JPH09322241A - Automatic call method, automatic reply method and dual communication terminal - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make automatic reply from a dual communication terminal called by a pager by calling automatically the pager when a telephone set is called and there is no replay. SOLUTION: When a subscriber terminal 1 makes a phone call to a person that has a radio telephone terminal 6 and a pager terminal 10 or a dual communication terminal 7 and no reply is obtained, a radio telephone network 4 sends a fact of no reply to a stationary telephone network 2. In this case, the stationary telephone network 2 checks a pager number of the pager terminal 10 or the dual communication terminal 7 from a pager subscriber database 11 to make a call to a pager. Furthermore, the dual communication terminal 7 is provided with a function that extracts a telephone number of a caller included in a message in a pager call and replies the call automatically upon the receipt of the pager call.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an automatic calling and answering method and a dual communication terminal, and in particular, having both a pager terminal and a wireless telephone terminal, or having both a pager function and a wireless telephone function. The present invention relates to an automatic calling and automatic answering method suitable for possessing a dual communication terminal having a function, and a dual communication terminal therefor.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Radio call receivers (pagers) and radio telephones are now very popular and used in various fields. The pager is characterized by low power consumption and long battery life, but it is hard to say that it has a sufficient function for transmitting information because it is one-way communication. On the other hand, a system using a wireless telephone is very convenient because it enables two-way communication of both voice and data, but it consumes more power and consumes less battery time than a pager. It is a drawback.

[0003]

Since the power consumption of the wireless telephone is large as described above, the carrier sometimes turns off the power of the wireless telephone terminal to prevent the battery from running out. There are many cases where it is not possible to receive, or it is not possible to receive because it is in a dead zone. On the other hand,
Since the pager terminal can be used for several months, it is a normal usage condition to keep the power on day and night. For this reason, if the caller of both the selection and wireless telephone terminals or the dual communication terminal operator having both functions has called the wireless telephone terminal and has no response, the pager terminal is called again. There is a problem that it is troublesome to use because it is used.

An object of the present invention is to provide an automatic calling and answering method which improves the calling and connection method when calling a person who has both a radio telephone terminal and a pager terminal or who has a dual communication terminal. , To provide a dual communication terminal for that.

[0005]

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention has a dual communication terminal which has a radiotelephone terminal and a pager terminal, or has a radiotelephone terminal function and a pager terminal function. An automatic calling method for calling a wireless terminal user who possesses, when a call is made via a wireless base station corresponding to the telephone function of the wireless telephone terminal or the dual communication terminal, When the wireless base station detects that the telephone function of the wireless telephone terminal or the dual communication terminal is unresponsive, the wireless base station notifies the exchange that relayed the call that the wireless base station is unresponsive, Upon receiving the notification, the exchange checks the pager number of the wireless terminal user who has received the call, and outputs the signal for calling the pager terminal having the pager number. By sending to the line the base station, it discloses an automatic call method and performing the wireless terminal user of the call.

Further, the present invention provides a message at the dual communication terminal when the wireless terminal user has a dual communication terminal and when the pager terminal function is called by the automatic calling method. Disclosed is an automatic answering method characterized in that the telephone number of the calling party transmitted as is read, and the read telephone number is called from the wireless telephone terminal function of the own dual communication terminal.

Further, the present invention is a dual communication terminal having a radiotelephone unit and a pager unit, wherein when the pager unit receives a call as a message containing information including a caller's telephone number, the call is made. Means for fetching the telephone number of the caller as data, and second means for controlling the telephone number of the caller fetched by the first means so as to make a call from the wireless telephone unit. Disclosed is a dual communication terminal.

[0008]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below. FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a configuration example of a wireless communication system using a wireless telephone terminal and a pager terminal. The calling of the wireless telephone terminal in such a system is performed by dialing a calling signal of the called wireless telephone terminal 6 or the dual communication terminal 7 by the telephone network subscriber terminal 1. At this time, the selection node 12 of the fixed telephone network 2 to which the calling terminal 1 is connected determines the call of the wireless telephone system, and the subscriber database 14 and the wireless telephone terminal of the wireless telephone network 4 via the common signal network 3. Based on the location registration database 15 of FIG. 1, the calling radio wave is transmitted through the wireless device 5 of the called terminal cell. When the called wireless telephone terminal is in the power-on state and has sufficient electric field strength, the carrier of the terminal recognizes that there is an incoming call, and goes off-hook to start a call. However, the terminal 6 or the terminal 10
When the power is cut off or the electric field strength is insufficient, the carrier cannot recognize that the call is received and remains unresponsive. In this case, in the conventional system, the caller 1 is guided from the radio telephone network 4 to the caller 1 that the power is off or the electric field is insufficient, and the connection control is terminated and the line is released. . Normally, this ends the caller giving up on communicating.

There is a case where the calling party knows that the calling party has a pager terminal or a dual communication terminal, and calls the pager again when the wireless telephone terminal cannot be reached. However, this makes the operation complicated as described above. Therefore, in the present invention, first, when a person who has a wireless telephone and a pager terminal or makes a telephone call to a person who has a dual communication terminal and fails, the telephone network is automatically controlled as described below. Make a pager call.

As described above, when the radio telephone call fails, the radio telephone network 4 sends a non-response talkie to the calling terminal 1 via the fixed telephone network 2 in response to the non-response of the radio telephone. In the present invention, the following operation is performed in the fixed telephone network 2 by this signal. That is, in the fixed telephone network 2, the data of the users who have subscribed to both the wireless telephone and the pager are stored in the subscriber database 13 in advance. Then, when the non-response talkie is returned as described above, in the fixed telephone network 2, the above-mentioned both subscriber database 1
3 and the pager subscriber database 11 to retrieve the pager terminal calling number and the calling number of the wireless telephone terminal of the user who owns the unanswered wireless telephone terminal.
Then, these are sent to the pager network 8 via the common line signal network 3. The pager network 8 receives the pager terminal call number sent, and performs a normal selective call operation based on the subscriber database 16 and the location registration database 17 from the wireless station 9 in the area where the pager terminal exists to the pager terminal 1
0 or the selective calling unit of the dual communication terminal 7 is called. At this time, the calling number (telephone number) of the wireless telephone terminal sent from the fixed telephone network 2 is transmitted to the pager terminal or the dual communication terminal as pager transmission information. By doing so, the user of the telephone subscriber terminal 1 who has called the wireless telephone terminal 6 or the dual communication terminal 7 listens to the no-answer talkie guidance without hooking the calling terminal 1 on-hook. Then wait for the response from the calling party.

The person who receives the automatic call as described above
If you have a wireless telephone terminal and a pager terminal that are not dual communication terminals, perform the call operation of the wireless telephone terminal to answer the caller by looking at the display information on the pager terminal. When the person receives the automatic call, the calling operation of this response can be automated. To this end, when the pager section of a dual communication terminal receives a call, if the power of the wireless telephone section is turned off, it is turned on, and then the caller is sent from the information sent to the pager section. It is configured to read out the telephone number and automatically call the telephone number. Such a device configuration can be easily realized by a related trader.

According to the configuration of the dual communication terminal as described above, a call is received when the power of the wireless telephone unit is turned off by chance, and when the pager unit is automatically called when it is determined that there is no response, the call is issued. Since the dual communication terminal can automatically make a call to the caller, the dual communication terminal holder can not only be more sure of the recognition of the called party, but also the call operation for answering can be automated. A user-friendly system can be realized.

In addition, the dual communication terminal having the above-mentioned automatic calling function does not respond to the pager automatic call when it is called as a wireless telephone terminal because of no response, and the caller from the beginning cannot be called. Also, when a pager call is received, the same operation is performed and an automatic call for a response is made. Therefore, in any case, if the power of the wireless telephone terminal unit that consumes a large amount of power is turned off and the call is automatically answered by calling through the pager function,
It can be used as a wireless telephone terminal that consumes significantly less power than a wireless telephone terminal that always uses power.

[0014]

As described above, according to the present invention, a person who carries both a radiotelephone terminal and a pager terminal, or a person who carries a so-called dual communication terminal having both a radiotelephone terminal function and a pager terminal function can reliably receive a call. In addition, when the caller of the wireless communication by pager call is recognized, the called party of the dual communication terminal can answer without making a call operation to the calling party again. The effect is that a call system can be realized.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration example of a wireless telephone system having an automatic calling and automatic answering method of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 telephone network subscriber terminal 2 fixed telephone network 3 common line signaling network 4 wireless telephone network 5 wireless device 6 wireless telephone terminal 7 dual communication terminal 8 pager network 9 pager wireless station 10 pager terminal 11 pager subscriber database 12 other network selection node 13 bilateral subscriber database 14 wireless telephone network subscriber database 15 wireless telephone terminal location registration database 16 pager subscriber database 17 pager location registration database

Claims (6)

[Claims] 1. An automatic calling method for calling a wireless terminal user who has a wireless telephone terminal and a pager terminal, or has a dual communication terminal having a wireless telephone terminal function and a pager terminal function. , When a call is made through a radio base station corresponding to the telephone function of the wireless telephone terminal or the dual communication terminal, the telephone function of the wireless telephone terminal or the dual communication terminal is unresponsive. Is detected by the wireless base station, the wireless base station notifies the switching center that relayed the call that there is no response, and the switching center that has received the notification causes the wireless terminal user who has received the call. Of the pager number of, and by sending a signal for calling to the pager terminal having the pager number to the radio base station,
An automatic calling method, characterized in that the wireless terminal user is called. 2. A caller who makes a call to the wireless telephone terminal function of the wireless terminal user or the wireless communication terminal function of the dual communication terminal when the pager terminal function of the pager terminal or the dual communication terminal is called. 3. The message is transmitted by including a telephone number.
The automatic calling method described. 3. The dual communication terminal when the wireless terminal user possesses a dual communication terminal and when the pager terminal function is called by the automatic calling method according to claim 2. The automatic answering method is characterized in that the telephone number of the caller transmitted as a message in step 1 is read, and the read telephone number is called from the wireless telephone terminal function of the dual communication terminal itself. 4. When the power of the wireless telephone terminal function of the dual communication terminal is turned off when the pager terminal function is called, the power is first turned on and then the automatic response operation is performed. 4. The automatic response method according to claim 3, wherein: 5. A dual communication terminal having a wireless telephone section and a pager section, wherein when the pager section receives a call as a message containing information including a caller's telephone number, the caller's telephone is called. A first means for extracting the number as data, and a second means for controlling the telephone number of the caller extracted by the first means so as to make a call from the wireless telephone unit. Dual communication terminal. 6. The third means for controlling to turn on the power supply of the wireless telephone unit when the power supply of the wireless telephone unit is off at the time of making a call by the second means.
Dual communication terminal described.