KR20070047515A - Method for automatic answer by user configuration in mobile communication terminal - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to an automatic answering method according to a user setting in a mobile communication terminal, the process of stopping the telephone ringing function and the vibration function of the mobile communication terminal when the user uses the automatic answering function, and the telephone ringing function and the vibration function. After stopping, the process of checking whether the call is coming to the mobile communication terminal, and if the call is coming to the mobile communication terminal, the process of receiving the call automatically by operating the auto answering function, and after receiving the call automatically Transmitting a preset auto-answer message to the other party, ending the telephone call after the transmitting process, checking whether the short message is set by the user after the ending of the telephone call, and transmitting the short message. If there is no setting, after the automatic answering function operation time elapses, the telephone ringing function and the The reason to include the process of restoring the function when you can not answer the phone there is an advantage that can be passed to the called party using a specific voice messages or text messages. In addition, there is an advantage that the user may not be disturbed due to phone ringing or vibration.

 Mobile terminal, auto answer, short message.

Description

Automatic response method by user setting in mobile communication terminal {METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC ANSWER BY USER CONFIGURATION IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL}

1 is a diagram showing the configuration of a mobile communication terminal according to the present invention;

2 is a diagram illustrating a user setting process for an automatic response in a mobile communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention;

3 is a flowchart illustrating an automatic response process based on user setting in a mobile communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The present invention relates to an automatic response method by user setting in a mobile communication terminal.

The use of the mobile communication terminal is increasing rapidly due to the convenience of portable. With the rapid increase in the use of mobile communication terminals, service providers (terminal manufacturers) are competitively developing terminals having more convenient functions to secure a large number of users. E.g. The mobile communication terminal includes a phone book, a game, a short message, an internet, an e-mail, a morning call, a file viewer, a file transfer. It provides various additional functions such as automatic answering function.

The automatic answering function is a function that the mobile communication terminal accepts a call when the user cannot receive a call.

If the user cannot answer the call to the mobile communication terminal, the user should turn off the power of the mobile communication terminal or press and hold the left button so that the phone ringer or the vibration function does not operate any more and is switched to the voicemail box. .

However, when the mobile terminal is turned off, the user who makes the call cannot know the situation of the user who will receive the call, and when the user who will receive the call will turn on the mobile terminal again. There is a problem that the user making the call should continue to call periodically because it does not know.

In addition, the user to answer the call by pressing and holding the left button to stop the ringing or vibrate function and switch to voicemail, so the function must be repeated every time the call is received, the call ringing or vibration may be disturbed There is a problem.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide an automatic response method by user setting in a mobile communication terminal.

The method of the present invention for achieving the above object comprises the steps of stopping the telephone ringing function and the vibration function of the mobile communication terminal in the automatic response method settable by the user in the mobile communication terminal, when the user uses the automatic response function; After stopping the ringing function and the vibration function, the process of checking whether a call is coming to the mobile communication terminal, and when the call is coming to the mobile communication terminal, operating the auto answering function to automatically receive a call; After receiving the call automatically, the process of transmitting a predetermined auto-answer message to the other party, after the transmission process, the process of ending the phone call, and after the end of the phone call, checking whether the user has a short message transmission setting If the short message transmission setting does not exist, after the automatic response function operation time elapses, the mobile communication And a process of restoring a phone ringing function and a vibration function of the terminal.

Another method of the present invention for achieving the above object is a method for setting an autoresponder function that can be set by a user in a mobile communication terminal, when an autoresponder function is selected by a user, an autoresponse message to be transmitted is selected when the autoresponder is selected; And receiving the auto-response message, receiving the auto-response operation time, and receiving the short message after inputting the auto-response operation time.

Preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. In the following description of the present invention, detailed descriptions of related well-known technologies or configurations will be omitted when it is determined that the detailed description of the present invention may unnecessarily obscure the subject matter of the present invention.

Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in the automatic response method according to the user setting in the mobile communication terminal.

1 shows a configuration of a mobile communication terminal according to the present invention. In the following description, the mobile communication terminal includes both a cellular phone, a personal communication system (PCS), a personal data assistant (PDA), and an international mobile telecommunication-2000 (IMT2000) terminal. The following description will be described with the general configuration of the above examples.

Referring to FIG. 1, a control unit (MPU: Micro-Processer Unit) 100 controls the overall operation of the mobile communication terminal. For example, it performs processing and control for voice calls and data communication, and is in charge of processing and control functions for the automatic answering function by user setting in addition to the usual functions. In the following description, description of the processing and control of the conventional control unit 100 is omitted.

The ROM 102 may store microcodes and various reference data of a program for processing and controlling the controller 100. In particular, in addition to the usual functions, an auto-responder program according to the present invention is stored.

A random access memory (RAM) 104 is a working memory of the controller 100 and stores temporary data generated during execution of various programs.

Flash ROM 106 stores various updatable archiving data such as phone books, outgoing messages and incoming messages and, in particular, user settings for automatic reply in accordance with the present invention in addition to conventional functions. Save the value.

The keypad (key pad) 108 is a numeric key of 0-9, menu key (menu), cancel key (clear), confirmation key, call key (TALK), end key (END), Internet access key, navigation key A plurality of function keys such as (or direction keys) are provided, and key input data corresponding to a key pressed by a user is provided to the controller 100.

The display 110 displays status information generated during the operation of the mobile communication terminal, a limited number of characters, a large amount of video and still images, and the like. The display unit 110 may use a color liquid crystal display (LCD).

The codec (Coder-Decoder) 112 connected to the control unit 100 and the speaker 116 and the microphone 114 connected to the codec 112 are voice input / output blocks used for phone calls and voice recording. .

The codec 112 converts the PCM data provided from the controller 100 into an analog voice signal, transmits the same through the speaker 116, and converts the voice signal received through the microphone 114 into PCM data. Provided to the controller 100.

In addition, the RF unit (Radio Frequency unit) (120) is the frequency of the radio frequency signal received via the antenna 118 is provided to the baseband processing unit 122 by lowering the frequency, the baseband signal from the baseband processing unit 122 The frequency is raised and transmitted through the antenna 118.

The baseband processor 122 processes a baseband signal transmitted and received between the RF unit 120 and the controller 100. For example, in case of transmission, the channel coding and spreading of data to be transmitted are performed, and in case of reception, the function of despreading and channel decoding of the received signal is performed. .

2 illustrates a user setting process for an automatic response in a mobile communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 2, in step 210, the controller 100 of the mobile communication terminal receives selection of whether the auto answer function is set from the user.

If the user does not select the automatic response function setting, the controller 100 proceeds to step 220 to perform a general function.

If the user selects the auto answering function setting, the control unit 100 proceeds to step 230 and first receives a message sent when the auto answering function is used. For example, "I'm in a meeting now." Or choose one of the following messages: "Call me in hours" or "Call in a few hours now."

In operation 240, the controller 100 receives a time to be included in a time item of the message selected by the user. That is, a time to be included in "hours" among the auto-response messages of step 230 is received.

Thereafter, the controller 100 proceeds to step 250 and receives input of whether to use the short message service from the user.

If the control unit 100 is selected to use the short message service from the user, the control unit 100 proceeds to step 260 to set the use of the short message service when using the auto-response function and terminate the algorithm according to the present invention.

3 is a flowchart illustrating an automatic response process based on user setting in a mobile communication terminal according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 3, the control unit 100 checks whether the automatic response function is set in step 310.

If there is no usage setting of the auto answering function, the controller 100 proceeds to step 315 to perform a general function.

If there is a use setting of the auto answering function, the control unit 100 proceeds to step 320 to stop the ringing and vibrating function of the mobile communication terminal. The controller 100 stops the ringing and vibrating function of the telephone for a time set by the user in step 240 of FIG. 2. The setting time is the same as the automatic response function operating time.

In operation 330, the controller 100 checks whether there is an attempt to make a phone call to the mobile communication terminal.

When the telephone call is attempted in step 330, the controller 100 proceeds to step 340 to receive the call and proceeds to step 350 to transmit a response voice set by the user to the counterpart.

For example, if the time set by the user in step 240 of FIG. 2 is 3 hours, "Now the meeting is in progress." Or "Please call after 3 hours" or "Call now, please call after 3 hours" Send the message you set to the other party.

Thereafter, the controller 100 proceeds to step 360 to check whether there is a short message service function use setting.

If there is a short message service use setting, the control unit 100 proceeds to step 370 to terminate the current phone call and generates the automatic response content as a short message and transmits it to the call partner. In order to provide the short message service, a caller's telephone number display function should be set in the mobile communication terminal.

Thereafter, the controller 100 proceeds to step 375 and stops the auto-answer function in step 380 if the time set by the user in step 240 of FIG.

Thereafter, the controller 100 proceeds to step 385 to restore the telephone ring and vibration function and to terminate the algorithm according to the present invention.

Meanwhile, in the detailed description of the present invention, specific embodiments have been described, but various modifications may be made without departing from the scope of the present invention. Therefore, the scope of the present invention should not be limited to the described embodiments, but should be determined not only by the scope of the following claims, but also by the equivalents of the claims.

As described above, the present invention has an advantage in that it can be specifically delivered to the call counterpart using a voice message or a text message when the user cannot answer the call. In addition, there is an advantage that the user may not be disturbed due to phone ringing or vibration.

Claims (5)

In the automatic response method settable by the user in a mobile communication terminal, Stopping the user's ringing and vibration function of the mobile communication terminal when the user's automatic answering function is set; Stopping the ringing and vibration functions of the telephone, and checking whether a telephone is coming to the mobile communication terminal; When a call comes to the mobile communication terminal, automatically answering a call by operating the auto answering function; After automatically receiving the call, transmitting a preset auto answer message to the other party; After the transmission process, ending the telephone call; Checking whether the user has a short message transmission setting after the telephone call ends; And if the short message transmission setting is absent, restoring a telephone ringing function and a vibration function of the mobile communication terminal after an automatic response function operation time elapses. The method of claim 1, And if the short message transmission setting is set, converting the contents of the transmitted auto-response message into a short message and transmitting the same to the short message. The method of claim 1, The automatic response function operating time may be set by the user. The method of claim 1, The auto-response message can be arbitrarily selected by a user. In the mobile communication terminal user settable response method setting method, When the user selects the auto-response function setting, receiving the auto-response message to be transmitted when the auto-response is performed; Receiving the automatic response message and receiving an automatic response function operation time; And receiving a selection of whether to transmit a short message after inputting an operation time of the auto answering function.

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