Information delivering method, information delivering device, information delivery program, and computer-readable recording medium containing the information delivery program recorded thereon

• US 20030195009A1
• Filed: 04/09/2003
• Published: 10/16/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 04/12/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Endo, Hitoshi
• Granted Patent: US 7,319,881 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/466
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising

Abstract

An information delivering device includes: a conversation relaying section for relaying conversation data for a conversation of an information terminal used by a user U with an information terminal used by other party P, between both of the information terminals; and an additional information delivering section for adding audio data such as advertisement and music to the conversation data so that the audio data and the conversation data can be reproduced simultaneously, while the conversation relaying section sends the conversation data from the information terminal used by the other party P to the information terminal used by the user U. This allows the information delivering device to deliver additional information such as advertisement and music by sound during a telephone conversation.

Claims

1. An information delivering method comprising the steps of:

(a) relaying conversation data for a conversation of a first information terminal with a second information terminal, between the first and second information terminals; and

(b) adding audio data to the conversation data which is sent at least in one direction so that the audio data and the conversation data can be reproduced simultaneously, while relaying the conversation data by the step (a).

2. An information delivering device comprising:

a conversation relaying section for relaying conversation data for a conversation of a first information terminal with a second information terminal, between the first and second information terminals; and

an audio adding section for adding audio data to the conversation data so that the audio data and the conversation data can be reproduced simultaneously, while the conversation relaying section sends the conversation data from the second information terminal to the first information terminal.

3. The information delivering device according to claim 2, wherein the audio adding section adds audio data to the conversation data so that the audio data and the conversation data can be reproduced simultaneously, while the conversation relaying section sends the conversation data from the first information terminal to the second information terminal.

4. The information delivering device according to claim 2, wherein the audio adding section further comprise a sound volume control section for controlling a sound volume of the audio data added to the conversation data.

5. The information delivering device according to claim 2, further comprising:

a conversation sound volume measuring section for measuring a sound volume of the conversation data; and

a frequency control section for converting a frequency of the audio data added to the conversation data by the audio adding section into a frequency in inaudible frequency band in a case when the sound volume of the conversation data, measured by the conversation sound volume measuring section, is at a predetermined level or less.

6. The information delivering device according to claim 2, wherein a frequency of the audio data added to the conversation data by the audio adding section is in inaudible frequency band.

7. The information delivering device according to claim 2, wherein a sound volume, frequency, content of the audio data added to the conversation data by the audio adding section, and conditions for audio addition, which are selected from a group including an addition order of plural audio data, are preset for each of the information terminals or for each of users of the information terminals.

8. The information delivering device according to claim 2, further comprising:

an audio data storage section for storing the audio data in advance, from which the audio adding section obtains the audio data added to the conversation data.

9. The information delivering device according to claim 8, further comprising:

an audio data obtaining section for obtaining the audio data in advance and storing the audio data thus obtained in the audio data storage section,

the audio data, transmitted with added to the conversation data, being supplied by a user of an information terminal to which the audio data is transmitted.

10. The information delivering device according to claim 2, further comprising:

an audio data obtaining section for obtaining the audio data from an external source every time the audio adding section adds the audio data to the conversation data.

11. An information delivery program for causing a computer to act as an information delivery device comprising:

a conversation relaying section for relaying conversation data for a conversation of a first information terminal with a second information terminal, between the first and second information terminals; and

an audio adding section for adding audio data to the conversation data so that the audio data and the conversation data can be reproduced simultaneously, while the conversation relaying section sends the conversation data from the second information terminal to the first information terminal.

12. The information delivery program according to claim 11, wherein the audio adding section adds audio data to the conversation data so that the audio data and the conversation data can be reproduced simultaneously, while the conversation relaying section sends the conversation data from the first information terminal to the second information terminal.

13. A computer-readable recording medium containing an information delivery program for causing a computer to act as an information delivery device comprising:

a conversation relaying section for relaying conversation data for a conversation of a first information terminal with a second information terminal, between the first and second information terminals; and

an audio adding section for adding audio data to the conversation data so that the audio data and the conversation data can be reproduced simultaneously, while the conversation relaying section sends the conversation data from the second information terminal to the first information terminal.

14. The computer-readable recording medium according to claim 13, wherein the audio adding section adds audio data to the conversation data so that the audio data and the conversation data can be reproduced simultaneously, while the conversation relaying section sends the conversation data from the first information terminal to the second information terminal.