JP2005318244A - Network terminal - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a network terminal capable of easily making a call based on a telephone number displayed on a browser and leaving information related to a destination telephone number as a call history.
A network terminal 3 has a function of displaying content of a website browsed via the Internet 5 and a telephone control function. When a phone number is recognized in the content of the website that is browsed, link information is added to this phone number so that this phone number can be distinguished from other information in this content. Display or save with color coding, graphic symbols, abbreviations, etc. A telephone call is made by selecting the telephone number displayed so as to be identifiable. The identification information of the website browsed in association with the call origination date and destination telephone number is stored.
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Description

  The present invention relates to a network terminal, and more particularly to a network terminal such as a PC having a browser function and a telephone control function for accessing a Web server device via the Internet and displaying contents.

  2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a web server apparatus is accessed via the Internet, an HTML of a corresponding URL is acquired, and this is displayed by software having a browser function of a client terminal (network terminal). When displaying the URL or the link destination in the display content at the time of this display, this is realized by embedding a sentence for linking in HTML.

  In addition, when a URL or e-mail address is input by word processing software or e-mail software, the network terminal automatically determines the format and cooperates with browser software that controls the URL or e-mail software that uses the e-mail address. To be done.

For example, Patent Document 1 discloses a technology that makes it easy to select and display link information items in order to facilitate selection in a car when the displayed content includes a plurality of pieces of link information.
JP 2004-38342 A

  By the way, IP telephones using a TCP / IP network to send voice are becoming popular. This can be done from a network terminal such as a PC to which the handset is connected by SIP, H.264. Dialing is performed using the H.323 protocol or the like. As a result, conversations with IP phones and ordinary analog phones are possible. More specifically, the network terminal has software having a telephone control function, and the dial number of the call destination is input from the screen. In order to save the trouble of dial input, it is a common practice to perform a refined search from a telephone directory database using a name collation function or the like. If the destination dial number is not registered in the phone book database, enter the phone number from the screen or handset and perform a call operation.

However, the network terminal having the conventional telephone control function has the following problems.
(1) From the browser display state, it is troublesome to perform dialing operation while looking at the telephone number included in the display content.
(2) With respect to the call history, when making a call to a destination other than those registered in the phone book database, only the call destination telephone number is recorded. For this reason, it is difficult to manage the history without knowing what and where it originated.

  An object of the present invention is to provide a network terminal that solves the above-described problems and can easily perform a call outgoing operation based on a telephone number displayed on a browser. Another object of the present invention is to provide a network terminal capable of leaving information related to a destination telephone number as a transmission history.

The above object is a network terminal having a function of browsing a website via a network and displaying the content of the website and a telephone control function, and when the telephone number is recognized in the content, the telephone number This is accomplished by a network terminal that adds link information to display or store the telephone number so that it can be distinguished from other information in the content. Here, the content is described in a language such as HTML or XML, for example. In addition, displaying or saving the telephone number so that it can be distinguished from other information means displaying or saving the telephone number with underlining, color coding, graphic symbols, abbreviations, and the like.
In this network terminal, a telephone call can be made by selecting the telephone number displayed so as to be identifiable. In this case, identification information of the browsed website can be stored in association with the call origination date and the call destination telephone number.

Further, the program according to the present invention has a function of browsing a website via a network and reading the content of the website, and a number string in the form of a telephone number from among the number strings included in the content. A function for identifying, a function for adding link information to a number string identified as the format of the telephone number, and a number string with the link information added as a telephone number so that it can be distinguished from other information in the content This is for causing a computer to realize the function of displaying or saving.
The program may further cause a computer to realize a function of selecting and storing a number string to which the link information is added and a function of storing identification information of the browsed website. Further, a function of making a call based on the stored number string, and a function of storing the browsing website identification information in association with the call origination date and the call destination telephone number after the call ends, It can be made to be realized by a computer.

According to the present invention, a network terminal having the following effects can be obtained.
(1) By specifying the telephone number included in the display content from the browser display state, it is possible to improve the operability of dialing a telephone.
(2) It is possible to take a history of identification information of a website such as a URL including the destination telephone number together with the destination telephone number in the outgoing call history, which can be used for history management after the outgoing call.

Hereinafter, an embodiment of a network terminal according to the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an example of the overall configuration of a network system including a network terminal according to the present invention. The network system includes a Web server device 1 for browsing and providing a WWW site, a server device 2 in a local area 9, a plurality of network terminals (clients) 3 connected to the server device 2, and a network device. The connected softphone handset 4, the Internet 5 as a network to which the Web server device 1 and the server device 2 are connected, the gateway 6 connected to the Internet 5, the PBX 7 connected to the gateway 6, and the PBX 7 And a plurality of telephones 8 to be connected.

  In FIG. 1, the Web server device 1 browses and provides a WWW site via the Internet 5. The server device 2 is for connecting the network terminal 3 in the local area 9 such as an office to the Internet 5 and has a SIP function for controlling connection of an IP phone in addition to the proxy, DNS and mail functions. . In FIG. 1, the server device 2 is displayed, but the functions may be shared by a plurality of server devices. The network terminal 3 is a computer connected to the network, for example, a personal computer (PC), and has a softphone function by connecting a handset 4 to the computer. The gateway 6 converts the message from the IP telephone into information for the conventional PBX 7. The telephone 8 is, for example, a conventional analog telephone, but is not limited thereto, and may be a network terminal having the same softphone function as a communication partner with the network terminal 3 or an IP telephone.

  Thus, the network terminal 3 has a softphone function (telephone control function) as well as a function of displaying the contents of the website browsed via the Internet 5. When the network terminal 3 recognizes the telephone number in the content of the browsed website, link information is added to the telephone number so that the telephone number can be distinguished from other information in the content. For example, the telephone number is underlined, color-coded, graphic symbol, abbreviated, etc., and displayed or stored. In this network terminal, a telephone call can be made by selecting a telephone number displayed so as to be identifiable. In addition, it is possible to store the identification information of the website that was browsed in association with the call origination date and call destination telephone number. Details of these will be described later.

  FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating an example of a hardware configuration of the network terminal 3 illustrated in FIG. As illustrated, the network terminal 3 includes a CPU 301 that performs overall control of the network terminal 3, a memory 302 that stores computer programs, tables, and the like, a LAN communication unit 303 that performs communication with the server apparatus 2 and the like, Controls a hard disk (HDD) 304 that stores computer programs and databases, an input unit 305 that controls a keyboard and a mouse, a display unit 306 that controls a monitor and a display, and a handset 4 connected via a USB interface. And a USB control unit 307, which are connected to each other.

  FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of functional blocks of the network terminal 3 shown in FIG. As shown in the figure, the network terminal 3 has an overall control unit 310 including browser control and telephone control of the network terminal 3. The overall control unit 310 includes a communication control unit 311, a browser control unit 312, a display control unit 313, an input control unit 314, a cache 315, a telephone number recognition unit 316, a softphone control unit 317, and a handset control. A section 318 and a transmission history file 319.

  Here, the communication control unit 311 performs communication control such as LAN and TCP / IP. The browser control unit 312 is so-called browser software that, when accessing the Web server device 1, receives access to the corresponding URL, HTML of the corresponding site, etc., and issues instructions for caching, display, and input based on the received URL. . The display control unit 313 controls display based on an instruction from the browser control unit 312. The input control unit 314 notifies the browser control unit 312 of the location and action selected by the keyboard, mouse, or the like as an event. Based on the combination of this event and the display content, the browser control unit 312 can know which part on the HTML the selected part corresponds to.

  The cache 315 stores HTML that has been referred to in the past for each URL, and shortens the display time when the corresponding site is not updated when a redisplay instruction is issued. Also in the present invention, the pre-correction HTML and the post-correction HTML are stored in a cache, and are used for switching display as necessary. The telephone number recognizing unit 316 determines whether or not a received HTML sentence has a telephone number format. The softphone control unit 317 receives a telephone number to be transmitted from the browser control unit 312 via the clipboard 309, and controls functions of outgoing call, connection, disconnection, and history collection. This can be executed alone using the input control unit 314 and the display control unit 313. The handset control unit 318 controls input information and voice information from the handset 4. The outgoing call history file 319 stores the outgoing call history of the softphone control unit 317.

  FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating a display example in which the browser control unit 312 instructs display based on the original HTML received from the Web server device 1. As shown in the figure, the browser display screen 320 displays a title bar 321 of the display screen, a menu bar 322 of the browser control unit 312, and a content area 323 indicating display contents in a window frame. In this example, as shown in the figure, a plurality of telephone numbers are displayed as inquiry destinations in the content area 323.

  FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example of an original HTML sentence corresponding to the display content of FIG. In the figure, a title 501 indicates the content displayed on the title bar 321 of the display screen 320. Each of the texts 502 indicates text including a character string of a telephone number in the content area 323. At this point, the text is not displayed as a blue or underlined link.

  FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a display example in which the “telephone number analysis” menu of the display detail menu 324 is displayed from the “display” of the menu bar 322 in the original HTML. Here, when the “telephone number analysis” menu is selected, recognition for determining the character string of the telephone number of the currently displayed content area 323 is started.

  FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a screen display example corresponding to the HTML sentence corrected as a result of the telephone number analysis of FIG. Here, in the link display 325, as a result of recognizing that the telephone number portion is in the telephone number format by analysis, the display is blue and underlined.

  FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating an example of a modified HTML sentence corresponding to the display content of FIG. In the figure, a title 801 indicates the content displayed on the title bar 321 of the display screen 320. The character string 802 indicates a sentence that is recognized as a telephone number format and indicates link display such as blue and underline. Here, in this linked example, the target sentence is specified to be executed using a language such as an HTML script language specified by “clipboardDataset” when the target sentence is selected with a mouse, for example. Has been. For example, in the first line of 802, when a part that is “03-1234-xxx” is selected in the screen display, the HTML script “clipboardDataset” is “recognized TEL: 031234xxxx”. This means that an operation of pasting on the OS clipboard is performed.

  FIG. 9 is a diagram showing a selection menu display example of a linked telephone number row in the modified HTML display example of FIG. In this example, when the mouse is placed on the target line and right-clicked, a detailed selection menu 326 is displayed as shown. Here, when the “call” menu is selected, the character string of the target telephone number, in this example, “recognition TEL: 039012xxxx” in the character string 802 (FIG. 8) corresponding to the third line of the link display 325 is selected. And paste it on the OS clipboard. When the “Register in phone book” menu is selected, the telephone number of the selected target row is registered in the phone book. At this time, the URL, the title of the Web site, the related display text, etc. are registered at the same time together with the telephone number, so that it can be easily discriminated later when referring to the telephone book.

  FIG. 10 is a diagram showing a configuration example of a transmission history file 319 storing the transmission history shown in FIG. As illustrated, the transmission date / time field 3191 is sorted in the order of transmission, for example. The related URL field 3192 stores the URL of the referred Web site. The calling telephone number field 3193 stores a telephone number (destination telephone number) that is included in the referenced Web site and used for outgoing calls. The title field 3194 stores the content of the title 801 on the HTML of the referenced Web site. In this example, “XYZ newspaper” is shown.

  FIG. 11 is a processing flowchart between the functional blocks in the network terminal of FIG. First, the browser control unit 312 downloads HTML of the specified URL (S1101), and the result is cached (S1102) and stored in the cache 315 (S1102). At the same time, the display control unit 313 is instructed to display (S1103). As a result, the display control unit 313 performs display based on the received original HTML (S1111).

  Next, in the input control unit 314, when the telephone number analysis menu is selected and an HTML telephone number analysis instruction is input in the procedure shown in FIG. 6 (S1121), the telephone number recognition unit 316 thereby causes A telephone number recognition process (S1131) is started. The browser control unit 312 transmits the HTML instructed to be displayed for the telephone number recognition process (S1131) of the telephone number recognition unit 316 (S1104). In the telephone number recognition process (S1131), the original HTML that is currently displayed is received, the contents are analyzed, and the telephone number format is determined and identified. As a result, as shown in FIG. 8, the telephone number information determined and identified is corrected with link information added, and the corrected HTML is returned to the browser control unit 312. When the browser control unit 312 receives the corrected HTML (S1105), the browser control unit 312 uses it to give a display instruction (S1106), and the corrected HTML also performs caching (S1107).

  The display control unit 313 displays the corrected HTML (S1112), and then the input control unit 314 performs a process of selectively calling a telephone number in the procedure shown in FIG. 9 (S1122). When the call menu is selected, the character string selected in a predetermined format is written to the clipboard, and the softphone process (S1141) of the softphone control unit 317 is activated by detecting the character string. Then, the telephone number is extracted from the character string and transmitted.

  FIG. 12 is a detailed process flowchart of the telephone number recognition process (S1131). First, the original HTML is received and read from the browser control unit 312 (S1201), and all the numbers included in the HTML are converted to half-width (S1202). Then, in the converted numbers, a similar one to the two-digit outside line number is searched (S1203). In general, for example, a number string starting with “03-” or “(03)” is searched. When a plurality of candidates are found, it is further checked whether the character string following the candidate has four digits, for example, “1234−”. Next, it is inspected whether it is in the form of “5678” in the last four digits.

  If the above conditions are met, this number string is regarded as a telephone number and is modified to add link information (S1204), and a one-byte number string, for example, “0312345678” As the telephone number, “recognition TEL: 0312345678” in FIG. 8 is pasted in accordance with the link information. Here, the delimiters of “(”, “)”, “−” may be half-width or full-width, and the recognition width can be widened by treating the space in the same manner. In this example, regarding the display after linking, the designation of “03-1234-xxx” is specified, but here, not only the telephone number itself but also a display with an abbreviation or graphic symbol. There is no problem. Each sentence of 802 in HTML is used as linked telephone number information.

  Hereinafter, also in the case where the external line number is 3 digits (S1205, S1206) and the case where the external line number is 4 digits (S1207, S1208), the determination identifying operation and the correcting operation for adding link information are performed in the same manner as described above. As described above, the steps from S1203 to S1207 are executed for all numeric strings (S1209).

  FIG. 13 is a detailed process flowchart of the telephone number selection call process (S1122). An HTML sentence corresponding to this coordinate is selected from the coordinates of the part where the mouse is placed on the screen. It is searched from the selected HTML sentence whether or not a character string of the format “recognition TEL: nnnnnnnnnn” is included (S1301). Here, “nnnnnnnnnn” is a single-byte number indicating a telephone number such as “0312345678”. If the character string is included, the character string of “recognition TEL: nnnnnnnnnn” (for example, “recognition TEL: 0312345678”) is copied to the OS clipboard (S1302). At the same time, the title character string between the HTML title tags is copied to the OS clipboard (S1303). Also, the URL of the Web site that has received the HTML is copied to the OS clipboard (S1304). The URL information is generally stored in the cache 315 when HTML is received.

  FIG. 14 is a diagram showing a format copied to the clipboard based on the result of FIG. As shown, the selected recognized telephone number 1401, title 1402, and referenced related URL 1403 are stored.

  FIG. 15 is a detailed process flowchart of the softphone process (S1141). In this process, whether or not the character string “recognition TEL:” of the recognized telephone number 1401 in the clipboard in FIG. 14 is included is monitored at a constant cycle (S1501). When this character string is detected, the numeric string “nnnnnnnnnn” following the “recognition TEL:” is cut out and used to make a call (S1502). After connecting with the other party by calling the telephone, a voice conversation is performed using the handset (S1503). After the conversation ends, the call origination date and time, the related URL 1403, the recognized phone number 1401, and the title 1402 are written in the fields of the call history file origination date and time 3191, related URL 3192, call phone number 3193, and title 3194, respectively (S1504). . Finally, the clipboard is cleared and the process ends (S1505).

  In the above example, the telephone number recognition process of FIG. 12 and the telephone number selection / transmission process of FIG. 13 are preliminarily installed in each network terminal (client) as add-in software in the browser software. Alternatively, a method of downloading, obtaining, and executing the computer program from the Web server device when receiving HTML may be used. In the latter case, in this example, the browser software functions are selected from the menu. However, in HTML, a script statement having the same function, a selection execution button for telephone number recognition processing and telephone number selection processing, and the like. Will be included.

Furthermore, a request message is sent to the Web server device by pressing the selection execution button of the phone number recognition process and the telephone number selection / transmission process, and based on this, a modified HTML is received from the Web server device. A method of sending back the selected telephone number is also possible.
In the above description, the interface with the softphone process is via the clipboard. However, the present invention is not limited to this, but a request event is sent to the softphone control unit via the OS using the detected phone number. It may be a method that occurs.

  The present invention relates to a network terminal such as a PC having a browser function and a telephone control function for accessing a Web server device via the Internet and displaying contents, and has industrial applicability.

It is a figure which shows the example of whole structure of the network system containing the network terminal which concerns on this invention. It is a figure which shows an example of the hardware constitutions of the network terminal 3 shown by FIG. It is a figure which shows an example of the functional block of the network terminal 3 shown by FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating a display example in which a browser control unit 312 instructs display based on original HTML received from a Web server device 1. FIG. It is a figure which shows the example of the original HTML sentence corresponded to the display content of FIG. In original HTML, it is a figure which shows the example of a display which displayed the "phone number analysis" menu of the display detail menu 324 from "display" of the menu bar 322. FIG. It is a figure which shows the example of a screen display corresponded to the HTML sentence corrected as a result of the telephone number analysis of FIG. It is a figure which shows the example of the corrected HTML sentence corresponded to the display content of FIG. FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating a selection menu display example of a linked telephone number row in the modified HTML display example of FIG. 7. It is a figure which shows the structural example of the transmission log file 319 which has stored the transmission log | history shown by FIG. FIG. 4 is a process flowchart between functional blocks in the network terminal of FIG. 3. It is a detailed processing flowchart of telephone number recognition processing (S1131). It is a detailed process flowchart of telephone number selection transmission processing (S1122). It is a figure which shows the format copied on the clipboard by the result of FIG. It is a detailed process flowchart of a softphone process (S1141).

Explanation of symbols

1: Web server device 2: Server device 3: Network terminal (client)
4: Handset 5: Internet 6: Gateway 7: PBX
8: Telephone 301: CPU
302: Memory 303: LAN communication unit 304: HDD
305: Input unit 306: Display unit 307: USB control unit 309: Clipboard 310: Overall control unit 311: Communication control unit 312: Browser control unit 313: Display control unit 314: Input control unit 315: Cache 316: Telephone number recognition unit 317: Softphone control unit 318: Handset control unit 319: Transmission history file 320: Browser display screen 321: Title bar 322: Menu bar 323: Content area 324: Detailed display menu 325: Link display 326: Detailed selection menu 501: Title 502: Text 801: Title 802: Link sentence 3191: Transmission date and time 3192: Related URL
3193: Calling telephone number 3194: Title 1401: Recognition telephone number 1402: Title 1403: Related URL

Claims (6)

  A network terminal having a function of browsing a website via a network and displaying the contents of the website and a telephone control function, and when a telephone number is recognized in the content, link information is added to the telephone number. In addition, the telephone number is displayed or stored so as to be distinguishable from other information in the content.   2. The network terminal according to claim 1, wherein a telephone call is made by selecting a telephone number displayed so as to be identifiable.   3. The network terminal according to claim 2, wherein identification information of the browsed website is stored in association with a call origination date and a call destination telephone number.   A function of browsing a website via a network and reading the contents of the website, a function of identifying a number string in the form of a telephone number from among a number string included in the content, and a format of the telephone number A function of adding link information to a number string identified as a link number, and a function of displaying or storing the number string to which the link information is added as a telephone number so as to be distinguishable from other information in the content. A program to make it happen.   Furthermore, the program of Claim 4 for making a computer implement | achieve the function to select and preserve | save the number sequence to which the said link information was added, and the function to preserve | save the identification information of the said browsed website.   Further, a function of making a call based on the stored number string, and a function of storing the browsing website identification information in association with the call origination date and the call destination telephone number after the call ends, 6. The program according to claim 5, which is realized by a computer.

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