JPH0758845A - Telephone terminal sending mail - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To allow the caller side user to send a message as a mail automatically without trouble of redialing by the caller to a center of a mail system newly when an opposite party is called via a telephone line and the opposite party cannot be connected due to absence or a busy state. CONSTITUTION:When a line monitor means 7 detects that the called party is absent and does not reply a call, the user speahs a message and stores it tentatively in a storage means 10 from a transmitter 9. Then a storage table 3 is retrieved to recognize a mail address subscribed by an opposite party and connects automatically the line to the address and the message is read from the storage means 10 and sends it as a mail.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention is a telephone terminal device accommodated in a telephone network and is capable of making a telephone call and transmitting a mail when a telephone network and a mail system coexist. The present invention relates to a telephone terminal device capable of sending mail.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, when a voice mail service sends a voice mail to a partner, the center number of the mail system is dialed to call the center, the voice mail is sent and stored in the partner's address of the center, and later. , The other party accesses the center and retrieves the voice mails stored there.

[0003]

When a user makes a call from a telephone terminal device to call the other party, when the other party is absent or busy and the connection cannot be established, the user making the call is , Then, even if you use the mail system to send the message message you want to convey to the other party as voice mail to the center and store it in the other party's address, in order to do so, hang up the phone that called the other party and disconnect the line. There was a problem that it was very troublesome because the center number of the mail system had to be redialed again after opening it once.

As a method for avoiding this, when a network terminal is used to make a call from a telephone terminal to call the other party, when the other party does not respond for a certain time or when the other party is busy, , It is possible to transfer the call to the voice mail center to enable the use of the voice mail service. The transfer telephone service may be used as a method for realizing this function by using the currently provided network service, but this has the following drawbacks.

That is, it is necessary that the called party, which is the other party, subscribes to the voice mail service and also has a contract to receive the transfer telephone service. Furthermore,
Even if you have a contract to receive the call forwarding service, you cannot set the time required for the call to be transferred to the transfer destination after the call is received at the recipient, and the time is about 3 seconds. , If the length (about 3 seconds) is inappropriate, for example, the user is a little far from the telephone and it takes more than 3 seconds to answer the call, the called party (user ) Was transferred as soon as I tried to answer the phone, and there were cases where I could not respond.

An object of the present invention is to solve the above-mentioned problems of the prior art, and when a caller is called through a telephone line, and the caller is absent or is not busy and cannot make a connection, the caller newly sets up a mail system. There is no need to call back to the center, and if the called party subscribes to the voice mail service, even if they do not have a contract to receive the call forwarding service, they will automatically Another object of the present invention is to provide a telephone terminal device capable of sending a mail so that a user on the sending side can send a message (or a document for a message) by mail.

[0007]

In order to achieve the above object, in the present invention, a call is made by calling to a partner terminal via a telephone line, but when a response cannot be obtained over a certain length of time, After opening the telephone line, the other terminal automatically calls the mail center, which is the provider of the mail service to which the other terminal subscribes in advance, and sends a message message (or message document) to the other terminal. Accumulate,
A storage table, a means for opening the telephone line, a message message storage means (or a message document holding and generating means), as a telephone terminal device capable of sending an email in preparation for the subsequent extraction from the partner terminal. A search and storage means was proposed.

[0008]

The storage table stores the telephone number of the called terminal, the telephone number of the mail center to which the called terminal subscribes, and the message message to the called terminal at the center. Addresses are stored in association with each other. The means for opening the telephone line is to call and call the other terminal via the telephone line, but when no response is obtained for a certain period of time, it is detected and the telephone line is opened. Open.

The message message storage means causes the user to utter a message message to be subsequently transmitted to the other party terminal, and stores it. After that, the search / accumulation means searches the storage table to know the telephone number of the mail center corresponding to the partner terminal and the storage address of the message message to the partner terminal at the center, and stores the mail center via the telephone line. Upon calling, the contents stored in the message message storage means are read out and transmitted, and stored in the storage address in the center.

Alternatively, the search / accumulation means searches the storage table to know the telephone number of the mail center corresponding to the partner terminal and the storage address of the message message to the partner terminal at the center, and then, via the telephone line. In addition to calling the mail center, the message document holding and generating means generates and sends a message document and stores it in the storage address in the center.

Thus, in the telephone terminal device capable of transmitting mail according to the present invention, when a call is made to the other party via the telephone line, and the other party is absent or cannot connect due to busy or the like, the caller can re-establish the mail system. No need to call the center again, and if the called party subscribes to the voice mail service, the message will be sent automatically even if you do not have a contract to receive the call forwarding service. A message (or a message document) can be sent by the user on the sending side by e-mail.

[0012]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention. In the figure, TE is a terminal device (telephone terminal device capable of sending mail) as one embodiment of the present invention, 1 is a telephone exchange network, and 2 is a mail system.

Besides, in the terminal device TE, 3 is a storage table, 4 is input means, 5 is dial means, 6 is transmission means, 7 is line monitoring means, 8 is line control means, 9 is a telephone transmitter, Reference numeral 10 is a message message storage unit, 11 is a reproduction unit, 12 is a clock, 13 is a guidance voice generation device, 14 is a telephone circuit, and 15 is a CP for controlling 3 to 14.
U. TEL is a partner telephone accommodated in the telephone exchange network 1. The broken lines connecting the blocks are control lines through which connection signals flow, solid lines are signal lines through which audio signals flow,
Is.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of the stored contents of the storage table 3 in FIG. In the storage table 3 shown in FIG. 2, the telephone number of the partner telephone TEL is 0
429-45-7777, the telephone number of the mail center to which the partner telephone subscribes is # 840.
0, the mailbox as the ID of the other party's telephone at the center (accumulated address of message)
Indicates that it is 4682 59 8642.

Similarly, for other telephone numbers which can be the other party's telephone TEL, the telephone number of the mail center and the ID of the other party's telephone at the center are stored in association with each other. In addition, 25 (seconds) is stored as the missed timer, which is 25 seconds after the other party's telephone is called.
If no response is returned even after (seconds) has passed, it means switching to mail transmission as a failure. The setting of 25 (seconds) is an example, and it goes without saying that the time length can be arbitrarily set. Settings and inputs to these storage tables 3 can be performed using the input means 4.

Further, as the final dial number, 045-3
45-1234 is stored, which is the number of the other party who made the call. This means that when a call is made, the number of the other party's phone is also temporarily stored in this storage table 3.

Next, with reference to FIG. 1 and FIG. 2, a series of operations from the terminal device TE according to the present invention to transmission, non-response, and mail transmission will be described. First, by means of the dial means 5, the called party (the partner telephone TE) is sent via the telephone exchange network 1.
When the call is made to L), the telephone number of the other party is temporarily stored in the storage table 3 as the final dialed number.

Next, the response of the other party (detected by the response signal) by the line monitoring means 7 will be 25 in this example.
Not detected for a second (measured by clock 12) or busy sound (Bu
sy Tone; BT) is detected, the captured line is opened by the line control means 8 and the guidance voice generator 13 says, "Since there is no response from the other party, say a message message to the other party. Guidance information that means "please" is generated and sent to the telephone receiver of the telephone circuit 14.

As a result, when the caller speaks and inputs a message message to be transmitted to the other party from the transmitter 9 of the telephone, the inputted voice message is stored in the storage means 10. When the caller finishes inputting the message, he / she instructs the input means 4 to cause the line controller 8 to capture the line.

On the other hand, the center number of the mail system 2 to which the called party subscribes is read from the storage table 3 on the basis of the telephone number (final dial number) stored at the time of dialing, and the transmission means 6 concerned Access the mail center. When the mail system 2 responds, continue
The storage address as the ID of the other party is extracted from the storage table 3 and is set as the destination of the voice mail to be subsequently sent.

Next, the message message stored therein is read out from the storage means 10, and is reproduced by the reproduction means 11.
It is converted into a voice signal and sent as a voice mail to the destination (accumulation address) for storage. The callee of the other party can retrieve the message by accessing the storage address of the mail center later.

Thus, according to the terminal device TE of the present invention, the line is automatically switched according to the call situation (that is, if there is no response from the other party), and the message is temporarily stored in the terminal device side. The stored voice message can be automatically transmitted and stored in the voice mail center to which the other party subscribes. Caller (user)
When there is no response from the other party, does not go through the troublesome procedure of opening the line and dialing the telephone number to the mail center again, sending a message message by email as if you were connected to an answering machine. You can do it.

The above operation procedure is shown as a flow chart in FIG. The flowchart is composed of steps S01 to S11, but it is not necessary to explain them again.

In the embodiment shown in FIG. 1, when there is no response from the other party, a message message (voice message) is sent by mail, but this is not a voice message, but text (document) is sent by mail. You can also Text (document), not voice message
This is because there are cases where it is preferable to send mail by mail because there is no psychological resistance.

In that case, in the embodiment shown in FIG. 1, a touch sensor integrated with the display screen is prepared in place of the transmitter 9 of the telephone, and the touch sensor is touched by touching the touch sensor. Characters, figures, or pattern documents that are integrally displayed are designated and input, and the storage means 1
1 can be temporarily stored as message character information and subsequently sent by mail. In this case, the reproduction means 1
1 becomes unnecessary. In this case, the voice can be stored with a smaller memory capacity than that of the voice, so that the message can be transmitted as a smaller amount of data, which is also advantageous in that the cost of the storage unit 10 can be reduced.

[0026]

As described above, according to the present invention,
If the caller (user) did not complete the call when the call was placed (could not communicate the requirements to the other party),
In order to automatically detect this and temporarily store the message as a message to be transmitted at the telephone terminal side, connect the line to the appropriate mail center to which the other party subscribes and send the temporarily stored message by mail. The user of this terminal does not need to perform a redial operation to send an email,
There is an advantage that the usability of the telephone terminal is improved.

In addition, at this time, the called party need only subscribe to the voice mail service and does not have to have a contract to receive the transfer telephone service. is there.

[Brief description of drawings]

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

FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of stored contents of a storage table 3 in FIG.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing the operation of the embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 ... Telephone exchange network, 2 ... Mail system, 3 ... Storage table, 4 ... Input means, 5 ... Dial means, 6 ... Sending means,
7 ... Line monitoring means, 8 ... Line control means, 9 ... Telephone transmitter, 10 ... Storage means, 11 ... Reproducing means, 12 ... Clock, 1
3 ... Guidance voice generator, 14 ... Telephone circuit, 15
... CPU that controls 3 to 14.

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. When a call is made by making a call to a partner terminal via a telephone line, but no response is obtained within a certain length of time, the partner terminal is opened in advance after opening the telephone line. Mail can be sent by automatically calling the mail center that is the provider of the subscribed mail service to send and store the message message to the other terminal and prepare for retrieval from the other terminal. A telephone terminal device, which stores the telephone number of the called party's terminal, the telephone number of the mail center that is the provider of the mail service to which the called terminal is subscribed, and the message message to the called terminal at the center A call was made by calling a storage table that stores addresses in association with each other, and making a call to the other terminal via a telephone line. When a response is not exceeded, a means for detecting that fact and opening the telephone line, and thereafter, a message message storage means for uttering and storing a message message to be transmitted to the partner terminal, and thereafter, The storage table is searched to know the telephone number of the mail center corresponding to the partner terminal and the storage address of the message message to the partner terminal at the center, and the mail center is called via the telephone line.
A telephone terminal device capable of mail transmission, comprising means for reading out and storing the contents stored in the message message storage means and storing the contents in the storage address in the center. 2. When a call is made by making a call to a partner terminal via a telephone line, but no response is obtained within a certain period of time, the partner terminal is opened beforehand after opening the telephone line. Mail can be sent by automatically calling the mail center that is the provider of the subscribed mail service, sending out and storing the message document for the concerned terminal, and preparing for subsequent retrieval from the concerned terminal. Telephone terminal device, the telephone number of the called party's terminal, the telephone number of the mail center that is the provider of the mail service subscribed to by the called party's terminal, and the message pattern for the called party's terminal at the center A storage table that stores the storage addresses of documents in association with each other, a means for holding and generating message documents, and calling and calling to the other terminal via a telephone line. However, when a response is not obtained within a certain period of time, a means for detecting the fact and opening the telephone line, and then searching the storage table to the corresponding terminal Knowing the telephone number of the corresponding mail center and the storage address of the message message to the other terminal at the center, calling the mail center via the telephone line,
A telephone terminal device capable of sending a mail, comprising: a means for generating and transmitting a message document from the message document holding and generating means, and accumulating it at the accumulation address in the center.