JPH11284719A - Telephone set provided with automatic answering function - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reproduce all messages not hearing other messages of other callers inbetween even in the case that all the messages are reproduced in the recorded sequence. SOLUTION: Upon the receipt of incoming calls by the telephone set 10 provided with automatic answering function, caller numbers received by a caller number reception section 12 are stored in a caller number storage area of a storage section 16 in the order of reception while a same serial number is given to a same caller number and recorded messages are stored in a message recording area of a message recording section 13 while the same serial number as that given to the caller number is added to the message. Thus, the recorded message is linked with the caller number, and in the case of reproducing the recording message, the caller number and number of messages are displayed on a display section 14 under the control of a control section 17 and in the case that plural messages are recorded from a same caller, the plural messages are continuously reproduced.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a telephone with an answering machine function, and more particularly to a telephone with an answering machine function having a function of displaying a caller ID.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a telephone with an answering machine function, in a so-called answering machine mode in which a message from a caller is automatically recorded, when a caller records a message, the message is recorded in the order of incoming calls. It is designed to be recorded on a recording medium such as a memory. When playing back the recorded message, the message is played back in the order of recording, that is, in the order of incoming calls.

[0003] By the way, during an absence, for example, there is a case where a certain caller calls a number of times to report an urgent business, and a message is recorded each time.
With respect to such a message from the sender, it is necessary to play back all the messages as soon as possible and confirm the requirements.

[Problems to be solved by the invention]

[0004] However, in a conventional telephone with an answering machine function, messages are played back in the order in which they were recorded, so that a plurality of messages from the same caller can replace messages from other plurality of callers. In the case where the recording is made in a form sandwiched between, it was necessary to play all the messages while listening to the messages of other callers. Therefore, when it is desired to promptly check all messages from the same sender, it takes time to reproduce all the messages, which is very inconvenient.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned problems, and has as its object to continuously transmit messages of the same sender when a plurality of messages are recorded from the same sender. It is an object of the present invention to provide a telephone with an answering machine function which can be played back and improved in usability.

[0006]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION A telephone with an answering machine according to the present invention has a receiving means for receiving a caller number transmitted from a telephone line when an incoming call is received, and a caller received by the receiving means. A first storage unit for storing numbers for all incoming calls, a second storage unit for storing recording matters with information linkable to a caller number, and a second storage unit When playing multiple recorded messages from the same caller, when playing multiple recorded messages, control to play the multiple messages consecutively based on the information available from the link above. And control means for performing the control.

[0007] In the telephone with the answering machine function described above, when there is an incoming call, the caller ID received by the receiving means is stored in the first storage means for all incoming calls, for example, in the order of incoming calls. Is attached to the caller number and the linkable information is stored in the second storage means. Then, when reproducing the recording matter, the control means:
Based on the caller ID and the information that can be linked, the recording message stored in the second storage unit is confirmed. If a plurality of messages are recorded from the same caller, the plurality of messages are recorded. To play them continuously.

[0008]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a telephone with an answering machine function according to an embodiment of the present invention. As is clear from FIG. 1, the telephone 10 with the answering machine function according to the present embodiment includes a line interface unit 11, a caller number receiving unit 12, a message recording unit 13, a display unit 14, a user interface unit 15, and a storage unit 16. And a control unit 17.

The line interface section 11 is connected to the telephone line L. The caller number receiving unit 12 receives information on the telephone number of the caller (hereinafter referred to as the caller number) transmitted from the telephone line L via the line interface unit 11. The message recording unit 13 has, for example, a memory as a recording medium, and in a setting state of the answering machine mode, a message (message) transmitted from the telephone line L through the line interface unit 11 by a caller. Record in the memory.

The display unit 14 comprises, for example, an LCD (Liquid Crystal Display), and receives a caller number receiving unit 12 when a normal incoming call is received.
The information of the caller number received at is given through the control unit 17 and the user interface unit 15,
The caller ID is displayed. User interface unit 1
Reference numeral 5 includes various operation keys, a speaker, a microphone, and the like, and performs input of operation information and voice information by a user, output of a caller's voice and a message recorded in the message recording unit 13, and the like.

The storage unit 16 stores data such as a caller number given from the caller number receiving unit 12. Control unit 1
Reference numeral 7 denotes, for example, a microcomputer (microcomputer), a line interface unit 11, a caller number receiving unit 1
2. It controls all of the message recording unit 13, the user interface unit 15, and the storage unit 16.

FIG. 2 shows an example of each configuration of the caller number storage area (a) of the storage unit 16 and the message recording storage area (b) of the memory of the message recording unit 13.

First, in the caller number storage area (a), the caller numbers are 03-4567-0001, 03-4.
567-0010,03-4567-0100,03-
4567-0001,03-4567-1000,03
-4567-0001, 03-4567-1000, ...
.., The caller numbers are assigned serial numbers as identification information in a one-to-one correspondence with the call arrival numbers, and are stored in pairs. At this time, the same sender number is assigned the same serial number.

On the other hand, in the message recording storage area (b), not all callers record messages, but messages (messages) when there is recording are stored in the order of arrival. At this time, each message is stored with the same serial number as the serial number assigned to the caller number. Therefore,
The same serial number is assigned to the same caller's business as in the case of the caller ID.

Next, the telephone 1 with the answering machine function having the above configuration
0 will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. This message recording process is performed in the answering machine mode, of course.

First, when the line interface section 11 detects an incoming call (step S11), the information of the caller number transmitted from the telephone line L at this time is transmitted to the caller number receiving section 1.
2 receives the data and gives the data to the control unit 17 (step S12). Then, the control unit 17 determines whether or not the data provided from the caller number receiving unit 12 is newly received data, that is, whether or not the current caller number is data of a caller number received in the past. In order to check whether the caller ID is stored, the caller ID storage area (see FIG. 2A) is searched (step S13).

If it is determined in step S13 that the received data is new received data, a new serial number is assigned (step S14) because it is the caller number received for the first time this time. ,
Since the caller ID has been received in the past, the serial number used previously is assigned to the same caller ID (step S).
15). Then, the caller ID is paired with the serial number and set in the caller ID storage area (step S1).
6).

Subsequently, when the line interface unit 11 responds to the incoming call (step S17), the message recording unit 13 starts recording a message (message) from the caller sent from the telephone line L (step S17). S18). Then, if it is determined that the recording of the message has been completed normally (step S19), the same message is assigned the same serial number as the serial number assigned to the caller number (step S20), and then the message recording is stored. It is set in the area (see FIG. 2B) (step S21).

As described above, in the state where the answering machine mode is set, when an incoming call is received, the same serial number is assigned to the same caller number, stored in the caller number storage area, and recorded. By attaching the same serial number to the caller ID and storing it in the message recording storage area, the caller ID and the recording message are linked by the serial number. be able to.

Next, the telephone 1 with the answering machine function having the above configuration
0 will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. It is assumed that the recording matter reproduction process routine is executed for each caller number by a user's display operation of the caller number on the user interface unit 15.

When there is a display operation of the caller number on the user interface unit 15, the control unit 17
The first (serial number 1) caller number (03-4567-0001 in this example) stored in the caller number storage area (see FIG. 2A) is displayed on the display section 14 ( Step S31) Then, the serial number assigned to the caller number is read from the caller number storage area,
The serial number stored in the message recording storage area of the memory of the message recording unit 13 (see FIG. 2B) is searched by the serial number (step S32).

Then, the control unit 17 confirms whether or not there is a recording of a message (message) (step S33).
If there is a recording of the message, the number of the corresponding recording message is displayed on the display unit 14 together with the caller number (step S3).
4). FIG. 5 shows an example of an LCD display image. In the figure, the caller number (03
In the case of (a) -4567-0001), since the number of recording cases is three, “M
message3 "is displayed on the display unit 14.

Next, in the display state of FIG.
When there is a reproduction request by a user operation on the user interface unit 15 (step S35), the same caller number (03-4567-0) with the serial number 1 is attached.
001) is continuously reproduced (step S36),
The continuous reproduction is repeated until the reproduction of the recording matter for the same caller number is completed (step S37).

That is, in the message recording storage area shown in FIG. 2B, when the first message of the caller number (03-4567-0001) with the serial number 1 is reproduced, the next message is recorded. The message of the sender number (03-4567-0001) with the serial number 3 is skipped, and the second message of the serial number 1 is reproduced. After reproducing the second message, the caller number (03-4567-1000) with the serial number 4 recorded next
Is skipped, and the third message with serial number 1 is reproduced.

By the above series of processing, the serial number 1
The continuous reproduction of a plurality of messages for the caller number (03-4567-0001) to which is attached is ended. When the continuous reproduction of a plurality of messages for the serial number 1 is completed, the user in the user interface unit 15 uses the caller number stored next in the caller number available area (03-4567-0010 in this example). Is requested.

When the caller number (03-4567-0010) with the serial number 2 is displayed by the next display request (b), the message of the caller number is not recorded. Since the number of recording cases is 0, “Message0” is displayed on the display unit 14 together with the caller number.
Will be displayed. Therefore, in this case, step S
33, it is determined that there is no message recording, and the serial number 2
A series of processings for the caller number marked with is ended.

Thereafter, in the same manner, the reproduction process of the recording matter is performed for all the caller numbers stored in the caller number available area.

As described above, in a state where the caller number and the recording matter are linked by the serial number and stored in the caller number storage area and the message recording storage area, when the recording matter is reproduced, the display by the user is performed. The same caller is searched by searching for the serial number in the message recording storage area based on the serial number of the caller number corresponding to the operation, and searching and playing back only the recording messages with the same serial number. Can be played back continuously.

In particular, the telephone 10 with the answering machine function according to the present embodiment is provided with a function of displaying a caller ID, so that the user can confirm the caller ID when reproducing a recording matter. Therefore, the user can freely select a plurality of recording items to be continuously reproduced.

Thus, when a certain caller calls a number of times to report an urgent business while he is away, and a message is recorded each time, for example, the same caller Can be played back continuously and quickly, and the usability can be greatly improved.

Further, not only in the case of a sudden message, but also by continuously playing back all messages from the same sender, messages of other senders do not intervene. The continuity of the contents of the message from the same sender can be provided, which is very convenient.

In the above-described embodiment, the present invention is applied to a telephone with an answering machine having a function of displaying a caller number. The number of records is displayed, the user confirms the displayed contents, selects the caller ID by the user's intention, and continuously plays back multiple recordings by the same caller for the selected caller ID. Although a description has been given of the case in which this is done, the present invention is not limited to this.

That is, the present invention can be applied to a telephone with an answering machine function which does not have a function of displaying a caller number. In this case, for example, a continuous message playback key is provided in the user interface unit 15 in addition to the normal message playback key.
(B) The number of recording cases for each caller ID is confirmed based on the serial number in the message recording storage area, and for the caller ID having a plurality of recording matters, the recording matter is reproduced continuously with priority. What should I do?

In the case of continuous reproduction in this case, since a function for displaying a caller number is not provided, the caller number of the same caller cannot be confirmed, and it is not possible to select the caller number with the intention of the user. Since it is not possible, for a caller ID with multiple recordings, for example, a method of continuously playing back multiple recordings in the order of incoming calls, or a method of continuously playing back multiple recordings in the order of the number of messages Can be considered.

[0036]

As described above, according to the present invention,
When an incoming call is received, the caller ID is stored, for example, in the order of the incoming calls, and the recording message is stored with information that can be linked to the caller ID. When multiple messages are recorded from, by playing the multiple messages continuously,
Since there is no need to listen to the recording requirements of other callers and play them all, the usability can be improved.

[Brief description of the drawings]

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

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of each configuration of a caller number storage area (a) and a message recording storage area (b).

FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating a procedure of a message recording process.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart illustrating a procedure of a message recording / reproducing process.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example of an LCD display image.

[Explanation of symbols]

11: Line interface unit, 12: Caller ID receiving unit, 13: Message recording unit, 14: Display unit, 15: User interface unit, 16: Storage unit, 17: Control unit

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A receiving means for receiving a caller number transmitted from a telephone line when an incoming call is received, and a first storage for storing the caller number received by the receiver means for all incoming calls. Means, a second storage means for storing the recording matter with information which can be linked to the caller number, and the same when reproducing the recording matter stored in the second storage means. Control means for controlling the continuous reproduction of the plurality of messages based on the link information when a plurality of messages are recorded from the caller. Telephone with an answering machine function. 2. The recording device according to claim 1, wherein the first storage unit stores the caller ID in the order of arrival in pairs with identification information indicating that the caller is the same caller. The telephone set with an answering machine function according to claim 1, wherein the identification information is added as the linkable information to the telephone. 3. A display unit for displaying a caller number stored in the first storage unit, wherein the control unit is stored in the first storage unit by displaying the caller number on the display unit. 2. The telephone with an answering machine function according to claim 1, wherein when confirming the calling number, the number of recordings for the calling number is also controlled to be displayed on the display means. 4. The telephone with an answering machine function according to claim 1, wherein said control means controls to continuously reproduce a plurality of messages for a caller ID for which a reproduction request has been made by a user. .