WO2007094204A1

WO2007094204A1 - Electronic-information silent-arrival system

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Publication number: WO2007094204A1
Application number: PCT/JP2007/052044
Authority: WO
Inventors: Yoshinobu Okabe
Original assignee: Yoshinobu Okabe
Priority date: 2006-02-15
Filing date: 2007-02-06
Publication date: 2007-08-23
Also published as: JP2007221351A

Abstract

A problem is that a user at a transmitting terminal end has to consider the status or environment of a user of a receiving terminal when transmitting an e-mail. An electronic information system, which comprises a transmitting terminal and a receiving terminal, is provided as a solving means. The transmitting terminal acquires electronic information, which is to be transmitted to the receiving terminal and includes silent arrival information for causing the electronic information to silently arrive at the receiving terminal, and transmits the electronic information to the receiving terminal. The receiving terminal determines whether the silent arrival information is included in the received electronic information includes. If the silent arrival information is included therein, the receiving terminal controls an arrival sound output so as not to output the arrival sound that would otherwise occur upon the reception of the electronic information.

Description

Specification

Silent incoming system for electronic information

Technical field

The present invention relates to an electronic information system having a receiving terminal that controls the output of a ringtone when electronic information is received.

Background art

In recent years, communication by electronic mail has become active. Conventionally mainly PC

The power of exchanging e-mails using (personal computers) In recent years, e-mail exchanges using mobile phones have become particularly active. When an e-mail is exchanged using a mobile phone, the mail reception process is performed without the user consciously performing a mail check request operation on the server. In other words, the user receives mail in real time.

[0003] Because of such convenience, the exchange of electronic mail using a mobile phone is widely used, but the following problems have arisen. For example, since emails are sent to the other party in real time, phenomena such as refraining from sending emails at midnight in consideration of the environment on the receiving side have occurred. In addition, some users are set to forward all received emails to their mobile phones. For email senders, the recipient email address is for portable PCs. Regardless of the situation, it is necessary to send an e-mail in consideration of various circumstances such as the other party's situation and the environment.

[0004] In this way, if you can use it without worrying about TPO (Time, Place, Occasion), you will not be able to fully realize the advantages of the e-mail. Things are happening. In order to solve this problem, for example, a technique has been developed for controlling the ringtone to be silent when an e-mail is received under a predetermined condition.

[0005] The invention described in Patent Document 1 relates to a portable terminal device that has a sensor that detects vibration, and determines that the user is in the train by the detected vibration, and controls the ringtone. Disclosed inventions are disclosed.

[0006] In the invention described in Patent Document 2, the setting of the alarm clock function is turned on. In the state, an invention relating to a mobile terminal device that controls ringtones and vibrations when receiving a voice call or mail is disclosed.

Patent Document 1: JP 2004-328100 A

Patent Document 2: Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2004-56651

Disclosure of the invention

Problems to be solved by the invention

[0007] However, the conventional technology is an invention in which the ringtone is controlled by using the setting of the receiving terminal itself or detection of the receiving terminal sensor as a trigger for V and deviation. For this reason, there has been a problem that it is impossible to control the output of the ringtone when an e-mail is received at the receiving terminal due to the intention from the transmitting terminal side. Therefore, for the user on the sending terminal side, the mail must still be sent in consideration of the environment of the user of the receiving terminal, eliminating the complexity! There wasn't.

Accordingly, the present invention has been made in view of the problem to be solved, and an electronic information system that enables control of a ring tone at a receiving terminal on the transmitting terminal side that transmits electronic information. The purpose is to provide.

Means for solving the problem

[0009] Therefore, in the present invention, an electronic information system including a transmitting terminal and a receiving terminal is provided in order to solve a significant problem. The transmitting terminal includes an electronic information acquisition unit that acquires electronic information to be transmitted to the receiving terminal, including silent incoming information that is information for making a silent incoming call at the receiving terminal, and the acquired electronic information. And an electronic information transmitting unit for transmitting to. In addition, the receiving terminal determines whether an electronic information receiving unit that receives electronic information, a ringing tone output unit that can output a ringtone in response to reception of electronic information, and whether the received electronic information includes silence incoming information. If the determination unit and the determination unit determine that silent incoming information is included! /, The ring tone is not output so as not to output the ring tone that is generated when the electronic information is received. A control unit that controls the output unit.

The invention's effect

[0010] According to the present invention, a terminal for transmitting electronic information is! Since control is possible, electronic information can be transmitted without worrying about the other party's environment. Therefore, electronic information can be exchanged without hesitation at nighttime, and free communication means that are not affected by time or circumstances can be provided. In addition, for example, in the case of distributing advertisements as electronic information, it becomes possible to distribute the advertisements without causing any discomfort to the user. BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION

[0011] Embodiments of each invention will be described below. It should be noted that the present invention is not limited to these embodiments, and can be carried out in various modes without departing from the gist thereof.

[0012] Kuku embodiment >>

Overview of Embodiment>

The present embodiment relates to an electronic information system that enables a transmitting terminal to control a ring tone when electronic information is received at a receiving terminal.

[0013] FIG. 1 (a) is a diagram showing an example of a mode when a conventional electronic mail is transmitted. In Fig. 1 (a), a greeting mail is sent from the sending terminal to the receiving terminal. Here, for example, when the user of the receiving terminal is sleeping, a ring tone is output when an e-mail is received, and sleep is disturbed. Note that, as in the prior art, it is possible to silence the mail ringtone by setting the receiving terminal. In this case, it is possible to miss a highly urgent mail. It was not always an effective solution. On the other hand, FIG. 1 (b) is a diagram for explaining the outline of the present embodiment. In Fig. 1 (b), the user of the sending terminal controls the sending terminal to receive the electronic information so that the information for making a silent call at the receiving terminal is included in the electronic information when sending the e-mail. Sending to the terminal. Then, when the receiving terminal receives the e-mail, the receiving terminal is controlled not to output a ring tone. For this reason, the user of the receiving terminal can receive the e-mail in real time without disturbing sleep.

[0014] Configuration of Embodiment 1>

FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating an example of functional blocks in the present embodiment. As shown in FIG. 2, the “electronic information system” (200) in this embodiment includes a “transmission terminal” (210) and a “reception”. “Terminal” (220) The “transmission terminal” (210) includes an “electronic information acquisition unit” (211) and an “electronic information transmission unit” (212). The “receiving terminal” (220) includes an “electronic information receiving unit” (221), a “ringtone output unit” (222), a “determination unit” (223), and a “control unit” (224). Have.

Each unit that is a constituent element of the present invention is configured by hardware, software, or both hardware and software. For example, as an example for realizing these, when using a computer, hardware configured such as a CPU, a memory, a bus, an interface, and peripheral devices, and software that can be executed on these hardware Can be mentioned. Specifically, the functions of each unit are realized by processing, storing, and outputting data on the memory and data input through the interface by sequentially executing the program expanded on the memory ( The same applies throughout this specification).

First, the transmission terminal 210 will be described. If the transmission terminal 210 is a terminal capable of transmitting electronic information, which will be described later, a difference is applicable. Specific examples of transmission terminals include PCs, mobile phones, PDAs, and game machines equipped with communication functions.

The electronic information acquisition unit 211 acquires electronic information to be transmitted to the receiving terminal 220, including silent incoming information that is information for causing the receiving terminal 220 to make a silent incoming call. “Electronic information” specifically includes the power of e-mail, such as SMS (Short Message Service), and messages exchanged between terminals of the same provider are also included in the electronic information. The “silent incoming call information” is information acquired by being included in electronic information. As will be described later, since the receiving terminal that has received the electronic information including the silent incoming call information is controlled not to output the incoming sound, the incoming call at the receiving terminal is performed by the operation on the transmitting terminal side. It is possible to indirectly control the sound output.

A specific example of silent incoming call information will be described with reference to FIG. Fig. 3 (a) is a diagram showing an example of the header part of the email. The header contains information about the sender and recipient of the mail, the server through which it was routed, and the title. As a specific example of the silent incoming call information, information indicating a silent incoming call may be added to this header. For example, in Fig. 3 (a), a header item X-Ringertone is added as information indicating a silent incoming call, and None is described as the parameter. In addition, silent incoming information in the header (In Fig. 3 (a), there are various ways to include “X—Ringertone: NoneJ”. For example, a GUI (Graphical User Interface) displays a check box for whether or not to include silent incoming information. If the user creates a mail by checking the check box, the mail header can include silent incoming information (“X—Ringertone: NoneJ”). You may display a message box asking if you want to include silent incoming information, or you can set whether to include silent incoming information in advance in the mailer settings, so that silent incoming information is created each time you create a mail. You can configure it so that you don't have to choose whether to include it.

[0019] In addition, the silent incoming call information is not necessarily included in the header! Figure 3 (b) shows an example of the mail creation screen. For example, if the “Subject” field in Fig. 3 (b) contains a character string indicating a silent call (for example, “$$ Ringertone: None $ $”), that character string was entered. Silent incoming call information may be obtained when a mail is created. In addition, the subject line may contain a character string indicating that the incoming call is a silent incoming call. rngno ”) is attached, the silent incoming call information may be obtained by attaching the file.

[0020] As described above, although it is possible to include silence incoming information in electronic information in various forms in the transmitting terminal, in the receiving terminal described later, the silent incoming information depends on the form. The function to interpret is needed. For example, if the sending terminal side includes the silence incoming information in the header, the receiving terminal side needs a function to refer to the silent incoming information in the header.

[0021] The electronic information transmitting unit 212 transmits the acquired electronic information to the receiving terminal. As a method of transmitting electronic information to a receiving terminal, for example, electronic information is transmitted to the receiving terminal via a mail server using the TCP / IP protocol.

Next, the receiving terminal 220 will be described. Specific examples of receiving terminals include PCs, mobile phones, PDAs, game machines equipped with communication functions, etc., as well as transmitting terminals. Any terminal that can receive electronic information is included. Is.

[0023] The electronic information receiving unit 221 receives electronic information. To receive electronic information, In addition to receiving e-mail and the like, for example, receiving a new message indicating that an e-mail has arrived at the server is also included in “reception of electronic information”.

The ringtone output unit 222 can output a ringtone in response to reception of electronic information.

The ringtone output unit normally outputs a ringtone when electronic information is received. If the received electronic information contains silent ringtone information as described later, it outputs a ringtone. A feature of the present embodiment is that it is possible not to perform the operation. The ringing tone is output through the speaker of the receiving terminal, for example. The ringtone includes sounds such as music melody and human voice data. In this way, the ring tone includes all the sounds output from the receiving terminal triggered by the reception of electronic information. Note that the ring tone output unit may be a part that outputs sound like a speaker, or may be a part that performs control to output a ring tone.

[0025] Judgment unit 223 includes silent incoming call information in the received electronic information! / Judge whether to speak.

As an example, referring to the header of the received electronic information, it is determined whether or not silence incoming information is included in the header. This determination process is executed before the ring tone output process by the ring tone output unit.

[0026] When the determination unit 223 determines that the silent incoming information is included, the control unit 224 outputs a ringtone so as not to output a ringtone that is generated when the electronic information is received. Controls the force unit 222. Controlling the ringtone output unit so that it does not output a ringtone is, for example, when receiving normal electronic information! For example, an API (Application Program Interface) that executes ringtone output is activated to receive an incoming call. When a sound output command is output, but silence incoming call information is included, by not calling the API for outputting this ringtone, the ringtone is output so that the ringtone is not output. Part can be controlled.

[0027] Process Flow of Embodiment>

FIG. 4 is a diagram for explaining the processing flow of the present embodiment. Note that the processing flow shown below can be implemented as a program for causing a computer to execute or a readable recording medium on which the program is recorded (hereinafter referred to as the processing flow in this specification). Is the same).

[0028] First, electronic information including silent incoming call information is acquired at the transmitting terminal (S411). This This is the case, for example, when creating a mail with the silent incoming information input check box turned on in an e-mail creation application. Next, the transmitting terminal transmits the electronic information acquired in S411 to the receiving terminal (S412).

[0029] The receiving terminal receives the electronic information transmitted from the transmitting terminal in S412 (S421). Then, it is determined whether the silent information is included in the electronic information received in S421 (S422). If it is determined in S422 that silent incoming information is included, control is performed so as not to output a ringtone (S423). On the other hand, if it is determined in S422 that the silent incoming call information is not included, the process proceeds to S424, and processing is performed when normal electronic information is received. Specifically, a ring tone output process is performed to alert the user that an electronic information has been received.

[0030] Specific Configuration Aspect of Embodiment>

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example of a specific configuration aspect of the present embodiment. FIG. 5 (a) shows an example of a specific configuration mode of the transmission terminal, and FIG. 5 (b) shows an example of a specific configuration mode of the reception terminal.

[0031] In Fig. 5 (a), the transmission terminal is a CPU 501, RAM 502 constituting an electronic information acquisition unit, a CPU 501, RAM 502, IZO 503 constituting an electronic information transmission unit, or a system as a transmission system thereof. Has bus 504 and so on. When acquiring electronic information, the CPU reads instructions stored at a predetermined address of the mail creation application temporarily stored in the RAM, and outputs various instructions. As an example, the CPU outputs a command for adding a header as silent incoming information to a storage address of a predetermined mail header in RAM. After that, when sending an e-mail, the CPU outputs a command to divide the information about the e-mail temporarily stored in the RAM into packets and send it through the IZO.

On the other hand, the receiving terminal in FIG. 5 (b) includes the CPU 511, RAM 512, and IZ0513 that constitute the electronic information receiving unit, the CPU 511, RAM 512, the speaker 515 that constitutes the ring tone output box, the determination unit, and the control unit. It has a CPU511, RAM512, IZ0513, and a system bus 514 as a transmission system thereof. When electronic information is received while the CPU is reading and starting the resident monitoring program stored in the RAM, it passes through IZO. The active resident monitoring program detects that the electronic information has been received. The CPU reads the RAM processing when it detects the reception of this electronic information, and sequentially outputs subsequent processing instructions. For example, it reads the e-mail header received and temporarily stored in RAM, and searches for silence incoming call information. If the silent incoming call information is included, the CPU does not issue a command to output the ringtone data stored in the RAM. In this way, it is possible to realize a silent call when receiving an e-mail.

[0033] Effects of Embodiment>

In this embodiment, since it is possible to control the output of the ringtone of the receiving terminal at the transmitting terminal, electronic information can be exchanged without hesitation at night. For this reason, for example, when an advertisement is distributed, it becomes possible to distribute the advertisement without causing the user to feel uncomfortable.

In the present embodiment, the ring tone output control has been described. However, the receiving terminal may be configured to control a predetermined operation when electronic information is received. For example, when receiving electronic information that includes silent incoming call information, a receiving terminal that has a function to activate vibration should not activate the vibration function in the same way as the process related to ringtone. It is also possible to control. In addition, it may be controlled not to display a lamp when receiving electronic information. Alternatively, the ringtone may be output as a weak sound.

[0035] In addition, for example, when receiving electronic information that includes silent incoming information, the receiving terminal can set the power to transfer the electronic information to a mail address addressed to the company. May be. In addition, when the receiving terminal has an alarm function and the setting is enabled, when electronic information including silent incoming call information is received, the alarm processing is performed with reference to the time information of the receiving terminal. It may be possible to output a ring tone notifying the reception of the electronic information after the execution time. Alternatively, when electronic information including silence incoming information is received, the alarm sound may be changed to notify the user that the electronic information has been received. [0036] In the above-described other configurations, the receiving terminal that has received the electronic information including the silent incoming call information has been described. However, it is not always necessary to perform processing that is performed only by the silent incoming call information. Good. In other words, the transmission terminal may transmit information dedicated to perform processing of other configurations. For example, instead of silent incoming information at the transmitting terminal, information called vibrationless information may be acquired and transmitted to the receiving terminal. A series of operations in this case can be performed in the same manner as the operation at the time of the silent incoming call already described.

Brief Description of Drawings

[0037] FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a conventional example and an overview of an embodiment.

FIG. 2 is a functional block diagram for explaining the embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a diagram for explaining silent incoming call information according to the embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a diagram for explaining the processing flow of the embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a diagram for explaining a specific configuration of the embodiment.

Explanation of symbols

200 Electronic Information System

210 f f¾½ art

211 Electronic Information Acquisition Department

212 Electronic information transmitter

220 1 terminal

221 Electronic information receiver

222 Ringtone output section

223 Judgment Department

224 Control unit

Claims

The scope of the claims

[1] A transmitting terminal, a receiving terminal, and a powerful electronic information system,

The sending terminal

An electronic information acquisition unit for acquiring electronic information to be transmitted to the receiving terminal, including silent incoming information that is information for making a silent incoming call at the receiving terminal;

An electronic information transmitter that transmits the acquired electronic information to the receiving terminal;

Have

The receiving terminal

An electronic information receiver for receiving electronic information;

A ringtone output unit capable of outputting a ringtone in response to reception of electronic information;

This occurs when the electronic information is received when it is determined that the received electronic information includes silent incoming information, and the determining unit determines that the incoming silent information is included. A control unit for controlling the ring tone output unit so as not to output the ring tone;

An electronic information system.

[2] The transmission terminal according to claim 1.

[3] The receiving terminal according to claim 1.

[4] A method for operating a transmitting terminal, a receiving terminal having a ringtone output unit capable of outputting a ringtone in response to reception of electronic information, and a powerful electronic information system,

On the sending terminal,

An electronic information acquisition step for acquiring electronic information to be transmitted to the receiving terminal, including silent incoming information, which is information for making a silent incoming call at the receiving terminal;

An electronic information transmission step of transmitting the acquired electronic information to the receiving terminal; and

On the receiving terminal,

An electronic information receiving step for receiving electronic information;

A determination step of determining whether the received electronic information includes silent incoming call information; and if the determination step determines that the silent incoming call information is included, A control step for controlling the ring tone output unit so as not to output the ring tone that is generated when the slave information is received;

The operation method of the electronic information system to execute.