Mobile communication system, method for making data common and program therefor

• US 7,039,444 B2
• Filed: 09/11/2002
• Issued: 05/02/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 09/13/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Lenovo Innovations Ltd Hong Kong (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Tsukamoto, Tadashi
• Primary Examiner(s): Trost, William
• Assistant Examiner(s): DOAN, KIET M
• Application Number:
  US10/238,629
• Publication Number:
  US 20030050059A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,329 Days
• Field of Search: 455/557, 455/456.3, 455/417, 455/419, 455/567, 455/458, 455/466, 455/418, 455/426.1, 455/566, 455/415, 455/414.4, 455/437, 370/352, 395/183.2, 345/1.1, 702/152
• US Class Current: 455/566
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72427 for supporting games or graphical animations
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72439 for image or video messaging
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/02 including a Bluetooth interface
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices

Abstract

Frame data (letters, images, still images, motion picture images, etc.) displayed on the display unit in a transmitting side portable telephone set 1 are transmitted via a radio terminal interface (such as Bluetooth) to other receiving side portable telephone set 2 to n, and displayed in the display units therein. Thus, the data displayed on the display unit in any given portable telephone set can be displayed and read out with a plurality of other portable telephone sets, so that they can be have substantially as common data.

Claims

1. A mobile communication system comprising a plurality of mobile communication terminals connected via a mobile communication network, wherein:

each of the plurality of mobile communication terminals has a radio external interface for performing communication via a communication network different from said mobile communication network;

data displayed on a display unit in a given mobile communication terminal is transmitted via said radio external interface to another mobile communication terminal at substantially uniform time intervals; and

said data transmitted by the radio external interface is displayed on a particular display unit in said another mobile communication terminal, wherein

the radio external interface may also transmit said data displayed on the display unit in said given mobile communication terminal to said another mobile communication terminal in a communication mode selected among;

a second communication mode, in which whenever data displayed on the display unit are updated, the updated data are obtained and transmitted; and

a third communication mode, in which data displayed on the display unit are obtained and transmitted at any timing.

2. The mobile communication system according to claim 1, wherein the mobile communication terminals each have a setting means for setting either one of said communication modes.

3. The mobile communication system according to claim 1, wherein the mobile communication terminals each have an instructing means for externally instructing any timing in the third communication mode.

4. The mobile communication system according to claim 1, wherein the mobile communication terminals each have an instructing means for externally instructing any timing in the third communication mode.

5. The mobile communication system of claim 1, wherein said given mobile communication terminal sets said substantially uniform time intervals based on a capacity of said radio external interface.

6. The mobile communication system of claim 1,

wherein said data transmitted by said radio external interface comprises media data having a specified frame rate;

and

wherein said given mobile communication terminal sets said substantially uniform time intervals based on said frame rate of said data.

7. The mobile communication system of claim 6, wherein said data comprises motion picture images.

8. A method for making data common in a mobile communication system, said mobile communication system comprising a plurality of mobile communication terminals connected via a mobile communication network, each of the plurality of mobile communication terminals having a radio external interface for performing communication via a communication network different from said mobile communication network, said method comprising:

a transmitting step for transmitting data displayed on a display unit in a given mobile communication terminal via said radio external interface to another mobile communication terminal at substantially uniform time intervals; and

a displaying step for displaying said data transmitted by the transmitting step on a particular display unit in said another mobile communication terminal, wherein

the transmission step may also transmit data in a communication mode selected among;

a second communication mode, in which whenever data displayed on the display unit are updated, the updated data are obtained and transmitted; and

a third communication mode, in which data displayed on the display unit are obtained and transmitted at any timing.

9. The method according to claim 8, wherein the mobile communication terminals each have a setting step for setting either one of said communication modes.

10. The method according to claim 8, wherein the mobile communication terminals each have an instructing step for externally instructing any timing in the third communication mode.

11. The method according to claim 8, wherein the mobile communication terminals each have an instructing step for externally instructing any timing in the third communication mode.

12. The method of claim 8, wherein said substantially uniform time intervals are set based on a capacity of said radio external interface.

13. The method of claim 8,

wherein said data comprises media data having a specified frame rate;

and

wherein said substantially uniform time intervals are set based on said frame rate of said data.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein said data comprises motion picture images.

15. A storage medium storing a program for causing a mobile communication system, in which a plurality of mobile communication terminals are connected via a mobile communication network and each of the plurality of mobile communication terminals has a radio external interface for performing communication via a communication network different from said mobile communication network, to execute a process, the process comprising the step of:

causing a given mobile communication terminal to perform a transmitting process for transmitting data displayed on a display unit in the given mobile communication terminal via said radio external interface to another mobile communication terminal at substantially uniform time intervals; and

causing the another mobile communication terminal to perform a displaying process for displaying said data transmitted by the transmitting process on a particular display unit in said another mobile communication terminal, wherein

the transmission process may also transmit data in a communication mode selected among;

a second communication mode, in which whenever data displayed on the display unit are updated, the updated data are obtained and transmitted; and

a third communication mode, in which data displayed on the display unit are obtained and transmitted at any timing.

16. The storage medium storing the program of claim 15, wherein said substantially uniform time intervals are set based on a capacity of said radio external interface.

17. The storage medium storing the program of claim 15,

wherein said data comprises media data having a specified frame rate;

and

wherein said substantially uniform time intervals are set based on said frame rate of said data.

18. The storage medium storing the program of claim 17, wherein said data comprises motion picture images.

19. A mobile communication terminal for communicating with a plurality of mobile communication terminals over a communication network, the mobile communication terminal comprising:

a radio external interface for communicating with another mobile communication terminal over a communication link that is different from the communication network; and

a display unit for displaying data;

wherein data displayed on the display unit is transmitted using the radio external interface to the another mobile communication terminal at substantially uniform time intervals; and

wherein the transmitted data is displayed on a particular display unit of the another mobile communication terminal, and

wherein the radio external interface may also transmit said data displayed on the display unit in said given mobile communication terminal to said another mobile communication terminal in a communication mode selected among;

a second communication mode, in which whenever data displayed on the display unit are updated, the updated data are obtained and transmitted; and

a third communication mode, in which data displayed on the display unit are obtained and transmitted at any timing.