JPH04263549A - Message transmitting system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To transmit a message even without operating a telephone set at time desired for transmission by a caller by storing the message, the phone number of a callee and the desired time in the telephone set. CONSTITUTION:When the designation code of automatic message transmission is inputted from a key input part 4, a control part 9 stores the phone number of the callee to be continuously inputted from the input part 4 in a phone number storage part 3. Next, the message inputted from a transmitter 1 is stored in a message storage part 2 and the operation of the user is completed. Afterwards, the control part 9 successively compares current time obtained from a timer part 6 with the time stored in a reserved time storage part 5 and it is investigated whether the both time is coincident or not. When the time is coincident, a call is originated through a line interface part 8 to the phone number of the callee stored in the storage part 3, and the message stored in the message storage part 2 is transmitted through a transmission part 7.

Description

[Detailed description of the invention]

0001

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a message transmission system, and more particularly to a message transmission system for transmitting a pre-written message to a specific party at a reserved time from a telephone.

0002

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in order to send a message to a specific person using a telephone at a certain fixed time, the person must make the call at that time.

0003

[Problem to be Solved by the Invention] With the conventional message sending method described above, there is no problem if the person can make a call at that time, but if the person cannot make a call for some reason, the other party's phone is If you have an answering machine, you can send a message at your convenience, but if it doesn't, you have to ask someone else to send the message.

0004

[Means for Solving the Problems] The message transmission system of the present invention includes a message storage means for storing a message input from a telephone transmitter, and a telephone number storage means for storing a telephone number input from a key input section. , a time storage means for storing time information input from the key input section, a clock means for outputting the current time, and a time outputted from the clock means and a time stored in the time storage means. and a message transmitting means for transmitting the message stored in the message storage means to the line after detecting the end of the ringback tone. It is constituted by having.

[0005]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Next, the present invention will be explained with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an embodiment of the present invention.
The parts incorporated in the telephone and necessary for explaining the present invention are a transmitter 1, a message storage section 2, a telephone number storage section 3, a key input section 4, a scheduled time section 5, a clock section 6, a transmission section 7, and a line. An interface section 8 and a control section 9 are shown.

[0007] The transmitter 1 stores a message to be transmitted in a message storage section 2. The key input section 4 not only informs the control section 9 of automatic message transmission, but also inputs the telephone number of the called party into the telephone number storage section 3 and inputs the time for making the call into the reserved time storage section 5. The transmitting section 7 is the message storage section 2
The line interface unit 8 is a sending unit that sends out messages stored in the 8000 to the line, and the line interface unit 8 creates an off-hook state for making a call, detects a dial tone, sends a telephone number, and outputs a ringback tone according to the control of the control unit 9. Detection and busy tone detection.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart of the automatic message sending process of the control section 9 in the embodiment of FIG. 1, and the operation of the automatic message sending process of FIG. 1 will be explained below with reference to FIG. First, when a designation code for automatic message transmission is input from the key input section 4, the control section 9 subsequently stores the telephone number of the called party input from the key input section 4 in the telephone number storage section 3 (step 10). Next, the calling time inputted from the key input section 4 is stored in the reserved time storage section 5 (step 11). Next, the message inputted from the transmitter 1 is stored in the message storage section 2 (step 12), and the user's operation is completed. Thereafter, the control unit 9 constantly compares the current time obtained from the clock unit 6 with the time stored in the reserved time storage unit 5 to check whether they match (step 13), and if they match, the line A call is made to the telephone number of the called party stored in the telephone number storage section 3 via the interface section 8 (step 14), and the message stored in the message storage section 2 is sent via the transmission section 7 (step 14). 15).

FIG. 3 is a detailed flowchart of steps 14 and 15 of FIG. 2, and the call processing and message sending will be described below with reference to FIG. The control section 9 instructs the line interface section 8 to go into an off-hook state (step 21). Next, when the line interface unit 8 detects a dial tone sent from the switching equipment (step 22
), the control section 9 reads out the telephone number of the called party stored in the telephone number storage section 3 and sends it to the switching facility via the line interface section 8 (step 23). Next, it is checked whether a busy tone is input (step 24). If the busy tone is not detected, the ringback tone is detected and its termination is checked (step 25), and if the termination is detected, the message voice stored in the message storage unit 2 is transferred to the line interface after a predetermined time. 8 to the exchange facility (step 26). Next, it is determined whether the disconnection of the line due to the busy tone, the message promotion tone from the answering machine, or the end of the message voice is detected (step 27).
), when the end of the message voice is detected, it is checked whether the number of message voice transmissions exceeds a predetermined value (step 28), and if the number of message voice transmissions does not reach the predetermined value, the number of message voice transmissions is increased by one (step 29). , return to step 26. Note that if a busy tone is detected in step 24, go to on-hook state and wait a certain period of time, for example, 90 seconds, before proceeding to step 2.
1 (step 30). In addition, when the number of busy calls reaches a predetermined number in step 24, and if the ringback tone does not end even after the predetermined time has elapsed in step 25, a message transmission disabled lamp is lit (step 31).
Finish the process. Furthermore, when the message promotion tone is obtained in step 27, the message voice is reproduced and sent again (step 32), and the process is terminated. Furthermore, if line disconnection is detected in step 27 or if the number of transmissions reaches a predetermined value in step 28, the process ends.

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As explained above, the present invention allows the telephone to store a message, the called party's telephone number, and the time at which it is desired to send the message, so that the message can be sent even if the caller does not operate the telephone at that time. It has the effect of being able to send messages. Another advantage is that the message can be sent regardless of whether or not an answering machine is set on the telephone of the called party.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of one embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart of automatic message sending processing in FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a detailed flowchart of a portion of the flowchart of FIG. 2;

[Explanation of symbols]

1. Transmitter 2 Message storage section 3　　　　Telephone number storage section 4 Key input section 5. Reservation time section 6 Clock section 7 Transmission section 8 Line interface section 9 Control section

Claims (1)

[Claims] [Claim 1] Message storage means for storing a message input from a telephone transmitter, telephone number storage means for storing a telephone number input from a key input section, and time information input from the key input section. time storage means;
A clock unit outputs the current time, and when the time output from the clock unit matches the time stored in the time storage unit, a call is made to the other party whose telephone number is stored in the telephone number storage unit. 1. A message transmitting system comprising: a calling means for making a call; and a message transmitting means for transmitting a message stored in the message storing means to a line after detecting the end of a ringback tone.