JPS63252052A - Telephone set - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To eliminate the need for dialing operation to a caller terminal equipment by providing a means applying automatic dialing to a caller terminal equipment based on a received telephone number of the caller terminal equipment in applying remote control to an automatic answering telephone set. CONSTITUTION:Message information and caller terminal telephone number received from an automatic answering telephone set based on the remote control are outputted from a receiver 9 as voice by the control of a message information output section 121 of a control section 12 and a telephone number is stored to a telephone number storage section 122. Then the user listens to the message information and discriminates the necessity of a call to the caller terminal equipments, then the user applies a corresponding input operation from an input section 14. Thus, the control section 12 disconnects a line to the automatic answering telephone set and dials the caller terminal equipment automatically based on the telephone number stored in the storage section 122 by the control of the automatic dial control section 123.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Object of the Invention] (Industrial Field of Application) The present invention provides a method for transmitting information from a user terminal based on the telephone number of the calling party terminal received from an answering machine to the user terminal. The present invention relates to a telephone device that can automatically make a call to the calling party's terminal.

(Prior Art) As is well known, among answering machines that are in practical use today, business information from a caller recorded in the answering machine is sent to a specific user terminal (telephone terminal). ) There are some devices that can support control such as importing and referencing to the user terminal by remote control 0 from.

Generally, this type of control involves giving instructions to the answering machine from the user's terminal via a telephone line using a special transmitter, etc. This is realized by having the /i'J device transmit business information (recorded on the answering machine) to the user terminal.

By the way, in recent years, with answering machines using digital networks, a service that receives notification of the telephone number of the caller's terminal along with business information from the caller is about to be put into practical use.

Using this service, the phone number of the caller's terminal is recorded in the answering machine along with the caller's business information, and when remote control as described above is instructed, these A telephone device that has the function of transmitting and displaying both from the answering machine to the user terminal (user terminal)
Proposals have also been made.

Such a telephone device can be similarly implemented in an analog network by adding special procedures.

゛In this case, when a call is received from the calling party's terminal to the answering machine, a message is sent to the calling party's terminal asking for the telephone number to be entered, and the telephone number entered from the calling party's terminal is sent to the DT.
All you have to do is add the procedure of sending the message to an answering machine using an MF signal or the like and then recording it.

In this way, conventional telephone devices that can communicate with an answering machine via an analog or digital network can remotely transmit business information from the caller and the telephone number of the caller's terminal recorded in the answering machine. It had the ability to import and refer to its own terminal under control.

However, this type of conventional telephone device only displays the telephone number of the calling party's terminal taken from the answering machine, and calls are made to the calling party's terminal based on this display. After writing down the phone number or writing it down as +13 and disconnecting the line from the answering machine, call the optical I/O.
If the user had to dial again by manual operation on the end terminal.

(Problems to be Solved by the Invention) As described above, the conventional telephone device described above only has the function of referring to the telephone number of the calling party's terminal received from the answering machine, When making a call to the calling party's terminal based on the information, there is a problem in that the telephone number must be memorized or memorized and then dialed again, which is time consuming.

The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned circumstances, and provides a telephone device that facilitates the procedure for transmitting business information to the calling party's terminal that has issued the business information based on the business information received from the answering machine. The purpose is to provide

[Object of the Invention] (Means for Solving Problems) The telephone device of the present invention transmits business information from a calling party and the telephone number of the calling party's terminal from an answering machine to a user's terminal. a control means for notifying the user of the business information and the telephone number received from the answering machine to the user terminal by voice or display; A storage means for storing the received telephone number; and a call control means for automatically making a call from the user terminal to the calling party terminal based on the telephone number stored in the storage means. It is configured with the following.

(Function) In the telephone device of the present invention, based on the telephone 112i number of the calling party's terminal received from the answering machine to the user's terminal, the telephone device makes a call from the user's terminal to the calling party's terminal. When placing a call to a calling party's terminal in order to make a call, there is no need to take time to write down the telephone number of the calling party's terminal or dial again.

(Example) Hereinafter, an example of the present invention will be described in detail based on the accompanying drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of a telephone station according to the present invention, in which 1 is a line, 2 is an incoming call detection circuit, 3 is a line interface, 4 is a D/A converter, and 5 is an A/D Converter, 6.7.8 is an amplifier, 9 is a receiver, 10 is a transmitter, 1
1 is a control section, 13 is a display section, 14 is an input section, and 15 is a storage section.

In FIG. 1, it is assumed that line 1 is connected to a digital network.

A digital audio signal received from this digital network via line 1 is input to D/A converter 4 via line interface 3, and is converted from a digital signal to an analog signal.

This analog audio signal is then amplified by the J(11m unit 6) and then reproduced as audio by the receiver 9.

On the other hand, the analog audio signal input from the transmitter 10 is
After being amplified by an amplifier 7 and further converted into a digital audio signal by an A/D converter 5, the signal is sent to a line 1 via a line interface 3.

Prior to the normal telephone call 43, the incoming call detection circuit 2 detects an incoming call from the line IP 21 and sends a control t11I signal to the line interface 3.

In response to the operational output of the line interface 3 based on this control signal, the control section 12 causes the sounder 11 to sound through the amplifier 8 to notify the incoming call.

The display section 13 is liquid crystal, EL (electroluminescence)
, a plasma display, etc., and in addition to displaying various displays related to the above-mentioned telephone call operations, it also displays guidance during communication with an answering machine, which is performed in the steps described below, or when a call is placed to the answering machine. Displays the telephone number of the calling party's terminal.

Incidentally, for an answering machine that stores the business information received from the caller terminal in the form of text or image information, this business information may also be displayed on the display unit 13.

The input unit 14 includes dial keys, a keyboard, a digitizer, etc., and is used to input information necessary for normal calls and communication with an answering machine.

The display section 13, input section 14, and storage section 15 operate under the control of the control section 12, respectively.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the detailed configuration of the control unit 12, and includes an answering machine\CC remote control unit 20,
It comprises a business information output section 121, a telephone number storage section 122, and an automatic call control section 123.

In FIG. 2, a remote control unit 120 located at an answering machine
Based on a remote control operation by a user who requests to refer to the recorded contents of a specific answering machine, the answering machine transmits the stored message information and the message information to the answering machine. Control is performed to give control signals such as sending out the telephone number of the calling party terminal through the line 1.

Further, the business information output unit 121 transmits the business information and the calling party's terminal telephone number received from the answering machine under the control of the answering machine remote control unit 120 to the user through the receiver 9. Controls are performed to make the sound heard and to display it on the display 13.

The telephone number storage unit 122 is for temporarily storing the calling party's terminal telephone number received from the answering machine.

Furthermore, based on the user's instructions, the automatic call control unit 123 causes the caller side terminal telephone number stored in the telephone number storage unit 122 to be sent to the line 1 through the line interface 3, and Control is performed to make 10 calls to the party's terminal.

The operation of the terminal telephone device during communication with the answering machine will be described in detail with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

First, the user operates the input section 14 of the user terminal (shown in Figure 1) based on a request to refer to the recorded contents of a specific answering machine, and makes a call to the answering machine'a. While making the call (step 100), the operator inputs commands necessary for remote control of the answering machine.

After a line connection with the answering machine is established based on this input operation, a predetermined control signal is output from the answering machine remote control unit 120 of the control unit 12 to the answering machine, and the answering machine is connected to the answering machine. Remote control is performed (step 101).

In other words, in this remote control, as described above, the answering machine sends the caller's business information stored in the answering machine t1 and the telephone number of the calling party's terminal to the user terminal. will be done.

The business information and the caller's terminal telephone number received from the answering machine "fi talk device" to the user terminal based on the remote control are transmitted to the business information output section 1 of the control section 12.
21, the voice is output from the receiver 9,
Alternatively, it is displayed on the display section 13 again.

Among these, the calling party's terminal telephone number is stored in the telephone number storage section 122 of the control section 12.

In this way, the user refers to the business information received by the answering machine from the caller and the light caller's terminal through the voice and display described above (step 10).
2).

Next, the user determines whether or not it is necessary to send an optical message to the caller's terminal that transmitted the business information to the answering machine based on the reference result (step 103), and if necessary, transmits the message from the input section 14. Perform input operations corresponding to the request.

Based on this input, the control unit 12 disconnects the line with the answering machine (Step 104), and then, under the control of the automatic call control unit 123, the caller side terminal phone stored in the telephone number storage unit 122 A call is automatically made to the calling party's terminal based on the number (step 105).

After a line is established with the caller terminal through such control, the user can talk to the operator (caller) of the caller terminal (step 106).

After the call ends, the line is disconnected, for example, as the calling party's terminal goes on-hook (
Step 107), the series of controls described above is stopped.

In addition, if it is determined in step 103 that a call to the calling party's terminal is not necessary, immediately disconnect the line with the answering machine by an on-hook operation or the like in step 1.
07), the communication operation is stopped.

In the above embodiment, an example was described in which the business information and caller's terminal telephone number received from the answering machine to the terminal on the user's side are from one caller. If a caller's call is included, the operations of steps 102 and 103 in FIG. 3 are repeated for each caller, and only for the caller's terminal that requires automatic calling. It can be configured to perform the operations of steps 104 to 107. Note that the business information and caller's terminal telephone number of the object for which the operation of step 103 has been performed are automatically deleted from the storage section.

Furthermore, in this embodiment, an example has been described in which a telephone device is connected to an f-digital network. By adding a processing circuit for storing the telephone number in the telephone number storage section 122, connection to an analog network is also possible.

[Effects of the Invention] As explained above, according to the telephone device of the present invention, based on the telephone number of the calling party's terminal received from the answering machine 8ei together with business information, the telephone number is automatically sent to the calling party's terminal. Since a call is made, there is an advantage that a call can be made to the calling party's terminal extremely easily and quickly without taking the trouble of writing down a telephone number.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the telephone device according to the present invention, FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a detailed configuration of the control section 12 in the telephone device shown in FIG. 1, and FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the telephone device according to the present invention. It is a flowchart which shows an example of operation of such a telephone device. 1... Line, 2... Incoming call detection circuit, 3... Line interface, 4... D/A converter, 5... A
/D converter, 6, 7.8... Amplifier, 9... Transmitter, 10... Sounder, 12... Control unit, 120...
- Answering machine remote control unit, 121... Business information output unit, 122... Telephone number storage unit, 123...
automatic call control section, 13...display section, 14...input section, 15...storage section.

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] Control means for transmitting business information from a calling party and a telephone number of the calling party's terminal from the answering machine to the user's terminal; a notification means for notifying the user of the business information and the telephone number received by the user terminal by voice or display; and a storage means for storing the telephone number received by the user terminal; A telephone device comprising: call control means for automatically placing a call from the user terminal to the caller terminal based on the telephone number stored in a storage means.