MESSAGE TRANSMITTER AND RESPONSE MESSAGE TRANSMITTING METHOD IN CELLULAR MOBILE TELEPHONE APPARATUS AND RECORDING MEDIUM RECORDING PROGRAM FOR EXECUTING THE METHOD

• US 20100330966A1
• Filed: 09/07/2010
• Published: 12/30/2010
• 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 8,346,221 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 plurality of incoming call notification portions for notifying incoming calls received from a calling part via a radio base station or switching station;

a controller which is adapted to perform controls so that one of the plurality of incoming call notification portions notifies an incoming call to a user of the cellular mobile telephone apparatus;

a plurality of input portions for selecting one from among a plurality of response messages to be sent to the calling party in a situation in which the user cannot respond to the incoming call; and

a transmitter which transmits address information to the base or switching station, wherein the address information is associated with the selected message stored in a memory of the base or switching station.

2. The cellular mobile telephone apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of input portions include a key input device and a transducer.

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

a voice detector adapted to recognize the user'"'"'s voice pattern by determining whether or not voice information input by the transducer matches a predetermined signal pattern.

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

a voice detector adapted to recognize the user'"'"'s voice pattern by determining whether or not voice information input by the transducer matches a predetermined signal pattern.

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

6. The cellular mobile telephone apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the plurality of incoming call notification portions include a vibrator and a sounder.

7. The cellular mobile telephone apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the plurality of incoming call notification portions include a vibrator and a sounder.

8. A communication system comprising the cellular mobile telephone apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the base or switching station is adapted to transmit the selected message to the calling party, when the user does not respond to the incoming call notification of the notification portions for a previously registered time period.

9. A communication system comprising the cellular mobile telephone apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the base or switching station is adapted to transmit the selected message to the calling party, when the user does not respond to the incoming call notification of the notification portions for a previously registered time period.

10. A communication system comprising the cellular mobile telephone apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the base or switching station is adapted to transmit the selected message to the calling party, when the user does not respond to the incoming call notification of the notification portions for a previously registered time period.

11. A communication system comprising the cellular mobile telephone apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the base or switching station is adapted to transmit the selected message to the calling party, when the user does not respond to the incoming call notification of the notification portions for a previously registered time period.

12. A method of transmitting a response message in a communication system including a cellular mobile telephone apparatus and a radio base station or switching station, the method comprising the steps of:

storing a plurality of messages for responding to a calling party in a memory provided in the base or switching station;

selecting, in the cellular mobile telephone apparatus, one message from the plurality of messages stored in the memory;

transmitting, from the cellular mobile telephone apparatus, address information associated with the message selected at the selecting step to the base or switching station; and

transmitting, from the base or switching station, the selected message to the calling party based on the address information transmitted from the cellular mobile telephone apparatus.