INTERNET SPEECH SYSTEM AND SPEECH REQUEST INFORMATION GIVING METHOD TO BE USED FOR IT

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an Internet speech system by which connection to the Internet can be requested automatically without depending on the Internet connecting situation of the opposite party. SOLUTION: The Internet telephone/TV-telephone software 11 in a client terminal 1 performs voice and image packet communication within a network. The Internet connecting situation informing/obtaining software 12 informs a connection managing server 2 of its own Internet connecting situation and obtains the connecting situation of another client terminal. When the opposite party is not connected to the Internet 100, a mail message transmission part 22 for a portable terminal in the server 2 transmits a message for connection to the Internet 100 to the portable telephone/PHS terminal 3 of the opposite party by a mail for the portable terminal.