesis device. Patent applicant Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. Figure 1

Claims (1)

[Claims] The electronic exchange is equipped with a call charge storage device that stores the current call charge or the last call charge for each telephone, and a voice synthesizer that synthesizes the output. An electronic exchange system characterized in that it has a configuration that automatically notifies the call charge of the ongoing call or the final call by the output of the voice synthesizer.