Speech fee display method
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsToru Kikuchi, Futoshi Hachimura
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Abstract
A control method of a second terminal which communicates with a partner of a communication by a first terminal. Fee information to calculate a fee per unit time of the communication by the first terminal is obtained. The fee information obtained is transmitted via a radio line to the second terminal which communicates with the partner of the communication by the first terminal. The fee information transmitted is received and the speech fee is calculated and displayed. The communication by the first terminal is held is subsequently restarted by a request from the second terminal.
Claims79
A method of controlling a connecting apparatus for connecting first and second terminals, wherein said second terminal communicates with a partner terminal having communicated with said first terminal, comprising the steps of:
- obtaining fee information to calculate a fee of the communication between said first terminal and the partner terminal;
- and
- transmitting said fee information obtained in said fee information obtaining step to said second terminal which communicates with the partner terminal having communicated with said first terminal.
A connecting apparatus for connecting one of first and second terminals to a partner terminal via an external line, comprising:
- means for obtaining fee information to calculate a fee of a communication between the first terminal and the partner terminal;
- means for switching a connecting party of the partner terminal, from the first terminal to the second terminal;
- and
- means for transmitting the fee information for calculating the fee of the communication between the first terminal and the partner terminal, to the second terminal which communicates with the partner terminal having communicated with the first terminal.
A communication system comprising a terminal and a connecting apparatus for connecting said terminal to an external line,
- wherein said connecting apparatus has means for obtaining a fee of a communication by the terminal and means for transmitting data based on the fee of an ended communication to the terminal in response to an end of the communication by the terminal,
- wherein said terminal has means for storing the data transmitted by said transmitting means.
A method of managing an accumulated fee in a notifying system having a terminal and a connecting apparatus to connect the terminal to an external line, comprising the steps of:
- obtaining, in the connecting apparatus, a fee of a communication by the terminal;
- transferring data based on the fee of an ended communication from the connecting apparatus to the terminal in response to an end of the communication by the terminal;
- and
- storing, in the terminal, the data transferred in said transferring step.
A communication system including a connecting apparatus for connecting one of first and second terminals to a partner terminal via an external line,
- wherein said connecting apparatus obtains fee information to calculate a fee of a communication between the first terminal and the partner terminal, notifies the first terminal of the fee information, calculates the communication fee between the first terminal and the partner terminal on the basis of the fee information, notifies the first terminal of data according to the communication fee of ended communication at a time of an end of the communication of the first terminal, and notifies the second terminal of the fee information for calculating the communication fee between the first terminal and the partner terminal in a case where the communication finished in the first terminal stores an accumulated fee of a plurality of communications on the basis of the data according to the communication fee, and
- wherein said second terminal calculates a communication fee on the basis of the fee information.
A connecting apparatus for connecting one of first and second terminals to a partner terminal, comprising:
- interrupting means for interrupting a communication between the first terminal and the partner terminal;
- resuming means for resuming the communication interrupted by said interrupting means such that the communication with the partner terminal is resumed by the second terminal;
- and
- transmitting means for transmitting data for specifying rate information of the interrupted communication, to the second terminal.
A method of controlling a connecting apparatus for connecting one of first and second terminals to a partner terminal, comprising the steps of:
- interrupting a communication between the first terminal and the partner terminal;
- resuming the communication interrupted in said interrupting step such that the communication with the partner terminal is resumed by the second terminal;
- and
- transmitting data specifying rate information of the interrupted communication, to the second terminal.
A connecting apparatus for connecting a terminal to an external line, comprising:
- means for obtaining a fee of a communication performed by the terminal;
- and
- means for transmitting data based on the fee of the communication of an ended communication to the terminal in response to an end of the communication by the terminal.
A method of managing a fee in a connecting apparatus to connect a terminal to an external line, comprising the steps of:
- obtaining a fee of a communication performed by the terminal;
- and
- transmitting data based on the fee of the communication of an ended communication to the terminal in response to an end of the communication by the terminal.
A communication system comprising:
- a terminal and a connecting apparatus for connecting said terminal to an external line;
- means for obtaining a fee of a communication performed by the terminal;
- and
- means for communicating data based on the fee of an ended communication between the terminal and the connecting apparatus in response to an end of the communication by the terminal.
A method of managing an accumulated fee in a notifying system having a terminal and a connecting apparatus to connect the terminal to an external line, comprising the steps of:
- obtaining a fee of a communication performed by the terminal;
- and
- communicating data based on the fee of an ended communication between the connecting apparatus and the terminal in response to the end of the communication by the terminal.
A communication system comprising:
- a terminal and a connecting apparatus for connecting said terminal to an external line;
- wherein said terminal comprises,
- means for obtaining a fee of a communication, and means for transmitting data based on the fee of an ended communication to the connecting apparatus in response to an end of the communication, and said connecting apparatus comprises means for receiving the data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.