JPH0937350A - Calling system utilizing mobile telephone terminal - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a calling system capable of quickly and surely responding to a call by detecting the existing position of a callee even in a response disabled state clue to callee's absence or the like at the time of call incoming to a mobile telephone terminal in a mobile telephone system. SOLUTION: A mobile telephone terminal 1 itself judges the response disabled state at a callee 10 and the existing position of the callee 10 is detected by a control device 4a and/or a central control device 11 arranged in a radio zone 9a in which the terminal 1 exists. Then the callee 10 is informed of the generation of an incoming call request by electric display/sound calling type calling devices 6b, 7b and a bidirection communicatable paging device 8 arranged in a radio zone 9b corresponding to the existing position.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a calling system using a mobile telephone terminal such as a portable telephone, and more particularly, to a system in which a premises as a calling range is constituted by a plurality of wireless zones and the mobile telephone terminal itself cannot receive a call. A paging system that detects and communicates its status to a called party in a particular wireless zone of a premises in multiple ways.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As a conventional paging system of this kind, for example, Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 2-155319 discloses a mobile telephone system provided with a mobile station apparatus including a mobile station and a mobile telephone terminal, such as an automobile telephone. In order to be able to connect to and talk to a mobile phone terminal even at a location away from the mobile station, the mobile station will be equipped with a cordless telephone base unit in addition to the ordinary car phone function, and relayed. A mobile telephone system has been proposed that can operate as a station so that calls and calls can be made by a simple method (specifically, by carrying a cordless telephone handset) even when away from the mobile station. I have.

Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 57-53161 discloses a method of paging a called party by paging when the called party is away from his / her desk when receiving an incoming call to an automobile telephone terminal, and calling the calling party. Has proposed a mobile telephone exchange system which can complete a call by notifying the user of the situation.

[0004]

However, the above-mentioned conventional example has the following problems.

[0005] The first problem is the above-mentioned JP-A-2-1553.
In the system described in Japanese Patent Application Publication No. 19, if a called party does not have a terminal at the time of receiving a call, it is not possible to obtain call information. This is because the incoming call information is exchanged only between the mobile station and the terminal.

[0006] The second problem is the above-mentioned Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 57-531.
In the method described in Japanese Patent No. 61, it is impossible for the called party to respond to the calling party. this is,
This is because the paging terminal device is configured only for incoming calls and has no outgoing call function.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a mobile telephone terminal such as a portable telephone so as to solve the above-mentioned problems, realize a more reliable call upon receiving a call, and improve the reliability of the call. An object of the present invention is to provide a calling system that utilizes the same.

[0008]

In order to achieve the above object, according to a basic aspect of the present invention, there is provided a calling system using a mobile telephone terminal such as a mobile telephone, each of which is a control device and the control device. Incoming calls by measuring the time from the time when an incoming call request occurs, with multiple wireless zones that are equipped with a storage device, a relay station that cooperates with Is configured to determine the unresponsiveness state of the called party to the, and to transmit the information of the unresponsiveness state to the control device provided in the wireless zone receiving the incoming call request via the relay station. Mobile telephone terminal, a paging terminal device capable of two-way communication owned by the called party, and a main storage device, and each of the relay stations installed in each of the plurality of wireless zones is connected to the control device. Through A central control unit for controlling the absence information of the called party from the central control unit to the control unit and / or from the control unit to the mobile telephone terminal via the relay station, and further to the mobile telephone terminal Means for notifying a caller via a base station that has received a call request signal from the server, wherein the storage device sequentially stores the location information of the paging terminal device, and If the call cannot be answered, the control device or the central control device searches for the paging terminal device in cooperation with the storage device or the main storage device, respectively,
When the paging terminal device is detected, the paging terminal device is called at the detected position and at least one of the calling devices arranged in the wireless zone corresponding to the detected position. There is provided a calling system characterized by being configured to call the called party via the.

Preferably, in the present invention, when the control device according to the basic aspect searches for a storage device cooperating therewith, the paging terminal device is detected in a wireless zone where the mobile telephone terminal exists. Calling the paging terminal and calling the called party via at least one of the calling devices located in a wireless zone corresponding to the detected location. Features.

Preferably, in the present invention, as a result of the control device according to the basic aspect searching for a storage device cooperating therewith, the paging terminal device is not detected in the wireless zone where the mobile telephone terminal exists. In such a case, the central control device searches for another wireless zone registered in the main storage device in cooperation with the main storage device, and when the another wireless zone is detected, The page located
A paging terminal device, and a call to the called party via at least one of the paging devices located in the another wireless zone.

Further, in the present invention, preferably, the calling device according to the basic aspect is a voice calling means and / or an electric light display means.

Further, in the present invention, it is preferable that the paging terminal device according to the basic aspect described above responds to a selection of a called party as to whether or not to respond to an incoming call request to the mobile telephone terminal. It is characterized by having means for notifying the selection information to the relay station.

Further, in the present invention, preferably,
The unresponsiveness information transmitted to the mobile telephone terminal via the relay station and the control device according to the basic aspect is notified to the caller via voice output means and / or display output means. Features.

[0014]

The principle and operation of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram for explaining the overall configuration of one embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 1, in the present embodiment, a calling system using a mobile phone terminal such as a mobile phone has a premises which is a callable range, which includes a plurality of wireless zones 9a and 9b. There are a relay station 3a, a control device 4a, a storage device 5a, a plurality of calling devices 6a and 7a, and each control device is connected to the central control device 11 by a wired or wireless transmission path. The main storage device 12 is connected. Other wireless zones 9b have the same configuration. The called party 10 has a two-way paging terminal device (hereinafter simply referred to as a paging terminal device) 8 capable of transmitting and receiving information.

The arrangement of the relay station 3a, the control device 4a and the storage device 5a is shown in FIG.
FIG. 5 shows an example of the internal configuration of the above.

Referring to FIG. 1, when mobile telephone terminal 1 (an example of an internal configuration of which is shown in FIG. 6) is in a receiving state and the called party cannot answer immediately, control unit 4a Cooperates with a central control unit 11 (an example of an internal configuration of which is shown in FIG. 7) to provide a plurality of calling units 6 to a called party.
a, 7a, each of the paging terminal devices 8 capable of transmitting and receiving information informs that the mobile phone is in an incoming call state.

It is to be understood that a call to the called party is made in a plurality of ways, so that even if the called party does not have the paging terminal device 8, an incoming call request is issued to the mobile telephone terminal. Is possible.

When the called party has a paging terminal device capable of transmitting and receiving information, the control device 4 transmits information indicating whether or not to respond to the incoming call request to the central control device 11. It is possible to send the call to the mobile phone terminal 1 jointly, and it is possible to realize a more reliable incoming call.

[0020]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a diagram for explaining one embodiment of the present invention. FIG.
FIG. 5 is a sequence diagram for describing a position registration operation of paging terminal device 8 in the present embodiment. FIG. 3 is a sequence diagram for explaining a paging operation and a response operation of the paging terminal device 8.

First, the location registration operation of the paging terminal device 8 in the present embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS.

In the paging system using a portable telephone shown in FIG. 1, the paging terminal device 8 capable of transmitting and receiving information possessed by the called party 10 has the name of the called party 10 or information similar thereto at a predetermined cycle. Is transmitted in the form of radio waves.

The control devices 4a and 4b installed in each of the wireless zones 9a and 9b always detect radio waves transmitted from the paging terminal device 8 through the relay stations 3a and 3b, respectively.

When the control device 4a or 4b receives the information from the paging terminal device 8 through the relay station 3a or 3b (step 51 in FIG. 2), the control device 4a or 4b stores the information in the storage device 5a or 5b. (Step 52 in FIG. 2).

At the same time, the control device 4a or 4b transmits information indicating its own terminal and the name of the called party 10 obtained from the paging terminal device 8 or information similar thereto to the central control device 11 (step 53 in FIG. 2). .

The central controller 11 stores the information transmitted from the controller 4a or 4b in the main memory 12 as location registration (step 54 in FIG. 2).

Next, the calling operation in the above embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS.

In the present embodiment, the portable telephone terminal 1 existing in the wireless zone 9a, which is a callable range, is used.
Receives a call request signal from the caller A via the base station 2 (step 60 in FIG. 3). Calling operation 1: When the number of ringing tones becomes equal to or more than a predetermined number of times set in advance (when a predetermined time or more has elapsed since the generation of the incoming call request), the mobile telephone terminal 1 is in a state where the called party 10 is not present. The fact that the incoming call response is impossible is notified to the control device 4 via the relay station 3a (step 61 in FIG. 3).

The control device 4a refers to the storage device 5a and checks whether or not the paging terminal device 8 indicating the called party 10 exists in its own radio zone 9a, that is, whether or not the location registration operation is being performed. (Step 62 in FIG. 3).

When the location registration operation is being performed (that is, when the paging terminal device 8 is present in the wireless zone where the mobile phone terminal is present), the control device 4a sets the relay station 3a.
Paging terminal device 8 is called through (step 63 in FIG. 3).

At the same time, the name of the called party 10 and the incoming call are received by the electronic signage device 6a and the voice calling device 7a (one example of each internal configuration is shown in FIGS. 8 and 9). Is transmitted (step 64 in FIG. 3).

The electronic display device 6a uses a character display such as an LED, and the voice calling device 7a uses a voice to call the called party 1
0 is notified that there is an incoming call. Calling operation 2: When the location registration of the paging terminal device 8 has not been performed in the storage device 5a of the wireless zone 9, the control device 4a confirms whether the location registration of the paging terminal device 8 has been performed in the central control device 11. (Step 65 in FIG. 3).

The central controller 11 refers to the main memory 12 to search for a wireless zone in which the location of the paging terminal 8 is registered (step 66 in FIG. 3).

If there is a wireless zone 9b whose location has been registered in the main storage device 12, a signal for calling the paging terminal device 8 is sent to the control device 4b in the wireless zone (step 67 in FIG. 3).

The control device 4b calls the paging terminal device 8 via the relay station 3b based on the signal (FIG. 3).
Step 68).

At the same time, the electronic bulletin board 6 is provided in the same manner as described above.
A notification is made to the called party 10 via b and the voice calling device 7b (step 69 in FIG. 3).

If there is no wireless zone whose location has been registered, the central control unit 11 informs the control unit 4a of "the called party 1
0 is not present in the premises "(step 70 in FIG. 3), and the control device 4a notifies the mobile phone terminal 1 of the information through the relay station 3a (step 71- in FIG. 3).
1).

The mobile telephone terminal 1 transmits to the caller A via the base station 2 a message indicating that "the called party 10 is unable to answer the incoming call" using voice output means and / or display output means (FIG. 1). At the same time as Step 71-2) of Step 3, the fact that there is an incoming call and its time are displayed on its own display device. Paging operation 3: When the called party 10 has a paging terminal device 8 capable of transmitting and receiving information, the mobile phone terminal 1 is in a receiving state, and the paging terminal device 8 receives a call, the called party is called. The user 10 can arbitrarily transmit information as to whether or not to respond to this call from the paging terminal device 8 to the control device 4b through the relay station 3b (step 81 in FIG. 3).

The information transmitted to the control device 4b is further transmitted from the control device 4b to the control device 4a located in the wireless zone 9a where the portable telephone terminal 1 is located (step 82 in FIG. 3). The information is transmitted to the mobile phone terminal 1 through the relay station 3a (step 8 in FIG. 3).
3).

When the mobile telephone terminal 1 receives the information indicating that the incoming call can be answered from the called party 10, the portable telephone terminal 1 sends the information to the calling party A via the base station 2 to the effect that "the called party can answer the call, so wait for it." Is transmitted by means such as voice (step 84 in FIG. 3).

When the portable telephone terminal 1 receives the information indicating that the called party 10 cannot respond, the portable telephone terminal 1 informs the calling party A via the base station 2 that "the called party 10 cannot answer the telephone".
At the same time that the message is transmitted using the voice output means and / or the display output means or the like (step 84 in FIG. 3), the fact that there is an incoming call and its time are displayed on its own display device. Calling operation 4: Even if a predetermined time set in advance by the called party 10 has passed to the mobile phone terminal 1 from the time of the occurrence of the incoming call request,
When the response or non-response information is not transmitted from the called party 10, the mobile phone 1 transmits the caller A through the base station 2.
To the user using voice output means and / or display output means (step 90 in FIG. 3), and at the same time, a call is received in the own display device. Is displayed and the time is displayed.

FIG. 10 shows the operation of step 63 in the calling operation 1 or step 68 in the calling operation 2,
That is, an example of a signal format related to a radio signal transmitted from the relay station 3a or 3b to the paging terminal 8 is shown. In the illustrated transmission frame, s ₁ is the unique number of the called mobile telephone terminal 1, s ₂ is the unique number of the paging device receiving the call, and s ₃ is This is the unique number of the originator of the call.

FIG. 11 shows an example of a signal format relating to a radio signal transmitted from the paging terminal 8 to the relay station 3b, ie, the operation of step 81 in the above paging operation 3. In the illustrated transmission frame, s ₁ , s ₂ , and s ₃ are the same as those shown in FIG. 10, and s ₄ is a signal for notifying the caller A of whether or not it can respond.

As for the above signal format, the communication system is a TDMA (Time Division Multiplexing) system, and the audio signal is converted into a digital signal for transmission and reception, and the modulation system at this time is not specified to a specific system. Shall be.

As described above, the present invention has been described with reference to the above embodiments. However, the present invention is not limited to the above embodiments, but includes various embodiments according to the principle of the present invention.

[0046]

As described above, according to the present invention,
Even when a call is received when the user does not have a mobile telephone terminal, the called party can respond quickly.

Further, according to the present invention, the third party is notified that the called party is being called by the electronic bulletin board apparatus or the voice calling apparatus, so that the called party can be more quickly responded. Can be expected.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating an example of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a sequence diagram illustrating a location registration operation of the paging terminal device according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a sequence diagram for explaining a paging operation and a response operation of the paging terminal device according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram illustrating an example of a configuration related to an arrangement of a relay station, a control device, and a storage device used in the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration example of a paging device used in the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a block diagram showing a configuration example of a mobile telephone terminal used in the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a block diagram showing a configuration example of a central control unit used in the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 8 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration example of an electric bulletin board used in the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 9 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration example of a voice calling device used in the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 10 is an example of a signal format relating to a radio signal transmitted from the relay station to the paging terminal 8;

FIG. 11 is an example of a signal format relating to a radio signal transmitted from the paging terminal 8 to the relay station.

[Explanation of symbols]

 REFERENCE SIGNS LIST 1 mobile phone terminal 2 base station 3a, 3b relay station 4a, 4b control device 5a, 5b storage device 6a, 6b electric signage display device 7a, 7b voice calling device 8 paging terminal device 9a, 9b wireless zone 10 called party 11 central control Device 12 Main storage device A Caller

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Claims (6)

[Claims] 1. A paging system using a mobile telephone terminal such as a mobile phone, each of which includes a control device, a storage device cooperating with the control device, a relay station, and a plurality of paging devices. A plurality of wireless zones belonging to the premises that are within the possible range, and a state in which the called party cannot respond to the incoming call by measuring the time from the time of the occurrence of the incoming call request, A mobile telephone terminal configured to transmit via the relay station to the control device provided in the wireless zone receiving the incoming call request, and a paging terminal device capable of two-way communication owned by the called party A central controller for controlling each of the relay stations installed in the plurality of wireless zones via the controller, and a central controller for controlling absence information of a called party. Dress Means for notifying a caller via the base station which has received a call request signal from the mobile telephone terminal via the relay station to the control device and / or from the control device via the relay station to the mobile telephone terminal Wherein the location information of the paging terminal device is sequentially registered in the storage device, and when it is impossible to answer the incoming call, the control device or the central control device stores the location information of the paging terminal device in the storage device. The paging terminal device is searched in cooperation with a device or the main storage device. When the paging terminal device is detected, the paging terminal device is called at the detected position, and the paging terminal device is detected. A call to the called party via at least one of the calling devices located in the wireless zone corresponding to the location of the call. System. 2. As a result of searching the storage device by the control device, when the paging terminal device is detected in a wireless zone where the mobile telephone terminal exists, calling the paging terminal device; and The calling system according to claim 1, wherein a call is made to the called party via at least one of the calling devices arranged in a wireless zone corresponding to the detected position. 3. If the paging terminal device is not detected in a wireless zone where the mobile telephone terminal exists as a result of the control device searching the storage device, the central control device cooperates with the main storage device. To search for another wireless zone whose location is registered in the main storage device, and when the another wireless zone is detected, calls the paging terminal device located there, and A paging system configured to place a call to the called party via at least one of the paging devices located in another wireless zone. 4. The calling system according to claim 1, wherein said calling device is a voice calling unit and / or an electronic display unit. 5. The paging terminal device transmits the selection information to the relay station and the control device in accordance with a selection of a called party as to whether or not to respond to an incoming call request to the mobile telephone terminal. 2. A calling system according to claim 1, further comprising means for notifying said mobile telephone terminal via a telephone. 6. The non-response information transmitted to the mobile telephone terminal via the relay station and the control device is notified to a caller via voice output means and / or display output means. The paging system according to claim 5, wherein: