Mobile Phone Terminal, Server, and Group Call System
First Claim
1. A mobile phone terminal connectable with a group call system that performs a group call in which a phone call among a plurality of mobile phone terminals is performed, the mobile phone terminal comprising:
- a receiver configured to receive, through a line switching network, an address registration request message including group call identification information identifying the group call and requesting address registration in a server provided in a packet switching network;
a storage unit configured to store the group call identification information included in the address registration request message received through the line switching network, as a received call history; and
a transmitter configured to accept calling operation for the group call corresponding to the group call identification information stored as the received call history;
to acquire from the storage unit the group call identification information associated with the group call for which the calling operation has been accepted; and
to transmit halfway participation calling information including the acquired group call identification information.
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Abstract
A mobile station 10 includes: an SMS information acquisition unit 21 configured to acquire an SMS (registration request) through line switching NW 300, the SMS including group call identification information that identifies a group call; a memory 19 configured to store the group call identification information included in the SMS (registration request) as a received call history; and a halfway participation processor 25b configured to accept calling operation for the group call associated with the group call identification information stored as the received call history, to acquire from the storage unit the group call identification information associated with the group call for which the calling operation has been accepted, and to generate an INVITE (halfway participation) including the acquired group call identification information.
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1. A mobile phone terminal connectable with a group call system that performs a group call in which a phone call among a plurality of mobile phone terminals is performed, the mobile phone terminal comprising:
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a receiver configured to receive, through a line switching network, an address registration request message including group call identification information identifying the group call and requesting address registration in a server provided in a packet switching network; a storage unit configured to store the group call identification information included in the address registration request message received through the line switching network, as a received call history; and a transmitter configured to accept calling operation for the group call corresponding to the group call identification information stored as the received call history;
to acquire from the storage unit the group call identification information associated with the group call for which the calling operation has been accepted; and
to transmit halfway participation calling information including the acquired group call identification information. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4)
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5. A server provided in a packet switching network and configured to manage a group call in which a phone call among a plurality of mobile phone terminals is performed, the server comprising:
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a new calling information receiver configured to receive new calling information that requests start of the group call; a management unit configured to manage the group call on the basis of group call identification information that identifies the group call associated with the new calling information received in the new calling information receiver; an instructing unit configured to instruct to include the group call identification information in an address registration request message to be transmitted to a calling destination mobile phone terminal of the group call through a line switching network, the calling destination mobile phone terminal of the group call associated with the new calling information received in the new calling information receiver; a halfway participation calling information receiver configured to receive halfway participation calling information including the group call identification information; and a halfway participation processor configured to determine whether or not an on-going group call exists in a plurality of group calls managed in the management unit, the on-going group call associated with the group call identification information included in the halfway participation calling information received in the halfway participation calling information receiver; and
to permit the mobile phone terminal that has transmitted the halfway participation calling information to participate in the on-going group call when the on-going group call associated with the group call identification information exists. - View Dependent Claims (6, 7, 8)
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9. A mobile phone terminal connectable with a group call system that performs a group call in which a phone call among a plurality of mobile phone terminals is performed, the mobile phone terminal comprising:
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a receiver configured to receive new received call information requesting participation in the group call and including the group ID that uniquely identifies the group call; a storage unit configured to associate the group call corresponding to the new received call information received in the receiver, with the group ID included in the new received call information; and
to store the group call and the group ID as a received call history;a halfway participation calling information transmitter configured to accept calling operation for the group call stored as the received call history, to acquire from the storage unit the group ID associated with the group call for which the calling operation has been accepted, and to transmit halfway participation calling information including the acquired group ID; and a re-calling prohibition unit configured to prohibit transmission of the halfway participation calling information associated with the group call after receiving a notice of a completion of the group call associated with the halfway participation calling information, when receiving the notice as a result of transmitting the halfway participation calling information. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11)
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12. A group call system configured of a plurality of mobile phone terminals and a server configured to manage a group call in which a phone call among the mobile phone terminals is performed, wherein
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a new calling information receiver configured to receive new calling information that requests start of the group call; a management unit configured to assign a group ID that uniquely specifies the group call associated with the new calling information received in the new calling information receiver, and to manage the group call on the basis of the group ID; and a transmitter configured to transmit the group ID assigned to the group call and new received call information that requests participation in the group call, to the mobile phone terminal of a calling destination of the group call associated with the new calling information received in the new calling information receiver, the mobile phone terminal comprises; a storage unit configured to store the group call as a received call history in association with the group ID included in the new received call information, the group call associated with the new received call information received from the server; and a transmitter configured to accept calling operation for the group call stored as the received call history;
to acquire from the storage unit the group ID associated with the group call for which the calling operation has been accepted; and
to transmit halfway participation calling information including the acquired group ID to the server, andthe server further comprises a halfway participation processor configured to determine whether or not an on-going group call associated with the group ID included in the halfway participation calling information received from the mobile phone terminal exists in the plurality of group calls managed in the management unit, and to permit the mobile phone terminal that has transmitted the halfway participation calling information to participate in the group call when the on-going group call associated with the group ID exists.
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13. A mobile phone terminal connectable with a group call system that performs a group call in which a phone call among a plurality of mobile phone terminals is performed, the mobile phone terminal comprising:
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a receiver configured to receive new received call information requesting participation in the group call and including a group ID that uniquely identifies the group call; a storage unit configured to associate the group call corresponding to the new received call information received from the server, with the group ID included in the new received call information; and
to store the group call and the group ID as a received call history; anda transmitter configured to accept calling operation for the group call stored as the received call history;
to acquire from the storage unit the group ID associated with the group call for which the calling operation has been accepted; and
to transmit halfway participation calling information including the acquired group ID.
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14. A server configured to manage a group call in which a phone is call among a plurality of mobile phone terminals is performed, the server comprising:
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a new calling information receiver configured to receive new calling information that requests start of the group call; a management unit configured to assign a group ID that uniquely identifies the group call associated with the new calling information received in the new calling information receiver, and to manage the group call on the basis of the group ID; a transmitter configured to transmit the group ID assigned to the group call to the mobile phone terminal of a calling destination of the group call associated with the new calling information received in the new calling information receiver, in addition to new received call information that requests participation in the group call; a halfway participation calling information receiver configured to receive halfway participation calling information including the group ID; and a halfway participation processor configured to determine whether or not an on-going group call associated with the group ID included in the halfway participation calling information received in the halfway participation calling information receiver exists in the plurality of group calls managed in the management unit, and to permit the mobile phone terminal that has transmitted the halfway participation calling information to participate in the on-going group call when the on-going group call associated with the group ID exists.
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15. A server configured to manage a group call in which a phone call among a plurality of mobile phone terminals is performed, the server comprising:
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a new calling information receiver configured to receive new calling information that requests start of the group call; a management unit configured to manage whether or not a mobile phone terminal specified as a calling destination of the group call corresponding to the new calling information received in the new calling information receiver participates in the group call; and an informing unit configured to monitor an application that executes the group call; and
to inform mobile phone terminal specified as the calling destination of the group call and not participating in the group call, about a change of the application, when the application that executes the group call is changed.
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16. A mobile phone terminal connectable with a group call system that performs a group call in which a phone call among a plurality of mobile phone terminals is performed, the mobile phone terminal comprising:
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a receiver configured to receive new received call information that requests participation in the group call, the new received call information including group identification information that identifies the group call; a storage unit configured to store the group call corresponding to the new received call information received in the receiver, as a received call history, while associating the group call with the group identification information included in the new received call information and with application identification information identifying an application that executes the group call; a received call history updating unit configured to update the application identification information stored as the received call history on the basis of a notice of change of an application when receiving the notice of change of the application that executes the group call; and a transmitter configured to accept calling operation for the group call stored as the received call history;
to acquire from the storage unit the application identification information and the group identification information associated with the group call for which the calling operation has been accepted; and
to transmit halfway participation calling information that includes the acquired group identification information and requests halfway participation in the group call with the application associated with the acquired application identification information.
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