JPH1146195A - Information communication method, information communication system, portable radio communication terminal and server device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To allow a user to quickly notice an incoming call of data to his destination and to improve the convenience to use a terminal by notifying that there is an incoming call of receiving data through a network and making a portable radio communication terminal receive incoming notification from a server device and notify the incoming call to the user. SOLUTION: An incoming server 24 acquires information of an electronic mail incoming call and a facsimile incoming call to a member terminal from a mail server 22 and a facsimile server 23 and generates incoming queues about electronic mails and facsimile respectively about the member terminal based on it. And it acquires the telephone number of a member terminal that is included in receiving information. It uses the telephone number of the member terminal, calls the member terminal to which an incoming call should be notified by using pseudo-incoming call service through an ISDN public line network 9, confirms response of the member terminal and sends information of incoming notification to the member terminal.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

[0001] The present invention relates to, for example, PHS
(Personal Handyphone System) System and method for performing data communication such as facsimile communication and e-mail communication using a mobile wireless communication network for mobile phones and the like, and a mobile wireless communication terminal and server used for the system Related to the device.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Recently, with the spread of portable wireless communication terminals such as PHS terminals and the increase in transmission speed of data communication using these portable wireless communication terminals, not only voice communication but also text data and image data, for example, have been developed. Wireless data communication services for wirelessly communicating various types of data have attracted attention.

For example, in a case where a PHS terminal is used, data communication at a transmission speed of 32 kbit / sec becomes possible, and the transmission speed of 28.8 kbit / sec or 33.3 kbit / sec when a modem is used on an analog telephone line. The transmission speed is about the same as 6 kbits / sec.
The environment where facsimile communication and the like can be performed from outdoors using a portable wireless communication terminal has been established.

[0004]

Incidentally, for facsimile communication, it is necessary to mount a so-called facsimile modem, and there has been a problem that the size of the portable radio communication terminal is increased and the cost is increased.

When a portable radio communication terminal is provided with a reception function for e-mail communication or facsimile communication, it is difficult to provide a printer function for outputting a hard copy of received data to a small portable terminal. Is generally stored in a memory, and a necessary portion is displayed on a display.

When considering that a large amount of data is transmitted, it is desirable that the memory for storing the received data has a large capacity. However, it is generally difficult to provide a large-capacity memory in order to maintain the portability of a small portable wireless communication terminal, that is, to prevent the terminal from becoming large. Therefore, in the conventional case, the number of portable wireless communication terminals is one.
A problem arises in that the amount of data that can be received at one time is reduced, or important received data is missed because a plurality of received data cannot be stored in the memory. This problem is particularly remarkable in the case of facsimile data handled as bitmap data (dot image data) because the data amount is large.

Therefore, in order to maintain the compactness of the portable wireless communication terminal, the portable wireless communication terminal is connected to a personal computer with a built-in portable modem via a cable, and the memory of the personal computer is used for storing received data. That is being done. However, in this case, it is necessary to carry the portable wireless communication terminal and the portable personal computer at the same time, and the place where the portable wireless communication terminal can be used is limited to an indoor place where a telephone line can be connected, which is inconvenient.

In view of the above points, the present applicant has
A server device connectable to the portable wireless communication terminal through a network including a wireless communication network is provided. In this server device, instead of each portable wireless communication terminal,
Receives facsimile data and e-mail addressed to the terminal, stores the received data in a memory, and accesses the server device via a network when the portable wireless communication terminal is required, and acquires data addressed to itself. We have devised an information communication system that can do this.

In this information communication system, the portable radio communication terminal does not need to incorporate a large-capacity memory.
In addition, since data communication between the server device and the portable wireless communication terminal can be performed using a general data communication method through a network without being bound by a facsimile communication method, a so-called fax modem or the like is used. There is an advantage that the portable wireless communication terminal does not need to be mounted and can be configured small and inexpensively.

By the way, in the information communication system as described above, a user who carries a portable radio communication terminal is required to obtain information sent from the outside to the user in real time as much as possible. It is important to. However, in the method of accessing the server device from the portable wireless communication terminal and confirming whether or not there is received data addressed to the user, unless the access is performed frequently,
Information on the latest incoming call is not available.
In such a frequent access, every time the server device is accessed through the network,
Charges are made and the financial burden on the user increases.

In view of the above, the present invention enables a user of a portable wireless communication terminal to quickly know the arrival of data addressed to him / herself, and to improve the usability of the portable wireless communication terminal. The purpose is to:

[0012]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided an information communication method, wherein a server device and a portable wireless communication terminal are wirelessly connected via a network, and wherein the portable wireless communication terminal An information communication method for receiving information addressed to itself by cooperating with a server device, wherein the server device receives received data addressed to the portable wireless communication terminal.
While storing the reception data in the memory unit, that the reception of the reception data addressed to the portable wireless communication terminal,
The portable wireless communication terminal is called and notified through the network for the portable wireless communication terminal, and the portable wireless communication terminal receives the notification of the incoming call from the server device and notifies the user of the incoming call. Features.

[0013] In the information communication method according to the first aspect of the present invention, the server device receives the received data on behalf of the portable radio communication terminal, stores the received data, and stores the received data. Notify the portable wireless communication terminal of the occurrence in a timely manner. In response to the notification, the portable wireless communication terminal notifies the user by displaying a message indicating that there is an incoming call. Therefore, the user of the portable wireless communication terminal can know without delay that there is an incoming call even when going out.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the information communication method according to the first aspect, the portable wireless communication terminal sends a connection request to the server device through the network to the server device. When connected to the server device, the server device transmits, to the portable wireless communication terminal, information of an incoming notification of the received data to the portable wireless communication terminal when there is newly received data addressed to the connected portable wireless communication terminal. Features.

In the information communication method according to the second aspect of the present invention, an incoming call notification is sent from the server device. For example, when the portable radio communication terminal is in a place where radio waves cannot reach or the power is turned off, Even when the incoming call notification has not been received, the incoming notification is reliably sent from the server device to the portable wireless communication terminal when the portable wireless communication terminal requests the server device to connect through the network.

In the information communication method according to a third aspect of the present invention, the portable radio communication terminal having received the notification of the incoming call includes:
Sending a reception data acquisition request to the server device, wherein the server device sends the reception data requested in response to the reception data acquisition request from the portable wireless communication terminal to the portable wireless communication terminal. It is characterized by comprising a sending step.

According to the third aspect of the present invention, the user of the portable radio communication terminal having received the notification of the incoming call transmits the received data acquisition request to the server device, thereby quickly receiving the received data of the notification of the incoming call. It becomes possible to acquire.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in the information communication method, the server device receives the facsimile data in the bitmap data format, stores the received facsimile data in the memory unit, and informs the portable device that a facsimile call has been received. The server device calls the wireless communication terminal through the network to notify the server, and in response to a reception data acquisition request from the portable wireless communication terminal that has received the notification of the incoming call, the server device adapts the facsimile data to the network. The data converted to the data compressed by the image compression method is transmitted to the portable wireless communication terminal.

In the information communication method according to the fourth aspect of the present invention, when the portable wireless communication terminal having received the incoming call notification issues a request for obtaining received data, the server device converts the facsimile data in the bitmap format into, for example, a GIF (Graph).
ics Interchange Format) is received. The portable wireless communication terminal receives the received data, displays it on a display unit, reproduces it, and provides it to the user. At this time, the portable wireless communication terminal can receive the received data not in the bitmap format but in a data format with a smaller data amount, so that the capacity of the buffer memory provided in the portable wireless communication terminal can be small.

According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, there is provided the information communication method according to the third or fourth aspect, wherein the portable radio communication terminal cooperates with the server device to transmit information specifying a partner. It is characterized by performing.

According to the fifth aspect of the present invention, the user of the portable wireless communication terminal receiving the incoming call notification and receiving the received data can use the portable wireless communication terminal quickly when a reply is required. You can make that reply.

According to a sixth aspect of the present invention, in the information communication method, a plurality of portable wireless communication terminals are connected to the server device, and the server device identifies each of the portable wireless communication terminals. A memory area that manages information, identifies which portable wireless communication terminal is the incoming call of the received data, and divides the received data into memory areas of the memory unit for each of the portable wireless communication terminals. And calling the identified portable wireless communication terminal to notify of the incoming call.

In the invention of claim 6, for example, a contract relationship is provided between the server device and the portable radio communication terminal, and the above-mentioned incoming call notification is performed only to the portable radio communication terminal having the contract relationship. be able to.

[0024]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, embodiments of an information communication method, system, portable radio communication terminal, and server device according to the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

In this embodiment, a plurality of portable radio communication terminals in contract with this server device are connected to one common server device via a network. The transmission of information from each portable wireless communication terminal to a desired partner and the reception of information addressed to the user are performed by the cooperation of each portable wireless communication terminal and the server device.

[Description of Network System] FIG.
FIG. 1 is a diagram for explaining a conceptual configuration of a communication network system to which an embodiment of the present invention is applied.
In the figure, 1 is a portable wireless communication terminal having a contractual relationship with the common server device, and 2 is a common server device. A plurality of portable wireless communication terminals 1 and a common common server device 2 include a network 3 for portable wireless communication terminals, and a dedicated backbone connected to the network 3 through one or more access points 4. It is connected through the network 5.

The portable wireless communication terminal network 3 includes:
Other mobile wireless communication terminals that are not in contract with the common server device 2 are also connected. However, the mobile wireless communication terminals that can receive the cooperative processing service of the common server device 2 as described later are previously set to the common Only the portable wireless communication terminal 1 contracted with the server device 2. Common server device 2
In order to avoid confusion with a portable wireless communication terminal having no contractual relationship with the common server device 2, in the following description, a portable wireless communication terminal having a contractual relationship with the common server device 2 will be referred to as a member terminal.

Each of the plurality of member terminals 1 and other portable wireless communication terminals of the same type is wirelessly connected to a wireless base station 6 provided in a predetermined area unit in consideration of, for example, a range where radio waves can reach. In the network 3 for a portable wireless communication terminal such as a connection between the wireless base stations 6, an optical cable is used, for example.

The dedicated backbone network 5 is connected to a network management server device 7 for managing the network 5. This network management server device 7
Manages so-called routing between the common server device 2 and the member terminal 1. Therefore, from the viewpoint of routing management in the network management server device 7, the common server device 2 can be positioned as one of the terminal devices connected to the dedicated backbone network 5. In this case, the network management server device 7 is also connected to the Internet 8.

In this embodiment, the network management server device 7 is also directly connected to the common server device 2 and stores the access history from the member terminal 1 to the common server device 2 on the network. The management server 7 is configured to send the information to the common server 2. That is, in the present embodiment, the common server device 2 is configured to perform general member management such as charging log collection of the member terminal 1.

That is, in the case of this embodiment, the member terminal 1 has a contract relationship with the common server device 2 and
It does not have a contract relationship with the network management server device 7. The common server device 2 manages the member terminal 1 on the network connection by using the network management server device 7.
And there is also a contract relationship between the common server device 2 and the network management server device 7. Therefore, the common server device 2 can be connected to another dedicated backbone network and its network management server device in exactly the same relationship as the dedicated backbone network 5 and the network management server device 7 described above. .

In the case of this embodiment, the common server device 2
As seen from the above, a specific dedicated backbone network is assigned to each member terminal 1, and access from each member terminal 1 to the common server device 2 must be performed by the dedicated backbone assigned to that member terminal. Although the management is performed so as to pass through the network, when viewed from the member terminal 1, the contract relationship between the common server device 2 and the network management server device 7 is completely irrelevant. Only the common server device 2 is accessed and managed by the common server device 2 only.

According to such a network management configuration, for example, by making the common server device 2 have all the service functions of the individual network management server devices 7, the user of the member terminal 1 In order to receive various services provided by the network management server device 7 of
Instead of making a contract with the common server device 2, various services provided by the common server device 2 can be received only by creating a contract relationship with the common server device 2, which is very convenient.

The common server device 2 is connected to a public line network 9, and as described later, the member terminal 1 is connected to a communication terminal 10 such as a facsimile terminal or a personal computer connected to the public line network 9. A function is provided for enabling transmission and reception of communication data between the devices.

Further, in this embodiment, the common server device 2 is configured to provide an information providing service to the member terminal 1, and the member terminal 1 has a function of receiving the information providing service. It is configured. For this reason, the common server device 2 is provided with a storage unit which is a part of the provided information database. Also, the common server device 2 is connected to the content providing device 11, and obtains information from the content providing device 11, which is the rest of the database of information provided to the member, and provides the information to the member terminal 1. I do.

[0036] The content providing device 11 is provided by a providing company having unique providing information as information to be provided to the member, and is provided through the common server device 2 by a contract with a service company having the common server device 2. This information is provided to the terminal 1. Although only one content providing device 11 is shown in FIG. 1, a plurality of content providing devices 11 are generally connected to the common server device 2.

The connection between the common server device 2 and the content providing device 11 may be connected through a dedicated line or connected through a network such as the Internet.

In this embodiment, when a contract is made between the user of the portable wireless communication terminal 1 and the company that owns the common server device 2, as described above, the portable wireless communication terminal 1
Becomes the member terminal 1. For example, the purchase of the member terminal 1 by the user can be regarded as the occurrence of a contract relationship with the common server device 2.

That is, the portable radio communication terminal is connected to the member terminal 1
When the user makes a purchase, the member terminal 1
As described above, the address information of the common server device 2 through the specific dedicated backbone network for each terminal is given in advance and stored in the nonvolatile memory. The nonvolatile memory also stores identification information (member information) indicating that the terminal is a member terminal. However, the address information and the member information of the common server device 2 may be written and registered in the member terminal 1 by the terminal salesperson or the purchaser when the member terminal 1 is purchased. It is good to keep. In this case, since the operation of inputting the address is not required at all, the user can use the member terminal 1 without being conscious of the common server device.

As will be described later, the member terminal 1
When the process of facsimile communication or e-mail communication is started, the member terminal 1 automatically connects to the common server device 2 by using the previously stored address information and member information before the process is started. The processing is executed.

In this embodiment, the member terminal 1
Is excellent in portability, and realizes its communication function and its related function by cooperating with the common server device 2.

That is, the member terminal 1 does not have a large-capacity memory. Instead, the common server device 2 includes a memory or a memory area for each member terminal 1. In addition, the member terminal 1 includes applications for realizing various functions, except for an application for minimum processing (software of a microcomputer).
It is entrusted to the common server device 2. That is,
In the member terminal 1, when the user performs a key operation, for example, corresponding to a request for obtaining a target function, the request is sent to the common server device 2, and the application of the function is transmitted to the common server device 2. Be executed. Then, the processing result of the application is sent to the member terminal 1.

The above is the outline of the network configuration according to the embodiment of the present invention. A more specific configuration will be described below.

FIG. 2 shows the concept of the communication network system of FIG. 1 described above in more concrete form. In this case, the member terminal 1 has a multifunction peripheral configuration of a PHS telephone terminal and a PDA (Personal Digital Assistance) having a data communication function. In addition to the PHS telephone function, the member terminal 1 has a facsimile communication It has a function and an e-mail communication function, and a function of receiving provision of information from service contents stored in the common server device 2.

In this example, the network 3 for the portable radio communication terminal to which the radio base station 6 is connected is a PHS / ISD
N network 3n. Therefore, the member terminal 1 can perform telephone communication with another member terminal 1 or a non-member PHS terminal through the wireless base station 6-PHS / ISDN network 3n-wireless base station 6, and also has the wireless base station 6-PHS / ISDN.
Telephone communication can be performed with a general subscriber telephone terminal through the network 3n.

In this example, the dedicated backbone network 5
The network is managed by an ISP (Internet Service Provider). That is, 5N is the ISP backbone, that is, a network such as a LAN, and the ISP backbone 5N and the PHS / I
The SDN network 3n is PIAFS (PHS Int), which is an industry standard method of 32 Kbit / s transmission rate for PHS.
ernet Access Forum Standa
rd) through the access point 4P.

Reference numeral 5N denotes an ISP router through which an ISP backbone 5N and an ISP server device 7 corresponding to the network management server device 7 are connected.
I and the common server device 2 are connected.

As described above, the ISP server device 7I authenticates the access from the member terminal 1 by entrusting the common server device 2 side. That is,
The ISP server device 7I includes the ISP server device 7I
Terminal 1 that accesses common server device 2 via
Member information (identification information) such as a mail address is registered in advance, and the ISP server device 7I
When an access is made to a terminal connected to the SP backbone 5N, authentication is performed as to whether or not the accessing terminal is a member terminal 1 to be connected to the common server device 2 through the ISP backbone 5N, In the case of the member terminal 1, the access is received by the common server device 2 through the router 5R. Then, the ISP server device 7I sends the access history (log) of the member terminal 1 to the common server device 2.

In this example, the content providing device 11 is connected to the common server device 2 via the Internet 8, and when the common server device 2 is needed, information to be provided from the content providing device 11 is provided via the Internet 8. It is acquired and provided to the member terminal 1. In addition, as described above, the content providing device 11
Can be connected to the common server device 2 not through the Internet 8 but through a dedicated line. Further, the ISP server device 7I can also be a content providing device.

[Configuration of Common Server Device 2] FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an embodiment of the common server device 2. As shown in FIG. 3, the common server device 2 includes a master server 21, a mail server 22, a facsimile server 23, an incoming call notification server 24, and an HTTP (H
hyper Text Transfer Protocol
ol) D server 25, content server 26, content proxy server 27, firewall 2
8 are connected by a LAN (local area network).

The master server 21 performs management of member data, application for content options, cancellation processing, and management and maintenance of the entire network. The master server 21 includes a memory 21M that stores member data (user information) and the like.

The mail server 22 mainly manages and operates a mail service.
Office Protocol) or IMAP
(Internet Message Access
(Protocol) server function, and performs interface processing with the member terminal 1. The mail server 22 includes a memory 22M called a mailbox for member terminals. The mail box 22M has a memory area divided for each of the member terminals 1, and stores received data of an e-mail addressed to each of the member terminals for each of the member terminals.

In this embodiment, as will be described later, one member terminal transmits a message to another member terminal.
Facsimile data in text data format that does not include image data (image data) is also stored in this mailbox 2
It is stored as e-mail data in the 2M memory area for the other member terminal.

The facsimile server 23 executes an application for a facsimile communication function. A mail server function is implemented for the interface with the member terminal 1, and a PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network) for G3 facsimile
It also has a communication line function and is connected to the ISDN 9. Further, a memory 23M called a facsimile box (hereinafter referred to as a facsimile box) for storing image data as facsimile data is provided. The FAX box 23M also has a memory area divided for each member terminal, and stores facsimile reception data including image data addressed to each member terminal for each member terminal 1.

[0055] The incoming call notification server 24, when an incoming e-mail or facsimile is addressed to the member terminal, sends an ISD
This is for notifying each member terminal 1 via the N line (ISDN network 9). The operation of the incoming call notification server will be described later in detail.

The HTTPD server 25 controls an interface with the member terminal 1. All processes when the member terminal 1 is connected to the common server device 2 are as follows:
Via the server 25, each functional server is connected.

The content server 26 is a server for content information processing provided by the common server device 2. The server 26 uses 2 for content information to be provided.
And two memories 26A and 26B. The one memory 26A is for holding information to be provided in the server 26 in advance. The other memory 26B does not hold information to be provided in the common server device 2,
At the time of use, it is for storing data obtained via the Internet.

The content proxy server 27 is used to acquire content data from an external content providing device 11 via the Internet 8. The proxy server 27 functions in conjunction with a firewall (not shown) to create an environment in which the outside can be freely accessed from the inside of the firewall while preventing unauthorized access from the outside.

As described above, the common server device 2 has an application for executing the function requested by the member terminal 1 in addition to the application for executing the facsimile communication. Examples of the application will be described later.

[Regarding Member Terminal 1] Next, the member terminal 1
Will be described. FIG. 4 shows an example of the external appearance of the member terminal 1, and FIG. 6 shows an example of the internal circuit configuration of the member terminal 1. As described above, the member terminal 1 of this example
Has a configuration of a composite terminal having a PHS telephone function, facsimile communication and e-mail communication functions, and a data communication function for receiving an information providing service.

[0061] The member terminal 1 of this embodiment is different from that of FIG.
As shown in FIG. 4A and FIG.
4A, the cover panel 101 is openable and closable.
In the telephone mode operating as the S telephone terminal and in the state of FIG. 4B in which the cover panel 101 is opened, data communication capable of obtaining a facsimile communication function, an e-mail communication function, and an information providing service receiving function. Mode. Although not shown, a sensor for detecting the opening and closing of the cover panel 101 is provided for this mode switching.

As this sensor, for example, a projection is provided on the inside of the cover panel 101, and a pressing switch is provided at a position corresponding to the projection on the main body 100. A mechanical sensor that presses a push switch is used.

Further, a sensor switch having a structure in which a magnet is provided on one of the cover panel 101 and the main body 100 and a switch made of a magnetic sensitive element is provided on the other may be used.

As shown in FIG. 4B, the member terminal 1 has a large main LCD (liquid crystal display) 105M on the main body 100 side surface that appears when the cover panel 101 is opened. This main LCD 105M
, A message, a menu, a received facsimile list, a received electronic mail list, and the like can be displayed.

FIG. 4 shows the front side of the cover panel 101.
As shown in (A), a numeric keypad 102 for telephone (for dialing) is provided and a sub-L
A CD 105S is provided. 103 is an antenna for PHS.

FIG. 4 with the cover panel 101 closed.
In the state (A), the display surface of the LCD 105 can be viewed through the LCD window 104 made of, for example, a transparent plastic plate. In this case, in the telephone mode in which the cover panel 101 is closed, in the standby state, only the sub LCD 105S is displayed, and the main LCD 105S is displayed.
105M is turned off.

In the telephone mode, for example, when making a call, the main LCD 105M is in a displayable state. However, in this case, the main LCD is displayed so that the display is performed only on the portion that can be viewed from the LCD display window 104.
105M is display-controlled. Then, a telephone number or the like input by the user is displayed in a portion facing the LCD display window 104.

FIG. 5 shows the cover panel 101 in the telephone mode.
Shows the state of the display unit that the user observes in
FIG. 5A shows an example of a display state on the sub LCD 105S and the display window 104 in a standby state.
(B) shows the sub LCD 105S and the display window 10 at the time of calling.
4 shows an example of the display state in FIG.

In this case, in FIG.
Each mark (including characters) 201 displayed on the 105S
Reference numerals 207 indicate the following meanings by displaying the marks.

That is, the mark 201 indicates the strength of the radio wave received by the member terminal 1 at a location where the radio wave can reach, and the display content changes according to the strength of the radio wave.
For example, the bar to the right of the antenna mark changes depending on the strength. The mark 202 indicates that the member terminal 1 is used in the public mode. The mark 203 indicates that the member terminal 1 is in a place where radio waves cannot reach. Mark 204
Indicates the remaining amount of the battery, and the display mode changes according to the remaining amount.

The mark 205 is a facsimile incoming call mark indicating that there is a facsimile incoming call addressed to its own terminal, and is displayed upon receiving a facsimile incoming call notification from the common server device 2 as described later. Also, mark 206
Is an e-mail arrival mark indicating that an e-mail has arrived at its own terminal, and is displayed upon receiving an e-mail arrival notification from the common server device 2. Mark 207
Indicates that the mode of notifying the user of the incoming call of the terminal 1 to the user is not by ringing but by vibration.

When the cover panel 101 is opened, the sub LCD
Since the display of 105S is invisible to the user, when the member terminal 1 enters the data communication mode, the sub LCD 105
S is turned off, and the main LCD 105M becomes displayable. The marks 201 to 207 which have been displayed on the sub LCD 105S until then are displayed on the main LC 105S.
D105M is controlled to be displayed in a display area corresponding to sub LCD 105S.

In the member terminal 1 of this embodiment,
A transparent touch panel 1 on the surface of the main LCD 105M
06 is affixed, and on the back side of the cover panel 101,
As shown in FIG. 4B, a function is provided for accepting a touch operation with the pen 107 which is detachably attached and a handwritten character input.

On the back side of the cover panel 101, a menu key K1, an online connection key K2, a call key K
A plurality of key buttons 108 such as 3,... Are provided as direct keys. Further, the main LCD 105M
A jog dial key 109 having both functions of a rotation key and a push button key is provided on the right side of.
When the jog dial key 109 is rotated as a rotation key, an item selection operation in, for example, a menu can be performed, and when the jog dial key 109 is pressed as a push button key, it is treated as meaning to determine and input the selected item. .

Next, a circuit block of the member terminal 1 shown in FIG. 6 will be described. The member terminal 1 of this example is roughly divided into a communication function unit 110 and a control unit 120.

The communication function unit 110 includes an antenna 111,
An RF processing unit 112, a transmission / reception data processing unit 113, a microphone amplifier 114, a speaker amplifier 115,
It comprises a microphone 100MC and a speaker 100SP.

The control unit 120 is constituted by a microcomputer, and includes a system control unit 121 constituted by a CPU, a ROM 122, and a DRAM 123.
And a flash memory 124 as a rewritable nonvolatile memory.

The system control section 121 is connected to the above-described sensor switch SW which is turned on / off in accordance with the opening / closing of the cover panel 101. By turning on / off the sensor switch SW, the cover panel 10 is turned on.
1 is an open state or a closed state.
1 is detected, and when the cover panel 101 is in the open state,
A telephone mode is set in which the member terminal 1 is controlled as a PHS telephone terminal. When the cover panel 101 is in the closed state, the member terminal 1 is set to a data communication mode in which the member terminal 1 is controlled as a terminal for facsimile communication, mail communication, reproduction of information provided from the common server device 2, and the like.

Information indicating the state of the key switch group of the numeric keypad 102 and the switch group of the key button 108 provided on the back side of the cover panel 101 is input to the system control unit 121. When a key operation is performed by the user, the system control unit 121 detects whether the key operation is one of the numeric keypad 102 and the key button 108, and executes a process corresponding to the detected key.

A main LCD driver 125 and a sub LCD driver 128 are connected to the system control unit 121, and the above-described mark display and other information are displayed on the main LCD 105M and the sub LCD 105S by using a program and display data of a ROM 122 described later. Is displayed.

The system control unit 121 has a buzzer 127 for notifying the user of an incoming call.
And an LED (light emitting diode) 126 are connected.

The ROM 122 has a program for controlling a sequence for connection with the common server device 2, a control program for receiving an incoming call notification from the common server device 2, a control program for PHS telephone communication, A communication program necessary for communication at the member terminal 1 such as a control program for facsimile transmission, a control program for mail transmission, a control program for receiving facsimile data and mail data, and a main LCD 105M And sub LCD105S
, A display control program for display control, display data for menu display, and the like are stored.

As will be described later, the DRAM 123 temporarily stores received data obtained from the common server device 2 and has a memory area used as a work area.

As described above, the flash memory 124 stores the ISP server device 7I with respect to the common server device 2.
The address information on the network for automatic connection from the member terminal 1 through is stored in advance. In the flash memory 124, the member terminal 1 is a terminal having a contractual relationship with the common server device 2, and receives a facsimile communication service, an e-mail service, and an information providing service from the common server device 2. In addition to indicating that the terminal can be used, identification information (member information) for identifying each member terminal is also stored.

As described above, this member information is also stored in the main server 21 of the common server device 2 and managed by the common server device 2. The ISP server device 7I also performs authentication based on the member information as to whether or not the accessing is a member.

Further, the flash memory 12
4 is provided with an area for storing data that the user wants to save, of the received data temporarily stored in the DRAM 123.

The operation of the member terminal 1 having the above configuration will be described below, including the operation of the related common server device.

[PHS Phone Mode] First, PH
The S telephone mode will be described. When the telephone number of the other party is dialed in using the numeric keypad 102 with the cover panel 101 closed, a call is made. In addition, when the member terminal 1 as the PHS telephone terminal receives an incoming call with the cover panel 101 closed, the user is notified by a buzzer 127, and when the user answers, the incoming call is received. Can be in a call state.

When a call is received while the cover panel 101 is open, a call can be made at any time by pressing a call key K3, which is one of the key buttons 108. However, the call is performed with the cover panel 101 closed.

At the time of this PHS telephone call, the member terminal 1 transmits a transmission signal and receives a reception signal while the transmission / reception data processing unit 113 receives control from the system control unit 121.

That is, the audio signal from the microphone 100MC is transmitted to the transmission / reception data processing unit 1 via the amplifier 114.
13 to be converted into transmission data and transmitted to the RF processor 1
12, data is transmitted to the wireless base station 6 via the antenna 111, and voice data from the other party is received by the antenna 111 from the wireless base station 6, and the received data is processed by the transmission / reception data processing unit 113. Being
The call voice signal of the other party is restored, and it is supplied to the speaker 100SP through the amplifier 115 and is emitted.

In the standby mode of the telephone mode, the ISDN network 9 (PHS / I
When there is an incoming call notification due to a pseudo incoming call through the SDN network 3n), a facsimile or electronic mail incoming notification mark 205 or 206 is displayed on the sub LCD 105S, and the facsimile or electronic mail is displayed to the user. Is notified.

[Data Communication Mode] Next, the data communication mode will be described. In this communication mode, the member terminal 1 is configured to realize a facsimile function, an e-mail function, a WWW browser function, a memo function, and the like. The list menu of these functions is
By operating a menu key among the key buttons 108, the menu is displayed on the screen of the main LCD 105M. When the user selects and determines a desired function by turning and pressing the jog dial key 109 from the list menu displayed on the screen of the main LCD 105M, the member terminal 1 executes the function. Mode.

In the member terminal 1 of this embodiment, when transmitting and receiving facsimile data,
The transmission and reception of electronic mail are all processed via the common server device 2.

Data exchange between the member terminal 1 and the common server device 2 is performed by a communication method compatible with the networks 3 and 5 irrespective of a predetermined communication method as a facsimile communication method. To do. That is, in the case of this embodiment, the facsimile data and the e-mail data
SMTP (Simple Mail), a standard procedure used to transfer e-mail over the Internet
Transfer Protocol (Transfer Protocol), and information provided from the common server device 2 in the WWW browser function is HTTP (Hyper Text Tr).
The transmission data and the reception data are exchanged between the member terminal 1 and the common server device 2 according to the PIAFS method using the PHS network by using the transfer protocol.

In this case, in the member terminal 1, the transmission data is temporarily stored in the DRAM 123, read out by the system control unit 121 by executing the transmission, and
In the communication protocol and the data format described above, the data is wirelessly transmitted via the transmission / reception data processing unit 113, the RF processing unit 112, and the antenna 111 in order.

Further, the data received from the common server device 2 is received by the antenna 111, and is temporarily stored in the DRAM 123 by the system control unit 121 through the RF processing unit 112 and the transmission / reception data processing unit 113. Then, under the control of the system control unit 121, the main LCD 105 is transmitted through the main LCD driver 125.
M is sent as display data, and the display content based on the received data is displayed.

The memo function includes a “handwritten memo” for inputting using the pen 107 and the touch panel 106, and a “type” for displaying a keyboard on the screen of the main LCD 105M and creating a document using the display keyboard. Note "
There is. In both cases of the handwritten memo and the type memo, the created image or document can be transmitted as facsimile data.

That is, in either the handwritten memo mode or the type memo mode, the main LCD 105
On the screen of M, "FAX transmission (facsimile transmission)"
A menu bar containing the icon of “FA” is displayed.
When the "X send" icon is selected with, for example, a pen, an input mode screen for a telephone number of a destination terminal to be transmitted or a facsimile title is displayed. Then, after inputting the telephone number and title of the partner terminal and selecting the "send" icon displayed in this mode, the image or document created by the handwritten memo or the type memo is transmitted as facsimile data. .

However, as described above, in this case, the facsimile data is transmitted as e-mail data to the common server device 2, so that the image data and the document data are not bitmap data of facsimile communication, but
The image data is, for example, GIF (Graphics In)
(Change Format), and the document data is in a text data format.

When the destination is other than the member, the common server device 2 executes a process of converting the received data into bitmap data and transmitting the data to a terminal other than the member by facsimile. When the destination is the member terminal 1, the common server device 2 stores the received data in the mailbox 22 M or the FAX box 23 M, and sends the data to each member terminal 1 via the incoming call notification server 24. Notify that there was an incoming call. This incoming call notification is performed not only when facsimile data is received but also when e-mail data is received.

When the facsimile function is selected from the function list menu and the online connection key K2 of the key buttons 108 is pressed, the member terminal 1 automatically executes a process for connecting to the common server device 2. Do it. That is, the member terminal 1 sends a request to connect to the common server device 2 using the address data and the member information of the flash memory 124. Then, the ISP server 7I, which is a network management server, performs authentication based on the member information as to whether the accessed terminal is a member terminal. If the terminal is a member terminal, the ISP server 7I performs processing for connecting to the common server device 2.

The common server device 2 recognizes the connected member terminal, creates a list of facsimile reception data received to the member terminal, and sends the list to the member terminal 1. Therefore, in this example, the online connection key K2
Also has a role of a request key for the received data list.
At this time, if there is a facsimile incoming call and an e-mail incoming call addressed to the member terminal 1 that has made the connection request and there is any incoming call that has not yet been notified to the member terminal 1, the common server device 2 notifies that incoming call. To the member terminal 1.

Upon receiving the incoming call notification from common server device 2, member terminal 1 displays facsimile incoming display mark 205 and / or e-mail incoming display mark 206 on main LCD 105M.

The member terminal 1 receives the data of the list of facsimile reception data from the common server device 2 and temporarily stores the data in the DRAM 123, and displays the list on the screen of the main LCD 105M. The user
Using the jog dial key 109 and the pen 107, desired facsimile reception data can be selected from this list. When the desired facsimile reception data is selected and the “capture” icon is selected, the member terminal 1 transmits a request to acquire the reception data to the common server device 2.

Upon receiving this facsimile reception data acquisition request, common server device 2 extracts the requested facsimile reception data and sends it to member terminal 1 by SMTP. The member terminal 1 transmits the received data to the DRAM 12
3 and temporarily convert the data into display data.
Display on the 05M screen. Therefore, the user selects the facsimile data required by the user and selects the main LCD 1
It can be seen on the 05M screen.

Also, when the e-mail function is selected and the online connection key K2 of the key buttons 108 is pressed, the member terminal 1 is operated in the same manner as when the facsimile function is selected. Is the common server device 2
Automatically performs the process for connecting to Then, the common server device 2 creates a list of the received data of the e-mail and sends it to the member terminal 1, and sends the incoming notification to the member terminal 1 when there is received data to be notified.

The member terminal 1 receives the data of the list, and displays the list on the screen of the main LCD 105M. Also, upon receiving the incoming call notification, the main LCD 1
05M, the above-mentioned facsimile incoming call display mark 205
And / or display an e-mail incoming display mark 206.

Then, the user operates the jog dial key 1
The user can select desired e-mail reception data from a list of e-mail reception data using the stylus 09 or the pen 107. When the desired received data of the e-mail is selected and the “capture” icon is selected, the member terminal 1 transmits a request to acquire the received data to the common server device 2.

In response, common server device 2 extracts the received data of the requested e-mail and sends it to member terminal 1 by SMTP. The member terminal 1 temporarily stores the received data in the DRAM 123, converts the data into display data, and displays the display data on the screen of the main LCD 105M.

With the WWW browser function selected,
When the online connection key 2 is pressed, connection processing between the common server device 2 and the member terminal 1 is performed in the same manner as described above, and the common server device 2 provides the connection process. A so-called home page of the common server device 2 including a list of information that can be obtained is sent to the member terminal 1. Also, at this time, if there is a facsimile incoming call and an e-mail incoming call addressed to the member terminal 1 that has made the connection request, and there is any incoming call that has not yet been notified to the member terminal 1, the incoming call is received. The notification is sent to the member terminal 1.

When the user selects desired information from the information that can be provided on the homepage, a request for the information is sent from the member terminal 1 to the common server device 2, and the common server device 2 transmits the request. Information according to the member terminal 1
Send to The member terminal 1 receives this and sends it to the main LCD.
Display on the screen of 105M. This allows the user to view the provided information on the screen of the LCD 105M.

[Specific Example of Incoming Call Processing Procedure] The incoming call notification server 24 acquires information on incoming e-mail and incoming facsimile from the mail server 22 and facsimile server 23 to the member terminal, An incoming queue is generated for each of the e-mail and facsimile for 1. Then, by using the telephone number of the member terminal 1 included in the received information or the telephone number of the member terminal 1 obtained from the main server, the member terminal 1 to be notified of the incoming call is transmitted through the ISDN public line network 9 using the telephone number of the member terminal 1. In the embodiment, a call is made by using a pseudo incoming call service, the response of the member terminal 1 is confirmed, and the information of the incoming call notification is sent to the member terminal 1. In this case, the information of the incoming call notification is transmitted together with information for identifying the incoming of an electronic mail or the incoming of a facsimile.

In the pseudo call service, the portable radio communication terminal does not ring the bell, but makes a call to the other party to form a communication path with the other party, and immediately disconnects the line after transmitting necessary data. This service can be used at a low price. If the member terminal 1 is within the range of the radio wave, the common server device 2 can send the incoming notification information to the member terminal 1 by calling by the pseudo incoming call.

The incoming call notification server 24 deletes the incoming call for which the incoming call notification to the member terminal 1 has been completed from the incoming call queue. However, when the member terminal 1 is in a place where radio waves do not reach and a notification of an incoming call is made but the notification is not completed, the incoming queue is not deleted because the notification is not completed. For the incoming call queue for which the incoming notification has not been completed, the re-notification process can be performed at an appropriate later timing.

Then, the incoming call notification server 24 sends the HTTP
When the member server 1 is notified from the D server 25 that the member terminal 1 is connected to the common server device 2, the e-mail and facsimile reception queue for the connected member terminal 1 is referred to, and the incoming call is not yet received. If there is an incoming queue that has not been performed or an incoming queue for which notification has not been completed, the connected communication path, that is,
It is sent through the network 5-AP4-network3-base station 6. As a result, the member terminal 1 is reliably notified of not only the incoming queue that has not been notified yet but also the incoming queue for which the incoming has not been completed as described above.

Next, an example of the incoming call notification processing will be described below. First, a processing procedure when a facsimile device other than the member terminal receives a facsimile call addressed to the member terminal 1 will be described.

FIGS. 7 and 8 show the operation of the common server device 2 when facsimile data is received from a facsimile terminal other than the member to the member terminal 1. FIG.

That is, as shown in FIG. 2, when the facsimile server 23 receives an application call from a facsimile terminal through the public line network 9 such as ISDN (step S).
1) In this embodiment, facsimile reception is accepted by voice guidance (procedure S2). Then, facsimile data is sent from the facsimile terminal, and the facsimile data is received by the facsimile server 23 (step S3).

Then, the facsimile server 23 judges the received content and edits the extension header (step S4). Then, the received facsimile data and the edited extended header are converted into a mail format, and the mail is transmitted to the mail server 22 by SMTP (step S5).

The mail server 22 receives this mail (step S6), judges the received contents, and extracts the extension header (step S7). Then, it is confirmed from the destination telephone number whether or not the transmission destination is a member terminal (step S8), and if the transmission destination is not a member terminal, the reception process ends.

If the transmission destination is the member terminal 1, it is determined that the mail is to be transmitted to the member terminal in the mail format, the destination telephone number is changed to a mail address, and other processing is performed. The bitmap image data, which is the received facsimile data, is converted into, for example, a GIF format that can be transmitted by SMTP and stored in the memory area (procedure S
9). It may be stored in bitmap format, but G
When the data is converted into the IF format and stored, the data amount is reduced, and the memory can be reduced.

The facsimile reception addressed to the member terminal is notified to the reception notification server 24 (step S1).
0). In response to this, the incoming call notification server 24 generates a facsimile incoming call queue (step S11). Next, using the destination telephone number, a call is made to the destination member terminal 1 by a pseudo incoming call (step S12). Then, the connection with the destination member terminal 1 is confirmed (step S13), and when the connection is confirmed, incoming notification information including identification information of facsimile incoming is transmitted as voice band data (step S1).
4) The line is disconnected (procedure S15). Then, as the completion of the incoming call notification, the notified incoming queue is deleted (procedure S1).
6).

On the other hand, when the member terminal 1 is located in a place where radio waves cannot reach, or when the member terminal 1 is turned off and the like, a pseudo incoming call to the member terminal 1 cannot be made. Record that the incoming call notification is not completed (step S17). This is the end of the facsimile receiving process in the common server device 2.

When an electronic mail addressed to the member terminal 1 is received, the notification is similarly sent to the receiving server, and the receiving server executes the above-described steps S11 to S17 in the same manner. An incoming mail notification process is performed on the destination member terminal 1.

In this embodiment, the facsimile data transmitted from the member terminal is stored in the mailbox 22M when the received data is only text data, as will be described in a transmission procedure described later. If it contains image data, the fax box 23
M.

Next, FIG. 9 shows the operation of the member terminal 1 that has received the incoming call notification. That is, the member terminal 1
When there is a pseudo incoming call, a line connection is made (step S21), and incoming call notification information is received (step S22). Then, it is determined whether the received incoming notification information is a facsimile incoming call or an e-mail incoming call (step S23). As a result, if it is a facsimile reception, the facsimile reception mark 205 is displayed on the sub LCD 105S (in the telephone mode) or the main LCD 105M (in the data communication mode) (step S24). If an e-mail is received, the sub LCD 105S (in the telephone mode) or the main LC
The electronic mail arrival mark 206 is displayed in D105M (in the data communication mode) (step S25).

As described above, in this embodiment, an incoming call notification is received not only in the telephone mode but also in the data communication mode, and the incoming call mark is displayed not only on the sub LCD 105S but also on the screen of the main LCD 105M. This notifies the user of the incoming call notification.

The user of the member terminal 1 having received the above-mentioned incoming call notification from the common server device 2 performs an operation of selecting the facsimile function or the e-mail function and connecting to the common server device 2 in the data communication mode. Then, the received data list is sent from the common server device 2, so that a received data acquisition request is transmitted by designating the received data to be taken from the list, so that newly received data can be acquired.

Referring to the flowcharts of FIGS. 10 and 11,
A procedure in which a user takes in received data will be described. First, the user opens the cover panel 101 (step S31). Then, the member terminal 1 enters the data communication mode (procedure S32). Then, the user sets the main LC
When the facsimile function or the e-mail function is selected from the function list menu displayed on D105M (step S33), the member terminal 1 enters the state of the selected function (step S34). When the online connection key K2 is pressed in this state (procedure S35), the member terminal 1 automatically performs a process for connecting to the common server device 2 as described above (procedure S36). That is, a request to connect to the common server device 2 using the identification information of its own member terminal 1 stored in the flash memory 124 and address data for connection to the common server device 2 through the ISP server device 7I. Is transmitted from the member terminal 1.

In response to the connection request, the ISP server 7I, which is the network management server, authenticates whether or not the accessed terminal is a member terminal by identifying whether or not the terminal is a member terminal included in the connection request. (Step S37), and if it is a member terminal, the common server device 2
Is performed (step S38).

Then, the common server device 2 transmits the member terminal 1
, And recognizes which member terminal is the connected member terminal (step S39). If the connection request is for the facsimile function, a list of facsimile reception data addressed to the member terminal 1 is provided. If the connection request is for the e-mail function, an e-mail is sent to the member terminal 1. The list of received data is sent to the member terminal 1 (step S40). Therefore, in this example, the online connection key K2 also has a role of a request key for the list of received data.

The common server device 2 determines whether there is an incoming queue for which the incoming notification to the connected member terminal 1 has not been completed (step S41). The incoming notification is transmitted to the connected member terminal 1 through the connected communication path (step S42).

The member terminal 1 displays a list of facsimile reception data or a list of e-mail reception data transmitted from the common server device 2 and, when the incoming notification information is transmitted from the common server device 2. The main LCD 105M analyzes the mark 205 if it is a facsimile incoming call notification, the mark 205 if it is an e-mail incoming call notification, and the marks 205 and 206 if it is both of them. (Step S43).

Next, the user performs an operation of selecting the desired reception data from the reception list displayed on the screen of the main LCD 105M, and performs an operation of requesting acquisition of the selected reception data (step S44). . Then, member terminal 1
Thereafter, the acquisition request of the designated received data is transmitted to the common server device 2 (step S45).

The common server device 2 analyzes the request, recognizes the requesting member terminal, recognizes what the request information is (step S46), and stores the requested reception data in a FAX box or mail. The mail is read from the box and transmitted to the member terminal as mail (step S47). The member terminal 1 receives the received data,
Display on the screen of the main LCD 105M (procedure S4
8). This is the end of the procedure for receiving the reception data addressed to each member terminal.

As described above, the received data is obtained,
The user who has checked the received content displayed on the main LCD 105M may want to immediately send a reply to the other party. In particular, it is convenient if the member terminal can perform facsimile transmission to the other party's facsimile apparatus through a general public line. In this embodiment, this facsimile transmission can be performed in cooperation with the common server device 2 as follows.

The procedure of the facsimile transmission process from the member terminal 1 will be described with reference to the flowcharts of FIGS. In this case, FIG. 12 shows a flow of the processing operation in the member terminal 1. 13 and 14 show the flow of the processing operation in the common server device 2.

As shown in FIG. 12, the user uses the memo function to input information to be transmitted by facsimile as a handwritten memo or a type memo at the member terminal 1 as described above (step S51). When the input of the text to be transmitted is completed, the main LCD
The user operates the “FAX transmission” icon on the 105M screen (step S52). Then, the main LCD 105
Since the screen of M becomes an input screen of the title of the destination and the transmission data, the destination telephone number and the title text are input (step S53). After that, the main LCD 105M
The "Send" icon is operated on the screen (step S54).

Then, the member terminal 1 determines whether or not it is already connected to the common server device 2 (step S55).
When not connected to the common server device 2 yet, the flash memory 1
A request for connection to the common server device 2 through the ISP server device 7I is made using the address data of the common server device 2 stored in the storage device 24 and the identification data of the own member terminal 1 (for example, a mail address). (Procedure S5
6).

The ISP server device 7I authenticates from the connection request whether the accessing terminal is the member terminal 1 and confirms that the terminal is the member terminal 1, and then connects to the common server device 2. .

After the common server 2 and the member terminal 1 are connected, the member terminal 1 converts the facsimile transmission data into a mail format and transmits the data to the common server 2 (step S57). If the member terminal 1 and the common server device 2 have already been connected, step S6 is bypassed and step S57 is performed.

As shown in FIG. 13, the common server device 2 receives the mail from the member terminal 1, expands the user information (member information), and confirms whether or not the user is a member (step S).
61).

Next, the transmission destination is confirmed (step S62), and if the transmission destination is a member terminal, it is converted to a mail format and determined to be transmitted as an electronic mail (step S62).
63). Then, it is determined whether the facsimile data includes only text data or image data (step S6).
4) If it is only text data, it is stored as mail in the received mail storage area of the member terminal designated as the destination of the mailbox 22M (step S65).
If image data is included, the image data is stored as a facsimile in the reception facsimile storage area of the member terminal designated as the transmission destination of the facsimile box 23M (procedure S66) and added to the reception log of the member terminal. Then, the member terminal 1 is notified of the incoming call (step S6).
7).

If it is determined in step S62 that the destination is a member other than the member, the header information is edited (step S68), and then the facsimile transmission data is converted to a mail format. Send to the facsimile server 23 by SMTP (procedure S6
9).

As shown in FIG. 14, the facsimile server 23 receives the mail from the mail server 22 and judges the extension header (step S71). Then, the facsimile data is developed into a header and a body (procedure S
72), the developed data is developed into bitmap data (step S73). That is, the text data and the image data in the GIF format are converted into bitmap data for the facsimile communication system.

Then, the data such as the expanded header and text are combined to generate facsimile transmission data (step S74), and facsimile transmission is performed to the destination terminal (step S75). Then, it is confirmed whether or not the transmission has been completed (step S76), and if the transmission has been completed, the processing is terminated as it is. If the transmission failed, the non-delivery mail is transmitted to the mail server 22, and the process is terminated.

As described above, in this embodiment, the user of the member terminal 1 inputs information to be transmitted by facsimile on the display screen of the main LCD 105M, and performs “FAX transmission” and “transmission execution”. By operating the “transmit” icon, facsimile transmission can be performed wirelessly. In this case, the user does not need to perform any input operation for connecting to the ISP server device 7I, and the user recognizes that the user can directly perform facsimile transmission to the other party. That is, the user can perform facsimile transmission from the portable wireless communication terminal in the same procedure as when transmitting from a general facsimile terminal.

The means for notifying the user of the portable radio communication terminal by the notification of the incoming call from the common server device 2 is not limited to the method using the display marks as in the above-described embodiment. May be accompanied, or an incoming call may be notified by a voice message.

Further, in the above embodiment, the case where the portable radio communication terminal has the function of the PHS telephone has been described, but the portable telephone may be used as the telephone function. In that case, a network for a mobile phone will be used as the network.

In the above embodiment, the e-mail and the facsimile exchange data between the common server device 2 and the member terminal 1 by SMTP. However, the e-mail and the facsimile also use the WWW browser. Similarly to the function, by exchanging data by HTTP, the common server device 2 and the member terminal 1 are exchanged.
And the communication application can be simplified.

[0152]

As described above, according to the first aspect of the present invention, the server device receives the reception data on behalf of the portable radio communication terminal, and stores the reception data. Since the portable wireless communication terminal is notified of the incoming call in a timely manner, the user of the portable wireless communication terminal can know without delay that there is an incoming call even when going out.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, the server notifies the server of the incoming call. For example, when the portable radio communication terminal is in a place where radio waves cannot reach or the power is turned off, the incoming call is notified. Is not received, when the portable wireless communication terminal makes a connection request to the server device via the network, the server device sends an incoming call notification to the portable wireless communication terminal. Is performed on the portable wireless communication terminal.

Further, according to the third aspect of the invention, the portable radio communication terminal that has received the incoming call notification can immediately acquire the received data from the server device.

According to the fourth aspect of the present invention, in particular, even when the received data is facsimile data, the portable wireless communication terminal receives the data in a data format having a smaller data amount instead of the bitmap format. Since data can be received, the capacity of the buffer memory provided in the portable wireless communication terminal can be small.

According to the fifth aspect of the present invention, the user of the portable radio communication terminal receiving the incoming call notification and receiving the received data can use the portable radio communication terminal quickly if a reply is required. You can reply to it.

Further, in the invention of claim 6, for example, a contract relationship is given between the server device and the portable radio communication terminal, and only the portable radio communication terminal having the contract relationship is provided.
The above-mentioned incoming call notification can be performed.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an outline of an entire network configuration to which an information communication system according to the present invention is applied.

FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating a specific example of a network configuration in FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of a server device according to the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating an appearance of a portable wireless communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating a display example for notifying a user of an incoming call;

FIG. 6 is a block diagram of an embodiment of a portable wireless communication terminal according to the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing a part of a procedure at the time of receiving facsimile data in the embodiment of the information communication system according to the present invention.

FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing a part of a procedure at the time of receiving facsimile data in one embodiment of the information communication system according to the present invention.

FIG. 9 is a diagram showing processing on the terminal side that has received an incoming call notification in one embodiment of the information communication system according to the present invention.

FIG. 10 is a diagram showing a part of a procedure for acquiring received data at the portable wireless communication terminal in one embodiment of the information communication system according to the present invention.

FIG. 11 is a diagram showing a part of a procedure for acquiring received data at the portable wireless communication terminal in one embodiment of the information communication system according to the present invention.

FIG. 12 is a flowchart showing a procedure of a facsimile transmission procedure in the portable radio communication terminal in one embodiment of the information communication system according to the present invention.

FIG. 13 is a flowchart showing a part of the procedure of the facsimile transmission procedure in the common server device in the embodiment of the information communication system according to the present invention.

FIG. 14 is a flowchart showing a part of the procedure of the facsimile transmission procedure in the common server device in one embodiment of the information communication system according to the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Portable wireless communication terminal, 2 ... Common server apparatus, 3 ... Network for portable wireless communication terminals, 4 ... Access point,
5: dedicated backbone network, 6: wireless base station, 7: network management server device, 21: master server, 22
… Mail server, 23… facsimile server, 24… incoming call notification server, 100… portable wireless communication terminal body, 101
... cover panel, 102 ... numeric keypad, 103 ... antenna, 105M ... main LCD, 105S ... sub LCD,
106: Touch panel, 108: Key button, 121: System control unit, 122: ROM, 123: DRA
M

Claims (24)

[Claims] 1. An information communication system in which a server device and a portable wireless communication terminal are wirelessly connected via a network, and the portable wireless communication terminal receives information addressed to itself by cooperating with the server device. The method according to claim 1, wherein the server device stores the received data in a memory unit when the received data is addressed to the portable wireless communication terminal, and determines whether the received data is addressed to the portable wireless communication terminal. That the portable wireless communication terminal
An information communication method, comprising: calling and notifying through a network for a portable wireless communication terminal; receiving the notification of the incoming call from the server device and notifying the user of the incoming call. 2. The information communication method according to claim 1, wherein the portable wireless communication terminal sends a connection request via the network to the server device and connects to the server device. An information communication method, wherein, when there is newly received data destined for the connected portable wireless communication terminal, the apparatus sends information of an incoming call notification of the received data to the portable wireless communication terminal. 3. The information communication method according to claim 1, wherein the portable wireless communication terminal, which has received the notification of the incoming call, sends a request for obtaining received data to the server device. An information communication method, comprising: transmitting the requested data to the portable wireless communication terminal in response to a request to acquire the received data from the portable wireless communication terminal. 4. The server device receives facsimile data in a bitmap data format, stores the received data content in the memory unit, and notifies the portable radio communication terminal that a facsimile call has been received. In response to the received data acquisition request from the portable wireless communication terminal that has received the notification of the incoming call, the server device converts the facsimile data into data compressed by an image compression method suitable for the network. The information communication method according to claim 3, wherein the transmitted information is transmitted to the portable wireless communication terminal. 5. The information communication method according to claim 3, wherein the portable wireless communication terminal transmits information designating a partner by cooperating with the server device. 6. A plurality of portable radio communication terminals are connected to the server device, and the server device manages identification information of each of the portable radio communication terminals and transmits received data of the portable radio communication terminals. By identifying which mobile wireless communication terminal is the incoming call,
2. The reception unit according to claim 1, wherein the received data is stored in a memory area of the memory unit divided for each of the portable wireless communication terminals, and the incoming call is notified by calling the identified portable wireless communication terminal. The information communication method according to any one of claims 3, 4, and 5. 7. The information communication method according to claim 2, wherein a plurality of said portable wireless communication terminals are connected to said server device, and said portable wireless communication terminal transmits its own identification information. The server device sends a connection request to the server device, and the server device recognizes which mobile wireless communication terminal has made the connection request based on the identification information, and transmits the connection request to the recognized mobile wireless communication terminal. An information communication method, wherein the notification of the incoming call is performed. 8. An information communication system in which a server device and a portable wireless communication terminal are wirelessly connected through a network, and the portable wireless communication terminal cooperates with the server device to receive information addressed to itself. The system, wherein the server device stores the received data in a memory unit when received data addressed to the portable wireless communication terminal is received, and receives the received data addressed to the portable wireless communication terminal. That the portable wireless communication terminal
Means for calling and notifying through the network for the portable wireless communication terminal, wherein the portable wireless communication terminal includes means for receiving the notification of the incoming call from the server device and informing the user of the incoming call. An information communication system characterized by the following. 9. The information communication system according to claim 8, wherein the portable wireless communication terminal sends a connection request through the network to the server device to generate a communication path with the server device. Means for receiving the connection request from the portable wireless communication terminal, the means for generating the communication path, and when there is received data addressed to the connected portable wireless communication terminal, Means for sending information of an incoming notification of received data to a portable wireless communication terminal. 10. The information communication system according to claim 8, wherein the portable radio communication terminal, which has received the notification of the incoming call, transmits a request for acquiring received data to the server device. The information communication system, characterized in that the server device includes means for transmitting received data requested in response to a request to acquire received data from the portable wireless communication terminal to the portable wireless communication terminal. 11. The data received by the server device is facsimile data in a bitmap data format, and the means for notifying the incoming call is a means for calling and notifying the portable radio communication terminal that a facsimile call has been received. When the server device receives a reception data acquisition request from the portable wireless communication terminal having received the notification of the incoming call,
11. The portable radio communication terminal according to claim 10, wherein said facsimile data is converted into data compressed by an image compression method suitable for said network.
An information communication system according to claim 1. 12. The information according to claim 10, wherein said portable radio communication terminal includes means for transmitting information designating a partner by cooperating with said server device. Communications system. 13. The portable radio communication terminal, wherein a plurality of the portable radio communication terminals are connected to the server device, wherein the server device manages identification information of each of the portable radio communication terminals and transmits the received data. Incoming call
The portable wireless communication terminal identifies which portable wireless communication terminal is an incoming call, stores the received data in a memory area of the memory section divided for each of the portable wireless communication terminals, and stores the identified portable wireless communication terminal. Call
13. The information communication system according to claim 8, wherein the incoming call is notified. 14. The information communication system according to claim 9, wherein a plurality of said portable wireless communication terminals are connected to said server device, and said portable wireless communication terminal transmits its own identification information. The server device transmits a connection request to the server device, the server device recognizes which mobile wireless communication terminal has made the connection request based on the identification information, and sends the connection request to the recognized mobile wireless communication terminal. An information communication system for notifying an incoming call. 15. A server device that is wirelessly connected to a portable wireless communication terminal through a network and cooperates with the portable wireless communication terminal so that the portable wireless communication terminal obtains reception information addressed to itself. When receiving received data addressed to the portable wireless communication terminal, storing the received data in a memory unit,
A server device, comprising means for calling and notifying the portable wireless communication terminal through the network for the portable wireless communication terminal that the reception of the reception data addressed to the portable wireless communication terminal has been received. 16. A means for receiving a connection request from said portable wireless communication terminal and generating a communication path with said portable wireless communication terminal, and when there is received data addressed to said connected portable wireless communication terminal. 16. The server device according to claim 15, further comprising: means for sending information of an incoming notification of received data to the portable wireless communication terminal. 17. The data to be received is facsimile data in a bitmap data format, and the means for notifying an incoming call is means for calling and notifying the portable radio communication terminal that there is an incoming facsimile, The portable wireless communication terminal converts the facsimile data into data compressed by an image compression method suitable for the network when there is a reception data acquisition request from the portable wireless communication terminal receiving the notification of the incoming call. The server device according to claim 15, wherein the server device transmits the request. 18. A portable radio communication terminal, wherein a plurality of portable radio communication terminals are connected, and each of the portable radio communication terminals manages identification information, and the reception of the received data is addressed to any portable radio communication terminal. The received data is stored in a memory area of the memory section divided for each of the portable wireless communication terminals, and the identified portable wireless communication terminal is called, and the received call is received. 18. The server device according to claim 15, wherein the server device notifies the server device. 19. The server device according to claim 16, wherein a plurality of said portable wireless communication terminals are connected, and said server device includes said portable wireless communication terminal included in a connection request from said portable wireless communication terminal. A server device that recognizes which mobile wireless communication terminal has requested connection based on identification information of the wireless communication terminal, and notifies the recognized mobile wireless communication terminal of the incoming call. 20. A portable wireless communication terminal which is wirelessly connected to a server device through a network and cooperates with the server device to transmit information designating the other party and to receive information addressed to itself. A portable wireless communication terminal, comprising: means for receiving a notification of the incoming call from the server device and notifying the user of the incoming call. 21. A means for sending a connection request through the network to the server device, and receiving incoming notification information sent from the server device at the time of the connection via a communication path connected by the connection request. 21. The portable radio communication terminal according to claim 20, further comprising: means for notifying a user of the presence or absence of an incoming call. 22. The portable radio communication terminal according to claim 21, wherein a connection request for connection with the server device through a network is transmitted including identification information of the terminal itself. 23. A system comprising: means for sending a request to acquire received data to the server device; and means for providing a user with received data sent from the server device in response to the acquisition request. 22. The portable wireless communication terminal according to claim 20, wherein: 24. By cooperating with the server device,
24. The portable wireless communication terminal according to claim 23, further comprising a unit configured to transmit information designating the other party.