MOBILE COMMUNICATION APPARATUS

• US 20100077044A1
• Filed: 09/21/2009
• Published: 03/25/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 09/22/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Mobile Communications Limited (Fujitsu Limited)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: TSUBOUCHI, Masatoshi
• Application Number:
  US12/563,402
• Publication Number:
  US 20100077044A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/206
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72409 by interfacing with external accessories hands-free H04M1/60
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72436 for text messaging, e.g. short messaging services [SMS] or e-mails

Abstract

A controller of a mobile communication apparatus, such as a cellular phone, that detects whether an external apparatus is connected to an interface, and transmits an email received from a base station to the external apparatus when the external apparatus is connected to the interface. The controller of the mobile communication apparatus also sets an email address of the mobile communication apparatus to a sender address of an email created by the external apparatus connected to the interface, and transfers the email created by the external apparatus to a base station.

Claims

1. A mobile communication apparatus, comprising:

a first inter configured to communicate with a base station;

a second interface configured to communicate with an external apparatus;

a memory configured to store emails;

a controller configured to detect whether the external apparatus is connected to the second interface, and transfer an email received via the first interface to the external apparatus automatically when it is detected that the external apparatus is connected to the second interface.

2. The mobile communication apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the memory is further configured to store phonebook information, and the controller is further configured to transmit the phonebook information to the external apparatus when it is detected that the external apparatus is connected to the second interface.

3. The mobile communication apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to set an email address of the mobile communication apparatus as a sender address of an email received from the external apparatus connected to the second interface, and to transfer the email to the base station via the first interface.

4. The mobile communication apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the controller is further configured to store the email, which is transferred to the base station via the first interface, into the memory.

5. The mobile communication apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the memory further stores identification information, and the controller is further configured to compare identification information received from the external apparatus via the second interface with the identification information stored in the memory, and to transfer the email to the external apparatus automatically when it is detected that the external apparatus is connected to the second interface and that the identification information from the external apparatus coincides with the identification information stored in the memory.

6. A mobile communication apparatus, comprising:

a first interface configured to communicate with a base station;

a second interface configured to communicate with an external apparatus;

a memory configured to store emails;

means for detecting whether the external apparatus is connected to the second interface; and

means for transferring an email received via the first interface to the external apparatus automatically when it is detected that the external apparatus is connected to the second interface.

7. The mobile communication apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the memory is further configured to store phonebook information, and the apparatus further comprises means for transmitting the phonebook information to the external apparatus when it is detected that the external apparatus is connected to the second interface.

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

means for setting an email address of the mobile communication apparatus as a sender address of an email received from the external apparatus connected to the second interface; and

means for transferring the email to the base station via the first interface.

9. The mobile communication apparatus according to claim 8, further comprising:

means for storing the email, which is transferred to the base station via the first interface, into the memory.

10. The mobile communication apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the memory further stores identification information, and the apparatus further comprises means for comparing identification information received from the external apparatus via the second interface with the identification information stored in the memory, and for transferring the email to the external apparatus automatically when it is detected that the external apparatus is connected to the second interface and that the identification information from the external apparatus coincides with the identification information stored in the memory.