Mobile Terminal And Mobile Terminal Control Method

• US 20070281730A1
• Filed: 12/15/2004
• Published: 12/06/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 01/08/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sanyo Electric Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Sanyo Electric Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Ichi, Masao
• Application Number:
  US10/585,300
• Publication Number:
  US 20070281730A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/550.100
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/2745 using static electronic memories, e.g. chips
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/27453 Directories allowing storage of additional subscriber data, e.g. metadata
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72418 for supporting emergency services

Abstract

The present invention aims at offering a mobile terminal capable of obtaining information related to the purpose of the caller who made a communication request in an emergency or business situation while the connection to the communication request destination is not established. If determining that establishment of a communication connection requires time after a communication request to a telephone number registered to the channel select information table 901 stored in the information storage unit 130 was made, the control unit 200 instructs the broadcast receiving unit 170 to receive broadcast according to a registered channel information piece in association with the telephone number in the channel information table. In addition, when a reply signal indicating that the establishment of the communication connection is currently not possible, the control unit retransmits the request until predetermined number of retransmission is reached.

Claims

1. A mobile terminal having a telephone function and a broadcast receiving function, comprising:

a storage unit storing one or more telephone numbers, each of which is associated with one or more channel information pieces;

a judging unit operable to judge, in a case where a caller makes a request for establishing a communication connection to one of the telephone numbers, whether the establishment requires time based on a reply signal from a communication base station that has received the request;

an extraction unit operable to perform a search in the storage unit when the judging unit determines that the establishment requires time, and extract the one or more channel information pieces associated with the one of the telephone numbers; and

a broadcast reception unit operable to receive a broadcast service using by one of the extracted channel information pieces.

2. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein

the judging unit determines that the establishment requires time when the reply signal is one of a 1st reply signal indicating that the establishment is not possible and a 2nd reply signal instructing the caller to hold.

3. The mobile terminal of claim 2, further comprising:

a retransmission unit operable to repeatedly retransmit, while the broadcast reception unit is receiving the broadcast service as a result of the reply signal being the 1st reply signal, the request at specified time intervals after reception of the 1st reply signal, until the judging unit determines that the establishment requires no time or until predefined number of retransmissions is reached.

4. The mobile terminal of claim 3, further comprising:

a broadcast reception terminating unit operable to terminate the reception of the broadcast service when the judging unit determines that the establishment requires no time.

5. The mobile terminal of claim 2, further comprising:

a broadcast reception terminating unit operable to terminate the reception of the broadcast service when the judging unit determines that the establishment requires no time in a case where the broadcast reception unit is receiving the broadcast service as a result of the reply signal being the 2nd reply signal.

6. The mobile terminal of claim 1, further comprising:

a detecting unit operable to detect airwave intensity, wherein

in a case where airwave intensity of the received broadcast service is less than a predefined value and there are a plurality of the extracted channel information pieces, the broadcast reception unit receives, singly and sequentially in order of extraction, broadcast services indicated by the plurality of the extracted channel information pieces until obtaining airwave intensity of a received broadcast service having the predefined value or more.

7. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein

the request is to establish an emergency communication connection to police or fire department.

8. A control method of a mobile terminal including a storage unit storing one or more telephone numbers, each of which is associated with one or more channel information pieces, and having a telephone function and a broadcast receiving function, the control method comprising the steps of:

judging, in a case where a caller makes a request for establishing a communication connection to one of the telephone numbers, whether the establishment requires time based on a reply signal from a communication base station that has received the request;

performing a search in the storage unit when the judging unit determines that the establishment requires time, and extracting the one or more channel information pieces associated with the one of the telephone numbers; and

receiving a broadcast service indicated by one of the extracted channel information pieces.