Patent ID: 6687357
Filing Date: 2004-02-03
Classification: H04M,H04Q

Abstract:
An arbitration-type call establishing system including a plurality of user systems each having a data communication function and a voice speech function, and a connection control system connected through a data network and a voice communication network to said plurality of user systems;said user systems each comprising means for transmitting, to said connection control system through the data network, outgoing conditions for defining parties to which connection requests are to be given, incoming conditions for defining parties from which connection requests are to be permitted, and personal information of a user; and said connection control system comprising: a reception processing unit for receiving the outgoing conditions, and the incoming conditions, and personal information from said user systems; an information holding unit for holding, for each user, user information constituting personal information of the user, and arbitration conditions including said outgoing conditions and said incoming conditions received by said reception processing unit; an arbitration processing unit for arbitrating among a combination of users by evaluating whether personal information of the users satisfy arbitration conditions in order to identify candidate users matched for communications, said arbitration conditions being based on outgoing conditions and incoming conditions of users; and a connection execution unit for establishing, through the voice communication network, a voice communication call between the user systems of the matched users established by the arbitration in the arbitration processing unit.