MOBILE TERMINAL APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING ALERT OPERATION THEREOF

• US 20090124296A1
• Filed: 05/01/2006
• Published: 05/14/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Tanae, Hiroshi
• Granted Patent: US 8,145,192 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/567
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 19/04 the ringing-current being generated at the substations

Abstract

There are provided a portable terminal device capable of preventing influence on the surroundings and leakage of personal information without impairing convenience and its incoming call notifying operation controlling method. A portable terminal device (1) executes radio authentication between itself and a radio communicating unit (3). The portable terminal device (1) includes a radio communicating unit for conducting communication with a base station device; an incoming call notifying unit for executing an incoming call notification when an incoming call is detected by the radio communicating unit; an incoming call operation controlling unit for controlling the operation of the incoming call notifying unit; and a radio authenticating unit for conducting radio communication with the radio communicating unit (3) and authentication according to whether or not the distance to the radio communicating unit is within a predetermined distance. The incoming call operation controlling unit controls the operation of the incoming call notifying unit by an incoming call notifying method according to the distance to the radio communicating unit (3).

Claims

1. A portable terminal device comprising:

a radio communicating unit which performs radio communication with a base station device;

an incoming call notifying unit which executes an incoming call notification when an incoming call is detected by the radio communicating unit;

an incoming call notifying operation controlling unit which controls operation of the incoming call notifying unit; and

a radio authenticating unit which conducts radio communication with a radio communicating unit and conducts authentication for the radio communicating unit,

wherein the incoming call notifying operation controlling unit controls the operation of the incoming call notifying unit by an incoming call notifying process based on whether or not the authentication for the radio communicating unit is established.

2. The portable terminal device according to claim 1, wherein the incoming call notifying operation controlling unit does not execute incoming call notification by the incoming call notifying unit for the incoming call detected when the authentication for the radio communicating unit is not established.

3. The portable terminal device according to claim 2, wherein the incoming call notifying operation controlling unit includes a storage unit which stores, as non-notified incoming call information, information on the incoming call which is detected when the authentication for the radio communicating unit is not established and for which the incoming call notification is not executed by the incoming call notifying unit.

4. The portable terminal device according to claim 3, wherein when the authentication for the radio communicating unit is shifted from a state of non-establishment of the authentication to a state of establishment of the authentication, the incoming call notifying operation controlling unit executes the incoming call notification by the incoming call notifying unit on the basis of the non-notified incoming call information stored in the storage unit.

5. The portable terminal device according to claim 3, wherein when the authentication for the radio communicating unit is shifted from a state of non-establishment of the authentication to a state of establishment of the authentication, the incoming call notifying operation controlling unit transmits the non-notified incoming call information stored in the storage unit to the radio communicating unit through the radio authenticating unit.

6. The portable terminal device according to claim 1, wherein the incoming call notifying operation controlling unit executes the incoming call notification with a setting (default setting) previously installed in the incoming call notifying unit for the incoming call detected when the authentication for the radio communicating unit is not established.

7. A portable terminal device comprising:

a radio communicating unit which performs radio communication with a base station device;

an incoming call notifying unit which executes an incoming call notification when an incoming call is detected by the radio communicating unit;

an incoming call notifying operation controlling unit which controls operation of the incoming call notifying unit; and

a radio authenticating unit which conducts radio communication with a radio communicating unit and conducts authentication for the radio communication unit in accordance with whether or not the distance to the radio communicating unit is within a predetermined distance,

wherein the incoming call notifying operation controlling unit controls the operation of the incoming call notifying unit by an incoming call notifying process based on the distance to the radio communicating unit.

8. The portable terminal device according to claim 7, wherein the incoming call notifying operation controlling unit executes the incoming call notification with the setting (default setting) previously installed in the incoming call notifying unit for the incoming call detected when the distance to the radio communicating unit is equal to or further than the predetermined distance.

9. A method for controlling an incoming call notifying operation for a portable terminal device, comprising:

conducting radio communication with a radio communicating unit and authentication for the radio communication;

conducting communication with a base station device; and

executing an incoming call notification by an incoming call notifying process based on whether or not the authentication for the radio communicating unit is established when an incoming call from the base station device is detected.

10. The method for controlling the incoming call notifying operation for the portable terminal device according to claim 9, wherein the incoming call notifying process based on whether or not the authentication for the radio communicating unit is established is a process for executing an incoming call notification with a setting (default setting) previously installed for the incoming call detected when the authentication for the radio communicating unit is not established.

11. A method for controlling an incoming call notifying operation for a portable terminal device, comprising:

conducting radio communication with a radio communicating unit and authentication in accordance with whether or not the distance to the radio communicating unit is within a predetermined distance;

conducting radio communication with a base station device; and

executing an incoming call notification by an incoming call notifying process based on the distance to the radio communicating unit when the incoming call from the base station device is detected.

12. The method for controlling an incoming call notifying operation for the portable terminal device according to claim 11, wherein the incoming call notifying process based on the distance to the radio communicating unit is a process for executing an incoming call notification with a setting (default setting) previously installed for the incoming call detected when the distance to the radio communicating unit is equal to or further than the predetermined distance.