Telephone terminal device

• US 7,218,728 B1
• Filed: 06/16/2000
• Issued: 05/15/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 06/18/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Yanagisawa, Rie, Nagasawa, Naokazu, Iizuka, Shogo, Yoshida, Hideyoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Tran; Sinh
• Assistant Examiner(s): Briney, III; Walter F
• Application Number:
  US09/595,204
• Time in Patent Office: 2,524 Days
• Field of Search: 379/112.01, 379/142.01, 379/354, 379/355.01, 379/142.17, 379/355.05, 379/355, 379/904, 379/100.14, 707/1, 455/564, 370/259
• US Class Current: 379/387.01
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/27457 Management thereof, e.g. manual editing of data
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/2747 Scrolling on a display

Abstract

A power source is turned on by pressing a power source button in a key input part. Then, a telephone number is inputted from the ten keys in the key input part so that the telephone number is stored in a telephone number temporary memory part. After pressing a communication button in the key input part, conversation is held with the counterpart. Then, a finish button is pressed for finishing the communication. When it is finished, a list of telephone directories is displayed on a display device. In the case the input from the ten keys is the number information, the telephone directory for registration is selected from the “telephone directories 1 to 4” with different functions such that if the input is the number “1”, the telephone directory 1” is selected, and if it is the number “2”, the telephone directory 2” is selected. Furthermore, in the case of adding the name information to the telephone number, registration is executed in the selected telephone directory with the name information.

Claims

1. A telephone terminal device comprising:

a temporary storage memory for temporarily storing an inputted telephone number;

a plurality of telephone directories including a plurality of user selectable directories for storing user selected phone numbers, each of the telephone directories associated with at least one telephone directory memory for storing input telephone numbers;

wherein a telephone number stored in the temporary storage memory is registered in one of said at least one telephone directory memory associated with one of said user selectable directories selected from the plurality of telephone directories after making a call;

a transmitted telephone number record directory memory for storing a plurality of called telephone numbers; and

a buffer directory memory whose data are erased automatically after passage of a predetermined time;

wherein telephone numbers are registered in the transmitted telephone number record directory memory in the order of calling, and in the case where the number of the telephone numbers to be registered exceeds the number capable of being stored in the transmitted telephone number record directory memory, the telephone number of the oldest registered telephone number or a telephone number specified by the user is transferred from the transmitted telephone number record directory memory to the buffer directory memory.

2. A telephone terminal device as claimed in claim 1, further comprising an interface means for connection with an external memory device external to said terminal device.

3. A telephone terminal device as claimed in claim 2, wherein at least one of said at least one telephone directory memory comprises the external memory device connected with a telephone terminal device main body via the interface means.

4. A telephone terminal device as claimed in claim 1, wherein said at least one telephone directory memory includes a plurality of telephone directory memories, and wherein the telephone directory memory for registering the telephone number stored in the temporary storage memory after a call is selected manually from one of the plurality of the telephone directory memories associated with the user selectable directories.

5. The telephone terminal device as claimed in claim 1, wherein one of the plurality of telephone directories is chosen in advance by a user for automatically storing the telephone number stored in the temporary storage memory after making or receiving a call.

6. A telephone terminal device comprising:

a temporary storage memory for temporarily storing an inputted telephone number;

a plurality of telephone directories including a plurality of user selectable directories for storing user selected phone numbers, each of the telephone directories associated with at least one telephone directory memory for storing input telephone numbers;

wherein

one of the plurality of telephone directories is chosen in advance by a user for automatically storing the telephone number stored in the temporary storage memory after making or receiving a call.

7. The telephone terminal device of claim 6, wherein said at least one telephone directory memory is an external memory.

8. The terminal device of claim 6, further comprising an interface means for connecting to an external memory device external to said terminal device for storing telephone numbers accessible by said terminal device.

9. The terminal device of claim 6, wherein name and information related to the telephone number registered are added thereto.

10. The terminal device of claim 6, wherein data of at least one of the telephone directories are erased automatically after passage of a predetermined time.