CN1243377A - Method of transmitting output message in mobile telephone set while receiving input call - Google Patents

Abstract

It is determined whether the portable telephone set is set to a call answer waiting mode when an incoming call is received. If the call answer waiting mode is set, the portable phone stops outputting the call reception alarm and sends a first output message of a voice message requesting the calling user to wait for a moment. After a while, if the user answers the incoming call within a predetermined time, the phone executes the call mode. However, if the user does not answer the incoming call within a predetermined time, the telephone sends a second output message of a voice message notifying the calling user: "The user cannot answer the incoming call". Preferably the first outgoing message is repeated periodically until the user answers the incoming call.

Description

Method for sending outgoing message when incoming call is received in portable telephone

The present invention relates to a method of processing an incoming call in a portable telephone, and in particular to a method of sending an outgoing message when an incoming call is received.

A user of a portable telephone may often receive a telephone call in a place or environment where he or she cannot immediately answer the call. For example, the user is in a meeting or giving a speech, is having an important conversation with someone, or is in a quiet library or a noisy street, and he wants to move to a place where he can answer the call or he wants to be there later when he can answer the call. Answer the call.

In this case, since the user (ie, the callee) does not provide any information while moving to other places in order to answer the call, the other party (ie, the calling user) cannot know the environment in which the user is located. Then, the calling user will not wait and suspend the call, so that the user may not be able to receive the important phone call in time; otherwise, the calling user may call again later. Even though the calling user is waiting for an answer to the call, he or she may feel tedious, however.

It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a method of sending an outgoing message requesting the calling user to wait a moment when an incoming call is received.

In order to achieve the above object, there is provided a method of transmitting an outgoing message when an incoming call is received in a portable telephone. In this method, it is determined whether the call answer waiting mode is set when an incoming call is received. If the call answer waiting mode is set, the portable phone stops calling to receive the warning signal and sends a first output message, which is a voice message requesting the calling user to wait for a moment. After a while, if the user answers the incoming call within a predetermined time, the telephone executes the calling mode. But, if the user does not answer the incoming call within a predetermined time, the telephone sends a second outgoing message, which is a voice message notifying the calling user: "The user cannot answer the incoming call". Preferably the first outgoing message is repeated periodically until the incoming call is answered by the user.

The above and other objects, features and advantages of the present invention will be more clearly understood from the following detailed description in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a portable telephone using the present invention; and

FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating a method of processing an incoming call according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail below. In the following description, specific details are set forth, such as process flows, in order to provide a more thorough understanding of the present invention. It will be apparent, however, to one skilled in the art that the invention cannot be limited to those specific details. Descriptions of known functions and constructions that would necessarily obscure the subject matter of the present invention have been omitted in the present invention for clarity.

Fig. 1 is a block diagram of a portable telephone to which the present invention is applied. In FIG. 1, an MPU (microprocessor) 100 controls the overall operation of the portable telephone, specifically, processes incoming calls according to the present invention. An EEPROM (Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory) 102 stores various reference data for the MPU 100, and a flash memory 104 stores programs for the MPU. A RAM (Random Access Memory) 106 is provided as a work memory for the MPU 100. The voice memory 108 stores voice data for outputting messages according to the present invention. The keyboard 110 having various numeric keys and function keys provides key input signals to the MPU 100 by the user. An LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) 112 displays various information under the control of the MPU 100. An RF (Radio Frequency) module 116 modulates a signal input from the MPU 100 onto an RF signal and radiates the RF signal via the antenna 114 . In addition, the RF module 116 demodulates the RF signal received via the antenna 114, and outputs the demodulated signal to the MPU 100. Vocoder 118, microphone 120, speaker 122 and vibrator 124 are a few blocks used to talk to another party, record outgoing messages, and output call received alerts. The vocoder 118 encodes the voice signal input from the microphone 120 to output the voice data to the MPU 100, and decodes the voice data input from the MPU 100 to output the voice data via the speaker 122. In addition, the vibrator 124 vibrates the portable telephone when an incoming call is received.

In the exemplary embodiment, a call answer waiting mode is added to the ring selection menu for selecting the type of ring sound. Then, the user can set or cancel the call answer waiting mode in the ring selection menu.

The portable telephone outputs a call reception alarm signal in various alarm modes in order to notify the user when an incoming call is received. The types of call receiving alarm signals are divided into: ringtone, vibration and light flashing, and the user can choose one or several of them. Also, the ringtones are divided into ringing sounds and melodies.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating a method of processing an incoming call according to an embodiment of the present invention, wherein the program is executed by the MPU 100 of FIG. 1 . In Fig. 2, in step 200, MPU 100 outputs call reception alarm signal with the alarm type that is set when receiving incoming call, and checks EEPROM 102 in step 102, so that determine whether the call answer waiting mode is set.

If the call answer waiting mode is not set, then the MPU 100 determines in step 220 whether to input the waiting key (or press the waiting key). When the wait key is not input, the MPU 100 checks in step 222 whether the user of the portable telephone (ie, the receiver) has answered the incoming call. That is, when the call answer waiting mode is not set, the MPU 100 determines whether the wait key is pressed and whether the user answers the barge call. Here, the waiting key is a key for initiating the call answering waiting mode when an incoming call is received without setting the call answering waiting mode by the previous user. For example, the waiting key may be formed by a combination of a “function key”, a “0” key and a “0” key on the keyboard 110 . In addition, call answer means that the user presses the SEND key in order to answer an incoming call. Meanwhile, if the wait key is input, the program goes to step 204, and if the user does not answer the call, the program goes to step 224. In step 224, MPU 100 stops outputting the call receiving alarm, and then, in step 226, executes the common calling mode.

On the other hand, if it is determined in step 202 that the call answer waiting mode is set, the MPU 100 stops outputting the call receiving alarm signal in step 204, and then in step 206 the call is connected to the other party (i.e., the calling party). user). Next, the MPU 100 reads out the voice data about the first output message from the voice memory 108 in step 208, and sends the read out message to the calling user through the RF module 116. Here, the first output message is a voice message requesting the calling user to wait for a moment, for example, "I am in a meeting, please wait a moment. I will answer your call later". Such voice messages can be recorded in the voice memory 108 by the user using the microphone 120 or stored in the voice memory 108 beforehand by the manufacturer. The voice message is preferably repeated periodically until the user answers the incoming call. Meanwhile, the MPU 100 determines in step 210 whether the user has answered the incoming call. When the user does not answer the incoming call, the MPU 100 determines in step 212 whether a predetermined waiting time has elapsed. Here, the waiting time is the time set by the user, and is set to limit the range within which the user can answer incoming calls. For example, the wait time can be set to 15 seconds.

Meanwhile, if the user answers the incoming call before the waiting time elapses, the MPU 100 executes the normal call mode in step 218. But, on the contrary, if the user still does not answer the incoming call until the waiting time elapses, the MPU 100 reads the second outgoing message from the voice memory 108 at step 214, and sends the read outgoing message to the calling user via the RF module 116. Here, the second output message is a voice message notifying the calling user: "the user (ie, the receiver) cannot answer the call", for example, "I cannot answer your call immediately. Please call again later". Also, such voice messages may be previously recorded by the user using the microphone 120 or stored by the manufacturer.

As described above, when the user cannot answer an incoming call, the portable phone of the present invention sends an outgoing message requesting the calling user to wait for a moment, thereby preventing the calling user from hanging up the phone before the user answers the call.

While there has been illustrated and described what are considered to be the best embodiments of the invention, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes and modifications may be made and equivalents may be substituted for elements thereof without departing from the invention. The true scope of the invention. Specifically, although an example in which a call answering waiting mode has been set using a ringing selection menu or pressing a waiting key has been illustrated here, it is also possible to use only one of these two methods. Therefore, it is intended that the invention not be limited to the particular embodiment disclosed as the best mode contemplated for carrying out this invention, but that the invention will include all embodiments falling within the scope of the appended claims.

Claims (8)

1. method that in pocket telephone, when receiving incoming call, sends output message, this method may further comprise the steps:

When receiving incoming call, call out the receiving alarm signal with the alarm type output that is provided with;

Wait for the response of user to described incoming call;

If waiting for that user's response duration user has answered described incoming call, then stopping to export described calling receiving alarm signal and carry out method of calling;

If waiting for that user's response duration user imports the wait key, then stop to export described calling receiving alarm signal and send output message, the latter is the speech message that a kind of calling subscriber of request hangs on; And

When after described user is sending described output message, answering described incoming call, carry out described method of calling.

2. the method for claim 1 is characterized in that: repeat described first output message periodically and answer described incoming call until the user.

3. method that in pocket telephone, when receiving incoming call, sends output message, this method may further comprise the steps:

When receiving incoming call, call out the receiving alarm signal with the alarm type output that is provided with;

Wait for the response of user to described incoming call;

If waiting for that user's response duration user has answered described incoming call, then stopping to export described calling receiving alarm signal and carry out method of calling;

If waiting for that user's response duration user imports the wait key, then stop to export described calling receiving alarm signal and send first output message, the latter is the speech message that a kind of calling subscriber of request hangs on;

When answering described incoming call in the preset time scope after described user is sending described first output message, carry out described method of calling; And

If do not answer described incoming call in the preset time scope of described user after sending described first output message, then send second output message, the latter notifies described calling subscriber: the speech message of " described user can not answer described incoming call ".

4. the method for claim 3 is characterized in that: repeat described first output message periodically and answer described incoming call until the user.

5. method that in pocket telephone, when receiving incoming call, sends output message, this method may further comprise the steps:

When receiving incoming call, call out the receiving alarm signal with the alarm type output that is provided with;

Determine whether to be provided with the call answering waiting mode;

If be provided with the call answering waiting mode, then stop to export described calling receiving alarm signal and send first output message, the latter is the speech message that the request calling subscriber hangs on;

If described call answering waiting mode is not set, then wait for response and the continuation output described calling receiving alarm signal of user to described incoming call;

If waiting for that user's response duration user has answered described incoming call, then stopping to export described calling receiving alarm signal and carry out method of calling;

When answering described incoming call in the preset time scope after described user is sending described first output message, carry out described method of calling; And

If do not answer described incoming call in the preset time scope of described user after sending described first output message, then send second output message, the latter notifies described calling subscriber: the speech message of " described user can not answer described incoming call ".

6. the method for claim 5 is characterized in that: repeat described first output message periodically and answer described incoming call until the user.

7. method that in pocket telephone, when receiving incoming call, sends output message, this method may further comprise the steps:

When receiving incoming call, call out the receiving alarm signal with the alarm type output that is provided with;

Determine whether to be provided with the call answering waiting mode;

If be provided with the call answering waiting mode, then stop to export described calling receiving alarm signal and send first output message, the latter is the speech message that the request calling subscriber hangs on;

If described call answering waiting mode is not set, then wait for response and the continuation output described calling receiving alarm signal of user to described incoming call;

If waiting for that user's response duration user has answered described incoming call, then stopping to export described calling receiving alarm signal and carry out method of calling;

If waiting for that user's response duration user imports the wait key, then stops to export described calling receiving alarm signal and sends first output message;

When answering described incoming call in the preset time scope after described user is sending described first output message, carry out described method of calling; And

If do not answer described incoming call in the preset time scope of described user after sending described first output message, then send second output message, the latter notifies described calling subscriber: the speech message of " described user can not answer described incoming call ".

8. the method for claim 7 is characterized in that: repeat described first output message periodically and answer described incoming call until the user.

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