JPH04196652A - Telephone with incoming call priority condition setting function - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To attain communication based on importance of a request of a caller with respect to communication setting, on privacy of a called party and on the state of arrangement of the acceptance of the incoming call by providing an incoming call priority condition setting function to the telephone set. CONSTITUTION:The telephone set is provided with an incoming call condition collation section 5 and an incoming call condition setting device 10. Then emergency of communication content of a caller, report or request to a called party, local call or toll call and important person or not or the like are identified, and priority such as busy or not as acceptance of an incoming call of the called party or acceptance of an international call is set. Moreover, only when the importance of communication of a caller and the priority of the called party are coincident, the incoming call is accepted and when an automatic answering function is provided, the function is used for other calls, and when no automatic answering function is available, a call tone is silenced and disable acceptance of an incoming call is informed to the caller. Thus, a pleasant daily life is enjoyed efficiently without violence of a telephone call.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION (1) Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a telephone connected to a private network or a public telephone network, and particularly relates to incoming calls.

(2) Prior Art Conventional ordinary telephones are configured to ring 8 incoming calls without distinguishing between all incoming calls. You can stop the ringer and start a call.

(3) Invention or problem to be solved Therefore, the telephones currently in common use are
When a caller makes a dial call to a specific called party (communicator), the called party's phone always rings or sounds unless it is busy, so even if the called party is busy, In addition, there is a need to hang up the phone to respond to unnecessary and non-urgent calls such as annoying sales commercials.

However, if answering machines are still in use, or if you rely on them and do not answer calls by staying close to the telephone, the content of the caller's communication is clearly important or confidential. There were cases in which the information was not communicated to the called party, or the information was not communicated to the called party due to hesitation to record it. Therefore, in the case of business, important persons (VI
Lack of courtesy to P), missed opportunities for business negotiations, unsuccessful marriage negotiations in private communications, failure to accurately convey confidential information about close relatives, and even in the case of communications from a foreign country. In some cases, the caller or the called party has to make a call again, which is a waste of money and time.

On the other hand, the current telecommunications industry is said to be in the era of building 15DN, and it is said that various new services will be possible in the future. Regarding telephone services, the following services are said to be launched in the near future.

1) The telephone number or self-identification number of the caller, which can be recognized by the called (receiving) telephone 2) The place where the caller is always present (in the case of an NTT subscriber telephone, the home telephone with which the subscriber is subscribed) When I travel away from home, I bring my ID card (corresponding to a subscriber phone number as self-identification information) and insert the ID cart into the phone I am on the go. It will have a function. Therefore, telephone charges associated with use are added to the home telephone.

1) 2) Yes, we are approaching the age of personal communication, where each person owns their own telephone. It can also be said that there is. On the other hand, from the point of view of the person receiving the call from the caller (receiver), it can be said that the following detailed communication is now required.

3) Ensuring privacy 4) Emphasizing the rights of the callee In these times, the above-mentioned inconvenience is considered to be a mismatch between the progress of communication and the rights of people in daily life, and is a problem that requires major improvement. Met.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to provide a telephone with a call priority condition setting function that allows the user to answer only incoming calls that meet predetermined priority conditions.

(4) Structure of the Invention In order to achieve this object, the telephone with incoming call priority condition setting function of the present invention accepts an incoming call from a caller, makes the call, or rejects the call and uses the answering machine to send the content. It has a priority condition setting function that sets priority conditions set by the called party in advance in order to determine whether or not to record the call. The incoming call is established and the call is made only when the caller satisfies preset priority conditions.

(Function) According to the present invention, it is possible to distinguish between the urgency of the caller's communication, whether it is a report or a request to the called party, whether it is a local call or a long distance call, and whether it is an important person or not. At the same time, the called party's readiness to accept incoming calls is prioritized, such as whether the called party is busy or not, and whether the number for an international call will be accepted even if it is difficult, etc., and the caller's communication is An incoming call is established only when the importance and priority conditions of the called party are matched, otherwise the answering function is included and I utilize this, and if not, the caller is silenced and the caller is called. It becomes possible to take measures such as informing people that they are unable to do so.

(Example) The configuration and functions of the present invention will be explained below using the drawings.

FIG. 2 shows a telephone FK with an incoming call priority condition function according to the present invention;
An example of the configuration is shown below.

As shown in Figure 1, on the left side of the figure, there is a PBX or central office exchange (SW), which is connected between subscribers and the telephone with incoming call priority function FK. The telephone FK2 that makes a call to the priority telephone FK and the telephone FK2 is also connected to the PBX or central exchange SW through subscriber lines L1 and L2 to form the same telephone network. This is shown in FIG. Also, the calling telephone FK
2 also has the same functions according to the invention as in FIG.

In FIG. 2, reference numeral 1 denotes a dialing and signal transmitting section, which has the function of amplifying the dialing signal when a call is made and the signal from the telephone transmitter 6 during a call, and transmitting the amplified signal to the subscriber lines L+ and L2. 2, when a call arrives at the signal receiving unit, if the conventional conditions for establishing a call are met, the bell 8 rings, and when a normal call arrives (i.e., the message service switch 9 is in the state (9-1), the handset bank is off) It receives a control signal from the control unit 4 and connects to the subscriber line,
In addition to having the function of blocking L2 and starting a conversation with the calling party, if the owner of the telephone does not meet the conditions for establishing a call, which will be described later, the control unit 4 is configured to notify the control unit 4 that the call cannot be received. Then, the control unit 4 shifts the message service switch 9 to the state (9-2) by a control signal, and then sends a message saying "The subscriber of the telephone number you have called is currently unable to answer the call. Tomorrow ( It has a function to notify the caller of a message such as "Thank you in a few hours."

Reference numeral 5 denotes an incoming call condition checking unit which provides the owner of the telephone or the incoming call condition to the incoming call condition setter 10, obtains the incoming call condition obtained as a result, and also identifies the incoming call owned by the caller obtained from the signal receiving unit 2. If the incoming call condition is met by checking the urgency of the information, etc., the control unit 9 is notified of this, and the control unit switches the recording switch 1.
Keep the switch state of the receiver 7.2 at (11-2). The transmitter 6 is made operational and the bell 8 is made to ring. Also, if you really want to convey information to the caller, you can use Talki 3 to ``record your request on the answering tape.''
At the same time, turn on the recording switch 11 (1
1-1) and operate the recorder 12.

The incoming call condition matching unit 5 and the incoming call condition setter, which are the features of the present invention, will be described in detail below.

Even if we look at the callee's daily life or work situation at work, there are very few situations in which he or she can answer even a (not very important) call, such as a phone call, because they do not have a lot of time and are usually doing some kind of work. There are many cases where it is done. but,
If you look closely at the content of your work, even when you are doing very complex or important work, you may not have a lot of time to do it, and you may be able to take a break and answer the phone.

On the other hand, the conditions on the caller side may also vary. In particular, there are a variety of situations, such as when you don't necessarily need to call right now, but you want to make a call from time to time, or when you want the other party to answer if they have free time, or when you want to make an emergency call.

The degree of need of the caller and the conditions for answering the callee's phone are expressed as quantitatively as possible, and the call is established only when both conditions match, and if they do not match, the incoming call is rejected. It is the role of the incoming call condition checking section 5 and the incoming call condition setting device 10 to match the purpose, such as by recording the message on the answering machine or by recording the message on the answering machine.

The explanation begins by quantifying the caller's urgency and the called party's priority conditions. Tables 1 to 4 show examples of these. Table 1 focuses on the urgency of the caller's communication, and compares this with the priority conditions of the called party.If the matrix is marked O, the call is established, and if it is marked X, the call is established. This is an example of not doing this. These conditions are often determined by the subjectivity of the called party, and in many cases cannot be determined in general.

Table 2 focuses on the relative distance between the telephones of the caller and the called party (subscribers in the 23 wards of Tokyo with area code 03 of NTT), and long-distance calls are established. This is an example of making it easier to communicate and ensuring that international calls are always completed. Table 3 shows an example in which a caller or an important person (a person of high status or power) facilitates the establishment of communication. Table 4 focuses on the content of the caller's communication, and shows that, in the selection based on the callee's subjective opinion, the number of undesired requests from the callee is low, and the reports that are advantageous (for example, the provision of information) are given high priority. This is an example of a particularly profitable report that increases the rate of incoming calls.

Next, the role and operation of the incoming call condition setting device 10 will be explained.

The settings for the incoming call conditions are changed on an hourly, daily, weekly, or monthly basis depending on how busy the telephone subscriber is at the time, his social status, and his environment. For example, when you are a salaried worker and go home after your daily work and relax after dinner, Table 1 A≧1 Table 2 B≧1 The conditions for incoming calls are shown in Table 3.
C≧1 Logical sum (OR) is set as shown in Table 4 D≧1. Next time you go to the bathroom, it is okay to have your family with you or in a higher state.If you are working alone, for example, Table 1 A≧3- Table 2 B≧41'The incoming call conditions are as follows. Table 3
C≧3: Logical sum (AND) □ Table 4 D≧4”. Furthermore, when it is 11 pm and you are going to bed, the settings are as follows.

Table 1 A≧4-: Table 2 B≧4 The incoming call conditions are as shown in Table 3.
C20 OR Table 4 D≧4 ■ Setting such a condition is easy with either hardware or software, and a setting signal is sent to the incoming call condition checking unit 5 each time the setting is made.

In addition, if a telephone subscriber (in Tokyo) does not like to be bothered by the ringtone of the telephone at night, but would like to receive calls from his parents in Osaka, the following priority conditions may be used: All you have to do is set .

Table 1 A=5 = □ Table 2 B=5: However, area code 06 Table 3
C=5, Take is B=1 Table 4 D=5 = In the above conditions, the call arrival condition is the logical sum of A-D (OR
).

Furthermore, let's assume that a telephone subscriber has joined a club to receive the latest information for stock investment, and wants to receive information that affects stock prices even late at night or early in the morning, even if he is in bed. In this case, it is a good idea to set the incoming call priority conditions as follows when going to bed.

Table 1 A=5 ] Table 2 B=5 1 However, specific calling ID Table 3
For C-51, D=1 Table 4 D=5 -1 In the above conditions, the incoming call condition is the logical sum of A-D.
).

Also, if a housewife is okay with long phone calls from friends when her husband is away during the day, but prefers not to receive calls addressed to her husband, she may set the following conditions.

Table 1 A≧1 Table 2 B≧1 Table 3 C=1 (for non-VIP) C=5 (VI
In the case of P) Table 4 D≧1 Under the above conditions, the incoming call condition is the logical product of A-D (AND
).

The conditions set for these incoming calls are sent to the incoming call condition checking unit 5 as a setting signal.

Upon receiving this signal, the incoming call condition matching unit 5 stores this information in its storage circuit and waits for an incoming call from a third party.

Now, suppose that a call is received from a third party's telephone FK2. The operation of the telephone FK according to the present invention at this time will be explained using FIG. When the called telephone receives a ringing signal from the calling telephone, it checks whether or not the priority conditions necessary for receiving the call are indicated along with the ringing signal, and if so, it transmits those conditions to the called telephone. It is compared with the incoming call condition stored in the memory circuit, and if it is found that the incoming call condition is satisfied, a ringing tone is sent out from the bell 8. At this time, if the called party is nearby, the call is established by lifting the receiver, and the call is completed, and the call is terminated by hanging up the receiver.

If you are not satisfied with the incoming call conditions, we will switch to the answering machine service and provide a voice service saying, ``I am currently busy (not available) and cannot answer the phone, so I will record your message.'' do it like this. In addition, if the above operation does not indicate the priority level required for the incoming call along with the ringing signal, the talkie will say ``The owner of the number you called is busy, so we will connect you according to the priority level.'' Please indicate the priority conditions in the following order.

Please indicate whether it is an emergency (1, 2) and whether it is a long-distance call or a long-distance call according to the distance (4 for international calls).
etc. It is difficult to present all of Tables 1 to 4 of these priority conditions, so we have narrowed it down to those that can be presented.
Also, there is a need to simplify the number of evaluation stages to 2 or 3 stages. Now, when answers to these questions are sent from the calling telephone in the form of voice or tone, the signal receiving section of the called telephone recognizes these, converts them into digital signals, and transmits the incoming call conditions to the matching section 5. The matching unit 5 compares the incoming call conditions upon receiving this signal with the priority conditions for incoming calls determined by the called party in the same manner as described above, and if these conditions are more or less satisfied, a ringing signal is sounded. If the customer is not satisfied, the customer will be transferred to an answering service.

The example explained above allows for a somewhat unclear case as the incoming call priority condition setting. However, as mentioned above, along with the construction of the 15DN network, the aforementioned caller ID and PIN ID were introduced as new telephone services.

If it becomes possible to digitally display the calling place information or priority conditions regarding individual communication contents, it becomes possible to set more accurate call priority conditions. FIG. 4 shows an example of the calling party's information sent to the called party in this case.

Therefore, it is clear from the above example that the called party can set more detailed and accurate priority conditions than the priority conditions shown in Tables 1 to 4 based on this information.

(5) Effects of the Invention As detailed above, by using the telephone with the incoming call priority condition setting function according to the present invention, the strength of the caller's request for communication settings, the callee's privacy, and the incoming call condition can be improved. It becomes possible to communicate in an acceptable state and in a well-organized state, and it becomes possible to live a comfortable and highly efficient daily life without being subjected to the violence of telephone calls.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a system diagram showing a configuration example of a telephone system using a telephone with an incoming call priority condition setting function according to the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing an example of a telephone with an incoming call priority condition setting function according to the present invention. , FIG. 3 is an operational flowchart for setting the incoming call priority conditions, and FIG. 4 is an example of information from the calling party for setting the incoming call priority conditions. 】...Dial and signal transmitting section, 2... Signal receiving section, 3... Talkie-14... Control section, 5...
- Incoming call condition checking section, 6... Transmitter, 7... Receiver, 8- Bell, 9... Message service switch, 10... Incoming call condition setter, 11... Recording switch, 12 ...Recorder. Patent applicant Iwasaki Tsushinki Co., Ltd.

Claims (1)

[Claims] It has a priority condition setting function for setting priority conditions determined by the called party in advance in order to determine whether to accept the incoming call from the calling party and make the call or to reject the call and record the content as an answering machine. The incoming call is established and the call is made only when the priority information regarding the call sent by the calling party when making the call satisfies the priority conditions set in advance by the called party in the priority condition setting function. A telephone with a function to set incoming call priority conditions.