Mobile Phone, Wireless Transmission System, and Related Method Capable of Auto-Adjusting Call Alarms

• US 20080200123A1
• Filed: 02/15/2008
• Published: 08/21/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 02/16/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Qisda Corporation
• Original Assignee: Qisda Corporation
• Inventors: Lin, Hsien-Chung, Lin, Chun-Yu
• Application Number:
  US12/031,720
• Publication Number:
  US 20080200123A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/41.3
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/6066 including a wireless connection
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72457 according to geographic location
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72516 with means for out-of-range alerting
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 19/04 the ringing-current being generated at the substations
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/02 including a Bluetooth interface

Abstract

A mobile phone capable of auto-adjusting call alarms collocates with a wireless transmission device that is separated from the mobile phone and can be carried by a user. The mobile phone includes a receiving device and a processing unit. The receiving device is used for receiving signals transmitted from the wireless transmission device. The processing unit is coupled to the receiving device for determining a distance between the wireless transmission device and the receiving device and for determining call alarms of the mobile phone according to the distance between the wireless transmission device and the receiving device. The processing unit sets the call alarms of the mobile phone to a preset alarm mode when the processing unit determines that the distance between the wireless transmission device and the receiving device is greater than a predetermined distance.

Claims

1. A mobile phone capable of auto-adjusting call alarms, being used together with a wireless transmission device that is separated from the mobile phone and can be carried by a user, the mobile phone comprising:

a receiving device used for receiving signals transmitted from the wireless transmission device; and

a processing unit, coupled to the receiving device, for determining a distance between the wireless transmission device and the receiving device and for determining call alarms of the mobile phone according to the distance between the wireless transmission device and the receiving device.

2. The mobile phone of claim 1, wherein the wireless transmission device is selected from a group consisting of a Bluetooth headset and a radio frequency identification (RFID).

3. The mobile phone of claim 1, wherein:

the processing unit periodically determines whether the distance between the wireless transmission device and the receiving device is smaller than a predetermined distance;

when the processing unit determines that the distance between the wireless transmission device and the receiving device is greater than the predetermined distance, the processing unit sets the call alarms of the mobile phone to a first designated alarm mode; and

when the processing unit determines that the distance between the wireless transmission device and the receiving device is smaller than the predetermined distance, the processing unit sets the call alarms of the mobile phone to a second designated alarm mode.

4. The mobile phone of claim 1, wherein:

the mobile phone triggers the processing unit to determine whether the distance between the wireless transmission device and the receiving device is smaller than a predetermined distance when the mobile phone receives an incoming call;

when the processing unit determines that the distance between the wireless transmission device and the receiving device is greater than the predetermined distance, the processing unit sets the call alarms of the mobile phone to a first designated alarm mode; and

when the processing unit determines that the distance between the wireless transmission device and the receiving device is smaller than the predetermined distance, the processing unit sets the call alarms of the mobile phone to a second designated alarm mode.

5. The mobile phone of claim 1, wherein:

when the mobile phone receives an incoming call and the distance between the wireless transmission device and the receiving device is greater than a predetermined distance, the processing unit sets the call alarms of the mobile phone to a first designated alarm mode; and

when the mobile phone receives an incoming call and the distance between the wireless transmission device and the receiving device is smaller than the predetermined distance, the processing unit sets the call alarms of the mobile phone to a second designated alarm mode.

6. The mobile phone of claim 5, wherein when the processing unit determines that the distance between the wireless transmission device and the receiving device is originally greater than the predetermined distance and later becomes smaller than the predetermined distance, then the mobile phone generates a notice to remind the user that the mobile phone has issued the first designated alarm mode if the distance between the wireless transmission device and the receiving device is greater than the predetermined distance.

7. The mobile phone of claim 5, wherein a volume of the first designated alarm mode is smaller than a volume of the second designated alarm mode.

8. The mobile phone of claim 7, wherein the first designated alarm mode comprises a quiet mode or a vibration mode.

9. A method capable of auto-adjusting call alarms of a mobile phone, applied to a wireless communication system that comprises a wireless transmission device and a mobile phone, the wireless transmission being separated from the mobile phone and can be carried by a user, the method comprising:

detecting a distance between the wireless transmission device and the mobile phone, and determining whether the distance between the wireless transmission device and the mobile phone is smaller than a predetermined distance; and

determining call alarms of the mobile phone according to whether the distance between the wireless transmission device and the mobile phone is smaller than the predetermined distance.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the step of determining call alarms of the mobile phone further comprises:

setting the call alarms of the mobile phone to a first designated alarm mode when the distance between the wireless transmission device and the receiving device is determined to be greater than the predetermined distance; and

setting the call alarms of the mobile phone to a second designated alarm mode when the distance between the wireless transmission device and the receiving device is determined to be smaller than the predetermined distance.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein a volume of the first designated alarm mode is smaller than a volume of the second designated alarm mode.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the first designated alarm mode comprises a quiet mode or a vibration mode.

13. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

when the distance between the wireless transmission device and the receiving device is originally determined to be greater than the predetermined distance and later becomes smaller than the predetermined distance, generating a notice to remind the user that the mobile phone has issued the first designated alarm mode if the distance between the wireless transmission device and the receiving device is greater than the predetermined distance.

14. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

triggering the processing unit to determine whether the distance between the wireless transmission device and the receiving device is smaller than a predetermined distance when the mobile phone receives an incoming call.

15. The method of claim 9, wherein the step of determining whether the distance between the wireless transmission device and the mobile phone is smaller than the predetermined distance comprises:

periodically determining whether the distance between the wireless transmission device and the receiving device is smaller than a predetermined distance.

16. A wireless communication system, comprising:

a wireless transmission device, able to be carried by a user; and

a mobile phone, separated from the wireless transmission device, the mobile phone comprising;

a receiving device used for receiving signals transmitted from the wireless transmission device; and

a processing unit, coupled to the receiving device, for determining a distance between the wireless transmission device and the receiving device and for determining call alarms of the mobile phone according to the distance between the wireless transmission device and the receiving device.

17. The wireless communication system of claim 16, wherein:

when the mobile phone receives an incoming call and the distance between the wireless transmission device and the receiving device is greater than a predetermined distance, the processing unit sets the call alarms of the mobile phone to a first designated alarm mode; and

when the mobile phone receives an incoming call and the distance between the wireless transmission device and the receiving device is smaller than the predetermined distance, the processing unit sets the call alarms of the mobile phone to a second designated alarm mode.

18. The wireless communication system of claim 17, wherein when the processing unit determines that the distance between the wireless transmission device and the receiving device is originally greater than the predetermined distance and later becomes smaller than the predetermined distance, then the mobile phone generates a notice to remind the user that the mobile phone has issued the first designated alarm mode if the distance between the wireless transmission device and the receiving device is greater than the predetermined distance.

19. The wireless communication system of claim 17, wherein a volume of the first designated alarm mode is smaller than a volume of the second designated alarm mode.

20. The wireless communication system of claim 19, wherein the first designated alarm mode comprises a quiet mode or a vibration mode.