Portable telephone system and communication control method for portable telephone set in a restricted zone

• US 6,625,455 B1
• Filed: 08/10/1998
• Issued: 09/23/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 08/11/1997
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Ariga, Kenichi
• Primary Examiner(s): Bost, Dwayne
• Assistant Examiner(s): Trinh, Sonny
• Application Number:
  US09/131,571
• Time in Patent Office: 1,870 Days
• Field of Search: 455/501, 455/515, 455/517, 455/426, 455/456, 455/66, 455/38.3, 455/212, 455/218, 455/565, 455/567, 455/70, 455/343, 455/422
• US Class Current: 455/456.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/04 based on user or terminal location or mobility data, e.g. moving direction, speed

Abstract

A simple base station device 100 is installed in the entrance or the like of a building and a power OFF signal is supplied. A portable telephone set 101 that has received the signal informs the simple base station 100 of its telephone number, also informs a position management server 104 of the same via a public base station device 102 to register it, the position management server 104 being located in a radio network, and switches OFF power for a radio section. An incoming call operation to the portable telephone set 101 is carried out by referring to the registered content of the position management server 104. Thus, a power supply for a portable telephone set in a use prohibition area is reduced and no incoming call control is performed.

Claims

1. A portable telephone comprising:

a portable telephone set having radio communication means;

a public base station device connected by a network and wire;

a position management server connected to said network; and

a simple base station device having means for communicating with both of said portable telephone set and said public base station device, said simple base station device being installed in a boundary of a communication prohibited area, wherein

said simple base station device includes means for transmitting a control signal for one control selected from power ON and power OFF for a radio section of said portable telephone set and means for receiving a message indicating one of communication suspension and communication suspension releasing from said portable telephone set and transmitting said message to said position management server via said public base station device,

said portable telephone set includes means for transmitting, upon receiving said control signal, said message indicating one of communication suspension and communication suspension releasing to said simple base station device,

said position management server including means for registering a relation between a content of said message and a telephone number of said portable telephone set,

said network performs no incoming call processing for said public base station device where said portable telephone set has been position registered if a communication suspended condition of a portable telephone set is recognized by referring to said position management server, and

said message indicating communication suspension transmitted from said portable telephone set includes an identifier for a telephone set that has made a call to said communication suspended portable telephone set, said identifier indicating a service content including message recording.

2. The portable telephone system of claim 1, wherein said portable telephone set switches, upon receiving one signal selected from a power ON control signal and a power OFF control signal from said simple base station device, power ON and power OFF for said radio section.

3. An apparatus for controlling the operation of a portable communication device, the apparatus comprising:

a simple base station for use in an area in which the use of the portable communication device is prohibited, the simple base station adapted to output a restricted use signal to the portable communication device and receive a communication status signal from the portable communication device in response to the restricted use signal;

a position management server coupled to the simple base station; and

a public base station interposed between the position management server and the simple base station, wherein the simple base station performs position-registration of the portable communication device in the position management server via the public base station.

4. The apparatus of claim 3, wherein the restricted use signal is a display signal indicating a boundary in which use of the portable communication device is prohibited.

5. The apparatus of claim 3, wherein the restricted use signal is an instruction signal which instructs the portable communication device to perform a power ON or a power OFF control.

6. The apparatus of claim 3, wherein the communication status signal is a communication suspension setting signal or a communication suspension release setting signal.