JPH04332244A - Nighttime receiving system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To reduce the number of public lines for night time receiving in accordance with traffic, to suppress operating charge of line, and to reduce the number of installed sound recording and regenerating devices to economize the night time receiving system. CONSTITUTION:Telephone set 6 installs destinations of transferring slave calls in a telephone set 4. When telephone set 6 receives direct inward dialling call from telephone set 3, exchange 1 transfers the direct inward dialling call to telephone set 4 that is a destination of the transfer and informs the telephone set 4 of a direct inward dialling number of telephone set 6. The destination telephone set 4, based on the direct inward dialling number of transfer source telephone set 6 of which telephone set was informed, retrieves a sound recording/regenerating unit 5, regenerates a response message registered by the transfer destination telephone set 6, and sends the regenerated response message, while a message from telephone set 3 to the transfer destination telephone set 6 is recorded. Transfer source telephone set 6 calls transfer destination telephone set 4, and dials its own direct inward dialling number to listen a message from telephone set 3.

Description

[Detailed description of the invention]

0001

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a night reception system, and more particularly to automatic selection of response messages and recording and playback of messages.

0002

2. Description of the Related Art An example of a conventional night reception system is shown in FIG. At night, from the telephone 3 connected to the public network 2,
A call is made to the user of the telephone 7 connected to the digital exchange 1. Since the telephone 7 is set by the user to an automatic answering mode, a message playback mode, and a message recording mode of the other party, the user of the telephone 3 can follow the message played from the voice recording and playback device 10. Enter the message to restore the phone. The next morning, the user of telephone 7 uses telephone 4 and voice reproduction/recording device 10.
to listen to the message from the user of the telephone 3 recorded on the voice recording/reproducing device 10.

0003

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] This conventional night reception system requires connecting public lines to the PBX for the number of people who require night reception, regardless of traffic, and requires the same number of telephones and recording/playback. Equipment will be required. For this reason, there were problems in that the charge for using the public line was determined by the number of people who checked in at night, regardless of the traffic, and the cost of installing voice recording and playback equipment increased.

[0004] An object of the present invention is to specify the destination of an incoming call and, based on the dial-in number received at the transfer source telephone, use the specified transfer destination telephone to search for and play back a response message and record the message from the other party. An object of the present invention is to provide a night reception system that automatically performs playback.

[0005]

[Means for Solving the Problems] The night reception system of the present invention comprises a telephone equipped with a recording and playback function, and an exchange equipped with a dial-in incoming call function and connected to and accommodating the plurality of telephones. When a dial-in call arrives at a transfer source phone that has been identified as a transfer destination phone and has night reception set on the transfer destination phone, the exchange transfers the incoming call to the transfer destination phone and also uses the dial-in number of the transfer source phone. is sent to the forwarding destination telephone,
The forwarding destination telephone selects and plays a response message registered in advance by the forwarding telephone based on the received dial-in number, records a message from the caller of the incoming call, and transmits the message from the forwarding telephone. Play a message from this caller upon request.

[0006]

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

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of one embodiment of the present invention. The digital exchange 1 accommodates an analog telephone 6 and a digital telephone 4 having a recording/playback function 5, and also accommodates an analog telephone 3 connected to it via a public network 2. Here, an example will be described in which a call is received by dial-in from the telephone 3 connected to the public network 2 to the telephone 6.

[0008] The user of the telephone 6 makes settings for night reception on the digital exchange 1 in a predetermined manner. This setting is for automatically transferring all dial-in calls to the telephone 6 to the digital telephone 4. When an incoming call from telephone 3 to telephone 6 is transferred to digital telephone 4, digital telephone 4 automatically answers. At the same time as the automatic answer, the digital telephone 4 reads the dial-in number of the telephone 6 from the digital exchange 1, uses this dial-in number to search for a message recorded in advance on the voice recording/playback device 5, plays it, and sends it to the telephone 3. , and receives and records a message from the telephone 3 in response to this reproduced message. Thereafter, the user of telephone 6 uses digital telephone 4
and dial the dial-in number of telephone 6. The digital telephone 4 searches for and reproduces the message recorded in the voice recording/reproducing device 5 using the received dial number of the telephone 6, and sends the reproduced message to the telephone 6. This allows the user of telephone 6 to listen to messages received from telephone 3 during the night.

[0009]

[Effects of the Invention] As explained above, the present invention transfers an incoming call to a night reception telephone, selects and plays a message to be sent based on a dial-in number, and records a message from the other party.
Since playback can be performed automatically, the number of public lines drawn in for nighttime receptions can be reduced in accordance with traffic, regardless of the number of people doing nighttime receptions, which has the effect of suppressing public line usage fees. In addition, the number of installed audio recording and reproducing devices can also be reduced, resulting in economic efficiency. Furthermore, unlike the traditional method where a representative receives the message and responds with a general message,
Messages are automatically selected and sent based on the dial-in number, giving you peace of mind that your message will be used by the recipient.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

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

FIG. 2 is a block diagram of a conventional night reception system.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 Digital exchange 2 Public network 3 Telephone 4 Digital telephone 5, 10, 11, 12 Voice recording and playback device 7, 8
,9 telephone

Claims (1)

[Claims] Claim 1: Consists of a telephone equipped with a recording/playback function and a switching equipment equipped with a dial-in incoming call function and connected to and accommodating the plurality of telephones; When a dial-in call arrives at the forwarding telephone set for night reception, the exchange transfers the incoming call to the forwarding destination telephone, and also sends the dial-in number of the forwarding telephone to the forwarding destination telephone. Based on the received dial-in number, the telephone selects and plays a response message registered in advance by the transfer source telephone, records a message from the caller of the incoming call, and responds to the request from the transfer source telephone. The night reception system is characterized by playing back a message from the caller.