Method, apparatus, programs and storage medium for transferring data between different types of terminals

• US 8,046,474 B2
• Filed: 08/24/2004
• Issued: 10/25/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/19/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Motoyama, Hideyuki, Toda, Akinobu, Kato, Tetsuya, Fukuta, Shigeki, Fukuyama, Noriyuki, Fujino, Nobutsugu, Iida, Ichiro, Noda, Masahide
• Primary Examiner(s): Phillips; Hassan
• Assistant Examiner(s): Woolcock; Madhu
• Application Number:
  US10/923,747
• Publication Number:
  US 20050210148A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,618 Days
• Field of Search: 709/240, 709/241, 709/207, 709/232, 709/238, 709/206, 379/93.01, 379/114.02
• US Class Current: 709/228
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1069 Session establishment or de-establishment
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/303 Terminal profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 15/43 Billing software details
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 15/8016 based on quality of service [QoS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 15/8044 Least cost routing
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2215/0168 On line or real-time flexible customization or negotiation according to wishes of subscriber
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2215/42 Least cost routing, i.e. provision for selecting the lowest cost tariff
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2215/7414 QoS
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2215/745 Least cost routing, e.g. Automatic or manual, call by call or by preselection
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42102 Making use of the called party identifier
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42365 Presence services providing information on the willingness to communicate or the ability to communicate in terms of media capability or network connectivity
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/54 Arrangements for diverting calls for one subscriber to another predetermined subscriber based on the calling party profile H04M3/42059; based on location H04M3/42348; based on presence H04M3/42365; to voice mail H04M3/53308

Abstract

A communications terminal selection unit acquires, upon receipt of a call origination request, presence information including terminal information on terminals available to a call terminator from a presence management unit, and selects a specific terminal, if there are a plurality of terminals available to the call terminator based on the presence information, based on terminal selection information in which at least whether communication quality or charge takes priority is defined beforehand by the call terminator, notifying a call transfer unit of the selected terminal as a transfer destination terminal for call transfer.

Claims

1. A method of transferring data between different types of terminal devices, comprising:

acquiring a position information at which a call terminator is currently present from a position information management device provided in a call transfer server machine upon receipt of a call origination request from a terminal device of a call originator;

acquiring a presence information including a plurality of available pieces of terminal information, specified based on the position information that is acquired, from a presence management device provided in the call transfer server machine;

selecting a specific terminal device based on the presence information from among a plurality of call terminator available terminal devices in which the call terminator at least defines in advance whether call quality or call charge takes priority for each of the plurality of call terminator available terminal devices through a communication terminal device selection device provided in the call transfer server machine; and

notifying the specific terminal device as a transfer destination for the terminal device of the call originator by a call transfer device provided in the call transfer server machine to allow a call transfer, and transferring a call from the call originator to the transfer destination,

wherein the communication terminal device selection device compares a first evaluation value held by the call originator with a second evaluation value held by the call terminator, selects the specific terminal device by using a terminal filter that compares the first evaluation value held by the call originator with the second evaluation value held by the call terminator, and defines a terminal device selection condition held by the call terminator from a result of the comparison of which is larger or smaller of the first evaluation value held by the call originator and the second evaluation value held by the call terminator,

wherein the first evaluation value represents a call priority level of the call originator and the second evaluation value represents a busyness of the call terminator,

wherein the terminal device selection condition is set in advance in the terminal filter by comparing the first evaluation value held by the call originator and the second evaluation value held by the call terminator for selecting a specific terminal,

wherein a terminal device type in the terminal device selection condition is set as one of phone, instant message, http and mail as a first terminal attribute in the terminal information, and wherein details of the phone are set as one of fixed phone, mobile phone, PHS, and VoIP phone as a second terminal attribute in the terminal information,

wherein the terminal device selection condition is set in advance in the terminal filter for selecting a call terminal device when the busyness of the call terminator is lower than the call priority level of the originator and for selecting recorded service in any other cases, and

wherein the selecting of the specific terminal device includes selecting a terminal device with high call quality or with low communications charge based on a priority level P when the plurality of call terminal devices are selected as terminal device candidates based on the terminal filter; and

setting a weighted communication bandwidth, weighted communications delay, weighted time charging, weighted data charging, and priority level value as the priority level information,

finding, by the communication terminal device selection device, the priority level P using P ={log (bandwidth ×

W1}−

{(delay) ×

W2}−

{time charging (/min) ×

W3}−

[data charging (/1Kbyte) ×

W4]+V(1), wherein W1, W2, W3 and W4 are weights used to set the weighted communication bandwidth, the weighted communications delay, the weighted time charging and the weighted data charging, and wherein V is a priority level set to an arbitrary value by users as necessary to adjust the priority level P; and

selecting the specific terminal device with the highest priority level P based on said finding in absolute value so as to allow selection of the specific terminal device with high quality and low charge.

2. The method of transferring data between different types of terminal devices according to claim 1, wherein the terminal selection condition is set in advance in the terminal filter for selecting the specific terminal device or service through comparison of job titles of the call originator and the call terminator.

3. The method of transferring data between different types of terminal devices according to claim 2, wherein the terminal device selection condition is set in advance in the terminal filter for selecting a call terminal device when the call terminator is lower than the call originator in job title and for selecting recorded service in any other cases.

4. The method of transferring data between different types of terminal devices according to claim 1, wherein the terminal device selection includes, when selection of a terminal device with high call quality is desired, setting weights for communications charge in the priority level information to zero, and selecting a call terminal device with highest priority level.

5. The method of transferring data between different types of terminal devices according to claim 1, wherein the terminal device selection includes, when selection of a terminal device with low call charge is desired, setting weights for communications bandwidth in the priority level information to zero, and selecting a call terminal device with highest priority level in absolute value.

6. The method of transferring data between different types of terminal devices according to claim 1, wherein when selection of a specific terminal device is desired independently of call quality and call charge, a priority level value of a terminal device to be selected in the priority level information is set to a large value so as to assign the highest priority level in absolute value, with other weights being set to zero.

7. The method of transferring data between different types of terminal devices according to claim 1, when a communication terminal device in an external network is selected as a transfer destination terminal device by Web page referencing from a call originator'"'"'s terminal device in an external network, further comprising:

a dynamic phonebook display step of notifying the call originator'"'"'s terminal device of a phone number of a transfer destination terminal device so as to allow the call originator'"'"'s terminal device to directly originate a call.

8. The method of transferring data between different types of terminal devices according to claim 7, wherein the dynamic phonebook display step includes creating a confirmation screen that includes the phone number of the transfer destination terminal device as a link and transferring the confirmation screen to the call originator'"'"'s terminal device.

9. The method of transferring data between different types of terminal devices according to claim 1, when a communication terminal device in an internal network is selected as a transfer destination terminal device by Web page referencing from a call originator'"'"'s terminal device in an external network, further comprising:

a dynamic phonebook display step of notifying the call originator'"'"'s terminal device of a key phone number so as to allow the call originator'"'"'s terminal device to make a call origination request, and converting the key phone number received through the call origination request to an internal network phone number of a transfer destination terminal so as to allow call transfer.

10. The method of transferring data between different types of terminal devices according to claim 9, wherein the dynamic phonebook display step includes creating a confirmation screen that includes the key phone number as a link and transferring the confirmation screen to the call originator'"'"'s terminal device.

11. A call transfer machine for transferring data between different types of terminal devices, comprising:

a position information management device acquiring a position information at which a call terminator is currently present upon receipt of a call origination request from a terminal device of a call originator;

a presence information management device acquiring a presence information including a plurality of available pieces of terminal information based on the position information;

a communication terminal selection device selecting a specific terminal device based on the presence information from among a plurality of call terminator available terminal devices in which the call terminator at least defines in advance whether call quality or call charge takes priority for each of the plurality of call terminator available terminal devices; and

a call transfer device notifying a specific terminal device as a transfer destination to allow a call transfer,

wherein the communication terminal selection device compares a first evaluation value held by a call originator with a second evaluation value held by the call terminator, selects the specific terminal device by using a terminal filter that compares the first evaluation value held by the call originator with the second evaluation value held by the call terminator, and defines a terminal device selection condition held by the call terminator from a result of the comparison of which is larger or smaller of the first evaluation value held by the call originator and the second evaluation value held by the call terminator,

wherein the first evaluation value represents a call priority level of the call originator and the second evaluation value represents a busyness of the call terminator,

wherein the terminal device selection condition is set in advance in the terminal filter by comparing the first evaluation value held by the call originator and the second evaluation value held by the call terminator for selecting the specific terminal,

wherein a terminal device type in the terminal device selection condition is set as one of phone, instant message, http and mail as a first terminal attribute in the terminal information, and wherein details of the phone are set as one of fixed phone, mobile phone, PHS, and VoIP phone as a second terminal attribute in the terminal information,

wherein the terminal device selection condition is set in advance in the terminal filter for selecting a call terminal device when the busyness of the call terminator is lower than the call priority level of the originator and for selecting recorded service in any other cases,

wherein the selecting the specific terminal device includes selecting a terminal device with high call quality or with low communications charge based on a priority level P when the plurality of call terminator available terminal devices are selected as terminal device candidates based on the terminal filter; and

setting a weighted communication bandwidth, weighted communications delay, weighted time charging, weighted data charging, and priority level value as the priority level information,

finding, by the communication terminal device selection device, the priority level P using P ={log (bandwidth ×

W1}−

{(delay) ×

W2}−

{time charging (/min) ×

W3}+[data charging (/1Kbyte) ×

W4]+V(1), wherein W1, W2, W3 and W4 are weights used to set the weighted communication bandwidth, the weighted communications delay, the weighted time charging and the weighted data charging, and wherein V is a priority level set to an arbitrary value by users as necessary to adjust the priority level P; and

selecting the specific terminal device with the highest priority level P based on said finding in absolute value so as to allow selection of the specific terminal device with high quality and low charge.

12. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having therein stored a program for causing a computer to execute:

acquiring a position information at which a call terminator is currently present from a position information management device provided in a call transfer server machine upon receipt of a call origination request from a terminal device of a call originator;

acquiring a presence information including a plurality of available pieces of terminal information, specified based on the position information that is acquired, from a presence management device provided in the call transfer server machine;

selecting a specific terminal device based on the presence information from among a plurality of call terminator available terminal devices in which the call terminator at least defines in advance whether call quality or call charge takes priority for each of the plurality of call terminator available terminal devices through a communication terminal device selection device provided in the call transfer server machine; and

notifying the specific terminal device as a transfer destination for the terminal device of the call originator by a call transfer device provided in the call transfer server machine to allow a call transfer, and transferring a call from the call originator to the transfer destination,

wherein the communication terminal device selection device compares a first evaluation value held by the call originator with a second evaluation value held by the call terminator, selects the specific terminal device by using a terminal filter that compares the first evaluation value held by the call originator with the second evaluation value held by the call terminator, and defines a terminal device selection condition held by the call terminator from a result of the comparison of which is larger or smaller of the first evaluation value held by the call originator and the second evaluation value held by the call terminator,

wherein the first evaluation value represents a call priority level of the call originator and the second evaluation value represents a busyness of the call terminator,

wherein the terminal device selection condition is set in advance in the terminal filter by comparing the first evaluation value held by the call originator and the second evaluation value held by the call terminator for selecting a specific terminal,

wherein a terminal device type in the terminal device selection condition is set as one of phone, instant message, http and mail as a first terminal attribute in the terminal information, and wherein details of the phone are set as one of fixed phone, mobile phone, PHS, and VoIP phone as a second terminal attribute in the terminal information,

wherein the terminal device selection condition is set in advance in the terminal filter for selecting a call terminal device when the busyness of the call terminator is lower than the call priority level of the originator and for selecting recorded service in any other cases,

wherein the selecting of the specific terminal device includes selecting a terminal device with high call quality or with low communications charge based on a priority level P when the plurality of call terminator available terminal devices are selected as terminal device candidates based on the terminal filter; and

setting a weighted communication bandwidth, weighted communications delay, weighted time charging, weighted data charging, and priority level value as the priority level information,

finding, by the communication terminal device selection device, the priority level P using P ={log (bandwidth ×

W1}−

{(delay) ×

W2}−

{time charging (/min) ×

W3}+[data charging (/1Kbyte) ×

W4]+V(1), wherein W1, W2, W3 and W4 are weights used to set the weighted communication bandwidth, the weighted communications delay, the weighted time charging and the weighted data charging, and wherein V is a priority level set to an arbitrary value by users as necessary to adjust the priority level P; and

selecting the specific terminal device with the highest priority level P based on said finding in absolute value so as to allow selection of the specific terminal device with high quality and low charge.