Mobile radio terminal

• US 20030083022A1
• Filed: 10/01/2002
• Published: 05/01/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 10/01/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Mobile Communications Limited (Fujitsu Limited)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Oomori, Hajime, Igarashi, Junichi, Wagai, Kiyoshi, Tsukui, Yasuhiro
• Granted Patent: US 6,895,239 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/90.3
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0214 Foldable telephones, i.e. with body parts pivoting to an open position around an axis parallel to the plane they define in closed position combined with translation movement H04M1/0235
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0245 using open/close detection
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/27453 Directories allowing storage of additional subscriber data, e.g. metadata
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/57 Arrangements for indicating or recording the number of the calling subscriber at the called subscriber's set at the operator set in a manual exchange H04M5/20
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/663 Preventing unauthorised calls to a telephone set
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/724 User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones

Abstract

A folding detecting unit detects whether or not the corresponding mobile radio terminal is in the folded state. A storage unit stores phone numbers of mobile terminals and automatic response data in the form of a table. A communication control unit refers to information stored in the storage unit when an incoming call occurs and, when the folding detecting unit detects that the terminal is changed from the folded or closed state to the unfolded or opened state, responds to the incoming call to initiate communication according to the automatic response data for the originating terminal.

Claims

1. A mobile radio terminal having a structure capable of opening or closing a housing, comprising:

incoming call detecting means for detecting the occurrence of an incoming call;

opening or closing detecting means for detecting the opening or closing of the housing; and

communication control means responsive to the opening or closing detecting means for responding to the incoming call to initiate communication when the housing is changed from the closed state to the opened state.

2. A mobile radio terminal according to claim 1, further comprising:

storage means for storing identification information on communicating parties and predetermined setting information in association with each other; and

originating terminal detecting means for detecting identification information on an originating terminal presented from the base station when an incoming call is received,

wherein the communication control means responds to the incoming call to initiate communication when the setting information which the storage means stores in association with the identification information detected by the originating terminal detecting means satisfies a predetermined condition and the opening or closing detecting means detects that the terminal is changed from the closed state to the open state.

3. A mobile radio terminal according to claim 1, further comprising:

first storage means for storing identification information on communicating parties and group information indicating groups which the communication parties belong to, in association with each other;

second storage means for storing the group information and predetermined setting information; and

originating terminal detecting means for detecting identification information on an originating terminal presented from the base station when an incoming call is received,

wherein the communication control means determines whether the setting information associated with a group corresponding to the identification information detected by the originating terminal detecting means satisfies a predetermined condition, based on information stored in the first and second storage means, and responds to the incoming call to initiate communication when the setting information is determined to satisfy the predetermined condition and the opening or closing detecting means detects that the terminal is changed from the closed state to the open state.