MOBILE TERMINAL

• US 20090286503A1
• Filed: 05/14/2009
• Published: 11/19/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 05/16/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: GOTO, Takashi, ICHINOSE, Takashi, ZHANG, Yue, HARADA, Kanae, HANEDA, Takushiro, TSUBOUCHI, Masatoshi, MURANAKA, Toshiaki, TOYOKURA, Akemi
• Application Number:
  US12/465,797
• Publication Number:
  US 20090286503A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/404.100
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72418 for supporting emergency services
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/7243 with interactive means for internal management of messages

Abstract

A cellular phone, which can be applied to a mobile terminal of the present invention in emergency, has a main display and a control device. The cellular phone receives an emergency mail from the mobile terminal, and the main display displays the received emergency mail. The control device notifies that the emergency mail is received using a vibrator, a speaker, an light emitting device, and the like and executes a control such that it is notified that the emergency mail is received each preset and predetermined period of time during a period of time until a confirming operation to the emergency mail is executed. With this operation, convenience of the cellular phone is improved in emergency.

Claims

1. A mobile terminal comprising:

a receiving unit configured to receive a first mail and a second mail different from the first mail;

a determining unit configured to determine whether or not determining information included in a mail received by the receiving unit coincides with previously stored determining information; and

a control unit configured to control so as to determine that the received mail is the first mail and execute an operation if the first mail is received, in a case where the determining unit determines that the determining information included in the mail received by the receiving unit coincides wish the previously stored determining information.

2. The mobile terminal according to claim 1, wherein the determining information includes a sender address, a subject of the received mail and a character string of leading end of a text.

3. The mobile terminal according to claim 1, wherein the determining information includes a center address, a sender address and a character string of leading end of a text.

4. The mobile terminal according to claim 1, wherein the first mail is an emergency mail.

5. A mobile terminal comprising:

a receiving un t configured to receive an emergency mail from an external terminal;

a display unit configured to display the emergency mail if the emergency mail is received by the receiving unit;

a notifying unit configured to notify that the emergency mail is received; and

a control unit configured to control the notifying unit so as to notify that the emergency mail is received, each predetermined period of time until a confirming operation is executed to the emergency mail.

6. The mobile terminal according to claim 5, wherein the notifying unit notifies that the emergency mail is received, with use of at least one of a light emitting device, speaker and vibrator.

7. The mobile terminal according to claim 5, wherein the control unit determines that the confirming operation is executed to the emergency mail, if the mobile terminal is changed from a closed state to a open state.

8. The mobile terminal according to claim 5, wherein the control unit determines that the confirming operation is executed to the emergency mail, if a predetermined key is depressed.

9. The mobile terminal according to claim 5, further comprising a transmitting unit configured to transmit a transmission confirmation mail to the external terminal if the control unit determines that the confirming operation is executed to the emergency mail.

10. A mobile terminal comprising:

a receiving unit configured to receive an emergency mail from an external terminal;

a display unit configured to display the emergency mail received by the receiving unit;

a notifying unit configured to notify that the emergency mail is received;

an obtaining unit configured to obtain position information related to the mobile terminal each predetermined period of time until a confirming operation is executed to the emergency mail; and

a transmitting unit configured to transmit the position information obtained by the obtaining unit to the external terminal.

11. The mobile terminal according to claim 10 wherein it is determined that the confirming operation is executed to the emergency mail, if the mobile terminal is changed from a closed state to an open state.

12. The mobile terminal according to claim 10, wherein it is determined that the confirming operation is executed to the emergency mail, if a predetermined key is depressed.

13. A mobile terminal comprising:

a receiving unit configured to receive an emergency mail from an external terminal.;

a display unit configured to display the emergency mail received by the receiving unit;

a notifying unit configured to notify that the emergency mail is received; and

a display control unit configured to control the display unit so as to display a display screen for displaying the emergency mail in a first display region and an arrival screen when the voice incoming call arrives, in a second display region, if a voice incoming call arrives while the emergency mail is being displayed by the display unit.

14. A mobile terminal comprising:

a receiving unit configured to receive an emergency mail from an external terminal;

a determining unit configured to determine whether or not key information included in the emergency mail received by the receiving unit coincides with previously stored key information; and

a control unit configured to control so as to execute an operation when the emergency mail is received, if the determining unit determines that the key information included in the emergency mail received by the receiving unit coincides with previously stored key information, and so as to abandon the received emergency mail or treat the received emergency mail as an ordinary mail If the determining unit determines that the key information included in the emergency mail received by the receiving unit does not coincide with previously stored key information.

15. The mobile terminal according to claim 14, wherein the key information is a two-dimensional bar code.