Information transmission and reception system and server apparatus

• US 20020013142A1
• Filed: 05/15/2001
• Published: 01/31/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 05/18/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Yugenkaisha Kotoh Jimusho
• Original Assignee: Yugenkaisha Kotoh Jimusho
• Inventors: Koto, Akira
• Application Number:
  US09/858,199
• Publication Number:
  US 20020013142A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/410
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/725 Cordless telephones user interfaces specially adapted therefor H04M1/724

Abstract

It is an object of the present invention to provide an information transmission and reception system and server apparatus which make it possible to realize the broadening of scope of utilization forms of information transmission and reception apparatuses, and facilitate the keeping of information data secrecy. An information transmission and reception system using portable phones as the information transmission and reception apparatus which performs the transmission and/or reception of information data via an ordinary telephone line in a predetermined area, wherein said system is characterized in that, in a limited area different from said predetermined area, it uses said portable phones as the information transmission and reception apparatus capable of performing the transmission and/or reception of information data.

Claims

1. An information transmission and reception system using portable phones as an information transmission and reception apparatus carrying out the transmission and reception of information data via an ordinary telephone line in a predetermined area, wherein

said system employs said portable phones as an information terminal apparatus capable of transmitting and/or receiving information data exclusively used in a limited area different from said predetermined area.

2. An information transmission and reception system using an information terminal apparatus capable of transmitting and receiving information data by a telecommunication network utilizing an ordinary telecommunication line in a predetermined area, wherein

said system is provided with a server apparatus performing the transmission and/or reception of information data for said information terminal apparatus located in a limited area different from said predetermined area via a telecommunication network for the exclusive use in said limited area which is different from the said telecommunication network.

3. An information transmission and reception system according to claim 2, wherein

said system uses portable phones as said information terminal apparatus to make the communication connection with said server apparatus in said limited area using a number different from the telephone number used in said predetermined area.

4. A server apparatus capable of transmitting and/or receiving information data via a telecommunication network using a telecommunication line in a predetermined area, and performing the transmission and/or reception of information data for information terminal apparatuses located in a limited area different from said predetermined area via a telecommunication network for the exclusive use in said limited area different from the aforesaid telecommunication network.

5. A server apparatus according to claim 4, wherein said server apparatus receives information data from a plurality of said information terminal apparatuses, respectively, to store and process them.