KR20010046234A - Auto-dialing method for web-page - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A telephone number automatic dialing method on web-page is provided to perform an automatic dialing by clicking the telephone number displayed on the web-page through a mouse. CONSTITUTION: When the searched web-page is displayed on a monitor(2) by a computer system, a user selects and clicks the telephone number by using the mouse(3). When clicking the telephone number, a script is executed and a tone generating program is driven, so that a sound card(4) outputs the generated tone through a speaker(5). At this time, a transmitting portion of a transceiver(7) separated from the tone type telephone(6) cancelled the hook switch must be positioned to the front surface of the speaker(5). As a result, according to the selection and click of the telephone number displayed on the monitor, the automatic dialing function of the telephone is performed.

Description

Automatic dialing of phone numbers on web-pages {Auto-dialing method for web-page}

The present invention relates to a method of automatically dialing a phone number displayed on a monitor by a mouse click. In particular, the phone number displayed on a web page can be generated by a sound card by generating a tone corresponding to the phone number with a mouse click. The present invention relates to a method of automatically dialing a telephone number without having to press the keypad of the telephone by transferring it to the telephone.

In general, a telephone dialing method using a telephone is dialed by pressing a numeric keypad corresponding to a telephone number to be called, or storing a frequently used telephone number as a speed dial by pressing a keypad and pressing one of the keypads.

The dialing method is still the most widely used method, and the dialing method of the previous number displayed on the web-page to be implemented in the present invention previously found and visited the desired web page and inquired the service of the visited homepage address. If you want to get support, you can see the phone number displayed and dial the number directly using the phone.

In addition, when a phone number to be searched on a web-page such as a telephone number search system provided on the Internet is searched, this method also uses a method of dialing by using a telephone after confirming or remembering a note.

The above dialing methods have no difficulty because they are extremely simple repetition of the operation, but in the current high-speed society, a faster and easier method is preferred, and thus the simple operation method tends to disappear gradually.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a method for automatically dialing a telephone by clicking on a telephone number displayed on a web-page with a mouse.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention comprises the steps of laying down the handset of the tone generating telephone so that the transmitter is located in front of the speaker; Clicking with the mouse on the telephone number area displayed on the web-page; Executing a script by the mouse click to drive a dial tone generating program; generating a tone in a sound card by the driven dial tone generating program; outputting a tone generated in the sound card through a speaker; And dialing the telephone number on the web-page, the method comprising the step of transferring the handset to the transmitter of the handset.

1 illustrates an embodiment of an automatic dialing system in accordance with the present invention.

Figure 2 shows another embodiment of an automatic dialing system according to the present invention.

3 is a flow diagram for automatically dialing a telephone number on a web-page according to the present invention.

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1: computer body 2: monitor

3: mouse 4: sound card

5: speaker 6: phone

7: handset

According to the present invention, when Internet users visit a homepage of a company or an organization or visit a homepage of a company to inquire for a telephone inquiry, confirm a phone number and click the phone number displayed on the homepage with a mouse. An automatic dialing method for making a call is provided.

The automatic dialing method must be a specification in which a user's computer can use the Internet, and is equipped with a sound card and a speaker, and has a tone-tone telephone separately.

Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying drawings will be described in detail the present invention.

As an embodiment showing a connection relationship between a computer having an automatic dialing system and a tone telephone according to the present invention, a computer having an automatic dialing system is a computer capable of using the Internet as described above and connected to a sound card and a speaker. The system consists of the main body 1, the monitor 2, the mouse 3, and the like. In addition, in the program of the computer system, when a tone corresponding to the numeric keypads of the tone-type telephone is stored in the form of a music file for the computer (.wav, .au) and then the telephone number displayed on the web-page is clicked. There is a need for a dial tone generating program that can generate dial tones by sequentially playing the contents of the music file from the first digit of the telephone number. However, this program can be embedded in a web-page or a web-browser such as Java Applet, MS ActiveX, or browser plug-in. Must be able to operate using script language embedded in web-page. When the software of such a program is prepared, a user clicks a specific area on the web page, for example, the displayed phone number itself or a button marked "Calling" in the portion where the phone number is displayed, with a mouse. A web-page must be created to execute the script embedded in the program and to run the dial tone generating program.

FIG. 1 shows a configuration for automatically dialing a telephone number on a web page using the computer system as described above. When a web-page searched by the computer system is displayed on the monitor 2, the mouse 3 is used. Select and click the phone number you want to call. When the phone number is clicked as described above, the script is executed to drive the tone generating program, which causes the sound card 4 to output the generated tone through the speaker 5. At this time, the front of the speaker (5) should be located the transmitter of the handset (7) separated from the tone type telephone (6) with the hook switch released.

In other words, in the state configured as shown in FIG. 1, the user automatically selects and clicks the telephone number of the web-page displayed on the monitor by using a mouse.

FIG. 2 shows a configuration in which the phone number of FIG. 1 is not required and the telephone handset of the telephone can be automatically dialed without the need to remove the handset of the telephone, but all methods are the same as in FIG. It is a configuration that automatically dials the telephone number by connecting the tone generated from the cable directly to the transmitter of the telephone.

Fig. 3 shows the above-mentioned automatic dialing method in sequence. The user searches for a web-page of a company or organization to be displayed and displays it on the monitor, and places the handset of the telephone in front of the speaker or releases the hook switch of the telephone. . Next, when a mouse clicks on the telephone number area displayed on the whip-page, a script embedded in the web-page of the telephone number clicked on with the mouse is executed to run a dial tone generating program. The dial tone generating program driven by the execution of the script generates a number sound through the sound card according to the number order of the clicked telephone number. The tone sound generated by the sound card by driving the program is transmitted to the speaker through the connection terminal, and the speaker outputs the tone corresponding to the telephone number as an audible sound. At this time, the telephone receiver is placed in front of the speaker to make a call automatically.

In addition, by directly connecting the signal generated through the sound card to the transmitter of the phone through the connection terminal, the phone number can be automatically dialed by opening only the hook switch of the phone without moving the handset.

As described above, the present invention can automatically dial the displayed telephone number by clicking on the telephone number displayed on the web page of the Internet and the area in which the telephone number is displayed.

In addition, when a desired phone number is found on the web page of the telephone number guide service provided on the Internet, a simple mouse click is provided to provide a service for automatically calling the corresponding phone number.

Claims (2)

In a method for automatically dialing a tone-type telephone using a computer that has Internet access, a sound card, a speaker, and a built-in dial tone generating program, Clicking on the telephone number on the Internet web-page displayed on the monitor with a mouse; Executing a script embedded in a web-page by the clicked telephone number to drive a dial tone generating program; Generating a tone corresponding to a corresponding telephone number sequentially from a sound card by a dial tone generating program driven by the script and outputting the tone to a speaker; Automatically placing the handset in front of the speaker before the tone is generated by the speaker so that the tone output from the speaker is delivered to the handset of the handset to automatically make a call. Dialing method. The method of claim 1, The telephone displayed on the web-page, characterized in that the telephone can be dialed by opening the hook switch of the telephone by directly connecting the output terminal of the sound card and the transmitter of the telephone to the speaker without outputting the tone generated by the sound card. How to auto dial numbers.