JPH11261673A - Telephone system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a telephone system which is capable of instantaneously dealing with a telephone call that is received during the outing of the called subscriber, via a terminal prepared at the outing destination after the telephone call has been cut. SOLUTION: A telephone directory storage area is secured as an electronic telephone directory, and many pairs of necessary telephone numbers and names are registered in the storage area. The telephone number of a terminal (having a character message display function) of the outing destination, where the transfer of calls are desired has been, previously registered. If an extension receives an incoming call, the originator number received with the incoming call is stored (102). The presence or the absence of a message is stored (108), after a circuit has been opened (105, 107). Then the automatic outgoing is performed to the terminal of the outing designation (109). If the originator number is registered in the electronic telephone directory, the originator number and name and the presence or the absence of a message are converted into the DTMF signals and transmitted. If the originator number is not registered in the telephone directory, the originator number, the presence or the absence of a message are converted into the DTMF signals and then transmitted.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a telephone apparatus utilizing a caller telephone number notification function.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, an answering machine has been provided with a function of notifying an outgoing terminal when a message is recorded during an absence. That is, PHS and mobile phones,
Register the phone numbers of terminals such as pagers in advance,
If a message is recorded during absence, the registered terminal is notified. The out-of-home person notified of the message recording by this terminal calls the answering machine at home and remotely reproduces the message.

[0003]

However, according to such a conventional answering machine, only the registered terminal is notified that there is a message recording, and the notified terminal receives a message from whom. I can not know what. For this reason, I called my answering machine at home,
Only by playing back the message remotely will it be known who the message came from. If there is no address book or the like, the telephone number of the person who left the message cannot be known, and the response will be delayed. Also, if the other party does not leave a message, no notification to the outside destination is made, so that no response can be made. In addition, when the user goes out with the answering machine in the home mode or when the user is not in the answering machine, even if there is an incoming call while going out, it is not possible to know the incoming call at the outing place and cannot respond.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve such a problem, and an object of the present invention is to provide a method for receiving a telephone call while going out, immediately after the call is disconnected, at a terminal where the user is outside. It is an object of the present invention to provide a telephone device capable of coping with the above.

[0005]

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a caller number storing means for receiving and storing a caller's telephone number sent in response to an incoming call from an outside line; Transfer destination number storage means for storing a registered transfer destination telephone number, and detecting the release of a line closed by an incoming call from an outside line, and then storing the transfer destination telephone number stored in the transfer destination number storage means. , And at least the caller's telephone number stored in the caller number storage means is transmitted as transfer information. According to the present invention, when a call is made while going out, the telephone number (caller number) of the caller is stored. Then, after the call is disconnected, the stored caller ID is notified to the terminal outside the home.

Further, the present invention provides a caller number storing means for receiving and storing a telephone number of a caller transmitted in response to an incoming call from an outside line, and a transfer destination number for storing a telephone number of a transfer destination registered in advance. Storage means, and telephone directory means capable of storing a large number of telephone numbers and data related to the telephone numbers as pairs, and after detecting the release of a line closed by an incoming external call, the transfer destination number storage means If an automatic call is made to the forwarding destination telephone number, and at least the telephone number of the caller stored in the caller number storage means and the telephone number of this caller are stored in the telephone directory means, The data stored as a pair with the telephone number is transmitted as transfer information. According to the invention,
If there is a call while going out, the phone number (caller number) of the caller is stored. Then, after the call is disconnected, the stored caller number and the data (for example, name) stored as a pair with the caller number are notified to the terminal outside the home.

Further, the present invention provides a caller number storing means for receiving and storing a telephone number of a caller sent in response to an incoming call from an outside line, and a transfer destination number for storing a telephone number of a transfer destination registered in advance. In the case where the outside line call is an incoming call in the answering machine mode, the storage unit and the message presence / absence storage unit for storing whether or not the other party has left a message are provided, and after detecting the release of the line closed by the outside line call, An automatic call is made to the transfer destination telephone number stored in the transfer destination number storage means, and at least the caller's telephone number stored in the caller number storage means and the message stored in the message presence / absence storage means are stored. The presence / absence is transmitted as transfer information. According to the present invention, when a call is made while going out, the telephone number (caller number) of the caller is stored.
Then, after the call is disconnected, the stored caller ID and the presence or absence of a message are notified.

[0008]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail based on embodiments. FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a main part of an answering machine showing one embodiment of the present invention.

In FIG. 1, reference numeral 1 denotes a network control circuit (NC).
U), 2 is a modem, 3 is a central processing unit (CPU),
4 is a random access memory (RAM), 5 is a read only memory (ROM), 6 is a display unit, 7 is a key input unit, 8 is an answering machine control circuit, 9 is a communication circuit, 10 is a handset, and 11 is a DTMF transmission circuit. is there. The answering machine 12 is connected via a public telephone line L to an exchange (not shown).
It is connected to the.

In the RAM 4, a telephone directory storage area is secured as an electronic telephone directory. A large number of pairs of required telephone numbers and names of persons holding the telephone numbers are registered in the telephone directory storage area. The telephone number and name in the telephone directory storage area can be freely added, deleted, or changed as long as the telephone number and name are within the storage capacity. In the RAM 4, a transfer destination number storage area is secured. An outgoing (transfer destination) terminal (PH) to which the user wishes to transfer is stored in the transfer destination number storage area.
A telephone number (transfer destination number) of a terminal having a character message display function such as S, a mobile phone, a pager, or the like is registered in advance. The telephone number in the transfer destination number storage area can be freely rewritten. The ROM 5 stores a free word conversion table as shown in FIG.

FIG. 1 is a flow chart showing a characteristic processing operation (response and transfer processing for an incoming call) executed in the answering machine 12. In this answering machine 12, if there is an incoming call while in the answering machine mode, the telephone number (caller number) of the caller sent from the exchange with the incoming call is received via the modem 2. (Step 101).

The CPU 3 sets the received caller number to R
While storing it in the AM 4 (step 102), a response message is sent out via the answering machine control circuit 8 (step 1).
03). Then, after transmitting the response message, the message recording is started (step 104). Then, when the line closed due to an incoming external line is released from the caller side (step 105), that is, when the caller hangs up, the message recording ends (step 106) and the line is released (step 105). 107). If the message from the caller is long and the time has reached the limit,
Release the line without waiting for the caller to release it.

Here, there are cases where the caller leaves the message in response to the response message issued in step 103 and cases where the message is not left. The CPU 3 checks whether or not the caller has left a message, and
It is stored in AM4 (step 108).

Then, the CPU 3 reads out the transfer destination number stored in the RAM 4 and automatically makes a call to a terminal at a destination (step 109). If there is a response from the terminal away from home (step 110), the caller number stored in step 102 is read from the RAM 4, and a search is made for a telephone number registered in the electronic telephone directory (phone directory storage area) in the RAM 4. (Step 111) It is checked whether or not this caller number is registered in the electronic telephone directory (step 112).

If registered in the electronic telephone directory, the telephone directory registration data, that is, the caller number and the name stored as a pair with the caller number are converted into a DTMF signal and transmitted (step 113). If not registered in the electronic telephone directory, the process proceeds to step 114, where only the caller number is converted into a DTMF signal and transmitted.

Thereafter, the presence or absence of the message stored in the RAM 4 is read, and the presence or absence of the read message is converted into a DTMF signal and transmitted (step 115).

That is, if the caller number is registered in the electronic telephone directory, the CPU 3 determines that the caller number, the name, and the presence or absence of the message are transfer information, and the caller number is not registered in the electronic telephone directory. The caller ID and the presence / absence of the message are sent as transfer information to the terminal at the destination.

Here, the CPU 3 determines the DTMF of the transfer information.
Conversion into a signal is performed according to a free word conversion table (FIG. 3) stored in the ROM 5. When transmitting the transfer information converted into the DTMF signal, a free word start signal (* 2 * 2) is transmitted first, and a free word end signal (##) is transmitted last. When the free word conversion table differs depending on the communication carrier, a plurality of free word conversion tables are prepared and can be selected.

As a result, the transfer information from the answering machine 12 is displayed as character information at the terminal at the destination.
That is, when a person who is registered in the electronic telephone directory calls the answering machine 12 while away from home, after the call is disconnected, the telephone number, name, and the presence / absence of a message of the person are written as character information to the terminal at the destination. Is displayed. Also, if a person who is not registered in the electronic telephone directory calls the answering machine 12 while away from home, the telephone number and the presence or absence of the message are displayed as character information on the terminal where the person is away after the call is disconnected. Is done. Thereby, the answering machine 1
It is possible to immediately respond to the outgoing call received in step 2 at the terminal where the user goes out after the call is disconnected.

That is, in the conventional answering machine, only the notification that there is a message is recorded, and the notified terminal cannot know from whom the message was sent. For this reason, you can call the answering machine at home and play the message remotely to know who the message is from, and if you do not have an address book, you can know the telephone number of the person who left the message. And the response was delayed.

On the other hand, in the answering machine 12, in the case of a call from a person registered in the electronic telephone directory,
The name and phone number of the person who left the message can be found on the terminal on the go. Thus, the other party can be specified without remotely playing back the message. In addition, it is possible to immediately call the other party without referring to the address book or the like. Further, even if the other party does not leave a message, it is possible to know who has called and who to contact, so it is possible to respond. In addition, even if a call is made from a person who is not registered in the electronic telephone directory, the presence or absence of a message and the contact information can be known, so that correspondence is possible.

After transmitting the transfer information to the destination terminal (step 116), the CPU 3 releases the line (step 117), and ends a series of processing.

In this embodiment, the presence / absence of a message is included in the transfer information to the terminal at the destination, but the presence / absence of the message may be excluded from the transfer information.
In this embodiment, the electronic telephone directory is provided in the RAM 4, but the electronic telephone directory does not always have to be provided. That is, the caller number stored in step 102 may be read, and only the read caller number may be sent to the terminal at the destination as transfer information. If you only know the contact information of the person who made the call, you can handle it on the go terminal. Further, in this embodiment, the name of the person holding the telephone number is registered as a pair with the telephone number in the electronic telephone directory, but the data related to the telephone number is not necessarily required to be the name.

In this embodiment, the case where the answering machine is set to the answering machine mode has been described. Thus, it is possible to deal with the terminal at the destination. In this case, if the call is from a person registered in the electronic phonebook, the caller ID and name will be used as the transfer information, and if the call is from a person not registered in the electronic phonebook, only the caller ID will be used. Transfer information. Also in this case, the electronic telephone directory may be omitted, and only the caller number may be transmitted to the terminal outside the home as transfer information.

[0025]

As is apparent from the above description, according to the present invention, after detecting the release of a line closed due to an incoming call from an outside line, automatic transmission to the stored transfer destination telephone number is performed. The caller ID that was received and stored at the time of incoming outside line is transmitted as transfer information, so that a call received while going out should be dealt with immediately after the call is terminated by the terminal at the destination. Becomes possible.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a flowchart showing a characteristic processing operation (response and transfer processing for an incoming call) executed in the answering machine shown in FIG. 2;

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a main part of an answering machine showing one embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a free word conversion table.

[Explanation of symbols]

1: Network control circuit (NCU), 2: Modem, 3: CP
U, 4 RAM, 5 ROM, 6 display unit, 7 key input unit, 8 answering machine control circuit, 9 communication system, 10 handset, 11 DTMF transmission circuit, 12 answering machine.

Claims (5)

[Claims] 1. Caller number storage means for receiving and storing a telephone number of a caller sent in response to an incoming call from outside, transfer destination number storage means for storing a telephone number of a transfer destination registered in advance, After detecting the release of the line closed by the external line incoming call, automatically make a call to the telephone number of the transfer destination stored in the transfer destination number storage means, at least the caller number storage means to store A transfer information transmitting means for transmitting, as transfer information, a telephone number of a caller who is present. 2. A caller number storing means for receiving and storing a telephone number of a caller sent in response to an incoming call from outside, a transfer destination number storing means for storing a telephone number of a transfer destination registered in advance, A telephone directory means capable of storing a large number of telephone numbers and data relating to the telephone numbers as pairs, and a transfer stored in the transfer destination number storage means after detecting opening of a line closed by the external call When an automatic call is made to the preceding telephone number, and at least the telephone number of the caller stored in the caller number storage means and the telephone number of the caller are stored in the telephone directory means, A telephone device comprising: transfer information transmitting means for transmitting data stored as a pair with a number as transfer information. 3. A caller number storing means for receiving and storing a telephone number of a caller sent in response to an incoming call from outside, a transfer destination number storing means for storing a telephone number of a transfer destination registered in advance, When the outside line call is an incoming call in the answering machine mode, a message presence / absence storage means for storing whether or not the other party has left a message; and after detecting the release of the line closed by the outside line call, the transfer destination number An automatic call is made to the transfer destination telephone number stored in the storage means, and at least the caller's telephone number stored in the caller number storage means and the presence / absence of a message stored in the message presence / absence storage means And a transfer information transmitting means for transmitting the information as transfer information. 4. The telephone device according to claim 1, wherein the transfer information is converted based on a character conversion table corresponding to a terminal having a character message display function. 5. The telephone device according to claim 1, wherein said transfer information is a DTMF signal.