JP2003023486A - Telephone, information management server, caller information notification method, and caller information notification program - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Summary] [PROBLEMS] A telephone capable of reproducing advanced caller-specific information such as an image and a voice at the time of receiving a call by performing transmission / reception of the caller-specific information asynchronously with the transmission / reception of a telephone call. I will provide a. SOLUTION: At the time of an incoming call, a telephone for reproducing caller-specific information capable of identifying a caller, wherein the telephone acquires the specific information registered in advance by the caller from the outside, and A unique information storage unit that stores a telephone number in association with the acquired unique information, a telephone number acquisition unit that acquires a caller's telephone number when receiving a call, and a caller's telephone number acquired by the telephone number acquisition unit. A unique information reproducing means for reading and reproducing the unique information from the unique information storage means.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a telephone, an information management server, a caller information notifying method, and a caller information notifying program for reproducing unique information that can specify the caller when a call is received.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in wired and wireless telephone services, caller-specific information is transmitted to a receiving telephone at the same time as an incoming call, and the caller-specific information is transmitted to the receiving telephone before starting a call. There is known a caller-specific information display service that reproduces a call. However, the caller-specific information that can be notified at present is only the caller's telephone number, and there is a problem in that it is not possible to notify and reproduce advanced caller-specific information such as images and voices that can identify the caller. is there. In addition, since the amount of advanced caller-specific information such as images and voices that specify the caller is large, it is not possible to send it to the receiving telephone at the same time as an incoming call because of the limit of the information transmission capacity of the current telephone line. There is also the problem of difficulty.

The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and by performing transmission / reception of caller-specific inertial information asynchronously with the time of making / receiving a call, a high-level caller of images, voice, etc. An object of the present invention is to provide a telephone, an information management server, a caller information notification method, and a caller information notification program that can reproduce unique information when an incoming call arrives.

[0004]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a telephone which reproduces caller-specific information capable of identifying a caller when an incoming call is received. Unique information storage means for acquiring previously registered unique information from the outside and storing the caller's telephone number in association with the acquired unique information; and a telephone number for obtaining the caller's telephone number when receiving a call. It is characterized by comprising an acquisition means and a unique information reproducing means for reading the unique information corresponding to the telephone number of the caller acquired by the telephone number acquiring means from the unique information storage means and reproducing the unique information.

The invention described in claim 2 is characterized in that the unique information is any one or a combination of text data, image data, and audio data.

The invention according to claim 3 is characterized in that the unique information reproducing means reproduces the unique information from the incoming call to the off-hook.

The invention according to claim 4 is an information management server for transmitting sender-specific information to the telephone according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the information management server is a telephone number. And a subscriber information database for storing caller unique information in association with each other, registration request receiving means for receiving a unique information registration request including a caller telephone number and caller unique information, and a call included in the unique information registration request. Included in the unique information acquisition request is registration means for extracting the caller telephone number and caller unique information and registering them in the database, acquisition request receiving means for receiving a unique information acquisition request containing the caller telephone number. A unique information transmitting means for reading the unique sender information corresponding to the sender telephone number from the subscriber information database and transmitting it to the requester of the unique information acquisition request. And butterflies.

According to a fifth aspect of the invention, the sender specific information is any one of text data, image data, and voice data, or a combination thereof.

According to a sixth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a caller information notifying method for reproducing caller unique information capable of specifying a caller when a call is received. A unique information storage step of internally acquiring the unique information previously registered by the caller, and internally storing the acquired unique information in association with the caller's telephone number; It is characterized by including a telephone number acquisition process for acquiring a number and a unique information reproduction process for reading and reproducing the unique information corresponding to the acquired caller's telephone number.

According to a seventh aspect of the present invention, the unique information is any one of text data, image data, and audio data, or a combination thereof.

According to an eighth aspect of the present invention, in the unique information reproducing process, the unique information is reproduced from the incoming call to the off-hook.

According to a ninth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a peculiar information transmitting method for transmitting the peculiar information to a telephone set which reproduces the peculiar information stored therein at the time of an incoming call. The unique information transmitting method includes a registration request receiving process of receiving a unique information registration request including a caller telephone number and caller unique information, and a caller telephone number and caller unique information included in the unique information registration request. Then, a registration process of associating the telephone number with the caller unique information and registering in the subscriber information database, an acquisition request receiving process of receiving a unique information acquisition request including the caller telephone number, and the unique information acquisition request. A unique information transmitting step of reading the unique sender information corresponding to the included sender telephone number from the subscriber information database and transmitting the unique sender information to the requester of the unique information acquisition request. And butterflies.

According to a tenth aspect of the present invention, the sender specific information is any one or a combination of text data, image data, and voice data.

The invention according to claim 11 is a caller information notification program for reproducing caller specific information capable of specifying a caller when a call is received, wherein the caller information notification program is A unique information storage process of acquiring unique information registered by the caller from the outside from the outside, and internally storing the acquired unique information in association with the caller's telephone number; The computer is made to perform a telephone number acquisition process for obtaining a number and a unique information reproduction process for reading and reproducing the unique information corresponding to the acquired telephone number of the caller.

The twelfth aspect of the invention is characterized in that the unique information is any one of text data, image data, and audio data, or a combination thereof.

According to a thirteenth aspect of the present invention, the unique information reproducing process reproduces the unique information from the incoming call to the off-hook.

According to a fourteenth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a unique information transmission program for transmitting the unique information of the caller to a telephone set which reproduces the unique information of the caller stored inside upon receiving a call. The unique information transmission program extracts a caller telephone number and caller unique information included in the unique information registration request, and a registration request receiving process for receiving a unique information registration request including a caller telephone number and caller unique information. Then, a registration process of associating the telephone number with the caller unique information and registering them in the subscriber information database, and an acquisition request receiving process of receiving a unique information acquisition request including the caller telephone number,
The computer is caused to perform a unique information transmission process of reading out the unique information of the caller corresponding to the caller telephone number included in the request for acquiring unique information from the subscriber information database and transmitting the information to the requester of the request for acquiring unique information. It is characterized by

According to a fifteenth aspect of the present invention, the sender unique information is any one or a combination of text data, image data, and voice data.

[0019]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS A telephone and an information management server according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the same embodiment. In this figure, reference numeral 1 is a telephone set on the receiving side, and reference numeral 2 is
Is the originating telephone. The telephones 1 and 2 are fixed telephones or mobile telephones, but are fixed telephones here. Reference numeral 3 is a telecommunication network used for communication by telephone, and is referred to as a telephone network here.
Reference numeral 4 is an information management server that manages the unique information of the telephone subscriber. Reference numeral 5 is a subscriber information database for registering subscriber information. Reference numeral 6 is a personal computer for creating or inputting unique information of the sender and registering it in the information management server 4. Reference numeral 7 is the Internet for connecting the personal computer 6 and the information management server 4.

Next, operations of the telephones 1 and 2 and the information management server shown in FIG. 1 will be described with reference to FIG. Figure 2
It is a sequence diagram which shows operation | movement of the telephones 1 and 2 and the information management server which are shown in FIG. First, the caller sends a unique information registration request from the personal computer 6 to the information management server 4 via the Internet 7 (step S).
1). Alternatively, the own telephone 2 sends a unique information registration request to the information management server 4 via the telephone network 3 (step S2). The unique information registration request is sent by either the personal computer 6 or the telephone 2, but the caller may select either one as necessary. The unique information registration request includes the unique information of the sender and the telephone number of the sender.

In response to this, the information management server 4 extracts the sender unique information and the sender's telephone number included in the unique information registration request, and registers this in the subscriber information database 5. FIG. 3 shows the table structure of the subscriber information database 5. In the subscriber information database 5, as shown in FIG. 3, the sender unique information included in the unique information registration request is registered in association with the sender's telephone number. The sender specific information registered here is text data such as name and nickname, image data, and voice data.

Next, the caller dials the telephone number of the telephone 1 using the telephone 2 to make a call, and makes the first call to the called party (step S4). At this time, the telephone set 1 acquires the caller's phone number by using the caller's phone number display function, and stores the acquired caller's phone number inside (step S5).

After the first call, the telephone set 1 of the called party sends a unique information acquisition request to the information management server 4 in order to acquire the unique information of the caller (step S6). . In this unique information acquisition request, step S
5 includes the caller's telephone number stored internally.

In response to this, the information management server 4 retrieves the sender unique information corresponding to the telephone number of the sender included in the unique information acquisition request (step S7). As a result of this search, if the unique information of the sender is not registered,
The information management server 4 notifies the telephone 1 that the unique information has not been registered. On the other hand, when the unique information of the sender is registered, the information management server 4 reads the unique information of the sender from the subscriber information database 5,
The unique information and the data format of the unique information (text, image, voice, or a combination thereof) are transmitted to the telephone 1 (step S8). In response to this, the telephone set 1 internally stores the caller-specific information transmitted from the information management server 4 in association with the caller telephone number (step S9). FIG. 4 shows a table structure of information stored in the telephone 1. The information stored inside the telephone 1 is
As shown in FIG. 4, for each caller telephone number, caller unique information and a reproduction date are included.

Next, when there is an incoming call from the caller's telephone 2 to the callee's telephone 1 (step S10), the telephone 1 uses the caller telephone number display function to make a caller's telephone number. Is obtained and it is determined whether or not this caller telephone number is stored internally. As a result, if not stored, a normal ring tone is sounded. On the other hand, if it is stored, the telephone 1 reproduces the caller unique information corresponding to the acquired telephone number (step S11). At this time, if the caller-specific information is text data or image data, the telephone 1 displays it on the display and emits a normal ring tone. If it is voice data, this voice data is sounded from the speaker for the ring tone instead of the ring tone. This playback operation continues until off-hook is detected.

Since the capacity of the memory provided for storing the unique information inside the telephone 1 is finite, when the storage area for the unique information to be newly stored is insufficient, the reproduction date is the oldest. The area in which the information is stored may be overwritten. Further, the operation of storing the unique information of the caller inside the telephone 1 may be performed according to the request of the callee. By doing so, it is possible to prevent unnecessary unique information from being registered.

In this way, a database in which the caller's unique information and the telephone number are registered in association with each other is installed, and the caller's unique information corresponding to the caller's telephone number having a history of incoming calls is registered in the database. In this case, the information is downloaded in advance and stored in the telephone, so if there is an incoming call from the stored telephone, the caller's unique information (phone number, name, image, voice, etc.) Can be played in. In addition, since the sending and receiving of caller-specific information is performed asynchronously with the time of making and receiving a call, the time required from the arrival of a call to the start of the reproduction of caller-specific information must be extremely short, In addition, it is possible to solve the problem that sender-specific information having a large amount of information such as images and voice must be transmitted through a telephone line having a small information transmission capacity.

It should be noted that in FIG. 2, a program for realizing each function is recorded in a computer-readable recording medium, and the program recorded in this recording medium is read into a computer system and executed to execute the caller information. Notification processing may be performed. The “computer system” mentioned here includes an OS and hardware such as peripheral devices. Also, "computer system"
Includes the homepage providing environment (or display environment) if the WWW system is used. The "computer-readable recording medium" means a flexible disk, a magneto-optical disk, a ROM,
A portable medium such as a CD-ROM or a storage device such as a hard disk built in a computer system. Further, the "computer-readable recording medium" is a volatile memory (RAM) inside a computer system which serves as a server or a client when a program is transmitted via a network such as the Internet or a communication line such as a telephone line. In addition, those that hold the program for a certain period of time are also included.

Further, the above program may be transmitted from a computer system in which the program is stored in a storage device or the like to another computer system via a transmission medium or by a transmission wave in the transmission medium. Here, the "transmission medium" for transmitting the program refers to a medium having a function of transmitting information, such as a network (communication network) such as the Internet or a communication line (communication line) such as a telephone line. Further, the program may be a program for realizing some of the functions described above. further,
It may be a so-called difference file (difference program) that can realize the above-mentioned functions in combination with a program already recorded in the computer system.

[0030]

As described above, according to the present invention, the unique information of the caller is stored in advance in the telephone, and the unique information is reproduced based on the calling telephone number when receiving a call. The time required from the arrival of an incoming call to the start of the reproduction of the caller-specific information must be extremely short, and even if the caller-specific information to be reproduced has a large amount of information such as images and audio, it can be reproduced. The effect of being able to be obtained is obtained. In addition, since the face photograph, voice, and the like of the caller can be handled as the caller's peculiar news, there is an effect that the playfulness can be particularly aroused in the younger age group. Furthermore, the effect that a company or the like can advertise to the called party by using the image or sound symbolizing the company as the sender unique information.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a sequence diagram showing an operation of the embodiment shown in FIG.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram showing a table structure of a subscriber information database 5.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing a table structure of information stored inside the telephone 1.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 ... Telephone (incoming side), 2 ... Telephone (calling side), 3 ... telephone network, 4 ... Information management server, 5 ... Subscriber information database, 6 ... PC, 7 ... Internet.

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Claims (15)

[Claims] 1. A telephone that reproduces caller-specific information capable of identifying the caller when an incoming call arrives, wherein the telephone acquires from the outside the unique information registered by the caller in advance. A unique information storage means for storing the telephone number of the caller in association with the obtained unique information, a telephone number acquisition means for obtaining the telephone number of the caller at the time of an incoming call, and a call made by the telephone number acquisition means. A unique information reproducing means for reading unique information corresponding to a telephone number of a person from the unique information storage means and reproducing the unique information. 2. The telephone according to claim 1, wherein the unique information is any one or a combination of text data, image data, and voice data. 3. The telephone according to claim 1, wherein the unique information reproducing means reproduces the unique information during a period from incoming call to off-hook. 4. An information management server for transmitting caller-specific information to the telephone set according to claim 1, wherein the information management server associates a telephone number with caller-specific information. A subscriber information database stored additionally, a registration request receiving means for receiving a unique information registration request including a caller telephone number and caller unique information, and a caller telephone number and a caller unique number included in the unique information registration request. Corresponding to a registration unit that extracts information and registers it in the database, an acquisition request receiving unit that receives a unique information acquisition request including a caller telephone number, and a caller telephone number included in the unique information acquisition request. A unique information transmitting means for reading the sender unique information from the subscriber information database and sending it to the requester of the unique information acquisition request. Server. 5. The information management server according to claim 4, wherein the sender unique information is any one or a combination of text data, image data, and voice data. 6. A caller information notification method for reproducing caller unique information capable of identifying a caller when a call is received, wherein the caller information notification method is registered in advance by the caller. Unique information storage process that acquires the stored unique information from the outside and stores it internally by associating the phone number of the sender with the acquired unique information, and a phone number acquisition that acquires the sender's phone number when receiving a call. A caller information notifying method comprising: a process and a process of playing back unique information corresponding to the acquired telephone number of the caller and reproducing the unique information. 7. The caller information notification method according to claim 6, wherein the unique information is any one of text data, image data, and voice data, or a combination thereof. 8. The caller information notifying method according to claim 6, wherein in the unique information reproducing step, the unique information is reproduced from the incoming call to off-hook. 9. A unique information transmission method for transmitting unique caller information to a telephone set which reproduces internally stored unique caller information at the time of an incoming call, wherein the unique information transmission method is: Registration request receiving step of receiving a unique information registration request including a caller telephone number and caller unique information, and extracting a caller telephone number and caller unique information included in the unique information registration request to obtain a telephone number and a caller The registration process of registering the individual information in the subscriber information database in association with each other, the acquisition request receiving process of receiving the specific information acquisition request including the caller telephone number, and the caller telephone number included in the unique information acquisition request. A unique information transmitting step of reading the corresponding unique sender information from the subscriber information database and transmitting it to the requester of the unique information acquisition request; How to send. 10. The unique information transmitting method according to claim 9, wherein the sender unique information is any one or a combination of text data, image data, and voice data. 11. A caller information notification program for reproducing caller specific information capable of identifying a caller when a call is received, wherein the caller information notification program is registered in advance by the caller. Unique information storage processing that acquires the stored unique information from the outside and stores it internally by associating the telephone number of the sender with the acquired unique information, and a telephone number acquisition that acquires the telephone number of the sender when receiving a call A sender information notification program, which causes a computer to perform processing and unique information reproduction processing for reading and reproducing the unique information corresponding to the acquired telephone number of the sender. 12. The unique information is any one or a combination of text data, image data, and audio data.
Caller information notification program described in. 13. The caller information notifying program according to claim 11, wherein the unique information reproducing process reproduces the unique information during a period from incoming call to off-hook. 14. A unique information transmission program for transmitting unique caller information to a telephone set for reproducing internally stored unique caller information at the time of an incoming call, wherein the unique information transmission program is a call origination program. Registration request receiving process for receiving a unique information registration request including a caller telephone number and caller unique information, and extracting a caller telephone number and caller unique information included in the unique information registration request to obtain a telephone number and a caller Registration processing for registering the individual information in the subscriber information database in association with each other, acquisition request reception processing for receiving a specific information acquisition request including the caller telephone number, and the caller telephone number included in the unique information acquisition request A unique information transmission process of reading the corresponding unique sender information from the subscriber information database and transmitting it to the requester of the unique information acquisition request is performed on the computer. A unique information transmission program characterized by: 15. The sender-specific information is any one of text data, image data, and voice data, or a combination thereof.
The unique information transmission program described in.