Drilling method

• US 20060258366A1
• Filed: 03/23/2004
• Published: 11/16/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 04/08/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Oki, Katsumi, Ueno, Tsuyoshi
• Application Number:
  US10/548,973
• Publication Number:
  US 20060258366A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/456.100
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72436 for text messaging, e.g. short messaging services [SMS] or e-mails
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72451 according to schedules, e.g. using calendar applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72457 according to geographic location
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/10 including a GPS signal receiver

Abstract

A subject of the present invention is to provide a mobile terminal device capable of informing an appointed person of the information that the user of the mobile terminal device will be late for an appointment, irrespective of the user'"'"'s situation. A mobile terminal device (100) includes a position sense portion (1) for measuring a present position, a communication portion (2) for transmitting/receiving an E-mail, a clock portion (3) for measuring a current time, an input portion (4) and a display portion (5) used when the user executes operations, and a control portion (6) for controlling an operation of the mobile terminal device (100). The user inputs appointed time, place, and person via the input portion (4), and then the control portion (6) sends the E-mail containing information of user'"'"'s present position, or the like to the appointed person to inform automatically the appointed person of user'"'"'s present position when user'"'"'s present position sensed by the position sense portion (1) at the appointed time does not match with the appointed place.

Claims

1. A mobile terminal device having a position sensing function, comprising:

a recording unit that records information regarding an appointed time, an appointed place, and an appointed person; and

a controlling unit that controls to send information indicating that a user is late for an appointment to the appointed person when position information sensed by the position sensing function at the appointed time does not match with the information of the appointed place.

2. The mobile terminal device according to claim 1, wherein the information indicating that the user is late for the appointment contains information of user'"'"'s current position sensed by the position sensing function, and

wherein the controlling unit controls to send repeatedly the information indicating that the user is late for the appointment.