Mobile terminal with call function or texting function, or a function as a game terminal, game program and game method executed by mobile terminal

• US 10,179,292 B2
• Filed: 03/16/2018
• Issued: 01/15/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 07/14/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Yoshinori Matsumoto
• Original Assignee: Yoshinori Matsumoto
• Inventors: Matsumoto, Yoshinori
• Primary Examiner(s): Ferguson, Keith
• Application Number:
  US15/923,549
• Publication Number:
  US 20180200632A1
• Time in Patent Office: 305 Days
• Field of Search: 455567, 4555501, 4554121, 4554122, 455441, 455566, 4555751, 4555561, 455 73, 4554221, 455403, 455418-420, 455 411- 413, 3405391, 34053911, 340670, 340461
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/87 Communicating with other players during game play, e.g. by e-mail or chat
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/3833 Hand-held transceivers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1895 for short real-time information, e.g. alarms, notifications, alerts, updates
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/28 characterised by path configuration, e.g. LAN [Local Area Networks] or WAN [Wide Area Networks] wireless communication networks H04W ; arrangements for dividing the transmission path H04W40/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2012/5671 Support of voice
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/64 Automatic arrangements for answering calls; Automatic arrangements for recording messages for absent subscribers; Arrangements for recording conversations centralised dictation systems H04M11/10
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72454 according to context-related or environment-related conditions
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72463 to restrict the functionality of the device
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/14 Short messaging services, e.g. short message services [SMS] or unstructured supplementary service data [USSD]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 64/006 with additional information processing, e.g. for direction or speed determination
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices

Abstract

The present invention provides a mobile terminal with a call function or a texting function. The present invention controls the use of a mobile terminal by a manual operation because of an incoming call during movement. Location information indicating movement of a mobile terminal with a call or a message data exchange function is received by a GPS receiver, the distance and the movement speed are determined by using the measurement information of the two locations at every predetermined time, and whether or not the mobile terminal is moving in accordance with the movement speed is determined by a movement determination unit. When it is determined by the movement determination unit that the mobile terminal is moving, the display of incoming call information indicating an incoming call is set to non-displayed on the display unit, and at the same time, a notification sound from a speaker, etc. is invalid.

Claims

1. A mobile terminal, comprising:

a communication unit;

a display unit which displays various types of information;

a movement information reception unit which acquires information indicating movement of the mobile terminal, if any;

a movement determination unit which determines a speed at which the mobile terminal is moving, if at all, on the basis of the information that is acquired by the movement information reception unit;

an operation unit that executes an application;

a data storage unit;

a control unit; and

program instructions stored within the data storage unit which, when executed by the control unit, cause the control unit of the mobile terminal to execute the following processes;

causing the movement determination unit to determine a movement speed of the mobile terminal; and

when the mobile terminal is determined to be moving in accordance with one of a plurality of predefined speed categories, employing display data and causing an execution-instructional input to be made to an application being executed by the operation unit to thereby prohibit or set and restrict, in a non-display manner and while the mobile terminal is moving, an update of a display of an application screen that would otherwise prompt a user input to the operation unit for the application.

2. The mobile terminal according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of speed categories includes a first speed category and a second speed category having speeds that are greater than speeds within the first speed category, and the program instructions cause the control unit to execute the following processes:

a process of restricting an update of the application screen when the movement speed of the mobile terminal is determined to be within the first speed category; and

a process of restricting control which restricts an update of the application screen so that an application can be executed even while in movement when the movement speed of the mobile terminal is determined to be within the second speed category.

3. An application control method for executing a program on a mobile terminal having a call function and/or a texting function and an application-execution function for executing an application, the method comprising the following processes:

downloading the application program by a calling or message-data communication unit of the mobile terminal;

executing the downloaded application program by a control unit, and according to an application operation exerted by an operation unit that is connected to the control unit, causing a display unit that is connected to the control unit to display a variety of application screens, including information prompting a further operation exerted by the operation unit;

acquiring information indicating movement of the mobile terminal, if any, and determining a speed with which the mobile terminal is moving; and

depending on which of a plurality of speed categories the movement speed of the mobile terminal belongs to,

     1) prohibiting or setting in a non-display manner an update that would otherwise include display data generated by the application program and that would prompt a user input to an application being executed on the mobile terminal, or

     2) updating a display of the application in such a manner as to prompt a user input for the operation unit for the application even while the mobile terminal is moving.

4. The application control method according to claim 3, wherein

the plurality of speed categories includes a first speed category and a second speed category having speeds that are greater than speeds within the first speed category;

and

the control unit restricts updating of the application screen when the movement speed of the mobile terminal is determined to fall within the first speed category and releases control, which restricts updating of the application screen, so that an application can be executed even while the mobile terminal is moving when the movement speed of the mobile terminal is determined to fall within the second speed category.

5. A mobile terminal, comprising:

a communication unit;

a display unit which displays various types of information;

a movement information reception unit which acquires information indicating movement of the mobile terminal, if any;

a movement determination unit which determines a speed at which the mobile terminal is moving, if at all, on the basis of the information that is acquired by the movement information reception unit;

an operation unit that executes an application;

a data storage unit;

a control unit; and

program instructions stored within the data storage unit which, when executed by the control unit, cause the control unit of the mobile terminal to execute the following processes;

causing the movement determination unit to determine a movement speed of the mobile terminal; and

awarding points upon the occurrence of various event during play of an application on the mobile terminal,

wherein, for at least some of the events, the number of points awarded upon the occurrence of a given event varies depending on the speed at which the mobile terminal is moving.

6. The mobile terminal according to claim 5, wherein, for at least some of the events, fewer points are awarded upon the occurrence of a given event when the mobile terminal is moving at one speed than are awarded upon the occurrence of the given event when the mobile terminal is moving at another speed that is less than said one speed.