Telecommunication terminal equipment responding with electronic mail containing schedule and response method using electronic mail containing schedule

• US 20020172340A1
• Filed: 05/16/2002
• Published: 11/21/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 05/21/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Lenovo Innovations Ltd Hong Kong (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Kato, Kenichi
• Granted Patent: US 6,961,409 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 379/201.01
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/575 Means for retrieving and displaying personal data about calling party
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/663 Preventing unauthorised calls to a telephone set
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/7243 with interactive means for internal management of messages
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72451 according to schedules, e.g. using calendar applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2203/2072 Schedules, e.g. personal calendars
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42 Systems providing special services or facilities to subscribers specially adapted for wireless communication networks H04W4/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42059 Making use of the calling party identifier
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/5322 for recording text messages
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 379/90 Internet, e.g. Internet phone, webphone, internet-based telephony

Abstract

If there is an incoming voice call to a telecommunication terminal equipment, a response cannot be instantly made to the call and a caller'"'"'s telephone number and an electronic mail address associated with the caller'"'"'s telephone number are registered with a telephone directory, then a document prepared in advance and a document automatically formed out of latest schedule data and time are automatically transmitted to the electronic mail address over electronic mail. Therefore, the latest schedule data of a called person is transmitted as a part of a content of a transmitted voice message or a content of document information and a caller can be notified of information.

Claims

1. A telecommunication terminal equipment responding with an electronic mail containing a schedule to a call, comprising:

a memory for storing a telephone directory in which telephone numbers and electronic mail addresses are associated to each other;

a memory for storing a schedule data;

means for receiving a call;

means for determining whether or not a telephone number is notified in said call;

means for, if a telephone number is notified in said call, retrieving an electronic mail address corresponding to said telephone number from said telephone directory;

means for obtaining a date and time when receiving said call;

means for retrieving a schedule in a predetermined period starting from said date and time from said schedule data; and

means for sending an electronic mail containing said schedule to said electronic mail address.

2. The telecommunication terminal equipment as set forth in claim 1, further comprising:

means for detecting a change of said schedule data;

means for detecting persons to whom said electronic mails have been sent but with whom conversations on the equipment have not been had; and

means for sending electronic mails containing the changed schedule to electronic mail addresses of the detected persons.

3. A method for responding with an electronic mail containing a schedule to a call, comprising the steps of:

providing a memory for storing a telephone directory in which telephone numbers and electronic mail addresses are associated to each other;

providing a memory for storing a schedule data;

receiving a call;

determining whether or not a telephone number is notified in said call;

if a telephone number is notified in said call, retrieving an electronic mail address corresponding to said telephone number from said telephone directory;

obtaining a date and time when receiving said call;

retrieving a schedule in a predetermined period starting from said date and time from said schedule data; and

sending an electronic mail containing said schedule to said electronic mail address.

4. The method as set forth in claim 3, further comprising the steps of:

detecting a change of said schedule data;

detecting persons to whom said electronic mails have been sent but with whom conversations on a telecommunication terminal equipment have not been had; and

sending electronic mails containing the changed schedule to electronic mail addresses of the detected persons.