MOBILE UNIT, CALL ORIGINATION CONTROLLING METHOD, AND CALL TERMINATION CONTROLLING METHOD

• US 20090305686A1
• Filed: 08/18/2009
• Published: 12/10/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 01/17/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Original Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Inventors: Fujita, Masanori, Ishii, Kenji, Urakawa, Yasutaka, MOROTA, Satoru, Kato, Tatsuya
• Application Number:
  US12/542,952
• Publication Number:
  US 20090305686A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/418
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/57 Arrangements for indicating or recording the number of the calling subscriber at the called subscriber's set at the operator set in a manual exchange H04M5/20
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/677 Preventing the dialling or sending of predetermined telephone numbers or selected types of telephone numbers, e.g. long distance numbers
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 15/00 Arrangements for metering, time-control or time indication ; Metering, charging or billing arrangements for voice wireline or wireless communications, e.g. VoIP
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 15/47 Fraud detection or prevention means
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 15/51 for resellers, retailers or service providers
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2215/0148 Fraud detection or prevention means
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2215/32 Involving wireless systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2215/54 Resellers-retail or service providers billing, e.g. agreements with telephone service operator, activation, charging/recharging of accounts
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/38 Graded-service arrangements, i.e. some subscribers prevented from establishing certain connections queuing arrangements H04Q3/64
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42059 Making use of the calling party identifier
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42068 where the identifier is used to access a profile
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/436 Arrangements for screening incoming calls , i.e. evaluating the characteristics of a call before deciding whether to answer it based on the calling party profile H04M3/42059; based on location H04M3/42348; based on presence H04M3/42365; diversion H04M3/54

Abstract

A mobile unit 10 is provided with a called party number acquiring unit 102 for acquiring a called party number corresponding to a call origination command entered by a user, a number checking unit 103 for checking the called party number acquired by the called party number acquiring unit 102, against every origination-restricted number stored in an origination-restricted number storing unit 112, and an origination restricting unit 104 for restricting origination of a call on the basis of the result of the checking by the number checking unit 103.

Claims

1. A mobile unit comprising:

ring counting means for counting the number of rings of an incoming call; and

storage restricting means for storing a calling party number corresponding to the incoming call in calling party number storing means when the number of rings counted by the ring counting means is greater than a predetermined number, and for avoiding storing the calling party number corresponding to the incoming call in the calling party number storing means when the number of rings is not more than the predetermined number.

2. A mobile unit comprising:

ringing time measuring means for measuring ringing time of an incoming call; and

storage restricting means for storing a calling party number corresponding to the incoming call in calling party number storing means when the ringing time measured by the ringing time measuring means is longer than a predetermined time, and for avoiding storing the calling party number corresponding to the incoming call in the calling party number storing means when the ringing time is not longer than the predetermined time.

3. A call termination controlling method comprising:

a ring counting step wherein ring counting means counts the number of rings of an incoming call; and

a storage restricting step wherein storage restricting means stores a calling party number corresponding to the incoming call in calling party number storing means when the number of rings counted by the ring counting means is greater than a predetermined number, and avoids storing the calling party number corresponding to the incoming call in the calling party number storing means when the number of rings is not more than the predetermined number.

4. A call termination controlling method comprising:

a ringing time measuring step wherein ringing time measuring means measures a ringing time of an incoming call; and

a storage restricting step wherein storage restricting means stores a calling party number “

corresponding to the incoming call in calling party number storing means when the ringing time measured by the ringing time measuring means is longer than a predetermined time, and avoids storing the calling party number corresponding to the incoming call in the calling party number storing means when the ringing time is not longer than the predetermined time.

5. A mobile unit comprising:

ring counting unit configured to count a number of rings of an incoming call; and

storage restricting unit configured to store a calling party number corresponding to the incoming call in calling party number memory when the number of rings counted by the ring counting unit is greater than a predetermined number, and not store the calling party number corresponding to the incoming call in the calling party number memory when the number of rings is not more than the predetermined number.

6. A mobile unit comprising:

ringing time measuring unit configured to measure a ringing time of an incoming call; and

storing restricting unit configured to store a calling party number corresponding to the incoming call in calling party number memory when the ringing time measured by the ringing time measuring unit is longer than a predetermined time, and not store the calling party number corresponding to the incoming call in the calling party number memory when the ringing time is not longer than the predetermined time.