Communication system and communication apparatus

• US 20040235535A1
• Filed: 05/19/2004
• Published: 11/25/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 05/20/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Kitada, Takashi, Kajiwara, Yoshitatsu
• Application Number:
  US10/848,404
• Publication Number:
  US 20040235535A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/573
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72502 with one base station connected to a single line
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices

Abstract

In a communication system arranged by a cordless handset, a base unit, and a charging base, the charging base is constructed by employing a cordless handset power supply unit for charging a secondary battery of the cordless handset; a portable terminal appliance power supply unit for charging the portable terminal appliance; and further, a data transmitting and receiving unit capable of transmitting and receiving data between the portable terminal appliance and the cordless handset data storage unit. With employment of this arrangement, the data transmitting and receiving unit of the charging base transmits and receives data between the portable terminal appliance and the cordless handset, and transfers a telephone number from the cordless handset to the portable terminal appliance, or from the portable terminal appliance to the cordless handset. This transferred telephone number can be utilized so as to make a telephone call. Also, data which is entered to the portable terminal appliance is transmitted via the charging base and the cordless handset to a base unit data storage unit, so that this data can be utilized by the base unit.

Claims

1. A communication apparatus comprising:

a base unit equipped with a mother wireless unit for transmitting and receiving data between the own base unit and a cordless handset in a wireless manner;

a cordless handset including;

a cordless handset wireless unit for transmitting and receiving data between the own cordless handset and the base unit in a wireless manner;

a cordless handset secondary battery which constitutes a power supply;

a cordless handset data storage unit capable of storing data; and

a cordless handset voice output unit for outputting voice; and

a charging base including;

a cordless handset power supply unit for charging said cordless handset secondary buttery;

a portable terminal appliance power supply unit for charging a portable terminal appliance; and

a data transmitting and receiving unit capable of transmitting and receiving data between the portable terminal appliance and said cordless handset data storage unit;

wherein since the data is transmitted and received between the portable terminal appliance and the cordless handset by the data transmitting/receiving unit of said charging base, the data which is acquired on the side of the portable terminal appliance is transferred to the data storage unit employed in the cordless handset.

2. A communication apparatus comprising:

a cordless handset including;

a cordless handset data storage unit capable of storing thereinto data;

a cordless handset data control unit for controlling operation of the cordless handset by utilizing said data stored in said cordless handset data storage unit;

a cordless handset display unit for displaying thereon various sorts of information;

a cordless handset voice output unit for outputting voice;

a cordless handset wireless unit for transmitting and receiving data between the own cordless handset and the base unit in a wireless manner; and

a cordless handset secondary battery which constitutes a power supply of said cordless handset;

a base unit including;

a base unit data storage unit capable of storing thereinto data;

a base unit data control unit for controlling operation of the base unit by utilizing said data stored in said base unit data storage unit;

a base unit display unit for displaying thereon various sorts of information;

a base unit voice output unit for outputting voice; and

a base unit wireless unit for transmitting and receiving data between the own base unit and the cordless handset in a wireless manner; and

a charging base including;

a cordless handset power supply unit for charging said cordless handset secondary battery;

a portable terminal appliance power supply unit for charging said portable terminal appliance; and

a data transmitting and receiving unit capable of transmitting and receiving data between the portable terminal appliance and the cordless handset data storage unit.

3. A communication system comprising:

a base unit equipped with a mother wireless unit for transmitting and receiving data between the own base unit and a cordless handset in a wireless manner;

a cordless handset including;

a cordless handset wireless unit for transmitting and receiving data between the own cordless handset and the base unit in a wireless manner;

a cordless handset secondary battery which constitutes a power supply;

a cordless handset data storage unit capable of storing data; and

a cordless handset voice output unit for outputting voice;

a charging base including;

a cordless handset power supply unit for charging said cordless handset secondary buttery;

a portable terminal appliance power supply unit for charging a portable terminal appliance; and

a data transmitting and receiving unit capable of transmitting and receiving data between the portable terminal appliance and said cordless handset data storage unit; and

a portable terminal appliance including;

a portable terminal appliance data storage unit capable of storing data;

a portable terminal appliance display unit for displaying thereon various sorts of information;

a portable terminal appliance voice output unit for outputting voice; and

a portable terminal appliance secondary battery which constitutes a power supply,

wherein under such a condition that both the portable terminal appliance and the cordless handset are set to said charging base, both said portable terminal appliance power supply unit and said cordless handset power supply unit charge both said portable terminal apparatus secondary battery and the cordless handset secondary battery, and also, the data transmitting and receiving unit of said charging base can transmit and receive the data between the portable terminal appliance and the cordless handset.

5. A communication system as claimed in claim 3 or 4, wherein the data which is intended to be transmitted and received between said portable terminal appliance and said cordless handset, or between said cordless handset and said base unit, or between said portable terminal appliance and said base unit corresponds to a telephone number.

6. A communication system as claimed in claim 3 or 4, wherein the data which is intended to be transmitted and received between said portable terminal appliance and said cordless handset, or between said cordless handset and said base unit, or between said portable terminal appliance and said base unit corresponds to music such as telephone-calling melody.

7. A communication system as claimed in claim 3 or 4, wherein the data which is intended to be transmitted and received between said portable terminal appliance and said cordless handset, or between said cordless handset and said base unit, or between said portable terminal appliance and said base unit corresponds to an image such as a still image and a moving picture.

8. A communication system as claimed in claim 3 or 4, wherein the data which is intended to be transmitted and received between said portable terminal appliance and said cordless handset, or between said cordless handset and said base unit, or between said portable terminal appliance and said base unit corresponds to an electronic mail, or an address of an electronic mail.

9. A communication system as claimed in claim 3 or 4, wherein said base unit includes a base unit network which is connectable to an external information network such as the Internet.

10. A communication system as claimed in claim 3 or 4, wherein said base unit includes a base unit printing unit for printing data which is derived from said base unit data storage unit.

11. A communication system as claimed in claim 3 or 4, wherein said cordless handset data storage unit is comprised of a function for recognizing individual information of a portable terminal appliance connected to said cordless handset, and for storing said data in an individual manner.

12. A communication system as claimed in claim 3 or 4, wherein said cordless handset data storage unit is comprised of a protection function of data by way of a code number.

13. A communication system as claimed in claim 3 or 4, further comprising:

a base unit capable of transmitting and receiving data with respect to plural sets of said cordless handsets and plural sets of said portable terminal appliances in a wireless manner.

14. A communication system as claimed in claim 3 or 4, further comprising:

a communication cable equipped with such a function by which a charging current for charging a secondary battery employed in a portable terminal appliance is supplied from said charging base, and a signal for transmitting/receiving data between the portable terminal appliance and the cordless handset is penetrated through said communication cable.

4. A communication system comprising:

a cordless handset including;

a cordless handset data storage unit capable of storing thereinto data;

a cordless handset data control unit for controlling operation of the cordless handset by utilizing said data stored in said cordless handset data storage unit;

a cordless handset display unit for displaying thereon various sorts of information;

a cordless handset voice output unit for outputting voice;

a cordless handset wireless unit for transmitting and receiving data between the own cordless handset and the base unit in a wireless manner; and

a cordless handset secondary battery which constitutes a power supply of said cordless handset;

a base unit including;

a base unit data storage unit capable of storing thereinto data;

a base unit data control unit for controlling operation of the base unit by utilizing said data stored in said base unit data storage unit;

a base unit display unit for displaying thereon various sorts of information;

a base unit voice output unit for outputting voice; and

a base unit wireless unit for transmitting and receiving data between the own base unit and the cordless handset in a wireless manner;

a portable terminal appliance including;

a portable terminal appliance data storage unit capable of storing thereinto data;

a portable terminal appliance data control unit for controlling operation of the portable terminal appliance by utilizing said data stored in said portable terminal appliance data storage unit;

a portable terminal appliance display unit for displaying thereon various sorts of information;

a portable terminal appliance voice output unit for outputting voice; and

a portable terminal appliance secondary battery which constitutes a power supply of said portable terminal appliance; and

a charging base including;

a portable terminal appliance power supply unit for charging said portable terminal appliance;

a cordless handset power supply unit for charging said cordless handset secondary battery; and

a data transmitting/receiving unit capable of transmitting/receiving data between the portable terminal appliance and the cordless handset data storage unit.