Mobile telephone

• US 20070232259A1
• Filed: 03/29/2007
• Published: 10/04/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 03/30/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sanyo Electric Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Sanyo Electric Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Kato, Makoto, Shiga, Noritake
• Granted Patent: US 8,422,985 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/404.100
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 11/04 with alarm systems, e.g. fire, police or burglar alarm systems

Abstract

A mobile telephone 2 stores a telephone number and address for data communication of an emergency service in a storage unit, and has a function for acquiring position information showing its own position. If the mobile telephone 2 is outside the range of a 1× network 4 when a telephone number of another party is designated, the mobile telephone 2 checks whether or not the designated telephone number is a telephone number of an emergency service. When the designated telephone number is confirmed to be the telephone number of an emergency service, the mobile telephone 2 retrieves the address of the emergency service from the storage unit, and sends an emergency notification that includes the position information over the EVDO network 5 with the retrieved address as the destination. The emergency notification message reaches a server 3b of the emergency service via the EVDO network 5.

Claims

1. A mobile telephone including a voice communication function for performing voice communication and a data communication function for performing data communication, the mobile telephone comprising:

a storage unit operable to store a telephone number and an address for the data communication function;

a retrieval unit operable to retrieve the stored address from the storage unit, in a case of voice communication not being possible when the voice communication is attempted to the stored telephone number; and

an execution unit operable to cause a message to be transmitted by way of the data communication function using the retrieved address as a destination.

2. The mobile telephone of claim 1, further comprising:

an acquisition unit operable to acquire position information,

wherein the execution unit performs the transmission of the message with the acquired position information incorporated in the message.

3. The mobile telephone of claim 1, wherein

the stored telephone number is a telephone number of an emergency service, and the stored address is an address of the emergency service.

4. The mobile telephone of claim 1, wherein

the case of the voice communication not being possible is a case of the mobile telephone being outside an area where voice communication using the voice communication function is possible.

5. The mobile telephone of claim 1, wherein

the execution unit executes the transmission of the message a plurality of times.

6. A notification method used by a mobile telephone that includes a voice communication function for performing voice communication and a data communication function for performing data communication, the notification method comprising:

a retrieval step of retrieving an address for the communication function from a storage unit operable to store a telephone number and the address, in a case of voice communication not being possible when the voice communication is attempted to the stored telephone number; and

an execution step of causing a message to be transmitted by way of the data communication function using the retrieved address as a destination.

7. A notification program used in a mobile telephone that includes a voice communication function for performing voice communication and a data communication function for performing data communication, and a storage unit operable to store a telephone number and an address for the data communication function, the notification program causing the mobile telephone to function as:

a retrieval unit operable to retrieve the stored address from the storage unit, in a case of voice communication not being possible when the voice communication is attempted to the stored telephone number; and

an execution unit operable to cause a message to be transmitted by way of the data communication function using the retrieved address as a destination.