JPH04156758A - System for announcing calling unit price - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To announce calling unit price information to a subscriber telephone set at the time of subscriber's originating call by providing a calling unit price announcement control information output means, a calling unit price announcement signal output device, and a calling unit price transmission control means. CONSTITUTION:A calling unit price control information output means 16 obtains charge calling time retrieval information after retrieving a charge calling time retrieval information registration part 10 by the translation result data obtained by retrieving a calling processing control data storage area 14, and obtains the charge calling time data while retrieving a charge calling time data registration part 12 from the charge calling time retrieval information. The charge calling time data outputted from the means 16 and announcement service identification data are transferred to a calling unit price transmission control means 20, and notified from a calling unit price announcement output device 18 to a subscriber of the originating call. Thus, the calling unit price information can be notified from the exchange to the subscriber's telephone set at the time of the subscriber's originating call.

Description

[Detailed description of the invention] [Table of contents] Overview Industrial field of application Conventional technology Problems to be solved by the invention Means for solving the problems (Fig. 1) Working examples (Figs. 2 to 8) ) Effects of the invention (Summary) Regarding a call unit price advance notice system in which call unit price information can be reported from an exchange to a calling subscriber when a subscriber makes a call, the present invention aims to have call unit price information reported to the subscriber's telephone when the subscriber makes a call. In the digital exchange, there is a subscriber data registration section in which advance notice service type data is registered in advance as part of the subscriber data, and charge call time search information in which charge call time search information is registered in advance in response to translation result data. Registration department and
a call processing control data storage area in which subscriber data and translation result data are registered for calling subscribers; Output call unit price reporting control information that outputs charge call time data obtained from the charge call time search information registration unit and charge call time data registration unit with translation result data corresponding to the subscriber, and advance notice service type data corresponding to the originating subscriber. means, a call unit price reporting signal output device,
The present invention is constructed by providing a call unit price transmission control means for transmitting a notice service identification signal corresponding to charge call time data and notice service type data, and a call unit price signal from a call unit price report signal output device to a calling subscriber via a network.

[Industrial application field]

The present invention relates to a call unit price advance notice system that allows call unit price information (call rate per unit time) to be reported to the calling subscriber when the subscriber makes a call.

The current billing method for telephone exchange services in telephone exchange networks is to charge at the end of a call based on distance, time, etc.

[Conventional technology]

This billing method is the same when making a telephone call using coins or the like. Therefore, until the end of the call, the telephone user does not know whether or not he will be charged for the call he is making.

[Problem to be solved by the invention]

Therefore, under the above-mentioned conventional billing system, it is necessary to prepare in advance coins equivalent to the telephone charge required to make the required call depending on the person to call and the time required to make the call. Even if you are prepared to make a call, if you end up making a call for a longer time than you were prepared to make, the telephone will disconnect the call without prior notice to the caller, and the call will be terminated. This causes inconvenience for users when using the telephone.

The present invention was created in view of such technical problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide a call unit price advance notice system that allows call unit price information to be reported from an exchange to a subscriber's telephone when a subscriber makes a call. .

[Means to solve the problem]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of the principle of the present invention. As shown in this figure, the present invention provides a digital exchange that includes a network 2, a calling analysis control section 4, and a translation result data output means 6 that outputs translation result data corresponding to destination identification information. It is configured by providing the following components. Its components include a subscriber data registration unit 8 in which advance notice service type data is registered in advance as part of the subscriber data in correspondence with the originating subscriber identification information outputted from the origination analysis control unit 4; and the translation result. A charge call time search information registration unit 10 in which charge call time search information is registered in advance in response to the charge call time search information, and a charge call time data registration unit 12 in which charge call time data is registered in advance in correspondence with the charge call time search information. ,
When a vacancy determination is obtained for a calling subscriber under the control of the calling analysis control section 4, the subscriber data in the subscriber data registration area 8 is registered for the calling subscriber, and the translation result data output means 6 registers the subscriber data corresponding to the calling subscriber. a call processing control data storage area 14 for registering the translation result data corresponding to the originating subscriber under control; and a call processing control data storage area 14 for registering the translation result data corresponding to the originating subscriber; The charge call time search information registration unit 10 is searched using the translation result data obtained from the call processing control data storage area 14, and the charge call time search information obtained by the search in the charge call time search information registration unit 10 is used to search the charge call time search information registration unit 10. Call unit price report control information output means 16 for outputting charge call time data obtained by searching the time data registration unit 12 and advance notice service type data in the call processing control data storage area 14 obtained by the search; A call price report signal output device 18 that sends out a notice service identification signal corresponding to the service type and a call unit price signal, and a notice corresponding to the notice service type data and rate call time data from the call unit price report control information output means 16. This is a call unit price sending control means 20 for sending a service identification signal and a call unit price signal from the call unit price reporting signal output device 18 to the calling subscriber via the network 2.

[Function] In the present invention, the following three data are registered before providing advance notice service to the originating subscriber. That is, the advance notice service type data is registered in advance in the subscriber data registration unit 8 as part of the subscriber data in correspondence with the originating subscriber identification information. Charge call time search information is registered in advance in the charge call time search information registration unit 10 in correspondence with the translation result data. In the charge call time data registration section 12,
Charge call time data is registered in advance in response to charge call time search information.

After such an operating state is set in the digital exchange, when a call is made from a subscriber, the call is analyzed by the call analysis control section 4. When the call processing control data storage area 14 is searched in response to the call detection output of the call analysis control unit 4, if a vacant determination is obtained for the calling subscriber, the subscriber data corresponding to the calling subscriber is The call processing control data storage area 14 is written from the user data registration unit 8 to the call processing control data storage area 14.

The translation result data output means 6 is the transmission analysis control section 4.
When receiving destination identification information is received from, etc., translation result data is output, and the translation result data is written into the call processing control data storage area 14 corresponding to the originating subscriber. The call rate report control information output means 16 searches the call processing control data storage area 14 in response to the activation signal from the translation result data output means 6. After searching the charge call time search information registration unit 10 using the translation result data obtained from the search to obtain charge call time search information, search the charge call time data registration unit 12 using the charge call time search information to determine the charge. Get call time data. In the search, advance notice service type data is read from the call processing control data storage area 14.

The charge call time data and advance notice service identification data outputted from the call unit price notification control information output means 16 are transferred to the call unit price transmission control means 20, and the call unit price report signal output device 18 outputs the advance notice service type data and charge. A preview service type signal and a call unit price signal corresponding to the call time data are sent to the originating subscriber via the network 2 and are used to notify the originating subscriber.

Therefore, the calling subscriber can know the unit cost of the call to the called party at the time of making the call. This is convenient for calls.

[Example] FIG. 2 shows an example of the present invention. In this diagram,
A digital exchange implementing the present invention is a network 3
0, main control device 32, bus 34, main storage device 36, file memory 38, subscriber circuit 40, PB receiving device 42,
It consists of an announcement device 44 and a tone generator 46. The main control device 32 includes, as shown in FIG. A transmission control unit 54, an announcement connection control unit 56, and a path setting control unit 58 are configured, and these are stored in the main storage device 36 in the main control device I32.
This is the execution part of the corresponding program stored in the . Although the details of each of these programs are not shown, the overall processing flow is shown in FIG. The main storage device 36 is also provided with a numeric translation data registration section 60, a subscriber control data storage area 61, a charge call time data registration section 62, and a charge call time transmission data storage section 64 (a third (see figure). The file memory 38 is provided with a subscriber data registration section 65 (see FIG. 3).

Prior to providing the service, the subscriber data registration unit 65
, advance notice service type data (■ in Figure 5,
(Refer to ■) is registered, numeric translation data is registered in the numeric translation data registration section 60, and charge call time data is registered in the charge call time data registration section 62 so that it can be searched by the translation result data translated by the number translation control section 50. Search data ((A) in Figure 6)
), and the unit charge data, call time data, and announcement device identification number are registered so as to be searchable using the charge call time search data (see (B) in FIG. 6). These registers form part of the present invention, but can be easily configured using known techniques.

Advance notice service type data, unit charge data, call time data, and announcement device identification number (6th
In the figure, it is marked as ANM number. ) corresponds to the advance notice service identification signal and the call unit price signal described with reference to FIG.

The tone generator 46 can be implemented using a pulse sending method or a multiple tone sending method. The multiplexed sound transmission method is the same as the generation of the PB signal.

Further, the telephone of a telephone subscriber who wishes to receive the display service of the call rate advance notice service of the present invention is a telephone equipped with a meter or a display device, and in this case, the tone of the digital exchange The method of the generator 46 is a pulse sending method. In addition, in the case where an announcement service is desired to be provided, the telephone is of a type equipped with a speaker, and in this case, the tone generator 46 of the digital exchange
This method is a multiple tone transmission method.

Although the provision of these meters or display devices or speakers is necessary to practice the invention, the present invention is not the telephone itself - and their provision to the telephone will be readily understood by those skilled in the art. or may be a known telephone of this type.

In FIGS. 2 and 3, the network 30 includes a first
Corresponding to the network 2 in the figure, the transmission analysis control unit 47
This corresponds to the transmission analysis control section 4 in FIG. Numerical reception control section 48, numeric translation control section 50, numeric translation data registration section 60
corresponds to the translation result data output means 6 in FIG. The subscriber data registration section 65 corresponds to the subscriber data registration section 8 in FIG. The charge call time data registration unit 62
The charge call time data registration section 62 corresponds to the charge call time data registration section 12 shown in FIG. 1, and corresponds to the charge call time data registration section 10 shown in FIG. Call processing control data storage area 61
corresponds to the call processing control data storage area 14 in FIG.

The charge call time control unit 52 corresponds to the call unit price report control information output means 16 in FIG. 1, and the tone generator 46 and the announcement device 44 correspond to the call unit price report signal output device in FIG. The charge call time transmission control section 54, the announcement connection control section 56, and the charge call time transmission data storage section 64 correspond to the call unit price transmission control means 20 in FIG.

The processing operation of the call unit price advance notice service according to the present invention having the above configuration will be explained below.

First, the subscriber's telephone is a dial pulse (DP) type metered telephone, the tone generator 46 of the digital exchange is of a pulse sending type, and advance notice service type data (displayed in the following example - hiss data) is used. A case will be explained in which the registration is made in the subscriber data registration section 65 of the digital exchange.

When the subscriber of the subscriber telephone goes off-hook, an off-hook detection signal from the DP detection section of the subscriber circuit 40 is analyzed by the call analysis control section 47. Along with the analysis, the call processing control data storage area 6e is searched from the beginning, and in response to determination that the calling subscriber is free, the subscriber data of the corresponding calling subscriber is searched from the subscriber data registration area 65 for call processing. Write to the control data storage area 61. The dialed number sent from the subscriber is received digit by digit by the DP detection section, and each digit number is transferred to the numeric reception control section 48 (see 31 in Fig. 4), where it is translated into digits. It is sent to the control section 50. The numeric translation control section 50 searches the numeric translation data registration section 60 using the received dial number, obtains translation result data, and writes it into the corresponding storage section in the call processing control data storage area 61 (see S2 in FIG. 4). Numerical translation control unit 50
Upon receiving the activation signal from the call processing control data storage area 61, the charge call time control unit 52 reads the translation result data in the call processing control data in the call processing control data storage area 61, and searches the charge call time data registration unit 62 with the translation result data. First, obtain charge call time search data (see (A) in Figure 6), and then obtain charge call time data (see (B) in Figure 6) from the charge call time search data (see (B) in Figure 6).
) is obtained (see 33 in Figure 4). Based on the charge call time data, call time data per unit charge as shown in FIG. 7 is created and stored in the charge call time transmission data storage section 64. In FIG. 7, A is a flag indicating a call time service per unit charge (hereinafter referred to as advance notice service), B is unit charge data, and C is call time data.

After creating the talk time data per unit charge, the charge call time transmission control unit 54 (see S4 in FIG. 4), which responds to the display service type data read from the call processing control data storage area 61, After setting the path between the tone generator 46 and the second line provided between the originating subscriber's telephone and the digital exchange in the network 30, the toll call time transmission control unit 54 connects the tone generator 4
6, the advance notice service flag, unit charge data, and call time data are sent in pulse form to the originating subscriber's telephone in this order via the set bus and the second line (see 35 in FIG. 4). ). In this pulse sending method, each number is sent out in an on/off format according to the number, and a fixed time interval is placed between each number sent out. The telephone activates the meter based on the received advance notice service flag, identifies the received unit charge data and call time data with the notice service flag, and passes the received unit charge data and call time data to the meter to calculate the call charge per unit charge. Display it on the meter.

In the above-mentioned advance notice service, the call time data per unit charge may be transmitted to the calling subscriber using a multiple tone transmission method. When the tone generating device 46 is formed using this multiple tone transmission method, the number of numerical values to be transmitted should be set in the numerical value counter for each digit of the advance notice service flag, unit charge data, and call time data. 31) until the set value becomes zero (see S2, S3, and S6 in FIG. The setting value to be decremented is determined from the data table (see S4 in FIG. 8), and the multiple tone connection position is determined by the network 30 under the control of the charge call time transmission control unit 54.
After connecting to the originating subscriber via (see 35 in FIG. 8), a tone generator 46 sends out an outgoing signal.

In this case, the display device of the telephone with a display device is activated by the received advance notice service flag, and the received unit charge data and call time data are identified by the advance notice service flag and are controlled to display on the display device. The call charge per unit charge is displayed on the screen.

This advance notice service of the call charge per unit charge (call unit price information) allows the calling subscriber to predict the charge for a call based on the call charge per unit charge.

After the above-mentioned call charge per unit charge advance notice service process is completed, a call path is formed between the calling subscriber and the called subscriber under the control of the path setting control unit 58 through normal call connection processing. (36 in Figure 4)
reference).

Next, the subscriber's telephone is a pushbutton (PB) type speaker-equipped telephone, the tone generator 46 of the digital exchange is of an announcement message sending type, and the registration of the announcement service is based on the subscriber data of the digital exchange. The case where the registration unit 65 is registered will be described.

In this case, the method of receiving the PB double signal from the calling telephone by the PB receiving device 42 is the same as the conventional method. The origination analysis control unit 47 sets a path between the originating subscriber and the PB receiving device 42 on the network 30, and the PB management control unit 49 responds to the PB transmission detection signal from the origination analysis control unit 47,
A path between the B receiving device 42 and the king control device 32 is set to allow the numeric reception control section 48 to receive the digits. The processing from the process of importing this number to the search for the charge call time data by the charge call time control section 52 is the same as that described above for the DP double signal. Therefore, the explanation will not be repeated.

In response to the announcement service data obtained by searching the subscriber data registration section 65 and the charge call time data obtained by searching the charge call time data registration section 62, the charge call time control section 52 outputs the charge call time data. is transferred to the announcement connection control section 56. The announcement connection control unit 56 sends an announcement message 4 corresponding to the announcement device identification number in the received charge call time data.
4 is connected to the announcement device connection terminal of the network 30 to control the transmission of an announcement message corresponding to the unit charge data and call time data in the announcement device 44. Thereafter, the announcement connection control unit 56 causes the network 30 to set up a path between the announcement connection terminal of the network 30 and the originating subscriber connection terminal, and transmits the transmitted announcement message to the originating subscriber. It is transmitted to the subscriber and causes the announcement message to be sounded from the speaker. In this way, the same effect as in the case of display screws can be achieved.

Also, if a subscriber wishes to receive an announcement service using a DP format telephone, the subscriber may also display the announcement service using a PB format telephone.
If you wish to use a service, the same applies as above.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As described above, according to the present invention, since the call unit price information is notified from the exchange to the calling subscriber at the time of the call, the call unit cost for the call can be known visually or audibly. It can give benefits to telephone calls.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of the principle of the present invention; FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention; FIG. 3 is a diagram showing details of the configuration of the present invention; FIG. 4 is a diagram showing the advance notice service processing flow; Figure 5 is a diagram showing the registration format of advance notice service type data as part of call processing control data, Figure 6 is a diagram showing the data registration format of the charge call time data registration section, and Figure 7 is per unit charge. The eighth diagram is a diagram showing the structure of the call time data, and the eighth diagram is a diagram showing the multiple tone transmission processing flow. 1 to 3, 2 is a network (network 30), 4 is a transmission analysis control unit (transmission analysis control unit 47), and 6 is a translation result data output means (numeric reception control unit 48, numeric translation control unit 50). , numeric translation data registration section 60), 8 is a subscriber data registration section (subscriber data registration section 65), 10 is a charge call time search information registration section (charge call time data registration section 62), 12 is charge call time data 14 is a call processing control data storage area (call processing control data storage area 61); 16 is a call unit price reporting control information output means (charged call time control unit 52); 18 is a call processing control data storage area (call processing control data storage area 61); Call rate notification signal output device (tone generator 46
, announcement device 44), and 20 are call unit price transmission control means (charge call time transmission control section 54, announcement connection control section 56, charge call time transmission data storage section 6).
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Claims (1)

[Claims] (1) In a digital exchange including a network (2), a call analysis control section (4), and a translation result data output means (6) for outputting translation result data corresponding to destination identification information, the call analysis control a subscriber data registration unit (8) in which advance notice service type data is registered in advance as part of the subscriber data in correspondence with the originating subscriber identification information output from the unit (4);
and a charge call time search information registration unit (10) in which charge call time search information is registered in advance in correspondence with the charge call time search information; Under the control of the call time data registration unit (12) and the call analysis control unit (4), when a vacancy determination is obtained for a calling subscriber, the subscriber data in the subscriber data registration unit (8) is stored in the calling subscriber. a call processing control data storage area (14) for registering the translation result data in response to the originating subscriber under the control of the translation result data output means (6); In response to the activation signal from (6), the charge call time search information registration unit (10) is searched for the calling subscriber using the translation result data obtained from the call processing control data storage area (14). , the charge call time data registration unit (12) uses the charge call time search information obtained by the search by the charge call time search information registration unit (10).
), and a call rate report control information output means (16) that outputs charge call time data obtained by searching for the call processing control data storage area (14) and advance notice service type data in the call processing control data storage area (14) obtained by the search; Call rate notification signal output device (18
), and the advance notice service type data and the charge call time data from the call unit price report control information output means (16), the advance notice service identification signal corresponding to the charge call time data, and the call unit price signal from the call unit price report signal output device (18). The network (
2) A call unit price advance notice system comprising a call unit price transmission control means (20) for transmitting the call unit price to the calling subscriber via the step 2).