COMMUNICATION DEVICE, OPERATING METHOD THEREFOR, AND OPERATING PROGRAM THEREFOR

• US 20120162346A1
• Filed: 12/15/2011
• Published: 06/28/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/15/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Watanabe, Shigeaki, Takao, Naoya, Fujimoto, Kazuo, Itoh, Masaki, Kouzuki, Masafumi
• Application Number:
  US13/326,790
• Publication Number:
  US 20120162346A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/14.01
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/142 Constructional details of the terminal equipment, e.g. arrangements of the camera and the display
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/147 Communication arrangements, e.g. identifying the communication as a video-communication, intermediate storage of the signals selecting H04Q
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0229 where the received signal is a wanted signal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/028 switching on or off only a part of the equipment circuit blocks
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

A user can use a plurality of communication devices to sign in to a communication system. A recording message addressed to himself/herself may be recorded in a distributed manner in the plurality of communication devices. One of the communication devices is requested to display a list of incoming call information while signing in to the communication system using user information. The one communication device requests the other communication device to send incoming call information corresponding to the same user information. The incoming call information corresponding to the same user information is transmitted to the communication device in one terminal from the other communication device. In the one communication device, the incoming call information transmitted from the other communication device is received, and list data is generated based on the received incoming call information.

Claims

1. A communication device configured to be capable of signing in to a communication system including another device, comprising:

a controller configured to be capable of performing a signing in operation using user information that is uniquely given to a user;

an instructor configured to issue an instruction to collect identification information for identifying a message recorded by a message recording operation in a signing in state corresponding to said user information; and

a communicator configured to transmit a transmission request for requesting to transmit the identification information corresponding to the message recorded by the message recording operation in the signing in state corresponding to said user information in said other device in response to the instruction from said instructor, and receive the identification information transmitted from said other device in response to said transmission request.

2. The communication device according to claim 1, wherein said communicator is configured to transmit said transmission request to said other device in response to the instruction from said instructor in the signing in state using said user information, and receive the identification information transmitted from said other device in response to said transmission request in the signing in state using said user information by said signing-in operation.

3. The communication device according to claim 1, further comprising an outputter configured to be capable of outputting list data including the identification information received by said communicator in response to said transmission request.

4. The communication device according to claim 3, further comprising:

a selector configured to be capable of selecting identification information from said list data output from said outputter; and

a reproducer configured to reproduce a message corresponding to the identification information selected by said selector.

5. The communication device according to claim 4, wherein said communicator is configured to receive the message transmitted together with the identification information from said other device in response to said transmission request, and

said reproducer is configured to reproduce the message corresponding to the identification information selected by said selector among the messages received by said communicator.

6. The communication device according to claim 4, wherein said communicator is configured to acquire the message corresponding to the identification information selected by said selector from said other device, and

said reproducer is configured to reproduce the message acquired by said communicator.

7. The communication device according to claim 1, further comprising a recorder that records the identification information received by said communicator in response to said transmission request.

8. The communication device according to claim 1, wherein said communicator is configured to transmit, when said other device includes a plurality of communication terminals, said transmission request to said plurality of communication terminals and receive identification information transmitted from said plurality of communication terminals in response to said transmission request.

9. A method for operating a communication device configured to be capable of signing in to a communication system including another device,

said method comprising the steps of:

transmitting a transmission request for requesting to transmit identification information corresponding to a message recorded by a message recording operation in a signing in state corresponding to user information that is uniquely given to a user in the other device in response to an instruction to collect identification information for identifying the message recorded by the message recording operation in the signing in state corresponding to said user information; and

receiving the identification information transmitted from said other device in response to said transmission request.

10. The method according to claim 9, further comprising the step of performing a signing in operation using said user information by said communication device, wherein

said step of transmitting includes transmitting said transmission request to said other device in response to the instruction to collect said identification information in the signing in state using said user information by said signing in operation;

and

said step of receiving includes receiving the identification information transmitted form said other device in response to said transmission request in the signing in state using said user information by said signing in operation.

11. An operation program executable by a processor of a communication device configured to be capable of signing in to a communication system including another device,

said program causing said processor to perform processing of:

transmitting a transmission request for requesting to transmit identification information corresponding to a message recorded by a message recording operation in a signing in state corresponding to user information that is uniquely given to a user in the other device in response to an instruction to collect identification information for identifying the message recorded by the message recording operation in the signing in state corresponding to said user information; and

receiving the identification information transmitted from said other device in response to said transmission request.

12. The operation program according to claim 11, causing said processor to further perform processing of performing a signing in operation using said user information by said communication device, wherein

said processing of transmitting includes processing of transmitting said transmission request to said other device in response to the instruction to collect said identification information in the signing in state using said user information by said signing in operation;

and

said processing of receiving includes processing of receiving the identification information transmitted form said other device in response to said transmission request in the signing in state using said user information by said signing in operation.