JPH11187151A - Incoming call notification method and apparatus, and recording medium storing data and a program for executing the method - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Summary] [Problem] An incoming call is received according to the type of information such as telephone, facsimile, or e-mail, the importance of each information source, and whether the information is received periodically. Lighting / non-lighting of the light emission notifying unit in the case where the light is emitted. SOLUTION: Based on a preset incoming call notification determination condition, it is determined whether each of the incoming information in which information based on a plurality of communication information types is stored in a mixed manner corresponds to notification or non-report. As a result, if the information is notification information, one light emitting unit prepared for notifying an incoming call is made to emit light. For notification determination, for example, a regular incoming call information table, an information type table, and a sender list table as shown in the figure are set. Since the caller registered in the regular incoming call table knows the regular incoming call, it is treated as an unimportant incoming call. The information type table can set the presence or absence of notification for each communication information type, and the source list table can set the presence or absence of notification for each source.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a communication terminal device for notifying a reception / emission status of a plurality of types of information, such as an answering machine, a facsimile, an electronic mail, and the like, by an incoming call information light emitting unit.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, in addition to a telephone / facsimile function, a single unit has a function of connecting to a host computer for personal computer communication or a homepage on the Internet through a public line to send and receive e-mails and browse the homepage. Integrated communication terminal devices have been put to practical use. Such a communication terminal device automatically records the voice message of the other party in response to a call received during an absence, automatically receives a facsimile, stores the content in an internal storage device, and periodically executes a host for personal computer communication. And various types of information such as automatically connecting to a host computer of an Internet service provider and receiving an e-mail, and automatically acquiring information of a URL address specified in advance on the Internet, and receiving an internal storage device. It has the function of storing it in

Conventionally, in order to easily determine whether or not information has been received and stored in an internal storage device without operating the communication terminal device to display the received call history, a conventional communication terminal device is used. In addition, a light emission notifying device is provided, and if there is at least one incoming information regardless of the type of information, the light emitting notifying device is turned on.

Japanese Utility Model Laid-Open No. 59-048164 discloses a technique for notifying the number of messages received by an answering machine by the number of blinks of a light emitting device.
Because the light-emitting part is lit regardless of information and importance,
Whether it is important information or not, you must actually operate the device and check the received content. 4-1
Japanese Patent Publication No. 26455 discloses a telephone device with a facsimile function, in which the device automatically determines whether the incoming call type is a telephone or a facsimile, and thereby changes the lighting color of the incoming light emission notification device so that the incoming call type can be distinguished without taking the handset. This is a technology that makes it possible to distinguish the type of incoming call based on the display when an incoming call is received. The information received and stored in the device can be identified by telephone or facsimile. It is not something that can be distinguished.

Japanese Patent Laid-Open Publication No. Hei 8-186637 discloses that when a call is received from a caller who has been set beforehand while the user is away,
It discloses a technology for notifying that there is an incoming call from a specific caller by turning on a lamp in a dial key set for each caller. Lamps must be used.

[0006]

With the development of the communication infrastructure, the required urgency of incoming information has been diversified. In other words, in the case of communication / call only by telephone or facsimile, it is only necessary to worry about an incoming call from an unspecified person, and the facsimile is automatically printed out on paper.
The fact that there was an incoming call was immediately apparent when the person was near the device. However, as the types of incoming information increase, such as facsimile, e-mail, and various types of information collected through the Internet connection, which are displayed on the display without paper printing, incoming information received by the regular service, In the incoming information from a specific expectation partner, the expectation degree for the incoming information basically differs greatly. For this reason, it is necessary to distinguish between them and to notify the incoming call. If the display unit is large like a recent communication terminal, it is possible to check the details of the incoming information by the incoming information listed on the display screen, but only when the incoming information is particularly important among the incoming information In addition, there is a need to notify a nearby person that there is an incoming call even when the user is away from the device.

[0007] For example, in a device in which a light emitting unit is provided as a means for notifying and an important incoming call is turned on when an important incoming call is received, for example, weather forecast information for acquiring information regularly every day is particularly urgent. The light emitting unit is turned on even with information that does not need to be confirmed, which is annoying to the user. Also, in this case, if it is left as it is, even if there is a normal reception, the light emitting part remains unchanged and remains lit, so there is no change. Sometimes you miss it. In addition, if you want to check particularly important incoming information sent from a specific person as soon as there is an incoming call, and to check information from other people a little later after your hand becomes available, the light emitting unit turns on Since these cannot be distinguished only by themselves, an operation of operating the device and checking the incoming information list each time is required, which is very troublesome.

[0008] The present invention has been made in view of the above-described circumstances, and is based on the type of information such as telephone, facsimile, or e-mail, the importance of each information source, and information received periodically. It is an object of the present invention to enable selection of lighting / non-lighting of a light emission notification unit when an incoming call is received, depending on whether there is an incoming call.

[0009]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided an apparatus for storing incoming information according to a plurality of communication types, displaying a list of accumulation status of the stored incoming information on a display screen, and displaying the plurality of received incoming information. Based on a preset incoming call notification determination condition, each of the incoming call information according to the communication type determines whether the information corresponds to the notification information or the non-notification information as one determination result, and the light emitting unit emits light according to the determination result. / Notifying that there is an arrival of notification information by controlling the non-light emission. Even if a plurality of pieces of incoming information are stored, the light emission notification unit is turned on only when important information arrives, Confirmation can be urged, and a quick response is made possible.

[0010] The invention of claim 2 is characterized in that, in the invention of claim 1, a communication type discrimination condition in which either the notification information or the non-notification information is set for each communication type is used as the incoming call notification discrimination condition. For example, it is possible to turn on the light emission notification unit only for incoming calls of the answering machine or to turn off the light emission notification unit only for reception of homepage information on the Internet, thereby achieving high convenience. .

According to a third aspect of the present invention, in the first or second aspect of the present invention, a source discriminating condition in which either the notification information or the non-notifying information is set for each source is used as the incoming call notification discriminating condition. Even if a plurality of pieces of incoming information are stored, the light emission notification unit can be turned on only when there is incoming information from a source that has been designated as an important source in advance. .

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in the invention of any one of the first to third aspects, when judging whether the incoming information corresponds to the broadcast information or the non-broadcast information, one incoming information is determined. When a plurality of types of the incoming notification determination conditions are applied, priorities are set in advance for the plurality of types of the incoming notification determination conditions, and the importance determination conditions are inconsistent for one incoming call. In this case, it is possible to make a rational important determination, and it is possible to easily set notification of various incoming information according to the purpose of each user.

A fifth aspect of the present invention is characterized in that, in the fourth aspect of the present invention, the priority set is such that the transmission source discriminating condition is given the highest priority. Even in the case of incoming call information of a communication type that is specified not to turn on the light-emitting lamp, for the caller specified as important information in the caller discriminating condition, the designation of this caller has priority, and the light-emitting indicator is turned on. In addition, even in the case of incoming information of the communication type for which the light emission notification unit is specified to be turned on, on the other hand, for the source specified as non-important information in the The original specification is prioritized, and it is possible to prevent the light emission notification unit from being turned on.

The invention according to claim 6 is the invention according to claims 1 to 5.
Data for executing any one of the incoming call notification methods and / or
Alternatively, there is provided a storage means for storing a program, and a processing means for processing data and / or a program extracted from the storage means, and incoming information.

The invention according to claim 7 is the invention according to claims 1 to 5.
A computer-readable recording medium on which data and / or a program for executing any one of the incoming call information discriminating methods is recorded. The program and the data can be installed and used in an apparatus having a similar configuration. Yes, so that it can be used for general purposes.

[0016]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The present invention is based on the premise that a list of incoming information is always displayed on the display unit of the apparatus. For the incoming information defined as important, an LED is provided so that the incoming state can be recognized from the vicinity of the apparatus. A light emission notification is performed by using such a method. Thus, when the user knows that there is an important incoming call by the light emission notification, the user may approach the device and check the information details on the display unit. In addition, by setting a plurality of conditions as conditions for determining the importance of incoming information, it is possible to notify a plurality of incoming information by lighting one light emitting unit.

An example of a communication terminal device according to the present invention is connected to a public line network, sends an announcement to an incoming call at the time of answering setting, and then automatically records the other party's message. Means for automatically receiving a received facsimile in an automatic reception mode, means for automatically connecting to a computer on the Internet at a predetermined time based on preset time data and URL address data and automatically receiving homepage information A means for automatically connecting to a computer of a mail server at regular intervals to obtain an e-mail, and a means for storing the above four types of incoming information in an internal storage device.

[0018] In addition, there is provided a display means for displaying a list of a plurality of stored reception information, and separately from the display means, a light emitting unit for notifying the presence of the stored reception information by turning on one light emitting unit. It has a notification unit control means. Then, for each piece of received information, there is provided a light emission permission / non-permission determination unit for determining whether light emission of the light emission notification unit is permitted with reference to various tables created in advance held in the apparatus.

When information from a communication destination arrives, whether the incoming information is important or not important is determined according to a condition registered in advance in the apparatus, and the incoming information is displayed on the display unit, and at the same time, the important information is displayed. Only when there is an incoming call, the incoming light emission notification unit is turned on. Insignificant incoming information is displayed only on the display unit. As one of the important / insignificant discriminating conditions of incoming information, for example, information that is known in advance to be regularly acquired is often not important, and such information is determined as non-important information. sign up. Further, depending on the usage status of each user's device, there may be a case where it is desired to designate important / insignificant for each of information types such as telephone, facsimile, information from a homepage on the Internet, and e-mail. In such a case, important / insignificant registration can be performed for each type of communication.

Further, as a definition of an individual communication destination, an important transmission source and an unimportant transmission source are separately registered in a transmission source table held in the apparatus in advance, and the transmission source of certain incoming information is determined. It is also possible to set such that the light emission notifying section is turned on when it is designated as important in this table, and not turned on if the source of certain incoming information is designated as not important in this table.

However, if the conditions are set as described above, important / insignificant designations may be overlapped for many communication destinations, resulting in inconsistency of designation for a specific communication destination. . In the communication terminal of the present invention, for example, certain information is received /
Whether the light emission notification unit is turned on or off when the accumulation is performed is determined. As a criterion of claim 5, important / insignificant discrimination conditions based on registration of the transmission source list table are given priority over other tables. Is used to determine whether or not the light emission notification unit is turned on. The method for managing the notification of incoming call information can be executed by using a personal computer or the like on which a program can be newly installed, and can be executed by using a recording medium storing data and a program for executing the method according to any one of claims 1 to 5. By installing the recorded contents in hardware, the device of claim 6 can be realized.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. According to this embodiment,
It goes without saying that the present invention is not limited. FIG. 1 is a block diagram for explaining an embodiment of the present invention. 1 is a central control unit, 2 is a receiver, 3 is a communication control unit, 4 is an incoming information storage unit, 5 is a lighting control unit, and 6 is a lighting control unit. Incoming light emission notification unit, 7 is a display unit, 8 is a display control unit, 9 is an input unit,
10 is a table management unit, 11 is an information type table (information type importance rank table), 12 is a sender list table, 13 is a regular incoming call information table, 14 is an incoming call information management table, 15 is a public line network, and 16 is a fax / Phone with communication function, 17 is speaker, 18 is RAM, 19 is R
OM, 20 is a recording medium, 21 is a periodic information acquisition management unit, 2
2 is a clock unit, 23 is a response message sending unit, and 24 is a modem.

In FIG. 1, a central control unit 1 controls the operation of the entire system.
Stores a control program for operating the central control unit 1, and RAM 18 temporarily stores data necessary for operating the central control unit 1. However, when a program for realizing the system of the present invention is recorded on the recording medium 20 such as a floppy disk or a flash memory, it is also possible to read this program into the RAM 18 or the like to realize the apparatus of the present invention. .

The communication control means 3 controls the connection between the public network 15 and the apparatus and the destination of signals to be transmitted and received. The receiver 2 is used for making and receiving telephone calls. The speaker 17 is used for making a telephone call in an on-hook state or outputting a sound obtained by reproducing the contents of an answering machine. The incoming call information storage unit 4 is a storage device, and collects all the contents of messages from the other party who received a call during the absence, the contents of the automatically received facsimile, the contents of the received e-mail, and the contents of the acquired Internet homepage. Store. When the information is stored here, it is determined whether or not the incoming light emission notifying section 6 should emit light, and at the same time, the attributes and the like of the information are recorded in the incoming information management table 14. The specific processing operation of this determination and recording will be described later separately with reference to FIG.

The incoming light emission notifying section 6 has a function of notifying that there is incoming information by turning on the light, and the lighting control section 5 controls a lighting method of the incoming light emitting notification section 6. The display unit 7 is composed of a liquid crystal display or the like, and can be used for various purposes such as displaying a list of incoming information and reading and writing e-mail. The display control unit 8 controls the display unit 7. Input unit 9
Is an input unit that includes a touch panel, a keyboard, buttons, and the like, and can be used for a variety of purposes, such as dial input when making a call, operation input of the apparatus, and text input of an e-mail. In the present device, this input unit is constituted by a tablet integrated with the display unit 7.

The periodic information acquisition management section 21 monitors the clock section 22 and controls the operation of acquiring specific information at a preset time. The periodic information acquisition management unit 21 is specified by the user to automatically acquire specific information at a fixed time every week or every day, or at a specific date and time. When such a designation is made, the periodic information acquisition management unit 21 stores and manages the date and time, the information acquisition destination, and the like in the periodic incoming call information table 13. Such information acquisition designation can be designated by a plurality of patterns.
The regular information acquisition management unit 21 constantly monitors the clock unit 22 and, when the designated date and time arrives, refers to the regular incoming call information table 13 and acquires information from the designated information acquisition destination,
The contents are stored in the incoming call information storage unit 4.

The table management unit 10 exists on the RAM 18 and stores various tables necessary for performing an operation characterizing the present system. Among the various tables, the information type table 11 is a table in which importance ranks are set in advance for each type of information such as telephone, facsimile, electronic mail, and Internet homepage. The sender list table 12 is for registering in advance the sender of information considered to be important. The periodic incoming call information table 13 is for registering information sources that have low importance and do not need to be notified that the information has arrived. The incoming call information management table 14 stores a list of information stored in the incoming call information storage unit 4 in the main body of the apparatus together with its attributes, when an incoming call arrives at the apparatus while the receiver is absent.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing details of four tables existing in the table management unit 10 of FIG. The information type table 11 stores the incoming light emission notification unit 6 for each type of information.
Is set. This setting can be arbitrarily changed by the user. In the sender list table 12, senders that send important information and senders that send unimportant information are registered separately. According to the type of information, the storage format of the transmission source stores a telephone number if the transmission source is a telephone or facsimile, an e-mail address if the transmission source of the e-mail, or a URL address if the homepage of the Internet. I have.

The regular incoming information table 13 is managed by the regular information acquisition management unit 21 shown in FIG. 1, and a list of information scheduled to arrive regularly is registered. The incoming call information management table 14 is not directly operated by the user, but is automatically received information (for example, a caller automatically recorded when the telephone function is set to the answering machine mode). Information, such as whether the information is telephone, facsimile, e-mail, or Internet homepage, the source phone number, facsimile number, or address of the source, and notification of incoming calls. The presence or absence of sex is stored as a set in this table. The same processing is performed for information automatically acquired by the periodic information acquisition management unit 21. The processing operation for determining the necessity of the incoming call notification will be described later with reference to FIG. The response message sending section 23 in FIG. 1 automatically sends a response message to the caller of the telephone when answering machine is set. The modem 24 is used for facsimile transmission / reception and transmission / reception of electronic mails and information on Internet homepages.

FIG. 3 is a diagram schematically showing a data storage state of the incoming call information storage unit in the present invention. FIG.
1 is an external view of an example of a communication terminal device to which the present invention is applied. The illustrated communication terminal device has a display unit 7 capable of displaying a list of incoming information and the like, and one incoming light emission notifying unit 6 for notifying the incoming / storage of information. FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example of an incoming call accumulation information list screen displayed on the display unit. The type of information (telephone, facsimile, e-mail, etc.), source (telephone number, e-mail address, Internet address, etc.), and the date and time of reception are displayed for each piece of received information. FIG. 6 is a flowchart for explaining an operation example in one embodiment of the present invention.

The operation will be described below with reference to the flowchart of FIG. 6 and with reference to FIGS.
When an incoming call arrives, the apparatus sends an automatic response message to the other party stating that "the user is currently absent and want to record the message" to the other party. The case (incoming contents) is stored in the incoming information storage unit 4 (step S1). The image stored in the incoming call information storage unit 4 at this time is as shown in FIG. Next, with reference to the information type table 11, "telephone"
If "notify an incoming call" is set for the information type, an incoming call notification / non-notification flag L (hereinafter, referred to as a flag L) of the incoming call information management table 14 is set (step S2). The flag L is a flag used to set the incoming light emission notification unit 6 for one piece of received information if it should be emitted, and reset it if it should not be emitted.

Next, the process branches depending on whether the origin of the call can be determined (step S3). If the caller's telephone number can be determined by the caller's telephone number notification service or the like, the process proceeds to step S4, and a search is made to determine whether or not the telephone number exists in the caller list table 12. If there is, the process proceeds to step S5. If the source is registered as an important source, the flag L of the incoming information management table 14 is set.
Reset. If it is not registered in the sender list table 12 in step S4, then in step S6, the regular incoming call information table 13 is searched to check the registration of the sender number. If registered, proceed to step S7,
The flag L of the regular incoming information management table is reset.
In the flow up to this point, it is determined whether or not to notify the incoming of this information by the light emission notifying unit 6.

Next, the data of the current information is added to the incoming call information management table 14 as new data, and the type of information (in this case, "telephone"), the source telephone number, and the necessity of notification of incoming call are added. The presence / absence (the value of the flag L) is stored (step S8). Next, all the flags L of all the data of the incoming call information management table 14 that have already been stored are checked (step S9). At this time, if there is any information in which the flag L is set, the process proceeds from step S10 to step S11.
Then, a command to turn on the light emission notification unit 6 is issued to the lighting control unit 5.

In the above-described processing, the user can view the incoming light emission notifying section 6 by controlling whether the incoming light emitting notification section 6 is turned on or off in accordance with the type of information automatically received during absence and the source of the information. You can know when important information arrives,
Therefore, it is possible to respond quickly, and the reception of less important information is not wasted by delaying the content confirmation until the time when the content is available.

In the above example, the case of a telephone is described as an example. However, the same operation can be performed for automatic reception of a facsimile and acquisition of an electronic mail or an Internet homepage by an autopilot. In specifying the caller, in the case of a facsimile, a telephone number is obtained by a caller telephone number notification service or a telephone number is obtained from the beginning of communication between facsimile machines. In the case of an e-mail, the sender's e-mail address is obtained by reading the header. In the case of the homepage acquired by the autopilot, since the information is acquired by designating the partner address from the apparatus side, the URL address is naturally known. If these means cannot be used and the source cannot be identified, the source list table 12 is not used.

Referring now to FIG. 2, a specific example of a method for determining whether to turn on the incoming light emission notification unit will be described.
First, in the case of the reception information of the number 1 in the reception information management table 14, this transmission source (suzuki@abcnet.or.jp)
The information is not registered in the transmission source list table 12 nor in the regular incoming call information table 13, and when the information type table 11 is further viewed, "Not notified" is set in correspondence with "E-mail" of this information. , "Not notify".

Next, in the case of the reception information of the number 2 in the incoming call information management table 14, this reception information has an information type of "facsimile", and when judged from the information type table 11, it is "notify". Since this transmission source (03-4567-xxxx) is registered in the periodic incoming call information table 13, this is prioritized, and it is concluded that "notify".

Next, in the case of the received information of the number 3 in the incoming call information table 14, this received information has an information type of "e-mail", and when judged from the information type table 11, it is "not notified", and The source (news@publisher.co.jp) is the regular incoming call information table 13
In this regard, "notify" is also considered from this point. However, this source is registered in the highest priority source list table 12, and "notify" as an important source As a result, this information is determined to be "notify" information. When a plurality of pieces of information are received during the automatic reception setting such as when the receiver is absent, if there is stored information to be notified of even one of them, the incoming light emission notifying section 6 is turned on. In the case of this example, the light emission notifying unit 6 is turned on because three out of the six pieces of incoming information are set to “notify light emission”.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart for explaining an example of the control operation of the light emission notifying section in the present invention. Of the plurality of stored pieces of incoming information, if the user confirms the content by displaying or reproducing the content, the corresponding data is deleted from the incoming information management table 14 at that time. In this case, the control of the light emission notification unit is performed according to the flow as shown in FIG. When one of the incoming call information is deleted from the incoming call list display, the incoming call information management table 14
The corresponding data is deleted from (step S21). Next, the flags of all the remaining data after the erasure are checked (step S22), and the process branches depending on whether there is any incoming call information data to be notified with at least one flag set (step S23). Step S24
Then, a command is issued to the lighting control unit 5 to cause the light emission notification unit to emit light. Conversely, if there is no data to be notified in step S23, the process proceeds to step S25, and a command is issued to the lighting control unit to turn off the light emission notifying unit.

Next, the setting of important incoming call information in the present invention will be described below. FIG. 9 is a flowchart for explaining an example of an operation for setting important incoming call information in the present invention. FIG. 10 is a diagram showing a display example of a screen when setting important incoming call information in the present invention. FIG. 10 shows the contents of the regular incoming call information table, the information type table, and the sender list table shown in FIGS.
By using the function of the arrow button shown at the bottom of each table, it is possible to display information before and after each displayed table information. This display unit is integrated with the tablet input unit as described above,
Displaying the information before and after each table information by pressing the arrow button in such a configuration is a display control technique that is generally performed, and thus the description thereof will not be repeated here. The display screen as shown in FIG. 10 can be called up on the display unit by performing a predetermined operation on the device. Generally, from various communication setting screens,
It is called by designating a predetermined icon or the like.

The movement of the display screen will be described with reference to FIG. First, a regular incoming call information table is generated (step S31). In order to obtain the regular incoming call information, the communication request time is usually set, so that the data is extracted from the various communication management tables (internet and e-mail communication applications) and the regular incoming call information table is obtained. Generate Once the data is extracted and a table is generated, it can be updated sequentially thereafter. Next, a source list table is generated (step S32). This can also be generated by searching a telephone directory or the like inside the apparatus. In this way, each table is generated, and the important incoming information setting screen shown in FIG. 10 is displayed (step S33).

When a specific coordinate in the regular incoming call information table is designated on the screen shown in FIG. 10, the designated sender is extracted and the designated sender is selected from the senders in the sender list table. The same source information as above is discriminated. For example, when news@publisher.co.jp is specified in FIG. 10, news @ publi in the sender list table
Show sher.co.jp discriminated against. All the information in the periodic incoming call information table exists in the sender list table. In the sender list table, a screen on which target information to be discriminated is present is automatically searched as necessary and displayed on the display screen. That is, even if the information is displayed in the regular incoming call information table on the display screen and is not displayed in the caller list table, if the specific coordinates of the regular incoming call information table are indicated, the same communication destination in the caller list table can be easily found. It becomes possible. The sender in the regular incoming call information table is usually excluded from the important senders in the sender list table. Therefore, the above-described operation is effective when a source that is not a target of such an important source is designated as an important source.

When a part of the transmission source list table is designated in step S34, the presence / absence of an important transmission source corresponding to the transmission source is toggled. In other words, if the setting of the important sender is “Yes”, it becomes “No” by designation,
Conversely, in the case of "absence", it becomes "present". For this reason, even if news@publisher.co.jp is specified in the above example,
Normally, the setting of the important transmission source is “absent”, but it can be switched to “present” by a simple operation.

The information type item in the information type table is inevitably determined by the communication function of the device.
Normally, there is no information to be added, but only the setting of the presence / absence of an incoming call notification for each information type. This setting
In step S34, it is possible to specify whether or not there is an incoming call notification corresponding to each information type in the information type table display. The display of the incoming call notification is inverted between "yes" and "no" by this designation (step S36). By performing the above operation, the initial information for executing the operation in the flowchart of FIG. 6 described above is set.

The same function is provided by using a medium in which software for realizing the function of the apparatus having the configuration of the above-described embodiment is stored and installing and using software in hardware. The device can be realized. For example, the recording medium 2 shown in FIG.
0 can be installed and used in the RAM 18. FIG. 8 is a diagram showing the contents of a recording medium on which data and programs for executing the functions of the present invention are recorded. An incoming information grasping procedure for operating the information specifying means of the information type table, the information specifying means of the transmission source list table, the information specifying means of the periodic incoming call information table, etc., and the incoming light emission notification are provided on the FD or CD recording medium. The lighting condition setting procedure of the unit is stored.

With the configuration as described above, important designation can be easily performed for various incoming information.
By grouping and extracting a part of the plurality of incoming information as important incoming calls and notifying them by one light emitting notification unit, the user can know the presence of the important incoming call by the light emitting notification unit without going to the device side. Can be. The notified important incoming call information can be known in detail by looking at the display unit. In the present invention, the group of the important incoming call information is described as one group, and is described as being notified by one light emission notifying unit. However, a plurality of such groups are set, and the light emission notifying means is provided for each group. It is also possible to comprise so that it may be provided. In addition, as a notification method by one light emission notification unit, notification can be performed by a change in a light emission state (a change in light emission color, blinking degree, luminance, and the like).

[0047]

According to the first aspect of the present invention, incoming information of a plurality of communication types is stored, a list of accumulation status of the stored incoming information is displayed on a display screen, and incoming information of the plurality of incoming communication types is received. Each of them obtains one of the notification information and the non-notification information as a determination result based on a preset incoming notification determination condition, and controls light emission / non-light emission of the light emitting unit according to the determination result. So
Even if a plurality of pieces of incoming information are stored, the light emission notification unit can be turned on only when important information arrives to prompt the user to confirm, and prompt response is possible. This notification operation
This is particularly effective when the user is busy. In addition, if a plurality of light emission notification units are provided, the apparatus becomes expensive and it is difficult to recognize which incoming call is an important call. However, important arrival information that is narrowed down as much as possible is notified by one light emission notification unit. This enables detailed and practical notification correspondence.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, the communication type determination condition in which either the broadcast information or the non-broadcast information is set for each communication type is used as the incoming call notification determination condition. It is possible to set whether or not the light emission notification unit is lit for each type. For example, it is possible to turn on the light emission notification unit only when an answering machine is received or not to turn on the light emission notification unit only when incoming homepage information on the Internet Setting is possible, and high convenience is obtained. In particular, the use form of the user is various, and it is expected that the important incoming information is biased to a specific communication means. In such a case, it is possible to easily set the narrowing down of the important incoming information.

According to the third aspect of the present invention, in the first or second aspect of the present invention, a source discriminating condition in which either the notification information or the non-notifying information is set for each source is used as the incoming call notification discriminating condition. Even if a plurality of pieces of incoming information are stored, the light emission notifying section can be turned on only when there is incoming information from a source that has been designated as an important source in advance. This allows users to respond quickly,
Incoming call information from a non-designated source can be confirmed and responded to when there is enough time, so that high convenience for the user can be obtained.

Effect of Claim 4 In the invention according to any one of Claims 1 to 3, when judging whether the incoming information corresponds to the broadcast information or the non-broadcast information, a plurality of the incoming information may be determined. Are applied, the priorities are set in advance for the plurality of types of incoming call notification determination conditions. Therefore, even when the importance determination conditions are inconsistent with respect to one incoming call, it is reasonable. Important judgment can be made, and notification of various incoming information can be easily set according to the purpose of each user.

Effect of claim 5: In the invention of claim 4, the priority set is such that the transmission source discriminating condition has the highest priority, so that incoming information such as a regular weather forecast and a light emitting lamp are turned on. Even in the case of incoming information of a communication type that is specified not to be allowed, for the sender specified as important information in the sender identification condition, the designation of this sender has priority and the light emission notification unit can be turned on Becomes
Conversely, even in the case of incoming information of a communication type in which the light emission notification unit is specified to be turned on, for a source specified as non-important information in the source determination condition, the specification of the source is given priority. In addition, it is possible to prevent the light emission notification unit from being turned on.

According to the present invention, a storage means for storing data and / or a program for executing the incoming call notification method according to any one of claims 1 to 5, and data and / or a program extracted from the storage means. In addition, by providing processing means for processing incoming information, an incoming information notifying apparatus that executes the incoming information notifying method that can obtain the effects of claims 1 to 5 can be obtained.

According to a seventh aspect of the present invention, a similar configuration is provided by a computer-readable recording medium on which data and / or a program for executing the incoming call information determining method according to any one of the first to fifth aspects is recorded. The program and data can be installed and used in the device, and can be used for general purposes.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram for explaining an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing details of four tables existing in a table management unit 10 of FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a diagram schematically illustrating a data storage state of an incoming call information storage unit according to the present invention.

FIG. 4 is an external view of a communication terminal device to which the present invention is applied.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example of an incoming call accumulation information list screen displayed on a display unit.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart illustrating an operation example according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart illustrating an example of a control operation of a light emission notification unit according to the present invention.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing the contents of a recording medium on which data and programs for executing the functions of the present invention are recorded.

FIG. 9 is a flowchart illustrating an example of an operation for setting important incoming call information according to the present invention.

FIG. 10 is a diagram showing a display example of a screen when setting important incoming call information in the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Central control part, 2 ... Handset, 3 ... Communication control means, 4 ...
Incoming call information storage section, 5: lighting control section, 6: incoming light emission notifying section, 7: display section, 8: display control section, 9: input section, 10 ...
Table management unit, 11: information type table (information type importance rank table), 12: source list table,
13: regular incoming call information table, 14: incoming call information management table, 15: public line network, 16: telephone with FAX / communication function, 17: speaker, 18: RAM, 19: ROM,
Reference numeral 20: recording medium, 21: periodic information acquisition management unit, 22: clock unit, 23: response message sending unit, 24: modem.

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Claims (7)

[Claims] 1. A method for accumulating incoming information according to a plurality of communication types, displaying a list of accumulation status of the stored incoming information on a display screen, and setting each of the incoming information according to the plurality of incoming communication types in advance. Based on the received notification notification determination condition, whether the notification information or the non-information notification is satisfied is obtained as one determination result, and the light emission / non-light emission of the light emitting unit is controlled in accordance with the determination result, thereby obtaining the notification information. A method for notifying of incoming call information, comprising notifying that there is an incoming call. 2. The incoming call information notifying method according to claim 1, wherein a communication type discriminating condition in which either the notification information or the non-notifying information is set for each communication type is used as the incoming call notifying judgment condition. 3. A source discriminating condition in which either the broadcast information or the non-broadcast information is set for each source is used as the incoming call notification discriminating condition.
Incoming information notification method described. 4. When determining whether incoming information corresponds to the broadcast information or non-broadcast information, a plurality of types of the incoming broadcast notification determination conditions are applied to one piece of incoming information. 4. The incoming call information notification method according to claim 1, wherein priorities are set in advance for the following types of incoming call notification determination conditions. 5. The incoming call information notifying method according to claim 4, wherein the priority set is such that the source discriminating condition has the highest priority. 6. A storage means for storing data and / or a program for executing the method for notifying incoming call information according to any one of claims 1 to 5, data and / or a program extracted from said storage means, and incoming call information. And a processing unit for processing the incoming call information. 7. A computer-readable recording medium on which data and / or a program for executing the incoming call information discriminating method according to claim 1 is recorded.