Unlock instant, AI-driven research and patent intelligence for your innovation.

Mobile telephone terminal with improved utility

a mobile telephone terminal and utility technology, applied in the field of portable telephone terminals, can solve the problems of inability to switch between answer messages for a particular caller, inability to input a password, and inability to set up a locked dialing option when necessary, and achieve the effect of enhancing the answering function

Inactive Publication Date: 2011-06-14
RPX CORP
View PDF13 Cites 0 Cited by
  • Summary
  • Abstract
  • Description
  • Claims
  • Application Information

AI Technical Summary

Benefits of technology

Enables the selection of appropriate answer messages based on caller and time, provides a forced alert for designated callers, and allows remote operation setup without a password, enhancing user control and convenience.

Problems solved by technology

However, related-art mobile communication terminals are not capable of switching between answer messages for a particular caller in accordance with the time that a call is received.
Another problem with the portable telephone system according to the related art is that an input of a password is required when a user calls a lost portable telephone set and remotely sets up a locked dialing option in the lost telephone set.
When the user has forgotten the password, the locked dialing option cannot be set up when necessary.

Method used

the structure of the environmentally friendly knitted fabric provided by the present invention; figure 2 Flow chart of the yarn wrapping machine for environmentally friendly knitted fabrics and storage devices; image 3 Is the parameter map of the yarn covering machine
View more

Image

Smart Image Click on the blue labels to locate them in the text.
Viewing Examples
Smart Image
  • Mobile telephone terminal with improved utility
  • Mobile telephone terminal with improved utility
  • Mobile telephone terminal with improved utility

Examples

Experimental program
Comparison scheme
Effect test

embodiment 1

[0031]FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the construction of a mobile communication terminal according to the first embodiment. FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a call setting message. FIG. 3 is a flowchart for the control of the answering function. FIG. 4 shows a caller number registration table.

[0032]The mobile communication terminal according to the first embodiment comprises an antenna for transmitting and receiving a modulated radio wave, a frequency converter (RF / IF unit) 2 for converting the frequency of the modulated radio wave, a modulating / demodulating unit 3 for modulating a carrier wave in accordance with a base band signal and for demodulating the modulated radio wave received via the antenna 1 to retrieve the base band signal. There are further provided a digital signal processing circuit 4 for subjecting the base band signal to TDMA signal processing, a speech signal processing circuit 5 for processing the base band signal, a controller 6, a time monitor unit 7 that include...

embodiment 2

[0041]FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing how a remote operation function of a mobile communication terminal is controlled according to the second embodiment. It is assumed that a portable telephone set (hereinafter, simply referred to as a terminal) is in a wait state (ST501). When a call arrives at the terminal (ST502), a determination is made as to whether the caller ID retrieved from the call setting message is registered in the caller number registration table and whether the caller is authorized to perform a remote operation (ST503). If it is determined that the caller is registered and authorized to perform a remote operation, after a predetermined period of time elapses (ST504), the terminal responds to the call (ST505).

[0042]When the caller inputs a number for setting up the locked dialing option (ST506), the terminal verifies the input number (ST507). If the input number is verified, the locked dialing option is set up (ST508). When the locked dialing option has been set up, the...

the structure of the environmentally friendly knitted fabric provided by the present invention; figure 2 Flow chart of the yarn wrapping machine for environmentally friendly knitted fabrics and storage devices; image 3 Is the parameter map of the yarn covering machine
Login to View More

PUM

No PUM Login to View More

Abstract

A mobile communication terminal includes timer for detecting the time of an incoming call, a caller number registration table for storing caller numbers, answer message ID numbers and time-dependent switching codes in relation to each other, the time-dependent control codes designating callers for whom answer messages are switched depending on a time zone in which the call is made. There is thus provided a capability of selecting an answer message for a caller based on the caller number included in the incoming call signal and switching between answer messages based on the time of call incoming detected by the timer.

Description

[0001]More than one reissue application has been filed for the reissue of U.S. Pat. No. 6,493,548. The reissue applications are application Ser. Nos. 11 / 008,752 (Patent reissue application), 11 / 416,478 (present divisional reissue application), and 11 / 416,476 (second divisional reissue application). BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0002]1. Field of the Invention[0003]The present invention generally relates to portable telephone terminals and, more particularly, to a portable telephone terminal having an answering function for switching between answer messages in accordance with a caller number and the time, and also to a terminal operable by a remote telephone set using caller number authentication.[0004]2. Description of the Related Art[0005]Japanese Laid-Open Patent Application No. 10-66145 discloses a mobile communication terminal having an answering function for switching between answer messages depending on a caller number. A call signal incoming at a called terminal from a calling t...

Claims

the structure of the environmentally friendly knitted fabric provided by the present invention; figure 2 Flow chart of the yarn wrapping machine for environmentally friendly knitted fabrics and storage devices; image 3 Is the parameter map of the yarn covering machine
Login to View More

Application Information

Patent Timeline
no application Login to View More
Patent Type & Authority Patents(United States)
IPC IPC(8): H04L12/58H04M1/725H04W4/20H04M1/57H04M1/65H04M1/663H04M1/724H04M1/72451H04W8/18
CPCH04M1/57H04M1/642H04M1/663H04M1/72566H04W4/16H04W4/20H04M1/6505H04M1/72519H04W4/12H04W8/18H04W8/26H04W76/02H04W88/02H04W88/06H04W76/10H04M1/724H04M1/72451
Inventor KINOSHITA, MASAKI
Owner RPX CORP