JPH07131538A - Conference telephone system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To improve the service to both the promotor and the attendants of a conference to effectively carry on the conference by adding a conference trunk, a subscriber storage device and an automatic originating device to a conference promotor switchboard. CONSTITUTION:The conference holding time and the conference attendant numbers are registered to a subscriber registering device 103 of a conference promotor switchboard 100 by means of a subscriber entry key 11 of a conference promotor terminal 10. Then an automatic originating device 102 of the switchboard 100 reads the contents stored in the device 103 at the registered conference holding time and transmits the contents to the terminal 10 and also to the terminals 20 and 30. In an incoming mode of the conference promotor, a switchboard registered person detector device 104 confirms whether the contents are previously registered in the device 13 when some interruption signal detected after the conference is held. If registered, the conference is carried on. If not registered, a busy tone is returned and is interrupted.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to improving services to a conference organizer and conference participants so that a conference can be held efficiently when a conference call is made in a conventional analog or digital exchange network. is there.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A conventional conference telephone system is disclosed in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 56-1
As described in Japanese Patent No. 23167, when a conference organizer calls conference participants one by one when holding a conference or when an incoming call is received from a conference participant, the conference is temporarily suspended and the conference participant is interrupted. To participate.

[0003]

In the above-mentioned conventional conference telephone system, the conference organizer needs to call the conference participants one by one at the time when the conference is held. While the conference attendees are calling, other conference participants are called. There is a problem that all conference participants must be put on hold when there is an incoming call from the other conference participants to the conference organizer during the conference.

An object of the present invention is to automatically call a conference participant from the conference organizer switch at the time when the conference is held, and to join the conference even if the conference organizer receives an incoming call from another participant. It is to realize a conference call system that improves the service by making it possible to connect without waiting for the person.

[0005]

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a conference trunk, a conference trunk, a subscriber storage device and an automatic transmission device, and a subscriber entry provided in a conference host terminal. The key is used to register the conference time and the conference participant in the subscriber storage device, and at the registration time, the contents of the subscriber storage device are transmitted to the conference participant by the automatic transmission device.

When an incoming call is received by the conference organizer during the conference, the conference organizer exchange is provided with an exchange registrant detection device and a registrant number sending device, and the incoming call is memorized by the detection device by the subscriber. If it is a conference participant, the PB signal allocated to the conference participant terminal is transmitted from the registrant number transmission device to the terminal registrant detection device, and registered for the terminal. It is converted into a conference participant number corresponding to the PB signal by the person detecting device and displayed by the registrant number display device. The conference organizer can judge whether the displayed conference participant number is to participate in the conference or not by using the subscriber entry key of the conference organizer terminal.

[0007]

[Function] The conference organizer and the conference participant can be called by the automatic transmission device by registering the conference participant time and the conference participant in the subscriber storage device from the conference organizer terminal using the subscriber entry key. Therefore, the conference organizer does not call one by one, and the line hold time can be eliminated.

When an incoming call is received from the conference organizer,
The registrant number display device of the conference organizer terminal displays who is the incoming call, so that the participants can be interrupted without interrupting the conference.

[0009]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS FIGS. 1 to 5 are block diagrams for implementing a conference call system according to the present invention.

Conference trunk 101, automatic transmission device 10
2, subscriber storage device 103, switch registration person detection device 1
04, registrant number sending devices 105 and 106, conference organizer exchange 100 and exchanges 200 and 300, which are busy tones.
Subscriber entry key 11, terminal registrant detection device 1
2, conference organizer terminal 1 consisting of registrant number display device 13
0, terminals 20, 30.

-In the case of calling from the conference organizer-As shown in FIG. 1, the conference entry time 11 and the participation in the conference are entered from the subscriber entry key 11 of the conference organizer side terminal 10 to the exchange subscriber registration device 103 of the conference organizer exchange 100. As shown in FIG. 5, the person number is # 01123456670930 # 0.
298765430930 ## and conference host exchange 10
0 to the subscriber storage device 103. At this time, the conference organizer number is automatically registered in the subscriber storage device 103.
When the registered conference time comes, the conference switch 100
The automatic transmission device 102 of FIG. 6 reads the content of FIG. 6 stored in the subscriber storage device 103, and based on this content, the conference organizer 10
Also, the call is sent to the terminals 20 and 30. Conference organizer terminal 10
Is the conference trunk 101 via the conference organizer switch.
Connected to. The terminal 20 or 30 is an exchange 200 or 3
The communication is connected to the conference trunk 101 by way of the control of the conference organizer exchange 100 via 00 to perform conference communication. At this time, when the terminal 20 cannot be connected, the automatic transmission device 102 redistributes and connects via the conference trunk.

-In the case of an incoming call from the conference organizer-As shown in FIG. 2, the conference entry time and the conference participants are stored in the subscriber storage device 103 of the conference organizer exchange 100 from the subscriber entry key 11 of the conference organizer side terminal 10. Figure the numbers
As shown in, for example, # 0112345670930 #
0298765430930 ## and conference organizer switch 1
00 in the subscriber storage device 103. At this time, the conference organizer number is automatically registered in the subscriber storage device 103. Meeting organizer switch 1 at the registered meeting time
After the content of FIG. 6 stored in the subscriber storage device 103 is read by the automatic transmission device 102 of 00, the conference participants are sent to the conference organizer 10 and the terminals 20 and 30 based on the contents, and the conference participants For the sake of convenience, when an outgoing call is made to the meeting organizer to leave the meeting and join the meeting again, or when an outgoing call is made from a general terminal unrelated to the meeting, this interrupt signal is added in advance as shown in FIG. Whether or not the contents are stored in the person storage device 103
4, the conference connection is made when registered, and the busy tone is returned and disconnected when not registered.

-Incoming Call from Non-Conference Participant- As shown in FIG.
If the conference participant is not registered in the subscriber storage device 103 of the above, when the conference organizer terminal 10 and the terminal 20 are in a conference on the conference trunk 101, even if an attempt is made to make an interrupt connection, the exchange registered user detecting device 104 It is determined that connection is impossible and the busy tone 106 is controlled by the control of the conference switching system 100.
Is sent to the terminal 20 and the connection is disabled.

-Incoming Call from Conference Participant (Connection by Terminal) -As shown in FIG.
When the conference participation registration is registered in the subscriber storage device 103 of 0, the conference organizer terminal 1 is the P assigned to the terminal 20.
The terminal registrant detection device 12 is notified by the B signal. Upon receiving this PB signal, the terminal registrant detection device 12 converts the PB signal into a corresponding conference participant number, and the conference organizer terminal 1
It is displayed on the registrant number display device 13 of 0. As a result of this display, when the interrupted conference participant is to join the conference, for example, # 01 is entered from the subscriber entry key 10 and the conference organizer exchange 100 controls the conference connection via the conference trunk 101. Do.

-Incoming Call from Conference Participant (Connection Refusal by Terminal) -As shown in FIG.
When the conference participation registration is registered in the subscriber storage device 103 of 0, the conference organizer terminal 10 notifies the terminal registrant detection device 12 by the PB signal to which the terminal 20 is assigned. The terminal registrant detection device 12 that has received the PB signal converts the PB signal into the corresponding conference participant number and displays it on the registrant number display device 13 of the conference organizer terminal 10. If the interrupted terminal 20 is not allowed to participate in the conference as a result of this display, the conference organizer exchange 100 is notified by the subscriber entry key 10 that the conference participation connection is impossible, for example, * 01, and the conference participants are exchanged via the exchange. Send busy tone to.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a storage method in the subscriber storage device.

When the receiver of the conference organizer terminal goes up, the conference opening exchange 100 detects the call, and the organizer number can be automatically stored. Next, the conference participant number and the conference participation time are input to be assigned to each PB signal. As an input method, as shown in FIG. 6, for example, # 01 is input as an allocation to the PB signal 1, the partner number is input, and finally the conference holding time is input. When the next participant is input to PB signal 2, # 02, the other party's number, and the conference holding time are continuously input. To end the input, enter ##.

# 01123456670930 # 0298
The conference participant can be registered by inputting 7654309930 ## and the subscriber entry key 11. When canceling the registration contents, the registration contents can be canceled by inputting # 01 ** with the subscriber entry key 11.

[0019]

As described above, according to the present invention, when a conference caller makes a call by a conference call, the call is automatically sent to the conference participants at the time registered in the exchange. Can be eliminated. Also, when there is an incoming call to the conference organizer, the caller returns the busy tone to the other parties than the conference participants without interrupting the conference.
Also, in the case of a conference participant, the conference is suspended in order to display it on the registration number display device of the conference organizer by the PB signal assigned to each conference participant, and to notify the other party of participation availability by the subscriber entry key. There is nothing to do.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a configuration for automatically making a call to a host and conference participants according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a configuration diagram showing a case where an interrupt is received from a conference participant during a conference according to the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a configuration diagram showing a case where an interrupt is received from a person other than a conference participant during a conference according to the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a configuration diagram showing a case (interconnection) from a conference participant during a conference according to the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a configuration diagram showing a case (interruption) from a conference participant during a conference according to the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a PB signal allocation diagram of a conference participant number and a conference holding time of the subscriber storage device 103 according to the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a sequence diagram when an automatic call is made to the organizer and conference participants according to the present invention.

FIG. 8 is a sequence diagram in the case where there is an interruption from other than a conference participant during the conference according to the present invention.

FIG. 9 is a sequence diagram when a conference participant interrupts during a conference according to the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 ... Conference organizer terminal, 11 ... Subscriber entry key, 12 ... Terminal registrant detection device, 13 ... Registrant number display device, 20 ... Terminal, 30 ... Terminal, 100 ... Conference organizer switch, 101 ... Conference Trunk, 102 ... Automatic transmission device, 103 ... Subscriber storage device, 104 ... Exchanger registrant detection device, 105 ... Registrant number sending device, 106 ... Busy tone, 200 ... Exchange device, 300 ... Exchange device.

Claims (5)

[Claims] 1. When a conference call is made in a communication network composed of analog or digital exchanges, a conference trunk capable of making a conference call with a plurality of conferences, an automatic transmission device for automatically transmitting a conference participant, and a conference participation. Subscriber storage device for storing persons, switching device registrant detection device for identifying whether an incoming call is registered when an interrupt connection is entered during a conference, registration for transmitting a signal identified by the detection device to a telephone terminal Using an exchange composed of a person number sending device and the like, and a subscriber entry key for registering conference participants in the subscriber storage device,
A conference that is registered in the exchange and calls to the conference organizer and the conference participants based on the conference participant information registered in the exchange, and the conference participants who can connect the call are connected to the conference organizer at any time and the call cannot be established. A conference call system characterized by making a call again from the exchange to participants. 2. A conference is held with each conference participant according to claim 1, using a terminal registrant identifying device for identifying a conference participant on the terminal side and a registrant number display device for displaying a registered subscriber. Conference telephone system characterized by the following. 3. The method according to claim 1, wherein when it is determined whether or not an interrupt from a conference participant to the conference organizer or an interrupt from the general public can be connected, it is a conference participant in the exchange registrant detection device of the exchange. If it is a conference participant, the conference organizer terminal is notified to the conference organizer terminal by the PB signal assigned to the conference participant, and if not registered, the busy tone is sent from the exchange to the other party. A conference phone system characterized by: 4. In the case of an incoming call from a conference participant according to claim 2, the PB signal assigned to the conference participant is transmitted from the registration number transmitting device of the exchange to the conference host terminal during the call, A conference telephone characterized in that the terminal registrant detection device provided in the terminal device converts the PB signal into a conference participant number and sends it to the registrant number display device to display the conference participant number. method. 5. The conference telephone system according to claim 4, wherein, when an incoming call is received from a conference participant, whether or not the call can be connected is determined by a subscriber entry key provided on the terminal.