KR20020036290A - Method and apparatus for processing a call at a telephone used in a caller information display service - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A telephone for servicing a caller information display and a method for a call process in the telephone are provided to process a call of a caller effectively using a caller information display service. CONSTITUTION: An input/output processing unit(100) of a telephone of a caller information display service is connected to a telephone module(110) for a conventional voice calling and a modem(102) for transmitting/receiving data to a remote place. An input unit(112) connected to the telephone module(110) consists of a numeral key and a special key, and is connected to a central processing unit(106) for recording data. A bell sound outputting unit(104) for outputting a bell sound, a call process information storing unit(108) for storing call process information, a bell sound/message storing unit(109) for storing various bell sounds and messages, and a general information storing unit(116) for storing programs for managing a basic program and various data are connected to the central processing unit(106). The method is described as follows. It is judged whether a telephone number of a caller is stored in advance. In case that the telephone number is stored in advance, a bell sound corresponded to the telephone number and caller related information including the caller name is outputted. In case that the telephone number is not stored in advance, a general telephone bell sound is outputted.

Description

Phone for caller information display service and call processing method in the phone {METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING A CALL AT A TELEPHONE USED IN A CALLER INFORMATION DISPLAY SERVICE}

The present invention relates to a telephone for a caller information display service, and more particularly, to a telephone for a caller information display service and a call processing method in the telephone.

Caller information display service is a service that displays the phone number and name of the calling subscriber before the call is initiated or during the call on the display terminal device of the called service subscriber.

The telephone for the caller information display service for performing the caller information display service has a device capable of displaying the telephone number and name of the calling subscriber in addition to the general telephone module.

The caller information display service telephones known to date have been added with a simple function that can detect and display the calling subscriber's telephone number and name as described above.

Accordingly, it is an object of the present invention to provide a call processing method in a caller information display service telephone that can effectively process a caller's call using the caller information display service.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a caller information display service telephone which processes the above call processing method.

1 is a schematic block diagram of a telephone for caller information display service to which the present invention is applied;

FIG. 2 illustrates a memory structure for call processing that may be stored in the memory of FIG.

3 is a flowchart of a call processing method in a caller information display service telephone according to the present invention;

♣ Explanation of symbols for the main parts of the drawing ♣

100: input and output processing unit 102: modem

104: ring tone output unit 106: central processing unit

108: call processing storage unit 109: ring tone / message storage unit

110: telephone module 112: input unit

114: display unit 116: general information storage unit

The object of the present invention described above is that the caller has a storage means capable of storing a plurality of ring tone information, voice information and data, and is performed in a caller information display service telephone in which at least a caller's telephone number is transmitted and displayed. Determining whether a telephone number has been stored in advance, and if the calling telephone number has been stored in advance, outputting caller related information including a ring tone corresponding to the calling telephone number and at least the name of the calling party, If the caller's telephone number is not stored in advance, it is achieved by a call processing method in the caller information display service telephone comprising the step of outputting a general telephone ring tone.

Here, the ring tone may be made of at least two or more types to distinguish the caller, and the ring tone may be made of at least two or more types to distinguish a receiver receiving a call, or for distinguishing the caller. The type and the type for distinguishing the receiver may be output alternately.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the call processing method may include determining whether to store the caller's telephone number after the call is terminated when the call is made without the caller's telephone number stored in advance. And when storing the caller's telephone number is requested, storing the caller related information including the caller's telephone number and at least a name corresponding to the caller's telephone number in the storage means.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the call processing method may include determining whether the telephone is set to an answering machine mode, and if the telephone is set to an answering machine mode, the call corresponding to the caller's telephone number. The method may further include reading and outputting a pre-recorded response message to the storage means.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, when the user of the phone is in a call with the caller, determining whether there is the caller related memo information, and if there is the caller related memo information, displaying the memo information. It may further include.

On the other hand, another object of the present invention is to provide a caller information display service telephone which is displayed at least the telephone number of the caller, the storage means for storing a plurality of ring tone information, voice information and data, and the caller telephone number is Determining whether it is stored, and if the caller's telephone number is stored, reading out the caller related information including the ring tone and the caller's name stored in correspondence with the caller's telephone number from the storage means, and outputting it. If the caller's telephone number is not stored, it is achieved by a caller information display service telephone comprising control means for controlling to output a general telephone ringing sound.

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

1 is a schematic block diagram of a telephone for a caller information display service to which the present invention is applied. As shown in Fig. 1, the caller information display service telephone is a telephone capable of both voice call and data communication, and includes an input / output processing unit 100, a modem 102, a ring tone output unit 104, and a central processing unit 106. ), A call processing information storage unit 108, a ring tone / message storage unit 109, a general information storage unit 116, a telephone module 110, an input unit 112, a display unit 114. As a device that can be used as such a telephone, No. 2000-9436 filed on February 25, 2000, entitled "Information service method for providing a telephone number of a convenience store in a nearby area and a communication device used therein". It may also be carried out in the communication apparatus described in, the contents of which are used in the present invention by reference.

As shown in FIG. 1, the input / output processing unit 100 of the caller information display service telephone is connected to the telephone module 110 for a general voice call and the modem 102 for long-distance transmission and reception of data. Input 112 connected to telephony module 110 consists of a numeric key and a special key, which is connected to central processing unit 106 for recording of data.

The central processing unit 106 has a ring tone output unit 104 for ring tone output, a call processing information storage unit 108 storing call processed information, and a ring tone / message storing store various ring tones and messages. The general information storage unit 116 is connected to the unit 109, a program for operating a basic system, and other various data.

The call processing information storage unit 108 stores name, ring tone, message response, and other information corresponding to the caller's telephone number when a call is made to the caller information display service telephone. An example of data included in the call processing information storage 108 is shown in FIG. As shown in Fig. 2, each address # 1, # 2, # 3 has a corresponding telephone number stored therein, and a name, ring tone type, message type, address, etc. corresponding to each telephone number is stored. The information is stored.

The name is the name provided by the telephone company by the caller ID service or the name changed and stored by the user. In general, the name provided by the telephone company is the name of the telephone subscriber (e.g., the head of household), so if it is another person (e.g. child of the head of household) who uses the telephone number, the name of the other person is stored. That is, the name stored here may be a caller name provided by the telephone company or a name changed by the user. Here the name may be a conventional name, alias or number, trade name.

Ring tones and message types are divided into caller tones and message types and caller tones and message types. That is, in the address # 2, the caller's telephone number 031-123-4567 is stored. The caller's ringtone type is RB2 and the caller's ringtone type is CB2 corresponding to the caller's phone number. Also, the recipient message type is RM2 and the caller ringtone type is CM2. As shown in Fig. 2, when several people in a household receive a call, it is possible to determine who receives the call by setting the ring tone type differently for each recipient. Also, by setting the caller ringtone differently, it is possible to know where the call comes from. In the present embodiment, the ring tone may output only the receiver ring tone type or the caller ring tone type to the ring tone output unit 104, or may output the ring tone output unit 104 by combining two ring tone types. . By combining two ring types, you can tell who the receiver is when one ring rings and who the caller is when another ring rings.

Here, the ring tone means a means for notifying the telephone user (receiver) that the call has been received, and may be a specific sound or a voice signal recorded by the user. In the case of the voice signal, the data recorded with the voice of " a call from Hong Gil-dong " as the address # 1 may be used instead of the ring tone.

On the other hand, the message type may be set differently for each receiver or sender like the ring tone type described above to induce the other party to leave the correct message by changing the corresponding message content. Unlike the ring tone type described above, a message may be a message type only for a receiver or a message type only for a sender.

On the other hand, as shown in Figure 2, in addition to the above information, other information such as an address, a memo, etc. may be stored corresponding to the telephone number.

The ringtone / message storage unit 109 stores various types of ringtones (or recorded voice signals of the called party) stored in the call processing information storage unit 108, while the user stores the new phone number. When you set the ringtone type, you store various ringtones that are available in different samples. As described above, the ring sound may be recorded by the user and used, or may be transmitted and stored through data transmission.

Although the call processing information storage unit 108 and the ring tone / message storage unit 109 are displayed and described separately from the general information storage unit 116, they may be implemented as a single storage unit when actually implemented.

3, a call processing method in a caller information display service telephone according to the present invention will be described.

First, in step S300, a call occurs and it is determined whether an outgoing telephone number is received. In the figure, receiving an outgoing phone number is indicated as waiting, which assumes that all calls have an outgoing phone number. If a call occurs without an outgoing telephone number, it will be omitted in the description because it can be operated by normal call processing.

When a call is generated and a telephone number is received, the telephone number stored in the call processing information storage unit 108 of FIG. 2 is compared with the received telephone number. If there is no received phone number, a normal ring tone is output and the caller name received together with the outgoing phone number is displayed (S304) (S305).

Next, it is determined whether the user hears a general ring tone and picks up the telephone receiver to make a phone call (S306). If the user makes a phone call, the process proceeds to step S308. Otherwise, the process proceeds to step S316.

In step S308, a telephone call between the user and the caller proceeds. Thereafter, in step S310, it is determined whether the telephone call is terminated. After the telephone call is terminated, in step S312 it is determined whether the user requests to store the telephone number of the caller who just talked through the input unit 112.

If the user requests to store the telephone number of the caller who has just called, in step S314, the display 114 allows the user to enter the telephone number, name, incoming / caller ring type, message type, address, and other information. An input window is provided so that the user can store the call processing information accurately and easily. The user may input various information corresponding to the telephone number together with the corresponding telephone number through the input unit 112 by selecting data using the ring tone / message storage unit 109. When the user selects and completes the input, the input content is stored in the call processing information storage unit 108.

On the other hand, if the user has not requested to store the telephone number of the caller just talked to in step S312, this process ends as it is.

In step S316, it is determined whether the user has set the operation of the auto reply message, and if the message output is set, then in step S318 a general message is output. Thereafter, in step S319, the message of the sender corresponding to the automatic response is received and stored in the general information storage unit 116. Message receiving and storing step (S319) corresponds to a typical auto-response message response, a detailed description thereof will be omitted. On the other hand, if it is not set to the message output in step S316, this process ends.

As described above, step S304 to step S319 are processes for a case in which a call origination number of the call is not stored in, for example, the call processing information storage unit 108 of FIG. to be.

Steps S320 to S332 described below are processes for the case where a call occurs and the originating telephone number of the call is, for example, in the call processing information storage unit 108 of FIG.

When a call is generated in steps S300 and S302 and an outgoing telephone number is detected, when the telephone number detected in step S302 is determined to be a phone number stored in the call processing information storage unit 108, first, the call is stored. The ringer type stored in response to the telephone number is read and the ringer of the type is output to the ringer output unit 104. In this case, as described above, the ring tone type may be a receiver ring tone type, a caller ring tone type, or a combination of two ring sounds.

Subsequently, in step S321, the name, address, and other information stored in correspondence with the telephone number are read and displayed in the call processing information storage unit 108. Next, in step S322, it is determined whether the user hears the corresponding ring tone and picks up the telephone receiver. When making a phone call, the call is carried out in step S324. Thereafter, it is determined whether the call is terminated in step S328, and if the call is not terminated, the process proceeds to step S324, and the process ends when the call ends.

On the other hand, if the telephone call between the user and the caller is not made in step S322, the process proceeds to step S330. In step S330, it is determined whether the user sets the auto answer mode. When set to the answering machine mode and outputting a message, the receiver or caller message corresponding to the received telephone number is read and output.

Thereafter, in step S332, a message of the sender corresponding to the automatic response is received and stored in the general information storage unit 116. Message receiving and storing step (S332) corresponds to a typical auto-reply message response, and a detailed description thereof will be omitted. On the other hand, if it is not set to the message output in step S329, this process ends.

As described above, by using the call processing method of the caller information display service telephone according to the present invention, it is possible to provide various ring tones according to the caller and / or the receiver, and to leave different answering messages according to the caller or the receiver. It can be effective.

Claims (12)

A storage means capable of storing a plurality of ring tone information, voice information and data, wherein at least the telephone number of the caller is transmitted and displayed, and is performed in the telephone for the caller information display service, Determining whether the caller's telephone number has been stored in advance; If the caller phone number is stored in advance, if the caller related information including the ring tone corresponding to the caller phone number and at least the name of the caller is output, and if the caller phone number is not stored in advance, A call processing method in a telephone for caller information display service, comprising the step of outputting a general telephone ring tone. The method of claim 1, And said ring tone is at least two or more types of callers in order to distinguish said callers. The method of claim 1, And said ring tone is at least two or more types of call receiver information displaying services for distinguishing recipients receiving a call. The method of claim 1, The ringing sound is composed of at least two or more types for distinguishing the caller, and at least two or more types for distinguishing the receiver receiving the call, and the caller distinguishing type and the distinguishing type for distinguishing the recipient are alternately output. Method of handling call in telephone for information display service. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 4, If the caller's telephone number is not stored in advance and a call is made, determining whether to request to save the caller's telephone number after the call ends; Storing the caller related information including the caller's telephone number and at least a name corresponding to the caller's telephone number in the storage means, when requesting to store the caller's telephone number. Call handling in. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 4, Determining whether the telephone is set in an answering mode; And when the telephone is set to the answering machine mode, reading and outputting a pre-recorded response message to the storage means corresponding to the calling party telephone number. The method of claim 6, Determining whether there is memo information related to the caller when a user of the phone is in a call with the caller; And displaying the memo information when the caller related memo information is present. A telephone for caller information display service in which at least the caller's telephone number is transmitted and displayed, Storage means for storing a plurality of ring tone information, voice information and data; It is determined whether the caller's telephone number has been stored, and if the caller's telephone number is stored, the caller related information including the ring tone stored in correspondence with the caller's telephone number and the caller's name is stored from the storage means. And a control means for reading and outputting, and if the caller telephone number is not stored, controlling to output a general telephone ring tone. The method of claim 8, And the ring tone information is at least two or more types for distinguishing the caller. The method of claim 8, And the ring tone information is at least two or more types for distinguishing recipients receiving a call. The method of claim 8, The ring tone information is composed of at least two or more types for distinguishing the caller and at least two or more types for distinguishing the receiver receiving the call, and the caller distinguishing type and the distinguishing type for distinguishing the receiver are alternately output. Telephone for Information Display Service. The method according to any one of claims 8 to 11, And the voice information of the telephone includes an answering machine message, wherein a different answering machine message is set corresponding to the calling party's telephone number.