KR0155630B1 - Method for searching received message by phone numbers and caller's identification number in answering telephone - Google Patents

Abstract

1. Technical field to which the invention described in the claims belongs: Method for retrieving a received message in a telephone having a voice message processing unit.

2. Technical problem to be solved by the invention: to check the received message had to check the received message one by one.

3. Summary of Solution of the Invention: Since the sender's telephone number and the identification number are stored together with the received message, the received message can be selected and reproduced after searching through the telephone number and the identification number.

4. Significant use of the invention: A device for retrieving and playing incoming messages on an answering machine.

Description

How to Retrieve Incoming Message by Telephone Number and Sender Identification Number in Answering Machine

1 is a block diagram of an answering machine according to the present invention.

2 is a control flowchart for storing a received message, a telephone number, and a sender identification number according to the present invention.

3 is a control flowchart for retrieving and outputting a received message using a telephone number and a sender identification number according to the present invention.

4 is a structural diagram of a memory for storing a received message, a telephone number, and a sender identification number according to the present invention.

* Explanation of symbols for main parts of the drawings

10: key input unit 12: control unit

14 interface unit 16 switching unit

18 ring detection unit 20 voice message processing unit

22: voice output unit 24: voice input unit

26: display unit

The present invention relates to a method for retrieving a received message using a calling party number and a sender identification number in an answering machine, and in particular, to store a received message input from the sending side and input a corresponding telephone number and sender identification number. The present invention relates to a method for retrieving the stored received message according to a user's request.

When processing a conventional reception message is a non-sequential but when the reproduction of the stored received message can not know what the contents of the number, there is a problem that can not know unless you check the processing.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a method of storing an incoming message together with a sender's telephone number and a sender identification number.

It is still another object of the present invention to provide a method of retrieving a stored incoming phone number and a sender identification number and reproducing only a required received message.

Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 is a block diagram of an answering machine according to the present invention, wherein the key input unit 10 generates key commands and key data for controlling the operation of the phone by the user, and stores a stored telephone number and a sender identification number. A selection up and selection down key for searching for; and a playback key and deletion key for playing and deleting a received message corresponding to the selected telephone number and sender identification number; and an end key for indicating that the received message search has ended. have. The control unit 12 controls to search for the telephone number and the sender identification number or to play or delete the received message according to the selection keys of the key input unit 10 and the reproduction and deletion keys, and to input the end key indicating that the search function is terminated. Control the overall behavior of the answering machine, such as reordering incoming messages. The interface unit 14 is connected to a public telephone network through a telephone line, interfaces ring signals, tone signals, and voice calls signals between the telephone and the public telephone network, and forms a voice call path between the telephone and the public telephone network. The ring detector 18 is connected to the interface unit 14 to detect a ring signal received through the interface unit 14 and output the ring signal to the controller 12. The voice input unit 24 is composed of a microphone or a transmitter and converts and outputs a voice signal generated from a subscriber into an electrical signal. The voice output unit 22 is composed of a speaker or a handset to convert an electrical signal into a voice signal to generate an audible sound. The voice message processing unit 20 synthesizes and outputs a received message stored under the control of the control unit 12 into a voice signal, and converts and stores the voice signal input from the switching unit 16 into a received message. The switching unit 16 is connected to the voice input unit 24, the voice output unit 22, the voice message processing unit 20, and the interface unit 14 to switch each unit by a control signal of the control unit 12. Connect. The display unit 26 displays each state under the control of the control unit 12, and displays the telephone number and the sender identification number of the sender selected by the input of the selection key from the key input unit 10. FIG.

2 is a control flowchart for storing a received message, a telephone number, and a sender identification number according to the present invention, and a process of transmitting a guide message when the number of ring signals is counted when a ring signal is input, and the set number is reached; When the reception message in response to the guide message is input, storing the received message and sending out a request message for inputting the telephone number and the sender identification number, and a sender responding to the telephone number and the sender identification number input request guide message. When the DTMF signal of the telephone number and the sender identification number is input, storing the telephone number and the sender identification number, and sequentially sorting the received message, the telephone number, and the sender identification number, and the telephone number and the sender identification number from the sender. If there is no DTMF signal input, call the calling party to the exchange. A DTMF signal corresponding to the open telephone number comprises a process of storing when the input.

3 is a control flow diagram for searching for and outputting a received message using a telephone number and a sender identification number according to the present invention. Reproducing a received message corresponding to a telephone number and a sender identification number when a play key is input; deleting a received message corresponding to the selected phone number and a sender identification number when a delete key is input; The process consists of rearranging, storing and terminating the received message.

4 illustrates a memory structure in which a telephone number, a sender identification number, and a received message are stored according to the present invention.

Accordingly, an embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIGS. 2 and 3 with reference to FIGS. 1 and 4.

Referring to FIG. 2, a process of receiving and storing a received message, a phone number, and a sender identification number is described with reference to FIG. 2. In step 28, the controller 12 determines whether a ring signal is input, and the ring signal is a ring detector 18. When detected by), the control unit 12 counts the ring signal received in step 30. When the ring signal is input the set number of times in step 30, the control unit 12 sends a guide message. Steps 28 to 30 are examples of switching to the auto-answer mode, and it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that the auto-response mode can be applied in any form such as a user's request.

When the reception message corresponding to the guide message is input in step 34, the control unit 12 stores the received message in the voice message processing unit 20 in the format shown in FIG. When the storing of the received message is completed, the control unit 12 transmits the sender's telephone number and the sender identification number input guide message in step 38, and in step 40 the DTMF signal corresponding to the sender's telephone number and the sender identification number is received. Detect if it is input. When the DTMF signal is detected, the control unit 12 stores the DTMF signal in the corresponding position of FIG. 4 in step 42 and sequentially arranges the received message, the telephone number, and the sender identification number. However, if the DTMF signal is not input in step 40, the control unit 12 checks whether the setting time has elapsed in step 46, and if the setting time has elapsed, proceeds to step 48 and the control unit 12 transmits the call to the exchange side. Sends a message asking for a number. If the telephone number corresponding to the request message is input in step 50, the controller 12 proceeds to step 42. After storing the phone number in step 42, the controller 12 sequentially sorts the received message, the phone number and the identification number in step 44, and ends the storing process.

In addition, referring to FIG. 3, the process of retrieving the stored phone number and the sender identification number and reproducing the selected received message will be described with reference to FIG. 3. In step 52, the controller 12 sets the initial selection address to 0 and proceeds to step 54. The key input unit 10 determines whether there is a key input. If the selection up key is input from the key input unit 10 in step 56, the controller 12 proceeds to step 58 to select the next address of the currently displayed address from the memory format set in FIG. In step 26, the selected sender's telephone number and sender identification number are displayed. If the user wants to play by viewing the telephone number and the sender identification number displayed on the display unit 26, the user inputs a play key. The control unit 12 detects the playback key in step 66, and in step 68 reproduces a received message corresponding to the selected phone number and sender identification number from the voice message processing unit 20 and outputs it to the voice output unit 22. do. If the user does not select the play key, the controller 12 proceeds from step 66 to step 54 to detect whether another key is input. If the selection up key is not input in step 56 and the selection down key is input in step 60, the controller 12 selects all addresses of the currently displayed address from the memory format set in the form of FIG. In step 64, the display unit 26 displays the selected calling party's telephone number and sender identification number. When the user wants to play by viewing the telephone number and the sender identification number displayed on the display unit 26, the user inputs a play key. The control unit 12 detects the playback key in step 66 and reproduces a received message corresponding to the selected phone number and sender identification number from the voice message processing unit 20 in step 68. 22). If the user does not select the play key, the controller 12 proceeds from step 66 to step 54 to detect whether another key is input. When the delete key is input in step 70, the controller 12 deletes the received message corresponding to the telephone number and the sender identification number displayed on the display unit 26 from the voice message processing unit 20. Proceed to determine if another key is entered. When the end key is input in step 74 of the drug, the control unit 12 rearranges the received message and stores the received message in the voice message processing unit 20.

As described above, the present invention stores the received message, the telephone number, and the sender identification number together to search for a phone number or the sender identification number to check whose message it is and then controls, thereby deleting unnecessary messages and easily searching for important messages. You can hear the effect.

Claims (3)

A method of retrieving a received message by a calling party's telephone number and a calling party identification number of a telephone having an automatic answering function, wherein when a voice message is received from the sending party in an automatic answering state, the voice message is requested by inputting the calling party's telephone number. A storing process for storing corresponding to the calling party telephone number in response to the request, a retrieving process for retrieving the stored calling party telephone number by a selection up key and a selection down key after a transition to a retrieval mode by a user's request in a standby state; Receiving a retrieval message, wherein the reproducing process regenerates a stored voice message corresponding to the currently selected sender's telephone number when a replay key is input during the retrieval process; 2. The method of claim 1, further comprising deleting the stored voice message corresponding to the currently selected sender's telephone number when the delete key is input in the search process. 3. The method of claim 2, further comprising rearranging a receiving telephone number and a received message stored at an input point of the end key when the end key is input in the search process.