CN101179618A - Terminal incoming call notification method - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention relates to the technology of interaction between a terminal and a user, and discloses a method for prompting an incoming call of a terminal, so that the user can identify the identity information of the calling party through the ringing tone. In the present invention, a second ringing tone can be set for the phone number stored in the terminal phone book, and the second ringing tone is information clearly related to the number such as the name of the incoming caller; The second ringing tone of the number is played to give voice prompts to the user. If the second ringing tone of the calling number is not found, the calling number is automatically announced. For mobile terminals that do not have earphones plugged in or that have not enabled special ring tone settings, the first ring tone or the default ring tone is played.

Description

Terminal incoming call notification method

technical field

The invention relates to the technology of interaction between a terminal and a user, in particular to an information prompting method for ringing an incoming call of a terminal.

Background technique

The telephone network has experienced nearly a hundred years of development, from a fixed wired network to a wireless mobile network, from providing pure voice services to now providing a variety of mixed services such as voice and data. The development of telephone network communication is rapid, but some of the processes still roughly maintain the original features, such as the call establishment process between two users in the network.

The mobile communication system is taken as an example for description below, and those skilled in the field of the present invention can know that similar problems also occur in fixed terminals. First, the process of establishing a call connection between users is described, as shown in FIG. 1 .

First, in step 101, the calling user 10 sends the number of the called user 30, that is, the called number, to the mobile network 20 through dial signaling.

Next, in step 102, the communication network 20 establishes a connection with the called user 30 according to the called number.

When the connection is successfully established, the communication network 20 sends a ring tone to the called user 30 in step 103 ; and sends a ring back tone to the calling user 10 in step 104 . Through the ringing tone, the communication network 20 prompts the called user 30 to have a user to call it; through different ring back tones, the communication network 20 reflects the different states of the called user 30 to the calling user 10 - free or busy. It is worth noting that the ringing tones are single-frequency audio signals issued by the network, and the ringing tones of all mobile terminals are basically the same. Here, the ringing tones only have the function of reminding the user that a call is coming in, and the user cannot know it through the ringing tones. who made the call.

In addition, in the actual use of mobile terminals, many people use earphones to answer in order to avoid radiation from the mobile terminal itself or in special circumstances such as driving a vehicle. When there is an incoming call, the mobile terminal generally reminds the user that there is an incoming call by ringing or vibrating. In order for the user to know the phone information of the current call, the user must take out the mobile phone to see the information on the caller ID, and determine whether to answer the call according to the incoming call information. Or refuse, if you answer, use the headset to answer.

Now, with the development of communication technology, the ringing tone not only has the ringing tone of the single-frequency signal issued by the network, but also can store several ringing tones on the mobile terminal, and the user can choose different ringing tones according to his preferences; and , has been developed to the point that different ring tones can be downloaded to the mobile terminal through the network, and different ring tones can be selected for different friends' phone numbers. When a friend calls the user, it will ring with a pre-set ring tone. Through this specially set ring tone, the user can know which good friend is calling.

In practical application, the above solution has the following problems: First, from the perspective of the mobile terminal, there are limitations. Because the storage space of the mobile terminal is limited, and the general mobile terminal has its own ringtones, or the ringtones downloaded from the Internet, the files are relatively large, and it is impossible to store many ringtones on the mobile terminal. Generally, there are only a dozen kinds of ringtones available for common mobile phones. Setting, if each phone number is set with a special ring tone, only a dozen phone numbers can be set. If a plurality of telephone numbers share a ringtone, the purpose of identifying the incoming telephone number cannot be achieved through the ringtone.

Secondly, from the perspective of use, there are also limitations. Even if the storage space of the mobile terminal is not limited, a ringtone can be set for each recorded number, but when there are so many ringtones, it is difficult for the user to select one by one because the selected ringtone has no direct information related to the incoming phone number. Correspondingly remember which ringtone is which phone number.

In addition, the current ringtones are mostly improved from the perspective of pleasing to the ear, and cannot effectively achieve the purpose of identifying incoming callers. When the user answers the call with a headset, since the incoming call number cannot be identified from the ringtone, the user must also take out the mobile phone to check the incoming call information before determining whether to answer or reject it. This makes it very inconvenient to use the mobile phone in special occasions such as driving.

The main reason for this situation is that the existing terminal ringing tone cannot directly provide information for identifying the identity of the calling party, and there is no one-to-one correspondence between the ringing tone and the identity of the calling party.

Contents of the invention

In view of this, the main purpose of the present invention is to provide a terminal call notification method, so that the user can identify the identity information of the calling party through the ringing tone.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a terminal call reminder method, in which a plurality of second ringing tones corresponding to telephone numbers are stored in the terminal, and,

Said method comprises the following steps:

B. The terminal checks whether there is a corresponding second ring tone according to the phone number of the incoming call, and plays the second ring tone if there is.

Wherein, the step B further comprises the following sub-steps:

If the terminal does not find the corresponding second ring tone according to the phone number of the incoming call, broadcast the phone number of the incoming call in a voice manner.

The terminal is a mobile terminal.

Before the step B, the method also includes the following steps:

When A receives the incoming call, the mobile terminal detects whether it is connected to an earphone, and if so, enters step B; and,

In the step B, the second ringing tone or the phone number announced by voice is played through the earphone.

Described step A also further comprises following sub-steps:

When the mobile terminal detects that it is not connected to an earphone, it plays a default ringtone.

The terminal may be a fixed terminal.

The second ringing tone is pre-recorded into the terminal by the user.

The terminal also includes a telephone number management module for recording, searching, playing and deleting the second ring tone.

The method also includes the steps of:

Before the step B, when the terminal receives an incoming call, it judges whether the special ringtone setting is turned on, and if so, proceeds to step B, otherwise plays the default ringtone.

The second ringing tone may be the name of the number user or a sound with identification information.

By comparison, it can be found that the main difference between the technical solution of the present invention and the prior art is that the present invention can set a second ringing tone for the phone number stored in the terminal phone book, and the second ringing tone is such as the name of the incoming caller. Wait for the information clearly related to the number; when there is an incoming call, search for the second ring tone of the number and play it to give a voice prompt to the user; if the second ring tone of the calling number is not found, it will automatically announce the broadcast The calling number. For mobile terminals that do not have earphones plugged in or that have not enabled special ring tone settings, the first ring tone or the default ring tone is played.

The difference in this technical solution has brought obvious beneficial effects, that is, the user can recognize the identity information of the calling party through the ringing tone when a call comes in; especially for mobile terminal users who use earphones, they do not need to check the mobile terminal The information of the incoming call is displayed on the screen, and the ringing tone heard directly through the earphone can judge the incoming call information, which is convenient for the user and fully utilizes the convenience of the earphone state.

Description of drawings

Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of the process of establishing a connection by a user in a mobile communication network;

Fig. 2 is a functional block diagram of a mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 3 is a flow chart of establishing a second ring tone by external sound input according to an embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 4 is a flow chart of using the second ring tone for automatic voice prompt of an incoming call according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Detailed ways

In order to make the object, technical solution and advantages of the present invention clearer, the present invention will be further described in detail below in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.

First, the basic principle of the present invention will be explained. The present invention expands the traditional telephone number management function, so that the mobile terminal supports setting the second ringing for uniquely identifying a number, and in the case of using earphones, it can automatically search and play the corresponding second ringing according to the incoming call number, The user can clearly and directly obtain the identification information of the calling party from the ringing.

The functional block diagram of the mobile terminal according to the present invention will be described below with reference to FIG. 2 . As shown in the figure, in addition to the general transceiver module 40, microprocessor module 50, display unit module 60, peripheral unit module 70, audio interface unit module 80, the mobile terminal of the present invention also includes an improved telephone number Management module 90. The transceiver module 40 , the display unit module 60 , the peripheral unit module 70 , the audio interface unit module 80 and the telephone number management module 90 are respectively connected to the microprocessor module 50 to exchange data. in:

The transceiver module 40 is mainly used for the processing of the uplink and downlink signals of the wireless link; in the downlink signal processing, it mainly completes the reception of wireless signals in the air, and restores the data sent from the network side through demodulation and analog-to-digital conversion; In the processing of the uplink signal, the data sent by the microprocessor module 50 is mainly converted into a wireless signal that can be transmitted through the antenna through digital-to-analog conversion and uplink modulation.

The microprocessor module 50 is mainly used to control the coordinated work of each functional unit: in the downlink data processing, complete the analysis of the data sent from the network side, and drive the display unit or audio interface unit to complete the corresponding business functions according to the analysis results; In terms of processing, the user's data is mainly packaged, and then transmitted to the wireless transceiver and sent to the network side.

Display unit module 60: mainly includes a liquid crystal display (LCD) and related peripheral driving circuits, and is mainly used for displaying data sent by the microprocessor module 50 on the LCD.

The peripheral unit module 70 is mainly used to interact with the microprocessor module 50 for user data. According to the configuration of the mobile terminal, it includes different units, typically including: keyboard, data interface, camera, etc.

The audio unit module 80 is mainly used to complete voice input/output processing, including functional circuits such as speakers, microphones, and earphones.

One of the main features of the present invention that is different from the prior art is that in the present invention, each telephone number can be set with two ringing information: the first ringing tone and the second ringing tone. Wherein the first ringing tone can be selected from the local ringing tone of the mobile terminal, or obtained through online download, which is a ringing tone without clear identification information; the second ringing tone is mainly used for specific environment The ringing sound prompt, such as the ringing sound prompt in the state of using the earphone, the ringing sound is recorded by recording external words or other sounds with specific meanings, that is to say, it is a ringing sound with clear identification information.

The telephone number management module 90 is a key module for realizing the above-mentioned features of the present invention. In addition to the most basic telephone number management functions, it also has the extended function of supporting the second ring tone. Specifically, the most basic phone number management function refers to the management of all phone numbers and related information entered by users, which can provide users with the functions of querying, adding, deleting, and modifying phone numbers; here, the information of each phone number except In addition to basic contact information such as the phone number and the phone number corresponding to the user's name, title, email, etc., there is also ringing tone information. The extension function that the telephone number management module 90 supports the second ring tone refers to that it supports setting up, revising, deleting the second ring tone for each telephone number; The modules cooperate to realize the playing of the second ringing tone.

Entering the external sound as the second ring tone can be performed when the user creates a new phone number record, or when the user edits the phone number. The process of setting up the second ring tone for the phone number in the phone book is shown in Figure 3:

Firstly, in step 301, the relevant option of external ring tone input is selected through the menu. Then enter step 302, when the user is ready, press the confirmation key to record.

In step 303, the user inputs relevant sound information through the microphone. According to the purpose of the present invention, in order to effectively identify the incoming phone number, the user should input a unique external ring tone information as the second ring tone for the phone number. As a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the user name of the telephone number can be used as the second ringing tone, such as saying "this is Zhang San's phone", and this information is clearly corresponding to Zhang San's phone number, effectively achieving this purpose of the invention.

In step 304 , the microprocessor module 50 records the incoming audio data from the audio unit module 80 . After the user finishes recording, in step 305, press the end key to end the recording. Thereafter, in step 306, the microprocessor module 50 will be responsible for saving the audio data.

Through the above steps, the second ring tone can be added to each phone in the phone book. The flow of the method for realizing the automatic incoming call voice prompt through the second ringing tone will be described in detail below with reference to FIG. 4 .

First, in step 401, the mobile terminal is in an idle state. The present invention is aimed at the mobile terminal in the idle state, if the mobile terminal is in the busy state, it cannot play the ring tone.

At this time, if there is an incoming call, go to step 402, the network side finds the mobile terminal through paging, and the mobile terminal establishes a communication link with the mobile network.

Then, enter step 403, the mobile terminal obtains the phone number of the calling user by analyzing the paging information on the network side.

After obtaining the calling user's phone number, enter step 404, the microprocessor module 50 of the mobile terminal detects the earphone interface, and judges whether the current earphone is connected. If the earphone is not connected, then define the normal state, and enter step 405 for subsequent processing; if the current earphone is connected, it is the earphone state, and enter step 406 for subsequent processing. The method for detecting whether the earphone is plugged in here is as follows: the microprocessor module 50 of the mobile terminal has a pin connected to the earphone jack, and the initial voltage of the pin is a high level; Pulling down becomes low level, and the microprocessor module 50 can judge whether the earphone is plugged in by regularly detecting the voltage of the pin.

If the earphone is not connected, that is, the mobile terminal is in a normal state, then enter step 405, and ring according to the default ringing mode. The default ringing mode refers to: if the first ringing tone is set in the phone number, search the corresponding first ringing tone in the phone number book according to the incoming phone number, and use the ringing tone to remind the user; if there is no ringing tone in the phone number If the first ring tone is set, a ringing prompt will be performed according to the default ring tone of the mobile terminal. It's worth noting here that the default ringtone is the same for all phone numbers, and even though the user has set a first ringtone for several numbers, they still cannot Clearly and effectively identify the calling user. In addition, if only considered from a technical point of view, the second ringing tone can actually be applied in the normal state, but from the perspective of privacy protection, the mobile terminal in the normal state uses a loudspeaker to play the ringing tone. This means that other people besides the user can also identify the identity of the calling user through the second ring, which is not conducive to the confidentiality of personal information. Therefore, the present invention is particularly suitable for mobile terminals in earphone state.

If the mobile terminal detects that the earphone has been connected, that is, it is in the earphone state, then enter step 406, and search for the second ringing tone stored in the local phone number book of the mobile terminal according to the incoming phone number, which is through the phone number management module 90 to achieve.

Then in step 407, judge whether to find the second ring tone corresponding to the number, if found, then enter step 408, prompt the user with the second ring tone; if not found, then enter step 409 for follow-up processing.

In step 409, it is determined whether the user needs to activate special ringing in the earphone state in the system settings of the mobile terminal. If the user has chosen to enable the special ring, go to step 410, otherwise go to step 411. The setting of the special ringing activation item can be placed in the system function setting menu of the mobile terminal. When the user performs the system setting of the mobile terminal, he can set whether to open the special ringing in the earphone state according to needs.

If the option of starting a special ring tone is set, although the user does not store the second ring tone, in step 410, when a phone number calls in, the mobile terminal will use the sound of the phone number as the ring tone to What is the phone number for the user to hear the incoming call through the headset. This situation is particularly applicable to the situation that the calling number has not been stored in the phonebook of the mobile terminal. For example, if a strange call is incoming, the user cannot set the second ring tone for the strange call, but the user can still obtain the information of the caller number by using the phone number as the ring tone of the ring tone.

If the user turns off the special ring function in the earphone state, it will enter step 411, that is, when the phone number calls in, the default setting is used to ring, that is: if the first ring is set in the phone number, Then look up the corresponding first ring tone in the phone book according to the incoming phone number, and use the ring tone to prompt the user; if the first ring tone is not set in the phone number, then perform ringing prompts according to the default ring tone of the mobile terminal.

As a preferred embodiment of the present invention, assume that the phone book of a certain mobile terminal records Zhang San's phone number, and records the second ringing tone "This is Zhang San's incoming call" for the number, when the mobile terminal is in the earphone When Zhang San calls, the mobile terminal will play the ringing tone of "This is Zhang San's incoming call" through the earphone. If Li Si calls the mobile terminal, since there is no record of Li Si in the phone book, the mobile terminal cannot play the corresponding second ring tone. Give out Li Si's phone number.

In the case of using the earphone, the user knows the information of the incoming call through the second ring tone or the special prompt of the caller's phone number, and decides whether to answer or reject it according to his own situation. In this way, the user no longer needs to take out the mobile phone from the placed position, and decides whether to answer by checking the prompt information on the screen of the mobile terminal, which greatly facilitates the use of the user.

Those skilled in the field of the present invention can know that some changes can be made to the steps in the above embodiments, for example, the judgment of setting in step 409 is moved to the judgment before step 404, if it is set to not use the special ringtone option, then enter step 410 Play the default ringtone, otherwise go to step 404. Meanwhile, in step 407, if it is determined that there is no second ringing tone, then directly enter step 411.

The content of the present invention has been described above with an example of a mobile terminal, and those skilled in the field of the present invention can know that the same method can also be applied to other types of communication terminals, such as fixed terminals. In another embodiment of the present invention, the method shown in FIG. 4 is used on a fixed terminal. If the fixed terminal does not have an earphone that is often worn on the user's head, steps 404, 405, and 406 related to the earphone can be omitted. .

Although the present invention has been illustrated and described with reference to certain preferred embodiments thereof, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes in form and details may be made therein, and without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined by the appended claims.

Claims (10)

1. A terminal incoming call prompting method is characterized in that, a plurality of second ringing tones corresponding to telephone numbers one-to-one are stored in the terminal, and, Said method comprises the following steps: B. The terminal checks whether there is a corresponding second ring tone according to the phone number of the incoming call, and plays the second ring tone if there is. 2. The terminal incoming call prompting method according to claim 1, wherein said step B further comprises the following sub-steps: If the terminal does not find the corresponding second ring tone according to the phone number of the incoming call, broadcast the phone number of the incoming call in a voice manner. 3. The method for prompting an incoming call of a terminal according to claim 2, wherein the terminal is a mobile terminal. 4. The terminal incoming call prompt method according to claim 3, characterized in that, before the step B, the method further comprises the following steps: When A receives the incoming call, the mobile terminal detects whether it is connected to an earphone, and if so, enters step B; and, In the step B, the second ringing tone or the phone number announced by voice is played through the earphone. 5. The terminal incoming call prompting method according to claim 4, wherein said step A further comprises the following sub-steps: When the mobile terminal detects that it is not connected to an earphone, it plays a default ringtone. 6. The terminal incoming call prompting method according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the terminal may be a fixed terminal. 7. The terminal incoming call prompting method according to any one of claims 1 to 5, characterized in that, the second ring tone is pre-recorded into the terminal by the user. 8. The terminal incoming call prompt method according to claim 7, characterized in that the terminal further comprises a telephone number management module for recording, searching, playing and deleting the second ring tone. 9. The terminal incoming call prompting method according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the method further comprises the following steps: Before the step B, when the terminal receives an incoming call, it judges whether the special ringtone setting is turned on, and if so, proceeds to step B, otherwise plays the default ringtone. 10. The terminal incoming call prompting method according to any one of claims 1 to 5, characterized in that, the second ringing tone can be the name of the number user or a sound with identification information.

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