Communication apparatus connected to line of switching network providing caller telephone number informing service

• US 5,844,975 A
• Filed: 05/23/1996
• Issued: 12/01/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 05/26/1995
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Canon Ayutthaya Limited (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Ayutthaya Limited (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Kobayashi, Makoto, Sugawara, Naoki
• Primary Examiner(s): Kuntz, Curtis A.
• Assistant Examiner(s): TIEU, BINH KIEN
• Application Number:
  US08/652,413
• Time in Patent Office: 922 Days
• Field of Search: 379/94, 379/96, 379/98, 379/100, 379/142, 379/199, 379/372, 379/373, 379/379, 379/441, 379/442, 379/354, 379/90.01, 379/93.01, 379/93.02, 379/93.03, 379/93.09 , 379/93.11, 379/93.17, 379/93.18, 379/93.23, 379/67, 379/127, 379/182, 379/183, 379/376, 379/387
• US Class Current: 379/142.15
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/57 Arrangements for indicating or recording the number of the calling subscriber at the called subscriber's set at the operator set in a manual exchange H04M5/20

Abstract

A communication apparatus connected to a line of a switching network providing a caller identification information informing service includes a detection unit for detecting the identification information when a call is received, a send unit for sending the identification information detected by the detection unit to an external information processing terminal and a control unit for controlling the communication operation with a calling station in accordance with a command signal from the information processing terminal.

Claims

1. A communication apparatus connected to a line of a switching network providing a caller identification information informing service comprising:

first detection means for detecting a call from the line;

second detection means for detecting an identification information when a call is received;

sending means for sending the identification information detected by said second detection means to an external information processing terminal;

communication means for performing a predetermined communication through the line in response to the call detection by said first detection means; and

control means for controlling the predetermined communication by said communication means in accordance with a command signal from the information processing terminal,

wherein said communication means starts the predetermined communication in response to the call detection independently of the information processing terminal, and said control means terminates the communication in accordance with the command signal from the information processing terminal.

2. A communication apparatus according to claim 1 wherein when said detection means does not detect the identification information when the call is received, said send means informs to said external information processing terminal the non-reception of the identification information.

3. A communication apparatus according to claim 1 wherein, in a case where the command signal is not sent from said information processing terminal, said control means does not terminate the communication by said communication means.

4. A communication apparatus according to claim 1 wherein the communication operation with the calling station is speech communication.

5. A communication apparatus according to claim 1 wherein the communication operation with the calling station is data communication.

6. A communication apparatus according to claim 5 wherein the communication operation with the calling station is image data communication.

7. A communication system having a communication apparatus connected to a line of a switching network providing a caller identification information informing service and an information processing terminal connected to said communication apparatus;

said communication apparatus comprising;

first detection means for detecting a call from the line;

second detection means for detecting an identification information when a call is received;

sending means for sending the identification information detected by said second detection means to an external information processing terminal;

communication means for performing a predetermined communication through the line in response to the call detection by said first detection means; and

control means for controlling the predetermined communication by said communication means in accordance with a command signal from the information processing terminal;

said information processing terminal comprising;

receiving means for receiving the identification information from said communication apparatus;

display means for displaying information for identifying the calling station in accordance with the identification signal received by said receiving means;

input means for inputting a command to remotely control communication operation of said communication apparatus; and

sending means for generating the command signal in accordance with the input by said input means and sending the generated command signal to said communication apparatus,

wherein said communication means starts a process for the predetermined communication in response to the call detection independently of the information processing terminal, and said control means terminates the communication in accordance with the command signal from the information processing terminal.

8. A communication system according to claim 7, wherein, in a case where the command signal is not sent from said information processing terminal, said control means does not terminate the communication by said communication means.

9. A communication system according to claim 7 wherein the communication operation with the calling station is speech communication.

10. A communication system according to claim 7 wherein the communication operation with the calling station is data communication.

11. A communication system according to claim 10 wherein the communication operation with the calling station is image data communication.

12. In a communication apparatus connected to a line of a switching network providing a caller identification information informing service, a communication method comprising the steps of:

first detecting of a call from the line;

second detecting of an identification information when the call is received;

sending the identification information detected in the second detecting step to an external information processing terminal;

starting and performing a process for a predetermined communication through the line in response to the call detection, the predetermined communication being performed independently of the information processing terminal; and

terminating the predetermined communication in accordance with a command signal from the information processing terminal.

13. A communication method according to claim 12 comprising the step of, when the identification information from said switching network is not detected, informing to said information processing means the non-detection of the identification information.

14. A communication method according to claim 12, wherein, in a case where the command signal is not sent from said information processing terminal, the communication is not terminated. matter.

15. A communication method according to claim 12 wherein the communication operation with the calling station is speech communication.

16. A communication method according to claim 12 wherein the communication operation with the calling station is data communication.

17. A communication method according to claim 16 wherein the communication operation with the calling station is image data communication.

18. A communication method according to claim 12 wherein said information processing terminal displays information for identifying the calling station in accordance with the identification information informed from said communication apparatus, generates the command signal in response to a manual entry, and sends the generated command signal to said communication apparatus.