Portable terminal device and communication control method

• US 7,269,444 B2
• Filed: 10/30/2001
• Issued: 09/11/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 02/05/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Mori, Shinichiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Anderson; Matthew
• Assistant Examiner(s): TRINH, TAN H
• Application Number:
  US09/984,406
• Publication Number:
  US 20020107041A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,142 Days
• Field of Search: 455/527, 455/557, 455/567, 455/464, 455/434, 455/406, 455/41.2, 455/41.1, 455/556.1, 370/338, 370/402, 370/425
• US Class Current: 455/557
• 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 1/6041 Portable telephones adapted for handsfree use
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/6091 including a wireless interface
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/724 User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/06 adapted for operation in multiple networks or having at least two operational modes, e.g. multi-mode terminals

Abstract

A portable terminal device includes a first radio communication part provided in the device for performing a wireless communication with a first network and a second radio communication part built in the device for performing a wireless communication with a second network. The portable terminal device further includes a control part for, upon reception of an incoming call request from the first network, selecting an apparatus from apparatuses which have established communications over the second network with the second radio communication part, in accordance with a predetermined order of priority and a communication adapting part for establishing a communication between the selected apparatus and the first network.

Claims

1. A portable information terminal device comprising:

a first radio communication part provided in said device for performing a wireless communication with a first network;

a second radio communication part built in said device for performing a wireless communication with a second network;

a control part for, upon reception of an incoming call request from said first network, selecting an apparatus from apparatuses which have established communications over said second network with said second radio communication part, in accordance with a predetermined order of priority; and

a communication adapting part for establishing a communication between said selected apparatus and said first network;

wherein said first network is a cellular phone network and said second network is a wireless local area network.

2. The portable information terminal device as claimed in claim 1, said control part further comprising a database in which data related to said predetermined order of priority is stored.

3. The portable information terminal device as claimed in claim 2, wherein said data is priority of the apparatuses which can communicate with said second communication part.

4. The portable information terminal device as claimed in claim 2, wherein said data is applicable time for apparatuses which can communicate with said second communication part.

5. The portable information terminal device as claimed in claim 2, wherein said data is applicable locations for apparatuses which can communicate with said second communication part.

6. A portable information terminal device comprising:

a radio communication part provided in said device for performing a wireless communication with a network;

a type-of-line identifying part for, upon reception of an incoming call request from said network, identifying a type of line to be established in accordance with an incoming call destination, wherein said type of line is either a data-line or an audio line; and

a communication adapting part for establishing an audio-line connection when the audio line is identified in said type-of-line identifying part and establishing a data-line connection when the data-line identified in said type-of-line identifying part.

7. The portable information terminal device as claimed in claim 6, said identifying part further comprising a database in which said incoming call destination for each of predetermined types of line is stored,

said portable information terminal device further comprising an identifying part for referring to said database in accordance with said incoming call destination upon reception of a call, so as to identify a content of said database in accordance with said incoming call destination.

8. A method of controlling communications of a portable information terminal device including:

a first radio communication part provided in said device for performing a wireless communication with a first network; and

a second radio communication part built in said device for performing a wireless communication with a second network,

said method comprising the steps of;

selecting, upon reception of an incoming call request from said first network, an apparatus from apparatuses which have established communications over said second network with said second radio communication part, in accordance with a predetermined order of priority; and

establishing a communication between said selected apparatus and said first network;

wherein said first network is a cellular phone network and said second network is a wireless local area network.

9. The method as claimed in claim 8, wherein said predetermined order of priority is determined by priority of the apparatuses which can communicate with said second communication part.

10. The method as claimed in claim 8, wherein said predetermined order of priority is determined by applicable time for apparatuses which can communicate with said second communication part.

11. The method as claimed in claim 8, wherein said predetermined order of priority is determined by applicable locations for apparatuses which can communicate with said second communication part.

12. A method of controlling communications of a portable information terminal device comprising a radio communication part provided in said device for performing a wireless communication with a network,

said method comprising the steps of:

upon reception of an incoming call request from said network, identifying a type of line to be established in accordance with an incoming call destination, wherein said type of line is either a data-line or an audio line; and

establishing a line connection in accordance with the type of line identified in said type-of-line identifying part, wherein

an audio-line connection is established when the audio line is identified and a data-line connection is established when the data-line is identified.

13. The method as claimed in claim 12, said portable information terminal device further comprising a database in which said incoming call destination for each of predetermined types of line is stored,

said method further comprising the step of referring to said database in accordance with said incoming call destination upon reception of a call, so as to identify a line as the predetermined type of line if said incoming call destination is stored in said database and to identify a line as other type of line if said incoming call destination is not stored in said database.

14. A computer program product for use with a portable information terminal device having a first radio communication part provided in said device for performing a wireless communication with a first network and a second radio communication part built in said device for performing a wireless communication with a second network, wherein said first network is a cellular phone network and said second network is a wireless local area network,

said computer program product comprising:

a computer readable medium having computer readable program code means embodied in said medium for causing communication control of said portable information terminal device, said computer program product having;

computer readable program code means for causing said computer to select, upon reception of a incoming call request from said first network, an apparatus from apparatuses which have established communications over said second network with said second radio communication part, in accordance with a predetermined order of priority; and

computer readable program code means for causing said computer to establish a communication between said selected apparatus and said first network.

15. The computer program product as claimed in claim 14, wherein said predetermined order of priority is determined by priority of the apparatuses which can communicate with said second communication part.

16. The computer program product as claimed in claim 14, wherein said predetermined order of priority is determined by applicable time for apparatuses which can communicate with said second communication part.

17. The computer program product as claimed in claim 14, wherein said predetermined order of priority is determined by applicable locations for apparatuses which can communicate with said second communication part.

18. A computer program product for use with a portable information terminal device having a radio communication part provided in said device for performing a wireless communication with a network,

said computer program product comprising:

a computer readable medium having computer readable program code means embodied in said medium for causing communication control of said portable information terminal device, said computer program product having;

computer readable program code means for causing said computer to, upon reception of an incoming call request from said network, identify a type of line to be established in accordance with an incoming call destination, wherein said type of line is either a data-line or an audio line; and

computer readable program code means for causing said computer to establish a line connection in accordance with the type of line identified in said type-of-line identifying part wherein

an audio-line connection is established when the audio line is identified in said type-of-line identifying part and a data-line connection is established when the data-line is identified in said type-of-line identifying part.