Mobile telephone

• US 20030177068A1
• Filed: 03/28/2003
• Published: 09/18/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 09/28/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Takashi Fujimoto
• Original Assignee: Takashi Fujimoto
• Inventors: Fujimoto, Takashi
• Granted Patent: US 7,363,252 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/18
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/105 involving programming of a portable memory device, e.g. IC cards, "electronic purses"
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/12 specially adapted for electronic shopping systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/20 Point-of-sale [POS] network systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/32 using wireless devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/3223 Realising banking transactions through M-devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0633 Lists, e.g. purchase orders, compilation or processing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/083 using passwords cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication using a predetermined code H04L9/3226
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0202 Portable telephone sets, e.g. cordless phones, mobile phones or bar type handsets constructional features of telephone transmitters or receivers, e.g. of speakers or microphones H04M1/03
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/673 the user being required to key in a code
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/724 User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/06 Authentication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/126 Anti-theft arrangements, e.g. protection against subscriber identity module [SIM] cloning
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices

Abstract

A portable telephone is provided with a transmission and reception unit 9, a control unit 10, a speaker 6, a display unit 5, a code reader unit 11, an operation input section 4, a microphone 3, and a storage unit 12. The storage unit 12 is provided with a telephone number memory 13, a password-data memory 14, and a personal-attribute memory 15. A buyer scans a code, in which product information is encoded, using the code reader unit 11, and enters password data via the operation input section 4. The control unit 10 performs a comparison of the entered password data and password data previously stored in the password-data memory 14. After the comparison, the transmission and reception unit 9 transmits via an antenna the product information, the telephone number stored in the telephone number memory 13, and personal-attribute data stored in the personal-attribute memory 15 to a mobile telephone company. The transmitted information is used in settlement of the sales amount.

Claims

1. A mobile telephone apparatus comprising an operation input section, a storage unit in which password data is stored, and a control unit for determining whether password data entered from the operation input section and the password data stored in the storage unit match.

2. A mobile telephone apparatus comprising an operation input section, a code reader unit for scanning encoded product information, a storage unit in which password data is stored, a control unit for determining whether password data entered from the operation input section and the password data stored in the storage unit match, and a transmission and reception unit which transmits to a mobile telephone company the product information and individual-identifying information on condition that both pieces of password data match.

3. A mobile telephone apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the individual-identifying information transmitted by the transmission and reception unit is a telephone number, and this telephone number is stored in the storage unit.

4. A mobile telephone apparatus according to claim 2 or claim 3, wherein personal-attribute data is stored in the storage unit, and the transmission and reception unit is configured so as to transmit the product information, the individual-identifying information, and the personal-attribute data to the mobile telephone company.

5. A mobile telephone apparatus according to claim 2 or claim 3, wherein the product information includes purchase restriction information based on the personal attributes, the personal-attribute data being stored in the storage unit, the control unit performs a comparison of the purchase restriction information and the personal-attribute data, and the transmission and reception unit is configured so as to transmit the product information and the individual-identifying information to the mobile telephone company only when a purchase is not restricted.

6. A mobile telephone apparatus comprising an operation input section, a storage unit in which password data is stored, a control unit for determining whether password data entered from the operation input section and the password data stored in the storage unit match, and a display unit for displaying coded individual-identifying information on condition that both pieces of password data match.

7. A mobile telephone apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the individual-identifying information is a telephone numbers and this telephone number is stored in the storage unit.

8. A mobile telephone apparatus according to claim 6 or claim 7, wherein personal-attribute data is stored in the storage unit, and the mobile telephone apparatus is configured so as to display the personal-attribute data on the display unit in an encoded form.