KR100270676B1 - Method for saving telephone number in exchange - Google Patents

Abstract

end. TECHNICAL FIELD OF THE INVENTION

A technique for storing a telephone number.

I. The technical problem to be solved by the invention

A telephone number storage method is disclosed that can save memory in which telephone numbers are stored at an exchange.

All. Summary of Solution of the Invention

The present invention provides a method for storing a telephone number in an exchange, comprising the steps of converting a DTMF signal received from a subscriber line or telephone number data received from another exchange into numeric information for connection of a call; Dividing the telephone number converted into information into a two-digit decimal unit; combining a meaningless number 0 after the last digit when the last one digit is left when separating the telephone number; and the telephone separated by the two digit unit. The number is converted into a binary number of 1 byte and stored.

la. Important uses of the invention

Any system that stores a phone number with a character

Description

How to save phone number at exchange

The present invention relates to a method of storing a subscriber's telephone number in an exchange, and more particularly, to a method of storing a subscriber's telephone number in an electronic switchboard.

In general, the types of exchanges can be broadly classified into two types, private exchanges and local exchanges, depending on the range used. Private exchanges are used for business purposes or in organizations such as companies to accommodate a large number of extension subscribers using a small number of lines. Therefore, private exchanges use three-digit or four-digit extensions to accommodate regular extension subscribers. In contrast, national exchanges are implemented as public works in the country to accommodate telephone subscribers used by the general public. Therefore, a unique telephone number assigned to each telephone consists of a country code, an area code, a station number, and a subscriber number. The unique telephone number of the ordinary telephone used in this way is stored in the exchange as a 24-digit number in the case of a national exchange. The management of subscribers at the local exchange, the output and change of information or the registration of special services, the execution of services, etc., are managed through the unique subscriber number stored at the national exchange. Twenty-four digits are allocated to each unique subscriber number stored in such a local exchange, and each digit is composed of an 8-bit character. In practice, however, the telephone number stored at the national exchange consists of seven or eight digits. This will be described with reference to FIG. 1.

1 is a diagram illustrating a memory structure in which a telephone number is stored in an exchange according to the prior art. 1 is assumed to be a phone number for detailed charging in a maintenance processor (OMP) of an exchange. In the following description, only the seven-digit telephone number will be described. As described above, in order to store the telephone number of a subscriber, 24 bytes of memory are allocated, and 1 byte of memory is allocated for each digit of the telephone number. The first telephone number shown in FIG. 1 is 356-4218, 24 bytes of memory is used to store the telephone number, the second telephone number is 742-6059, and 24 bytes for storing the telephone number. The third phone number is also stored using 415-0306 and 24 bytes. In detail, each digit 3, 5, 6, 4, 2, 1, and 8 of the first telephone number 356-4218 is stored as a character of 1 byte, respectively. The value of this character constitutes 8 bits corresponding to one number without specific regularity. In other words, when the first digit 3 of the first phone number is described as an example, it is displayed as a binary number of 10010110. The second digit 5 is represented by the binary number of 01011101. The binary values described above are shown for convenience of understanding and it is noted that 3 and 5 may have different values in the actual exchange. In addition, since the number of digits of the telephone number stored in this manner is composed of 7 digits or 8 digits, 16 or 17 digits out of 24 digits become an unused area. Thus, when the subscriber's telephone number is stored in the exchange in this way, about 65% of the memory for each subscriber is stored in an unused space. In this way, when the telephone number is stored in the exchange, the memory required by the exchange increases. This increases the system capacity of the exchange, acts as a heavy load in retrieving or managing phone numbers for each subscriber at the time when various services are being performed, and also becomes inefficient in terms of memory utilization, and increases the load in the switching system. Cause problems.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a method for storing the subscriber's telephone number stored in the electronic switchboard in a small memory.

The present invention for achieving the above object is a method for storing a telephone number in the exchange, the number of DTMF signal received from the subscriber line or the telephone number data received from the other exchange for the connection of the call to the numeric information Converting the phone number converted into the numeric information into two decimal places; combining a meaningless number 0 after the last digit when the last one digit is left when the phone number is separated; And converting the telephone number separated by the two digit unit into a binary number of 1 byte and storing the converted binary number.

1 illustrates a memory structure in which a telephone number is stored in an exchange according to the prior art;

2 is a block diagram of an electronic exchanger;

3 is a diagram illustrating a memory structure of a telephone number stored in an exchange according to an embodiment of the present invention;

4 is a diagram illustrating a memory structure of a telephone number stored in an exchange according to another embodiment of the present invention;

5 is a control flow diagram when receiving a dialed telephone number in a subscriber subsystem according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

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

Fig. 2 is a block diagram of the electron exchanger. Hereinafter, the configuration of the exchange system and the operation of each block will be described with reference to FIG. 2. In general, the block of the switching system includes a switch network subsystem 100, a subscriber subsystem 110, a number 7 signal processing subsystem 120, a trunk line subsystem 140, and a maintenance subsystem 150. Hereinafter, the configuration and operation of each block will be described. First, the switch network subsystem 100 performs a switching operation for transmitting / receiving a call or transmitting / receiving data of a call, and performs a relay role of data between sub-systems of an exchange. The switch network subsystem 100 also has a number of processors required for the operation of the exchange. Looking at this in more detail as follows. Network Synchronization (NES) 1 for a network synchronizer outputs a synchronization signal to each processor to synchronize synchronization within an exchange. The central data link (CDL) 2, which is a plurality of central data links, is connected to each subsystem of the exchange to transmit and receive data, and the space switch (SSW) 3 switches according to the connection / blocking of the call or the flow of data transmitted and received. Perform the action. The Inter Processor Communication Unit (IPCU) 4 is a channel for transmitting and receiving data during inter-processor communication in the network subsystem 100, and a plurality of control processors are connected. An INP (Inter Network Processor) 5 controls the entire call line system, an NTP (Number Translation Processor) 6 controls number translation and routing, and an NSP 9 controls the NES 1. A Space Switch Processor (SSP) 7 controls each of the plurality of SSWs 3, and a Central Link Interface Processor (CLIP) 8 controls communication of processors included in the switch network subsystem 100. In addition, the GWP 10 controls transmission and reception of data transmitted using the IPCU 4.

The configuration of the subscriber subsystem 110 is as follows. An access switch processor (ASP) 12 which controls the overall operation of the subscriber unit 110, an access switch maintenance processor (ASMP) 13 which is in charge of maintenance of the subscriber unit, and is directly connected to each subscriber or an exchange period with the subscriber. A plurality of data terminal interfaces (DTIs) 14 for interfacing with a relay device, a time switch & local data link (TSL) 11 for transmitting and receiving data to and from the switch network subsystem 100, and the operation of the processors. And a bus 17 for transmitting and receiving data between processors. The number 7 signal processing subsystem 120 includes an access switch processor (ASP) 18 that controls the overall operation of the number 7 signal processing subsystem 120 and an access switch that is responsible for maintenance of the number 7 signal processing subsystem 120. Maintenance Processor (19), TSL 11 for transmitting and receiving data, Signaling Terminal Group (STG) 20, which is a plurality of signal groups connected to the trunk 11 to perform signaling, and a plurality of SMHPs for controlling signaling messages. Message Handling Processor) 21 and the like. The relay line subsystem 140 is connected to a transmitter or another switch to form a link to another switch. The trunk line subsystem 140 includes a trunk 11 which connects to the switch network subsystem 100 and other switching systems, an access switch processor 22 that performs overall control of the trunk line subsystem 140, and the trunk line subsystem 140. ASMP (Access Switdh Maintenance Processor) 23 which is in charge of maintenance, a plurality of DTI / DCI (Digital T1 Interface / Digital CEPT Interface) 24 for interfacing T1 relay lines and E1 relay lines, and a plurality of relay lines controlling the plurality of relay line interfaces, respectively. It has a processor DTIP / DCIP 25.

Reference numeral 150 denotes a sub system that performs operations and maintenance, and performs data transmission and reception between the exchange and the operator, and is responsible for the transmission and reception of control and data necessary for maintenance in the exchange. GWP 10 for controlling the input / output of data transmitted and received between the maintenance subsystem 150 and other subsystems, OMP 31 for controlling maintenance in the exchanger, and a signal input by an operator connected to an operator computer It is equipped with a processor of the MMP 34 to receive the control. And a first recording unit 32 for recording data under the control of the OMP 31, a memory unit 33 providing a control program of the switching system and temporarily storing data generated during control, data necessary for controlling the MMP 34, and A recording unit 36 for temporarily storing data generated during control, a plurality of display units 35 for displaying an operation state of the exchange under the control of the MMP 34, and a MMP 34 connected to input an operator's command to the exchange For the operator computers 37.

In the above configuration, the processors requiring the subscriber's telephone number inside the exchange are the processors that perform the main control of each access subsystem. That is, subscriber subsystem 110 includes ASP 12 performing overall control, ASP 18 performing overall control of number 7 signal processing subsystem 120, ASP 22 performing overall control of trunk line subsystem 140, and maintenance sub. Telephone numbers are stored or required in OMP 31 of system 150, NTP 6 of switch network subsystem 100, INP 5, and so forth.

3 is a diagram illustrating a memory structure of a telephone number stored in an exchange according to an embodiment of the present invention. Hereinafter, a method of storing a telephone number in a small amount of memory when storing the telephone number will be described in detail with reference to FIG. 3. As in the description of FIG. 1, it is assumed that the first telephone number is 356-4218, the second telephone number is 742-6059, and the third telephone number is 415-0306. In the case of characterizing one digit of a telephone number and displaying it, it has been described that 8 bits, that is, 1 byte, are required. However, when 1 byte is represented as binary number, it can be expressed from 0 to 255 of decimal number. Therefore, the two digits of the decimal number can represent two two digits of the telephone number in one byte if the binary number is displayed without characterizing the telephone numbers 00 to 99. This will be described as the first telephone number as illustrated in FIG. 3. Since the first telephone number is 356-4218, 35 is stored in the first byte. Therefore, if you represent a binary number of 35 rules stored in the first byte as 1 byte, it becomes '00100011'. And since 64 is stored in the second byte, it is '01000000' when it is expressed as binary of 1 byte. In addition, 21 is stored in the third byte, and this is represented as '00010101' in binary format of 1 byte. And, lastly, only one digit of 8 remains. Therefore, if you add 0, which is meaningless, and display 80 as binary in the 4th byte, '01010000' is stored. In this way, two digits of the telephone number are stored in one byte, so that a telephone number stored in 24 digits can be stored in 12 bytes.

4 is a diagram illustrating a memory structure of a telephone number stored in an exchange according to another embodiment of the present invention. Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIG. 4. In the following description, it is assumed that the telephone numbers are the same. As in the embodiment of Fig. 3, four bits are required to represent one digit of the telephone number in binary. That is, four bits of binary numbers can be displayed from 0 to 15. Therefore, an example of displaying 4 bits for each digit of the telephone number will be described. The first received telephone number is 356-4218. At this time, if the first digit 3 is displayed as binary number, it becomes '0011', if the second digit 5 is displayed as binary number, it becomes '0101', and if the third digit 6 is represented as binary number, '0110' do. If the fourth digit 4 is displayed as binary number, it will be '0100', if the fifth digit 2 is displayed as binary number, it will be '0010', and if the sixth digit 1 is represented as binary number, '0001' will be displayed. If 8, the last digit, is displayed as binary number, it is '1000'. If 24 digits are displayed in this way, 12 bytes can be displayed.

5 is a control flow diagram when receiving a dialed telephone number in a subscriber subsystem according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention. 2 to 5 will be described in detail the telephone number conversion process when receiving the telephone number of the present invention. The ASP 12 of the subscriber subsystem 110 maintains the standby state in step 200. When an event signal is received from the outside, the process proceeds to step 202 to check whether the subscriber signal is an event signal according to the hook-off of the subscriber. The ASP 12 proceeds to step 204 when the event signal according to the hook-off of the subscriber as a result of the check in step 202 and proceeds to step 220 when the event signal according to the hook-off is not performed. In operation 204, the ASP 12 transmits a hookoff signal to each processing block required to perform the call processing. Processing blocks that receive hook-off signals at this time are, for example, OMP 31 of maintenance subsystem 150, INP 5 and NTP 6 of switch network subsystem 100, and the like. When the ASP 12 receives the state of the line from each processing block in step 206, the ASP 12 proceeds to step 208 to output the dial tone to the subscriber line on which the hookoff signal is received. On the contrary, if the ASP 12 receives a signal due to an abnormal state of the line, the process proceeds to step 230 and performs an error processing. In addition, the ASP 12 proceeds from step 208 to step 210 and receives a telephone number of a DTMF (Dual Tone Multi_Frequency) signal received from the subscriber line and displays the binary number. At this time, converting the received telephone number to binary means converting as shown in FIG. 3 or 4, and converting as shown in FIG. 3 or 4 according to the method used in the exchange.

This will be described below. In addition, in the present embodiment, only the telephone number received through the subscriber line will be described as an example. First, the ASP 12 converts a telephone number received as a DTMF signal through a subscriber line into a decimal number. In addition, the ASP 12 converts the converted decimal number into two-digit binary numbers by separating two digits in FIG. 3. In this way, if the phone number is separated and converted, the 7-digit phone number is left at the end. In this case, the ASP 12 inserts a meaningless number 0 into the remaining number and converts it into a binary number of 1 byte. In addition, when converting each digit as shown in FIG. 4, the ASP 12 converts the telephone number received by the DTMF signal into a decimal number, and converts each digit of the converted decimal number into a 4-bit binary number. . This process converts the phone number.

The ASP12 transmits the phone number converted to binary in this way in a block requiring a phone number in step 212. Examples of the block requiring the telephone number include NTP 6, OMP 31, and the like. The ASP 12 checks in step 214 whether a signal according to a call connection is received from the switch network subsystem 100. The ASP 12 performs the call mode in step 216 when the call is connected as a result of the test, and outputs the busy tone to the subscriber line in which the dialing is performed in step 240 when the call is not connected.

As described above, when storing the telephone number, there is an advantage that the capacity of the memory can be reduced in the processor that stores and uses the telephone number such as NTP which performs number translation and OMP which performs maintenance. In addition, if the telephone number is stored in the above manner, assuming that there are 50,000 subscribers in one system, the memory number of 600,000 bytes is saved.

Claims (2)

In a method for storing a telephone number at an exchange, Converting DTMF signals received from subscriber lines or telephone number data received from other exchanges into numeric information for connection of a call; Dividing the phone number converted into the numeric information into two decimal units; Combining the meaningless number 0 after the last digit when the last digit remains when the phone number is separated; And converting the telephone number separated by the two digit unit into a binary number of 1 byte and storing the converted telephone number. In a method for storing a telephone number at an exchange, Converting DTMF signals received from subscriber lines or telephone number data received from other exchanges into numeric information for connection of a call; Dividing the phone number converted into the numeric information into a single decimal unit; And converting the telephone number separated by one digit into a 4-bit binary number and storing the converted telephone number.