Mobile terminal

• US 7,069,018 B1
• Filed: 11/10/2000
• Issued: 06/27/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 11/12/1999
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson
• Original Assignee: Telefonktiebolaget L.M. Ericsson
• Inventors: Granstam, Bo, Leijon, Mattias, Nielsen, Christian Vejgaard
• Primary Examiner(s): Eng, George
• Assistant Examiner(s): Stein, Julie E.
• Application Number:
  US10/129,568
• Time in Patent Office: 2,055 Days
• Field of Search: 455/414.2, 455/456.1, 455/456.3
• US Class Current: 455/456.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/663 Preventing unauthorised calls to a telephone set
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72415 for remote control of appliances
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72445 for supporting Internet browser applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72451 according to schedules, e.g. using calendar applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72454 according to context-related or environment-related conditions
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72457 according to geographic location
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 19/048 Arrangements providing optical indication of the incoming call, e.g. flasher circuits
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/02 including a Bluetooth interface
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/12 including a sensor for measuring a physical value, e.g. temperature or motion telephones including GPS signal receivers H04M2250/10
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices

Abstract

The invention concerns a mobile terminal (MT) adapted to interact with at least one application such as an automatic answering application and/or a control application, comprising interact browser facilities or remote control facilities, the respective applications being adapted to enter at least two states, whereby the mobile communication terminal is adapted to sense the status of a user wearing or being in the vicinity of the mobile communication terminal. The status of the user being derived from input signals, such as sounds (MIC) surrounding the mobile communication terminal, movements (ACC) of the terminal, light (LTS) surrounding the terminal, the position (PSS) of the terminal or according to a predetermined schedule (SCH) relating to the user. The mobile communication terminal is adapted for controlling the modes of the at least one application in dependence on the users actual state, as determined from the input signals.

Claims

1. A mobile terminal comprising:

a position sub-system for determining the position of the terminal; and

a control application controlling the terminal to pre-select one of a plurality of predetermined control modes wherein at least some of which correspond to respective start-up browser settings, each browser setting pointing at a predetermined Internet or Intranet page, said control application further arranged to

determine the previous control mode selected by the mobile terminal for said determined position; and

reselect the same control mode for said determined position wherein said same control mode includes a start-up browser setting previously used by said mobile terminal at said determined location.

2. The mobile terminal according to claim 1, wherein at least one control mode is a remote control mode for controlling electronic appliances.

3. The mobile terminal according to claim 1, the terminal furthermore comprising an input section comprising at least one input sensor, wherein the mobile terminal is adapted to sense the status of a user in the vicinity of the mobile terminal, the status of the user being derived from input signals, including sounds surrounding the mobile communication terminal;

wherein the terminal judges the users state according to at least one of light, sound and movement levels, wherein if the at least one of light, sound and movement level falls beneath predetermined thresholds within a predetermined time period, the user is deemed to be in a calm state and if this is not the case, the user is deemed to be in a lively state;

wherein the terminal determines a predetermined access mode in dependency on at least one of the input signals and/or schedule settings;

wherein the control application controls the active control of the terminal to pre-select one of a plurality of predetermined control modes comprising at least one of browser settings and remote control settings as start-up option, wherein the pre-selected control mode is dependent on the last selected control mode on a particular location, as determined by the position sub-system, and in a particular access mode of the terminal.

4. The mobile terminal according to claim 3, comprising an answering application, according to which calls directed to the mobile terminal are answered with predetermined messages or redirected according to the predetermined access mode.

5. The mobile terminal according to claim 4, whereby

the terminal is able to detect who is calling in accordance with a number representation service, wherein a plurality of predetermined messages and/or actions can be assigned to respective predetermined groups, including private contacts, work contacts and a group consisting of neither private nor work contacts;

and

wherein the answering application is being controlled in dependency on the identity of the calling party, as belonging to one of the predetermined groups.

6. The mobile terminal according to claim 4, wherein the answering application comprises a ring state, in which the terminal gives or is prevented from giving a ring signal;

and

wherein the terminal allows the calling party, after having received the predetermined message from the answering application to overrule the state in which the terminal is prevented from giving the ring signal and cause the terminal to ring within the same call.

7. The mobile terminal according to claim 3, further comprising a sound sensor for measuring the sound level around the terminal.

8. The mobile terminal according to claim 3, comprising a light sensor measuring the light level around the terminal.

9. The mobile terminal according to claim 3, comprising an accelerometer for measuring the level of movements the terminal is exposed to.

10. The mobile terminal according to claim 1, wherein the terminal is adapted to convey public state information, corresponding or relating to the user and being derived from the access modes of the terminal to an external database, being accessible from other terminals over the Internet.

11. The mobile terminal according to claim 1, comprising a separate first unit and a separate second unit communicating wirelessly with one another over local range interfaces, the first unit comprising at least one input sensor and being adapted to be worn by the user.

12. The mobile terminal according to claim 1, wherein the pre-selected mode can be overridden by the user.