JPH07212839A - Automatic answering telephone equipment with paging function - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To automatically record the announcement of a pocket beeper center in an equipment at the time of registering the telephone number of a pocket beeper in the equipment and to reproduce the recorded announcement to naturally start the pocket beeper paging operation at the time when an originating subscriber has an urgent message with the owner of the pocket beeper to call this pocket beeper in the automatic answering telephone mode of the equipment. CONSTITUTION:In the register/announcement recording mode, the telephone number of the pocket beeper is registered in a memory RAM-1 through a keyboard 2 for operation, and the announcement of the pocket beeper center is stored in a memory RAM-3 through a line transformer 21 and an amplifier 9. In the automatic answering telephone mode, the recorded announcement of the paging center is sent when the originating subscriber sends '#' in accordance with an announcement for response. When the originating subscriber sends a message in response to this sent announcement, it is stored in a memory RAM-2, and this message is displayed on the pocket beeper through the paging center after.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an answering machine having a pager paging function.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Announcement for response (message for response)
There is a case where the voice synthesis in ROM is used as, but generally, the owner records a response announcement by using a microphone (hereinafter referred to as a microphone). Therefore, even if the answering machine has the function of paging on a pager, the owner of the answering machine is supposed to record an announcement to inform the caller of the paging method.

[0003]

However, in the above-mentioned conventional answering machine having the paging function, even if the answering machine is capable of surely executing the paging operation, the caller can surely receive his / her own message. I had a problem that I might have a slight anxiety about whether it would reach to.

[0004]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In order to achieve the above object, the present invention is directed to registering a pager telephone number (for example, the telephone number of one's own pager) in a pager center for operation confirmation. This device is equipped with a means for automatically recording the response announcement of the pager center.

[0005]

When the caller receives an incoming call, the device first sends a general answer announcement recorded by the owner of the device, but when the caller wants to page the pager A specific signal sent by the caller acts to send the answering announcement recorded from the pager center to the calling party.

[0006]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings and flowcharts.

In FIG. 1, reference numeral 1 is a microprocessor (CPU), which is a read-only memory ROM in which a program is stored, a memory RA for storing a telephone number of an auto-dial destination and a telephone number of a caller.
It contains M-1 and RAM-2.

I / O-1 to I / O-3 are input / output ports, I-1 to I-6 are input ports, O-1 to O-12 are output ports, and INT is an interrupt terminal.

Reference numeral 2 is an operation keyboard in which keys for performing various operations are arranged, 3 is a NOR gate, 4 is a tone decoder capable of detecting a DTMF tone signal, and OUT
The 4-bit output from the terminal is introduced to the input port I-2.

Reference numeral 5 is a waveform shaping circuit for enabling software detection of audible signals such as voice and dial tone, 6 is a voice synthesizing circuit for notifying operating means by voice synthesis, and 7 is a response announcement. , 8 to 11 are amplifiers, 12 to 16 and 24 are analog switches, and a signal flows in the direction indicated by the arrow, and "C" means a control terminal.

Reference numeral 17 is a recording / recording device which incorporates a memory RAM-3 for recording a response announcement, pager center announcement and caller announcement.
A reproducing unit, 18 is an amplifier circuit, 19 is a speaker, 20 is a telephone, and 21 is a line transformer.

Reference numeral 22 is a line monitoring circuit capable of detecting a ringing signal, line reversal (reversal of telephone line polarity), off-hook of the telephone set 20 and on-hook of a caller, and 23 is a DTMF transmitting circuit for auto dialing.

Further, Y-1 is a relay and has a contact point y1-1.
Have.

Further, LED-1 to LED-5 are light emitting diodes for displaying an operating state.

Each key of the operating keyboard, that is, each key of 0 to 9, *, and # has the function shown in FIG. 5 (described later).

"Explanation of Operation for Registration / Recording of Announcement in Pager Center" Next, the operation of registering a telephone number for a pager in the pager center and recording an announcement from the pager center is shown in FIG. This will be described with reference to FIG.

To switch to this operation mode, press the "#" key of the operating keyboard 2 (switch to a function other than numbers with the function switching key shown in FIG. 5) and then press "2".
Pressing the key calls the subroutine shown in FIG.

First, in step 30, the voice is uttered by saying "Enter the pager's telephone number and finally press #". That is, the address of the voice synthesizing unit 6 is specified by a command via the input / output port I / O-2 of the CPU 1 of FIG. 1, and the above voice synthesizing message is sent to the speaker 19 via the analog switch 16 and the amplifier 18. Loud.

In the next step 31, the operation keyboard 2 is switched to a function for inputting numbers by a program.

Then, the memory RAM-1 which is a memory area for inputting the numeral is cleared (step 3).
2) The address pointer of the RAM-1 is initialized (step 33) and the RAM-1 is set to the write mode (step 34).

In the next step 35, the telephone number for the pager can be entered.

That is, if a one-digit number is input, step 35 becomes affirmative, and this number is amplified for confirmation by voice synthesis as described above (step 36). If it is not "#", step 37 becomes negative, In the next step 38, the address pointer is incremented by 1 to wait for the next digit input.

When the input of the telephone number having the predetermined number of digits is completed and "#" is finally input, the above step 37 becomes affirmative,
The write mode is released (step 39).

Here, in the voice synthesis, a loud voice is added to "Register to the pager center. Press #. To try again, press *."

At this time, if "*" is pressed, steps 41 and 4 are executed.
It is possible to re-enter the telephone number since the process returns to step 32 described above via 2.

When "#" is pressed, step 41 becomes affirmative, the relay Y-1 which is the load of the output port O-6 is kept on, the contact y1-1 is closed, and the line transformer 21 is used. The telephone lines L1 and L2 are closed (step 43).

When the telephone line is closed, a dial tone from the telephone office comes in. This dial tone is the telephone line L
1, L2, amplifier 11, waveform shaping circuit 5, input port I
Detected programmatically via -1 (step 4
4).

After the dial tone is detected, the pager center is first called through the DTMF oscillation circuit 23 by the known auto-dial function using the telephone number of the pager stored as described above (step 45). Note that the above "#" represents a telephone number delimiter and is not transmitted.

The response of the pager center is detected by reversing the polarity of the line, and the reversal of the polarity is detected via the line monitoring circuit 22 and NOR gate 3 (step 46). Then, the recording section (recording / reproducing section 17 in FIG. 1) is activated.

This recording section can record an announcement from the pager center for 10 seconds until it is deactivated in step 50 (steps 47 to 50).

Although this announcement differs depending on the company of the pager center, it is, for example, "Yes, this is a pager center. Please enter a message and press # at the end."

Although the announcement recording time is set to 10 seconds in this embodiment, the announcement recording may be stopped when a silence is detected after completion of the announcement.

When the recording of the announcement is finished as described above, the recording section (recording / playback section 17) is deactivated (step 50) and a message, for example, one digit of one's own telephone number is input from the operating keyboard 2. When input (step 51), it is output to the telephone lines L1 and L2 via the DTMF transmission circuit 23 (step 52).

Step "53" becomes negative until "#" is input, and steps 51 and 52 are repeated. When the input of the telephone number is completed and the user presses "#" at the end, step 53 becomes affirmative, and in step 54, the relay Y-1 is turned off and the telephone lines L1 and L2 are closed as described above. This subroutine is finished.

Thereafter, the pager center side calls the pager and displays a message (caller's telephone number in the above example) on the pager display (not shown).

Since the pager in the above case is owned by the calling party, the operation can be confirmed here.

"Explanation of operation in absence mode" Next, when the "8" key (see FIG. 5) of the operating keyboard 2 is pressed, the subroutine shown in FIG. 3 is called and the absence mode is set.

In FIG. 1, call signals are telephone lines L1 and L.
If the call signal comes in through 2, the call signal is detected in the program through the line monitoring circuit 22 and the input port I-3, and the step 60 becomes affirmative.

Here, the relay Y-1 is turned on to turn on the telephone line L.
Since 1 and L2 are closed via the contact point y1-1 and the line transformer 21 (step 61), the ringing signal is stopped and the caller side is brought into a call state.

Then, the recording / playback unit 17 is activated in the playback mode by a command from the input / output port I / O-1,
The response announcement OGM recorded in advance in the memory RAM-3 is started to be sent to the telephone line via the analog switch 14, the amplifier 10 and the line transformer 21 (step 62).

For this OGM, "In case of urgent need, call the person with a pager. Please press the # button."
Etc. are included in the announcement.

Therefore, if the caller sends a "#" DTMF tone during the sending of this OGM, the line transformer 2
1, amplifier 11, tone decoder 4, input port I-2
If it is detected via step S64, the step 64 becomes affirmative, the transmission of this OGM is canceled halfway (step 71), and the transmission of the pager center announcement recorded in the memory RAM-3 is started as described above (step 71). Step 73).

When the transmission of this announcement is completed (step 74), a command from the output port O-13 causes
DTM to input phone number etc. as caller's message
The mode is switched to the F tone input mode (step 75).

Alternatively, a person who is accustomed to the operation can use the interrupt function to receive the DTMF tone even during the listening.

Then, the memory RAM-2 address pointer for storing the code of the above DTMF tone is initialized (step 76), and in the next step 77, a test is made as to whether or not one digit of the DTMF tone has been input. I do. While the DTMF tone is not input, a test is made at step 81 as to whether or not the calling party has hooked the telephone (not shown).

Now, the DTMF tone for one digit is the amplifier 1
1, the tone decoder 4 and the input port I-2 are detected, the step 77 becomes affirmative, and the input / output port I / O-2, the voice synthesizer 6, the analog switch 24, the amplifier 10 and the line are confirmed for confirmation. 1 via the transformer 21
Digit DTMF tones are transmitted by voice synthesis (step 7).
8) The DTMF tone code is stored in the memory RAM-2 (step 78).

Further, in order to store the code of the DTMF tone of the next digit, the address pointer is set to +1 (step 80), and the process returns to step 77 to wait for the input of the DTMF tone of the next digit.

When the caller finishes sending his / her own telephone number as a message as described above, the telephone (not shown) goes on hook.

When this on-hook is detected through the line monitoring circuit 22 and the input port I-6, the step 81 becomes affirmative, the input mode of the DTMF tone is released (step 82), and the relay Y-1 is turned on. By turning off, the connection between the telephone lines L1 and L2 is released (step 8).
3).

In the above case, the caller pressed the # button while sending the answer announcement OGM and then sent out his or her telephone number as a message. However, the caller was switched to the recording mode after the OGM was sent out. Message (IC
After recording M), you can press the # button and send your own telephone number as a message (step 65).
~ 68). Alternatively, if the # button is not pressed during OGM transmission, only the caller's message (ICM) can be recorded (steps 65, 66, 67, 69, 70).

"Paging Operation" As described above, when the caller presses the # button, the telephone line is closed in step 83, and then the paging operation shown in FIG. To call.

First, at step 90, the relay Y-1
The telephone lines L1 and L2 are closed by turning on.

When a dial tone from a station (not shown) is detected (step 91), the pager is called by using the above-mentioned auto dial function (step 9).
2). As a result, the pager center responds first, but after the response is detected by the line monitoring circuit 22 (step 93), the announcement "----
Please send a message --- "When the end of""is detected (steps 94, 95), the message stored in the memory RAM-2 (in this case, the telephone number of the calling party described above) is output port O-12, The DTMF tone is converted into a DTMF tone through the DTMF transmission circuit 23 and transmitted to the telephone lines L1 and L2.

Then, by turning off the relay Y-1, the connection between the telephone lines L1 and L2 is released, this subroutine is finished, and the standby state of step 60 is restored via the arrow a in FIG.

On the other hand, in the pager center, as is well known, the pager (not shown) designated in the above step 92 is called and the message in the above step 96 is displayed on its display section (not shown).

[Explanation of Operation Regarding Switching of Transfer Function] In the present invention, the transfer function, that is, the paging operation is performed by a manual operation at home or a remote control operation using a telephone at a destination, and , (2) selective transfer, and (3) transfer cancellation, one of the three can be selected.

The contents described above with reference to FIG. 3 correspond to the above (2) selective transfer.

In FIG. 1, the operation keyboard 2 has a key called "select transfer" (not shown). When this key is pressed, the subroutine of FIG. 6 is called by an interrupt operation.

"1" of the operating keyboard 2
If a key (not shown) is pressed, step 100 becomes affirmative, and in the next step 101, a mode of full transfer is set in which a paging operation is performed every time a message (ICM) from the caller is recorded. And the light emitting diode LE
D-5 is turned on (step 102).

Although a flow chart dedicated to this mode is not shown, the steps necessary in this case will be described with reference to FIG. 3 after the OGM transmission in step 63 (when the selective transfer mode is not selected, the above-mentioned "---- #
Press the --- "general-purpose response announcement which does not have the announcement, which will be selected from the above-mentioned memory RAM-3 and transmitted, and transmits a beep tone,
The ICM recording mode is set (steps 65 and 66), a message from the caller is recorded, and when the caller's on-hook is detected (step 81), the telephone line is closed (step 83) and the pager is turned on. A paging operation to call is performed (step 84). However, the step of transferring the caller's telephone number is ignored.

On the other hand, when the "2" (not shown) key is pressed in step 105, the paging operation is set to the selective transfer mode only when the caller presses "#" as shown in FIG. The light emitting diode LED-4 is turned on (steps 106 and 107).

When the "3" (not shown) key is pressed, the paging operation is canceled and the light emitting diode L
ED-3 is turned on (steps 111 and 112).

Further, the above-mentioned setting can be performed even if the owner of this apparatus uses a telephone when he is out, as shown in FIG. Although detailed description is omitted, in this case, registration is performed using the operation keyboard 2 at home.

When the owner calls the device using a telephone that is out of the office and sends "*" while the response announcement is being sent, FIG.
Call the subroutine. If the personal identification number is sent here, the above-mentioned setting becomes possible.

[0066]

As described above, according to the present invention, the calling party can make a predetermined DT according to the instruction in the answering announcement of the answering machine.
By sending the MF tone, you can hear the pre-recorded paging center announcement, so you can naturally operate the message to notify the owner of this device.
Moreover, the caller can be reassured that the owner's call will be smoothly executed by hearing the above announcement.

Further, since the operation confirmation of the pager can be carried out at the same time when the paging center announcement is recorded, it is possible to contribute to the reliability of the present apparatus.

[Brief description of drawings]

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

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing an operation of registering a telephone number for calling a pager and recording an announcement of a pager center.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart when the present apparatus operates as an answering machine.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing an operation when calling a pager.

FIG. 5 is a table showing functions corresponding to key names of an operating keyboard.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart regarding setting of a transfer operation while at home.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart regarding setting of a transfer operation by a telephone of a destination.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Microprocessor (CPU) 2 Operation keyboard 3 NOR gate 4 Tone decoder 5 Waveform shaping circuit 6 Voice synthesizer 7 Microphone 8-11, 18 Amplifier 12-16, 24 Analog switch 17 Recording / playback unit 19 Speaker 20 Telephone 21 Line transformer 22 line monitoring circuit 23 DTMF transmission circuit

Claims (5)

[Claims] 1. An answering announcement (OGM) and a means for recording a pager center announcement, a means for waiting for a calling signal from a calling party, and a telephone line being closed when the calling signal is detected. A means for sending the answer announcement to the telephone line, a means for sending the pager center announcement when a specific signal sent by the caller is detected according to the instruction of the answer announcement, and a caller according to this announcement. Means for storing a message consisting of a specific signal sent by, and means for automatically dialing after closing the telephone line after storing the above message, reclosing the telephone line and calling a predetermined pager. When the pager center responds in response to the auto dial means, the stored message is sent to the pager center. An answering machine having a paging function, characterized in that it comprises a means for sending the message and a means for releasing the connection of the telephone line after sending the message. 2. An answering machine having a paging function according to claim 1, further comprising means for recording a message (voice announcement) (ICM) from a calling party after sending the response announcement. Telephone device. 3. The paging according to claim 1, wherein the means for recording the pager center announcement is automatically executed when registering a pager telephone number in the pager center. An answering machine with functions. 4. A pager is not called even if a caller makes a call. 2. A pager is called only when a specific signal is received from a caller. 3. A caller is called. Call the pager every time there is. The answering machine apparatus having a paging function according to claim 1, wherein the above three selecting means can be set at home or during remote operation. 5. An answering machine apparatus having a paging function according to claim 4, further comprising means for automatically selecting a response announcement (OGM) corresponding to the three selection means.