JPH0495446A - Telephone set - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To display a caller corresponding to a stored identification number when a called party comes back home by requesting the transmission of a caller identification number, receiving and storing its reply identification number when a call comes during the absence of the called party. CONSTITUTION:When an incoming call comes during the absence of a called party, a caller identification number is received by a transmission reception circuit 12 as a tone signal and detected by a tone detector 16 and the result of detection is outputted to an MPU 13. The MPU 13 stores the result of detection, that is, the caller identification number to an absence caller ID memory 19. Then in this case, a date and time at the arrival of the call outputted from a timer 23 is stored simultaneously into the absence caller ID memory 19. Thereafter, very time, an incoming call comes, the operation above is repeated. When the called party comes home and inputs a prescribed key to make a print instruction of an absence caller list, the MPU 13 reads the caller identification number and the arrival date and time reached during the absence stored in the memory 19 one by one sequentially and transfers the information to a liquid crystal display device 21.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Summary] Regarding a telephone set having a control function when the called party is absent, the caller of the call that was received when the called party was absent, when the called party returns home. In order to be able to recognize the caller immediately, it has an absence control means that, when an incoming call is received while the called party is not present, puts the own telephone in a talking state and sends a predetermined absence message to the caller. In the telephone set comprising: a caller ID receiving means for receiving a caller identification number transmitted from a caller to the caller; an absent caller storage means for storing the received caller identification number; and an absent caller display means for displaying the caller whose identification number is stored.

[Industrial Field of Application:- The present invention relates to a telephone having a control function when a called party is absent.

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, for example, an answering machine has been widely used in order to know from which caller the caller received a call when the called party was not present. However, with conventional answering machines, information from callers who are away from home is a continuous voice recording of messages from multiple callers, so information from important callers cannot be collected. It was inconvenient that it was not possible to immediately know during playback whether or not a call had been made.

[Prior Art and Problems to be Solved by the Invention] Conventionally, when an incoming call is received when the called party is not present, the telephone sets the own telephone to a talking state and sends a predetermined absence message to the calling party.
The technology for recording messages from the caller to the called party is
It is well known as an answering machine function. However, with an answering machine, when the called party returns home,
You will have to play back and listen to all the messages that were recorded while you were away, and even if there is a recording from an important caller, you won't know until you play back the message from that caller. There was a problem.

Further, when the called party is at home, for example, some private branch exchanges display the caller's extension number, department, etc. on a liquid crystal display device or the like when making a call. However, with such telephones, when a call arrives when the called party is absent, it is not known who called the caller while the called party was away.

The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned problems, and provides a telephone that can immediately recognize the caller of an incoming call when the called party is absent when the called party returns home. The purpose is to provide

[Means to solve the problem]

FIG. 1 is a basic configuration diagram of a first embodiment of the present invention.

In FIG. 1, 1 is an absentee control means, 2 is a caller ID transmitting means, 3 is a caller ID receiving means, 4 is an absentee caller storage means, and 5 is an absentee caller display means. It is.

Absence control means 1 puts its own telephone in a talking state and sends a predetermined absence message to the calling party when an incoming call is received while the called party is absent.

The absence control means I transmits information requesting the calling party to transmit the calling party's identification number.
The calling party ID receiving part 3 receives the calling party's identification number sent from the calling party in response to the transmission of the requested information.

The absent caller storage means 4 stores the received caller identification number.

The absent caller display means 5 displays the caller whose identification number has been stored.

FIG. 2 shows the basic configuration characteristic of the second embodiment of the present invention.

In FIG. 2, 6 is a caller display information storage means, 7 is a caller display information search means, and 8 is a display means.

That is, in the second embodiment of the present invention, the absent caller display means 5 displays information for each expected caller in correspondence with the caller's identification number. Caller display information storage means 6 for storing; Caller display information retrieval means 7 for searching for the information to be displayed corresponding to the stored caller identification number; and Displaying the retrieved information. It is possible to have display means 8 for displaying.

Furthermore, in the first and second embodiments described above, the telephone includes a timer 23, the absent caller storage means 4 stores the date and time of the incoming call together with the identification number, and the absent caller stores the date and time of the incoming call, and The calling party display means 5 can display the date and time of the memorized call arrival time together with the calling party.

Furthermore, in the first and second embodiments described above, the requested information in the caller ID transmitting means 2 can be transmitted as part of the predetermined absence message.

Also, the calling party identification number can be transmitted as a tone signal.

[Effect]

When there is an incoming call when the called party is absent, the absence control means 1 puts the own telephone into a talking state and sends a predetermined absence message to the calling party. At this time, the absence control means 1 uses the caller ID transmitting means 2 to transmit information requesting the caller to transmit the caller's identification number. In response to this information, the caller transmits his or her identification number in a predetermined manner, which is received by the caller ID receiving means 3 and stored by the absent caller storage means 4.

When the called party who was absent returns home, the absent calling party display means 5 displays the calling party whose identification number has been memorized.

Furthermore, in the second embodiment of the present invention, in the absent caller display means 5, information to be displayed for each expected caller is stored in the caller display information storage means 6 in advance. is stored in correspondence with the calling party's identification number, and when the called party who was absent returns home, the calling party display information retrieval means 7
The information to be displayed corresponding to the stored caller identification number is retrieved, and the display means 8 displays the retrieved information of the absent caller.

[Embodiment] FIG. 2 is a diagram showing the configuration of a car telephone as an embodiment of the present invention.

In FIG. 2, 11 is an antenna, 12 is a transmitting/receiving circuit,
13 is an MPU, 14 is a printing device, 15 is an absence control device,
16 is a tone detection device, 17 is a pocket convenience adapter, 18 is a pocket computer, 19 is an absent caller ID memory, 20 is a caller display information memory, 21 is a liquid crystal display device, 22 is a key power device, And 23 is a timer.

The transmitting/receiving circuit 12 has a known configuration for transmitting and receiving data to and from the base station via the antenna 11,
The MPU 13 controls the entire telephone, the printing device 14 prints the information of the caller in the absence of the present invention, and the absence control device 15 is a conventional answering machine except that it has the following functions. As shown in , when a call arrives when the called party is not available, the function sets the own telephone to the talking state and sends a predetermined absence message to the calling party, and records the message from the calling party to the called party. It has
It is a publicly known thing. The tone detection device 16 detects when the calling party sends an identification number, for example, a telephone number, using a push button or the like, and the pocket convenience adapter 17
An interface for connecting a pocket computer 18 to the telephone, the pocket computer 5-ta 1
8 is connected and used for the purpose of, for example, inputting the identification number of the expected caller and information to be displayed while the user is away.

The absent caller ID memory 19 is for storing the identification number of the caller when a call arrives while the user is absent, and the caller display information memory 20 is for storing the identification number of the caller when the caller receives a call while the user is absent. A table is stored that matches the caller's identification number and the information to be displayed. The key human power device 22 has functions similar to those of a conventional answering machine, as well as instructing printing of a list of absent callers according to the present invention, automatic answering of absent callers as described below during absence, and the following functions. Used for purposes such as setting the mode for storing identification numbers. Liquid crystal display device 2
1 has the same functions as traditional answering machines,
According to the present invention, the information of the caller when the caller is absent can be displayed on a liquid crystal display instead of being printed.

The timer 23 measures and outputs the current date and time.

According to the basic functions of the present invention described above (see FIGS. 1 and 2), when a call from a caller is received via the antenna 11 and the transmitting/receiving circuit 12, the absence control device 15 sends an ordinary answering machine. As shown in , when there is an incoming call when the called party is not present, the own telephone is set to a talking state and a predetermined absence message is sent to the calling party, and the message from the calling party to the called party is recorded. However, as a message at this time, the caller is asked to press a button to enter the caller's identification number (which is determined in advance between the caller and the called party). It is assumed that the setting is such that it includes a message instructing the user to manually perform the process.

In response, when the caller inputs his or her own identification number, this input identification number is received as a tone signal by the transmitting/receiving circuit 12, detected by the tone detection device 16, and the detection result is sent to MPL"13. is loaded.MPU
13 stores this detection result, that is, the caller's identification number, in the absent caller ID memory 19. At this time, the date and time of the incoming call output by the timer 23 is also stored in the absent caller ID memory 19 at the same time. Thereafter, the above operation is repeated every time there is an incoming call.

When the called party returns home and instructs printing of the absent caller list according to the present invention by manually operating a predetermined key, the MPU
13 sequentially reads out the identification number and call arrival date and time of the absent caller stored in the absent caller ID memory 19 one by one, and displays the caller display information memory 20 in correspondence with each identification number. The display information of the caller corresponding to the identification number, such as name, telephone number, affiliation, etc., stored in the computer is read out and sequentially transferred to the printing device. As a result, a printed output as shown in FIG. 4, for example, can be obtained. or,
In response to another key operation instruction, the above information can be transferred to the liquid crystal display device 21 so that the information of the caller in the absence is displayed on the liquid crystal display instead of being printed.

〔Effect of the invention〕

According to the telephone set of the present invention, it is possible to immediately recognize the caller of a call that was received when the called party was not present when the called party returns home.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a basic configuration diagram of a first embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a characteristic basic configuration of the second embodiment of the invention, and FIG. 3 is an automobile as an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 4 is a diagram showing the configuration of the telephone and an example of an absent caller display in the telephone of the present invention. [Explanation of symbols] 1... Absence control means, 2... Caller ID transmission means,
3... Caller ID receiving means, 4... Absent caller storage means, 5... Absent caller display means, 6... Caller display information storage means, 7... - Caller display information retrieval means, 8... Display means, 11... Antenna, 12...
Transmission/reception circuit, 13...MPU, 14...printing device,
15...Absence control device, 16...Tone detection device,
17... Pocket computer adapter, 1... Pocket computer, 19... Caller ID memory when absent, 20... Caller display information memory, 21... Liquid crystal display device, 22... Key Human powered device, 23... timer. The same figure showing the basic configuration of the first form of the present invention. Absent caller storage means 4 The same figure showing the basic structure characteristic of the second form of the present invention.

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] 1. A telephone equipped with an absence control means (1) that puts its own telephone in a talking state and sends a predetermined absence message to the caller when there is an incoming call when the called party is absent. In the above, the absence control means (1) includes a caller ID transmission means (2) for transmitting information requesting the calling party to transmit the identification number of the calling party, and the said requesting Caller ID receiving means (3) for receiving a caller's identification number sent from the caller in response to the transmission of information; and an absent caller for storing the received caller's identification number. 1. A telephone set comprising: a caller storage means (4); and an absent caller display means (5) for displaying the caller whose identification number is stored. 2. The absent caller display means (5) is a caller display information storage that stores information to be displayed for each expected caller in correspondence with the caller's identification number. means (6); caller display information retrieval means (7) for retrieving the information to be displayed corresponding to the stored caller identification number; and a display for displaying the retrieved information. Means (8)
2. The telephone set according to claim 1, comprising: 3. A timer (23) is provided, the absent caller storage means (4) stores the date and time of the incoming call together with the identification number, and the absent caller display means (5) 2. The telephone set according to claim 1, further displaying the memorized date and time of the incoming call together with the caller. 4. The telephone set according to claim 1, wherein the requested information in the caller ID transmitting means (2) is transmitted as part of the predetermined absence message. 5. The telephone set according to claim 1, wherein the calling party's identification number is transmitted as a tone signal.