Response message transmitter and response message transmitting method in cellular mobile telephone apparatus and recording medium recording program for executing the method

• US 20080299949A1
• Filed: 04/11/2008
• Published: 12/04/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 12/27/1996
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Inventors: Okamoto, Teiji, Itoh, Fumitaka, Higuchi, Kazutoshi, Ogawa, Katsuo, Takahara, Yasuaki
• Granted Patent: US 8,340,643 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/412.2
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/271 controlled by voice recognition
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/642 storing speech in digital form
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/6505 storing speech in digital form
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/663 Preventing unauthorised calls to a telephone set
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/724 User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 19/04 the ringing-current being generated at the substations
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 19/048 Arrangements providing optical indication of the incoming call, e.g. flasher circuits

Abstract

A cellular mobile telephone apparatus has circuits for generating messages, a storage circuit for storing messages, and transmitter/receiver circuit for transmitting a message. When the user of the cellular mobile telephone apparatus cannot immediately respond to an incoming call, a desired one of a plurality of previously generated and stored messages can be transmitted to a calling party through simple key manipulations or by other means.

Claims

1. A cellular mobile telephone apparatus, comprising:

a memory which stores a plurality of response voice messages including a message for notifying a calling party of a situation in which a user of the cellular mobile telephone apparatus cannot respond to an incoming call;

a message selector which allows a user to select a response voice message from the plurality of response voice messages and associates the selected response voice message with a function key;

a plurality of incoming call notification portions which notify of incoming calls; and

a controller which performs control so that one of the plurality of incoming call notification portions notifies of an incoming call and the response voice message associated with the function key is transmitted to a calling party if the function key has been previously pressed before the cellular mobile telephone apparatus receives the incoming call.

2. The cellular mobile telephone apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a message recorder which records a voice message from the calling party after the response voice message associated with the function key is transmitted to the calling party.

3. The cellular mobile telephone apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a transducer to which is inputted a voice message by a user of a cellular mobile telephone apparatus.

4. The cellular mobile telephone apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the plurality of response voice messages include a voice message previously written into the memory and the voice message which was inputted to the transducer and outputted from the transducer to the memory.

5. The cellular mobile telephone apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of incoming call notification portions include a vibrator and a sound-producing input device.

6. A cellular mobile telephone apparatus, comprising:

a memory which stores a plurality of response voice messages including a message for notifying a calling party of a situation in which a user of the cellular mobile telephone apparatus cannot respond to an incoming call;

a message selector which allows a user to select a response voice message from the plurality of response voice messages and associates the selected response voice message with a function key;

a plurality of incoming call notification portions which notify of incoming calls; and

a controller which performs control so that, once the function key associated with the selected response voice message is pressed, an incoming call received after the function key is pressed results in the transmitting of the selected response voice message to the calling party.

7. The cellular mobile telephone apparatus according to claim 6, further comprising:

a message recorder which records a voice message from the calling party after the selected response voice message associated with the function key is transmitted to the calling party.

8. The cellular mobile telephone apparatus according to claim 6, further comprising:

a transducer to which is inputted a voice message by a user of a cellular mobile telephone apparatus.

9. The cellular mobile telephone apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the plurality of response voice messages include a voice message previously written into the memory and the voice message which was inputted to the transducer and outputted from the transducer to the memory.

10. The cellular mobile telephone apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the plurality of incoming call notification portions include a vibrator and a sound-producing input device.