Mobile radio terminal

• US 6,895,239 B2
• Filed: 10/01/2002
• Issued: 05/17/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 10/01/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Mobile Communications Limited (Fujitsu Limited)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Oomori, Hajime, Igarashi, Junichi, Wagai, Kiyoshi, Tsukui, Yasuhiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Hudspeth, David
• Assistant Examiner(s): Nguyen, David Q
• Application Number:
  US10/260,284
• Publication Number:
  US 20030083022A1
• Time in Patent Office: 959 Days
• Field of Search: 455/90, 455/415, 455/414, 455/518, 455/416, 455/417, 455/568.3, 455/568.4
• US Class Current: 455/415
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0214 Foldable telephones, i.e. with body parts pivoting to an open position around an axis parallel to the plane they define in closed position combined with translation movement H04M1/0235
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0245 using open/close detection
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/27453 Directories allowing storage of additional subscriber data, e.g. metadata
• 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 1/663 Preventing unauthorised calls to a telephone set
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/724 User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones

Abstract

A folding detecting unit detects whether or not the corresponding mobile radio terminal is in the folded state. A storage unit stores phone numbers of mobile terminals and automatic response data in the form of a table. A communication control unit refers to information stored in the storage unit when an incoming call occurs and, when the folding detecting unit detects that the terminal is changed from the folded or closed state to the unfolded or opened state, responds to the incoming call to initiate communication according to the automatic response data for the originating terminal.

Claims

1. A communication terminal comprising:

a first case;

a second case openable and closable toward the first case;

a memory configured to store a telephone number of a communication party and information associated with the communication party indicating whether an incoming call from the communication party is acceptable or not;

a first detector configured to detect an incoming call from the communication party;

an identification information acquisition device configured to obtain the telephone number from the detected incoming call;

a second detector configured to detect a change of the second case from a closed state to an open state; and

a controller configured to accept the detected incoming call when the second detector detects the status change of the second case and the information associated with the obtained telephone number indicates the detected incoming call is acceptable.

2. A communication terminal comprising:

a first case;

a second case openable and closable toward the first case;

a first memory configured to store a telephone number of a communication party and group information assigned to the communication party;

a second memory configured to store the group information and information associated with the communication party who was assigned with the group information indicating whether an incoming call from the communication party is acceptable or not;

a first detector configured to detect an incoming call from the communication party;

an identification information acquisition device configured to obtain the telephone number from the detected incoming call;

a second detector configured to detect a change of the second case from a closed state to an open state; and

a controller configured to accept the detected incoming call when the second detector detects the status change of the second case and the information associated with the obtained telephone number indicates the detected incoming call is acceptable.

3. A communication terminal comprising:

a first case;

a second case openable and closable toward the first case;

a memory configured to store a telephone number of a communication party, group information assigned to the communication party, and information indicating whether an incoming call from the communication party who was assigned with the group information is acceptable or not;

a first detector configured to detect an incoming call from the communication party;

means for obtaining the telephone number from the detected incoming call;

a second detector configured to detect a change of the second case from a closed state to an open state; and

a controller configured to accept the detected incoming call when the second detector detects the status change of the second case and the information associated with the obtained telephone number indicates the detected incoming call is acceptable.