Background technology
In general, accommodate a plurality of a plurality of users that post a letter terminal and a plurality of collection of letters terminals and accommodate in the network of switch having, normally the originator bears whole call rates in the lump.; make also practicability of method that the addressee shares call rate; for example; known when having phone that the talked about side that undertaken by the operator when call out connecting pays and originator to dial specific collection of letters charging identification number, the automatic collection of letters that the addressee fully bears call rate is chargeed and is served (for example side's of answering the call way of paying) etc.In addition about the side's of answering the call way of paying etc., for example, please refer to that " village is rapids, pond buttocks, Wu Jing; The pre-reduction of service and reservation control, NTT technical journal, the first volume, the 9th phase, the 16th~20 page, in December, 1989 ", " go up slope, guiding principle paddy; IN serves the pioneer, the side's of answering the call way of paying service, NTT technical journal, the first volume, the 9th phase, the 21st~26 page, in December, 1989 ".In these existing technology, because call rate is only unilaterally paid by originator or addressee, institute exists to make the people feel inequitable shortcoming so that the one-side burden of originator or addressee increases.
In order to solve such shortcoming, for example open in the clear 63-115452 communique and disclose the invention of sharing call rate by originator and addressee both sides the spy.In the disclosed invention of this communique, be to share communication expense by post a letter user and collection of letters user, will share in the user related information storage device that control information is registered in switch as the user's of charging object charging in advance.And, when the user's that posts a letter connection request is connected control, sense information from post a letter user or collection of letters user's user related information storage device, comprising in the information of being read charges shares under the situation of control information, logic rules are according to the rules carried out this post a letter connection between user and the collection of letters user and charging of sharing of carrying out this call rate.
In more detail, the charging of every user storage is shared control information by constituting with the lower part: the collection of letters prior information of posting a letter when (A) posting a letter, the collection of letters prior information of posting a letter when (B) collecting mail is shared ratio when (C) posting a letter, and (D) shares ratio when collecting mail.Share control information according to these chargings, logic rules are according to the rules determined originator and addressee's call rate.
Logic rules among the embodiment are:
Control information preferential collection of letters user priority type (setting under the preferential situation of collection of letters side, calling side and collection of letters side all adopt the ratio of sharing of collection of letters side) is shared in the charging of (1) collection of letters side
(2) the control information preferential user priority type of posting a letter (setting under the preferential situation of calling side, calling side and collection of letters side all adopt the ratio of sharing of calling side) is shared in the charging of calling side
(3) one of collection of letters contrast type (the consistent type of posting a letter; Be set at calling side that calling side is preferential, collection of letters side is set under the preferential situation of collection of letters side, only just accept conversation when consistent, adopt the ratio of sharing of this unanimity) at both sides' the ratio of sharing
(4) post a letter two (inconsistent types of collection of letters contrast type; Be set at calling side that calling side is preferential, collection of letters side is set under the preferential situation of collection of letters side, if both sides to share ratio inconsistent, then only collect mail and share posting a letter in the charge information and collect mail and share that the share rate Gao Shicai of calling side accepts communication in the ratio posting a letter of calling side, login the charging of appointment according to the calling side user in advance and share control information, determine call rate)
(5) share ratio type (share under the situation of control information having logined to charge, to charge, for example respectively to share 1/2 call rate) on an equal basis by sharing ratio on an equal basis
The addressee does not specify the originator who shares call rate in these known examples, handles all originators on a 50-50 basis.That is, because the addressee do not specify the originator that should share call rate, so exist to sharing the problem of charging without exception from the not specific many originators' that comprise the originator who does not wish to share charging the collection of letters yet.
In addition, as mentioned above, in the share charging method in the above-mentioned open communique various logic rule is arranged, sometimes the method for sharing charging is along with the different and different of login method that control information and the charging of collection of letters side share control information are shared in originator's charging, in addition, if it is inconsistent that control information is shared in the charging of calling side and collection of letters side, forbid calling out connection or the like sometimes, there is the problem that charging bothers very much of sharing.
Disclosure of an invention
The objective of the invention is to: the collection of letters of the particular number that sends about call charging district from addressee's appointment, by the charging burden information relevant of storage in advance with this originator and addressee, improve above-mentioned problem, a kind of the collection of letters to the call charging district that allows from the addressee is provided, can carry out the share charging method of sharing charging of call rate according to the condition of addressee's appointment.
In order to achieve the above object, the present invention a kind ofly accommodates a plurality of a plurality of users that post a letter terminal and a plurality of collection of letters terminals and accommodates in the network of switch having, use to receive from a plurality of call chargings district by the particular number of the calling of the preassigned district of the addressee particular number different that dial and call out the share charging method that connects with general subscriber directory number by the preassigned subscriber directory number of this addressee, it is characterized in that: set and store originator and/or addressee call out the call rate of the regulation that connects to above-mentioned particular number charging burden information, above-mentioned charging burden information according to this storage makes above-mentioned originator and above-mentioned addressee share above-mentioned call rate.
More particularly, can implement following method.
(1) specify in second destination who is connected by Path selection under the situation that the destination that calls out above-mentioned particular number can not collect mail in advance, to have been connected by Path selection be not under first destination but above-mentioned second destination's the situation calling out,
The call rate of the phone of making above-mentioned second destination than the high situation of the call rate of the phone of making above-mentioned first destination under, the call rate of taking over the phone of making this first destination to above-mentioned originator,
Take over the in full of differential section after the call rate that deducts the phone of making this first destination from the call rate of the phone of making above-mentioned second destination to above-mentioned addressee, perhaps take over wherein a part to above-mentioned addressee, and take over remainder to above-mentioned originator
Be equal to or less than in the call rate of the phone of making above-mentioned second destination under the situation of call rate of the phone of making above-mentioned first destination, the call rate of fully taking over the phone of making this second destination to above-mentioned originator,
The ratio that the call rate of above-mentioned differential section is shared by above-mentioned originator and above-mentioned addressee also can be set or change according to posting a letter of carrying out in the official hour section or from the condition of posting a letter in the zone of regulation.
(2) same, specify in second destination who connects by Path selection under the situation that the destination that calls out above-mentioned particular number can not collect mail in advance, to have been connected by Path selection be not under first destination but above-mentioned second destination's the situation calling out, according to above-mentioned charging burden information, the call rate of taking over the phone of making this second destination to above-mentioned originator or a certain side of above-mentioned addressee.
At this moment, the charging that any side is carried out also can be according to posting a letter of carrying out in the official hour section, posting a letter or from the condition of posting a letter of the telephone number of the regulation of login in advance, determine to charge from the zone of regulation.
(3) call out at above-mentioned particular number and connect, each call charging district has been set with this zone be starting point, different distances is carried out a plurality of distance ranges of same call meters,
The call rate of the distance range of the regulation to above-mentioned originator takes over from above-mentioned originator's call charging district to above-mentioned a plurality of distance ranges,
The call rate of taking over the differential section after deducting the call rate of making the phone in the afore mentioned rules distance range from the call rate of the phone of making above-mentioned preassigned subscriber directory number to above-mentioned addressee,
Call rate at the phone of making above-mentioned preassigned subscriber directory number is equal to or less than under the situation of the call rate of making the phone in the afore mentioned rules distance range, fully takes over the call rate of the phone of making this subscriber directory number to the originator.
If employing the present invention, then when making a phone call with particular number, can be only to the collection of letters in the call charging district that allows from the addressee, share call rate according to the condition of addressee's appointment, very effective in the fields such as the sales promotion in the phone commercial affairs, receiving order, customer service.
In addition, call out in the connection at above-mentioned particular number, before calling out connection between above-mentioned originator and the above-mentioned addressee, will notify the user who has accommodated above-mentioned originator to accommodate switch about the priori information that charges, also can send the prompting of transmitting above-mentioned priori information simultaneously to this originator.Therefore, the originator just can know the information that gateway to charge is arranged in advance, can converse securely, so can avoid the originator to worry to bear the situation of great number call rate.
The preferred example of the usefulness that carries out an invention
Below, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.
The share charging method that the present invention proposes has: the particular telephone number different with general subscriber directory number is being transformed under the situation that subscriber directory number connects arbitrarily, store originator and/or addressee in advance and call out the charging burden information that connection is shared call rate according to relevant particular number, according to this charging burden information, share actual call rate by originator's one side and addressee's one side.Specifically, there are following three kinds.
(a) strong point share charging method: the destination according to the change of circumstance of collection of letters side originally under predetermined destination's the situation, when destination's after changing call rate is higher than the call rate of the phone of making originally predetermined destination before changing, make the call rate of destination's before changing phone from originator and born by originator's one side, not enough part is born by addressee's one side.
(b) select collection of letters charging method:, determine by a certain side burden call rate according to this information in the addressee's one side login addressee one side burden or the information of originator's one side burden.
(c) MBI value share charging method: (determine and divide and with 10 yen of different a plurality of sections of number distance second of conversing this section to be called MBI value 1,2 according to the MBI value ... Deng.For example, " MBI value 1 " is 3 minutes/10 order units, and " MBI value 2 " is 90 seconds/10 yen, or the like, in each call charging district, the MBI value is 1, in addition, in two call charging districts arbitrarily, according to its distance, the MBI value of configuration more than 2.) determine to share Freight Basis.
Below describe these three kinds of share charging methods in detail.
(a) strong point share charging method
Change destination's well-known function has:
(1) side of accepting change function---in preassigned time period such as (except the business hours), the function that is connected with other destinations automatically
(2) Da Qu represents function---(for example cross over a plurality of area login Da Qu representative, as first selecting sequence, there are many circuits (master) to connect Tokyo, as second selecting sequence, there are many circuits (son 1) to connect the Nagoya, as the 3rd selecting sequence, there are many circuits (son 2) to connect Osaka), when having dialed the phone of particular number by the originator, at first explore main line, under the situation of free time, be connected with this circuit, but when main line is occupied, explore the sub-circuit of the free time of subordinate's selecting sequence successively, under the situation that has found idle circuit, be connected the function of (when not finding idle circuit, sending speech) etc. with this circuit
Here Shuo Ming strong point share charging method is a kind of like this charging method: when utilizing the such side's of accepting change function or Da Qu to represent function, Path selection connection side, call rate ratio at the phone of making second destination (connection side of reality after changing) is made first destination (under the situation of the side's of accepting change function, be the side of accepting before changing, represent at Da Qu under the situation of function, under the high situation of the call rate of the phone road of serving as theme), to the call rate that originator's one side is taken over the phone of making first destination, take over remaining call rate to addressee's one side.In addition, about the call rate of taking over, also can take over the differential section that exceeds to originator and addressee both sides according to according to from the further a certain ratio of sharing after the segmentation of the condition of posting a letter in certain period of time or specific area to addressee's one side.
Below, provide the concrete example of strong point share charging method.
Fig. 1 implements the system configuration example that the present invention uses.
In the figure, the 1st, control station, login by time period that can connect of addressee's appointment in advance, allow (more than one call charging district: here, conversation area by the calling that particular number arbitrarily carries out, so-called call charging district is meant each district that has set same expenses standard, for example, Tokyo (area code: 03), Kawasaki (area code: 044) etc.) and subscriber directory number corresponding etc. with particular number.In addition, the condition of posting a letter according to certain period of time or specific area is done further segmentation by a certain ratio of sharing to the above-mentioned differential section that exceeds, take under the situation of the differential section that exceeds to originator and addressee both sides, registration is about above-mentioned condition and the information of sharing ratio.
Control station 1 is with reference to the information of above-mentioned login, to be transformed into from the particular number of dialing by the call charging district of addressee's appointment in advance arbitrarily equally by the subscriber directory number arbitrarily of addressee's appointment, manage the free time and the occupancy of circuit of whole subscriber directory numbers of relevant addressee's appointment simultaneously.
2,3,3 ' is to accommodate a plurality of a plurality of users that post a letter terminal and a plurality of collection of letters terminals to accommodate switch, the 4th, bridging line signal net, the 5th, the terminal of originator's side (referring to communicating machine arbitrarily such as telephone set, facsimile machine), 6 and 6 ' is that the terminal (same, refer to communicating machine arbitrarily such as telephone set, facsimile machine) 7,8,8 ' of addressee's side is respectively that the user accommodates switch 2,3,3 ' service area.Secondly, 9 to 11,11 ' is to connect control stations 1 and user by bridging line signal net 4 to accommodate switch 2,3,3 ', receive and dispatch the circuit that control signal that transmission information uses is used mutually, the 12nd, the user is accommodated the trunk that switch 2 and 3 is connected to each other, 12 ' is that the user is accommodated the trunk that switch 2 and 3 ' is connected to each other.In addition, in the following description, 5,6,6 ' is telephone set.
Fig. 2 is the workflow diagram of the strong point share charging method in the present embodiment.
If the user (for example dials specific number with telephone set 5, the logical number that 0AB0-****** is such: 0AB0 for example is 0570) (step 21), the user that may visit in control station 1 accommodates switch 2 and is connected, and particular number is fed to the user and accommodates switch 2.The user accommodates switch 2 usefulness shared signal nets 4 and gives control station 1 (step 22) with the above-mentioned particular number and the regional information (for example originator's telephone number) of posting a letter.
In control station 1, but with the particular number that received and post a letter regional information with in advance by the connect hours section corresponding of addressee's login with this particular number, allow information such as conversation area to compare contrast, will accommodate the particular number that switch 2 receives from the user and be transformed into the general subscriber directory number (physical number) (step 23) of login in advance.Here, the telephone set of supposing the subscriber directory number that is transformed is the telephone set 6 among Fig. 1.Secondly, control station 1 judges whether to be transformed into other subscriber directory number (step 24) again for reasons such as the telephone set of the subscriber directory number that is transformed can not connect.Then, if do not need to change subscriber directory number, just the telephone set 6 of this subscriber directory number is carried out common connection processing (step 25).
Change subscriber directory number if desired, control station 1 is the conversion subscriber directory number just.Promptly, the telephone set (terminal) of the subscriber directory number after the conversion (being subscriber directory number after changing, is the sub-number of free time of being found) is defined as connection side's telephone set (corresponding to the telephone set 6 ' among Fig. 1) (step 26) under Da Qu represents the situation of function under the situation of the side's of accepting mapping function.
If determined connection side's telephone set, control station 1 notifies the user of originator's side to accommodate switch 2 after changing connection side's number, charge information (corresponding to charging number second till the connection telephone set 5).The user accommodated switch 2 before connecting collection of letters telephone set according to notified connection side's number, gave the terminal of originator's side with the prompting of the information of expression call rate, and the telephone set 6 ' (step 27) that the back connects calling side is sent in prompting.
1 couple of initial destination of control station (telephone set 6 among Fig. 1) and destination's after changing (telephone set 6 ' among Fig. 1) call rate compares, if initial destination's call rate is greater than after changing destination's call rate, then do not share charging, substantially charge (that is, the originator fully bears call rate).
On the other hand, under initial destination's call rate situation less than after changing destination's call rate, share charging, originator burden is equivalent to make from telephone set 5 number of call rate of the phone of telephone set 6, and the differential section of call rate in addition is by addressee's one side burden (step 28).In addition, according to impose a condition (from conditions such as posting a letter of above-mentioned time band or specific area),, bear by main collection of letters both sides according to a certain ratio with addressee's burden part segmentation again.
Under the situation of the strong point of above explanation share charging method, shown in the schematic diagram of sharing charging among Fig. 3, for example, call rate at the destination's's (telephone set 6 ') who makes the reality that Path selection connects from originator's (telephone set 5) phone is 90 yen, make destination's's (telephone set 6) originally phone from originator's (telephone set 5) call rate is under 70 yen the situation, the originator bears 70 yen, and the addressee bears 20 yen (90 yen-70 yen=20 yen).In addition, also can be according to imposing a condition, with 20 yen of segmentations that the addressee bears part, as shown in Figure 4, originator's one side is born 80 yen, 10 yen of addressee's one side burdens.
That is, the in full or part by the call rate that increased of change is by addressee's one side burden, even the addressee has changed, the originator also only bears the call rate when not changing or increases certain part, more fair like this, in addition, can carry out the high charging of flexibility (adaptability).
(b) select collection of letters charging method
Originally sharing charging method is a kind of like this method: specify each destination in advance; with the call rate relevant with the calling that connects the destination according to particular number by destination's burden in full or by the information registration of originator burden in full in control station 1; and it is the same with above-mentioned (a); utilize the information of this login, which burden in full is on earth determined among each destination in the calling that connects the destination.
The schematic diagram of this method has been shown among Fig. 5.If adopt this method, then can utilize the side's of accepting change function or the Da Qu described in (a) to represent function, according to addressee's appointment (login is in control station), the calling that connects specific destination is fully chargeed by addressee's one side, perhaps fully charge by originator's one side.
In addition, given content with regard to each destination, also can according to from certain certain period of time or area that certain is specific post a letter or from the condition of posting a letter of the telephone number of login in advance, a certain side in collecting mail by posting a letter is specified the destination of the additional conditions that have burden in full.
Under situation, for example, also can the prompting that " telephone charges is fully born by us " is such give the originator one side by addressee's one side burden in full.
(c) share charging method that carries out according to the MBI value
Originally sharing charging method is a kind of like this method: connect under the situation of conversation behind the subscriber directory number arbitrarily that will be transformed into addressee's appointment from the particular number arbitrarily of being posted a letter by the call charging district of addressee's appointment in advance, have or not change irrelevant with the destination, got to by the addressee by originator's one side burden and to login call rate in the specific MBI value scope in control station 1 in advance, remaining call rate is born by addressee's one side.Here, addressee's one side is specified and is logined subscriber directory number arbitrarily, under the situation of call rate less than the call rate of calculating by the specific MBI value of above-mentioned login of the phone of making this telephone number, by originator's one side call rate of bearing the phone of the subscriber directory number arbitrarily of making addressee's appointment in full.
The schematic diagram of this method has been shown among Fig. 6.Promptly, if adopt this method, for example, if MBI value 1 (3 minutes/10 yen) is logined in control station 1 as specific MBI value, collect when then conversing in 3 minutes by day under 20 yen the situation of call rate, wherein 10 yen by originator's one side burden, and remaining 10 yen (20 yen-10 yen=10 yen) are born by addressee's one side.If adopt this share charging method, then because the following expense of certain expense is irrespectively born in the area of originator and addressee's one side, so can converse securely.
If adopt the present embodiment of above explanation, then because when making a phone call with particular number, bear information according to the charging that the addressee in the network logins in advance, between originator and addressee, share charging, so the addressee originator of appointment respectively reaches between target area, can share condition by the charging of addressee's appointment and share charging.That is, because can be, after being connected by Path selection, the originator can carry out first addressee and second addressee's the charging of sharing, so can prevent that the call rate that the originator bears is unexpectedly high according to addressee's appointment.
In addition, because (according to certain condition) can be appointed as destination arbitrarily addressee's object that charges when having connected the collection of letters by Path selection, so for example utilizing telephone line to communicate in the marketing system, can specify the charging object of first destination's receiving order center as originator's one side, the side of accepting after second destination's commodity are sold off, be that the collection of letters after commodity are sold off is as collection of letters side charging object.In addition, owing to can make originator's one side share charging in certain specific call charging district, and charge by addressee's one side burden in remaining interval, so can make the user who lives in the area that does not have personal computer communication and the Internet access point reduce the burden of call rate.In addition, because before call out connecting the addressee, the information (information) of the gateway to charge originator that gives advance notice will be arranged, so concerning the originator clear and definite call rate, can converse securely, so the situation that can avoid the originator unexpectedly to bear the call rate of great number takes place.