KR20060045103A - Method for connection setting up for communication device - Google Patents

Abstract

To achieve the object of the present invention, a control unit for controlling the operation of the communication terminal, a storage unit for storing a plurality of telephone numbers, and a telephone number stored in the storage unit of the communication terminal comprising a communication module provided for communication The communication connection setting method used includes (1) a first communication connection attempt using the first phone number stored in the storage unit, and (2) a communication attempt determining whether the communication connection attempt of the first communication connection attempt step is successful. Determining whether it is successful, and (3) attempting a communication connection using a second telephone number stored in the storage unit and different from the first telephone number when the first communication connection attempt using the first telephone number fails. Determining whether or not the second communication connection has been established; and (4) using the determination result of the step of determining whether the second communication connection has been established. And a second communication connection attempting step of attempting a communication connection using the second telephone number.

Call attempt, redial, communication terminal, ringback tone, auto connect

Description

Communication setting method of communication terminal {Method for Connection Setting Up for Communication Device}

1 is a flowchart of a communication connection setting method according to the present invention.

2 is an exemplary table for explaining that a sequence of steps is provided for a phone number stored in a communication terminal.

The present invention relates to a communication setting method of a communication terminal. In particular, when communication is attempted using a phone number stored in a communication terminal, the communication setting of the communication terminal to be re-sent through another phone number when it is determined that the communication has failed. It is about a method.

The conventional communication terminal has been provided with a control unit for controlling the operation of the communication terminal, a storage unit for storing a telephone number, and a communication module for communication, and the form of such a communication terminal is a PCS, CDMA, GMS terminal which is widely used today. You can easily find examples on the back. On the other hand, as can be seen in the development example of the PCS, CDMA, GMS terminal, etc. There is a remarkable development in the technology related to the production of electronic components, the capacity of the storage unit is increased, and various functions can be imposed in the control unit and stored in the communication terminal The number of possible telephone numbers has been greatly increased, and various methods of establishing a communication connection using them have been provided.

On the other hand, when the communication terminal user attempts to make a call using the communication terminal, but the call attempt fails because the other party does not answer the call, the communication terminal user hangs up the phone and finds another number or attempts a new call by entering a new number. should. In addition, even if the call attempt is successful, if the connected call does not make a direct call with the other party and proceeds to a service that leaves a voice message, the communication terminal user who does not want to leave a voice message hangs up the other phone. If you want to try a direct call with the other party by dialing the number, there was a need to find a new phone number or enter a new phone number.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of the above-described problems of the prior art, and when the communication attempt fails, it is an object of the present invention to provide a method for establishing a communication connection in which a communication terminal user can easily try to communicate with another number.

The storage unit of the communication terminal including a control unit for controlling the operation of the communication terminal for achieving the object of the present invention as described above, a storage unit for storing a plurality of telephone numbers, and a communication module provided for communication The communication connection setting method using the stored telephone number includes: a first communication connection attempting step using the first telephone number stored in the storage; A communication attempt success determination step of determining whether the communication connection attempt of the first communication connection attempt step was successful; A second communication stored in the storage unit when the first communication connection attempt using the first phone number fails and determining whether to establish a communication connection using a second phone number different from the first phone number; Determining whether to establish a connection; And a second communication connection attempting step of attempting a communication connection using the second phone number by using the determination result of the step of determining whether to establish the second communication connection.

The communication terminal includes a wired call terminal or a wireless communication terminal. The control unit preferably comprises an MSM or microcomputer unit (MCU) provided to a general communication terminal. Preferably, the storage unit is provided as a RAM, a ROM, a flash memory, or the like provided to a general communication terminal. Therefore, it will be understood that the method for establishing a communication connection according to the present invention can be implemented in software on a communication terminal that has been provided in the prior art, and thus no additional additional components need to be added.

Preferably, the determining whether the communication attempt is successful, monitoring the execution time of the first communication connection attempt step from a predetermined time point of the first communication connection attempt step using a timer provided to the communication terminal. A call attempt time monitoring step; Monitoring the call attempt time and determining that the first communication connection attempt has failed when the call attempt time is longer than a predetermined time.

The timer is preferable to use a real time clock (RTC) provided in a conventional communication terminal because no additional components need to be added. On the other hand, the predetermined time point of the communication connection attempt step may be configured to be counted after the call attempt operation command for the call, or may be configured to count from the point at which the call attempt for communication is actually made.

According to another embodiment of the present invention, the step of monitoring the execution time of the first communication connection attempt step from the predetermined time point of the communication connection attempt step in the inter-call attempt time monitoring step, the communication base station or the like in the first communication connection attempt step When the number of acquisitions exceeds a predetermined number using the number of acquisitions of Ring Back Tone obtained from the, the first communication connection attempt may be replaced or performed in parallel.

Preferably, the step of determining whether the communication attempt was successful, the base station signal obtaining step of obtaining a predetermined signal from the base station for the communication terminal communication established communication; A base station signal monitoring step of monitoring the predetermined signal obtained from a base station; And monitoring the base station signal to determine whether the first communication connection attempt is successful by using the signal obtained from the base station.

The base station is a base station provided to provide a communication service. In the case of a mobile communication terminal, the base station may include a server of a neighboring base station or a mobile communication service company established to communicate with the mobile communication terminal.

The predetermined signal from the base station is a signal for notifying that the counterpart phone is turned off after the communication attempt is made, and a signal for notifying that the counterpart has entered a service for leaving a voice message if the counterpart phone is subscribed to the voice message service. It is preferably provided to determine that the call has failed when receiving such a signal. Alternatively, the predetermined signal may be provided as the ringback tone signal as described above, and the ringback tone signal may be counted by the communication terminal to determine that the communication connection attempt is failed when the predetermined number of times exceeds the predetermined number of times.

More preferably, the step of determining whether the communication attempt was successful, by performing the first communication connection attempt step by using the result of the connection signal determination step, the voice message service for the communication set-up communication connection phone to leave a voice message Determining whether or not to enter the voice message service to determine whether or not to proceed; And determining that the first communication connection attempt has failed when it is determined that the communication attempt telephone has progressed to a voice message service.

According to such a configuration, it is possible to configure the communication terminal user who does not wish to proceed with the voice message service to attempt a call to the second telephone number.

Preferably, the second telephone number may be configured to be preset by the user and stored in the storage unit.

According to such a configuration, the user may designate and store a second telephone number different from the first telephone number in advance in the storage unit, and if the first communication connection attempt using the first telephone number fails, the second telephone number is stored. The second communication connection attempt may be automatically made by the communication terminal.

Preferably, the second telephone number is set according to a sequence of predetermined serial numbers assigned to the telephone numbers stored in the storage unit.

A telephone number stored in a normal communication terminal is stored in accordance with a telephone number order specifically designated by a user or a telephone number order automatically assigned as a default value of the communication terminal. As can be seen in the example of the conventional PCS, CDMA, GMS terminal, the same counterpart phone number can be configured to be given in order of home phone number, mobile phone number, work phone number, or the like. It will be understood that they can be configured to separate and order them in advance.

Preferably, the determining whether the second communication connection is established may include: (a) a user operation receiving a predetermined operation command input from a user of the communication terminal when the first communication connection attempt using the first phone number fails; And (b) determining whether it is set to attempt a communication connection by using the second telephone number using the user manipulation command obtained in the user manipulation command obtaining step.

The user operation command acquisition may be configured to perform this through a keypad or a voice command input unit provided in a conventional communication terminal.

According to such a configuration, as described above, the second communication connection attempt may be made automatically when the first communication connection attempt fails in the communication terminal, but it may be configured to perform this through a user's operation command. do.

More preferably, the communication terminal is composed of a mobile communication terminal. In the conventional wired communication terminal, the size of the LCD display unit provided for the convenience of the user, the keypad for receiving user commands, the size of the voice recognition command unit, the control unit, and the storage unit are manufactured at a relatively low cost compared to the mobile communication terminal. Since the effect of the configuration is inferior to that of the components constituting the mobile communication terminal, the communication terminal connection setting method according to the present invention is more preferably implemented in the mobile communication terminal, and the implementation thereof can be easily performed.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 is a flowchart of a method for establishing a communication connection according to the present invention.

A preferred embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. 1 as an example in a synchronous CDMA network. However, it will be appreciated that the implementation of the present invention may vary slightly depending on each communication system.

First, the user tries to call (10). According to the call connection process, the channel is allocated (12), the service negotiation is performed between the terminal and the base station (14), and the ring back tone is received through an alert with information message (16), and the terminal knows that the ring is ringing at the other party. do. During the call connection process (12, 14, 16), it is determined whether a failure occurs (18) and if it fails, the call is resent by the same number (80). If not, the process proceeds to the next steps 14, 16 and 20 (19).

When the ringback tone starts to ring (16), timer 1 is driven and incremented (20). Timer 1 is a timer for determining how long the ringback tone has been ringing. The ringback tone rings and determines whether the state of the terminal enters the conversation state (50). If the other party has not yet answered the call, compare Timer1 to greater than Th1 (threshold1) (55).

Th1 is a threshold for comparing whether the value of Timer1 is large. The terminal developer may set an appropriate value in advance or the telephone user may input the value. If Timer1> Th1, the ring rings and the other party has not answered the call for a long time. If Timer1> Th1 is not checked, the user checks if the user requests to redial a different number before Timer1 expires (60). If the user requests a redial to another number before Timer1 expires, or if Timer1 expires, check whether the redial function is set to ON (70). If the redial function is set to ON in advance by the user, it is checked whether the automatic redial function to another number is turned on when a telephone call fails (75). If the function to redial to another number is turned off, it tries to redial to the same telephone number (80).

If it is ON in step 75, it is checked if another telephone number previously input exists (85). If there is no other number entered in advance, it tries to redial the same phone number (80).

If there is another number input in step 85, it is checked whether there is a number left unattempted from the number (90). If all attempts have already been made, the call is notified to the user (95) and waits for the user's command in the idle state. If the number which has not been attempted to remain is found, another telephone number to be dialed is searched for (100). Various algorithms may be used in the next number selection. Priority between phone numbers and related numbers can be linked together.

If another telephone number to be dialed is selected (100), the user is notified that another number is being redialed (110). If the user does not want to dial the number, the user can request a redial to the next number and the terminal detects the request (120) and returns to step 90. If there is no re-send selection request to the other number of the user in step 120, it attempts to redial and detects whether a re-send cancel command of the user is input in the middle (130). If there is a redial cancel command, the user is informed that the call fails / cancelled (95). If there is no user's resend cancel command, it tries to resend to another number selected as it is (140). Then return to A.

On the other hand, the terminal enters into the conversation state in step 50 is the case that the caller receives a call to enter the call state or connected to the voice mail. The terminal determines whether the voice mail is connected (200), if it is voice mail, proceeds to step 210, and if the voice mail is not the voice mail, a two-way call with the other party is started (400). The call ends when the call ends (410).

The method of determining the connection to the voice mail in step 200 is possible by various technical methods. For example, if a base station sends a specific message to the terminal and connects to the voice mail or notifies the terminal of a specific tone, the terminal may detect that the base station is connected to the voice mail.

When connecting to voice mail, if the user does not want to connect to voice mail and requests redial to another number (210), check whether the redial to another number is turned on (220), and check whether another pre-input number exists. (230), check whether there is a number left unsuccessful, and disconnect the voice mail (250), and proceeds to find another phone number to try to send in step 100. If another selection is made from 210, 220, 230, and 240, the process continues to the connected voice mail (300). When the user uses the voice mail and ends (310), the user returns to the idle state and waits for the user's command (320).

2 shows a table in which a sequence of steps is provided for telephone numbers stored in a communication terminal.

FIG. 2 may be referred to to illustrate an example of the next number selection method in step 100 described above with reference to FIG. 1.

As shown in Fig. 2, the number already attempted to be dialed is excluded from the next redial list. The method of finding the number to try the next redial in the phonebook for a certain number can be applied by various algorithms.

For example, if the user of the communication terminal designates the next phone number in advance, the user can enter the order when calling the next phone number when he / she calls the number 1 (end 1111). . In the example, the transfer is attempted in the order of 3 and 2.

Alternatively, if the user of the communication terminal does not designate the next phone number in advance, when he / she calls the number 2 (end 2222), the order is followed by the phone number entry. . Therefore, the telephone is tried in the order of 1, 3, 4, and so on.

On the other hand, as can be seen from the example 3, when the communication terminal user arbitrarily restricts the communication attempt to the next telephone number, when attempting to call the telephone number 3 (end 3333), the communication attempt to the next telephone number is restricted. There is no redial to next telephone number.

Or, if you are calling the previous phone number (end 444) and the phone number of the other party (Lee 9999) is selected as the next phone number, the previous phone number (end 444) Resend Lee Young-ae when a call attempt to call) fails.

Although the preferred embodiments of the present invention have been described above with reference to the accompanying drawings, the scope of the present invention is defined by the claims to be described later, and should not be construed as limited to the embodiments and drawings described above.

In addition, it is obvious that improvements, changes, and modifications apparent to those skilled in the art described in the claims are included in the scope of the present invention.

 According to the configuration of the present invention as described above, when a call connection attempt fails, it is possible to provide a method for establishing a communication connection that allows a communication terminal user to easily try to connect through another number.

Claims (8)

In the communication connection setting method using the phone number stored in the storage unit of the communication terminal including a control unit for controlling the operation of the communication terminal, a storage unit for storing a plurality of telephone numbers, and a communication module provided for communication, Attempting to establish a first communication connection using the first telephone number stored in the storage unit; A communication attempt success determination step of determining whether the communication connection attempt of the first communication connection attempt step was successful; A second communication stored in the storage unit when the first communication connection attempt using the first phone number fails and determining whether to establish a communication connection using a second phone number different from the first phone number; Determining whether to establish a connection; And A second communication connection attempt step of attempting a communication connection using the second telephone number by using the determination result of the step of determining whether to establish the second communication connection; Communication connection setting method of the communication terminal comprising a. The method of claim 1, The determining whether the communication attempt is successful, A call attempt time monitoring step of monitoring an execution time of the first communication connection attempt step from a predetermined time point of the first communication connection attempt step by using a timer provided to a communication terminal; And Monitoring the call attempt time and determining that the first communication connection attempt has failed when the call attempt time is longer than a predetermined time; Communication connection setting method of the communication terminal comprising a. The method of claim 1, The determining whether the communication attempt is successful, A base station signal obtaining step of obtaining, by the communication terminal, a predetermined signal from a base station for communication established for communication connection; A base station signal monitoring step of monitoring the predetermined signal obtained from a base station; A connection signal determination step of monitoring the base station signal and determining whether a first communication connection attempt is successful using a signal obtained from the base station; Communication connection setting method of the communication terminal comprising a. The method of claim 3, The determining whether the communication attempt is successful, Determining whether or not to enter the voice message service to determine whether the communication set-up communication attempted call proceeds to a voice message service for leaving a voice message by performing the first communication connection attempt step by using the result of the connection signal determination step. step; And Determining that the first communication connection attempt has failed when it is determined that the communication attempt telephone has proceeded to a voice message service; Communication connection setting method of the communication terminal further comprising. The method of claim 1, And the second telephone number is preset by the user and stored in the storage unit. The method of claim 1, And the second telephone number is set according to a sequence of a predetermined serial number assigned to the telephone number stored in the storage unit. The method of claim 1, The determining whether the second communication connection is set, A user manipulation command obtaining step of receiving a predetermined manipulation command input from a user of the communication terminal when a first communication connection attempt using the first telephone number fails; And Determining whether to establish a communication connection using the second telephone number using the user manipulation command acquired in the user manipulation command obtaining step; Communication connection setting method of the communication terminal comprising a. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 8, And the communication terminal is a mobile communication terminal.

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