JPH0563856A - Telephone charge notice connection system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To reduce a job man-hour of a maintenance personnel corresponding to the inquiry of a telephone charge by allowing a subscriber to recognize accumulation of plural talking charges such as an integrated telephone charge of a relevant month. CONSTITUTION:An integration counter 5 integrating an index every time each subscriber uses a telephone set is provided in a storage device 6. A central controller 7 receives a prescribed special number inputted from a caller subscriber 1 to identify whether or not the call is a call requesting notice of the integrated telephone charge. Data stored in the integration counter 5 corresponding to the caller subscriber 1 are read and the telephone charge is calculated based on the data. The data representing the result of calculation are transferred to a voice synthesis device 4 and informed to the caller subscriber 1 via a channel switch 2.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a telephone charge notification connection system in a telephone exchange system.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A conventional telephone charge notification can be made only for one call, and an operator who sets up a call connection verbally informs that he / she wants to know the charge beforehand. The operator accumulates the indicator that it is a charge notification call in the call connection information for each call by key operation, and after the call is completed, the charge is calculated automatically, the voice synthesizer is activated, and the calling subscriber is called. It was a method of notifying the call charge for a call for which a charge notification request was made.

[0003]

In the above-mentioned conventional telephone charge notification connection system, information for charge notification is stored in advance as call information for a call that requires charge notification, and after the call ends, the charge is charged. Charges are calculated based on the accumulated call information for notification, and the call charge is notified only to the calls for which a charge notification request has been made in advance. There was a drawback that subscribers could not know the accumulated charges.

[0004]

According to the telephone charge notification connection system of the present invention, in a storage program control type telephone exchange system, an integrating counter is provided for accumulating an index each time a telephone is used for each subscriber. Receives a predetermined special number input from any telephone subscriber, identifies that this outgoing call is a call requesting notification of accumulated telephone charges, and integrates the accumulated counter corresponding to this telephone subscriber. Is read out, the telephone charge is calculated based on this data, and the voice synthesis device notifies the telephone subscriber of the calculation result data by voice.

[0005]

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

FIG. 1 is a diagram for explaining one embodiment of the present invention, in which a calling subscriber 1 requesting notification of a call charge is connected to a switching system, and the switching system is a communication channel constituting a communication channel. A switch 2, an automatic response device 3 for automatically responding to a calling subscriber 1, a voice synthesizer 4 for notifying charges by voice, and an integration counter provided for each subscriber and accumulating telephone charges for each call. A storage device 6 having 5 and a central controller 7 are provided. The central control unit 7 has an integrated data reading unit 8 for reading the data accumulated in the integration counter 5.
And a charge calculator 9 that calculates a telephone charge from this data and transfers it to the voice synthesizer.

The operation will be described below.

Calling subscriber 1 requesting notification of accumulated telephone charges
Uses a special number that does not interfere with the number plan of the domestic telephone network. The central control unit 7 detects that the connection is a cumulative telephone charge notification connection using a special number, selects a route connectable to the automatic response unit 3, and connects with the calling subscriber 1.

The integrated data reading section 8 of the central control unit 7 is
The data of the integration counter 5 corresponding to the calling subscriber 1 is read out, the charge calculation unit 9 calculates the charge based on this data, activates the voice synthesizing device 4 for charge notification, and transfers the charge data.

Further, the central control device 7 releases the connection between the calling subscriber 1 and the automatic response device 3, and then connects the calling subscriber 1 and the voice synthesizing device 4 for charge notification, The voice synthesizer 4 notifies by voice the accumulated telephone charges for the current month in which the telephone call has been made. The integrated value of the integration counter 5 is cleared at the end of the month.

The use of the automatic response device 3 is not an essential condition of the present invention, and other sound sources can be used as alternative means.

[0012]

As described above, according to the present invention, an integrating counter for accumulating an index for each call is provided for each subscriber, and the data of this integrating counter can be obtained by inputting a predetermined special number from the calling subscriber. Since it is configured to notify the calling subscriber by voice after reading and calculating, the subscriber can know the accumulated telephone charges for a plurality of calls, for example, the accumulated telephone charges for the current month, and respond to telephone charge inquiries. The effect is that the maintenance man-hours are reduced.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram for explaining an embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Calling subscriber 2 Call path switch 3 Automatic response device 4 Voice synthesizer 5 Integrated counter 6 Storage device 7 Central control device 8 Integrated data reading unit 9 Charge calculation unit

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A storage program control type telephone exchange system is provided with an integrating counter for accumulating an index each time a telephone is used for each subscriber, and a predetermined special value input from an arbitrary telephone subscriber. Received the number,
It identifies that this outgoing call is a call requesting the notification of accumulated telephone charges, reads the data stored in the accumulated counter corresponding to this telephone subscriber, and calculates the telephone charges based on this data, A telephone charge notification connection method characterized in that calculation result data is notified to the telephone subscriber by voice by a voice synthesizer.