JPH09149458A - Mobile telephone equipment and mail system having it - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To attain the register of a transmission voice mail and the contents confirming of an incoming-call voice mail even at a place where speaking by means of a mobile telephone equipment is impossible by detecting the impossibility of transmission to a radio base station and transmitting a stored mail when transmission is possible. SOLUTION: At the time of detecting the possibility of transferring the voice mail through the radio base station 200 in a prescribed case, a system control circuit 101 transmits the voice mail stored within a communication memory 103 and telephone number information by combining through a transmission/ reception circuit 102. On the other hand, in a voice mail controller 300 receiving this through the radio base station 200 from a mobile radio equipment 100, a voice mail control part 301 temporarily stores it in a receiving buffer 302. After this, the voice mail and information are transferred to a voice mail controller 400 connected with the fixed telephone equipment 500 of a transmission destination. Consequently the user of the mobile telephone equipment 100 can register a voice mail and can confirm its contents without regard to the communicating state.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention controls the message contents stored in the main body at any time so that the message contents are automatically transferred when communication with a base station is possible, and the user can grasp the communication status. More particularly, the present invention relates to a mobile phone that enables the use of voice mail and message mail and a mail system having the mobile phone.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a call between fixed installation type telephones that are connected to a telephone line by wire, the line is usually connected, so that it is possible to confirm whether the other party is absent or busy. However, when the other party is a mobile phone such as a mobile phone or a mobile phone that uses wireless communication, it may be outside the coverage area or the phone may be turned off. At this time, although the message notifying that there is no response is announced to the calling party, if the calling party wants to convey the information to the called party as soon as possible, it is necessary to call again and again. Or, you have to take the option of re-registering for voicemail. On the other hand, some voice mail systems of a car telephone exchange system have a configuration in which a voice mail can be registered without making a new call when there is no response.

The voice mail system shown in FIG. 2 is a system relating to an automatic voice mail switching system disclosed in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 64-73852. With this system, when the other party is busy or absent, the caller's voicemail access request is detected, the subscriber database is searched from the callee telephone number to obtain the voicemail number, and the subscriber's voicemail is called. It is configured to connect. That is, the subscriber data creation means 710 creates in advance a subscriber database 770 storing the subscriber's mailbox number and subscriber's telephone, and the caller makes a call from the telephone terminal 780 via the electronic exchange 760. The other party is called, and when busy / absent, the busy / absent dial detection means 720 detects the caller telephone number and the callee telephone number. The caller telephone number is sent to the voice mail calling / connecting means 740, while the callee telephone number is sent to the subscriber data searching means 730. Based on this, the mailbox number obtained by searching the subscriber database 770 is sent to the voice mail calling / connecting means 740. Voice mail calling / connecting device 74
0 connects the voice mail device 750 and the telephone terminal 780 by using the caller telephone number and the mailbox number of the caller.

Further, Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 5-103371 discloses a mobile communication system having means for storing voice mail and the like on the base station side.

[0005]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION Including the aforementioned example,
In the conventional voice mail system, when a user of a mobile telephone performs voice mail registration or content confirmation, it is necessary to connect a line to a center (station) having a voice mail function. That is, although it is not necessary to connect the line with the other party at the same time, the information can be transferred only when the center can be connected, which is inconvenient for the side using the mobile phone. When using voicemail, mobile phone users have to confirm the received contents and register the sent contents in the coverage area, which is a problem that the use restrictions of the mobile phone are left as they are. Become.

An object of the present invention is to provide a mobile telephone which enables registration of outgoing voice mail and confirmation of contents of incoming voice mail even in a place where the mobile telephone cannot talk.

An object of the present invention is to provide a mail system using the above mobile telephone.

[0008]

According to the present invention, transmission storage means for storing at least one of voice information and message information to be transmitted and telephone number information corresponding thereto as mail, and transmission to a radio base station. And a control means for transmitting the mail stored in the transmission storage means when the transmission is possible, and a mobile telephone is obtained.

The mobile telephone may have a reception storage means for storing the received mail, and the control means may also control the operation of reading the mail stored in the reception storage means.

According to the invention, there is also provided said mobile telephone,
A mail system having a wireless base station and a fixed telephone that can be connected to each other by a fixed telephone line, and transferring at least one of voice information and message information and telephone number information corresponding thereto as a mail between telephones, The radio base station is connected to a mail control device including a reception storage means for storing mail received from the mobile telephone and a control means for controlling an operation of outputting the mail stored therein to the fixed telephone. Get a voicemail system.

In the voice mail system, the mail control device further comprises a transmission storage means for storing a mail input from the fixed telephone, and the control means detects whether transmission to the mobile telephone is possible or not. When transmission is possible, the mail stored in the transmission storage means may be output to the mobile phone.

According to the present invention, further, the fixed telephone is provided with another mail including input storage means for storing mail from the radio base station and control means for controlling an operation of reading the mail stored therein. The mail system to which the control device is connected is obtained. In this mail system, the other mail control device further includes output storage means for storing a mail to be output from the fixed telephone, and the control means stores the mail stored in the output storage means to the wireless base station. It may control the output operation.

That is, according to the present invention, the voice mail is registered to the mobile telephone at any place including the place where the mobile telephone cannot communicate with any radio base station, and the voice to the center after that is registered. The transmission of the mail is automatically controlled between both control units when communication with the wireless base station becomes possible. Further, in the present invention, a message can be used as a communication medium instead of a voice.

[0014]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION A mobile telephone and a mail system having the same according to the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a mail system according to an embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 1, the mail system includes a mobile telephone 100 and the like, a wireless base station 200 and the fixed telephone 500 that can be connected to each other by a fixed telephone line 600, and voice information and a telephone number corresponding to the voice information. It is a mail system that transfers information and data between phones by mail. Further, the voice mail control device 300 is connected to the wireless base station 200, and the voice mail control device 400 is connected to the fixed telephone 500.

The mobile telephone 100 includes a system control circuit 1
01, a transmission / reception circuit 102, a transmission memory 103, a reception memory 104, a microphone 105, and a receiver 106.
And a key input unit 107 and a display unit 108. The transmission memory 103 is means for storing voice information to be transmitted and telephone number information corresponding thereto as a mail. The reception memory 104 is a means for storing the received mail. The system control circuit 101 includes a radio base station 2
In addition to detecting whether transmission to 00 or the like is possible, when the transmission is possible, the control of transmitting the mail stored in the transmission memory 103 and the operation of reading the mail stored in the reception memory 104 are also controlled.

The voice mail control device 300 stores a mail received from the mobile telephone 100 or the like in a reception buffer 302, a transmission buffer 303 in which mail input from the fixed telephone 500 or the like is stored, and a mail stored in the reception buffer 302. Control of the operation of outputting to the fixed-line telephone 500 and the like, and detection of whether transmission to the mobile telephone 100 and the like is possible and, if transmission is possible, transmission buffer 30
3 and a voice mail control unit 301 for controlling the output of the mail stored in No. 3 to the mobile phone 100 or the like.

The voice mail control device 400 has a reception buffer for storing mail received from the radio base station 200 and the like, and a radio base station 200 which is inputted from the fixed telephone 500.
And the like, and a voice mail control unit for controlling the reading of the mail stored in the receiving buffer and the output operation of the mail to the wireless base station 200 and the like. However, in the present invention, since the voice mail control device for the wireless base station always includes the storage means, the voice mail control device 4
No storage means is necessarily required in a voicemail controller for a fixed telephone such as 00. A voice mail control device for a fixed telephone that does not have a storage means controls the delivery of mail.

Next, the operation of the present mail system will be described to explain the mobile telephone 100 and the present mail system in more detail.

When the user of the mobile telephone 100 uses the fixed telephone 5
When a voice mail is sent to the user No. 00, when the user starts the operation of sending the voice mail, the system control circuit 101 inputs the telephone number (or mail address) of the other party and the voice mail (message). You will be prompted for input. The user inputs a telephone number from the key input device 107 and inputs a voice mail using the microphone 105. The input telephone number information and voice mail (voice information) are temporarily stored in the transmission memory 103. Since this operation is not related to the communication function, it can be performed anytime and anywhere.

When the system control circuit 101 detects that the voice mail can be transferred via the radio base station 200 by exchanging control information in a predetermined case, the system control circuit 101 causes the transmission / reception circuit 102 to store the data in the transmission memory 103. Send a combination of stored voicemail and phone number information. The predetermined case is a case where it is detected that the voice mail control device 300 in the shortest path can communicate with the voice mail control device 300, for example, when the intensity of the received radio wave reaches a certain value or is set in advance. For example, every hour.

On the other hand, in the voice mail control device 300 which receives the voice mail and the telephone number information from the mobile telephone 100 via the wireless base station 200, the voice mail control unit 301 temporarily stores this in the reception buffer 302. At this time, a checksum or the like is returned to the mobile phone 100 in order to confirm that the mobile phone 100 has successfully transferred the transmission contents. After this, the voice mail control device 400 to which the fixed-line telephone 500 of the transmission destination is connected
Is transferred to. This transmission can be performed when the usage rate of the fixed telephone line 600 is low and when a route is selected. In this system, voice mail transfer does not need to be performed in real time unlike telephone calls, and can be divided.

The voice mail control device 400 does not have to have a buffer. However, when the voice mail control device 400 has a buffer (not shown), when the voice mail control device 400 receives a voice mail, the voice mail control device 400 indicates that the voice mail has been received. Notify 500. The user of the fixed-line telephone 500 can hear it from the buffer of the voice mail control device 400 by operation.

When the mobile telephone 100 receives a voice mail, the procedure is the reverse of the above procedure. However, in this case, the user can select in advance whether to store the received voice mail in the transmission buffer 303 of the voice mail control device 300 or the reception memory 104 of the mobile phone 100. With this configuration, when storing in the transmission buffer 303, it is sufficient to transmit the reception and the telephone number of the other party to the mobile telephone 100, and it is difficult to secure a large capacity for the mobile telephone. It is possible to effectively use 104. Then, the system control circuit 101 of the mobile phone 100, which has detected the incoming call, detects that the incoming call is a voice mail by the control signal sent from the wireless base station 200. When the system control circuit 101 detects a voice mail, it receives the voice mail and stores it in the reception memory 104. Along with this, the telephone number information (or mail address or the like) of the voice mail is read, and the display unit 108 is used to notify the user that the voice mail has been received and the information of the other party. After that, the user of the mobile phone 100 can check the contents of the voice mail stored in the reception memory 104 at any time by the operation.

In the present embodiment, voice information is treated as mail, but in the present invention, message information input from the key input unit 107 can be transmitted as mail instead of voice information. . In this case, in addition to the mail device, a device having a display function and a reception function such as a personal computer mail or a pager can be applied as the transmission destination.

[0026]

The mobile telephone according to the present invention has transmission storage means for storing at least one of voice information and message information to be transmitted and telephone number information corresponding thereto as a mail, and transmission to a radio base station. Since it has a control means for detecting the impossibility and transmitting the mail stored in the transmission storage means when the transmission is possible,
A user of a mobile phone can register a voice mail and confirm the contents regardless of the communication state.

Further, the mail system according to the present invention has the above-mentioned mobile telephone, a radio base station and a fixed telephone which can be connected to each other by a fixed telephone line, and at least one of voice information and message information and a telephone corresponding thereto. A mail system that transfers between telephones by using number information as mail, including a reception storage unit that stores a mail received from a mobile telephone and a control unit that controls an operation of outputting the mail stored therein to a fixed telephone. Since the built-in mail control device is connected to the wireless base station, it is not necessary to make a real-time call like a normal call when sending and receiving mail between the mobile phone and the wireless base station, and the line usage status Sending and receiving can be done with consideration, and there is little effect on the line usage of normal calls.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a voice mail system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a voice mail system according to a conventional example.

[Explanation of symbols]

 100 mobile phone 101 system control circuit 102 transmission / reception circuit 103 transmission memory 104 reception memory 200 radio base station 300, 400 voice mail control device 301 voice mail control unit 302 reception buffer device 303 transmission buffer device 500 fixed telephone 600 fixed telephone line 710 subscriber Data creating means 720 Busy / absent dial detecting means 730 Subscriber data searching means 740 Voice mail calling / connecting means 750 Voice mail device 760 Electronic exchange 770 Subscriber database 780 Telephone terminal

Claims (6)

[Claims] 1. A transmission storage unit for storing at least one of voice information and message information to be transmitted and telephone number information corresponding thereto as a mail, and detecting whether or not transmission to a wireless base station is possible and transmitting the same. A mobile telephone having a control means for transmitting the mail stored in the transmission storage means, if possible. 2. The mobile telephone according to claim 1, further comprising a reception storage means for storing the received mail, wherein the control means also controls an operation for reading the mail stored in the reception storage means. 3. The mobile phone according to claim 1 or 2, and a radio base station and a fixed telephone that can be connected to each other by a fixed telephone line, and at least one of voice information and message information and a telephone corresponding thereto. A mail system for transferring between telephones by using number information as a mail, wherein the radio base station outputs reception mail means for storing mail received from the mobile telephone and mail stored therein to the fixed telephone. A voice mail system to which a mail control device having control means for controlling the operation is connected. 4. The mail control device further comprises a transmission storage means for storing the mail input from the fixed telephone, and the control means detects whether transmission to the mobile telephone is possible and enables transmission. The mail system according to claim 3, wherein the mail stored in the transmission storage means is output to the mobile telephone in some cases. 5. The fixed telephone is connected to another mail control device including an input storage means for storing mail from the wireless base station and a control means for controlling an operation of reading the mail stored in the input storage means. The mail system according to claim 3 or 4. 6. The other mail control device further comprises an output storage unit for storing a mail to be output from the fixed telephone, and the control unit sends the mail stored in the output storage unit to the wireless base station. The mail system according to claim 5, which controls an output operation.