JPH10134259A - Communication system and terminal equipment for the same - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a communication system, with which conditions for searching any specified terminal owner are stored, the stored information is transmitted/received, a reception terminal discriminates whether stored conditions are matched with received conditions or not, a party suitable for its own conditions can be found out of plural unspecified parties by reporting such a state in case of coincidence and communication with the party on the matched conditions is enabled by reporting the coincidence, concerning the communication system composed of plural pieces of terminal equipment having storage means at least. SOLUTION: Concerning the communication system composed of plural pieces of terminal equipment 12 having storage means 25 at least, this system is provided with a stored information sending means 23 for storing the conditions for searching the specified terminal owner in the storage means 25 and sending out these conditions, discriminating means for for the terminal equipment 12 receiving these conditions to discriminate whether the conditions stored in the storage means 25 are coincident with the received conditions or not, and announcing means 24 for announcing information showing the coincidence of conditions between both the terminal equipment 12 and 12 when this discriminating means discriminates coincidence.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a communication system composed of a plurality of terminal devices having at least storage means such as a RAM, and a terminal device thereof.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, there are various means such as a telephone, a facsimile, a pager, an electronic mail using a personal computer, and the like. However, there is a problem in that it is extremely difficult to find a specific partner that meets his or her condition from a plurality of unspecified partners.

[0003]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, in a communication system including at least a plurality of terminal devices having storage means, conditions for searching for a specific terminal owner are stored. The receiving terminal transmits and receives the stored information, determines whether or not the stored condition and the receiving condition match, and notifies the user of the matching when the condition is matched. It is an object of the present invention to provide a communication system that can find a partner that satisfies the above condition, and that can communicate with a partner that satisfies the condition by reporting a match.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in addition to the object of the first aspect, the portability of the terminal device is ensured by executing the transmission of the above conditions by wireless transmission. The purpose of the present invention is to provide a communication system capable of performing the above.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, in a terminal device used in the communication system according to the first or second aspect, conditions for searching for a specific terminal owner are stored, and the stored information is transmitted and received. By determining whether the received condition matches the storage condition and notifying the user when the condition is matched, it is possible to find a partner that meets his / her condition among a plurality of unspecified partners, It is an object of the present invention to provide a terminal device capable of communicating with a partner whose conditions are satisfied by notifying the user of a match.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in addition to the object of the third aspect, a terminal capable of reducing power consumption by limiting the number of times of notification by the above-described notification means. The purpose is to provide the device.

According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, in addition to the object of the third aspect of the present invention, by limiting the time for performing the determination of the matching of the condition, it is possible to reduce the waste of time for determining the matching. It is an object of the present invention to provide a terminal device capable of preventing such a problem.

[0008]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a communication system comprising at least a plurality of terminal devices having storage means, wherein a specific terminal owner is searched for in the storage means. And remember the conditions for
Storage information sending means for sending the condition, a terminal device having received the condition, determining means for determining whether or not the condition stored in the storage means and the received condition match;
When the determination means determines a match, the communication system includes a notification means for notifying information that the conditions are matched in both terminal devices.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in addition to the configuration of the first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a communication system for executing the transmission of the condition by wireless transmission.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, there is provided a terminal device for use in the communication system according to the first or second aspect, wherein storage means for storing conditions for searching for a specific terminal owner; A terminal device comprising: storage information sending means for sending the condition; determining means for determining whether the received condition matches; and notifying means for notifying condition matching information at the time of matching determination by the determining means. There is a feature.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in addition to the configuration of the third aspect of the present invention, the terminal device further comprises a frequency limiting means for limiting the number of times of notification by the notification means. I do.

According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, in addition to the configuration of the third aspect of the present invention, there is provided a terminal device provided with a time limiting means for limiting a time for the determination means to determine whether the condition is met. There is a feature.

[0013]

According to the first aspect of the present invention, the storage means stores conditions for searching for a specific terminal owner, and the storage information sending means sends the conditions. Then, the above-mentioned determination means determines whether or not the terminal device having received the condition matches the condition stored in the storage means with the received condition, and the above-mentioned notification means has determined that the determination means has matched. At this time, information indicating that the conditions are met is reported by both terminal devices. For this reason, it is possible to find a partner that satisfies the own condition from among a plurality of unspecified partners, and it is possible to communicate with a partner that satisfies the condition by notifying the user that the condition is met.

According to the second aspect of the present invention,
In addition to the effect of the first aspect of the present invention, since the selection of the condition is executed by wireless transmission, there is an effect that the portability of the terminal device can be ensured.

According to the third aspect of the present invention,
3. The terminal device used in the communication system according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the storage means stores a condition for searching for a specific terminal owner, and the storage information transmitting means transmits the condition and determines the condition. The means determines whether or not the received condition is matched, and the notifying means notifies information of condition matching (matching information) when the matching is determined by the determining means. Therefore, it is possible to find a partner that satisfies the user's condition from among a plurality of unspecified partners, and to notify the user of the match, so that it is possible to communicate with the partner that satisfies the condition.

According to the invention described in claim 4 of the present invention,
Together with the effect of the third aspect of the present invention, the above-mentioned number limiting means limits (restricts) the number of times of notification by the notifying means.
Therefore, there is an effect that power consumption can be reduced.

According to the invention described in claim 5 of the present invention,
In addition to the effect of the third aspect of the present invention, the time limiting means limits the time for the determining means to determine whether the condition is met. For this reason, it is possible to prevent waste of time from being spent on the match determination, and it is possible to achieve so-called reduction of waste time.

[0018]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS One embodiment of the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the drawings. The drawing shows a communication system and its terminal device, and FIG. 1 shows a taxi stand (TP) as one embodiment.
Unspecified plural or unspecified number of people A, B,
C, D, E (the other party), the condition of own F (taxi 1
1 shows a communication system in the case of sharing with one another and finding and communicating with a partner suitable for the same direction or the same destination. A to f shown by virtual lines in FIG.
Card 12 as a terminal device owned by F (see FIG. 2)
Indicates the communicable area.

FIG. 2 is an external view of the card 12. The card 12 transmits the condition recognition data 13 to, for example, a "cab sharing".
And the classification information recognition data 1 corresponding to the destination
4 is displayed as characters such as "Tokyo Station", and the name of the other party 15 is displayed as characters such as "Taro" when the condition is met.
And an input unit 20 including an ON / OFF key 17, a selection execution key 18, and a clear key 19.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing a control circuit of the card 12.
In accordance with a program stored in the ROM 22, a drive unit controls and controls a transmitting / receiving antenna 23 for wirelessly transmitting condition data as a storage information transmitting unit, a display unit 16, and a card built-in speaker 24 as a notifying unit. The RAM 25 stores conditions for searching for a specific terminal owner (condition recognition data 13, classification information recognition data 14) and necessary data such as own name data as a table. The transmission / reception circuit including the demodulation unit and the modulation unit is a CPU.
21. The battery 26 is exchangeably built into the card 12 and supplies necessary power to each section, while the above-described elements 16 and 20 to 26 are integrated into the card 12.

FIG. 4 shows a writing device 27 for writing necessary data such as condition recognition data 13, classification information recognition data 14, and own name data into the RAM 25 of the card 12, and the writing device 27 is a display unit 28. , A keyboard 30, and a writing interface 32 having a card insertion slot 31. Input information is visually displayed on the display unit 28 in response to an operation input by the keyboard 30. Necessary information is stored in the card 12 inserted into the card 32 through the antenna built in the interface 32 and the antenna 23 on the card 12 side. The communication system according to this embodiment comprises a plurality of cards 12 (terminal devices) and a writing device 27.

The CPU 21 in the card 12 shown in FIG.
Is to determine whether the card 12 that has received the condition data by radio wave determines whether the condition (see the condition recognition data 13 and the classification information recognition data 14) stored in the RAM 25 in advance and the received condition (reception condition) match. Means (see the fourth step S4 in the flowchart shown in FIG. 5) and the speaker 24
Limiter (see the sixth step S6 in the flowchart shown in FIG. 5) that limits the number of times of notification by the user, and time limiter that limits the time when the determiner (see S4) performs the condition match determination (in this embodiment, The fourth step S4 also serves as the determining means and the time limiting means).

The operation of the communication system thus configured and its terminal device will be described in detail below with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG. First, necessary information (condition recognition data 13, classification information recognition data 14, name data, etc.) is written in the RAM 25 of the card 12 using the writing device 27 in advance.

In the first step S1, the card holder is turned on
When the OFF key 17 is turned on, the CPU 21 executes transmission for a certain period of time and reception for a certain period of time in order to find a communication partner. Note that transmission and reception are performed via the antenna 23, and the received information is temporarily stored in a predetermined area of the RAM 25 once.

Next, in a second step S2, the CPU 21 receives the radio wave of the other party, determines whether or not a connection with the other party has been established (establishment of one-to-one communication). ), The process returns to the first step S1. On the other hand, when the determination is YES (when the connection is successful), the process proceeds to the next third step S3.

In the third step S3, the CPU 21 sends its own name data to the partner with whom the connection has been established.
The condition recognition data 13 and the classification information recognition data 14 are transmitted via the antenna 23.

Next, in a fourth step S4, the CPU 21 compares its own condition recognition data 13 and classification information recognition data 14 with the other party's condition recognition data 13 and classification information recognition data 14 within a predetermined time set in advance. Then, it is determined whether or not they match. In this embodiment, it is determined whether or not the information of "Taxis sharing" and the destination "Tokyo station" match each other. If the determination is NO (when they do not match), the first step S1 is performed. On the other hand, when YES is determined (when the values match), the next fifth step S5
Move to

In the fifth step S5, the CPU 21 drives the display unit 16 to visually display the matched condition recognition data 13, the classification information recognition data 14, and the name 15 of the partner as the partner ID. Next, the sixth step S6
Then, the CPU 21 drives the speaker 24 to operate the speaker 24 within the limited number of times of notification, and notifies the card holder of the agreement by electronic sound or pseudo sound.

Next, in a seventh step S7, the CPU 21 waits for an operation of the input unit 20, and then in a next eighth step S8, the CPU 21 cuts off the power supply to the speaker 24, and simultaneously displays the display unit 16 and the condition. (Condition recognition data 13, classification information recognition data 14) are cleared.

As described above, according to the communication system of the embodiment, the storage means (see the RAM 25) stores the conditions for searching for a specific terminal owner (see the condition recognition data 13 and the classification information recognition data 14). Then, the above-mentioned storage information sending means (see the antenna 23) sends the above condition, and the above-mentioned discriminating means (see the fourth step S4) makes the terminal device (see the card 12) which has received the condition use the storing means (see the RAM 25). It is determined whether or not the condition stored in the storage device and the received condition match, and the above-described notification means (see speaker 24)
When the discriminating means (refer to the fourth step S4) discriminates a match, both terminals inform the information that the condition is matched.

Therefore, it is possible to find a partner who satisfies the condition from among a plurality of unspecified partners, and to communicate with the mate that satisfies the condition by notifying the user that the condition is met. There is. Further, since the selection of the condition is executed by wireless transmission via the antenna 23, there is an effect that the portability of the terminal device (see the card 12) can be ensured.

In addition, in the terminal device (see the card 12) used in the above-mentioned communication system, the above-mentioned storage means (see the RAM 25) stores conditions for searching for a specific terminal owner, and transmits the above-mentioned storage information. The means (see the antenna 23) sends out the condition, the determining means (see the fourth step S4) determines whether or not the received condition is met, and the above-mentioned notifying means (see the speaker 24) matches the received condition. At the time of discrimination, condition matching information (matching information) is notified by electronic sound or pseudo sound.

[0033] For this reason, it is possible to find a partner that matches his / her condition from among a plurality of unspecified partners, and to notify the user of the match, thereby enabling communication with a partner that meets the condition. There is. In addition, the above-mentioned number limiting means (see the sixth step S6) is a notifying means (see the speaker 24).
Limit (restrict) the number of notifications. Therefore, there is an effect that power consumption can be reduced.

Further, the above-mentioned time limiting means (refer to the fourth step S4) limits the time during which the determining means (refer to the same step S4) determines that the condition is met. For this reason, it is possible to prevent waste of time from being spent on the match determination, and it is possible to achieve so-called reduction of waste time.

In correspondence between the configuration of the present invention and the above-described embodiment, the terminal device of the present invention is similar to the card 12 of the embodiment.
Similarly, the storage means corresponds to the RAM 25, the condition corresponds to the condition set in the condition recognition data 13 and the classification information recognition data 14, and the storage information sending means
Corresponding to the antenna 23, the determining means corresponds to the fourth step S4 controlled by the CPU, and the notifying means corresponds to the speaker 24.
, The time limiter corresponds to the sixth step S6, and the time limiter corresponds to the fourth step S4.
The present invention is not limited only to the configuration of the above embodiment.

For example, in the above-described embodiment, a communication system in which a partner who meets his or her condition is found and communicated at a taxi stand among a plurality of unspecified partners has been exemplified. The present invention can be applied to a communication system and a terminal device thereof in a case of finding a partner that meets various demand and supply conditions such as gifting / receiving and communication.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of a communication system according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an external view of a card.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram of a control circuit of the card.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram of a writing device.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing communication control.

[Description of Signs] 12 ... Card (terminal device) 23 ... Antenna (storage information sending means) 24 ... Speaker (notification means) 25 ... RAM (storage means) S4 ... Discrimination means (time control means) S6 ... Count limiting means

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Claims (5)

[Claims] 1. A communication system comprising at least a plurality of terminal devices having at least storage means, wherein said storage means stores conditions for searching for a specific terminal owner, and storage information for transmitting said conditions. A transmitting unit, a terminal device that receives the above condition, a determining unit that determines whether the condition stored in the storing unit matches the received condition, and a terminal device that determines whether the received condition matches. A communication system comprising: a notifying unit that notifies information that a condition is met by a terminal device. 2. The communication system according to claim 1, wherein said condition is transmitted by wireless transmission. 3. A terminal device used in the communication system according to claim 1 or 2, wherein storage means for storing a condition for searching for a specific terminal owner, and storage information transmitting means for transmitting the condition. And a notifying unit for notifying whether the received condition matches or not, and notifying means for notifying the information of the condition matching at the time of the matching judgment by the discriminating unit. 4. The terminal device according to claim 3, further comprising a frequency limiting means for limiting the number of times of notification by said notification means. 5. The terminal device according to claim 3, further comprising a time limiter for limiting a time for the determination unit to determine whether the condition is met.