MOBILE TERMINAL AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM

• US 20070140198A1
• Filed: 12/20/2006
• Published: 06/21/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 12/21/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Original Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Inventors: FUJITA, Masanori
• Granted Patent: US 7,929,488 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/338
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/32 Arrangements for monitoring conditions of receiving stations, e.g. malfunction or breakdown of receiving stations
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/80 characterised by transmission among terminal devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72439 for image or video messaging
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices

Abstract

A mobile terminal and a communication system that can prevent user errors in transferring data are provided. In the communication system related to the present invention, the mobile terminal decides on a transfer of the video data from the storage device when a predetermined transfer condition has been satisfied. Thus, any decisions or specified operations are not required of the user at the time of the transfer, therefore, the transfer of the video data from the storage device to the mobile terminal is carried out without the user being especially cognizant of the operation. Accordingly, the communication system can prevent a situation in which the user forgets to transfer the video data to the mobile terminal due to carelessness.

Claims

1. A communication system in which video data is transferred through wireless communication from a storage device storing the video data, to a mobile terminal,

wherein the mobile terminal comprises:

determining module for determining whether a predetermined transfer condition has been satisfied;

transfer deciding module for deciding on a transfer of the video data from the storage device when the determining module determines that the transfer condition has been satisfied; and

requesting module for transmitting a transfer request for the video data to the storage device when the transfer deciding module decides on the transfer of the video data.

2. The communication system according to claim 1, wherein the transfer condition is that the mobile terminal is being charged.

3. The communication system according to claim 1, wherein the transfer condition is that a predetermined time has been reached.

4. The communication system according to claim 1, wherein the transfer condition is that a predetermined duration of time has passed.

5. The communication system according to claim 1, wherein the transfer condition is that communication has been established between the storage device and the mobile terminal.

6. The communication system according to claim 1, wherein the transfer condition is that the mobile terminal has received predetermined information from the storage device.

7. The communication system according to claim 1, wherein a plurality of the video data items are stored in the storage device so that the plurality of the video data items are distinguishable,

the mobile terminal further comprises transfer data selecting module which selects the video data to be transferred from the storage device from among the plurality of video data items stored in the storage device on the basis of a predetermined selection condition, and

the requesting module transmits a transfer request for the video data selected by the transfer data selecting module when the transfer of the video data has been decided on by the transfer deciding module.

8. The communication system according to claim 1, further comprising deleting module for deleting the video data from a storage module of the mobile terminal which stores the video data transferred from the storage device.

9. The communication system according to claim 8, wherein a plurality of the video data items are stored in the storage module so that the plurality of the video data items are distinguishable,

the mobile terminal further comprises delete data selecting module for selecting the video data to be deleted from among the plurality of video data items stored in the storage module on the basis of a predetermined selection condition, and

the deleting module deletes the video data selected by the delete data selecting module.

10. A mobile terminal applied to a communication system for transfer of video data through wireless communication from a storage device in which the video data is stored, to the mobile terminal,

wherein the mobile terminal comprises:

determining module for determining whether a predetermined transfer condition has been satisfied;

transfer deciding module for deciding on a transfer of the video data from the storage device when the determining module determines that the transfer condition has been satisfied; and

requesting module for transmitting a transfer request for the video data to the storage device when the transfer deciding module decides on the transfer of the video data.

11. A communication system in which digital content is transferred through wireless communication from a storage device storing the digital content to a mobile terminal,

wherein the mobile terminal comprises:

determining module for determining whether a predetermined transfer condition has been satisfied;

transfer deciding module for deciding on a transfer of the digital content from the storage device when the determining module determines that the transfer condition has been satisfied; and

requesting module for transmitting a transfer request for the digital content to the storage device when the transfer deciding module decides on a transfer of the digital content.