Portable radio telephone

• US 20030120787A1
• Filed: 11/06/2002
• Published: 06/26/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 03/07/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Yamamoto, Osamu, Yokoi, Shigeki
• Application Number:
  US10/275,519
• Publication Number:
  US 20030120787A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/229
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/27453 Directories allowing storage of additional subscriber data, e.g. metadata
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/27475 using interactive graphical means or pictorial representations
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/2748 by matching character strings
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72403 with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72436 for text messaging, e.g. short messaging services [SMS] or e-mails
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72445 for supporting Internet browser applications

Abstract

An object of the present invention is to provide a portable wireless telephone apparatus in which while information provided on the Internet is viewed, a connection address of a communication counter party is automatically retrieved by designating/selecting an arbitrary character string among the viewed information so as to improve operability thereof.

To achieve the above-described object, in a portable wireless telephone apparatus “A” of the present invention, for connecting lines among a plurality of wireless base stations through wireless channels, which are wire-connected to a switching station, so as to view information provided on the Internet, an arbitrary character string present in the above-described information under observation is collated with a registered character string of telephone directory information stored in the own portable wireless telephone apparatus, when a detection is made of such a fact that the selected arbitrary character string has been registered in the telephone directory information, and a communication counter party corresponding to this arbitrary character string has been registered in the telephone directory information, a control unit 5 sets a telephone communication to this communication counter party.

Claims

1. A portable wireless telephone apparatus for connecting lines among a plurality of wireless base stations through wireless channels, which are wire-connected to a switching station, so as to view information provided on the Internet, comprising:

retrieving means for collating an arbitrary character string present in said information under observation with a registered character string of telephone directory information stored in the own portable wireless telephone apparatus; and

control means operated in such a manner that when said retrieving means detects that a selected arbitrary character string is registered in said telephone directory information and a communication counter party corresponding to said arbitrary character string has been registered in said telephone directory information, said control means sets a telephone communication to said communication counter party.

2. A portable wireless telephone apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein:

said telephone directory information includes an identification information item for registering thereinto an arbitrary character string,

wherein said portable wireless telephone apparatus comprises means for setting as to whether or not the information registered into said identification information item is such an object to be retrieved by said retrieving means.

3. A portable wireless telephone apparatus as claimed in claim 1, or claim 2, comprising:

means operated in such a manner that when a selected arbitrary character string is not present in said telephone directory information, said selected arbitrary character string is registered into said telephone directory information.

4. A portable wireless telephone apparatus as claimed in any one of claim 1 to claim 3 wherein:

said control means sets a telephone communication for executing a connecting process operation which is selected from a connecting process operation of a voice telephone communication, a connecting process operation of an electronic mail, and a connecting process operation to the information provided on the Internet.

5. A portable wireless telephone apparatus as claimed in any one of claim 1 to claim 4, comprising:

counting means for counting a use frequent degree as to each of a connecting process operation of a voice telephone communication to a communication counter party, a connecting process operation of an electronic mail, and a connecting process operation to the information provided on the Internet; and

said control means sets the telephone communication as to such a connecting process operation whose count value counted by said counting means becomes the largest count value.

6. A portable wireless telephone apparatus as claimed in claim 5, comprising:

means for invalidating the counting process operation by said counting means.

7. A portable wireless telephone apparatus as claimed in any one of claim 1 to claim 6 wherein:

said selection of said arbitrary character string from the information under display is carried out by operating a button key of an input unit.

8. A portable wireless telephone apparatus as claimed in claim 7 wherein:

the character strings which have been registered in said telephone directory information among the information under display are displayed in a discriminatable manner with respect to other character strings, and said selection of the arbitrary character string is made from the character strings displayed in the discriminatable manner.

9. A portable wireless telephone apparatus for connecting lines among a plurality of wireless base stations through wireless channels, which are wire-connected to a switching station, so as to display accessed information provided on the Internet on a screen, comprising:

telephone directory information storage means operated in such a manner that when an arbitrary character string contained in said information displayed on the screen is designated/selected by input means, said arbitrary character string is registered into the telephone directory information storage means in relation to a transmitting destination address.

10. A portable wireless telephone apparatus as claimed in claim 9, comprising:

means for automatically recognizing as to whether or not said designated/selected arbitrary character string corresponds to any one of a telephone number, an electronic mail address, and an address of the information provided on the Internet, and for automatically setting the automatically-recognized arbitrary character string to a relevant item of said telephone directory information storage means.

11. A portable wireless telephone apparatus as claimed in claim 9, or claim 10 wherein:

in addition to items for registering “

name”

, “

telephone number”

, “

electronic mail address”

, and “

address of information provided on the Internet”

respectively, such an item for classifying the arbitrary character string to register therein the classified arbitrary character strings is provided in said telephone directory information storage means.

12. A portable wireless telephone apparatus as claimed in any one of claim 9 to claim 11, comprising:

control means operated in such a manner that while the accessed information provided on the Internet is viewed, an arbitrary character string located in said information is designated/selected by the input means and said designated/selected arbitrary character string has been registered in said telephone directory information storage means, said control means sets a telephone communication to a transmitting destination address corresponding to said arbitrary character string.