TWI593269B - Communication management system and method thereof - Google Patents

Description

Communication management system and method

The invention relates to a communication management system and a method thereof, in particular to using a Bluetooth transmission technology to connect a portable communication device with a Bluetooth device installed in a vehicle, and filtering an incoming call or a short message according to requirements.

At present, many car multimedia systems support Bluetooth transmission technology. Users can connect portable devices such as mobile phones and tablets to Bluetooth multimedia systems through Bluetooth pairing, and transmit data or audio to Bluetooth via Bluetooth. The in-vehicle multimedia system allows the portable device to share data or audio with the in-vehicle multimedia system without the need for a physical line connection.

At this time, the in-vehicle multimedia system is generally regarded as a Bluetooth slave device, and the portable device is regarded as a Bluetooth master device, so when the car multimedia system and the mobile phone are connected through the Bluetooth, the car multimedia device The system can only passively answer or reject the call. The user still needs to perform call related operations such as making, answering or hanging up the phone through the in-vehicle multimedia system or mobile phone. However, there is a certain operation during the driving process. Dangerous.

In order to avoid the above situation, the present invention provides a communication management system and method for filtering unnecessary calls during driving of a vehicle to increase safety during driving.

The communication management system provided by the present invention is applicable to a portable communication device, and the portable communication device includes an operation interface and a Bluetooth host device. The operation interface is configured to set a communication management setting, and the Bluetooth main device is configured to be connected to a Bluetooth slave device, and when the Bluetooth master device detects and connects the Bluetooth slave device, the communication management setting is enabled. .

The communication management method provided by the present invention is applicable to a portable communication device, and the steps include: setting a communication management setting by using an operation interface of the portable communication device; and when the portable communication device is one of the portable communication devices When the Bluetooth master detects and connects a Bluetooth slave device, Enabling the communication management setting; when a message is transmitted to the portable communication device, determining whether to read the message according to the communication management setting; and when the portable communication device has an incoming call, according to the communication management setting, Decide whether to answer the call or reply to a default SMS.

The utility model can enable the user to filter the phone and automatically answer the important phone according to the demand by connecting the portable device and the vehicle multimedia system while driving the vehicle, thereby reducing the possibility of the user being distracted by the call related operation. And increase the safety during driving the vehicle.

S100~S350‧‧‧Step process

1 is a flow chart showing the setting of the communication management method according to the present invention.

2 is a control flow diagram of a communication management system in accordance with the present invention.

The embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings, and the invention.

1 is a flow chart showing a setting of a communication management method according to the present invention for describing a setting item and a flow of a driving communication management method of the present invention.

The communication management system of the present invention comprises a portable communication device and a Bluetooth slave device, wherein the portable communication device can be a mobile phone or a tablet computer, etc., and can be used as a Bluetooth master device and The Bluetooth operation interface device, and the Bluetooth slave device (slave) can be a multimedia system configured in a vehicle, and the portable communication device and the Bluetooth slave device can connect and start communication through the Bluetooth pairing.

The Bluetooth pairing and connection method between the portable communication device and the Bluetooth slave device is a well-known technology in the field of Bluetooth transmission, and will not be described here.

First, the communication management method is set by the Bluetooth operation interface of the portable communication device (step S100), which includes detecting and connecting a Bluetooth slave device (step S110), and the portable communication device and the Bluetooth slave device After the device is connected, the communication management is performed according to the settings of the communication management method.

Next, a reject list is set (step S120), wherein the reject list may include more than one phone number, and the phone number included in the reject list makes a call to the portable communication When the device is installed, it will directly refuse to answer.

A caller limit number is set (step S130), and when the phone number not included in the reject list is dialed to the portable communication device, it is calculated whether the number of calls is equal to the number of call limit times.

Setting an incoming call upper limit time (step S140), when the telephone number not included in the rejected list is dialed to the portable communication device, it is calculated whether the waiting time meets the incoming call upper limit time. In step S170, it is further set whether the ringtone is played as a prompt when the phone number not included in the rejection list is dialed to the portable communication device and waiting to be answered.

When an operation is set (step S150), when the number of times and the waiting time for the phone number not included in the rejection list to be dialed to the portable communication device are both the maximum number of incoming calls and the upper limit of the incoming call, the process set in step S150 is performed. Operation, which includes answering a call, rejecting a call, or replying with a text message.

In addition, the Bluetooth operation interface can manage the communication of the portable communication device in addition to the management of the communication. In step S160, it is set whether the portable communication device performs aloud reading when receiving a short message, and may also select whether to play the ringtone as a prompt when receiving the short message.

Finally, the settings are saved and the Bluetooth operation interface is exited (step S180).

In the communication management method of the present invention, the step S120 to the step S170 can be set by the user, which can include a preset value. When the step is not performed, the preset value is maintained and the preset value is operated. For example, the default rejection list is blank, the call limit is one time, the call limit time is zero seconds, the call limit limit and the call limit time are the operations for answering the call, reading when receiving the newsletter, and ringing the call when the call is received. .

2 is a control flow diagram of a communication management system according to the present invention for describing a control flow when a portable communication device of the present invention is connected to a Bluetooth slave device and has an incoming call.

When a portable communication device having a Bluetooth host device is connected to a Bluetooth slave device (step S200), the portable communication will be performed according to the setting of the communication management method in FIG. 1 and the control flow shown in FIG. 2. The communication of the device is managed, wherein the Bluetooth operation interface of the portable communication device further has an option for the user to decide whether to enable the communication management system of the present invention.

When an incoming call is dialed to the portable communication device (step S210), the incoming call is determined. Whether the number belongs to one of the reject lists (step S220), if the caller number belongs to one of the reject lists, the call is directly hung up to end the call (step S310).

When the caller number does not belong to one of the reject list, it is further determined whether the total number of times dialed by the same caller number reaches the caller limit number (step S230). For example, the number of incoming call limit is set to three times. If the A number is dialed twice to the portable communication device after the portable communication device is connected to the Bluetooth slave device, it is considered that the number of incoming call limits is not reached. The third time the number is dialed to the portable communication device, it is determined that the call limit has been reached three times.

When the total number of calls made by the same caller number does not reach the call limit number, according to the previous setting, it is decided whether to reply the call with the short message (step S290). If the incoming call is previously set to reply to the incoming call, the incoming call will be answered with a preset short message (step S300); conversely, if the previous call is not answered by the short message, the incoming call will be directly hung up (step S310). The preset newsletter is a text message provided by the communication management system of the present invention or input by the user.

When the total number of calls made by the same caller number reaches the maximum number of callers, the ringer is activated as a prompt according to the previous setting (step S240) and the ringer is dialed through the Bluetooth slave device, and waits for the ringer duration to reach the caller limit time (step S250). After that, the incoming call is answered according to the previous setting (step S270), wherein the ringing can be replaced with vibration or mute, and the answering of the incoming call in step S270 can also be replaced by hanging up the incoming call or replying to the incoming call with the short message. For example, the caller limit time is set to five seconds. When the number of calls made by the A number to the portable communication device has reached the maximum number of calls, the ringer is activated as a prompt, and after the ring duration lasts for more than five seconds, Automatically answering incoming calls; conversely, when the number of calls to the portable communication device has reached the maximum number of calls, but the ringing duration is less than five seconds, no prompt is given.

Between step S250 and step S270, a step S260 may be further stored to determine whether the portable communication device is connected to a Bluetooth voice device via Bluetooth communication. That is to say, when the Bluetooth slave device connected to the portable communication device is a Bluetooth voice device, the Bluetooth slave device can perform the operations such as answering or hanging up the call through the Bluetooth slave device, wherein the Bluetooth voice device includes Bluetooth speakers, etc., and devices that receive and output sound such as microphones and speakers.

In step S260, in addition to determining whether the portable communication device is connected to the Bluetooth slave device, it is also determined whether the Bluetooth slave device is a Bluetooth voice device, wherein the Bluetooth voice device is determined to be a Bluetooth communication field. The well-known technology, so I won't go into details here.

If, in step S260, the portable communication device determines that it is not connected to a Bluetooth voice device, the portable communication device is switched to the hands-free mode and the incoming call is received (step S280), that is, no additional manual operation is required ( For example, press the answer button to answer the call. The portable communication device can make a call.

When the portable communication device is determined to be connected to a Bluetooth voice device, the incoming call will be directly answered (step S270), and the call is made through the Bluetooth slave device (Bluetooth voice device), and the call is suspended after the call ends. The call is disconnected (step S310).

When the portable communication device loses connection with the Bluetooth slave device, it will automatically turn off the Bluetooth mode, switch to the normal communication mode, and reset the number of calls recorded during the previous connection to zero, so that the call is recalculated the next time the connection is made. frequency.

The above is the control flow of the communication management system of the present invention for dialing to the portable communication device. In addition, the present invention can also perform communication management on the message of the portable communication device or the communication software.

When a short message is transmitted to the portable communication device (step S320), it is determined whether to read the short message or play the ringtone as a prompt according to the previous setting (step S330). The short message may include device messages (such as power notification) issued by the portable communication device itself, messages received by the communication software, or messages transmitted through the telecommunication service.

Whether the message is read aloud or the ringtone is played as a reminder (step S340) or the mute is kept without any prompt (step S350), the control flow is performed according to the previous setting, so that no additional operation is required for the portable communication device or the in-vehicle multimedia system. Further, the invention achieves the effect of promoting driving safety.

While the present invention has been described above in the foregoing embodiments, the present invention is not intended to limit the invention, and the equivalents of the modifications and retouchings are still in the present invention without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. Within the scope of patent protection.

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Claims (8)

A portable communication device includes: an operation interface for setting a communication management setting, wherein the communication management setting includes at least one of a rejection list, an incoming call limit number, and an incoming call upper limit time, wherein the incoming call The upper limit time is calculated whether the call waiting time meets the call limit time, the call waiting time starts from the time when the number of calls meets the limit of the call; and a Bluetooth host device is used to connect with a Bluetooth slave device. The portable communication device enables the communication management setting when the Bluetooth host device is connected to the Bluetooth slave device. The portable communication device of claim 1, wherein the communication management setting comprises setting whether to ring when the portable communication device has an incoming call and setting a preset short message to reply to the incoming call. The portable communication device of claim 1, wherein the communication management setting comprises setting whether the portable communication device reads the short message or answers the incoming call when receiving a short message or an incoming call. The portable communication device of claim 1, wherein when the Bluetooth host device is connected to the Bluetooth slave device, the portable communication device receives a call through the Bluetooth slave device, or The call is answered by the portable communication device. A communication management method is applicable to a portable communication device, and the method includes: setting a communication management setting by using an operation interface of the portable communication device; and detecting, by the Bluetooth device, one of the portable communication devices When the Bluetooth slave device is connected and connected, the communication management setting is enabled; the step of setting the communication management setting further includes: setting at least one of a rejection list, a call limit limit, and an incoming call limit time, wherein the call is received. The upper limit time is calculated according to whether the call waiting time meets the call limit time, and the call waiting time starts from when the number of calls meets the limit of the call; when a message is transmitted to the portable communication device, according to the communication management Setting, determining whether to read the short message; and when the portable communication device has an incoming call, according to the communication management setting, determining whether to answer the incoming call or reply to a preset short message. For example, in the communication management method described in claim 5, the steps further include: Using the rejection list to determine whether the incoming call belongs to the rejection list, and if the incoming call belongs to the rejection list, directly hang up the incoming call; when the number of incoming calls of the incoming call does not reach the maximum number of incoming calls, according to the communication management setting, Determining whether to reply with the preset short message; and when the number of incoming calls of the incoming call reaches the upper limit of the incoming call and the incoming call time of the incoming call reaches the upper limit of the incoming call, according to the communication management setting, whether to answer the call or to use the preset The newsletter replies to the call. The communication management method of claim 6, wherein the step of setting the communication management setting further comprises: setting whether to ring when the portable communication device has the incoming call; and setting the content of the preset short message. For example, in the communication management method described in claim 6, the method further includes: determining, before answering the incoming call, whether the portable communication device is connected to a Bluetooth voice device to determine the portable communication device. Or the incoming call is answered by the Bluetooth voice device.