Remote communication device for wireless system

• US 20070281735A1
• Filed: 03/29/2005
• Published: 12/06/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 03/30/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: DENSO Corporation
• Original Assignee: DENSO Corporation
• Inventors: Suzuki, Hideaki
• Application Number:
  US11/093,164
• Publication Number:
  US 20070281735A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/551
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/6091 including a wireless interface
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

A remote communication apparatus having a wireless communication function for intermediating a call of a registered cellular phone decreases a connection area for the wireless communication function under an instruction from a user of the cellular phone, and issues a temporary registration number for a non-registered cellular phone for accommodating the wireless communication function for the call to/from the non-registered cellular phone. In this manner, the remote communication apparatus uses fewer steps of registration operation to register a non-registered cellular phone.

Claims

1. A remote communication apparatus for a wireless connection to a registered cellular phone in a connection area comprising:

an input device for accepting an input of a user that is independent of the cellular phone;

power control means for controlling an output for the wireless connection based on the user input from the input device; and

authorization means for authorizing a wireless connection for intermediation to a non-registered cellular phone by registering the non-registered cellular phone based on the user input from the input device.

2. The remote communication apparatus of claim 1 further comprising:

priority control means for giving a higher priority to the wireless connection for intermediation to the non-registered cellular phone than a priority to the wireless connection to a registered cellular phone based on the input of the user from the input device.

3. The remote communication apparatus of claim 2,

wherein the authorization means allows the wireless connection to the non-registered cellular phone by registering the non-registered cellular phone that enters into a connection area as a newly-registered cellular phone, and

the priority control means gives the higher priority to the wireless connection to the newly-registered cellular phone than the priority to the wireless connection to the registered cellular phone.

4. The remote communication apparatus of claim 3,

wherein the authorization means registers only a first non-registered cellular phone that enters into the connection area after receiving the input of the user from the input device.

5. The remote communication apparatus of claim 3;

wherein the power control means increase the power output for wireless connection upon receiving registration of the non-registered cellular phone from the authorization means.

6. The remote communication apparatus for use in a vehicle of claim 5,

wherein the remote communication apparatus is used in a vehicle, and

the wireless connection for intermediation to the cellular phone authorized by the authorization means is prohibited when an ignition switch of the vehicle is turned off.

7. The remote communication apparatus of claim 1,

wherein the remote communication apparatus is used in a vehicle, and

the registration of the cellular phone by the authorization means is deleted when an ignition switch of the vehicle is turned off.

8. The remote communication apparatus of claim 1,

wherein the input device has a button to be pressed by the user, and

the authorization means allows the wireless connection for intermediation to the non-registered cellular phone while the button of the input device is pressed by the user.

9. The remote communication apparatus of claim 1,

wherein the input device has a button to be pressed by the user;

and

the power control means decreases the output of the remote communication apparatus while the button of the input device is pressed by the user.

12. The remote communication apparatus of claim 1,

wherein the wireless connection to the cellular phone authorized by the authorization means is prohibited when the wireless connection is interrupted.

10. An automotive remote communication apparatus having a wireless connection to a registered cellular phone comprising;

an input device for accepting an input from a user, and

an authorization means for authorizing a wireless connection for intermediation to a non-registered cellular phone based on the input from the input device.

11. An automotive remote communication apparatus for intermediation having a wireless connection to a registered cellular phone in a first connection area comprising;

an authorization means for authorizing the wireless connection for intermediation to a non-registered cellular phone,

wherein the authorization means authorizes the wireless connection to the non-registered cellular phone that enters a second connection area, and

the second connection area is contained in the first connection area.